An abandoned official road overgrown with weeds.
"I have a small motorcycle, but I never ride it..."
Maybe it's because of the voice change, the voice is not as clear and pure as before, but this does not affect the boy's good mood through singing. The only thing that does not change is the boy's restlessness. When he encounters a branch extending from the roadside, he always raises his hand to pluck a handful of leaves. The absurd tune is accompanied by the sound of "ding-ling-ding-ling". If he forgets the words, he will improvise and entertain himself.
"One day I suddenly felt like riding to the market..."
"hey-hey!"
"I felt really proud holding the little whip in my hand."
"Hehehehe... Gulu Gulu Hehehe Xiu!"
After the song is over, continue singing.
"The Eastern Han Dynasty was divided into three kingdoms..."
"The next word... seems to be something about war..." the boy muttered.
"Why don't you sing, my lord?" The young man was riding a beautiful tall snow-white mule, and there was a carriage following behind him. The voice came from the carriage.
"Does Wangchao think I sing well?"
This young man is Shen Tang, who lets herself go whenever she is on a business trip. God knows how happy she is at this moment. Thinking back to the past few months, she had to deal with endless official business every day, with her butt tied to the mat. It was simply a nightmare from hell!
Working overtime every day is terrible!
Gu Chi threw the question back lightly.
"What do you think, Master?"
Listening to the Lord singing is equivalent to chronic self-mutilation.
Qi Yuanliang didn't lie to him.
Shen Tang was full of confidence, and he gave a thumbs up and boasted: "Of course it is first-class! Gong Xichou said it was heavenly!"
Otherwise, how could the two of them become close friends
Of course, there is a high degree of resonance in music!
Gu Chi: “…”
"Let's find a place to rest first."
As midsummer approached, the weather became hotter day by day, and Shen Tang's throat became dry and smoking from singing. The high spirits of regaining freedom also gradually subsided under the beating of the hot temperature.
I raised my hand to touch the top of my head, and my palm felt something burning hot.
"This scalp is so hot that it can be used to make teppanyaki tofu..."
There was no village in front and no shop behind, so I could only find a shady place on the side of the road to hide.
She threw two candies to Moto.
The latter tilted his neck back, opened his mouth, and swallowed it accurately.
He held the reins in his mouth and obediently walked to the side to rest.
Yu Zi took clean water bags and dry food from the carriage and distributed them to everyone. Shen Tang said, "Don't be busy. You are well now. Sit down and take a rest. Oh, the sun is really scorching. If you don't have the protection of Wen Qi, you will be tanned several degrees..."
After the last epidemic ended, it took Yu Zi more than half a month to fully recover. Lin Feng fed her every now and then, and her thin body gradually recovered. Her thin and sunken cheeks became fleshy, and even her head grew a little taller.
Yu Zi said crisply, "Thank you, Master."
Having said that, she still distributed the water and food before sitting down to rest, taking out a scroll of bamboo book and studying silently - in fact, Shen Tang had not planned to take Yu Zi with him on this business trip.
I'm not very old, so there's no point in carrying it with me.
But Gu Chi disagreed.
The reason is simple and crude.
Although Shen Tang has always dressed in men's clothes, she is a girl after all, and now she is thirteen years old. It is always inconvenient for her to go out, and it is impossible for her to do everything by herself. It is more convenient to have a "maid" to take care of her than for a grown man like him.
It doesn't necessarily have to be Yu Zi.
Yu Zi has a poor foundation and this is the time when she needs to work hard. It would be a waste of time to follow her out and take care of her daily life.
Gu Chi: I’m worried about finding a new one.
Shen Tang’s gender will need to be kept secret for a while.
If you choose an unreliable one, I'm afraid something bad might happen.
Besides, Yu Zi has not yet entered the sect, and no matter how hard she studies, it cannot compare to the benefits of staying with Shen Tang. When her body is full of literary energy, it will not be too late to prepare to develop the Dan Mansion, concentrate her literary mind, and then retreat to sprint. Sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood.
After Gu Chi said this, Shen Tang no longer insisted.
Except for Gu Chi and Yu Zi, the rest are guards.
No one else followed.
In addition to Fugu, Heyin still has other places that have not been rectified, so Qishan, Chu Yao and Kang Shi can't leave - if any of them leave, won't the rest be exhausted? Gong Shuwu and Yang Duwei have to help train the soldiers. Zhao Feng hasn't stopped for a day since he came to Fugu, wandering around the ridges of the fields. Bai Su is obsessed with cultivation, and even Tu Rong and the others have heavy tasks...
As for why it was Gu Chi
This guy's way of writing is too convenient.
