Gu Tingyu was stunned when he looked at the black plaque. After a moment, he suddenly became excited.
If he remembered correctly, this peak was exactly the Jiulong Mountain he had dreamed of.
In search of Jiulong Mountain and the Phoenix Blood Jade, he almost lost his life and was injured. In the end, he was forced to leave the Nanman Kingdom. Unexpectedly, he came to Jiulong Mountain again.
"My lord, what's wrong with you?" Zhao Dehai, who was standing by, saw that his master had been staring at the mountain in a daze, and couldn't help but ask.
"It's nothing to me, I just feel that Jiulong Mountain is a bit familiar, as if I have been to this place before." Gu Tingyu said calmly.
After Zhao Dehai heard this, he did not continue to ask any more questions.
"Your Majesty, I have something to report to you." Zhao Dehai suddenly said seriously.
Gu Tingyu turned to look at Zhao Dehai and asked doubtfully, "What's the matter?"
"Your Majesty, yesterday the spies we sent to various places came back with news that the Beiming Kingdom has united with the Dongling Kingdom."
"Ha!" Gu Tingyu sneered: "They are quite positive! Since they have decided, let's just go with the flow!"
"Yes! I obey my orders!"
Three days later, Zhao Dehai came to Gu Tingyu's study with a confidential letter.
"Your Majesty, the envoy from Beiming Kingdom has sent this secret letter." Zhao Dehai said respectfully.
Gu Tingyu reached out and took the confidential letter.
The secret letter read: Dongling Kingdom and Beiming Kingdom have signed an agreement, and the two countries will cooperate to jointly attack Nanman Kingdom.
Gu Tingyu raised his lips and smiled: "Ha... Beiming Kingdom really hopes that I can help them? In this case, I will fulfill their wishes! "
After Gu Tingyu finished speaking, he asked Zhao Dehai to prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
Soon, pens, inks, paper and inkstones were placed on the desk.
Gu Tingyu picked up the brush and it was stained with rich ink.
"Swish, swish, swish!" wrote a line of words.
Afterwards, he dried the ink on the paper and handed it to Zhao Dehai, asking Zhao Dehai to personally deliver the letter to Beiming Kingdom.
Zhao Dehai took it with both hands and said respectfully: "Yes."
Afterwards, Zhao Dehai left in a hurry.
...
Gu Tingyu returned to the house, and just as he sat down, a guard ran in.
"Your Majesty, it's not good!"
"What's going on? How unbecoming are you in such a hurry?" Gu Tingyu frowned.
"I am guilty!" The guard knelt down to plead guilty, and then whispered: "Your Majesty, the person we sent to assassinate the leader of the Southern Barbarians failed last night."
Gu Tingyu frowned, his eyes were sharp, and he stood up suddenly: "Who did it?"
The guard said: "Yes... I am a subordinate!"
"Are you crazy? How dare you act without authorization?" Gu Tingyu said angrily.
The reason why he chose to send troops to deal with the Southern Barbarians this time was not because he hated the Southern Barbarians. On the contrary, he had no hatred towards the Southern Barbarians. After all, the Southern Barbarians had never invaded their Dongling Kingdom.
However, the Nanman Kingdom is an enemy to their Dongling Kingdom.
At that time, the late emperor of the Southern Barbarian Kingdom was ambitious and tried to annex their Dongling Kingdom. Unfortunately, the Southern Barbarian Kingdom was too small and could not annex their Dongling Kingdom, and was even repeatedly oppressed by the Dongling Kingdom.
Later, the late emperor of the Southern Man Kingdom died in the war.
The Nanman Kingdom was leaderless, and most of the people surrendered to their Dongling Kingdom.
In the past few decades, their Dongling Kingdom has been stationed around the Nanman Kingdom to ensure the safety of the Nanman Kingdom.
Although they are now allies with the Southern Barbarians, if the people of the Southern Barbarians violate their covenant, they will never tolerate their adopted daughter's actions.
Therefore, every ten years, Dongling Kingdom will send elite assassins to lurk into the Southern Barbarian Kingdom to assassinate the top leaders of the Southern Barbarian Kingdom.
However, today, he received news that someone actually lurked into the Southern Barbarian Kingdom and killed the elite assassin they sent.
This incident simply shocked him.
After hearing Gu Tingyu's words, the guard hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, this is not what we want! My subordinates originally wanted to assassinate the leader of the Nanman Kingdom. However, as soon as we entered the territory of the Nanman Kingdom, we were attacked.
What a heavy loss!"
The guard's voice was filled with sorrow as he spoke.
They were ordered to sneak into the Southern Barbarian Kingdom. They originally planned to sneak into the Southern Barbarian Kingdom quietly and assassinate the leader of the Southern Barbarian Kingdom. Unexpectedly, they encountered an ambush, and they lost five or six people without even knowing who their opponent was.
When Gu Tingyu heard this, his face was still gloomy. He pondered for a while, and then asked: "Are you sure it was a sneak attack?"
The guard said: "Your Majesty Mingjian, we were indeed attacked by surprise!"
"Well. You go down first!" Gu Tingyu said indifferently, waving his hand to signal the guards to leave.
After the guards retreated, Gu Tingyu immediately called a guard and ordered: "Take this letter to Beiming Kingdom as quickly as possible and hand it over to the envoy of Beiming Kingdom. Remember, you must deliver the letter in person."
Gu Tingyu handed the note to the guard, and then told the guard to deliver it to the envoy of Beiming Kingdom in person.
"Yes." The guard took the note and said respectfully.
