When Wei Lai left the state governor's mansion, the hour had already reached the ugly hour. Even in the bustling Ningxiao City, at this point in time, the streets were already inaccessible. Only a few drunken drinkers are still staggering down the streets.

Wei Lai didn't know those drunks, he had his mind.

This thought made him not sleepy even in the middle of the night, he lowered his head, frowned, and paced slowly.

"Think about it, I just asked you the question, if you were me, would you have a better choice in this situation? ”

"You have to think about it, because ......"

"Soon, you will be the master of this Ningzhou. ”

Jiang Huanshui's words kept echoing in Wei Lai's mind, everything that happened today was really too impactful for Wei Lai.

He lowered his head and thought about it, and before he knew it, he was back in front of his ancestral house.

He wanted to step up the stairs, but before he could take a step, he suddenly noticed something unusual—a figure suddenly flew down from somewhere, landed in front of him, and blocked his way.

Wei Lai's brows furrowed, and he suddenly became vigilant, his body took a step back, and the qi in his body began to surge under his traction, and at the same time raised his head and looked coldly at the guy who suddenly stopped in front of him.

Double knives, orange shirts, ponytails.

Wei Lai was stunned for a moment, and the momentum that had just been urged by his body was retracted at that time, and he said with a slight surprise in his mouth: "Ah Cheng girl?"

......

In all fairness, in the middle of the night, lonely men and widows walk together, which is somewhat intriguing.

In particular, such a request is made by the woman, especially if the woman who makes this request is such a beautiful girl.

I don't think any man would have the courage to refuse a girl's request, and of course, Wei Lai is not exempt from vulgarity.

It's just that the two of them walked side by side on the streets of Ning Xiaocheng in the middle of the night, but they didn't have the heart to feel this charm.

Wei Lai thought about the story about Chu Hou that he heard from Jiang Huanshui today, he didn't know if Ah Cheng knew that her current situation was just a game set up by the former emperor of Zhongxing Dayan for his son, and he didn't know whether he should tell this story to the other party.

Ah Cheng obviously has her thoughts, but she doesn't have that entanglement like Wei Lai.

So, after walking like this, she was the first to break the silence between the two.

"Wei Gongzi. She called out in a soft, hesitant voice, but also worried.

"Huh?" Wei Lai, who had come back to his senses, turned his head to look at the girl, but the girl who had always been free and resolute lowered her head at the moment, making it difficult for Wei Lai to deduce from the look on her face what kind of intention she had in mind to come to find him in the middle of the night.

And at this soft call, Ah Cheng fell silent again.

She grabbed her orange gown with both hands, with some force, the orange shirt was wrinkled, and her knuckles were white.

Wei Lai felt something, and did not urge, just quietly waited for the girl's next words.

It's not a long time, but it seems quite difficult for a girl.

But in the end, she still mustered up the courage, suddenly stopped her steps, raised her head and looked directly at Wei Lai. Wei Lai was inexplicably a little uncomfortable in that gaze, but before he could fully get used to it, the girl bowed down and bowed to Wei Lai, and then said, "Please save His Royal Highness the Prince!"

Wei Lai didn't expect that it would be Ah Cheng who would say this, he frowned, and then responded: "The girl said that she laughed, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is alive and well, how can he need to go down to save it?"

"Childe knows what Ah Cheng is talking about...... Ah Cheng stared at Wei Lai tightly and said again.

The gaze in Wei Lai's eyes immediately became gloomy: "I do know what the girl is saying, but the girl doesn't seem to understand what she is talking about. ”

Ah Cheng was stunned for a moment, and also frowned: "Childe, what does this mean?"

Wei Lai replied with heavy eyes: "The girl wants me to save your Highness, but the girl said, how does the girl think I can save your Royal Highness the Prince?"

I don't know what kind of psychology it is, Wei Lai deliberately bit the accent on the words "Your Highness", and Ah Cheng naturally felt this, but she had no intention of thinking more about this matter.

"Ningzhou! Childe only needs to let Ningzhou support ......"

Ah Cheng said this, but was interrupted by Wei Lai before he finished speaking.

"I thought the girl was a smart person, but I didn't want to talk nonsense and faint frequently after messing up. Wei said, his tone with an inexplicable regret, and the eyes that looked at Ah Cheng were filled with a taste of pity.

Ah Cheng's face was a little ugly, she stared at Wei Lai and said in a deep voice, "What do you mean?"

"Does the girl think I will help His Royal Highness the Prince, or is it worth my help if the girl lifts His Royal Highness the Prince?" Wei Lai asked rhetorically.

Ah Cheng's body trembled, obviously understanding what Wei Lai was referring to. But she was still unwilling to give up, so she said again: "I know that His Highness has made some moves that make Childe unhappy recently, but Childe also understands His Highness's situation. ”

"His Royal Highness has great ambitions, but he has been in a difficult situation these years, although he has the name of the prince, he has been repeatedly controlled by the Jin family, this trip to Ningzhou is His Royal Highness's only opportunity, but after the prince rejected His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness ......"

