son-in-law

Chapter 1269 Chapter Since I Saw Peach Blossom (V)

The night sky was like a cover, and the rows of rooms were filled with the stench of rotten fish.

Unknown birds are flying in the dark night, far and near, and fishing fires are floating.

The man named Pu Xinggui waved his hand in the darkness and gradually escaped with his men through the spider-web-like path.

A cloaked figure stood on the roof of the broken shed, watching them quietly.

The fish king Gao Xingzong came over and spoke something with concern in the dim starlit night. Soon after, he also left.

A cloaked figure smashed something on the roof of the broken shed, causing large pieces of tiles to fall down. After a while, the flagpole on the side of the roof broke and fell into the river below.

There were some small waves on the river, but when it reached the fishing boat not far away, it was just a simple ripple on the water. This movement burned in the fire of the night, and some civilians living nearby came out to curse.

Ning Ji cursed back.

Before long, this brief quarrel became an ordinary and insignificant urban disturbance in the night.

The night wind gently caressed the city along the river. He took off his cloak, changed into simple clothes, and walked along the unrepaired dirt road by the river. In the middle of the night, the contact with Pu Xinggui was very successful. He got the information he wanted to know, determined a strategy to deal with Chen Shuangran together, and got the names of several people in the city who might be able to contact Chen Shuangran. This was also a complicated plan that he had only heard of but never executed, but the sense of accomplishment was gone from the beginning.

The feeling of emptiness and pale anger lingering in my heart, if I were to sum it up, it would probably be:
——Fuck Zuo Xingzhou.

He thought of that stupid face.

Just died like that.

It's fine that you've lost face for the Zuo family, but this time you've also lost face for the Chinese Army. When you go back to the southwest, people will laugh at you to death!
The remaining feeling is empty.

In fact, the feeling of saying goodbye to companions was once experienced on the battlefield in the southwest, but perhaps because he was still young at that time, or because he was mentally prepared every day, the death of some brothers and uncles did not catch him off guard. And after being in the Huaxia Army for a long time, he also always understood that the cruelty of the so-called Jianghu is far inferior to the violence of the country. Zuo Xingzhou was killed in this childish struggle because of a misunderstanding, which made people feel particularly uneasy.

In his rage, he swung his fist in the darkness by the river and broke a tree planted there.

When he first met Zuo Xingzhou and others, he was still a child who ran around with his brother, sister-in-law, Hei Nuo and others all day long. Occasionally he participated in fights with his friends in the village and was often beaten to the ground. But now, his body has grown up and he is gradually entering an age of vigorous energy and great strength.

Zuo Xingzhou, who is older than him, would be shocked if he could take a closer look at his might and power at this moment. It's a pity that he didn't beat him hard when they met last time.

Should have been beaten harder...

With his mind empty and filled with meaningless information, he crossed the river and gradually entered the relatively crowded market area. Ragged vendors pushed carts, beggars picked their feet on the roadside, standing at half-closed doors on the roadside with yellow teeth showing to attract customers, incompetent scholars toasted in restaurants and told jokes about the court, two listless yamen runners with ruffian faces passed by him, one of them took the time to look at him, but surprisingly had no reaction.

It's useless...

If it were me, in such a tense situation, and I saw a man with a bruised face and nose on the street, would I let him go?

We need to interrogate them, arrest them, and beat them!

In his heart, he began to hate the small court in the southeast again.

What's the use of respecting the king and expelling the barbarians, what's the use of constitutional monarchy, they can't even catch a few small hooligans, it's worse than shit! Even worse than the Fairness Party!

The people from the Zuo family were thrown back here and they all lost their souls!
With this in mind, he walked through the city of Fuzhou at night. There were deserted streets and crowded downtown areas. When he passed a market, he sat on a bluestone bench under the archway at the intersection for a while, watching the people coming and going in front of him. He thought to himself that the little bitch Chen Shuangran might be hiding in such a market, and maybe those idiots would walk past him and be caught and beaten to death by him... But of course, things were not so coincidental. At this time, he thought of Zuo Xingzhou again, and then he thought of the many people who had died on the battlefield in the southwest.

The faces of those people before they died seemed to have passed before his eyes. For some reason, they suddenly became clearer. He thought of the uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters who had teased him, given him candy, and beaten him. Like Zuo Xingzhou, they all made him sad. Life and death, which he did not understand when he was twelve or thirteen years old, and which he once thought were ordinary, gradually became more profound on this night. They left forever.

