The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 515 Jiaojiao (two more)

The battle in Lingguan City was over. The attack was launched when the snow stopped in Xushi, and it was completely over when Haishi came. The battle ended in less than an hour.

Gu's army concentrated all their superior forces, and with their absolute superiority in numbers and combat power, they wiped out the 30,000 remnants of the previous dynasty.

King Yi was shot, and the son-in-law escorted him with an army of 5,000 to escape from the other side of Lingguan City.

Of the remaining 25,000 people, 5,000 died in battle and 20,000 became prisoners.

The vast majority of the 20,000 captives were strong men from the frontier fortresses and other places. They were either followers of the Living Buddha, or they were coerced and lured by King Yi and became members of the rebel army.

Of course, there are also some descendants of the nobles and gentry of the former dynasty who held important positions under King Yi. It is ridiculous that King Yi did not take them with him when he abandoned the city and fled.

Gu Changqing wore a silver armor cloak and rode on a tall horse also wearing silver armor. Behind him was the uniform Gu family cavalry.

The infantry were left at the gate of the city to clean up the battlefield, and formed patrols to hunt down the fish caught by the remnants of the previous dynasty.

It was not the first time that Lingguan City had fought. The most terrifying time was when it was captured by Chen Guo's army not long ago. On that day, just like today, a large number of Chen Guo cavalry broke through the barriers of Lingguan City and captured the defenders of Lingguan City.

They also rode mightily on the long street.

When they saw a woman, they took it away, and when they saw a strong man, they took it away, burned, killed, looted, and did everything.

The war broke out again, the wind in Lingguan City was raging, the doors and windows of every house were closed, and the sound of horseshoes was heard again. They didn't even look to see who won, and everyone hid in their homes in panic.

However, the sound of horseshoes approached, and the sound of horseshoes went away. There were no women's screams on the long street, no men's roars, and no noise of soldiers breaking and looting.

Finally, the brave young man quietly pushed open a crack in the door and looked out.

He saw the Zhaoguo flag fluttering and dancing in the night and the cold wind, and also saw the Gu family army's military flag guarding behind the Zhaoguo banner.

"It's Gu Jiajun!"

he yelled.

As soon as the people heard that it was the Gu family army, they all came with hope, but they were not bold enough to come to the long street immediately. They also opened a crack in the door and looked out.

Gu Jiajun walked from the west end of the long street to the east end of the long street, all the way to the direction of the prefect's mansion.

They didn't disturb any people in the city, and they didn't take away any sheep or chickens on the roadside.

They have strict military regulations and are awe-inspiring and upright!

gradually,

Some people came out of their homes, at first there was only one, and then a large group slowly gathered in the back, they curiously followed Gu's army towards the direction of the prefect's mansion.

At this time, the prefect's mansion has been completely surrounded by Gu's army.

General Zhang Shen searched the prefect's mansion inside and out, found dozens of Yi Wang's staff, and wiped out thousands of Chen Guo's troops who had no time to withdraw from the city.

When Gu Changqing led the cavalry to the gate of the prefect's mansion, the common people also followed.

Zhang Shen will suddenly escort out a bald monk in cassock from a nearby house.

The monk is about fifty, with a benevolent face, a generous heart and a fat body.

Many of the people recognized him, and a woman exclaimed, "It's the Living Buddha! They, they captured the Living Buddha!"

Hearing the exclamation of the people, the bald monk who was terrified at first flashed his eyes, straightened his waist, and said fearlessly: "Amitabha, you are so kind, why are you benefactors committing such crimes in the city?"

"Go to your mother's benefactor!" Zhang Shenjiang kicked the bald monk's ass, kicking him to the ground and fell to the ground, "Fake monk! Swindle!"

The Living Buddha's prestige in Lingguan City is still quite high, and General Zhang Shen's move undoubtedly angered some people.

General Zhang Shen didn't think it was the fault of the common people, after all the common people were innocent, it was all because of this shameless fake monk who colluded with King Yi and fooled the soldiers and common people in the frontier fortress.

Zhang Shen wished he could vent all his anger on this fake monk, but Gu Changqing raised his hand to stop him.

Gu Changqing said lightly: "Stop."

Zhang Shen will bow his hands and step aside: "Yes, General!"

The fake monk fell so badly that he cursed three times in his heart in pain, but he didn't dare to show it on his face.

He simply sat cross-legged on the ground, with a Buddhist bead hanging on one hand, performed a Buddhist ceremony, and said in a universal way: "Amitabha, the crime of killing almsgiver is too heavy, my Buddha is merciful, and I hope that almsgiving don't add more evil."

