Cheng Muyun was visibly taken aback. "No."
Xu Zhuohua frowned. "But didn't Liang Shaozun agree to it?"
"He attempted to kidnap a female student but failed, and oppressed the people. According to military law, he should be executed."
But……
Xu Zhuohua suddenly didn't know what to say.
That soldier was so calm before he died; there must have been people at home who needed his care, which is why he was so composed when he heard about the compensation.
In this era, if only elderly people are left in his family and there is no pension, it is tantamount to sending them to their deaths.
But……
He did make a mistake, but did Liang Shaozun make no mistake?
He embezzled military funds, sold official positions, and even later betrayed his country for personal gain, becoming a dog of foreigners and oppressing his own people. He is the one who deserves to die the most!
Xu Zhuohua reached out, grabbed Cheng Muyun's sleeve, and shook it. "Cheng Muyun, could you please..."
Halfway through her sentence, Xu Zhuohua regretted it.
Cheng Muyun is an extremely cold-blooded person; there's no way you can beg him.
“He has a sick mother and a younger brother who is not yet fifteen years old. I will deliver the pension to them tomorrow.”
Xu Zhuohua's eyes widened suddenly, reflecting the moonlight and Cheng Muyun's upright figure. "Really?"
Cheng Muyun smiled. "Really."
Xu Zhuohua's sorrow turned to joy. "Thank you, Cheng Muyun."
Cheng Muyun got off the bed, laid Xu Zhuohua flat, covered her with a blanket, and said gently, "Sleep, don't be afraid, I'll leave after you fall asleep."
For some reason, Xu Zhuohua felt very safe and at ease when Cheng Muyun sat by the bed.
She felt a pang of sadness; she missed home.
"Cheng Muyun, why are you only coming back now?"
Cheng Muyun seemed to have endless patience, "It took some time to teach Liang Shaozun a lesson."
"Aren't you two on good terms?"
Liang Shaozun and Cheng Muyun, one a future quartermaster and the other a mad young marshal, colluded and committed countless despicable acts. Together, they could be summed up in one word: scoundrels.
Cheng Muyun smiled and said, "We know each other, but I can't agree with what he did."
Xu Zhuohua suddenly felt that Cheng Muyun could still be saved.
"Then you should stay away from him in the future. He's not a good person."
Cheng Muyun laughed out loud, "Okay."
Exhausted from the journey, Xu Zhuohua was very thin and her spirits were already low. Coupled with the nightmare, she soon became sleepy.
She vaguely heard Cheng Muyun ask her, "I'm not on duty tomorrow, where do you want to go?"
Xu Zhuohua: "I want to go home."
Cheng Muyun rubbed his fingers together. "Isn't Xinhai City better than Dongzhou?"
"good……"
Cheng Muyun raised an eyebrow, as if he had discovered something, and continued to ask, "Is the Cheng Mansion better than the nunnery?"
"good……"
Am I better than Xu Jiyi?
"good……"
Bathed in moonlight, the man sat languidly by the bed, idly playing with a strand of long hair, his smile deepening.
"How about I take you to see New Sea City tomorrow?"
"good……"
The next day, when Xu Zhuohua woke up, she looked up at the bedside and found no one there, but the empty stool told her that what had happened the night before was true.
Putting on a silk nightgown, Xu Zhuohua went outside to the balcony.
The sky was still dimly lit. In the nunnery, she had to chant scriptures every morning at six or seven o'clock. Her biological clock was ingrained in her body. She was very sleepy, but she couldn't fall asleep at all.
Downstairs, servants have already started watering the flowers in the flowerbeds, sweeping the yard, and wiping the cars.
Accompanied by birdsong, a gentle breeze arose, lifting the white curtains on the balcony, and a figure emerged from the layers of gauze.
Cheng Muyun, his collar wide open, walked sleepily to Xu Zhuohua, his voice still tinged with drowsiness, "You couldn't wait this long?"
The man's eyes drifted downwards, and Xu Zhuohua belatedly realized she needed to pull her clothes tighter, stammering, "How did you get out of there?"
Only then did she realize that the balcony connected to two rooms, the other of which was occupied by Cheng Muyun.
Good heavens, that means he won't have to climb the wall to get into his room at night anymore, that's too dangerous!
"I want to change rooms!"
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