The next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Yunlan got up to feed the horses, and wanted to go out to find a few wild fruits nearby to satisfy her hunger, but she was afraid that Gu Jiang would leave her sight and something would go wrong at that time, so she had to wake Gu Jiang up.

The little girl was still dazed, her eyes were swollen, her face was blue, and she wanted to sleep very much but had insomnia.

Finally, the little girl got on the horse, and you have to be careful that the little girl falls off the horse because she is too sleepy. I also wanted to keep an eye out for wild fruits or places where I could get water along the way, so the speed of walking was greatly slowed down.

This speed made Yun Lan very anxious, and she always felt that the pursuers were behind her. But looking back, it seems to be quiet again.

About an hour passed, and Yun Lan felt that the little girl was not shaking so much, and she must have gradually sobered up. So he slowed down a little more, leaned back and asked, "Are you hungry?" ”

Although Gu Jiang was a little sober, he hadn't ridden a horse for a long time, and he was a little dizzy from being bumped by the horse.

"Hmm... It's okay, it's just uncomfortable. ”

"We still have a long way to go, at least to a town so that it is not easy to be traced, but we haven't even reached a fork in the road yet."

"Does Aunt Lan want to go to Qingcheng County to rest?"

"That's right"

"But Qingcheng County doesn't seem to be very far from the capital, won't it be dangerous?"

"But to go to Qingcheng County, you have to go through three forks, and the rest of the forks lead to more prosperous places, which is enough to make the pursuers not know where to start chasing, and there is only this one, which is the closest to where we are going."

"That's... Aunt Lan, let the horses run faster, I can bear it, and then talk about it after the first fork in the road. ”

Although Yunlan felt sorry for the little girl, she had to guard against the pursuers, so she sped up.

An hour after the acceleration, they crossed the first fork in the road. They also picked some fruit on the way, and after a short rest, they continued on their way.

Originally, Gu Jiang was born in a martial arts family, and when he was young, his father taught him the art of riding and archery. It was only later that my father went to the border and left them all behind. Now that I've been riding for a long time, I'm slowly getting used to it.

After the speed was raised again, about half an hour, the two of them crossed the second fork in the road.

At this time, both of them were really tired, and they happened to see a small river in front of them, so they thought of going down and filling the water bladder and drinking some water, so that the horses could rest and rest.

Yun Lan hugged Gu Jiang down, holding Gu Jiang with one hand and the horse with the other. Slowly descending from the gravel slope towards the creek.

Halfway through, the two of them heard the sound of many horses' hooves from far and near, which did not belong to them.

The two looked at each other, their eyes widened, Gu Jiang was young, and he was already stunned in place.

Because this is a small sloping stone slope, they are below, Yunlan thought that maybe they couldn't see it, so she pulled the child to get on the horse immediately and ran downstream along the river, maybe there would be a glimmer of life.

However, this small rocky slope has poor soil and sparse vegetation, and it is impossible to see it at all.

But what was good for him was that the horse had traveled a long way, and he was already thirsty, and when he saw that the river was close in front of him, but he did not let him drink it, he was very depressed, so he let out a long howl to show his dissatisfaction.

This was a good call, and the pursuers locked on the two of them, and they all surrounded the river.

"The two of you are so Yaxing, the scenery by the lake is pleasant, presumably the two of you are reluctant to go"

The leader of a meaty-faced Praetorian Guard teased.

Gu Jiang unconsciously slowly retreated, and his feet were about to step on the water before he had to stop. Yun Lan protected Gu Jiang behind her and looked at the pursuers vigilantly.

"This aunt really doesn't know how to be polite, how could the eldest lady raised by Jin Zun and Yugui be brought out by you for a while, and she is already unkempt."

"You ...... Don't you even want to let go of a child? ”

In despair, Yun Lan almost roared and said this.

"This aunt is serious, we are asking Miss Gu to go back, I have spoken, I must take Miss back well, Miss has just lost her family, and the palace feels sorry for you!"

At this time, Gu Jiang leaned out from behind Yun Lan

"Although I am young, I am not a fool, Aunt Lan said, it was you who killed my family."

"Hahahahaha ”

After saying that, with a wave of his hand, two archers immediately aimed at them, "What?" Not sure how fast to please? ”

Yun Lan glanced at the leader fiercely, pulled Gu Jiang, led the horse again, and slowly approached them.

