After the war, Lingguan City was devastated. There were more soldiers than civilians on the streets. From time to time, innocent civilians could be seen being taken away for no reason.
Gu Chengfengrao repeatedly reminded himself that he was a thief, and that the life and death of the people had nothing to do with him, but when he saw these things happening in front of his eyes, the blood in his body still surged in anger.
He clenched his fists tightly, and it took a lot of effort to resist the urge to kill the soldiers of the State of Chen who were bullying the people with one sword.
He can't be exposed.
Not yet... Not yet...
"Let's find an inn!" He turned around, afraid that if he took another look, he couldn't help rushing over.
"Okay." Gu Jiao nodded calmly.
She seemed to be indifferent to everything, and the lives and deaths of others seemed insignificant in her eyes, but she came to a bitter cold place full of perils and dangers for the fools and brothers she spoke of.
Gu Chengfeng suddenly felt that he could not understand her.
The two found an inn nearby.
There are traces of being looted in the inn, and the shopkeeper's face bears a shocking slap print. As for the guy in the inn, it is even more injured, painful, and his eyes are red and swollen.
They were helping up the stools that had fallen on the ground, and there were no other guests in the inn. I don't know if there was no one staying in the inn at all or they were all scared away.
Gu Jiao and Gu Chengfeng came to the counter.
The shopkeeper cheered up and looked at the two, his voice still trembling after choking: "Are the two guests eating or staying at the hotel?"
Gu Chengfeng said to the shopkeeper, "Give us a room, and if you have something to eat, bring it here, if you don't have it, forget it."
"You two, please come with me." The shopkeeper resisted his grief and took Gu Jiao and Gu Chengfeng to the second floor, pointing to a room that was still clean and tidy, "This is the upper room of our inn, one hundred yuan. In the evening, two meals are included."
"One, one hundred words?" Gu Chengfeng suspected that he had heard it wrong.
The shopkeeper hurriedly said: "Does the guest officer think it's expensive? Then it's okay to give the guest officer a little cheaper, just 80 wen."
Gu Chengfeng opened his mouth and said, "I didn't mean that."
One hundred yuan is really cheap. They have never stayed in such a cheap inn along the way, and they still go to the room and pack two meals.
"One hundred yuan is one hundred yuan." Gu Chengfeng couldn't bear it in the end, and he didn't kill the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper said gratefully: "Thank you for the guest officer, the little one will prepare food for the guest officer, but the guest officer may wait for a while."
Gu Chengfeng understood what he meant. Those soldiers ransacked the inn, fearing that the good things in the kitchen were not spared, so they had to go shopping again.
Gu Chengfeng had mixed feelings in his heart.
Gu Jiao should eat and sleep, as if she was heartless, she could not see the slightest bit of worry and pity.
Gu Chengfeng looked at someone sleeping on the bed holding a red ying gun, and the corners of his mouth twitched!
How could a little girl have a bigger heart than this man's!
After dinner, the two were ready to leave.
The two changed into night clothes, put on masks, and were ready to go.
Unexpectedly, just as Gu Chengfeng opened the door, he immediately closed it again.
"Anyone here?" Gu Jiao asked.
Gu Chengfeng's throat slid for a while, and he calmed down, saying, "It's a soldier of the Chen State, a large group of people."
A large group of people meant that dozens of people came, and almost instantly filled the lobby of the inn.
For a moment, Gu Chengfeng suspected that he and Gu Jiao's whereabouts were exposed. Fortunately, the group sat down directly in the lobby, and it seemed that they were just here to eat and drink at the inn.
Gu Chengfeng breathed a sigh of relief.
It's not that he is afraid of these soldiers. If he really fights, he can deal with them alone, but if he really fights, it will not be good to disturb the heavy soldiers of the prefect's house.
The wing had no windows, so they could only wait for the group of soldiers to leave.
The group of soldiers didn't know that someone else lived in the inn, and they thought it was all their own people. They didn't have any scruples when they said it, but they let Gu Jiao and Gu Chengfeng hear something incredible.
It turned out that the old man was arrested and Tang Yueshan's "handwriting!"
The concubine put Princess Ning'an under house arrest, and the old marquis asked Tang Yueshan to borrow a few archers to sneak into the princess' mansion to rescue Princess Ning'an, but Tang Yueshan refused the old marquis on the grounds that he wanted to send troops to destroy the chaotic party.
The old man had already noticed something wrong, and reminded Tang Yueshan that things might not be so simple, so don't be rash.
Tang Yueshan believed that the old marquis was preventing him from making meritorious deeds. He ignored the advice of the old marquis and launched a night attack on the remaining evildoers in his own way, but he fell into the trap of the other party.
The remnants of the previous dynasty and the army of Chen Guo attacked back and forth, and finally Tang Yueshan was defeated and Yecheng fell.
