I was the heir in ancient times

As dusk falls, Rongcheng is dotted with thousands of stars, and outside Rongcheng is a huge caravan dyed with bonfires. The bonfires and torches are like a sleeping fire dragon, and the light reaches the sky, creating the Milky Way.

The fire was flickering, but there were many people in the camp of the children of the Gu family who were not asleep. The third child of the Gu family was admiring and admiring his newly acquired short knife, while the fifth child, Gu Yan'an, was staring so enviously that she almost fell onto the bed.

The fourth child, Gu Yu'an, was looking at a yellowed map, while the sixth child, Gu Ping'an, closed his eyes early, wondering if he really fell asleep.

This tent is close to the stream, and the gurgling sound of the stream is like a drizzle of rain. If it is a normal day, it should be very hypnotizing, but at this moment, most of the Gu family's children are extremely excited, and no one feels sleepy. .

Gu Xiaoqi, who just came back from his mother, walked into the tent, walked around a low rectangular table, found an empty bed and sat on it, and asked the fourth brother who was looking at the map: "Fourth brother, what time is it now?"

The fourth child said indifferently, without raising his head, "It's almost midnight."

Gu Xiaoqi calculated the time, and the little brother Yanliang told him that the old eunuch in Changning would be in Zishi, that is, there was half an incense stick in the middle of the night, and he should go out now.

"Why do you ask this?" The fourth child put away the map, and looked at the younger brother with burning eyes.

Gu Xiaoqi bit her lower lip, frowned, her eyes slanted to the lower left corner, said 'hmm' for a long time, then simply climbed up to the fourth brother's side, whispered, "fourth brother, I have something to ask you for."

"Gu Qigou, what are you whispering about? How about telling the third brother?" Gu Wen, the mad dog who was facing the fourth child on the bed, put the dagger into the scabbard with a 'ding' sound and said with a smile.

Gu Baozhen thought for a while, then said with a smile, "Of course that's good."

Gu Wen saw that Xiaoqi Gou'er agreed so readily, raised his eyebrows, and unceremoniously pinned the dagger on his waist, then strode over, sat by the bedside of the fourth child, and said, "Tell me!" , what's the matter? Why have you been with mother for so long?"

"This has nothing to do with mother, it has something to do with father." Gu Xiaoqi's face was serious.

The fifth brother also sat down like a melon-eating crowd, looking at the third brother for a while, and looking at the little seven for a while, looking puzzled but desperately pretending to understand.

The youngest of the Gu family nodded with interest, curled the corner of his mouth, and said, "It has something to do with you leaving father alone this afternoon?"

"Exactly, but before I say it, you have to promise me that you won't join forces to bully me. I already know I was wrong, and I will definitely not eat food from strangers in the future!" Brother Six, who was lying on his own bed and pretending to be asleep, "In short, Dad discovered that Chang Ning had drugged me for three years. Of course, he failed, but Dad was very angry. He refused to even interrogate the whereabouts of the remnants of the previous court. Divide Changning's five horses into pieces!"

"Wait! He gave you medicine?!" Gu Wen was shocked, his right hand was fisted, and his smile was distorted, "That bitch!"

The fifth child looked at the younger brother with panic and fear, completely unable to imagine how mother would cry if the younger brother died.

"Wait, that's not the point, the point is, now there is information that before Chang Ning was quartered by five horses, there were no soldiers guarding him for half a stick of incense, so I thought, if we take advantage of this time to trick him, it should be feasible! Gu Baozhen said as if they had succeeded, his big eyes shining beautifully, "Of course, I really can't do anything by myself, and I'm also very scared, so third brother, fourth brother, fifth brother, you will accompany me go?"

Gu Yu'an's eyes were gloomy, and she directly refused: "I won't go."

Gu Wen: "Xiaoqi, I'll go, but you stay here. I happen to have a short knife here for cutting iron like mud. I will try it to see if it really cuts iron like mud."

