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The deep and quiet man, no moon or stars.

There was only a lonely lamp on the hall of Pei's house. In the vast darkness, it looked like a lost lamb, and it was like a beacon guiding the way.

Pei Mingcui sat alone in the hall. The hall was not cold, but there was only a cup of cold tea in front of her. It seemed that she hadn't added tea for a long time.

At some point, a lonely lamp lit up in the distance, and walked towards the hall in a roundabout way. After the lonely lamp approached, he found that an old servant was carrying a lantern, followed by a person.

Xiao Buyi saw Pei Mingcui sitting in the hall from afar, and didn't know what she felt. When he thought Pei Mingcui was just a bold and unrestrained woman, he realized that she was rough and meticulous, and had made every plan. When he thought he didn't understand what this person did, he knew that she had devoted herself to her aunt Chen Xuanhua and a so-called affectionate man. She was more loyal to Yang Guang than any courtier. He thought that she was also extremely rich in feelings, but when he refused to reveal it, he realized that her heart was so hard. For a purpose, it could be said that she could do anything. Xiao Buyi didn't know what kind of person she was!

He stood quietly outside the hall, and Pei Mingcui also looked at him quietly, greeting him without the enthusiasm he used to, and holding hands to the table.

Both of them seemed to be studying each other, but they only had loneliness in their eyes and no hostility.

"How is Beipei now?" Xiao Buyi finally broke the silence of the late night, walked slowly to the table and sat down, pouring himself a cup of tea. No matter how things change, Beipei's safety is the thing he should care about the most, even if he is questioning, he will leave it to the future.

"Do you know it's Beipei?" Pei Mingcui said lightly.

"If I didn't know Bei Pei, how could I come?" Xiao Buyi took a sip of tea and put down the teacup. He found that he was less angry. The moment he recognized Bei Pei in the Sifang Pavilion, he almost wanted to strangle Pei Mingcui to death. The reason was very simple. Bei Pei was from Pei's family. Her every move was obedient to Pei's family. To be more precise, it was obedient to Pei Mingcui. Pei Mingcui actually asked Bei Pei to do such a life-and-death thing? But when he walked to Pei's house, he realized that he had no right to blame Pei Mingcui. There was no such thing as!

"She is not dead." Pei Mingcui finally said.

"Why do you want her to go?" Xiao Buyi breathed a sigh of relief.

"If you don't let her go, let me go, or let you go?" Pei Mingcui sneered indifferently, "Or let a woman in another place, but you don't know her to die?"

Xiao Buyi was silent. Pei Mingcui said it very sharply, but he could not help but admit that what she said was very realistic and ironic. Indeed, if the assassin was not Bei Pei, he would not be so angry, but if the assassin was someone else, it would be a life for human beings, but he would watch the show because it was not his own.

When Xiao Buyi came, he had too many questions to ask, but when Pei Mingcui asked her a few words, she was speechless. After a while, she remembered another question. "Is Yang Xiaofo the Pei family's member?"

"It's just to use each other." Pei Mingcui said lightly, looking a little tired, "I know that with your personality, you can do it for a future, your life, but your loyalty cannot be despised. As long as your friend is in danger, you will be less despicable and more impulsive, so I asked Yang Xiaofo to remind you. This assassination has been arranged for a long time, and no one can stop it."

"But it failed, wasn't it?" Xiao Buyi sneered.

Pei Mingcui finally showed a sly smile on her lips, "If you think it's a failure, it seems that most of the things have succeeded."

Xiao Buyi frowned, "What did you say, why don't I understand?"

Pei Mingcui took a sip of tea and did not answer this question.

"Why do you want to kill Li Hun?" Xiao Buyi asked again.

"I can't answer you this question." Pei Mingcui put down the teacup and said, "Brother Xiao, it's the same for you to think of some things, but it's the same for me to tell you. You have your own principles in doing things, so do I."

Xiao Buyi smiled bitterly and said, "It seems that I shouldn't have come."

"But you are still here, and I know you will come. If you don't come today, you will not be Xiao Buyi." Pei Mingcui sighed and said, "This is the same as if I didn't arrange for Bei Pei to assassinate me, I am not Pei Mingcui."

"It turns out that Bei Pei and I are just chess pieces in Miss Pei's hand." Xiao Buyi smiled self-deprecatingly.

"Of course you are chess pieces, but so are me." Pei Mingcui's eyes turned into the darkness in the distance and said dejectedly: "But if one person dies, it can be exchanged for millions of people not to die, then he will be considered dead."

"So do you?" Xiao Buyi asked sarcastically.

Pei Mingcui suddenly turned his head, his eyes as if the sea were like the sea, "Yes, if my death of Pei Mingcui could be exchanged for the stability of the Sui Dynasty, what's the harm of me to die? I always have to die, but I have to die to gain something! Brother Xiao, what you admire is loyalty, but what you make me headache is loyalty. People like you are good at being friends, but they have to do big things," Pei Mingcui sighed and said slowly: "I'm afraid it's still a little short of doing big things."

"If all people in this world do great things, they will be a little lonely." Xiao Buyi shrugged and said to himself.

