Chapter 29 - Deep Love And Gratitude

 After Pei Xiuyan lifted the curtain, he nodded slightly to her and helped Ye Chuyan get out of the car.

The woman was a little surprised to see Ye Chuyan next to Pei Xiuyan. "Your Highness, who is this?"

"My princess."

The woman smiled and said excitedly, "Princess, you can call me Madam Mo. The princess is heroic, free, and easy, and she is indeed different from other women. You and your Highness are really a perfect match made in heaven."

Ye Chuyan didn't know where Madam Mo came from and didn't know how to respond to Madam Mo's compliments for a while, so she had to bite the bullet and say, "Madam Mo, you are too kind."

Madam Mo invited Pei Xiuyan and Ye Chuyan into the yard with quick hands and feet. After entering, Ye Chuyan found that this was a three-entry yard, not luxurious but quite exquisite. Plum and bamboo trees intertwined in the corners, and every blade of grass and tree showed the owner's attentiveness. Madam Mo took the two of them into a wing room, which was larger than the main room. The walls were covered with fabrics and sample clothes. The stitching skills were no worse than those of the palace embroiderers, and the styles were even more eye-catching.

Pei Xiuyan entered the room without being polite, pointing at Ye Chuyan and saying, "There will be a palace banquet on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. You make two clothes for the princess."

Madam Mo heard this as if she had received a great gift from heaven. Without saying a word, she pulled Ye Chuyan into the inner room, picked up a tape measure, and began to measure her size.

Pei Xiuyan consciously waited outside.

Ye Chuyan was really curious: "Madam Mo, who are you? How do you know the prince?"

Madam Mo smiled while measuring the size. "Princess, why don't you ask the prince? Since the prince brought you here to find me, he must have deep feelings for you and trust you very much."

Ye Chuyan was amused by the four words, "deep feelings and deep trust." It was true that his "deep love" was so great that he turned a blind eye to her twelve years of efforts, and his "great favour" was so great that he destroyed the Ye family.

Mrs. Mo never inquired about the outside world and knew nothing about the affairs of the Ye family or Ye Chuyan's identity. She thought that Ye Chuyan was happy to hear what she said.

She continued: "Princess, put on the clothes I made, and I guarantee that you and the prince will be a fairy couple standing together, and everyone will envy you."

Fairy couple?

Ye Chuyan laughed even happier this time. If she had heard this a few months ago, she would have rewarded her handsomely, but now it was a huge irony.

Pei Xiuyan heard Ye Chuyan's laughter outside and couldn't help but curl his lips slightly. He hadn't heard Ye Chuyan laugh so heartily for a long time. After getting married, she seemed to have never laughed so loudly.

After measuring the size, Mrs. Mo didn't mention the style of the clothes at all and only asked Yan Ke to come back three days later to pick up the clothes.

On the carriage back to the mansion, Ye Chuyan kept holding her chin and frowning in deep thought. Pei Xiuyan picked up a book and waited for a while. Seeing that Ye Chuyan opposite him had no intention of asking about Madam Mo, he could not help but say, "If you like Madam Mo, you can come to her place to make clothes anytime in the future." Ye Chuyan came back to her senses and shook her head. "No need. Madam Mo has a special identity, so I'd better have less contact with her." "Did she tell you her life story?" "No, but I guessed it." Pei Xiuyan didn't expect Ye Chuyan to guess Madam Mo's identity, and he couldn't help but become interested. "Oh, tell me about it."

Ye Chuyan explained calmly, "She should be the concubine of the then Minister of Rites Mo Chong."

"The Mo family was wiped out because of a literary inquisition. The Mo family had a concubine who worked as a female official in the Shangyi Bureau. It is said that her clothing-making skills are unparalleled in the world. Unfortunately, she was burned to death in a fire the day before the Mo family incident."

