Ye Chuyan asked doubtfully: "Ace, what's wrong with you? Don't you like this purse?"
Pei Xiuyan barely maintained the expression on his face, "I like it, I like it very much."
Ye Chuyan suddenly realized: "Oh, by the way, this is the same as the one I gave you when I was a child. Don't worry. Since then, I have never embroidered a purse, only this one."
Pei Xiuyan twitched his lips and said, "Ayan, as long as it's made by you, I like it."
Ye Chuyan knelt down and tied the purse around Pei Xiuyan's waist. After standing up, he said happily: "Okay, don't throw this away again, do you understand?"
Pei Xiuyan nodded stiffly.
Ye Chuyan held his hand and walked into the house while saying, "You have been working hard all night. You must be hungry, right?"
She pulled Pei Xiuyan into the room, pressed his body to sit at the table, lay on his shoulder, and exhaled like blue.
"I'm going to cook something for you. I haven't cooked for a long time and I'm almost rusty. Just wait for me."
After saying that, she stood up and was about to leave. Pei Xiuyan pulled her into his arms. He looked down and saw the bruises on her neck that had not yet dispersed. He was startled for a moment, and then whispered: "Ayan, don't go, stay with me." meeting."
He quietly held Ye Chuyan in his arms and took a deep sniff of her scent. He finally felt better after a chaotic night.
He hesitated for a long time and then slowly said: "Ayan, the emperor needs someone to go to the south of the Yangtze River to provide relief. He asked my opinion and said that if I was willing to go..."
Ye Chuyan hugged his neck with her backhand and said warily: "You agreed? You said you would take me to see my mother-in-law in the spring."
She survived just to see her grandma and sister-in-law alive.
She had calculated that if she went to Ninggu Pagoda this month, she would be there just in time to catch up with the birth of her nephew.
Pei Xiuyan hesitated for a moment and said in a hoarse voice: "Disaster relief is a big deal. I'm worried that others can't handle it, so I agreed."
Ye Chuyan stood up suddenly and stared at Pei Xiuyan in disbelief, her eyes full of disappointment and excitement.
"Pei Xiuyan, disaster relief is indeed a big deal, but you are not suitable for it."
"Ten years ago, there was a flood in the south of the Yangtze River. Taiwei Zuo Zongyun went to the south of the Yangtze River three times to provide relief. There was no difference in money. All of it was spent on the people in the disaster area. The people called him the living blue sky."
"Seven years ago, there was a locust plague in the border areas. Kong Bin, the Minister of History, single-handedly raised funds for disaster relief in the border areas and quelled the riots."
"You have never provided disaster relief. Zuo Zongyun and Kong Bin have more experience than you and are more suitable for disaster relief than you."
"Also, Zhang Qingman participated in these two incidents. He performed outstandingly and became the Minister of the Ministry of Justice for this merit. If you dislike Zuo Zongyun and Kong Bin for being older, you need to select a better candidate for disaster relief. Zhang Qingman is more suitable than anyone else..."
At this point, Ye Chuyan suddenly became speechless.
She instantly thought of a possibility.
It wasn't that Pei Ye insisted on Pei Xiuyan going to the disaster relief, but that Pei Xiuyan didn't want Zhang Qingman to go to the disaster relief, so he proposed to go there himself.
Zhang Qingman is Wu Mu's future father-in-law, and he cannot take good care of Wu Mu.
Ye Chuyan looked at Pei Xiuyan in confusion, his eyes full of confusion.
She would rather believe that Pei Xiuyan went there in person for the sake of the people affected by the disaster, rather than believe her own guess.
She couldn't believe that Pei Xiuyan, who had always focused on the affairs of the Dafeng Dynasty, would be so sinister and shameless.
For selfish reasons, use disaster relief to plot against someone.
Pei Xiuyan's heart skipped a beat when he saw Ye Chuyan staring at him.
Pei Ye really wanted Zhang Qingman to go to the disaster relief, so he persuaded Pei Ye that Zhang Qingman was agitated because of Zhang Jing's affairs, so he would definitely go wrong, so it was better to go by himself.
Pei Ye felt that they were all members of the Pei family, with royal blood flowing in their bones. In the end, they all considered the people of Dafeng, so he agreed.
However, he requested that he must leave within three days and leave early and return early so as not to delay the expedition in July.
Ye Chuyan and Pei Xiuyan looked at each other from a distance, obviously close at hand, but they seemed to be separated by mountains and seas.
After a long time, Pei Xiuyan spoke up: "Ayan, believe me, I will take you to see Mrs. Ye when I come back from the disaster relief, okay?"
His voice was urgent and determined, not as if he was trying to comfort Ye Chuyan, but more as if he was trying to comfort himself.
Ye Chuyan found that after receiving a huge shock, he was not sad at all.
Perhaps, I have long since lost any expectations for Pei Xiuyan, so if I don't have hope, I won't be disappointed.
She lowered her shoulders and tried to smile, but failed after several attempts. Finally, she said the word "ok" dryly.
Then he got up and silently went to the kitchen.
Pei Xiuyan sat alone on the chair, watching Ye Chuyan walk out of the room and slowly disappear from his sight.
He opened his mouth, wanting to call Ye Chuyan to stop, but he didn't know what to say after calling him.
