General's humble stand-in

Princess Pingnan walked out of the Tingfeng Building with the support of Caizhu, and saw Taozhuo kneeling in the courtyard in a proper manner, walking in front of him with slow and dignified steps.

Bending slightly, the slender armor lightly brushed across Tao Zhuo's cheeks, "Just as you said, we will not violate the river water in the future."

Tao Zhuo smiled at Princess Pingnan with curved lips.

Passing by each other, each with their own ghosts, they all wish to push each other into the hell that will never be restored.

Seeing the princess leaving, the little girl Mo'er hurried over to help Tao Zhuo, "My lord, get up quickly, it's cold outside."

"The princess punished me, I dare not get up at will, you go back to the house first."

Princess Pingnan is strong and unforgiving, so she has to be weak and deceitful, so that Gu Yan will feel more distressed and partial.

Thinking about it, Feng Mingxuan has learned a lot in the past few months. In the past, he was always afraid that Gu Yan would be wronged and endured it blindly. Now he realizes that it is to make him worry, so he always keeps it in mind.

Sure enough, Gu Yan came back and saw Tao Zhuo kneeling in the ice and snow with a thin body, and suddenly remembered that he was also kneeling outside his tent in the military camp, just begging to be taken in.

Painful and compassionate, Gu Yan hurriedly carried Tao Zhuo, who was as pale as paper, back to the room.

"The princess has been here?" Gu Yan asked in a low voice, frowning, rubbing her peach-burning red hands.

Tao Zhuo nodded, but said, "What about my chestnut cake, osmanthus candied lotus root and candied haws?"

"Just know how to eat." Gu Yan helplessly poked Tao Zhuo's forehead, got up and went to the door to take the food box from the little entourage, and put a box full of desserts beside Tao Zhuo.

Tao Zhuoxiao's almond eyes were bent into crescent buds, he put his arms around Gu Yan's generous shoulders, and kissed him hard on the cheek with a "clack".

The rich syrup on the candied haws is a bit sticky, but it is full of sweetness and has the unique sourness of hawthorn, which is very delicious.

Tao Zhuo bit into the frozen syrup with a crackling sound, with an expression of contentment on his face.

Then he raised it to Gu Yan's mouth, signaling him to eat too.

Gu Yan shook her head, "I don't like these sweets, let me ask you, why did the princess punish you to kneel outside? Did she beat you?"

"No." Tao Zhuo replied inarticulately, "It's my fault, I was disobedient and contradicted the princess, and the princess punished me to kneel."

"What against her?"

Tao Zhuo blushed, swallowed the candied haws in his mouth, lowered his eyelashes and whispered, "I was lazy in bed in the morning, when the princess came over, I seemed to see you and me..."

Tao Zhuo's face became more and more red, and she said shyly, "The princess scolded me for being shameless, and I said in a hurry that the princess doesn't need to worry anyway, I can't give birth to a child anyway. Then the princess got even more angry and asked me to kneel on the ground Outside."

After speaking, she raised her eyes and took a peek at Gu Yan, muttering in a low voice, "I don't know why the Princess is so angry, I'm not wrong, she can carry on your family but I can't."

Gu Yan's face was a bit ugly, and his sword eyebrows were tightly twisted, showing displeasure in his phoenix eyes.

Knowing that he didn't like to hear these things, Tao Zhuo didn't say anything more, took a bite of the candied haws, and forcefully entwined Gu Yan's lip-to-lip into his mouth.

"Sweet or not?" Tao Zhuo tilted his head with a smile on his face.

Gu Yan helplessly stared at Tao Zhuo, and swallowed it like medicine.He really hates these sweet and greasy foods, if Tao Zhuo hadn't fed them himself, he would have vomited and thrown them away.

Tao Zhuo was amused by his expression and laughed, "Isn't it sweet?"

Ignoring Tao Zhuo, Gu Yan reached out and took off Tao Zhuo's socks and grabbed his ankle.

"What are you doing?" Tao Zhuo was afraid of ticklish, subconsciously shrank back.

"Don't move around." Gu Yan patted his white instep lightly, "Didn't you have frostbite before, and I've been kneeling outside for a long time, let me see if I committed a crime."

It seems that there is something sweeter than candied haws, and it penetrates into the bottom of my heart.Tao Zhuo pursed her lips and smiled, curling up her toes obediently and allowing Gu Yan to inspect her.

Fortunately, Shen Feng kept applying the medicine that time so that the root cause of the disease did not fall. Even though the weather is cold, there is no recurrence.

Gu Yan put on socks for him, suddenly paused, and looked up at Tao Zhuo, "I'm going to leave Shengjing tomorrow, you should be careful in the mansion. I will send a few capable guards to guard in Tingfeng Tower , lest she come to make trouble again."

All the smiles froze on his face, Tao Zhuo hurriedly grabbed Gu Yan's sleeve and asked, "Where are you going?"

"There was a famine in Liangzhou, the emperor asked the fifth prince to go to relieve the disaster, and ordered me to accompany him to protect the fifth prince."

"Then I'm going too." Tao Zhuo firmly held on to Gu Yan, as if he was about to leave right now.

"Nonsense." The voice was soft and didn't mean to reprimand, "I'm on a business trip by order, so you follow along and figure out what's going on. You just wait in the mansion with peace of mind, and I'll be back in about five or six days."

Tao Zhuo slowly let go of Gu Yan's sleeves, although he didn't clamor to follow, but he ignored Gu Yan all day in a sullen mood, and didn't eat a single grain of rice.

At night, the candlelight is dimly lit, and the ink painting on the screen is projected on the wall and magnified infinitely.

