Chapter 31 Chapter 31 First Release
With a way out, everyone was cheered up for a moment, forgetting the pain of their physical wounds, and helping each other to grab the ladder made of cloak scraps.
Wu Jingxun climbed up with great effort. When she was about to reach the top, two hands suddenly appeared in her sight.
Pei Jinguang and Pei Huaiguang looked at each other.
Pei Huaiguang chuckled: "Brother, shouldn't you be busy commanding the overall situation? She's here, I'll take care of it."
Pei Jinguang's outstretched hand was steady, not shaking at all: "No matter how busy you are, you still have time. Jingxun, come here."
Wu Jingxun's hand, which was rubbed red by the ladder, seemed to fall into Pei Jinguang's palm without any hesitation.
"Thank you for your help."
Her tone was still very polite, and when she stepped on the ground again, her hands touched and separated immediately, which was a very polite gesture.
Pei Huaiguang slowly straightened up, watching his brother's hurriedly turned-away gaze and his faintly reddened ears. He sneered inwardly, "Wouldn't it be better to be polite? He wasn't even qualified to be polite to her!"
Wu Jingxun breathed in the outside air almost greedily.
She was wrong.
She shouldn't have seen through the fact that her mother didn't really love her and developed resentment towards life.
She wanted to live a good life, at least after this, she wanted to try to live for herself.
Huang Meizhu's wound was not deep. After being bandaged and given medicine, she felt much better. She went over to pull Wu Jingxun, but before she could say anything, she heard a terrified scream from the side.
Looking in the direction, Wu Jingxun frowned and covered his mouth and nose with his hands, barely suppressing the urge to vomit because of the disgusting scene in front of him.
The wizards in strange black robes had their skin that was exposed in the sun begin to rot, emitting a foul stench.
This should have been very painful, but they actually had smiles on their faces and were mumbling some incantation. At the end, they suddenly raised their hands, which were only skeletons left, and the bodies under the black robes collapsed, completely turning into a pile of useless bones.
The process was bizarre and terrifying. Pei Jinguang refused to allow anyone to intervene. Only then did he say, "They must have been infected with the poison long ago. The moment they see sunlight, the poison will take effect."
The person behind this is really vicious.
"Someone wants to silence them forever." Pei Huaiguang crossed his arms and said coldly, "Who knows what else is buried under the underground palace? Explosives? More corpses? I dare not stay here any longer."
Explosives?
The guards became alert in an instant. Pei Jinguang did not want to leave these girls who were still injured in such a dangerous place. Fortunately, the carriage left by the group of men in black was still there. Due to the special circumstances, everyone squeezed into one carriage and left.
Before getting in the car, Wu Jingxun hesitated for a moment, but still shook Huang Meizhu's hand: "Wait a moment."
Noticing her gaze on him, Pei Huaiguang immediately half turned around and pretended to be looking at ants.
Did you finally remember him?
For a long while, Pei Huaiguang didn't hear the light footsteps. He looked back in confusion and almost laughed out of anger.
Wu Jingxun stopped under the carriage, and his good brother took the initiative to walk over, as if he was afraid that she would expend any more energy.
"Thank you for what you did today."
Wu Jingxun felt as if she had said thank you to him many times, but they were all pale and powerless words that could not balance out what he had paid.
Looking into her soft eyes which held a hint of sadness that she herself was unaware of, Pei Jinguang smiled and also lowered his voice. Neither the girls in the carriage nor Pei Huaiguang who was standing not far away were able to eavesdrop successfully.
"You really don't have to be polite with me." Pei Jinguang didn't want to be laughed at by others, and he was also afraid that the surging emotions he was showing at this moment would scare this girl who had just experienced hardships. Therefore, he could only restrain himself again and again, "Jingxun, I'm waiting for you to open those jade cups of wine with me."
He was looking forward to the day they got married, when he could hold her hand openly and without hiding anything.
Wu Jingxun understood what he meant and blushed a little, but then she remembered the purpose of her stop here, handed him the remaining half bottle of muscle-growing ointment, and said softly: "I saw that some people were injured, you can take it back and use it."
Pei Jinguang took it, but before he could ask her if she had used it on him, the young man, still with a sour face, suddenly reached out and took the half bottle of the skin-growing cream, curling his lips and saying, "My future sister-in-law is really meticulous. She even observed such a small matter as my injury so carefully. But next time, you don't need to bother my brother. He's a very busy man. Just give it to me directly."
Wu Jingxun looked at him speechlessly, then nodded slightly to Pei Jinguang, whose expression was also not very good: "I'll be leaving first."
Pei Jinguang also nodded, and instructed a team of personal soldiers to escort them back to Jinling, while he himself would stay behind to clean up the mess.
The group of men in black who fled have not been caught yet.
Seeing that both of them chose to ignore him, Pei Huaiguang clenched the porcelain bottle in his hand and watched the carriage roll away. Meeting Pei Jinguang's somewhat complicated eyes, he raised his eyelids with disinterest: "Why are you looking at me?"
People were robbed right under his nose, and you still ask him why?
Pei Jinguang said with a forced smile: "Jingxun loves you and saw that you were injured, so she sent you some medicine. Erlang, in the future, you must respect your sister-in-law as much as you respect me, and don't waste her hard work."
Cherish, respect, sister-in-law?
He really spared no effort to emphasize those words that were annoying to hear.
Pei Huaiguang held the porcelain bottle tightly. The delicate and cold porcelain bottle seemed to still carry a bit of her warmth. He held it so tightly that he didn't even feel the blood oozing from his hands that were bruised when he helped to open the top door of the underground palace.
