Jiangshan Fengwuzhi

Chapter 120 Crossover
In a flash, it was too late for Yin Yucheng to lean back. Gu Jingnian suddenly took action and stood in front of him without hesitation.

"puff."

The dagger pierced into Gu Jingnian's body. At the same time, Kuai Weng struck out with his palm, hitting Gu Jingnian's chest with a "bang", knocking him away.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yin Yucheng took two steps back and hid among the guards.

He was used to seeing big scenes, so he was not panicked. He turned to look at Gu Jingnian and said, "Good brother, my friendship with you was not in vain. Cheer up... Capture them!"

The guards rushed forward.

But the assassins wanted to kill Yin Yucheng, so obviously there were more arrangements than just this.

With the words "Attack!", the people around drew out their swords from their waists and rushed towards Yin Yucheng. They were all highly skilled in martial arts.

Both sides fought fiercely.

Seeing this, Pei Nian carefully observed the fight between the two sides, wondering why the Kaiping Division, after having already sent Gu Jingnian to assassinate Yin Yucheng, had to send another group of people to alert the enemy?

Unless, they were not sent by Kaiping Division?
Who is that?

It seems that Yin Yucheng's mind is filled with only pleasing women. How could it be worth so many people going to so much trouble to assassinate him?

These thoughts flashed through his mind, and Pei Nian quickly made a decision.

She leaned over, helped Gu Jingnian up, checked his injuries, and asked with concern, "Are you okay?"

Of course she knew that Gu Jingnian would be fine, and at this moment she was just continuing to play the role of someone who deeply loved Gu Jingnian.

"No...it's okay..."

Gu Jingnian vomited a mouthful of blood and pulled out the dagger from his body.

Pei Nian's eyes suddenly flashed and he realized something.

She took the dagger from Gu Jingnian's hand, stood up, and killed the assassins, scolding them coldly.

"If you dare to touch Gu Lang, you will die!"

When there are extraordinary people present, Pei Nian's fighting ability seems not strong, but in the city of Jusai where extraordinary powers are difficult to use, almost no one can be her opponent if she fights only with martial arts.

Her figure was nimble, dancing like a butterfly among flowers. Every time she swung the dagger, she could injure someone, and she quickly turned the situation around.

Over there, Gu Jingnian struggled to get up. Seeing Pei Nian surrounded by assassins, he became a little worried and shouted to Huo Bo who was standing aside, "Set fire to me!"

"What did the young master say?" Huo Bo was stunned.

Gu Jingnian staggered two steps, walked over, turned his back to Huo Bo, and said word by word in a commanding tone: "Set fire to me."

Huo Bo had long wanted to burn Gu Jingnian to death. This was a hatred hidden deep in his consciousness that even he himself had forgotten.

On the other hand, under the influence of Miao Chunniang, he regarded Gu Jingnian as a young master and did not dare to take action, but he could not disobey the young master's orders.

Despite the conflict in his heart, Huo Bo still raised his hand.

Two balls of flame emerged, still small under the suppression of Jusaicheng, burning Gu Jingnian's back and scorching his clothes.

"Try harder."

"Ok!"

Huo Bo gritted his teeth, his old face turned red, and the flame in his palm finally grew a little bigger.

After a long while, finally, the flames stopped burning Gu Jingnian's clothes, but flowed and formed small wings on his back.

"All right."

Huo Bo finally stopped.

However, before Gu Jingnian could flap his flaming wings, they gradually went out.

Gu Jingnian frowned and looked back at Huo Bo. This look made Huo Bo very ashamed and he quickly raised his hand to set another fire.

"No need."

On the other side, Kuai Weng no longer looked like a 150-year-old man. He was agile and skilled in martial arts. He tried to charge in front of Yin Yucheng several times, but was stopped by Pei Nian every time. He was even stabbed back twice by Pei Nian.

There were hurried footsteps, and Lu Maoxiu arrived with his men.

"go!"

Seeing that his plan was about to fail, Kuai Weng shouted and quickly fled with the remaining assassins.

Although they could not use various supernatural powers to escape in Jusai City, they were very familiar with the streets and alleys and quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.

"I am late in coming to your rescue, please forgive me, Prince Xin!"

Lü Maoxiu was wearing full armor and could not kneel down in front of Yin Yucheng to pay his respects. He could only clasp his fists and apologize with a look of worry and shame on his face. He then asked with concern, "Is Prince Xin okay?"

"it's okay no problem."

It would be a lie to say that Yin Yucheng didn't care about such an assassination attempt.

But Jusai City finally surrendered to Yong State, and he couldn't get angry because of this. If the Gu family became disloyal, it would be more trouble than it was worth. So he could only smile and said, "Thanks to my brother Gu and Miss Pei for saving me, I am unharmed, haha, unharmed."

"Quick, escort Prince Xin back to the Commander's Mansion!"

Without saying a word, Lu Maoxiu interrupted Yin Yucheng's consolation to the soldiers and civilians in Jusai City, strengthened protection, and sent people to capture the assassin.

Half an hour later, he rushed back to the commander-in-chief's mansion to see Yin Yucheng.

"Reporting to Prince Xin, I have already investigated the matter. Some people in the city were dissatisfied with the Gu family, so they assassinated Kuai Weng and disguised themselves as him to kill Prince Xin. I have ordered people to search every house..."

"No!"

Yin Yucheng quickly stopped him.

He understood clearly that the so-called dissatisfaction with the "Gu Family" was false. Gu Beiming had guarded Jusai City for seventeen years and managed the people here like an iron barrel. If the people were dissatisfied, it could only be dissatisfaction with Yong State.

