Chapter 47: Return to the Palace
The next day, Chang Gui and his party set off. The time was too hurried to find a suitable coffin, and the bodies of Lu Ping and Imperial Doctor Lin were simply carried and pulled by a carriage. If Vice General Lin saw such a scene, he might be angry again.
Gong Zhu and they also got up early in the morning to pack up their things, as soon as Beiqi woke up, Chang Gui Taen had already left, everyone was busy packing up and no one paid attention to him, so he ran over and said to everyone,
"Grandma, grandma, I dreamed of unison yesterday."
"Mother, I dreamed of the little princess of Qixin yesterday."
"Grandpa, grandpa, I dreamed of little unison yesterday, grandpa grandpa."
The adults ignored him, and Beiqi felt bored and ran over.
"Flower face, this time we are already going deep into the mainland, the queen's power is all over the country, you have to be careful along the way, you don't hide anymore, go directly to the front to catch the car."
"Yes."
Flower Face went next door to change into a servant's clothes, and carefully wrapped his knife on his back. Qingshan and Qingshui helped load the luggage into the car, and the two of them communicated with Lieshan and told him something about Gongzhu and them. After a while, the salutes were all moved, and Chunfu's mother-in-law took Xiao Beiqi's men downstairs, and the seventh girl carefully followed behind with her mother-in-law's baggage.
"Boss Guan, is there anything else?"
Boss Zhang has already made all the things in the store bigger, and the shopkeeper will be taken care of by a housekeeper brought by the prince of Yongchang for the time being.
"No, it's all right."
"Then, let's get in the car."
Boss Zhang helped Gong Zhu to get into the car, hugged Xiao Beiqi with a flower face, and Chunfu's mother-in-law and the seventh girl also got into the car.
"Boss Guan, I'm in the carriage in front, and Lieshan is guarding on horseback."
Boss Zhang stepped forward again, lowered his voice and said,
"If it's inconvenient for the prince to come out, he won't say goodbye."
"It's nature."
Boss Zhang got into the car in front of him and gave another lecture to the little two in the store.
Beiqi was not honest, and when he looked out of the window, he happened to see Qingshan and Qingshui waving at him.
"Grandpa, why don't Uncle Qingshan and Qingshui ride horses."
Gong Zhu hugged Beiqi over and held him in his arms.
"Uncle Qingshan and Qingshui won't go with us this time, they have already sent us over, and we should go back to the prince."
"Back to the prince? Go back to Qingguo? Will you go to the palace? Isn't that just going back to Qixin? β
Outside, Boss Zhang shouted and set off, and Hua Face got into the carriage to close the door and grab the reins. The procession of three carriages slowly set off, leaving the inn where it cost people their lives, and heading for more dangerous places.
"Yes, they're going to find the little princess of Qixin."
Hearing this, Beiqi immediately broke free of Gong Zhu's embrace, stuck his head out of the window, and shouted loudly,
"Uncle Qingshan, Uncle Qingshui, you must tell sΓΉ Qixin that I miss her very much."
Qingshan and Qingshui froze for a moment, but immediately reacted and nodded quickly.
Bei Qi smiled happily, waved his hands vigorously and shouted in a louder voice,
"Uncle Qingshan, Uncle Qingshui, thank you! Good bye! β
The seventh girl hurriedly pulled Xiao Beiqi back and looked at him reproachfully. Bei Qi stuck out his tongue and looked away, pretending not to see it, and crawled to Gong Zhu's side to sit honestly.
Gong Zhu didn't blame Beiqi, and gently touched Beiqi's little head.
"Grandpa, Uncle Qingshui must be boring without Qingshan and Qingshui."
Beiqi pouted and became unhappy. On the way to come before, Gong Zhu's attitude towards him was very strict, and the seventh girl didn't say anything, but just looked at him very tightly every day and didn't allow him to do this or that, and checked Beiqi's homework from time to time. It's just that sometimes Qingshan and Qingshui look at him strangely and pitifully tease him to play, or grab something interesting on the way and give it to him.
