Chapter 68 : Something Wrong

Pei Si Yan stayed alone in the study, after checking that the letters stored in the secret compartment were free of abnormalities, she sat back in her chair, took a sip of the tea that had long since cooled down, and then rubbed her brow in distraction.

Finally still did not successfully persuade the blue pleasant to stop the construction of the palace, and then was sent to the home of Zeng Taifu on behalf of the emperor to express his condolences - the elderly Zeng Taifu in the late emperor and the ninth prince suddenly passed away, the physical condition of a day is not as good as a day, more than ten days ago a little inadvertently infected with wind and cold, regardless of whether to invite the palace doctor or the jianghu doctor, ate a lot of medication, and still do not see Improvement, two days ago, finally passed away.

Regardless of who Zeng Taifu before support as the emperor, blue pleasant in order to convince the hundred officials of the heart, in the day of the death of Taifu personally went to Zeng House a trip, and now let her with a batch of rewards to go over to the sympathy, more show the emperor's great kindness.

Pei Siyan gently stroked over the knee, I do not know whether Lanxuan has the intention to help himself, or ignored the condition of the legs, let her run back and forth non-stop, do not know until what year and month to walk normally.

Thinking about what the old doctor had instructed before, Pei Si Yan's mood became even more irritable.

Suddenly, a few knocks sounded, Pei Si Yan raised her eyes to look at the blurred figure reflected on the door and said, "Come in, Light Dye." Speaking of which, when she left the palace, she didn't see Li Qingdian, she was escorted by the royal guards to Zeng Taifu, she had always found it strange, she wanted to send someone back to Tantai Mansion to ask Li Qingdian if she went back first, but when things got busy, she completely forgot about it.

The door "creak" open, Pei Si Yan see clearly away from light dye face, dumbfounded, "you ... your face?"

Li light dye's cheek has a thin blood scar, seems to have been processed, the wound does not bleed, dark blue robe stars on the dark red blood see Pei Si Yan heart jumping, vaguely feel that things are not as simple as imagined, there must be fishy.

"Miss," Li Qingye owed a bow, "May I ask where you went after you left the court?"

"Firstly, the Imperial Study Room, and then by decree, I went to Tai Fu Zeng's residence." Pei Si Yan beckoned for Li Qing Dye to lean closer to him, his hand reached out to the wound on his face, seeing the faint colour of blood staining his fingers, he was a little heartbroken - Li Qing Dye had just recovered from a serious injury, how did he get injured again?

"Where did you go again? Where did the wound on your face come from?!"

Li Qingye took a slight half step back, "My subordinate received the news that you, Miss, had travelled to the north of the city to deal with important matters, but my subordinate couldn't see Miss all the way out of the north city gates, and then assassins appeared wanting to put my subordinate to death."

Pei Si Yan's eyes flinched, withdrawing her hand and clenching it into a fist, she pursued, "Who told you that I went to the north of the city?"

"A chamberlain. My subordinate folded back to the palace to find someone to enquire about, in fact, there is no that chamberlain in the palace, someone deliberately laid out the layout to lure me away, and now that the palace has already failed to find that person's silhouette, my subordinate arranged for manpower to search around in the imperial capital."

"Damn it!" Pei Si Yan's brows knit tightly, and pain came vaguely from her knees again, "But why did you choose to kill you at this time? When you were seriously injured not long ago, that was the right time to strike, now isn't it just asking for death?"

"Miss," Li Qingyan explained, "Since you left the mansion for inspection, my subordinate and Yun Qi moved elsewhere to recuperate from their injuries."

"Went elsewhere?" Pei Si Yan repeated doubtfully.

"Yes, the doctor said it's best to find a quiet place to recuperate."

Pei Si Yan's face was grim, "You are not small to me, if you die, it will be like breaking my wings. Who in the world wants to kill you and get rid of me?"

Feng Taishi's hidden remnants, the Wu Li family's conspiracy, or a provocation from a certain shadowy force?

"There's actually someone who wants to fight me?" Pei Siyan couldn't help but sneer with a confident look, "Then I must be there to the end and see how capable that person is!"

The sound of thunder was faintly heard outside the window, signalling the imminent arrival of a storm.

Hearing the thunder, Pei Si Yan had an even bigger headache, "Make sure to catch the fake chamberlain before tonight, have you notified Tantai Zhan to strictly guard the city gates?"

"Already notified." Li Qingyan said.

Pei Si Yan fumbled for half a day on her body and finally removed a ruby gold hairpin on her hair bun, "In the future, unless you take this gold hairpin to convey my orders other than that, do not act rashly."

"Yes, miss." Li Qingyan swept a glance at the golden hairpin and had already memorised what it looked like.

"The enemy is in the dark, I'm in the light, now let's wait and see what happens, if there is the slightest breeze, we must take the opportunity to bring out the mastermind behind the scenes and kill the chicken to warn the monkey!" Pei Si Yan's calm words concealed a sharp killing aura, she looked at Li Qing Dye again, "In these two days, I would like to feast the officials who are in the same faction as me according to the size of their official ranks." After leaving the imperial capital for three months, although she grasped all the movements in the heartland of the Blue Country, it was still necessary to liaise with her close officials once again.

"Subordinate will make the proper arrangements."