On the way back, everyone was crowded together in the carriage. Unlike the panic when they came, now everyone was huddled together and hugged each other, and they felt much more at ease.
Huang Meizhu buried herself in Wu Jingxun's arms, smelling the unique faint fragrance on her body. Suddenly, she slapped her forehead and remembered what she had not said yet.
"Jingxun, your future uncle..." Huang Meizhu pointed to her forehead seriously, "Is there something wrong here?"
Wu Jingxun was lost in thought. When he heard Huang Meizhu say this, he was still a little confused: "What?"
Huang Meizhu continued to mutter: "When I saw him down there, he seemed to be targeting you, and what that old charlatan said..." As she sighed, Wu Jingxun also remembered the words that the three of them were entangled with, and her heart tightened.
"I think he just returned to the family and is closest to his elder brother, Prince Pei. But you're getting married soon, and he's worried that you'll steal his elder brother's attention, so he's deliberately targeting you."
The more Huang Meizhu spoke, the more she felt that her guess was reasonable. She excitedly shook Wu Jingxun's arm, but accidentally shook her injured area. Seeing her face pale, she thought that she had hurt her because of her recklessness. She comforted her a few words, and then calmed down and stopped talking.
Wu Jingxun was just flustered by her words.
What did the two brothers say to each other before she woke up in the medicine house that day?
Pei Huaiguang, is it true that he is just unwilling to accept his fate, as Huang Meizhu said, and that is why he repeatedly does things that may lead to misunderstandings?
Wu Jingxun's mind was in a mess, and he felt exhausted both physically and mentally. He lowered his eyes, and soon Huang Meizhu felt a weight on his shoulders.
Wu Jingxun fell asleep leaning against her.
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The Flower God Festival was one of the most popular festivals in the Jin Dynasty. During the festival, the twelve flower goddesses were abducted by thieves, which ruined the worship of the flower goddess. The Jingzhao Yin was unable to catch the thieves, and public resentment was boiling.
The twelve girls were safely sent back home. After the team of personal soldiers returned to the Northern Twelve Divisions to report, Pei Jinguang instructed the Jingzhao Yin to relax and appease the people, letting them know that the twelve girls who played the role of flower goddesses had been safely sent home.
Things that can be revealed to the public naturally cannot be true.
Seeing Pei Jinguang emerge from Taiyuan Hall, his handsome face expressionless as usual, Jingzhao Yin became anxious: "My Lord, what did the Emperor say to you? The people are still making a fuss, saying that we should quickly bring the murderer to justice, otherwise the Flower Goddess will not bless them next year, and I'm afraid there will be big problems. With the people's sentiment like this, there's nothing I can do."
It is said that a cunning rabbit has three burrows, but Wang Yuan is even more cunning than the rabbit and has more tricks up his sleeve.
Thinking back to Emperor Zhou Qing's words, Pei Jinguang wanted to sneer. He raised his eyebrows slightly at the Jingzhao Yin and said, "Just say that the Qinglian Sect is angry that the Flower Goddess has received so many followers and offerings, so they deliberately want to disrupt the ceremony and abduct the twelve Flower Goddesses to become their cult's saints. Just say so."
The matter of Prince Rong was not so easily resolved, but Emperor Zhou Qing pursued him very closely and ordered him to take advantage of the opportunity and frame the Qinglian Sect for what happened today.
As if sensing Pei Jinguang's unhappy mood, Jingzhao Yin struggled to catch up with him while complimenting him, "I heard that Prince Pei's fiancée was also safely rescued? That's truly wonderful! I wonder when the two of you will get married so I can go and get some wedding wine."
When Wu Jingxun was mentioned, Pei Jinguang finally smiled: "Soon."
Once the matter at hand is settled, he can get married with peace of mind.
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When Wu Jingxun returned home, she was not greeted with regards from her family.
Of course, Wu Jingxun hadn't been expecting anything from the beginning, so he wasn't disappointed. He just held Cuiping and Ziping's hands and said, "It's okay. I'm back now."
Having said that, Cuiping and the others were still very distressed. After returning to Yuzhaoyuan, they asked Wu Jingxun to jump over the fire basin and bathe her with pomelo leaves until she was dressed neatly and cleanly. Only then did they stop with satisfaction.
"What a pity! Our lady, with her slender figure, has such a wound..." Cuiping muttered as she applied medicine to her. "Luckily, the wound isn't deep. Otherwise, how would she be able to carve little wooden figurines in the future?"
Wu Jingxun was amused by her and smiled slightly.
Wuxucong came to the door at this time.
"Brother?" Wu Jingxun was a little surprised. The slight smile on his face froze after Wu Xucong explained his purpose.
Seeing that there was nothing unusual about Wu Jingxun, Wu Xucong did not ask her what happened after she was in danger. After all, they had returned safely, so they could talk about these pleasantries later.
There are more important things right now.
"Something's happened at Fengping Courtyard," Wuxucong said briefly. "Madam Sun... was caught having an affair with her lover, and somehow, Shunhua was implicated. They say Shunhua... isn't my father's biological child. My mother is making a big fuss over there too. Come with me to see Shunhua."
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The author has something to say: Today’s diary mini-theater——
Wu Panpan: Everyone wants to be cared for, I am like this, and he is no exception
Pei Da: It seems that many people want to drink at Jingxun and I’s wedding. Well, we will definitely be the immortal couple that everyone is looking forward to.
Pei Er: No matter who she wanted to give the medicine to, since I got it, it was something she wanted to give to me.
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Thanks to the nutrient solution irrigated by the little angel Yue Ye, happy o(*￣▽￣*)ブ
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