I was the heir in ancient times

Royal lunches are modest.

The location was in the queen's palace. Because there was another layer of snow today and the flower hall was charming, the empress asked the dining room to send all the meals to the flower hall, and then set up several stoves in the flower hall. It's not cold, and you can enjoy the snow.

Gu Baozhen walked in front, and as soon as he entered the courtyard, a familiar aunt came to help take Xuehu's waistcoat. Gu Baozhen squinted his eyes and looked at the flower hall, saying, "What are you eating today?"

The empress was holding Xinde's little great-grandson over there, she was very fond of her, when she saw that the third child had arrived, her eyes were not eyes, her nose was not her nose, she snorted, she only paid attention to Xiao Qi, and said: "It's a coincidence that you came , Our little Yunhui, we like Grandpa Qi the most, right? Little Qi, give me a hug, come on, Yunhui, as long as I see you, I will smile."

Gu Baozhen was a good prince in ancient times, and his seniority is getting higher and higher now. Since Zhitong, the little nephew, also got married and had a son, he has been promoted to the seniority of a grandfather.

"Mother, please hug me, I won't hug him anymore, he has peed on me several times." Gu Baozhen wrinkled his nose, showing reluctance.

Gu Yangshi laughed and said, "You, Yunhui pissed on you because he likes you."

Gu Baoyu couldn't avoid it, and thought to forget it, the child's small arms and legs are so soft, he can't afford to pinch them accidentally: "No, no, third brother, you can hug it, so we can contact you Get in touch, when you have a son in the future, you will know how to help sister-in-law take care of the baby."

Unexpectedly, before Gu Wen could speak, Gu Yang said with a stinking face: "Xiao Qi, what you said is wrong. The people your third brother brought back to the mansion all these years don't know what kind of evil has gone, maybe They are all foxes brought back from the battlefield, so until now there is no male and half female."

While sitting down, Gu Baozhen looked at the third brother, thinking that he really hadn't thought about this problem, even the fourth brother has Chi Yi and two daughters, so it can't be the third brother's side, right?

Gu Xiaoqi glanced at the third brother's head, and Gu Wen pinched his face and pulled him up: "Hey! Third brother! You are presumptuous! Give me some face." Anyway, he is a serious prince now.

Gu Wen let go, clapped his hands, glanced at Xiao Qi quietly, and said, "Who made your eyes dishonest, don't worry, I'm fine."

That's strange.

Gu Baozhen felt that although there were not many wives and concubines in the third brother's backyard, there were a lot of women who didn't take concubines. How could it be possible that they didn't have a child?

The third brother will also be 30 years old this year. He is in his prime, so he shouldn't be.

Gu Yangshi sighed, didn't say anything, Gu Wen didn't explain, Gu Baozhen still wanted to discuss, but the rest of the Gu family just happened to come one after another, and sat down one by one, but the father Gu Shiyong was afraid of the cold, and the food They are all eaten at home.

It took about half an hour for a meal, and during dessert time, the Gu family would chat casually while roasting sweet potatoes around the stove.

Gu Baozhen held the largest roasted sweet potato in his hand, and his whole body was warmed by the light of the fire. The sweet potato in his hand fell directly on his legs, and he fell asleep when he leaned to his side.

Gu Baozhen didn't remember whose shoulders he was leaning on, it was just a strange and gentle dream.

In the dream, for some reason, he went to the south of the Yangtze River with the young and aggressive Bo Yanliang, bought a small yard, and opened a tofu shop. Bo Yanliang loved him so much that he took care of all the housework. , Live like an old woman, but he still doesn't let Bo Yanliang relax, when they sweep the floor, he sleeps on their backs.

He was working in a shop and selling tofu, so he sat on Bo Yanliang's lap and ate buns.

Occasionally in misty and rainy weather, they closed the shop and sat at home to watch the rain. When eating, the old lady next door roared angrily, and he dragged Bo Yanliang to step on the small puddle on the bluestone board and ran to his mother's house for dinner.

