kvmb Chapter 208 His Peach Blossom Spring
Chapter 208 His Peach Blossom Spring
Chapter 208 His Peach Blossom Spring
"Bang!" When the Fifth Master finished reading the official document, he slammed his palm and broke the three-inch-thick table. He paced back and forth in the room in anger.
"waste!"
"Song Zhaohe is a piece of trash!"
"I knew it! The boss is never going to have a good time with these kinds of bastards!"
If I had known this would happen, I would have been better off bringing my employer to Jicheng so I could take care of him myself!
"One by one! It's never going to end!"
"We've only had a few days of peace, and now they're back again!"
"Everyone, come in!"
The officers who had been peeking in through the door rushed in, asking, "What are your orders, General?"
He picked up one of the official documents from the Song Dynasty, shook off the crumbs, stamped it with his seal, and handed it to his subordinates, headed by the chief clerk, saying, "Immediately mobilize troops as instructed on this document."
"In addition, send another five hundred elite troops to assist the prefect in verifying household and land records and visiting gold and jade shops in the city. Anyone with unclear sources of wealth or who has suddenly become rich should be arrested and interrogated thoroughly!"
"Yes!" The chief clerk took his assignment and hurried off, for this place was not a safe place to stay.
Upon receiving the letter, Baili Ming and Cui Yuanshu of Shucheng also immediately made arrangements according to Song Zhaohe's ideas.
On the same day, he led his troops to attack the towns surrounding Lincheng, cutting off its connection with the outside world.
Then the troops were divided into two groups: one group launched a feigned attack and verbal battle during the day, and the other group launched a feigned attack and verbal battle at night, causing the people in the city to quickly become physically and mentally exhausted.
After the troops from Jicheng arrived, they used the strategy of "surrounding three sides but leaving one open," letting them walk into the "pocket" prepared by Song Zhaohe.
......
After his second failed sneak attack, Baili Ce leaned against a corner in despair, letting himself be treated.
"Bear with it." With a snap, Wang Qingyan quickly put her dislocated hand back in place.
He gently reminded her, "Once or twice, but not a third or fourth time."
"If you continue like this, it won't be so simple next time."
Bai Li Ce originally didn't want to argue anymore and just wanted to close his eyes and rest for a while. "You'd better kill me, or I will never give up."
“…” Wang Qingyan stared at her face for a while.
He gestured for the carriage to stop. "Turn left from here, there's a village with about two hundred households. Would you like me to go there?"
A burst of fire shot straight up!
"It's your business if you want to kill someone, what does it have to do with me? Did I tell you to do it? If I obey your every command, will you abandon evil and become good?!"
"Isn't this your usual hobby?!"
"you"
"What do you mean, 'you'? Stop acting like this because of me!"
Getting angrier by the conversation, she slapped him across the face. "Smack!!"
"I have no interest in taking responsibility for your sins, and it's certainly not my place to do so!!"
Even though she wasn't the one who killed someone, they wanted to instill in her the idea that "she harmed someone."
fart!
She struck with full force!
"Even if they have to hate someone, they should hate you, you murderous mad dog, not me, a fellow victim!"
Why should I sacrifice myself! I should compromise!
She was so selfish today!
To hell with serving the country and its people, with the greater good of the world!
"..." Wang Qingyan was stunned by the scolding.
Bai Li Ce lunged forward, shouting, "Come on!"
"No need to wait for next time, just cut off my hands and feet now and turn me into a human pig!"
"Otherwise, you, Wang Qingyan, won't be able to show your power!"
"Ping ping ping ping, bang bang bang bang..." He used whatever he could grab to fight, throwing punches and kicks indiscriminately!
"Thump!" A violent impact nearly overturned the carriage.
"..." In the blink of an eye, Baili Ce's right hand was dislocated again and pressed down by Wang Qingyan.
"Enough! You really think I wouldn't dare to fight you?!"
Bai Li Ce struggled so fiercely that he didn't even have time to wipe the blood from his head.
Ignoring the blood dripping onto his face, Baili Ce hooked his foot on the edge of the seat, used all his strength to lift himself up, and slammed his head against the other man's forehead, "Thump!"
