Su Rong looked up at Zhou Gu, thinking, if not this method, then which one? She didn’t know how to coax people; apart from this method, there were no others.
Zhou Gu pried her fingers apart, "Today Dawei attacks the city, you are not allowed to go to the City Gate, leave it to me."
Su Rong stubbornly refused, "No."
Zhou Gu glared at her in annoyance, "It’s not up to you."
After he finished speaking, he turned to Cui Yanjin who was at the door, torn between whether to come in and stop his cousin from losing his temper or not to interfere, "Get two of your people to watch over her. She is not to go to the City Gate today."
Cui Yanjin uttered an "Ah?" "Dear cousin, this is not good."
"What’s not good about it?" Zhou Gu asked.
Cui Yanjin awkwardly replied, "Well, Yang Su Rong is, after all, the Princess Royal. There is the suspicion of your forcefully controlling her actions."
Zhou Gu said coldly, "I am controlling her, so what?"
Cui Yanjin had more to say, "Eventually it will be recorded in the history books, you intended to control the princess, you wielded your power autocratically, placing it above the king’s power. This is not complimentary to hear and it will be detrimental to your reputation. Furthermore, what if, after the war is over, ministers impeach you condemning you by pen and mouth, what are you going to do?"
Zhou Gu was so annoyed, he almost laughed, "Cui Yanjin, do you know it well?"
Cui Yanjin nodded, "The teacher in my clan’s school taught us about loyalty to the king."
Zhou Gu said with a dark face, "Get lost!"
Cui Yanjin didn’t move. He stomped his foot and said, "Dear cousin, hard truths hurt."
Zhou Gu was tempted to draw his sword and turn on him. Was his younger cousin here to help him or to piss him off?
Su Rong burst out laughing, which immediately strained her wound. Her laughter came to an abrupt end, followed by several groans of pain.
Zhou Gu’s expression changed instantly, "What are you laughing about? What’s there to be happy about?"
Su Rong was in so much pain that she was frowning, she weakly said, "Zhou Gu, I am in pain."
Zhou Gu immediately stepped forward, "Lan Zhi, go and call Dr. Zhang."
Lan Zhi, who also wanted to laugh, gave her agreement and quickly left the room.
At this point, Cui Yanjin walked into the room, concerned for Su Rong, "Dear sister-in-law, you, you should lie down immediately?"
Su Rong shook her head at Cui Yanjin, "I am fine, dear cousin, don’t worry."
Then, she took the opportunity to grab Zhou Gu’s hand and looked at him pleadingly, "Zhou Gu, can you stop being mad at me? I promise, there won’t be a next time. I only thought about getting revenge for you afterward, I didn’t think that without you on the road to the Underworld, I probably wouldn’t feel like appreciating the other shore flowers. I was wrong, there won’t be a next time, please forgive me this once..."
Even Cui Yanjin was shocked, his sister-in-law was actually apologizing to his cousin? He hadn’t seen his mother apologize to his father since he was a child.
Even then, Zhou Gu still had a cold expression on his face and didn’t say a word, appearing as if he didn’t intend to forgive her.
Cui Yanjin couldn’t take it any longer, "Dear cousin, don’t be excessive. You’re a mature man, don’t be so petty. My sister-in-law has already apologized to you, yet you still keep a cold face..."
Zhou Gu gritted his teeth, "Go guard the City Gate now."
Cui Yanjin immediately nodded and said to Su Rong, "My sister-in-law, my mother said that we can’t let men get spoiled. If you spoil him a little today, and a little tomorrow, there will come a day when he will go off the rails. I have to go. Please rest, I will leave some men to protect you; they absolutely do not obey my cousin’s order to forcefully control you."
After he finished speaking, he turned around and ran off. He had long wanted to go to the City Gate.
Su Rong couldn’t hold back her laughter again.
Zhou Gu immediately seized her face, "No laughing."
Su Rong was barely restrained from laughing by the squeezing. Still, her eyes shimmered with suppressed laughter. No matter how one looked at it, she seemed to be laughing madly on the inside.
Zhou Gu squeezed her for a while, but finally couldn’t bear it. He laughed in annoyance, "After the war, I will send him back to Daliang."
"Don’t." Su Rong rubbed her face and tried hard to stretch out her hand to hug his waist. She snuggled her head into his chest with laughter evident in her voice, "Keep such a funny cousin in Nanchu!"
Zhou Gu snorted, "What should he stay in Nanchu for? To scold me every day and side with you?"
Su Rong mumbled, "How did the Qinghe Cui family raise such a cousin? I remember it being said that the Cui family of Qinghe is known for being well-rounded, self-possessed, gentle and gracious with composed elegance...
"His parents are considered outliers in the Qinghe Cui family. The cousin they raised is also different from others," Zhou Gu was no longer angry after Cui Yanjin’s disruption.
"How are they outliers? What makes them different?" Su Rong was very curious.
"My fourth uncle never liked clan studies from a young age. He was taken by a traveling teacher to study abroad, where he met the daughter of the head of the Evil Ghost Sect. He brought her back home and said he wanted to marry her. If the family did not agree, he would leave and join the Evil Ghost Sect. Unfortunately, his branch of the family had weak bloodline; he was the only one who reached adulthood in good health. How could they let him leave the family? They couldn’t beat him to death either, so the family had to agree. After their great wedding, the two left. They later had a son but didn’t come back. It was said that they left their son back in the Evil Ghost Sect and went off on their own adventures all over the world, visiting their son and parents in Qinghe only once a year during the New Year. Only when their son turned seven did they bring him back to Qinghe for good after they had enough fun. But by then, their son already had his own character and was set in his ways."
Su Rong suddenly understood and chuckled, "No wonder, the little cousin is really interesting, your fourth uncle and aunt, must also be very interesting people."
Zhou Gu nodded, "As members of the Cui family, people always have a hard time describing them whenever their names come up."
Dr. Zhang, with his medicine box in hand, hurried in. As he stepped inside, he saw the two embracing. His old face turned crimson as he inwardly exclaimed, unsure whether to intrude.
Zhou Gu heard the sound of footsteps and turned his head to glance over. Without changing the calm look on his face, he lightly patted Su Rong’s head and whispered, "Dr. Zhang is here, let go."
Su Rong obediently let go, remaining composed as she instructed, "Dr. Zhang, please come in."
Dr. Zhang quickly walked in and put down his medicine box. He took Su Rong’s pulse and, after a moment, he said gravely, "Princess, you and the fourth prince must stop exerting yourselves today. Otherwise, even my medical skills won’t be enough to save you."
Su Rong knew it as well. She sighed, "Dawei will probably attack again today. The crown prince of Dawei, Yuan Zhao, won’t stop until he gets what he wants. If we don’t beat him or he doesn’t suffer a prolonged siege, he won’t withdraw his troops."
Dr. Zhang said, "Even so, you must not resort to martial arts. You, the fourth prince, Second Young Master Ye, Feng Master and others should refrain from using martial arts. Otherwise, your martial arts skills may be wasted and, in the worst scenario, you may lose your lives. I am no Daluo Celestial, even with a multitude of good medicines, I still couldn’t recover a ruined body. It is thanks to the needle skills of Qin Feng from the Evil Ghost Sect that the lives of Second Young Master Ye and the others were saved last night. It was only a short while ago that they were out of danger..."
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