I'm afraid you'll be widowed

The road to Xishan is really difficult, especially when the night is dark.

Pei Gong held the torch and looked around.

After searching hard for most of the night, he only saw a dim green light hidden in the grass in the distance.

He knew it was a wolf's eyeball.

Knowing that the wolf is watching not far away, the two people who went up the mountain at night are almost equivalent to the rations delivered to the wolf.

Pei Gong couldn't help but silently gripped his own knife, and told the little beggar who was leading the way: "Don't be afraid, follow closely."

Although Pei Gong's face was calm, there was a faint fear in his heart that couldn't be shaken off.

It was an indescribable, unclear way, a feeling that seemed to have never happened before.

He is not afraid of wolves, let alone the dark.

What he was afraid of was Fang Cenxi, a weak scholar who had no strength to restrain a chicken. If he really encountered wolves and beasts, the consequences would be unimaginable.

The little beggar said bravely: "I just brought firecrackers before going up the mountain."

"As soon as the wolf comes, I will light it. The wolf is most afraid of this."

Pei Gong laughed lightly: "You are very smart."

"My lord, what does Master Fang mean when he said that I can't 'underestimate myself'?"

"Can reading really help a lot of people get enough to eat?"

"Are there really many officials in the capital who are bigger than the county magistrate?"

Hearing the childish words of the little beggar, Pei Gong felt that even the mountain road was no longer difficult.

Inexplicably, he showed countless patience, slowly answering the little beggar in front of him sentence by sentence.

Fresh life is an extremely precious thing.

Even though he was full of prejudice against Fang Cenxi, and once suspected that Fang Cenxi was inseparable from being arrested in the county government prison, all of this could have disappeared when Fang Cenxi's life was threatened.

"Your Master Fang is a man who can't lift his shoulders and can't..."

"My lord, then!"

"There's a fire, there's someone!"

Pei Gong was startled, and his steps became faster.

"Fang Cenxi." Pei Gong avoided the flames and breathed a sigh of relief. Pei Gong's tightly gripped heart suddenly let go at this moment, but there was still something that he couldn't let go completely.

"Lord Fang." Seeing that Fang Cenxi was safe and sound, the little beggar hurried over, "It's good that you're fine."

Fang Cenxi hugged the fire and lightly raised his eyes. There was inevitably a bit of surprise in his eyes. He couldn't help but take a second look for confirmation, then frowned slightly and asked, "Third Lord? What are you doing up the mountain?"

"There are wolves on this mountain. It's really dangerous. You don't have to take the risk."

On the other hand, the little beggar flattened his mouth: "Fortunately, Mr. Fang got angry, and the wolves dare not approach."

"Officer Pei is worried to death."

Pei Gong, who was ruthlessly exposed, was taken aback for a moment, and said angrily, "Who is worried about him?"

"I'm worried that I won't be able to pay the job when I return to Beijing, and it will be bad luck to have a funeral."

Seeing this, Fang Cenxi just sneered: "Thank you for making the third master tired."

"I'm fine, don't worry."

"Most wolves are in packs. There is a fire here right now, so it's safer to wait until dawn tomorrow before going down the mountain."

It was dark and the road was slippery, and the mountain road was rugged.

It is inevitable that there will be no accidents if you rashly step into an unfamiliar field, and Pei Gong is well aware of this truth.

"How does Mr. Fang know that there are wolves in this mountain? Could it be that they have been here before?" The little beggar couldn't help being puzzled again.

Fang Cenxi explained patiently: "When I went up the mountain, I already noticed that there were wolf footprints and wolf excrement on the mountain road."

What's more, the water in Xianghai County is so deep that the people in the county government definitely don't want them to retreat from the town.

But it is easy to leave traces by doing it yourself. If it can kill someone, it can be dismissed with an accident, and the county government can easily shake off its responsibility.

Most of the ferocious beasts in the mountains don't have much contact with people, and the mountain roads where pedestrians go are always avoided as much as possible.To be able to openly leave traces on the mountain roads that are not covered by branches and leaves, if there are not so many wolves in the mountains, then these wolves have already feared no one.

