Xie Zhichan returned to Feiniao Pavilion with the imperial edict in his hand, and then he lay on the table and stared at it in a daze.
Xiao Liu'er paced back and forth in the room angrily, "Girl, that Master Pei is clearly repaying kindness with enmity! You saved his life, but he wants to cheat you for the rest of your life! Even in that state, he still wants to get married! Damn it!"
After scratching his head and thinking for a long time, he said to Xie Zhichan, "Miss, why don't we run away! This Duke's Mansion is a den of snakes and rats. They only want to suck your blood. They think that if you marry into the Prince of Yan's Mansion, you can get a good marriage for the Duke of Wei's Mansion. There is nothing to be nostalgic about. If you run away, the emperor will punish them for deceiving the emperor and chop off their heads!"
Xie Zhichan smiled and said, "Where can I run to? The land of the world belongs to the king. Besides, I am just a woman. The power of one person is very small in this world. I must not be arrogant and must be respectful. Even if I have unparalleled medical skills, I cannot defeat thousands of troops. Moreover, I have recently read some court reports from the Jin Dynasty in the past ten years. The Turks harass the northern border every year and launch a large-scale attack on the Jin Dynasty every three to five years. If Pei Yi is gone from the northern border, it will soon be occupied by the Turks. If the Jin Dynasty is destroyed, the northern border will be in chaos. I have to find a way to figure out the situation, cure him, and save the lives of the people in the northern border."
Even if she wanted to run away, she had to cure the disability first. Otherwise, within a year, the whole country would be in chaos and there would be war and disorder everywhere. Where could she run to?
When Pei Yuan, the Prince of Yan, received the imperial edict, he felt extremely sad. In his opinion, Yi'er's need for a wedding was just a rumor made up by the market, so he did not take it seriously and only prayed that Yi'er would wake up.
But now the emperor has granted the marriage, and in the name of bringing good luck, he is sending a woman with a bad reputation and whose engagement has been broken off to his son. This is simply bullying the fact that there is no one in the Prince of Yan's Mansion now!
He sat on a cushion in the ancestral hall, holding Ji Wanyun's tablet and wiping it again and again, as if he was not wiping dust, but the bridge of life and death that separated him and Ji Wanyun.
"Yunniang, if you want to blame me or resent me, then come to my dreams. I will take all the beatings and scoldings. These years, I have been guarding the Prince of Yan's Mansion alone. I don't know how lonely I am. I seem to see your shadow everywhere in the mansion, but I can't find you anywhere. You must be blaming me for not protecting Yi'er well, so you haven't come to my dreams recently. But I can't go to accompany you for the time being. I still have to support the Prince of Yan's Mansion. Please don't take Yi'er away, keep him to accompany me. In this life, I am sorry for you. In the next life, I hope I can meet you earlier. There should not be so many coincidences between us, and there should not be anyone else. It's just the two of us. Yi'er is still our son. Let's make up for all the regrets in this life."
Outside the window, black shadows are mottled and the night is as dark as ink.
There is a solitary dim lamp under the eaves.
Lin stood by the window, swaying, and felt as if her burning heart had been immersed in a basin of ice water in the cold winter.
For so many years, she has been busy in the Prince of Yan's Mansion, but Pei Yuan has always treated her as an outsider. Why!
She twisted the handkerchief in her hand and returned to her yard angrily.
Just let that heartless man freeze in the ancestral hall! Why should I care about him?
Anyway, the future of the Prince of Yan's Mansion can only depend on her Song'er, so she doesn't have to rely on anyone else.
In Tingxueju, Liang Qixing, Fan Xingyang and Hua Manxi crowded into one room.
Liang Qixing's arm was still hanging around his neck. After He Zheng and the Turkic envoys finalized the terms of peace, his injury was no longer serious, so he returned to the capital with them.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he returned to Beijing, he heard the news that Pei Yi was seriously injured, vomiting blood and unconscious, and the emperor issued an edict to grant him a marriage to bring good luck. He hurried to the Prince of Yan's Mansion and ran into Fan Xingyang and Hua Manxi together.
Pei Yi saw that the matter had been settled as he expected, so he told them that he had pretended to be sick.
Liang Qixing said, "Old Pei, you pretended to be sick so that you could avoid the emperor's punishment for spreading the princess' scandal, but what about the marriage? I heard from the palace that after Princess Yongtai entered the palace, the emperor ordered her to leave the palace. This is Princess Yongtai's revenge on you! Are you really going to marry her?"
Fan Xingyang said, "Yes, although the eldest lady of the Xie family saved your life, the grace of saving a life cannot be confused with a lifetime of happiness. Even I have heard about the eldest lady of the Xie family. She was thrown on the farm by the Duke of Weiguo since she was a child. She was brought up in a vulgar manner and hung out with beggars in the house of her ex-fiancé. She has no self-discipline. How can she be worthy of the general?"
Liang Qixing said: "Let's think about how to help Old Pei avoid this marriage."
Fan Xingyang said, "Yuheng, you and the general are the ones who usually come up with the most bad ideas. You should think more about the general. The general is sick now, and even his brain is not working well. You are getting yourself into trouble by pretending to be sick."
