First-rank palace maid Su Jixiang

Chapter 114 Touching Someone's Cake

Wei Ling heard it, but he pretended not to hear it.

Holding Su Jixiang's hand and walking outside the cloth shop, his body swayed slightly.

"What's wrong?" Su Jixiang then became alert. His hands were colder than before.

"Keep going." Wei Ling pulled Su Jixiang and whispered, "Someone is watching us."

He had just used the water cup to save Su Jixiang, and moved a little bit of his Qi, but it was only a little bit, but he had unexpectedly triggered other Qi that was running wild. He had been suppressing it by force when he sat down to ask the shopkeeper, but after standing up and taking just two steps, he felt that his chest was blocked, and the pain made him feel cold all over.

Su Jixiang felt Wei Ling's trembling and was immediately shocked.

"Don't force yourself to go, why don't you sit down for a while!" Su Jixiang saw a teahouse on the side of the road and immediately pulled Wei Ling in, saying with a smile as they walked, "Come on, let's go have some tea!"

She dragged Wei Ling into the teahouse and asked for a private room.

After going in with Wei Ling, Su Jixiang ordered a pot of tea and some snacks and sent the waiter out.

"My husband and I have something to talk about. You just wait outside and don't come in unless necessary." Su Jixiang said to the waiter after he came and served tea and snacks.

After closing the door of the private room, Su Jixiang turned to look at Wei Ling who was sitting on the chair. His face was as pale as paper.

Beads of cold sweat the size of soybeans hung on his forehead, and Su Jixiang hurriedly wiped them for him with his handkerchief.

Just as Su Jixiang was about to ask, he saw Wei Ling's eyes were closed and his palms were folded in front of his abdomen.

Su Jixiang shut up. Although she didn't understand the principles of the operation of true Qi, she could see clearly that Wei Ling was healing himself.

She simply sat aside and waited quietly.

After about a quarter of an hour, Wei Ling took a deep breath and slowly opened his eyes.

"Are you feeling better?" Su Jixiang quickly handed him his handkerchief, motioned him to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, and asked.

"Better now." Having just suppressed his surging blood, Wei Ling looked very tired. Su Jixiang hurriedly poured him a cup of tea and handed it to him. Wei Ling took it and tested the water temperature. It was slightly hot, so he simply drank it all in one gulp.

After drinking three glasses of water in a row, Wei Ling's complexion finally eased a little.

"Do you want to ask Doctor Zhou to take a look?" Su Jixiang asked in a low voice.

"It's no use for him to see it." Wei Ling said calmly, "As long as I don't use my true energy recklessly, I will gradually get better."

"But you just..." Su Jixiang couldn't say anything more when he thought that he had used his true energy to save himself. "Be more careful next time."

“Assassinations are not something you can avoid by being careful.” Wei Ling felt that the pain in his chest was not as severe anymore, so he smiled.

He was still very weak, and this smile, with a sense of brokenness, was unexpectedly touching.

"Then let's not go out anymore!" Su Jixiang said fiercely.

Su Jixiang's expression instantly made Wei Ling laugh, "Why don't you go out? You can't hide for more than half a year."

"I'm not talking about you. How many enemies have you made outside?" Su Jixiang asked with a sigh. "Why don't you bring some bodyguards with you? And just now you said someone was watching us. How did you notice it? Who was watching us? Why were they watching us? Curiosity or surveillance?"

"You asked so many questions in one breath. I need to think carefully about how to answer you." Wei Ling pushed the empty cup over. Su Jixiang rolled his eyes at him, but still filled it with tea for him.

Wei Ling did not drink it all at once this time. Instead, he took a sip slowly, put down his teacup and said, "I don't know who is watching us. I need to check. But they are definitely not watching us out of curiosity, but monitoring us."

"We just encountered an assassination attempt and someone was monitoring us. Could it be that the assassination was not a coincidence?" Su Jixiang held his chin with one hand, thought for a while, and then asked.

"Smart." Wei Ling nodded. "The young master of the former county magistrate's family should know something. But he may not know much."

"Oh. So you asked the shopkeeper to send him to our house as well." Su Jixiang then remembered his previous doubts, "You want to find out the situation."

"Yes." Wei Ling nodded. "If he wants to assassinate me, he can just attack me. Why bother stabbing you? Stabbing you is just forcing me to take action. Besides, they also know that even if they find such a child to assassinate me, as long as he is close to me, I can subdue him with my bare hands without using my true energy. If he assassinates you from a distance, I will definitely need to use my true energy if I want to save you, otherwise I can't move so quickly."

"So someone suspected that you were injured internally?" Su Jixiang was a little surprised. "Is there any force in Mangcheng that is not your subordinate?"

"Yes." Wei Ling nodded again. "The Black Tiger Army was once divided into two parts. One part grew stronger with my wars, and the other part stayed in Mangcheng to guard against the Turks. And when we started the rebellion, we killed the governor and the former county magistrate of Mangcheng. So now in the territory of Mangcheng, whether it is political affairs or military affairs, they are all managed by the generals of the Black Tiger Army, and I am the general manager when I come back."

"I understand!" Su Jixiang slapped his thigh, "I understand what you said. If you don't come back, other people will have the final say here. Once you come back, everything will be under your control, so you have touched someone else's cake!"

"Cake? What is that?" Wei Ling looked at Su Jixiang in confusion.

"It's a kind of snack, very delicious. I'll make it for you to try later. But I need to build something like an oven first." Su Jixiang said.

"Oh. Okay, just tell Wei Zhong whatever you want to do and he will get it done for you." Wei Ling nodded. It turned out that cake was a kind of dessert. It sounded good. He could look forward to it.

In fact, he used to love sweets very much, but later his family suffered a change and he didn't feel much for anything he ate, especially after his legs were broken and he was exiled from the capital. For him, food was just something to fill his stomach. He no longer had any special requirements for the types and taste of dishes.

Now that he met Su Jixiang, it seemed that she not only brought his life back from the cemetery, but also slowly restored his gradually numb sense of taste.

"If that's the case, then it's easy to find out who's spying on you." Su Jixiang said, "Anyway, you've only touched a few people's interests. Just check among them."

Yes, it is not difficult to check, but it is not easy to get people to admit it.