After finishing speaking, the third child of the Gu family stood up and prepared to go out.

Gu Baozhen "hey" hurriedly grabbed the third brother's clothes corner: "Wait! Third brother, I mean to act together!"

"What are you doing? You stay here with the fourth child, and I will go back as soon as I go."

Gu Wen's brows were full of hostility, and Gu Baozhen suspected that if he really let the third brother out like this, not to mention that Chang Ning could not wait to be quartered by five horses. It is estimated that the third brother would not be able to ask anything, so he was so angry that he understood Chang Ning!

This is not in line with his original intention!

"Listen to me first." Gu Baozhen knelt on the fourth brother's bed like a fool, hugged the third brother's waist, and said in a low voice, "I have discussed it with little brother Bo, and he is still waiting for me outside. Just listen to my plan, how about it? Just for a while! I promise this plan, I will not be in any danger at all, let alone he is still tied up!"

The third child was hugged by such a little guy, so naturally he couldn't get out. He was extremely impatient, but he still sat back, his voice was cold: "Say."

Gu Xiaoqi heaved a sigh of relief, knelt down on the bed, and said to the three older brothers who surrounded him: "It's like this, let's pretend to be dead and go to the Supreme Emperor to scare him!"

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At the time of childbirth, the moon is in the middle of the sky, and insects are buzzing in the bushes. The moonlight slant the tree shadows into the bushes, and the wind blows over, and the tree shadows are like countless ghost hands waving into the world, as if they are welcoming the people who are about to join. one of their souls.

Chang Ning was tied to the tree trunk with his eyes closed. There seemed to be no one else in the silent woods except himself. There was a bowl of severed rice at his feet. The rice bowl was clean, and under the moonlight, it was faintly visible that there were still a few grains left in the bowl. Millet.

Death is approaching him, but Chang Ning is fearless. He has long expected that such a day will come to him, but the only mistake is the dark thread that has been buried for three years. Who would have thought that a child of only a few years old could escape the drug. Control, is it that the children of the Gu family are so different?Or is it destiny?

But thinking about all this is useless, Chang Ning even looks forward to the arrival of death.

Suddenly, he heard light footsteps.

Footsteps gradually approached from all directions, and he immediately opened his eyes, but there was no one there.

Chang Ning’s mouth had been removed from the gag when it was being fed by the soldiers, so now his heart beats faster, and when he feels that someone is pretending to be a ghost, he can raise his voice and laugh loudly and confidently while emboldening himself Said: "Come out, don't play tricks!"

After Chang Ning finished speaking, the footsteps around him stopped suddenly, and a hoarse, deep and indistinct male voice came from behind him, almost saying to him directly in his ear: "Chang Ning..."

"Who?!"

"Changning..." This time the voice came from the front.

"Who?! Come out!"

"It's me, Changning..." the voice on the right said hoarsely.

"Gu Shiyong?! Don't play tricks! I will never tell you where the emperor is! Hahahaha."

"It's me, Changning, I trust you so much, yet you treat me like this...Changning...where did you hide my son?"

Chang Ning looked around, his breath gradually became short of breath, and countless tree shadows rushed towards him. He was timid for a moment, and said in disbelief, "Your Majesty? Your Majesty? This is impossible!"

He blinked desperately, only to find that there were more and more fireflies around him. It was rumored that places with more fireflies represented heavier yin, and each firefly represented a soul that had just died.

The rumor flashed through Chang Ning's mind, and in the blink of an eye, every firefly had a body, only a body, no head, and there were twinkling lights on the neck, which made him feel like his body and his head were spinning like hell. Separate: "Ah!!! Your Majesty? Is it really His Majesty? Don't blame the old slave, the old slave just obeys orders... The old slave has served His Majesty for 30 years, and the old slave's loyalty can be learned... There is no way for the old slave... The old slave Nu's long-lost younger brother is in the hands of the queen mother, and this old slave has no choice..."

"Changning...my son will be killed by you too..."