"How could you treat the Living Buddha like this! The Living Buddha is a good man! He was sent by the Buddha to rescue us! If you disrespect the Living Buddha, you will be punished!" An old lady said angrily.

Zhang Shen will have a toothache!

Old man, keep your eyes open, this bald ass is a fake!

Which master would collude with the rebels and trap the people in the frontier fortress in the flames of war!

And he, he still...

General Zhang Shen almost blurted out what he had just found out, Gu Changqing's words interrupted him in time, Gu Changqing looked down at the living Buddha sitting on the ground, and asked unhurriedly: "You said you are a living Buddha, then let me ask you , How many chapters are there in the Diamond Sutra?"

"Thirty-two grades!" the Living Buddha said without thinking.

"What is the thirty-second product, do you remember?"

The fake monk sneered in his heart, how could he not even know the "Diamond Sutra" if he wanted to pretend to be a Living Buddha?

He performed a Buddha ceremony, and said slowly: "Subhuti! If there are people who hold and use the seven treasures of the immeasurable asamkhite world, and if there are good men and good women who have Bodhicitta, they will uphold this sutra, even the four-line verse, etc. , receiving, holding, reading and reciting, speaking for others, its blessings are better than that of others. It is said that speaking for others is not based on appearance, as if it does not move. What is the reason? All conditioned dharmas are like dreams and bubbles, like dew or electricity, and should be viewed in this way. The Buddha said this sutra, the elder Subhuti, all bhikshus, bhikkhunis, upasakas, upasakas, all the world, gods, humans, and asuras, heard what the Buddha said, and they all rejoiced, believed, accepted and practiced it."

"Look! He is a Living Buddha!" ​​said another commoner.

Zhang Shen lost his temper, and couldn't help saying a few words: "If you can read Buddhist scriptures, you will be a living Buddha. Then I can memorize two passages of the Four Books and Five Classics. Am I the number one scholar in the new discipline?"

"Then do you know that Shakyamuni once wrote a volume of the "Small Shurangama Sutra", which was written when Shakyamuni was still in the royal family before he became enlightened. Could you tell me a few lines of it?"

The expression of the fake monk froze for a moment.

Generally, such small scriptures are not very popular Buddhist scriptures, and he is not a real monk, so how could he really memorize all the Buddhist scriptures?

It's also strange, he is obviously a reckless man who fights, how can he still understand Buddhist scriptures?

Is someone in your family a monk?

Or the one who memorizes all Buddhist scriptures backwards and recites them for you every day?

"Of course the poor monk knows about the Lesser Shurangama Sutra. However, when the poor monk preaches the Dharma, he rarely mentions this Buddhist scripture. Even if the poor monk speaks it, not many people have heard of it. I am talking nonsense, who will prove the innocence of the poor monk?"

Ha ha, such a small skill, it's rare to beat him!

Gu Changqing said again: "You are a Living Buddha, you should have this scripture in your hand."

The fake monk said without changing his face: "The scriptures... have already been burned by your people!"

General Zhang Shen said angrily: "You are talking nonsense! When did I burn your things!"

Gu Changqing looked at the fake monk with a calm and calm expression: "So the master admits that there is this Buddhist scripture in the world."

As soon as these words came out, the fake monk's expression froze again.

Gu Changqing said unhurriedly: "Master, you know that there is no such Buddhist scripture in the world."

The Shurangama Sutra exists.

But the "Small Shurangama Sutra" was purely Gu Changqing's deception.

Gu Changqing looked at him indifferently and said, "Sakyamuni was just an ordinary person before he became enlightened. How could he write Buddhist scriptures? Master is enshrined as a living Buddha, and he doesn't even understand such a simple truth?"

"..." The fake monk was choked speechless.

Who said that those who lead the army to fight have no brains, this kid is so cunning! He actually set him up!

Not all the people among the people are believers of the Living Buddha, but there are still quite a few people who still have reason. When they saw the Living Buddha showing such a big show, they couldn't help saying loudly: "Isn't it really a fake monk!"

The fake monk said sternly, "I'm a living Buddha! I'm not a fake monk!"

"Then you don't even know how to read Buddhist scriptures!" the young man who had just teased him continued.

"I was..."

Before the fake monk finished, Gu Changqing raised his hand, and several Gu Jiajun came over with several women.

The headed woman is about the same age as the fake monk, surrounded by jewels and emeralds, which is in sharp contrast with the poor and destitute people after the war.

The women behind her are all dressed in rich and noble clothes like her, but they are younger than her.

