Chapter 139
"Are you really Liu Niang?"
Although he guessed correctly, Gu Ran was still shocked when it was confirmed. In addition, in order to conceal the fact that he had already guessed something, he had to pretend to be shocked so that Pei Liu would not see through him.
"Sixth Lady, you are actually my husband? What's going on?"
"I am."
Seeing that Gu Ran was not scared off by his identity, Pei Liu's uneasiness and panic after making up his mind to reveal his identity gradually subsided. He calmed himself down and explained the whole cause and effect to Gu Ran in detail.
He was abducted by the top thief at a young age. He was unwilling to be an accomplice and was forced to escape for the thief. He took advantage of Pei Liuniang's commission to kill his accomplices. After being captured, he was exiled under the name of Pei Liuniang. Everything was similar to what Gu Ran had speculated.
So Gu Ran listened to Pei Liu's explanation in person and nodded from time to time.
"For all these years, I've been using the identity of Pei Liuniang, and I haven't said a word to you, Second Mother. I have no choice." Pei Liu finished speaking, looked at Gu Ran, and said cautiously, "Second Mother, please don't be angry, okay?"
When talking about these old things from the past years, he kept observing her expressions, afraid of revealing the expression on Gu Ran's face, anger, shock or disgust, for fear that she would be displeased in the slightest.
Fortunately, it seemed that apart from shock, there was no trace of disgust on his face.
"You hid it from me before. If you hadn't told me, you could have made enough money one day and then had a chance to escape. Why did you suddenly confess today?"
Because he already knew everything about Pei Liu, and it was he who forced him to reveal his true form intentionally or unintentionally, Gu Ran naturally did not feel the slightest bit of disgust, but he still had to pretend to be surprised and angry for the sake of appearance.
"Since you're a man, if you didn't tell me, I wouldn't be able to pursue you even after you escaped. But now that you've confessed, I guess you don't want to keep it a secret. Do you know what I'd think of you and me being alone in the same room for all these years? If others knew, how would they judge us?"
"It's because, Second Mother, you want to see your husband now..." Pei Liu reached out to grab Gu Ran's hand awkwardly, but Gu Ran avoided him.
"What's wrong with me looking at my husband?"
"If you want to find a husband, then how about you look at me?"
Gu Ran was stunned for a moment. She looked up at Pei Liu and met Pei Liu's gaze. She quickly turned her head to look away, and her ears turned red again.
How come this guy actually hits the ball straight?
Pei Liu took advantage of her distraction, reached out, put his arm around her waist, and pulled her onto the couch.
"You, what are you doing?" Gu Ran was forced to sit on the couch, facing him, and couldn't help feeling embarrassed and angry.
"I want to be Ranran's husband."
"I knew you were a fake Pei Liuniang. I don't even know your last name. Who would be willing to be your wife?"
A hand rubbed Gu Ran's waist twice, burning her whole body. She couldn't help but glare at Pei Liu.
Pei Liu repeatedly guessed that Gu Ran was not really angry, but he felt relieved and said, "Speaking of which, Ran Ran might not believe me. I'm also afraid that Ran Ran will look down on me because of my unclear background."
"Do you still remember your origins?"
Pei Liu just confessed to him that his father had committed a crime and the whole family was exiled to Minzhou, but he did not tell him who his father was and why he was sentenced to exile. Hearing his vague words, Gu Ran thought that Pei Liu was young and could not remember clearly. Now it seems that he still remembers what happened before he was kidnapped?
"I do remember some of the general things." Pei Liu sighed secretly, and with a determined heart, he revealed his identity and background. "My father's surname is Lu and his given name is Yi. He was an official in the capital more than ten years ago. My mother and father gave birth to my elder sister and me. We were originally harmonious, but he later died of illness. My father then remarried, and my elder sister and I were treated harshly and coldly by his second wife. But not long after, my father got into trouble with the government. I was young, so I don't remember what he did, but not long after the incident, except for my father who was sentenced to death by beheading, the rest of the family was exiled."
Gu Ran felt something was amiss. Before he could ask, Pei Liu said, "I also remember my mother named me Yilin. My sister..."
"What did you say?" Gu Ran was surprised.
Pei Liu looked at Gu Ran with his pupils slightly widened, a look of disbelief on his face. The corners of his mouth curled up, but he quickly pursed them. "I say, Dad, it was a criminal official who was beheaded. I am the descendant of a criminal official. Ran Ran, will you look down on me?"
