Chapter 420: Extra 011 Be obedient
Chapter 420 Extra 011 Be obedient
In order to put Shen Zhi's heart at ease, Shen Qianchen specially accompanied her to dinner before returning to Chengguang Hall. By this time, the sky had completely darkened, and the moon was above the willow branches.
In the dark night sky, the crescent moon is like a hook, emitting a silvery light. The night is hazy and the cicadas are chirping.
Along the way, lanterns were hung on both sides of the road, looking from a distance, they looked like fireflies.
As soon as Shen Qianchen returned to Chengguang Hall, Jingfeng told her that Gu Jue had returned.
Shen Qianchen regained his energy and rushed into the study room in a hurry.
"Jiuya!"
As soon as she entered the room, she smelled the faint fragrance of ink and paintings in the air, and the tip of her nose moved.
Gu Jue stood behind the desk and wrote.
He had already bathed and changed clothes. His black hair was half tied back loosely with a silk ribbon. He was wearing a large moon-white robe, and his whole body exuded a lazy and comfortable atmosphere.
Just looking at him, Shen Qianchen's heart calmed down and he couldn't help but smile, as if his heart was overflowing with something.
Gu Jue heard the sound of someone entering the room, put down his pen, waved to Shen Qianchen, and said softly: "I just painted a painting, do you want to see it?"
His smile was as gentle as the cool breeze on a summer night.
painting? ! Shen Qianchen's eyes suddenly lit up, remembering what he had promised during the day: "Have you finished the painting?!"
She couldn't wait to walk to his side, stood side by side with him, and admired the still-dry ink painting in front of her.
The scene in the painting is very familiar, it is exactly where they gathered flowers and herbs during the day.
Compared to the thirteen-year-old Gu Jue, the skill of this painting is naturally more skillful and more at ease. The artistic conception revealed in the two paintings is also very different. If the painting he painted when he was thirteen represents the wantonness of a young man, and wild, then what the picture in front of you shows is a kind of calmness that is not afraid of wind and rain.
Shen Qianchen's eyes finally focused on the two horses, one black and one red, in the lower right corner of the painting, and the corners of his lips curled up, as if the moment in the painting was eternity.
"I'll frame this painting tomorrow!" Shen Qianchen said with a smile.
He came to paint, and she came to frame it, and the husband sang and the wife followed.
Shen Qianchen admired the painting carefully for a while and found something missing. He waved to Gu Jue: "You didn't sign the payment!"
Gu Jue wrote and paid, and Shen Qianchen volunteered to help him stamp the painting. Finally satisfied, he remembered the serious matter on his mind.
She took Gu Jue's hand and walked to the window to sit down, and said coquettishly: "Jiuxia, please help me check Pei Linye!"
Last month at Shen's house, Shen Qianhuang told her about Pei Linye's marriage proposal. Shen Qianchen told Gu Jue about it after returning to the palace that day, so Gu Jue also knew about it.
Gu Jue saw that Shen Qianchen was in a good mood, and he could probably guess that Shen Zhi might have some good news.
He smiled and said, "What do you want to know?"
Shen Qianchen felt that Gu Jue must know more about Pei Linye than she did. After thinking about it, he said, "Let's start with the Pei family." She leaned on his shoulder with attachment.
Gu Jue touched her hair gently while talking about the Pei family.
The Pei family is a family of military generals, and all of them have been military generals for five generations starting from Pei Linye.
Pei Linye's father, Pei Tingyang, is a third-grade general Zhaowu who currently guards Youzhou. Pei Linye was his eldest son, and his mother died when he was five years old. Later, after Pei Tingyang observed his filial piety for his wife for a year, he married Mrs. Mu Guogong's cousin Xia as his second wife.
The Pei family was relatively harmonious. The Xia family later gave Pei Linye two younger brothers and two younger sisters. There were also two concubines and concubines in the family, all of whom were married.
After talking about the Pei family, Gu Jue started talking about Pei Linye again: "Pei Linye was clean and tidy when he was in the Northland, and he didn't have any bad habits of drinking or gambling. He was taciturn, cautious, courageous and resourceful, and he also established a good reputation in the Northland." Many military exploits..."
"In the past, there were many matchmakers for him in the Northland, but he refused them all."
Speaking of this, Gu Jue suddenly remembered that a few years ago, Tang Yuchu jokingly said to Pei Linye after getting drunk: "Old Pei, you are so boring. Whoever marries you in the future will definitely die of boredom! "
Gu Jue usually didn't care about his subordinates' personal affairs unless they asked him to come to him, so he never advised Pei Linye to get married as soon as possible, and he never asked him why he didn't get married.
