Su Li rushed back to the room with Chu Gua in her arms and stuffed it into Chu Huai'an's arms.

"Ah Li, how do you ......?"

Chu Huai'an was still immersed in his emotions, he didn't react to what was happening, and wanted to ask something and was directly stopped by Su Li: "Don't talk!"

“……”

A certain Hou hugged Chu Gua and obediently shut up, Su Li rushed to the table and poured a cup of tea, and quickly used her fingers to draw the road map she had just seen on Chu Gua's face on the table.

The road map was fleeting, Su Li didn't remember it very clearly, frowning and trying her best to think about it.

Chu Huai'an was stunned for two seconds to see what Su Li was doing, put Chu Gua on the bed, tore off the hem of his clothes, bit his fingertips, and copied the road map that Su Li drew on the table.

"What is this?"

Chu Huai'an asked, looking at the cloth in his hand, he had a bold guess in his heart.

On the question of Chugua, Su Li didn't intend to hide it from him, and replied frankly: "This is what I saw on Guagua's face."

“……”

"I just heard Sister Yan call me!"

“……”

This kid is a little monster!

Chu Huai'an turned his head and looked at Chu Gua with complicated eyes, and with this sentence in his throat, his throat hurt a little.

"Don't have any bad ideas!"

Su Li glanced at Chu Huai'an, took the map in his hand and examined it carefully: "Now that Sister Yan and Gu Jiong are uncertain about their lives and deaths, it is important to save them, and they will ...... in the future."

Su Li paused and pleaded seriously: "Let's protect Guagua and grow up safely, okay?"

After getting married, he doted on her very much, and she rarely used this kind of consultative tone to talk to him.

He told her before that no one could do everything as she wished, but when it came to the end, he naturally hoped that she would get her wish.

"Good!"

He replied solemnly, there was no way to refuse her request.

Su Li looked at the drawings and modified them uncertainly a few times, just after the painting, the next person came to report that someone from Dali Temple was coming, Su Li put away the drawings and went out with Chu Huai'an, and when he arrived in the front hall, he saw Gu Yuanfeng and the messenger of Dali Temple walking in together.

"Why is the gentleman here?"

Su Li asked softly, and asked people to serve hot tea.

"I heard that someone poisoned the Houfu, Your Majesty asked me to come to the mansion to have a look, it's all right?" Gu Yuanfeng said softly, his eyes were full of concern, he was already a prime minister, and he was usually busy with official business, but as long as he heard that there was something in the Hou Mansion, no matter how busy he was, he had to find time to come here to take a look.

"It's okay, I haven't eaten much at home with Master Hou these days, but my mother and two children vomited and diarrhea a few times yesterday, and the imperial doctor prescribed medicine and now it's much better."

Su Li replied lightly, not wanting Gu Yuanfeng to worry, and the errand officer on the side couldn't help but ask: "Can the person who poisoned him be caught?" ”

Su Li was forcibly carried to sleep by Chu Huai'an last night, and she didn't know what was going on, so she turned her head to look at Chu Huai'an, and Chu Huai'an said knowingly: "I caught it, but I have already hit the pillar and died." ”

"How so?"

The messenger let out a low cry, and Chu Huai'an asked people to carry the body of the woman in, and the body was covered with a white cloth, which was stained with blood, and the corpse could be vaguely seen.

Chu Huai'an naturally raised his hand to block Su Li's eyes, preventing her from seeing the bloodshed of the corpse.

"This woman is ten years ago, I have already shown the deed of sale to your adults overnight, she has no relatives, and the body is unclaimed, first carry it back to Dali Temple and check if there is anything strange."

Hearing that Chu Huai'an had communicated with Zhao Hanzhuo in advance, the messenger breathed a sigh of relief, called someone to come in and carry the body away, and asked Chu Liu's family what kind of poison they had, and prepared to investigate the medicinal herb shop in the city.

Chu Huai'an and Su Li were very cooperative, and the messenger left quickly, Gu Yuanfeng had been listening from the side, his brows furrowed: "Why did this mother-in-law poison the old lady and the little prince for no reason?" went to death directly after the incident, there should be a mastermind behind this, right? ”

Su Li nodded in agreement: "Master Hou has already met Lord Zhao, and I believe that Lord Zhao will find out the truth soon." As she spoke, Su Li took out the map from her sleeve pocket and handed it to Gu Yuanfeng: "Sir, can you probably see what place is on this map?" ”

Su Li asked with the mentality of trying his luck, Gu Yuanfeng is very knowledgeable, although he does not have the ability to remember, but his memory is also outstanding, after he becomes the prime minister, he will definitely memorize the maps of Yuanzhao by heart, with him, it is better than her and Chu Huai'an running around like headless flies.

