The most ferocious sword of the Imperial City Division

Chapter 342 Hongying’s decision

"If you don't come here to take care of your family affairs, the wine will be cold."

This was what Gu Shinwei heard when he climbed up to the second floor of the martial arts hall and saw Ma Hongying.

She dusted off her robe and walked in easily. Ma Hongying sat in front of the smooth table by the window, holding a coarse porcelain wine bowl in her hand.

The room was empty, except for a table and two stools, and an extinguished wine stove beside her legs.

Gu Shinwei sat down opposite Ma Hongying, picked up the wine bowl in front of him and took a sip. The spicy taste went directly to his head, and it was burning when it entered his stomach.

Ma Hongying frowned slightly when she saw her, and turned the wine bowl in her hand, "I have been in the army for a long time, and I am used to drinking strong liquor. The flower wine and fruit wine I gave to my wife in Bianjing City is as light as a bird."

Gu Shinwei raised his eyes and looked at her a few times. Seeing that she was dressed like a Jianghu woman, she looked much calmer and restrained, and nodded thoughtfully.

"Although wine is delicious, your hands will shake if you drink too much."

As she spoke, she took off the long sword from her waist and placed it on the table. The moment the scabbard connected with the table, a deep sound was made.

Gu Shiwei glanced at the sword pointedly, "A slight difference can make a thousand miles."

Hearing this, Ma Hongying rubbed her wine glass with a complicated expression, "You came to see me for family matters. Are you working as a lobbyist for Wu Jiang?"

"Wu Jiang keeps talking endlessly, why does he need to find a lobbyist? He is already perfect, who can get in?"

Ma Hongying was stunned and laughed heartily.

"Wu Jiang is like this, like a child, always talking endlessly. He used to be on the battlefield, and he didn't know what would happen tomorrow. Everyone liked his lively temperament. At least he died suddenly on the battlefield. I don’t feel lonely when I think about my past before I die.”

"But when I returned to Bianjing City, I felt it was too immoral and noisy like a crow."

"When Han Shiyan was reading when he was a child, Wu Jiang was chanting with the monk next to him, and then he would call my name, Ma Hongying! I jumped up, grabbed Wu Jiang's ears and dragged him out, and Wu Jiang screamed. More annoying."

"Although Han Shiyan dislikes Wu Jiang, he doesn't like to complain, so we are not afraid of him. Han Jingyan is different. He is a living father. Not only will he sue the parents, but he will also talk to Wu Jiang for an hour with a bamboo stick. The great truth.”

Recalling the interesting things from her childhood, Ma Hongying was obviously much more relaxed.

She picked up the wine pot on the small stove, filled Gu Shiwei's wine bowl, and added some for herself. Then she picked up the wine bowl and touched it gently with Gu Shiwei.

"Master Zhang is absolutely right. The two of us will definitely become very good friends."

"If only when Han Shiyan told me that you were a swordsman genius, I would have rushed to your house to get to know you. It would have been years too late."

Ma Hongying took a sip of wine and placed the wine cup on the table.

"Thinking about it carefully, there seems to be no problem between me and Wu Jiang, but there seems to be something different."

The last time we were separated was the time when separation was between life and death, when love lasted the longest.

Obviously the time apart was not long, but she felt as if a lifetime had passed. She was so old that seeing her old friends in Bianjing felt very strange.

Ma Hongying couldn't describe this feeling to Gu Shiwei because she couldn't explain it clearly.

She didn't know whether she had gone too far and Wujiang was still stuck in the rock formation, or whether Wujiang had gone too far but she couldn't come back.

Gu Shinwei looked at Ma Hongying thinking and did not interrupt her. It wasn't until she picked up the wine bowl to clink glasses again that Gu Shiwei said, "Have you finally figured it out? About the Stonehenge."

The official Ma Hongying held hostage was just a stand-in, and the questions the stand-in answered were naturally countless.

Ma Hongying wanted to know whether the person who ordered them to be exchanged for the national seal at the Stone Formation was an official. Ma Hongying wanted to know, and she wanted to know too.

"You are probably the only one in this world who can empathize with me. No one in my family wants me to ask any more questions. When I went home last night, my mother-in-law held me in her arms and cried all night, and even her dog looked at the moon. whimper."

"Not only that, but also my sisters, brothers-in-law..."

When Ma Hongying said this, she smiled helplessly, "I almost thought I was dead again. The people living next door almost got up all night to come to the mourning hall to express their condolences."

As she spoke, she changed the topic and raised her eyes to meet Gu Shiwei's determined eyes.

“But at that moment it suddenly dawned on me.”

As Ma Hongying spoke, her confidence grew stronger and her eyes became more open-minded.

"Master Zhang is a very good person. He told the officials that after I was rescued, he arranged for me to be an undercover agent. This time, King Qi conspired to rebel, and I have made a great contribution. In this way, I will survive After coming down, he did not return to the battlefield or Bianjing, so there is no need to pursue this matter. "

"Your wish to perform meritorious service is to clear your father's wrongdoing."

"I originally wanted to ask the official about what happened. After the morning meeting today, I met the official again in the imperial study."

Gu Shiwei listened carefully to Ma Hongying's words. Everyone has a different path to take, and everyone has different choices when encountering things.

No matter what choice Ma Hongying makes, it is her own decision.

Ma Hongying shook her head, "I didn't ask that question. So what if I asked? Even if it were, our Ma family couldn't do such a thing as regicide and rebellion. My father will still protect Dayong as always, forever. Rooted in the Frontier.”

"Until he dies on the battlefield, or becomes too old to lift a sword or gun anymore."

"No matter what answer I get, those dead brothers will never come back to life, and I can't stand on the battlefield with those sledgehammers anymore."

Ma Hongying said, her eyes becoming more determined, "I think that my comrades who died on the battlefield would make the same choice as me."

"We originally fought for Dayong and the peace of the people."

"Oh," Ma Hongying said, her eyes a little red, she smiled, and said to Gu Shenwei, "When I was a child, my father always told me this. I feel that the old man is stupid, loyal and old-fashioned, and he only cares about the overall situation."

"I never thought at that time that one day I would say the same words as my parents and make a choice that I thought was very cowardly."

"Before today, before I saw the official in the imperial study, I never thought that this would happen."

Gu Shiwei listened quietly.

She said nothing, knowing that all Ma Hongying needed at this moment was someone to listen to.

She happens to have similar experiences, but is not as close to her as Wu Jiang and Ma Hongying's family, so she is the most suitable person.

"I didn't ask the question that I thought about day and night and risked my life to ask."

"I asked for military honors for those brothers, and more gifts for them. The dead have passed away, and the living still need to rely on these to survive."