Datang: Showdown, your father and I are Li Shimin

Chapter 17
Chang'an City, Pei Mansion
"Master Pei! Master Pei! Something has happened! Something has happened!" A man with the appearance of a servant rushed into Pei Ji's study in a hurry.

Pei Ji is having a drink and chatting with the guest Liu Xiuping.

Hearing the panicked voice of the servant Pei Quan, Pei Ji cast a sideways glance at the door, while Liu Xiuping stood up abruptly and looked out the door.

Within a few minutes, Pei Quan hurriedly stepped across the threshold, holding one hand on the door frame and panting: "Master Pei... something happened... something happened."

Before Pei Quan could finish his sentence, he stopped talking and panted uncontrollably.

Seeing that Pei Quan didn't have anything to say, Pei Ji raised his head and drank the wine in the glass, then stood up, and said slowly: "Don't worry, speak slowly."

Pei Quan paused for a long time before he said anxiously: "Smallpox... Smallpox occurred outside Chang'an City. I followed Li Ze all the way into their village, and found out that smallpox had appeared in the village. Li Ze also said that it might have spread to Chang'an City. I just hurried back."

"Smallpox? Li Ze is still in the village?" Liu Xiuping rolled his eyes, and immediately thought about it: "Why are you panicking? This is a great thing!"

Pei Ji said nothing, just looked at Liu Xiuping.

Pei Quan was stunned on the spot.

good thing?

When smallpox broke out before, Xiang Pei was more anxious than anyone else.

Why did Liu Xiuping say it was a good thing this time, but Pei Ji didn't respond?
Pei Quan looked at Liu Xiuping suspiciously, and couldn't figure it out for a moment.

However, the content of Liu Xiuping's conversation with Pei Ji just now was the emperor's exceptional award to Li Ze in the court today and the humiliation of Pei Ji.

Pei Ji thought that as the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, he was punished with [-] boards and a year's salary because of his mediocre name in the court.

One year's salary is a trivial matter, this amount of money is nothing to Pei Ji, but thinking of the face he lost in the court, a strong resentment rose in Pei Ji's heart.

If it wasn't for this little country doctor, how could he have let himself suffer these punishments!

All of this started from this little doctor.

Thinking of this, Pei Ji's face suddenly became gloomy. Liu Xiuping slightly arched his hands towards Pei Ji, and suddenly a sinister smile appeared on his lips. He had already thought of 1 ways to kill Li Ze in his mind.

"Pei Quan, have you found out where this kid came from recently?" Liu Xiuping suddenly turned to look at Pei Quan, and asked casually.

Pei Quan quickly bent down and bowed like a shrimp: "Back to Mr. Liu, this kid grew up without father and mother. He grew up eating a variety of food and wearing a variety of clothes. Later, he went out for some reason. After returning to the village, he learned some medical skills. I opened a small clinic in the village to make a living, and the small trustee asked all over the village, but there is no other news."

Liu Xiuping suddenly narrowed his eyes into a slit, and a look of regret flashed in his eyes: "It's a pity, a pity, if he is not an orphan, I must let him learn my methods."

There are not a few people who died at the hands of Pei Ji and Li Xiuping. Offending him is sometimes worse than offending the emperor.

Offending the emperor, in order to take care of his own image, Li Er would at best beat him, put him in prison, or behead him at most.

But Pei Ji was different, he didn't have to consider other people's comments, because apart from himself and Liu Xiuping, no third person knew who he had arrested and what lynching he had used.

Gouging eyes, cutting noses, and cutting human sticks are commonplace.

Liu Xiuping thought about it for a while, and chose a method he thought was invulnerable, then cupped his hands towards Pei Ji: "Pay money to bribe a few patients, let them intentionally use the smallpox on their bodies to infect Li Ze, when the time comes Li Ze will fall ill and die, so that even if he dies, he will not be able to find any clues, Mr. Pei, what do you think of this plan?"

Pei Ji's cold face stretched slightly, and he nodded slightly.

Seeing that Pei Ji nodded in agreement, Liu Xiuping said to Pei Quan: "Pei Quan, you can go to the money bank to get 200 taels of silver later, find a few obedient people who don't know Li Ze, and give each of them ten taels of silver. They tried to get that scorpion infected with smallpox, and once it was done, they would reward them with a reward of one hundred taels, and then lied about sending them to leave Du Village to live in another place, halfway through..."

As he said that, Liu Xiuping put his two fingers together, made a sword-like gesture, and gestured around his neck, and then said: "The money you will get back at that time will all belong to you."

"I understand, I'll do it now!" Pei Quan waited until Liu Xiuping finished speaking, his expression brightened, he quickly bowed to Pei Ji and Liu Xiuping, turned around and was about to leave the study.

But just after walking a few steps, Pei Ji frowned suddenly, and called Pei Quan again: "Wait! We don't need to do this by ourselves."

Liu Xiuping was taken aback for a moment, and looked at Pei Ji blankly: "Pei Xiang, this plan...is there anything wrong with it?"

"This kid has the grace to save the empress's life, and his medical skills are so good that he is highly valued by the old emperor... If he dies like this, the emperor may go to investigate strictly, and he is a doctor, in case he survives What about it? Once this matter is leaked by someone who knows, won’t it implicate the old man?”