Gu Yuanfeng took the map and looked at it carefully, Su Li and Chu Huai'an didn't bother him anymore, and after a while, Gu Yuanfeng suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed to the place where Su Li had repeatedly modified before, and asked, "Should this line go to the left?" ”

"Sir, see what's wrong?!" Su Li asked in surprise, her heart beating wildly: "This is what I drew from memory, I don't remember that place very clearly, and I have changed it many times." ”

Gu Yuanfeng didn't ask Su Li where this map came from, nor did he ask her what she was going to do with this map, he spread the cloth on the coffee table, made up it with a pen a few times, and turned around to show Chu Huai'an: "Does Master Hou feel a little familiar when he looks at it now?" ”

Chu Huai'an half-squinted his eyes and looked at it for a moment, his pupils shrunk: "It's that bandit's den thirty miles outside the city!" ”

Bandit den!

These three words were a little sensitive to Su Li, Gu Yuanfeng nodded, looked at Su Li and said, "This is the bandit den that went from the city to rob Ah Li at the beginning." ”

At the beginning, Chu Huai'an wanted to lead troops to suppress the bandits, Gu Yuanfeng followed hard, in order not to drag Chu Huai'an's hind legs, he memorized the route map of going there many times in advance, so he was very impressed.

Su Li was a little surprised, but she didn't have time to think about it, and immediately looked at Chu Huai'an: "I want to go there and have a look." ”

This is the map she saw from Chu Gua's face, if she takes it to Zhao Hanzhuo, she will have to explain it to get support, but then the difference between Chu Gua will be known by one more person, Su Li is unwilling to do this from her heart.

So she needs Chu Huai'an's help.

"I'll take the troops there, and you take care of it at home."

Chu Huai'an said non-negotiably that until now, he would never let Su Li take risks.

"But I'm worried about ......"

"No, but!"

Chu Huai'an raised his voice, completely overpowering Su Li in momentum.

Now it's important to save people, Su Li didn't want to delay time on this, so she had to retreat: "Okay." ”

"Since you have something to do, I'll go first."

Gu Yuanfeng took the initiative to get up, and didn't ask Chu Huai'an what he was going to do on this trip.

He had never had any curiosity, and he was naturally relieved to see that Su Li was safe and sound.

Chu Huai'an and Gu Yuanfeng went out to leave together, Su Li sat in the house for a quarter of an hour and was still not at ease, so she secretly changed into men's clothes and went to the backyard stable to lead a horse, but as soon as she came out of the back door, she was blocked by a carriage, Gu Yuanfeng opened the curtain and looked at her helplessly.

"Sir, you ...... How is it here? ”

Su Li sat on the horse and asked uncomfortably, feeling that she had done something bad when she was a child and was caught by her elders.

"I suddenly remembered that there were a few words I forgot to tell you, so I turned back and tried my luck."

Gu Yuanfeng responded lightly, with a hint of a smile in his eyes, he knew Su Li's temperament well, saying that he was trying his luck, and he was obviously deliberately staying here and waiting for the rabbit.

With him, I'm afraid I won't be able to get out of the city today.

Su Li didn't force it, turned over and got out of Gu Yuanfeng's carriage immediately: "I don't know what Mr. wants to say?" ”

"Ah Li and Hou Ye have been married for a long time, have you ever heard Hou Ye say how he came over when you left Beijing for more than a year?"

Su Li didn't expect Gu Yuanfeng to stay here to tell him this, and was stunned for a moment: "He...... Did you suffer a lot? ”

Su Li had seen Chu Huai'an's whipping because of the filial piety ring, and vaguely guessed that when he first arrived at the hussars, he had received a lot of criticism for not having military authority at the beginning, but he hadn't heard Chu Huai'an say anything else.

"A lot."

Gu Yuanfeng said with certainty that he rarely spoke for others, and now that Chu Huai'an has suffered a lot, it must be true.

Su Li's throat choked and became uncomfortable.

