Are You Not Afraid that You Will Kidnap Her?

After leaving the military camp, Ning Jing secretly returned to the General's Mansion in Xuanbei City, and took two sets of clothes for Su Liang and himself, and also took Su Liang's medicine box. Google search reading

When Lin Bojun saw Xing Ji again, he mentioned that Su Liang didn't know what he had to do, and he didn't know where he went, and he wouldn't come back tonight.

Xing Ji frowned immediately, "She told you in person? Why didn't you ask clearly?"

Lin Bojun shook his head, "She left a note. You shouldn't worry, Xiaoliang has always been very sensible."

Xing Ji sighed slightly, "I know this, but she was alone... No, there was someone with her, the master who agreed to go outside the city to pick mushrooms that day. Why is she always so mysterious? It's not that I don't trust her, but she clearly treats us as outsiders."

Lin Bojun heard Xing Ji's dissatisfaction and couldn't help laughing, "That's not it. It's just that Xiaoliang's personality has always been to solve problems by herself. If we have problems, she won't hesitate. Wait until she comes back tomorrow to know what's going on."

Xing Ji nodded, "In that case, let her do it. If outsiders ask, just say that I sent her to do something important and keep it secret, so as not to let people suspect her."

In fact, Su Liang's disguised departure from the city and sudden disappearance are easy to be caught.

The reason why she is not worried is because she trusts Xing Ji and doesn't treat him as an outsider.

...

Dusk is falling.

After the three bells in Ping'an Temple rang, Su Liang returned from the back mountain to the courtyard where Peng Wei was.

The two traitors who were knocked unconscious by Ning Jing had not yet woken up, and Peng Wei was also sleeping soundly.

Su Liang was standing in the courtyard, thinking about how to solve the problem of dinner, when she heard an old and deep voice behind her, "Little donor, how is donor Peng?"

Su Liang turned around and saw an old monk with white eyebrows walking into the courtyard, with an extraordinary demeanor.

She guessed his identity at once, "Master Puqing?"

"Does this little donor recognize me?" The old monk smiled gently.

Su Liang shook his head, "Nice to meet you. I'm Wen Liang. I know a young monk named Cheng Yun. He saved a friend of mine, so we got to know each other."

"Oh?" The old monk was a little surprised. "Cheng Yun is my disciple. He went to Huguo Temple in Gan country to practice."

"Yes, I heard Cheng Yun mention that his master is in Ping'an Temple. I traveled here and came to visit the master yesterday, but the master didn't see guests. I came again today and ran into General Peng." Su Liang smiled.

Old monk Pu Qing nodded slightly, "So that's it. I guess Mr. Wen is the young friend with excellent medical skills mentioned by Mr. Peng."

"No talent, it's me." Su Liang was very polite.

After that, the two went to the room to see Peng Wei.

Su Liang suggested that she would stay in the temple tonight to take care of Peng Wei. But because she was from Gan country and her identity was sensitive, she didn't want people to know.

Old monk Pu Qing expressed his understanding, confirmed that Peng Wei's life was no longer in danger, and left.

Su Liang hadn't had time to ask what to do about dinner, so he could only wait for Ning Jing to come back.

Not long after, Pu Qing personally delivered a set of clean bedding for Su Liang.

Su Liang thanked him and asked about eating.

Pu Qing said that he had asked the temple's dining hall to prepare it, and he would personally deliver it when it was ready.

This was to avoid others seeing Su Liang.

"Thank you very much." Su Liang felt that this old monk was a very good person and was more flexible than Cheng Yun.

After Pu Qing left again, Su Liang went to the small room next door to spread the bedding.

Just after it was spread, Ning Jing came back.

"Brought clothes." Ning Jing put the bag and medicine box on the table, and glanced at the only small bed in the room, "You keep watch, I'll sleep here."

Su Liang: ...

"How to eat?" Ning Jing asked.

Su Liang said, "Master Puqing will send vegetarian food later."

Ning Jing opened the medicine box, and an enticing aroma of meat filled the room, "I brought a roast chicken."

Su Liang's stomach was singing the empty city plan, because he hadn't eaten much proper food today, and asked in a faint tone, "Could it be all yours, and not for me to eat?"

"I thought you would say that it's a quiet place in Buddhism, which is not appropriate." Ning Jing's expression was indifferent, "Since you didn't say it, then we can each have half."

Su Liang:...If she really said that, we can only eat vegetarian food? Speechless, but it makes sense...

Just when Su Liang was about to wash his hands and eat roast chicken, he heard footsteps in the yard, opened the door and went out, and closed the door again.

"I'm really sorry to bother you, Master." Su Liang took a food box sent by Master Puqing.

Pu Qing shook his head, "Master Wen is kind-hearted and saves people, and he is a friend of my disciple, so there is no need to be so polite. If you need anything else, go to me yourself."

