Although Pei Er wanted to stay in bed a little longer, worried that Li Chanxiu would feel uncomfortable after waking up, he still carefully got out of bed.
His instincts told him he couldn’t be too hasty; he had to proceed slowly.
For example, on their wedding night, although Miss Shen hadn’t said anything after waking up, during the day she went back to the military camp to fetch the quilt she had left in the pharmacy. That night she slept separately from him under different quilts.
Miss Shen was someone slow to warm up and reserved. If he exposed his intentions too early, wanting too much too quickly, he might very well frighten her.
Pei Er restrained his emotions inwardly, but when he got up, the corner of his eye accidentally caught sight of Li Chanxiu’s chest, tightly covered by white inner garments, and he couldn’t help blushing.
Miss Shen seemed somewhat flat… It must be because she usually didn’t eat well and was too thin.
Naturally, he hadn’t touched it. Every time Miss Shen used her arms to block her chest. But the inner garment that hardly rose or fell still revealed something.
Although Pei Er had lost his memory, he did not seem completely ignorant.
The tips of his ears grew hotter, the heat spreading all the way to the side of his face. When he got out of bed to put on his clothes, his hands and feet were somewhat clumsy, and he nearly put his leg into the wrong pant leg.
After finally getting dressed, he took a deep breath and his heartbeat gradually steadied. But he still didn’t dare look toward the person on the bed again.
He quietly left. When he reached the door curtain, he suddenly thought of something, then turned back to the table, untied the golden eagle, and carried it away.
So it wouldn’t stay in the room and disturb Miss Shen.
The golden eagle tried to struggle, but after he lightly tapped its head, it immediately became much more obedient.
Come to think of it, he still had to find a way to nourish Miss Shen. Although there was wild chicken and rabbit meat at home now, it was inevitably monotonous.
Besides, wild chickens and rabbits couldn’t be hunted every day. If one day there were none, the house would have no meat to eat. Especially since their home also had a golden eagle that… couldn’t live without meat.
Thinking of this, Pei Er lowered his head and looked at the golden eagle with some dislike.
This eagle wasted food and was useless. It would be better to carry it next door and exchange it for chickens, the neighbor’s hens could at least lay eggs every day.
***
Inside the bedroom, after Pei Er left, Li Chanxiu opened his eyes and quietly let out a breath.
Just now, not long after Pei Er woke up, he had woken up as well.
But after waking, he awkwardly discovered that not only was he being held in Pei Er’s arms, one of his arms had somehow ended up draped over the other’s lean waist. The underpants on his legs had been rubbed up to the bend of his knees; one calf was pressed close against the other’s, their skin tightly touching. His other leg was pinned down by the other’s strong thigh, his knee even bumping into some change in the other person.
Both were men, and it was early morning. Naturally Li Chanxiu understood what was going on. He felt embarrassed inside and couldn’t help the rims of his ears heating up.
He tightly shut his eyes, forcing himself not to move at all. He tried to keep his breathing steady and even, pretending he had not woken up, afraid the person beside him might notice.
Fortunately, Pei Er soon got up and left. Only then did Li Chanxiu dare open his eyes. After taking a deep breath, he touched his somewhat burning ears.
After a while, still too embarrassed, he couldn’t help shrinking back under the quilt, covering his face in self-deception.
After practicing the breathing method several times, his emotions finally calmed. He gently exhaled a breath and finally got up to dress.
Perhaps because he had inexplicably ended up sharing a quilt with Pei Er again and had gone through such an awkward morning, the embarrassed emotions temporarily overwhelmed everything else. The difficult problem that had troubled him so much last night that he couldn’t sleep suddenly didn’t seem like such a big deal when he woke today.
Regarding the deduction of military supplies, there was most likely someone else involved. General Chen would certainly continue investigating. This matter probably wouldn’t be reported to the commandery prefect anytime soon.
So, at least for the next three to five days, he didn’t need to worry about it.
Even if it were reported to the prefect, the prefect might not actually help submit a memorial requesting pardon for him. And even if the prefect truly intended to submit one, it was unlikely he would immediately want to meet him.
So there was still time, room to maneuver.
Perhaps during this time, his father’s people might arrive to find him.
After thinking this through, Li Chanxiu felt more at ease.
