At night, Du Qiu was reading in the study room when footsteps came from outside, "Father, I have something important to report!"
This is the return of Dugu Qiang, the youngest son of Dugu Lingqiu. Dugu Lingqiu put down the book and said: "Come in!"
The door opened, and a tall and burly young man walked in. Lonely Qian was a palace guard. He was not only highly skilled in martial arts, but also shrewd and capable, and was deeply loved by his father.
He came in and knelt down to salute, "See you, Father!"
"How's the investigation going?" Du Lingqiu asked.
"Father, we have found some clues."
Du Lingqiu perked up and said with a smile, "Tell me, what clues did you find?"
"Brother Ming's men found three people who originally taught children to sing nursery rhymes in Anrenfang and Guangfufang yesterday. These three people all live in Guangfufang. Today they finally found out the details of the three people. All three of them are from the Hidden Sword Pavilion.
warrior."
Du Lingqiu was startled and immediately burst out laughing, "The emperor also asked Cangjian Pavilion to investigate the people who spread nursery rhymes. It is really ridiculous."
"Father, do you want to arrest these three people?" Dugu Qian asked.
"Did you catch him?"
"Not yet, until father makes it clear."
Du Lingqiu shook his head, "We can only watch this matter, but we cannot participate. The water here is too deep and we cannot get involved rashly."
"My child knows."
Du Lingqiu glanced at his son and saw his confused face, so he said calmly: "Don't you think it's strange that this happened just after Lu Qi took office?"
"Could this matter have something to do with Lu Qi?"
Du Lingqiu smiled, "I don't know what this matter has to do with Lu Qi, but I know that this matter must be related to Yuan Xuanhu, or in other words, this matter was planned by Yuan Xuanhu behind the scenes."
Dugu Qian suddenly understood, "My child understands that there is a deep hatred between Guo Song and the Yuan family. There are rumors that Yuan Xuanhu's two grandsons, Yuan Demon King and Young Master Yujian, both died at the hands of Guo Song. My child even suspected that the East Palace assassin case was also related to
Guo Song was involved, and that incident hit the Yuan family too hard."
Du Guqiu shook his head, "The East Palace Assassin case is not a blow at all. The emperor also knows that it is not an assassin sent by the Yuan family. The emperor does not like the Yuan family because the Yuan family secretly supported Li Miao before. The real blow to the Yuan family was Hou.
In the case of Mo Chen's daughter being poisoned, Yuan Xiao tried her best to avoid the ghosts, but was finally stabbed. This caused most of the Guanlong nobles to turn against the Yuan family. The Yuan family has not recovered from this incident until now.
It must be related to Guo Song, and the Yuan family hates Guo Song deeply because of this. Yuan Xuanhu has always claimed to be cunning and cunning, but in the end he was humiliated by a young man. How could he let Guo Song go."
"But how come Hidden Sword Pavilion listens to the Yuan family's command?"
Du Lingqiu took a few steps with his hands behind his back. This is indeed confusing. It can be explained that Li Man was bribed by the Yuan family, but Du Lingqiu felt that the matter was not that simple.
"I asked you to investigate Li Man's life experience last year. How did the investigation go?"
Dugu Qian shook his head, "My child has been investigating for several months, and finally learned from Li Man's nurse's son that Li Man's mother is a singer in Pingkangfang. I don't know who the father is. When he was two years old, his mother
After her death, she was adopted by Aunt Gongsun. She started practicing martial arts at the age of ten and became Aunt Gongsun's best disciple."
Du Guqiu sighed slightly: "I have an intuition that Li Man's life experience is likely to be related to the Yuan family. Otherwise, the Cangjian Pavilion would not cooperate with the Yuan family so tacitly. The Cangjian Pavilion is not short of money."
At this time, Dugu Qian suddenly remembered something and said quickly: "Father, I heard the news this afternoon. The emperor has appointed the eunuch Tian Wenxiu as the supervisor of the Hexi Jiedu Mansion, and at the same time ordered Guo Song to send his wife and daughter to live in Chang'an.
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Du Guqiu stayed for a moment, nodded slowly and said: "I understand, Yuan Xuanhu's purpose is to make the emperor no longer trust Guo Song and become suspicious of him. It can be said that Yuan Xuanhu has succeeded. He is worthy of being an old fox.
His skills are truly amazing, and one has to admire them.”
"Father, what should we do? Should we just watch?"
Dugu Lingqiu said unambiguously: "We can only watch this matter, but we cannot participate. It has not violated the interests of the Dugu family. We cannot make enemies rashly. Please stop investigating the nursery rhyme matter. Then you can do two more things for me."
thing."
"Please give me your father's orders!"
Du Guqiu wrote a note, sealed it in a wax pill, handed it to his son and said: "Immediately send a confidant to Ganzhou to deliver this wax pill to Guo Song himself. Remember, it must be handed over to Guo Song."
