Just Waiting for Mo Yan

When Gu Ling left the cave, he found that the originally clear sky was overcast, the wind was blowing, and a thunderstorm was coming.

This was not a good thing for those who wanted to leave Xingluo Island as soon as possible, but at this moment, the people building ships on the coast were still busy, and most of the people had packed their luggage and were just waiting to set off.

Gu Ling secretly left the forbidden area and was not discovered by the two elders guarding the forbidden area. He came to the City Lord's Mansion to save people last year, and before that, because of the information provided by Min Rou, he was very familiar with the distribution of buildings on the island, and soon found the place where he had agreed to meet with Feng Ming.

This is the garden of the City Lord's Mansion. There is a turquoise lake like a gem. It is not big, but the scenery is extremely beautiful. There is a three-story octagonal pavilion by the lake. It was designed by Mo Yan himself and built by someone. The top floor of the pavilion is the best place for viewing on Xingluo Island, and it is quite hidden. There are many tall trees around it.

At this moment, people on the island were in panic. The smartest ones had already run away. Those who were slow to react and couldn't get a boat were trying to run away. They also had to worry about whether Sheng Yue and the two elders in the forbidden area would suddenly stop the killing. Therefore, people on the island except for the forbidden area were either building ships or hiding and dared not walk around.

Gu Ling climbed to the third floor of the octagonal pavilion. The curtains on three sides were lowered by Feng Ming. Only the curtain facing the forbidden area was half hung up, so that the situation in the forbidden area could be seen.

Feng Ming was sitting on it. When he saw Gu Ling coming, he immediately stood up and gestured, saying that he needed to pay attention. Only half of the area was safe, and the other half might be seen by others.

Gu Ling nodded, and did not observe the situation on the island, but sat down to eat the food prepared by Feng Ming.

Feng Ming glanced at the direction of the forbidden area again, then retracted his gaze and sat down opposite Gu Ling, "Has the prince met Sheng Yue? How is it?"

"He met, and he wants to cooperate." Gu Ling said.

"Does the prince believe him?" Feng Ming asked.

Gu Ling shook his head, "I don't believe it. Wait until Mo Yan comes back. Be careful, don't let anyone in the forbidden area except Sheng Yue find us."

Feng Ming nodded, "I understand. If we kill the two elders, Mo Yan will know we are here as soon as he comes back." If something happens elsewhere on the island, it won't be a big problem if everyone has left, but the forbidden area can't be in trouble.

When Gu Ling almost finished eating, Feng Ming looked at the gloomy weather outside, "If it rains heavily, it will be safer for Mr. Qiu and his friends to go to the island, but the boat may be discovered by then."

"Nothing will happen." Gu Ling believes that Qiu Cong, who has lived on the sea for many years, has experience.

"Where does the prince want to stay at night?" Feng Ming asked.

"Where is Sheng Yue's yard?" Gu Ling asked.

Feng Ming stood up and pointed to a certain location in the City Lord's Mansion, "Over there. The prince wants to live with Sheng Yue? That's a good idea. Most people wouldn't think of it, and Sheng Yue wouldn't come out of the forbidden area."

It was agreed with Qiu Jing and the others that they would go ashore on the island three days later, and there would be enough dry food and fresh water on the boat for them to use.

Not long after, Gu Ling entered Sheng Yue's yard.

It was empty here, no one was there, even if someone walked by nearby would take a detour, fearing that Sheng Yue was inside and would make trouble for them.

Gu Ling entered Sheng Yue's room, closed the door, and began to search everywhere in the room.

But after searching once, he didn't find anything valuable. There weren't many things in Sheng Yue's room, and considering his status on the island, it was very simple.

So, Gu Ling lay down on the bed and took a nap to recuperate.

...

When Gu Ling woke up, it was already dusk. The weather seemed to be going to rain in the afternoon, but then it suddenly cleared up without wind or rain.

Today's sunset is particularly gorgeous, as if the entire Xingluo Island is covered with a layer of bright red gauze.

Gu Ling stood by the window and looked at the sky outside, sighing inaudibly. He didn't know whether Su Liang was safe at home or had been captured by Mo Yan. It was possible. Until now, no matter what the situation was, he could only face it and try his best to solve the problem.

After a while, Gu Ling left Sheng Yue's yard and went to the octagonal pavilion in the garden.

Feng Ming was still there, but he had left before.

"Your Majesty, about half of the people on the island left today, and many people have not left yet. They are waiting for the boat to be built and may leave overnight." Feng Ming secretly checked all over the island a quarter of an hour ago. In this situation, coupled with the previous things, there are still people who choose to stay, but there are very few except for the forbidden area. Leaving Xingluo Island, the world outside is vast, and there may be a future. There is no hope to continue to follow Mo Yan.

