Chapter 33: Protecting the Shortcomings
Bridal chamber bridal chamber!
A girl!
What's going on in your mind all day?!
Pei Jingzhou's face darkened instantly.
"Ah? Still not having a wedding night today?" Seeing his refusal, Jiang Zhaoyue closed her eyes in disappointment, leaned against his chest, and fell asleep again in an instant.
this……
This girl...
Was this girl awake or asleep just now?
Pei Jingzhou couldn't figure it out and couldn't help but frown. After a while, he leaned over slightly and helped her to the bed.
Jiang Zhaoyue's body had just touched the bed when she suddenly turned around and hugged Pei Jingzhou's arm tightly as usual.
"Let go." Pei Jingzhou said coldly.
Jiang Zhaoyue was sleeping soundly and didn't respond at all.
"Jiang Zhaoyue, let go!" Pei Jingzhou raised his voice.
Jiang Zhaoyue still didn't respond.
Pei Jingzhou knew that he couldn't wake her up, so he pulled his arm hard.
Jiang Zhaoyue frowned and made an unwilling "hmm" sound.
Get some sleep!
A lot of bad habits!
Pei Jingzhou looked unhappy, but he did not pull his arm back. Instead, he sat down on the bed.
Jiang Zhaoyue naturally nestled into his arms like a tired bird returning to its nest, clinging tightly to his body.
"You..." Pei Jingzhou was speechless.
Jiang Zhaoyue straightened his body and found a more comfortable sleeping position.
Pei Jingzhou sighed deeply, lowered his head to look at her obedient sleeping face, and suddenly thought of what Yingge reported today.
It was said that she went to the main hall in the front yard to confront Zhu Guangchang and his mother; it was said that she got a love letter from Zhu Guangchang from somewhere, proving that Zhu Guangchang was fickle; it was said that she firmly and rudely drove away Zhu Guangchang and his mother; it was said that she appeased Pei Siya with a few words.
One thing after another, seemingly inappropriate, but each time the problem is solved perfectly.
What a unique person.
He couldn't help but reach out and poke her cheek: "What's in your head?"
Jiang Zhaoyue immediately stretched out his hand in dissatisfaction, waved away his finger, and frowned.
Pei Jingzhou was startled and immediately saw a light pink fingerprint on her cheek.
Fortunately, it disappeared in a blink of an eye.
But he also realized that he was using too much force, which made her uncomfortable.
This girl looks very fierce, but she is so delicate all over.
He looked at her sleeping face, complained in his heart, and the corners of his mouth rose involuntarily.
As his heart kept rising, he suddenly realized his behavior.
He...had some strange thoughts and behaviors yesterday. He finally got a good night's sleep, and then worked from morning till night in the yamen to dispel all these "weird things".
Now it has reappeared.
He immediately withdrew his gaze and deliberately pushed Jiang Zhaoyue aside.
Jiang Zhaoyue held his arm tightly.
Pei Jingzhou no longer cared about her. He extinguished the candle, lay on the bed, and went over the scriptures that could calm the mind in his mind. He suppressed those strange thoughts and finally fell asleep.
The next day he woke up on time and went to the morning court.
As soon as they arrived at the government office, Hu Jianzhi stepped forward and said, "Jingzhou, there is some progress in the corruption case."
"What do you mean?" Pei Jingzhou asked.
"The Censorate said the stolen goods were hidden under a dilapidated temple outside the city."
Corruption cases are generally handled by the Censorate, but the identities of several officials involved in this corruption case are special.
Lord Yang and Lord Wu from the Ministry of Personnel were injured again.
The emperor ordered the Ministry of Personnel and the Censorate to jointly handle the matter.
Pei Jingzhou and Hu Jianzhi naturally took over this task.
"I wonder how much loot there is." Hu Jianzhi was curious, but he found Pei Jingzhou lost in thought. He called out, "Jingzhou."
Pei Jingzhou looked at him and asked, "Who went to the ruined temple outside the city?"
"Of course it's Deputy Chief Censor Li Boyan, Lord Li. He does everything personally." Hu Jianzhi said.
Pei Jingzhou immediately said: "Let's go and take a look."
"Now?"
"Yes." Pei Jingzhou nodded.
Hu Jianzhi noticed something was wrong and asked, "Is there something wrong?"
"I'm not sure, let's go and take a look."
"good."
The two of them came to the dilapidated temple outside the city together.
Li Boyan has ordered people to start digging in the main hall of the ruined temple.
