I've Got this Cannon Fodder's Back

The third prince failed to hold Gu Ai.

Not only was he unable to pull him back, he was also thrown to the ground with his sleeve by Gu Xiang, who was said to be a literati with a bad waist.

Whenever future generations talk about this period, they will add an extra sigh of surprise that Mr. Xiang is so vigorous-no one can see how he came here, only know that the little prince was killed by the living at the last moment. He vomited blood from the beating, and in the next moment, he saw that figure roll up to the high platform and firmly protect the little prince in his arms.

Fifteen strokes of the cane were just finished, and according to the procedure, he had to be paraded through the streets to show the public.

The executioner felt that he hadn't hit hard, but at this moment he was also very bewildered, and stepped aside in panic with his hands tied, and hurriedly saluted him.

"Chengru—how is it?"

Gu Ai didn't care about going on and off the stage at all, he just wrapped Lu Chengru tightly in his arms, his voice was already hoarse with anxiety: "Where did you hurt? Mister will take you back, just bear with it..."

I bit my tongue.

The pain of self-injury cannot be shielded, and Lu Deng couldn't help taking a breath when he opened his mouth.She wanted to tell him that she was fine, but she couldn't explain clearly, so she raised her hand to grab his sleeve and shook her head silently.

Gu Ai went in without knowing it, and was stabbed fiercely by the blood overflowing from the corner of his lips, and felt cold from head to toe.

The young prince's face was pale, and he leaned against his arms, looking up at him as if he didn't know the pain, and tried his best to make a vague and low voice: "I'm fine..."

Gu Ai couldn't hear this anymore, she lightly covered his lips with her palm, tore off the official robe, wrapped him up carefully, and hugged him with all her strength.

It is undoubtedly an extremely disrespectful behavior for the first assistant to be disheveled in clothes, not to issue an edict, not to follow the order, and to rush into the execution ground to rob people.

Gu Ai was ready to be scolded by thousands of people, got up with someone in his arms and prepared to leave.Not only did the people below not booing and dissatisfied as expected, but there was an eager cry on the spot because they saw Xiang Ye rushing up to protect him.

Gu Ai subconsciously stopped, Lu Chengru curled up in his arms, clutching his collar with his fingertips, couldn't help being startled, and turned around to look at him blankly.

"Xiangye Mingjian, although Prince Yi rode the horse, he just chased the horse in front of him all the way, and he didn't kick over a few stalls. If Prince Yi hadn't reined in the horse in time at that time, my baby would have been seriously injured at least. Crippled, maybe even my little life can’t be saved!”

"Master Xiang, although the little prince made a mistake, he knew it. Later, he often came to the street to take care of our business. Please show me your hand, and if you are punished, you will cancel the past!"

"The prince has a good nature. It's nothing more than a young man who was ignorant for a while and was instigated by others. We don't blame him anymore, and I ask the prime minister not to punish the little prince again..."

"Didn't the new law say that if the sufferer doesn't sue, we can negotiate to avoid heavy punishment? We are the sufferer, and we don't blame Lord Yi anymore. Why can't we avoid the rest of the parade?"

"The little prince is hurt so badly, hurry up and get out of the way, let Xiangye take the little prince to treat the injury!"

……

Everyone chattered and gave way to a passage, and the sound was transmitted to the stage, so that both of them could hear it clearly.

Meeting Gu Ai's slightly surprised gaze, Lu Deng's face burned, and he shrank into the half-worn soft fabric of his official uniform.

Today I took the initiative to come to receive the punishment, and I heard the people below noisy and arguing non-stop, but I didn't expect it to be this.

The character set is always changing according to logic. He has been studying under Gu Ai for many days now, and it is only natural that he has been taught to be sensible and obedient.Even if he secretly came out to do voluntary labor, the evaluation bar of the main system has always been stable, and no points have been deducted until now.

