Chapter 170 Everyone goes back to his own house
Blood splattered on the spot?
Gu Xixi instinctively felt a chill on her neck.
But she quickly realized that this statement at this moment should have nothing to do with her.
After all, if Mu Nanzhao wanted to wipe out her "shame", he had plenty of opportunities to do it in private. There was really no need to do it in the military camp in front of so many people.
Gu Xixi took a deep breath and said with a smile, "Thanks to you for thinking about the overall situation and not letting the general die on the spot. Should I thank you on behalf of the people in the northwest?"
Mu Nanzhao squinted and said, "You actually understand what I'm thinking."
"Let's go back to the village."
Huo Jiang had just deliberately provoked him, saying "I bought it for a penny" all the time.
Mu Nanzhao was ready to kill. If he didn't quickly pull Gu Xixi away, he was afraid that he would accidentally attack Huo Jiang.
He has always been good at weighing things, and this result is harmful rather than beneficial both in the short and long term, in the overall situation and in his own selfish interests.
Besides, Mu Nanzhao and Huo Jiang have a close relationship, so he naturally wouldn't really want to kill him.
As for revenge, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future, so there is no need to rush.
The dependents' village was completely quiet, without a single person in sight.
Everyone has been running around from midnight to noon today, and I think everyone is so tired that they are catching up on their sleep at home.
Gu Xixi and Mu Nanzhao returned to the courtyard, and He Jinglan was dragging a box out of the house.
She put the box against the wall and gave Mu Nanzhao a cold look, "Why are you here?"
Mu Nanzhao asked back, "Have you decided to return to the capital?"
He Jinglan still had a bad face, "Do you need to care where I go?"
She snorted coldly and said to herself, "Birds of a feather, none of them are good!"
Mu Nanzhao's mouth twitched, and he looked at Gu Xixi helplessly.
"Who are you angry with? Why take it out on me?"
He Jinglan simply turned around and said angrily, "You met me and Xixi last night, why didn't you tell me that Meng Chengping was there too?"
"You are hiding this from me on purpose!"
Mu Nanzhao was speechless.
He has never liked to explain, and what's more, He Jinglan's anger is mainly directed at Meng Chengping.
Why should he waste his breath?
Seeing that Mu Nanzhao looked indifferent, Gu Xixi could only smile and explain:
"In fact, at such a critical moment last night, he may have really forgotten to mention Meng Chengping. He didn't mean to not tell you."
She poked Mu Nanzhao with two fingers from behind and winked at him at the same time, "You said, right?"
Mu Nanzhao's eyes flickered, and he hummed reluctantly, "Yes."
He Jinglan couldn't give up.
She ran back in anger at noon, packed her luggage immediately, and vowed to leave at dawn the next day and never look back.
When she mentioned Meng Chengping again at this moment, she could not remain calm. Instead, she became angrier the more she talked.
"Okay, even if you really forgot to tell me, where is Meng Chengping?"
"He went on such a dangerous mission. Even if he wanted to keep it secret and couldn't tell me, he should at least come and say goodbye to me in person."
"When he was being a hero, did he care about how worried I was that I couldn't see him these few days? I was worried that he would get hurt, that something would happen to him, and I had to keep telling myself that it was okay and not to overthink it."
He Jinglan finished venting her anger, took a deep breath, and said:
"Anyway, I have made up my mind this time, so don't try to persuade me on his behalf!"
Mu Nanzhao waited until she was completely quiet before saying calmly, "No one wants to persuade you."
He Jinglan was startled, "Didn't that wooden guy named Meng send you here?"
Mu Nanzhao said, "Huo Jiang said there is nothing to do in the army tonight, so he asked me to come back and rest."
"As for Meng Chengping, he didn't say anything to me."
He turned to Gu Xixi and asked, "Did Meng Chengping ask you to help persuade him?"
Gu Xixi shook her head truthfully.
He Jinglan's face gradually turned pale, "Okay, he's fine!"
She sneered and said, "You can imagine that he has just made a great contribution, so he must be eating, drinking and sleeping well."
"That's not the case." Gu Xixi said. "He... is very calm,"
She thought of a more appropriate description. "He was like a calm madman, who didn't care how the general scolded him. Then he threw a head on the table and asked the general to beat him, kill him, and put him in solitary confinement."
“???” He Jinglan frowned in confusion, with a curled up corner of her mouth, an expression that was difficult to comment on.
Gu Xixi continued to describe calmly, "Oh, in the end the general still punished him with twenty military sticks."
"When I went out, the person had already been carried away. I guess he was beaten pretty badly."
"Military stick? Twenty more hits?" He Jinglan was so surprised that she lost her voice.
"I've seen that thing hit people. Just one or two hits can tear the flesh apart."
"He hit him 20 times. Doesn't General Huo think highly of him? How could he be so cruel?"
Gu Xixi spread her hands and said, "I only said what I know. I didn't see the execution myself, so I don't know what happened afterwards."
He Jinglan trusted Gu Xixi the most, so when she heard her say this, she naturally wouldn't doubt whether it was true or not.
After a while, He Jinglan came back to her senses from her trance and looked up to find that Gu Xixi and Mu Nanzhao were both looking at her.
She naturally didn't want to be seen through, so she said loudly, "After all, he's someone I know. I was just curious and asked a few more questions. What's his condition? It's none of my business. It wasn't me who caused him to get beaten anyway!"
He Jinglan said this and went back to her room.
Gu Xixi and Mu Nanzhao looked at each other.
Without saying a word, they both meant the same thing: the more you try to hide something, the more obvious it becomes.
Mu Nanzhao said, "I have something to tell you."
Gu Xixi hadn't slept a wink since last night, and as soon as she calmed down, she couldn't stop yawning.
"You haven't rested in the past two days. If you don't sleep, you will die suddenly."
She waved her hands weakly and floated forward, "Everyone go back to your rooms. If you have anything to say, talk after you wake up."
Mu Nanzhao stood where he was, watching Gu Xixi close the door neatly with her backhand.
He showed a helpless look on his face, and after a moment, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he turned and walked towards his room.
When Gu Xixi opened her eyes again, it was already dark and she didn't know what time it was.
She felt her throat was so dry that it was about to smoke, so she had to give up the idea of continuing to sleep and got up to go to the kitchen to get some water.
When I passed by He Jinglan's house, the windows were dark.
Gu Xixi thought she might still be asleep, so she continued walking towards the kitchen holding the oil lamp.
The kitchen was pitch black. Gu Xixi stepped sideways with one foot inside, holding the door curtain with her shoulder. Just as she was about to put the oil lamp in to light up the place, she suddenly felt something under her feet.
A long sigh came from below.
Gu Xixi was so scared that she immediately raised her legs. "Who?!"
"...I." Mu Nanzhao's voice was hoarse and weak.
Gu Xixi recognized it was him, calmed down, and quickly took the oil lamp to illuminate.
I saw Mu Nanzhao sitting on the ground with his back against the side of the stove.
He was only wearing a tight-fitting single-layer inner garment, his face was pale, and his clothes were visibly soaked with sweat, highlighting his smooth and distinct muscle lines.
A sickly beauty, with flesh to show when she takes off her clothes, tempting people to commit a crime.
This thought suddenly popped up in Gu Xixi's mind.
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