Pei Jingzhou looked around, leaned over, grabbed a handful of dirt, and rubbed it against his body. He turned to look at Li Boyan and said, "Master Li, there's something strange about this."
Li Boyan relied on his own ability and spent twenty years to step into the Censorate. He looked down on rich young men like Pei Jingzhou. Therefore, when he cooperated with the Ministry of Personnel to investigate cases, he always relied on his seniority and only informed Pei Jingzhou and Hu Jianzhi, and did not take them seriously.
Now he didn't take their words seriously and asked lazily, "What's wrong?"
"The soil around here is soft, not like a place where dirty silver has been stored for a long time." Pei Jingzhou said.
Hu Jianzhi looked around and said, "It really is."
"I have eaten more salt than you have drunk water, how could I not know?" Li Boyan said this but did not let anyone stop.
Pei Jingzhou wanted to say something when he suddenly heard a "bang" sound of metal colliding, as if something had been dug up.
Immediately afterwards, the sound of "whoosh whoosh whoosh" breaking through the air was heard.
Arrows rained down from all directions, all aimed at Li Boyan.
Pei Jingzhou immediately reached out and pushed Deputy Censor Li away.
Li Boyan fell to the ground with a thud. Turning around, he saw an arrow piercing Pei Jingzhou's shoulder. He was horrified: "Hurry and protect Master Pei!"
"Retreat!" It was obvious that these arrows were hidden weapons set in advance, specifically targeting Li Boyan. Not knowing whether there were any other tricks, Pei Jingzhou grabbed Li Boyan and walked out of the temple.
"Retreat! Everyone retreat!" Hu Jianzhi blocked the rain of arrows while shouting at everyone to leave quickly.
As soon as Pei Jingzhou arrived outside the temple, he saw several masked men in black falling from the sky.
Li Boyan was stunned: "This..."
"This is a trap for you!" Hu Jianzhi said.
Li Boyan's face turned pale: "What should we do?"
"There shouldn't be many people." Pei Jingzhou pulled out the arrow from his shoulder, bringing out a pool of blood.
"Master Pei!" Li Boyan was terrified.
Pei Jingzhou threw the bloody arrow away with an expressionless face.
A man in black was shot by an arrow and fell to the ground.
"Let's protect Lord Li together." Pei Jingzhou said.
Hu Jianzhi responded: "Okay."
Two people protected Li Boyan and rushed out of the temple.
The men in black had more than enough power to deal with Li Boyan, but unexpectedly Pei Jingzhou and Hu Jianzhi showed up in the middle of the battle. More than half of them were killed or injured. Seeing that murder was hopeless, they had to flee quickly.
Pei Jingzhou and Hu Jianzhi were not interested in fighting, so they quickly entered the city with Li Boyan and others and headed straight for the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion.
Jiang Zhaoyue was listening to Wang talking about women's virtues and appearance in Songqing Hall, and from time to time he could see Pei Siyan rolling her eyes at him.
She didn't care at all, she just felt bored and wanted to go back to Linhuayuan to sleep.
Nanny Qi suddenly ran over in a hurry and said that Pei Jingzhou was injured.
Wang didn't say anything and hurried out.
Pei Siyan followed.
Jiang Zhaoyue was stunned for a moment, then followed.
As soon as they arrived at the front yard, they saw Pei Jingzhou and his companions walking in, covered in blood.
Pei Siyan screamed.
Wang was so scared that she leaned towards Jiang Zhaoyue.
Jiang Zhaoyue pushed her onto Yinping and Aunt Qi and said, "Hold on."
Yinping and Aunt Qi hurriedly supported Wang.
"Xiangqiao, go call the court doctors, call as many as you can." Jiang Zhaoyue instructed.
"Yes." Xiangqiao ran away immediately.
"Come here, help the Second Master and the adults to the front hall." Jiang Zhaoyue called the servant.
The servants did as they were told immediately.
Jiang Zhaoyue ordered someone to bring hot water, and then came to Pei Jingzhou: "Second Master, where are you injured?"
"Shoulders." Pei Jingzhou said.
"What about other places?"
"Only the shoulders."
Jiang Zhaoyue took a look and frowned slightly.
The doctor from Lu Mansion was the first to arrive.
"Let Lord Li see it first." Pei Jingzhou raised his hand and pointed at Li Boyan.
Jiang Zhaoyue then said, "Doctor Lu, treat Lord Li first."
"No, no, I, I'm not hurt." Li Boyan waved his hands repeatedly.
"You are not injured, why do you need my second master to support you?" Jiang Zhaoyue started to retort.
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