Chapter 259
Cheng Cheng couldn’t figure it out on his own until Jiang Pengji reminded him . Now he had someone he suspected .
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Jiang Pengji pretended to be indifferent . “Have you thought of anyone?” she asked Cheng Cheng casually after she noticed his face had changed .
Cheng Cheng wasn’t going to speak it out loud, even if it was indeed the person he was thinking . He was just suspicious, anyway .
Jiang Pengji wasn’t going to dig deeper . She turned to look at Cheng Cheng’s wife .
They were both used to a luxurious and fine life . When was last time they had been in such a nasty condition?
She asked a realistic question . “I’ve learned that most of your guards were killed by the bandits… However, now we are in the middle of nowhere . The nearest tourist station is a couple days away . What do you plan to do?”
Cheng Cheng was injured and his wife had been treated so well that she had never done any chores at home . How were they going to survive in such a wild place?
With Jiang Pengji’s question, it was clear that Cheng Cheng was at a loss .
Jiang Pengji continued before he could respond, “If you don’t mind, and you trust me enough, I will take you two to the nearest station to help you settle down . Then you guys can try to contact your family . You will still be in danger if you have no idea who you are dealing with . ”
Cheng Cheng felt ashamed and thanked Jiang Pengji . If Jiang Pengji didn’t offer to give them a ride, even though there were no more bandits going after them, they would have trouble keeping themselves alive .
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Compared to Cheng Cheng’s anxiousness, his wife seemed to be straightforward . She wasn’t hiding her fondness for Jiang Pengji, especially when she saw what Jiang Pengji did for them . “You have out of the ordinary skill and have an outstanding aura . I’m just wondering… What family do you belong to?”
“The Liu’s in Hejian County . My first name is Xi . My father is Liu She . If you don’t mind, you can call me Lanting . ”
Cheng Cheng and his wife heard what she had said and they were both astonished––except, they were astonished about different things . Cheng Cheng’s wife’s attention was on “A young man with talent who happens to be the best candidate to be a son-in-law . ”
“You are Liu County Chief’s son?”
Liu She was the man that a number of young girls wasn’t able to ignore when he was young . His story with his wife Gumin had become a legend .
Cheng Cheng’s wife had never seen him, but she definitely had heard about him . It was unexpected that a talented man like Liu She had a son who was a master in martial arts .
The bandits had nearly pushed them into a dead end but they turned out to be extremely fragile in front of this young boy .
In only a short time, Cheng Cheng’s wife was thinking about something else . She had put the label of “Good Son-in-law” on Jiang Pengji . She believed that whoever had the luck to marry him would be extremely fortunate .
It was a shame that her daughter was still too young to talk about marriage . Otherwise she would like to set a marriage with him .
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What Cheng Cheng focused on had nothing to do with Liu She . He simply paid attention to Liu Xi as an individual . “Are you twenty yet?”
He didn’t look like like he was in his twenties . He would be, at most, thirteen or so from his looks .
Jiang Pengji was stunned and she realized why Cheng Cheng was asking . She explained to him, “My literal name was left by my mother, who has already passed away . She prepared it for the time that I turned twenty . But my parents were deeply in love, so after my mom passed away, my father started using this name for me . ”
If they had given her the name already, then they might as well just use it . It saved the trouble of giving her a nickname .
Cheng Cheng was speechless . It was very abnormal, which sounded like something Liu She would have done .
The blood on Jiang Pengji was mostly dried and the original pattern on her clothes was hard to see . Jiang Pengji gave the orders to her guards to protect Cheng Cheng and his wife, and then she went to an isolated place to clean up . It was not possible for her to wash off the blood from her body, but at least she could wipe off the blood on her face .
“You are truly good-looking . I’m just curious––are you engaged with someone yet?”
The more Cheng Cheng’s wife looked at Jiang Pengji, the more satisfied she was with her . She had a refined look and elegant facial features, which were slightly girly, but it happened to be the definition of the pretty boys in the current trend . She couldn’t stop trying to be a matchmaker for him .
Jiang Pengji nodded and shook her head . “I had one before . But Master Liaochen predicted that it would be better for me to not get married early or else it would do harm to me . In order not to waste the best time of the girl who I got engaged with, we had to call it off . ”
Cheng Cheng’s wife heard this and quickly quit the idea of trying to make a match for him . She felt it was a shame for him .
She didn’t question the genuineness of Jiang Pengji’s words at all .
The marriages in the gentry clans were not games . If it wasn’t for some inevitable reasons, no one would break off an engagement . The reason Jiang Pengji gave was undebatable .
Cheng Cheng was deep in thought while he stared at Jiang Pengji’s face until his wife sneakily pinched him . Her husband was used to be instructional . That would ruin a nice atmosphere if he started to lecture her .
Cheng Cheng said to her with a bitter smile, “You misunderstood me . I only found that this young friend looks so familiar to me . It feels like that we have seen each other somewhere before . ”
“If Lanting is Liu County Chief’s son, naturally he looks like his father . Why are you thinking about this?”
Cheng Cheng stopped speaking . The truth was he had never actually met Liu She . They both acknowledged each other but they had never met .
The circle of the gentry clans was not too big but it was not too small . He had never met Liu She but they had common friends . They both had heard about each other from their mutual friends . Therefore, when Cheng Cheng claimed that Jiang Pengji looked familiar to him, it definitely wasn’t because she looked like Liu She .
He kept pondering and all of sudden he remembered that he took a glance at an unfinished painting from his young friend several months ago .
It would have been Liu Xi if the girl in the painting was a bit younger . Her look was less mature and her eyes were more gentle . But Liu Xi was Liu She’s second “wife’s son” and his daughter was kept in the isolated yard .
Was it possible that the girl sleeping in the blooming flowers in my young friend’s painting is Gumin?
It sounds scary, but it is not entirely impossible . My young friend is one of the best apprentices of Master Yuanjing . Master Yuanjing had some connection with Gumin when he was young . It is very likely that he learned about Gumin’s appearance from Master Yuanjing .
“Are you encountering some difficulties?” Jiang Pengji led the way, holding a sword ahead of them . She tried to clear out a way through the bushes more thoroughly than before in order to make it easier for the injured people, like Cheng Cheng and his wife, to walk through . “You don’t look good . ”
Cheng Cheng stayed silent . He wasn’t sure if it was appropriate to tell the young guy in front of him that another young guy, who wasn’t much older than him, could draw his mother very well .
“Nothing much . I was just wondering who was trying to put me to death…” Cheng Cheng used a reasonable excuse to cover it up . “I have some speculations, but I don’t think he would do something ferocious like that after I thought it through . ”
That was what was eating away at him .
Jiang Pengji wasn’t questioning much, even though she could tell that Cheng Cheng wasn’t being entirely honest with her . She wasn’t going to dig hard since it was not her business .
“Langjun, you are finally back . Guards found some traces of fights nearby…” Xu Ke had seen their vague shadows coming out of the woods a far distance away, so he trotted forward . He quickly swallowed back what he was about to say when he saw their condition .
His Langjun seemed to have had a blood bath after going to get some water… They had been gone a long time for just going to get some water .
He felt like he was missing out on a good show by only being away from the Langjun for one hour .