He has never been used to not correcting mistakes, even though Gu Ai has already been punished, he still thinks about the troubles he caused on the street in the past.Whenever Gu Ai was busy with official business, he would use going out to play as an excuse to go around by himself and try to make up for it.But he didn't even know that he had accumulated so much goodwill among the people.

Lu Deng curled up in Gu Ai's arms, listening to the voices outside, his face became even redder.

The spirit of the little prince is better than expected.

Looking at Lu Chengru who wrapped herself in his arms, Gu Ai's eyes turned slightly warm, but she still didn't dare to relax at all.Carefully peeling off his robe to give him a small opening for ventilation, he bowed deeply to the people in the audience.

"Today, there is no sign of disrespect, Gu Ai will receive the punishment... I thank you all for your tolerance, Gu Ai is very grateful."

The people below did not dare to accept this gift, they hurriedly returned the bow, and the original noise was also quieted down.

It is perfectly normal for a teacher to feel sorry for his students.

A teacher is like a father, watching his juniors suffer on stage, how can anyone take it calmly.The onlookers understood Xiangye's anxiety better with a blink of an eye. They all waved their hands and said nothing but didn't see it. A bold and middle-aged man rushed forward and pulled the executioner away. Everyone tacitly stepped aside to make a way for the two of them .

The third prince had already found a carriage, and hurried over in a hurry. When he met Gu Ai's deep black pupils without joy or anger, he felt chills all over his body: "Gu, Xiang Gu, in fact—"

Gu Ai ignored him, and carried Lu Chengru into the carriage: "Go back to the prime minister's residence."

Master Xiang is used to being majestic, and no one dares to disobey him in the slightest.The coachman whipped his horse instinctively, and the carriage ran out of the corner in a blink of an eye and headed straight for the Prime Minister's mansion.

……

The third prince who fell on the ground sent ten text messages to the little prince who was touching the porcelain in the street.

It had just rained in spring the day before yesterday, and the horse-drawn carriage galloped across the water.

"gentlemen……"

The tongue didn't hurt so much, Lu Deng carefully held Gu Ai's sleeve, leaned forward and looked at him.

Although there are a lot of meaningless onomatopoeia in the voice message sent by the protagonist, relying on the few words in it, he still struggles to piece together the specific inside story of the incident.

Between the whole thing, it seems——some kind of misunderstanding happened...

Lu Deng blinked and was about to explain, but Gu Ai moved his arm and gently embraced him again.

"Mr. is here."

The voice of the prime minister of a country is soft and slow, but his heartbeat is still fierce, and his movements almost show the cautiousness of the rest of his life and clear fear.

Gu Ai opened her arms and wanted to hug him, but she was afraid of hurting him, so she just held her breath and hugged him to lean on her shoulders, with a calm and calm expression clearly breaking the stormy waves.

Lu Deng moved and raised his head slightly from his chest.

Gu Ai was trembling.

She didn't dare to think about what happened next, and she didn't dare to think about what went wrong, whether the third prince was an enemy or a friend - Gu Ai hardly had the slightest spare time to think about anything that had nothing to do with Lu Chengru at the moment.

The little prince was leaning in his arms, quietly, still as obedient as usual, would hold his sleeve as usual, Wu Run's eyes looked at him painlessly.

How many sleepless nights were spent in replying to official documents? The young man who refused to go back to the bedroom to rest lay on the table and dozed off enough. When he raised his head and looked over sleepily, it was these eyes that became the warmest point in the long night. comfort.

It was so close that even this little comfort would be forcibly taken away.

Gu Ai's pupils became darker and darker, but the hands holding him were still soft and gentle, slowly stroking his forehead hair, trying to hide a slight palpitation in his voice: "Chengru, what's wrong? It's okay, we are here Just go back to the Prime Minister’s Mansion, and go back to the Prime Minister’s Mansion for treatment—Mister didn’t take good care of you, so it won’t happen in the future, never again..."

"gentlemen."

