Chapter 31 : Dedication

Pei Siyan leisurely returned to Tantai's house, just got off the palanquin and out of the corner of her eye she glanced at a few of the people gathered not far away who were pointing towards themselves with a look of contempt.

She sighed and shook her head, once the royal list is issued tomorrow, the rumours will naturally slowly dissipate.

"Xiao Yan, you're finally back." Yuexi madam with tears in her eyes, quickly stepped forward to embrace Pei Si Yan, then looked up and down at her niece, "Come on, show me ... go out for two months people lost a big circle, really hard for you, Xiao Yan."

Pei Si Yan still look to those few people, heart feel strange, according to reason she can now appear in front of her own house is enough to prove that is not guilty, why people still this kind of emotion?

Seeing her niece not speaking, Lady Yuexi curiously followed her eyes and her face couldn't help but become a bit ugly. She unnaturally coughed twice, pulled up Pei Si Yan's hand and said, "Xiao Yan, it's cold outside, quickly go inside! Don't ever freeze."

Pei Si Yan turned her head to look at her aunt and smiled, "Good."

The two walked side by side into the mansion door, came to the main hall, the head of each house had already gathered here to wait for the news of the matriarch, seeing that the matriarch came back unharmed, most of them rejoiced and celebrated, saying some polite words.

"Letting all of you worry, really sorry." Pei Si Yan nodded to each of the people present and then sat down on the main seat, Yun Shan immediately serving a cup of tea.

"Miss, within two months all affairs within the mansion have been in order without any hiccups, please rest assured, Miss." Li Qingyan said, his gaze looking towards a certain room, "It's just that ..." he was a little hesitant, now it's a wave that has just calmed down, and another storm is about to start up again, it's undoubtedly a blow for the young lady who has just returned from the disaster relief, and who is exhausted to the core.

Pei Siyan rubbed slightly painful forehead, while listening to the report from the light dye, but just said "just" two words without the following, the heart is anxious: "What is it? Quickly say it."

Li Qingdian just opened her mouth, the seventh house's head Madam Yuehui "Teng" stood up, her beautiful face was full of proud smiles, her hand holding a pearl decorated with eye-catching light brocade box, the pattern is gorgeous and colourful, just the box is already worth a lot of money, I don't know what kind of rare treasures are loaded inside.

Li Qingye and Lady Yuexi coincidentally frowned, full of worry.

"What are you ..." Pei Si Yan looked at her blankly.

"Miss, the third day of the next month is the birthday of the current saint, I know that Miss is running around and must not have time to prepare a congratulatory gift," Lady Yuexi said loudly, as if this was a very big deal, "so I purposely searched for a treasure to make as a congratulatory gift for Miss to present to the emperor, I don't know if Miss like it."

Lady Yue Luo squinted at her cousin and almost laughed out loud, she skimmed her head to hide it.

Pei Si Yan said, "Show it to me."

"Miss, take a look," Lady Yuehui joyfully came over, holding the box in one hand and untangling the rope in the other, "The Emperor will definitely praise you greatly when he sees something like this, and will hold the Tantai family in even greater esteem."

"Oh?" Upon hearing this, Pei Si Yan had a strong interest and sat up straight to look at the open brocade box.

There was a rolled up scroll lying on the red silk lining, and the two maids carefully opened the scroll, and a calligraphy ink treasure that was wantonly unrestrained and did not lose the style of everyone was displayed in front of everyone's eyes.

Lady Yuehui saw a few clansmen showing expressions of surprise and envy, and became more and more pleased: ''This is the ink painting of Su Muqing, a renowned literary hero of the previous dynasty, and because of many reasons, very few authentic paintings have been handed down. This ink treasure was once the emperor's favourite thing, but at that time the turmoil accidentally lost, many times looking for no results, heard the emperor often regret. My family Hong'er not long ago by chance to inquire about the whereabouts, at a high price to buy."

Pei Siyan was overjoyed, but heard Li Qingye ice coldly said, "May I ask if madam knows the price paid for this?"

Lady Yuehui raised her eyebrows and said impatiently, "It's only tens of thousands of taels of silver. By the way, miss ah, our seventh house can be said to have lost all our money for this ink treasure, I wonder if miss can ..."

Pei Si Yan noticed that Li Qing Dye and Lady Yue Ruoxi's faces were out of sorts, and hurriedly raised her hand to signal Lady Yue Hui to keep quiet for the time being.

"Light Dye, what happened?"