No matter which possibility is, it will undoubtedly bring infinite danger.

Only then did Pei Gong realize later: "Where's Yu Zirong?"

Fang Cenxi responded calmly: "He was anxious to push me off the cliff, but he slipped and fell down by himself."

Hearing this, Pei Gong said in a low voice, "That really deserves it."

At the end, he glanced at Fang Cenxi again: "I told you to always keep it from me and never tell me anything. In the end, you deserved to be trapped on the mountain overnight."

The dead branches were burning in the fire, and sparks were beeping and beeping.

It was very quiet in the mountains.

The little beggar beside him fell asleep, and was covered by Fang Cenxi's clothes.

Pei Gong couldn't bear the embarrassment of the two of them sitting together, so he finally spoke first: "Yu Zirong still wanted to kill those goldsmiths in the prison, and I caught the culprits."

"I... didn't want to push you on purpose that day."

"I'm out of breath, so I don't have time to think about it."

"You are a magnanimous person, why should you be as knowledgeable as me?"

The more Pei Gong said, the more difficult it was for him to speak, and finally he simply leaned against the tree trunk behind him, and smiled as if mocking himself: "Everyone in the capital knows that Pei San in Liang Guogong's mansion does not think about making progress, and he is no more successful than the two elder brothers."

"You are worried that I will hold you back, there is nothing wrong if you don't believe me."

Pei Gong said calmly: "It's true that not everyone must regard me as important."

"But Pei Gong is Pei Gong, and not everyone can take it lightly."

He can distinguish right from wrong, right from wrong, and he also can't see Yu Zirong's persecution of Xianghai people. This is a heart that cannot be slandered.

"I realize now that you may not be malicious if you don't tell me the case."

Fang Cenxi listened to these words quietly, his eyes drooped slightly, and he could not see any emotion.

After Pei Gong finished speaking, he suddenly spoke in a soft voice.

"The official bank was transported out of the county government. I checked it on the morning when I was waiting for you to be released from prison. There were ruts on the door. The bank did not melt in water, but was hidden in the mountains outside the county. "

"The village confiscated the people's food through the investigation of the official bank, and extorted it violently. The yamen servant who died in the inn was also killed by them with a dagger."

"That's why the hydration gold is naturally a made-up name. What the third master said earlier is correct. Those craftsmen are indeed scapegoats."

Pei Gong then asked: "So it's true that you have seen through all their shady methods, so they are eager to provoke our relationship, and then they will draw me who is easy to attack, and use me to deal with you?"

"En." Fang Cenxi nodded slightly.

Pei Gong raised his head: "It really is Yu Zirong, that bastard."

"I didn't expect that you would see through Yu Zirong's provocation." Fang Cenxi said softly.

After all, Fang Cenxi knew very well that Pei Gong was reckless like a fool.

So from the very beginning, he didn't expect anything from Pei Gong.

Pei Gong couldn't see that he was being slandered, so he sneered self-satisfiedly: "I want to know how I figured it out?"

"Then I won't say it."

……

"Hey, if I don't tell you, will you really stop asking?"

"You should ask again. If you ask again, maybe I will tell you?"

"Fang Cenxi, do I owe you money? Why do I feel that you always have a grudge against me?"

Before the words were finished, the wolves who had been in ambush for a long time couldn't wait for the two of them to fall asleep, and rushed to surround them impatiently.

Pei Gong turned cold, and immediately blocked Fang Cenxi and the little beggar behind him.

The wolves seemed to be endless, seeing Pei Gong in front of them, they rushed towards Pei Gong one after another.

Fang Cenxi frowned lightly, watching Pei Gong entangled with the wolves.

The wolf's eyeballs were showing a dark green light. Fang Cenxi flicked the torch to illuminate a side of Pei Gong who was hiding in the night, pointed at the little beggar and threw firecrackers towards him, and the wolf was startled by a "crack". As if fleeing, he ran back to the bushes behind him.