"Tell me, what's your name?"
"My surname is Lu, and my given name is Yilin."
Lu Yilin.
Pei Liu is Ling'er?
Gu Ran looked straight at Lu Yilin, opened his mouth, but said nothing.
Pei Liu is actually Ling'er, this, this is too much of a coincidence, right?
No, he had heard Manager Xu say before that he was looking for Lu Yilin. Was that the reason...
"Did you know that Manager Xu was looking for Lu Yilin, so you deliberately lied to me?"
"No." Pei Liu shook his head and looked at Gu Ran openly: "Even knowing that you wanted to find Lu Yilin is one of the reasons why I chose to be honest with you, Ranran."
Gu Ran was stunned.
"I, I don't believe it."
Pei Liu chuckled: "Ran Ran, why do you want to find Lu Yilin? I'm afraid I know a thing or two."
"Why?"
Gu Ran recalled the spatial coordinates of a village in Minzhou, and then deduced the place where Pei Liu was many years ago, and took a breath.
If Pei Liu is really Lu Yilin, then the coordinate code of space grid number three is in Minzhou, is it fake?
"Why am I looking for Lu Yilin?" Gu Ran asked in a bluffing manner.
"Are you afraid that I will tell others about what happened back then?"
"What's the matter?" Gu Ran pretended to be deaf and dumb.
"Back then..." Pei Liu paused before continuing, "Back then, when I was seven years old, I was abducted by the young boys of the Number One Thief. After being taught assassination skills, they were thrown into a forest and left to fend for themselves. I was the youngest."
"Once we enter the forest, we must remain there for at least eighty years. This will test our martial arts and survival skills. It will also allow us to sharpen our ruthlessness and ferocity in the face of scarcity, so that we can become the best assassins."
Pei Liu glanced at Gu Ran and continued slowly.
"I stayed in the forest for three days, and the food I was given at the beginning was gone. I had to forage for wild animals on my own, and I had to be wary of my companions who came into the forest with me, trying to steal my prey from behind. Although I was strong, I was outnumbered and was often ambushed and robbed."
"One day, I was hungry and tired, and I encountered a fellow disciple fighting. After being defeated, I was thrown onto the rocks nearby. I didn't know how long I was unconscious. When I woke up, I found that there was no one around. When I tried to get up, I found that the rocks beside me were stained red with my blood and cracked and broken. The places where I used to support myself fell off, revealing a corner of wood..."
Gu Ran's heart was lifted.
So this is how the wall of space grid No. 3 was broken?
"How could there be wood among the rocks? I was quite curious, so I used a dagger to dig up the wood, but there was a cloud of mist inside the wood. I was so shocked at the time that I couldn't help but reach in and dig it out. The result was..." Pei Liu glanced at Gu Ran.
Gu Ran's eyes flickered, he hesitated, "What's the result?"
"In the end, I took out an orange."
Pei Liu thought back to when he was young, and encountered such an incredible thing, but he was not shocked at all. He thought it was his own adventure, and was glad that when he was at his wit's end, he found a place where he could pick fruits.
He immediately took out more than ten fruits, mostly oranges, but also some apples, pears, and dates.
From then on, whenever he had nothing to eat, he would come here to get food.
Gu Ran finally understood how the fruits he had stored in compartment No. 3 disappeared.
"Originally, in the forest, because I was young, I was treated as prey by others. The game I had worked so hard to capture was also plundered by them. There were even people with bad intentions who waited for my harvest to be intercepted. But now that I have this treasure land, every time I come to collect fruit, I never come back empty-handed. Even if they snatch away all the game I have hunted, I am not afraid of starvation or fatigue. Therefore, I never tell others about the strange things in this place."
Because he said that with his ability at that time, he would not be able to keep the secret of this place. Instead, it might be taken away by someone, and he would lose a precious granary.
"I once thought that the organization was hiding secretly and providing food to the disciples who were determined to find this place. Unexpectedly, one day, I heard a voice in the cave, calling me a little thief..." Pei Liu looked at Gu Ran, "I guess Ran Ran also knows what happened afterwards?"
Gu Ran coughed dryly a few times and didn't dare to look directly at Pei Liu.
It turns out that this was the reason why Ling'er said at that time that she would never tell the secret of that place to anyone else!
This happened after Ling'er was abducted by the number one thief, so, where was the forest he was thrown into?
"Later, during those eighty years, thanks to my constant supply of food, I was able to survive and leave the mountains alive."