"Aunt! I don't want to go! Why listen to them? They'll kill us later! ”

Yun Lan was afraid that Gu Jiang would struggle and let the pursuers hurt her, so she hurriedly made a silent gesture, "Be obedient, follow Auntie." ”

When the two of them got close to the pursuers, and the leader wanted to take Gu Jiang over, Yun Lan's right hand moved, and two silver needles flew towards the two archers.

The two immediately fell to the ground. Yun Lan quickly pulled Gu Jiang on the horse and galloped forward.

Unexpectedly, two more archers rushed out from behind the leader, and immediately drew their bows and aimed.

"Keep that little !!"

With a shout, the two wind-piercing arrows rushed out quickly and pierced deep into Yun Lan's back.

Yun Lan's back was like two axes, and she was about to roll off the horse, but she still hugged Gu Jiang tightly.

Yunlan turned over, her back to the ground, holding a ten-year-old child, plus her own weight. The two arrows pierced deeper, piercing the heart directly.

Gu Jiang struggled to his feet, looking at Aunt Lan's horrific wounds on her body, as well as the blood foam gushing from the corners of her mouth. She shook Yunlan desperately

"Aunt! Maternal aunt! Arise, arise! Let's go with him! Go back with him! Let's go back and be buried with my mother. ”

Yun Lan just smiled, raised her eyes, touched Gu Jiang's face with great effort, and kept coughing, but she didn't say anything in the end, and slowly lost her breath.

In just one day and one night, Gu Jiang has lost several relatives. She couldn't believe that what was happening in front of her was real.

If it weren't for Aunt Lan's blood staining her hands, she would feel that this was another nightmare.

But this nightmare has reached the most terrifying place, and his mother can no longer comfort himself.

The team, the twenty or so Praetorian Guards, were waiting there to take her back.

"Little Miss, don't hesitate. Come back with us, and Your Majesty will not treat you badly. ”

The leader saw that Yun Lan was dead, and this Miss Gu would definitely not be able to escape. The tone is also very proud.

In Gu Jiang's previous education, she had never seen such a shameless thing that was unreasonable and shameless. However, she was still young and lacked speech, so she could only cry at Yun Lan's gradually cold body.

"Go, go, bring the man."

The two Praetorian Guards listened to the order and were going down to pull Gu Jiang off Yunlan's side.

The two of them just approached Gu Jiang and tugged. The two men fell suddenly

Gu Jiang hurriedly stepped back, staring blankly at the two people who were bleeding on the ground, the leader panicked all of a sudden, he naturally knew that Gu Jiang's little girl was not enough to kill these two soldiers with one blow, could it be that there were still masters lurking around them?

He looked left and right for a moment, then waved his hand majestically, suppressing his trill

"Can't even take a little girl? Give it to me again! ”

Four more Praetorian Guards surrounded him, and this time before they reached Gu Jiang's side, these four people twisted and fell.

At this moment, this group of people was completely panicked, and a few of them who were usually well-trained knew to quickly dismount and hide themselves. And a few of the young pawns ran backwards. After only a few steps of running, his face was rubbing against the loess, and blood fell into the sand. All of a sudden, twenty people were half less.

Gu Jiang slowly stepped back and looked around. And the leader completely lost his cool:

"Who!? We are royal people! You dare to move the royal people, don't die? Get out of here! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a figure swept out of the trees on the hillside:

"I don't care if you are royal or green, but from now on you will have to be a piece of loess, and this place is home."

The leader tried to command the archers, but when he turned his head, he saw that one of the archers was dead. When he saw that the momentum was not good, he quickly bent down on the horse's back and fled for his life.

But the man's wrist moved slightly, and a dozen sleeve arrows were fired from his sleeve. The rest of the people also died on the spot.

No matter how ignorant Gu Jiang was, she also knew at this moment that this person was a good person who saved her life. She relaxed slightly, and she looked at the man in a daze.

In Gu Jiang's eyes at this time, this person is a handsome and majestic big brother, of course, Cen Li is a crucial existence in her later life.

But at this moment, Gu Jiang just stared at her blankly.

"Who are you?"

"Little sister, don't care who I am, I don't know who you are, but I know we have to leave here now, if another group of people comes, I won't be able to beat you."

Although Cen Li said this, Gu Jiang looked up at his smiling face. She felt that even if there was another group of people, he would still be able to fight.

Looking at Cen Li's face, she had a deep understanding of the word gentle as jade for the first time. His childish tone and soft eyes were different from his brother's uninhibited outrage. This man is self-contained and gentle.

Of course, she didn't have so many ideas at that time. That's all for later. But after so many changes, she didn't have the slightest vigilance in the face of this person who had just met holding her hand and trying to take her away.

