Huo Jincheng learned all his martial arts from Weidong. As his palms gradually turned red and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, Jian Ning's complexion also improved visibly.
"Okay, let's stop here today. But you will have to work hard these next few days, Jincheng." Ding Youtian called for a stop when he saw that it was almost time. He was afraid that if he continued, Huo Jincheng would not be able to hold on, and it would not be beautiful if both of them fell down.
After all, Weidong has been eating for decades longer than Huo Jincheng, and his internal strength is beyond Huo Jincheng's reach at the moment. Huo Jincheng is not trying to be brave, as he still has a lot of questions waiting to be asked.
"How come Duan Xinning as a child is in this slug pendant?" After taking a short breath, Huo Jincheng asked impatiently.
Ding Youtian looked at Jian Ning, who was still in a coma, and said without looking up, "If you ask me, who else can I ask? If you want to know the answer, I'm afraid only my wife's master knows. You've seen her master act erratically, coming and going without a trace. Even if you ask her, you may not get any answer."
"Her master's attire is truly bizarre. I wonder where he came from. To me, he's most likely an alpaca spirit."
Jian Ning's master is Liu Xiazi's master, and also Ding Youtian's authentic master. Although she injured Jian Ning and helped Yue Kingdom kill hundreds of Yan soldiers, the ancients paid the most attention to respecting teachers. Hearing his disrespectful words towards Wu Yunzhu, Ding Youtian couldn't help but snort.
"What are you humming about?" Huo Jincheng was dissatisfied. "How can a master hurt his own disciple? I think she is not a human being. This..." He nodded again, "There is probably something wrong here too."
Pei Xiyuan didn't think there was anything wrong with Wu Yunzhu. He said to Na Nuo Shen, "I now believe what she said. I'm afraid she really has lived for thousands of years. Imagine if a person really lived for thousands of years, their behavior would be different from that of ordinary people. They are neither gods, demons, nor monsters."
"Then, in your Majesty's opinion, what is she?"
"Even though she's not an ordinary person, she's still a person after all. I think the mad woman is more suitable for her. I just don't know who's more important to her, me or her disciple?" Pei Xiyuan paced a few steps, stopped, and looked up at Nuo Shen. "Tell me, how can we please that mad woman? I can't let her help Yan Kingdom. If I do that, my Yue Kingdom will have no chance of winning. It's really sad and lamentable that my great Yue Kingdom has to entrust the important task of marching into the Central Plains to a mad woman!"
"Your Majesty, please do not speak any more. This mad woman is no ordinary person, and she does possess unfathomable powers. As long as we can firmly capture her and make her serve Your Majesty, it doesn't matter if she is crazy or not, as long as she can help Your Majesty achieve his wish to conquer the Central Plains, that's all."
There is nothing wrong with what he said, but Pei Xiyuan felt that Wu Yunzhu had an unstable temperament. He injured her disciple but threatened to bury everyone present with him. Doesn't this include him?
Pei Xiyuan became increasingly unhappy the more he thought about it. After a moment's hesitation, he waved his hand to dismiss the attendants. Then he turned to Nuo Shen and said, "That crazy woman is fickle. I don't think it's appropriate to just coax her. We should think of some way to make her obey. Do you think you can do it?"
The meaning of his words was self-evident. He wanted Na Nuoshen to put a poison on Wu Yunzhu and use the poison to control Wu Yunzhu to be obedient and do his bidding.
Na Nuo Shen's face was slightly embarrassed, because he had always disparaged Gu Masters in public, and Gu didn't work on immortal cultivators. He hesitated for a moment, then spoke frankly, "She is not a human being. How could she be controlled by a Gu insect? If I anger her, it would be bad. I hope Your Majesty will reconsider."
"I didn't think it through. That's all. You should think about how to win her over."
"That's not difficult. If a woman likes something, she should be asked."
Na Nuo Shen went to ask his sister Na Nuo Qi and got the answer: if a woman likes you, she will be happy with anything you give her, even if it is an old handkerchief you use; on the contrary, even if you pick the stars from the sky and hold them in front of her, she may not smile.
Pei Xiyuan accepted Nuoqi's advice and immediately ordered someone to send a few of his personal belongings back to Shangjing and hand them over to Wu Yunzhu. This really pleased her, and she then brought the rewards to Fengyi.
"Shuyu, the first gift you gave me was a handkerchief. It's still a handkerchief in this life. This must be fate." Wu Yunzhu placed the neatly folded handkerchief on the table in front of him and said, "Open it and take a look."
"What's hidden inside?" Pei Xiyuan didn't know what to feel. He was happy that the handkerchief pleased her, but also felt annoyed that he shouldn't have given her the handkerchief and provoked her.
There was a photo wrapped in the handkerchief. It was a photo of Wu Yunzhu and Gu Shuyu, the same photo that was lost at Gu Guangming's grandfather's house. It was retrieved by Wu Yunzhu after she traveled back to the modern era and became Qiao Yujiao.
Gu Guangming's grandfather often went to Wu Yunzhu's grave every now and then, and often sat there for a long time. He didn't know that Wu Yunzhu had been hiding among the grass and watching him many times. Seeing him sitting in front of the grave with a sad face, she knew that he had long regretted reporting her, and the anger in her heart gradually subsided. However, she became Qiao Yujiao, who was almost the same age as her son, so it was naturally impossible for her to recognize him.
Pei Xiyuan was startled when he saw the photo, but his expression remained calm. The man in the photo was indeed very similar to him, almost identical. He looked at the photo over and over again, "What is this? It looks like a painting, but not quite like it. How did you do it?"
"This is a photo, taken with a camera. It's something that only exists in later generations." Wu Yunzhu smiled and told him about her past with Gu Shuyu.
She spoke very slowly and her expression was unusually gentle, but Pei Xiyuan did not resonate with her at all. He was just secretly surprised. He couldn't figure out whether what she said was true or not. He just felt that it didn't seem false. However, he found it hard to believe that if it really happened a thousand years ago, why could she remember it so clearly?
"I am willing to believe that everything you said is true, but you have to give me time to sort this out." Pei Xiyuan's eyes fell on the photo, thinking that the Black Cloud Pearl had great powers, so how could he know that she had not memorized her appearance and painted it on the photo?
"I know it's not easy for you to accept it all at once. I've already said that what I have the most is time. I can slowly wait for you to figure it out."
"Your disciple... is that Madam Jian, but is she the person you mentioned from the army of future generations?" Pei Xiyuan had always felt that Jian Ning was very mysterious. She was first an ordinary village woman in Dingxian Village, and then she transformed herself into the legitimate daughter of King Pingnan and was even named a princess. Most importantly, she had great abilities, so he began to be inclined to believe Wu Yunzhu.
"Yes, she's a special police officer, which in ancient times meant a constable. I raised her and taught her everything she learned, whether it was medicine or martial arts. Even her Baicaojian was given to her by me."
"What is Baicaojian?"
Wu Yunzhu demonstrated it to him, and in front of him, she used her mind to move the things on the table into the Baicao Room, and then moved them out again.
"She must have met with an accident while on a mission after I left, and she traveled here after her death, bringing the army's weapons depot with her."
Pei Xiyuan witnessed those objects flying into the air, disappearing, and then flying back automatically. He was shocked again. He asked Wu Yunzhu, "You also put that big piece of iron in that room, right? If so, you can give it to her, so you can probably take it back. If you take it back, can you also take her firearms as well?"
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