There is no moon tonight, and the entire military town is shrouded in darkness and dead silence.
Guiliu and the little girl groped in the dark and came to the willow tree they had agreed upon. Xu Wen had been waiting for a long time and said in a deep voice: "It's no longer necessary. Let's go."
According to the regulations, the three of them were all dressed in black and completely hidden in the darkness. Even if they were only a few feet away, it was difficult to tell that there was someone in front of them. In order to prevent him from being lost, Xu Wen intentionally or unintentionally released his martial arts skills to facilitate Gui Liu's detection. The little girl had never walked on such a dark road before, so she was a little nervous. She held Giliu's hand tightly, fearing that if she got lost, she would never be found again.
After walking for about a stick of incense, Guiliu had already touched the cold and hard wall. When he looked up, although he could not see anything, he could feel the majestic and solemn momentum, and he knew that he had reached the foot of the city wall.
Xu Wen, who was leading the way, suddenly stopped and reminded in a low voice: "Not only are my soldiers guarding the city, but there are also soldiers from another school captain. Although they should all be my soldiers for the rest of the night, if we really meet them later, , don’t hesitate, just go ahead and knock him out.”
In the pitch black where nothing could be seen, Gui Liu hummed.
Xu Wen then led the way, walking very slowly, his palms always covering the wall, as if he was groping for something.
Not only him, Gui Liu also made this move, and he had almost guessed Xu Wen's method of quietly transporting people out of the city.
You can clearly feel the uneven places on the wall, which are actually some kind of prompts. Follow the prompts and you can find the secret passage leading outside the city.
Digging secret passages in the city is not an unusual thing. Take the city wall of the small imperial capital of Nanzhao, which is several feet thick. The inside is winding and intricate, and there are even several secret rooms for storing grain, grass and weapons. Because of this, Gui Qi led 50,000 troops, and it took him half a year to slowly capture the Nanzhao imperial capital with less than 10,000 people left.
Xu Wen, who had been groping for a long time, suddenly stopped and reached out to press hard on a piece of city wheel. After hearing a crisp locking sound, he kicked it hard again, and sure enough, a secret passage several feet wide and long appeared.
Although it was midsummer at this time, the night was still a bit cold, and the cool breeze came from the secret passage from time to time. The little girl's clothes were thin, and her teeth chattered from the cold. She regrets it now. If she had known better, she should have listened to the man and put on more clothes.
Xu Wen finally lit the torch he had been holding in his hand. Almost as soon as the fire suddenly lit up, he rushed into the secret passage.
"I told you that it's cold at night, so wear more clothes. If you don't listen, are you going to get cold now?"
The man said this with a gentle voice, and then the little girl felt her body floated and her feet left the ground.
Guiliu picked her up, put her on his chest, and said, "I happen to be very cold, please help me keep warm."
"There is an undercurrent under the secret passage. It is bone-chilling, that's why it is so cold. Your Highness, follow me closely. Let's go in and out quickly." Xu Wen said in a deep voice.
Guiliu protected the little girl's head and squatted down into the secret passage. Then Xu Wen quickly closed the secret door of the secret passage, held up the torch and started to lead the way.
Soon, the complexity of this secret passage exceeded Gui Liu's expectation. There were countless culverts and forks in the road, and the roots were complicated and complicated, just like the roots of an old tree.
The little girl nestled in Guiliu's arms was no longer cold now. Instead, she felt a little warm because of the man's body temperature and the light of the fire. She looked up at the man's chin and asked, "It's such a complicated road, what if I go wrong?"
Geiliu thought for a moment and said, "If you make the wrong move, you will probably die, right?"
"Death?" The little girl's face turned pale.
Xu Wen, who was leading the way, spoke up: "Your Highness is right, there are many traps in those dead ends. Once you enter by mistake, you will be half dead, even if you are not dead."
The three of them spent a lot of time and effort, and the little girl almost fell asleep in Gui Liu's arms as she was warming up by the fire.
Drowsily, she heard a sound of "arrived" and quickly opened her eyes to find that she had left the narrow secret passage. I don't know when the moon came out from the thick and heavy clouds, and in front of me was a snow-white wilderness.
"Wake up, go down and take a walk by yourself?"
The little girl hummed softly and put her down, finally able to move her sore arms. He did not forget to remind: "If you are not sleepy after getting in the car, you can lie down by the window and look at the scenery. I heard from Xu Wen that the moonlight in the wilderness in this area is extremely beautiful and is famous in Dafeng. Fifty miles ahead, there is an emperor's palace called Moonlight Palace was the residence of the recently deceased old emperor when he came here for a tour."
Only then did the little girl realize that there was a carriage parked in the buckwheat field not far ahead.
Next to the carriage, there seem to be two figures?
Guiliu said with a smile: "Xu Wen is doing really well in this business. One person is five hundred silver taels, and he refuses to bargain. So the four people tonight add up to two thousand silver taels. You know, in our Dajing Dynasty, even if If the strategic envoys and military envoys in wealthy areas want to come up with this money, they have to grit their teeth and empty out their family assets that have been accumulated for several years."
The little girl was very smart and immediately understood the meaning of Guiliu's words. She immediately frowned and said, "It's not simple!"
