Chapter 41: The Iron Net
Gu Yuqing remembered that Du Niangzi was a widow and had no children under her knees, and since she entered the gate of the Gu family, she worked for the Gu family wholeheartedly, which can be described as an honest duty. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Gu Yuhe loves the sweet soup she made very much, in the last life, Gu Yuhe rewarded Du Niangzi a lot for this sweet soup, and every time she made a shot, it was dozens of taels of silver, which was very generous.
The Gu family has silver, Gu Yuqing loves her younger sister, and it is rare that Gu Yuhe likes Du Niangzi's craftsmanship, and Gu Yuqing feels understandable to reward more, so she never said anything.
It's just that this Du Niangzi is also a person with a thin fate, Gu Yuqing remembers clearly, in the last life, on the night before Xiao Duo ascended the throne, Du Niangzi suddenly had a high fever and convulsions all over her body, and she didn't even survive an hour before she died.
Thinking of these past events, Gu Yuqing's doubts surfaced.
According to Ruyi Fangcai's statement, the private relationship between Du Niangzi and Gu Yuhe should be good, otherwise Du Niangzi, a kitchen manager, would dare to block Gu Yuhe's way.
But here's the problem.
In the previous life, Gu Yuhe was seventeen years old when Xiao Duo ascended the throne, seven years later than now, and seven years was enough to make the relationship between Gu Yuhe and Du Niangzi deeper.
But when Du Niangzi died that night, Gu Yuqing remembered that Gu Yuhe didn't even show his face.
I thought she was sad and couldn't bear to look at her, but on the second day Xiao Duo ascended the throne, Gu Yuhe, as Gu Yuqing's sister, was invited to watch the ceremony, but she was full of energy and smiled all day long, without a trace of sadness.
The overlapping events of the past and present lives haunted her heart, and Gu Yuqing sighed heavily in her heart, "Ming'er called Du Niangzi early in the morning, and I have something to ask her." ”
Not to mention anything else, Du Niangzi's hatred for Mama Zhao alone is worth asking Gu Yuqing about, she didn't know that a generous and honest person like Du Niangzi would hate Mama Zhao so much, and everyone would be angry with her corpse when they died.
Ruyi nodded and agreed, adding new tea to Gu Yuqing.
There was lightning and thunder outside the window, and Gu Yuqing casually picked up a copy of "Peacock Marching Strategy" that was resting on the bedside and flipped through it.
Although the name of this book is marching strategy, the content in it has nothing to do with marching and fighting, and it is just about some customs and snacks and juggling in Yunnan.
The writer of this book has a deep pen, witty language, and is full of love for life.
Whenever Gu Yuqing is in a bad mood or upset and difficult to calm down, she likes to flip through this book to see the delicious scenery and anecdotes inside, and her irritable heart gradually calms down.
Especially on the first page of the book, the eighteen monsters of Yunnan written in cursive, Gu Yuqing has to think about it every time he reads it.
She really can't imagine how big mosquitoes there must be in Yunnan to make three mosquitoes in one dish.
Gu Yuqing heard his father say that when his grandfather led his troops to Yunnan, a battle was fought for more than half a month, but the enemy always won and I was defeated and seriously injured.
Seeing that the soldier's momentum was getting lower day by day, the sad grandfather suddenly had a whimsical idea, found a local chronicle of Yunnan in the bazaar, wrapped a book cover for it, wrote "Peacock Marching Strategy" with a stroke of a pen, and then asked his close entourage to pretend to be a high-ranking priest and present the book to his grandfather in front of the whole army.
According to the instructions of the grandfather, the entourage who pretended to be a master blew his beard and said when he gave the book: "This book is written by the peacock fairy who lives in the south of the clouds. ”
With such agitation, the soldiers became so vigorous that they took the local positions in one fell swoop within three days.
Since then, "Peacock Marching Strategy" has been circulated in the Gu family's army, and the Gu family's generals have used this book to inspire soldiers from generation to generation.
In Gu Zhen's generation, Gu Yuqing's mother died violently, Gu Zhen collapsed, and Gu Yuqing's sisters were all girls who couldn't be in charge, so Gu Zhen told Gu Yuqing the secret of this book and gave her the book.
Gu Yuqing carefully read the scroll in her hand under the lamp, and looked up at the rain curtain outside the window from time to time, her eyes full of reverie.
Ruyi stood beside Gu Yuqing, cutting candles for her sweet tea from time to time, and the room was quiet and beautiful.
In the study of the Gu Mansion, Ji Xiang sat on the beam of the house, coldly watching Xiao Duo and Changshun tiptoeing around in the study.
This is the fifth time that Xiao Duo has come to the Gu family's study to rummage, and he has searched no less than four or five times where he can find, but there is no shadow of the divine book "Peacock Marching Strategy".
"Your Highness, it's not a way to find it like this, slave look, you better ask the second lady first, what if the book is not in the study at all! Chang Shun whispered in a suppressed voice beside Xiao Duo.
Chang Shun mentioned the secret room, but reminded Xiao Duo.
How could he forget this, a family like the Gu family must have a secret room, and a divine book like "Peacock Marching Strategy" could be casually shelved in the study, it must have been hidden in the secret room.
Thinking that he had been busy in vain these few times, Xiao Duo felt a sense of frustration in his heart that could not be shaken away, and he gritted his teeth with a calm face and said, "Forget it, go back first." ”
Hearing Xiao Duo's words, Chang Shun's heart suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, but there was a rolling thunder outside in his ears, and he lifted it again with a sigh of relief he had just breathed a sigh of relief.
It's no joke to be killed by lightning!
Changshun dragged his heavy steps worriedly, followed behind Xiao Duo, and left the Gu family's study through the window.
Ji Xiang, who had been sitting on the beam, looked at the backs of the two leaving, the corners of his mouth hooked up a happy sneer, turned over and jumped off the beam, and walked softly and quickly to the window that Xiao Duo had just turned out, locking the only open window from the inside.
As soon as Xiao Duo and Changshun came out of the study, before their feet stood firm under the eaves, they were dumbfounded.
The Gu family's study was originally a separate courtyard in the Gu Mansion, the study was huge, but the courtyard was narrow, and now I don't know who set up a huge iron net on the top of this courtyard, starting from the four courtyard walls, and netting the entire courtyard.
The whole courtyard became a cage.
They're locked up in this cage.
"Your Highness......" Chang Shun looked up at the iron net above his head with cold air, and under the light of the lightning that pierced the sky from time to time, the clear glow of the iron net made people's hearts numb.
Xiao Duo's face was greener than this iron net, and now they could only turn over and go back to the study in addition to going out through the door.
The wind was raging, and the rain was like a pillar.
They can't stand in this open-air courtyard for the night, let alone the corridor, there is not even a small pavilion sheltered from the wind in this courtyard.
This eaves is short, and it is no different from nothing, and it does not shelter from the wind and rain at all.
"Go, see if there's anyone keeping watch outside the door. The heavy rain fell down his face, and Xiao Duo coldly ordered Changshun.