Chapter 51 : The Invitation

The crowd of officials arrived at the main hall on time before being told that the Emperor was temporarily closed for Buddhist rites, and that there would be no morning court for three days. The crowd had to return the same way, whispering about whether the Emperor was in a bad mood due to the recent spate of events.

There was nothing that needed to be dealt with in the Science and Government Courtyard, Pei Si Yan brought those three Tantai Household guards disguised as chamberlains to a deserted courtyard, where Eunuch Qian had already been waiting for a long time.

"My lord," Eunuch Qian looked disturbed, as soon as he saw Pei Si Yan appear he hurriedly greeted him and closed the courtyard door, "I have something important to say to you."

Pei Si Yan was stunned, "What is it?" Could it be that the Emperor he ...

"In fact, the emperor did not close the Buddha at all, the emperor's condition has been back and forth in the past few days has not been good, the eunuch said privately with the lackey ..." Eunuch Qian shrunk his neck and winced, "I'm afraid that the emperor will only have these few days left ..."

So soon ... Pei Siyan furrowed her brows, it seems that one has to have to arrange the back way as soon as possible.

"How come?" Pei Si Yan looked pained, "I remember when I just took over Wu Pan, His Majesty chatted with me, how spirited he looked at that time? I didn't realise that it's only been a few months ..."

"Alas, I also thought that I could always serve the Emperor," Eunuch Qian wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and choked, "Who would have thought that during this period of time, the second prince and the matter of Feng Taishi made the Emperor suffer a great deal of shock, and this body also collapsed. The eunuchs all said that there is no way out, and now they are drinking many soups and medicines every day to barely support it."

Pei Si Yan was silent for a while and carefully asked, "Has the emperor written a posthumous edict to pass on the throne? If in case there is no posthumous edict, I'm really afraid that the world will be in chaos."

"His Majesty has been reading the edict with his hand, but he has yet to put pen to paper to write down which imperial son's name." Qian Gong hesitated for a while, continued, "But it is estimated that it is these two days, I feel that this day is going to change again ..."

"I think I'll go to the royal temple outside of the city to pray for the Emperor ... so on, it's really worrying." Pei Si Yan said, and pointed to the three guards behind her, "Eunuch Qian, there is something to trouble you, please bring these people to Ruiqing Palace, okay? They are entertainers who know some juggling, when I happened to meet the Fourth Highness the other day, he asked me to do so."

Eunuch Qian felt strange, according to reason, Lord Wuban and His Highness the Fourth Prince shouldn't have much dealings, how could he suddenly be asked to bring some jugglers into the palace?

Pei Siyan can see the doubts of Eunuch Qian, explains greatly: "I and the fourth prince is by chance in the acquaintance, money eunuchs should be the most aware of the prince in the palace all words and deeds must be rigorous, not to insult the majesty of the royal family, but the life in the palace is lonely, his highness the fourth prince is young, the heart of the playfulness is slightly heavy some, has said with me that I would like to go to the palace outside the see the juggling, so I purposely and strictly So I specially and strictly selected these three people, quietly brought into the palace for the fourth prince to relieve boredom. Eunuch Qian, do you see ...?"

"The people carefully selected by Lord Wu Pan are naturally without problems," Eunuch Qian suddenly realised, after all, Wu Pan is considered to be the master of his own service, and there is no more suspicion, "I will bring these three people to Ruiqing Palace, please rest assured, Your Excellency."

"After three or five days, also trouble you to take them out of the palace, do not let his highness indulge in this, waste of study."

"Yes, slave has kept that in mind."

The three guards lowered their heads and put on a timid appearance as they walked behind Eunuch Qian, greeting him in unison.

Pei Si Yan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "Eunuch Qian, if something happens to the Emperor, you must immediately send someone to inform me, don't have a moment's delay, please."

"Yes, my lord."

The things that should be accounted for are all accounted for, Pei Si Yan hurriedly left and returned home together with Li Qing Dye, just as he arrived at the entrance of Shide Xuan, he saw a white clothed man, bright sunlight flowed on his robes like running water, the jade mask refracted a warm light, appearing that the wanton and ornate ink coloured pattern was even more clear.

Hearing the movement, Mo Xuan turned around, the corners of his lips swirling with a gentle smile, "Xiao Yan, you're back ah."

