General Peng clapped his hands: "Excellent! Excellent! Excellent! Truly, women are just as capable as men! I have never seen such wonderful kung fu from anyone other than the Peng family women! Very good! Hahahaha..."
Gu Hui sheathed her sword, clasped her hands in a fist salute to General Peng, and then turned to bow to the Emperor and Empress.
"Sister Huihui, watch out!"
Just as Gu Hui turned her back to Princess Xingnan, Gu Xin loudly reminded her.
Gu Hui paused, threw down her sword, bent over, braced herself with her hands on the ground, did a 360-degree spin, and stood firm before throwing a punch at the attacking Princess Xingnan.
Princess Xingnan avoided it.
Gu Hui smiled at Princess Xingnan: "All's fair in war, I understand!"
...
Everyone in the Great Zhou Dynasty was very satisfied with the banquet held to welcome the Xingnan delegation, except for Li Shan, but she was no longer important.
After losing several matches in a row, the people of Xingnan Kingdom felt they had lost face and lost all interest in negotiating with the emperor, so they returned to their inn.
The emperor told everyone to go home, but he called the Gu family of four to wait for him alone.
Inside the imperial study, the emperor laughed wildly a few times: "I knew it! I knew you two little girls could do it! Huihui, I thought you were going to just throw her out! You actually started fighting her. Looks like your time on the plum blossom stakes and wearing the sandbags wasn't for nothing!"
Gu Hui: "Thank you for the compliment, Your Majesty!"
The emperor understood her lukewarm attitude, and he certainly wouldn't hold a grudge against a young girl who had just won him a thousand warhorses.
He continued, "The court wants those thousand warhorses. Whatever you want, I'll give it to you."
Gu Hui hesitated, glancing at Gu Shouxin and Cai Xiaolian.
The emperor was displeased: "What you want yourself, you are not allowed to give to others! Tell me, what do you want?"
Gu Hui took a deep breath, stood up and knelt down: "Your Majesty, I wish to go to Kuncheng and join the Peng family army!"
Cai Xiaolian and Gu Xin looked at Gu Hui in disbelief.
Gu Shouxin raised an eyebrow. This was exactly what he expected. His eldest niece seemed to yearn for military campaigns. Even though she worked with her sisters making fragrant things for girls, it didn't change the passionate spirit in her bones.
The emperor was stunned, and he looked at Gu Shouxin with a troubled expression.
Gu Shouxin kept his head down, refusing to look at the emperor.
The emperor was furious. Looking at Gu Hui kneeling on the ground, he told her to get up first, and then said, "Your parents and grandparents aren't here, so I can't just agree to your request. It would be fine if you were a boy, but you're a girl, so it's not easy for me!"
Gu Hui looked at the emperor: "Your Majesty, I have a question, but I don't know if I should ask it."
Emperor: "Speak!"
Gu Hui said, "I was born in the countryside and do not know how to speak. My second uncle is an official in the court, and I am worried that I might say something inappropriate that would anger the Emperor and implicate my second uncle."
The emperor was displeased again: "Am I that kind of person? Besides, you are your second uncle, and you are you. You are still a little girl, and I will not stoop to your level. Speak, let me hear it, and I will absolutely not blame you."
Gu Hui said, “I have heard that women in Xingnan Kingdom are all capable of leading troops. The daughters of the Peng family can also lead soldiers, and Madam Peng even made meritorious contributions. So why doesn’t Your Majesty encourage women to march? General Peng just said that women are no less capable than men! I have been strong since I was a child, and in the past two years, I have learned some martial arts from my second uncle. I believe that I am comparable to the lowest-ranking soldier in the army! So why doesn’t Your Majesty give women the opportunity to go to the battlefield? The women of our Great Zhou also have a heart to protect their country!”
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