It has been a dream for several months, the dream is gentle, but the reality is not so beautiful. On September 23, Gu Baozhen received the news that the war between Xianbei and the Huns had fallen into a stalemate. Since the official news was so pessimistic, thinking about it The situation will only be a hundred times more tragic!

Gu Baozhen went out of the palace that night to find the young master Jin's house that Bo Yanliang had told him about at the beginning. After several years, Young Master Jin still hadn't healed his stutter, and he knelt at Gu Baozhen's feet with puffed out golden fish eyes, and he was fine. A salute, said: "See you, see Your Highness!"

"Okay, get up, I don't want to attract attention when I come here, and I can't stay for a long time. You just talk about the specific situation of the border war now?"

When Young Master Jin was recruited by Mr. Bo, he knew that one day, the beautiful prince who was carried away by Mr. Bo would come to find him. This kind of expectation was accompanied by a wonderful sense of danger. But seeing the prince again, Jin Shidong But there is no such charming dreamy heartbeat as a few years ago, what is only there is the awe of the imperial power and the submission of the prince's aura.

"If you go back to His Highness, there will be news from the frontline sent by Feige every day, and it will arrive once every two days. It will be used to allocate the military rations and military salary that the son wants from the capital." Jin Shidong signed an agreement with the son, and what he wants is In addition to the coal mines in the Shu Kingdom, the entire grassland has the right to buy and sell half of the coal mines. For this reason, it is really selfless to do things for the son. Now it has invested nearly 1000 million taels, and there are countless food and military supplies. If the battle is lost, their Jin family will also be finished.

Gu Baozhen frowned when he heard this sentence. The Jin family has always been the largest businessman in Shu Kingdom. If their family colluded with people in the officialdom, it would be terrible. Simply put, they can be called evil capitalists. .

Bo Yanliang can mobilize the Jin family into this state. When Bo Yanliang wins the entire grassland and comes back, the Jin family will collude with the Bo family. The economy of this Shu country will be very dangerous. Maybe this Shu country will belong to him, Gu Baozhen, or Thin tired of the cold.

Just like the aristocratic families back then, it was always bad to have one party dominating, and a long-term balance was achieved. Should we support another imperial merchant to fight the Jin family, or suppress the Jin family?

In the blink of an eye, Gu Baoyu actually thought of this first. After reacting, he pursed his lips, forced to suppress this worry, and continued to ask in a cold voice: "What else? Have you delivered the latest news?"

Young Master Jin was inexplicably stared at by the prince's black eyes, and goosebumps arose all over his body: "No, no, we, we haven't received any news for a long time, and the news that should have arrived yesterday is now a day late ..."

Gu Baozhen was still thinking before that when Bo Yanliang left, he didn’t seem to bring much military pay and food, but when the second brother ran to support, he brought a lot. Thinking about it now, maybe the old man is also guarding against Xianbei, I kept a hand, but I didn't expect Bo Yanliang to find a supplier.

wrong!I shouldn't be thinking about this right now.

Gu Baozhen's tone was cold: "Then tell me what you know."

Young Master Jin dared not hide it: "The villain only knows that the Huns raided the royal court and wanted to take back the royal court, but the Xiongnu Shanyu Yelvban always dispersed with most of the Huns, leading a hundred elite soldiers to use the soldiers who did not know where they got it. The muskets were attacking from behind, and many leading soldiers suffered a loss. The morale of the son and the others is low, this battle is not easy to fight..."

Gu Baozhen immediately asked back: "Wait, where did Yeluban and the others get the muskets?"

Young Master Jin also asked three questions and didn't know: "This, the young master is still investigating."

It's unreasonable, Gu Baozhen and his team have only a few muskets in the Shenji camp. After confirming their safety, they gave them to the third brother and the fourth brother. , would not be taken out of the Shenji camp easily, if there were traitors among the soldiers in the Shenji camp, and they would steal muskets and sell them to the Huns... it would not be impossible!