Pei Mingcui also laughed and felt less emotional, "Brother Xiao said it well, people are different. If Brother Xiao is a person who does big things, you and I won't say a word tonight, and it's also lonely."

Xiao Buyi looked at Pei Mingcui and felt that she was sometimes free and easy, sometimes bound. She remembered what Yuan Tiangang said, "A person is paranoid, trouble will arise, and many things will be natural." But no matter how you look at it, Pei Mingcui is not the kind of person who lets it go."

"Do you think killing Li Hun can bring stability to the Sui Dynasty?"

Pei Mingcui smiled a little awkward, "I don't know, but I always have to do something to make the country of Sui, right?"

Xiao Buyi was indifferent.

"Jing Ke knew that Yishui Xiaoxiao would not return, and Zhu Mingming would be in danger of assassinating Wang Liao, but blood would splatter on the spot. Yaoli gave up his wife to kill Qingji, and committed suicide. Nie Zheng was disfigured after assassinating Xialai, just to not implicate his sister." Pei Mingcui said softly: "Don't they know they will die? But why do they still have to do it? I think even if they were asked to live again and make a new choice, they would still do it without hesitation. It was just because of their nature, and this is fate! Just like Brother Xiao, even though he knew that taking action was to give up his future, he still wanted to save Bei Pei."

Xiao Buyi was slightly moved, thinking that this was fate

I couldn't help but think too much.

Pei Mingcui sighed softly, "The ancients had the principles of the ancients, and Brother Xiao had the principles of the Xiao. I, Pei Mingcui, also had the principles of the Pei Mingcui. Some things are not considered when I do them, but just because I want to do them. The same is true for the re-face. The ancients said that they shrink back and even if there are thousands of people, I will go. Pei Mingcui only knows that even if I live again, I will still do this and never regret it."

Although she spoke softly, Xiao Buyi could not help but feel admiration. After a while, he said: "Only right or wrong, I am afraid that future generations will be confused. Miss Pei is working hard, I am afraid..."

Pei Mingcui laughed. "Why do I need others to understand? Only Brother Xiao understands me. I already feel that God treats me well."

When Xiao Buyi saw Pei Mingcui saying why others needed to understand, she was like Yang Guang's shadow. She could only sigh in her heart and stood up and said, "It's late at night, thank you Miss Pei for explaining."

"Brother Xiao wait a moment." Pei Mingcui suddenly took out a wooden board and threw it to Xiao Buyi's table. "Brother Xiao can take a look at this when he has time. With Brother Xiao's mind, he must understand a lot of things."

Xiao Buyi saw the wooden boards with words written in densely, writing rituals to make ordinary things, not to be wise, to prepare villains, and not to beware of gentlemen. The Grand Tutor Shangzhuguo stated that the public service was grand and profound, and the style was elegant and elegant...

Somewhat understand Pei Mingcui's meaning, Xiao Buyi asked, "What is this?"

"This is a copy of the iron coupon of the Li family's alchemy book," Pei Mingcui waved his hand, "With Brother Xiao's mind, read it when you turn around. Think about it carefully, I think today is worth this trip."

***

After seeing Xiao Buyi off, Pei Mingcui did not rest. She sat in thought for a long time before she made up her mind to leave the hall, came to a side room, hesitated for a moment, pushed the door straight into her. Seeing a person sitting cross-legged on the bed, she opened her eyes and looked over, sighed softly and said, "Pei Bei, how are you injured?"

The bed was Bei Pei, who was dressed as a man. At this time, she was a little funny, wearing a naughty dress outside and delicate inside. Except for Bei Pei, who had made up, had pale face, straight nose bridge, curved eyebrows like crescent moon, but her lips were dry and cracked due to excessive blood loss. No matter how she looked, she was a very delicate woman, but the natural coldness on her face made her less feminine and weak.

If Xiao Buyi saw her, she would probably praise Pei Bei for being disguised as a strange person, because from her bearded beard in men, no one could guess that she was so beautiful.

When Pei Bei saw Pei Mingcui coming in, she was about to get up and stay. Pei Mingcui reached out to stop and whispered: "You have to rest more."

"Miss, Pei Bei's injury is not serious. It's okay to walk normally, but if you want to fight, it will probably take some time." Pei Bei respected Pei Mingcui very much.

"Do you want to fight?" Pei Mingcui murmured to herself, "Do you like fighting?"

Pei Bei's eyes were puzzled, she thought for a while, and finally said, "I don't like it."

"Oh," Pei Mingcui smiled and said, "It seems that I asked you to be a killer, but it goes against your original intention."

Pei Bei shook her head and said, "Miss Pei Bei has no intention. I only know that if it weren't for the Pei family's intake, Pei Bei would have died more than ten years ago. Pei Bei would never forget the kindness of the Pei family."

Pei Mingcui smiled, "It doesn't matter whether it is unforgettable or not, but now someone is invincible because of you asking me to fight."

"Who?" Pei Bei suddenly looked up and understood something in a flash. "Miss Pei, he doesn't know anything. If there is something that offends you, please forgive me."

