"I wonder how those brothers are doing? And I wonder if Gu Hui has any left?"
"Didn't General Yin send people to prepare supplies? The brothers should be fine."
Just to be on the safe side, those who had been bitten by snakes and were experiencing hallucinations were still tied up.
The others who weren't bitten were fed water mixed with white pills one by one.
Gu Hui carried Peng Ze onto the ship and threw him onto the bow deck to let him get cold, while she stayed by his side.
Peng Ze felt a little strange at this moment. Wasn't he just fighting on the battlefield, avenging his fallen brothers?
The air used to smell of blood, but now it smells salty and damp.
The sun was blinding. He wiped the sweat from his brow, sat up, and exclaimed in surprise when he saw the person beside him, "Gu Hui?"
Gu Hui smiled at him: "Awake?"
Peng Ze was taken aback, then pinched his hand hard, feeling the pain: "How come it's you? Is my mother here? Oh right, the cave!"
As he was about to stand up, Gu Hui pulled him back, and as he sat down, he leaned against Gu Hui.
Peng Ze shifted to the side as if he had been bitten: "Sorry, I didn't mean to."
Gu Hui raised an eyebrow: "It's nothing."
After saying that, she looked Peng Ze up and down and said, "Some people have already gone towards the cave. You should stay here and not worry about getting poisoned. Don't get off the boat. What if you encounter poisonous snakes again?"
After speaking, she stood up, intending to disembark and help.
Peng Ze had already ignored Gu Hui's lewd gaze. He breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that he had been cured of the poison and that someone had gone to the cave to rescue people.
Gu Hui took a few steps, stopped, and turned around: "By the way, General Ze, have you ever heard the saying 'a hero who saves a beauty should repay her with his body'?"
Peng Ze: "?"
Gu Hui: "Today, I, the beauty, saved the hero, and I also hope that the hero will repay me with his body! So, you can think about it from this moment on: do you want to repay him with your body just once, or do you want to repay him with your body for a lifetime!"
The sea breeze ruffled Gu Hui's slightly messy bangs. Peng Ze watched as she turned and left, her face showing a satisfied expression after teasing an innocent woman.
He swore.
On the beach, all the people who had been bitten had drunk water and were now sitting quietly in a group.
Gu Hui followed Madam Peng to the masked man and Wang Cuishan.
Madam Peng used her sword to pry open the masks of the masked men one by one. She wouldn't use her hands to pick them up; these poisonous creatures were probably poisonous all over.
The rows were picked apart, and at the very end was the Prince of Southern Xinjiang on a stretcher.
But as soon as the mask was lifted, Madam Peng and Gu Hui were stunned. They looked at each other and wondered, "How could it be him?"
...
In Kuncheng, two pigeons flew into the general's mansion.
Both General Peng and his son, General Peng, were present, each reading a letter.
The letter that General Peng was reading came from Lu Zheng's side. The King of Southern Xinjiang had been found and imprisoned along with the Princess of Southern Xinjiang. It was up to the Peng family to decide whether to send him directly to the capital or to execute him on the spot.
The Southern Frontier Princess was taken away by Madam Peng only to make it easier to use the Southern Frontier's ships. After boarding the ship, she had someone take the Southern Frontier Princess back.
General Peng chuckled and said, "Good, good, good! He really is from the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion; he looks just like his grandfather!"
General Peng was referring to Lu Zheng. Lu Zheng's great-grandfather had fought alongside Emperor Taizu in the conquest of the empire; otherwise, he wouldn't have been granted the title of Duke.
Lu Zheng's grandfather was of the same generation as General Peng, and the two even worked together.
But it stopped when it came to Lu Zheng's father.
Lu Zheng's father's only expedition was to reinforce the southern border. By the time he arrived in the southern border, General Peng and his wife had already resolved the problem. Whether he went or not, the outcome would have been the same.
Lu Zheng's father gained a merit for nothing. On his way back to the capital, he met his mother. After that, due to health reasons, Lu Zheng's father never left the capital again, let alone went to fight.
The Peng family looked down on his father.
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