NOVEL NEXT Chapter 67
Chapter 67: “Encounter”
The mule cart caught the attention of the villagers as soon as it entered the village. Everyone stopped what they were doing and stretched their necks to look over. The village is very small, and it is separated from the official road by a long distance, so few people pass by.
And the boy sitting on the carriage was so handsome that the villagers were stunned for a while.
A group of naughty and curious children jumped and yelled after the car, and followed them to the village.
The farmer in the car heard the movement and lifted the curtain of the car and climbed out. He yelled at the children and showed Li Baolu the way, “Girl, turn left and the third house is my house.”
When the villagers saw the farmer sitting in the car, they hurriedly asked, “Second Lan, why did you come back in the car, where is your third?”
Lan’s second child’s eyes were red, and he forced a smile: “My third child is injured, and my father sent us back.”
The mule cart had already turned and quickly arrived at the gate of Lan’s house.
People from the Lan family had already heard the movement and ran out. Li Baolu jumped out of the carriage and quickly helped Gu Jingyun down and stepped aside, so when the Lan family came out, what they saw was the dying third Lan in the car.
After the Lan family was stunned, they burst into tears. An old woman and a middle-aged woman swiftly crawled over to the third Lan. They wanted to move but did not dare to touch him. It was the second Lan who repeatedly assured Lan Lao. San will calm down now that they are out of danger.
Knowing that the third child of Lan is not suitable to move, the Lan family hurriedly and gently lifted the person off the mule cart and sent him back to the room.
The two brothers of the Lan family are planning to carry the family’s sari into the city to exchange some money for them. They do this twice a year, and they are already familiar with it, and they have never had an accident.
Who knew that there would be a thunderstorm on the way, and I was stranded in the ruined temple, and I didn’t expect that just an ordinary rest for the night would be assassinated, and I almost lost my life.
Looking at the dying third Lan, the Lan family only felt a shock, and their hearts sank to the bottom of the valley.
The Lan family’s family background is not bad in the village, but it is only enough to eat enough. They cut two kilograms of meat during the New Year’s Eve. When the family is pain-free and sick, they can continue to accumulate wealth. Maybe in ten years, they will be able to. Buy more land and become rich, even small landlords.
But now that the third child of Lan is seriously injured, no matter whether he can survive or not, the Lan family will suffer a huge blow.
The blow is sweeping and can set their living standards back almost a decade.
Therefore, although they were grateful to Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu, it was difficult to squeeze out a smile at this time, so they could only lead people to the house and take out the most pears in the house for them to eat.
Lan’s second son blushed a little, and whispered to the old lady to kill a chicken to entertain guests.
Mrs. Lan hesitated. The chickens can be kept for the third child. The number of chickens in the family is limited. If you kill one now, the son will eat one less in the future.
Lan’s second son blushed and said, “Mother, if it wasn’t for them this time, the third child and I would not be able to come back, let alone a chicken, we would have given all our belongings.”
“I know, I know, I’ll go right now.” The old lady Lan went to kill the chicken in distress.
Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu didn’t plan to stay any longer. It took them half a day to send the Lan brothers back, and they didn’t want to spend more time here.
So Li Baolu only drank a bowl of water and wanted to say goodbye.
Gu Jingyun naturally didn’t want to stay any longer, but just asked Lan Lao Er’s temple to all directions before going out.
Seeing that he couldn’t stop anyone, Lan Lao Er naturally knew everything in order to repay his kindness, saying, “We are remote here, and there are only two official roads, one going north and south, and going south is into Guangdong, and it is said that all the way to Guangzhou prefecture. , to the north is to the capital, but this road has to change directions along the road, connecting the large county towns on the road, and it has a lot of bends, so people who want to go to the capital and the north do not like to take this road. But to Zhejiang, People who do business in Jiangsu and Hebei and Shandong love to take this road. There is no need to say that the east road leads to Fuzhou, and the west road is said to lead to Hunan, but it is long.”
Ordinary farmers are afraid that they don’t even know where the gate of the county town opens, but Lan Lao Er often travels to the county town and likes to listen to the bragging of businessmen passing by, so he knows more.
“Then if you want to go to the capital, which way is more convenient?”
“Then you have to go west first, then go north when you reach Nanchang Mansion. I heard merchants who passed by said that the road is wide and flat because the road is transported to the capital every year, and the road is not curved. It’s the fastest way to get to the capital from there, and it takes less than half the time to get here.”
Gu Jingyun nodded thoughtfully, “There are many businessmen on the official road we are going today?”
Second Blue nodded, “When it’s busy, the tea shop on the road can be full of people.”