After Cen Li pulled her to a hidden hillside, he took out a horse and carefully put Gu Jiang on the horse. He turned over his horse cleanly and began to gallop forward.

Gu Jiang grabbed the reins with one hand, and gently held Cen Li's wrist with the other hand and turned back. She saw that Aunt Lan was still lying on the ground alone, she had no mother, and her brother had no news, so she recognized Aunt Lan, but only one night later, Aunt Lan also died. Suddenly, she thought of the grandfather that Aunt Lan said, and she suddenly grabbed Cen Li's wrist:

"This big brother, I... I'm going back. “

"You want to go back? Where to go back? Do you know those people are going to arrest you? “

"That. . . The person who was lying there was my Aunt Lan, and she told me that I had my grandfather, and that I was far away, and I, I wanted to go to my grandfather. “

Although Gu Jiang was a little confused about what he said, he quickly understood that Gu Jiang actually wanted to go back and rummage through that Aunt Lan's package.

"Are you going to go to that package to find a token clue or something?

Gu Jiang lowered his head but didn't know what to say, just nodded slightly.

This Cen Li frowned, thought about it for a while, and then turned around neatly. Although Gu Jiang wanted to rummage through the package, she vaguely knew that it was extremely dangerous to go back, and when she was struggling with each other, she was still a little surprised to see him turn around so decisively.

After running to that mess, Gu Jiang was hugged down, and she immediately pounced on Aunt Lan. Touching Aunt Lan's face and crying. So Cen Li helped her open Aunt Lan's package, rummaged left and right, and poured out almost everything in the package, but except for some clothes and broken silver, there was nothing special.

"Little sister, there's nothing in this, I think we'd better hurry up."

Gu Jiang wiped her tears and restrained her sadness and slowly walked towards the horse, but when she heard that there was nothing in the package, she was still worried in her heart.

"I haven't met my grandfather, so... So if there is no Aunt Lan, I. . . I can't find my grandfather either. ”

Cen Li was about to comfort Gu Jiang for a few words, when suddenly the sound of horses came from the direction they had just returned. As soon as Cen Li heard the movement, he quickly threw off his horse and pulled Gu Jiang Fei into the grass.

In the hidden grass, the two saw a group of about fifty men chasing a man on horseback, dressed in armor, but disheveled and bloodstained. However, the man's horse also looked scarred and exhausted. The group quickly surrounded the man. And this group of people was only seventy or eighty steps away from Gu Jiang and them.

When Gu Jiang saw their group of people clearly, she almost screamed. The person who was chased and now surrounded by groups is the father she thinks about day and night!

It's Daddy! Daddy came back to her and came back to save her! She had a sense of ecstasy of being lost and regained, but also a great fear of the danger of the present situation. Under the interweaving of the two emotions, her mind is now a mess. She was even about to break free from Cen Li's embrace and rush out to call Daddy.

Feeling Gu Jiang's emotion, Cen Li quickly hugged Gu Jiang tightly:

"Little sister, what are you doing? Going out at this time, isn't it sending you to death? “

Gu Jiang suppressed his excitement and lowered his voice, "That, it's my father, my father!" I'm going out. ”

Hearing Gu Jiang's words, Cen Li was very surprised, but he hugged Gu Jiang tighter, "Then you can't go, look at their momentum, they want to kill your whole family, can it be useful for you to go out as a little girl at this time?" And these people look like there are forty or fifty of them. I can't beat it either. ”

As the two spoke, the encirclement shrank smaller and smaller. Watching those people approaching his father step by step, Gu Jiang's whole body was trembling, and tears were about to gush out, even if that scene had not yet appeared in front of him, but yesterday his mother died in front of him, and today Aunt Lan died in front of him.

She seemed to have anticipated what might happen next, she desperately denied it in her heart, Daddy is the most powerful general, those bad guys are afraid of Daddy, Dad said that Dad repelled a lot of bad people on the border, and he is still a great hero who assisted His Majesty to ascend the throne. How could it be easily defeated by these dozens of little minions?

However, at this time, General Gu had actually been chased all the way, he didn't know how long he resisted, how many pursuers he had killed, he just wanted to rush to the capital, and wanted to save his wife and children.