"No! Although the queen mother and the head of state have escaped, one day they will accumulate strength and return to the country! Your majesty is waiting for them to come back in the safest place!"

"Where is my son?"

Chang Ning burst into tears and said, "It's in the palace!"

As soon as Chang Ning said this, the surrounding wind almost stopped abruptly, and a ghostly voice came faintly. Chang Ning saw several heads in white clothes with disheveled hair coming out of the ground, his calves trembled immediately, his eyes rolled over, and he lost consciousness.

Gu Xiaoqi, who got up from the grass on the right side of Changning, brushed back her long hair: I'll go, Sadako's shape hasn't come in handy yet, what about this old eunuch?

The fourth brother who came out from behind Chang Ning kicked the bowl at Chang Ning's feet and found a few strange leaves inside, then went straight to Xiao Qi and returned the large bag of female fireflies in his hand to Xiao Qi , Said: "Let's go, go back, it's time to be discovered by someone."

The third child, Gu Wen, walked up to the old eunuch, pulled out his short knife, and drew a horizontal line across the old eunuch's face, directly through the bridge of the nose, and then walked towards Xiao Qi in distaste, and said: "That old guy actually peed in fright, heh."

The fifth child hurriedly leaned over and hooked up with the third brother and laughed, "That's right, I haven't started blowing the leaves yet, so I'm really scared haha!"

The sixth child of the Gu family who didn't know what he was doing here silently also got up from the ground, patted his knees, and felt that he had nothing to do, so he went back to the account first.

Gu Baozhen hugged the bag of female fireflies that the fourth brother gave him back, and while releasing them, he raised his head curiously and asked the third brother: "Third brother, why did you slash him with a knife?"

The youngest of the Gu family had a stinky expression on his face, and he gritted his teeth and said, "After this old bitch is reincarnated, it will be convenient for me to ask him to continue to settle accounts."

Gu Xiaoqi smiled wryly, thinking that in his next life, Changning would not remember anything...

But after thinking about it, he didn't say anything, why would he help an outsider to confront the third brother?Not worth it.

The Gu family boys talked about leaving the woods and going to the tent, only Gu Yu'an looked back a little, and pointed at a huge boulder covered with moss. place to watch clearly.

"Fourth brother? What are you looking at? Go back to sleep." Gu Baozhen consciously completed the task satisfactorily. He not only got the whereabouts of the demented emperor, but also joined his brothers in activities. No matter what the father wanted to observe, what he saw It is also the cooperative spirit of the whole family, so they should be very happy.

"It's nothing." Gu Yu'an withdrew his gaze, took Xiao Qi's hand and walked back, "By the way, where is Mr. Bo who helped you catch fireflies together? Is he watching us nearby?"

Gu Baozhen shook his head: "I don't know, I asked him to pretend to be a ghost with me. He seemed to have something to do after giving me the firefly, so he didn't come."

"Did you secretly drug that Changning?"

Gu Baozhen looked up at his cute little face and said with a smile: "I asked Sister Huanghua for Datura flower powder. I heard by chance that Sixth Brother, Sister Huanghua and Grandpa the genius doctor said that Datura flower has hallucinogenic and pain-relieving effects. , Sister Huanghua happened to be grinding medicine powder for elder brother, so I asked for some and asked Yanliang to help mix it into Changning's meal, I didn't expect it to be so effective!"

The fourth brother nodded, indicating that he understood.

The fifth elder brother who was next to him hadn't come out of the exciting pretense just now, he held his head in his hands, energetic, and discussed with the third elder brother: "What does the old bitch mean when he said that the former emperor was hiding in the palace?"

Gu Wen thought for a while, and said: "It's literally. Those bastards are so bold that they hid a fool in the palace, thinking that the most dangerous place is the safest place? Tomorrow I will tell my father and ask him to hide the fool in the palace." All the remaining guards and eunuchs in the palace have all verified their integrity, and I will let him dare to trick us!"

