Chapter 730 The Group's Darling (First Update)
Meanwhile, Gu Chengfeng, realizing he had lost Wang Xu, rushed to the Imperial Preceptor's Hall with all his might.
He used his lightness skill to its fullest extent, and the wind blew so hard that he could barely open his eyes.
However, he still couldn't catch up with Wang Xu. The reason was simple: this was the inner city of Shengdu, Wang Xu's territory.
Gu Chengfeng usually stayed in the secluded Tianxiang Pavilion in the outer city. Even when he came into the city, it was only to visit Xiao Heng and Xiao Jingkong. He was not familiar with the inner city and could not compare to Wang Xu who took a shortcut.
In addition, Gu Chengfeng had changed into a woman's dress to avoid being seen eavesdropping on Wang Xu's conversation, which had caused him trouble.
He grabbed the hem of the skirt with both hands, spread his legs wide, and ran forward with his legs spread wide!
The pedestrians on the street all stared at him like he was a fool, their jaws practically dropping in astonishment.
Gu Chengfeng finally arrived at the Imperial Preceptor's Hall. He couldn't enter the hall openly, so he had to climb over the wall.
After running all this way, he was already panting like a dog.
"I just...I just...breathed...a couple of times..."
Mother.
What's going on here?
worn out!
Gu Chengfeng, having caught his breath, circled around to the side wall of the Imperial Preceptor's Hall and leaped up—
Still in the same place.
He leaped up again.
Still in the same place.
—I'm completely exhausted.
Gu Chengfeng had no choice but to resort to the most primitive method—climbing the wall.
He scrambled up the wall with a whoosh, then tumbled down from the high wall with a thud.
This was truly the most embarrassing mission I've ever been on.
When Gu Chengfeng arrived at the courtyard outside the ward in Qilin Hall with messy hair and loose clothes, looking completely unkempt, he looked as if he had just been brutally violated.
He was completely unaware of this. He went to the window and was about to lift his skirt to climb over when he saw Gu Changqing inside the room.
Gu Changqing sat at the octagonal table, with most of his face facing the window. His handsome face was covered with flour. On the table were dough, flour, and other ingredients. He was concentrating on rolling out dough with a rolling pin.
Gu Chengfeng took several glances before recognizing his elder brother.
He was stunned.
What's going on?
How did his older brother end up here?
Although he knew his elder brother had come to the Yan Kingdom, it wasn't to Shengdu—
Furthermore, why would his older brother be sitting here quietly rolling out dough?
And the way it's rolled out... it's so ugly! The noodles are uneven in thickness and length. This isn't noodles, it's more like dough lumps!
Gu Chengfeng was more surprised by his elder brother's act of rolling out dough than by his brother's appearance.
This is something my older brother would never do in ten lifetimes, even less likely than him actually being reincarnated as a woman.
Gu Chengfeng's lips twitched so hard he almost fell over. He wondered if he was dreaming. He pinched his thigh hard and almost collapsed from the pain.
Okay, it's not a dream.
This really is the eldest brother.
His older brother came to find him, and his older brother even rolled out dough for him.
Gu Chengfeng was moved to tears. He looked affectionately at his elder brother, who was clumsily rolling out the dough, and said excitedly, "Big brother—"
Bang!
A rolling pin flew over—
Gu Chengfeng was struck head-on and fell straight to the ground in a spread-eagle position.
The rolling pin has already flown back.
"I told you not to make noise." Gu Changqing caught the rolling pin that flew back and continued rolling the dough.
Gu Chengfeng gazed at the blue sky and white clouds, and said in a voice only he could hear, with a sense of utter despair, "Big brother, I am your little brother, Xiao Hongfeng..."
Xiao Heng had just been summoned by the king. He knew that Gu Changqing had come, and it was because Gu Changqing was guarding the place that he felt at ease to go out.
When he returned to the ward, he first found a disciple of the Imperial Preceptor Hall who had fainted at the door, and then, while closing the window, he found an unconscious young woman from the common people in the courtyard...
"It seems to be Gu Chengfeng."
Xiao Heng recognized him.
Gu Changqing paused in his rolling out of the dough.
Xiao Heng asked in confusion, "Huh? Why did he faint?"
Gu Changqing, whose body suddenly stiffened, was speechless.
...
Gu Chengfeng was pulled into the house by Gu Changqing.
Gu Changqing pinched his philtrum.
My sister is asleep, no one is allowed to make a sound.
My younger brother was asleep, and I cruelly pinched him awake.
Gu Chengfeng slowly woke up in the chair, unaware that his entire face was marked with a vertical stick mark, clearly distinguishing his left and right cheeks.
