Chapter 211: Shocking

Out of the New Year, the smell of the New Year on the street gradually dissipated, the weather was still cold, and the passers-by shrank their heads and wrapped their cotton clothes tightly.

A group of men and horses dressed as guards galloped through the streets, causing a commotion.

Lingbao and two girls of the same age hid out from under the eaves, and while sorting out the heavy medicine bags in their hands, they looked curiously in the direction where the group of people had gone.

"There have been soldiers on the streets these days, are there any more wars?" No mistakes, no word skipping. The two girls asked.

Lingbao didn't hear their words, her eyes were still on the place where the pair had gone, and there was a hint of worry between her eyebrows.

Just now, she faintly saw that among the group of people, there seemed to be a figure of Ling Yuan.

But isn't my brother in the Criminal Department? She shook her head, and denied her guess, maybe she hadn't seen her brother since that day, because she missed her brother too much.

"Lingbao, Lingbao." The girl who was traveling with her beckoned, "Let's go...."

Lingbao came back to his senses and nodded, saddled the medicine bag on his shoulder, and quickened his pace to keep up with them.

After the group left the city, they did not stop all the way, and soon arrived at a county seat under the rule of the capital, although it was a small county seat, but they were stopped at the city gate.

People who often enter and exit this city gate will notice if they have the heart, these days the small county town has been much more heavily guarded, and there are more royal forest guards in gold armor among the city guards, with solemn faces, looking at the crowd coming in and out.

"You guys?" The defenders stopped the crowd and looked at the weapons hanging from their waists, with obvious vigilance, "It's my people." Ling Yuan walked out of it, reached out and lifted his thick hat, revealing his eyebrows.

When the defenders of the city fell, the guards recognized him and smiled solemnly.

"It's Zhu Ershao." He smiled and bowed, but he didn't get out of the way, with a little embarrassment on his face, "You see, you also know this, the brothers are ordered to ....."

Ling Yuan nodded, took out a document from his sleeve and threw it to the guard.

The guards hurriedly opened it and looked at it, then they raised their hands with a smile, and the defenders immediately got out of the way.

"Second master, you are good to go." He bowed and laughed.

Ling Yuan nodded and smiled at him with a bit of admiration, "You have done a good job, the stakes are very high, and you should not take it lightly." ”

Receiving his praise, the forbidden army couldn't help but smile, straightened his chest and back, and responded heavily.

Lingyuan urged the horse and led a group of people into the city.

There were not many people on the street, and Ling Yuan led this group of people to stop at the mouth of an alley.

"Thank you." One of them suddenly whispered, and Chong Lingyuan clenched his fist.

"What I said, have you all arranged?" Lingzhu asked in a low voice.

The man nodded, "Don't worry, brother." ”

Ling Yuan didn't speak again, just waved his hand, and the group of people scattered in all directions, quickly disappearing in different directions.

Only then did Ling Yuan urge the horse to go to the location of the county government again.

At this time, in the courtyard of the Gu family, watching Gu Ba Niang finish a set of etiquette of sitting and inviting tea in a gentle manner, the two mothers who were staring at her tightly nodded with some disappointment.

"Not bad...."Mrs. Zhong said lightly.

"Mom worked hard....." Gu Bainiang nodded slightly and thanked her.

"Slow ....." Mother Chen said suddenly, took a few steps forward, and looked at Gu Bainiang's hand hanging in front of her, with the joy of finding the prey in her eyes, "Miss Gu, how can your nails be so short?" ”

Gu Bainiang sighed and looked down at her hand.

The rule of being a pharmacist is not to have long nails.....

"Are you fixing it again?" Chen's mother asked, "This is not good."

Gu Banniang lowered her head and responded, "I wrote it down." ”

Her attitude is impeccable, and Chen's mother is like a cannonball that has been extinguished, and it can't be blown up even if it is on fire.

"It's good to write it down, Miss." Mrs. Zhong nodded and said, bowing down, "The slave and maid retreated first...."

Gu Bainiang nodded and said that there was work.

The two mothers walked out of Gu Bainiang's house and walked along the road to their residence.

"This girl looks pretty good.," Chen's mother whispered.

A smile of unknown meaning appeared on Mrs. Zhong's face, "It's quite peaceful, but it's not a good master...."

"She?" Chen's mother was slightly disdainful, "She has the courage to not look at her own background, widowed mother and weak brother, she is qualified to be difficult to get along....don't think that she will treat that person with a different eye...."Said and smiled, "I hope she will rely on that person to give us some color to see....such a woman, not to mention the palace, is our Pingyang Hou Mansion I have seen a lot... It's like a leek cutting stubble after stubble..."

Mrs. Zhong smiled, but the expression on her face did not relax in the slightest.

"Widowed mother and weak brother...," she said lightly, "This is indeed true, but can you see it these days....?" ”

"See?" Chen's mother asked puzzled.

"These days, people come and go to see each other." Mrs. Zhong said, stretching out her finger and pointing, "Oh, here we go again..."

Standing aside and looking over, I saw two middle-aged men hurrying in the direction of the main courtyard led by Cao and the maid.

According to the rules, they did not enter the door, but held the curtain, first bowed at the signal of the maid, and then spoke outside the door.

Because they stood far away, they couldn't hear clearly, but they nodded from time to time with a respectful attitude.

"Yes, it's a person who cares about his family, and he knows that his family has a nobleman, so it's normal for him to come to please...."Chen's mother said.

