After Xiao Zhuzi screamed, he realized that he seemed to be overreacting, and when he looked up, he found that Zhao Gu was looking at her with interest, as if he was looking at a plate of delicious food, which frightened her into screaming again. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhao Gu couldn't help but feel funny, grabbed it through the void with his right hand, and the little bamboo immediately jumped away, as if he was afraid that Zhao Gu would chase after him.

Just as Xiaozhu was panicking, and Zhao Gu was smiling evilly, a maid's voice came from outside the door.

"Miss, the master said that please ask Marquis Zhao to talk about it."

"Got it."

Xiao Zhuzi breathed a sigh of relief, and then glared at Zhao Gu, as if to say that you don't go soon, your father-in-law is looking for you.

Zhao Gu smiled, stretched out his right hand, and made a gesture to grab the little bamboo again, so frightened that the little bamboo hurriedly ran away.

Zhao Gu laughed at this, opened the door and left directly.

Out of the gate, the smile on the corner of Zhao Gu's mouth still did not dissipate, he put his hand under his nose and smelled it, and suddenly felt a burst of fragrance entering his nose, which made people feel uplifted.

Zhao Gu smiled again, and ...... You still want to fight with me.

When Zhao Gu saw Zhao Pu again, he was trembling and watering the tree, and Zhao Gu watched from the sidelines, without the slightest intention of stepping forward to help.

After finally watering a few potted plants, Zhao Pu's head was already sweating, and Zhao Pu sighed: "Old man." ”

I don't know why, hearing his exclamation, Zhao Gu suddenly felt a little panicked in his heart, if a great talent like Zhao Pu can never grow old and die, I don't know how many miracles will happen in this world.

The twilight of the hero, the white-headed beauty, these two most embarrassing things in the world, I don't know how many people are sad.

Only then did Zhao Pu ask, "Say, what's the matter with finding the old man." ”

Zhao Gu said: "I'm about to go on the expedition, and I'm not sure." ”

Zhao Pu was picking up the teacup and preparing to drink water, when he suddenly heard this, he choked and coughed, as if he didn't expect Zhao Gu to say this.

The beautiful maid on the side immediately stepped forward and patted Zhao Pu on the back, so after a while, he got better.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Pu suddenly laughed, and then waved the maid away, and said, "Are you wondering, why does the old man have to think of a way to go on the Northern Expedition, and why do you have to go with the army?" ”

"No, I'm just wondering, why did you choose me?" Zhao Gu said.

Zhao Pu was stunned: "You mean that you don't have any doubts about these things I asked you to do?" ”

"For the country and the people, what's suspicious?" Zhao Gu asked rhetorically.

"A good one for the country and the people." Zhao Pu praised: "I didn't expect that the old man had lived for decades, and when he was about to die, he could be regarded as meeting my bosom friend." ”

Zhao Gu smiled: "Even if you are a bosom friend, then please tell me truthfully, there are so many young talents in the Great Song Dynasty, why are you so ...... to me Good graces? ”

Zhao Gu wanted to say why you are so unrelenting to me, pit again and again, but thinking that Zhao Pu was old after all and didn't have a few years to live, he finally changed his mind.

Zhao Pu sighed slowly, raised his head and didn't know what he was thinking, just kept staring at an unknown bird carved on the beam.

After a long time, he got up and said to Zhao Gu, "You come with me." ”

Half an hour later, in the most central courtyard of Zhao Pu's mansion, Zhao Pu took Zhao Gu into it.

As soon as he entered, Zhao Gu immediately noticed that this place was unusual.

If you look closely, you can see that the doors and windows here are all made of cast iron, and even the ground is covered with a thick layer of iron plates, so when people walk on them, they only feel that their whole feet are cold.

Walking further in, I saw that this is not too big in the courtyard, three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, the defense is extremely strict, and there are often guards patrolling each passage, in the shadow of the invisible corner, Zhao Gu even saw several crossbow arrows, presumably after that, there must be many guards secretly holding crossbows.

Passing through the courtyard, Zhao Pu took Zhao Gu into the only attic in the courtyard, but there were no guards in this attic, some were just deaf people who couldn't hear the sound, they didn't notice that Zhao Gu and the two came in, and they were still busy with their own affairs.

Zhao Gu was even more keenly observed, these people seemed to have suffered some kind of injury to their throats, and all of them had a long scar, and Zhao Gu had reason to believe that these people might have also lost the ability to speak.

After they saw Zhao Pu, they only gave a slight salute, and then they went to their own hands again, and did not speak from beginning to end, and Zhao Pu did not react to their salute as if he did not see them.

Taking advantage of Zhao Pu's lack of attention, Zhao Gu secretly glanced at the things in the hands of these people, to be precise, secretly looking at what they were recording.

From the moment he first entered the attic, Zhao Gu found that these people seemed to be copying something, while some deaf and mute people were responsible for sorting the copied things and putting them into the large and small lattices on the wall.

After looking closely, Zhao Gu's gaze finally swept to what one of the deaf and mute people was writing - on the sixth day of the lunar month, Xuzhou Zhizhou took a concubine, had a hangover, and woke up at noon on the second day.

Zhao Gu was shocked, it turned out that this was Zhao Pu's intelligence collection room, no wonder all the people here were deaf and mute, Zhao Pu must have prevented them from leaking out the information here.

In fact, everyone knows that there is such an institution under Zhao Pu, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty know that this institution is the machine that the emperor secretly supervises the hundred officials and the people of the world, but everyone pretends not to know.

And Zhao Gu himself has already been in contact with the insiders of this machine, and that person is the woman in black who provided information to Zhao Gu when Tiger Mountain suppressed bandits.

If it weren't for the information of the woman in black, Zhao Gu would not have known about the feud between the head catcher and Zhou Fatzi, let alone the suppression of the Tiger Mountain bandits so quickly.

This shows how important it is to have a good intelligence system.

In other words, how terrible Zhao Pu must be with this intelligence system.

After a quick look at this information about Xuzhou Zhizhou, Zhao Gu quickly withdrew his eyes, and Zhao Pu didn't seem to notice it, and still walked forward with Zhao Gu.

Eventually, the two of them came to the second floor of the attic, which was basically similar to the first floor, with a group of deaf and mute people busy and a lattice hanging on the walls.

The difference is that there are not many deaf people here, and there are relatively few lattices on the walls, but they are larger.

His eyes roughly swept over the second floor, and Zhao Gu soon saw an acquaintance.

I saw that among the deaf and dumb people, there was a woman in black who was the one who sent information to Zhao Gu when Tiger Mountain suppressed bandits.

Zhao Gu vaguely remembered that she seemed to be Zhao Gu's righteous daughter.