"I heard that when he first joined the hussar army, he killed a group of people with bad work style because of the rectification of military discipline, which caused dissatisfaction among the people and suffered several assassinations."

The gentlemen in the army are all strong-blooded, and whoever makes them unhappy, they will naturally make others unhappy.

Gu Yuanfeng said that Chu Huai'an had encountered several assassinations, but that was only what he knew, could there be anything he didn't know?

"Ah Li, did you see the whip marks of filial piety on his back?"

Su Li nodded: "I saw it." ”

"Because of his filial piety, he almost died in an assassination."

Gu Yuanfeng did not specifically describe how thrilling Chu Huai'an's encounter was at that time, but this sentence was enough to make Su Li's heart hang.

He was in a difficult situation in the army, but there was no one around him to support him, and the Chu Liu clan also forced him to marry another woman with death, and everything was on his shoulders alone.

What was he thinking about when life and death were at stake?

Su Li couldn't help but think, and listened to Gu Yuanfeng continue: "His Majesty also knew that he was seriously injured at the time, and issued an order to summon him back to Beijing, but he resisted the order and disobeyed it. ”

You can't lie down or lie down, you can only sleep standing up! How far has this man pushed himself?

Su Li's eyes were red when she heard this, Gu Yuanfeng didn't say anything else, looked at Su Li quietly, and waited for her to calm down.

She had never heard Chu Huai'an mention these things, and she couldn't imagine that he had experienced so many thrills.

Now I hear from the mouths of others, my heart always aches.

"Ah Li, he did so much, just to be able to pick you back as soon as possible and protect you under his wings, he was really worried about you, if you want to be in danger in the future, you had better think about him more."

Gu Yuanfeng said very sincerely, he knew Su Li, knew that she was always concerned about chaos, once the people she cared about were in danger, she would not hesitate to rush over, but she always forgot what kind of worries and fears those behind her who cared about her and loved her.

Su Li opened her mouth and couldn't say a word of rebuttal.

She remembered that the last time she entered the palace alone, Chu Huai'an waited outside the imperial study for a long time, and she was always angry on the way back.

He cared about her very much, and she shouldn't have acted behind his back like this.

"Mr. Xie's teachings, I will pay attention to it in the future."

Su Li bowed her head and obediently admitted her mistake, she was already a wife and a mother, but she still looked like a well-behaved and obedient student in front of him.

Gu Yuanfeng resisted the urge to rub her head and said calmly: "It's good to know your mistakes, don't do it again in the future, go ahead." ”

"Yes!"

Su Li got out of the carriage in response, stood on the side of the road and watched the carriage leave, then pulled the horse back, and just sent the horse back to the stable and tied it, Qibao ran over in a panic: "Madam, Madame is not good!" The little master fell into the well! ”

……

At the same time, thirty miles on the outskirts of the city, Flying Eagle Mountain.

The cottage on the mountainside has long been dilapidated into ruins, looking around, you can still vaguely see the traces of the original bandits, it is said that the massacre led by Xiaoyao Hou himself was extremely bloody, and the blood of the bandits dyed half of the mountain red.

Gu Bing quietly walked into the mountain bandits' nest, the bandits' nest was built on the mountain, and the lobby was in a huge cave, which was burned, leaving only black ashes.

Gu Ji stepped into the hole, and after taking two steps, he turned around and saw a few footprints on the ground.

No one in the house came.

Gu Jiong came to a conclusion, retreated along the footprints, and stood at the entrance of the cave to look at the surroundings.

Just now he saw that person carrying Yue Yan into here, but now he lost the person.

That man's skills were very good, and he was chased by him for nearly a day and a night carrying Yue Yan.

His hand was always on the saber at his waist, and his whole body was tense, ready to meet the enemy at any time.

He shouldn't have appeared here, yesterday was the big day of Gu Li's marriage, he should have watched Gu Li and Gu Yuanfeng get married, he should have sat at the wedding banquet full of guests, and looked at the scene that Gu Li had dreamed of for many years.

But when he was about to arrive at the Guogong Mansion, he heard Yue Yan's exclamation, and then saw her being taken captive.

Without thinking about it, he immediately followed.

That scene was very similar to the turmoil at the border many years ago, and when he heard that Yue Yan was still saving people outside, he did not hesitate to leave Gu Li to find her.

He felt extremely ironic when he thought about it, but he didn't stop his steps.

