Quick Travel: Passing Through the Bloody World

Early the next morning, Pei Yu was woken up by Lan's personal nanny to paint the portrait, and he continued to paint until noon.

Pei Yu covered his lips and yawned. Through his tearful eyes, he saw Lan, who was wearing a navy blue dress with gold thread, walking towards him in small steps.

Lan waved her hand, and several maids behind her placed several wooden boxes in front of Pei Yu and left the room.

Lan opened the wooden boxes one by one, and found them filled with gold, silver, jewels and expensive ornaments.

"These are part of it. Other large items will be given to you when you get married."

A smile appeared on Pei Yu's lips, which was extremely eye-catching on his fair and beautiful face.

He put his hand on one of the wooden boxes and snapped the lid shut.

Lan was startled by this sudden action, and then she covered her chest and said: "Pei Yu! What are you doing?!"

"What?" Pei Yu stood up slowly, lowered his eyes and looked at Lan and said, "My mother's dowry when she married into the Pei family included three properties. May I ask, Aunt Lan, where are my mother's properties?"

Lan's face turned red and her neck became thick when she was called "Auntie". She said angrily: "What did you call me?"

Ever since Pei's mother passed away, although Pei's father did not publicly promote her to the position of legal wife due to the friendship between the elders, all the servants in the mansion treated her as the real master.

Pei Yu repeated casually: "Auntie Lan."

"you!"

Lan raised her hand and tried to slap Pei Yu but was firmly grasped by another hand. She looked at Pei Yu in shock, as if she didn't expect that this usually timid man would dare to stop her.

Pei Yu calmly increased the strength of his hands, and a teeth-grinding sound of bones creaking could be heard.

Lan burst into tears of pain, but before she could open her mouth, Pei Yu stuffed a huge apple into her mouth.

Pei Yu opened the wooden box with his fingertips and pulled out a silver hairpin, then moved it to rub Lan's cheek. Lan's body was stiff and she dared not move. She held an apple in her mouth and sobbed something indistinctly.

"Auntie, I don't eat well on weekdays, and I don't have much strength..."

Lan's eyes widened instantly, shocked by Pei Yu's shameless words. This is called having no strength? He almost crushed her bones!

Pei Yu continued: "So if my hand shakes and I accidentally scratch my aunt's delicate face..."

As the cold silver hairpin slid, Lan's eyes instantly turned red. She stared at Pei Yu as if she wanted to skin him alive.

The silver hairpin moved to Lan's neck. As she swallowed, her delicate skin rubbed against the sharp silver hairpin. Lan broke out in a cold sweat and fear gradually lingered in her eyes.

"Or it would be bad if you cut my aunt's throat." Pei Yu said with a smile.

The girl in front of him had a slim figure, delicate and gentle features, but in Lan's eyes she was a complete devil.

Lan was shaking with fear and tears were streaming down her face uncontrollably.

"Auntie Lan, after I let go of you, you'd better not shout or scream, otherwise my silver hairpin will not be very clean."

Pei Yu indicated that she should nod if she understood, and Lan stiffened her neck and nodded cautiously.

The moment his wrist was loosened, Lan fell to the ground as if he had lost all strength.

Pei Yu pulled out an armchair, sat on it and looked at Lan's miserable appearance.

It took Lan a while to find her voice. She stared at the shining silver hairpin in Pei Yu's hand and gritted her teeth and said, "What do you want?"

"I want all my mother's dowry."

Lan was shocked: "The information stored in the database is from many years ago. Where do you want me to check it?"

"Hmm?" Pei Yu shook the silver hairpin in his hand.

Lan: "..."

Lan clenched his fists and nodded angrily.

"There is also the salt shop in the east of the city, the Chunfeng South Tower on Wakou Street, and the spice shop at the entrance of the west alley..."

After Pei Yu finished talking about a series of locations, Lan took a deep breath and almost died of anger: "Why don't you go and rob it?"

Pei Yu pretended to be puzzled and asked, "Aunt, you are joking. Aren't these things the dowry you prepared for your sister when she got married?"

Then he chuckled and said, "Now, I am your daughter Pei Binghe. You don't want to give people a chance to talk about you, right?"

Hearing Pei Yu using honorifics but with no respect in his tone, Lan became so angry that her face turned ashen.

But she didn't dare to offend Pei Yu at this moment. One reason was the silver hairpin in his hand, and the other was more important - she couldn't let Pei Yu tell about the substitutionary marriage, otherwise the entire Pei family would suffer.

Thinking of this, Lan agreed to Pei Yu's request with a pained look on her face.

