Three days later, the cavalry led by Guo Song arrived in Zhangye, and they brought back more than 20,000 donkeys and mules, each of which carried large bags of gold, silver and jewelry, of course, these were military expenses and could not be used to reward the soldiers, but the cavalry who followed Guo Song on the expedition each made a small fortune and returned to the barracks happily.

The gold, silver and jewels they seized were piled up in several large tents, piled up like a hill, and a large number of soldiers would come to visit every day, but only to visit, no one dared to do it, and everyone knew that this was their military expenses, their military salaries, equipment, all from these riches.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Guo Song was admiring Li Man's sword, which turned out to be the famous sword Zhan Lu, and Liang Wu dedicated this sword to him, which made Guo Song love it.

Liang Wuzheng reported the incident of the Hidden Sword Pavilion to Guo Song, Guo Song put the sword on the table, his face became very solemn, he was secretly glad in his heart, he thought in advance that his family would be in danger, but he did not expect that the entire Zhangye was in danger.

Thanks to the Ganzhou army's ability to eradicate all these assassins, and even Li Man died, this is undoubtedly great news, but he owes Duqiu a great favor.

Guo Song took a few steps and asked, "Are the people of the Flying Fox Guard still there?" ”

Wang Yue next to him bowed down and said: "They just sent someone to deliver the letter, it was a woman, but this person was masked, and she didn't know what she looked like, and she disappeared after sending the letter, and then the people of the Flying Fox Guard never appeared again." ”

"Didn't you just say that there are also people from the Flying Fox Guard in my house to deliver letters?"

"Later, Xiao Yuniang said that it was not from the Flying Fox Guard."

Guo Song was stunned, "What does this mean?" ”

"It's not clear what the position is."

Guo Song nodded, put this matter down for the time being, and asked again: "Is there any movement between Tubo and Shatuo?" ”

Liang Wu hurriedly said: "Shatuo has no movement for the time being, but there is movement in Tubo, a few days ago, there was news from the side of the Great Dou Tu Valley, Tubo has increased its troops in the Great Dou Tu Valley, and there are still a lot of people. ”

"How many people are there?" Guo Song glared at Liang Wu dissatisfiedly and asked.

Liang Wu hurriedly explained: "The number of people has probably increased to about three or four thousand. ”

The general garrison of the Tubo side of the Great Dou Bagu was only a few hundred people, and now it suddenly increased to three or four thousand, which is indeed a bit unusual, Guo Song immediately realized that this was probably the Tubo reaction to the civil strife in Chang'an.

........

Guo Song returned home directly from the barracks, and his family had already come out of the secret mansion, but the area around the mansion was still heavily guarded, and three hundred internal guard soldiers were deployed around the mansion, although the assassins had been annihilated in advance, they still did not dare to be careless.

Guo Song just walked to the inner courtyard, but he saw his daughter open her arms, and her little face was smiling brightly towards him, his heart melted, and he hurriedly squatted down to pick up his daughter, he nodded his daughter's little nose and asked, "Daddy is not here, Xiaowei is not well-behaved?" ”

"Xiao Wei is good!" The little one replied in a milky voice.

Guo Song laughed and stabbed her little face a few times with a fork, and the little guy shrunk his neck and screamed happily.

"That's it! All right! Let Daddy catch his breath first. ”

Xue Tao smiled and reached out to hug his daughter, but the little guy turned his head and hugged his father's neck tightly, like a little monkey hugging a big tree, refusing to let go.

Xue Tao coaxed and persuaded for a long time before he hugged his daughter down, Guo Song looked at his son a little, and the little guy was still asleep.

At this time, he suddenly saw a beautiful girl, with a slender figure, wearing a pomegranate dress, melon seed face, delicate and snow-white, eyes like autumn waves, eyebrows like crescent moons, black hair, obliquely inserted a step shake, looking very beautiful.

Guo Song was stunned for a moment, this girl is so familiar.

Dugu Youlan gave him a blessing gift, pursed her lips and smiled: "Guo Yuanjun, it's been a long time!" ”

This voice, Guo Song suddenly remembered, he had seen this girl in Bashu, halfway to Chengdu Mansion, this girl shot Yang Zilin's son, and she was fooled by her, thinking that she was avenging her father.

Xue Tao introduced him: "This girl is the little granddaughter of the lonely head of the family, called Dugu Youlan, husband, you have seen it!" ”

Guo Song glanced back at Xiao Yu Niang, who shrugged helplessly, saying that it had nothing to do with her.

Guo Song nodded, "It turned out to be Miss Youlan, thanks to you this time." ”

Xue Tao briefly introduced the situation to her husband again, and Guo Song realized that it was the letter reported by this Dugu girl, otherwise they would be in big trouble this time.

Guo Song was suddenly full of gratitude to Dugu Youlan in his heart, and hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "The girl's kindness, Guo Song remembers it in his heart." ”

Dugu Youlan smiled, flashed to the side, and held Guo Weiwei's little hand, at this time, Cui's also stepped forward to give Guo Song a salute.