"Master Xiao Fang is very courageous." Pei Gong said with a smile, "It turns out that you are not afraid of wolves."

"Don't talk nonsense." Fang Cenxi tensed up, "Look at your left hand..."

Before the conversation was idle, Pei Gong raised his knife and slashed to kill the gray wolf that was rushing up from the left.

The wolf came suddenly, and Pei Gong swung the knife even more decisively. His martial arts skills are superb, making people feel extremely reliable.

The wolves surrounded him and did not dare to rush forward, so Pei Gong took advantage of the gap to look sideways: "Don't be afraid."

"My second brother and I killed wolves in Xuan Mansion, and we enjoyed it."

As soon as the words fell, the gray wolf in the lead rushed towards Pei Gong desperately, and bit Pei Gong's right shoulder again in an instant.

However, Pei Gong went one foot higher and stabbed the wolf with a backhand.fresh round talk pure like a flower

The wolf hung on Pei Gong's knife like bacon, but Pei Gong didn't show any fear or panic: "Playing with the master? You're a little tender."

That was the cleanest saber technique that Fang Cenxi had ever seen, but when he drew the saber, it was even more neat, wolf blood gushed out immediately, and the blood line was drawn straight towards the person like a thin whip.

Fang Cenxi turned his face but was a step too late, the wolf's blood was splashed on his side cheeks and eyes in a blink of an eye.

Fang Cenxi, who was originally calm and self-sufficient, suddenly froze in place.

It was very cold at night, but the blood was warm, and it was very obvious when it fell on the face, sticky and smelling like blood.

There is a feeling that is too familiar suddenly pervading.

"hiss……"

Fang Cenxi gasped twice, and suddenly became in a trance uncontrollably.

The fishy smell made him inexplicably nauseous, and his stomach seemed to be overwhelmed.And the hand that was holding the torch began to tremble uncontrollably.

Fang Cenxi's eyes were like mosquitoes and flies gathering, and it turned black one after another. He couldn't use his strength, and he had to use up all his strength to stand still, so he could only reach out and clasp the trunk of the tree for strength.

"Master Fang." The little beggar quickly supported him, "What's wrong with you?"

Fang Cenxi shook his head with all his might.

Pei Gong's wolves were not finished yet.

However, Fang Cenxi already felt that his eyes were blurred, and even breathing became extremely difficult.

His chest seemed to be heavily pressed by something, and there were only countless nightmares left in his mind.

I don't know how long it took, but the howling of the wolves finally dissipated far away.

Pei Gong squatted down in front of him, skillfully rubbed the blood on the back of the knife and his hand on the wolf fur a few times, preventing the bloody knife from slipping, and preventing the blood from flowing into the scabbard.

He turned his back to Fang Cenxi and wrote casually: "I just said, there is no need to worry about a few wolves."

"I haven't had a good night's sleep since I came to Xianghai. Now I have to go back to Beijing earlier. If I don't sleep for two days, I will..."

"Master Pei, Mr. Fang..." the little beggar cried anxiously.

"Fang Cenxi?" Pei Gong pressed his brows lightly and turned his head. Seeing Fang Cenxi's pale face, he couldn't help being taken aback. He hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with you? Are you uncomfortable?"

"I'm fine." Fang Cenxi's reaction was obviously lagging behind by a few minutes, his voice was shallow, as if he had lost his temper, and he was struggling to speak, "Tomorrow... I will go down the mountain to study and return to Beijing, so Jin Yiwei can come ... It is important to come to detain the person."

"Why are you talking intermittently?" Ren Pei Gong couldn't help but notice Fang Cenxi's abnormality, no matter how big his heart was, "Didn't you be fine just now?"

"A wolf hurt you?"

"No, I'm just, just... some..."

Fang Cenxi's face was pale and bloodless, and there was an obvious abnormality under the firelight.

He supported the tree trunk to get up slowly, and only took two steps before his eyes went dark, and he fell down completely unconsciously.

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Lord Xiaofang: There is indeed a grudge, you have finally become smarter