Gu Xi's team rushed into the city gate and went straight to the imperial city.

Outside the Xuande Gate, Gu Xi got off the horse, rushed straight in, and halfway through, a small chamberlain was hurrying, coming head-on, and there were still seven or eight steps away, and the little chamberlain raised his voice to preach:

"Your Majesty's message: Brother Xi will come to the Chuifu Palace to meet you."

Gu Xi paused, bowed his body, crossed the little chamberlain, and continued to walk forward quickly.

In the east chamber of the Chuifu Palace, the emperor was half-lying and half-sitting on the couch under the south window, and when he saw Gu Xi coming in, he straightened up, "Are you injured?" How's it hurting? Come and let me see! ”

"Yes." Gu Xi kowtowed in a proper manner, approached the couch, and knelt half-way, "I was seriously injured in Jiangdu City, and I haven't fully recovered until now, so that when I was ambushed in Beidong County, I was injured again, which made the emperor worried." ”

The emperor reached out and pulled up the collar of Gu Xi's robe.

On the back of the bandage, on the snow-white muslin gauze, there was a long blood stain oozing out.

The emperor gently put down his robe, looked at Gu Xi and asked:

"What's going on in Jiangdu City? Are you from Nanliang? ”

"The minister thinks it's not all from Nanliang, and the minister is already investigating." Gu Xi lowered his eyes and said.

"In Beidong County, there are heavy archers?" The emperor frowned.

"Yes, there is more than one, they are all good hands in a thousand, please ask the emperor to investigate this matter thoroughly."

Gu Xi looked up at the emperor.

The emperor's face was solemn and gloomy, "Well, this is a big deal."

You go back first, take a good rest, and hand over the affairs of Jiangdu City and Beidong County in detail, and fold it secretly, the matter involves the spy report of Nanliang, and it is not appropriate to make a noise. ”

"Yes." Gu Xi responded, stood up, retreated to the door of the hall, and turned to go out.

The emperor looked at Gu Xi's back, and his face became even more gloomy.

……………………

Gu Xi came out of the forbidden and walked along the East and West Streets, straight into the Ming'an Palace next to the Chenhui Gate.

Ming'an Palace is the residence of the emperor's eldest son, Gu Jin.

Gu Xi took a few steps up the steps, and saw Gu Jin in a wheelchair.

When Gu Jin saw him, he breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "You're back, you've lost a lot of weight." ”

"Well, the Great Tribulation is back! The eldest brother has a bad complexion. ”

Gu Xi rushed to Gu Jin's side in a few steps, looked at Gu Jin carefully, turned around, and pushed Gu Jin inside.

"I haven't slept well these days, I don't know if you'll be able to come back."

Gu Jin's tone was slow and deep.

"I'm back." After a pause, Gu Xi's voice fell: "In Jiangdu City, I was poisoned and lost all my skills. ”

Gu Jin's face changed, and he looked at Gu Xi with a shocked expression.

Gu Xi met his gaze, pursed his lips tightly, and nodded.

The Wen Gong that he has practiced since he was a child, before Dacheng, there were a few flavors of medicine that could not be touched, and if he ate it, he would lose all his strength, and he would have no strength, and it would be half a month faster, and it would be slow, and it would take more than a month to slowly recover his strength.

Very few people know about this weakness of Wen's exercises, and the few people who know about it are his closest relatives.

"After crossing the river, when I landed at Jiangning City, Jiangning City was strictly investigating the few Jianghu people who escorted me across the river, saying that they were Jiangyang thieves who killed people without blinking, and as long as they saw it, they would be killed."

Gu Xi continued.

Gu Jin leaned back in his chair and didn't speak.

Shao Mingren, the guard of Jiangning City, was born under the Yongping Marquis Mansion.

"The day before I arrived in Beidong County, the ship was buying supplies at Suijiaji Wharf, and I stood at the bow of the boat for a while, I should have been seen at that time, followed all the way, and started that night."

Gu Xi continued.

"On every pier from Jiangning City, there should be someone staring. Along the way, you have only come out at Suijiaji Wharf? ”

Gu Jin frowned and asked.

"Hmm."

Gu Xi snorted, pushed Gu Jin to the couch in the hall, bent down to pick up Gu Jin, and put him on the couch.

Gu Jin looked at Gu Xi: "The emperor thought about splitting Prince Rui's Mansion, and told me about it, and also mentioned it to you, right?" ”

"Hmm." Gu Ling lowered his eyelids.

"The emperor has the emperor's considerations, you are both a Wen family and Prince Rui's mansion, you are too high and powerful, and he thinks that you have a violent temperament, I am afraid that if there is something out of control, it will harm you."

"What does Big Brother mean?" Gu Xi looked at Gu Jin.

