Pei Gonggui

In the Zhongyihou's Mansion in the east of the city, the servants have tidied up the hall and yard, and have started to clean up the dishes and sweep.Pei Jun looked around, originally wanted to talk to Uncle Dong, but seeing that Uncle Dong was still busy, he had no choice but to wander over to Pei Yan's old courtyard to see Jiang Xuan.

The entire Zhongyihou Mansion is located in Dongcheng Hutong, which was not a square garden in the first place.The extra piece of land in the northeast corner is Pei Yan's former residence. It is only a corridor and a door away from the Zhengdong courtyard where Pei Jun lived. It is very close after walking two steps and turning around.

Stepping into the gate of the courtyard, Pei Jun brushed away a clump of horned flowers hanging from his head, and when he raised his eyes, the shadow of the moon flowed, making him look at it while still drunk, and felt that the past laughter in the courtyard reappeared—

"Pei Jun, you bastard! You took my hairpin again!"

At that time, he was 15 years old, and he hung out in restaurants and karaoke workshops all day long, and would take Pei Yan's jewelry to send to the piano girl and waitress every now and then.Once Pei Yan caught him, she finally took off the pole and chased him, "Stop! Who are you going to send it to!"

The young Pei Jun ran across the porch happily, ran back to the east courtyard, hid behind Cao Luan who had come back to play, stepped on his feet and cheered at her: "Don't worry about whoever you send it to! Those sons and grandsons will give you these at every turn. It’s a good thing, but you don’t like to use it, so what if I give it away? It’s worthy of this craftsmanship, so as not to put them in the house and collect dust.”

"Take my things, are you justified?" Seeing that there were outsiders, Pei Yan couldn't get angry again, so she had to lean on a pole to stand still.She picked up her sleeves and nodded the sweat on her forehead, looked at Cao Luan who was pushed in front of her by Pei Jun, raised her chin and asked casually, "Who are you?"

Pei Jun didn't hear Cao Luan's answer, so he couldn't help poking Cao Luan's back: "Brother, my sister is asking you something."

Only then did Cao Luan put down the leaf card in his hand, and said suddenly: "My surname is Cao, and my name is Cao Luan."

"Oh, it's you." Pei Yan raised her eyebrows, and she could easily remember the name, and she raised the stick in her hand again, "You were the one who slapped my younger brother's face last month?"

Mei Linyu on the side quickly jumped up from the stone bench, regardless of her being the smallest, she just stood in front of Cao Luan and Pei Jun and said, "Don't, don't, sister calm down, that's my fault, it's all my fault that I didn't stop you! It's a misunderstanding, they are so good now that they can wear a pair of trousers, my sister should stop beating her own. If you are still angry about those hairpin earrings... I will ask my second sister to find someone to make exactly the same Send you-"

"No, no, what does this have to do with you?" Pei Yan quickly interrupted him with a wave of her hand, and sighed annoyedly, "Mei Liu, you were just scolded by your father, so don't let others talk about it. From now on, if you don’t take Pei Jun to your restaurant, I’ll be thankful, and I don’t dare to ask for anything else.” After that, she put the pole in Mei Linyu’s hand, and glared at Pei Jun behind Cao Luan: "Mother is about to take a nap. I'll go and see if the medicine is ready. You two guests—you can entertain yourself."

As she spoke, she raised her hand to poke Pei Jun's head across Cao Luan's shoulder.Pei Jun covered his head with an ouch, and saw her take two steps back, pointing at the tip of their noses one by one, and then pointing at the horse hanging, leaf card and peach blossom wine on the stone table behind them, turned around, and Walking and sighing:

"If you don't learn well all day long, you know that you are fooling around like this. What can you do in the future?"

Thinking back to Pei Yan's words back then, Pei Jun smiled dumbly, but felt a little bitter in his smile, and only sighed that now, all of his mischievous teenagers are all promising, but he doesn't know what kind of luck in this world is called Pei Yan, who was the most obedient and sensible back then, was imprisoned unjustly——thinking about it, it's really ironic.

He lifted his legs and entered the room, and saw that Jiang Xuan was already asleep on the couch.Mother Han put away Jiang Xuan's clothes and put them in the wooden basin, and came to report to him about Jiang Xuan's leg injury, and asked him to rest before going out with the wooden basin.

After a while, the little maidservant who kept watch at night came, and saw that Mrs. Pei was sitting on the wide-backed chair next to the little prince's bed, with his face facing the candle light, with one hand resting on the edge of the bed, and looking at the prince on the bed carefully. His Highness's sleeping face.

