Courtesy

Gu Fang moved to live in the small courtyard, and the two elders were secretly relieved.

He asked for a few days of sick leave with the Zhang Jiansi, and these days he has been staying in the small courtyard.

Reading, staring in a daze, helping his mother clean the house, and weeding the vegetable garden in the backyard are the living conditions of an elderly person all day long.

He even talked less, most of the time his father and mother asked him, and he only said a few words.

"Mom, I'm done eating, you guys eat slowly." Gu Fang pushed the bowl away and stood up.

"This... just ate a little bit, this child is really..."

Before Mrs. Gu finished speaking, Gu Fang had disappeared.

"Okay, it's good that he didn't start a hunger strike for you." Old General Gu said.

Gu Fang returned to his hut, took a book and lay down under the hammock in the yard to read. Character.

Unconsciously, I recalled that night last winter in my mind.

"Look at him, he seems to have lost his soul every day." Mrs. Gu stood on the porch and looked at the man nestled in the hammock from a distance, whispering.

"It's better than losing your life. Don't worry, he will be fine with time." Gu Huan comforted.

What else can Mrs. Gu say?

"If Lu Zheng could be like Fang'er back then, I'd like to open a little bit." She suddenly sighed.

Want to open up?

Gu Huan was noncommittal, did Gu Fang think about it now?

"Ouch."

While the two elders were whispering, there was a sudden exclamation from under the tree. The two elders looked over in fright, and saw their son getting up from the ground discouragedly, patting the ashes on his buttocks.

Seeing this, the two breathed a sigh of relief, and then Gu Huan said, "Does he seem to be thinking about it?"

Mrs. Gu shook her head: "No."

Being able to fall out of a hammock can be said to be very absent-minded.

"Father, I want to resign." That night, he approached Gu Huan to express his thoughts.

Gu Huan didn't speak, but looked at him silently for a while before saying: "Have you thought it through?"

Gu Fang nodded: "I... don't want to have anything to do with him anymore. Although the envoy of Zhangjian is small, he will be involved with him to some extent when performing tasks. I'm afraid I can't do it well."

Of course Gu Huan knew what he meant by 'do not do well', some relationships are not broken just by saying it.

"Just think it through." Gu Huan said looking at his tired face.

However, Gu Fang's resignation did not go so smoothly.

Deputy Director Tang directly dismissed it, saying that Jiang Ling and Zhuang Zhou were far away in Feng County, and there was already a shortage of manpower. If he left again, the Director of Appraisal would really be in chaos.

In the end, Gu Fang could only compromise and resign from his position here after Jiang Ling came back.

This time I went to Tang Long not only failed to resign as an official, even the leave was canceled in advance.

"I see that you don't seem to be sick except that your complexion is a little pale and you lost a little weight. Come back and deal with things if you have nothing to do. There are a lot of official documents in the room of Vice President Jiang!"

So Gu Fang had no choice but to return to the Zhang Jiansi and start a life of going out early and returning late.

In the past, he always felt that time passed quickly, and he was 26 to [-] before anything happened, but now, no matter whether he was with his parents or handling official business in the Appraisal Department, he felt that everything seemed to slow down, and he felt like being overwhelmed by others. Covering the suffocation of the mouth and nose, the torment could not be relieved.

"No, the emperor can't go." Gu Fang carried the official documents to Chief Qi's office, but was startled by the loud bell-like sound coming from inside, and almost threw the things in his hands out.

It was Tang Long's voice.

"What are you excited about? I'm not asking you to go." Director Qi said slowly.

"It has been confirmed that the plague broke out in Fengxian County at this time. Liu Taiwei asked Shengjia to come in person, and said that in order to stabilize people's hearts, what kind of thoughts he has, don't you know? Gentlemen don't build dangerous walls, let alone Da Yue's Son of Heaven." Tang Long's voice grew louder, and Gu Fang's brain ached from the shock of his voice.

But he understood what was going on, and immediately pushed open the door of Director Qi's room.

"No." Gu Fang roared as soon as he opened the door, which was worse than Tang Long's.

The two people inside who were discussing in full swing were shocked by his voice, and they both turned their heads to look over.

Gu Fang realized his gaffe, quickly put away his emotions, and said softly: "I mean, I agree with Vice President Tang's statement."

Qi Yuan was speechless: "None of us care about your opinion."

"But...the emperor has a lot of things to do every day, how can he leave the government and go to Fengxian in person." Gu Fang said.

"Earlier, there was a conquest by Emperor Gaozu, and later Emperor Jing planted trees in Yancheng. Now that the people in Fengxian County are suffering from plague, the emperor personally visits and cares. Why not?" Qi Yuan asked.

There is a mountain in Yancheng that often landslides due to heavy rains, causing a lot of losses to the lives and properties of the surrounding people. Later, the government encouraged the planting of trees on the mountain to fix the earth and rocks. Emperor Jing even came to visit and planted trees on the mountain himself .

What Qi Yuan said is right, whenever this kind of thing happens, the deeds of the king of a country can really encourage and stabilize people's hearts, but the plague is no small matter, if you don't pay attention, you may go away and never return.

