Chapter 982 God won’t help you
"Little Begonia."
A familiar voice sounded in his ears, and Tang Ning felt the long-lost warmth behind him. Even though he had guessed it just now, when he looked up and met Xiao Yan's dark eyes and saw his injured face, Tang Ning still couldn't help but feel agitated, and his eyes suddenly turned red.
"Injured?" Xiao Yan looked anxious.
He arrived at Lingyun Temple last night and secretly sneaked into the temple as a member of the Qu family, but Lu Zhinian was too perceptive. His people were everywhere in and outside the Zen Courtyard, and even his spies were everywhere at the foot of the mountain in the temple.
There has been no news of Tang Ning since she fell into his hands, and no one else has been able to see her. The only person who entered the house, Lady Qin, is also under constant surveillance. Xiao Yan has learned from Cao Dejiang and Xue Ru that Lu Zhinian has already gone mad and paranoid, and he does not value his life nor is he afraid of death.
A desperate man like him who is at the end of his rope and not afraid of life or death, no longer cares about anything. Even if he is captured alive, he would rather die than hand over the person. Therefore, Xiao Yan did not dare to take action before meeting Tang Ning and making sure that she was safe.
Xiao Yan calculated and planned carefully bit by bit, and scared Lu Zhinian to leave the temple, but now seeing Tang Ning who had become much thinner, and her red eyes and pale appearance, he felt his heart being clenched tightly.
"But where are you hurt? Let me see..."
He helped Tang Ning lower her head, but he didn't want her to hold down his hand that he wanted to check, and the next moment she crashed into his arms.
"Brother, they bullied me."
Just like when they first met, the little girl hid in his arms with her eyes red from crying. She was no longer the powerful Queen of Wei, nor did she have the decisiveness and calmness she had before. It was as if she had found support, and she softly grabbed his waist and complained about her grievances.
Xiao Yan seemed to see the little girl he picked up from Queshan. His eyes were filled with heartache and he reached out his hand to rub her hair gently.
"It's okay, I'll teach them a lesson for you."
Lu Zhinian looked at the two people at the bow of the boat. Seeing Tang Ning, who had treated him coldly and refused to get close to him before, now leaning in the arms of the man next to him with full of dependence, the look of disbelief in his eyes became even more intense.
"Impossible, how could you be here..."
He guessed that the people of the Qu family were related to Tang Ning, and guessed that perhaps Cao Dejiang and others in the capital had discovered something and followed the traces. He speculated that Tang Ning had done something, or even that he had accidentally revealed the traces, but he never expected to see Xiao Yan here.
Lu Zhinian's palms were bleeding from being rubbed on the sand. He raised his eyes and hissed, "How could you be here? You should be..."
"What should it be?"
Xiao Yan tore off Tang Ning's cloak, took off his own cloak and wrapped him in it, then looked at Lu Zhinian.
"Should I have been severely injured by your men and thrown off a cliff, poisoned and dying, or should I have been trapped in Pingchong Mansion by Nie Xuan's men? Lu Zhinian, do you think that you can instigate Nie Xuan to send people to infiltrate the Wei Dynasty and attack me, so that you can trap me and prevent me from returning to the capital?"
Lu Zhinian's eyebrows twitched, and he suddenly looked towards the ships. Thinking of everything that happened tonight, he pinched his palms tightly and said, "Nie Xuan betrayed me?"
Xiao Yan sneered, "You've been using Southern Qi to begin with, so how could Nie Xuan truly trust you? Or do you think that Nie Xuan, who rose from an abandoned child in the cold palace to the throne of Southern Qi, would be like Hu Yanmin, the Khan of Beiling, a fool you could use and then kick away?"
"You instigated Nie Xuan to attack me, but you plotted against Tang Ning. You broke the agreement you two had, took the benefits Nie Xuan gave you, and abandoned all the people sent by Nan Qi."
"You sold Nie Xuan first, why can't he sell you?"
Lu Zhinian's expression kept changing. "So, what happened to the Qu family tonight was done by you. Did you deliberately scare me out of the temple?"
Xiao Yan had calculated his thoughts and knew that he was now a frightened bird. He also knew that he was cautious and suspicious. Once he realized something was wrong, he would rather leave Lingyun Temple for safety than stay in the temple and take any risks. He even calculated that he would use Lady Qin to lure away the "pursuers" and fake the death of others to get away.
If he acted rashly in Lingyun Temple, he would drag Tang Ning to his death, knowing that Wu Wei would have no way out. That was why he had blocked all his escape routes long ago, but deliberately used the Qu family affairs to scare him away from the temple without leaving any trace.
Watching him plotting to have someone lead those people away, watching him feel so proud of himself for having escaped.
But they didn't expect that they were already trapped in a jar.
Lu Zhinian stared at Xiao Yan intently: "But how did you know I was in Lingyun Temple?"
"Tang Ning has never contacted the outside world. Even Nie Xuan doesn't know about the escape route I left. Before what happened in front of Baoming Palace yesterday, the Qu family would never have suspected me."
"Nie Xuan has already ordered the attack, and he won't give up easily. Even if he knows I'm plotting against him, as long as Tang Ning is still in my hands, Southern Qi will be able to exploit your weakness to threaten Great Wei. He won't let this opportunity go easily. But you were able to track down the Feng family merchant ship, find Hu Wu and the others, and even deployed people long ago to wait for me to fall into your trap."
"You clearly knew I would end up at Lingyun Temple. Why? How did you know?"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yan said calmly, "Then you should ask Tang Ning."
Tang Ning hid in Xiao Yan's arms. Seeing Lu Zhinian looking towards her, she grabbed the fur collar of her cloak, revealing half of her face. "Lu Zhinian, do you still remember what I said to Cao Dejiang and the others before you took me away from the Lu family that day?"
Lu Zhinian was stunned for a moment, and the events of that day emerged in his mind.
Tang Ning was forced by him to agree to leave Beijing with him. Before leaving, in addition to asking to take the maid with her, she also explained the affairs of the palace and the court to Cao Dejiang. She asked Cao Dejiang to take charge of the court for her and asked him to help Rong Yue and others take care of her newborn princess. She also asked Cao Dejiang to tell Rong Yue and others not to worry too much.
"In the past two years, I've experienced countless desperate situations. I've been abandoned and plotted against, but I've still managed to survive. I'm blessed by the gods and Buddhas. I'm blessed with a long life. No one can harm me..."
Abandoned.
Gods and Buddhas bless you...
In the past two years, Tang Ning has encountered many crises and dangerous situations.
The only places where one can be abandoned and plotted against, and finally be blessed by gods and Buddhas and save their lives, are Queshan and Lingyun Temple!
Lu Zhinian looked at Tang Ning in disbelief, and heard Tang Ning whisper, "The day I left the capital, I was planning to find a way to lure you to Lingyun Temple. No matter where you planned to go, you and I would eventually enter Lingyun Temple. I would wait for Cao Dejiang to eliminate the tricks you left in the capital and kill those who wanted to murder me, and then send people to look for me. But who would have thought that I didn't have to do anything, and you let me get what I wanted."
"Lu Zhinian, tell me, does this mean that God is not helping you?"
She originally thought that it would take a lot of effort to lure Lu Zhinian over, but she didn't expect that his escape route was actually at Lingyun Temple.
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