When the fake monk saw this group of people appearing, his face couldn't hold back anymore. He wanted them to shut up, but it was too late.

"My lord, save us quickly—they're going to arrest us and bring us to the magistrate!"

The head woman's "Master" completely tore away the fig leaf of the fake monk.

"Everyone, don't listen to her nonsense! I don't know them! I don't know what tricks these court people have used to find a bunch of women to frame and slander the poor monk! Amitabha, sin!"

"father--"

Behind the women, an immature child's voice sounded with tears.

More than one came, roughly counted, at least seven or eight.

If it is possible that these women were played by Gu Changqing, then these children who all look similar to the "living Buddha" will not be recruited to make up for it.

There are many similar people in the world, but these people obviously have frontier accents. There are only so many children in the frontier, and there are seven or eight who look like living Buddhas. Who would believe that they are not his own?

The fake monk really didn't expect Gu Jiajun to be so ruthless, not only dug him out of the secret room, but also found his family members out of the cellar.

This time I really jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't wash it off.

There are all the witnesses and material evidence, Gu Changqing left Junjun Shao to take care of the general affairs of Lingguan City, and sent General Zhang Can and 10,000 Gu's troops to guard Lingguan City.

Afterwards, Gu Changqing hurried back to Yuegu City with the rest of the troops.

Chen Guo's army really came to attack the ancient city of Chaoyue at night, but something went wrong on their road, and they encountered an avalanche, which caused them to arrive an hour later than planned.

At this time, Gu Changqing had already led his army back, and Chen Guo's army saw that the situation was not good, so they withdrew decisively.

Chen Guo's army has gone through two long-distance marches twice, and if they turn around and attack Lingguan City at this time, it will be like hitting a stone with an egg.

Gu Changqing was not worried about the situation in Lingguan City, he led an army into Yuegu City.

The first thing he did was to go to the wounded barracks to find Gu Jiao.

Gu Jiao once told him that if things went well, she would go to the prefect's mansion to meet him, but he didn't wait for her, it should be that she implemented the second plan - to bring the patient back to Yuegu City.

When he came outside the wounded barracks, he saw Dr. Song wearing an oil-skinned isolation gown, a mask and gloves.

Doctor Song usually would not be so tightly wrapped, it seems that Gu Jiao and the plague patients have returned.

Just be back.

He breathed a sigh of relief.

However, before he breathed a sigh of relief, he saw Dr. Song walking towards him suspiciously: "General Gu, didn't Dr. Gu come back with you?"

Gu Changqing was slightly taken aback: "Didn't she come back with those patients?"

Dr. Song shook his head: "She didn't come back!"

Both men realized something was wrong at the same time.

Gu Changqing's expression changed, and he called the six secret guards over. When he learned that Gu Jiao was going to deal with those Chen Guo masters alone, his heart sank.

"No." He said thoughtfully, "I just came to chase a few plague patients, and I won't send out the most powerful experts. As long as she is not the most powerful expert, Jiaojiao will not be unable to come back. Unless——"

Gu Changqing suddenly thought of the dead man next to the son-in-law who was strong enough to defeat the three Dragon Shadow Guards, and a chill ran down his spine!

"General, everything is ready, the day after tomorrow we will attack North—"

The left commander who was in charge of guarding Yuegu City came over with several marching bamboo slips, and halfway through the conversation with Gu Changqing, he saw that Gu Changqing walked towards the stable as if he hadn't heard, pulled out his mount, and landed on the ground without saying a word. got the horse.

The left commander chased after him and was splashed with snow.

He erased it indiscriminately, looked at Gu Zhangqing who was leaving in the dust, and said loudly: "General! Where are you going so late! General! General——"

...

The cold wind howled and the snow fluttered.

Gu Jiao froze into a small ice sculpture in the ice and snow.

She lay there frozen together with Sirius' corpse, losing body temperature and breathing bit by bit.

People would think of many things before dying, but Gu Jiao couldn't think of anything, her head was frozen to pieces.

I don't know how long it has passed, and her last remnant of consciousness is also frozen in the snow.

She closed her eyes.

Gu Changqing's horse is galloping fast in the night, it is his most beloved mount, it was just a pony when it came to the house, they have been together for several years, and they have already formed an indescribable tacit understanding.

The horse felt the master's anxiety, and the horse's hoof almost broke in the snow.

Gu Changqing went to the forest where the camp was stationed, and found the body of the former master who was buried in heavy snow.

He chipped away the ice and snow with his bare hands, and turned over the corpses one by one.

