Guo Song was startled, then overjoyed, "Are you sure?"
Xue Tao nodded, "Two doctors visited me a few days ago to see my pulse. They both confirmed that it was a happy pulse. It is estimated that it is almost three months old."
"I'm going to hire a midwife now. Is there a big reaction?"
"It's okay this time. I have experience myself, so my reaction is a little bit, but I can adjust it myself."
Guo Song also blamed himself. Less than a year after his wife recovered, she became pregnant again, which was not good for her. He had been a little too indulgent in the past few months.
Xue Tao remembered something again and said to her husband: "After dinner, go to the government office. Xiao Du has asked you several times in the past two days. It seems there is something important."
Xiao Du was Du Fu's grandson Du Siye. He was previously assigned to work as Cao Cao in the Dunhuang County Government. Cao Wannian recommended him to Guo Song several times. After Guo Song returned from the capital, he was transferred to his staff to assist Zhang Qianyi in handling documents.
Guo Song nodded, probably because there was some news in the capital.
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After lunch, the little guy finally yawned a few times without eating a bite of meat, and was taken back to the house by his mother to take a nap.
Guo Song came to the Jiedushi official office opposite. He walked into his official room and saw Du Siye busy organizing documents. The young man's handwriting was very beautiful. He studied under Yan Zhenqing. He can be said to be Zhang Qianyi's younger brother and Huai Su's younger brother.
, smart and hard-working, with a clear mind, and is highly valued by Guo Song.
"Very busy!" Guo Song walked in with a smile.
"Ah! Your Majesty is back."
"I just arrived at noon. I came here after having lunch at home. Madam said you have something to ask me about?"
Du Siye said quickly: "A big event happened in the capital, and it is related to the envoy. It was the news sent by Shi Huan."
He took out a copy of the pigeon letter and handed it to Guo Song, "Please let me see it!"
Guo Song took the letter and read it over, his face changed slightly. The person who compiled this nursery rhyme had a terrible heart. It clearly meant that he had the ambition to become a king and to be self-reliant, and it spread throughout Chang'an.
"Your Majesty, this is the second pigeon message!"
Du Siye took out another copy of the pigeon letter and handed it to Guo Song. Guo Song took the pigeon letter and read it over. He didn't say anything for a long time. The emperor actually appointed the eunuch Tian Wenxiu to supervise the army in Hexi. Needless to say, this was a nursery rhyme.
"I understand, is there anything else?"
Guo Song looked normal and didn't seem to take these two things seriously at all, which made Du Siye admire him very much. He quickly said: "There is nothing else for now."
Guo Song quickly calculated the date in his mind. The pigeon letter was delivered three days ago. It was estimated that the supervisor had just set off from Chang'an and would have to travel to Hexi for at least a month.
"I am reporting to you, my humble duty, and I have something to report!"
Guo Song turned around and found that it was Wang Yue, the commander of the Internal Affairs Battalion.
Guo Song nodded, "Let's go to the back room and talk!"
The two of them walked into the back room. Wang Yue knelt down on one knee and bowed, then stood up and said: "I would like to report to you, I have discovered the Hexi Branch of Cangjian Pavilion."
This was good news. Guo Song quickly asked: "When did you find out?"
"A month ago!"
Not long after he left for Shazhou, Guo Song asked again: "How is the situation?"
"To inform the Governor, we actually discovered the people from Zangjian Pavilion in Liangzhou. Through carrier pigeon investigation, we found that a store sends a carrier pigeon every two days, but the store is closed all day and does not do business, so I
I sent brothers to monitor and found that there were more than a dozen people in the store, several of whom climbed over the wall to enter and exit at night and were very skilled in martial arts."
"This is the intelligence point in Liangzhou, what about Ganzhou?" Guo Song asked again.
"Envoy Qi, we have been monitoring this shop. The people who followed them came to Zhangye a few days ago and found that they are connected to a shop in Ganzhou that buys sheepskins."
"Where is this shop that buys sheepskins?"
Wang Yue hesitated and said: "Envoy Qi, this shop is called Xinfeng Sheepskin Shop."
Guo Song was startled. Isn't this the shop next to his house? There was a very kind middle-aged couple and two clerks. The wife also praised the quality of their sheepskins. Could it be...
Only then did Guo Song realize that they were probably here to monitor him.
"Keep talking!"