By the time he went outside, Pei Er had almost finished preparing breakfast. After washing up, the two of them happened to eat together.
Looking at the bowl of hand-pulled noodles in front of him, Li Chanxiu felt somewhat surprised.
Early in the morning, Pei Er had actually kneaded dough and rolled noodles. He couldn’t help wondering, since Pei Er clearly had amnesia, why did he still know how to do these things?
After taking two bites, Li Chanxiu discovered that there were actually two poached eggs lying in the bowl. He couldn’t help lifting his head in surprise again.
Seeing his clear, beautiful eyes suddenly look over, Pei Er’s face reddened slightly. He coughed lightly and explained, “I traded for them next door.”
Their house had no eggs, and that golden eagle was male anyway, it couldn’t lay any.
Naturally, it wasn’t exchanged with the golden eagle. He had used half of the wild rabbit left at home. He planned to go into the mountains to hunt some more when he had time.
Li Chanxiu couldn’t help smiling. After taking a bite of noodles, he asked, “Why did you suddenly go exchange for eggs?”
The tips of Pei Er’s ears reddened again. Naturally he didn’t dare say that he thought he looked too flat, no, too thin, and wanted to nourish him.
He hurriedly lowered his head and slurped up a big mouthful of noodles, keeping his head down without saying a word.
After finishing that bite, Li Chanxiu noticed that there was no egg in Pei Er’s bowl.
Li Chanxiu frowned and picked up one of the poached eggs with his chopsticks, placing it into Pei Er’s bowl. “Why aren’t you eating any? You gave them all to me?”
Pei Er was eating noodles in big mouthfuls when suddenly an egg appeared in his bowl. He couldn’t help raising his head and coughed lightly. “You’re too thin. You should eat more.”
As he spoke, he picked up the poached egg again, intending to return it to Li Chanxiu.
Li Chanxiu said helplessly, “If you don’t eat it, then I won’t eat either.”
Pei Er’s chopsticks froze. He had no choice but to pick it back again, then, under Li Chanxiu’s watchful gaze, lightly bit into it. The egg white was smooth and tender, and the yolk was very fragrant.
Pei Er felt that he had never eaten such a satisfying meal before. It wasn’t because the poached eggs were especially delicious, but because Miss Shen cared about him.
“Oh right,” after finishing the meal, Pei Er suddenly remembered something. He took a money pouch out from inside his clothes. It was clearly filled with silver. “General Chen also rewarded us with some silver yesterday. You keep it.”
Li Chanxiu was briefly stunned, then smiled and said, “You usually have more places where you need to spend money. You should keep it.”
In reality, the two of them normally ate in the military camp and didn’t have to pay to live there either, so there was rarely any need to spend money.
But Li Chanxiu would later go look for his father. After reuniting with his father’s people, he would no longer lack money. In his view, Pei Er needed this money more.
Pei Er had just wanted to say “You keep it,” but remembering the earlier matter of pushing the eggs back and forth, he hesitated for a moment and changed his words. “Then let’s put it in our room. Whoever needs it in the future can go take it to use.”
Li Chanxiu felt that was fine. Anyway, this house would belong to Pei Er to live in later.
So after finishing the meal, Pei Er took the small hammer from the house and chiseled a hole in the wall near the bed in the bedroom, placing the small pouch of silver inside.
Seeing how seriously he hid the money, Li Chanxiu couldn’t help wanting to laugh, thinking he looked like a squirrel storing winter food.
He hadn’t expected that besides being cold and taciturn, occasionally not very clever and childish, this person also had another trait, being earnest. He truly had many sides.
After hiding the money and feeding the golden eagle, Pei Er led the jujube-red steed and walked back to the military camp together with Li Chanxiu.
Just as they entered the camp, they saw Zhang Hu riding quickly toward them on horseback.
When the other saw them, he hurriedly pulled the reins to stop the horse, then flipped down and cupped his fists toward the two of them. “Centurion, Miss Shen.”
Pei Er frowned slightly. Seeing this, Li Chanxiu spoke first and asked, “Why are you in such a hurry? Where are you going?”
Zhang Hu quickly replied, “I was just about to go look for you and Centurion Pei.”
