Pei Gonggui

After writing these two words, Pei Jun suddenly felt shaking, his mind lost consciousness, and his vision became dizzy.

His ears began to buzz, and his hands began to fail to move. It seemed that there was a force in the dark that was pulling him out of Jiang Yue's body - I don't know if it was death or the next life.

That's too late!

Pei Jun laboriously grasped the pen in his hand, tried to concentrate, to see clearly, to continue to write down stroke by stroke, and to tell Jiang Yue all the good fruits that Jiang Yue couldn't ask for in this life in the next life. Yue, but when he raised his wrist with great difficulty, he could only draw an ugly ink stain on the paper.

Jiang Yue realized that his right hand began to tremble, and his expression changed: "Pei Ziyu, what's wrong with you?...Pei Ziyu!"

Pei Jun intuitively felt that his soul was about to split apart, as if half of it was being held back by Jiang Yue's body, while the other half was being torn apart by a tiger.

--That's too late.

He knew it was too late.

There are too many things he wants Jiang Yue to know, and it is impossible to count them all, just like the flower tea he gave him, like the big fish they caught on the ice, and meeting each other in the warm spring under the moon. A whole night of entanglement—he has too many things he wants to tell the lonely and stubborn Jiang Yue in front of him, he wants to thank him, he wants to be sorry, he wants to scold him, he wants him to wake up...

But it was too late.Just like the ending of all the stories in his previous life: it was too late to change, and it was too late to continue.

At the last moment before his consciousness faded away, he only had time to write the last two lines of ink, and in Jiang Yue's eyes staring blankly into the mirror, he saw himself gradually floating out of Jiang Yue's physical body from bottom to top.

At the moment when the body and soul were separated, Baiku gave the empowerment with severe pain, and when Pei Jun closed his eyes, he only heard Jiang Yue's deep voice, mournfully chanting along with the note he left behind:

"Love is as deep as the sea, and the past is as far away as the sky..."

"If there is no destiny in the previous life, wait for the king to reunite and wish in the next life..."

……

The next moment, a thunderbolt pierced into his mind, and he saw the three thousand world Hu Xuan turning upside down and flying away from his eyes.

Darkness surged in, and he flowed in the water, becoming one of the thousands of waves in the Yinquan Soul Sea, washed over a raised and sharp cliff stone, turned into a waterfall and fell quickly——

boom!Another sound of thunder pierced into his ears from the void far away.He heard the rainstorm coming, he heard voices, and he heard people ringing bells.

He opened his eyes abruptly, only to see plain tents, a sleeping couch, and quilts in front of him.He woke up, in another time and space.

Two clay figurines, one red and one white, are inserted horizontally between the carved wood flowers and leaves on the head of the bed. The one in white is holding a sword like a fairy, and the one in red is holding a young child in his arms. He seems to be looking at him and smiling at this moment.

--He is back!

——This is the clay figurine that Jiang Xuan sold back not long ago.This is the afterlife!

Pei Jun took a deep breath in disbelief, his chest expanded but caused pain, everything reminded him that it was not a dream.When he clutched his chest and looked towards the place where the ringing was sparse, he saw two figures standing sideways in front of the window in the semi-dark inner bedroom, one was raising his hand to ring the bell and muttering words, while the other was clenched into a fist. , hanging on the copper stove set up between the two of them, when he squeezed it hard, a drop of red blood dripped from his palm into the copper stove, and was instantly swallowed by the flames in the stove.

There was the sound of heavy rain outside the window screen, and at this moment there was another thunder.For a moment, the white light was dazzling, making Pei Jun distinguish the figure: "Jiang Yue! What are you doing!"

The figure with clenched fist and blood dripping paused, turned his head to look, and couldn't believe it: "Pei Jun? Are you awake?"

He was slender and upright, and at this moment, he walked towards Pei Jun at a brisk pace, and in a moment he walked into the place where the candlelight could shine by the wall, and he saw Jiang Yue in his shroud.

Jiang Yue hurriedly lay beside Pei Jun's bed, frowning, raised his hand to touch Pei Jun's forehead in disbelief: "You're awake, you're finally awake! I thought you were going to abandon me... "

Another figure hurried over behind him, who seemed to be the old shaman who had been with him for many years—Bilag.

