Chapter 58
If Shen Huaishi wants to know about Tianyumen as soon as possible, the butcher far away in Suicheng, Xuzhou is the key. This person used the alias Zhu Yongxin. According to Gu Fuzhou, he was a secret agent planted by the Tianyu Sect in the Tianji Camp. Zhu Yongxin was very good at hiding his identity and it was not exposed until the destruction of the Tianyu Gate.
In the Tianyumen tragedy, only Shen Huaishi and Zhu Yongxin survived. Zhu Yongxin once thought about telling Shen Huaishi the truth, but in the blink of an eye he saw Shen Huaishi joining the Tianji Camp. He was disheartened and did not dare to stay in the Tianji Camp any longer, so he faked his death to escape during a mission. After that, he changed his identity and became a seemingly ordinary butcher.
Zhu Yongxin knew the whole story. In "Huai Doesn't Know You", he told Shen Huaishi everything the day before Xiao Cheng ascended the throne. What Lin Qingyu needs to do is to advance this date, the sooner the better.
After Shen Huaishi got the jade token of Tianyumen, he also wanted to rush to Xuzhou as soon as possible to find the owner of the jade token. But Xiao Cheng refused to let him leave Beijing, so the matter was delayed again and again.
Lin Qingyu thought about asking Zhang Shiquan to bring the person to the capital. But Zhu Yongxin was a cautious person and refused to go to Beijing rashly. He has martial arts skills, and Zhang Shiquan, a businessman, has no way to deal with him.
Gu Fuzhou said: "Leave it to me. I will be responsible for bringing him to the capital."
Lin Qingyu asked: "What are you going to do?"
"Of course I have my own way." Gu Fuzhou said with a smile, "I am not a general for nothing."
Lin Qingyu asked: "Aren't you?"
Gu Fuzhou suddenly woke up from his dream: "I really have been doing this for nothing."
The journey from the capital to Xuzhou is long, and it takes at least ten days or half a month to go back and forth. During this period, Gu Fuzhou was often called into the palace by the emperor and empress for various reasons. In addition to the seventh princess, he was also forced to meet the prime minister's granddaughter, the daughter of the minister of war, the niece of the prince's groom... In short, they were all women from civil officials' families.
The remaining poison in Gu Fuzhou had been cured, and he should have rushed back to Yongliang to take charge of the battle. Looking back at Fuzhou's defeat of Western Xia, Western Xia was forced to recuperate and prepare for war. Although Zhao Mingwei is not as victorious as Gu Fuzhou, he is also a talented general. With him stationed at the border, Xixia would not be able to cause any trouble in the short term. At this time, the emperor was no longer in a hurry and asked him to stay in the capital for a while to settle his lifelong affairs before leaving.
Now that Gu Fuzhou is in the capital and his health has recovered, he will go to court to discuss state affairs like other military generals. Not long after the days of leisure, he was back in the nightmare of dire straits. As a result, Lin Qingyu was busy in the Imperial Medical Bureau and had to distract himself to listen to him complaining and venting his grievances.
In the library, Lin Qingyu walked among the bookshelves, putting back the medical books he had finished reading. Gu Fuzhou followed behind him, following closely: "Qingyu, I really can't stand it anymore."
Lin Qingyu didn't even look at him: "What's wrong again?"
"This morning, I was called up by Yuan Yin as soon as the cock crowed. Then I went to the morning court, where I heard a lot of nonsense while discussing matters in the Qinzheng Hall. I finally got to lunch, but they didn't let me go back home for a nap. Instead, they wanted me and the great-granddaughter of Mr. Sun from the Hanlin Academy to accompany the queen to watch an opera - even a donkey at the mill wouldn't be put through such a hard time." Gu Fuzhou covered his face in pain, "Middle-aged people are prone to hair loss. I suspect if this continues, I'll really go bald."
