White Moonlight of Powerful Officials at large

Thirteen people neatly knelt down in the not-so-spacious farmhouse.

The candlelight was dim, the air was stuffy, and the tide descended from top to bottom, sinking heavily.

"Say." Pei You sat on the main seat, with a basket of blue dates in his hand, and casually twisted one in his hand, looking indifferently at the people kneeling all over the ground.

The leader is a young man in his early twenties, who seems to be the same age as Pei You, with dark skin, broad body and strong body, already sweating profusely.

"Young Master Wang, it was all my mother's nonsense just now..." He said with a trembling voice, and kowtowed suddenly, "Young Master Wang, for the sake of you and my classmate for many years, forgive my mother's nonsense. speak!"

Wen Ning stood beside Pei You, tilting her head in confusion.

She originally thought that in this border town, the news might not come through, and news such as "Wang You" high school being recognized by the Duke's Mansion might not be able to come back.

But the second family who opened the door had one "adult" and obviously knew that "Wang You" was now an official.

When they came to this family, the mother would not kill her sons one by one, she really called out people, and when the sons were one by one, his mother got hysteria and talked nonsense.

Pei You didn't say much, just pulled out the dagger from his waist, and placed it on the table in the main hall.

The air was instantly quieter.

Not many officials could bear Pei You's deep eyes, let alone the few below were ordinary people, but after a while, they couldn't hold on anymore.

"My lord, it's not that my mother deliberately slandered you, it's...it's...a lot of things happened in the town in the past two years!"

Wen Ning listened carefully, her eyes gradually widened.

This "Feng Er" said that in the past two years, people in the town suddenly started to be killed or injured, or were thrown into prison suddenly, and never came out again.

At first, everyone didn't notice the difference, but it was just that the year was a little bit worse, and there were many unlucky things.

"Until...until the news of your high school came, we...we found out...the dead, wounded and imprisoned were all the people who bullied you before!" The man kowtowed again, "It's just a folk rumor, Cao Min and his family have never participated in the arrangement, my lord! My lord is clearly aware!"

There was another moment of silence in the house.

Wen Ning silently calculated, Peiyou High School was Jiahe's 14th year Chunwei, but it will take some time for the news from Jingzhong to arrive, so when exactly did those things happen?
While she was wondering, Pei You had already asked, "The first two years, which year was it?"

"Just... since February 14 in Jiahe..." After all the words were spoken, "Feng Er" was not as frightened as before, "They... They all said that the adults climbed up to the nobles in the capital and became prosperous , and began to settle old accounts..."

"My lord, these are all said by people outside, and have nothing to do with the grass people!"

In February of Jiahe's 14th year, Pei You was neither in high school nor recognized by the Duke's government.

Wen Ning frowned, looked at the person who didn't seem to be lying at the moment, and had absolutely no reason to lie, and glanced at Pei You.

Pei You was very calm, he didn't show the mountains or the water, and couldn't see that he had any thoughts, so he just threw the green date back into the basket, then picked up his dagger, and asked casually: "Before the incident, what did the town do?" Is there anything unusual inside?"

That "Feng Er" frowned and pondered, but the woman who opened the door first replied immediately: "Yes, there are! During that time, a few handsome young men came to the town, and they often rushed to the crowd to ask how many people there are. In a word, I heard... I heard that there are people who were directly taken away by them..."

"Sister-in-law, have you ever met?" Pei You looked at the woman.

Although the woman is the same age as Mrs. Wang, according to the seniority in the town, "Wang You" did call her "Sister-in-law" back then.Seeing that he still remembered the old address, his tone eased a lot, he breathed a sigh of relief, and nodded repeatedly: "I remember, that person came to our house to ask, Feng Er really fought with you when he was ten years old. You have a book, no..."

Pei You didn't hear her finish, and asked, "Is there a pen and paper at home?"

Now the family finally believed that Pei You didn't come here to find them to settle the old scores, they should leave and rest, only the woman and "Feng Er" were left, and the two described the appearance and attire of those people together. .

Pei You wrote the pen, and soon a few people had an outline.

It's just that more than two years have passed, and I can't remember the appearance clearly. Apart from the slight impression of the figure and the color of the clothes, what the two described most is the sabers of several people.

"It's very majestic, it's unforgettable!" "Feng Er" is a young man after all, and he is very interested in this kind of thing. "This should be wider, black, with a jewel inlaid on the handle."

"When using it, it should be across. They hid it on purpose, but I still saw it!"

"It should be shorter. It was just spring, and they were hidden under the clothes without showing."

At the end of the painting, people are not drawn, only knives are drawn.Until Feng Er said "Yes, that's how it is, absolutely right", Pei You stopped writing, and the air became stagnant for a moment.

Wen Ning looked at the knife on the paper in disbelief.

