The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 522 Returning to Beijing (Part 1)

Prince Bo belonged to the royal family, and although he was considered to be highly skilled in martial arts, he was no match for a famous general like Rong Yao. In the end, Prince Bo was seriously injured and died at the hands of Rong Yao.

"Your minister is reckless. I planned to catch him alive, but this person is really difficult to deal with. I accidentally killed him by mistake. Please punish the Sixth Highness."

This is what Rong Yao said when he walked down the tower and came to Yuan Tang to plead guilty.

Yuan Tang is still by Gu Changqing's side at this moment, riding a tall horse, looking down at his own uncle Rongyao.

He smiled coldly in his heart.

If this kind of nonsense is said, his uncle himself doesn't believe it, right?

That's right, if you don't kill Prince Bo, what should you do when Prince Bo returns to the palace and says something unfavorable to Rong Yao?

This uncle is really thoughtful and cruel.

However, did he really think that without Prince Bo, he would be safe?

Yuan Tang looked at Rong Yao with a half-smile: "Uncle has worked hard. Uncle has made great achievements in killing the traitors. When we return to the capital, Father will definitely reward uncle for his merit."

Rong Yao knelt down on one knee, cupped his hands and said with a look of sincerity and fear: "I don't dare to reward meritorious deeds. I just want to make up for my meritorious deeds. I was also bewitched by Prince Bo. I really thought that everything was His Majesty's will. Who would have expected it to be so?" Someone falsely preached the imperial decree, causing us to follow him on the expedition... Please, His Highness Sixth, be aware of the details."

Gu Changqing on the side opened her thin lips lightly: "Oh."

Rong Yao's face became ugly.

Rong Yao's youngest son, Rong Fu, died in the hands of Gu Changqing. Rong Yao held great resentment towards Gu Changqing in his heart, but he had to bow his head under the eaves.

Yuan Tang looked at Gu Changqing, then looked at Rong Yao, and said with a faint smile: "Uncle is serious, what is the truth? When I return to the capital, my father will check it out. As long as uncle has a clear conscience, I believe that one day the truth will come out." Clearly."

A layer of cold sweat oozed from Rong Yao's forehead.

He didn't dare to look up into Yuan Tang's eyes, he already felt the threat from Yuan Tang.

"Your Highness Sixth, can you take a step to speak?" Rong Yao said to Yuan Tang.

Yuan Tang rode his horse back to Chen Guo's army camp with him.

General Zhang Shen looked at the backs of the two of them, and said to Gu Changqing: "General, that person surnamed Rong is probably going to lead the battle."

Chen Guo's 80,000 reinforcements, plus Yecheng's 60,000 troops, crushed the Gu family's army too much in number, and it would be a bloody battle.

There was no trace of anxiety on Gu Changqing's face, he said calmly: "Yuan Tang will not agree."

If Yuan Tang really wanted to start a war, he would not come here alone, and he would not pretend to be Gu Jiao's friend when introducing himself.

I don't know what Yuan Tang and Rong Yao said over there, Rong Yao almost ran away, but Yuan Tang ignored him at all, and directly let the 60,000 Chen Guo army withdraw from Yecheng.

Of course, this matter is not over. It was Chen Guoxian who violated the peace treaty and started the war. All the war losses will be borne by Chen Guo.

But this time it can be regarded as allowing Yuantang to truly see the cruelty of war and the terrible price it brings.

If it is said that Yuan Tang still only thought about going to war with Zhao State when Zhao State was the hostage, but now he no longer has this idea.

War is a struggle for power between superiors, and it is innocent soldiers and civilians who can sacrifice their lives for it.

Yuan Tang rode his horse again to the camp of Gu's army, and said to Gu Changqing seriously: "If you can trust me, I want to take Rong Yao back to King Chen's capital first, and then I will go to Zhaodu to plead guilty to His Majesty the emperor of your country later. peace talk."

Yuantang's identity is still Chen Guo's proton, and it stands to reason that he will return to Beijing with Gu Changqing, and letting him go is like letting the tiger go back to the mountain.

Without waiting for Gu Changqing to answer, Yuantang said again: "But before that, I hope I can go to Yuegu City with you to meet the Generalissimo of the World's Army and Horses and the old Lord Hou."

"Okay." Gu Changqing said.

Yuan Tang followed Gu Changqing to Yuegu City single-handedly, his magnanimity and courage are impressive.

However, when he actually arrived in Yuegu City, Gu Changqing realized that he had been fooled!

Why did this kid come to visit Tang Yueshan and his grandfather? He was clearly here to see his sister!

