The violent storm in the summer came violently and went quickly, and when Pei Tianyi and others arrived near the Tiger Leaping Gorge, the majestic rain in the air had turned into a continuous rain.

The collapsed rocks were piled up in the canyon, and there was a mess as far as the eye could see, and the sound of rain falling in my ears was not the sound of others calling for help.

Pei Zhao recalled the group of people he had seen earlier, and according to the route in his memory, he led everyone around the place where there was a faint danger of collapse, and walked in the direction where the group of villagers might stay.

The process of searching and rescuing them among the mountains and rocks was not very smooth.

The rain curtain not only obscured their vision, but also washed away all the traces left by the villagers, which made it more difficult for Pei Zhao to search and rescue.

The guards who followed Pei Zhao to search and rescue together did not clean the battlefield at the border pass in the past, but at that time, the most they did was to mend the knife, and the experience of only going to save people like this now is really rare.

Before dark, Pei Tianyi took the villagers they rescued and the bodies they found back to the place where they had camped before.

The division of labor among them is still relatively clear, there are Pei Zhao who are good at listening to news, and naturally there are guards who are good at medical skills. It's just that they traveled lightly, and the medicinal materials they brought with them were not much, even if they were all used on the villagers, at most they could ensure that their injuries were not aggravated, and it was impossible to completely treat them.

After resting on the spot for a night, Pei Tianyi looked at the many injured people in the camp, thinking about whether the businessmen who asked them to come out to dig stones had another purpose behind their backs.

After thinking about it, I felt that I should inquire carefully instead of leaving the doubts in front of me and continuing to Kyoto.

If someone really tries to calculate him behind his back, it must be the price of calculating him.

Pei Tianyi is famous, and there are many people who have seen him, so when he took everyone to the village this time, he specially made some disguises, and even when he was standing, he deliberately stood among the guards and gave up the main seat to the people next to him.

After all, it's prepared.

The gangster who was brought back by Pei Zhao at the beginning, his real name is Liu Ergou, his parents died in his early years, and he followed his elderly grandfather to depend on each other, his grandfather was old and sick, and the food from the fields at home was only enough for them to chew, and he couldn't even pay the tax burden. When he was seven years old, his grandfather died, and the family's land was exchanged for money, and after the funeral for his grandfather, there was not much left.

Thanks to the kindness of the people in the village, one person gave him a bite to eat, and he ate a hundred family meals like this, and he successfully lived to be in his twenties. However, because the family has no money to save, the only house that can live in is also extremely dilapidated, so Liu Ergou still lives alone.

"Thank you......" On the way back to the village with Pei Tianyi and the others, Liu Ergou wiped his face and whispered.

Regardless of how he was caught by these people in the first place, it is true that they rescued the people of the village from the collapsed rocks. Although some people still can't be saved in the end, it is a natural disaster, and these people are not to blame. On the contrary, I should thank them for helping to bring back the corpses of the people in the village, and it is not easy to see people alive and dead corpses.

The distance between Liujia Village and Tiger Leaping Gorge is actually quite far, like Liu Ergou, they have to prepare a few days of dry food in advance when they come to Tiger Leaping Gorge to mine stones, part of which is eaten on the road, and part of which is eaten in the space of mining stones.

And because of the group of guards led by Pei Tianyi, all of them are strong in martial arts, although not everyone can fight one against a hundred, but it is still easy to deal with the beasts in the mountains and forests. And when there are many people, the lone beast does not dare to rush forward.

So Liu Ergou took them to walk on the small road, and it only took a day to bring people to Liujia Village.

When they arrived at Liujia Village, it happened to be close to dusk, and most of the people in the village were cooking dinner, and the faint smoke wafting from the chimney was blurry in the rain, making it difficult to see very clearly.

Pei Tianyi stood in the pile of guards, frowning unconsciously, he saw at a glance the temporary grass hut on the right side of the village, and five or six horses were crowded in the shed.

Horses in these years are not something that ordinary people can breed.

Except for high-ranking officials and dignitaries, or people from the wealthy side, most of the others raised donkeys or mules, or cattle, in short, it was impossible to raise horses.

