Mountains and rivers are waiting for you to return

Chapter 124: Memorial
"What do you want to say?" Han Ruize glanced at her.

Pei Naicai said, "Is this the result of you running outside the village in the heavy rain and thinking about it in the middle of the night?"

"Are you going to let me stay in the village and watch my cabbages being eaten by pigs?" Han Ruize asked her coldly.

Pei Nai refuted him, "Then you still want to eat your own cabbage!"

"I won't give it to him even if he eats it." Han Ruize rubbed Pei Nai's head angrily.

Pei Nai held his head and said, "My hair is messed up. There are so many people here!"

The fact that she had lunch with Han Ruize and several other former generals of the Pei family army must have already reached Gu Jinheng's ears.

But Gu Jinheng did not disturb her or come to see her.

In the afternoon, Han Ruize also had things to deal with, so Pei Nai returned to her residence in Huayun Village to pack her luggage for tomorrow's departure. As the journey to the Valley Kingdom was a long one, she needed to travel light, so she quickly got ready.

After looking at the map of the Valley Kingdom's territory and combining it with the relevant military reports he saw from Gu Jinheng yesterday, there were still a few things he didn't understand, and since he wanted to see him, he went to find him.

When they arrived at the tent, Pei Nai was afraid that Gu Jinheng would hear her footsteps and come out to greet her. She didn't want to make him tired, and she also wanted to give him a surprise.

She made a gesture to the guards at the door to silence them, and used the wind from the Palm of Ten Thousand Hates to lift the soles of her boots, dissipating the sound of her footsteps, and walked over step by step.

The guards opened the curtain for her, only to see Gu Jinheng sitting at the main table inside, concentrating on reviewing official documents.

Pei Nai took a quick look and saw that the memorials were piled up one after another, filling up half the table.

"These have been approved, let's send them." Gu Jinheng was speaking when he suddenly felt something was wrong. It must be because he noticed that the person who entered the room just now had no footsteps.

He raised his head and saw Pei Nai smiling at him.

Gu Jinheng's slightly tired eyes suddenly lit up. He put down his pen and stood up to greet her, "Why are you here?"

The curtain was lowered behind her, and Pei Nai continued, "I want to ask you a few questions and come back to see you."

Gu Jinheng walked forward and gently held her in his arms, hugged her, and said nothing.

Pei Nai asked, "Have you had lunch?"

"I ate it." Gu Jinheng stroked the hair behind her head, then slowly loosened his arm and looked down at Pei Nai's face.

Pei Nai glanced at his desk and sighed, "You looked for me so often before that I thought you were too idle. It turns out that you have been squeezing time."
Gu Jinheng smiled slightly and said, "We will set off tomorrow. Many things on Tianyao's side need to be arranged in advance."

Pei Nai curled his lips, "Why don't you give more official duties to Xiao Mingyi? It's his kingdom, but he keeps you so busy."

Gu Jinheng sensed the protectiveness in her words, and his eyes were as soft as clouds. "He has presented quite a few matters, which are enough to keep him busy every day. I will give them to him gradually in the future."

Pei Nai thought of what Ju Yan said about the irreconcilable conflict between Gu Jinheng and Xiao Mingyi, "I think he hasn't fully understood you yet."

"When you died ten years ago, he started to resist me. You were both a mother and a friend to him. Your death dealt a heavy blow to him. He has not forgiven me to this day." Gu Jinheng said calmly, with no intention of maintaining his relationship with Xiao Mingyi. It seemed that only the person in front of him needed his care.

"He'll figure it out," Pei Nai said.

Gu Jinheng stroked her brow with his hand, "What do you want to ask me?"

Pei Nai then expressed his doubts: "The country of the valley is full of traps both outside and inside. If there is no one inside to lead us in, it would be like hitting a rock with an egg before entering a volcanic sea."

"Well, the insiders only know some of the main basic mechanisms and traps. If we want to fight against the Wu tribe and millions of infected people, we must at least find the highest level people in the Valley Kingdom."

