Chapter 34 Misunderstanding
Just as the military doctors were rescuing Linghu Xian, Ouyang Zhong was sent back by the war horse, along with a strange man in black, who asked to see Linghu Xian by name. The generals guarding the city didn't dare to agree easily, so they quickly sent a message to the great general Wei Kongji to come and decide. Wei Kongji invited the mysterious man in black to his General's tent for a chat.
After transforming from a black wolf to a human, Xuan Mo stood in the General's tent, his hands folded, waiting for Wei Kongji. He was still the same as Mr. Mo back then, with a dark and thin face, hale and hearty eyes, and a black attire composed of a heroic and competent manner. Wei Kongji saw Xuan Mo politely arch his hand and saluted.
Xuan Mo returned the salute, no longer pleasantries, straight to the point, said: "Under the Xuan Mo is considered a world outside the cultivation of people, and your army has been with Linghu Xian, and Ouyang Zhong had a few face to face, this time know that the two of them have difficulties, especially come to help."
Great General Wei Kongji had long heard from Linghu Xian several times when he faced significant dangers; a high person would come to help, and it was true! This time, a tall person will come to support our army and will be able to defeat the soldiers and horses of the Dingling Clan and the spider spirit's sorcery. It was the right time for us to use him. Wei Kongji was happy to hear Xuanmo's words and welcomed him with a big smile. Xuan Mo told Wei Kongji about Yu Sun's poisoning and spells and asked anxiously, "How is Linghu Xian now?"
"Sir, don't worry. Linghu Xian saved me; the doctor rescued that child I like now and is resting in his room."
"General, Great General!" Ouyang Zhong limped in, dragging his injured leg across the room, and rushed in to find Wei Kongji, "I've been enchanted; the orders I gave before weren't real; please save Linghu Xian!"
"Don't worry, I've already rescued her from the dungeon. She's resting now." Wei Kongji helped Ouyang Zhong up and made him sit aside peacefully.
"I, there is one more thing, please. Great General must help. Linghu Xian is not my guard but a friend I grew up with, and she is also not a man but a daughter. Great General, I know that I have committed a felony by bringing a woman to the barracks without authorization, and I am willing to be punished. But please don't hurt her. Let her go in addition for the sake of her having saved us. " Ouyang Zhong lowered his voice and whispered, "Today, Wang Changshi conveyed the Elder Princess's decree to me, telling me to kill Linghu Xian or else use my entire Ouyang family as blackmail. Please help me, Great General!" Saying this, Ouyang Zhong once again knelt to Wei Kongji to ask for help.
Wei Kongji once again helped him up and said, "Behave yourself. Why are you kneeling? To display the status, you than I can be much higher, you this kneeling I can not afford, my Emperor's son-in-law! I've seen that Linghu Xian is a girl for a long time. I'm a soldier, yes. I must obey orders and enforce the law strictly.
But I'm more of a father; I have a daughter, about the same age as Linghu Xian, and that girl usually likes to dress up like a boy, with my sons dancing with swords and guns. Haha! Whenever I see Linghu Xian dancing with a sword, I think of my daughter. Moreover, let's not talk about whether she's a boy or a girl. She's a qualified soldier, a brave warrior. I respect her for that, and I can't watch her die in vain. When struggling against the enemy in a stalemate, we need a talent like her the most."
"Great General's saving grace, Chong is unable to repay!" Ouyang Zhong solemnly bowed to Wei Kongji with tears in his eyes.
"Haha, virtuous brother, forgive me. However, this person of mine is most annoyed with being spied on. Before I help you get rid of Wang Changshi, I have to get rid of an eavesdropping bug first." Wei Kongji said, quickly opening his bow and shooting an arrow towards the outside of the tent. Outside the General's tent, a man yelled out, then was pressed to the ground by the patrolling soldiers in a deadly manner, unable to move.
Wei Kongji asked Xuan Mo and Ouyang Zhong to take a seat, then ordered the man to be brought into the tent. An arrow from Wei Kongji hit the man's shoulder, and although he was not in fear for his life, he grimaced in pain. He was pressed down and knelt in front of Wei Kongji. His head was grabbed and tilted up. Wei Kongji sneered when he saw the man's appearance.
