Gu Jiao and Gu Chengfeng entered the prefect's mansion in the afternoon, but the prefect did not return until the evening.
Master Hu asked the kitchen to make dinner, and he brought it over himself.
With Gu Chengfeng on Gu Jiao's side, Master Hu also brought the food to this room.
At this time, Gu Jiao and Gu Chengfeng both took off the masks on their faces. When seeing Gu Chengfeng, Master Hu only thought that this adult had a good appearance, but he was too young. How could Empress Dowager Zhuang be so young? What about the frontier
Immediately, he saw Gu Jiao beside him.
Master Hu was stunned by the birthmark on Gu Jiao's face. Was the imperial court so careless
Gu Chengfeng had a panoramic view of Master Hu's reaction. He didn't care when Master Hu looked at him, but Master Hu stared at Gu Jiao with such strange eyes, which made him burst into anger for no reason.
His expression turned cold: "Master Hu, is there anything else?"
"Ah! No, no!" Master Hu suddenly recovered, aware of the other party's displeasure, he smiled shyly, took a tray and took two steps forward and said, "Two adults, this is dinner, the little one is here for you. You put it here."
He said, and respectfully placed the tray on the table in front of the two of them.
Along the way, Gu Chengfeng and Gu Jiao spent a lot of time sleeping in the open air. They had experienced rich cities and poor villages and towns.
It's just that he didn't expect that the food in the dignified prefect's mansion would be so bad!
After all, it is the biggest local official!
Gu Chengfeng was stunned when he looked at the miserable miscellaneous grains in the bowl, as well as two hard-boiled eggs and a plate of pickled vegetables.
Seemingly aware of Gu Chengfeng's doubts, Master Hu smiled embarrassedly and said, "The frontier fortress is a place of bitter cold, and it is not as good as the capital. I hope the two adults will take more care of you."
"Is even the prefect's house so poor?"
Gu Chengfeng couldn't help but ask.
Isn't there a folk saying that three years of the Qing Dynasty prefect, one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver
There are only poor people in the world, where can there be poor officials
Master Hu lowered his head and sighed helplessly: "The two adults don't know something, Yue Gucheng is poor and the people can't get enough to eat. The prefect is from a poor family and loves the people like a son. His salary is used to help the disaster victims. He eats whatever the people eat, and today, in order to entertain the two adults, I just dug out the eggs and pickled vegetables that I was willing to eat during the New Year. There is meat in the pickled vegetables."
The last sentence is simply the finishing touch.
Gu Chengfeng's mouth twitched, is there any meat here
The kind of diced meat
Thinking of something, Gu Chengfeng asked, "The imperial court allocates money to the frontier every year, where did it go?"
Master Hu sighed softly again: "We Yuegucheng is just a small town, and the money allocated is not much, and all of it is used up. The prefect does not take a single cent of the people's money, nor a cent of the court's salaries."
Gu Chengfeng was silent.
Forget it, he's a big thief, what does he care about people's livelihood in this world
The purpose of his trip was to rescue his grandfather, and everything else had nothing to do with him.
Master Hu said observantly: "Two adults, please take it slow, and the younger one stepped back."
"En." Gu Chengfeng waved his hand lightly.
After Master Hu went out, Gu Chengfeng picked up a wowtou, which was supposed to be hot when it came out of the pot, but the time it came, it was blown cold, and it was as stiff as a stone.
Gu Chengfeng took a bite, so bad that he frowned. He said to Gu Jiao, "If Princess Ning An had known that she would marry in such a place, she would not have come to the border, right?"
"I don't know." Gu Jiao said.
Gu Chengfeng curled his lips in disgust, there was always a way to talk to death.
He was disgusted on his face, but he was very careful when he picked Gu Jiao's head.
He peeled off the air-dried skin and put it into his bowl, and put the hot and soft core in Gu Jiao's bowl. After picking the pickles carefully for a long time, he picked out the diced meat and gave it to Gu Jiao.
He was not so natural from the beginning. The first time was in the first post after leaving Beijing. The food was not bad at that time. They even ate a plate of shrimp. He took care of his brother and took care of it. Just peeled one off for Gu Jiao.