He knocked his nose out of shape!
Taking advantage of the moment he fell backward, she quickly pulled away and kicked him hard off the carriage with a loud thud!
But Wang Qingyan was really good at fighting. After being thrown out like that, he was able to push off with his feet and fly backwards, landing steadily on the ground.
This caused great suffering for the Gu guards driving the carriage. They had just been knocked down and hadn't even gotten up when Baili Ce jumped down from the carriage and trampled them until they vomited blood.
"Clang!" Wang Qingyan drew his sword, the scabbard still on his horse.
Unexpectedly, Baili Ce didn't stop for a moment, but rushed forward even faster and more ruthlessly, grabbed the sword and stabbed it into his own heart.
"Sizzle..." Even though Wang Qingyan withdrew his sword in time, Baili Ce's left hand was still cut and bleeding profusely.
"Hmph, so there are times when you're afraid to do something too."
Knowing that he was no match for him and would die here today, Baili Ce stopped and turned to sit down, tearing off a piece of cloth and holding it in his hand.
Seeing her contorted in pain, yet not uttering a sound, Wang Qingyan hesitated for a moment, then stepped towards her...
Feeling him standing behind him again, Baili Ce didn't turn around and said, "Get lost!"
There was no response.
Just as Baili Ce was about to take off his shoes to check the injury on the instep—
"Waaaaah..." The sound of a child crying rang out behind her.
Bai Li Ce was startled!
Turning around, I saw Wang Qingyan holding a frightened child and playing with him.
She quickly took a few steps, intending to take the child away, but was stopped by a look from him.
"Don't cry, brother will give you candy."
"This candy was originally bought for you, but since you don't want it, we can only give it to him."
Bai Lizhe's blood was frozen solid.
The child who received the candy immediately stopped crying and smiled, thanking him in a sweet voice, "Thank you, brother."
"sorry"
Wang Qingyan smiled and pretended not to hear, "How about we play 'Statues,' with my sister?"
"Is there any candy left?"
"Yes, I'll give it to you after you and your sister win~"
"But my sister seems to be injured, and my brother's head is also cut."
"It's alright, she's just playing around with her brother."
"I'm sorry, it was my fault. I promise I won't do it again."
Wang Qingyan put the child on the ground and smiled gently at her.
"Come on, I'll count to three, and you and your sister run together..."
"sorry."
"Hmm?" Wang Qingyan smiled faintly, indicating that he hadn't heard clearly.
"I'm sorry, I was wrong."
His face darkened, and he stopped smiling. "Who are you apologizing to? Don't I have a name?"
Trembling with suppressed tears, Baili Ce cried out, "I'm sorry, Qingyan, it was my fault. I shouldn't have treated you like that. Please forgive me..."
"..." Wang Qingyan walked over and hugged her, finally softening his heart.
But he didn't see that Baili Ce, with tears streaming down his face, showed no sign of yielding whatsoever.
......
Once the carriage was back in motion, after her injuries were treated, the two returned to their pre-fight state.
Because she had hooked her foot too hard earlier, scraping off a layer of skin from the top of her foot, Wang Qingyan was afraid that she would be in pain from the jolting, so he put her foot on his lap.
"Indeed, I'm the one who killed, I'm the one who harmed, so why should you compromise and back down?"
Holding her foot, he gently wiped away the dried blood. A faint itch lingered on her ankle and his toes, making him feel that he should put something on her feet again.
However, thinking that she would never see anyone else once they arrived on the island, he decided he could indulge her for a few more days.
“…” Baili Ce turned his head away, utterly exhausted.
"Because you have a conscience and a bottom line more than I do." No matter how much she says she doesn't care, she could never truly treat human life as worthless.
For someone like her, when it comes to harming others, what she truly can't overcome isn't the law or morality, but rather her own conscience.
"In other words, if I had actually killed that child, even if no one blamed you, you would condemn yourself."
"..." He looked at Wang Qingyan with annoyance.
She hated him, and she hated herself.