At this time, Bilege's beard and hair were not completely white, and his body was more muscular. When he saw Pei Jun wake up, he didn't know whether he was relieved or sighed and said, "My lord, if this is done, I will retire."

"Wait!" Pei Jun stopped him, "Are you calling back my soul just now?"

Bilge was startled, and looked at Jiang Yue questioningly.Jiang Yue signaled him to step back, and said on his behalf: "No, Pei Jun, that's just a ceremony to wish you peace—"

"If it's just a sacrifice, why do you want your blood?" Pei Jun grabbed his wrist, and saw that the palm pierced by the little eunuch had a scar that was still bleeding at this moment, and the flesh was cracked, which was obviously cut by a sharp weapon.

Pei Jun felt his chest hurt even more for a moment, so he rubbed the hem of his clothes and pressed Jiang Yue's palm, trembling his hands, enduring the pain in front of him and asked him: "Jiang Yue, shamanism is a deal with ghosts and gods. Do you know what the price is for me to perform this spell of bringing the dead back to life?"

"What's the price? It's just Yangshou." Jiang Yue fought back with red eyes, took a piece of gauze from the medicine tray on the low table beside the couch, wrapped it up casually, and then looked at Pei Jun again. Extremely reluctantly said, "If you don't do anything, do you want me to watch you die?"

This statement reminded Pei Jun of the previous life when he was beheaded, when Jiang Yue's army broke through the city, he looked at Jiang Yue's head, it was as if pierced by a sharp sword, the pain pierced his heart, and he couldn't help but drag Jiang Yue into his arms Zhong hated: "Jiang Yue, you reckless man! Why are you so stupid!"

Jiang Yue pressed his forehead against his shoulder bones, tried his best to hold back his tears and said: "For you, even a reckless man, I will do it too."

Pei Jun raised his left hand to pinch his chin, forcing him to raise his head and kiss him: "From now on, I won't allow you to have anything to do with the shaman, and I won't allow you to have anything to do, do you hear me?"

Jiang Yue leaned over and hugged his neck and shoulders tightly, took a deep breath and said, "I see, Pei Jun, I won't do it again."

Pei Jun rubbed the back of his neck, then remembered what happened now, and asked him, "What happened to your resurrection? Did the palace trouble you? How long have I been in a coma? It was the one who shot me that day again. who?"

"The resurrection went well, the only thing I didn't expect was that someone assassinated you." Jiang Yue got up and sat beside him, holding his chest for him, "You have been in a coma for four days. The assassin who assassinated you is the same The one who assassinated me belonged to the scout battalion under your father's subordinates back then. The assassin was found out and killed himself with a knife without any explanation. This may be one of the other dark sons who stayed in Beijing before Cai Yan's death. I suspect it was He was dug out by Cai Yan, who wanted to clear his son's name by taking advantage of the fact that his son was dead and the assassins were still causing chaos. As for the palace..."

He paused here, and frowned slightly: "Jiang Zhan has been here."

Pei Jun frowned: "He came to my place?"

Jiang Yue nodded: "But it's just outside the door, I didn't let him in."

He went on to say: "As soon as something happened to you, Mei Liu and I hurriedly sent you back here. The palace must have heard that Jiang Zhan came over in a low-key manner that night and said he wanted to visit you. Uncle Dong's servants and Dongcheng soldiers and horses The secretary was guarding outside, no one dared to disobey him, but the doctor was fetching arrows for you, and no one else could disturb me, so I had no choice but to go out, saying that I saw blood inside, and the emperor should avoid it. Although Jiang Zhan knew that I was resurrected, but really When he saw me, he couldn’t help being frightened, and said sarcastically that I might be a thief pretending to be the King of Jin, so I just asked Mr. Hu next to him to check my needles and see if I am the King of Jin.”

Pei Jun squeezed his palm regretfully and kissed it on his lips: "Now there is another one, why are you not afraid of pain?"