Not Jiaojiao.

Not Jiaojiao.

It's not Jiaojiao either.

Everyone had signs of being killed by a single blow from the red-tasseled spear, and it could be seen that Gu Jiao was able to deal with them with ease.

If the dead man were here, Gu Jiao would not have succeeded so easily.

After digging the last corpse, Gu Changqing knelt in the snow with stiff fingers and panting.

If Gu Yan is here...if Gu Yan is here...you can definitely sense where Jiaojiao has gone...

After all, Gu Changqing is not Gu Yan, he failed to sense Gu Jiao's movements, he just had an inexplicable intuition that Gu Jiao left this forest with some kind of mission.

She may have predicted that she would not come back so soon, or might not even come back, so her planned retreat was to let the patients rush to Yuegu City and be managed by Doctor Song.

She... She took the initiative to find the dead man.

Why did she go to him?

Why?

...

The wind and snow were so great that even the horses were reluctant to move forward.

The soldier had to get off the horse, and led the horse to try to keep up with the team. However, after taking two steps, he felt something tripped under his feet, and he staggered and fell forward.

He fell on a small hard snowdrift. The snowdrift was a bit hard. He didn't pay much attention to it, and stood up while holding down the other side of the snowdrift.

But just press it.

He froze.

What's the matter with the wrong hand feeling?

His back felt cold, and he carefully looked towards his hand, only to see a round head.

He fell backwards with a thud, stumbled in the snow, and when he sat up, he happened to meet a pair of eyes that were dying.

He was so frightened that the horse didn't even bother to ask for it, and ran forward like hell: "Ghost———"

"What are you arguing about?" A corporal grabbed him, "You want to attract pursuers, don't you?"

He didn't dare to turn his head back, and only pointed his finger behind him tremblingly: "No...not...Old Brother Zhang...then...there is a ghost over there!"

Safety along the way is very important. If there is a ghost, it may not be a real ghost, but a person lurking in the dark!

Corporal Zhang, who was called Brother Zhang, walked towards the bulging snowdrift with the wind and snow on his back.

When he got closer, he realized that it was a person who had been frozen to death.

It made him worry for nothing, he thought it was some assassin in ambush!

The corporal planned to turn around and catch up with the team, but he suddenly felt that the face looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

He bent down again and looked at the other person's face carefully.

He finally remembered where he had seen him.

"My lord! My lord!"

The silver fox man was sitting in a carriage pulled by eight horses, when a soldier's anxious voice suddenly came from outside.

He looked at the unconscious uncle beside him, took out his slender jade right hand from the hand warmer, opened the curtain and asked, "What's the matter?"

The soldier reported: "It seems that someone ... saw Sirius!"

After a while, the silver fox man and several of his confidantes appeared beside the little snowdrift that tripped him just now.

The confidants pushed aside the snow, revealing the entire body of Sirius.

He was kneeling beside the other corpse, his head nodding to the ground, his cheek slightly turned to the right.

This action prevented him from putting all his weight on the opponent's body, but it was heavy enough.

Everyone was stunned.

Sirius is the number one expert under your lord, didn't he escort Princess Ning'an to escape?

How can you die here?

Who is the person who died with him?

The silver fox man frowned, his unbelievable eyes fell on Sirius' corpse.

The confidants understand why the lord has such a look on his face. Sirius is a dead man bought from the nobles of the Yan Kingdom with a lot of money, and it is by no means comparable to ordinary dead men.

The Dragon Shadow Guard of the royal family of the Zhao State could not hold on to ten moves in the hands of Sirius. The person who could kill Sirius was in Yan State, and no one in Zhao State or Chen State could even hurt him!

The silver fox man's handsome face was covered with a layer of frost, and he said coldly to his subordinates: "Look who is the other dead?"

"Yes!"

A confidant squatted down and brushed away the snow from the man's face.

It was a young and immature face with a red birthmark on the left cheek.

The silver fox man recognized the birthmark immediately.

"It's him?"

He was surprised.

The silver fox man fought against Gu Jiao, and on the ice of the lake, Gu Jiao wounded him with a red-tasseled spear.

Before that time, Gu Jiao and another black-clothed man broke into the prefect's mansion of Lingguan City at night, used black gunpowder to kill a bloody road, and rescued the old Marquis Ding'an of Zhaoguo.

"My lord! He's still angry!" the confidant said in shock.

He originally intended to separate Sirius from the small corpse, but he sensed something was wrong as soon as his hand touched Gu Jiao's face, and he probed Gu Jiao's breath again.