I accidentally spilled two drops of horse urine, which I wiped away decisively.

If he didn't have the good luck to wait for Chen Shuangran, he would need to be patient for a while before setting up a plan and taking revenge. Ning Ji stood up and walked towards the princess's mansion, crossing the river and the small bridge, and then crossing several streets and stone bridges. The mansion was gradually getting closer.

At the back of the mansion, Yue Yinping once gave him a secret signal that would allow him to pass through a small door guarded by several people and enter. When he passed through the secret door, he could see sentry posts near and far. At this time, the situation seemed to be different from that during the day.

Does changing every day mean it’s strict?
——Change your mother’s head!

I'm so angry.

Ning Ji crossed the alley, then climbed over the wall under the cover of trees, avoiding the blind spot of the guards and moving forward.

When he was in the southwest, he heard people talking about the two siblings and Fuzhou. They always said that there was still some hope. When his father got the intelligence from here, he occasionally said, "The little emperor is quite diligent," "The princess has a good brain," and "There is still hope" - what hope! The garrison of the princess's mansion was in name only. He, a little-known reserve scout of the Chinese Army, broke through several courtyards in a blink of an eye and was about to enter the core area.

After passing through another stone archway, he entered a courtyard with a small pond and rockery. Ning Ji was about to put his hands on his hips and curse inwardly, but suddenly he stopped because he heard a "humph-humph-hum" sound from the front. When he looked carefully, he saw a figure walking happily on the road over there, past the cover of the rockery. Just as he was about to hide, he heard the sound of wind coming from the side.

"you……"

Oops... I've been discovered...

The figure that rushed out seemed to be hiding in the blind spot of the rockery. It was not known whether he was a guard or an assassin. The other party pounced on him and wanted to speak. Ning Ji was unhappy and punched hard. The fist turned into a claw, whistling and tearing towards the other party's neck. The figure rushed forward, waved his hand and drew his sword, but Ning Ji punched it back into the sheath. The two figures dodged and crossed each other several times, and Ning Ji knocked the man to the ground with a punch.

The blow hit the back of the neck and the opponent fainted immediately. Ning Ji's body was as fast as lightning and he rushed forward, because the figure who was groaning on the opposite side was already close and had obviously seen the fight between the two. Ning Ji raised his hand and wanted to chop the opponent down as soon as possible, but he stopped halfway through the rush.

A little girl was walking towards us from the opposite side, jumping and licking the candy in her hand, sticking out her tongue and blinking her eyes.

Ning Ji was in a bad mood, but he couldn't really hit a silly little girl at this moment. He stood there, turned his palm into a fist, and made a threatening gesture. Then he didn't care whether the other party would shout or not. Looking back, the woman lying on the ground was wearing a guard's uniform. He just didn't know why she hid in the dark and scared him.

"It's useless and so unprofessional..." Ning Ji muttered and cursed.

"Hey, Sister Zou..."

The little girl in front ran over with a candy cane, squatted on the ground and tapped the guard's face, then raised her head and asked, "What's wrong with her?"

Ning Ji put his hands on his waist for a while, then walked over, squatted, and stretched out his hand to feel the other person's breath: "She's still alive, she's asleep!"

"Still alive." The little girl also imitated him and touched the female guard's nose.

This little girl is a fool. I can ask the two fools from the Yue family if she is their sister... Ning Ji thought about it, looked around, then lifted the woman's hands and dragged her into the rockery: "She fell asleep. She can't sleep on the road. We need to find a place for her to sleep well."

He dragged the other person into the hole in the rockery. The little girl holding the candy seemed to think it made sense, so she followed him and found a stone on the ground and handed it to Ning Ji: "You need a pillow to sleep." Ning Ji nodded to indicate that was right, and asked the other party to put down the "pillow". The little girl then picked up a few leaves and put them on top, indicating that it was a pillowcase.

With the cooperation of the two, the knocked out female guard was placed in the rockery and laid quietly. Ning Ji was furious and didn't know how to continue. He left the rockery, put his hands on his hips and looked around, then looked at the little girl standing aside who was finding it interesting. He was so angry that he pointed at the two of them.

"You two know each other, right?"

"Well, I'm with Sister Zou."

"You guys... this world has become bad because of stupid people like you!"

"...Ah?" The little girl blinked, stunned, not knowing why she was being scolded.

