Chapter 82 : The Son

Chi Mo Lou came out from the Science and Government Courtyard and saw a single thin figure sitting on a wheelchair, the person on the wheelchair was effortlessly bending down to pick up the things that fell on the ground, his body had already leaned forward as much as possible, but he was still a little short of being able to reach it, and the person moved forward with great effort, and was about to plant himself out of the wheelchair.

He darted forward, holding the man with one hand and picking up the things on the floor with the other.

"Thank you, Lord Woolly." Pei Shi Yan smiled.

"A show of hands, no need to be polite." Chi Mo Lou looked at Pei Si Yan, his gaze deep, "Is your lordship ready to go home?"

"Hmm." Pei Si Yan's look looks very tired, for days to draw up the system reform and other matters consume too much effort, every day but sleep three or four hours to get up, continue to consider the reform programme, and then in the morning court out, the ruler and the ministers together to discuss the feasibility of it and the drawbacks.

It's not easy, things end today, she wants to go home earlier to have a good rest. Suddenly remembered that a folding book fell in the emperor, so she sent someone to fetch it, then a careless will enter and exit the palace door token fell on the ground, but no one came to help her to pick it up, it was carved with a dragon pattern on it, it is always bad to fall on the ground, after half a day's effort, she was not able to pick it up, and also almost fell to the ground, fortunately, Chi Molou appeared in time and held her up.

"I don't know if I have the honour of travelling with Lord Pei?" Chi Mo Lou was poised, his smile as warm as the spring breeze.

Pei Si Yan nodded, "Good."

After waiting for a few moments, the attendant ran back and presented the folders to Pei Si Yan, then walked towards the palace gates with Chi Mo Lou.

"My humble servant really admires Lord Pei's means and way of handling political affairs, capable and decisive," Chi Mo Lou praised without being overbearing, "I heard that Lord Pei used to be a recluse amongst the mountains and forests, how did he see through the world's affairs and make a wise decision to support His Majesty's ascension to the throne? And to be able to become the emperor's teacher at such a young age."

"Living in seclusion in the mountains and forests doesn't mean that one didn't care about the world affairs outside the window." Pei Si Yan laughed, "Although I am in the mountains and forests, I have a dream in my heart, and I hope to do my part for this river and mountain. I'm afraid that there is one thing that Lord Wuli doesn't know, the current Emperor and I met a long time ago, and then seeing that the world's people are in dire straits, it is only natural for me to seize this moment."

"As for handling political affairs, it depends on the individual's ability, right?" Pei Si Yan smiled faintly, and did not say much - when it came to political affairs, she started out relying entirely on her accumulated work experience, as well as the method of dealing with affairs learnt from the history books she had read, coupled with her subsequent step-by-step climbing and rolling around in the imperial court, she was able to achieve her current ability.

"Knew each other a long time ago?" Chi Molou was surprised, "It seems that Pei Sir has travelled all over the Blue Country."

Pei Siyan smiled, "Yes, it is only after seeing a lot that one can know a lot?"

"My humble servant has been taught." Chi Mo Lou said, "I wonder how old is Lord Pei?"

"Twenty five." Pei Siyan said her true age, "Lord Wuli, what's wrong?"

Chi Mo Lou looked at Pei Si Yan's face, thoughtfully, "It's time for Lord Pei to take a wife and have children, I wonder if Lord Pei needs my humble servant to introduce you to the noble women in the imperial capital? With Lord Pei's status and looks, there are certainly many women within the imperial capital who would like to marry you."

Pei Si Yan hurriedly waved his hand and laughed, "I already have someone I like, so I'm sorry for making Lord Wuli bother."

The attendant who pushed the wheelchair for the Imperial Master secretly laughed, in order to expand and consolidate the family's power, this Lord Wuli was also a little too eager, it was really weird for a young man to actually come and say these words to Lord Imperial Master.

"It's me who took the liberty." Chi Mo Lou slightly owed his body.