Only Hua Manxi said thoughtfully: "Old Pei, tell me the truth, you asked Danfeng to spread the rumor for the wedding, it was not a whim, right? So, this imperial decree to grant marriage was deliberately calculated by you?"
Liang Qixing and Fan Xingyang were both stunned: "What?!"
Liang Qixing's face was full of question marks: "Old Pei, you wouldn't really be in love with the eldest daughter of the Xie family like what was sung in "The Splendid Carriage"? "The play was so popular that even the storytellers in the teahouses and taverns in the suburbs of Beijing were adapting it. He heard a few of them on the way.
Fan Xingyang finally understood that he had been anxious for nothing. "So it was the general who fell in love with Miss Xie? Since it was the general's vision, Miss Xie should not be bad." Fan Xingyang blindly believed in Pei Yi. It was as if he was not the one who said that Miss Xie was not worthy of Pei Yi.
Then he chuckled and said, "The general is old enough to get married, but he always hangs out with bachelors like us. People in the barracks are saying that the general has taken a fancy to one of us."
Liang Qixing and Hua Manxi immediately looked at Fan Xingyang as if he was an idiot.
Hua Manxi stared at Pei Yi thoughtfully. If Pei Yi really fell in love with Miss Xie, given his current physical condition, it would be even more impossible for him to want to marry her. He would not want to harm his beloved woman.
But if it was for other purposes, why would she go to so much trouble to give up the position of Crown Prince's Consort?
Seeing that Pei Yi didn't say anything, Liang Qixing just thought that he tacitly acknowledged his friendship with Miss Xie. In that case, he didn't want to say anything.
Then he asked worriedly, "Old Pei, what should we do with your health? Doesn't Mr. Ye still have any news about his master?"
Whenever Pei Yi thought that soon, that ferocious little fox Xie Zhichan would be completely tied to the same boat with him, he felt unprecedented peace in his heart.
He didn't want the three of them to worry too much about his physical condition, and he couldn't help but want to share his secret with them. It was like a person who had just got a rare pet and couldn't help but take it out to show others, and proudly tell others how much effort he had spent to get this pet, showing how unique his pet was.
He called Dan Feng and ordered, "Bring me the two pictures I framed."
Soon, Dan Feng took out two framed pictures from the bookshelf.
Pei Yi added: "Open it and let them see for themselves."
Dan Feng followed instructions and displayed the two scrolls in front of everyone.
Liang Qixing, Fan Xingyang and Hua Manxi saw only two pictures with women's heads. One of the pictures was the white-haired medical fairy Bai Xianer in the Northern Frontier military camp, whom they had all seen before. The woman in the other picture was also familiar to Hua Manxi. She was the woman he had painted himself, who saved Pei Yi's life in the suburbs of Beijing.
Liang Qixing asked in confusion: "Old Pei, what do you mean by letting us see these two paintings?"
Pei Yi rolled his eyes at the three of them and said, "Didn't you see anything?"
Fan Xingyang said: "I figured it out! One is the Medical Immortal Bai, and the other is Miss Xie who saved your life in the suburbs of Beijing." He later heard the original version of the story of "The Splendid Car" from Dan Feng firsthand.
Hua Manxi just stared at the two paintings for a while before looking at Pei Yi in disbelief and asked, "Are you saying that they are the same person?"
Fan Xingyang and Liang Qixing were petrified instantly. These two people were actually the same person? How come they didn't see it!
Fan Xingyang exclaimed, "What?! Fairy Bai Yi is Miss Xie?!"
Liang Qixing corrected him, "It should be said that Miss Xie is the White Medical Fairy."
Pei Yi nodded, looked at Hua Manxi with some disdain, and said, "It's a pity that Xiaohua has been drawing fugitive wanted posters for the Dali Temple for several years, but she didn't find the similarities between Miss Xie and Bai Yixian."
There was a kind of pride in her tone that she herself could hardly detect, as if she was saying, "Look how cunning this little fox of mine is. She fooled all of you, but in the end, I was the only one who saw through her disguise."
Dan Feng also knew the truth at this time and said, "I was wondering why Master asked me to frame these two paintings. It turns out that they are both the Crown Prince's consorts!"
Pei Yi just felt that the title of "Crown Prince's Consort" was very pleasant to the ear and looked at Dan Feng with appreciation.
Hua Manxi suddenly asked, "So, Old Pei, you took so much trouble to marry Miss Xie into Prince Yan's mansion just to have her treat your illness, and you never thought of having her become your Crown Prince's Consort?"
Pei Yi coughed lightly and said, "Of course, it's just for treatment. Right now the court is unstable. The King of Qin wants to win over my Pei family army, and the Crown Prince sees me as a thorn in his side. Even if I can fully recover, I hope to keep it secret for the time being. Miss Xie may agree to treat my illness, but she may not keep my secret when facing threats. I have no choice but to ask her to temporarily work with the Prince of Yan's Mansion."
Then Liang Qixing, Fan Xingyang and Hua Manxi all looked at him with scrutiny.
He raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why, you don't believe it?"
The three of them shook their heads.
Suddenly, Dan Feng's voice was heard saying, "Master, I believe you! Dan Feng believes you!"
Liang Qixing and the other two looked at Dan Feng, feeling like they were looking at a cute fool.
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