“Looking for us?” Li Chanxiu said in slight surprise.
Pei Er also asked, “What matter?”
Zhang Hu hurriedly said, “Thousand-man Commander Bai died last night. General Chen told me that when you return to camp, you should hurry over.”
Thousand-man Commander Bai died?
Li Chanxiu and Pei Er couldn’t help exchanging a glance. Then the two of them mounted their horses, Pei Er taking the reins, and hurried toward the prison where Thousand-man Commander Bai was being held.
When they arrived, Li Chanxiu discovered that Physician Hu was already there.
Seeing him arrive, the other quickly waved and said, “Come quickly and help take a look. I’m not skilled with poisons. See whether he was poisoned to death or committed suicide.”
General Chen was also standing nearby, his face heavy as water. Seeing them, he nodded toward Li Chanxiu and Pei Er.
Li Chanxiu quickly stepped forward. Squatting down, he first flipped open Thousand-man Commander Bai’s eyelids to examine them. When he was about to check the mouth and nose, Pei Er beside him suddenly reached out and helped pry open Thousand-man Commander Bai’s mouth.
Li Chanxiu looked up at him. Instinctively he wanted to say thanks, but after glancing at Physician Hu and General Chen, who were also present, he felt it might not be appropriate and ultimately said nothing.
He carefully examined Thousand-man Commander Bai’s condition and also tested with a silver needle. In the end he shook his head and said, “From the situation, it was suicide.”
The soldiers nearby could hardly believe it after hearing this. Physician Hu also said, “How could it be like this?”
General Chen said in a deep voice, “Are you certain?”
Li Chanxiu nodded and explained his basis for judgment again, judging from the strangulation marks on Thousand-man Commander Bai’s neck and the condition of the body, the man had indeed died of suffocation after hanging himself, not from poisoning. Moreover, there were no signs of struggle on the body, and judging from the shape of the ligature marks, it did not match a situation where someone had been strangled first and then hung up afterward.
In addition, he had also checked the traces in the prison cell. It indeed did not look like murder.
General Chen’s brows were tightly furrowed. After a long while, he waved his hand and told them all to leave first, leaving only Pei Er and two close attendants behind.
Although Li Chanxiu had doubts in his heart, it was not convenient to ask directly. Only after leaving together with Physician Hu did he inquire with him.
Physician Hu sighed and did not hide anything, telling everything he knew.
“What I know isn’t much. Probably yesterday General Chen interrogated Thousand-man Commander Bai overnight. It seemed that Thousand-man Commander Bai had already begun to loosen his tongue, but midway General Chen left for a while. When he returned, the man had already committed suicide.
“Originally General Chen suspected poisoning, which was why he asked you and me to come take a look. But in the end…”
In the end, after the examination, it turned out to be suicide.
Li Chanxiu frowned slightly. After hearing it, he only felt there were many suspicious points. Since Thousand-man Commander Bai had already been about to loosen his tongue, why would he suddenly commit suicide? And why did General Chen leave midway?
But without more clues, thinking about it alone wouldn’t lead to anything.
It was not until the afternoon, when Pei Er came to eat with him, that he heard more detailed information from him.
Last night, after Thousand-man Commander Bai had been subjected to torture, he finally couldn’t endure it anymore and indeed began to loosen his tongue.
“To be honest,” he said, “this matter of withholding supplies doesn’t just involve our single camp. The people above have even bigger backing. If I really say it, Chen Gaojun, would you even dare investigate further? In the end you’d only be able to kill me and let this matter end here.”
General Chen saw that he showed signs of loosening up and immediately promised, “If you can honestly confess, considering that you are making up for your crimes with merit, I can at least ensure that your family remains unharmed. If you remain stubborn and in the end I uncover it myself, you’ll probably find it difficult even to die an easy death.”
After hearing this, Thousand-man Commander Bai remained silent for a long time, then suddenly said hoarsely, “If I speak, can you truly guarantee my family’s lives?”
General Chen was just about to give his assurance when someone suddenly came to report that there was an urgent military dispatch. Thinking something had happened on the front lines, General Chen hurried out. By the time he returned, Thousand-man Commander Bai had already committed suicide.
