"I haven't seen you in years. I missed you so much that I couldn't help but tease you."
Jiang Pengji raised her eyebrows and chuckled. She untied the rope that bound Lv Zheng and tossed it aside.
Lv Zheng shivered and his eyebrows twitched. His expression seemed to be on the verge of breaking down and enduring.
He leaned back slightly to avoid her approach.
Now that his hands were free, he couldn't help but rub his sore wrists as he said in a slightly uncomfortable tone.
He said in a slightly uncomfortable tone, "Liu Lanting, do you still think of yourself as a 12 or 13-year-old?"
This was the military camp, not a brothel where she drank and listened to music. She could not be so unrestrained.
"If I walk among the crowd, it's an exaggeration to say that I'm 12 or 13-year-old, but I can still say that I'm 15 or 16." Jiang Pengji teased him with a smile. "If I remember correctly, you're about the same age as Zixiao, but you look much more haggard than he does. People will believe you if you add 10 years to your age. Ancui is a troublesome person. You've helped him clean up his mess all these years, haven't you? You wake up earlier than the chickens, sleep later than the dogs, and do more than the oxen. You really live up to the saying, 'Sleepless all day and night, wasted in the morning …' "
Lv Zheng looked up at Jiang Pengji. In a trance, he had the illusion that time and space were in disarray. The person standing in front of him was still the noble youth in brocade clothes. It was as if the person in front of him had stayed in the past. More than 10 years had not left a mark on her.
"Hmph, your mouth is still as unforgiving as ever. You always like to pester others endlessly."
When she was 12 or 13, she was pestering others endlessly. That was called naive, cute, and innocent.
More than 10 years had passed, but she was still pestering others endlessly … He was not Wei Zixiao. Why would he indulge her?
"I'm arguing with reason. I'm presenting facts and reasoning. Since when was I pestering others endlessly?" Jiang Pengji extended her hand and said, "My tent is indeed clean, but the mud is dirty. How long do you plan to sit on the ground? Aren't you afraid of the cold? "
Lv Zheng looked at her hand and tried hard to suppress the urge to slap it away.
"You're a scholar. I've taught you for three years. I didn't teach you to talk about 'Ancui' every day."
Jiang Pengji could not help but laugh.
"I thought you would say something like 'you're a girl after all, don't be so vulgar'."
Even now, there were still people who liked to make an issue out of her gender. Even if it wasn't intentional, they would still subconsciously pull out her gender. Jiang Pengji didn't mind, because they were all outsiders, and outsiders that she looked down on.
If Lu Zheng was like this, she would be very disappointed.
Lv Zheng raised his eyes to look at Jiang Pengji's face. She was wearing a short, round-collared robe that was made of stone. She still looked capable and neat as usual. Coupled with her handsome face, affectionate eyes, and half-smile … At first glance, she looked more like a young man from an aristocratic family with a romantic temperament. There were no "feminine labels" that people were familiar with on her, such as "delicate and lovely", "dignified and generous" …
But it was undeniable that she was indeed a woman, and she embodied another kind of rare beauty of women.
"Don't you know what you look like?"
Lu Zheng admired her in his heart, but his words were unforgiving.
He grabbed Jiang Pengji's hand and stood up with her strength.
Because Lv Zheng was still sick, he felt dizzy when he suddenly stood up, and he almost fell forward.
Jiang Pengji helped him up. Lv Zheng tilted his head to look at her profile, and he muttered to himself.
He hadn't recognized her gender back then, not because he and the people around him had made a mistake, but because she looked too good.
"Did An Cui not give you meat to eat for the past six months?"
When they shook hands, she realized that Lv Zheng was slimmer than she had expected. His palms were almost devoid of flesh.
Zi Xiao was also thin, but some flesh could be squeezed out. Lv Zheng, on the other hand, was a bag of bones.
More than half a year ago, Jiang Pengji sent Fang Zhi to persuade Lv Zheng.
Fang Zhi returned in low spirits, but he also brought Jiang Pengji a lot of news.
According to Fang Zhi's description, Lv Zheng had been frozen by An Cui, but his situation wasn't very bad. He ate, drank, slept well, and even put on some weight.
Looking at him now, he wasn't fat at all.
If there was a typhoon outside, she could tie a rope around Lv Zheng's neck and let him fly in the sky.
"Don't mention meat. It's nauseating."
Even though he didn't swallow the meat porridge, he tasted it. Every time he thought about it, it made his stomach turn.
After a short period of dizziness, Lv Zheng stood up straight and let go of her hand. He observed her secretly.
Just like Jiang Pengji's narcissism, she hadn't changed much over the years.
Previously, Lv Zheng had rejected Fang Zhi's persuasion. Lv Zheng didn't agree to recruit him, but he also took the opportunity to catch up with his classmate.
The two middle-aged men, who were already in their thirties, gathered together to chat by candlelight and reminisce about the past. They sighed with emotion and also talked about the situation of the "Langya F5 Heavenly Group." From a teenager to a young man to a middle-aged man, everyone except Jiang Pengji had changed beyond recognition.
The shy and lofty Fang Zhi had been tempered by reality into a steady and dignified country teacher. The hot-bloodedness that had been boiling in his chest during his youth had been defeated by reality. Jiang Mo, who was addicted to 2D paper dolls and loved all kinds of fire-repelling maps, and had a slightly cowardly personality, had become a profound, introverted, and reliable clan leader of the Shi family. He, who had been noisy and refused to submit to his family in the past, had also followed the example of his parents. Ma Xiu, a wealthy gentleman with good farmland and no worries about food and drink, had been affected by the chaos of war. His farmland had been occupied and plundered by bandits who rose to power. In order to avoid disaster, he had no choice but to move his family north. There had been no news of him for many years … Of course, the three of them hadn't changed much. Among the five, Jiang Pengji and Lv Zheng had changed the most.
Jiang Pengji, who was the most hedonistic and mischievous, had become a vassal of the world.
Lv Zheng, who had the potential to be a nationalistic youth and was biased against the gentry, had become Jiang Pengji's strategist for the safety of her family.
Now, he had become Jiang Pengji's prisoner.
Life was really interesting. No one knew what their future would be like until the very last moment.
"Okay, okay, okay. I won't talk about it anymore."
Jiang Pengji's observation skills weren't just for show. She could tell from Lv Zheng's reaction that he was hiding something. Naturally, she wouldn't continue to provoke him.
An appropriate amount of playfulness was called playfulness. Excessive playfulness was called enmity.
"Look at your sickly and haggard appearance. It's better to stay in the military camp and wait for the war to end. Recuperate. Maybe I'll let you see your old master for the last time. "After Jiang Pengji finished speaking, she suddenly remembered something." Right, I have something to tell you. "
Lv Zheng was well aware of Jiang Pengji's arrangements, so he wasn't surprised.
However, what she said made Lv Zheng a little flustered for no reason.
"What's the matter?"
Jiang Pengji said, "I asked for something from your adopted daughter."
Lv Zheng raised his eyebrows and asked, "What is it?"
Jiang Pengji said, "Your study notes."
"What do you want that for?"
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