Chapter 182: Waiting
After Pei Yin went back, how he passed the news to Pei Tianyi, Ah Yin didn't know.
She only knew that on the eve of the holiday at the White Horse Academy, the emperor was above the court, just as Wen Ru remembered, and specially ordered General Pei to stay at the border pass to recuperate, instead of dragging his sick body to Kyoto.
Aoba stood beside Ayu, fanning her in the wind.
It's a hot summer, and the house has already started to use ice, but Ah Yu has always been delicate and weak in the eyes of others, and the stereotypical image formed cannot be changed for a while. She usually doesn't put an ice basin in her room, and even if she does, it will be far away from Ah Yu, at most there will be a trace of cool air in the room, and there will be no more.
The girl frowned again, is she bothering about something! The movements of Aoba's hand did not stop, and he said in a very worried tone: "When the divine doctor diagnosed the girl's pulse, he said that the girl should not think too much, thinking too much, I am afraid of hurting the vitality......"
The pulse that came out of Doctor Yang's mouth was much more complicated than Aoba's repetition, and she only barely managed to write down a conclusion.
Ah Yu looked at the familiar decoration in the room, she had moved back to the courtyard in Kyoto from the small bamboo building in the courtyard, at this time last year, she was already on the way to Weizhou, I thought that this year I would also go to an unknown place to escape the summer, who knew that the holiday from the academy has lasted until today, and I have never heard Mrs. Wen and others mention the matter of summer vacation.
It's as if what happened last year was just an illusion on the part of Ah Yu.
She sighed, in fact, even if Mrs. Wen and the others didn't even have a word of explanation, she could understand it.
After all, adults always like to change their orders, and they like to talk without words, although the patriarch of their family has hardly done anything like that, but the reason why they use the word 'almost' to describe it means that they do not keep their promises sometimes.
It is great to be able to stay in a mansion in Kyoto without going to an unfamiliar place, and live a life that is the same as usual.
Ah Yu reluctantly let her attention be taken away from these 'minutiae', and suddenly, she remembered the people of the Pei family again, and she didn't know if Pei Yin had already passed the news to General Pei, and whether General Pei would take her suggestion seriously.
She muttered to herself, "General Pei...... What kind of person is he? β
Aoba has always been waiting by Ah Yu's side, and she has never seen General Pei's appearance.
But listening to Ah Yu's question, she thought about it carefully and said: "People in the streets and alleys say that General Pei is a very typical general, probably a tall man and a big horse, and he can lift a calf with one hand!" β
Ah Yu was amused by Aoba's words.
She shook her head: "Where is there such an exaggeration, although I don't know what General Pei looks like now, but I vaguely remember that when I was a child, I saw General Pei once." He seems to be the kind of Confucian general mentioned in the book, changed into a scholar's uniform, and said that he is a talented man who is rich and rich, and some people believe it...... "Just like Pei Yin, who is now studying in the White Horse Academy."
General Pei and Pei Yin were originally father and son, and she had also heard that Pei Yin and General Pei were at least fifty percent similar.
It is conceivable that the other party will definitely not be as tall and big as Aoba said, but there may be some possibilities for great strength.
"It's really a coincidence that when General Pei goes to Beijing every year to report on his work, I happen to be away for the summer, and he won't return to Kyoto at the end of the year. It seems like I only met General Pei once when I was very young, but I haven't seen him since......"
Ah Yu sighed a little more.
The famous generals in the imperial court, except for General Pei, are the generals of the Fan family.
However, the people of the Fan family have been guarding the border all year round, and there is no time to return to Beijing. General Pei would take some time out to rush back to Kyoto every year, but Ah Yu's itinerary happened to be staggered with the other party every time.
The people in Kyoto have been following General Pei for decades, and whenever General Pei returns to Beijing, the streets are always crowded with people who come to visit him, and the scene is quite hot.
After hearing about it before, Ah Yu was very envious, but he never became a member of the crowd watching from the street.
She thought that Mrs. Wen San and the others did not plan to send her out to escape the summer this year, and General Pei would not be able to come back in May, but when he recovered from his illness in mid-June, he would still rush back to Kyoto.