Everyone was polite, and learned that Li Mi went to Shazhou the next day after coming to Zhangye, and now he is placing orders in Dayun Temple to study Buddhism.

Zhang Lei was not in the house either, and he went to Lingzhou ten days ago to urge alcohol.

The housekeeper's wife came to invite everyone to dinner again, and the family got together for a very lively dinner.

After dinner, Guo Song paced back and forth in the study alone, Zhan Lujian hung on the wall, he was thinking about the movement of Tubo, he believed that Tubo increased troops in the Great Dou Tu Valley not to attack Ganzhou, but was afraid that the Ganzhou army would open up the Great Dou Tu Valley, which was a manifestation of weakness, or for the worry of the back, indicating that Tubo was going to use troops against the Tang Dynasty.

In the event of civil strife in the Tang Dynasty, will this once-in-a-century opportunity be given up in Tibet? Of course not, if Tibet wants to restore its national strength, it will be much faster to plunder the Tang Dynasty than to recuperate.

Is the Tibetan going to launch a campaign against Longyou or a campaign against Anxi?

Intuition told Guo Song that Longyou was much richer than Anxi, and it must be Longyou, and Longyou's 20,000 Hehuang troops entered Beijing to support Zhu Zhu, so I wonder if Zhu Zhu would replenish his troops in Hehuang in time?

At this time, Xue Tao walked into the study with a cup of tea, she put the tea cup on the table and said, "Dugu Youlan is gone." ”

Guo Song was stunned, "It's getting dark now." ”

She seemed to have a companion waiting outside, changed her clothes and left, thanking me for my hospitality these days.

Xue Tao hesitated and asked: "She said that she had met her husband in Bashu and had a not very pleasant fight, she didn't elaborate, she just said that it was a misunderstanding, thank you for showing mercy to her subordinates." ”

Guo Song shook his head and said: "Actually, you also know that halfway to Chengdu to escort Yang Zilin's father and son, Yang Zilin's son was shot by someone with an arrow, and I went to chase this assassin, it was her." ”

Xue Tao remembered, "It's good that there is such a thing, my husband didn't catch her." ”

"In fact, I caught her, she said that she was Lu Governor Shi Xie Changwu, avenging her father and wanting to kill Yang Zilin, so I let her go, in fact, Xie Changwu is not dead at all, and there is no daughter, I was fooled by her."

Guo Song obviously didn't care about the incident back then, Yang Zilin was innocent of death, and Cui Ning was not a good thing, but this little lady was actually Duguqiu's granddaughter, which really made him interested, it is very likely that this Dugu Youlan assassinated Cui Ning, Cui Ning actually died in the hands of Flying Fox Wei, it can be seen that there are still many unknown secrets hidden behind the Dugu family!

Xue Tao said again: "Anyway, if she hadn't reported in time this time, we would all be in danger, she stayed in our house for a few days, in fact, it was to protect me, I understand in my heart, and I am very grateful to her." ”

Guo Song nodded, he was also grateful, if it was an ordinary assassin, maybe Xiao Yu Niang could still deal with it, but it was Li Man who came, Xiao Yu Niang was not her opponent at all, once she broke into her mansion, the consequences were unimaginable, and none of her wives and children would survive.

..........

Xue Tao went back to take care of the child, Guo Song immediately took a bow and sword, walked out of the palace gate and turned over on the horse, and did not bring his own soldiers, and directly urged the horse to gallop outside the south city gate.

He had a hunch that Dugu Youlan would not leave like this, and he must have something to say to himself.

He ran out of the city gate, and saw five or six knights standing in the wilderness in the distance, and at this time, a knight with a hat slowly stepped forward, and judging by her figure, she should be a young woman.

"Is it Miss Youlan?" Guo Song asked from afar.

The other party took off the hat, and sure enough, it was Dugu Youlan, with a bright smile on her face.

"My companions all said that it was impossible for the envoy to come, and I said to wait, and the envoy came."

Guo Song nodded, "I feel that you should have something to say to me, and you shouldn't leave in such a hurry." ”

"I actually....... There is not much to say. ”

Dugu Youlanqiao's face was slightly red, and she said for a while: "I actually just want to thank you for letting me go back then." ”

Guo Song smiled slightly, "The cause planted that day has today's fruit, without you, my wife and children will be in danger this time." ”

Dugu Youlan lowered her head a little shyly, she glanced back at her companions, and said to Guo Song: "Actually, I'm not a flying fox guard, they are, I just like to run blindly, Cui Ning was not killed by me, it was killed by them, my aunt is a monk in Qingcheng Mountain, and I learned martial arts from her." ”

"Then how did you come to Ganzhou this time?"

"My grandfather asked me to come, so I followed them."

"Little junior sister, it's time to go!" An older woman shouted in the distance.

"Here we are!"

Dugu Youlan turned around and agreed, and explained to Guo Song: "The five of them are my senior sisters, General Guo, then I'll go first." ”

Guo Song nodded, "Welcome to Ganzhou again." ”

Dugu Youlan's eyes were a little flustered, and she didn't dare to look at Guo Song, she quickly turned her horse's head and ran south, and five women in black took her and gradually went south.