Chapter 27: Lone Star (4)

"An'er!" Pei Suyun held An'er into his arms, kissed his little face headlessly, and then hurriedly checked the child carefully in the candlelight. His whole body was clean, except for a few vague scratches, and he was really safe and sound! Holding the lost treasure tightly, Pei Suyun cried with joy, and A Yue'er also sat beside her and wiped her tears. Only An'er didn't know what was going on, dancing happily in her mother's arms, and screaming non-stop.

An old and stern voice sounded in the room, but it was not high but seemed to have a huge weight: "Pei Suyun, since you have reunited with your mother and son, should you also think about the people inside and outside Tingzhou City, who are about to be separated from their relatives by the epidemic?!"

Pei Suyun shivered, and then she saw a person sitting upright by the table, her face hidden in the dark shadows of the backlight. The candlelight swayed, reflected on the man's gray hair and beard, cold and solemn. A Yue'er picked up An'er and flashed to the side. Pei Suyun sat down without saying anything. The old man's majesty made her vaguely feel the other person's identity, but the distinct resentment and hostility in the tone were like a dark cloud covering the top of her, which made her unable to breathe.

Seeing that Pei Suyun was silent all the time, the officer standing beside the old man shouted sternly: "Pei Suyun! Master Di Ge asked you, didn't you hear it? Why didn't you answer?!" "Mr Di Ge..." Pei Suyun's guess was confirmed. She raised her head in confusion, but still couldn't see the old man's expression clearly. She stuttered softly: "I don't understand, what do you want me to say?"

Shen Huai was about to speak again angrily, Di Renjie shook his head slightly at him. With the dim candlelight, Di Renjie looked at the woman in front of him. Is it her? - Is she the witch who confuses Li Yuanfang and makes him commit an unforgivable crime? Her scattered hair covered Pei Suyun's forehead, and her pale lips trembled slightly. At this moment, she could not see how beautiful it was, but she seemed very sad and innocent. However, for Di Renjie, every pitiful charm of Pei Suyun could only add a deeper hatred to his bitter heart. The weaker and saddering she seemed, the more he hated her heart and exhausted.

Di Renjie sighed long and tried his best to calm himself down, saying coldly: "Don't you understand? OK, then I will remind you, Pei Suyun, you are the number one shaman Yidu, right?" Pei Suyun lowered his eyelids: "Yes." "Very good. Our cabinet also heard that the kind of divine water you prepared has effectively prevented the epidemic in Tingzhou City in ten years. Is there such a thing?" "Yes." Di Renjie immediately asked: "Since that's the case, why aren't the divine water distributed this year? It has caused the epidemic to spread and rampant in Tingzhou to an uncontrollable level?!"

Pei Suyun lowered his head and was silent. Di Renjie's fist on the table kept trembling, evil spirits, evil spirits! There were only these four words in his mind: "Pei Suyun, if you don't say it, let me tell you for you! You are just trying to use the epidemic to threaten the people of Tingzhou to threaten the government of the Great Zhou. I'm right?!" "Haunted?" Pei Suyun was stunned, glanced at Di Renjie in confusion, and murmured: "Mr. Di, the matter of distributing the divine water was decided by the government of Tingzhou. Why don't you ask Qian, the governor of Qian?"

"Hmph!" Di Renjie clenched heavily on the table: "Don't expect Qian Guinan anymore. He can't help you!" As he said that, he winked at Chen Huai. Chen Huai understood and shouted loudly: "Qian Guinan is dead!" "Dead?!" Pei Suyun jumped up from the edge of the bed in shock, and suddenly turned dizzy, and sat back softly, unconsciously burst into tears: "How did he... die?"

Di Renjie snorted coldly: "According to investigation, Lord Qian Guinan was killed by his confidant Wang Qian. Oh, wasn't your child also kidnapped by Wang Qian that day?" "Wang Qian!" Pei Suyun's white fingers firmly grabbed the skirt and gritted her teeth and said, "Guinnan, your trusted good subordinate..." She fell on the bed and cried silently.