"There's nothing else, take care of your wounds," Pei Si Yan said while taking out a small box from the small pile of messy local specialities spread out on the table, "I bought it back especially for you from the Jiangnan side, and it's said that smearing it on your wounds won't leave scars. "

"For ... me?" Li Qingyan seemed a bit disbelieving.

"Well, let me wipe it on you." Pei Si Yan beckoned for Li Qing Dye to lean closer to herself, then opened the box and picked some white paste-like substance with her fingertips.

Li Qingye looked at the box in Pei Si Yan's hand and said indifferently, "How dare I trouble you miss, let my subordinate do it herself."

Pei Si Yan stubbornly said, "It has to be me, and the ointment has to be applied with some skill, applying more or less will still leave scars. Look, such a good looking face if it leaves scars how ugly it would be!"

Li Qingdian had nothing to say, so she obediently knelt on one knee beside the young lady, her eyes slightly lowered, silent.

Pei Si Yan bent down and carefully looked at the wound on Li Qing Dye's face, then carefully applied the ointment on the thin blood scar.

Her fingertips had just touched the face when Li Qingye gave a cold shiver and his body involuntarily veered backwards. More than ten years, has been he dutifully guarded behind the lady, let trend, when the lady this kind of condescending to personally apply ointment to him, some can not not adapt to this kind of ten thousand strange status quo ...

Pei Siyan saw away from light dye dared to dodge, so he pressed his shoulders, slowly wiping.

"Light dye ..." Pei Si Yan suddenly sighed long, "I'm sorry, if not I insist on uncovering the mastermind behind the scene, will not let you suffer serious injuries, almost died in the Yellow Springs, I've been very guilty, the emperor called me to go to the imperial library of the time, the heart has been worried about your injury, because I am afraid ..."

"Miss, bowing and scraping for you is my subordinate's duty, please don't say that." Li Qingyan was still indifferent, the curtains of his eyes hanging down made it impossible to see his expression clearly.

Pei Siyan is not willing to hear away from the light dye to say these words, can not help but aggravate the tone: "light dye, I have never treated you as a henchman, you are my best companion, it can be said that ... I am treating you as the most can rely on the trust of the friends in this world, I am afraid that I will lose you! ... "The words suddenly paused, she tightly bit her lips, the movements of her hands violently stopped.

The words just now could clearly reveal that she was not the real Tantai Yan, that woman who had been dead for more than a year certainly did not see Li Qingyan as a companion, a friend!

She was momentarily distracted and slipped her tongue, there was no way that Li Qingyan's IQ would not be able to hear the strangeness of it!

Pei Si Yan straightened up and looked at Li Qing Dye, waiting for his questioning.

But Li Qingye didn't even notice that her words were different just now, and seemed to be distracted by something else.

Pei Si Yan suddenly dumbfounded, his own "memory loss", how the former Tanya Yan had already disappeared after his first meeting with Li Qing Dye, nothing, everything is a fresh start.

"On the way to the inspection, I originally intended to resign from my official position and live in seclusion in Jiangnan with Mo Xuan," Pei Si Yan continued to rub medicine on Li Qing Dye, "but only later did I realise that I was daydreaming. Already in the situation, can not be withdrawn, I only have to sit steadily in the seat of a person under ten thousand people, so that the world's hundreds of officials and ten thousand people submissive, to really finish this game of chess ah.

"Light dye, are you willing to accompany me to go on? Help me reach my ultimate wish."

"Unless Miss wants my subordinate to leave, my subordinate will always protect Miss." Li Qingdian raised his head and gazed at Pei Si Yan's face, a complex light swept across his eyes.

Pei Si Yan smiled in embarrassment, "No, I'm too selfish, how can I let you, Light Dye, stay by my side all the time? You will have to get a wife and have children in the future. Twenty-four is already not too young, why don't I see if I can match you up and make a beautiful marriage."

"Miss, my subordinate has never thought about taking a wife."

"Eh?" Pei Si Yan shouted, "How pitiful to be alone? Life is better with a wife and children. And seeing that you have no relatives, leaving home if you are extinct is a great sin of unfiliality!" Didn't the ancients value the inheritance of the flame more than anything else?

Li Qingye did not reply for a long time, Pei Si Yan signalled that the medicine had been applied and he immediately got up, only then did Fang reply, "My subordinate has relatives, only that I don't have any friendships."

Pei Si Yan's spirit was invigorated, for the first time, he heard Li Qing Dye say that he still has relatives this kind of thing, maybe find the relatives of the family can learn about Li Qing Dye's real life, in the end, is it the surviving son of his father's old subordinates or illegitimate child ...

"Miss, if there are no other orders, I will go and do my work." Li Qingye's tone was so wave-free, just like a pool of lifeless stagnant water.

Pei Si Yan sighed, even though Li Qing Zhan was so cold and indifferent, it would still be pleasant to talk to him, and she felt satisfied to have this short-lived happiness in the midst of this treacherous chaos.

"Well, go. Pay attention to the movements in the imperial capital and report back to me in time." Pei Si Yan threw the box in her hand to Li Qing Dye, "Remember to apply it once in the morning, midday, and evening, about that trick or whatever ... I lied to you."

"Underling understands." Li Qingye stuffed the box into his arms, then bowed and retreated.

Pei Si Yan looked out the window, she didn't know when it was drizzling, and the autumn wind could already chill people. She hugged her arms tightly and looked at the dark sky, her thoughts drifting to a place far away.