"Ah what? You know her, but you don't know me. What if I'm a bad person?"

"...Ah?" The other person opened his mouth and licked a piece of candy, "So...are you a bad guy?"

"I... Of course I'm not!"

"Oh, you're not." The little girl licked the candy twice, and then, not knowing who she had learned from, she nodded and said word by word, "Then I'm relieved."

"..."

Ning Ji was silent for a while, not knowing whether he was stupid or the other party was just a fool. He put his hands on his hips and looked around, then calmed down and asked, "Then do you know who I am?"

"I do not know."

"Then I tell you, I am a juggler."

"what?"

"Come, let me show you a trick!"

Ning Ji twisted his neck to stretch his muscles, then stretched out his hand: "Let me have your candy." Without waiting for the other party to react, he reached out and snatched the candy from the other party's hand.

The little girl blinked her eyes, not knowing whether she wanted to cry.

Ning Ji stood in front of her and held up a piece of candy: "Look, candy." Then he opened his mouth: "Ah, there's nothing, right?"

The little girl nodded, looked into his open mouth, and nodded again.

Ning Ji let out an "ah" and slowly opened his mouth as wide as possible, then stuffed the candy in his hand into his mouth. With a "wuuuuuuuuuu", his mouth closed, followed by a violent, crunching sound.

"Dang-dang-dang--"

When he pulled it out, Ning Ji only had a small stick in his hand. He opened his mouth wide and smiled maliciously at the other party: "No! No!!"

The little girl blinked and looked at him.

In the dimness, it seemed to be gradually becoming watery.

Ning Ji was waiting for the other party to burst into tears.

He was very angry tonight and wanted to vent his anger. Now he found a little fool. This kind of prank was the mildest way to vent his anger.

“Gee, gee, hahahaha…”

The little girl pointed at the small stick in his hand and made a strange sound.

He tried to identify it for a while before realizing that the sound was actually laughter.

"Gegegege, gegegegege..."

The other person laughed so hard that he held his stomach: "You are so awesome——"

Ning Ji's face flattened.

Before he could perform the next round of pranks, the little girl reached out and grabbed his hand: "Come here, come here, hahahaha..."

The little girl smiled excitedly and pulled him through the rockery area, through the gate, and into the next yard. She led him into the side room. Ning Ji was not feeling well. She saw her carrying a box from the bedside, and then she carried it to the stool with difficulty and opened it. In front of him was a whole box of candies. The candies were big and round, and the amount piled together was enough to make a person die three times.

"Hahahaha, you're so awesome, I want to see more magic tricks..."

The little girl's voice was sweet, like eating candy. Ning Ji was so angry that he froze there. It was obvious that the other party was playing him, but he was not very sure...

At this moment, the alarm sounded.

The torch rushed into the yard, and someone suddenly rushed into the door of the room.

Ning Ji turned around and started fighting with the opponent. In a blink of an eye, he rushed and twisted, and knocked the two soldiers who rushed in first to the ground. Ning Ji rushed past the little girl and said harshly: "Only dogs will eat your candy!" The little girl was startled and saw that the opponent had rushed out of the window behind her like the wind.

At this time, Ning Ji also knew who the other party was.

Because the warning sound in the courtyard was: "Someone is trying to assassinate the princess."

This is the daughter of the young emperor Zhou Junwu. She is stupid and has no future at all, just like the stupid Ning Xiaoke at home.

There were already more guards rushing over from all around, Ning Ji ran as fast as he could, jumping over the water, climbing over the rockery, and jumping over the wall... He was so angry that he wanted to help the other party test the garrison limit of the princess's mansion.

After a while, Yin Ping, Yue Yun, and Qu Longjun who were at the back of the princess's mansion were also alarmed. The Yue siblings rushed over here with weapons in hand...

******
In the darkness of the night, the sound of commotion spread again behind the princess's mansion.

It attracted a lot of prying eyes, and who knows what kind of bizarre rumors will arise tomorrow.

Jun Wu and Zhou Pei worried for a while at the back of the mansion, and only breathed a sigh of relief when the guards brought the princess over and found that the little girl was not injured.

The noise of commotion spread in the back for a while, but was suppressed after a while. The assassination attempt last night had not yet come to an end, and it happened again tonight, and it also affected the little niece brought by her brother. Zhou Pei was particularly angry and ordered Zhao Xiaosong to keep the other party, regardless of life or death.