Although the breath is weak, it really exists!

"My lord, King Yi is awake, ask your subordinates to come down and ask what's going on here?" The guard next to King Yi came over and said.

The silver fox man looked thoughtfully at the unconscious Gu Jiao: "Sirius is dead, the murderer was just caught."

The silver fox man returned to the carriage.

He was also led into the carriage with an unconscious soldier in armor.

King Yi covered the wound on his shoulder, frowned in pain, and asked, "Who is he?"

"The murderer who killed Sirius."

King Yi looked up and down at Gu Jiao's figure and her armor without any special emblem at all, and said, "What? Him? A soldier?"

"It's Zhao Kingdom's soldiers." The silver fox man said.

King Yi had just suffered a defeat, and when he mentioned that Zhaoguo's complexion was not very good, he said in a deep voice, "Gu Jiajun?"

The silver fox man threw Gu Jiao casually on the carpet of the carriage, and lightly kicked Gu Jiao's feet away: "Look at the armor, it doesn't look like it."

Gu Jiajun's armor is silver armor. This kid's armor is a bit like the armor of the Tang family's archers, but there is no emblem of the Tang family's archers.

Yi Wang looked at Gu Jiao strangely: "You said he killed Sirius? How is it possible? How old is he?"

The silver fox man curled his lips into a smile: "Uncle, do you still remember the boy I mentioned to you about the young man who was related to the Yan Kingdom?"

Yi Wang frowned and said, "Is he the one you mentioned?"

"My lord! His luggage has been found, here it is!"

Outside the carriage, the silver fox man's confidants handed over a heavy pannier and a red-tasseled gun.

The silver fox man Maoxue took it.

The moment the curtain was lifted, the wind and snow poured in suddenly, King Yi shivered from the cold, and frowned even more tightly.

The silver fox man tied up the curtain and rummaged through it in the small back basket first.

Seeing that there was nothing more than a little dry food and a tattered small medicine box inside, the silver fox man was a little disappointed.

I thought I could find some treasure.

The silver fox man casually placed the small basket next to Gu Jiao, fondled the red tasseled spear in his hand fondly, and said to King Yi, "Uncle, this is the weapon of Xuanyuan Li, the God of Yan."

"So ugly?" King Yi's eyes hurt from the hot red flowers and braids on the red-tasseled spear.

The silver fox man smiled lightly, but he didn't care about the weapon becoming ugly: "I inquired with Chen Guo a few days ago, Xuanyuan Li's red tasseled gun was given to Chen Guoguo by Lord Yan as a birthday present. Later During the war between Chen State and Zhao State, this red-tasseled gun was snatched by Zhao State’s Xuan Ping Hou. During the peace talks between the two countries, Chen Guo wanted to return it, but Xuan Ping Hou refused.”

Yi Wang pondered for a moment, deeply convinced: "Well, that person can do such a thing."

Just a stinky shameless person.

King Yi paused, and asked again: "Then is he from the Xuanyuan family, or from the Xuanpinghou's mansion?"

The silver fox man shook his head: "I don't know for now, he not only got the long gun, he also has the black powder, he must have an inseparable relationship with Yan."

"So it's from the Xuanyuan family." Yi Wang made a judgment in his heart, and then his expression changed drastically, "We have arrested the people from the Xuanyuan family! If the Xuanyuan family knew about it, they wouldn't need 100,000 cavalry to trample us into meat !"

The silver fox man smiled: "Uncle, don't worry, if he is really an important person in the Xuanyuan family, Yan Guo would have sent reinforcements here."

King Yi thought it was such a reason, and when he thought of something, King Yi said again: "Then...why didn't you kill him? He killed Sirius, don't you avenge Sirius?"

The silver fox man touched the red-tasseled spear in his hand and said: "Sirius is dead, even if I avenge him, Sirius will not survive. But if he can kill Sirius, it means that he is stronger than Sirius. Uncle, if he is willing to submit to us, wouldn't we have a second Sirius?"

King Yi hesitated for a moment and asked, "What if he doesn't submit?"

The silver fox man hooked the corners of his lips willfully: "He is a soldier of the Zhao Kingdom, and he saved the life of the old Marquis Ding'an. We use him to threaten the Gu family army. What does uncle think the Gu family army will do?"

King Yi looked at the young man lying sideways on the ground for a moment, and for some reason, he felt a little flustered in his heart: "I think it's better for us to kill him."

The silver fox man smiled and said, "Uncle, don't be afraid, he's frozen like this, so he can't pose a threat."

On the last day of the month, the bills are cleared.