"Young Marshal, no buts. I'm treating people in an innocent and upright manner. When you say things like this, it makes it seem like I have some sick ulterior motives."
"I don't care whether you do or not. I just don't want you to touch other men. If you want to touch men, just say it, and I will let you touch me."
Yun Xi was really amused by his domineering and unreasonable arguments. She turned around and walked over to stand in front of him.
"Young Marshal, if I had chosen the profession of forensic science, would you let me touch you, however, I wanted after I did autopsies?"
"Of course! I don't care what it is as long as it's not another man."
TSK, TSK! "Your preferences are really eccentric." Yun Xi was really amused by his words and didn't know how to react. She knew about his stubbornness and domineering ways, but she wasn't going to compromise on this matter.
"I just like you. Is there anything wrong with that?"
"Fine, but to treat Young Master Jiang, I can only promise you that I will try not to touch him too much. I will teach Jing Yi how to do it, and, for those unavoidable places, you have to agree no matter what."
Since she had already explained all this to him, Mu Feichi had no choice but to compromise with her.
Jing Yi pushed Jiang Qilin out into the room. Since they were extremely close, it was clear that they had already reached an agreement. He nodded at Yun Xi.
Mu Feichi glanced at the man lying on the bed in shorts. His eyes darkened. The intricate wounds on Jiang Qilin's legs were all from the last accident.
As a man, especially a man who was so proud, he could more or less understand what it was like to sit in a wheelchair and have his legs ruined beyond repair.
Climbing onto the bed, Yun Xi spread the acupuncture out needle by needle. Half-kneeling on Jiang Qilin's legs, she raised her head and looked at Jing Yi, who was standing to the side. "I don't have as much strength as you, so I will ask you to raise his legs later. You have been with Young Master Jiang for so many years, and you should also know how to massage him to relieve the stiffness of his leg muscles, right?"
Jing Yi nodded and said, "I studied it carefully, and I know the general techniques clearly."
"After I give him acupuncture and moxibustion, you will massage his leg muscles and soak his legs in herbs later. When his legs regain their feeling, you have to prepare all the rehabilitation equipment."
"That will be no problem! I will do everything you order me to do."
Yun Xi nodded and started to prick the acupuncture points along the legs attentively.
The process went surprisingly smoothly. No one in the large guest room spoke at all. The only sound was the sound of the springs bouncing when Yun Xi's legs moved around as she knelt on the bed.
After an entire hour, with the heating on in the room, Yun Xi felt that her back was wet with sweat.
After pulling out the last needle, she raised her head and looked at Jing Yi. "All right, in ten minutes, you will massage him for half an hour. Acupuncture will stimulate his leg nerves and blood. You can't use too much force, understand?"
"I understand! Miss Yun, thank you for your hard work!"
Yun Xi waved her hand and crawled down from the bed, but she collapsed on the carpet before her feet even touched the ground.
"Miss Yun!" Jing Yi exclaimed, but then he saw Mu Feichi rush forward.
Mu Feichi helped her up. His big, dry, cool hands started massaging her ankles and insteps with measured force.
"How do you feel? Do you feel better?"
"Much better! My legs were just numb. I'm okay!"
Yun Xi was about to struggle to stand up, but Mu Feichi had already leaned over and picked her up. Ignoring her struggles, he held her in his arms firmly.
"Since the diagnosis and treatment are over, let's go!"
"Mu Feichi put me down. I haven't written the ingredients list for the herbal prescriptions yet."
"You can write it after you go back, and I can send it over."
"..."
Jiang Qilin glanced at them and chuckled. "Jing Yi, send the Young Marshal and Miss Yun home, then send a car to pick up Miss Yun tomorrow."
"All right, Young Master!"
On the way back, Yun Xi sat in the passenger seat. She glanced at the man in the driver's seat, checked the time on the dashboard, and coughed slightly.
"Where are we going now? I'm hungry, so let's go eat."
"Okay," Mu Feichi responded as he turned the steering wheel and drove the car away from the direction of his home.
The atmosphere was awkward for a while. Mu Feichi was brooding and didn't speak, and Yun Xi didn't know what to say.
Although she wouldn't compromise on treating Jiang Qilin, in the end, both she and Mu Feichi had made compromises, which always produced the best results in couples.
Yun Xi wrung her hands. It was a while before she was able to come up with a topic. "I am going to Germany to receive an award on January 10. Young Master Jiang's course of treatment lasts about 20 days, so he will have to go with me. Will you be in the country at that time?"
