Gu Shiyi looked at Xuanyang anxiously, and when the woman got out of the carriage, he said, "Have you told anyone who you are?"

Xuanyang shook his head, "Sister Gu, are you and Brother Luo all right?" Gu Shiyi's face darkened slightly, "I haven't seen them yet, and I can't go over to see them until I'm able to walk around after I have recovered from my injuries." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Listen, if they ask for your name, you don't tell them your real name. ”

Xuanyang thought for a while, "Then if they really ask my name, I'll say that my name is Gongsun Xuan." Gu Shiyi nodded, and then asked Gongsun Xuan softly, "Have you ever seen the blessing witch in their mouths?"

Gongsun Xuan shook her head, she thought about it, and then asked, "Sister Gu used to live in the snowy region, have you heard of Zhuwu?"

Gu Shiyi nodded, "I've always wanted to tell you, don't let Zhu Wu know your true identity." Zhu Wu is in charge of some secrets of the Prairie Court. I've heard that many royal side branches have children missing every year, and after investigation, every time these things happen, there is a shadow of Zhu Wu appearing. ”

When Gongsun Xuan heard this, her heart was furious, this Zhu Wu wouldn't be a cannibal, right? She wanted to continue to ask more things, but she heard the sound of footsteps outside, worried that someone would suddenly break in, and after listening to some words, she stopped making a sound, and only pondered silently in her heart.

After a while, the woman returned, and she seemed to be speaking to the coachman in another language, and the carriage moved, and the bones moved forward.

Gongsun Xuan saw Gu Shiyi pricking up his ears to listen to the sound of talking outside, so he whispered in Gu Shiyi's ear, "Can you understand what they say?"

Gu Shiyi nodded with an incomprehensible expression, and then motioned for Gongsun Xuan to put his ear close to her mouth, "They are saying that Zhu Wu rushed back in a hurry this time, something bad should have happened, because Zhu Wu has never been so flustered." ”

Outside the car, the woman was discussing with the coachman, "Lord Zhuwu's face is very bad, and he has been hiding in the carriage since he came back in the morning, I don't know if he is injured." ”

The coachman waved his whip, looked to the left and right, and was sure that no one could hear the two of them, so he lowered his voice and said, "I have heard that there is a sign of a demon in this vicinity. ”

The Vulnata was stunned, "Isn't this a legend? ”

The coachman lowered his voice a little lower, "We Zhu Wu just don't believe it, we stopped here, went to the place where the accident happened, and as soon as we came back, we hurried away, and we must have found something." ”

The woman was skeptical, "How do you know?"

The coachman smiled, "I also heard what others said, and it was always the letter of the person who followed Lord Zhuwu." ”

Gu Shiyi could understand what they said, she was also confused, and she had also heard about the demon subjugation, but it was all folk words to scare children.

Gongsun Xuan grew up in the palace since he was a child, so naturally he has never heard of these things, although he has read history books since he was a child, but there is no serious record of subduing demons in history books.

According to folklore, the demon is a kind of devil who eats people's hearts, is fierce and ugly, has an arrogant nature, and will catch people to their own dwellings, work as coolies or keep them in captivity for them to enjoy regularly. Wherever the demons went, they were basically swept away and turned into ruins. However, this has always been a legend.

Then compared to Fu Mo, Gu Shiyi was even more anxious about the person who wished Wu. When Gu Shiyi was training in the snowy region, he had also gone deep into the north of the snowy region, and he had heard of the habits of Zhu Wu. Zhu Wu is responsible for doing some psychic divination for the grassland royal court, this kind of thing needs to consume a lot of spiritual blood of Zhu Wu, so there are rumors that Zhu Wu will go south every spring and summer in order to replenish his spiritual blood, and catch some children with spiritual power to go back.

What Gu Shiyi is worried about now is that the reason why Zhu Wu will save a few of them is because he has taken a fancy to the spiritual power on the second princess. The people of the Zhuluo royal family have the blood of the ancient gods, even if they have been passed down for so many years, they still have a little more spiritual power than ordinary people, which is why Zhu Wu frequently stole the children of the side branches of the Zhuluo royal family.

This winter is an unauspicious time for everyone, especially in Zhongdu, where a large number of displaced people from the north have flocked to the outside of the city in the hope of finding shelter.

Huangfu Qingyun was very satisfied with the arrangement made by his eldest son in Yongzhao Erdi, although he and Wu Bailun both wrote secret letters back one after another, openly and secretly saying that this matter was not simple, but I was afraid that there was still a promoter behind the scenes. But Huangfu Qingyun didn't care, looking at the world, apart from the four families in the Quartet, who else in the Central Plains could match his own family? This turmoil may be his own opportunity.

When these displaced people gathered more and more outside the central capital, the emperor asked the ministers of the court how to deal with this matter. Gong Taifu suggested that the government should come forward to build some houses outside the city as temporary residences for the displaced people, and then the government would come forward to count the number of people and give each of them a wooden sign, so that these people need to register when they enter and leave the capital.