Gu Jinheng patiently explained, "A week ago, after I woke up, I learned that the Wu tribe's northeastern garrison had set out, so I sent people to remind Zhang Licheng and at the same time look for his son Zhang Sheng who was away."

"Zhang Sheng fought with me at the Dengyun Heroes Conference two or three weeks ago. Has he left Chaoyang?" Pei Nai frowned. Gu Jinheng nodded, "Zhang Sheng's friend, Xing Xiaoren, the Xuanjiang Wind and Thunder Eight-Spoon Hammer, was severely injured by you and rushed to the hospital for treatment. Later, the Xing family took him away from Tianyao. Zhang Sheng also left Chaoyang City on the same day after his defeat. No one knows where he went."

"No news yet?" Pei Nai asked.

"No, besides us, all the forces in various countries are looking for him. I hope he is not in the territory of the Valley when the incident happened, otherwise he will be in great danger."

Gu Jinheng's thumb fell on Pei Nai's brow, pressing away the lines caused by her frown.

Pei Nai stopped frowning after being reminded by him, and continued, "I am more worried that he is trapped in the underground city of the Valley Country. We cannot enter, and they have no way to survive."

Gu Jinheng nodded, indicating that he agreed with her statement.

"Yue Cang attacked the Valley Kingdom, firstly to cut off the supply of weapons from various countries and occupy the mineral resources, and secondly to snatch the Hunshu slices kept by the Valley Kingdom. Do you think they got the Hunshu slices?" Pei Nai asked again.

Gu Jinheng denied it. "Based on their performance, they should not have gotten it yet. Zhang Licheng was tortured to death during the trial. There was not a single intact bone in his body. After his death, He Jiang's divine axe, Huyan Weizhao, sent people to hang him on the huge gate on the south wall of the Valley Country."

Pei Nai was heartbroken, because that was the elder she was familiar with.

"It was only because Zhang Licheng stubbornly guarded the location of the Hunshu piece and the entrance to the underground city and never spoke a word that he was killed like this." Gu Jinheng said again.

He sensed Pei Nai's sadness, patted her back gently, and then changed the subject: "Do you want to see the news from the front scout?"

Pei Nai nodded.

Gu Jinheng led her to the desk, but there was only a wide chair behind the desk.

"Sit on my lap?" Gu Jinheng asked her opinion in a low voice.

Pei Nai was not embarrassed. He couldn't be left standing anyway, so he said, "Okay."

Gu Jinheng sat on the chair and then opened his arms to Pei Nai. Pei Nai turned sideways, raised his leg and stepped over, facing his back, sat on his legs, and was hugged by him from behind.

Gu Jinheng pointed at a pile of official documents on the left and said, "These are related to the Kingdom of the Valley."

"Okay." Pei Nai nodded, then picked up the top volume and began to read.

Whenever she had doubts, she would ask him, and Gu Jinheng would explain them to her one by one without getting annoyed.

His breath was beside her ear, occasionally ruffling her hair, making Pei Nai's heart surge.

When she was reading the military newspaper carefully, Gu Jinheng buried his head in her back, inhaling her scent, as if he wanted to crush her into his bones.

There were hurried footsteps outside the door. Luo Yuanying called out "Master" outside the door, but did not feel any pressure to stop him. He greeted them and the guards at the door opened the curtain of the tent for him.

Luo Yuanying was holding an urgent letter in his hand, but when he looked up he saw the scene in front of him.

Behind a desk piled with documents, General Pei was sitting on Duke Duan Ding's lap, holding a memorial in his hand, saying something to the people behind him. And their lord, who seemed aloof and cold in their eyes, was burying his head in General Pei's neck, leaning against him, inseparable.

General Pei looked up at him, but Duke Duan Ding didn't even glance at him.

Luo Yuanying's embarrassment was frozen on his face. He hurriedly bowed and retreated, "Sorry for bothering you. I'll come back later. You guys continue."

He turned and left, and the guards outside lowered the door curtain again.

Pei Nai was confused and asked Gu Jinheng, "Continue what?"

"Continue reading the memorial." Gu Jinheng replied without looking up.

(End of this chapter)