Although she doesn't go in and out of the palace very often, she is a native of the capital and has the opportunity to face the saint once or twice a year.If Feng Er's dictation is correct, and if the drawn saber is correct, the person who came here two years ago to check on Pei You turned out to be...

Jin Wuwei? !
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On the way back to the inn, both of them were a little silent.

Wen Ning didn't ask Pei You if there were really many people who bullied him back then.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, you can guess that a child who is adopted halfway is like a sudden foreign invader. She was ridiculed by relatives when she was a child for not having a mother, let alone Pei You, whose biological father and mother are unknown.

Pei You probably didn't mind it, otherwise he would not go back to Runan again as a person who will take revenge, and he would not stop her when she said to send dates to her neighbors.

But, unexpectedly...someone minds for him?
After returning to the inn, Pei You went out.

Wen Ning heard an eagle whistle and knew that he was summoning the hidden guards, probably to order something.

While taking a bath, Wen Ning couldn't stop thinking about it.

The Jinwu Guards, the personal soldiers around the emperor, are only active inside and outside the palace, and are responsible for the safety of the imperial city and the empress.

Why did they come to investigate Pei You's past?And why venting anger generally sent those who bullied "Wang You" to death, wounded, and sent to prison?

In the former dynasty, the Jinwu Guards only listened to the emperor's order. In the Jiahe Dynasty, Emperor Jiahe split the Jinwu Order into two in order to show his love for the empress.

In other words, this group of people could only have been sent by Emperor Jiahe or the empress.

Could it be that the eldest princess knew about Pei You's past, felt wronged for Pei You, and asked Emperor Jiahe for permission?

But in February of the 14th year of Jiahe, Pei You was not yet in high school. Didn't the eldest princess meet Pei You at the Qionglin Banquet after Chunwei that year, and hit it off with him at first sight, and then investigated his life experience and let him recognize his ancestors? ?
After taking a shower, there was still no sign of Pei You, but there was an extra note on the table: "I'll be back late. I'll leave it to you at Sixteen."

Originally, she came out to play happily, but when she came out halfway, Wen Ning's mind was full of mess, how could she fall asleep peacefully?

She tossed and turned on the bed, wondering who did these things and why they did them, and felt that she had lived an extra life in vain for a while. She claimed to know Pei You better than anyone else, but in the end she knew nothing about him.

When Pei You came back, she had actually fallen asleep in a daze, but after all, she was a light sleeper. As soon as Pei You touched the bed, she woke up with a start.

"What did you do?"

Wen Ning rubbed her eyes and got up, but before she could fully open her eyes, she was held on the back of her head, and a slightly cool kiss overturned her.

His kisses are usually aggressive, Wen Ning couldn't hold back, so Fenquan punched him.

When Pei You let her go, she was a little short of breath, but he still looked cold, as if what he just did had nothing to do with him.

"What did you do?" Wen Ning asked again, her voice inevitably a little coquettish after being bullied for a while.

There was warm moisture on Pei You's body. He had already bathed and changed his clothes, so he sat down and said, "It's nothing."

Take off your shoes and go to bed.

How could it be nothing?They agreed last time...

Just as Wen Ning was about to ask, Pei You realized it, and added: "Just check whether what they said is true."

"Is that true?"

"They haven't dared to lie to me yet."

So... is it true?

"Then..." Wen Ning had been thinking about this question all night, "Who do you think it is?"

Pei You's eyebrows were light: "I don't know."

Wen Ning frowned, and asked again: "Then tell me, this person... is the same person as the person behind the scenes we are looking for?"

"I don't know." Still these two words.

Wen Ning blinked and looked at Pei You's eyelashes drooping slightly. I don't know if it was because of her clothes. Her complexion looked very fair, and the corners of her lips were very indifferent.

"Pei You, are you not in a hurry?" Wen Ning couldn't help asking.

"What's the hurry?" Pei You raised his eyelids, his eyes were completely dark.

Eager to know the truth behind this!
Pei You lowered her eyes again, and then sneered: "Let's see what they want to do."

they?

Wen Ning turned his head, and felt that Pei You didn't know everything.

That is, he is such a sensitive person, and these things are closely related to him, it is impossible for him to be like her, clueless and unaware.

Wen Ning moved closer, and wanted to ask, but was suddenly grabbed by his waist: "Can't sleep?"

There were only two people in the room, and it was late at night, and there was silence everywhere. Naturally, Pei You's volume was not high, but he lowered his voice, and his usual cold voice was slightly hoarse, with a slightly higher end.

Wen Ning's heart skipped a beat, her face was inexplicably hot, and she moved back a little.

But Pei You leaned over again, pinching her chin with two fingers familiarly: "Then do something else?"

"What... what else..." Wen Ning blushed even more, grabbed her thin blanket, covered her body, and hid in the bed.