However, when Zhao Xiaosong came back after being out for a while, his expression was particularly complicated.

"The assassin has been stopped, but, but... something is a little strange, he has not been taken down..."

"Tell me more details."

"Miss Yin, Miss Yinping is fighting with the other side, but... but they don't let others pass. Yue, Yue Yun told me..." Zhao Xiaosong hesitated for a moment and looked around.

Zhou Pei frowned and said, "What's wrong? What can't you say?"

Jun Wu waved his hand: "The others go outside and guard."

Several guards went out one after another. Zhou Pei stood there, and Jun Wu held his daughter. Zhao Xiaosong bowed and said in a low voice, "Yue Yun said... that man came from the southwest..."

The room was quiet for a while. The daughter in her arms was still gesturing with her hands about eating candy in a magic trick: "Such a big candy..."

"What did you say? Where?" Jun Wu asked.

"Yue Yun said that he came from the southwest."

"They're from the southwest. They're the Zuo family... the Zuo family..."

Jun Wu's eyes turned serious. He put his daughter down and realized that the other party was not from the Zuo family. He listened to his daughter talking about the other party teasing her and took a breath: "... Tell me more details."

"Yes, this matter seems to be related to the riot last night. This matter was handled by Mr. Cheng and Mr. Zuo Wenxuan. All I know is..."

Zhao Xiaosong talked about what happened last night in a panic. Halfway through his words, many things could be heard. Jun Wu waved his hand and said, "Call Cheng Zhouhai over."

Just as Zhao Xiaosong was about to salute, Zhou Pei said, "Ask Zuo Wenxuan to come over."

"Yes, I'll just..."

"Call Yue Yun over first."

"Fang Jinghao is in the mansion, let him come over too... let them two come over first..."

The orders were chirping, and Zhao Xiaosong ran away in panic. After the other party left, Jun Wu listened to the noise outside and walked in the room. After a while, he said to Zhou Pei, "Did you speak a little softly?"

"That man is fighting with Yinping."

"The silver bottle can stop him. They know each other and they are not bad people."

"… Let's figure it out first."

"If he was a bad guy, Fuyang would have been in trouble long ago." Jun Wu put his hands behind his back and walked back and forth for two steps. Then he waved his hand and said, "Let's go, let's go to the back and take a look first."

"You are a bit cunning..."

"What's wrong with me joining in the fun? This isn't a serious matter..."

The emperor walked out of the door, and Zhou Pei had no choice but to follow behind. Halfway through, she ran into Yue Yun and Fang Jinghao, and heard them talk about what happened last night...

……

In the yard, the fight gradually subsided.

Ning Ji sat on the ground in the messy courtyard, gasping for breath.

"What's wrong?" Yin Ping was very unhappy. She paced in the yard and threw a piece of cloth that was originally used to bandage the wound on the ground. "What are you crazy about!"

“It’s useless…”

"What's so fake? You think you're so great... You were fine when you left..."

"You guys." Ning Ji pointed his finger at him, "You guys have no hope at all. Even a few thugs can't handle it. You guys have no hope at all."

"What hope? What gangster? If you don't accept it, keep fighting!"

Ning Ji was a little tired. He had bullied the little girl and knocked down more than ten guards. His emotions had gradually calmed down. Yin Ping was also angry for a while. Fearing that he would continue to lose his temper, she sat down aside. Not far away in the yard, there were guards who were peeking their heads out. They were actually quite unhappy that they were stopped.

"If I hadn't stopped them, no matter how many people you beat, they would have beaten you to death! Just go out and ..."

"...Zuo Xingzhou is dead."

Ning Ji said in a low voice.

Only Yinping could hear this sentence, so her expression went blank for a moment.

After a while, Yinping supported himself on the ground with both hands and leaned his body backwards. In his field of vision was the starry night sky.

"……Oh."

……

Not far away, the second-floor window of a building opened, and someone was looking over here from there. Zhou Pei seemed to think this was indecent, and when the window opened, she avoided to the back, but then she tilted her head and looked over here.

"He is indeed not very old..."

"Hey Hey."

Yue Yun introduced on the side.

"This is... the famous one in the Chinese army! Everyone knows him! Everyone knows him——"

……

Under the starlight, Yin Ping reached out and patted Ning Ji's shoulder.

……

Ning Ji opened her door with a snap.

……

"——A four-foot-tall demon!"