"Northern Qi is afraid of boredom? That, grandpa told the story to Beiqi and listened to it. β
"What stories can grandpa tell is nothing more than those old ones, otherwise it is some kind of 'saint's childhood'."
The seventh girl was angry and glanced at Bei Qi right. Northern Qi still pretended not to see it.
"No, this time Grandpa will tell a new story to Beiqi, a long, long story, just,"
"Just what?"
Gong Zhu's expression of wanting to speak and stopping was so vague that he asked Beiqi to ask questions by himself.
"It's just that this story is very complicated, and grandpa is afraid that Beiqi won't understand, and it's useless to tell it."
Beiqi pouted unconvinced,
"Hmph, grandpa, you also underestimate Northern Qi, Northern Qi has already read all the books that should be read, and he is good at learning."
"Yes, yes, Northern Qi's intelligence must be admitted."
"Then grandpa, you can tell me."
Gong Zhu looked at Beiqi seriously this time,
"It's just Northern Qi, grandpa tells this story, and there is a request."
"What is it?"
"This story, as long as it is told, must be told until the end of the story. Even if you find the story uninteresting, or very difficult to understand, and don't want to listen to it, you must finish the story. Because, the story is really long, long. β
Gong Zhu's serious expression made Beiqi a little puzzled, isn't it just to tell a story, just tell it.
"Grandpa, just talk about it, Beiqi will definitely listen to it to the end."
"Northern Qi, you have to remember what you said, a gentleman's word, the horse is difficult to chase."
Beiqi became a little impatient, shaking Gong Zhu's shoulder and asking him to tell a story.
"Oh, grandpa, just hurry up."
Gong Zhu looked at Northern Qi for a long, long time, and after a long time, Northern Qi began to get impatient again, so Gong Zhu smiled and was ready to start telling this story,
"Don't worry, let grandpa think about it, this story is too long, grandpa doesn't know, where to start."
Gong Zhu glanced at Granny Chunfu.
After getting into the car, Chunfu's mother-in-law has been closing her eyes and recuperating, quietly listening to the conversation between Gong Zhu and Beiqi, but at this time, she suddenly sensed Gong Zhu's gaze and opened her eyes. She vaguely seemed to know what story Gong Zhu wanted to tell, and unconsciously, she put her hand on the hand of the seventh girl.
The seventh girl was distracted and was startled by Mother-in-law Chunfu's move, but she still smiled at Mother-in-law and put her hand on Mother-in-law's hand. Miyatake retracted his gaze and began to prepare to tell the long story.
"It was a long, long time ago, and Grandpa was still very young, and he hadn't even met your grandma yet."
"Huh? Haven't met grandma yet? Was it grandpa when he was a kid? β
Gong Zhu smiled,
"Yes, it was grandpa when he was a child, at that time, because of the famine, grandpa's family passed away and even oh had a pedometer family's face, at that time, grandpa met a very kind person, he gave grandpa food for grandpa to wear, and took grandpa back to his home, and since then, grandpa has become good friends with that person, and has been with that person for a long, long time."
The seventh girl also sensed what Gong Zhu meant, and glanced at Granny Chunfu uneasily, and Granny Chunfu patted her hand and nodded to reassure her.
Inside the carriage, Gong Zhu told a story with no ending in a calm voice. Gong Zhu hopes that this way will be a foreshadowing in Northern Qi's mind, he definitely does not intend to hide Northern Qi's life experience, but he also doesn't want Northern Qi to reluctantly accept it without being psychologically prepared. He wanted to use a story to explain the truth to him clearly, and tell them all their feelings to Northern Qi, hoping that Northern Qi could understand.
The carriage moved slowly, and the net was faintly shrinking. The distance between the two parties is getting closer and closer, and under the quiet and stable surface, there is no air for people to breathe, waiting for someone to fall and swallow him.