“What’s the matter?” Li Baolu turned her head and asked him.
Gu Jingyun waved his hand and said to the second child Lan: “We are still in a hurry, so we won’t stay any longer.” He pulled Li Baolu to say goodbye and left.
Lan’s second son kept his face anxiously, “At least we have lunch here before leaving.”
Gu Jingyun shook his head and thanked him. First, he prefers to eat what he and Li Baolu made. Second, they have to be in a hurry, so it is impossible to stop here.
The two quickly got into the car and left, and Mrs. Lan let out a sigh of relief and let go of the chicken in her hand. Fortunately, she moved a little slower, otherwise the chicken would have died in vain.
“Are we in a hurry?” Li Baolu was confused. They walked leisurely all the way. Yesterday, they rushed desperately to find a place to rest because of a thunderstorm.
“We’re going to chase Wei Yingjie and others.” Gu Jingyun said solemnly.
“Why? Didn’t you keep refusing to have **** with them before?”
“Of course, if I didn’t refuse, but hurried, then the situation would be different,” Gu Jingyun said: “We are going to meet them now.”
“They have high status and are very useful for us to rehabilitate our uncle?”
Gu Jingyun nodded solemnly, “If my expectations are not bad, then it will be of great use. In other words, whether uncle can be rehabilitated or not depends on him.”
Li Baolu was refreshed and asked enthusiastically, “What is the identity of their master named Li An?”
Li Baolu muttered, “This name is really ordinary.”
Gu Jingyun glanced at her and said speechlessly: “This name must not be ordinary, isn’t it, that’s what the grandson of the dynasty called it.”
Li Baolu’s body froze, her eyes widened and said, “How do you know? No, is Li An the grandson?”
Gu Jingyun didn’t answer her first question. His uncle used to be the prince’s teacher, so of course he knew their names, “Of course Li An is not always Taisun, but he can be called Li An with a Yanjing accent. There are very few guards who are all good in martial arts, not to mention,” Gu Jingyun’s eyes flashed a cold light, and said: “Peng Yu next to him, I heard Tao Wu call him Ziqing. Wenhua Pavilion Grand Scholar Peng Dan His eldest son, Peng Ziqing, read for his grandson. Speaking of which, his words were written by the prince, which shows the power of the Peng family.”
Gu Jingyun has been following Qin Xinfang to deal with the news that they have gathered in Qiongzhou from outside. They are in the line of the prince, so naturally they need to know a little about the officials of this line to avoid accidental injury in the future.
Li Baolu had an intuition that Gu Jingyun didn’t like Peng Yu and asked, “Is there a grudge between my uncle and the Peng family?”
“No, it’s just political disagreement,” Gu Jingyun said sarcastically, “but you have to know that Peng Dan came from his grandfather’s family and was his uncle’s brother. After his uncle was convicted, he was replaced by the crown prince’s family. Uncle’s place.”
Li Baolu’s heart was beating wildly, and she swallowed nervously.
Gu Jingyun lowered his eyes and held her hand and said, “Although my uncle always said that the prince would never forget him, but the tea is cold and the uncle has been in exile for fourteen years, no matter how much affection will slowly fade away with time, not to mention the prince. There are so many people waiting around.”
“So we can’t just pin our hopes on the prince’s feelings for his uncle. The emperor is almost sixty, the prince is in his early forties, and his health is still not good. If the world does not fall into the hands of the emperor’s son, then It is directly inherited by the grandchildren,” Gu Jingyun smiled at her, “In your words, we have to find a way to win the favor of the grandson.”
However, he disdains and doesn’t do anything servile. Since he doesn’t want to wrong himself, he will come up with enough chips and skills to let the other party put down his posture. Do not seek equality, but seek dignity.
For the future, Gu Jingyun is willing to calculate all this.
He said: “Those men in black who want to kill Li An will definitely not give up. In the future, they will only encounter more and more dangers. The closer they get to the capital, the more violent the attack. They came, but they didn’t go to Nanchang to go north, and they didn’t ask for help from the yamen to garrison troops, but secretly went north by themselves, which shows the danger of their trip.”
“The official road in Nanchang is not safe for them, and taking the small road is not only difficult to walk, but also not guaranteed in terms of safety, and the official road here is developed and traded, which is easy to disguise and avoid, they will definitely continue to take this road. They have more wounded than us, and even if they leave half a day earlier than us, we can catch up quickly, you step up to them, then slow down and let them chase us…”
This is simply an arranged “random encounter”, Li Baolu recited a Buddha for Li An and the others in her heart, but in order to rehabilitate the big plan, Li Baolu patted the red date’s **** and shouted, “Come on, drive!”