Chapter 17 Is there a feud?
A soldier not far away in the courtyard whispered, "It seems to be the voice of General Cui in the courtyard..."
"But how could there be a woman in Governor Cui's courtyard?"
"Don't talk too much!" Chang Kuo frowned and scolded: "How can you be so talkative?"
"yes……"
Several soldiers just lowered their heads obediently, but out of the corner of their eyes they saw their general quickly walk out of the corridor, walk to the wall with his hands behind his back, put his ear to the wall and listen carefully.
Soldiers: “?”
What was the general who didn't allow them to do anything good doing at this time? Chang Suining didn't think it was strange - gossiping was not allowed, but eavesdropping was allowed, the two did not conflict.
After listening attentively for a moment, Chang Kuo looked disappointed and wondered to himself: "Why did he leave again..."
Cui Jing, that kid, usually never gets close to women, and he thought he could hear something strange this time.
When he came to his senses and turned around, he saw his little girl still standing there. Chang Kuo then put on a serious look and said to his subordinates: "I have checked and it is not a female assassin. Everyone disperse."
The soldiers who were standing quietly far away looked at each other.
The only one who needs to be "dispersed" seems to be the general himself? Chang Kuo walked back without changing his expression.
"If there is anything, ask A Che to pass the message..." It was getting late, and after Chang Kuo whispered a few words to Chang Suining, he urged him to go back.
Chang Suining had just left this place not far away when he heard the faint sobbing of the woman again.
"Why are you crying?" A young man said dissatisfiedly, "No one has ever beaten or scolded you... For someone like you who has impure motives and hides in the governor's bedroom, it would be normal to be stabbed to death as an assassin. You should be thankful that our governor never despises other people's lives, otherwise you would not be able to cry right now."
The coolly dressed woman stopped crying when she heard this and said aggrievedly, "I'm crying because... I came back empty-handed this time and failed to serve the Grand Commander. My master will definitely scold me."
The young man was even more dissatisfied after hearing this: "But you can't sacrifice our governor's innocence just to complete your mission, right?"
The woman paused and looked at him in surprise: "What does a man need to be innocent? It's impossible that Commander Cui is still--"
This is too much! Before he could finish his words, the young man stopped him with a look.
The woman shut up obediently, but the look of surprise in her eyes lingered for a long time.
"Don't talk nonsense before you leave here!" Yuan Xiang threatened as sternly as possible.
In his heart, he felt regretful and self-hatred - it was all because he talked too much! And it was all because of the chattering Wei Changji. In the past, in order not to embarrass his own governor, he had trained himself to be good at talking after fighting with Wei Changji for a long time. The negative effect was that he talked too much and couldn't stop once he started talking! Just because of this, he and Wei Changji had an irreconcilable hatred!
"..." After hearing this, Chang Suining was inexplicably lost in thought.
It was common for officials from various cities to send beauties as a gift to show their courtesy when a victorious army returned to the city.
Of course there were people who refused directly like Cui Jing did, but this was the first time she heard of someone using his confidants to send someone back.
Not only did he not despise human life, he also never despised prostitutes who were forced to do things for themselves. He knew how to treat people as human beings - this was rare among the sons of the aristocratic families who looked down on others and believed that "all others in the world except our clan were inferior common people."
Judging from the small details, this person is at least not a warlike person who has no mercy on anyone.
Some soldiers, who have fought their way out of one bloody battle after another, will lose themselves if their will is not strong, and will gradually be devoured into cold-blooded and bloodthirsty people, eventually becoming a knife that only knows how to kill - if the Xuan Ce army accidentally falls into the hands of such people, it will undoubtedly be a disaster for all people.
Fortunately, Cui Jing is not like this, at least not at the moment.
When she first saw him outside the city, she only felt the murderous aura of the other party, and now she felt a little relieved.
"Young Master Chang."
A smiling voice sounded, and Chang Suining looked up.
On the path ahead, a handsome young man in a moon-white robe with wide sleeves walked towards her.
In addition to the light scent of spikenard on his body, there was also a very faint smell of alcohol.
As if he knew she smelled alcohol, Wei Shuyi smiled and said, "General Cui is very strict with me. He never drinks alcohol when he leads the army outside. I saw that those officials were quite uneasy, so I had to drink a few glasses."
Chang Suining walked forward and said casually, "There is indeed such a military rule in Xuan Ce's army."
"Come to think of it, these are the rules set by the former prince a long time ago." Wei Shuyi added, walking with her, and then said with a smile: "I haven't thanked Miss Chang for saving my life today."
"You don't need to thank me. Minister Wei is already in charge of the overall planning. If you want to thank someone, you should thank the Grand Commander Cui."
"Him." Wei Shuyi smiled and shook his head: "He doesn't care if I thank him. He doesn't like or care about being involved in favors with others."