Geiliu nodded, "It is difficult for the wives of ordinary high-ranking officials to be able to spend such a large sum of money. These two women should come from extremely powerful families, so it is indeed not easy."
The little girl suddenly said: "Zhao, Tian, Wei, and Zhou were the original families of the four powerful officials."
"I have heard of this." Guiliu was stunned and said to himself: "The Zhao family's great scholar defected to the enemy. The Tian family's Privy Councilor, who was in charge of military power, was one of the initiators of the Eight Kings Rebellion. The Wei family's Ministry of War If Shangshu leads the army and dies in battle, then only the tepid Zhou family will be left among the four powerful ministers."
It is difficult for the little girl to understand a lot of things the man says. Her knowledge of the powerful Zhou family was limited to the extremely good-looking Mrs. Zhou. I heard that this lady seemed to have been praised by the emperor himself, but unfortunately she had forgotten it. Otherwise, if she told her about it, she would definitely be better than the man. The words were much more shocking.
Guiliu suddenly remembered something again and muttered, "I remember..."
The little girl was afraid that he would remember her and steal the limelight again, so she quickly said, "I know, I know, are you talking about the wife of the Zhou family?"
Guiliu suddenly realized and said loudly: "Yes, that is the Zhang who was praised as the second wife by Emperor Dafeng."
Now the little girl is really unhappy. As an "indigenous" person, she doesn't know as much as a neighbor whose home is thousands of miles away.
"Eleven years ago, the two dynasties worked together to select beauties. The new lady who had just married into the Zhou family was among the top five on the list for the first time. It was really scary to me. At that time, I wanted to go straight to Dafeng to have a look. What a beauty this second lady is."
The little girl snorted coldly: "Then do you know who the First Lady is?"
Guiliu was stunned, "You know?"
"I don't know! But I know that since there is a second lady, there must be a first lady." The little girl said confidently.
Guiliu said helplessly: "I know this too."
Suddenly, he froze and fell into deep thought for a long time.
The little girl felt anxious and knew something was wrong.
Sure enough, Guiliu raised his head, grinned at her and said, "I may actually already know the first lady you mentioned."
"It must be her, it can't be wrong." Guiliu thought to himself.
In fact, even if the little girl didn't mention the term "First Lady", Guiliu had heard this title somewhere before.
In other words, the "First Lady" that the little girl associates with the "Second Lady" does exist. What is the meaning of the four words "First Lady"?
First, she is the best in the world in appearance.
Second, she has a distinguished status, and can also be said to be the most noble wife in the world.
Apart from the rumored empress Da Feng, who was so beautiful that immortals looked down on her, and the sea of clouds drooped down her face, Gei Liu couldn't think of anyone else who could satisfy both.
The reason why Guiliu was sure of his idea and believed that it would not be wrong was because he knew a secret better than anyone in the world.
It was the queen who had passed away in her early years and had an exiled daughter. This daughter is as beautiful as her mother. Ever since she was discovered, she has been rated as the number one beauty.
And she is so charming that there is no need to doubt that everyone in the world will be attracted by those breathtaking peach blossom eyes, even if she does not do it deliberately. Therefore, Guiliu gave her the nickname "Hu Meizi".
In a nutshell, the "first lady" of Dafeng whom Geiliu considered was Hu Meizi's biological mother, the old emperor's queen.
Suddenly the earth shook.
In the direction of the military town, Xu Wen took the lead with one horse, followed by hundreds of horses behind him. Under the moonlight, the armor shone coldly and menacingly.
The little girl had never seen such a scene before. For a moment, her legs felt weak and she couldn't stand upright.
Looking at her, Gui Liu remembered that when he was a child, he wanted to accompany Gui Qi on a hunting tour of the world. Not to mention the hard work on the road, he saw the armored cavalry for the first time, faced with the dense and dark oppression, and With those deafening roars, I was frightened so much that I burst into tears. I grabbed my father's arm and walked off the stage. Why do you care about the grand review?
The wind rises at the end of Qingping, and so does human growth.
From being delicate, timid, and crying at the beginning, to later saying, "Fuck your mother, your daughter's son will never sit down in court." He dared to travel thousands of miles alone and come to the hinterland of the rebels alone. Along the way, this Men have grown so much.
Therefore, he believed that such a spiritual little girl would grow up in the future and become more promising than himself.
She was so scared that she couldn't walk, so he held her hand and walked with her through this section of the road.
Just like a long time ago, there was a child who was very afraid of the dark. He had to hold his mother's hand before he dared to walk through the dark palace corridor.
And children will always be children. The difference is that one is a child when he was a child and the other is a grown-up child.
When children were young, they fell in love with upstairs and downstairs, and they forced themselves to express their sorrow in order to give them new words.
When children grow up, old things are full of new sorrows, but they are no longer the same as they were when they were young.
In other words, a child can fabricate sorrow at will and throw it on his parents. One is a child who would rather have all the suffering rolled into one.
But will the two children really never meet?
the answer is negative.
There is bound to be a day when the old children going down the mountain and the cheerful children going up the mountain will meet. Then, the children going down the mountain will become young, and the children going up the mountain will become old and vicissitudes of life.
At least tonight, he is the child when he was a child, and she is the child when she grows up.