At that time, as long as General Pei can avoid death, Ah Yu can stand in front of the window of the restaurant on the street, watching General Pei pass by the street with his guards, she admires General Pei who protects the family and the country, and she doesn't want to see the other party's heroic posture, it's really unreasonable.
Aoba silently stopped talking.
Although she never mentioned this matter to Ah Yu, the grandmother who taught the rules in the house once told her that she should never mention the people of the Pei family in front of Ah Yu.
She looked at Ah Yu with a complicated expression, even if she didn't take the initiative to mention it, but their girl seemed to be familiar with the young master of the Pei family.
Of course, this acquaintance must be hidden from everyone in the Wen Mansion.
On the other side, General Pei, who was worried about Ah Yu, was not having a good time at this time.
It is probably because the spring is too soft, Pei Tianyi is a person who has been fighting on the border battlefield for more than ten years, and after getting older, his body is not as good as before.
After the Hu people outside the border were frightened, they didn't even dare to approach the border wall, so that the people in the border city were very bored all day long.
When other people come home after a tiring day, they can still see their wives and children, and the fatigue of the whole day will also be faded by the friendship between relatives.
But Pei Tianyi became a loner.
His wife had died many years ago. After that, he lived with his mother and son.
The environment at the border has always been inferior to Kyoto, and Mrs. Pei is old, and it is time to retire with peace of mind. For the sake of Mrs. Pei's safety, General Pei sent someone to send Mrs. Pei back to the old house in Kyoto, and Pei Yin also went back to Kyoto early to study because he wanted to take the path of the imperial examination.
Only Pei Tianyi, because of his own responsibility, can't go anywhere next to him.
If it had been earlier, he would have kept a yard of people who looked like his wife. When I feel empty in my heart, I can also drive a horse to the yard to see the 'thing' and think about people.
But after he saw Ah Yu that year, he sent away all the people who were raised in the yard, and there was nothing special with him except for some things left by his wife.
When Pei Tianyi was resting, he habitually stayed in his own study to miss his wife who died early.
In the dead of night, he drank and talked to his wife in the portrait.
Then after the night passed, Pei Tianyi was infected with wind cold.
People who are accustomed to white knives coming in and red knives coming out on the battlefield also have things to fear, such as drinking medicine.
In his early years, when his wife was still by his side, every time he was sick and had to drink medicine, his wife would accompany him and comfort him. Later, his wife was gone, and he still had a son by his side, in order to set a good example for his son, even if he didn't like to drink medicine, he would be bored.
Now he has neither a wife nor a son by his side, so how can he continue to wronged himself.
It's just a small wind chill, even if you don't take medicine, a little patience for two days will naturally heal.
Pei Tianyi thought so at the beginning.
Although he can also be called a Confucian general, he has been exposed to the wind and sun at the border all the year round, and his face, which is not particularly white, is also much darker, at least when he is sick, the flush that flies on both cheeks is invisible to outsiders.
As a result of enduring and enduring, his illness was aggravated a lot.
Originally, it was just a small wind chill, but it caused all the symptoms that had been suppressed in his body for a long time.
Pei Yin originally planned to directly send the guards around him to the border pass to deliver the letter. His letter had just begun, and the emperor on the other side had already sent someone to contact him.
The person sent by the emperor said that someone would go to the border gate to send a holy decree to Pei Tianyi, and asked Pei Yin if there was anything he needed to bring to Pei Tianyi. Walking with the people personally appointed by the emperor is not only very fast, but also saves a lot of things.
In this regard, Pei Yin naturally accepted it gladly.
So, on the same day, Pei Tianyi first received a holy decree specially sent by the emperor, and there was only one central idea on the long and exhaustive decree, that is, to let him continue to recuperate, and there was no need to rush back to Kyoto in a hurry, so as not to hurt his body.
His condition had worsened several times at that time, and even when the decree was read, he was barely standing on the ground with the support of his attendants.
After the decree was read, Pei Tianyi took the decree and sent it to the wooden box in the study for preservation, thinking that it was over, but who knew that the eunuch who read the decree suddenly handed him another unsigned letter.
