After dark, Fang Jie left the big tent to check on Mo Ningzhi's injuries. In fact, Fang Jie had always wanted to distance himself from this woman, and the entanglement between the two was indeed complicated. Fang Xie was apologetic and wary of her. This woman was even more elusive than Shen Qingfan back then. At that time, Shen Qingfan's attitude towards Xie was volatile, but no one had any real intention to kill. Mo Ningzhi is different, at this moment she is still smiling, but at the next moment she may draw her sword.
Fang Jie thinks so.
Before entering the tent where Mo Ningzhi lived, Fang Xie hesitated outside the door for a while, and finally opened the curtain and walked in. The lights in the tent are not very brightly lit, there are only a few women in the army, and naturally there will be no servants to serve them, and a person like Mo Ningzhi will never pick a wick because of the dim light, not her Lazy, but not necessary.
Fang Jie entered the door and glanced at the graceful figure lying on the bed, first walked over to brighten the lamp, then pulled up a chair and sat down, far enough away from the bed, at least longer than the length of a knife.
"The knife is not in my hand, why do you hide so far?"
Mo Ningzhi, who was resting with her eyes closed, suddenly said something in a low voice.
Fang Jie smiled and said: "It's not that I haven't seen a knife as big as several hundred steps long. If it was really chopped towards me, I would have to retreat outside the gate. If I can express myself hundreds of steps away Greetings, I'd like to do that."
"Which one wants you to greet?"
Mo Ningzhi's tone suddenly turned cold.
Fang Jiexin said that he was indeed an unpredictable person, the first sentence sounded soft as if she was not Mo Ningzhi, and the second sentence made people immediately come out of fantasy and prepare to be stabbed at any time.
"I'm just worried..."
Fang Jie randomly searched for a word, and began to regret walking into this tent.
"What are you worried about?"
Mo Ningzhi's tone suddenly softened again, which made Fang Jie a little uncomfortable.
"Don't worry if your injury is not as light as it looks on the surface."
After saying this sentence, Fang Jie probably didn't expect to have other understandings. Sure enough, Mo Ningzhi's tone sank again: "So, you came to see if I would be hurt to death?"
Fang Jie was stunned, unable to find the next sentence to say.
After a while, Mo Ningzhi suddenly sighed: "When you care about your women, are you so stupid and clumsy? If so, I really don't understand how they would like you. So I still think that you Your enemies are better, and their stupidity always makes me happier."
This woman's brain switched too fast, and Fang Xie couldn't keep up.
"I still have some pills from Xiang Qingniu..."
Before Fang Jie finished speaking, Mo Ningzhi interrupted: "I have been a Taoist for a while, and if I want those things, it is much easier to get than you."
Fang Jie was dumbfounded, he actually forgot this level.
"Go away if you have nothing else to do."
Mo Ningzhi issued an order to evict the guest: "Don't you think it is very rude to stay in a woman's dormitory for too long in the middle of the night? Even if this big camp is yours, this room is mine. Although The knife is not with me, but I can draw it anytime."
Fang Jie sighed, got up and said, "Then you have a good rest."
"You're welcome."
Mo Ningzhi said with a chilly tone, "I will cherish myself extremely, because I still want to kill you."
Fang Jie was speechless, turned around and prepared to leave. He stopped when he reached the door of the tent, then walked back to dim the lamp wick again, and then left. After he left, Mo Ningzhi, who was glaring at his back, suddenly burst out laughing, and looked at the oil lamp, her eyes were inexplicably gentle.
"Sure enough, you are an idiot... how come you are not an idiot?"
She murmured, under the lamp, that face was breathtakingly beautiful.
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After Fang Xie walked out of Mo Ningzhi's tent, he wanted to go see Sang Sasa and Shen Qingshan again, but he gave up the idea after seeing that it was getting late. Sang Sasa and Shen Qingfan were not injured, but Fang Jie didn't want to disturb their rest. Besides, if he went, Fang Xie really didn't know whether to stay in Sang Sasha's tent or Shen Qingfan's tent...
He walked in the direction of his big tent, and suddenly found a very short figure in the open space in the distance. After being stunned for a moment, he realized that there was a person kneeling there.
The cold moonlight sprinkled from the sky, evenly covering the earth. There are a few energetic cicadas on the tree in the distance, still fluttering their wings a little noisyly, but they seem very quiet like this. Even the footsteps of patrolling soldiers who passed by from time to time seemed to be deliberately suppressed by them, as if they were afraid to spare this quiet night.
The fire in the brazier was rising, stretching the shadow of the very short kneeling man very long.
When Fang Jie walked up to this person, he found that the person's eyes were wide open.
"When you were in Qingyuan City and Fengping City, did you kneel like this?"
Fang Jiewen
Du Mu shook his head: "Because I knew I had to kneel and beg, I made some preparations in advance. I sewed two cotton pads on the knees of my trousers. Although kneeling for a long time still hurts unbearably, it's better than kneeling directly on the cold ground." Be more comfortable."
Fang Jie couldn't help but smiled: "You were not so honest when I was in charge."
Du Mu replied seriously: "You can't lie when you should be honest, and you can't be honest when you should lie. I take the salary paid by City Lord Ning, eat the meals given by City Lord Ning, and wear the silk and satin rewarded by City Lord Ning. No, there are some things you can’t say, but you still have to say it.”
"Get up."
Fang Xie walked to the spotlight platform that was built during the day, sat on the edge of the platform and looked up at the moon. In the past, the moon was light yellow, but today's moon is very white.