Now that he thought about Pei Linye not marrying for many years, he could probably guess why.
Shen Qianchen rubbed Gu Jue's shoulder and said in a sweet and soft voice, "That means Pei Linye is not a bad person?"
"That's right." Gu Jue said with a meaningful smile, "He is a thoughtful person!"
Shen Qianchen said "hmm" first, and then said with a smile: "It's definitely not as good as my Jiuya!" Her mouth was as sweet as honey.
Gu Jue found it very helpful and bowed his head to kiss the corner of her lips.
No one can compare to his little girl!
Gu Jue silently counted the time in her mind: It's almost over, it's less than twenty days before she gets her hairpin.
His pupils seemed to be rippling with golden light under the candlelight, and even his eyelashes seemed to be dancing with tiny rays of light.
Say Cao Cao, and Cao Cao will arrive.
At this time, Jiang Yuan came to report that Pei Linye was here, so Gu Jue let him in directly.
Pei Linye was dressed in a bright red python robe, with a tall and straight figure and resolute eyebrows. He had been busy for a day, but he did not show any signs of fatigue.
Judging from the bits of grass clippings on his body and the mud on his soap boots, he most likely just came out of the hunting ground.
Shen Qianchen looked at Pei Linye up and down, as if he wanted to see him inside and out, up and down.
Naturally, Pei Linye also saw her, and he saluted the two of them as usual. Without further ado, he simply reported the business: "Master Jiu, Zhu Yong chased the three surviving wolves to find the wolf den, and found that the wolf den was occupied by A kind of medicinal powder was sprinkled, along with a beheaded female wolf and two full-term wolf cubs.”
"This is the powder in the wolf's den."
Pei Linye took out a paper bag from his sleeve and presented it to Gu Jue. The oily paper contained half a fingernail's worth of brown medicine powder.
Gu Jue handed the paper bag to Shen Qianchen. Shen Qianchen looked at the powder, sniffed it and confirmed it.
She nodded and said that this is Xiyue grass.
Combining these existing clues, Gu Jue and Shen Qianchen can roughly understand the cause and effect—
Someone went to the wolf den today and killed the mother wolf and her cubs. He also gave the alpha wolf powder of West Vietnam grass, which aroused the alpha wolf's hatred and **** nature, and led the frantic alpha wolf to hunt down Gu Jue.
Gu Jue said calmly: "Wolves are cold-blooded towards their enemies, but they are loyal to their species, loyal to their partners until death, and they take great care of their cubs... The first wolf should be chasing my scent."
odor? With a thought in mind, Shen Qianchen held Gu Jue's hand and said with certainty: "The fragrance may be the fragrance of Hengwu."
Gu Jue's personal belongings were not easily acquired by outsiders, so all Shen Qianchen could think of was "fragrance".
On weekdays, Gu Jue only uses two kinds of incense, one is Hengwu incense, and the clothes Gu Jue wears every day are scented with Hengwu incense; the other is a sachet made by her own hands, and the spices in it are made by her own hands. The mixture has the effect of calming the mind. Except for Gu Jue, she only gave the sachet to a few relatives and friends.
Shen Qianchen felt that he had been careless, and thought that in the future, whether it was the spices used to fumigate Gu Jue's clothes or the sachets he used, they would have to use spices specially prepared by her, a spice that belonged only to her and him.
Gu Jue and Pei Linye looked at each other thoughtfully.
Just as Shen Qianchen was thinking about it, Jingfeng came in with a fine-eyed guard.
The Jin Yiwei clasped his fists respectfully and reported, "Your Majesty, I have just captured the man who drugged the alpha wolf, and he has been brought outside the palace."
Gu Jue tapped his knuckles on the coffee table twice, then stood up and asked Shen Qianchen, "Let's take a look?"
Of course I want to go! Shen Qianchen also stood up.
Seeing this, the narrow-eyed Jin Yiwei hesitated to speak, fearing that the queen would be frightened by the bad guy outside, but seeing Pei Linye's silence, he also kept silent.
Several people gathered around Gu Jue and Shen Qianchen and came outside the hall.
Two chairs were placed under the eaves outside the main hall, and two rows of tall and mighty guards stood on both sides of the hall. All the way down from the stone steps, they all held torches, illuminating the open space in front of Chengguang Hall.