"He has his own responsibility for what he does, why do you need to apologize?" Pei Mingcui said lightly: "Pei Bei, you can leave now."

"Let's go, where are you going?" Pei Bei's face changed and became panicked. She has always been fearless, but she was a little afraid of Pei Mingcui in addition to being respectful.

"Don't you remember the contract between us?" Pei Mingcui smiled and said, "Although the Shadow Alliance is like a shadow and never ends until death, I told you that this mission is extremely dangerous and there is no life for ten deaths. After this mission, you will have nothing to do with the Pei Family Shadow Alliance. Since you have chosen, that is, it is your life for you to survive, and it is your life for you to die. I asked you to perform the mission and think you are a dead person. Now that you are dead, you are naturally not a member of the Shadow Alliance. If you are not a member of the Shadow Alliance, what are you still here to do?"

The tongue twister she said was just like that. Pei Bei was surprised at first, then panic. Other than that, there were surprises and reluctance.

"Miss Pei. I..."

"You, now you are a newcomer, a newborn person, and have nothing to do with the Shadow Alliance." Pei Mingcui said seriously: "But you have to remember that you can say what you should say, but you shouldn't say what you should say, even a dead person cannot say it."

Pei Bei's eyes were moved. He bit his lip and said for a while: "Thank you Miss Pei."

"No need to thank me. If you want to thank me, thank you for the person who is sorry for you." Pei Mingcui turned around and walked to the door and stopped. "Pei Bei, now it is estimated that the entire Dongdu City is wanted. You must be careful. You can go to other places now. But I welcome you to live at any time."

After she said the last sentence, she did not stop again. She closed the door and was lonely, but tears burst out from the corner of Pei Bei's eyes, which was joy and gratitude...

***

When Xiao Buyi turned to the Taipu Mansion, he had already read the contents of the iron vouchers on the wooden board. He found that his eyes were extremely sharp and his eyes were visible in the dark night, but he might not understand what he could see clearly. After reading the iron vouchers on the alchemy, he did not understand what Pei Mingcui was giving him this purpose.

"The country assists the order, and the Duke is the leader, and he is the most handsome minister. He is a talented man. He has been refining steel for thousands of years..." Xiao Buyi murmured to himself, thinking that even the emperor would flatter him, and the emperor would flatter him. Emperor Wen of Sui slapped Duke Shen Ming, making a sound! But what effect does this flattery have on him? Pei Mingcui would never let himself learn the method of flattery?

"However, the king teaches good people, go to the great way, and show respect for their virtues. From now on, although they have been guilty, they are not plotting against each other. Even if they die a hundred times, they will never ask questions." When Xiao Buyi thought of this, he had already entered the Taipu Mansion.

Seeing the maid and servant, Xiao Buyi looked surprised and looked a little strange. Then he thought, it was probably because he came back too late, and he seemed to be silent again.

Because of this, I didn't think much about it.

When I walked to the courtyard, I found a figure coming up, "Young Master Xiao, you are back."

When Xiao Buyi saw that it was Wan'er, she brought some warmth in the cold night. Wan'er and her younger brother lived in the Taipu Mansion for a while, but she had always known the principles of self-improvement and rules. Apart from living, she never walked around. It was quite hard to go out to do things during the day and come back to make cloth shoes at night.

"Wan'er, what's the matter?" Xiao Buyi asked.

Wan'er blushed slightly in the dark night, standing with a cold trembling a little, "It's nothing. I can't sleep at night, so I'll go out for a walk. When I see it's you, I'll say hello."

Xiao Buyi thought to himself, if he just came out for a walk, how could he freeze to this way?

"Is there nothing else? If not, I will leave." Xiao Buyi made a move and was about to leave.

Wan'er hurriedly shouted: "Young Master Xiao, wait."

Xiao Buyi smiled and said, "If you have something to do, just say it. Wan'er, as long as I can do it, there will be no problem."

"We always bother you," Wan'er blushed and said, "I, I..."

Xiao Buyi said patiently: "Wan'er, this is not a problem, this is a helper. We are friends, aren't we?" Wan'er said with a blushing face: "How can I say that my younger brother and I are friends with Mr. Xiao?"

"Anyway, I treat you as friends." Xiao Buyi pretended to be dissatisfied and said, "Can you not treat me as friends?"

Wan'er waved her hand in a hurry and said, "No, no, I, we are just afraid of climbing up."

"What's the point of climbing high or not?" Xiao Buyi pretended to be angry and said, "I'm just afraid you dislike me. I know that when you were next to Luoshui, you were still thinking about me and I was wearing a common man. After falling into the water, you were like a chicken. So you always despise me!"

Wan'er knew that Xiao Buyi was joking and laughed "Puchi". When she remembered the scene of Luoshui capsized, she seemed to be a different life. She thought it was a disaster at the beginning, but now she realized that it was a warmth that would never be forgotten in her life.

"I think Mr. Xiao is a friend," Wan'er finally took out her pocket and said, "Mr. Xiao, I have saved some money, I have two silver beans and a lot of money. I wonder if it's enough?"
To be continued...