Jiangshan Fengwuzhi

Chapter 115 Fake Couple

"Who?"

Gu Jingnian asked into the darkness, apparently because he heard some noise over there.

He was actually asking who Han Youxin wanted to assassinate.

"You don't need to ask now. You will know when you see it."

Han Youxin spoke in secret with a friendly smile on his face, "There's no one over there, Mr. Gu, let's go back."

"it is good."

Gu Jingnian did not want to fall into the manipulation of the Kaiping Division of Ruiguo and become a chess piece to be manipulated at will. For this reason, he even thought about finding a deserted place to kill Han Youxin, but he was worried that it would put Gu Caiwei and her daughter in an unfavorable situation, so he temporarily suppressed the idea.

He never liked to flatter others, but at this moment he gave Han Youxin a faint smile.

Back at the banquet, Qu Jizhi was discussing military and national affairs with Gu Beiming. They both still believed that Shaojing Pass could not be defended, but now that reinforcements had arrived, the situation was slightly different from before, so they could hold out for a few more days to allow the rear to make preparations.

Gu Jingnian was not interested in these, but when Qu Jizhi finished speaking, he hesitated and said, "Mr. Qu, can I follow you for a while?"

Not to mention Qu Jizhi's reaction, Han Youxin couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this sentence, surprised at how Gu Jingnian could make such a direct request.

He asked Gu Jingnian to follow Qu Jizhi to assassinate the target person, but since it was an assassination, of course it had to be covered up.

Fortunately, Qu Jizhi had previously lured Gu Jingnian with the whereabouts of the phoenix, so he probably didn't think much about it at this time. He stroked his beard and nodded in agreement.

However, Gu Beiming, although he knew that Gu Jingnian came to Yong State this time to look for the phoenix, he did not expect him to be so eager. He shook his head slightly, somewhat displeased.

The banquet was not affected by these little things, and in the end both the guests and the hosts had a great time.

After the banquet, the army arranged a separate room for Zhang Xiaofang. Since Gu Jingnian and Pei Nian eloped, they naturally lived in the same room.

The conditions in Shaojing Guanzhong were limited. This was a very small and shabby room with only a bed, a small desk, and a clothes rack serving as a screen. Fortunately, the bedding was thick and clean.

As soon as Pei Nian entered, he looked around to see if there were any ears on the other side of the wall. He took a candle and knocked on it to check.

Gu Jingnian was already very sleepy, so he took off his outer robe and wanted to take off his inner spring clothes, but when he saw Pei Nian there, he simply gave up and went to bed with his clothes on.

Seeing this, Pei Nian hesitated for a moment, and instead of extinguishing the candle in his hand, he dripped two drops of wax and fixed it on the table beside the bed.

Then, she lay down with her clothes on without taking them off.

The bed was very small, a single bed. She tried her best not to touch Gu Jingnian, with half of her left arm outside the bed.

The room was dark, with only a little candlelight shining brightly.

Gu Jingnian turned his head and saw Pei Nian's profile illuminated by the candlelight.

"Turn it off," he said.

"It's convenient to light your fire wings in case something happens."

"It's the same with a tinder. If the candle catches fire, you might get burned to death."

Pei Nian didn't expect that Gu Jingnian was so considerate of him. He was slightly stunned, and then heard him say another sentence.

"You are so weak."

"You're getting a little carried away."

Pei Nian wanted to scold Gu Jingnian in a cold tone, but for some reason, this sentence sounded a bit like flirting.

She then stood up and blew out the candle.

"call--"

A wisp of green smoke appeared, and the room suddenly became dark. Pei Nian lay down and felt his arm touching Gu Jingnian.

She was a little embarrassed and moved to the side. Finally, she turned her head away and whispered, "No one should be eavesdropping."

"Ah."

Even if no one was eavesdropping, Gu Jingnian didn't want to say more, just in case.

There is a slight difference between being a spy and being a lackey. He is much more cautious as a spy than Pei Nian. This can probably be considered a talent.

Pei Nian wanted to chat with him for a few more words, so he asked, "Why did you suddenly decide to follow Qu Jizhi?"

Gu Jingnian did not answer and said, "Go to sleep."

Pei Nian also knew that it was not appropriate to talk too much, and was about to turn over and face Gu Jingnian, but he was pulled by his hand.

"What do you want to do?"

She was startled, frowned, and asked in a low voice, and then she felt Gu Jingnian's fingers writing something on her palm.

After carefully feeling it for a while, she felt that what Gu Jingnian said was "Han Youxin is the Kaiping Division Chief, and he ordered us to follow Qu Jizhi to assassinate someone."

Pei Nian knew that someone would pick her up after she arrived in Yong State, but she didn't expect that the other party would contact Gu Jingnian first instead of looking for her.

She took Gu Jingnian's hand and wrote, "Who to assassinate?"

"I don't know. He can transmit secret messages. Do you know him?"

Pei Nian wrote "No" and then wrote: "Qu Jizhi has a unique vision. If we follow him, it will be easy for us to find out the clues."

After waiting for a long time, Gu Jingnian did not write anything else, probably because he was too lazy to engage in unnecessary communication in such a laborious way.

He pulled the quilt and covered Pei Nian with it.

After a while, Pei Nian said, "You, the Gu family, are so rude."

"Ok?"