I saw a muscular man in black kneeling on the ground in a state of embarrassment, his hair was messy, his arms were tied behind his back with several ropes, and there were several scars on his face, shoulders and arms, exuding a faint smell of blood.
After Gu Jue sat down, he made a gesture to Pei Linye. Pei Linye immediately understood and began to interrogate the man in black kneeling on the ground: "Tell me, who ordered you?"
The man in black said nothing, his lips pursed into a straight line. Pei Linye snapped his fingers.
The next moment, a square-faced guard in uniform took off the shoulder joint of the man in black with lightning speed. The man in black swayed slightly, but did not make a sound. He clenched his teeth tightly and sweat dripped from his forehead.
"Tell me, who instigated you?" Pei Linye asked again.
The man in black still didn't speak, his back straight.
Pei Linye raised his hand and snapped his fingers again.
As a result, the other shoulder joint of the man in black was also removed. The cold sweat became more intense and his lips were almost bleeding from the bite.
The square-faced Jin Yiwei said calmly: "Next time I will break your knee joint." The removed shoulder joint can be reattached, but the broken knee joint cannot be restored to its original state, and he will be a useless person.
"Bah! Who do you think you are? A dog relies on human power!" The man in black spit on the ground and gritted his teeth.
Then, a line of black blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth, and a strange smile appeared on his face.
He spit out more black blood from his mouth and fell softly to one side. His eyes were wide open from the beginning to the end, like the wolf that was shot to death by Gu Jue's arrow. .
Even if Shen Qianchen hadn't pried open his teeth and looked at them, he could still be sure that he committed suicide by taking poison.
This is a well-trained death warrior!
The surroundings were quiet, and the night breeze blew, bringing with it the sound of insects chirping in the distance.
"His Beijing dialect is really not very good!" Shen Qianchen stroked his sleeves and said something seemingly casually, but it actually meant something profound.
Everyone present recognized the strange accent of the dead man. He couldn't tell the difference between "you" and "Li". The sentence "'You' are nothing" before he died sounded like "'Li' is nothing." thing".
This is a common mistake that many Nanhao people make when speaking Qi language.
The narrow-eyed Jin Yiwei looked at Shen Qianchen in surprise. He didn't expect that the Queen, a delicate little woman, would be so calm and talk and laugh after seeing such a **** scene.
"Indeed." Gu Jue agreed, and then ordered Pei Linye, "Pei Linye, go and call the third prince Nanhao and the second princess over."
Pei Linye immediately responded to the order and personally led a team of people to invite brother and sister Wu Helangnan and Shaye.
Shen Qianchen admired the moon with great interest. There was less smoke in the mountains, the air was better than in the capital, and the night sky was brighter and clearer. The stars and moon set off each other, like countless gems embedded in the night.
Such a beautiful night made Shen Qianchen interested in drinking at the moonlight. He ordered Amber to serve a pot of wine and enjoyed the mood of the "glow-in-the-dark cup of grape wine".
After she slowly drank two glasses of wine, brother and sister Wu Helannan and Sha Ye came over with Pei Linye.
The brother and sister also saw the body lying on the ground. Shaye seemed startled and pulled his brother's sleeve. Wuhan Langnan patted his sister's hand reassuringly and blocked his sister's sight with his body.
The two siblings continued to walk towards Gu Jue and Shen Qianchen.
After the brother and sister saluted, Gu Jue pointed directly at the corpse on the ground and asked: "Third Prince Wu He, do you know this person?"
Wuhorangnan and Shaye glanced at the man in black on the ground again.
Both brothers and sisters seemed to be frightened by the ferocious appearance of the corpse. Shaye looked away in fear and couldn't bear to look away. Wuhan Langnan's eyes were slightly opened, and his expression was a little nervous and a little uneasy.
After hesitating for a while, he nodded and said, "I recognize him. He is a Hao man. There should be an eagle head tattoo on his left arm, which represents Ying Yangwei."
The square-faced Jin Yiwei knelt down and cut the sleeve of the dead man in black's left arm with a knife. After looking at the corpse's left arm, he reported, "Your Majesty, he does have an eagle head tattoo on his arm."
Gu Jue raised his eyebrows and asked again: "Aren't Yingyang Guards personal guards of Emperor Hao?"
"It was." Wu Helangnan said quickly, with an unspeakable look on his face, and said in embarrassment, "Yingyangwei was trained by the late emperor, and he was once the monarch's personal guard. But after my father ascended the throne, Yingyangwei died. Loyal to the late emperor, unwilling to submit to my father."