These words instantly tore Pei Si Yan out of a pile of worries, adorning her, a warm picture appeared in her mind - wearing an apron, spatula in hand, Mo Xuan stood at the foyer, took the purse from her hand that had just arrived at home, and smiled as he said, "Wife, you're back ah! Quickly wash your hands, ready to eat", she took off her shoes, stood on her tiptoes and "barked" a mouthful on Mo Xuan's cheeks ....

Pei Si Yan tilted her head and grinned, forgetting that she was in the Spirit Abyss continent and that there were still a bunch of problems waiting to be solved.

Mo Xuan and Li Qingye looked at each other, the former hand on Pei Si Yan forehead probed, and then shook his head to Li Qingye, indicating that this Tantai big miss did not have a fever.

Pei Si Yan instead came to her senses from her fantasies, froze and looked at Mo Xuan and Li Qingye, asking, "What's wrong?"

"What are you thinking about, inexplicably giggling." Mo Xuan asked, taking Pei Si Yan's hand.

"Er ..." Pei Si Yan where is the good sense to say the loving couple fantasy just now to Mo Xuan, and stalled carelessly, "I didn't think of anything ah? Right, Mo Xuan, did you just come back, what's the matter with waiting for me at the entrance of Shide Xuan?"

"Well, I'm going to go back to Mo Rise Villa for a trip, Xiao Yan can you go with me?"

"Huh?" Pei Si Yan snapped her eyes wide open, staring at Mo Xuan in disbelief, is this ... this the meaning of a prospective daughter-in-law going to pay a visit to her future in-laws?

Li Qingyan frowned and didn't say anything.

Mo Xuan smiled, "Do you have the leisure to return to Mo Qi Villa with me?"

If she could, Pei Si Yan really wanted to accompany Mo Xuan back together.

However, over the past few months, in order to buy people's hearts, deal with political opponents, and recruit troops, she had put in the biggest and most effort of her life, only waiting for His Highness King Hui to receive the most glorious favour after ascending to the throne, so that the Tantai family could prosper.

Therefore, even if she doesn't want to give up again, she absolutely can't leave the imperial capital half a step at this juncture, absolutely can't have any mistakes at the last moment, the future is success or failure depends on whether she can grasp the timing, losing half a point is a lost cause.

"I'm sorry ..." Pei Si Yan said with difficulty, her head hanging low, not daring to look at Mo Xuan a glance, "I must go to the royal temple outside the city today, to do a servant's heart to pray for the emperor. "

"Pray for the Emperor?" Mo Xuan's tone was slightly surprised.

Li Qingyan swept him a glance and remained silent.

"Well," Pei Si Yan nodded, suddenly remembering something, revealing a faint smile, "It's also to pray for the blessing of our entire Blue Country, recently there has been a spate of misfortunes, it's not peaceful, so I hope that things will end in a hurry. Mo Xuan, I'm really sorry, are you disappointed? When I come back from the temple, I will definitely go with you to Mo Qi Mountain Villa."

"I understand this heart of Xiao Yan who puts the affairs of the country first," Mo Xuan swept Pei Si Yan into his arms, "Don't work too hard, it's cold outside the city, remember to wear more clothes and add a quilt at night."

Pei Si Yan's heart is sweet, "Well, I know."

After hugging for a long time, Mo Xuan let go of Pei Si Yan and smiled, "Then I'll go back to Mo Qi Villa first, you have to take care of yourself, you'll be rushing back in a month, I'll ... be back then," he smiled even more brightly and movingly, his eyes seemed to be brightly shining like the stars in the night sky that Contained a deep love.

At that time Hou will come to propose marriage? ... Pei Siyan revealed a happy smile, nodded, "Be careful all the way, on behalf of my aunt and uncle greetings, this time I can not go to pay a visit is really regrettable."

"Good ..." Mo Xuan left another gentle kiss on Pei Si Yan's forehead, "I'm leaving."

"Hmm." Pei Si Yan reluctantly waved goodbye to Mo Xuan, heart some sadness, in order to guard the Tantai family lost is too much too much, wait for the dust to settle, must be doubled to compensate back.

After sending Mo Xuan away, Pei Si Yan sullenly stepped into Shide Xuan's study and took out a token from the hidden compartment and handed it over to Li Qing Dye.

"Send this to Wang Linye, the action is going to take place tomorrow, we must get them into the palace now."

Recently, the palace was repairing the dilapidated hall grids, and there were often craftsmen and carriages carrying materials coming in and out, so it was a good opportunity to send some of the elites into the palace first to ambush them beforehand.