Li Qingye asked, "Miss still remembers a few days ago when you entered the city was the people talking about you?"

Pei Si Yan nodded, "I remember." Wasn't that caused by the fact that her being falsely accused of being a corrupt official was circulating in the imperial capital, could it be related to Grand Writer Su's ink treasure in any way?

Li Qingye gazed at Lady Yuehui, her eyes as stern as knives, frightening the latter.

"Not only because of the case of you being falsely accused, but also because Lady Yuehui caused public anger in order to search for treasures for you to use as a congratulatory gift, and the people did not know what was going on and thought that you instigated it."

"There is actually this matter?!" Pei Siyan was shocked, followed by a fierce glare sweeping towards Lady Yuehui.

"Little, Miss ..." Lady Yuehui was frightened and almost kneeled on the ground, "I, I also have a good intention ... who knows that it will be botched. In fact, those unruly people's words can be ignored, after a period of time there will be no more."

Pei Si Yan closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths of fresh air so that her mind could be a little more clear, rather than being annihilated by anger and doing something heartless.

It was not easy to finish solving the matter outside, but now there was an incident at home, and she was still the one to take the blame! How many lifetimes of bad luck had she fallen into to have such a few idle, uneducated relatives?

"Miss, don't be angry, it will be fine in a few days." Lady Yuehui's face was pale, the smug look she had before had long since dissipated without a trace.

"Will it really be alright?" Pei Si Yan asked in a hateful voice, "People's words are fearful ah ..." bastard!

Lady Yue Luo gloated at the scene, the house hadn't been this lively for a long time. Lady Yuexi sighed and shook her head.

"Mo Bao returned from where he came from!" Pei Si Yan thought for a moment and ordered, "First buy some gifts and such to go apologise to the homes that have been disturbed, every home must go, don't miss a home!"

"Yes, yes, I know miss, I will definitely do it to the best of my ability as you commanded." Lady Yuehui wiped the beads of sweat on her forehead with her sleeve, she had thought that she could get some compliments from the young lady for the good things she had found, but who would have thought that the people's anger caused by the search could not be covered up in the end, it was all her own fault that she was too small, she had failed to seal the mouths of those families, and she had failed to notice the unsightly faces of Yuexi's elder sister and the chief historian of the Wuban House, and she had hastily offered the things, and had gotten a scolding instead, so how could she hold her head up as a human being in the face of the various houses later on? How will you hold your head up in front of all the houses in the future?

"In addition, the seven rooms of the monthly money halved to show discipline, in the future, each room shall not do any disturbing and bullying behaviour, or else severely punished without mercy!" Pei Si Yan solemnly announced in a loud voice, "I hope everyone will bear this in mind and never do anything to degrade the lintel of the Tantai family again! In a few days, I will personally come to the door to apologise, Light Dye, this matter is under your supervision!"

After saying that, Pei Si Yan flung her sleeves and quickly walked out of the main hall and back to Shide Xuan, she felt like she was going crazy, she had to sleep and calm down before making any plans.

The next day, Lanxuan set off for the nearby county, the emperor and the civil and military officials did not come to see him off, he leisurely stomped back and forth with his hands in front of the Hui Wang Mansion, and behind him, Fang Ping was taking inventory of anything that was missing.

A small sedan chair to the south over, blue pleasant stops, narrowed eyes to measure, the smile on his face as bright and warm as the sun, out of the ordinary, instantly charmed a group of young women not far away, they chirp something, while covering their mouths while following behind the sedan chair pretending to pass by.

The small sedan chair's curtain lifted a small half, revealing a beautiful face with a touch of smile. In the sedan chair and blue pleasant brush past, he heard the woman in the sedan chair whispered "safe journey, waiting for the return of the gentleman", then the curtains down, sedan chairmen carry the sedan chair hurriedly, did not stop to hesitate half a step, as if nothing had happened.

The young women shyly peeked at the eyes of blue pleasant, covered their faces and ran away, in front of the Hui Wang Mansion is still quiet, traders and walkers come and go as they please, talking and laughing.

"Your Highness, everything is complete." Fang Ping came over to report.

Lan Xuan tightened his smile, his face contained a hidden seriousness, he quickly took the reins from the guards, flipped his voice and mounted his horse, leading a team to run towards the city gates.