The emperor agreed to the proposal of the palace prince, and the emperor Qingyun privately sent people to induce those displaced people to make trouble in the central capital, and after making trouble several times, many people wrote one after another, pointing out that the release of the exiles into the central capital disturbed the public order, and asked the emperor to order the refusal of the displaced people to re-enter the central capital. Gong Taifu took the lead in opposition, insisting that if these homeless people could not enter the city to earn some money and food, they were afraid that they would not survive this winter. For a while, the two sides were in dispute, and the emperor had a headache, so he stopped for three days.

Then in the middle of the three days, there were two more tragic cases in Zhongdu, and the admiral of Zhongdu Jiumen personally led people to investigate the case and found traces of the demons. The hearts of the people in Zhongdu fluctuated, and they blamed the displaced people from the north and brought the ominous to the central capital, so the hundred officials collectively wrote a letter again, demanding that the displaced people be driven away from the central capital, and the people of the central capital also echoed it, and for a time this call became higher and higher. The emperor had no choice but to order that the exiles were no longer allowed to enter the capital, so the exiles could choose to stay outside the city gates or continue to disperse elsewhere. Most of the displaced people are reluctant to leave Zhongdu and remain in the suburbs of Zhongdu.

When it came to December, in the middle of winter, even the central capital began to drift thousands of miles of snow and ice, and Huangfu Qingyun ordered the clansmen to go to the city gate to give porridge, and everyone praised the people of the Huangfu family. The palace prince was worried that the royal family would lose the support of the people, so he suggested that the emperor order the government to come forward and organize every household to send people to the city gate to give porridge and then clothes and quilts. Even so, when the people talk about this good deed, they will first thank the people of the Huangfu family, "If it weren't for the people of the Huangfu family to take the lead, I'm afraid the government wouldn't have thought of it now." ”

After the Chinese New Year, he took the opportunity to advise the emperor to send an expeditionary force north to find out the situation, "As the saying goes, raising troops for a thousand days will eventually need to be used, and since the establishment of the expeditionary force, it has only been training outside the middle capital, and it is time for them to go to the field for training." There are so many disasters happening in the north, and the emperor should also send someone to find out. ”

Gong Taifu proposed that the emperor send a civil official to investigate the matter, Huangfu Qingyun shook his head, "Civil officials can't do it, this thing is very weird, last year, I asked our family to celebrate and go back to our hometown to worship our ancestors, he felt that this matter was inappropriate, he stayed there to investigate with the people of the martial family, but so far there is no news." ”

Speaking of which, Huangfu Qingyun pretended to shed a few old tears, in fact, he still has secret letters with Huangfu Qinghe on a regular basis, but there are indeed fewer letters recently, and the secret letter he just received yesterday is a distress letter from Huangfu Qinghe, asking him to send more people to him. Therefore, Huangfu Qingyun is indeed a little worried.

Gong Taifu was skeptical of this, but the royal reaction to this matter was indeed too slow, Huangfu Qingyun's proposal was impossible to refuse, if it was refused, the expeditionary force was indeed raised, but I was afraid that if the news spread, everyone in the world would think that the royal family did not love its subjects.

The emperor was also thinking about this problem, the expeditionary force was left by the first emperor to the emperor to protect his life, so it has always been stationed outside the central capital, and the first emperor has an order, and the expeditionary force cannot be mobilized to other places unless it is urgent. Therefore, the emperor was very hesitant in his heart. After thinking about it, he planned not to use the expeditionary force, but simply use the army of the camp on the outskirts of Beijing.

As soon as this idea was proposed, it was strongly protested by Huangfu Qingyun, "This camp on the outskirts of Beijing is set up to protect the central capital, unless there is a foreign invasion on the border and the war situation is severe, some of them can be sent to support the border pass, otherwise it cannot be used." ”

This is indeed an ancestral rule, and the emperor can't refute it, and he can't say that the expeditionary force is unique to the royal family, so they have only one mission, and that is to protect the royal family.

If it is normal times, it is not a big problem to say this, but now it is obvious that Yongzhao Erdi is indeed unstable, if the royal family is still reluctant to send a soldier to guard, I am afraid that most of the people's hearts will be lost.

The emperor was undecided, so he could only leave the palace master alone to discuss secretly, and the palace prince suggested that the emperor should draw some people from the expeditionary army, and then draw some people from the camp on the outskirts of Beijing, and go north to find out the truth by two separate routes.

The emperor also knew that he could not completely move the expeditionary force, so he adopted the advice of the palace prince, and ordered that the expeditionary force draw 5,000 people, and the camp on the outskirts of Beijing should draw 5,000 people, each led by a young general, and go north by separate routes, and then meet in Yecheng, and then go north by separate roads, meet in Qingyang Town, where the matter originated, and then return to Beijing to resume his life.

Huangfu Qingyun was not dissatisfied with this will, the expeditionary force originally had a total of 100,000 people, and after the first emperor gave 20,000 to the second prince, there are still 80,000 people left. Huangfu Qingyun is thinking about slowly consuming the main force of the expeditionary force. The 5,000 people who went north this time don't think about returning to the central capital. Huangfu Qingyun thought fiercely.