After the rebirth, I became the darling of the tyrant

After the crowd dispersed, Xiao Tingshen left Gu Chen alone.

According to the plan, Xiao Tingshen was the first to release the information about "Rushing to the aid of Xiangping", which was true.Then Gu Chen will send people to blockade the capital, cut off the communication between the traitor and the outside world, and also prevent the possibility of the traitor sending someone to send a message, forcing the traitor to come out by himself.In the end, Gu Chen led his men to ambush on the only way to Xiangping.

Gu Chen thought that Xiao Tingshen was not very reassuring about him, especially the step of going to ambush. He was going to lead a group of people to squat between the mountains for an unknown period of time.Perhaps it was because His Majesty the Emperor had something to say to keep him, so he stood there, waiting for Xiao Tingshen to speak.

Who knows that His Majesty didn't say anything, but just took out a small box from the hidden compartment of the bookshelf and handed it to Gu Chen.Gu Chen was about to open it to take a look, but Xiao Tingshen grabbed it.

Gu Chen:?

"For you." Xiao Tingshen's eyes drifted a little, "Open it after leaving Shenjing."

With a serious look on his face, Gu Chen said in his heart that it should not be a gilt bowl for tribute - he didn't want everyone to use a rough porcelain bowl when the leader ate out, so he held a gold bowl...but He still couldn't help feeling a trace of warmth in his heart, he took the small box, and smiled deeply at Xiao Ting.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Jiang Chong will go with you." Xiao Tingshen said.He looked at Gu Chen for a long time, with thousands of words in his eyes, but in the end he only uttered two words: "Take care."

Gu Chen nodded, took the small box, opened the door and left.

Coming out of the palace gate, Gu Chen saw Jiang Chong who was waiting by the roadside with someone.

Now he and Jiang Chong are quite acquainted - ever since Jiang Chong died to save him in the previous life, Gu Chen noticed him, and then the two went to look for Zhao Zhongqi together, swam at the bottom of the Tongshan River, and went to Hubei Province After drinking the northwest wind for eight days in Wang Yongke's outer house, and working together inside and outside to rescue Concubine Xian... There is no shortage of drinks and discussions on weekdays. It can be said that they are very good friends.

Jiang Chong was a few years older than Gu Chen, so Gu Chen called him "Brother Jiang", and they were very happy to meet each other.

"You're really relieved." Jiang Chong hugged Gu Chen, and said with a smile, "Just hand over the blockade of the capital to that boy Zhang Tian?"

The deputy commander of the Beijing camp, Zhang Tian, ​​was quite young. Gu Chen was going to lead his troops to ambush and catch the spies this time, so he entrusted Zhang Tian with the task of sealing the capital. He is a scheming person, Zhang Tian is pure, he will definitely not be the opponent of the spy, if he is fooled by the other party's few words, he will have to let him out of the city.

But what he wanted was for the spies to be released from the city.If an old hand is sent to seal the city, and the spies can't leave the city to deliver intelligence, how can they arrest them?

But Gu Chen didn't explain, just smiled and led the horse.Before getting on the horse, he put the small box into his arms, and Jiang Chong noticed it.

"Your Majesty gave it to you?" Jiang Chong laughed loudly, "It's really mysterious, with such a tight package, it must be something like Xuanhu Order?"

Gu Chen also smiled: "Where are there so many Xuanhu orders? Let's go, we still have to hurry."

He lifted the reins, and together with Jiang Chong, led the hundreds of people away.

From Shenjing to Xiangping is basically a plain, with only a not-too-high mountain in the middle, which is the only way for pedestrians and troops to pass.

A day later, Gu Chen and others arrived here.There are a total of 150 people who came out with him this time, and they are all elites drawn from the Dragon Guards.The horses are also the best horses. When they arrive at the destination, the whole group is full of energy and not tired.

"This is the mountain." Gu Chen took out the map, pointed to the words "Xuantianling" and said, "From the location, if you want to go from Shenjing to Xiangping, you must pass through here."

Jiang Chong looked at the map and couldn't help scratching his head: "There are too many roads here? Why are they blocked?"

"Although there are many roads, there are only four exits." Gu Chen pointed to the map and said, "There are two in the southeast, one in the northwest, and one in the north... Let's do it this way."

He said to Jiang Chong: "Divide people into four teams. You and my team have a little more people, and the other three teams have fewer people. If you know them well, I will leave this matter to you."

"no problem."

"The first team goes to the first exit in the southeast, cutting down trees, cutting off roads, digging holes... I don't care what to do. In short, let this road be cut off and pretend to be a little more." Gu Chen looked up at the sky, and then used it a little I stepped on the dirt under my feet with a little force, "It will rain here tonight, and it would be nice to create the illusion of a collapsed mountain."

Jiang Chong was shocked: "...you can still watch the sky?"

"I stayed in the snowstorm in Yanbei for five years... I was forced to learn it." Gu Chen smiled, "Brother Jiang, you can arrange someone to go to the first exit in the southeast."

Although Jiang Chong had been promoted to the commander of the Longxiang Guard, he was on an equal footing with Gu Chen, but he still had a natural sense of trust and obedience to Gu Chen, so he immediately arranged a team of people to take the first exit to the southeast and go.