"That's fine."

The two of them walked in silence for a while, and after the awkward atmosphere eased up quite a bit, Chi Mo Lou added, "Speaking of which, I remember the first time I saw Lord Pei, I thought you were a woman." Indeed, the Imperial Master's brows were somewhat feminine, and if he didn't take a closer look at them, coupled with a voice that was on the thin side of speaking, nine times out of ten, he would be taken for a woman.

He paused, then continued, "Your appearance reminds me of a girl I once knew."

"Who was it?" Pei Si Yan looked quite interested.

"This ..." Chi Mo Lou was a little hesitant, unsure if he could say that name out, in case he upset the Imperial Master then ..." If I can't say it, I'm afraid it's a bit rude."

"Lord Wuli, but there is no harm in saying it."

Chi Mo Lou deliberated for a few moments and finally said that name, "Former Witch Pan, Tantai Yan." Afterwards, he carefully observed the emperor's expression, but the emperor's complexion was unchanged.

Pei Si Yan lamented, "Pity Lord Wushan who was determined to serve the country, but ended up with a head separated from his body and a death without a burial place. I heard that the Emperor sent people around to look for Lord Wuban's bones but never got the news."

Pei Si Yan suppressed the sadness that suddenly welled up within her, not moving her eyes to look at Chi Mo Lou.

How she wanted to retrieve Yun Qi's bones as soon as possible and bury them properly, but the people who buried the bones back then were later killed for no reason, and she guessed that it was highly likely that it was done by Lan Xuan or Tantai Si - so that her close friends would never be able to locate their master's body.

So where exactly it was buried, no one knew. She had to ask the Emperor to send more men to search all over the Blue Country, but unfortunately, no matter what methods she tried, she was never able to find it.

The day she couldn't find it, Pei Si Yan's heart couldn't find peace.

No matter how much it would cost, she didn't care, she only wanted to find Yun Qi's bones and bury them properly.

"Yes, as a fellow colleague, it feels very sad." Chi Mo Lou sighed darkly, his gaze moving elsewhere, "I hope I can find it back as soon as possible."

"Hmm." Pei Si Yan casually responded.

At this moment, a brocade-clothed man of about twenty-seven or eighteen years of age walked towards Pei Si Yan and Chi Molou in large strides, bowing curtly, "My son Xu Zi Huan, the son of the King of Virtue, pays his respects to the Lord Imperial Master, the Lord of Witchcraft."

Chi Mo Lou couldn't help but frown, this Xu Shizi was also too rude, in the face of the Emperor's most relied upon Imperial Master Lord and one of the four great auxiliary ministers, he dared to bow so hastily, I'm afraid that there would be no second person to be found in the court today.

Pei Si Yan's eyes hid a hint of disgust deep in his eyes, but on his lips, he said without much care, "There is no need to be polite, did you come into the palace to look for something from the Emperor?"

"No, I came here specifically to find Lord Pei." Xu Zi Huan's tone was extremely cold, and his eyes seemed to be knotted with a layer of cold ice, treating the imperial master lord, who was a hot favourite at the court, as if he were a little-known person.

"Shizi Xu, please speak."

"I heard that Lord Pei's personal guard is highly skilled in martial arts, I wonder if Lord Pei can lend me this guard for a few days?"

Pei Siyan finally couldn't help but reveal a displeased expression, the personal guard Xu Zihuan was talking about was Li Qingyan.

When overthrowing Lan Xuan's rule, she and Lan Zhao went to seek help from King De, whose fiefdom was in the south-west, and King De was extremely indignant at the various evils committed by his nephew Lan Xuan, helplessly his strength was too thin in the face of the imperial army, and his mother was a princess, and because of his former war achievements, he had only been broken to be named a Prince, and if he ascended to the throne in such a capacity, it would always give the impression that the name was not right. After seeing the appearance of Lan Zhao, he had no choice but to lead his generals and all the fiefdoms to defect to Lan Zhao's command.