"Mrs. Mo knew how to make clothes for palace banquets without asking any requirements, which shows that she is familiar with the rules of the palace. She is about 30 years old, has this skill, has been in the palace, and has the surname Mo. After thinking about it, I can only think of the concubine of the Mo family, Mo Yan'er."

Pei Xiuyan raised his eyebrows, as if he found something interesting, and couldn't help laughing.

"Ye Chuyan, we have known each other for so many years, and you are smarter than I thought, and you can judge people so accurately."

Ye Chuyan sneered in his heart. After knowing each other for so many years, have you ever really understood me?

"I'm not smart. I haven't figured out why you know a female official from the Clothing Bureau who should have been burned to death long ago. I just happened to guess her identity today."

After she finished speaking, she added a self-deprecating sentence.

"In fact, I've never been good at judging people." For example, marrying a cold and heartless person.

Pei Xiuyan felt like he had something stuck in his throat. He wanted to explain the matter of Madam Mo, but he was choked back when he reached his lips. The atmosphere in the carriage suddenly became oppressive. The two of them returned to the Qing Palace in silence.

After Ye Chuyan got off the carriage, Pei Xiuyan went back to the mansion to change into casual clothes, abandoned the carriage, and rode with Yan Xue to the outside of the city.

On the way, Yan Xue said as he walked, "These people don't know that the people from South Street have been arrested by us. If they can't wait for them, they will probably think that the people from South Street have retreated at the last minute."

For so long, he has been secretly tracking and investigating the people who collected the bodies of the Ye family father and son in the mass grave. Recently, he finally investigated it clearly. Today, when he was in Lanyue Pavilion, he took his master to Kyoto South Street to arrest a few people and secretly detained them. Now they have to go to the suburbs to find other people.

Pei Xiuyan frowned. "Has this matter not been leaked?"

"No, no one knows except you and me."

Pei Xiuyan nodded, pinched the horse's belly hard, and ran quickly to the suburbs. Yan Xue rode closely to follow.

In a desolate place in the suburbs, there were a dozen young men who looked like scholars, all dressed in white. The young man had thick eyebrows and big eyes, a square face, and a righteous spirit. He led this group of people to kowtow three times to the nameless grave respectfully.

After standing up, he said to the group of people behind him, "We are going to fight against Pei Xiuyan, the Qing King, who is second to none and above ten thousand people. Have you thought about it? Once you embark on this road, you can never turn back."

A group of people shouted loudly, "My heart is like the moon, beautiful and dust-free!"

When the leading scholar heard this, his eyes were slightly red, and he said repeatedly, "Good! Good! Good!"

He opened a box on the ground, which was full of white papers. He distributed the books inside to the group of people. After distributing them, he looked at the tombstone with tears in his eyes and then looked up to the sky and roared, "God, we will clear the grievances for Mr. Ye!"

Pei Xiuyan, who was hiding in the distance, heard this and sneered with gritted teeth.

Yan Xue saw that these people were about to disperse and whispered, "Master, should we take action now?"

This group of people were weak scholars, and he was able to deal with them alone. Pei Xiuyan nodded in agreement. Yan Xue jumped up and fell from the sky. Before everyone could react, he directly put his sword on the neck of the leading scholar.

"Don't move; I will kill anyone who moves!"

Pei Xiuyan walked over from the back. "You think you can be my enemy?"

Everyone was shocked. The leading scholar saw that it was Pei Xiuyan; his eyes were blazing, and he glared at him.

"Pei dog! You are doing evil and harming loyal people. Even if you kill us today, there are countless of us standing up. Your crimes will be announced to the world sooner or later, and everyone will see your true face."

Others were infected, and they all stared at Pei Xiuyan in indignation.

"Even if you kill us, you can't cover up the truth! Today, we sacrifice our lives for justice. One day, your crimes will be known to the world, and we will meet in the underworld."

Pei Xiuyan turned a deaf ear to the shouting and cursing of these people. He leaned over to pick up a book in the box, flipped through a few pages, and couldn't help sneering.

"I underestimated you. You have found out all these old things."