But now he was covered in wounds, and he was already at the end of his crossbow. He knew that he was already in this field, and his wife and children might have been murdered. He was disillusioned. Gu Jiang didn't know this, she just widened her eyes that were already full of tears, and she saw that the sharp red tassel spear pierced her father's chest. At the moment when Daddy fell off the horse, she felt the big brother behind her cover her mouth hard, and when the group of people stepped over Daddy's body while riding a horse and stabbed Daddy with a spear, the big brother behind her grabbed her body and wanted to rush out.

It all went smoothly and didn't take much time. But in Gu Jiang's eyes, it was like a hundred years and a thousand years, like she was in the grass, waiting for the sky to collapse for so long.

When the figures of those people completely disappeared from their sight, Gu Jiang pounced on them like an agile kingfisher. "Daddy!" A loud cry, trembling, heartbreaking. So much so that when Cen Li recalled this scene later, the voice was still lingering in his ears, making him marvel at how a ten-year-old girl could make such a poignant sound.

General Gu was already dying, but when he heard this cry, he glanced at the precious daughter he was thinking about day and night. He sat up like a carp. "Jiang'er? How did you? What about your brother and mother? ”

"Both... It's gone.,It's all gone.,Mother in front of me.,With her favorite hairpin.,Mother heard that you want to come back and bring the one for you.。。。 ”

"Okay, dad knows, don't be afraid, tell dad, who brought you out?"

"Aunt Lan, she said that she was her own sister. She was lying not far away, and she ......"

"Yun Lan also? Alas, that's it."

As he spoke, he looked at the brother who saved people

"Him?"

"Dad, it was this brother who saved me from the group of people who killed Aunt Lan."

"It turns out ... It turned out to be Eun Gong."

Cen Li listened and quickly walked towards General Gu

"I have heard of General Gu's prestige for a long time, and my father often says that he wants to get acquainted with you, but I never thought that I would meet you in such a situation, by the way, my name is Cen Li, and my father is the master of Qingzun Pavilion."

General Gu was already extremely weak at this time, but when he heard this, he actually let out a hearty laugh, "Okay, the sky has not killed my Gu family!" After saying that, he took out a bloodstained chain from his bosom.

"Jiang'er, your Aunt Lan must have told you everything, you will carry this with you in the future, and when you grow up in the future, remember to find your grandfather, your mother's mother's family."

"Daddy! What do you say, you and I should go to find my grandfather together, raise it, and we will take revenge together, okay? ”

General Gu just smiled slightly, and at this time, the corners of his mouth were already oozing blood. He looked at Cen Li

"Young Pavilion Master, I didn't expect that when my Gu clan encountered such a difficulty, the little girl would actually meet the Young Pavilion Master to help, I have long wanted to get acquainted with your father, but now I can only wait for the next life. Please take in the little girl and don't let her get up the idea of revenge too early, if the little girl is fortunate enough to grow up under the protection of your father, I guarantee that the Qingzun Pavilion will be endless, and no one can shake it. ”

Cen Li was shocked in his heart, but he still quickly replied, "General, I have already had this intention, if it weren't for my little sister wanting to come back and find clues about her grandfather in her aunt, I would have taken her to the pavilion long ago."

"Dad, what do you say, if you leave me, I will go with you to see my mother, I will never live alone."

General Gu smiled and touched Gu Jiang's head

"Be good, don't say stupid things, grow up well, don't always think about revenge, Dad is watching you in the sky and will always miss you. Bless you."

Gu Jiang listened to the word heaven, knowing that things were irreparable, his pupils had already shrunk, and sincere sadness surged out of his heart. Looking at my father's gradually cold body, the chaotic blood stains on his clothes, and the falling bloody sunset, he finally fainted in a violent sob.

Cen Li quickly caught Gu Jiang, took off her two shoes and threw them into the river, pulled General Gu's bracers and put them in his arms, then put Gu Jiang on the horse and rode away.

At the end of the year, on Chinese New Year's Eve, singing and dancing in the palace are leveled. Although great changes have taken place in the palace and outside the palace, it still does not prevent those who should have fun from having fun.

In the palace of Zhaojian for ten years, several decrees were issued to the world

Concubine Yi died, and her son Wei Yayu was sentenced to exile and never returned to Beijing

General Gu Zhaochong, attempted rebellion, the whole family beheaded, the eldest son Gu Qiang messed up the palace, and Ling Chi was executed. The rest of the family was sold into slavery

About, in the eyes of the world, the traitors were all removed, and all the filth was melted away in the New Year's snow.

Of course, just as people are afraid of death, for the Praetorian Guard, the little lady who has not seen the corpse of the Gu family, and Wei Yayu, who escaped on the way to exile, will no longer be mentioned.