In my hands, this is the first and second thing. You send someone to investigate Tian Wenxiu's background. I remember that he was the eunuch of the East Palace, nicknamed Yuma, but I want to know what he did before entering the palace."
On the endless grassland in the north of Zhangye, a cavalry team of more than a thousand people was marching slowly in formation. Dozens of people in front held high flags, including the Tuanlong Banner of the Tang Dynasty and the red-bottomed black dragon flag of the Ganzhou Army.
Guo Song is among the team. It has been more than half a year since he returned to Ganzhou. Compared with half a year ago in the capital, his appearance has changed greatly. His skin is darker and rougher. He has a short beard on his chin and his eyes are no longer as sharp as before.
, with a restrained edge, an unfathomable gaze, and occasionally a hint of coldness.
He had just returned from Shazhou, and his heart was a little heavy. He got a piece of news in Shazhou that Guo Xin fell ill due to grief and anger. It is no wonder that Anxi suffered a series of blows. First, the Tang army in Shule was required to do so in the Tang-Bo agreement.
Withdrawing the troops, Guo Xin left Shule with countless soldiers and family members in tears.
Immediately afterwards, the emperor decided to abandon Anxi, which dealt an extremely heavy blow to Guo Xin. In addition, his uncle Guo Ziyi died of illness, and he could no longer support himself and could not afford to fall ill.
Guo Song felt very guilty, and Guo Xin's illness had something to do with him. He withdrew three thousand troops. In the words of the Anxi envoy, the departure of these three thousand troops was like pulling out the backbone of the old prince.
But Guo Song had no choice. The imperial court took away 10,000 Liangzhou troops. He wanted to defend Shazhou, Suzhou, Ganzhou and Liangzhou. The troops were also lacking. More importantly, the imperial court cut off material support to Anxi. Anxi
There is no way to feed so many troops.
After walking for another two hours, Guo Song saw the majestic Zhangye City Wall in the distance. He went there for more than a month and finally came back. It was already late October. In one month, winter will begin in the Hexi Corridor. Guo Song
Returning to the heart is like an arrow.
Not long after, the army arrived at the city. The cavalry returned to the camp outside the city to rest. Guo Song led his soldiers directly into the city.
It happened to be noon now. Guo Song only ate a piece of dry biscuit for breakfast, and he was really hungry.
Hearing that her husband had returned, Xue Tao came out with his daughter in his arms. Guo Song's baby daughter was almost one year old. She was pretty, smart and cute. She suddenly saw her father and hid in her mother's arms a little shyly.
Guo Song clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Have you forgotten about daddy so quickly?"
The little guy secretly glanced at his daddy, and finally thought about it. She immediately stretched out her little hand to her daddy. Guo Song picked her up and lifted her up high, spinning her around. The little guy screamed with joy, and Guo Song just laughed.
Laughing, holding her daughter in her arms, Anxi's worries were temporarily forgotten at this moment.
The little guy hugged his father's neck and kissed him twice on the face. His nose and saliva covered his face. Xue Tao was so funny that he took out his handkerchief and wiped his husband's face clean. He asked with a smile: "I guess you haven't had lunch yet!"
"Not yet! I'm so hungry."
Xue Tao quickly asked Ah Qiu to tell the kitchen to arrange meals, clapped his hands and smiled at his daughter: "Daddy is about to eat, come to mom!"
But the little guy turned his head and hugged his father's neck and ignored his mother. Xue Tao was angry and funny, "Who refused to let daddy hold him just now, and now he is clinging to daddy again?"
"Then let's eat with daddy!"
"No! No!"
Xue Tao said quickly: "Her intestines and stomach can only eat rice milk, so she can't eat meat with you. She will salivate when she sees meat, so we can't let her see meat."
"I'll give her some bread."
Xue Tao still refused to agree. There was too much oil in the pancake, and the child would have diarrhea as soon as he ate it.
In the end, the little kid burst into tears and hugged his father's neck tightly and refused to let go. Xue Tao was helpless and had no choice but to follow her husband to the dining hall.
In the dining hall, Xue Tao held his daughter in his arms and chewed up grape and orange meat and fed it to her mouth. The little one's eyes were watching her father devouring the meal. In the end, she sucked her little finger and stared at the food on the plate.
Roast mutton, her mother fed her the pulp, but she didn’t want it either.
"What happened in the house recently?" Guo Song asked.
Xue Tao then remembered it and smiled apologetically: "If you don't ask me, I really forgot that Zhao Xuan has given birth to a son, weighing five pounds and five taels. I'm waiting for you to name the child!"
Guo Song was really happy that now his senior brother had a child.
"I don't need to name him. Senior brother told me back then that if he has a son in the future, he will be named Yang Xuanwu."
"That's good, I'll tell her later."
At this time, Xue Tao whispered: "Husband, maybe I have another baby."