Wang Yue continued: "There is no pigeon letter in this shop. I estimate that they collected information for a period of time and reported it to Liangzhou, and then Liangzhou contacted Chang'an through the pigeon."
Guo Song frowned, "Does the Hidden Sword Pavilion in Hexi only target me?"
"Judging from the current situation, it seems that this is indeed the case. I want to control one of the clerks so that I can further control the situation."
Guo Song nodded, "You can choose the right time to take action, and try to be careful not to alert the enemy."
"I understand the humble position!"
Wang Yue left in a hurry, and Guo Song paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his hands. The recent series of incidents against him made him wary. The nursery rhyme incident was obviously a political frame-up. Most people would not take it too seriously, but Emperor Li Shi did.
The supervisory troops were sent to Hexi, which shows that there are people here who are adding fuel to the flames and affecting Li Shi's decision-making. This is by no means something ordinary people can do.
Guo Song felt that the nursery rhyme incident was not like the style of the Hidden Sword Pavilion, and that there seemed to be someone else. Guo Song began to vaguely suspect that there was a huge force behind the scenes that was secretly attacking him.
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Zhangye does not have a checkerboard layout like Chang'an City, but a mixture of commercial and residential areas. There are more than a dozen shops, restaurants and inns around Guo Song's residence.
Xinfeng Sheepskin Shop is less than a hundred steps away from Guo Song's residence. It is a new shop opened last year. The shop owners are a very kind middle-aged couple and two waiters. This kind of shop has deep roots in various Qiang tribes.
Buy sheepskins at low prices and sell them to the caravans who come to Zhangye to purchase.
But this shop was a bit strange. They never seemed to go to the grassland to buy sheepskins, and they didn't have any big customers. They only did some sporadic small business every day, so he couldn't understand how they could pay the rent and the wages of the two clerks.
When things go wrong, there must be monsters. Their true identity is a fulcrum of Zangjian Pavilion in Hexi. Zangjian Pavilion has Hexi Hall and is located in Liangzhou. Their mission is to collect intelligence on the entire Liangzhou, but the fulcrum in Zhangye is specialized in
Collect information about Guo Song.
At noon that day, a clerk left the shop and headed outside Nancheng. There was a market outside the city that specialized in selling rice, noodles, vegetables and meat. It was the vegetable basket of the entire Zhangye city. Every day, a large number of people came here to buy rice and vegetables. This clerk
I also went to buy ingredients.
As soon as he walked out of the city gate, a carriage came towards him. The man quickly stepped out of the way. Before he could stand still, a black bag wrapped around him from top to bottom and pushed him forward violently. The door opened just in time.
, two big men dragged him directly into the carriage, and the whole process was over in a very short time.
Not long after, the waiter appeared in a small, dark room, with his hands tied behind his back, and several tall and round men standing behind him.
There was a table in front of him, and behind the table sat a young general, Wang Yue, the commander of the Internal Affairs Battalion.
"Your name is Mao Sanlang, right?" Wang Yue asked coldly.
The waiter nodded timidly, knowing in his heart that their identities must have been exposed.
Wang Yue glanced at him and said: "Your martial arts are so ordinary, it's hard to figure out. Why does the Hidden Sword Pavilion allow someone like you to come to Hexi?"
After saying the three words "Hidden Sword Pavilion", the man's face turned pale, his legs trembled, he knelt down, kowtowed and begged: "I didn't do anything harmful to God, I didn't do anything.
!Please spare me!"
"Let me tell you this! Only those arrested by us can survive if they cooperate with us. If you are willing to cooperate with us honestly, I can guarantee that you will leave Hexi safely."
The man looked horrified. If Zangjian Pavilion knew that he had betrayed him, he would die miserably.
Wang Yue knew his fear and said: "After all, you are not Tubo or Shatuo people, so you don't have to worry. We just want to understand the situation, not to eradicate you. We will keep it secret for you and reward you a hundred dollars."
Two pieces of silver, of course, the premise is that you must cooperate with us. If you refuse to cooperate, I will directly tell the Hidden Sword Pavilion that you have leaked a lot of information, even if you don’t say a word, do you think the Hidden Sword Pavilion will let you go?"
The clerk was threatened and lured. He knew that he had no choice, so he could only ask tremblingly: "You need...how do you need me...to cooperate?"
"First of all, I need to know how on earth you investigated Mr. Guo?"
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