"What is this pain?" Jiang Yue said lightly, and continued, "Jiang Zhan framed me as a fake, so he said that I deceived the emperor and faked my death, and the court wanted to punish me on the second day. I was lazy to talk to him, I just ordered the soldiers to invite him to go out. He had few people with him, and he knew it was difficult to deal with it, so he had no choice but to leave in a huff, afraid that he would embarrass me again tomorrow. I think he now knows the relationship between the two of us He looked at me because he wanted me to die immediately, so before I left I asked him how Xuan'er was, and he only lost his temper, saying that I don't need to worry about it."

After talking here, Jiang Yue sighed: "But the palace still needs time to deal with it, but the important thing is another thing: you have been in a coma for a few days, and you don't know about your personnel. Mei Linyu saw that you were not awake, so she left the night before, saying You have to find a way to rescue Pei Yan from prison."

Pei Jun felt ominous: "What is he thinking?"

Jiang Yue said: "He left without saying a word. I sent someone to look for him this morning, but I met someone from the Mei family's mansion at his home. Seeing that he was very anxious, he said that Mr. Mei's business seal was lost."

"Shang Yin?" Pei Jun was taken aback for a moment, but when he came to his senses, he felt angry, and immediately cursed: "This Mei Liuzhen is fucking crazy!" After saying that, he lifted the quilt, ignored Jiang Yue's dissuasion, and helped the couch get up.

The so-called commercial seal is a voucher used by big businessmen to make decisions on material dispatch.

The borders of the imperial court have been uneven for many years, and a large amount of garrisons and military rations are distributed to various places every year, which consumes tens of millions of taels of silver from the treasury.In order to save expenses, the imperial court attracted businessmen to transport grain for the government, and licensed the merchants who transported grain to the front line in exchange for the salt that legally sold official salt.In this way, merchants use salt to purchase salt, transport and sell it, and the government uses the money saved to purchase grain and grass, killing two birds with one stone.The Mei family sells both salt and grain. In the early years, it made its fortune through water transport, and later managed the contacts among officials. It was the grand occasion today, with a business seal for transporting grain from the north to the south.

Shangyin is to wealthy merchants, just like tiger charms are to the army.Military rations accounted for [-]% of the Mei family's grain and grass business. It happened to be the end of the month, and it was the time to stamp and release grain. All hungry.

Once he figured this out, the reason why Mei Linyu stole the seal became clear - he wanted to use this to coerce the court to release Pei Yan from prison!

Mei Linyu's move made it clear that he put his head under the guillotine, Pei Jun was so anxious that he ignored Jiang Yue's stop, and walked to the door with his shoes on.He clutched his chest and pushed open the door, only to see Uncle Dong and other servants guarding outside, seeing him come out with tears in their eyes, hurriedly came to ask him how he was doing.

Pei Jun didn't have time to talk to Dong Shu, so he only said to prepare the car, and then walked to the main hall.As soon as I arrived at the front hall, I saw Liu Jin hurried in with a woman in a purple silk jacket. It was the third mother of the Mei family.

As soon as Mei Sanniang saw Pei Jun, she cried anxiously: "Master Pei, follow me quickly. The sixth son has been found, and Daddy is so angry that he has a fit, he is going to kill him!"

Pei Jun put on the clothes brought by Uncle Dong, and at the same time ordered that this matter must not be spread outside the public, said "take the third sister's car", and then pulled Jiang Yue out with Mei Sanniang.

After walking two steps, Pei Jun suddenly paused, turned around and searched around among the servants, and frowned: "Where's Qian Siqi?"

Jiang Yue took out a document from his sleeve: "Yan Shangshu came here yesterday. The Department of Anti-Salt has been established. After Qian Siqi's palace examination, he was selected as a fellow Jinshi, so Yan Shangshu added him to the Department of Anti-Salt Fifth-rank Sicheng, today I will go to the department to take up the post."

Mei Sanniang hurriedly bowed to Jiang Yue, walked ahead out of the house and got into the car.Pei Jun took the document from Jiang Yue and did not open it. He just put it in his hand and tapped his palm and said, "It looks like tomorrow morning will be the court meeting. Since Qian Siqi has entered the Department of Salt Inspection, what about Zhang San's entry into the Ministry of Criminal Justice?" It can be mentioned."

Jiang Yue pondered: "But the battle between the Ministry of Punishment is still a tough battle."

Pei Jun reassured: "Don't worry. As soon as you say Zhang San's name, someone will cheer for you." After speaking, he pulled Jiang Yue into the car and went to Mei's house together.