After the guards left, Gu Tingyu fell into deep thought.
The goal of this cooperation between Beiming Kingdom and Dongling Kingdom is probably for the Southern Barbarian Kingdom. If his guess is correct, this assassination must be the work of Beiming Kingdom and Dongling Kingdom.
hateful!
Gu Tingyu gritted his teeth, these despicable and shameless bastards actually used such insidious tactics to deal with him!
............
The next day, the Dongling Kingdom's army began to prepare for the expedition.
Gu Tingyu rode at the front of the team, wearing armor, majestic and domineering.
Gu Tingyu rode his horse and came to Zhao Dehai and said: "Eunuch Zhao, during my absence, I will trouble you to worry about the matters in the court."
Zhao Dehai bowed and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I will do my best to help you do your job well."
"Yeah." Gu Tingyu responded lightly, then turned and left.
Looking at Gu Tingyu's retreating back, Zhao Dehai sighed, shook his head, and turned to leave.
...........
Gu Tingyu led the army to set off, and the envoys from the Beiming Kingdom had arrived in the Nanman Kingdom two days ago.
When Gu Tingyu led the army to set off, the envoys from the Northern Ming Kingdom also arrived at the capital city of the Southern Barbarian Kingdom.
Envoys from the two countries met to discuss forming an alliance and jointly fighting against the Southern Barbarians.
Gu Tingyu and the envoy from the Beiming Kingdom were drinking and chatting in the restaurant box in the capital city, talking about friendship.
The two were getting excited about talking when suddenly there was a knock on the door.
"Come in." Gu Tingyu said calmly.
Immediately, the door of the box was opened from the outside. Gu Tingyu raised his eyes and saw Zhao Dehai walking in from the door.
After Zhao Dehai came in, he first bowed to Gu Tingyu, and then said: "Your Majesty, someone from the palace just now said that Princess Leng Shuang is ill and needs medical treatment, so I sent a special slave to invite the Prince to come back to the palace."
Gu Tingyu frowned suddenly and said coldly: "Why did you suddenly become ill? Can you find out what the illness is?"
Zhao Dehai replied: "According to the diagnosis by the imperial doctor at the imperial hospital, he seems to have been infected with typhoid fever. I don't know the specific situation."
Hearing this answer, Gu Tingyu's brows furrowed even more.
Gu Tingyu squinted his eyes slightly, stared at Zhao Dehai, and said coldly: "Are all the doctors in your hospital a loser? They can't even cure this minor illness. What do I want them to do?"
When Zhao Dehai heard this, sweat broke out on his forehead. He lowered his head and said, "My lord, please forgive me, but the truth is that Princess Leng Shuang's condition is too weird, and I can't do anything about it."
"Humph! A bunch of quacks!" Gu Tingyu snorted coldly and walked away.
It was almost evening when Gu Tingyu returned to the palace.
After returning, Gu Tingyu immediately went to find Leng Shuang
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Leng Shuang was lying on the bed to rest. When she saw Gu Tingyu coming back, she immediately sat up and said, "Your Majesty, you are back!".br
"Well. How is your health?" Gu Tingyu asked.
Leng Shuang smiled and said, "I'm feeling much better now. Thank you, Your Majesty, for taking care of me."
When Gu Tingyu heard this, he reached out and touched Leng Shuang's pale cheek, and said softly: "You should have a good rest!"
"Yeah." Leng Shuang nodded and watched Gu Tingyu leave.
As soon as Gu Tingyu walked out of the room, he ran into the maid Hongmei.
Hongmei walked in with a medicine bowl, looking like she was hesitant to speak.
Seeing this, Gu Tingyu raised his eyebrows and asked, "Hongmei, what's wrong? If you have anything to say, just say it."
Hongmei pursed her lips, and then said: "My lord, during your absence, the princess has been talking about you."
"Oh?" Gu Tingyu raised his eyebrows, looking surprised.
His wife is actually talking about him? Haha, it’s really strange!
Leng Shuang is a woman with an extremely cold personality. Except for the two of them, it is difficult for others to get close to her. Therefore, after she married into the palace, the servants of the palace rarely saw her smile.
Will she talk about him?
Thinking of this, Gu Tingyu thought that maybe he should go and explore.
So, he told Hongmei: "Put down the decoction and let Xiaolian take care of it. Then you can go and inform me that I am going to see my wife."
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
After a while, Xiaolian walked in with a cup of soup.
"Your Majesty, the medicine is ready." Xiaolian respectfully handed the medicine bowl to Gu Tingyu and blessed him with good health.
Gu Tingyu reached out and took the medicine bowl, then turned and left the bedroom.
Leng Shuang's room is next door to his.
When Gu Tingyu pushed open Leng Shuang's room, a strong smell of medicine hit his nose.
In the room, Leng Shuang was half-leaning on the couch, with his eyes closed and his expression looking a little haggard.
When Gu Tingyu saw this scene, he felt an inexplicable pain in his heart. He walked over lightly, squatted down next to Ruantan, and quietly stared at Leng Shuang's sleeping face.
Over the years, she suffered a lot for him and even lost her life.
However, even so, he still didn't have any feelings between man and woman towards her.
Over the years, the only woman he liked was Leng Shuang.
"Are you awake?" Gu Tingyu slowly raised his lips, revealing a warm smile.
Hearing this familiar voice, Leng Shuang slowly opened her eyes. She turned around and saw Gu Tingyu standing next to Ruantan looking at her.
Leng Shuang raised her lips and smiled lightly, and then asked: "My lord, are you finished?"