He knew very well that Gu Li was no longer there, even if this was a reproduction of the scene, he did not have the original concern and endless regrets.

"Gu Jiong!"

A man's deep voice suddenly came from the cave, and Gu Ji immediately raised his right hand in front of him, pressed the arrow sleeve and shot it in the direction of the sound.

The arrow shot at the wall, stirring up a few sparks, and a scroll stretched out on the wall.

The scroll is not a beautiful and magnificent landscape painting, nor a graceful beauty, but a man with a long beard and a glaive sword.

The man was born tall and strong, and Gu Ji lost an eye at a glance, and his expression was fierce at first glance.

After just one glance, Gu Jiong's eyes narrowed dangerously.

He recognized the man, and he had been blinded by his eye.

When the Gu family was exiled and assassinated on the road, he was abducted by the masked killer, grabbed the killer's face towel during the struggle, saw the killer's face, and inadvertently stabbed the killer in one eye.

Later, he and Gu Li fled to the border pass, Lu Xiao did not allow him to seek revenge, so he never returned to Beijing to seek revenge, but he didn't expect to see the portrait of this person here after many years!

Those people kidnapped Yue Yan just to lure him here to see these things?

After thinking about it for a while, Gu Bing walked into the cave with steps, walked to the portrait step by step, looked at the painting carefully, and after looking at it for a while, Gu Bing raised his hand to take the painting down, but the painting suddenly spontaneously combusted.

Gu Ji subconsciously took a step back, and after the painting was burned, a stone carving of a glaive scimitar appeared on the wall, and a line of small characters was engraved next to the knife: Sun Wu, the big master of Flying Eagle Village.

This man was blind in one eye, and when he came back, he was reduced to a straw bandit.

Judging from the degree of damage to this cottage, this big boss should have died a long time ago.

Gu Ji thought without sadness or joy, drew his sword and slashed at the stone wall, cutting the knife into two pieces.

If this man is still alive, of course he will find this man and break his body into pieces.

After cutting with a sword, there was no other movement in the hole, Gu Ji took a step and wanted to go out, but after walking two steps, he guessed an open floor tile under his feet.

Gu Ji stopped and tapped the ground twice with his scabbard.

The sound is empty, proving that the underground is empty, and there is another mystery.

Gu Bing twisted his eyebrows, inserted the scabbard into the ground with force, squatted slightly, stabilized the lower plate, exerted force in his hand, made a loud noise, and pried open a few floor tiles with the scabbard, revealing a piece of black wood.

There's something underground!

Gu Ji used the same method to pry more than a dozen floor tiles, and two coffins appeared in front of him.

In this kind of place, it is actually a very strange thing to suddenly see two coffins.

Gu Jiong's face did not change, and he raised his foot and kicked over one of the coffins.

There was no hidden weapon in the coffin, Gu Ji glanced inside, and inside was a pair of mother and daughter embracing each other, saying that it was mother and daughter, but it was inferred from the clothes and body shape of the two, the two corpses had been seriously dehydrated and shriveled, like skeletons wrapped in a layer of skin.

After the two died, the palms of their hands were in a bent state of grasping, as if they had tried hard to grasp something before they died, Gu Zhi glanced at the coffin board again, and many scratches could be faintly seen on it.

The mother and daughter were suffocated to death in a coffin!

Gu Ji has seen too many dead people over the years, and the way of death is also strange, the whole person has long been numb, and he has not been touched in any way, and he turned around and kicked open another coffin lid.

The situation of the second coffin is similar to that of the first, both were suffocated alive, but in the second coffin was a middle-aged man, who looked more hideous and had more scratches on the coffin board.

There was nothing of value to discover, Gu Ji was about to leave, and he suddenly caught a glimpse of a silver ornament looming from the corner of the man's waist.

Gu Ji used the scabbard to pull away the clothes on the man's waist, and the thing revealed the whole picture, not an ornament, but a seal.

When I took it over, I saw that the seal was engraved with an intricate pattern, and there was a bell-shaped arc in the bottom corner, which was the mark of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Gu Ji thought about it carefully, and remembered that the seal pattern was exclusive to Jing Zhaoyin.

Judging from the degree of decay of the coffin and the degree of decay of the corpse, this person has been dead for at least three or four years, Gu Ji also saw Jing Zhaoyin alive some time ago, and the person who died was not the current Jingzhao Yin Lin Zheng, it was very likely to be the predecessor Jing Zhaoyin.