Later, on the battlefield, King De and his son Xu Zihuan made a lot of achievements, successively defeating the army sent by Lan Xuan, and were the first-class great ministers among the people who embraced Lan Zhao's ascension to the throne.

After Lan Zhao ascended the throne, when he rewarded the meritorious ministers, he rewarded the Xu family with a number of official positions, especially this son of Xu.

As a result, this Xu Shi Zi relying on the success of the war, get the emperor's favour, so gradually the arrogance of no one in sight, treatment than their own rank officials are a look of disrespect, not to mention those officials of low rank, the whole day by the oppression, but dared to be angry and dared not say anything.

Pei Si Yan from the mouth of the scouts heard these news, extremely angry.

When she was forced to look for King De's help, in her heart, the Xu family, which had the intention of seeking the throne, was difficult to conclude whether it was good or bad for the country, the court and the people.

However, in today's situation, she clearly understands that the Xu family will definitely be a scourge in the court in the future, and if it is not eliminated, I am afraid that it will jeopardise the safety of the Blue Nation. However, the Xu family's war achievements cannot be forgotten, as well as the power they now possess, it is not good to blatantly suppress the Xu family immediately, so as not to fall into the mouth of a "river to tear down the bridge".

She has been secretly endured, waiting for the time is ripe, Xu family will be suppressed never raise their heads!

But her silence, let the Xu family more and more arrogant and rude, the flames of the world.

As it was now, it actually dared to come directly to her to ask for someone!

She didn't want Li Qingdan to leave her side no matter what, calling it possessiveness and dependence was too strong, she was used to walking out of the palace door every day and seeing Li Qingdan silently waiting for her.

Chi Mo Lou couldn't help but speak up, ''Shizi Xu, you're going a little too far. Please pay attention, in front of you is Imperial Master Pei!"

Xu Zihuan disdainfully glanced at Chi Molou and said lazily, "I naturally know that one of you is Lord Imperial Master and the other is Lord Auxiliary Minister, so I don't need to bother you to remind me. Lord Pei, I wonder if you can lend me your people?"

Chi Mo Lou was so choked up by him that he didn't know how he was going to reply, deep anger coalescing in his eyes. But he was equally clear about how important the Xu family's position in the dynasty was right now, and could only hold back.

"Xu Shizi," Pei Si Yan's words were firm and incomparable, containing a wave of anger, "My guards are the ones who are going to make sure that I'm safe and sound, and if I have a long or a short fuse, the Emperor is bound to be outraged, and when the time comes to blame him, I don't know if your Xu family will be able to withstand it? Prince Xu, you also have many guards at home, please don't come borrowing from me, otherwise I will be very suspicious of what your intentions really are!"

"Ha!" Xu Zihuan laughed coldly, "Lord Pei, when I was on the battlefield, I saw that your guard was highly skilled in martial arts, so I wanted to learn from him. Within the Blue Country, there are still some places that are resisting, and as the one who was entrusted by the Emperor, I want to eradicate those rebels as soon as possible, so I need to learn a higher level of martial arts before I can do so. Lord Pei, don't you want to see the Blue Country united as soon as possible and the Emperor's dragon chair free from worry?"

"Prince Xu, with your current martial arts and strategies, it's completely sufficient to deal with those mole crickets, there's no need to bother with learning martial arts for these few short days more." Pei Si Yan's tone became even colder, and in the end, she even grew impatient, "Shizi Xu, Lord Wuli and I still have more important matters to discuss, if you don't have any other business, we'll take our leave first."

After saying that, Pei Siyan signalled the attendants behind him, and the few of them left in quick steps.

Xu Zi Huan clenched his fists and looked at Pei Si Yan's back, his gaze sharp as a knife as he contemptuously whispered, "Empress Pei, I'd like to see how capable you are of meeting the unexpected disasters ahead!"