After hearing this, Li Chanxiu frowned and asked, “Did General Chen say what the military dispatch was? Could it have been a ploy by someone deliberately trying to lure the tiger away from the mountain?”
Pei Er shook his head. “He didn’t say anything about that. I only heard that it was sent from the Commandery Prefect’s Office. It probably wasn’t a useless dispatch, but… it likely wasn’t something extremely urgent either.”
Otherwise, General Chen would not still be in the camp today.
“The Commandery Prefect’s Office?” Li Chanxiu repeated.
“Mm.” Pei Er nodded. “I also heard that Thousand-man Commander Bai’s family was taken to the prefectural city overnight yesterday. The people who came to take them had quite an impressive background, seemed rather mysterious.”
At this point, he hesitated for a moment. After several moments of deliberation, he continued, “General Chen suspects this matter involves a great deal. It might even be related to the Commandery Prefect’s Office. For safety’s sake, for the time being… your matter may not be reported.”
At first, General Chen thought it was only a few people in the camp withholding military supplies. He hadn’t expected that after investigating, it would involve more than just their Yongfeng garrison, and even the people behind it had considerable backing.
As for Thousand-man Commander Bai’s family, during the day General Chen had already ordered people to keep watch over them, but they were still taken away. The people who came held a token from the Commandery Prefect’s Office, saying that the Prefect’s wife and the Bai family’s old madam were old acquaintances, and that they had invited the entire family to the residence for a visit.
The men sent by General Chen did not dare to stop them.
But what kind of reminiscing required taking people away in the middle of the night?
Moreover, after investigating during the day, General Chen discovered that although they used the name of the Prefect’s wife, the people who actually came to fetch them were from the Wang family of the Yongzhou prefectural city.
That Wang family was affiliated with the Song family in Luojing. The Song family was the natal family of the current Liang Wangfei and were staunch supporters of Liang Wang.
Ever since Crown Prince Li Xuan was placed under house arrest, the one most likely to inherit the throne in court was this Liang Wang. On the surface, the Wang family handled affairs for the Song family, but in reality… who knew whether they were actually working for Liang Wang?
And why would they use the name of the Prefect’s wife to take away Thousand-man Commander Bai’s wife and children?
Only then did General Chen understand why Thousand-man Commander Bai had said that even if he confessed, Chen would not dare investigate further.
If the withholding of military supplies truly involved more than just the Yongfeng Town garrison, then it would certainly be a shocking and enormous case.
Knowing that the waters behind this matter might run very deep, especially since they still did not know whether the newly appointed Prefect Yan was also playing a role, under such circumstances, if they reported Li Chanxiu’s matter and requested commendation, who could say it would not backfire, or even bring danger to him?
Thus General Chen decided that on the surface they would pretend the investigation ended with Thousand-man Commander Bai. In secret, he would think of other methods, for example, writing a letter to the former commandery prefect, Lord Zhang, who had once promoted him, to see if the other party could help.
Naturally, these things were not told to Pei Er. General Chen only told him that Li Chanxiu’s merit might not be reported for the time being.
After finishing all this, Pei Er could not help but carefully glance at Li Chanxiu again, afraid he might feel disappointed or upset.
Li Chanxiu was momentarily stunned upon hearing it, but then suddenly smiled and said, “It’s fine. Not reporting it is good too.”
Not reporting it was a good thing, this way he would not have to worry that if he had to meet Prefect Yan, his identity might be exposed.
However, after saying this and seeing Pei Er freeze in surprise, he realized he probably should not seem so happy.
He hurriedly coughed lightly and covered it up. “What I mean is… didn’t you say before that you would help me? If it doesn’t work this time, I can still rely on you next time.”
Hearing this, Pei Er instantly broke into a smile and nodded vigorously, assuring him, “Don’t worry, I will definitely help you remove your slave status.”
After saying this, he lowered his head and took a bite of his steamed bun, the corners of his lips unable to help curving upward.
Miss Shen said she wanted to rely on him.
He ate another bite of steamed bun with some vegetables, and without realizing it, the corners of his lips curved upward again.
Miss Shen wasn’t sad at all that she couldn’t remove her slave status this time, just because she still had him.
The curve of his lips grew more and more obvious, and his dark eyes seemed to flash with laughter.
Li Chanxiu watched for a while in confusion.
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