With him around, Zhang He couldn't play any tricks, and if anything went wrong, everyone could evacuate Yi Ru in time.
"I hope this trip will yield some results..." Shen Tang drank some water to relieve his dry and smoking throat, and fanned himself with his sleeves, "More allies are always better than more enemies..."
Like Gu Ren and Wu Xian, Shen Tang also suspected that Zhang He was the culprit who secretly promoted the epidemic, but her information channels were more special than the other two, and she vaguely knew some secrets.
emmm…
It was said to be a secret, but in fact, it was just that when Gu Chi was on a business trip, he overheard a passing merchant gossiping. The merchant's sister married to Yiru, and the letter she sent to him tactfully reminded him to be careful when buying goods and doing business in Yiru, as Yiru was not very peaceful.
Why is it so uneasy
It seems that the common people in the country have fallen ill with a strange disease again.
However, the news was blocked by Yi Ru. The local people were crazy about Zhang He and were extremely wary of outsiders. They thought anyone who came was out to harm Zhang He and would not easily leak the news. In addition, the scale of the incident was small and few people knew about it.
Shen Tang prepared to find an excuse to test the waters.
If Zhang He really has a problem...
You can also prepare early.
So as not to be caught off guard.
Gu Chi: "You can only tell whether it is a human or a ghost by seeing it."
Yiru and Heyin are not too far away.
The round trip only takes four or five days.
On the border between Yi and Ru, there is a teahouse on the official road.
Before going on a business trip, everyone asked Qishan to help them disguise themselves.
Gu Chi was disguised as an accountant, Yu Zi was a maid, other soldiers became guards, and Shen Tang fabricated a false identity of "a trusted official of the governor of Heyin". As the governor of Heyin, it would be easy to cause misunderstanding if he went to someone else's territory without permission.
"It's so lively..."
Even this small teahouse was packed with people, 70% of them were businessmen, and the remaining 30% were common people who wanted to come to Yiru with their families. Shen Tang and his friends could only make do with a tea table outside the teahouse and watch people coming and going in the small pavilion.
The more Shen Tang looked at it, the more jealous he became. He said with some envy, "If you want to be rich, you must first build roads. Tsk, Wangchao, let's repair the official roads in our territory and build a hundred or eighty of them in one go!"
Gu Chi raised his eyebrows: "One hundred and eighty? Master, where are the people?"
Shen Tang: "Don't we have Zhao Dayi? In this weather, there is not much work in the fields. We should find him something to do. Building bridges and roads is also for the benefit of the common people. He will be willing to do it."
A stream of martial energy creates a ditch of more than ten feet in diameter, which can be called a walking excavator. It is so convenient to clear the road!
Make the best use of everything and do your part!
The corners of Gu Chi's mouth twitched.
For a moment, I didn’t know how to sympathize with Zhao Feng.
Shen Tang held the ceramic bowl and took a sip of tea.
"… Speaking of this, aren't we too biased in our development? The Wudan warriors are only halfway there to support the appearance, Shaoxuan and Shousheng are still developing, Turong is young, and Zhao Feng is still borrowed from someone else, and I don't know when he will leave…"
"so?"
Gu Chi automatically ignored the words he didn't understand.
"Recruit a few more brave warriors. I don't dare to expect someone of Zhao Dayi's level, but I can always think of someone of the fifth, sixth, seventh, or eighth level, right?" Shen Tang had already begun to imagine a scene of a group of brave warriors working enthusiastically and repairing the road with their bare chests.
Gu Chi: “…”
If a brave warrior knew what his master was thinking, he would want to walk against the wall...
Don't even think about catching any of them.
"While it's still early, you can think about it."
"Um?"
Gu Chi said: "Daydreaming should start early."
Shen Tang: “…”
Gu Wangchao has changed!
He wasn't like this before!
Gu Chi pretended that he heard nothing.
"Huh! Daydreaming? Who doesn't dare to do that?"
Shen Tang put down the tea bowl with a clang, pointed to the sky and said angrily: "Not only do we have to do it, we have to do it now. Do it as beautifully as possible! Believe it or not, there are brave warriors who will come to our door right now!"
Gu Chi couldn't help laughing.
He found that after he followed this lord, he couldn't say anything else, but he smiled more and more. Even though there were still noisy voices in his ears, it didn't affect his good mood at all...
"Master Lang, what you said..."
Gu Chi was about to strike back.
Suddenly I caught a glimpse of something and almost choked on my water.
"What's wrong? Did you see someone familiar?" Shen Tang noticed his strangeness and turned his head to look in the direction he was looking.
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