Seeing Gu Ling looking towards the forbidden area, Feng Ming sighed and said, "There was a woman who said that her two sons were taken away by Sheng Yue. The family's boat was built, and the men didn't plan to take care of the two children anymore. They just wanted to leave. I heard them say from afar that the children were gone, and they wanted to settle down outside and have as many children as they wanted. But the woman refused to leave, and was dragged onto the boat, and then jumped into the water, and came back alone. The family didn't care about her anymore. Now she is kneeling outside the forbidden area, begging Sheng Yue to release her son."

It was dark, and from Gu Ling's position, she couldn't see the woman crying outside the forbidden area, nor could she hear her voice.

"Is anyone looking for my daughter?" Gu Ling asked Feng Ming.

Feng Ming sighed again, "I found out that the little girl's family had left her behind."

At this time in the forbidden area, Sheng Yue was eating with the two boys, and the little girl fell asleep again.

An elder came in, and Sheng Yue asked what was going on. He looked at the two children and motioned Sheng Yue to talk alone.

Sheng Yue stood up and walked out, but he didn't go out. He stopped at the exit of the cave.

"Master Sheng, the father and uncles of the two boys have all run away, and their mother is crying outside the forbidden area." said the elder.

Sheng Yue's expression was indifferent, "Even if I return my son to her now, the three of them can't leave. Don't worry about her." He turned around and went back.

When one of the twins saw Sheng Yue coming back, he asked again, "Master, can we go home to sleep tonight and come back tomorrow?"

Sheng Yue shook his head, "No."

The eyes of the two little boys dimmed instantly, and they held each other's hands silently, not daring to say anything. After eating, they went to sleep behind the stone screen, where the bedding was laid.

The mute slave came in and took away the dishes and brought hot water.

There was no bed for Sheng Yue in the cave, so he sat cross-legged by the pool with his eyes closed, facing outside, and he could touch the little girl lying on the small bed with his hand raised.

Feng Ming and Gu Ling stayed in the octagonal pavilion until nearly midnight, and then secretly went to the beach to take a look. There were much fewer people than during the day. Some people were still working on boats, and some were waiting to leave with their luggage.

According to the current situation, after tomorrow, there will be no one on the island except the forbidden area.

When returning to the City Lord's Mansion, Feng Ming asked Gu Ling whether to care about the woman crying outside the forbidden area, "It's cold at night, and if she continues like this, her body can't stand it."

"Do you know her?" Gu Ling asked back.

Feng Ming nodded, "Her name is A Wu, and it seems that her surname is Peng. I have seen her take her two sons to pick mushrooms. We met and said hello. I think I know her."

"What do you think her name is?" Gu Ling asked again.

After Feng Ming answered again, Gu Ling seemed to be thinking about something.

"Does the prince know her identity?" Feng Ming asked. Most of the women on the island were captured, and some were born on the island, such as Min Rou, but they are a minority. Peng Wu was brought back from outside the island by an elder to be the granddaughter-in-law, but the elder had died in the capital of the then Gan Kingdom last year.

"Not sure, maybe." Gu Ling said. He had heard that Peng Wei, a former Liang Kingdom veteran who had a good relationship with Su Liang, had an older granddaughter, Peng Fan's sister, but she drowned in an accident, and her body was unrecognizable when she was found. That was a rumor about seven years ago, and Gu Ling did not pay attention to the name of the young lady of the Peng family who died in an accident. But the woman named Peng Wu on Xingluo Island, whose twin sons were five or six years old, might be Peng Wei's dead granddaughter.

Gu Ling once again thought of the twin boys he saw in the cave during the day today. He did not pay attention to them at the time, but now that he knew the name Peng Wu, Gu Ling felt that the eyebrows and eyes of the two children were quite similar to Peng Fan.

Originally, Gu Ling did not intend to act rashly, fearing that he would alert the enemy and be discovered by people other than Sheng Yue in the forbidden area. He thought that the woman would always go back and would not die. It was not the time to take care of her for the time being, and there was no way to take the two boys away from Sheng Yue.

But since the woman might be Peng Wei's granddaughter, Gu Ling asked Feng Ming to go over. It was not because Peng Wei's granddaughter was more important than other women on the island, but if the woman was born in a general family and had a strong personality, she would not cause trouble for them if they could communicate.

As for those who had left Xingluo Island, Gu Ling would settle accounts with them afterwards, and those who should be saved would also be saved.

Late at night, the Xingluo Island City Lord's Mansion was very quiet, with almost no light.

The door of the forbidden area was locked, and there was no lantern hanging. Feng Ming approached carefully and heard hoarse crying.

Feng Ming waited for a while, and when he saw no movement in the forbidden area, he quickly stepped forward, pulled Peng Wu, who was sitting on the ground, up, covered her mouth, and dragged her into the shadows.

"It's me, Feng Ming." Feng Ming lowered his voice.

Peng Wu's eyes widened in disbelief. They knew each other before, and Feng Ming had returned to become the captain of the Coast Guard before being imprisoned in the dungeon. He was a "celebrity" on the island.

Peng Wu saw Feng Ming's face and immediately calmed down.