Pei Yu was in a very good mood after getting the land deed. He threw a handkerchief to Lan and said kindly: "Mother is really sensitive. Seeing that I was about to leave home, you cried because you couldn't bear to leave me. Wipe off your makeup quickly."

The nanny who came in to deliver the land deed looked at her master in confusion when she heard this.

Lan: "..."

Who is your mother?

Who is closer to you and your daughter?

The face is gone.

Lan was so angry that she almost vomited blood, but she finally forced a smile and said, "Yes, a mother worries about her son even when he is away from home. Xiaoyu is getting married now, so naturally, as a mother, I am very depressed."

"Don't worry, Auntie. I will often recite scriptures and pray for you in the palace."

"..." Not really.

Lan didn't want to waste any more time talking to Pei Yu, so she turned around and left with the nanny.

The nanny held Lan's hand and asked in confusion: "Why did Madam give her the house deed?"

Lan snorted: "She is in the deep palace and can't reach the outside, so what if I give it to her?"

What's more, she was the empress who married the emperor for good fortune. It would be good if she could prolong the emperor's life, but if she couldn't...

Lan held the nanny's hand and calmly smoothed her temples.

"Go to the Buddhist temple. I want to burn some incense for my dear daughter and pray that she will be well in the palace."

...

The old emperor pushed the beauty away and walked over to the eunuch's hand to look at the painting.

The woman in the painting has beautiful eyebrows and eyes, a delicate posture, and a pair of beautiful eyes that are as bright as a pool of autumn water.

She is elegant and beautiful, and although her face is still childish, her stunning appearance is still visible.

It was Pei Yu.

The old emperor stroked the figure in the painting with trembling hands, and golden light shone from his cloudy eyes: "Is this the queen that the Imperial Astronomical Observatory predicted for me to be able to ward off evil and ward off disasters for me?"

"Your Majesty, it is Miss Pei Binghe from Minister Pei's family." Xue Shenyi lowered his eyes and responded.

"Good, good, good!" The old emperor rubbed his hands ecstatically and walked back and forth in circles. He suddenly went over, grabbed Xue Shenyi's hand and patted it.

"Master Xue, it's all thanks to you! I will be immortal and ascend to heaven! Hahahahahahaha..."

At the end of his speech, the old emperor couldn't help but burst into laughter, which was sharp, piercing and full of madness.

The disheveled beauty on the couch retracted her feet in fear, staring at the suddenly crazy old emperor with a horrified look on her face.

The old emperor noticed her movements and pointed at the beauty with a gloomy face: "Master Xue, did you see that? My Concubine Yang is afraid of me!"

Xue Shenyi still kept his eyes down and said nothing.

The old emperor seemed not to care about his response at all. He pulled the disheveled beauty off the couch and threw her to the ground.

The beauty panicked and covered her clothes to avoid being too embarrassed.

The old emperor looked at her condescendingly and murmured: "I suddenly feel that you are not good-looking. Are you getting old?"

Then he waved his hand as if disposing of a vessel: "Master Xue, peel off her skin for me, so that the beauty will not fade with age."

Xue Shenyi bowed and said, "Yes, Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, please don't do that! I am not old, I don't want to be skinned alive! Your Majesty! Your Majesty, please let me go!"

The beauty tried to crawl on the old emperor's clothes, but was lifted up and dragged out by two eunuchs.

The entire imperial study was filled with sharp and piercing cries, which gradually disappeared only after the woman was dragged outside.

Xue Shenyi bowed to the old emperor and said, "Your Majesty, I will step down and serve as your beauty."

"Go ahead."

The old emperor waved his hand, still immersed in the painting.

When leaving the imperial study, he looked back and saw the old emperor, who seemed to be immersed in his own madness like a madman.

After walking out of the imperial study, Zhong Fan saw that no one was coming over, so he whispered, "Master, how do you deal with Concubine Hui..."

"Take it off."

Zhong Fan's face turned green: "Master, this is the third one this month."

"But your majesty only remembers the first lady, Yang, who was skinned."

Xue Shenyi stood with his hands behind his back, watching the setting sun over the mountains. The rosy glow enveloped the earth in a crimson red, like the huge mouth of a vicious beast that was about to swallow the entire palace.

"The fate of these women was sealed from the moment they entered the palace."

Zhong Fan fell silent.

The emperor was about to die, and according to the rules of past dynasties, these concubines who had no children were to be buried alive as a sacrifice to the emperor.

No one can save them.

Because this is a place where people are eaten without leaving any bones.