Then, Cheng Ying turned his horse around and rode away. The crossbow team behind him followed in unison and disappeared into the vast night, leaving only the dust raised by the horses' hooves on the ground.
Yu Qizhe clenched the lasso rope tightly. Never before had he wanted to kill someone as badly as he did at that moment.
The captain behind him saw that his face was frosty and gloomy with murderous intent, and he was shocked. It turned out that when civil officials had murderous intent, they were no less murderous than the military generals.
Not until the dust in the air dissipated did Yu Qizhe retract his gloomy gaze. He took a deep breath and exhaled slowly to digest his anxiety and anger, then returned to the tent with the team behind him.
"How is it?" Xiao Ning asked impatiently, "How does Cheng Ying want to negotiate?"
Yu Qizhe's lips were tightly bound, and his fingertips rubbed the mutton-fat jade on his waist. It took him a long time to tell Cheng Ying what she had said. He had no intention of deceiving Xiao Ning and Liu Ziqi. Besides, he was not going to see Cheng Ying alone, he was followed by the captain and the Weining Army.
After hearing this, Xiao Ning's eyes were filled with disbelief. He asked in confusion: "What does Cheng Ying mean? What is a eunuch like him thinking?"
Yu Qizhe closed his eyes. Yes, Cheng Ying was a eunuch, just a eunuch! Yu Qizhe's jade-like knuckles turned white due to the force, but eunuchs were also men. Although incomplete, they also had human emotions. Thinking of the affection in Cheng Ying's eyes when he mentioned Jiaojiao, Yu Qizhe felt a little breathless. That man had no intention of hiding his feelings for Jiaojiao in front of him.
Scenes from the past unfolded in Yu Qizhe's mind. He couldn't understand when Cheng Ying had developed such feelings for Jiaojiao.
In fact, Cheng Ying gives people the impression of being an evil god who has fallen into hell, without any sorrow or desire, looking down on the world from a high place, and does not seem like someone who can be tainted by the worldly world.
But this kind of thing happened.
Yu Qizhe thought of the time when he and Jiaojiao ran into Cheng Ying in Wanfu Bridge Hutong. His eyes turned red and he left in embarrassment.
Could it be that time? But it was too inconsistent. Although Cheng Ying treated Yu Jiao differently from others, on the day of his wedding, Cheng Ying came to receive gifts. It didn't seem like she had other thoughts about Jiao Jiao, unless something else happened.
Yu Qizhe suddenly thought of Yu Jiao’s return to her hometown to bury Liu Sanniang, and Cheng Ying also appeared in Qingyu Village. This couldn’t be a coincidence!
Although Cheng Ying seemed to act arbitrarily and without any rules, if you think about it carefully, Emperor Mingzheng was about to take the elixir, so why would Cheng Ying travel thousands of miles to a small place like Changkui for no reason?
Yu Qizhe suddenly recalled the time when he disguised himself as Master Huijue in the Fahua Temple. He had never found out why Cheng Ying did that, but this seemingly unrelated incident happened in Changkui County. Could it be possible that they were actually related?
Yu Qizhe couldn't figure out the secret and became even more anxious. Cheng Ying was able to trade with Emperor Mingzheng and armed Xianyang with firearms to make it impregnable. Yu Qizhe didn't dare to guess whether this was because of Jiaojiao.
He could feel that something seemed to have happened between Cheng Ying and Jiaojiao that he was not aware of, and that he had never been involved in. This made Yu Qizhe feel extremely uncomfortable and powerless.
Seeing that Yu Qizhe remained silent for a long time, Xiao Ning seemed to have tacitly agreed that the exchange proposed by Cheng Ying was just that. His initial shock turned into embarrassment. He clicked his tongue in his heart. Although Yu Jiao was a little different from ordinary girls, she wouldn't be enough to attract a eunuch like Cheng Ying, right?
Moreover, Yu Qizhe has already married Yu Jiao, so Cheng Ying is actually coveting Yu Qizhe's wife. No wonder Yu Qizhe, who is usually calm and steady, looks so unhappy.
Xiao Ning scratched his hair angrily and said, "How about we send a letter to His Majesty and see what His Majesty thinks?"
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