Behind him, Pei You suddenly smiled: "What are you thinking?"

Fish her over: "It's not clean here."

Wen Ning slapped her face, her face was on fire, something was not clean... kicked him hard.

"I'll tell you something else." Pei You half leaned on the bed, pulling Wen Ning into his arms.
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Wen Ning likes this way of getting along with Pei You very much.

Under the dim candlelight, he took his time and explained to her sentence by sentence what he would never have said to her in his previous life.

"So, what do you mean..." Wen Ning couldn't stay on him anymore, "Maybe this epidemic was man-made?"

"Well." Pei You lowered his brows, with a bit of sarcasm on his face, "The epidemic was not only in Wuxi, but also in many places. The imperial court recruited doctors this time. In addition, I have seen similar diseases before, but the northern Xinjiang is vast, and it was winter, so the infection of the epidemic was relatively slow, and it was quickly brought under control."

Wen Ning grasped the skirt of his chest tightly, no wonder...

It's no wonder that this disease, which should not be affected by human beings, can break out half a year earlier, and Shiying, which was missing in the previous life, has not appeared in the prescription at all in this life.

But in the previous life, a blind medicinal material was fired to sky-high prices, causing the epidemic to spread, and it was exactly the same in this life.

The seasons are different, the diseases introduced by those people are different, and the prescriptions used are naturally different; but since they are man-made, their purpose is the same, and the methods are naturally the same.

Pei You went on to say: "I applied to the imperial court to transport food, but it is not accidental that the food is delayed."

Wen Ning was surprised: "Has the situation between the DPRK and China become so severe?"

Pei You twitched the corners of her lips: "It's not a day's cold to be frozen three feet."

Wen Ning frowned, King Rui was not as vulnerable as she imagined, Chu Heng was not as weak as he appeared on the surface, and the court was not as calm as it seemed.The undercurrent had probably already been surging, and the undercurrent that came out of Xiangtong Street earlier brought the undercurrent to the surface, and then it became more and more turbulent.

"Whose handwriting do you think it could be?" Wen Ning asked, "Brother has been staying here all this time, is that why he is investigating this matter?"

Pei You didn't answer the first question, but said: "The elder brother will have the full power to discuss this matter, and he will also make a statement in front of His Majesty."

Wen Ning couldn't help sitting up straight: "Brother is here?"

"Brother has ambitions, if you don't enter the game, how will you get a chance?"

Wen Ning didn't make a sound, she knew that since the dust-cleaning feast, Wen Lan had devoted herself to her official duties and wanted to make a difference in the officialdom, so that the family would have more reliance.

"The court is in turmoil, and the Lingnan epidemic has involved a lot. After you return to Beijing, you will stay in Wenfu for the time being." Pei You's warm palm touched her face and rubbed against her cheek, "Stay calm, and I will pick you up." Go back to the government."

For some reason, Wen Ning's heart suddenly felt hot and swollen.She didn't expect to be like Pei You, like an ordinary couple, chatting about daily life before going to bed, discussing the future direction of the two.

"What's wrong?" Pei You saw her eyes flickering suddenly, as if she was about to cry, "Want to go back earlier?"

Wen Ning put her arms around his neck, leaned forward, and whispered into his ear, "No."

only……

If you knew it earlier, you shouldn't be entangled for so long; if you knew it earlier, you should follow your heart earlier.

"Wen Ning, I still have something to say." Pei You's voice rang in her ears, it seemed softer and softer.

"Tell me." Wen Ning clung to his neck.

Pei You sighed silently: "Wen Ning, it's summer now."

"What's wrong with Xia Ri?" Wen Ning rubbed against his neck, "You are very cold, not hot."

Pei You: "Your clothes are very thin."

What happened to the thin clothes?
It was probably too late, Wen Ning's mind turned slowly, and then she suddenly woke up.

She got up from Pei You, subconsciously clutching her chest, her face burning.

"I..." She blushed, her eyes glistened, "I" paused for a long while, "You...you just...you just...have something to say? What...what?"

Wen Ning was sleeping at first, and she was wearing a slightly loose skirt. Now, the collar is down, and the chest is slightly loose. Only the belt around the waist is still tight, making the waist even more slender a grip.

Pei You looked at the obtrusive belt, squinted his eyes, and answered frankly: "Forgot."

Wen Ning blinked, she seemed to have forgotten what she said earlier...

"Then... sleep?"

"Well, sleep."

Wen Ning lay down suppressing her heartbeat, and secretly touched her flushed face.

Pei You blew out the candles and lay down.

Just lying down, he picked up the cheek of the person next to him, clamped her chin with one hand, and bit her lips familiarly, and quietly untied the obstructing belt with the other hand, and touched the slender softness.

The place is not very clean.

But there are always other things that can be done.

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