Chapter 215 Brothers in Distress
Inside the military tent, the man was wearing a dark blue silk, narrow-sleeved Hu clothing, and a black brocade belt with a bamboo pattern tied around his waist. From behind, he had broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and a tall, slender figure.
He was fiddling with a game of chess on the table, tapping the board with his slender index finger with a bit of coldness and willfulness.
"knew."
Meng Chengping ran over and said, "Hey, what else can you say besides "I know"?"
"Huachidu Village! Those medicines were made by Huachidu Village, Gu Xixi's family, and Gu Xixi's master, Doctor Jiang!"
Mu Nanzhao picked up a chess piece with a red flag and the Chinese character "西" engraved on it, staring at the chessboard and thinking, "I ordered the medicine, so you don't need to tell me where it came from."
Meng Chengping was heartbroken when he failed to get the expected response, "Huachidu, Gu Xixi!"
"Don't you want to ask a few more questions?!"
After a moment, the chess piece fell from Mu Nanzhao's fingertips, and he finally raised his eyes to look at Meng Chengping.
Just as Meng Chengping was full of anticipation, thinking that he was going to say something.
Mu Nanzhao moved his eyes back to the chessboard, "I don't want to."
Meng Chengping leaned over, held onto the corner of the table, and yelled, "Just keep pretending! In the end, your fiancée will have to open a husband-and-wife shop with someone else. Don't cry and beg your brother to drink with you when the time comes!"
Mu Nanzhao's hand, which was about to make a move, stopped in mid-air.
The air in the military tent seemed to freeze.
Meng Chengping felt inexplicably guilty and took three steps back tactically.
Mu Nanzhao has been recovering since he was detoxified. Recently, Meng Chengping found that he could no longer beat him.
After they were at a safe distance, Meng Chengping dared to continue, "Why, did I hit you in a sore spot?"
"But what I said is the truth! You can't fool yourself and pretend it doesn't exist."
"Don't forget, the one who was actually with Gu Xixi was that Hu man, not you!"
Mu Nanzhao suddenly glared at him.
The air seemed to be filled with frost and snow, stinging Meng Chengping's face and causing pain.
He said cautiously, "Now is the time to use people. If you dare to kill people to silence them, the general will never agree!"
Mu Nanzhao looked at Meng Chengping and sneered, his eyes full of disdain.
"General Meng might as well worry about himself first."
"After all, there has never been anyone like you on the list of candidates for the husband of the He family's daughter."
Meng Chengping was stunned, and his whole body became listless and depressed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Ah... that's... right..."
"I'm not even a candidate. I'm worse than you, my nominal fiancé."
In name only... fiancé?
Mu Nanzhao's brows tightened. Unexpectedly, the knife he stabbed out turned into a boomerang and stabbed himself again.
The two stood facing each other in silence.
After an unknown amount of time, Meng Chengping spoke sadly, "I only know that Jinglan has been living in Boss Gu's house. It seems that everything is fine. She even seems to be enjoying it."
Mu Nanzhao glanced at her with disdain, "You don't think she will become exhausted because of him, do you?"
Meng Chengping said, "I hope she can think of me a little bit. Otherwise, if she forgets me, won't I have no hope at all?"
As he spoke, a smile appeared on his face again, and his eyes seemed to be looking at that unreachable person. "But she can find a place she likes to live and live happily every day. Of course I am happy for her."
"I discovered a long time ago that when she lived in the capital, no one could play with her freely."
"So I have to work hard to be on par with her as soon as possible, so that she can have fun however she wants in her life."
Mu Nanzhao sighed silently and shook his head.
Gu Xixi seemed to have said, what is this symptom called?
Love-brain, yes, that’s the name.
Meng Chengping turned to Mu Nanzhao, "I have no way of knowing what's going on in the village. Didn't you release the shadow guards?"
"I see you receiving secret letters all the time. Do you know a lot and hide it from me?"
Mu Nanzhao sighed heavily and looked at Meng Chengping with a look that said "you're hopeless".
"Do you think I would use the opportunity of delivering a secret letter to inquire about the trivialities of the village?"
Meng Chengping asked back, "Can't I?"
Mu Nanzhao closed his eyes in suffocation.
He was always the only one who could calmly anger others to death, and Meng Chengping's level was far from enough to make him angry.
But for some reason, he was feeling very irritated now.
It was as if a bunch of dry grass was piled on my heart, and it would ignite out of control with just a spark.
"Anyway, I won't ask what He Jinglan did every day at Gu Xixi's house. If you want to know, don't ask me."
Meng Chengping remained calm, "Why can't Master Liu just write a few words of gossip?"
"Aren't you curious about Boss Gu's recent situation?"
"Especially that Hu man. I heard that I want to do business with him in the future."
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One sentence after another, finally, Mu Nanzhao heard the thread called "reason" in his mind snap.
"She thinks my concern is just to monitor her and control her! She hates me doing this, so before I left, I promised her that I would no longer have the shadow guards squat around her house and no one would record her current situation and pass it on to me!"
"Now you know the reason? Are you satisfied?!"
Meng Chengping felt relieved all of a sudden, "It turns out that Boss Gu hates you too."
"I'm not the only one suffering like this. I feel relieved."
At this moment, he looked at Mu Nanzhao, feeling a sense of mutual sympathy between brothers in distress.
Mu Nanzhao was no longer able to judge Meng Chengping's train of thought.
Then he asked, "You just said that Gu Xixi wanted to open a store with An. How did you know that?"
The smile on Meng Chengping's lips slowly froze, "This... well..."
Facing Mu Nanzhao's cold gaze, Meng Chengping knew he couldn't delay any longer, so he could only say:
"Aren't there people of yours among those escorting this batch of drugs?"
"I saw that the brothers had worked hard, so I treated them to a meal and chatted with them for a while."
Mu Nanzhao raised his eyebrows slightly, "If you want to work under me, the first rule is not to be a gossip."
"Tell me who it is so I can deal with him."
Meng Chengping broke out in a cold sweat. In order not to implicate innocent people, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "I just hinted to them that you want to know the recent situation of Boss Gu and his family, especially what important things have happened. But you are too embarrassed to ask in person, so as a brother, I have to do it for you..."
The more he spoke, the softer his voice became, until in the end only a hum could be heard from between his lips.
Looking at Mu Nanzhao again, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
"Okay," he laughed in anger, his stunning face like a gorgeous blooming poisonous flower.
"Meng Chengping!!!"
Seeing that the situation was not good, Meng Chengping ran away, leaving a sentence as he ran: "I don't regret it! I did this all for your own good. If you keep saving face like this, you will suffer in vain, and your corner will be hollowed out!"
"Get out!!!" A roar came from the military tent.
The summer harvest in Huachidu Village has begun.
The whole village was busy, and with the added bonus of taking turns on patrol, it was even busier.
The situation this year is good, but there is not much joy in the atmosphere as everyone faces the upcoming harvest.
Because the village chief said that the surrounding bandits had also set their sights on this batch of grain, and it was said that a nearby village had already been robbed.
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