Chen Guo's army won the first battle, and its morale was high. On the other hand, the local army of Zhao country was defeated because of the defeat of the army and horses. Naturally, there was not much morale to resist. Lingguan City and Beiyang City were easily captured by Chen Guo's army.
Gu Chengfeng said angrily, "If Tang Yueshan had listened to my grandfather's words, my grandfather would not have been arrested, and the frontier cities would not have fallen so easily!"
If his grandfather hadn't been arrested, whether it was his grandfather and Tang Yueshan joining forces to fight the enemy, or his grandfather leading the army to meet the enemy after Tang Yueshan's defeat, the frontier fortress would not have fallen so quickly.
Gu Chengfeng frowned suspiciously: "Do you think Tang Yueshan did it on purpose?"
"What on purpose?" Gu Jiao asked.
Gu Chengfeng said coldly: "Deliberately defeated, let my grandfather be arrested! As the saying goes, if there is a son, there must be a father. He can give birth to a vicious and perverted son like Tang Ming, which shows that he himself is not a good thing. I don't know where he learned the truth about Tang Ming's murder, and he hates our Gu family!"
Tang Ming bullied Gu Yan and was violently retaliated by Gu Jiao. Gu Chengfeng also participated. If Tang Yueshan learned the truth, he would have a reason to take revenge on the Gu family.
Gu Jiao paused and said nothing.
Judging from the information disclosed by the group of soldiers, Tang Yueshan disappeared after he was defeated. Now they are searching for Tang Yueshan everywhere. They want to see people in life and corpses in death.
The more Gu Chengfeng thought about it, the more suspicious Tang Yueshan felt, and even the defeat of the army was very likely to be a calculation of Tang Yueshan: "He is very happy, if he loses the city first, and then takes it back, let him Your Majesty sees how difficult it is for him to fight this battle, and when he returns to the capital, he will receive double the reward and the Sacred Heart."
Gu Jiao tapped his shoulder.
Gu Chengfeng was analyzing Tang Yueshan's enthusiasm when he was suddenly interrupted and stunned for a moment: "What's wrong?"
Gu Jiao pointed downstairs: "They're gone."
Gu Chengfeng opened his mouth: "Alright then, let's go too."
Gu Jiao glanced at him and said, "You can come back and talk again."
Gu Chengfeng choked: "I don't really want to say it! I'm a man! Why are there so many words!"
The man who didn't have a lot of words chatted with Gu Jiao all the way on the way to the Prefect's Mansion.
Gu Jiao: "..."
The Prefect's Mansion was heavily guarded, but it wasn't too difficult for Gu Chengfeng, who was able to come and go freely under Long Yingwei's eyelids.
He took Gu Jiao to sneak into the mansion.
Gu Jiao took out the sultry peacock feather mask and put it on.
Gu Chengfeng: No, does it still make sense to cover your face now
The two of them didn't know where the old man was being detained. Gu Chengfeng decisively grabbed a soldier and came over. Gu Jiao gave him a dose of intoxicating medicine, and the soldier fell asleep.
Gu Chengfeng looked at her needle: "..."
Your medicine doesn't work every time...
Gu Jiao put away the syringe and said without changing her face, "Find it yourself."
Gu Chengfeng snorted: "How do you find such a big mansion? Do you want to find Tianliang?"
Gu Jiao clapped her hands lightly: "I have already looked for Ning Wang's mansion, but I'm still afraid of a prefect's mansion."
Gu Chengfeng disapproved and said: "How can it be the same? There are only a few warehouses in Prince Ning's mansion, and they are all in his and Princess Ning's yard. The prefect's mansion is in front of the mansion, and behind it is a private residence, so I don't even know how they kept my grandfather in custody. Where. It could be a woodshed, it could be a dungeon, it could be some kind of secret room…”
Before he finished speaking, Gu Jiao pushed open the door beside him.
It was a wine cellar, used to store fine wine.
Gu Chengfeng shook his head while supporting his forehead, there is no need to look for such a place, it is not a good place to hold hostages at all.
He glanced inadvertently, and then he was stunned.
"Grandfather, grandfather?"
That old man with shackles and shackles on his hands and feet, fainted on the ground, is not his grandfather!
Gu Chengfeng was dumbfounded for a moment: "How, how do you know that my grandfather is locked here?"
Gu Jiao spread her hands: "I don't know, I just looked for it."
The corners of Gu Chengfeng's mouth twitched, what kind of luck is this girl! This can also be touched by her!
How about finding Tianliang
There are also a hundred ways to evade Chen Guo's reconnaissance soldiers in his mind! Uh? Out of use? !
Happy New Year.
May 2021, we can all ride the wind and waves like Jiaojiao!
(End of this chapter)