Chapter 249 Peaceful, but too peaceful
"She wrote me a letter!"
"She hasn't forgotten me!"
"Great! She lets me take care of myself!"
"She still cares about my life or death, right? That must be the case! Hahahahaha..."
Meng Chengping held up the letter, reading it and spinning around in ecstasy, like a big fluttering moth.
Amid his wild laughter, Mu Nanzhao silently looked at the thing in his hand, the corners of his mouth twitching slightly.
Usage, dosage...
The mountain breeze blew by, and another note slipped out of the envelope.
Mu Nanzhao reached out to take it, looked at it, and his brows gradually furrowed.
"A pair of pine door panels, size... estimate... after deducting depreciation... compensation?"
Meng Chengping turned behind Mu Nanzhao at some point, stretched his neck and read out the words one by one.
Smirking, he asked, "What is this?"
Mu Nanzhao suddenly crumpled the note into a ball and clenched it tightly.
With a cold face, he slapped the letter paper full of words on Meng Chengping and said, "Take it to the military doctor!"
The letter fell in the wind, and Meng Chengping quickly picked up, "What is this?"
He glanced down and asked, "Isn't this a letter from Boss Gu?"
Meng Chengping raised his head to look at Mu Nanzhao's receding back and sighed sympathetically.
He turned and walked towards the military medical office. Looking at He Jinglan writing a letter, he couldn't help but smile.
"She also said I was an old friend, hehe..."
"It's fine to be friends for now. It's much better than Brother Mu anyway."
"He was married to Boss Gu's family, and he was no different from a live-in son-in-law. But now he is not as good as me. Boss Gu sent gifts and letters to the military camp several times, but he ignored him."
"Ah, it's tragic enough when I think about it. I have to tell the general later and find a chance to comfort Brother Mu."
Mu Nanzhao returned to his tent.
He picked up the cup to drink water, frowned, and put it down heavily.
It's lukewarm and tastes terrible!
He picked up another book, but found that it was not the one he had been reading recently, so he put it down in annoyance. He then reached out to open the ink cartridge, and somehow a lot of ink splashed out.
The half-written military strategy on the table was stained by ink, so it had to be rewritten.
Mu Nanzhao stared at the table with murderous eyes.
The orderly wanted to come in to change the kettle, but when he saw this scene, he was so scared that he wanted to retreat immediately the same way.
Mu Nanzhao suddenly stood up, his expression gloomy, and he strode forward.
The orderly shivered as he held the kettle, not daring to look directly.
"Sir, I just... just wanted to drink some water. Oh no, change the kettle. No, change the kettle."
However, Mu Nanzhao simply walked past the orderly and left the tent.
In the central military tent, Huo Jiang had just finished discussing matters with several generals.
Mu Nanzhao walked in and looked at Huo Jiang, "I want to go back to Huachidu Village."
"What did you say?" Huo Jiang felt his head hurt even more, and even his ears started buzzing.
Mu Nanzhao said, "It will take at least three days for the army to cross the mountains from here to the capital."
"Then we will go through Jincheng, Fengcheng, and Zhenxian. It will be easy to take Jincheng. It will take at most five or six days to attack the city, recruit troops, and rest."
"But Fengcheng is protected by a century-old wall, so attacking the city is not that easy."
"Even if we can take it down, the cost and time it would take are not what we want."
Huo Jiang was puzzled. He just said he was leaving, so why was he talking about business again?
He nodded, "Yeah, so don't even think about leaving."
"Didn't we discuss this before? You have some connections with the Governor of Fengcheng. If you go to persuade them to surrender, you might be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort."
Mu Nanzhao said, "So it doesn't matter whether I'm there or not in the first few days."
"I will ride fast, and when your troops reach Fengcheng, I will rush back."
"No, no, no!" Huo Jiang made a bitter face and waved his hands repeatedly.
"How do I know you'll come back? Can you guarantee that?"
Mu Nanzhao said, "Didn't I already promise that?"
Huo Jiang suffocated.
After a moment, he adjusted his sitting posture and said with dignity, "What about the reason? You have to give me a proper reason, right?"
Mu Nanzhao thought, it seems that Meng Chengping's loudspeaker has not come yet.
He stared at Huo Jiang with a blank face, "I have been ignored time and again, and even my own house has been demolished. If I don't go back once, I'm afraid I will have nowhere to live. Is this a good enough reason?"
Huo Jiang couldn't help laughing in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face, "Oh, it's a family problem."
"This is indeed a big problem. If you don't have peace behind you, you can't do anything in front of you."
"No," Mu Nanzhao said calmly, "On the contrary, I feel particularly peaceful behind me."
"An Ning..." He gritted his teeth slightly, "It's almost erased my existence."
Huo Jiang finally couldn't help but burst out laughing.
But he quickly regained his composure and said, "There's nothing wrong with this. It seems more serious than the fighting in other families."
Mu Nanzhao didn't say anything.
Huo Jiang cleared his throat and said, "Then go ahead and pick the fastest horse."
"But remember, kid, our heads are now tied together. If you dare to cheat me and don't come back on time, I will dig up your Mu family's ancestral grave before I die!!"
Mu Nanzhao sneered as a reply and turned away.
Huachidu Village.
It started raining when I woke up early. After being hot for a few days, it finally got a little cooler.
Gu Xixi likes this kind of weather, standing under the eaves watching the rain.
He Jinglan was holding a pot of freshly steamed vegetable dumplings and had just walked out of the kitchen when she heard Gu Xixi sneeze.
She asked with concern, "Did you catch a cold from taking a shower last night? Come into the house quickly, be careful not to get wet again."
Gu Xixi smiled and said, "It's okay, my nose is just a little itchy."
"And I just met Master, and he didn't tell me that I was sick."
He Jinglan saw that she was not in a bad mood, so she was relieved for the time being, "That's good."
She looked around and saw no one around, and whispered, "My eyelids twitched twice when I woke up this morning, and I was wondering if something was going to happen."
"Could it be that something happened to the Northwest Army or the capital?"
Gu Xixi comforted her and said, "Things happen all the time, big or small, good or bad. Don't scare yourself all the time."
He Jinglan smiled and nodded, "That's right."
She was about to enter the house when someone outside the door asked loudly:
"Is my sister Zhang at home?"
He Jinglan quickly let go of the screen door and whispered, "Just when I said something was going to happen, it really happened!"
There was a woman standing outside the door. She was about the same age as Aunt Zhang. Her husband's surname was Wu. She lived in the east end of the village and was called Aunt Wu.
Gu Xixi recognized this person, but they had never dealt with each other.
She looked at He Jinglan in confusion, wondering why she was saying something was going to happen.
When Aunt Wu saw someone in the yard, she stepped in without waiting for the host to invite her.
"Oh my, what a coincidence! Xixi is at home."
"Then it's the same if I tell you directly about this good thing."
He Jinglan leaned close to Gu Xixi's face and moved her lips, "I advise you not to listen."
Gu Xixi was about to say something when Aunt Zhang suddenly walked out of the kitchen.
She slammed the door shut and turned to Aunt Wu with a fake smile, "Haven't we already made it clear? Why did you come to my house?"
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