When she put it on Gu Jiao's plate, she realized that something was wrong.
Gu Jiao is neither his younger brother nor his younger sister, he does not admit it!
The most embarrassing thing is not that he peeled the shrimp for Gu Jiao with affection, but just in case Gu Jiao suddenly said "Why are you being so kind to me".
Unexpectedly, Gu Jiao didn't say a word, didn't even lift her eyelids, as if such actions were not out of the ordinary and irrelevant.
This made Gu Chengfeng secretly relieved.
After that, he did similar things unconsciously several times, and she always accepted it indifferently, and if he didn't do it, she wouldn't ask him why he didn't do it.
Gu Chengfeng felt that this girl was not difficult to get along with.
Or rather, get along well.
Gu Jinyu in the house is not so easy to get along with. Gu Jinyu is too fragile and needs someone to take care of her all the time, otherwise she will be sad and cry.
Gu Jiao doesn't, she just makes others cry.
After eating, Gu Chengfeng said to Gu Jiao, "I'm going to Yecheng tomorrow to save my grandfather, what are your plans?"
The remnants of the previous dynasty were stationed in Yecheng, and his grandfather and Princess Ning'an were also arrested there.
Yecheng is the most heavily guarded city among the three cities. Not only the remnants of the previous dynasty, but also the army of Chen State, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. He wants to rescue his grandfather by himself, but the outcome is actually very small.
But he had to do it. That was his grandfather. Even if Ye City was a sea of swords and flames, he had to go for it.
Gu Chengfeng suddenly remembered Gu Jiao's purpose for coming to the frontier, and asked her, "You said your brother was also arrested, wouldn't he be in Yecheng?"
"Not here." Gu Jiao said.
Gu Chengfeng's expression softened: "It's good not to be in Yecheng. The situation in Yecheng is the most complicated. Don't act on your own first. When I go to Yecheng to rescue my grandfather, I will go with you to rescue your brother."
Gu Jiao took a sip of sandy water and said slowly, "Okay."
Princess Ning'an and the old marquis had been secretly transferred long ago. At this time, they were not in Yecheng at all. Yecheng was an empty nest where Gu Chengfeng had nowhere to go.
After Gu Chengfeng returned to the house, Gu Jiao also took a rest.
In the middle of the night, she heard a very slight movement from the roof, her ears moved, and she opened her eyes coldly.
In that dream, Gu Chengfeng was staying in an inn, and he was drugged on the first night, which caused him to suddenly lose his skills when he went to Yecheng to save people the next day, and fell into the opponent's trap.
It seems that the defense of the prefect's mansion is not very effective, and the time to come is still here.
Three people in total.
Gu Jiao looked at the roof, lifted the quilt and sat up, she heard them go to the next door, she waited for them to come out and came to her side to die, but they just left!
and many more.
She came with Gu Chengfeng, didn't they drug her together
Or did they have to deal with only Gu Chengfeng from beginning to end
wrong.
Gu Chengfeng and the old marquis had their heads cut off, Gu Changqing had their legs cut off, and the Gu family army was annihilated... This is not against Gu Chengfeng, but against the Gu family and the Gu family army.
She concealed her identity and did not reveal the fact that she was the daughter of the Gu family, so the other party did not count her together.
Gu Jiao's eyes turned cold, she pushed open the door to go out, came to Gu Chengfeng's house, kicked the door open, walked in and snuffed out the fragrance on the windowsill.
Gu Chengfeng was awakened by the huge movement, grabbed the dagger and sat up: "Who is it!"
He looked at Gu Jiao and frowned, "Is that you?"
"Let's go." Gu Jiao said lightly.
"What?" Gu Chengfeng asked.
Gu Jiao threw the extinguished incense from the windowsill: "Don't you want to save people?"
Gu Chengfeng followed her movements and looked around: "What did you just throw away?"
Gu Jiao took out the handkerchief and wiped her hands: "Mixiang."
Gu Chengfeng frowned: "Are you giving me a fragrance?"
Gu Jiaoyun said lightly, "Yes, I want to kill you."
Gu Chengfeng's face darkened.