Du Mu staggered when he got up, and it took him a while to get used to it before he started to walk.
"Walk around the table a few more times, walk slowly, and clear the blood."
Fang Jie said lightly.
"Thank you, my lord!"
Du Mu thanked him, and began to walk around the platform slowly, probably because he had knelt for too long and his blood was not smooth, and his walking posture looked so awkward and painful. Fang Jie snapped his fingers, and someone from the Xiao Riding School came over from the dark and bowed his head and asked, "What's your order, my lord?"
Fang Jie said: "Go and get some food, it needs to be hot."
The Xiao cavalry school left in a hurry, and when Du Mu walked five laps around the platform, several people from the Xiao cavalry school hurried over with trays. Fang Jie asked them to turn east and west, and then waved to Du Mu: "In any case, you are also the envoy of the negotiation. You can be made to kneel, but you cannot be made to starve."
Du Mu's heart moved, and he suddenly found that the meaning of this sentence was a bit deep. He made a bow, and did not politely refuse, sat down on the table cross-legged, opened the food box and began to eat. Xu Shi was really hungry, and he devoured it hungrily. Not long after, four or five stir-fried rice rolls and a plate of Hanamaki were swept away, and the eating looks really did not look like a celebrity.
"If you are loyal to Ning Hao, go back before the sun rises tomorrow. Because after the sun rises, my men will attack Jin'an. If you have no loyalty to Ning Hao, then you can leave after eating. As for Whether you go back or go somewhere else is up to you."
Fang Jie stretched his body, took a sip of the jug of wine that Du Mu had not touched.
Du Mu wiped the grease from the corner of his mouth, thought for a while and asked, "Grandpa, why don't you want to listen to me? I know that it's obviously impractical to stop the grandpa's military power with the strength of Jin'an City, but I'm still that In a word, even if a soldier of the Black Banner Army dies, isn’t it a loss for the Lord? Jin’an is a small city, so there is no need to waste troops here. The Lord’s goal is Dali, south of Dali, where is the Black Flag Army's battlefield."
Fang Jie glanced at him: "Everything standing in front of my knife is the battlefield."
Du Mu was stunned, and couldn't help but look at Fang Jie carefully, showing a little disrespect.
"My lord, in fact, I don't need to be a lobbyist now. I just want to clarify what City Lord Ning wants me to convey, and it's a fulfilling mission."
"explain."
Fang Jie inadvertently looked back at Mo Ningzhi's tent, and suddenly felt that he had said something wrong before. Even with the moonlight in the dark night, Du Mu didn't notice his absent-mindedness.
"Originally, I wanted to rely on myself to drag your men and horses for a few days. My grandfather should have guessed that Lord Ning will definitely ask for help from Dali City. Whether the reinforcements come or not, I have to take care of my own affairs. Do it well. But now, I know that nothing can stop the horn from blowing after dawn. Therefore, I can only express the bottom line of City Lord Ning as clearly as possible... "
"What City Lord Ning means is that as long as the father-in-law promises to keep the status of City Lord Ning, the status of the Ning family, and the team in the hands of City Lord Ning, then Jin An can immediately hang the flag of the Black Banner Army."
Fang Jie smiled: "Guess, if Murong Shame sent someone to tell me that if I would let him go, keep his throne, keep his court, and keep his army, he would be willing to fight in Dali City." Hang up the flag of the Black Banner Army, how will I answer?"
Du Mu thought for a while and replied, "My father-in-law will ignore it."
"Wrong."
Fang Jie said: "I will have people beat the person who said this with dozens of military sticks, cut off his ears and nose, and throw him back. I am too stupid to make me happy, so I have to beat him up."
Du Mu's shoulders trembled in fright, and he took a step back subconsciously. Then he suddenly understood what Fang Jie meant... was he so stupid that he could make Fang Jie happy? He doesn't know the word "stupid" very well, but it's definitely not interesting to say the two words "stupid" and "pussy" separately, and it's definitely not a compliment to put them together...
"Open the door, disarm, hand over all the horses, and don't prevent the people I left from sorting out local affairs. I can guarantee that none of the Ning family will die, and I can even guarantee that he can keep the wealth of the Ning family."
Fang Jie was silent for a while and said, "When I don't need to kill, I won't swing the knife unreasonably."
Du Mu looked down at his toes, as if he was struggling with something in his heart.
"Do you know what a good lobbyist must have first?"
Fang asked.
Du Mu raised his head, thought about several answers, but was denied by himself, and then shook his head.
Fang Jie smiled and said: "The first thing you need is the vision to see through the current situation. If you can't see through, then it's a lot of eloquence, and it's just a joke."
Du Mu let out a long breath, then bent down and bowed: "I will persuade City Lord Ning to do as you wish... Lord!"
Fang Jie stood up, without saying anything, and walked slowly towards the big tent.
Du Mu looked at the slender figure and suddenly smiled. He knew that he had succeeded again this time, just like he had spared no effort to wander around and finally persuaded several city lords in order to have a good future, but this time, his choice changed. He knew he was a good lobbyist, so... how could he not see the situation
Jin An
It no longer makes sense to exist on the map of Nanyan.
He came here not for Ning Hao, but for himself.
Just like when he knelt down in front of Fu Zhengnan in Qingyuan City and Zhu Chengtian in Fengping City back then, his kneeling today was not for Ning Hao.
Just for myself.
But how could he see that faint smile on Fang Jie's mouth in the distance