He glanced at his elder brother, who stood before him like a towering mountain, and his nose suddenly stung with tears.
He felt so wronged; his older brother hit him the moment they met.
Gu Changqing looked down at him and said indifferently, "Have you been neglecting your martial arts practice lately? Why couldn't you even withstand a single move?"
Gu Chengfeng was stunned for a moment, then looked up and stared at his elder brother's serious face.
It turns out that his elder brother hadn't failed to recognize him, nor was he hitting him; he was testing his martial arts skills, which his elder brother had always kept in mind.
He misunderstood his older brother!
"Big brother!"
Gu Changqing said sternly, "From now on, get up half an hour earlier every day to practice martial arts."
"Yes, brother!"
Gu Changqing turned around and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
...
Gu Jiao woke up as dusk fell. She had slept very well and felt completely refreshed.
She sat up and stretched, and then noticed three things.
First, Gu Changqing has arrived.
Second, the room smelled wonderfully of noodles.
three--
Gu Jiao looked at Gu Chengfeng sitting next to Gu Changqing strangely: "Huh? Why have you become a pig's head?"
Gu Chengfeng waved his hand and pointed: "That's the pig's head! I'm not!"
Gu Jiao looked in the direction Gu Chengfeng was pointing and saw a man sitting on the ground by the wall, bound hand and foot and unconscious.
Judging from the extent of his bruises and swelling, this person was indeed superior.
This was because Wang Xu shouted louder, and Gu Changqing attacked more fiercely.
"Who is he?" Gu Jiao asked.
“Wang Xu,” Xiao Heng said.
"Eat your noodles first, and I'll tell you slowly," Gu Changqing said to Gu Jiao.
Gu Jiao said "oh" and got up to sit down next to Gu Changqing.
Using noodles to get her younger sister to sit next to her was quite a clever move.
Gu Jiao glanced at Gu Changqing beside her, then at Xiao Heng and Gu Chengfeng opposite her: "You're all here, where's Jingkong?"
At this time, Jingkong should be out of school.
Xiao Heng said, "I've taken it. I've gone to the garden to play with the little princess."
The original plan was for Gu Chengfeng to pick them up and then send them to Yangliu Lane to stay for a few days. With Nan Shi Niang and Master Lu looking after them, nothing should go wrong.
Unexpectedly, Gu Chengfeng was hit on the head with a stick and turned into a pig's head. Xiao Heng had no choice but to change his plans and take the little princess to pick up her little playmate.
"Eat it while it's hot," Gu Changqing said. "Otherwise, the noodles will clump together."
Gu Jiao looked at the steaming bowl of noodles, not asking whether it was noodles or rice noodles, but simply remarked, "It's perfect to have something to eat right after waking up."
Gu Chengfeng and Xiao Heng both let out a burp.
Yes, you are really good.
We, along with several disciples from the Imperial Preceptor's Hall in the kitchen, were all nearly bursting with food.
To improve his cooking skills, Gu Changqing rolled out the dough again and again, and cooked bowl after bowl. This bowl was fresh out of the pot.
Fortunately, Gu Changqing's cooking skills were slightly better than Xiao Liulang's. Apart from the unappetizing appearance, the taste was not exactly a culinary disaster.
Gu Jiao hadn't eaten anything at noon and went straight to sleep after the surgery. Now she was really hungry.
Gu Jiao said, "The noodles are quite chewy."
Gu Changqing: ...I made plain noodles.
Gu Changqing heard Gu Jiao mutter "Yangchun noodles" in her sleep while he was watching over her. Since the chefs in the Imperial Preceptor's Palace couldn't make authentic Zhao Kingdom Yangchun noodles, he decided to cook for his sister himself.
While Gu Jiao was eating her noodles, Gu Chengfeng told her again about Old Master Han meeting Wang Xu: "...In short, that's how it is. Wang Xu is currently the only person who can recognize the eldest grandson of the emperor, besides the former crown princess."
Gu Jiao slurped up a mouthful of noodles: "Hmm, I see."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Xu woke up.
He opened his eyes to find himself tied up. He looked at the people in the room with a blank expression, completely unaware of what had happened.
Just a moment ago there was only the eldest grandson of the emperor, but now... how come there are so many people?
His gaze swept back and forth between Xiao Heng and Gu Changqing, and he finally realized that the man rolling out the dough was not the "eldest grandson of the emperor," but the person in front of him.
He remarked, "When did the eldest grandson of the emperor's back become so broad?"
"Who are you?" he asked warily.