The servant girl didn't dare to disturb her for a while, but Pei Jun heard the movement early in the morning, turned around and ordered softly: "Go and get me a dress."

The servant girl answered quickly and trotted away.But after a while, it was Uncle Dong who rushed over with the bed sheet in his arms.

Uncle Dong came in and said worriedly: "My lord, there are servants watching over here, you should go back and rest, don't wait."

Pei Jun took the quilt in his hand, put it on his knees and said, "I won't be able to sleep after all when I go back. I may feel more at ease looking at the child here. Besides, if the Prince Jin's mansion gets evidence of Li Cunzhi tonight, the Prince of Jin will surely I won’t rest until I finish reading it. How can I, a patron, have the face to sleep? Why don’t you bring Pei Yan’s case file for me, and it’s on the desk in my room. The book is."

"Hey, I got it." Uncle Dong replied, and was about to go, but he stopped halfway, turned around and called Pei Jun, hesitating a little: "My lord, here... I have something to tell you."

Pei Jun asked, "What's the matter?"

Dong Shu said: "There are many outsiders in the house today, I watched coldly from the front, and I felt that Mr. Cao's guards were a bit strange..."

Pei Junli was slapped by Mian'er's hand, and turned to look at him: "What's so strange?"

Uncle Dong rolled up his sleeves, frowned, and stood on the spot and replied: "Just now you and some adults went to the backyard. Not long after, the guard said he needed to relieve himself. Liu Jin led him there, but he waited No one came out for a long time. Liu Jin yelled twice, but no one answered, so he couldn't wait and knocked on the door, and was about to rush in when the man came out again."

Pei Jun raised his eyebrows slightly.

Uncle Dong continued: "Liu Jin is a child, he doesn't know what to do, and when he came back, he said that the man's shit doesn't stink, I'm afraid it's because of his kung fu skills. When I didn't hear it right, I hurried to the back to have a look, but I saw Gong Fang The small window on the back wall is still closed, and there are no traces outside. But it is not certain whether the man opened the window or not..."

Pei Jun frowned: "Is there something missing in the house?"

"Not lost." Uncle Dong shook his head, but his expression was not relaxed.

These words made Pei Jun's brows tighten even more.Because he knew as well as Uncle Dong that behind Gong's house on the west side of the outer courtyard, the window and the wall, the aisle porch, should be the place where he held the banquet today.If the guard had entered the backyard through the window under the guise of not being respectful, his intention was definitely not as simple as stealing.

At this time, he thought of Cao Luan's instructions, words and deeds to him during the two encounters, and thought of the servants in Cao Luan's house who were about to be replaced. After sinking in the middle, he immediately looked at Uncle Dong and said, "Go and ask the guards and servants at home to see if anyone has seen this guard enter the backyard. In the morning, call two more servant girls and bring some with Qian Haiqing." Send the medicinal materials to Cao's mansion—told them to come in and see for me how Xuanxuan is doing."

Uncle Dong got the order, so he went, and when he came back with Pei Yan's case, he only said that none of the servants had seen the guard enter the backyard, and said, "Maybe he is old, and he thought too much, after all. , "Mr. Cao, why would he have any ill intentions towards our family?"

But even though Uncle Dong said so, the seeds of doubt in Pei Jun's heart had already been planted. The more he heard this at this time, the more he felt that this matter was trying to cover up.

"Be careful with this person in the future." Pei Jun took the case file from Uncle Dong, and ordered in a low voice, "Go find someone to find out why Cao's replacement is for. If it's inconvenient for our officials to inquire, You just look for the sons-in-law of the Mei family and ask them about business, and you must find out in the next few days. Otherwise, if something happens to Lao Cao... my game of chess will be ruined."

Uncle Dong agreed softly, went around to the bed and tucked Jiang Xuan's quilt, and was afraid that there would be flying insects at night, so he lit the incense on the table.He tidied things up and down for a while, and then told Pei Jun: "If you are going to be tired at night, you can just make do with the little prince for a night." After hearing Pei Jun's casual agreement, he closed the door and went out.

In one night, each family in the east, south, and north of Beijing had its own affairs, and the sun rose slowly the next day.When it finally dawned, the dark clouds brought down another burst of rain, causing Pei Jun to feel a chill in the room, and it was difficult to sit down any longer, so he simply rubbed the back of his neck and stood up from the chair, put down the file and charcoal in his hand, Strolled to the corridor and punched for a while.

After breakfast, someone came from the Jin Palace and brought Pei Jun a wooden box.Pei Jun only regarded it as physical evidence in Li Cunzhi's case, but when he opened it up, he found that there was only a handwritten letter by Jiang Yue and some folded newspapers.