Besides, on the way back, he didn't say a word, and his face was pale.

"What's the matter, what did they tell you?" Zhou Dingcheng knew who he was going to meet, but he was of a low level and was not qualified to go in and participate in the conversation with him.

"It's nothing, it's just that I can see their faces clearly, and I won't need their so-called protection in the future. Besides, he said coldly.

"What's going on?" Zhou Dingcheng was anxious, but he didn't expect to fall out with those people.

"It's nothing, I just see that they don't treat me as a human being at all, but as an important item, a card that can be played at a critical moment, and I would rather not have their protection than listen to their domination. Besides, he said angrily.

Zhou Dingcheng sighed and smiled bitterly, although he didn't understand the inside story very well, he also knew some basic information, and what he said was right. This is like a family, if the master is strong, the subordinates will fear and respect the master, and if the master is weak, the subordinates will bully the master. Besides, who is it, how can they decide the fate, what are you kidding!

"I'm going to Beijing, will you go with me?" he asked.

"Of course, even if you go to hell, I will be with you, and I will go to Beijing to find Xiaojun for a drink. Zhou Dingcheng said without hesitation.

"That's good, go back and prepare, there are ten days and eight days, let's go to Beijing together, just the two of us." Besides.

Zhou Dingcheng was solemn, and now it is not a tone of discussion, it is completely a tone of order.

After returning home, he discussed with Pomegranate and told her that he would enter Beijing in a few days, and when he left, Pomegranate and the others would retreat to the central island of Xuanwu Lake, which was the safest place.

"You're going to the capital, didn't you say it's very dangerous there?"

"It's okay, there are a lot of people protecting me, and it's absolutely okay to be safe. Besides.

He said it very surely, as if he was really sure, in fact, he knew that he was very likely to be alone now, at most there was Zhou Dingcheng, whether it was the Qinwang faction or the king's organization, it was unreliable.

He doesn't care, one person is one person, and the big deal is that one person fights alone.

Pomegranate looked at his extremely confident look, and was also relieved, thinking that there were really countless masters behind him to protect him.

"You have to be careful everywhere when you're out alone, and your family should bring some with you. Pomegranate Road.

"No, it's inconvenient to take more family members on the road, Brother Zhou and I can adapt to that kind of life, and it is cumbersome to take our families. Besides, it seems to have been thought through, and the tone is unquestionable.

The next day, he returned to the Marquis's Mansion and made the same arrangement, telling Zuo Ling and them not to leave the Marquis' Mansion when he was fine, although the people of the Zhongshan Palace's could try their best to protect them, but they were still not at ease. The security factor in the Marquis's Mansion is much higher, not only the territory is large, but there are also many family guards, and ordinary people dare not trespass without permission.

"I'm going with you, how can you do it without anyone to take care of you on the way. "Xiao Nier is gone, so she has to go on the road with him.

"Nier, don't make trouble, I'm not going to visit the mountains and rivers this time, there is danger on the road, and I have to protect you when the time comes, but it's inconvenient. ”

"I don't need you to protect you, I want to protect you, I have already said that we are together in life and death, and I will never leave you. Xiao Nier cried and hugged him, but she didn't let go.

"It's the road, your body hasn't fully recovered, and you still need to recuperate, so you can't suffer that kind of hardship. "Besides, I still don't agree.

"I can endure any hardship, isn't it just to have a child? Our women there can work in the fields for a few days after giving birth, and I have been raising them for several months, and I have been fattening up here every day, and I have long wanted to go out for a walk. Xiao Nier said.

Zuo Ling also persuaded him: "Let her follow you, otherwise she will have no soul at home, even if there is a risk, she will not be left alone." ”

In the end, I had to reluctantly nod in agreement.

When Mrs. Tai found out, she cried, took his hand and said, "I hurt you, if you didn't save me, where would this catastrophe happen." ”

Besides, he smiled: "Mother, I'm just going to treat the emperor, not to any dangerous place, you don't have to worry." ”

"Don't lie to me, I don't know what is going on here? The emperor, the crown prince, father and son are fighting, you are caught in the middle, where is there a way to live. "Mrs. Tai's heart is like a mirror.

"Mother, you think too much, since the emperor sent someone to invite me, of course he will send a lot of people to protect me, if someone is not good for me, the emperor will not agree. ”

Mrs. Tai has long known his thoughts, and she doesn't want to live a life of fugitive, not to mention that the children are so young, how can she take them all the way to the fugitive? Sacrificing her life to go to the capital, she may be able to break a way out, but the risk is still too great.

Wucheng Hou smiled: "Mother, you don't have to worry, I will send someone to protect the second brother, and there will be nothing on the road." ”

Everyone said some things to pay attention to on the road, although they all knew that this trip would be a dead life, but since the final decision had been made, there was no way to persuade him, because no one could think of a better idea.

After that, the Marquis of Wu Cheng took him to the warehouse, took out five muskets from a box and handed them to him.

"You can bring these things with you, and you may need them on the road. ”

Moreover, he took out a musket, although it was very primitive, but the workmanship was very exquisite, and it could be collected as a handicraft.

"Isn't this thing a contraband, how did you get it?"