Di Renjie waited for her to cry for a while before saying in a cold tone: "Have you cried enough? Although Qian Guinan is dead, you still have to answer the question I just asked!" Pei Suyun stopped his sad voice, slowly supported himself, and asked: "Mr. Di, the epidemic has indeed spread?" Di Renjie sneered and asked: "Yidugan, I'm afraid you know the epidemic better than others, right? You should know the consequences of your behavior!" Pei Suyun nodded blankly: "I know, I...of course I know." Di Renjie shouted: "Hmph! Then don't waste time anymore. Yidugan, our cabinet is here today to give you a chance to make a fortune and punish you. As long as you can hand over a good prescription for controlling and treating the epidemic and saving the people of Tingzhou from water and fire, our cabinet can forgive your crimes at its discretion!"

Pei Suyun stared at Di Renjie straight, not knowing what he was thinking. After a while, she gave An'er a loving glance and said softly: "Mr. Di, An'er has been robbed and has come back unscathed. Suyun has not yet thanked Lord Di, so please accept my bow first and thank Lord Di for his life-saving grace." After speaking, she stood up and bowed, and kowtowed to Di Renjie upright.

Di Renjie was a little unexpected and waved his hand: "No need to be polite." He was about to speak, but Pei Suyun rushed to say, "Mr. Di! An'er, An'er is... he saved it, right? It must be him... he is here too?" "He?" Di Renjie was speechless for a moment, looking at Pei Suyun's sudden blushing face, and the bone-bending pain and hatred suddenly swept over. Di Renjie felt that his face turned black and had to close his eyes. Open his eyes, Di Renjie asked sarcastically: "Pei Suyun, I don't know who he is?"

Pei Suyun bit his lip and said firmly: "Mr. Di, Wang Qian kidnapped An'er that day, Suyun begged...begged Li Yuanfang and asked him to save An'er. Now An'er has returned safely, Suyun only wants to meet Li... beg for the thanks to his benefactor. This is Suyun's only wish, and I hope Lord Di will fulfill it!" Di Renjie frowned and shook his head incredibly, saying, "Pei Suyun, are you negotiating conditions with this cabinet?" Pei Suyun's eyes shining and his voice was clear: "Mr. Di, how dare Suyun negotiate conditions with you? Suyun is begging you! As long as you let me see you...Li Yuanfang, Suyun immediately handed over the recipe of the Shenshui."

"Absurd!... Shameless!" Di Renjie stood up from the chair, walked back and forth in the room for two times before stopping in front of Pei Suyun, and sneered in anger: "Pei Suyun, you are so ungrateful! That's right, it was Li Yuanfang who saved your child in a lifetime. You didn't know how to thank him, and you didn't want to regret it, but you became more and more shameless! "Pei Suyun's face turned pale when he was scolded, but instead he straightened his body stubbornly and stared at Di Renjie intently.

Pei Suyun's appearance became more and more angered Di Renjie. He could no longer suppress his grief and anger. His lips kept trembling under his gray beard. He finally said word by word: "Pei Suyun, you'd better be more sober and don't have any meaningless fantasies. Handing over the recipe for the Shenshui and saving the people of Tingzhou is your only chance to relieve your own guilt. You are not qualified to talk to me about any conditions! And now I can tell you clearly that Li Yuanfang doesn't want to see you, and I won't allow him to see you!"

Pei Suyun stayed there for a long time before she showed a sad smile, nodding slightly, "I understand, Lord Di. It's my delusion and shamelessness. In fact, he said it clearly in public that day, but I always refused to believe it... because, because he had said some other words." Tears flowed into his mouth, salty and astringent. She continued to say, but her voice became clear and calm: "But Li Yuanfang can be regarded as a gentleman. Although he had been lying to me, he still kept his promise and saved An'er for me. This alone is enough for me to be grateful to him and repay him."