"Why, do you want me to go with you? Is this an invitation?"
"..." In one second, he had managed to make the conversation awkward. Yun Xi was really impressed with his abilities.
"If nothing important comes up, I will be in the country, and I can go with you at that time."
"Oh..." She hadn't actually meant to ask him to go with her, but seeing his childish behaviour today, she had felt that it was necessary to tell him.
"I'll have someone book the flight for you, so you just need to prepare your luggage."
"Okay."
"Although Jiang Qilin is the Young Master of the Jiang family, whether before or after his legs were disabled, there were many people who wanted him dead. You shouldn't get involved in his affairs."
"Isn't he just a businessman? How did he provoke so many people?"
"Some things aren't as simple as you think. What you saw back there was only on the surface level. The real inside story involves many high-ranking people, and it also involves the domestic and foreign underground world. Do you really think if he had just been a businessman, they would have tried to use all those underhanded means to kill him?"
Yun Xi realized that the documents he'd shown her had been just a factual summary. The real inside story probably involved shady secrets.
There are very few high-ranking people without blood on their hands and no businessmen that have never done anything illegal. Many things seem placid on the surface, but all kinds of shady dealings are boiling down beneath the surface.
Even in her previous life, there had been nothing that she'd encountered as memorable or as cruel as all the things that she'd learned from Mu Feichi in this life.
"Where there are people, there is war, and where there are wars, there is death. That's why I don't want you to go onto the battlefield with me."
"So Jiang Qilin's identity isn't that simple? Actually, I'm quite interested in these inside stories. Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle. If I encounter such a rival in the future, maybe I can still compete with him."
In the future, if she wants the Yun family to be among the upper class in Jingdu, she would have to learn many methods and tactics. Now she isn't strong enough, so she must grow up in the shortest amount of time possible.
"I can tell you what you want to know, what you need to learn, the tactics of the business world, and the ruthlessness of the battlefield. Just ask me questions directly. Why bother asking Jiang Qilin to teach you? Do I look that unreliable?"
"As the saying goes, specialists are masters of their fields. Young Marshal, you are a soldier, so you can only teach me the ability to save my life on the battlefield. The things in the business world..."
"Do you seriously think I don't understand the ways of the business world? If I didn't understand that, do you think I would have been put in charge of the Mu family?"
"Young Marshal, I am wrong..." How could she have forgotten his identity as the Patriarch of the Mu Clan?
How could the person in charge of the Mu family be an idiot?
At the gates of the villa compound, Mu Feichi stopped the car. Yun Xi was about to unfasten her seat belt when Mu Feichi leaned over and unfastened it for her. He leaned back in his seat and gazed at her.
"You start school on the 14th. In addition to treating Jiang Qilin during this period, you will have to find an excuse to come up the mountain. I will teach you what you want to learn."
Yun Xi froze. She was a little surprised and said anxiously, "You're finally willing to teach me? This time is it a lesson or..."
"I can teach you whatever you want to learn."
He paused. Then, with a serious expression on his face, he added, as if to emphasize, "I will teach you myself!"
It was a good thing for her to be taught by Mu Feichi himself, but she was also worried that he would be protective and would therefore go easy on her, so she couldn't help asking, "Young Marshal, are you sure you won't deliberately go easy on me when teaching me?"
He had always said he would let her learn, but every time she had learned very little.
Compared to him, Li Zilan had never treated her with any special protective impulse. Rigorous teachers create good disciples, and Li Zilan was much more ruthless than Mu Feichi.
Mu Feichi raised his hand and touched her head. Feeling a little helpless, he said, "Babe, you're right. Teaching people to fish is better than giving fish to people. However, if you want me to teach you, but you can't meet my requirements, you will have to be punished. As for what the punishment is, I have the final say."
"..." Yun Xi frowned. How come she felt as if she was about to fall into a trap?
Seeing that she seemed to be suspicious, Mu Feichi chuckled lightly and covered up the sullen expression in his eyes as he said, "Relax, my punishment will definitely be lighter than Li Zilan's. After all, you are my beloved babe, so I couldn't bear to lay a hand on you."
"..." Yun Xi blinked sheepishly. For a moment, she didn't know how to answer. She raised her hand to push away his handsome face that was getting too close, opened the door, and got out of the car.
Mu Feichi sat in the car watching her running back home. He smiled slightly, turned the steering wheel, and drove the car to Mu Mansion at the top of the mountain.
