Su Shi couldn't help but sigh: "I believe that even if you don't know how to decipher hexagrams, with your strength and intelligence, you can still tell the truth and judge people's good or bad fortune."
Bae Hyun did not deny this.
When a person reaches a certain level of power, the things he can do are far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
"Will Zhou Xuan look for you again in the future?" Su Shi asked again.
"No. Since then, Zhou Xuan has never been to Ciyun Temple again, and I left there a year later on the pretext of traveling around. It was not until the fifth year of Qianxing that I came to Kyoto again."
"The reason why you returned to Kyoto must be to prepare to implement your plan."
Pei Xun said: "Although I am no longer a Taoist priest, the hexagrams I have interpreted and the words I have spoken must naturally come true."
Su Shi smiled bitterly and said, "You are a conscientious businessman. Eleven years have passed and you still haven't forgotten the after-sales service."
Pei Xuan rarely looked at Su Shi with a blank look, but Su Shi joked: "I will also write a book. You can also find answers to words you don't understand and unexpected answers in it."
Pei Xun suddenly smiled and said: "Although I already knew that today is the day I die, I never felt regretful. But when I heard that the young master had the idea of writing a book, I felt a little regretful. I regret that I could not read it. Master’s masterpiece.”
Su Shi couldn't help but laugh and said: "I can't believe it's a masterpiece, it's just nonsense. There's no need for regrets, old man. After the book is completed, I will burn a copy for you."
Pei Xuan was originally a strange man. Although he suffered a catastrophe in his childhood and lived a wandering life, his temperament was extremely free and easy, so even if he faced death, he didn't take it to heart at all.
Su Shi was also a man of two generations. Although he had not seen through life and death, he would not be afraid of it like a tiger.
Therefore, this issue was not taboo between the two of them.
Pei Xuan said: "Then it's settled in one word."
Su Shi deliberately showed a hint of embarrassment and said, "But this matter can't be rushed, so the old gentleman has been waiting below for a long time. Please don't come up to me in the middle of the night to ask for it."
Pei Xuan couldn't help but smile and said: "Wouldn't that be beautiful? We can have a long conversation with my little friend."
After a burst of laughter, Su Shi asked: "Why did the old gentleman come to Beijing in the fifth year of Qianxing?"
Pei Xuan said: "Because I need two years to lay out."
"I'm all ears."
Pei Xuan asked: "Did you feel strange when you entered this room?"
Su Shi nodded, because this room was large, but there were too few furnishings.
"This was originally my study room." Pei Xuan continued: "If you came here yesterday, you could see that there are eight rows of bookshelves here, and each row of bookshelves is filled with documents."
Su Shi couldn't help but turn his head to look at the empty room and asked, "Where are those documents?"
"It's all burned."
Su Shi asked silently: "What documents are on the bookshelf?"
"The lives, family backgrounds, characteristics, preferences, habits, and whereabouts of the sixteen people... everything related to the sixteen people will be recorded in the document."
Su Shi's expression suddenly became solemn, and he asked slowly: "I'm afraid it cost the old gentleman a lot of time and financial resources to collect these?"
"Money is an external possession, but it does take a lot of time. It took thirty years."
"Why can these sixteen people fall into the old gentleman's eyes?"
Pei Xun said slowly: "I told Du Ziqi that killing one person cannot change the overall situation, because the people Du Ziqi killed have nothing to do with the overall situation. But these sixteen people are different and are closely related to the overall situation. Every killing One person can change the situation in Daqian."
Su Shi was horrified and felt chills rising in his heart.
Da Qian hated Pei Xun for destroying the country and annihilating the clan, so Pei Xun retaliated against Da Qian, which Su Shi could understand.
However, he also knows that no matter how powerful an individual is, compared with a powerful country, it is nothing more than an egg hitting a stone. So even if Pei Xuan killed the prince, Su Shi thought he was just to vent his personal anger.
After all, in history, not many princes survived to ascend the throne, and the emperor had many children, so the death of a prince may not have much impact on a dynasty.
Killing one person might not harm the overall situation, but if he killed sixteen people in a row who were closely related to the overall situation, Su Shi couldn't imagine how big a storm it would cause.
However, Su Shi immediately looked at Pei Xuan suspiciously, because in the past ten years, except for the prince, no prince or important minister had died unexpectedly. In the past ten years, Daqian had become more and more prosperous.
Su Shi couldn't help but probe: "Since the old gentleman has burned the documents of these sixteen people, could it be that these people have..."
Pei Xuan shook his head.
Su Shi saw him shaking his head and just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Pei Xuan say: "I only killed twelve of them, and the remaining four have not had time to take action."
Su Shi wondered: "Since the old gentleman has killed twelve of them, there should be a huge change in Daqian. Why didn't I feel it?"
Pei Xun said calmly: "Master, don't be anxious, I believe you will see it soon."
Su Shi sighed: "Is the prince one of them?"
"yes."
"Then how did the old gentleman plan to kill the prince?"
Pei Xuan said: "If you want to kill the prince, you must first kill Qi Yu and Tan Zhuo."
"Why?"
"Because eleven years have passed, and eleven years of peace and harmony, they may not take my original words to heart, especially the prince."
Hearing this, Su Shi was startled, and suddenly understood why the prince behaved so abnormally before his death.
He took a deep breath and asked slowly: "When did Qi Yu and Tan Zhuo die?"
"One died on the nineteenth of the winter month, and the other died on the twenty-first of the winter month."
"Is it all an accident?"
"At least on the surface it does."
Su Shi smiled bitterly and said, "Didn't you tell them the way to resolve it? Have they forgotten it?"
Pei Xun said: "Even if they haven't forgotten, they still can't escape this disaster."
"Why?"
"Because Ciyun Temple was destroyed in the third year of Qianxing."
Su Shi couldn't help but look at Pei Xun, who smiled and said: "I didn't do this. The Taoist priests of Ciyun Temple have been in contact with dignitaries for a long time, especially since His Majesty has learned Taoism in the temple. He became arrogant and arrogant. He not only sold and bought land by force, but also bullied men and dominated women. In anger, the prince arrested the Taoist priest and destroyed the Taoist temple."
Su Shi snorted, and then sighed: "After the prince learns about the deaths of Qi Yu and Tan Zhuo, he will naturally remember what the gentleman said to him, so he will also act according to the sir's guidance."
"Is that charm poisonous?"
"If the prince died of poisoning, how could the imperial doctors not find out?"
Su Shi smiled bitterly and said, "Then what method did the old gentleman use to kill the prince?"