I saw Pei Ji's eyes flickering with a cold light, and then said, "You have to remember, the best way is always to kill someone with a knife. We don't need to do it ourselves."

Pei Ji vetoed Li Xiuping's approach. As the prime minister of the dynasty, if he were to be found out, the punishment he would receive would be a trivial matter. But if his family was implicated, the price would be too high.

Everything needs to be cautious, Li Er attaches so much importance to this kid, this kid must be different from ordinary people.

After all, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Er has never had a precedent of punishing anyone with a year's salary for being an untouchable.

"Prepare the horse, the old man is going to the right prison gate guard's general's mansion. This old boy has eaten a lot of turtles in front of Li Ze. He is a good pawn." Said, Pei Ji put his hands behind his back, and turned towards the door go.

Li Xiuping suddenly realized, and immediately put a hammer on his palm: "Pei Xiang's wisdom is admirable, but I am so short-sighted and ignorant, I didn't think of this!"

Pei Ji just let out a hoarse and piercing sneer, Li Xiuping hurriedly followed behind Pei Ji, and the two boarded the carriage together to the General's Mansion.

Relying on the identity of the prime minister and Sima Yu's friend, Pei Ji and Li Xiuping went directly to Sima Yu's study all the way.

Through the wall, they heard the voices of Sima Yu and his son Sima Yao.

Pei Ji suddenly blocked Li Xiuping's movement, and instead turned his ears to the side, listening carefully to the voices of Sima Yu and his son.

Hearing that the two of them were also planning to deal with Li Ze, Pei Ji smiled slightly, and called out to Li Xiuping in a low voice: "It's done!"

Then he lifted his feet and walked in from the door of the study. Seeing this, Sima Yu and Sima Yao quickly swallowed what they just said.

Seeing Pei Ji's serious face, Sima Yao swallowed secretly, not knowing what they said just now was not heard by Pei Ji.

Pei Ji smirked, and looked at Sima and his son: "Continue talking? Why don't you talk?"

The father and son looked at each other, wondering what kind of medicine Pei Ji was selling in his gourd, but Sima Yao quietly touched his hand to the sword at his waist.

Sima Yu narrowed his eyes, stepped forward and cupped his hands towards Pei Ji: "Prime Minister Pei is here. I missed you from afar, so please atone for your sins. Yao'er, come and see Prime Minister Pei soon."

"No need!" Pei Ji scolded sharply, Sima Yu's whole old face twitched violently, and when he looked up, he saw Pei Ji's brows were raised coldly, staring at him with sharp eyes.

"The general of the guard of the right guard, together with his son, intends to harm the divine doctor Li, what should he do?"

"The genius doctor Li and the empress have the grace to save lives, and together with the superiors of the imperial court, he performed acupuncture for Du Shangshu to bring him back to life. He is the number one genius doctor of the Tang Dynasty. His merits will last for thousands of years. How dare you conspire to assassinate my genius doctor of the Tang Dynasty!" Pei Ji looked at Sima Yu who was hunched over with disdain, and pointed to Sima Yu's nose with one hand.

Sima Yao was so frightened that he was about to break out in cold sweat, his heart was "thumping", and his sideways hand had already completely touched the saber.

"Pei Xiangyou..." Sima Yu looked at Pei Ji suspiciously, only to see some strange changes on Pei Ji's cold face.

A literati who dared to go to the general's house alone with his retainers and threatened to expose his whereabouts, and he himself took the post of the right prison gate guard, and entrusted Pei Ji to take care of him. Pei Ji has a good relationship with him, how could he expose himself to the emperor Behavior?

Sima Yu suddenly thought of Pei Ji being punished for Li Ze in the court today, and his eyes suddenly lit up. He suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Isn't Prime Minister Pei coming here today not to expose us?"

However, his own son didn't think so much. The muscles in his arms were tense, and his character was already extremely irritable. Now that he saw the incident exposed, a bold idea suddenly came to his mind.

Conspiring to kill the court's genius doctor, imperial physician, and Chang'an county uncle, combined with atonement, given how much Li Er attached importance to Li Ze, it was a lot of money to say the least.

Rather than being denounced by this old bastard, Pei Ji, it is better to kill Pei Ji directly, then kill Li Ze at that time, and leave Chang'an, whether to live or die is at the mercy of fate.

Hearing a crisp sound of "Qiang--", Sima Yao suddenly pulled out the saber from his waist, but the sword was drawn halfway, Sima Yu quickly grabbed Sima Yao's arm, and shouted sharply: "Stop! You How dare you disrespect the prime minister!"

When Pei Ji saw this, he suddenly laughed loudly: "Yao'er's character is still so irritable. To be honest, I just heard about your father and son's plan, which is really inappropriate. I have a plan to avenge your shame and get away with it. "

"After this is done, I will thank you very much. Once the two generals succeed, I will naturally try my best to clear up the suspicion for the two of you, return your innocence, and continue to be your great general!"

Hearing the sound, Sima Yao stared blankly at Sima Yu, and the sword in his hand dropped to the ground: "I implore Prime Minister Pei to enlighten me!"

(End of this chapter)