"The second team goes to the second exit in the southeast." Gu Chen said, "Go and borrow two sets of clothes from the nearby county government, block the road, and say that this is the government's road construction, and they are not allowed to pass."

Jiang Chong asked curiously: "Why didn't you pretend to be the collapse of the mountain this time?"

"It's okay that the mountain collapsed at one exit, but don't you think it's strange that all three exits collapsed?" Gu Chen laughed, "We can arrange people to go to the second exit."

Jiang Chong sent another team and left.

"The third team goes to the northwest exit." Gu Chen said, "Don't be too deliberate, just buy some chicken blood or pig blood and sprinkle it on the ground intermittently, creating the illusion that someone was attacked here."

The traitor has been lurking for so long without showing his feet, which shows that he is a cautious person.If there are signs of danger around him, he will inevitably abandon this path and take the remaining one.

The third team also took orders to leave.

The fourth team was left. Gu Chen counted the number of people. Including him and Jiang Chong, there were 48 people in this team.

"Is it possible?" Jiang Chong couldn't help asking Gu Chen, "What if a large army comes..."

"The capital is closed, so there should be no large troops." Gu Chen couldn't help laughing, "Let's go, go to the northern intersection and wait for the rabbit."

The other three paths cannot be taken, so the traitor naturally only has the path of Gu Chen left.

Then they squatted at the north exit for three full days.

During the period, it was indeed raining as Gu Chen said. After the rain stopped, Gu Chen went around the other exits and found that the layout was very natural, without any signs of camouflage.He felt relieved, returned to the north exit, and huddled in a small forest with Jiang Chong and others.

Although the air was much cleaner after the heavy rain, it did make everyone drowned and wet.When the wind blows at night, it's chilly again.They lay in ambush among the bushes, unable to make a fire or make any major movements, they could only eat dry food, it was miserable.

At this moment, Gu Chen took out the small box that Xiao Tingshen gave him.Jiang Chong was idle and had nothing to do, and he could not drink or eat meat in this wilderness, so he could only approach Gu Chen and joked, "What did your Majesty send you?"

Gu Chen squinted at him and opened the small box.By the moonlight, it seemed that a piece of strangely shaped jade was lying inside... Gu Chen was a little puzzled, and moved the box towards the bright place again, and Jiang Chong interrupted at this moment.

"What is this?" Jiang Chong asked inexplicably after observing for a long time, "Paperweight?" He himself felt wrong after he finished speaking, and said to himself: "It's not right... how can a paperweight be so small, and paperweights are usually carved Mountains and waters, this carving... looks like a tree root. Why did His Majesty carve the tree root on it for you?"

Gu Chen didn't answer, and was still carefully observing the jade of unknown shape.The jade is a good piece of jade, with warm tentacles, crystal clear, and no impurities at all.It's just this shape... His gaze fell to the middle of the jade carving, and he suddenly noticed something, and blurted out: "This is Your Majesty."

Jiang Chong: "..."

Gu Chen remembered that when the two of them were classmates when they were teenagers, Xiao Tingshen didn't even have a decent jade pendant around his waist because of his poverty, so Gu Chen gave him one on his birthday.

Xiao Tingshen promised at that time that he would return Gu Chen a good jade pendant in the future, no, he came to fulfill his promise.

only……

His Majesty the carver...

I really can't compliment you...

If it weren't for the vague appearance of the jade pendant that Gu Chen gave in the middle of the small jade carving, Gu Chen would not be able to recognize that this jade carving is Xiao Tingshen himself, and it is Xiao Tingshen who was still a prince when he was young.It seems that His Majesty found a good piece of jade and carved it in his own image for a long time before giving it to Gu Chen.

give me to you.

Holding this small jade carving, Gu Chen's cheeks burned instantly.He tried his best to put away the jade carving as if nothing had happened. Jiang Chong watched his movements, his eyes clearly expressed his shock: "...This is really Your Majesty!?"

"Ah."

"Ha, ha, ha..." Jiang Chongqian laughed a few times, "This, who carved this, this..."

"It was carved by His Majesty."

Jiang Chong was dumb, remembering that he said just now that His Majesty "carved the roots of the tree on it"...

He was silent.

However, probably because waiting was too boring, Jiang Chong approached Gu Chen again after tossing and turning a few times: "I have never seen His Majesty care so much about anyone. Xiao Chen," he elbowed Gu Chen, " Do you also like Your Majesty?"

Gu Chen was obviously frightened, his whole face turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye, and he couldn't help stammering: "You, you, what nonsense are you talking about?"

"Do you like Your Majesty?"

"No." Gu Chen quickly denied it.

"Really?" Jiang Chong was curious, "Then you..."

"We used to be classmates." Gu Chen said, "I...we are just friends who used to be very close."

"That's it." Jiang Chong scratched his head, and finally could only shrug his shoulders, "Okay."

He gave up asking, and Gu Chen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.He shrank back into the long grass and rolled over on his side.After staying there for a while, he couldn't help reaching out his hand into his arms and holding the small, surprisingly ugly jade carving.

He couldn't help bowing his head and smiling.