The impact of this matter should not be expanded, because if he cannot control it and it provokes conflicts, he will have to bear all the consequences.

He was not willing to bear these for Yong State, and he wanted to return safely to get married. "It is understandable that some people cannot understand what is happening in the newly-annexed Sai City. I believe they will repent one day. This matter ends here, and no more searches will be conducted."

"This……"

Yin Yucheng said sternly, "It's just a little fight. How can I argue with a few villagers?!"

"Prince Xin is so magnanimous!"

Qu Jizhi spoke out, which put the final touch to the matter.

With his intelligence, he can naturally see many things.

Seeing this, Lu Maoxiu stopped talking and confessed his guilt again.

Yin Yucheng looked at Gu Jingnian, a smile appeared on his stiff face, and he said, "Are you okay? It's amazing that someone as carefree as you is so loyal and righteous that you risk your life for me, your sworn brother."

"I'm fine. I don't get hurt easily."

Perhaps it was the custom of coexistence of different customs in Yong State that allowed Gu Jingnian to dare to express his characteristics.

Yin Yucheng asked, "Is there anything I can do to repay you?"

Gu Jingnian shook his head at first, and when he saw Yin Yucheng glaring at him, as if asking him to make a request, he thought for a moment and said, "I want to go to the capital with Prince Xin and attend his wedding banquet."

"Okay, okay." Yin Yucheng laughed, "When I return to the capital, I will definitely seek a title for you. We can have more contact in the future."

After that, he turned to Pei Nian and praised: "Miss Pei is really a heroine. I must repay you for saving me this time, but I don't know how to repay you?"

He thought Pei Nian would say something like as long as Gu Jingnian is fine, however, Pei Nian thought about it and said something that surprised him.

"Although I am a woman, I have always had great ambitions. I once served as a sixth-rank official in Rui State. Although I gave up my official position for Gu Lang, my ambitions are still there. I wonder if Yong State can employ me?"

Yin Yucheng was stunned and looked at Qu Jizhi.

Qu Jizhi stroked his beard and pondered, then slowly said, "There has never been a woman serving as an official in Yong State."

"Mr. Qu." Yin Jucheng said, "Since an extraordinary person can be an official, it shows that our Great Yong is as broad as the sea and can accommodate hundreds of rivers. How can it not allow a woman to be an official?"

"What Prince Xin said makes sense. If so, I will write to the court and ask Miss Pei to be the first woman from Yong to serve as an official."

"Thank you, King Xin, and thank you, Lord Qu." Pei Nian was not polite and performed the ceremony immediately.

Yin Yucheng laughed loudly, and the tense atmosphere of the assassination just now was swept away by the laughter.

But then he patted his knee and said, "General Lu, I have to admit that you are wrong."

With these words, Qu Jigong's eyes moved, and Lu Maoxiu instantly turned to look at Yin Yucheng, and the atmosphere became tense again.

Everyone waited for Yin Yucheng's next words.

He just said, "Ms. Pei is such a wonderful woman, and she is so devoted to Brother Gu. She has been with Brother Gu in Yong State for so long, but your Gu family didn't even say that they would arrange a wedding for them. Is this what an elder should do?"

Following these words, Qu Jizhi smiled faintly.

Lu Maoxiu also relaxed and responded, "Prince Xin is right. I will write a letter to the Marshal right away."

After saying that, he turned to Pei Nian and bowed again.

"Please forgive me, Miss Pei. There have been many wars recently, and the Marshal has been unable to take care of family affairs for the time being. It is definitely not his intention to look down on Miss Pei."

Pei Nian bowed and said, "Since Gu Lang and I have come this far, why would we still bother about these trivial matters?"

"it is good!"

Yin Yucheng clapped his hands and praised, saying: "Miss Pei is very generous. Many men would feel ashamed of themselves for having such a style."

After saying this, he glanced at the people around him and implicitly expressed some dissatisfaction.

Although he did not pursue today's assassination, he was not a fool and knew what was going on. It was simply that some people used the assassination to show that Jusai City could not be interfered with by the Yong royal family.

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At night, Gu Jingnian and Pei Nian returned to their cabin.

The two of them were learning the language while washing themselves, communicating about the day sometimes by talking, sometimes by writing on each other's hands.

"Is the person Yin Yucheng is going to marry Feng Niang?" Pei Nian suddenly wrote on the palm of Gu Jingnian's hand.

Gu Jingnian did not answer, but asked in a private tone: "How do you know?"

"My guess."

"Why did you save him?" Gu Jingnian asked again.

Pei Nian said: "I can see it."

"What did you see?"

"You arranged this assassination."

Gu Jingnian smiled and did not deny it. Instead, he said, "Yes, I have tried my best to complete the mission of Kaiping Division. You have seen it."

"Yeah." Pei Nian said, "I saw it."

"Go to sleep."

The assassination seemed to have eased some of the conflicts between the two people who shared the same bed but had different dreams.

What Gu Jingnian didn't say, but Pei Nian could guess, was that the whole thing was planned by Gu Jingnian and Lu Maoxiu.

The Gu family did not want the Yong State to win over the hearts of the people in Jusai City, so Lu Maoxiu arranged some people to disguise as civilians to assassinate Yin Yucheng. Gu Jingnian's position should naturally be on the side of the Gu family. Therefore, after Gu Jingnian sent Yin Yucheng away, Lu Maoxiu found a reason to ask him a question.

"I heard that you are good at disguise?"

Last night, it was Gu Jingnian who personally disguised the assassin as Kuai Weng.

In addition to helping the Gu family, he gained Yin Yucheng's trust, gave an explanation to Kaiping Division, and proposed to go to the capital. Another unexpected gain was Huo Bo.

(End of this chapter)