"My father also issued a decree to pardon the Ying Yang Guards and was willing to recruit capable people among them. However, all the surviving Ying Yang Guards disappeared without a trace and no one showed up."
After a pause, Wuhan Langnan added: "Songmo, the last commander of the Yingyang Guards, was once a tutor and was responsible for teaching Wuhagalou martial arts. Now both Wuhagalou and Songmo are missing."
Although Wu Helang Nan did not say it explicitly, his implication was very clear. He told Gu Jue tactfully that after the death of the first emperor of Hao Kingdom, Ying Yangwei would only be loyal to Wu He Jialou, the son of the first emperor.
Gu Jue narrowed his long and narrow eyes and made it clear: "Ying Yangwei is from Wuhejialou?"
"Exactly." Wu Helangnan nodded and said, Shaye stood aside with his head lowered, his face still pale with shock.
"I see." Gu Jue smiled and dismissed the people without saying a few words, "Please come back, you two."
Wu Helangnan's eyes flashed, he saluted solemnly, and then left with his sister.
Pei Linye called four royal guards to **** the brother and sister back to their palace.
Gu Jue and Shen Qianchen also stood up and returned to the Chengguang Hall. Shen Qianchen did not forget to ask Hu Huo to bring her bottle of wine, and she would continue to drink under the moon with Gu Jue.
As Shen Qianchen walked, he quietly scratched Gu Jue's palm with his fingers and asked him with his movements: What do you think?
Gu Jue smiled slightly: "Uhaduluo is scared."
After Uhaduluo ascended the throne, he was never able to truly secure his position in the Nanhao River. From the people down to the vassal kings, everyone was waiting to see whether Wuhejialou would live or die, and wanted to see if he could be restored. Wuhejialou has now returned to Nanhao. I am afraid that Wuheduluo also guessed that he was in Nanhao and was worried that the throne would be unstable, so he became anxious.
"These Nanhao people are really annoying." Shen Qianchen complained with a pout. It was rare for her to go out to play with Gu Jue, but they always spoiled her interest.
While talking, the two returned to the study.
Gu Jue personally poured a glass of wine for each of them, took a sip of wine gracefully, and saw Shen Qianchen pointing an index finger at him: "One more glass." She only allowed Gu Jue to drink two glasses a day.
"Okay." Gu Jue smiled and agreed. Listen to her!
His obedience was rewarded with a satisfied smile from the girl.
Jiuya is so good!
Shen Qianchen was not actually drunk, but after drinking, his whole body was in a strange state of relaxation and lightness.
Without thinking, she leaned forward and kissed him on the lips as a reward.
She tasted the mellow wine on his lips, and subconsciously sucked a little, and then wanted to retreat, but the back of her head was pressed by the man's big palm, and her lips were gently sucked by him.
Shen Qianchen's mind went blank for an instant, and his whole body felt as if it was being burned by fire, becoming hot.
After a while, he let her go. Her consciousness was still a little dazed, and she vaguely heard him say the words "not worry".
"Aren't you worried?" Shen Qianchen asked stupidly.
Gu Jue curled his lips and smiled, his eyebrows were thoughtful, his slender fingers gently rubbed her cheek, and he said with a smile: "This Da Qi is not as worry-free as Hao Guo."
Shen Qianchen: "..."
Shen Qianchen nodded subconsciously, and his consciousness gradually became clear again.
Daqi's court is really not easy to worry about.
Although Gu Jue had only been on the throne for three months, it was enough time for her and him to see all the problems in Daqi.
From the dynasty to the army to the imperial examinations to clan honors, etc., each has its own problems. These problems are not only caused by the late emperor Gu Lang, but also by some of the accumulated shortcomings of the Qi Dynasty for more than a hundred years.
Gu Jue continued: "Dividing Daqi and Nanhao from north to south is the best form at present."
The North and the South restrict each other, which is also a way to maintain stability and balance.
Initially, the reason why Gu Jue chose to cooperate with Wuhejialou was to leave an escape route for himself, Qin Yao, and everyone in the Northern Army, so that he and Qin Yao could retreat to the northwest and north, forming a three-legged alliance. situation.
Because Gu Lang passed away, he adjusted his plan and evolved into the current situation.
Shen Qianchen smiled and said nothing.
Anyway, no matter what choice Gu Jue made, she would stand by his side without any regrets.
The night got darker and everything was silent.
(End of chapter)