After Pei Liu told Gu Ran about every detail of his eighty-year-old life in the mountains, Gu Ran believed it. There was no doubt that Pei Liu was indeed Ling Ge'er at that time.
He put his arm around her waist and pulled her closer to him: "At that time, I swore that after I escaped from the number one thief, I would go to Minzhou to find Sister Liu."
Gu Ran was stunned again and looked up at him.
"The sister you're looking for isn't your sister?"
"My elder sister was killed by the evil thieves during the robbery that year. This is why I have sworn to be irreconcilable with the number one thief." Pei Liu shook his head slightly, frowning. "From the beginning, I was looking for Sister Liu."
Gu Ran was surprised, it was actually like this!
"I also know that this matter is too mysterious. I was seven years old back then, and it had been six or seven years since I left the evil gang. Sister Liu was only seventeen or eighteen when she heard the voice. When I came to Minzhou, I should have been twenty-four or twenty-five, and I might have already started a family or..." Pei Liu looked at Gu Ran and couldn't help laughing, "But I didn't expect..."
It turns out that Sister Liu is Gu Er Niang!
I want to find someone, thinking that he is far away, but it turns out that he is very close.
Gu Ran gradually recovered from his shock. Seeing Pei Liu's clear eyes, neither frightened nor afraid, he couldn't help but ask, "Then, don't you think this is mysterious?"
If a normal person saw his wife hidden in the rocks, he would be horrified and lose his composure. In serious cases, he would probably report her to the police and have her arrested, or spread rumors to exclude her.
Pei Liu shook his head slightly, "Not mysterious."
Gu Ran bit her lip and asked tentatively: "Aren't you afraid of me?"
"What's so scary about Ranran?" Pei Liu looked at Gu Ran and asked.
Gu Ran was silent, but also felt a little secretly happy.
It has been a while since he knew that Manager Xu was entrusted with the task of rescuing people, yet he remained calm and accepted it so easily.
Therefore, the fact that Pei Liu was really Lu Yilin made her feel more at ease. She was not afraid that he would tell others about the spatial coordinates.
"If you really believe what Ling'er said, then let me ask you, do you still remember where you dug the fruit?"
"Remember."
"where?"
"If you're worried that the place might be discovered, don't worry. Before I left, I burned some dirt to block the hole. I also moved a lot of rocks to cover it up to prevent it from being discovered. Also..." Pei Liu looked at Gu Ran, "Also, I went to the forest again later. I originally wanted to see Sister Liu again, but I saw that the area had been flooded by a landslide. Not only had the mud tilted, but it had also gradually formed a small hill. Ordinary people couldn't find it, so I didn't bother to imitate Yugong moving the mountain."
Gu Ran secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"real?"
"How could I deceive Ranran?"
"Nonsense! You've told so many lies. You said you, your sister, and your mother lived in a village in Minzhou. Your mother tortured you and your sister, and you were bullied by the young men in the village!"
"I lied to Sister Liu, not Ranran," Pei Liu said with a smile, reaching out to gently stroke a strand of Gu Ran's long black hair. "Also, if I hadn't been kidnapped by the number one thief, I would have been living with Sister Liu and Mother somewhere in Minzhou."
Pei Liu sighed softly, "But Sister Liu lied to me, saying she was working in an orange orchard in Minzhou. All these years, I've been following the clues she gave me to find her, but... If I hadn't heard you later that the Liu and Zhu families' orange orchards were infested with yellow tip disease, I would have taken her words seriously!"
"So, it was from that time that you began to doubt Sister Liu's words?"
"I knew it was untrustworthy from the beginning." Pei Liu narrowed his eyes slightly.
After all, they met in that strange situation, and they were not only afraid of the fact that there was a living person at the other side of the small cave, where it was obviously impossible to hide, but no one would believe it even if they told it out loud.
But, so what?
Sister Liu is extremely mysterious, but she really helped me survive the ordeal when I was seven years old. If it weren't for her, I would have died in the mountains long ago.
With gratitude and curiosity, he wanted to meet Sister Liu in person to see what kind of person she was!
Therefore, when he was looking for someone, he could not give any specific clues or information, but when he heard about the yellow tip disease, he vaguely realized that things were more difficult to guess than he had imagined, and Sister Liu's true identity really surprised and delighted him.
"But I trust Ranran, and Ranran can trust me too." Pei Liu looked at Gu Ran, who was almost pulling her into his arms, and lifted her chin: "Let me be your husband, okay?"
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