"I'm not very in favor of it."

Gu Jin met Gu Xi's gaze.

"The emperor's split is to reduce Prince Rui's mansion to two hereditary county palaces.

If another hereditary county king is handed over to your two younger brothers, it is equivalent to being handed over to the Shen family.

The second child is soft and glutinous, too affectionate, he is extremely close to the Yongning Hou Mansion and the Shen family, after all, it is his foreign family.

The Marquis of Yongning and the Shen clan are ambitious, but they are not smart enough, and if they are too powerful, they will be the real disaster.

Thou hast a fierce temper, but thou hast understood wisely.

I don't think it's anything to be fierce, stupidity is the most terrible. ”

"There's no more Wen." Gu Xi sighed.

"You're here, Wen is here. There is a martial army in Southern Liang, and Northern Qi cannot do without the Wen family, and in the future, you must choose one from your heirs to inherit the Wen family.

This is what the emperor promised the Wen family at the beginning. ”

Gu Jin patted Gu Xi lightly and changed the subject:

"Is your accident in Jiangdu City related to Nanliang?"

"I don't think so, even if there is, Nanliang is being used."

Gu Xi's words paused, and his face showed a hint of shame.

"The day after I arrived in Jiangdu City, I went to see the deputy envoy of the espionage, he took a copy of the Jiangdu City Defense Map to me, saying that he had just gotten it, I was too happy, I patronized the map, lost my vigilance, drank a bowl of tea he handed me, drank two sips, and felt that it was too late.

I fought with the last of my strength to kill the deputy envoy, and he also injured my abdomen and thigh, and when I struggled out, the people who stayed outside to answer were gone, and the city rode out in all directions, saying that someone broke into the marshal's mansion and stole the city defense map.

The medicine I was taboo must have been given to the deputy spy envoy by someone close to me, and this person must have been in the mission, at that time, I had no power to protect myself, and I did not dare to return to the post station, let alone contact the local spy again.

Fortunately, it was near Zhao Mingcai's inn, so I fled into the inn.

The search in the city was extremely tight, and Zhao Mingcai immediately went to find the boss of the local night incense shop, who was a girl, surnamed Li, Li Sangrou. ”

Gu Xi looked at Gu Jin, who was listening, and explained.

"Originally, Miss Li was only willing to send me to Jiangning City, and hired a boat for me to go north in Jiangning City, I thought that Miss Li sent me out of the city without knowing it......

Gu Xi's words paused, and his throat choked slightly.

"At that time, Zhao Mingcai couldn't drag me alone, so he called his wife and brother to help, and was reported by his wife and brother, probably because he was afraid that he would not be able to endure the punishment, and when he saw the officers and soldiers coming to the door, Zhao Mingcai hit his head on the corner of the counter and died on the spot.

But General Wu still found out that Yexiangxing, Miss Li's foundation property in Jiangdu City, was destroyed.

Miss Li couldn't go back to Jiangdu City, so she agreed to escort me to Jianle City and guarantee 100,000 yuan. ”

"Being able to send you back so quickly, and only being in danger in Beidong County, this Miss Li is not simple."

Gu Jin exhaled softly and said with a hint of admiration.

"It's not easy, I can't see through her.

In the past month on the road, before she made a move in Beidong County, she cooked and washed every day, and when she was free, she read books with melon seeds, and she read geographical chronicles, travelogues, etc., and she looked like a very ordinary woman.

When she shot in Beidong County, she was ruthless and tricky, and she was extremely accurate in anticipating the enemy.

She is very good at kung fu and is a killer.

Also, her daily worship is simple but not ugly, she knows the rhythm of music, understands poetry, is very stylish, should be from an extraordinary background, I have asked a few times, she avoided answering.

Her three men regarded her as a god. ”

"Could it be someone from Nanliang?" Gu Jin frowned when he heard this.

"I don't think so." Gu Xi replied quickly and affirmatively. "She plans to live in Jianle City for a long time, and I asked Shouzhen to stare at her for a while."

"Well, that's the best, just in case, and second, in case those people plant a sham on them. How's your injury? Have you recovered your strength? ”

"Before I arrived in Beidong County, my strength was restored, otherwise, I wouldn't have survived the robbery in Beidong County.

In Beidong County, he was slashed in the back again, and he had to be raised for a while. ”

Gu Xi raised his arms, and the two arms he raised slightly higher were in unbearable pain.

"Go back and rest. Remember, don't be willful, we've all grown up. Daddy has a saying that is right, to do things, is one step back, two steps forward. ”

Gu Jin looked at the wisp of pain on Gu Xi's face distressedly, and confessed.

"Well, I'll go back first, big brother, sleep well, your face is very bad."

Gu Xi stood up and first called the waiter to come in before withdrawing.