One hour later, all Chinese and foreign drug dealers in Tingzhou City gathered at the main hall of the governor's mansion. They circulated the recipe for divine water written by Pei Suyun and published all the corresponding amount of medicinal materials on a unified document. The recorder worked hard to join the army and quickly synthesized a medicine list and presented it to Di Renjie's desk.

Di Renjie frowned and read the medicine list with all his attention. Suddenly slapped the paper on the table and said sternly: "What's going on?! There are still several medicinal materials in this recipe that are unregistered? Everyone, are you still planning to be a rare product at this time and sell it for a good price?" The drug dealers were frightened and fell to their knees. One of them, who looked older, replied tremblingly: "Report, report to the master. It's not that he is hiding. It's really that those medicinal materials are unique to the great food and drug dealers in the Western Regions, and none of us have any." "Oh, what about the big food and drug dealers? Why not come? Didn't this cabinet order to call all Chinese and foreign drug dealers in the city?!" Di Renjie's thunder anger has never stopped since entering Tingzhou City. Shen Huai was really worried about it.

The recorder and the military officers plucked up their courage to report: "Mr. Di, the officials have checked. All the big food and drug dealers in Tingzhou City left Tingzhou and returned to China more than a month ago. Now there is no big food and drug dealer inside and outside the city." Di Renjie narrowed his eyes and said nothing, and the medicine list was pinched into a ball in his palm. In the hall, there was a moment of silence, and everyone's eyes gathered on the old man behind the table. When it was late at night, he was still busy and busy without showing any fatigue, only the frost and snow were all over his head.

"Dad, are you calling me?" In front of the main hall, Di Jinghui stood in a gray robe with a long body. Di Renjie woke up from his thoughts and raised his hand to let him in: "Jinghui, come and take a look at this medicine list. There are a few medicines that can only be bought by a large food and drug dealer. Please think about it, is there any other way?" Di Jinghui quickly walked to the table, took the medicine list and glanced at it quickly, his face changed drastically, and asked in surprise: "Dad! This is the recipe of Shenshui?!"

Di Renjie said with a angrily angrily: "What are you doing with fuss?! Yes, this is the Shenshui formula that Pei Suyun just handed over. The problem is the key medicinal materials. Since all the big food and drug dealers have left, there is nowhere to be found in Tingzhou City..." "Dad!" Di Jinghui interrupted his father's words, and his voice trembled with excitement: "Don't worry, I have these medicinal materials!" Di Renjie was also very surprised: "You have? How could you have?" Di Jinghui suddenly stomped his feet, and there seemed to be a clear light in his eyes: "Dad! This is really... Alas, you should ask me to get the medicine with me first, right in the Qianmen Palace store."

Di Jinghui led people to the back building of the Ganmen Mansion and opened the room that had been closed for more than a month. The strong aroma of medicinal materials floated out of the room, and layered large medicinal bags were piled up to the roof. Carefully checked the list of medicines, and the key medicinal materials were indeed quite large and sufficient, so they should be able to cope with the needs of the whole city. The governor's mansion immediately set up a few big pots, and the drug dealers sent the rest of the medicinal materials. Di Jinghui directed everyone to prepare medicine according to the prescription and boiled sacred water overnight in the governor's mansion. Di Jinghui also added and deleted the medicinal materials according to Pei Suyun's formula to determine the severity of the disease of the person suffering from the epidemic. After Di Renjie personally reviewed it, he prepared a prescription of different levels.

Early the next morning, when the people of Tingzhou City woke up, they found that the streets and alleys were covered with notices, and they summoned everyone to the open space in front of the Great Bazaar to claim the divine water. After a few days, Tingzhou City was panicked and dead, suddenly had a life of life. People ran around and told each other, helping the elderly and the young to the Great Bazaar. At the same time, the village chiefs went door to door to search for the sick people, registered and sent medical treatment. Di Renjie even led officials from all over the Tingzhou government to go around the streets, checked the patients, distributed medicines, and comforted the people. He did not forget to contact the governments of nearby prefectures and counties, searched for the patients scattered outside, and sent people to deliver the right prescriptions.