Countless discarded muskets have the risk of bursting, but they can still kill people!

Gu Baozhen suddenly lost all expression.

This is the capital.

The Shenji Battalion in the capital has all turned out traitors, it's really... looking for death!

That night, Gu Baozhen went directly to the Shenji camp, called the fourth brother, and together counted all the coded guns and ammunition in the Shenji camp.

The manager of the Shenji camp is the fourth brother's confidant, a strong man named Su Yu. Seeing the prince's posture, the manager Su knew that something was wrong. He counted it thoroughly overnight, and no musket was lost. He was about to breathe a sigh of relief , but heard the prince say: "Okay, what about the thousands of muskets that were abolished before? I asked you to take them and melt them. What about the melted things?"

Director Su immediately called Inspector Zhang who was in charge of disposing of discarded firearms. The inspector found a book from the booklet, which clearly recorded the removal of all discarded firearms. After throwing three account books on the ground, he sneered and said, "Are you a fool in this palace? Each musket weighs twelve catties, and [-] muskets were sent out. Although there are as many as [-] weights, hammers and other utensils made, but A weight is only a few catties? Eh? The hammer is only seven catties. I think the amount is about the same, so I can’t find it, right? Check it out for me! People here, one counts as one. cut."

After finishing speaking, Gu Baozhen turned around and left, refusing to let the man kneeling on the ground say a word of intercession, while the fourth prince Gu Yu'an, who stayed in Shenji Camp, set up a chair, sat down Shi Shiran, and shook his head. The clothes were hem, and the long and narrow eyes fell on the kneeling soldier, waved his hands, and said, "Did you hear what the prince said? Or confess now, die yourself, and don't delay the family, but, being found out... Don't blame me for being cruel and merciless."

The incident ended overnight, and ten soldiers who transported discarded muskets were killed. Two of these ten people had contact with Wu Zhuliu, a subordinate of Yelu Ban who came to the capital to marry two years ago, and a family member was found. Box of silver.

Gu Baozhen didn't make this matter a big deal. If a person died, it would be enough to kill chickens and monkeys internally. Gu Yu'an also thought so, but Gu Yu'an found that his little Qi still didn't relax his brows. The consequence of the heart is the relapse of the old disease, and the heart always has a sudden colic, which makes the hearts of the court and palace float.

Gu Yu'an found a time to go to the East Palace to find Xiaoqi, but saw red lanterns lit up everywhere in the East Palace, as if they were celebrating something, but no one celebrated in such a deserted manner...

The fourth prince thought for a moment, then remembered something - today is September 25th.

When he found Xiao Qi in the East Palace wing room who had prepared a table of delicious dishes for himself, and was eating and drinking slowly by himself, Gu Yuan sat over quietly, pressed his younger brother's hand that was about to drink again, and said: "If you don't know how to drink, don't drink."

Gu Baozhen smiled and blinked his right eye at the fourth brother, and said, "This is not wine, this is the white fungus soup that the sixth brother gave me, I put it in a wine bottle, just pretending."

After hearing the naughty words, Gu Yu'an shook her head with a smile and said, "Are you waiting for someone?"

Gu Baozhen shook his head: "No, he can't come, but it's the second anniversary of my marriage with him anyway, fourth brother, you came just in time, if the food on this table is wasted, mother will definitely scold me, help me eat some .”

In fact, it is not considered a waste. If the master's food is not finished, it will usually be rewarded to the servants. It is a great honor for the servants to eat the meals rewarded by the master, and they all rush to eat.

Gu Yu'an was silent for a while, and said: "Xiaoqi, the reinforcements have been sent today, and they will arrive in ten days. Don't worry."

Gu Baozhen nodded and said, "I know, once the reinforcements arrive, the overall situation will be settled."

"Then why are you unhappy?"

"I'm not unhappy, am I..." Gu Baozhen actually didn't know how he was feeling now, he just knew that Bo Yanliang's two-year agreement had been broken, so he secretly held such a small banquet. If he can come back, he won't do it.