If the Mei family is considered a complete Beijinger by Mei Linyu's generation, then his father, Mei Shikai, is still an authentic Hexi native.

In the torrent where most of the merchants who moved to the north have turned themselves into the people of the capital after generations of washing, Mei Shikai, the head of the Mei family, as well as his house and style, still retain a fairly complete Hexi atmosphere, which can be described as a clear stream. .At least when Jiang Yue followed Pei Jun into the Mei family mansion, he saw the horse head wall and the small blue bricks, and thought that the gate of the house was the Linghe River running from north to south, and crossing it would mean crossing the Linghe River to the green and gray Hexi water town You can almost smell the aroma of water fish from the cracks in the wall.

The two of them were led by Mei Sanniang, passing through the Qulang to the front of the main hall of Beiyuan, where they could already hear the sound of smashing porcelain and shouting.An old Hexi accent opened his throat and roared: "You are an unfilial prodigal son! You are useless and a loser!"

Mei Sanniang grabbed Pei Jun's sleeve and quickly pulled Pei Jun into the hall, calling: "Father! Prince Jin and Lord Pei are here, please stop fighting!"

In the main hall, Mei Linyu was lying on the ground covered in chicken feathers. It was not difficult to imagine that she had been wrestled back from the chicken farm.His father, Mei Shikai, was about to smash his forehead with a celadon jar, his old face was flushed with anger, and the surrounding porcelain bowls were broken all over the floor, two servants were kneeling in the corner, and the girls and women were all outside the courtyard Looking inside, no one dared to come forward to persuade.

Pei Jun hurriedly took two steps forward: "The old man can't force it, this is the only son you have!"

"Yes yes yes! You are the only son of mine!" Mei Linyu knelt on the ground with a swollen nose and swollen face, nodding her head like a chicken pecking at rice, "Daddy, I absolutely shouldn't, I shouldn't have hidden that business seal! But my son has only looked at that one person in his life, do you want me to watch her die?"

What he said made Mei Shikai raise his hand again after being persuaded by Pei Jun: "Then you want my Mei family to die with me! You—"

"Old man, you hit me!"

Jiang Yue didn't have time to pull, Pei Jun already plopped and knelt down in front of Mei Linyu, and opened his hand to stop Mei Linyu from opening, just like he did every time he took the blame for Mei Linyu when he was a child: "I didn't take good care of my sister and made her suffer, The sixth child is still young, he is ignorant and fools around, I just ask him to hand over the business seal."

"I didn't make trouble!" Mei Linyu wiped the red and swollen corners of her mouth behind him, struggling to sit up cross-legged, pretending not to let oil and salt in, "They won't let Sister Yan go, I won't hand in the business seal .Big deal, I die!"

"You're presumptuous!" Mei Shi was so angry that he smashed the porcelain against Mei Linyu's legs, causing Mei Linyu to jump in fright.He pointed at Mei Linyu's nose and scolded: "You grandson! I have lived to seventy, and half of my leg is in the coffin. You don't want to think about me, but you also want to think about the lives of your five sisters, brothers-in-law and the whole family! You I can't live, they can't live! My old Mei's family only has you as a seedling, if you are strangled, how can I go to see your grandpa and ancestor!"

"What are you afraid of! Dad, I'll ask you what are you afraid of!" Mei Linyu suddenly became confused when he heard what he said, sitting on the ground and shouting loudly, "My Mei family holds 7000% of the food in the world. Luck, whether the imperial court dares to fight depends on whether you are willing to open up. Do you think the imperial court dare to copy my Mei family? Do they dare! Isn't this what you want? You taught me since childhood that "Shangju can be shaken" State', now you can really shake it, why are you afraid again! The court said that the merchants are the end of the four peoples, are we really the end of the four peoples? Fighting and rebelling, they all are not They all come to ask us for money! If they want to raid my Mei family, they have to pay off all the accounts of my Mei family first! Last year’s [-] million shi grain bill is still pending at the household department. My brother knows this. Their cabinet is clearer! Our family helps the imperial court raise people and horses, serve food, eat and drink in the palace, and now I just want him to let someone go, what's wrong with that?"