The manipulator behind the scenes
"Is this still the same 'Iron Lady' of mine, who remained fearless in the face of danger, killed people in public, cared deeply for her comrades, controlled the overall situation, was so wise that she was almost a demon, and whose reputation as a heroine spread throughout Yanjing overnight?"
Yue Lingxi's teasing was so inappropriate that Liu Buqi, with tears in her eyes, lowered her head in shame, muttering something she couldn't even hear herself!
"You, you know everything?"
Heartbroken, he looked at Liu Buqi, who was acting like a little woman. "Thank you! Without you, I'm afraid I would have lost my life here!"
Yue Lingxi's words awakened Liu Buqi. There was another important person being held in Desheng Building. Only by prying open his mouth could they find out who was the mastermind behind the scenes!
Yue Lingxi didn't care at all. After all, they were just people from his mother's family or the royal family. There really wasn't much difference between knowing it a day earlier or a day later.
Liu Buqi thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case, so he was no longer in a hurry!
When Yue Lingxi heard that Bai Tuo was going to marry his daughter to Zhang Xiruo, she burst into laughter again and accused her of making random matchmaking.
More than ten days passed by inadvertently. Yue Lingxi spent his sixteenth birthday in the hospital bed. He and Liu Buqi had been in Yanjing for three years.
Liu Buqi was already fifteen years old, which was considered "advanced age". According to the customs of Taiyue Kingdom, boys and girls were considered adults at the age of fourteen and could get married.
Strictly speaking, boys were better off, as girls were usually betrothed to a family before they reached adulthood, and would then marry into the family's family. Therefore, Bai Tuo's daughter, waiting to be married in the pavilion until she was 28, was already considered an old maid.
After Yue Lingxi woke up, he met Bai Tuo several times when he was changing the dressing. He also learned a lot about the old doctor's character and medical ethics. He thought that it was really inhumane to force Bai Tuo, who happened to be at the right time, to marry off his daughter to protect himself.
So he told Bai Tuo face to face that Liu Buqi's previous talk of being a matchmaker was just a joke and did not count.
Unexpectedly, Bai Tuo rejected the suggestion by saying that marriage was no joke. Even Zhang Xiruo, who had been reluctant before, became a little hesitant.
Later, he learned that when Zhang Xiruo followed Bai Tuo to the City Lord's Mansion to pick up his wife and daughter, perhaps because she was born into a medical family, she was not afraid of the horrific scar on his face. Instead, she entertained the guests in a graceful manner on behalf of her father, which actually made him have some thoughts.
The woman did not reject her father's idea of marriage at all. Instead, like an ordinary girl, she was shy and refused to come out to see Zhang Xiruo again.
Liu Buqi, who was amazed, actually couldn't understand this kind of marriage that was arranged by a matchmaker and parents.
However, when he thought about how Yue Lingxi and he had gradually grown to appreciate each other due to various coincidences, and that they had actually come together without knowing each other at all, he was happy to agree to it, as the saying goes, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."
In the end, Zhang Xiruo and Bai Tuo's daughter Bai Jiaoniang officially got engaged, which was a happy result for everyone.
As for entertaining the idlers who were inexplicably surrounded in the clinic on the day of the banquet, and providing relief to the soldiers who died or were wounded under Yue Lingxi, Liu Buqi was busy for several days until it was flawless and everyone was satisfied.
By now, almost everyone in Yanjing City knew that there was a young master Yue from the royal family who was exiled to Yanjing because of the mistakes made by his family, but he started from scratch, joined the army to fight the enemy, and was compassionate to his subordinates and was extremely righteous.
His wife is the "Iron Lady" who was the subject of much talk some time ago.
For a time, the couple became famous in Yanjing City and their popularity grew.
It is just as what Liu Buqi said, "People rely on fame, Buddha relies on golden ornaments", this is called "creating momentum"!
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Yanjing City, Victory Tower.
After being well-fed and well-done for a while, Xiaojiu finally met Yue Lingxi and Liu Buqi, whose injuries were basically healed.
After a round of threats and inducements, Xiaojiu quickly confessed that it was indeed him who led the scouts from the grassland Han Kingdom across the border to besiege and murder Yue Lingxi.
He also took advantage of the chaotic situation when Yue Lingxi just entered the clinic, and brought in more than ten experts, waiting for an opportunity to assassinate him. After the clinic was blocked, he secretly hid crossbows under the beds of Xiao Junzi, Xiao Dengzi and others, hoping to cause chaos and facilitate the actions of the dozen experts.
Although Zhang Xiruo was already gritting her teeth in anger, this guy was a typical "guide", and there was someone else who contacted the Steppe Khanate and a dozen or so experts.
As expected, this man was Wang Changling's deputy, the deputy general of Yanjing City! Although Yue Lingxi had already been promoted due to his fame and military achievements, Wang Changling had promoted him to the position of flag leader, commanding 500 brave soldiers.
But dealing with the deputy general of Yanjing is not something a small flag owner can do. Even Yanjing General Wang Changling has to ask the court for instructions even if there is conclusive evidence. He can only take action after obtaining the emperor's approval!
Of course, these are just normal procedures. For Liu Buqi, who has a completely different way of thinking, there is something called shortcut besides the normal procedures!
Yue Lingxi's banner was ambushed outside the city of Yanjing. It seemed that the deputy general of Yanjing was more worthy of the grassland Khanate's greater efforts!
As the situation had been calm for many days, the deputy general thought that Xiaojiu had died in the clinic a long time ago, and gradually relaxed his vigilance!
When Wang Changling arranged for him to inspect the soldiers stationed outside the city as per the usual practice, he boldly went there with a team of personal soldiers.
Unexpectedly, they were intercepted by Zhang Xiruo and Wang Sheng who showed up halfway. After faking the scene, they took the captured deputy general and sneaked to the horse farm outside the city to torture him.
This deputy general is much more courageous than Xiaojiu. Even after being tortured several times by Zhang Xiruo, he still did not reveal any information about the mastermind behind the scenes!
Zhang Xiruo had no other choice but to shamelessly ask Liu Buqi for help.
How could Liu Buqi possibly understand things like torture? When he was at a loss, he suddenly saw rain dripping from the eaves and remembered a foreign torture he had seen before!
The person is fixed on a stone slab, a bucket of clean water is hung high above his head, and a thin nail is used to pierce the bottom of the bucket, so that the water drips drop by drop onto the prisoner's eyebrows.
It is said that this torture method, which is like dripping water wearing away a stone, can kill the prisoner within a month. In order to create maximum psychological pressure, no one is allowed to speak to the prisoner.
After handing this method over to Zhang Xiruo, Liu Buqi was actually full of doubts about this torture.
But within four or five days, good news came. The deputy general was willing to speak, just asking for a quick death!
The deputy general who accompanied Yue Lingxi in the interrogation was mentally tortured and a little dazed. He originally thought that the mastermind behind the scenes was most likely the head of his mother's family!
Unexpectedly, the deputy general was extremely disdainful. How could the deputy general of Yanjing, the Taiyue Kingdom, be controlled by an inexplicable family far away in the heart of the Central Plains?
Although this answer made Yue Lingxi and Zhang Xiruo feel relieved, the real mastermind pointed out by the deputy general made Yue Lingxi and Liu Buqi a little confused!
"Prince Ning Yue Wuji? Yue Lingxi has never even met this nominal uncle!"
This is really the mastermind behind this who has nothing to do with us!
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