"It's you just now when you rushed to my tent to report General Ouyang's whereabouts, I had some suspicions. It seems that you are impatient. General Ouyang just came to ask for help from me, and you're going to go and ventilate with whoever it is?" After Wei Kongji finished speaking, his eyes instantly became stern as he looked at the vice general, pulling out his sword and placing it on his neck. He then asked, "Tell me, who sent you?"
The vice general did not know if it was because of the wound pain or because of fear, shivering for half a day, and not speaking. Wei Kongji also did not give more time, directly into the sword into his thigh and then coldly asked again: "Say it or not?"
"I say, I say. I am. I am sent by the eldest Princess of Nanling to ... monitor ..." This vice general secretly glanced at Ouyang Zhong, then swallowed and continued, "To monitor the county princess's extra horse harnessed by the side of a team, General Ouyang."
When Ouyang Zhong heard this, he was so angry that his fingers clenched his fists, and his joints cackled, but he couldn't act rashly. A hallowed princess, a royal relative doing something so underhanded. Not only did she bypass the current Emperor and give him a private decree, but she also put eyes on the army to spy on the senior generals. These are all things that go against the law of the land; she is bold enough to want to cover the sky with one hand, ah?
The same thought, of course, Wei Kongji, before Ouyang Zhong attacked, said coldly: "Ha ha, good one, Nanling Rapunzel, we soldiers in the border to protect the country, blood bath sand field, but for her a little bit of selfishness and jealousy, for my camp to stir up trouble? Today, Wang Changshi came to give secret orders to kill my men. Tomorrow, will she go to the Emperor to cry and make a charge for me, too? Is this battle still on?"
Wei Kongji's temper came up; his fire was so big that it was scary; even Ouyang Zhong didn't expect the original Hussar General's temperament to be so hot. We must not provoke him in the future but get on good terms.
Wei Kongji put this vice general locked up, waited for the next day, and Wang Changshi chatted about this matter. Ouyang Zhong was injured and left the tent first. Only after he came out did he suddenly wake up to the fact that the man in black who had just been beside him without saying a word seemed familiar. When he turned back to look again, the man in black was also looking at him. He frowned slightly and asked, "May I ask Your Excellency, have we met somewhere before?"
Xuan Mo slowly approached Ouyang Zhong, nodded, and said, "Yes, in the last life, we did meet. And in this life, it wasn't you who just ran to the grassland and begged me to save Linghu Xian. What? Forgotten in such a short while?"
Ouyang Zhong's eyes widened before he reacted to the fact that the person in front of him was the Black Wolf who had just begged for help. He couldn't help but take a few steps backward to stabilize his mind, then asked in a small voice, "You and Linghu Xian are both demons?"
Hearing this, Xuan Mo finally understood what Red Flame said: humans are foolish and ignorant, gods and demons can't be distinguished at all, as if an animal can talk or become humanoid, it is a demon, alas. It is a pitiful lower-class creature. He looked at Ouyang Zhong and felt that although he was reincarnated and upgraded as a human being in this life, he did not have the last life as a dog to look intelligent and witty.
Xuan Mo didn't bother to pay attention to him and directly said, ''The injuries on your body are still quite heavy. Quickly go and bandage it up and rest early! I'm going to see Linghu Xian."
"Hey, you can't go; she's injured now; it's not convenient for you, a big man, to see her." Ouyang Zhong limped and blocked.
"Then you are also a big man. Aren't you also going to look for her now? What, you can see her, but I can't?"
"How can I be the same as you? I'm here..." Ouyang Zhong realized at this time whether he had any identity or reason to see Linghu Xian. "Anyway, I can see you can't." Ouyang Zhong's problem of spilling the beans came back.
"Hehe, well, I'd better re-introduce myself again; my name is Xuan Mo. I was Linghu Xian's teacher in my last life, and I'm her guardian in this life. She learned her knowledge, calligraphy, and swordsmanship from me. How about it? As a teacher, I will see my disciple and treat her injuries; what's wrong with that?"