On top of the mountain, Feng Rui, Qi Yuan, and Li Zilan, who had been ordered to appear, stood at the gates of Mu Mansion. All three of them were wearing camouflage uniforms that they used to go out and fight in. They were standing upright in the cold wind.
"Young Marshal!" Seeing Mu Feichi getting out of the car, Li Zilan stepped forward. "Crocodile has been handed over to the special department. At this time, the person in charge of the special department is the Feng family's eldest son, Feng Yang."
"I see, he has been following the Crocodile matter for the entire time. Let him take care of it. It will save us from being endlessly pestered by the anti-narcotics department. Qi Yuan, you can handle all the follow-up matters, then sort out the results and hand them directly to the President."
"Okay!" Qi Yuan answered.
After he got to the door, Mu Feichi paused and said, "Feng Rui, find someone to sort out my training camp."
"Huh?" Feng Rui froze, and it took him a while to process what the Young Marshal Mu had just said. "Young Marshal, ugh, your training camp that has been idle for several years? I can't sort it out immediately. The grass at the front door is taller than most people."
"Do as I say. Don't blabber so much nonsense!"
"Okay, but what do you want to organize the training camp for, Young Marshal? Do you want to form another special team?"
The training camp hadn't been visited for several years, and the dust was very thick. Although there were people taking care of it, it would be hard work to sort it out into working order.
"To use as a training ground for that girl..."
"..." The three of them, all with dazed expressions, looked at Mu Feichi at the same time.
Feng Rui scratched his head. Although he had guessed that it was for that girl, he was still a little puzzled.
"Young Marshal, didn't you have Li Zilan teach that girl? The training camps in these mountains are enough for her. Are you planning to teach her yourself?"
Mu Feichi glanced at him coldly and said, "Why can't I teach her personally?"
Li Zilan pulled at the idiotic Feng Rui's arm and chuckled lightly. "Okay, it's better for you to teach your own wife yourself, lest we lose our sense of measure and you feel distressed when she gets hurt."
In a few days, using the excuse of going to visit the Chen family's home, Yun Xi went to give Jiang Qilin acupuncture and moxibustion.
She had gotten her visa and passport by using Mu Feichi's connections, and they had been processed as quickly as possible for her.
Yun Yuanfeng had realized that there was no hope of his establishing ties with the Young Marshal, so he gave up on this idea and began to prepare for the upcoming election by using his own connections.
It costs money to campaign and to encourage one's connections. To attain the position of director, Yun Yuanfeng almost bankrupted himself.
From Mu Feichi, Yun Xi got the names of several bigwigs that Yun Yuanfeng had recently established ties with. Judging from the amount of money he had put into this campaign, she could tell that her father was quite rich.
Sitting cross-legged on the sofa, Yun Xi looked at the man who was disrupting the sand table deployment. With her head propped up on her arm, she looked up at him.
"Young Marshal, you have a key number of votes at your command, so why didn't my dad come to see you and try to win you over?"
Mu Feichi pulled out a model aeroplane, and he paused. He looked up at her and said, "Why, do you want your dad to use the money to bribe me?"
"No, my dad had originally wanted to establish ties with you through me, but unfortunately, he didn't succeed at that. If he had had ties with you, all the money he's used to bribing these corrupt officials would have gone to you."
"Well, you're right about that. What's mine is yours? After all the game playing and influence peddling, in the end, the money would still have gone into your pocket. Is that what you meant?"
Yun Xi nodded, but, after thinking about it carefully, she felt that something was wrong.
"It would be better to give it to you than to the others."
"Do I look like I have a shortage of money?"
"I'm short of money."
"Okay, we'll use the sand table as a confrontation match. The Red Army is you, and the Blue Army is me. If your sea, land, air, and special forces assault deployment plans satisfy me, I will let your dad use my connections and the money he uses to bribe me will all be yours."
With shining eyes, Yun Xi teased him, "How can you be so depraved, Young Marshal? What about your principles as a soldier? Where is your pride as a Young Marshal?"
She had just been talking casually, yet he had actually taken it seriously.
"For you, what won't I do? To make you happy, I would give the entire country to you."
"I don't want to be a femme fatale." Of course, she believed in the truthfulness of his words.
"I'm willing to do whatever I can just to make you smile."
Mu Feichi stood up, picked up the hot chocolate cup she'd been holding, took a sip, and pointed at the sand table that he had messed up. "Go!" he ordered.
His attitude of not taking no for an answer demonstrated his persistence and confidence.