Master Puqing left after he finished speaking.

Su Liang didn't care about Peng Wei who was still resting. He took the lunch box back to his room, opened it, and the hot steam hit his face.

Although it was just porridge and vegetarian dishes, it tasted good.

Su Liang and Ning Jing were both hungry, and they didn't care where they were. They put the vegetarian food from Ping'an Temple and the roast chicken bought from Xuanbei City together and started eating.

After eating a chicken leg and drinking a mouthful of porridge, Su Liang sighed comfortably, "I want to go home."

He was talking about Sujia Village.

After leaving, Su Liang often missed the simple, peaceful and fulfilling time at that time.

"I can go back anytime to see you." Ning Jing's face was calm.

Su Liang sighed lightly, "After dealing with Duanmu Sheng and Wan, we will see how to get out. I didn't think so much at the beginning. Now I want to go back to the village to live again. It may not be easy."

At the beginning, I left to avenge the original owner's family, and now it's almost done.

"By the way, have you told Brother Lin what happened?" Su Liang changed the subject.

Ning Jing shook his head, "Just say you have something to do and won't go back tonight."

"Just wait and see, he will definitely tease us next time we see him." Su Liang chuckled and suddenly changed the subject, "I feel that what happened to old man Peng today may have something to do with his son-in-law Wei Yao."

"Yeah." Ning Jing nodded, saying concisely, "I feel the same."

In fact, it was because Su Liang learned that the two generations of the Wei and Peng families had replaced the position of the chief general of Liang State, which made him suspect that the Wei family was responsible for the accident of Peng Wei's son.

And the one who assassinated Peng Wei today was not a serious assassin, but a confidant around him.

The two Liang people were probably bribed by someone in Liang State because the interests they pursued were there.

"If it was Wei Yao, what was his intention in doing this?" Su Liang thought thoughtfully.

Ning Jing opened his thin lips and said, "Start a war."

Su Liang was stunned for a moment, "Isn't Liang short of food?"

"Who made you think Liang short of food?" Ning Jing asked back.

Su Liang blurted out, "Wei Yao."

The night before yesterday, Wei Yao suddenly led his troops to the foot of Xuanbei City and asked his son Wei Hao to compete with Su Liang. If he won, Gan State would give him 100,000 stones of food.

Su Liang's heart moved, and his expression condensed, "Could it be that Wei Yao did it on purpose to give us the illusion that Liang was short of food and couldn't fight, so as to relax our vigilance?"

"When Peng Wei was the commander of Liang, he always advocated an alliance with Gan State." Ning Jing said.

Su Liang looked puzzled, "Although Peng Wei has given his position to Wei Yao now, he must have a high prestige in the army. Is it because they disagree with each other? Wei Yao wants to get rid of Peng Wei? If so, who gave Wei Yao the courage to go to war with Gan State?"

"What do you think?" Ning Jing asked again.

Su Liang pondered for a moment, "Yan Kingdom?!"

Make friends with distant countries and attack nearby ones.

So it is a more reasonable strategy from the perspective of military tactics for Liang Kingdom and Yan Kingdom to unite against Gan Kingdom.

But Su Liang heard from Lin Bojun that in history, Liang Kingdom and Yan Kingdom wanted to unite against Gan Kingdom several times, but they all started with great fanfare and ended miserably. Not only did they fail, but they also made Gan Kingdom more and more courageous and became the strongest among the three kingdoms.

And the union between Liang and Yan should have been in the interests of both of them, but it never came to fruition. The root cause was that the royal family of Yan Kingdom was not strong enough, or in other words, the people of Yan Kingdom were too cunning.

They instigated Liang Kingdom to open fire again and again, vowed to form an alliance, and agreed to fight both sides together, but they broke their promises again and again, always wanting to preserve their strength and wait for Liang Kingdom and Gan Kingdom to lose both, so that they could reap the benefits.

It is no exaggeration to say that it was not Gan that really pitted Liang, because Gan had always adhered to the principle of not offending others if they did not offend me due to its geographical location.

It was Yan in the south that was restless and fanned the flames every few years. In the end, Yan did not suffer much loss, but Liang was getting worse and worse.

Therefore, the so-called "making friends with distant countries and attacking nearby countries" can only be effective between wise rulers.

Liang was reckless and Yan was treacherous, and alliances never had good results.

It is not Peng Wei's fault for advocating peace, because Yan had broken its promise too many times and Liang could not afford to lose.

Thinking of this, Su Liang snorted, "I am afraid it was really done by Wei Yao, and there were Yan people behind him, maybe Yan promised to provide Liang with sufficient food and grass as long as the war started. In this way, everything makes sense."

Although it was a guess, Su Liang thought it was very likely.

Perhaps Peng Wei knew what happened today...

There was a noise next door, Su Liang put down her chopsticks, "I'll go see that old man."

