When Zhou Gu arrived at Nanping Houfu, it was just dawn.
When the gatekeeper saw Zhou Gu, he was stunned for a moment, then quickly opened the door for him, yawned and greeted him, "Young Master Zhou."
Zhou Gu nodded and asked him, "Which courtyard does Su Rong live in?"
The gatekeeper said slowly: "Miss Su Qi? She came yesterday. She seems to live in Lihuayuan in the backyard."
Before the gatekeeper could finish speaking, he saw Zhou Gu rushing to the backyard like a gust of wind.
The gatekeeper was stunned, and his sleepiness suddenly disappeared. Although the Nanping Marquis Mansion was far away from the capital, the rumors about Su Rong and Zhou Gu had already spread to the Nanping Marquis Mansion. Therefore, everyone in the mansion had heard about the two.
People's rumors.
The boy who was guarding the door was also a person who loved to get together with three or two boys after dinner to listen and talk. He immediately slapped the person guarding the door with him awake, "Hey, wake up quickly, Young Master Zhou is here.
As soon as the person arrived, he hurriedly asked Miss Su Qi, and now the person has rushed towards Lihua Garden."
The person who was woken up by him immediately rubbed his eyes, "Who are you talking about?"
"Oh, Young Master Zhou is here. He rushed to the backyard to find Miss Su Qi. He looks really anxious." The man said, "Hurry up and report to the Crown Prince, and take a look outside Lihua Garden."
The man nodded, rubbed his eyes, said yes, and ran towards the inner courtyard.
Ning Chi had already gotten up. He was used to getting up early. He was washing his face when he heard that the boy came to report that Zhou Gu had come in a hurry. He was stunned for a moment, waved to the boy and said, "I know."
After the boy left, Ning Chi smiled Wushang to his personal bodyguard and said, "I received a letter from him last night. He also said in the letter that things in the Eighteenth Village were a bit tricky and that it would be difficult for him to leave. I'm afraid that if he leaves,
Something has changed, but I didn’t expect people to come so early in the morning.”
Wu Shang had naturally heard the rumors and had been with Ning Chi since he was a child. He also knew that after Zhou Gu came to Nanping, he mentioned Su Rong when he and Ning Chi were drinking.
When he asked politely, "I heard that Miss Su Qi is engaged to Nanchu's Ye Ergong? Are you two still in contact now?" I almost fell out with the prince.
Later, not only did the prince understand, he also understood that Young Master Zhou could not let go of Miss Su Qi.
Therefore, the prince sent someone to deliver a letter to Miss Su Qi as soon as she arrived in Nanping. When he received his reply and found out that he would not come back, the prince said, "I can still bear it. As expected of Zhou."
Gu, someone from the East Palace."
But now...
He asked: "Your Majesty, do you want to visit Lihua Garden?"
Ning Chi shook his head, "He came early in the morning and went straight to Lihua Garden. Let them talk first! I won't bother him."
Wushang thinks about it too.
Zhou Gu quickly found Lihua Garden where Su Rong lived. When he arrived, the entire Lihua Garden was quiet and still sleeping.
He stepped lightly and entered the yard.
Fengling yawned and opened the door, looking at Zhou Gu in surprise, "Mr. Zhou? You came so quickly."
He also thought that Zhou Gu had business at the Eighteenth Village and would not come so quickly. Maybe the master would leave Nanping with him. As long as he did not go to the Eighteenth Village, he might not be able to see him. After all, he left Beijing.
It hasn't been that long actually, and it's not like I haven't seen him for a year and a half, so I'm not so anxious. When I come here, I have to meet him, and it's business that matters.
Zhou Gu nodded and lowered his voice and said, "Is she still asleep?"
Fengling nodded.
Zhou Gudao: "Find a place to talk and don't wake her up."
Fengling thought to herself that she might have woken up now. If someone else came to find her, she might not wake up even if she knew about it. But if you come to find her, she must be awake.
Sure enough, Su Rong's door opened from the inside. She looked at Zhou Gu and waved to him, "Here you come? Come in and talk, I'm awake."