Gu Yan stood beside the bed holding a blue and white porcelain bowl, "Tao Zhuo, let me tell you one last time, hurry up and eat."

Turning a deaf ear to it, Tao Zhuo curled up and punched the wall inside the bed, ignoring Gu Yan at all.

"I tell you Tao Zhuo, it's useless for you to go on a hunger strike, I won't take you there."

As if getting no response to Niu playing the piano, Gu Yan started pacing back and forth by the bed in annoyance.

After a while, Gu Yan sat on the edge of the bed and gently tugged on Tao Zhuo's sleeve, "Be good, be obedient. I'll buy you delicious food when I come back, and I'll buy you whatever you want."

Tao Zhuo was still unresponsive, not unresponsive, and rubbed against the bed again, refusing Gu Chan's touch.

"You don't want to eat, do you?" Gu Yan was rather annoyed, "Okay, just go hungry."

He placed the porcelain bowl heavily on the mahogany table, turned around and blew out the candle, took off his coat and went to bed.

After a while, there was a small sound like sobbing.

Gu Yan opened her eyes impatiently, turned over and took the little thing into her arms.

"I really can't take you there. You think I'm going to protect His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince, and it's inconvenient to take you along. There are so many people accompanying you along the way, and it's impossible for someone to take their family members with them."

"You don't have to worry about me." Tao Zhuo finally said, sobbing, "You just go, I don't know how I died if I was thrown alone in this tiger and wolf den, you go, remember to bury me when you come back I'll do."

Gu Yan was both helpless and amused, "How come the General's Mansion, whom I admired before and after, has become a den of tigers and wolves in your mouth? Didn't I say that I will send someone to protect you, she can't do anything to you of."

"That's hard to say, don't you know what kind of person the princess is? While you're not here, she might think of a way to make me disappear from this world. Anyway, if you don't want to take me with you, you'll have to do it tomorrow." Let's go, I will go back to Fengming Xuan."

"Tao Zhuo." These words really made Gu Yan angry, "Don't blame me for being rude to you if you dare to say back to Feng Mingxuan."

Under the reflection of the moonlight outside the window, Tao Zhuo turned over and looked at Gu Yan, with tears still streaming from his red almond eyes.

Aggrieved, she hugged Gu Yan and said in a hoarse voice, "I just don't want to be separated from you, not even for a day, I'll miss you so much that I'm going crazy."

Because she was crying so hard, she pressed against Gu Yan's chest and let out a violent coughing sound.

Gu Yan stroked his back, and in desperation began to think about how to take Tao Zhuo away without attracting attention.

In the early morning of the next day, the sun that had just risen was glowing with a pale white halo, making the winter look even more gloomy.

The city gate of Shengjing was pushed open with a "squeak", and a large group of people walked out mightily.The bright yellow dragon flag, which represents the majesty of the royal family, is flying majesticly against the cold wind.

With regard to this disaster relief, the officials of the DPRK and China also understood the intention of the current Holy Majesty.The fifth prince, Su Heng, is not yet 16 years old, and there are several older brothers, the second prince, the third prince, and the fourth prince.And disaster relief is the most popular among the people. The emperor is paving the way for the future of the fifth prince.

Gu Yan was wearing a crimson uniform of a general, with unicorns and auspicious beasts embroidered with gold thread on the surface of the clothes.Wearing a black cotton brocade cloak, riding a maroon horse, he followed steadily beside the yellow sedan chair.

Looking back, I saw that the soldiers responsible for escorting the grain and grass were densely packed, like a group of black ants walking quickly with the grain cart.

Behind Gu Yan, Xu Tianlei clamped his horse's belly and walked quickly, and then stood side by side with Gu Yan, "General Gu, you have looked back dozens of times since the team set off, and there will be no old friends behind you, okay?"

Xu Tianlei was amused by what he said, until Gu Zhan's cold gaze came over and scratched his body like a cold knife, Xu Tianlei hurriedly covered his mouth and suppressed the laughter.

The yellow curtains on the sedan chair were lifted, and the Fifth Prince Xiao Heng asked, "Young Master Xu, why are you smiling so happily?"

Xu Tianlei was startled, and stammered to explain, "Uh, that, I, I told General Gu a joke."

Xiao Heng regained his energy as soon as he heard it, "I want to listen too, this journey is really boring, tell me about it too."

"Ah?" Xu Tianlei's delicate facial features were all wrinkled in one place, which was really shooting himself in the foot.

Telling jokes isn't too wrong.

— On the way, Gu Yan was worried about Tao Zhuo who was following behind. Although it was only a day's journey, the cold weather was always afraid that his body would not be able to bear it.

Approaching the sedan chair, Gu Yan said in a deep voice, "Your Highness Fifth Prince, I'm going to the rear to inspect the grain and grass."

Before the fifth prince could speak, Xu Tianlei hurriedly yelled, "I'll go, I'll go, let me go, I won't bother General Gu for such trivial matters, General Gu only needs to protect His Highness."

After speaking, he turned his horse's head and ran away.

If you don't run, you can't do it. It's easy to make Xu Tianlei cry when the joke continues.He racked his brains and talked several times, but the fifth prince didn't even put on a kind smile, and kept looking at Xu Tianlei blankly with his big round eyes.

Looking at the back of Xu Tianlei leaving, the fifth prince Xiao Heng said to himself, "How did he amused himself by telling jokes."

After traveling for about two hours, suddenly there was a commotion behind the line.

A soldier rode to Gu Yan's side on a fast horse, "General, the soldier escorting food and grass has fainted, do you want to postpone the trip?"

Gu Yan was shocked from the bottom of her heart, her peach burning.