Although he knew it was useless, Lin Qingyu still gave him some symbolic advice: "When God wants to confer a great responsibility on a man, he must first make his heart and mind suffer, his muscles and bones tired, and his body hungry. You are just trying your best." This book "Essentials of Surgery" should be placed on the top shelf. He can't reach it, so he has to bring a ladder.
Gu Fuzhou took the Essentials of Surgery from Lin Qingyu and put the book in the right place: "I understand the reason, but I just don't want to listen."
After putting down the book, Lin Qingyu sat down at the table and opened an old pulse case: "Then you can call it a disease."
"Isn't that a crime of deceiving the emperor?"
"Anyway, you have committed many crimes of deceiving the emperor."
Gu Fuzhou sat down next to Lin Qingyu and said slowly: "Qingyu, I am not telling you this because I want you to preach or propose a solution."
Lin Qingyu was puzzled: "Then what do you want?"
Gu Fuzhou said honestly: "I want comfort and a hug."
Lin Qingyu: “…”
"You definitely won't give me a hug, so at least comfort me." Gu Fuzhou slumped down on the table, feeling hopeless, "I'm really tired."
Lin Qingyu looked around. It was curfew and they were the only ones in the library. Apart from him, no one else could see Gu Fuzhou's lazy side, so General Gu's face was saved.
Lin Qingyu really didn't want to hug, but comfort was still possible. Gu Fuzhou placed his hand casually on the table, and Lin Qingyu gently placed his hand on it.
Gu Fuzhou, who looked thirty years old on the outside but eighteen years old on the inside, opened his eyes slightly.
Lin Qingyu felt Gu Fuzhou's hand gradually become stiff, and couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth slightly, and said in a gentle voice: "Be patient. When our plan succeeds, let the new emperor reward you with a sinecure. You don't have to attend court, you don't have to discuss politics, and the salary is not low. You can sleep as long as you want every day, drink wine and appreciate flowers, play pot throwing and listen to opera when you are awake, and continue to sleep when you are tired - okay?"
Gu Fuzhou, who was eloquent just now, could only utter one word at this moment: "Okay."
Lin Qingyu let go of his hand and touched Gu Fuzhou's hair again: "You won't be bald, don't worry." Before Gu Fuzhou could say anything, Lin Qingyu said, "Even if you are bald, I will find a way to make them grow back."
Gu Fuzhou didn't know where to put his hands. He didn't want to show his unrest in front of Lin Qingyu, so he tried his best to be humorous and said jokingly: "If you really have this ability, if you go to my hometown one day, you will definitely become rich overnight."
Faced with the emperor's urging to get married, Gu Fuzhou could only make excuses. He said that he preferred the gentleness of women from the south of the Yangtze River to the elegance of women from the capital; when the queen selected a few ladies from the south of the Yangtze River for him, he said that his favorite was the cheerfulness of women from the northwest.
Gu Fuzhou kept delaying until Zhu Yongxin came to Beijing. It was the soldiers from the general's mansion who brought Zhu Yongxin into the capital. Each of these soldiers is highly skilled and loyal to Gu Fuzhou, so they are trustworthy.
Lin Qingyu and Gu Fuzhou met the butcher who could reverse Shen Huaishi's life at his house. Zhu Yongxin is in his thirties, not good-looking, and has a very low presence. Ordinary people will forget him after just one glance.
Zhu Yongxin was also a man who had experienced life and death. Even though he was forcibly brought to the capital, he remained neither arrogant nor humble when facing them, and even laughed out loud: "I didn't expect that a butcher like me would have a beauty and a general to see me off before I die. Not a loss, not a loss!"
"Death?" Gu Fuzhou sat on a large sandalwood chair with a cold expression, showing the temperament of a high-ranking official. "Why do you think you will die?"
Zhu Yongxin said nonchalantly: "The general brought me back to the capital from afar, wasn't it just for the matter of Tianjiying?"