Pei Zhao always paid attention to Pei Tianyi's movements, and saw that he had been staring at the grass shed in the village, so he asked Liu Ergou: "You said that your village is not very rich, and the horses in the grass shed are all left by the merchant?" He's still in your village, and he's not gone? ”

Liu Ergou also saw the horses in the shed.

But he shook his head and said, "Steward Luo lives in an inn in the town, and he left these horses as collateral, he said that these horses are all good, and they can be sent to the border pass as war horses, and only one horse can be exchanged for hundreds of stone of grain, and they are all fine grain!" ”

He also said: "Every seven days he would come to our village with people and grain to collect stones, and when the grain in exchange reached a certain amount, he would take a horse with him, and I remember that from the beginning to the present, they have brought back seven or eight horses......"

A certain amount naturally can't be a minority, Liu Ergou doesn't know what the converted number of Steward Luo is, only knows that they dug stones in Huyue Gorge for nearly two months, and the grain they exchanged from Steward Luo filled the granary in the village to the brim, and also paid off all the taxes they owed before.

Even Liu Ergou, a person who usually doesn't make much effort, has saved a small amount of money, and marrying a daughter-in-law is definitely not enough, but it is enough to renovate his family's old house.

Pei Tianyi's face changed slightly.

He asked Liu Ergou: "You have been digging in Tiger Leaping Gorge for nearly two months?" ”

Liu Ergou touched his head, only to realize that what he had just said was a bit much.

He nodded, thought about it carefully, and said: "My family's old house is a little unreliable and needs to be renovated, but I don't have much money in my hands, so in late April this year, I thought about going to the town to do a small job and earn a little money, and then I met Steward Luo." ”

"Steward Luo's master is very powerful, so our county lord has to bow his head and say hello in front of Steward Luo, if it weren't for knowing that Steward Luo would not be in arrears of food, I wouldn't have brought them back to the village."

"They are not in arrears...... But, it's ......."

The more Liu Ergou talked about the back, the more he couldn't continue.

When they went to Tiger Leaping Gorge to dig stones, they were still very cautious. It's just that Steward Luo said a few days ago that the matter of collecting stones was coming to an end, and he gave a deadline, saying that he would not collect stones after this day. Those who can brave the rain to go to the mountains to pick stones are those who are more difficult at home.

Liu Ergou himself is a lonely man, and he didn't think about marrying a wife and having children, the reason why he followed the people in the village was because he found Steward Luo.

Now the people who go to Tiger Leaping Gorge except him are either injured or disabled, or they are dead.

He didn't know how to explain it to the villagers!

Pei Tianyi and the others originally wanted to quietly follow the people from Liujia Village to find the Steward Luo in their mouth, but who knew that when they arrived in the village, they knew that Steward Luo had left two days ago. However, before he left, he had already delivered all the food to the village chief.

Moreover, the housekeeper Luo said that they had decided to leave temporarily, and the transaction with Liujia Village had to be ended early, but he couldn't bear to let the villagers' labor go in vain, so he left the good horses that were originally used as collateral to the villagers who were still mining stones in Huyue Gorge.

Because of Steward Luo's decision, he left the impression that everyone in Liujia Village was very reliable and friendly.

Pei Tianyi and others, who sent the rescued villagers back to their homes and then rushed to the town, saw the county official here, that is, the county official who Liu Ergou bowed his head to Steward Luo.

"What do you say? He is the steward of the Pei family? ”

No wonder Pei Tianyi was so surprised, he actually learned from the county official that Steward Luo was from their family, how could this be!

Although the Pei family is a big business, Pei Tianyi only knows a little about his family's stewardship, and he doesn't know the names of everyone. However, the stewards of the Pei family all perform their own duties, and no steward has ever left his position and gone elsewhere to exchange grain for stones.

If there is really surplus grain, they will not be able to use it at home, and they will not be able to sell it for money, so they will send it directly to the border gate, where will it be used as part of the grain and grass, where will it be exchanged for some useless stones!

Besides, the Pei family is not without quarries. Even if you really need to use stones, your own quarry will be self-sufficient, so why bother looking for it.

Pei Tianyi had to stop halfway because of this change.