"Has the situation in Feng County become so bad that the emperor needs to visit him in person?" Gu Fang asked.

Tang Long frowned: "Deputy Director Jiang sent a letter saying that the medicinal materials are limited and the epidemic has become somewhat uncontrollable, and some people infected with the plague refused to accept isolation and resettlement, and began to flee to places around Fengxian County, not only Fengxian County, It also caused great panic in several places around."

"Now the Zhangjian Division has purchased some medicinal materials from towns a little farther from the border. Although it is a drop in the bucket, it is better than nothing." Qi Yuan said.

"You want the emperor to personally send these medicines to Feng County?" Gu Fang stared.

"Put the official document away first, you are not tired, I am tired just looking at it." Qi Yuan looked at him and couldn't help but said.

"Oh." Only then did Gu Fang realize that he was still holding this pile of things since entering the door, so he piled them up in front of Qi Yuan.

"It was Taiwei Liu who made the suggestion, but the emperor seems to have the same intention. After all, it is only to send medicinal materials, and there may be no need to enter Fengxian County. We just need to let everyone know that the emperor personally sent the medicine for them." Qi Yuan looked in front of him. I couldn't help but stretch out my hand and push them aside.

"The emperor agreed?" Gu Fang asked.

"The emperor said he would think about it, but I think he will go." Qi Yuan said.

Tang Long looked at Gu Fang a little anxiously and said, "Young envoy Gu, aren't you the emperor's brother? Go and persuade him."

Gu Fangyou couldn't tell, let alone persuasion, as far as his current relationship with Jun Ruohan was concerned, it might be a problem if he wanted to meet him.

"I'll go to Prime Minister Su and let him persuade him." Gu Fang said.

Originally, he had been avoiding Su Yanqing because he didn't want to expose the scar on his and Jun Ruohan's heart again, but this time he had to personally send it to the door to expose it.

When Su Yanqing saw him in the hall of Xiangfu, he was surprised for a moment, but quickly suppressed his expression.

"I thought you weren't going to see me again!" Su Yanqing walked in.

"Senior Brother Su." Gu Fang rarely called him out.

"Come on, what do you need me for?" Su Yanqing sat down beside him, picked up the teapot and filled the cups in their hands.

Gu Fang glanced at him, then picked at his sleeve: "You...won't you ask me and Ruo...about the emperor?"

"Ask?" Su Yanqing seemed to have heard some joke, "You two are thinner than me, do you still need me to ask?"

Gu Fang lowered his head and continued to pick at the cuffs of his sleeves.

Seeing him like this, Su Yanqing could only sigh in his heart.

From that day on, he watched Jun Ruohan get thinner and thinner day by day, the crease between his eyebrows got deeper day by day, and his temper got worse day by day.

Now that he saw Gu Fang, he knew that this person was probably no better than the emperor, and the red blood in his eyes was the result of being unable to sleep all night.

In fact, when he learned from Jiang Tong that the two juniors were over, a stone in his heart finally fell to the ground.

But now it seems that his stone fell to the ground earlier.

Gu Xin felt a little uncomfortable: "Is he... all right?"

"He's pretty good, but the ministers below are not so good, they're catching everyone like they've eaten dynamite." Su Yanqing couldn't help but shake his head when he thought about the situation during the past few days.

"I came here just to ask, does the emperor really want to personally deliver the medicine to Feng County?" Gu Fang asked.

Su Yanqing also frowned: "I don't know, if he really wants to go..."

"Then you must stop him. Plague is nothing else. If it goes wrong, people will die." Su Yanqing was stopped by Gu Fang before he finished speaking.

"Gu Fang, in his current state, who can persuade him?" Su Yanqing said.

"Then...then I'll go, I'll deliver the medicine." Gu Fang said suddenly.

"What? You go?" Su Yanqing pinched his forehead, "I'm afraid you didn't understand that Taiwei Liu's suggestion to let the emperor come to Feng County in person is to appease the people. Of course, I don't know whether Taiwei Liu has any other purpose." It’s easy to say. But if you go, it’s no different from going to A, B, C, D.”

"I know, but if I go, he won't go." Gu Fang said, suddenly he felt how he became smart again.

Su Yanqing didn't say anything for a moment, what he said was indeed correct, the relationship between the two of them was already like this, if Gu Fang went to Feng County, Jun Ruohan would never go again in order to avoid him.

"However, Feng County is like a hell on earth right now, I'm afraid..."

"Hell on earth, none of your courtiers persuaded His Majesty, really." Gu Fang couldn't help but blame, "That's the decision."

"What has been decided?" Su Yanqing was shocked. Aren't they discussing it?How did you decide?

"You just say that the medicinal materials were purchased by the Zhangjian Division, and when they are sent to Feng County, the person from the Zhangjian Division will naturally follow. This person is me, Gu Shaoshi." After Gu Fang finished speaking, he suddenly felt relieved, stood up and left.

As soon as Gu Fang left, Eunuch Xi followed him, saying that the emperor called him into the palace.

Su Yanqing didn't need to think about it to know that it was a matter for Feng County.