As soon as Yuan Tang entered the city, he went to the wounded barracks: "Doctor Gu, I'm coming!"

Looking at Yuan Tang who didn't regard himself as an outsider at all, Gu Changqing narrowed his eyes dangerously.

Gu Jiao's disease has long since recovered, and she has also passed the quarantine period. At this time, she is instructing several soldiers in the wounded barracks to recover.

He wears the armor of General Chen Guo.

Suddenly barging in like this, the soldiers of the wounded barracks were so shocked that they immediately pulled out the swords beside the bed.

Yuan Tang clicked his tongue, untied the saber from his waist, and threw it to a wounded soldier closest to him: "Take it."

Wounded soldier: "..."

Gu Jiao's expression was very calm, she only glanced at Yuan Tang, and then said to the wounded soldier beside her who was recovering: "You continue."

The recovered wounded soldier continued to walk forward with crutches.

Uninvited, Yuan Tang stood beside Gu Jiao, exaggeratedly said: "I am not excited at all to see His Highness, I would not have come to see you if I knew it."

"What's the matter?" Gu Jiao said.

Yuan Tang opened his mouth, as if he was fine.

He clicked his tongue and said, "Why don't you ask me what I'm doing at the frontier?"

Gu Jiao groaned, and said, "Kill Prince Bo or Rongyao?"

Yuan Tang: "..."

"Here, here you are." Yuan Tang handed her a small bag that she carried with her.

"What?" Gu Jiao asked.

Yuan Tang stuffed the bundle into her arms and said, "The Begonia flower box is for you, and the bamboo leaf box is for my cousin. I have to go back to the capital to deal with my uncle, and I may not be able to go to Zhao for a while. Du, you bring it to my cousin for me."

"Yes." Gu Jiao responded.

Yuan Tang raised his eyebrows: "Don't think about it too much, I just gave you a gift to thank you for helping my cousin bring things, and besides... I was able to escape in Zhaodu thanks to your husband-in-law."

Originally, Yuan Tang thought he had hidden it well and didn't ask Xiao Liulang to know about it, but afterward he thought about it carefully, Xiao Liulang was going to go to the Yamen's office, but suddenly changed his way out of the north gate of the capital, and even stopped at the post station. for a while.

I'm afraid Xiao Liulang had discovered him long ago and sent him away on purpose.

Gu Jiao didn't know that there was such a thing.

It was really thanks to Xiao Heng letting Yuan Tang go, otherwise the battle would not have ended so quickly, and both sides would have suffered a lot of casualties.

Yuan Tang said: "Okay, I've said everything I need to say, I should go too, remember to let my cousin miss me."

Hearing this, Gu Changqing finally inserted the drawn sword back.

Yuantang rode his horse and left Yuegu City.

Looking at his back, General Zhang Shen asked: "General, are you really letting him go like this? Chen Guo has 140,000 troops, if he starts a war with us at this time..."

"He won't." Gu Changqing said.

If Jiaojiao believed him, then he would believe him too.

When Gu Jiao came out of the wounded barracks, she saw Gu Changqing waiting at the door.

"Are you here to change your medicine?" Gu Jiao asked.

Gu Changqing said seriously: "...um."

Gu Jiao took him to the tent next door, and cut the gauze on his hands with scissors. This was not the injury he got when he held the red-tasseled spear to protect Gu Jiao who was out of control when he first came to Yuegu City, it was the remnants of his previous crimes. The injury left when looking for Gu Jiao in his lair.

Gu Changqing revealed the matter about that day lightly, but in fact the process was far more difficult and complicated than imagined.

He learned from his staff that the map of the former army's lair and the secret road was true, but the map was incomplete, and the wooden bridge leading to the lair was destroyed by Huangfuzheng.

Gu Changqing stood on the cliff for a long time, and he was sure that unless he had wings, he would never be able to fly over with light work.

So he planned to go down the mountain first, go around from the foot of the mountain, and then climb to the top of the opposite mountain.

The hardships involved are self-evident.

Fortunately, although the map was incomplete, the general direction was correct. He climbed the cliffs with difficulty and almost fell into the abyss several times.

At that time, he had only one thought in his mind, he wanted to live and find his sister back alive.

The wound on his hand was left when he climbed the cliff, and it has not healed so far. He led soldiers to fight again and tore it repeatedly.

In Gu Changqing's opinion, this kind of injury is nothing. It wasn't because Gu Jiao was here, he didn't even bother to change the medicine.