Of course he didn't believe that Gu Jiao would kill her, so Gu Jiao didn't bring Mi Xiang over, he looked at Gu Jiao, then at the door that she kicked open, his face sank, and said, "Is someone here just now? "
"It's not too stupid." Gu Jiao took the veil and said.
Gu Chengfeng's expression flashed a dignified look, he was Feishhuang, only he knew how good his alertness was. Gu Jiao said that when they entered the city, they were targeted. At that time, he only thought that the other party was far away, and he could not find it in time.
However, tonight the other party sneaked under his nose, and he didn't even notice it...
Gu Jiao walked out: "If you don't leave, you won't be able to catch up."
At this point, telling Gu Jiao that you don't have to follow me on adventures would be a bit hypocritical.
Gu Chengfeng raised a dignified face, lifted the quilt and got out of bed.
This way, they all sleep in their clothes.
After getting out of bed, he grabbed the sword directly, and quietly left the Prefect's Mansion with Gu Jiao.
In order not to let the three people notice, they followed a little far.
The two were hiding on a roof at the moment, Gu Chengfeng looked at the three people who were in front of him, and raised his hand to cover Gu Jiao's eyes.
Gu Jiao: "..."
Thanks, I wasn't interested.
Gu Chengfeng whispered: "You say, are they remnants of the previous dynasty or masters of the Chen country?"
"Remains of the previous dynasty." Gu Jiao said without hesitation.
"So sure?" Gu Chengfeng looked surprised.
Gu Jiao nodded.
She just thought about it carefully, the remnants of the previous dynasty and the army of Chen Guo were in collusion. It seems that all actions are one, but in fact they have their own purposes.
For example, letting the 100,000 Gu family's army go and never return is like the idea of Chen Guoda's army, while dealing with the ancestors of the Gu family is more like the calculation of the remnants of the previous dynasty.
I don't know how the Gu family had offended the remnants of the previous dynasty, and they were so rampantly retaliated by them.
In fact, Gu Chengfeng also felt that the possibility of the remnants of the previous dynasty was relatively high. After all, his grandfather fell into the hands of the remnants of the previous dynasty.
Gu Chengfeng continued: "Princess Ning'an's concubine is also a remnant of the previous dynasty, and according to the information I inquired from Qianji Pavilion, he is still the royal family of the previous dynasty."
This Gu Jiao didn't know.
When the three of them were finished, Gu Chengfeng took away the hand covering Gu Jiao's eyes, and continued to chase after Gu Jiao.
Chasing and chasing, he felt something was wrong.
"Hey, it doesn't seem to be the direction to go to Yecheng." He studied the map again and again before going to bed. From this official road, Yecheng is to the east, and Lingguancheng is to the west.
"They're going to Lingguan City!" Gu Chengfeng took a breath of air suspiciously, "What are they going to do in Lingguan City? Shouldn't they go to Ye City? Could it be that... they secretly shifted their positions?"
Gu Chengfeng was not stupid after all, and after thinking about it, he figured out the key.
If this is the case, then grandfather must not be in Yecheng anymore.
Fighting is the second, the group of people are drugging him and shifting positions, I am afraid that they have already set a trap in Yecheng.
Gu Chengfeng looked shocked: "Co-authoring, I'm giving them thousands of miles away..."
Gu Jiao squinted at him and clapped her hands silently in her heart.
Congratulations, you got it right.
The two chased in the middle of the night, and when it was almost dawn, the three finally did not continue their journey, but entered a mansion with a token.
"It's the Prefect's Mansion of Lingguan City." Gu Chengfeng was lying on one of the eaves, turning around and whispering to Gu Jiao behind him.
Lingguan City fell, and the prefect's mansion had already become the possession of the remnants of the previous dynasty and the army of Chen State.
The prefect's mansion was heavily guarded. Judging from the armor, there were not only soldiers from the Chen State, but also the army of the remnants of the previous dynasty.
"Will grandfather be imprisoned here?" Gu Chengfeng murmured.
Gu Jiao thought he was asking her, and replied, "I don't know."
She didn't dream about this detail, she only knew that Gu Chengfeng and the old man had their heads cut off in Lingguan City, and their heads were also hung on the city wall of Lingguan City.
(End of this chapter)