Mrs. Zhong shook her head, "Not only that, I heard from the girl's mouth, in addition to saying goodbye, this Gu family also asked about the daily affairs of the family, such as which shop employs people, which family divides how much dividends..."

As he spoke, his eyes fell on Gu Banniang's door again, and he saw that the two men looked a little hesitant, one of them seemed to be explaining and arguing, but after a while, he nodded, it seemed that he should have been persuaded by Gu Banniang inside, and then he stood up, took out a big booklet from his sleeve, and handed it in by the maid, and then Shi Li followed Cao Shi and retired.

"Do you think that just because she has become a nobleman, she will be in charge of everything in the family?" Mrs. Zhong asked with a frown.

Chen's mother shook her head.

"Unless she is already in charge of the clan," Madame Zhong said in a deep voice.

Chen's mother was stunned, "How is this possible?"

"Make the impossible possible, can you still underestimate this person?" Mrs. Zhong said, her eyes narrowed slightly, "We know too little about this girl, the county lord sent us over, it's too right....I didn't take it to heart before I came, but these days, it seems that I feel more and more unable to see through this girl...."

Mother Chen was stunned by what she said, and couldn't help but smile, "Madam, you also look up to her too much....", she immediately raised her chin slightly and smiled, "Whether she is peaceful or treacherous, in the face of supreme power, all conspiracies and tricks are in vain, and it is needless to say that our county lord is used, as long as she is willing, her identity is there, like a mountain crushing her." ”

Mrs. Zhong nodded and looked at Gu Eighteen Niang's door again.

"But this person, if he can be used by the county lord, if he can't, he must be cut down and completely suppressed." Mrs. Zhong said in a deep voice.

Chen's mother answered yes, but her face was disapproving, thinking that Mrs. Zhong was making a big fuss, it seemed that she had stayed by Mrs. Zhong's side for too long, and her brain had become ossified.

With Gu Ba Niang's background, she supported the lowest-class Fengyi..... this kind of identity is no different from a maid, this is like a tiger and an ant, no matter how much thought and scheming the ant has, it is not worth mentioning in front of the tiger at all.

"Did my brother say he was coming back?" No mistakes, no word skipping. Gu Bainiang looked at the letter handed over by the Cao family and asked happily.

"Back to the eldest girl..."Cao replied with a slight bow.

"Mother." Gu Banniang interrupted her and pressed her on the chair, "If you don't enter the palace for a day, filial piety is greater than respect, mother, if you do this again, your daughter will still deliberately avoid you....mother....If your daughter really enters the palace, there will be fewer chances for us to meet, mother, let's be together for more time...."

Cao's eyes were slightly red, and he hurriedly took her hand, nodded and said hello.

"Your brother said to take leave as much as possible to rush back...."Cao Shi said, afraid that Gu Banniang would be disappointed.

"It's okay...."Gu Banniang said with a smile, she still hasn't been able to take it seriously as a matter of entering the palace.

The mother and daughter didn't say a few words, and the maid who was looking at the wind outside the door reminded the two mothers to come over, and Cao didn't want her daughter to be embarrassed and got up and said goodbye.

In the dark of night, Gu Bainiang woke up suddenly from a dream, she was so violent that she sat on a small boat and the waves were undulating, and when she woke up, she really found that the earth was shaking gently, and there were chaotic sounds outside.

"Something's wrong?" She asked as she jerked to her feet.

The girl who was guarding outside hurriedly ran out to see when she heard the sound, and came back after a while.

"Miss, it's okay, the courtyard says that there are soldiers outside..."The maid said.

"At this time?" Gu Bainiang was a little surprised, these days she has been locked up at home and isolated from the outside world, could it be that there is another war in the north?

"That's it. . . Go to sleep....." She said.

The maid left in response, Gu Bainiang was awakened and no longer sleepy, listened attentively, and the sound of human voices and horses neighing outside loomed, and the noise gradually dispersed for a long time.

Got up early on the second day, and Gu Bainiang, who was only active in the second gate, saw several girls gathered at the door and talked in a low voice, looking quite frightened.

"What's wrong?" Thinking of last night's noise, Gu Bainiang felt faintly uneasy in her heart and asked.

A few maids were fascinated by what they said, and they saw her busy giving gifts.

"Say what?" Gu Bainiang motioned for them to get up and asked again.

"Miss...the porter said....something is wrong," replied the maid, lowering her voice.

"Big deal?" Gu Bainiang asked.

"The guy who bought the water came back and said that martial law was on the streets, and there were soldiers everywhere....", another maid said scrimbly.

This is really a big deal, Gu Bainiang has also seen this situation once in her previous life, that is, when the emperor died, could it be really advanced?

"Something's wrong?" Gu Bainiang's voice suddenly became nervous.

"I don't know...," everyone replied in unison.

Gu Bainiang was a little out of breath, muttered for a moment, and ordered someone to call Ah Si, who was clever and asked him to inquire on the street.

"By the way, Lingbao is back?" Gu Bainiang remembered and asked again.

"No, Miss Lingbao hasn't been back for days," the maids replied.

"Go and see her...."Gu Banniang frowned and said, "Let her come back first, it's so messy outside...."

Before he finished speaking, Ah Si ran in from outside.

"Miss, Miss, it's Master Zhu who has been assassinated," he didn't care about giving a salute and forgetting the rule that he was not allowed to enter the door of Miss's house, so he jumped in and said in a low voice.

“？” Gu Bainiang was startled and stood up, "Which Lord Zhu?" ”

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