Zhou Gu stayed in the East Palace for an hour before leaving Yan Echo's study.

After he left, Yan Hui shouted outside the door, "Someone."

A person outside the door entered, "Your Highness."

Yan Echo asked, "Is there any news from Yun'an today?"

The man shook his head, "Back to Your Highness, no."

Yan Echo frowned, "It stands to reason that Yun'an will send back news every three days, and now it's the fifth day, right?"

"Yes."

Yan Echo twisted her fingers, "Could it be that something is wrong?" Send a message to Yun'an and ask him."

"Yes."

Yan echoed his hand, and the man retreated.

The study was quiet again, Yan echo's eyes fell on the tea cup that Zhou Gu had drunk half in front of him, remembering that his eyebrows were dancing and he was full of joy and said how his fiancée looked, his eyes were slightly dark, and he picked up the fold again and looked at it.

After Zhou Gu left the East Palace, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it.

He rode a horse and thought all the way, and when he stepped into the East Palace, he reviewed every word and demeanor he had said to Yan Echo, and after walking home, he found that except for the prince who asked Qin Luan to thank him in person, everything else was normal.

He turned over and dismounted, handed the reins of the horse to the little servant, couldn't figure it out, so he didn't think about it anymore, and asked where the grandfather of the Fuzhong people was, and when he heard that he was in the martial arts arena, he looked for it.

The martial arts arena was in full swing, it turned out that Zhou Che, the third son of the Protector Mansion, was back, and the old Protector was teaching him martial arts, and the soldiers took turns to play.

When Zhou Gu came to find it, he saw Zhou Che knocking the three of them down together, his eyes lit up, he took a red tassel gun in his hand, and entered the martial arts arena.

As soon as Zhou Che stood firm, he saw Zhou Gu rushing up, and without saying a word, he smiled, "Fourth brother, is your hand itchy?"

"Isn't it? I didn't meet any bandits along the way, and no one trained me." Zhou Gu raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Third brother, you've been fighting for a long time, I won't take advantage of you, let you make three moves."

Zhou Che raised his eyebrows, "Okay."

As they spoke, the two brothers beckoned.

The old protector stood on the periphery with his hands behind his back, watching the two brothers come and go, from the very beginning, Zhou Gu let Zhou Che be at a disadvantage after three moves, but after two teas, Zhou Gu turned around and made a draw with Zhou Che, he stroked his beard and kept nodding.

After two more teas, Zhou Gu had the upper hand, a strange move, Zhou Che was overwhelmed, Zhou Gu backhanded the weapon in his hand, and then, proudly raised his eyebrows, "Third brother, you lost."

Zhou Che was not annoyed, and stopped with a smile, "The fourth brother's move is very subtle, and he is unprepared for it. Where did you learn it?"

Zhou Gu didn't answer, she wanted to learn from Su Rong, that day she wanted to snatch the silk silk in his hand, so she made this move, he had been guarding against her at the time, and she came empty-handed, so she couldn't let her get it, and now he has a weapon in his hand, and under the third brother's defenselessness, he naturally let him succeed.

Naturally, he didn't say this, he threw the weapon in his hand with a smile and hugged Zhou Che's shoulder, "Third brother, do you miss me?"

Zhou Che shook him off, "What do you want you to do?"

"Why didn't the eldest brother and the second brother come back?" Zhou Gu asked with a smile.

"Big brother and second brother can't get out, I heard that you are back, let me come back and see." Zhou Che looked at Zhou Gu, "Jiangning County's water and soil nurture people? Fourth brother, you have become a lot whiter."

Zhou Gu touched his face, he was embarrassed to say that his fiancée always loved to stare at his face, although it was unconscious, and he never broke it, but he knew in his heart that she was a good color, so since he saw her, he paid extra attention to his face, washed it very clean every day, and then wiped the cream that Zhou Xi prepared for him.

He covered his lips and coughed, "Well, yes!"

Zhou Che observed his expression, "Fourth brother, something is wrong with you."

Zhou Gu: "......"

He also felt that something was wrong with him.

He twisted his face, coughed dryly twice, and hooked Zhou Che's shoulder again, "Third brother, you come back and stay."

How many days?"

"Stay one night." Zhou Che didn't get rid of him this time.

Zhou Gu nodded, "I brought back a few jars of drunken flowers and drinks from Jiangning County, and you and the eldest brother and the second brother have one altar each."

"Alcohol is not allowed in the army."

Zhou Gu sighed, "I mean, let's have a drink tonight?" I'll tell you, this drunken drink is a good wine, and it's a pity not to drink it."

"You said that this drunken flower drink, a few days ago, I heard someone mention that there was a restaurant in Beijing that also sells this wine." Zhou Che said: "It is said to be very expensive, and it costs two hundred taels of silver for an altar."