"Although I eloped with you, we haven't married yet. So you arranged for us to live in the same room, but are you looking down on me?"

The dissatisfaction in her words was very obvious. Of course, Pei Nian said this on purpose. If someone eavesdropped, firstly, her acting would be more realistic, and secondly, the Gu family might know that they should let her sleep separately from Gu Jingnian next time.

Unexpectedly, Gu Jingnian thought for a moment and said, "Fourth brother arranged two rooms for us." "One is for Zhang Xiaofang."

"He didn't say."

Pei Nian was stunned, and after thinking about it, he realized that no one had ever told her whether to live with Gu Jingnian or with Zhang Xiaofang.

She hadn't thought much before entering the house, thinking that since they had both broken into prison to save people and eloped and betrayed their country, they should still live together. Now that the quilt was covered, there was nothing much to say.

The atmosphere seemed a little awkward.

Moonlight came into the room. Pei Nian turned her head and saw Gu Jingnian lying on his back with his eyes closed, as if he had fallen asleep. She didn't think about it anymore and prepared to go to sleep.

The strange thing is that I can’t fall asleep tonight.

She then breathed in and out, calmed her mind, and closed her eyes to rest. After a long time, she felt Gu Jingnian beside her move a few times, and his breathing was uneven.

Pei Nian then turned his head and looked. In the faint moonlight, he saw that his closed eyes opened for a while before closing again. It turned out that he was not asleep either.

She turned her head back.

Gu Jingnian gave up on falling asleep and suddenly asked, "Are you learning to speak quickly?"

"soon."

"Then let me teach you something to say."

"it is good."

Pei Nian knew that what Gu Jingnian wanted to teach was the strange language that only he and Gu Caiwei could understand. And she also understood that this was not something Gu Jingnian was willing to teach others easily, so she added, "I won't teach others."

So, the two of them started, one teaching and the other learning.

The awkward atmosphere gradually disappeared.

Before three o'clock in the morning, Gu Jingnian yawned and his voice became lower.

Pei Nian was also very sleepy, his eyelids felt very heavy, and soon he fell into a deep sleep.

When she heard the sound of military drums outside the house, she woke up in a daze and unexpectedly found herself sticking to Gu Jingnian, with even their feet hooked together.

But thinking about the more intense things they had done before and the fact that they would have to play lovers for some time, she did not move away immediately, but stayed in bed for a while longer.

She is not the kind of woman who would give herself to a man just because of such an intimate gesture.

Compared to her ambitions, it was no big deal.

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Gu Beiming had been busy with military affairs and only had time to meet Gu Jingnian alone at dawn that day.

He brought Gu Jingnian to the top of a cliff near the city wall.

There was no one around, so there was no danger of being overheard when talking.

"With your personality, you shouldn't come to me for help." Gu Beiming asked, "Why did you come this time?"

Gu Jingnian asked back: "Why does father feel this way? I can't just want to be reunited with my family."

"You are a useless thing. Because I was a little strict with you, you didn't treat me as a family member. How could you want to reunite with me?"

"Severe? You call that 'severe'?"

"Are you dead?" Gu Beiming asked, "I skinned you and tore your bones, but did I ever leave a single scar on you? In the past two years, you have experienced so many people who really wanted to kill you and squeezed all your usefulness out of you, and you still don't understand that I did that for your own good."

"I finally know where Gu Jizu inherited his hypocrisy and selfishness from."

Gu Beiming shook his head, too lazy to continue the topic.

He was busy with military duties and had no time to chat about trivial matters with Gu Jingnian, so he quickly got down to business.

"As Qu Jizhi said last night, you came to Yong State to look for that phoenix?"

Gu Jingnian asked back: "Do you know where she is?"

Gu Beiming looked at him deeply and asked, "Didn't those people from the Ruiguo Kaiping Division force you to come see me?"

He actually saw through the truth directly.

For a moment, Gu Jingnian felt that he had failed and could not complete the deal with Min Yuanxiu, but after thinking about it, he felt that he had not revealed any flaws.

It is very likely that Gu Beiming did not see through his disguise, but for some hidden reasons, he thought that Kaiping Division would send someone to find him.

With this thought in mind, Gu Jingnian asked, "You want me to see you? What for?"

"What do they want you to do?" Gu Beiming asked with a stern face and a majestic tone.

It is more difficult for Gu Jingnian to resist his majesty than for others because he has lived under his father's authority since he was a child.

But this time, Gu Jingnian clearly saw that Gu Beiming was testing and intimidating him.

So he sneered and said, "What? Are you scared? They asked me to kill you."

It seemed like he admitted that he was sent by Kaiping Division, but the sarcasm made this statement seem like irony.

Gu Beiming knew that Kaiping Division didn't just want to kill him. After hearing this, he thought that Gu Jingnian knew nothing, and there was some thoughtfulness in his eyes.

Gu Jingnian secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and asked in return: "Why do you think I was sent by Kaiping Division? I'm afraid it's not just because of your threats, right?"

He began to ask, but Gu Beiming waved his hand and said calmly, "Because I don't want to offer foreign captives to the Rui Kingdom anymore, and I know too much."

"What does Father know?"

"It's not your turn to ask me yet, go down."

Gu Jingnian became increasingly certain that there was a hidden story behind Gu Beiming's treason, and it was related to alchemy.

(End of this chapter)