The fourth child struck coldly: "Since they dared to do this, it must have been carefully planned. Maybe they killed everyone who had seen the little emperor, or hid the little emperor among some wealthy families. Among them, some old aristocratic families are nothing more than a wall, and whoever becomes the emperor doesn't matter to them, and their position cannot be shaken at all, so if they help hide that stupid emperor, you have no evidence, and you can't do anything to them at all."

In the night, Gu Wen's phoenix eyes were full of fierce light, and he grinned frightfully, "Evidence? Fourth, you don't need evidence to kill someone."

"You mean that when you arrive in the capital, you don't ask the reason, just search around and slaughter at will. How can you convince the public?"

"They were afraid, so they took it casually."

"Oh, ridiculous."

"I don't think you have Zhang Liangji, why bother to act like this, it makes people sick."

The fourth child was not irritated, and still calmly said: "Then let me ask you, if it is finally found out that all the aristocratic families participated in hiding the stupid emperor, are you going to kill all the aristocratic families?"

Third child: "Why not?"

"Then who will be the official in the court?"

"The world is so big, why worry about no one being an official?"

"I think if you really kill them all, no one will dare to be an official."

Gu Xiaoqi was sandwiched between the third brother and the fourth brother, both of them held his hand, but they were arguing on top of his head, making Gu Xiaoqi suspect that there was some rain.

He raised his head weakly and said, "Third Brother, I think it's better to leave this matter to Dad, we are still young."

The third brother's eyes were still sharp, and he landed on Xiao Qi, took a deep breath, and said sarcastically: "Well, Qi Gou'er is right, the fourth brother is still young, so the elder brother will not bully him."

The fourth brother smiled lightly, without emotion.

Gu Xiaoqi was embarrassed and wanted to say something more, but he yawned a lot, and then heard the third and fourth brothers say in unison: "Do you want me to recite it?"

This is a matter of death, anyone who chooses will die!

Gu Baozhen: How about telling them that the third brother should memorize for 3 minutes, and the fourth brother should recite for 3 minutes. Let’s take turns.

But Gu Xiaoqi also knew that if he really said that, he would definitely get a cold snort from Third Brother, then throw away his hand and lead Fifth Brother away.

Help, why do I have to make this choice when I am only five years old?

"Don't I, Gu Xiaoqi, have no legs? I can walk on my own!" Gu Baoyu said reluctantly, giving up the opportunity to be lazy that was presented to him.

The fifth child sneered, "Hahahaha, Xiao Qi has run into trouble today? Usually he always lies on the back of the fourth child and refuses to get off. So you also know that you have legs!"

Gu Xiaoqi blushed: Shut up!Stupid Fifth Brother!

Here, the brothers of the Gu family were barely in harmony, and beside the boulder that Gu Yuan noticed not far above the grove, two people slowly came out, it was Gu Shiyong and Bao Yan!

Bao Yan didn't say a word from the beginning to the end, and when he saw the lord smiled and shook his head, he said, "So it's hidden in the palace, and I don't know if General Dongwu found anything unusual in the capital."

Gu Shiyong put his hand on his saber. Hearing this, he tapped the blood ruby ​​on the hilt of the sword with his slender fingers. After a long time, he said, "It doesn't matter if you find it or not. You won't find any flowers."

None of them talked about the few children surnamed Gu who caused trouble just now.

After speaking, Gu Shiyong left without looking at the execution scene where the old eunuch was quartered by five horses.

Bao Yan bent down: "Respectfully send off the lord."

Gu Shiyong waved his hand: "You should also rest earlier, Bo Qing, when you arrive in the capital, there are still many important things that must be done by you. Don't be exhausted."

Bo Yan: "I am willing to do the work of a dog and a horse for my lord."

The author has something to say:

Why is the ancient family so proud?Because they generally have access to educational resources and are easy to cling to each other, poor people have no money to study, even if they have studied, there is no famous teacher to teach or recommend them, so it is difficult for them to excel in self-study.