Although there was no sign that others were specifically calculating him on the surface, his intuition told him that this 'Steward Luo' in the name of the Pei family's steward was involved a lot and needed a lot of attention.

He stopped halfway for some reason, and naturally he also needed to report to his boss, that is, the emperor.

In view of the fact that he has begun to suspect that there are people around him or the emperor who are spying on his whereabouts, the letter handed over to the emperor this time is an encrypted way, except for the emperor's henchmen, it can basically ensure that the letter is not snooped on by others.

Ah Yu didn't know what Pei Tianyi encountered on the road, but as time passed, until the end of June, she never heard the news of Pei Tianyi's death, and knew that the other party's death in her impression had been passed safely.

It's a pity that there is no news from Pei Tianyi's side, and I don't know when he will return to Kyoto.

But there's no news, probably the best news!

Despite this, Ah Yu was still a little flustered, and stayed in the study all day to copy Buddhist scriptures. She didn't believe in the gods and Buddhas, but copying the sutras would allow her to meditate, and that would be enough.

Aoba pushed open the door of the study, and hurriedly ran in front of Ayu, and the open door brought in the heat outside the house.

Ah Yu couldn't help frowning, and he didn't blame anything for Aoba's reckless behavior.

The world in front of her became more and more like the world of the dead, and everyone she saw took on the appearance of what they were before they died. People who die naturally are the most ordinary, but most of the people around her are dead horizontally. Especially Qingye and Qingrui, who were close to her, these two died tragically because of her.

Therefore, as long as they do not make mistakes of principle, Ah Yu will always selectively turn a blind eye to their mistakes.

It's like this time.

"Girl, Madame sent someone to look for you, I heard her say, Madame seems to be quite angry at this moment!" Aoba had seen Mrs. Wen when she was angry, but she didn't know why she would look for Ah Yu when she was angry, which made her feel worried about Ah Yu.

Ah Yu was stunned for a moment, the ink on the tip of the pen fell on the white paper, and the Buddhist scriptures that were about to be copied to the end were so wasted.

She placed the brush in her hand neatly, and suddenly felt a little uneasy in her heart.

Mrs. Wen has always been a good-natured person, but there will be times when she is angry, but she will never look for Ah Yu when she is angry, unless the reason why she is angry is because of Ah Yu.

But Ah Yu thought about it carefully and thought about it, she has been obediently staying at home lately, copying Buddhist scriptures, and rarely even stepping out of the courtyard door. It stands to reason that it is impossible to provoke his own mother.

Could it be that because of something she did before, Mrs. Wen turned over the old accounts at this time!

Ah Yu took a longer time to remember this time, but her head hurt when she thought about it, and she still didn't come up with a reason.

After all, in the first half of this year, she stayed in the White Horse Academy most of the time, and after no one else was with her, she had only wandered around the academy and other courtyards, basically not running elsewhere, let alone causing trouble, so why did Mrs. Wen look for her this time?

Thinking about things in your own yard still can't get results.

After Ah Yu put away the paper and pen on the table, he took Aoba and the others to the courtyard of Mrs. Wen.

Anyway, when I arrived at Mrs. Wen's courtyard, I naturally knew why Mrs. Wen found her.

Ah Yu stepped into the door of Mrs. Wen's room with her front feet, and then she heard Mrs. Wen say to her, 'Kneel'.

She looked up stunned, only to see that Mrs. Wen San frowned, her face and lips were white and frightening, and she was angry at first glance. She noticed that Mrs. Wen had one hand on her heart, and the other hand in her sleeve, and the cuff was half-hidden to reveal the corner of the letter.

So Mrs. Wen was so angry after reading the letter?

But what exactly is written in the letter will make Mrs. Wen so angry!

If the content of the letter is not even clear, how can Ah Yu persuade Mrs. Wen not to be angry?

She was still thinking about countermeasures, but Mrs. Wen San didn't plan to get used to Ah Yu anymore, she supported the maids beside her to press Ah Yu to kneel in front of her, and then she breathed a sigh of relief.

Ah Yu was even more dazed, she never thought that Third Lady Wen would do such a thing to her, forcing her to kneel on the ground, how could it be?

But that's just the way it is!