Lin Qingyu said: "From your appearance, it seems that you have been ready to die. If so, you should have loyally sought to die for your master when the Heavenly Prison Gate was destroyed. Why are you running away?"
Zhu Yongxin's face changed: "How do you know I'm from Tianyumen!"
Lin Qingyu sneered, "Even if you don't die for your master, you can still stay in the Tianji Camp and wait for an opportunity to take revenge. It is said that all the people in the Tianyu Sect are deadly warriors. Now it seems that they are just that."
Zhu Yongxin burst into laughter: "Even the young master of Tianyumen has joined Tianjiying, what can I do alone!"
Gu Fuzhou said: "Chen Huaishi did not surrender to the enemy. He just believed the prince's words and thought that the Tianyu Sect was destroyed by the enemies in the martial arts world. He also thought that it was the prince who saved him."
Zhu Yongxin was stunned: "Are you serious?"
"I can arrange a meeting between you and Shen Huaishi." Lin Qingyu said, "He is now in the Tianji Camp and is a secret guard beside the prince. He can do much more than you can."
Zhu Yongxin wanted to tell Shen Huaishi the truth three years ago, and said without much hesitation: "Okay, I would like to see the young master again and tell him the truth!"
"Tell him everything?" Lin Qingyu sneered, "What's the point of telling him the truth? Let him know that the culprit is the emperor, and that the prince was soft-hearted and regretted before taking action against the Tianyu Gate? You know your young master's character. Given his friendship with the prince, these few things can't affect him. I'm afraid that after listening to your so-called truth, he will be entangled and painful, and finally choose to let go and forgive, and continue to serve the Tianji Camp and the prince."
Gu Fuzhou looked at Lin Qingyu's radiant face and cold smile, and his heart suddenly burned with anger.
"You have to tell Shen Huaishi that all this has nothing to do with the emperor. It was Xiao Cheng who took the initiative to sacrifice the lives of the entire Tianyu Gate for the position of crown prince and to show his loyalty to the emperor." Lin Qingyu leaned over and whispered in Zhu Yongxin's ear, "This is the real truth, do you understand?"
Lin Qingyu's eyes were like a bottomless cold pond that could almost drown a person. Zhu Yongxin's pupils gradually became blurred, and he said meekly, "I understand."
"Very good." Lin Qingyu stood up and told Huantong to take Zhu Yongxin down.
Gu Fuzhou looked at him with a smile: "When did Doctor Lin learn how to tamper with the plot?"
"Is there any need to learn this?" Lin Qingyu said nonchalantly, "Isn't it possible if you have hands?"
Gu Fuzhou was also puzzled when watching "Huai Bu Shi Jun". In the early stage, Xiao Cheng obviously valued the throne of the prince the most. Why did he suddenly soften his heart towards Tianyumen when he had not yet fallen in love with Shen Huai Shi? Later he realized that since the author wanted to give them a happy ending, he naturally couldn't write things too decisively, so as to make it easier to whitewash Xiao Cheng in the future - a blood feud you said? Not really. Didn’t Xiao Cheng regret it in the end? It was the emperor who asked the Tianjiying to make the move, so there was no problem for the two of them to be together.
But Lin Qingyu understood these tricks. He completely blocked this whitewashing point, and also strangled Shen Huaishi's excuse for being soft-hearted.
Lin Qingyu said: "I'm going to take a bath."
"Bathing in broad daylight?" Gu Fuzhou recalled the scene just now. "You were so close to Zhu Yongxin just now, but what did you do to him?"
"I planted a Gu in him to prevent him from talking nonsense and disrupting our plan." Lin Qingyu's voice was slightly cold, "If Shen Huaishi still can't do anything to Xiao Cheng after hearing this, then he doesn't deserve to be a human being."
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Lu Dazhuang’s worry: he can’t hold his wife.
Gu Dazhuang’s worries: gaining weight and losing hair in middle age.
——Damn it, when will we high school boys be able to truly stand up!
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