Pei Suyun's magic fruit is indeed a good cure for diseases. In just two or three days, the violent epidemic was well controlled. Because the treatment was quite timely, most of the patients were rescued, and the number of people who died of illness was very limited. The people in Tingzhou City were calm again, and the people were no longer in a hurry to leave the city. Merchants from other prefectures, counties and Western Regions also appeared on the bazaar one after another. The aroma of fruits and the music of the guzheng re-lit the hot Tingzhou summer, and everything seemed to have returned to its original state.

Under Di Renjie's instruction, the Hanhai army unexpectedly attacked the Turkic horse team scattered beside the Shatuo Mori, capturing all more than a thousand war horses and more than a dozen herders. Di Renjie personally interrogated the Turkic herders, and found their true identities in just a few words. It turned out that these fake herders were subordinates of Tukha Shi Chiduo Khan. After leading the army to seize Ibertai, Chiduo ordered them to disguise themselves as ordinary nomads and steer the troops' war horses to go around the north side of Shatuo Mori to this side close to Tingzhou. Di Renjie asked Chiduo about the purpose of doing this, and the fake herders could not tell the reason. They only knew that Chiduo ordered them to herd their war horses, carefully cover up their hiding, and wait for further news.

After the interrogation, Di Renjie dispersed everyone and sat alone in the main hall of the governor's mansion for a long time. Chi Duo's actions of splitting the troops were intriguing. It was difficult to figure out his true intentions for a while, and he had to wait for Mei Yingchun to investigate Yi Botai's results. But now at least one thing Di Renjie can be sure of that is, no matter what Chi Duo's plan was, he would not succeed. However, why Chi Duo failed? What happened in Yi Botai? Li Yuanfang... How was he? Mei Yingchun took Han Bin three days ago to lead the thunder cavalry and the Hanhai Army into Shatuo Di. In the past three days, Di Renjie has been worrying and waiting all the time... However, Di Renjie shook his head and smiled bitterly, and he was worried and worried. After staying for more than three days! Calculate the time, Mei Yingchun sent a message from Yi Botai for one, and it will be delivered within two days. At this moment, Di Renjie felt a huge panic and powerlessness from the bottom of his heart. He really wanted to find someone to talk about it and ask: He has already endured some blows once, twice, do he really have to endure the third time? But he is old and old, and he doesn't even know whether he can still withstand such blows... What is this? Is it anger? Or a demonstration? In the empty hall, Di Renjie murmured to himself: "I used to think that Jing Hui was the most disobedient child, but now I understand that you are much more stubborn than him... Li Yuanfang, what you do is unforgivable."

Another day passed, in the early morning of the second day of June, the "Mo Feng" carried Mei Yingchun and Han Bin, wrapped in rolling sand and hot winds, and jumped out of the Shatuo Rail. Their return and the news brought by Di Renjie were able to confirm that Tingzhou was completely safe.

Since Pei Suyun handed over the recipe for divine water that day, Di Renjie ordered her to be released. A Yue'er also went home and helped Pei Suyun take care of An'er. They stayed in the door and seemed to have returned to the past. Of course, the most profound and powerful changes in this world will always only happen in people's hearts, and they can't see them from the outside.

June just arrived, as if to compensate for the coolness brought by the heavy rain some time ago, Tingzhou became even hotter. That evening, the burning clouds in the west were reluctant to fade away, and there was no wind in the small courtyard of the Pei family. A Yue'er drew out the well water and poured it on the ground. It was useless to pour it once. She fed water from the well in front of the holly forest in the backyard, and planned to pour it a second time. She was carrying the water to the front yard, when she suddenly heard someone knocking outside the yard. She was about to respond, but she saw Pei Suyun standing at the gate of the yard.
Chapter completed!