"It takes talent to be a villain, and you,"
He fed her the pastry, and he won this round again. "He only has the talent to be a good person."
"..." She opened her mouth and ate what he fed her.
A short while later, she knew nothing more.
For the next few days, I was in a daze.
Although she could vaguely sense that Wang Qingyan was talking and chatting with her, and even taking her for a walk, she couldn't remember exactly what he did or heard.
Therefore, upon arriving at his destination, Baili Ce had no way of determining what place it was based on the terrain.
"You really have a lot of places."
"Even a cunning rabbit has three burrows, let alone me." As he was dragged inside, the memory of desperately memorizing the text began to overwhelm Baili Ce's nerves again and again.
As her memory became clearer, she even memorized it in her mind—
Following the stream, I forgot how far I had gone. Suddenly, I came upon a peach grove, stretching for hundreds of paces along both banks, with no other trees, fragrant grasses, and fallen petals in abundance...
"Peach Blossom Spring?" It took her a while to accept this reality.
Wang Qingyan's eyes lit up. "That's a great name! From now on, we'll call this place Peach Blossom Spring!"
Bai Li Ce paused in his tracks...
"What? You want to fight?"
Fighting is out of the question.
She doesn't want to suffer from rheumatism and bone pain, or joint deformities, on rainy days.
But looking at the houses, fields, mulberry trees, bamboo groves, and beautiful ponds before her, and seeing no way to turn around, she couldn't help but tighten her grip on his hand. "I have two questions."
"You ask"
"Isn't it almost September? Where would peach blossoms come from at this time of year?"
Wang Qingyan glared at her with a sudden coldness in his eyes, "You still know you'll be gone for four or five months? You heartless thing."
After scolding, he calmly explained, "The temperature and terrain here are different from other places, so the blooming and withering of flowers are naturally different from the outside world."
"......" Very well, this way it's impossible to determine the approximate geographical location by vegetation and sunlight.
"Greetings, Master of the Household"
"Greetings, Master of the Household"
"Master, you're back! Everyone missed you so much."
......
People in the fields greeted him one after another, but Wang Qingyan didn't even glance at them.
Just as everyone gathered around, he pulled her to the front and said, "This is my wife."
The farmers, who seemed "very kind," were immediately overjoyed and didn't mind Wang Qingyan's rudeness at all.
"Greetings, Madam!"
"The mistress of the family is so beautiful!"
"The matriarch's wife looks like a fairy."
Bai Li Ce subconsciously waved his hand, "That's an exaggeration, that's an exaggeration."
If she were truly a fairy, she would have already reduced Wang Qingyan to ashes and scattered his soul.
After passing through thousands of acres of farmland and taking a long boat ride, they finally arrived at their actual dwelling.
A large estate built on an island.
At first glance, it's about the size of five Wang families in Lincheng.
"You have a second question you haven't asked."
Bai Li Ce smiled at him, a smile so ugly it could make a child cry, "No need to ask."
After saying that, she started to walk forward... but Wang Qingyan grabbed her.
"You ask"
Seeing his gloomy face, Baili Ce found it rather funny.
Why bother, we're already here.
But since he wanted to hear it, Baili Ce asked, "Are you really planning to lock me up for the rest of my life?"
He hates it when someone asks him the same question twice.
But, it doesn’t matter.
Pulling Baili Ce into the manor, he finally gave his answer.
"Yes"
As she said, they could never accept each other.
All the entanglements are because he insisted on doing so.
As the person who forced her from beginning to end, he didn't really care about whether it was voluntary or not.
Change? Why change it?
Why bother changing it!
From the very beginning, he knew that Baili Ce would not show mercy, would not mistake being moved for true feelings, and would not like someone based on a fleeting appearance, especially someone whose values were so diametrically opposed to hers.
What's the point of worrying about how many times she stabbed him, or whether she loved such a useless thing as him?
He won't change just because he loves her.
She wouldn't give up on herself because of his love.
Neither of them is wrong.
Everyone wants to be themselves.
Then he just needs to be better than everyone else.
He was so strong that she couldn't break free or refuse.
I will always be with him.