Chapter 22: A New Business
Stepping on the mountain road, the atmosphere became more and more weird, Gu Huai glanced at the side, Li Mingzhu, who was pulling up her skirt and walking seriously, looked like a porcelain doll, but unfortunately Gu Huai really couldn't tell what she was thinking from her face.
The voices of the refugees were heard from afar on the mountain road ahead, and the words were basically unified in tone, and the words were nothing more than praising Li Mingzhu as a living bodhisattva who rescued the suffering, if Gu Huai heard these words before the change, he might still be a little happy, after all, no matter how these people are also praising their nominal wives, but now that the parties are around, they can't be happy.
Qixia Mountain is very high, the mountain road is particularly steep after passing the halfway up the mountain, occasionally you can see the knotted huts on the side of the road, a figure comes out and looks at the dense refugees on the mountain road with a dumbfounded gaze, just like this and walked for more than half an hour, in the small talk between Gu Huai and Li Mingzhu from time to time, a somewhat cold can obviously see that it is the first shrine to be built also appeared at the end of the mountain road.
Well... A monument was also erected in a decent manner.
The refugees crowded up to straighten the statue, and the rat-whisker merchant who saw the opportunity quickly on the side immediately began to sell incense and candles, and the green smoke immediately floated in front of the shrine, seeing groups of refugees rushing up to the incense burner to pay homage, Li Mingzhu looked up and quietly looked at the not tall statue for a long time, and then looked at those pious refugees, before turning his head and laughing:
"Official, will you go back?"
Gu Huai turned around in response, and walked back to the bottom of the mountain along the official road when he came, he only had Qingming by his side when he went out of the city this time, so he naturally wanted to go back to the city with Li Mingzhu's convoy, but when he approached the convoy, he inevitably saw Yang Wu's gloomy face.
Boarding the carriage, the scenery outside the window began to recede after a slight shake, Qingming sat on the frame, and there were only two people left in the carriage, Gu Huai touched his face, and always felt that there was something bad and was caught red-handed.
But if you think about it, what's so good about it? Li Mingzhu will know that it will be sooner or later, and he didn't think about hiding it at the beginning, and after all, this matter was requested by Li Fu himself, where can he trouble him?
In this way, Gu Huai's mind was much more settled, and he even felt a little sleepy with the bumps of the carriage, and at an angle that he couldn't see, Li Mingzhu's eyes kept falling on his side face.
A lot of things don't need to be asked, after all, she grew up with Qingming, you just need to look at it to know that she made the decision, the affairs of the Li Mansion, she has always had the final say when she goes out, and she can hear it between words, this time the matter is strongly promoted by the Li Mansion... So what is Qingming for?
Extrapolating from the results, the conclusion can be easily deduced, Li Mingzhu is a smart woman in Bingxue, and she figured out Qingming's motive for doing this after coming and going, but the deepest problem hidden in this matter is undoubtedly where did Gu Huai get the ability to cure this plague? Only then did Qingming see the opportunity to make a name for himself from this matter?
The down-and-out scholar who was just randomly selected and recruited into the Li Mansion before, and the man who was honest and responsible after getting married... Is there a hidden side?
The silence did not last long, there was a commotion outside the carriage, Li Mingzhu removed the gaze that fell on Gu Huai's side face, and Gu Huai, who was resting with his eyes closed, also opened his eyes and raised the curtain of the carriage.
The noise came from the cavalry cruising around the periphery, Li Mingzhu is a princess anyway, even if the identity is a little embarrassing, but at least the royal family of this dynasty has also given a reputation, and the trip is naturally accompanied by guards, and now this situation looks like a bold refugee rushed into the convoy, attracting several knights to surround it.
But there was a faint loud voice in the wind:
"I'm really not a villain! I just saw Engong get into the carriage, and I was worried that I wouldn't see him in the future..."
"Who is Eungong? It's the handsome scholar in the green shirt! ”
"Crashing into a noble car... How can I be charged with this crime? I just want to thank Gong Engong for saving my life and my mother..."
The voice didn't sound real from a distance, but every word that could be heard clearly pointed to Gu Huai, Li Mingzhu retracted his gaze: "Is it someone the official knows?" ”
"Eun Gong? I don't know, I don't know..."Gu Huai thought to himself that he hadn't come forward in the whole process of treating the plague, where would there be refugees running to call him for his kindness?
"But that person is clearly talking about the official, do you want the official to take a look?"
Well, that's all it said, although Gu Huai didn't understand why Li Mingzhu suddenly became curious, he could only get out of the carriage and walk over there.
Before he had walked a few steps, he crossed a few cavalrymen and saw a somewhat familiar face, a tall man carrying a gray-haired old woman on his back, and if he thought about it, was this not the same man who had been a guinea pig under the city wall that day?
Gu Huai came back to his senses: "It turned out to be you..."
"Eun Gong, Eun Gong!" That Wei Laosan was also upright, and when he saw Gu Huai coming over, he knelt on the ground with a "plop" after putting the old lady down: "I can be regarded as finding you, Engong!" I was going to come to the shrine today, but I will get up and go back to my hometown tomorrow, and I thought I would never see Engong again... Grace is bowed to me! ”
Kowtowed a few times firmly, Gu Huai couldn't laugh or cry, he was just looking at this man who was tall and mighty, and it was unlikely that someone else would rob him of the trial penicillin, but he didn't really have the intention of saving his mother and son, and he didn't expect to meet him here so coincidentally, but it caught him off guard...
Before he could go up to help, Wei Laosan straightened up, and inadvertently caught a glimpse of Li Mingzhu who came with Gu Huai, and he was dumbfounded: "Saint... Our Lady? ”
Gu Huai frowned without a trace, but Li Mingzhu smiled lightly: "Official, who is this?" ”
My dear? Wei Laosan's expression became more and more strange, he shouted "Our Lady Mother", in fact, it was also during this period of time that some people among the refugees kept connecting the princess in front of him with the so-called Mother of the White Lotus Sect, so that he was also used to it, but when he thought of the true identity of the princess in front of him, could it be that his father-in-law... It's still a dignified horse?
didn't look at Wei Laosan, who was becoming more and more restrained, Gu Huai simply explained the cause and effect, and without waiting for Li Mingzhu to ask again, he turned to Wei Laosan:
"Homecoming? Where is your hometown? ”
"If you return to Engong, you will be in Lin'an."
"Lin'an..."Gu Huai thought for a while, "It has to be hundreds of miles, right?" You are carrying your mother, how can you go back? ”
In this era, the Shengdou Xiaomin suddenly saw a noble person with a huge disparity in status and status, and it was normal for him to dare not speak like the old lady of the man, Gu Huai looked Wei Laosan up and down for a while, and suddenly spoke:
"It's better than this, although the city gate has not been lifted yet, you can enter and exit normally with a letter of order, you might as well stay in Jiangning for a while, and then leave for your hometown when your mother is well?"
Wei Laosan's expression moved.