Lu Deng called him softly, took Gu Ai's sleeve hand with a little force, and pulled him out of the nightmare: "I'm fine, sir—the third prince changed the executioner for me, I'm fine, look .”

Fearing that Gu Ai would not believe it, while speaking, he had already untied his clothes neatly and threw them aside, lying down for him to take a closer look.

The executioners are all good hands, they can beat people to death with a few blows, and they can beat them ten times without any injuries.Lu Deng's complexion was fair, and the bloodstains were particularly conspicuous, but no matter how carefully he looked, it was just a few reddish wide marks on his back.

Gu Ai stared blankly, but her heart beat faster, and she hesitated to reach out her hand lightly.

"Take a look, there's nothing wrong with it."

Lu Chengru was lying on his lap, noticing Gu Ai's hesitant movement, raised his eyebrows and looked up at him, holding his hand and falling on his back.

The young man's back is not as thin and thin as imagined, his shoulder blades are still clearly protruding, but he has extremely beautiful flexible lines.The skin is fair and cool, and the traces of the torture stick that are more than the width of the palm scald the palm, but there is no imagined tragedy of skin and blood.

"I heard--"

Afraid that the disappointment and pain afterwards would be unbearable, Gu Ai didn't dare to make herself too happy, tried her best to find her own voice, and said hoarsely: "They have a way to make it invisible on the surface—but the inside hurts the tendons and viscera. Blood stasis. You vomited blood at that time..."

"Nothing."

Lu Deng raised his eyebrows, supported himself with one hand, and dexterously turned over and sat up.

The busy city is still some distance away from the prime minister's mansion, and worried that it would be too hard for Gu Ai to hold him all the way, he looked around the carriage, trying to find a place to sit down, but Gu Ai still hugged him tightly, as if he didn't want to let go mean.

Meeting Dangchao Shoufu's rare stubborn gaze, Lu Deng blinked, then leaned back obediently into his arms, pursed the corners of his lips and mustered up his courage: "If I tell you what's going on, sir, can you not blame me for running away without permission?" come out?"

Gu Ai was slightly startled when she heard the words, and met the nervous expression of the young prince who was so cautious that he seemed to be punished at any time, and the warm current flowed through her heart unexpectedly, and gently wrapped him in her arms.

"You are doing it for my husband, and my husband knows it well - I failed to protect you, so how can I blame you?"

If nothing happened, no one would be willing to go and be punished.

He is an official who enforces the rules, and the reason why those people insist on such a trivial matter is because if he is a little bit selfish, he will naturally open a hole in the new law.In the future, anyone who wants to resist the law and disrespect will have an argument and basis.

The little prince is stubborn and proud by nature, and has a temper that refuses to bow his head to others, but he came here alone, and was punished and punished in full view, all because of him—for the new law not to be affected, and for the people to still hold on to it. Awe, in order to tell everyone that even if the relatives of the enforcer break the law, the punishment is exactly the same.

In the Guozijian, he would rather fight with injuries than die, and outside the Zichen Palace, he dared to rob people with horses. On weekdays, he always liked to practice martial arts rather than study.

On the streets of the busy city, under the eyes of everyone, he was tortured on his knees.

Just for his new law.

Thinking about it, Gu Ai felt her chest tighten.

This incident was originally caused by him, and because of him he became the handle of that group of people. No matter how absurd he is, there is no reason to blame Lu Chengru who was implicated by him because of this.

There is no point in dwelling on the past. Gu Ai has already made up his mind and knows what to do in the future. Right now, he is only anxious to know whether he is injured or not.

Touching the head resting on his shoulder, Gu Aiding was about to ask again, but the little prince in his arms grabbed his arm again and cautiously poked his head.

"I even tied up the elite soldiers..."

Gu Ai: "..."

It seems that the elite soldiers left by the late emperor are not very reliable.

The little prince was more energetic than expected, and it seemed that he was not seriously injured. Although Gu Ai still didn't know what to do, he was more or less relieved.