When he made this decision, he had guessed that Ye Chuyan was so smart that he would have guessed his starting point.
In this quiet room, he suddenly said to himself: "But, except for power, I have nothing. I only have you, and I am really afraid."
There was a voice deep in his heart telling him that if there was anyone in the world who could change Ye Chuyan's heart, it would be Wu Mu.
He was really afraid of losing Ye Chuyan. He didn't know when he started to regard Wu Mu as his biggest enemy.
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Ye Chuyan stared at the fire in the kitchen for a long time, and finally let out a few gasps of laughter from his chest.
Pei Xiuyan ignored everything and insisted on personally relieving the disaster. He simply jumped into the fire pit, which was fine.
When Ye Chuyan entered the house carrying shredded chicken porridge, her face had returned to normal.
"Ace, are you in a hurry?"
The aroma of shredded chicken porridge filled the whole room with her footsteps, making people want to eat.
Pei Xiuyan stood up and took the shredded chicken porridge, lowered his head and smelled it, "It smells so good. Ayan's craftsmanship has not deteriorated at all."
The two looked at each other and smiled, as if everything that had just happened was a dream.
They talked and laughed. After eating chicken shredded porridge together, Pei Xiuyan took a shower and cleaned up, then pestered Ye Chuyan to help him change his clothes.
After Ye Chuyan helped him get dressed, he brought Ye Chuyan to the dressing mirror.
"Madam, please help me change my clothes. I can't repay you. I'll help you draw your eyebrows."
Ye Chuyan joked: "Is it the same painting as last time?"
She clearly remembered how ugly Pei Xiuyan's eyebrows were painted last time.
Pei Xiuyan said seriously: "Ayan, you have to believe me."
After saying that, he sat in front of Ye Chuyan and painted Ye Chuyan's eyebrows bit by bit as if he were painting a picture.
After finishing the painting, Ye Chuyan looked in the mirror and felt incredible.
She knew that Pei Xiuyan was talented and intelligent, but she didn't expect that his intelligence could be used in anything. She just saw her eyebrows drawn last time, and now she could actually draw them properly.
Pei Xiuyan was very satisfied with his masterpiece. He held Ye Chuyan's face and looked left and right, and finally couldn't help but kiss Ye Chuyan's eyebrows.
He sneered and said, "My lady is so beautiful. What should I do if I have to travel far away and won't be able to see her for a long time?"
Ye Chuyan gently pushed Pei Xiuyan away.
"What do you propose?"
"Ayan, come with me to Jiangnan."
"good."
Even if Pei Xiuyan didn't mention it, she had planned it this way. Once the disaster relief comes back, all this will probably be over.
Pei Xiuyan thought that Ye Chuyan had lost his skills, could not withstand the fatigue of traveling, and was unwilling to go to Jiangnan. Unexpectedly, she agreed immediately.
There was unconcealable joy on his face. "Then I'll let Madam Mo pack her things now."
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The news that Pei Xiuyan was going to Jiangnan to provide disaster relief with Ye Chuyan spread throughout Kyoto in just one day.
When the officials of these aristocratic families got the news, they all came to the door like dogs smelling something.
The reason is simple: disaster relief is a tricky matter. When it comes to the local area, it is inevitable that the cooperation of local officials will be needed. There are many local officials, and it all depends on Pei Xiuyan to arrange who does what.
If Pei Xiuyan re-uses anyone in disaster relief, then this person will surely have a bright future and rise to the top.
Dafeng Kyoto officials and local nobles and officials are deeply entangled, and they all want to get on the line in advance.
It's a pity that Pei Xiuyan had already expected this result, and he didn't see anyone before he went out to provide disaster relief.
These people were so angry that they jumped around at home and yelled, scolding Pei Xiuyan for being evil-hearted and eating meat himself without giving others a chance to drink soup.
Some of them were creative, trying to impress Ye Chuyan by arranging for the female family members to find reasons to visit Ye Chuyan, but Ye Chuyan also stayed behind closed doors.
They found out that Yunjin Cloth Shop was Ye Chuyan's property, and that shopkeeper Zhou was the most favored by Ye Chuyan, so they crowded into the cloth shop to buy things.
Some bought cloth for one hundred taels of silver and deliberately gave them one thousand taels of silver.
This is simply bribery in disguise.
On the afternoon of the next day, shopkeeper Zhou could not withstand the offensive of these people and came to the Prince of Qing's Mansion in person to meet with Ye Chuyan and ask how to handle the matter.
Pei Xiuyan was discussing the travel route with the accompanying officials in his study, not in the yard.
Ye Chuyan asked Shopkeeper Zhou to wait in the front hall. She took Bai Zhi and Yan Xi to the front hall leisurely.
When Shopkeeper Zhou saw Ye Chuyan, he bowed respectfully. Then he looked at Yan Qi and Bai Zhi behind him and said, "My boss."
Ye Chuyan smiled and said, "These are all our own people. If you have something to say, you might as well be the first to talk."
Shopkeeper Zhou no longer hesitated, took out a roll of account books from his sleeve and handed it over with both hands.
"Master, you must have heard about what happened in the cloth shop these past two days. This is the list and amount of cloth purchased by the distinguished guests. What do you think we should do?"
Ye Chuyan took the account book and looked through it briefly. One of the cloth purchase lists made her eyes twitch.