Yun Xi snatched back her cup, stood up, and looked at the disrupted sand table. Today was the first day of military exercises and military combat.
The first thing he'd asked her to do was to make military deployments. He was simply giving her a hard time.
Even if she doesn't have to go to the battlefield in the future, she has to memorize military strategies and action plans.
Mu Feichi has a correct saying: "The person who can truly control the overall situation will be the final winner."
If she wants to have the last laugh, she must have all sorts of skills.
She stood by the sand table and pondered over the deployment of the Blue Army for a long time. Whether it was the deployment that she could see or the hidden strategies that she couldn't see, she didn't dare to omit anything, for fear that she would fall into Mu Feichi's trap if she was too careless.
After much contemplation, she slowly began to arrange the Red Army's land, sea, and air deployments. As soon as her arrangements were completed, Mu Feichi stood up.
He held a model tank in his hand and directly inserted it on her turf. Before he had even said a word, Yun Xi realized that she had fallen into a trap, and she rushed to protect her turf.
"Wait! I want to arrange my squadron in another way."
As expected of a Young Marshal of the military, he'd trapped her as soon as he'd made a move.
One of his first actions had directly exposed the biggest flaw in her deployment.
She'd originally thought that she had the perfect defence ruse, but she hadn't expected that one of his tanks could kill her squadron or even one of her entire regiments.
The terrain of this place was flat. She'd originally wanted to use the squadron as bait, but she hadn't expected that she would overlook one of the loopholes of the terrain.
He was more ruthless than she was, and he had decided to use a tank to take out her regiment in one fell swoop.
"Baby, you can't go back on your moves or the layout. You can't wait until the enemy's missiles hit your territory to come up with a new strategy. Do you think the enemy will give you a chance to deal with your mistakes? On the battlefield, it's a life-or-death struggle, and, at that time, no one will give you a chance to repent, and you will have no retreat. You either die or fight to kill the other party."
Yun Xi straightened up, feeling dazed. Looking at her infantry that had just been killed on the sand table, she felt both anguished and anxious.
Mu Feichi seemed to sense her anxiousness and anxiety. He walked over, reached out, and rubbed her head to console her. "Don't worry, my army is still there. You have time to think about how to deal with it, and how to make up for what just happened."
Yun Xi no longer dared to underestimate the enemy. The military deployment wasn't her strong point. The only thing she knew about it was from watching some deployment competitions on TV. However, these were all just a piece of cake for Mu Feichi.
Standing next to her, Mu Feichi silently watched her gradually calm down, correct several loopholes that he'd seen one by one, and expose his camouflage deployment along the way.
After half an hour, the deployment of the red and blue forces on the sand table was over, and Yun Xi raised her head and looked at the man across from her. "With such a deployment, how much of a chance of winning did I have?"
"70 per cent." Mu Feichi glanced at the sand table, gave her a fair answer, and added aloofly, "The premise is that your opponent is stupider than me."
"My opponents won't necessarily be smarter than you. So, I still have a great chance of winning."
"Babe, when you get to a battlefield, don't even think of relying on luck. It is better to overestimate your opponent than underestimate your opponent. Crocodile is the best example of that."
"I know."
"That's good." He raised his hand and squeezed her pink cheek. "With a military deployment with a 70 per cent possibility of winning, you barely passed the test. So...punishment is still needed."
"..." Yun Xi blinked, spread out her palms, lowered her head, and closed her eyes. She'd originally thought that the punishment would be getting her palms smacked, but the man in front of her wasn't going to let her off so easily.
Before she had even realized what was happening, the man had already clasped her chin and raised her head, and what followed was a passionate and domineering kiss from him.
"Hmm..." What a jerk.
It was too late for her to struggle. Mu Feichi quickly clasped her waist and squeezed her into his arms, and deepened his bold and domineering kiss.
Yun Xi's hands were on his chest, and she couldn't break free.
Her palms were pressed against the man's sturdy, powerful chest. She could clearly feel his steady heartbeat and his bodily warmth through her soft sweater.
Her face was getting hotter and hotter. She felt as if she was burning up.
The man's gentle kiss gave her a feeling like she had never felt before and made her heartbeat so fast that it felt as if it could jump out of her chest.
After kissing for a long time, she gradually felt her legs go slack, and her breathing increase. She felt as if she was unable to resist him.
Mu Feichi let go of her with a half-hearted smile. His slender arms embraced the little girl who was about to collapse on the ground, and he forcefully clasped her around the waist, as if he wanted to pull her into his body.