The soft and cool body is shrunk between the arms and refuses to show its head, which easily makes people feel soft.

Facing the clear and tense light in Hei Zhan's pupils, Gu Ai took a light breath, and tried to frighten him with a straight face, but when he touched the hard and hard scars under his palm, his heart softened unconsciously: "If you tie it up, it's time for you to get married." Tied, it's because they didn't practice well, and it's not your fault."

No penalty for copying books!

Lu Chengru leaned against his arms, his eyes sparkled brightly, his whole head popped up in an instant, and he jumped at him happily: "Thank you, sir!"

Gu Ai's heart was so soft that he opened his arms to hug the person into his arms, sighed dumbly, and slowly rubbed the scars with his palm: "Okay, now tell me what is uncomfortable and what is hurting?" ?”

It was fine if he didn't ask, but when he asked, the little prince in his arms turned red all over, clutching his cuffs and lowering his head, the corners of his lips curled up uncomfortably.

Other things are easy to talk about, only this matter should not be sloppy.

Gu Ai made up his mind not to let him fool him any more, still lowered his head and waited for his reply, Lu Cheng hesitated for a while, but finally couldn't bear the gaze of the chief minister, and opened his mouth tremblingly: "I bit my tongue..."

This answer was so ingenious, Gu Ai almost couldn't recover for a while, and hesitated for a moment before saying: "Bite—what?"

"Tongue."

Lu Chengru's face was burning hot, and after a while he continued softly: "It's bitten...it still hurts."

Gu Ai was stunned for a while, looking at the clear and cramped light in his dark eyes, suddenly picked up his wrist, pinched and felt the pulse for a long time.

Shoufu devoted himself to learning, and he only had a vague understanding of medical science, but he could still feel the vigorous movement on his fingertips, revealing a distinct vitality.

One hand touched the sleeve and pulled it, gently tugged twice, then pointed to his mouth emphatically.

Gu Ai was in a daze for a long time, and finally burst out laughing while holding his forehead, hugged him tightly, and let out a long sigh of relief.

……

The voices outside gradually quieted down.

The car had already left the trouble and entered Jingjie Street, and it was about to arrive at the Prime Minister's mansion.

Suspended thoughts suddenly relaxed, Gu Ai only felt that his whole body was full of exhaustion after the disaster.Simply leaning on the car in a relaxed manner, raised his hands to wrap around the thin shoulders of the young prince, and lightly raised his chin with one hand: "Let Mister see how much you have bitten through—does it still hurt?"

Lu Deng's face was still hot, and he hesitated for a while when he heard the words, but in the end he couldn't resist the majesty and intimidation of the first assistant, so he had to stick out his tongue obediently for him to check.

The wound on the tongue cannot be touched with force, and even a little force will cause gasping pain.Gu Ai put one hand on his back and didn't ask him to use any strength, and lowered his head to examine carefully: "How bad is the pain?"

Not too great either.

With Lu Deng staring at him so intently, his heart beat so fast that he had long forgotten the pain on his tongue.Blushing, he just shook his head.Gu Aiwei raised his eyebrows and looked at him, and was about to make a joke when the carriage suddenly stopped unexpectedly.

Footsteps sounded hurriedly, and before he could recover, the old doctor who hurried over after hearing the news had already opened the car door nimbly.

"What are you bothering about? Is the little prince seriously injured? Hurry up and take him down, and let me see in the mansion—"

The old doctor's voice stopped abruptly.

In the dark carriage, the chief assistant of the court did not wear official robes, but only a plain white jacket, and the little prince even took off all the clothes on his upper body.The young man's slender and strong back was bare, with several wide marks lying here and there.

The two of them didn't know what they were doing, but they hugged each other in broad daylight.At this time, the six eyes met each other, and each other's eyes were caught off guard by surprise and bewilderment.

The old doctor was well-informed, looked at each other for a moment, clicked his tongue, and silently took a step back.

He closed the car door again for the two of them.