Feng Ming dragged her away from the forbidden area and ran into the garden, and finally stopped at the octagonal pavilion.

"You are back again, is there someone with you?" Peng Wu pulled Feng Ming's arm and asked anxiously, "Is that Su the Divine Doctor also here?"

Feng Ming shook his head, "No. I have something to ask you, please answer truthfully. You had a family before you came to the island, right? Where is your home?"

Peng Wu had a beautiful face, but she was very thin and haggard, and her eyes were red and swollen. When she heard Feng Ming's question, she pursed her lips and hesitated for a moment. Because after coming to the island, she had never told anyone about her life experience except that her name was real, and very few people knew her last name, so Feng Ming paid special attention to it. She knew that no one could help her get away. The men on this island were all wolves and tigers, and women were just men's property. She tried to escape at first, but was caught and beaten badly. Later, she had a child and could not leave.

But thinking that Feng Ming was identified as a traitor of Xingluo Island, Peng Wu still answered his question, "My family is in Yaocheng, Liangguo."

Feng Ming asked, "Is your grandfather General Peng Wei?"

Peng Wu's eyes widened, "How do you know?"

"I'll take you to see someone." Feng Ming said as he climbed up the ladder in the middle of the pavilion.

Peng Wu hurriedly followed, and because of exhaustion, he almost fell down, but still climbed up.

Gu Ling was on top, but Peng Wu didn't know him, but was shocked by his beauty.

"My name is Gu Ling, and my wife and your grandfather are close friends regardless of age difference." Gu Ling got straight to the point. He had heard the conversation between Feng Ming and Peng Wu, and Peng Wu's appearance was quite similar to Peng Fan's aunt whom Gu Ling had met.

Peng Wu was stunned. She fantasized about leaving this devil's den day and night, but all she got was disappointment day after day, because when the accident happened, she saw with her own eyes that the person who arrested her faked her death. Her clothes and everything with identity tags were taken away and placed on another person. Over the years, Peng Wu felt heartbroken when she thought that her family thought she was dead and would never look for her. But sometimes she felt that it was a good thing that her family really thought she was dead, and it was even more torture for them to not see her alive or dead.

"Your brother is Peng Fan, and your father is Peng Qian." Gu Ling said.

"Yes! My father..." Peng Wu's eyes were filled with tears instantly. In her memory, her father has always been in poor health, and she doesn't know if Peng Qian is still alive.

"Your grandfather, your parents, and your brother are all still alive." Gu Ling looked indifferent, "Your father's illness was cured by my wife."

Peng Wu was shocked by the huge surprise, and she relaxed for a while. She couldn't stand up and almost fell to the ground. Feng Ming pulled her and helped her sit down.

"Thank you... Thank you... Please, save my sons! They are only six years old!" Peng Wu was about to kneel down to Gu Ling again.

Gu Ling glanced in the direction of the forbidden area, "I saw your two sons today. They are fine, but they are controlled by Sheng Yue. I can't take them out for the time being."

"You saw them? Are they really fine?" Peng Wu cried with joy.

"I will try my best to take you away from Xingluo Island and send you home. Before that, you need to take care of yourself and don't do unnecessary things." Gu Ling looked at Peng Wu and said.

Peng Wu nodded repeatedly, "I understand, I can't save the children, I can only rely on you, I won't cause trouble! Don't worry!"

"Send her back to where she lives." Gu Ling ordered Feng Ming.

Peng Wu insisted on kneeling down and kowtowed to Gu Ling before being taken away by Feng Ming.

Feng Ming sent Peng Wu back to her residence on the island, which was an independent house outside the city lord's mansion. Everyone else ran away, leaving her alone.

"That's the rumored Lady Gu, right? I heard about her when I was a child." Peng Wu felt a little relieved. "He and Doctor Su are both great benefactors of our family."

Feng Ming asked Peng Wu to eat something and go to sleep. Then he should stay here. He could "wander" around the forbidden area during the day and come back to avoid arousing suspicion.

"I understand what you mean. I will be careful. You should be more careful too!" Peng Wu looked grateful.

...

Except for the first day on the island when Gu Ling met Sheng Yue, the two did not meet for two consecutive days. Sheng Yue always guarded the forbidden area, and Gu Ling wandered around the island, watching fewer and fewer people.

On the third day, there were really only people in the forbidden area on the island, as well as Peng Wu who refused to leave for his son, and Gu Ling and his group in the dark.

Qiu Jing and the other four went to the island at the planned time and hid the boat in a pool cave under a cliff that Feng Ming told them. Not many people knew about this place, and basically everyone had left. Feng Ming picked them up and took them to see Gu Ling.

Knowing that Gu Ling found Peng Wei's granddaughter who died many years ago on the island, and that Peng Wei still had two great-grandchildren in Sheng Yue's hands, Qiu Jing couldn't help but sigh, "It's a good thing, but it's best not to let Mo Yan and Sheng Yue know that they are related to us. Now, we just have to wait for Mo Yan to come back."

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