Zhou Gu was surprised when he heard this, "Is there already this wine in Beijing?"

Before he left Beijing, he hadn't yet.

"Well, there is, but I haven't drunk it yet, I don't know if it's the wine you said, but it's the name."

"That's what it should be." Zhou Gu sighed, "This wine is a hundred taels of silver in Jiangning County, and when it is sold to the capital, it has doubled. Sure enough, since ancient times, every business must be done by women."

Zhou Che nodded, "It's really expensive, but it is said that people who love wine in Beijing are moved by the wind, and that restaurant is in short supply, and if you want to buy this wine, you have to queue up."

Zhou Gu suddenly felt that he had brought back less drunken flowers, he ordered it according to the quantity, one altar for each male dependent, and his grandmother also loved wine, so he gave his grandmother an extra altar, sent two altars to the East Palace, and kept two altars for himself.

He discussed with Zhou Che, "Third brother, why don't you drink it tonight, and I'll sell that wine for silver?"

Zhou Che glanced at him, "You lack silver?"

"No." Zhou Gu was angry when he mentioned this, "I went to the palace yesterday, and I accompanied two bottles of clotted jade satin cream out to not mention, and I also lost 5,000 taels of private money."

After Zhou Che returned home, he heard that he stopped Duanhua on the road and trapped him for many days and then forcibly tied him back, sighing, "You can do this, as Duanhua, this time it can be regarded as making her feel wronged, after all, she didn't do anything, you won't give in if you don't pay for these things, if it weren't for your grandmother to enter the palace with you, how could you only pay for such a little thing and come back unharmed?" Maybe you'll have to take ten boards from Your Majesty."

Zhou Gu snorted, he was entangled by Duanhua, he really had eight lifetimes of mold.

Zhou Che patted him on the shoulder, lowered his voice and said, "Grandmother has spoken, and I will give you this silver from the princess."

The implication is that you should keep this wine and drink it!

Zhou Gu sighed, "Then I'm also short of silver."

Zhou Che raised his eyebrows, "Your private money is richer than ours, why did you go to Jiangning County and come back, you are so short of silver?"

Zhou Gu patted the clothes on his body, "My fiancée is too rich, I am very poor, and I have to think about making money."

Zhou Che: "......"

He had already seen the clothes on Zhou Gu's body, and when he was fighting with him, he also took care of the clothes on his body, so that he didn't even touch a corner of his clothes, and he found out when he was fighting with him at that time.

After he came back, he had heard from his mother that Miss Su Qi had sent Zhou Gu a batch of clothes and materials, which was converted into hundreds of thousands of taels, and he was also shocked.

Looking at Zhou Gu's appearance now, although he looked helpless, he was speechless, "Then you can think of it yourself, the third brother is poorer and can't help you."

Zhou Gu: "......"

While the two brothers were talking, they came to the old protector and shouted "grandfather" in unison.

The old protector smiled and praised, "Yes, it's all good."

He turned around and walked out, the two brothers followed him, and after the three of them gossiped a few words, the old protector asked Zhou Gu, "Have you been to the East Palace?"

Zhou Gu nodded and whispered, "The prince has given me a wake-up call, I want to ask my grandfather to send some people to protect Su Xingze secretly."

The old protector forgot to ask yesterday, and he didn't see Zhou Gu when he got up this morning, but after calling Zhou Xi to ask, he learned that Su Xing was staying in Xie Yuan's house, and he said, "Oh?" "What? Who's going to deal with him?"

Zhou Gu whispered, "The eldest prince suffered a big loss this time because I broke Jiang Sheng, and he will definitely not give up. The second prince is also ambitious and wants to pull down the East Palace. The other two princes are still half, though

Big children, may not have no ideas, now that the golden autumn scientific expedition is imminent, everyone's eyes will be on the scientific expedition. Su Xing is quite famous in Jiangzhou, and because of my relationship, I am afraid of being targeted. If the eldest prince wants to take revenge, he may use his tricks on him."

"He came to Beijing without an escort?" The old protector asked.

"I brought more than 20 people, I'm afraid it's not enough." Zhou Gu thought that if it was an ordinary guard, it would naturally be enough, but if the eldest prince made a move, I was afraid it would not be enough.

The old protector nodded, "Well, what the prince is thinking about is how many people to send over, you can transfer people yourself!"

Zhou Gu nodded, he had his own team of guards, who were selected by his grandfather when he was a child, there were a hundred, he said, "From my own people, send fifty people over, just in case, another fifty people from the mansion!"

The old protector glanced at him, thinking that this kid cares a lot about him, the quasi-eldest brother, in other words, he cares about the little girl of the Su family, he bows his head, no opinion, "You can do it yourself!"