Su Liang walked in, and the wind she brought in made the flame on the oil lamp shake violently.

She closed the door behind her, and when she got to the bed, she saw Peng Wei with his eyes open, staring straight at the roof, as if he was not looking at anything.

"Mr. Peng?" Su Liang asked, "How do you feel? Does it hurt?"

Peng Wei turned his eyes and fell on Su Liang's face, and said weakly, "Do you think my wound hurts?"

Su Liang laughed, "It hurts, of course. You should keep your eyes open in the future and don't be fooled by people around you."

Peng Wei's face froze, "Little girl, do you know something?"

"I don't know, I guessed a little." Su Liang sat down beside the bed and felt Peng Wei's pulse, "During the negotiations this morning, I could feel that Mr. Peng hoped that Liang and Gan would coexist peacefully. In this case, why don't we continue to talk about some things?"

Peng Wei looked at Su Liang with deep eyes, "What to talk about?"

"Let's talk about your good son-in-law. Does he want to make the people of Liang fall into dire straits again in order to make meritorious deeds?" Su Liang said half-jokingly.

Peng Wei fell silent.

"The situation is not very good. It was outside at the time, and the bandage was rather sloppy. My brother brought my medicine box, I'll call him to come and clean and change the medicine for you." Su Liang stood up.

Peng Wei spoke again, "It was Wei Yao who did it."

Su Liang sat back down, "If Mr. Peng is willing to tell me the whole story, I'm all ears."

"A few days ago, Wei Yao mentioned to me that he wanted to form an alliance with Yan State." Peng Wei said in a deep voice.

Su Liang frowned, "Shouldn't this kind of thing be decided by the royal family?"

"From top to bottom, Liang State has been arguing about whether to cooperate with Yan State in recent years. I am determined not to trust the treacherous and shameless Yan people anymore, but Wei Yao, who was bewitched by someone, thinks that now that the royal family of Gan State is in turmoil and the lord of Xuanbei City will be replaced, it is a good time to form an alliance with Yan State and send troops to Gan State."

Peng Wei took a few breaths and continued, "I scolded him severely and told him to give up the idea of ​​cooperating with Yan Country as soon as possible. Now it seems that he not only did not listen to my words, but also planned to get rid of me as an obstacle. Although he is nominally the chief general, many generals in Nanfeng City are still willing to listen to me. If something happens to me, he will lie that it was the Gan people who killed me, and then he will have a reason to start a war."

"So, Wei Yao's deal with the Yan people was not through the royal family, but was reached privately? He is really bold. Even the alliance between the two royal families was not kept by Yan Country, let alone the alliance that was unknown to the public." Su Liang felt that Wei Yao had simply lost his mind.

"He had a seductive woman by his side, who came from the south. He was bewitched. I asked him to drive her away, and he did. Now I think about it, I'm afraid he was just pretending to obey. That woman must be a spy sent by Yan State." Peng Wei smiled bitterly, "I really cultivated Wei Yao like my own son, but in the end, he ended up like this."

"If what you said is true, maybe the royal family of Yan State promised Wei Yao some benefits that made him excited through spies. If I were to guess boldly, it might even be that after they jointly destroyed Gan State, they would support him to become the emperor of Liang State?" Su Liang said.

Peng Wei's hand on his side trembled violently, and he felt that Su Liang was exaggerating too much, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that nothing was impossible.

"As long as Wei Yao sends someone to kill you tonight and blames Gan State, he may attack tomorrow." Su Liang said and stood up again, "I'll ask my brother to change your medicine."

Watching Su Liang leave, Peng Wei's eyes were tired and his face was bitter.

…

Su Liang returned to the next room and saw Ning Jing had finished his half roast chicken, with the chicken bones neatly placed on the plate.

Su Liang quickly told Ning Jing the information he had learned from Peng Wei.

In fact, it was almost the same as their guess. Because things have developed to this point, since Peng Wei's confidant rebelled, the mastermind behind the scenes has revealed a flaw. If no one saw it, it would be fine, but Su Liang and Ning Jing saw it.

If it weren't for Ning Jing's special ability, they couldn't actually prevent today's tragedy, nor could they prevent the war that might be rekindled next.

Su Liang took out the things he needed from the medicine box, "Go and clean and change the medicine for Mr. Peng, and then feed him the remaining porridge."

"Yeah." Ning Jing served a bowl of still warm porridge, took the things Su Liang handed over, and went to the next room.

…

"Boy, what is your relationship with that girl?" Peng Wei looked at Ning Jing and asked.

Ning Jing looked calm, "I'm Ning Jing's good friend, I'm watching over Su Liang for him."

Peng Wei snorted, "That guy surnamed Ning knows to be nervous about this girl, but aren't you afraid that you'll kidnap her?"

Ning Jing bandaged Peng Wei's wound and said calmly, "She's not easy to kidnap."