His dislike dumbfounded Ouyang Zhong; there was nothing wrong with a teacher seeing his student; there was nothing wrong with someone who could help heal her, and even more so, but on the contrary, it was very inappropriate for him to go and see Linghu Xian at this moment with a thick skin. After all, the current miserable encounters and serious injuries are because of their cause. He Ouyang Zhong severely hurt the heart of Linghu Xian; I'm afraid that at this moment, Linghu Xian the last thing he wants to see is himself.
Xuan Mo walked straight toward Linghu Xian's room while Ouyang Zhong continued limping behind. Ouyang Zhong watched as Xuan Mo familiarly walked toward Linghu Xian's place. He felt a slight pain in his heart and muttered: ''Why are you so familiar with this place? Did you two meet long ago behind my back?"
Xuan Mo heard a beat, looked back at Ouyang Zhong calmly, and said, "Are you jealous? Ouyang Zhong, not to mention that Linghu Xian and I have never met like this in this life; even if we did, the man is unmarried, and the woman is unmarried, so other people can't say anything. On the contrary, it is you since you have long chosen to be the son-in-law of Princess Joyful Yang. After drinking the FM radio and performing the ceremony of FM radio, you should take up the responsibility as a man, as a husband. You should provoke Linghu Xian less in the future!"
Ouyang Zhong was so unconvinced that he hurriedly defended himself, "County Princess Jiao Yang and I were married by order of our parents, by the words of a matchmaker, and given by today's saint, it is not that I want to take the initiative to marry her. And I don't like her. What I like is Linghu Xian ah!"
"Oh, is that so?" Xuan Mo said in a light tone, slightly mocking, "Then how did I hear that back then you took the initiative to follow your father to the Eldest Princess of Nanling's residence as a guest and stayed for two months at a time? This is someone with a sword to tie you to go? Is someone taking your family's life, blackmailing you to live? Ouyang Zhong, I didn't know that you were a coward and a scoundrel in this life. In your last life, you were also considered my student; I don't know where you have lost all the decency, righteousness, integrity, and shame that I taught you?"
Seeing that he was about to enter the door of Linghu Xian's room, Xuan Mo blocked Ouyang Zhong with his body and said in a low voice, "Well, I advise you not to go in. The last thing that Linghu Xian would want to see right now about the most is you." With a turn of his body, he entered the room.
Xuan Mo's few words heavily knocked down Ouyang Zhong because every word he said was right; he was indeed an asshole; he couldn't give any future to Linghu Xian at all and didn't deserve a piece of Linghu Xian's heart. What qualifications does he have to say he likes? What qualification is there to stop others from caring for Linghu Xian? That would have been a misunderstanding. Has Linghu Xian taken those as accurate? Or is that not a misunderstanding, but one's self and Linghu Xian are deceived?
Ouyang Zhong leaned against the door, looking at the snowflakes drifting in the sky, and suddenly remembered that today was his seventeenth birthday. Not long ago, on the city wall, Linghu Xian also said he would make a bowl of birthday noodles for himself to celebrate the most. And now, seemingly a wall away, the distance between them has been drawn far, far away.
There were no lights in Linghu Xian's room, and apart from Linghu Xian's faint breathing, the room was silent, and there was no sound. Xuan Mo quietly walked to her bedside, looked at her tired and sleeping face, and after examining it for a while, he roughly judged her condition. Fortunately, the venom had been drained out quite a bit due to the misfortune, and the spirit beads within her body were now weak, but it was always slowly moving in a good direction.
Xuan Mo gently rested his finger on Linghu Xian's brow, feeling her demonic qi. However, as Red Flame said, she wasn't a demon anymore. That changed fur and tail was just a blindfold cast by the Spider Spirit, fooling the crowd and almost fooling him. Good Yu Sun, you are here when I let you escape from Zhuo Yi King City after searching for many years. Great, I must wipe you out in one fell swoop this time, leaving no loose ends!