Gu Ji vaguely remembered that his predecessor Jing Zhaoyin's surname was Zhang, because his second son Zhang Ling was dismissed and exiled because he participated in the Anjia rebellion, he should have left Beijing a long time ago, how could he die in this place?

Gu Ji looked at the seal and thought, and Yue Yan's face suddenly flashed in his mind.

Did the people who had kidnapped Yue Yan and come here also want to suffocate her to death in the same way?

Gu Ji's eyelids jumped suddenly, and his gaze quickly swept around the hole, this hole was very big, at his current speed, it would take at least a day to pry all the floor tiles and uncover all the coffins to find Yue Yan, and it would only take two hours for a nailed coffin to suffocate a person.

No! Wrong!

Gu Ji frowned fiercely, he had been chasing after the person who had kidnapped Yue Yan, the time before and after was no more than a quarter of an hour, that person couldn't have buried Yue Yan so quickly, Yue Yan was not here, that person brought him here just to delay time!

Gu Ji immediately rushed out of the cave, and as far as he could see, except for the ruins left by the cottage, only a lush tree remained.

Where is it?

Where will that person bury her?

It's just a cave, he can't be sure that he can find her in two hours, and how can he find a huge Flying Eagle Mountain?

Gu Ji grabbed the sword in his hand, and a sharp stinging pain flashed in his heart.

Since Gu Li's death, he hasn't had such mood swings for a long, long time.

……

When Yue Yan woke up, there was only darkness in front of her, she remembered that she left the palace early in the morning to go to the Guogong Mansion to attend the wedding of Gu Li and Lu Ji, and the carriage was suddenly stopped halfway, and an old man suddenly fell ill.

She got out of the car to help the old man check his pulse, but somehow the back of her neck suddenly stabbed, and her consciousness fell into a dark depression.

"Anyone?"

Yue Yan asked loudly, but no one responded to her, she braced her body and wanted to sit up, but her head hit a hard wooden board.

That time it was so hard that it hurt so much that Yue Yan's eyes were full of stars, she rubbed her head and slowed down for a while, not daring to move casually anymore, and carefully touched the surrounding environment with her hands.

After touching it for a while, a layer of cold sweat soaked out of Yue Yan's back, and she found that she seemed to be in a long square box, which was made of solid wood, like a ...... A coffin!

How could she be in a coffin? Who put her in this?

Yue Yan was a little panicked, and kept slapping the wooden board to call for help, but the lid had already been nailed shut, and no one responded to her, and there was no light.

I don't know how long it took, Yue Yan was exhausted, she lay there with no strength, breathing a little fast, and faintly felt that her breathing was a little unsmooth.

A great uneasiness hit, and my heart beat faster and faster.

Yue Yan wasn't sure if he had been buried alive in a coffin.

After the coffin is nailed, it is not very breathable, and if the soil is buried again, I am afraid that it will definitely die.

Yue Yan never thought that she would die in such a way, she had saved countless people's lives in her life, and the only thing she owed was Gu Jiong, so she couldn't think of anyone who wanted to harm her life.

Of course, she can't think about it at this time.

If you really want to die, you have to leave something behind.

Yue Yan thought in his heart, raised his hand and bit his right index finger.

She couldn't see anything, so she could only fumble and write on the wooden board above her head.

Gu Jiong, I'm going to die.

Writing these seven words with difficulty, Yue Yan felt that she had difficulty breathing, and a large white explode exploded in her head, and she remembered the first time she met Gu Ji many years ago.

She was only eight years old at the time, and she followed her grandfather like a fart, and it was a sunny day, and her grandfather told her that General Lu had picked up a pair of siblings and came back.

She ran for joy, and as soon as she lifted the curtain, she saw a young man sitting on the bed with a bandage.

His face was gloomy, and there was a lifeless dark cloud under his eyes, which frightened her to the ground.

Later, her grandfather was captured by Hu Sheng and hung on the city wall, and she was able to experience the same despair and pain as him.

Now, the despair found her again in the small coffin.

Uncontrollably overflowing tears from the corners of his eyes, Yue Yan wrapped his hands and wrote a sentence on the wooden board: Gu Jiong, what should I do, I seem to like you as much as I did at the beginning.