"Don't get hurt anymore, or these hands will be useless." Gu Jiao said seriously while changing her dressing.

Gu Changqing smiled lightly: "Well, no, the battle is over."

"The thread here can be removed." Gu Jiao said looking at the wound on the back of his left hand.

Gu Changqing stretched out his hand obediently.

Gu Jiao took out the sterilized scissors: "It will hurt a little."

Gu Changqing said: "It won't hurt, your stitches won't hurt."

No anesthesia, no pain at all.

Mentioning this, Gu Jiao's hand paused.

After escaping from the mountains, she sewed up Gu Changqing's wound. It happened that a wounded soldier also needed stitches urgently.

However, there was only one anesthetic in the small medicine cabinet.

Gu Changqing gave up the anesthetic to the wounded soldier on the grounds that he didn't need it. He is a martial arts practitioner, so he will inevitably get injured. Occasionally he needs to drink some Mabo soup when he is seriously injured, but no matter what kind of Mabo soup is ineffective for him.

Gu Jiao couldn't help but recall that when she first came to the capital, when she sewed Gu Changqing's wound for the first time, there was no anesthetic in the small medicine box.

She didn't take it too seriously at the time, but now that she thinks about it, maybe the small medicine cabinet has already determined that the patient is intolerant to anesthesia.

So all the big and small injuries on his body were stitched without anesthesia at all?

Gu Changqing stared at Gu Jiao, and smiled gently: "It doesn't hurt, really."

"En." Gu Jiao replied very seriously, but the movements of her hands were much lighter.

Now that the battle is over and the plague patients have recovered, it's time for Gu Jiao and her party to return to the capital.

Tang Yueshan left some defenders, and Gu Changqing also left 20,000 Gu family troops to coordinate the post-disaster reconstruction of the three cities.

The prefects of Beiyang City and Yecheng were killed, and the imperial court issued an edict overnight to appoint two new prefects.

After the new prefect arrived at their respective official residences, the Gu family army and the court defenders were also ready to go.

Princess Ning An was going back to Beijing with them.

Rescuing Princess Ning'an back to Beijing is the mission of the old Hou Ye, and now the old Hou Ye is still in bed recuperating, so Gu Changqing came forward to ask Princess Ning'an to show her.

In the wing room of the prefect's mansion, Gu Changqing met Princess Ning'an in the study.

Since Princess Ning An came down from the mountain, she has been staying in her room, not going out and not talking to anyone.

Gu Changqing knew that the remnants of the previous dynasty had hit her hard, so she never mentioned the war and the son-in-law in front of her.

Gu Changqing bowed his hands and said solemnly: "We will leave for Beijing tomorrow morning. I don't know if the princess has any other orders?"

Princess Ning'an stared blankly at the snow scene outside the window, and after a while, she murmured, "Can I go to Jicheng...to pick up someone on the way back to Beijing?"

As she said that, as if she was afraid to trouble Gu Changqing, she added, "You don't need too many people, just a few people are enough. He is not difficult to pick up."

Gu Changqing probably understood who he was going to pick up, he said: "Weichen will go there in person."

"I also need to go!"

In another wing room of the prefect's mansion, Gu Chengfeng, who had removed the splint on his arm and recovered to be alive and kicking, said furiously.

He managed to recover from his injuries, and planned to go to the battlefield to fight heartily, but was told that Chen Guosheng had surrendered!

He has just become the Gu Family Army, so he has earned his name for nothing!

The main thing is to let the elder brother witness his strength.

"Okay." Gu Changqing agreed.

Gu Chengfeng was so excited all night, he finally waited until he was able to go on a mission with his elder brother. Unexpectedly, when he walked out of the barracks in full armor, he saw Gu Jiao beside his elder brother.

Gu Chengfeng's face darkened immediately: "Is she going too?"

Am I not the only one?

Why is there an extra girl for this honor of fighting side by side with the big brother!

"Get on the horse." Gu Changqing patted his mount and said.

Hum, that's about the same.

Gu Chengfeng pursed his lips and walked towards his elder brother's horse. He had been coveting his elder brother's horse for a long time. Apart from his grandfather's horse, his elder brother's horse was the best in their family.

Better than a horse snatched from a son-in-law.

"It's not you." Gu Changqing blocked him mercilessly, picked up Gu Jiao by the waist, put him gently on the horse's back, and said softly, "Sit still."

Gu Jiao nodded.

Gu Changqing turned over and sat on Gu Jiao's horse.

Then the two of them walked away!

Gu Chengfeng was left with a confused face: "..."

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