Gu Jiao walked over with a bowl of noodles, squatted down in front of him, and said while slurping, "You're the unlucky guy?"
Wang Xu: "..."
Xiao Heng looked at Gu Jiao's small figure squatting on the ground, slurping her bowl, and wondered why this little posture seemed a bit familiar.
He glanced at the sleeping Shangguan Yan, and his lips twitched.
Can we learn something good?
"I'm asking you a question," Gu Jiao said.
Glug~
Wang Xu's stomach growled.
Wang Xu turned his face away, trying his best not to smell the aroma of the scallion noodles.
Does that mean it's okay if you don't smell it?
Gu Jiao's slurping sounds were enough to make anyone's mouth water!
Gu Jiao immediately accused him: "You disguised yourself as a disciple of the Imperial Preceptor's Hall, were you planning to assassinate the Crown Prince?"
Wang Xu turned his face and retorted sharply, "You're talking nonsense! How could I possibly assassinate His Highness the Grandson!"
Gu Jiao gave an "oh" and asked casually, "Then what are you doing here?"
Wang Xu looked at the scallion noodles in her bowl, swallowed hard, and said, "I...I received news that someone is impersonating His Highness the Grandson, so I came to verify the truth."
Gu Jiao asked, "Did you recognize it?"
Wang Xu said awkwardly, "No, I hadn't even finished exchanging the code when your people knocked me unconscious."
Gu Jiao asked curiously, "What's the code? Tell me?"
The three grown men in the room all turned to look at Wang Xu, among them Xiao Heng, who remained expressionless.
Wang Xu was stationed at the imperial mausoleum when Shangguan Qing was thirteen years old. For the first half of the year, he had no contact with Shangguan Qing. It was by chance that he was injured and returned to the camp. On the way, he met Shangguan Qing, who sent him a bottle of wound medicine that night.
He immediately thought the child was good and wanted to teach him martial arts.
But this child just wouldn't study properly, and instead often led him astray.
For example, over the course of two years, he didn't teach Shangguan Qing a single move, but Shangguan Qing did teach him a lot of strange and unusual codes.
Wang Xu gave Xiao Heng a deep look and said solemnly, "Heavenly King covers the Earth Tiger!"
Gu Jiao replied without hesitation: "You're an idiot."
Wang Xu was stunned and looked at Gu Jiao in disbelief.
Gu Jiao slurped up a mouthful of noodles, ate it quickly, and said, "Did I get it right?"
Wang Xu exclaimed in surprise: "You..."
That's impossible! This is clearly a secret code that only he and the eldest grandson of the emperor understand!
Gu Jiao: I bet a pack of spicy strips that the Imperial Advisor knows everything.
Gu Jiao pointed at Xiao Heng: "He taught me. Once the code was confirmed, he is the eldest grandson of the emperor."
Wang Xu frowned deeply. Why do I find it so hard to believe? You all look more suspicious than the last!
The thought flashed through his mind, and Wang Xu frowned, saying, "I have a code, and I don't believe you can all answer it!"
Gu Jiao slurped up a mouthful of noodles and said, "You tell me."
Wang Xu: "Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple!"
Gu Jiao: "East, West, South, North, and Center are all white."
Wang Xu was greatly startled.
Every cause has an effect!
"Your retribution is me."
Wang Xu's body trembled!
He gritted his teeth again and resorted to a ruthless tactic: "Medicine, medicine."
Gu Jiao slurped up the noodles: "Check it out, check it out!"
Wang Xu was shocked for the third time!
Gu Chengfeng patted Xiao Heng beside him and whispered, "What are they saying? Did you understand?"
Xiao Heng thought to himself, "It would be a miracle if I understood."
What kind of nonsense is this? Did Xiao Qing really teach this? It doesn't sound very proper.
One irresponsible father is enough, but could he also have an irresponsible older brother?
Wang Xu then threw out several more coded signals, which Gu Jiao answered correctly without a single mistake.
Wang Xu took a deep breath, looked at Gu Jiao, then at Xiao Heng not far away, clenched his fist and said, "Now that things have come to this, I have no choice but to use my trump card. If you can answer this, then I will believe that he is the true eldest grandson of the emperor!"
"Hmm." Gu Jiao sipped her noodle soup calmly, gesturing for him to continue.
Wang Xu narrowed his eyes, raised his chin, and said with an air of authority, "This time it's not a code, but a title! It was tailor-made for me by His Highness the Changsun! His Highness said that this is the kind of person every man in the world dreams of...someone he wants to become—"
Gu Jiao tilted her head: "Old Wang next door?"
Wang Xu: "...!!"
How come you even know this!
(End of this chapter)
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