Chang Suining: "...So it's useless if you don't use it?"
Wei Shuyi walked with his hands behind his back and laughed twice: "Ms. Chang is really smart. She actually revealed the secret in one sentence."
"But you almost died twice today." Chang Suining had no intention of joking with him, and asked as they walked, "Do you really believe that nothing will happen to you?"
"When you are in the court, even if there is no open knife, there will be hidden arrows... Fortunately, my luck has always been good, and I can always turn danger into safety." Wei Shuyi's smile did not fade, and he turned his head to look at her: "It's the same this time."
Good luck?
Chang Suining did not believe what he said, nor did he intend to refute it. He just said, "That was Minister Wei's luck, not mine."
Wei Shuyi was slightly startled, then asked with a smile, "Miss Chang, are you blaming me for not informing you in advance?"
"The affairs of the court have nothing to do with me. In the eyes of Minister Wei, there is no need to tell a girl like me."
The girl didn't complain, nor was she being petty. It seemed like she was born without the ability to be petty. She just stated her dissatisfaction based on the facts: "But since I'm involved, it's different. I don't like to put my life in the hands of others without knowing anything. This is unfair and shouldn't be done."
Wei Shuyi was really stunned this time.
He has always been good at speaking and could quote from classics at will. Even if he couldn't speak well, he could always deal with everything calmly by making up something. But at this moment, he felt speechless.
I was speechless because of what a little girl said.
Wei Shuyi looked at her.
There was still a hint of childishness on the girl's slightly dull face. She didn't look at him at this moment, but her calm eyes seemed to penetrate all the splendor and clearly saw the arrogance in his bones at a glance.
But, what about arrogance?
He is gifted and was born extraordinary. With so many halos around him, it is normal for him to be a little arrogant.
But the girl's words were sharp yet plain, straightforward yet reasonable.
Wei Shuyi couldn't tell what he felt in his heart. It was far from being embarrassed or angry, but he felt a little surprised, a little embarrassed, and a little inexplicably strange and new, as if someone suddenly pushed open a door in the mountains.
After a while, he said, "Ms. Chang is right. It was Wei who was not thoughtful enough. I will definitely not do it again next time."
Chang Suining: "There will definitely not be a next time."
Wei Shuyi was stunned for a moment, then agreed with a smile: "Yes, that's right."
Chang Suining walked forward, and since everything had been said, he let it go, without continuing the topic, and only asked, "Are you leaving tomorrow?"
"There are many wounded soldiers in the Wei army, and they need to rest for a day or two." Seeing that she didn't "hold on" to this matter, Wei Shuyi felt relieved inexplicably, as if he had escaped a disaster after making a mistake - but he had never felt this way even when he made a mistake in front of his parents when he was young? It was really strange, and funny.
Wei Shuyi suppressed his inexplicable smile and continued the topic at hand: "...Xuan Ce's army will also need to rest outside the city. We may be able to set out together to return to the capital at that time, and we can have someone to take care of us on the way."
After thinking for a while, he added with a smile: "Cui Jing will definitely not be happy for me to follow him, but he will still give it to General Chang for his respect."
"Is there any feud between you two?" Chang Suining asked casually.
"There's nothing worth mentioning about the past." Wei Shuyi chatted with her, "We played together for a while when we were young, but his family education was strict, and Mr. Cui valued this eldest grandson very much, cultivating and educating him as the future head of the Cui family... We, the children of a poor family, naturally have no chance to make close friends with him."
"I remember one time, a group of us kids went out with Cui Jing. How could a five or six-year-old kid not be naughty? I don't remember what he did wrong... I just remember that his father punished him by making him kneel in the snow for most of the day in front of all of us." Wei Shuyi sighed, "The Cui family always followed the rules and regulations and never scolded or blamed us, but after this incident, no one dared to go play with Cui Jing anymore."
A child of five or six years old was kneeling in the snow and shivering. His father was standing in the corridor with a grim face, and servants were standing by. The child in the snow could not bend his waist even a little, and he had to kneel straight all the time.
The walls of the Cui Mansion were extremely high, so high that one could not see the outside, and the thick snow isolated them from everything. He still remembered the suffocating dullness, depression and coldness that day.
He was just a bystander, and he only saw it once, but he still remembers it today.
"Since the family rules are so strict, why did he become a military general?" Chang Suining asked this question that has puzzled him since he heard of Cui Jing's name.
"Well..." Wei Shuyi paused, as if he was choosing his words.
Today I have almost 3,000 words, which means I have added more words! (Recently, my child in the senior class of kindergarten has been humming a song, a folk tune to be exact, which is a bit strange, but I let him be… I just didn’t hear what he was singing until my uncle told me today that the first line of the lyrics is: Get up early in the morning to pick up manure…
Has been brainwashed.
(End of this chapter)
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