"When my father first came to Wupan City as a magistrate, he encountered a murder. Wei Lai raised his voice so high that he interrupted the words of the woman in front of him.

"A man who bought a property and invested his savings for many years in a business. ”

"That business is very important to him, it is almost related to the life of a man in the second half of his life, as long as he makes money, he can exchange it for the mortgaged ancestral house, or he can fulfill his mother's wish, take a daughter-in-law, and give birth to several big fat boys. ”

"But the pity is that the business was a loss after all, or the kind of loss that lost all the money. ”

The man was destitute from then on, and his mother died of exhaustion because she couldn't stand such a blow. ”

"The man has no money, no house, and wanders the streets every day, and when he is hungry, he picks up the leftovers of others in the restaurant, and when he is sleepy, he looks for a street corner and is drowsy. ”

But after all, he was unwilling, and he didn't understand why he had to bear such misfortune. And this anger piled up in his heart, and every day became better than the other, and one night he finally broke into a mansion. Killed a sleeping family of three and robbed them of their money......"

"Does the girl think he's innocent?"

Wei Lai asked.

Ah Cheng was stunned for a moment, she understood the meaning of Wei Lai's words, and immediately frowned and said, "His Royal Highness is different from him......"

"Of course it's different!" Wei Lai's voice suddenly increased.

"The man suffered misfortune and chose to kill a family of three to pass on his misfortune to others. ”

"And your Royal Highness the Crown Prince suffered misfortune, but he chose to let the three million people in Ningzhou accompany him to the funeral!"

"One is a thug who slaughters people, and the other is a demon who pushes three million families into a fire pit!

Wei said this, his eyes widened, and the fire in his eyes rose, and he stared straight at Ah Cheng at that time, as if he wanted to use the flame in his eyes to burn the girl in front of him to ashes.

Ah Cheng was a little uncomfortable, or a little difficult to withstand Wei Lai's questioning.

She still responded, but her voice was much quieter: "But if today's opening of the mountains and rivers map of the Que Realm is a foregone conclusion, Gongzi should know better than me that under the devouring of the mountains and rivers map and the snake, Ningzhou's luck will be swept away." If Gongzi goes to show goodwill to His Highness at this moment, maybe there is a chance to change this matter, otherwise Ningzhou will be in danger!"

"And then?" Wei Lai asked coldly when he heard Ah Cheng's words.

Ah Cheng was stunned for a moment, his face puzzled.

"Even if I really do what the girl said today, and take the overall situation in the girl's mouth as the main thing to move my grandfather to move closer to the prince, the prince will really break with the Tianque Realm as the girl wishes, so what?" Wei Lai asked in a cold voice.

Ah Cheng was keenly aware of the change in Wei Lai's name for Jiang Huanshui, this was the first time she had heard Wei Lai call the old man like this in her impression, but obviously she didn't have the time and mind to study this seemingly inconspicuous at the moment, but in fact it was likely to bring about some huge changes.

"Your Highness has great ambitions, if you have the support of Ningzhou, you may be able to ......," Ah Cheng continued with Wei Lai's question.

"Or you can ascend to the position of the Ninety-Five. Wei Lai smiled: "That's what the girl wants to say, right?"

"But has the girl ever thought that today he can give up Ningzhou in order to win over the Tianque realm, so one day in the future, will he push Ningzhou into the abyss again in order to win over other realms, or cede the Mangzhou guarded by Chu Hou to whom?"

Wei Lai's last words had an obvious taste of provocation, and Ah Cheng's face changed at that time, and his expression was a little depressed. But she still shook her teeth and said: "How come, His Highness's move is also impulsive, and he will definitely take this as a warning in the future......"

"Girl, remember, the country is easy to change, and the nature is difficult to change. Besides, how can I believe that a guy who can trade the three million people in Ningzhou as goods can give Ningzhou a stable place in the future?" Wei Lai's rhetorical question was extremely sharp, making Ah Cheng, who was already behind, even more speechless.

But the girl who is not good at words is still unwilling to give up, and wants to say something more: "But except for the prince, Ningzhou has no choice, is it possible that the prince thinks that the Jin family can save Ningzhou?"

Wei Lai glanced at Ah Cheng rather strangely when he heard this, and asked, "Why does it have to be the Jin family or your Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

Ah Cheng showed a more confused expression than Wei Lai: "Is there any other prince who can have the possibility of winning the heir?"

Wei Lai shook his head: "The girl is overestimated, I don't have time to understand the descendants of his Yuan family, which one has the ability and which one does not, and I don't care who can become the future emperor of this Yan Court." ”

"Then ......," Ah Cheng asked again.

Wei Lai looked at the woman with a smile and whispered, "Ningzhou doesn't need anyone's protection. ”

In other words......

"Only Ningzhou itself can protect itself. ”