Back then, in the Moon Picking Pavilion, the current Yu Sun was the demonic elixir wrapped in a dog's heart and soaked in a vat of blood. She was initially an ordinary small spider spirit but was captured by the lizard spirit Chu Tianming, who plowed through the body to grab the spirit pearl. After her death, the spirit pearl gathered a great deal of resentment and entered the demonic path. That day her demonic dan sucked a lot of dog's blood, and her arts increased significantly. While Xuan Mo, Hu Cang Cang, and Pi Dan fought with Chu Tian Ming, that demonic elixir attached itself to a dog's corpse and escaped Zhuo Yi City unnoticed.
As it slowly absorbed the spiritual qi of heaven and earth and continuously sucked the blood essence of animals and human beings, the demonic dan once again transformed into the spider spirit Yu Sun. However, at this time, she was no longer a demon race but had already turned into a devil race, and the mana on her body had also increased by a level of thousands of years.
Over the years, Xuan Mo kept searching for this lost demonic elixir, and many signs indicated that it was in the area of North Hope Mountain. Although Xuan Mo had already heard that a so-called great sorcerer of the Dingling Clan was a thousand-year-old spider spirit, he didn't expect it to be the one he was trying to catch. It seemed that he had gotten it without any effort, but he only pitied Linghu Xian and Ouyang Zhong, who had fallen into the path of that old spider and suffered a lot.
Xuan Mo slowly slid his finger down from Linghu Linghu Xian's forehead and touched her nose, mouth, and pointed chin. This was a person. Why could he always keep his initial impression? The first time I saw her, she was a little fox demon trembling with fear; the second time I saw her, she was a small child playing in the yard with a small windmill; at that time, Hu Cangcang should already be a human being, right? I can't imagine this little fox demon could cultivate into a human being at such a young age. It's the creation of heaven and earth.
Xuan Mo couldn't cast spells for Linghu Xian to nourish her body; that would only have side effects on her, and the spells would backfire on him. At the moment, Xuan Mo could only act like a human doctor, treating her symptoms of excessive blood loss and physical weakness. In the past few days, when Linghu Xian was repeatedly in a coma, he had been by her side to take care of her, feeding her water and medicine.
The day after catching the Elder Princess Nanling's eyes, the Great General hosted a banquet for Wang Changshi to see her off. After three rounds of wine, Wei Kongji said: "Wang Changshi is tired, to convey His Majesty's will, all the way hard bumps. My side has not been properly entertained, so I must rush back. I'm sorry, ah! You see, I'm in the middle of nowhere; there's nothing good to entertain your old man; take some souvenirs from the barracks and bring them back, right? Come on!"
Wang Changshi had a smile on his face and was about to exchange pleasantries and politeness with the Great General, thinking that it was some mountain treasure and wild food. Still, in the end, he followed the Great General's gesture, looked over, and was instantly dumbfounded. The Princess, inserted in the barracks of the eyes of the deputy general, was bundled into a dumpling in a large box carried to the center of the general tent. Wang Changshi jumped up in shock and looked carefully at the person in the chest; this person he recognized had met a few times in the Princess's residence and also knew that he was the eyes of the Princess placed in the military camp. How is it that this Linghu Xian's head was not seen but saw him?
Wang Changshi was a bit flustered and asked, "Great General, you this, what is the meaning of this?"
The Great General smiled and got down from the main seat, patiently explaining to Wang Changshi, "Wang Changshi, the greatest specialty of my military camp is the people, that is, there are a lot of people, I'll leave the good ones behind, and I'll still bother your old man with this black sheep, to send him back to wherever he came from. Since you're here to deliver a message for that one, please suffer your old self to deliver a message to her for me as well. We soldiers, we are all tied our heads to the waistband of our pants to fight for the people of the country; the sword has no eyes, and life and death have their destinies. The one she doesn't see eye to eye with has already died twice on the battlefield, so there's no need to kill her again. If I find out again that her hand stretches out so far and she's pointing fingers at my territory, next time, I'll write a few more lines on the zhengshi to the shengshi."
Wang Changshi didn't realize that this Wei Kongji wasn't one to be messed with and hurriedly left Beiwang City as if fleeing in a panic with that vice general and a group of people.