"Invite Tantai Zhan here again, I'll confirm the deployment with him once more."

"Yes, Miss." Li Qingyan led the order and went down to do so.

Pei Si Yan lifted her eyes from behind a pile of paperwork to look at his back, her brows slightly knitted, biting her lip as she pondered something.

Yun Qi came in from outside with a cup of tea, "Miss, please use the tea."

Pei Si Yan's expression recovered its naturalness, she took the cup of tea, "Yun Qi, it's been hard on you lately." After the er** hair, Yun Shan who was bribed by Lady Yue Luo was soon arrested and locked up in the prison, the maid who served her closely was only left with Yun Qi, and recently, in the planning of the big event, it was inconvenient to transfer new maids from other places, so the big and small things were all pressed on this loyal maid, which was really too much hard work.

"Serving Miss is the slave girl's duty." Yun Qi said respectfully.

Pei Si Yan sipped her tea and placed the teacup back on the table, "Yun Qi, at what age did you start following me around?"

"Ten years old." Yun Qi replied, he couldn't help but recall the situation when he first met the young lady when he was a child, he smiled somewhat helplessly, at that time, the young lady who was only eight years old was as cold as a stone, where would he want to be as reasonable as this now, and could talk and laugh.

Pei Si Yan knew that Tantai Yan was two years younger than Yun Qi, and after calculating in her heart for a while, she asked again, "Li Qing Dye came to the Tantai family when I was ten years old right?"

"Yes, when Lord Li was young he spoke as little as he does now, and never smiled, Yun Shan and I ..." Yun Qi revealed an embarrassed look, knowing that mentioning Yun Shan now might make the young lady angry, but looking at the young lady's face as usual, it was only then that she was relieved to boldly continue to Speaking on, "While you and the lord and lady are not around, often try to make him laugh, but he always has a stern face, we are curious why he is like this."

"Has lord father or Li Qingyan himself ever mentioned his birth? Where did he originate from, who were his parents? And why did he come to Tantai Mansion and follow me around?"

Yun Qi thought hard for half a day and finally shook his head under Pei Si Yan's expectant gaze, "His Lordship never mentioned it. The day the master brought Lord Li here, he only said his name, and that he would faithfully guard by your side in the future, but nothing else. When I asked Lord Li, he refused to say a word, and a nosy old lady joked that he popped out of a stone, only to be beaten by His Lordship. I think it might be that Lord Li is after all the one who follows the young lady and won't allow such rude jokes, right?"

Pei Si Yan could not help but feel a little disappointed, but these were expected, "Have there been any other rumours in the mansion?"

Yun Qi timidly looked at the young lady and mumbled, "There ... is also that there are rumours that Lord Li is ..."

"You just say it, it's okay." Pei Si Yan looked at the maid's hesitant look and knew that what she was going to say must be a more exciting big slam.

Seeing that the young lady wouldn't blame herself, Yun Qi let go of her courage, "There are rumours that Lord Li is actually the master's illegitimate son outside ... the long house, the master didn't dare to openly take a concubine back and break the madam's heart, so he quietly gave birth to a child with another woman outside and then brought it back to the house. When the master heard about it, he was even angrier than the last time that old mother thing, found out the person who spread the rumour, and then ..." said here, she winced, the scene at that time is still fresh in her mind, because it was really horrible for the young one at that time, "the master sent someone to beat that person to death alive, and warned all the subordinates to forbid spreading any rumours about Lord Li, and those who disobeyed the order would all be beaten to death. However, probably to reassure madam, the lord stepped in and explained that in fact, Lord Li was the orphan of a deceased friend, and seeing that he was alone and had no one to rely on, he brought him back to the mansion to raise him. After that, the subordinates were afraid of the master's orders, and gradually there were no more rumours."

Pei Si Yan rubbed her temples once, it seems that Li Qing Dye's birth is indeed suspicious ah ...

"Miss, why are you suddenly interested in asking about Lord Li today?"

Pei Si Yan casually smiled, "Just a moment of curiosity, don't tell Li Qing Dye that I asked you about this today haha."

"Understood, miss."

At this moment, a bright voice rang out from outside, "Sister, what is it that you want to order from me?"

It was Tantai Zhan who had come, Pei Si Yan immediately dropped the question about Li Qing Dye's life and told Yun Qi to hurry and open the door, she was going to wholeheartedly start devoting herself to her work