Chapter Twenty-Three: You Can't Fly When You Grow Wings
As soon as the queen had just changed her clothes and painted her eyebrows, she heard someone report that there was something to report from the palace.
Her hand shook, and the stroke was crooked.
Sure enough, Gonggong Guo will definitely provoke a little moth when he enters the palace, she originally thought that it would not be so early, she should endure it for two days, and then ask for help when she couldn't bear it anymore, but she didn't expect to act so quickly.
"Pass it on"
Forget it, I won't draw it myself. waved his hand, let the maids around him go down, and then let Wanru pull the screen, and he was behind the screen to meet the visitor.
"Subordinates, see the queen mother!" The man came on one knee with his armor on his body. The armor collided with the ground, making a dull sound.
"Hurry up, if it weren't for Brother Chu's help this time, I really don't know what to do."
Queen Gu's self-proclaimed use of "I" in front of this person!
"The queen's mother is serious, and it is the responsibility of her subordinates to share the queen's worries." The visitor did not stand up, but bowed his hands half-kneeling.
The queen felt uncomfortable when she heard this, and wanted to bypass the screen to say something to the visitor, but remembered that her makeup was not neat, so she had to give up.
"Brother Chu's words are out of sight......," Empress Gu sighed.
"Queen Qi, yesterday's team guarding the palace intercepted three carrier pigeons."
Empress Gu still wanted to reminisce about the past with the visitor, but she was distracted by the visitor's words.
The person who came was called Chu Sichun. It sounds like a literary name, but this person is indeed a man who has made practical military achievements and piled up the lintel.
In the early years, his hometown was warned, his father was arrested, and he escaped with his mother and sister when he was only eight years old. It was a very cold winter. They have no tiles on the top and no cones below, and they can't eat enough to rely on the meager copper plates they beg, let alone buy medicine for their seriously ill sister.
Just when he was desperate, thanks to the old lady of the Gu family and Queen Gu's father who helped him, he found out that he was a good seedling for martial arts, so he gave him silver and asked him to report in the army after placing his mother and sister.
Almost twenty years have passed, and he is now the commander of the forbidden army, his mother has also been ordered because of this, and his sister has also found a good family a few years ago, all thanks to the blessing of the Gu family.
Although his life-savers have passed away, his orphans have requested, and he will also respond.
What's more, this person is now the queen mother who is high in the sky.
"Pigeons?" Empress Gu was surprised.
"How can there be carrier pigeons? Where did you get this? ”
"The subordinates don't know, but it's very likely that Grandpa Feng brought it in." Chu Sichun replied.
Grandpa Feng brought it in? This is highly likely.
He carried carrier pigeons with him, which was also convenient for him to contact His Majesty. Moreover, his carriage was carried out in the palace, and the guards at the gate of the palace did not dare to search it vigorously, so they might have brought the carrier pigeon in.
"Have you intercepted the letters?" Empress Gu asked.
"Three letters were intercepted, and the subordinates did not dare to open them without permission, so please let the queen take a look." As he spoke, he took out three small purses from his sleeve, each of which should contain a letter.
Empress Gu asked Wanru to bring in the purse.
"Thank you for your hard work, and it won't be two months before you leave your family. Let your brothers work harder, too. After finishing speaking, he turned to Wanru and said, "You go and bring the silver taels that have been prepared."
Wanru bent her knees and said yes, go down and get the money.
"Take this money as a little reward for you and your faithful subordinates, and give it to drink a little."
Although Empress Gu had not directly dealt with these soldiers, she had been in the Gu family for a long time, and she had also heard a lot of things in this regard.
There are only two possibilities for these people to be born and die for her, one is to rely on virtue and the other is to rely on wealth. Speaking of which, she is not as good as her elders. But talking about money? Although she usually picks a little, it's not that she has no money to use. It's just that she knows that money has to be spent on the blade to have the greatest effect.
Chu Sichun took the reward and thanked him for going out, and as soon as he left with his front foot, he came to report with his back foot, saying that Murong Linshuang was here.
When Murong Linshuang came in, Wanru happened to be moving the screen.
As soon as Murong Linshuang entered the hall, she smelled a smell, and fanned her with the handkerchief in her hand and said, "Who did my sister see just now, there is a smell of sweat...... Open the windows and beware of the Queen's Mother. ”
Empress Gu ignored her, just looked at the purse on the table, thoughtful.
"What is my sister looking at?" Murong Linshuang walked to Queen Gu's side, a little curious, under normal circumstances, if she said such a thing, she would definitely be scolded by Queen Gu, but today Queen Gu didn't say a word, obviously there was something.
"Look at this." Empress Gu picked up a purse and shook it in front of Murong Linshuang's eyes.
"What is this?" Murong Linshuang was a little puzzled, these purses made of coarse cloth were dull in color, ordinary, and there was nothing special about them.
Queen Gu ignored her, Gu Zi opened all three purses and poured out the contents one by one.
When it was poured into the third purse, the contents rolled out, rolled on the table a few times, and fell, until it rolled to Murong Linshuang's feet, and only stopped when it hit her embroidered shoes.
"What is this?" Murong Linshuang bent down and picked up the things at her feet.
"Bamboo tubes." Empress Gu's answer was concise and to the point, she glanced at Murong Linshuang sideways, she was a little confused, so she added: "The messenger bamboo tube used in the army." ”
Murong Linshuang was a little surprised, how could this thing in the army come to Queen Gu. Before she could start thinking about it, she saw Queen Gu gently knock on the two ends of the bamboo tube, and then twisted it, and the bamboo tube opened.
There was a small note rolled in it.
Murong Linshuang looked at the bamboo tube in her hand and wanted to open the bamboo tube according to Queen Gu's appearance, but she was worried that she would be self-defeating, so she put the bamboo tube back on the table.
Queen Gu glanced at her, fortunately, she still knew that she didn't dare to move.
If the bamboo tube is opened in the wrong way, a special potion will flow out and destroy the paper inside.
She saw a lot of this kind of thing when she was a child. Her father doted on her and often took her to the study. She also asked her father curiously, and it was also her father who told her.
After a while, the three notes were spread out and lay together.
The note is not big, and there are not many words on it. However, the contents of the three slips of paper are exactly the same.
"The rumors are true, but the mail route is different."
"This is from a carrier pigeon that was released from the palace." Empress Gu pointed to the note.
"Are they going to report to Your Majesty?" Murong Linshuang asked.
"Yes, it's just a pity that this letter was not reported." Empress Gu said with a smile.
"That's really smart, it's three carrier pigeons!" Murong Linshuang exclaimed. She was amazed not only that three carrier pigeons were used for the same message, but also that these three carrier pigeons had all fallen into the hands of Queen Gu.
"What's the use of being smart? Haven't you let it out? So saying, he ordered a candle to be lit, and burned the three slips of paper.