"Is it because the kid from the Bo family was injured? It was just a shot in the arm. After taking out the bullet, it's enough to give birth. Don't worry."

"I'm not worried." Gu Baozhen's voice was a little louder, and soon he realized that he really didn't mean what he said, so he pursed his lips and stopped talking.

Gu Yu'an looked deeply at Gu Xiaoqi, sighed, and said, "Xiaoqi, there is a way, do you want to listen?"

Gu Xiaoqi looked at the fourth brother quietly, his beautiful eyes were full of sadness that he never mentioned.

"I heard from Xiaoliu that your huge Kongming lantern is ready, and it can fly in the air for a long time. If you walk against the wind, you may be able to reach the royal court of the grassland in one day and one night." Gu Yu'an said in a low and charming voice, "If you want to see He, just take that one, Xiaoqi, you are smart and have a good memory. You remember the map of Shuguo and the map of the grassland clearly. After meeting him, you will come back the next day. It's over, you're back too, no one will find out."

Gu Baozhen looked at the fourth brother in shock, and asked suspiciously, "Are you really the fourth brother?"

Gu Yu'an gave a rare smile and said, "Why do you ask like that?"

"Fourth brother, you have always opposed me and him."

"Yes."

"Why then?"

"Yeah, why?" Gu Yu'an didn't answer, he would not answer his Xiaoqi many times, but he actually did it once, when Xiaoqi eloped with Bo Yanliang , he faked the bodies of Xiaoqi and Bo Yanliang.

It's just that the behavior at the beginning was interpreted by Gu Wen and others as an attempt to seize the throne.

Gu Baozhen never doubted the fourth brother, although for a while he felt that the fourth brother was a lot colder to him, after all, he was sick, but he never saw the fourth brother visit him, but after recovering from the illness, the fourth brother returned to him I have already forgotten all the previous grievances.

"Fourth brother, to be honest, I thought about it too. Since you are willing to cover for me, I... I'm leaving now! Wait, I'll get the gun first!"

Gu Baoyu was so excited that he was about to stand up and run, but the fourth brother pinched his wrist the next second and said, "Wait, I haven't finished my words yet, the higher you fly, the faster the wind speed , if there are more than a dozen people pulling you down like before, it’s okay, if there is a problem, just drag you down, but if you want to go to the grassland, which spans thousands of mountains and rivers, if something goes wrong, you Just fall to your death, it’s okay if you fall to your death, the most important thing is to fall to a cripple, and then no one finds you, you will slowly starve to death, or be eaten by wild beasts..."

Gu Baozhen understood that the fourth brother didn't come to give him advice, but to persuade him.

However, tonight is still very different. Gu Baozhen suddenly misses the person who grew up with him since he was a child. He wants to live in this palace all his life, but he can't just let him take three days off. ?Dangerous or something, Gu Baozhen is very clear that after rising to a certain height, the wind speed is uniform, and he can control the wind!As long as there is no hole in the cloth on the hot air balloon, he can successfully reach his destination.

The more Gu Baozhen thought about this method, the more feasible it was, so he went over to have a look, and then came back after a look.

"No, fourth brother, I do things, you know, if I say it can be done, it will definitely work." After Gu Baozhen signed the guarantee ticket, he said shamelessly, "I just went to see how he is doing, quietly, here There, my second brother will pick me up, and I will see if he is dead. Back then, my elder brother was injured, and it was extremely dangerous. I thought, if he was going to die, I should see him for the last time..."Life is impermanent, if it is true It's the last side, he must go!He wants to see him.

"Fourth brother, can you help me? I'll be back in three days, and I will never miss work." Gu Xiaoqi seemed to see hope, and grabbed the fourth brother's hand, which was so cold that it was shocking, "Fourth brother, I Miss him very much."

The author has something to say: Sending off the first night for thousands of miles, the gift is light and the affection is heavy.