Reborn as the Savior of a Short-lived Father and Son

"I'm so stupid," Gu Qinghe murmured, "I already knew that he was full of lies, why didn't I think of this?"

After hurriedly saying goodbye to He Zhiyuan, Gu Qinghe returned to the general's mansion.

As soon as he entered the door, he bumped into Ouyang Xia. If Ouyang Xia hadn't held him back, he would have fallen to the ground.

But even so, Gu Qinghe just stood up and rushed to his room.

Ouyang Xia was stunned for a moment, then followed.

"what happened?"

Gu Qinghe changed her skirt and came out. The gatekeeper had already prepared the horse. When Ouyang Xia saw her getting on the horse and about to leave, she reached out and grabbed her, with a puzzled look on her face, "What happened?"

This hurried look seemed scary. How could she dare to let Gu Qinghe go out like this without saying anything?

Gu Qinghe still had her rationality, but her blame for herself prevailed. She couldn't understand why she didn't think of looking for the mute girl in advance.

If her mind wasn't so messy, she would have wanted to think over every word and every detail that Wei Yanzhou said during the time they were together, for fear that she would miss any details related to the Chen family.

Or maybe, I couldn't guess which of his words contained lies.

How ridiculous! In her previous life, Wei Yanzhou really had built a very good cage for her. He pretended to investigate things she wanted to investigate, and only asked about things she wanted to inquire about symbolically. He even asked people to make up lies with him just to coax her.

His sincerity is truly terrifying.

The hem of her skirt was grasped by Ouyang Xia. Gu Qinghe blinked and suddenly burst into tears. "I want to find someone?"

Ouyang Xia didn't ask her who she was going to find at this time, but asked: "Is it far?"

"Far."

Perhaps because she looked too sad, Ouyang Xia pursed her lips and did not ask any more questions. Instead, she jumped up and sat on Gu Qinghe's horse, holding the reins with one hand and her with the other, "I'll go with you to buy it. With your horsemanship, you won't be afraid of falling off halfway."

"No, it will take a few days. What if you go to Lanyu with me?"

Ouyang Xia pulled the reins and shouted "Go!" As the horse's hooves started to move forward, she spoke quietly, "You don't think that the Prince of Yun asked Lan Yu to stay here because he really expected me to protect him alone. Don't worry, the secret guards hidden around him can almost form an imperial guard."

That's true. Gu Qinghe didn't try to stop him. Or maybe she didn't want to stop him. She really needed someone to stay with her.

Just like the day when she sat on the rooftop and accompanied Ouyang Xia when he was drunk.

Ouyang Xia's mentality now should be the same as hers then.

She pressed Gu Qinghe's shoulders against her chest and said, "Well, although I'm not as strong as your General Shao, I can still let you lean on me."

With Ouyang Xia's jokes along the way, the journey was indeed less difficult.

After getting over the impulse, Gu Qinghe calmed down.

What should she do if she couldn't find the mute girl there, or if the mute girl was originally arranged by Wei Yanzhou?

Gu Qinghe shook his head and shook the thought off.

If the mute girl did not exist, it would prove that everything Wei Yanzhou said in his previous life was false. Her brother was never rescued by anyone, and his body was not thrown into the back mountain. She would of course go looking for him since she could neither find him alive nor his body after death.

Maybe he, like his mother, is waiting for his appearance in some corner.

When they arrived at the village that Wei Yanzhou had mentioned, they were already exhausted, and even Ouyang Xia looked a little tired.

Along the way, she had basically found out who Gu Qinghe was looking for. When they arrived at the place Gu Qinghe remembered, she helped her off the horse, looked around, and whispered, "Are you sure this is the place? Why does this place seem so desolate to me?"

It is very desolate. After the Bazipo War, there were often rumors of ghosts in this place, so many people who lived here moved out. The only ones left are the elderly or the brave ones.

As for the mute girl, she had no one to rely on, and the only thing she had was her thatched hut that could barely shelter her from the wind and rain. To her, ghosts were far less scary than people, so she did not move away.

Ouyang Xia took a bite of the meat pie left on the road, chewed it twice and swallowed it, "Go inside and ask around."

It was about a year later when Gu Qinghe came here in his previous life, and most of the villagers here had already moved out.

Compared to that time, there are still some people in the village now, perhaps because the ghost story has not spread yet.

There was a vinegar shop at the entrance of the village. Ouyang Xia finished his cake in a few bites, walked over to ask a few questions, then came back and pointed at Gu Qinghe, "Go forward to the end and you will find the mute girl you are looking for. There is indeed such a person."

There is this person.

Gu Qinghe didn't know whether this was good news or bad news for her.

The mute girl's yard was tidy, and it was no different from what Gu Qinghe remembered. The two knocked on the door. After a moment, the door creaked open, but the person who came into view was not the mute girl that Gu Qinghe remembered.

This was someone she had no impression of at all, but judging by the confusion on the mute girl's face, she had indeed been living here all the time.

Although Ouyang Xia did not know sign language, he was very smart and he managed to talk to the mute girl by means of gestures and babble.

And Gu Qinghe basically guessed why Wei Yanzhou let someone else impersonate the mute girl.

He hoped that Gu Qinghe would completely give up and no longer have any hope in the Chen family.

Because the affairs of the Chen family were a little tricky for him, he liked Gu Qinghe and doted on her, but that didn't mean he was willing to get involved in these affairs for her and get himself into trouble.

It would be better to use some tricks to coax her and let her know that she is the only one left in the Chen family and the only one she can rely on in this world is him, Wei Yanzhou.

In this way, perhaps it won't be long before she gradually forgets those who have passed away and will no longer chase him around asking for news all day long.

He wanted the mute girl to tell Gu Qinghe the news of Chen Qingshan's death, but the mute girl was illiterate and it was difficult to communicate with her.

That's why she asked her own people to take over the identity of the mute girl and made up a lie for Gu Qinghe that she would not doubt.

After all, she believed in Wei Yanzhou wholeheartedly at that time. How could she have imagined that this man would carefully make up all kinds of lies for her?

Ouyang Xia gestured to the mute girl in an exaggerated manner, holding his stomach with a very pitiful expression, and opened his bag to prove that there was no food left. Finally, he clasped his hands together and waved to the mute girl, smiling gently without any aggression, and asked the mute girl if they could stay here for one night.