This villain has become a ghost

"Did the Quanzhou Governor... accept the invitation?"

Pei Duo's eyes darkened slightly, but soon returned to normal.

He leaned back, crossed his legs, and said:

"He agreed."

Pei Duo couldn't help but feel a little strange.

The Quanzhou governor was a vindictive and petty person. He must have hated him to the core. There was no way he would sit down and negotiate with him calmly. It was a good thing he didn't send troops to attack directly. Why would he accept his invitation?

The biggest possibility is... this person wants to use the meeting as an opportunity to set up an ambush and assassination in advance.

Yue Liuyun suddenly smiled, stood up, poured some water into the inkstone, then sat down again and began to grind ink.

"...Mr. Pei, do you think it's strange that he agreed? Is he...trying to set a trap?"

Pei Duo: “…”

Here we go again, here we go again.

He had only been with Yue Liuyun for a few days, but he felt like she had seen through him. It was like this girl had the ability to read his mind; he could guess everything he was thinking.

Forget about proving her worth, just based on her kindness, he would admit defeat.

Pei Duo snatched her inkstone and picked up the ink stick to grind it for her.

He raised an eyebrow and asked, "...So, in your opinion, why is this happening?"

Seeing that someone had already ground ink for her, Yue Liuyun spread out the paper and pen and said:

"...Put yourself in his shoes. If the Quanzhou governor heard you wanted to invite him to a meeting, wouldn't he also think this was a Hongmen Feast, a trap to assassinate him?"

"If you're on guard against him, he'll naturally be on guard against you."

Pei Duo nodded:

"That's true."

Yue Liuyun sat down and waited patiently for him to finish grinding the ink, then said:

"...But this wasn't meant to be a game for the two of you."

Pei Duo was slightly stunned.

Yue Liuyun continued:

"As I said that day, if General Qisha and General Changgeng want to reach the border from Wuzhou, they must pass through Quanzhou. You are a bandit, and the Quanzhou governor is at least a legitimate official of the imperial court. The possibility of the two generals suppressing the bandits is far greater than the possibility of clearing Quanzhou."

Pei Duo's expression became more and more serious as he listened, and he handed her the ground ink.

Yue Liuyun sketched on the paper, still smiling faintly as he said:

"...But how could the governor of Wuzhou allow...the two generals to pass through Quanzhou so easily?"

"So I reasonably guess that he would also invite the governor of Quanzhou to discuss this matter in detail. For something as important as this, which could potentially lead to long-term cooperation between Quanzhou and Wuzhou, not meeting to discuss it in detail would be unreasonable and insincere."

She circled the word "兀" on the paper.

She moved her pen to the word "Quan" and said:

"Master Pei, based on your understanding of the Quanzhou Governor, what will he do when he's caught between these three forces?"

Pei Duo said solemnly:

“…He’ll try to stay out of it first.”

"Yeah," Yue Liuyun nodded, "I thought so too. So, the person who will attend this invitation should be the Governor of Wuzhou."

Pei Duo asked:

"What about the Quanzhou governor?"

"It doesn't matter," Yue Liuyun crossed out the word "Quan" with a pen and said, "...It would be better if he went, but it doesn't matter if he doesn't. Anyway, I should be able to achieve my goal."

Pei Duo suddenly reacted, looked at her and said:

"So... from the very beginning, your target wasn't the Quanzhou Governor, but the Wuzhou Governor."

"Yeah," Yue Liuyun nodded again and said, "Mr. Pei is smart."

Master Pei himself no longer considers himself smart.

Pei Duo looked at her quietly for a while, then suddenly said:

“…I may have made a very important mistake.”

Yue Liuyun asked in surprise, "What?"

Nothing can go wrong at this critical juncture.

Pei Duo continued sincerely:

"I shouldn't have boarded your pirate ship."

Yue Liuyun: “…”

What is this person talking about?

Pei Duo was very emotional.

...Although she has a simple, innocent and kind face, she is actually very cruel. She can fool him and make him willingly be fooled.

He was wrong from the beginning, he had no control over her at all.

This absurd "cooperation" had already begun when he was bewitched by her appearance and moved by her seemingly sincere words.

Yue Liuyun blinked and said with a half-seriously half-fake smile:

"Oh... Master Pei, what are you talking about? I am under your control now. If I really lied to you, you can just kill me."

"Furthermore, according to my plan, didn't Master Pei gain any benefits? Did I hurt Master Pei? Didn't I do what I said at the beginning?"

Master Pei was left speechless by her three questions.

Yue Liuyun poured him another glass of water and said earnestly:

"...Mr. Pei, since I can persuade you, it means you agree with my plan. Otherwise... you wouldn't give me this opportunity, right?"

He could have ignored everything she said.

But he didn't.

He also felt that what she said made sense.

But this is what makes Pei Duo most helpless.

Yes.

Although he knew that Yue Liuyun was a black-hearted person, he had to admit that there was no better way than this at the moment, and her plan was in line with his maximum interests.

He didn't want to obey.

But there is nothing to do.

Pei Duo drank the water in the cup, wiped his lips, and asked:

"What about General Qisha and General Changgeng? Do you have a way to convince them? This is not an easy task."

"Yeah..." Yue Liuyun sighed, "I think... there's a high probability that my two friends won't succeed."

If she were still in Nangong Mingzhu's body, would everything be much easier? Instead of wasting time and energy talking about interests and trying hard to win their trust like she is now.

Xia Ruozhi and Chu Shiqing are both good people.

But it was hard to believe her.

Yue Liuyun sat down, dipped his pen in ink, and said without raising his head:

"I think I should try again and write a letter of appeal. If my two friends are unsuccessful, I will send the letter to them."

"Of course...if that still doesn't work, I'll find another way."

Pei Duo nodded: "Oh."

Yue Liuyun thought for a moment, then raised her eyes and said to him seriously:

"Well... I don't think I can show you this thing, so... please step aside, Mr. Pei."

Pei Duo sneered and said:

"No need."

"Because I can't even read."

Yue Liuyun paused, looked at him in surprise, and subconsciously said "Ah?"

Pei Duo calmly concealed the loneliness in his eyes, and instead showed his usual bright smile and said:

"What's the big deal? Didn't Aunt Xun tell you everything just now? I joined the army when I was young, so how could I possibly be literate?