Gu Nanji and Gu Beijian were racing horses, while Wu Yuanlou and Tian Qing were guarding the carriage.
The two were evenly matched, and when they stopped to rest, Gu Nanji asked Gu Beijian, "What? Are you attracted to Shopkeeper Yi?"
"Is it so obvious?" Gu Beijian asked.
"It's quite obvious." Gu Nanji shrugged.
"Then why can't she understand it? She's not stupid..." Gu Beijian was depressed.
"Who knows, maybe Shopkeeper Yi just regards you as a partner... He doesn't think that way..." Gu Nanji said after taking a sip of water.
Gu Beijian looked around and saw that Wu Yuanlou and the others hadn't caught up yet, so he asked, "What about you? What's going on between you and Murong Jinyi?"
"No fight, no friendship..." Gu Nanji took a sip of water and recalled how she looked when he first met her. She was covered in blood and her face was splattered with blood, but her eyes made people feel very tough and she didn't want to surrender at all.
"Who asked you this... I want to know what's going on between you two now?" Gu Beijian rolled his eyes.
"It's ambiguous, but the window paper hasn't been broken yet. There's a feeling that's hard to describe or explain..." Gu Nanji said after thinking for a while.
"Then why don't you expose it?" Gu Beijian wondered. "According to your personality, you give what you like and ask directly. That's you."
"They have different identities, and her father is in the middle. Although her father is not really dead, they all think that her father is dead, and it is inseparable from our father and me. Therefore, these two gaps are not easy to cross..." Gu Nanji sighed.
Gu Beijian was about to say something, but when he saw Wu Yuanlou and the others catching up with him, he shut up.
"Come on, everyone has been traveling hard, let's stop and take a rest." Gu Nanji organized.
Everyone stopped to rest, and Wu Yuanlou and Tianqing took out the dry food from the carriage.
It was distributed to everyone, and everyone smelled the fragrance and felt as if they were still in Yiji.
"It smells so good! Shopkeeper Yi is really good at cooking!" Murong Jinyi praised after smelling it.
Gu Beijian was eating a cake, looking at the moon, and wondering what Yi Yami was doing now.
Yi Yami was taking off her Jasmine earrings at the moment. The moonlight shone down on her, making her feel a little cold. She gathered her sleeves, rubbed her arms, and looked up at the crescent moon. After an unknown amount of time, Yi Yami realized that she had been staring at it in a trance. "No wonder Gu Beijian could stare at the moon for so long..."
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Half a month later, Gu Nanji and others finally arrived in Kyoto.
As soon as he arrived in Kyoto, he was summoned to see the emperor.
In the hall, Qi Xiaohan sat at the top, "Gu Nanji, explain." He threw the booklet of Prince Jing at Gu Nanji's feet.
Gu Nanji picked it up, took a look at it, and then said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, the time and process this person mentioned are correct, but the conclusion is wrong."
Qi Xiaohan took a look and said, "Why? Give me a reasonable explanation."
"First of all, my rescue of the Murong siblings was an accident. Our scouts reported that Hu Muxia's henchmen were hunting down several people. At the time, I thought to myself, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, so I must rescue them. If I don't, how will I know Hu Muxia's weaknesses?" Gu Nanji explained why he went to save the Murong siblings. "And at first, we didn't know who was being hunted. We only discovered it was the Murong siblings after we rescued them."
Qi Xiaohan nodded after hearing this. "You've explained it clearly. Next, why did the Murong siblings repeatedly challenge you to a duel, but you always let them go?"
"Your Majesty, I have to report this to you. Murong Tianyi had already started a rebellion, and the situation among the Sals people was very chaotic. We kept the Murong siblings because we thought that no matter what, it would be beneficial to us whether we advance or retreat. Furthermore, when Murong Tianyi came to power, we had the Murong siblings in our hands, and we could suppress Murong Tianyi a little in terms of family affection and public opinion, so that Murong Tianyi would not dare to take action against our border easily. Secondly, even if Murong Tianyi did not succeed, Hu Muqi sent people to hunt them down, so they must have known Hu Muqi's weaknesses, so I did not kill them directly." Gu Nanji made a very clear analysis, and the ministers below nodded in agreement, praising him for doing the right thing.
When Prince Jing saw that the situation was not favorable to him, he immediately started to say, "You say you are doing this for the country, but how can you prove it? Who knows if you are secretly colluding with the Murong siblings and betraying our Yinwei Kingdom?"
"With this." Gu Nanji took off his upper body clothes in one go, revealing his strong abdominal muscles and muscular chest muscles. But what was even more eye-catching was that from front to back, from the neck down, his entire body was covered with wounds of all sizes, densely packed together, with new wounds stacked on top of old ones.
"This sword strike was taken when I first went to the battlefield at the age of fourteen. The opponent was a head taller than me and stabbed straight at me. If I had dodged at that time, my comrade would have died." Gu Nanji's sonorous and powerful voice echoed in the hall.
"This knife was taken when we fought with the southern barbarians. The battle lasted for six days and six nights. I defended Lucheng and refused to let the southern barbarians open our southeast gate." Gu Nanji said, pointing to a long scar on his waist.
"This one was caused by a surprise attack by the Sars people on me while I was transferred to the northwest border."
"This, this, and this..." Gu Nanji recounted one by one how dangerous it was and the source of the scar.
Those who heard it in the hall shed tears, and those who saw it were heartbroken.
"This arrow is the latest one, a poisonous arrow from the Sals people. I lay in bed for three days, and then I stood up and fought again..." said Gu Nanji.
Qi Xiaohan said, "Enough, are you trying to win credit for me by saying this?"
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