Listening to Zhongli's heartfelt words, Gu Xi couldn't help but reach out and stroke his thin cheeks.

The peasant family did not have a dressing mirror from the West, not even the exquisite, polished bronze mirror in the house, only a small diamond mirror, but she had seen her haggard face in the water when she washed her face in the last few days.

The cheeks that used to be plump are slightly sunken, and the eye sockets are also open? , the lips that are as beautiful as flower petals have also dimmed a lot, and there is no fat powder available, so she has lost a lot of weight compared to when she was in the capital.

But her own feelings are actually not too bad.

Danger aside, this was the first time in her more than 30 years of life that she had experienced something like this.

The jingchai cloth skirt, coarse tea and light rice, and the wooden bed that is so hard that it can make people's bones hurt, but it made her feel a different kind of ease, and even faintly felt a little stimulated.

It's no wonder that the father's eyes are so bright when he occasionally mentions the experience of traveling in cloth clothes when he was young, and it is no wonder that his daughter dislikes the life of the prince and the marquis so much.

She finally realized the essence of the saying "It is better to travel thousands of miles than to read ten thousand books".

Although she can be said to be embarrassed along the way, she has indeed gained a lot of knowledge, and she is more than 10,000 times stronger than reading with her head in the boudoir.

She smiled lightly: "It's a pity that my aunt is not very proficient in things in the kitchen, otherwise I should have made a bowl of shou noodles for you today." ”

Zhu Qiao'er's little face also turned red, she is no longer a secret guard or a maid, but she has not learned much about serving people, and she doesn't have the ability to make a bowl of longevity noodles for Miss Zhongli.

Zhongli smiled heartily: "Aunt forgot that I can also cook, although I am not as good as the little princess, but it is absolutely no problem to make a bowl of delicious noodles!" ”

Gu Xi smiled and stroked her little face: "Like Yuan'er, he is a stupid child, where can Shou Mian make his own." ”

Zhongli didn't care about that much, pulled Zhu Qiao'er and said with a smile: "Auntie, you take a rest first, and we'll make noodles." ”

Looking at the two girls who left together, Gu Xi let out a long sigh.

Although this small mountain village is located in the middle of nowhere, it is also impossible to guarantee absolute safety, and they will have to find another place to stay for two or three days at most.

She had asked the Secret Guards, and the men in black were all well-versed in water and disciplined, as if they had come out of the army.

The navy of the Great Zhou Dynasty was only available in the south, the most famous of which was the Jingzhou Navy, and the commander of the Jingzhou Navy, General Zhennan, Mu Jian, had always been at odds with the Huo family.

However, it is only a discord but not a grudge, if Mu Jian is purely to deal with the Huo family, he will definitely not deliberately target himself.

Then, the purpose of the Mu family in doing this is for the person behind Pei Tingyu, which shows that the Mu family's loyalty to His Majesty is fake.

She couldn't help but think that before she left Beijing, it seemed that General Mu Shao had also left the capital.

Could it be that the purpose of his departure from the capital was to deal with himself?

Gu Xi pondered for a moment, then shook his head and smiled.

If General Mu's trip was really just to deal with a weak woman like himself, who was powerless, it would be tantamount to killing chickens with a cattle slaughtering knife, which was overkill.

Forget it, it's useless to think so much!

She stood up and pulled her skirt and walked slowly out of the humble room.

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Speaking of Doudou, after sending the Thai royal couple away, she lay on the bed and planned to take a nap.

Probably because I had been working too hard in the last few days, I slept until the sun went down.

When she woke up, she just wanted to call the maids to the small kitchen to bring her some food to fill her stomach, and all kinds of news followed.

His Majesty the Emperor instructed her to use all means to arrest Chu Sui and bring her to justice.

The words "to be alive" made Doudou's eyelids jump when he heard them.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and His Majesty the Emperor really guessed that he knew who Chu Sui was.

Is this a punishment for his "crime of deceit"?

On that day, she deliberately mentioned Chu Sui's name, the purpose was to test whether His Majesty the Emperor had heard of this person before, but that day he just twisted his brows and did not say that he knew Chu Sui.

So, in the past month, what exactly happened in the past two days reminded him of Chu Sui?

Or not only Chu Sui, but His Majesty the Emperor has already known many very important secrets, such as about Pei Jinxin's little green hat.

This is really a bit tricky, if you want to solve anything, you have to pay attention to the right time and place, and if you miss it, it will be a thousand miles wrong, and she must be more cautious.

His Majesty the Emperor really knew people and was good at what he said, and guessed that he already knew Chu Sui's identity, so he ordered the task of capturing her, saving others from stumbling around like headless flies.

Fortunately, she had already sent someone to keep an eye on Chu Sui's movements before, otherwise that headless fly would be her lentil.

"Mai Sui'er, you go and ask Uncle Storm immediately, the secret guards have found Chu Sui's whereabouts." Doudou commanded softly.

"Yes." Fat Mai Sui Er answered, and ran out with a puff of smoke.

As she spoke, she had already returned with a food box, and she put all kinds of delicious food on the round table one by one.

As soon as Doudou picked up the chopsticks, Liu Ye'er walked in with Gu Chao's eldest maid, Lilac.

Lilac didn't even bother to salute, so she knelt down in front of Doudou and cried: "Little princess, the second lady is gone." ”

The chopsticks in Doudou's hand slipped out of her hand in an instant, and she grabbed Lilac's arm and said, "Don't be busy crying first, tell me what happened in detail." ”

She never doubted her father's ability to do things, and since she promised to send someone to take good care of her mother, she would never break her promise.

Recently, she got the news that Gu Chao did not go around like before, and after her grandmother left, she stayed in the Hou Mansion every day, and she didn't even go to the Gu Mansion and Prince Yi's Mansion once.

Although the Jingnan Hou Mansion is not a Longtan Tiger's Den, there are hundreds of people in the guards, and there are more than a dozen or twenty people serving Gu Chao in Chaoyun Courtyard alone, how could she disappear quietly, and even a person like Lilac who is serving with her can hide it.

Lilac's arm hurt from her pinch, but the stimulation stopped her from crying.

She wiped away her tears and told her what had happened.

Doudou let go of his hand, frowned and said, "So it's only Mama Jin who disappeared with her mother?" ”

Lilac nodded hurriedly: "Yes, the second master didn't let the second lady go out recently, she often asked Mama Jin to talk with her because she was bored, and the two of them were still together for lunch today, and the second lady wanted to take a lunch break after the meal, and the slaves and maids obviously saw Mama Jin go back to her room after lunch, and only after finding out that the second lady was gone, did she know that Mama Jin was also gone." ”

Doudou's brow tightened.

You don't need to ask who did it, but Yu Wenhao really has that much ability?

Even if he has such a great ability, it is just enough to kidnap his mother, why should he tie up Mama Jin together?

The difference between tying one person and tying two people in the heavily guarded Hou Mansion is self-evident. [.]