There is no seal on the outside of the envelope, but it is bulging, and it can be seen that the person who wrote the letter still used a lot of pen and ink in the letter.
Xu is a sick person's thoughts, and it is indeed a little unusual.
Pei Tianyi's first reaction when he saw the envelope was stunned for a moment: "Isn't everything Your Majesty wants to say to me already written in the holy decree?" Why do you have to write another letter...... "It's not that it's too much, it's just that people are a little scared."
After all, although Pei Tianyi is also one of the emperor's supporters, because of the incident between his wife and Ah Yu, the private image he left for the emperor is not very good.
If it was a normal time, even if Pei Tianyi had more doubts in his heart, he would not speak easily.
Isn't that sick?
So much so that some can't control their tongues.
The eunuch who read the decree was called Shang Ge, he listened to Pei Tianyi's question, smiled, and told the emperor about the special person sent to inquire about Pei Yin.
He also said: "This is the letter that the prince brought to the general, and some medicines and supplements were put in the car behind, and the butler of your mansion has already moved down." β
Pei Tianyi reacted very quickly at this time, first boasting about the emperor's benevolence and righteousness, and after a basket of praise, he was full of words of thanks, and only after Shang Getuo left, he stopped praising him.
Pushing away the attendants who were supporting him in a daze, Pei Tianyi lay on the bed, closed his eyes and rested for a long time before his mind cleared up a little.
He was slightly relieved as he carefully recalled his previous conversation with Shange and made sure that he didn't say anything that shouldn't be said.
The letter sent by Pei Yin was placed under his pillow by him, his mind is not very clear now, even if he opens the envelope and sees the letter inside, he may not be able to see the reason, it is better to cultivate first, and wait for his head to be a little clearer tomorrow, and then see what Pei Yin wants to say to him.
With a plan in mind, Pei Tianyi called his attendants and asked them to find the house doctor, and then carefully diagnose his pulse and find a way to prescribe a prescription that would make him get better faster.
The newly opened medicinal soup probably contains the ingredients of soothing soup, Pei Tianyi felt a little drowsy after drinking the medicine, and then he dreamed all night until dawn.
After breakfast the next morning, he picked up the letter sent by Pei Yin, and then he saw what Pei Yin said in the letter, and also knew that Ah Yin cared about him.
He sighed and whispered, "She is really like you, just as naΓ―ve and ignorant of the world, and as dedicated to the sake of others." β
"But human life is so fragile, I thought I could protect you well, but in the end, I didn't answer the sentence I didn't kill Beren, and Beren died because of me."
Obviously, he was already sick and couldn't get off the ground, and he didn't know where he got the strength at this time, so he actually pinched the letter paper and ran from the bedroom to the study.
Opposite his desk is a wall with a large portrait of his wife, who died young.
Pei Tianyi stretched out his hand and touched the person in the portrait, slowly sat on the ground, and said: "You said that the people of the Wen family are very unsure of raising children, you have left me for twelve years, she is now twelve years old, the last time I saw her, she looked thin and small, as if a gust of wind could sweep her away." β
"Maybe I shouldn't have listened to my mother in the first place, wouldn't it be much better if I had taken her away from the Wen family?"
While speaking, Pei Tianyi shook his head again, and said with self-denial: "I forgot again, although she is very similar to you, sometimes she is not so similar." If she is taken away by me, she will definitely cry, I can't see you crying, if she cries, I will be helpless, I can only give her what she wants. β
"She said I want to put my own safety first, doesn't that sound like what you used to talk to me about?" Pei Tianyi looked up at the person in the portrait, and his blurred vision made him unable to see the appearance of the person in the painting, "I thought that Pei Yin was also old enough to support a family, and I wanted to see her again, and it would be all up to heaven in the future." β
"But she still cares about me at this time, I have to think a little more for her, you wait for me, wait a little longer, I'll go to you."
"I know you've been waiting a little bit, but wait a little longer, okay?"
The person in the portrait couldn't speak, but Pei Tianyi, who was holding the letter, seemed to hear the answer, he leaned against the wall and closed his eyes.