"Of course, I tried to find a way, but some of them are not visible, and generally don't take them out when they are not very important. Wucheng Hou said proudly.

Besides, I don't really want it, although these muskets are more powerful than ordinary knives and guns, but they are long-range firearms, which need to be ignited to fire, the front is loaded with iron projectiles, the middle is the * area, and the back is the fire rope, you need to ignite the fire rope, and then ignite the *, and use the thrust of * to launch the projectile.

In principle, muskets are similar to pistols and rifles of later generations, but from the perspective of manufacturing technology, they are different from several eras. This thing is strictly a *.

He still accepted these muskets, and when the time came, he said that if he didn't take them, Wu Chenghou would not be at ease, after all, he also took a big risk when he got these contraband.

In the following days, besides, after arranging all kinds of future affairs, he asked people to return to Suzhou, sent 1,000 taels of silver to Liu Ma and Ji Wu, who guarded the house for him, and then told them that the house belonged to the two of them, and it was up to them to decide whether to continue to live in the house or sell it for money.

Tang Bohu and the three of them all knew that he was going to Beijing, and after paying all the money, they told them that they would continue to cooperate with them when he stabilized in Beijing.

Of course, another meaning he didn't say was that if he had an accident, there would naturally be no future.

Tang Bohu and the three of them didn't know the inside story, and thought that this was good luck to hand over and treat the emperor, if he was cured, he would naturally have unlimited good luck in the future.

Li Xiangjun and the others here, besides, also made arrangements, telling them that if they settle down in Beijing in the future, they will take them over and continue to open an auction house in Beijing, and if he has no news, he will let them enter the Marquis Mansion, and someone will naturally take care of them.

After a few days of hurriing, he finally arranged a number of matters, and then the people from the Nanjing Garrison Mansion and Wei Guogong came to find him and told him that the holy decree to recruit him had arrived, and the people sent to pick him up would enter Nanjing in the next few days.

After the decree was read, it was indeed to recruit him to Beijing to treat the emperor's illness, and this decree was written by the eunuch of Bingbi as soon as he heard it, and asked him to go to Beijing urgently, and the emperor may not be able to make an edict in person when he is seriously ill.

"Old Master Chen and Guo Xiaoyou are two kings, so enviable. The people who stayed behind complimented.

Besides, he smiled bitterly, he was going to Beijing as a doctor to see the emperor, although his identity was not simple, but could it be the same as a teacher being recruited? The teacher was a real Zhengjun, and he was a virtual person.

Wei Guogong came to accompany him through the motions, did not say much, before leaving, Wei Guogong found an opportunity to say to him: "It's too late for you to change your mind now, once the envoy arrives in Nanjing, there will be nothing to do." ”

Besides, he said: "Thank you, Lord Guogong, my mind has not changed. ”

Wei Guogong sighed, and no longer persuaded him, but he had a premonition that he would be thorny step by step along the way, and if he could reach Beijing safely, he would be blessed with great fortune.

After another five days, the messenger who took him finally arrived, and he was already waiting impatiently.

This time, it was the ceremonial eunuch Huang Jin who personally led the team, which shows the importance attached to him.

After Huang Jin entered Nanjing, he immediately asked people to invite him, bowed down and said: "Mr. Guo, the saint is in danger, so it will be more troublesome for Mr. to bother." ”

Besides, Zhengse said: "The saint is the monarch's father, and the monarch's father is in trouble, so he naturally does not hesitate to go to the soup to fight the fire." ”

When the people on the side heard this, they all looked extremely moved, but secretly they didn't know whether he was really stupid or ignorant.

Moreover, following Huang Jin to the Fuyuan Administration, he asked Huang Jin about Emperor Jiajing's condition, and after listening to Huang Jin's description, he knew that there was no salvation at all, and it was too late in time, even if there was no obstacle on the road, Emperor Jiajing could not insist that he enter the city of Beijing.

Still, he had to go on the road, unless there was a follow-up decree that made it clear that he didn't need to enter the capital, but it was impossible for such a decree to come down.

Besides, he didn't delay, he decided on the spot, and followed Huang Jin's people to Beijing the next day, everything here in Nanjing had been arranged, and he had no worries.

On the morning of the next day, the group went out of the city, and the officials of the Nanjing Left-behind Mansion, the Zhongshan Palace, the Six Ministries, and the Three Provinces Temple all went to the ten-mile long pavilion outside the city to feast for them.

Besides, he didn't bring much luggage or many people, only Zhou Dingcheng and Xiao Nier accompanied him.

After drinking the candied wine on the long pavilion, the convoy set off and galloped away, but Li Xiangjun's elegant piano sound came from behind, and she also came here to see him off.

"It's Li Xiangjun, I didn't see her just now, where is she hiding?"

Besides, he didn't see Li Xiangjun, but he felt her existence, but he didn't go out of his way to look for her, as long as he knew that she was here and she was there, it was enough.

Besides, he didn't look back to find Li Xiangjun's figure, his eyes kept staring ahead, for him, the most important page in his life was about to be turned over, even if the road ahead was Longtan Tiger's Den, he had to move forward desperately, and there was no way back.

(End of book)