Pei Si Yan pondered over the hasty side meeting with Lan Xuan just now and walked slowly towards Shide Xuan. Before going to the palace to report to the emperor about the situation of the disaster relief, the emperor saw her running around for many days, specially let her rest at home for a few days, in addition to rewarding a lot of exotic treasures. Pei Si Yan was full of joy, finally filled the vacancy of buying rice.

Pulling out the moist and translucent ink jade from her bosom, Pei Si Yan gazed at it for a moment, thinking of the Mo Xuan Gongzi who did not know where he was, and wondering when they would be lucky enough to see each other again.

"Miss."

A shout suddenly interrupted Pei Si Yan's thoughts, she hurriedly tucked the ink jade into her sleeve and turned back to look at the Wushan House Chief Historian who had always been loyal but never showed his emotions.

"What's ..." she had just said, her tongue seemed to be tied in knots as he saw a dried up old man standing behind Li Qingyan, his hair and beard snow white, hunched over and straining to carry his medicine box.

To be honest, although this old man in Wu Pan's mansion had never messed with himself and his medical skills were quite good with nothing to pick on, Pei Si Yan was reluctant to see him, she was always afraid that one day this old man would take his pulse, notice something and expose the impostor's lies.

Pei Si Yan licked her dry cracked lips and asked, "Is anyone sick?" I really hoped that the old man wasn't here to check her pulse.

"Miss, the doctor has found a prescription for the disease of memory loss." Li Qingyan said, and Pei Si Yan finally recognised the excitement in his words.

Drinking medicine without a disease would cause something to go wrong if you didn't die! Pei Si Yan heart bitter, she can not help but take a step back, "light dye ah, that what ... I am now in this appearance is very good, do not need to drink medicine, not to mention the busy political affairs, wait for the leisure to say."

"Miss, I'm afraid this disease will get worse if delayed for a long time." The oldest doctor spoke rather alarmistically.

Dragging it out until I die won't do anything! Pei Si Yan thought this in her heart, but she couldn't say it on her lips, she clenched her fists, wanting to cry.

Li Qingye advised, "Miss, a day without healing is one more day of danger, there will inevitably be negligence!"

Pei Si Yan helpless, this is to avoid the first day to avoid the fifteenth, how do you find excuses is to drink that bowl or be stuck a few needles ... is not sick to drink medicine, what is the big deal, even if the medicine is three times poisonous is not poisonous to death, and other people are not the doctor is not in, open a few pairs of medicines, medicines to the disease, oh yeah!

Pei Siyan positive to optimistic aspects to think, stiff smile: "Good ... good ah."

Three people together into the Shide Xuan, the old man cautiously first took the pulse, and then took out a packet of medicine from the medicine box, explaining: "This is the old man after reading through many medical books fortunate enough to find the prescription, take the water decoction and then in a few acupuncture points to apply needles, to ensure that the medicine to get rid of the disease!"

Li Qingyan seemed to be even more excited and kept staring at the medicine bag in the old man's hand.

Pei Si Yan quietly rolled her eyes.

"The old man will go and decoct the medicine, please wait for a moment miss!" After the old man finished speaking, he passed away to De Xuan's small kitchen with sharp footsteps, completely unlike the old man who had one foot already stepped into the gates of hell just a moment ago.

Only Pei Si Yan and Li Qing Dye were left in the room, she let out a long sigh, "Is it bad for me to be like this now?"

Li Qingye said, "I'm afraid that there will be a slip."

Sparse you big head of hell. Pei Si Yan found that her temper had grown quite a bit in the past two days, it's true that people na, will change due to world events.

After waiting for almost an hour, the old man came back with a bowl of brown medicinal juice, "Miss, drink it quickly! Cooling it some will reduce the medicinal effect by half."

Pei Si Yan took the bowl, suddenly had a "wind Xiao Xiao Yi Shui cold, strong man a go and not return" feeling of sadness, she pooh-poohed herself a mouthful, a woman and a strong man have anything to do with! Everything should be optimistic, optimistic ...

Pei Si Yan has been thinking about the word "optimism", regardless of the word, close your eyes and drink the medicine.

The medicine is not very bitter, Pei Si Yan smacked her lips. Li Qing Dye and the old man stared at her intently, as if they were expecting her to suddenly shout "I am Tantai Yan, I remembered things from the past".

Pei Si Yan rolled her eyes, just when she was thankful that the medicine had no side effects, something violently churned in her throat, she couldn't hold it back and opened her mouth to spit it out.

Large swathes of piercing red on the light-coloured woven brocade quilt, as if it was a suddenly blooming red flower.