Fengling let out a chuckle in her heart, he knew it!
Zhou Gu immediately walked towards Su Rong, came close to her, and said to her: "I came early and woke you up."
Su Rong motioned for him to sit down and walked to the copper basin to clean his face.
Zhou Gu sat on the chair and looked at her. When he saw that she had finished washing and wiping her hands with a handkerchief, he stood up and walked over, "I want to wash too."
He rode horseback to the Nanping Marquis Mansion early in the morning, feeling uncomfortable with the wind and dust blowing on his face.
Su Rong nodded and instructed him, "Then pour this out and replace it with a basin of fresh water."
Zhou Gu said "hmm", took the water and poured it, scooped some water from the well, and stood in front of the washbasin to wash his face.
This time Su Rong was sitting at the table, wiping her face and hands with ointment and looking at him.
After Zhou Gu wiped it off, he came back and sat down at the table. He looked at Su Rong and said, "You are the one who wipes your hands. You didn't make it for me. It just smells like medicine."
Su Rong looked at him, "You are a man, but you still need to use balm?"
"My face is dry." Zhou Gu pointed to his face, knowing most clearly that she likes good-looking people, so he paid special attention to his face. After all, if Ye Guixue is not good-looking, look at her
Will you accept the engagement? That's impossible. "The wind in Nanping is much stronger than the wind in Beijing, and the temperature is obviously warmer. It's really strange."
"Nanping is very mountainous, and it's the mountain breeze." Su Rong handed him the ointment, "I didn't make this. It's such a cheap thing, it's a waste of my time. If you want it, just give it to you!"
Zhou Gu blinked, "What will you use after you give it to me?"
"Let Fengling go buy it again." Su Rong asked him, "How is the matter at the Eighteenth Village handled? Isn't it difficult to deal with it?"
"It's very tricky." Zhou Gu straightened his expression while applying the ointment when talking about this, "Zhang Ping's legitimate son Zhang Mao, if my guess is correct, he is now in the Eighteenth Village."
Su Rong immediately sat up straight.
What does it mean that Zhang Ping's legitimate son Zhang Mao is in the Eighteenth Village? As long as Su Rong hears this name and the place he came from, he will understand that he is coming to the Eighteenth Village.
In other words, coming to the Eighteen Villages is equivalent to coming to Nanping.
The distance between Northern Hebei and Nanping is a thousand miles, but a thousand miles journey, although not close, is not too far.
Zhou Gu continued: "I guess he came with troops and has already sent people to investigate."
"How do you say that? Why are you guessing like this?" Su Rong asked immediately.
Zhou Gu told Su Rong about the three days of negotiations at the Eighteenth Village and the changes in Chen Qi's attitude. After that, he told Su Rong his speculations one by one.
After listening to this, Su Rong thought carefully for a moment and confirmed Zhou Gu's conjecture, "You are right. Chen Qi's attitude has changed so much. There must have been changes. In the current court situation, the prince has gained momentum and can make Chen Qi more powerful."
The Eighteen Villages represented by Qi didn't even want the prince to join him or accept the imperial court's offer, so someone must have promised him huge benefits and he was tempted."
"In today's court, who can offer better treatment than the prince? It's impossible for your majesty, but it's possible for the second prince. But behind the second prince, we all know that it's General Pingxi's Mansion, Zhang Ping. And he can persuade
Chen Qi, besides Zhang Ping himself, the person who made him make up his mind to bet was really his legitimate son Zhang Mao."
Su Rong narrowed his eyes, "The Marquis Mansion of Nanping only has 30,000 troops. If Northern Hebei really mobilizes troops and adds eighteen villages, Nanping will be in danger."
She made a decision immediately, "Send a message to Prince Feiying and send it to the capital as soon as possible. Ask the Prince to mobilize troops to Nanping. I don't know if it will be late."
After she finished speaking, she added: "Your third brother Zhou Che, on the order of the prince, secretly dispatched a hundred thousand troops to Mobei to help me. He should be halfway there now. Why not send him a message to tell him not to go to Hebei?"
North, after receiving the message, we quickly changed our route to Nanping."
