Since Gu Jue smiled, Chu Qianchen thought that the alarm was lifted.

She passed another test! Chu Qianchen tilted her face and smiled slyly. She put the unfinished gown into the embroidery basket, stood up, and stretched out her hand to Gu Jue, "Give me your hand."

Those three words she said conveyed the feeling of being pushed further.

Gu Jue looked at the little girl's sparkling eyes, and the corners of his lips curved again.

This girl, when she feels guilty, becomes very cautious from head to toe, just like a cat, with her ears leaning forward, then backward, and then drooping again.

Now that the alarm has been lifted, the cat has returned to its true nature, with its tail raised high in the air! As expected—

The next moment, her hand moved half an inch closer to him, as if silently urging him.

Gu Jue couldn't help but feel helpless as he had no idea what to do with her, and put his hand into her palm.

Palm against palm, the two hands are completely different.

The man's hands had long, slender fingers with distinct joints, and thin calluses on his palms and fingertips from martial arts training;

The woman's hands had slender fingers, soft and boneless, and the skin on her palms was as soft as flower petals.

His palm was nearly half the size of hers, broad and slightly cool.

Chu Qianchen was stunned for a moment, feeling that something was wrong. He moved his fingers upwards along his palm and felt the pulse on his wrist. His wrist was also lower in temperature than that of ordinary people.

She was concentrating on taking his pulse and didn't notice that the corners of his lips were slightly raised with a hint of charm.

Gu Jue was smiling, but Chu Qianchen frowned.

Judging from his pulse, the prince was obviously overworked. Although his old illness had not worsened, it was not very good either. His physical condition was obviously much worse than when he left Beijing.

And also...

Chu Qianchen raised his little face, opened his pair of black and white phoenix eyes, and suddenly stood up his cat ears. He asked affirmatively: "Are you injured?"

Gu Jue smiled and said, "It's just a minor injury, it's healed already."

The tone of his voice was calm and clear, giving people a feeling of a gentle spring breeze.

However, to Chu Qianchen's ears, this tone itself was abnormal; it was the tone he used to coax people.

Besides, his pulse would not lie, and the injury he suffered could not be described as "minor".

Chu Qianchen narrowed his eyes, and a dangerous feeling came out.

Gu Jue couldn't help but feel an inexplicable sense of guilt. This feeling was also very fresh. He silently savored the taste.

He felt that he should soothe and coax the girl.

Gu Jue stretched out his left hand, and when he turned it over, a piece of pottery the size of a baby's fist appeared in his palm. It was a pair of cats, one was snow-white all over, and the other was a black cat with four snow-white hooves. The white cat was squatting with a pair of emerald green eyes open, and the black cat was curled up with its eyes closed and asleep.

The two cats are wearing the same collars, and they look like they are from the same family.

Chu Qianchen suddenly remembered that the prince also had a cat when he was a child. In his previous life, he told her that it was a white Persian cat with a pair of emerald green eyes.

Thinking of this, Chu Qianchen pursed his lips and smiled, thinking: Never mind, he did tell half the truth, his injury is indeed almost healed.

Chu Qianchen took the small and exquisite gadget from his palm, smiling, but said: "This black cat looks like Yueying."

This girl is really easy to coax, Gu Jue thought, and his eyes softened a little.

Chu Qianchen held the new gift in his palm, shook his right wrist, and showed off happily: "Your Highness, try the clothes I made for you. It's still a little short. If there's anything that doesn't fit, I can still change it."

She said it modestly, but she was very confident in her heart.

She made this dress based on Gu Jue's prince's attire. Although he lost a little weight on this trip, it was not a big deal. Next, she would take care of his diet and guarantee that he would be fed back to his original physique within half a month.

Not wanting to, Gu Jue said, "No hurry. You go out with me first."

Chu Qianchen blinked and felt that even his brain had become dull when facing the prince.

At this moment, she slowly realized that the prince had left the capital on some business, but now he was returning to the palace alone at midnight, so he must have come back secretly.

The fact that the prince specifically wanted to take her out meant that someone was injured or sick, and the condition was serious.

A possibility emerged in Chu Qianchen's mind. Could it be...

Gu Jue understood her look and said bluntly, "Wuhejialou is seriously injured."

Chu Qianchen nodded in understanding.

No wonder the prince came back first, I’m afraid Wuhejialou’s injury can’t be delayed.

As soon as Gu Jue looked at her, he knew that she understood, and touched her head again, but this time he used his left hand, while her right wrist was still pinched.

You don't need to say too much to her, she will understand.

This feeling of tacit understanding gave rise to an indescribable joy in his heart.

Chu Qianchen likes Gu Jue to touch her head, which makes her feel valued, trusted and loved by him.

She smiled sweetly and said sweetly, "I'll go prepare the medicine box right away."

Thinking that Wuhejialou was injured, Chu Qianchen ordered Amber to prepare a jar of aged mustard greens.

Gu Jue entered the city quietly, so naturally he couldn't leave in a high-profile manner. The two of them left from the house next to Prince Chen's Mansion. Afterwards, Chu Qianchen was picked up by Gu Jue around the waist and never got down from the ground again.

He climbed walls and climbed roofs along the way to avoid being seen.

The autumn nights are as cool as water, and the evening breeze makes people feel cool.

The wind blew up their hair and clothes. Their sleeves fluttered in the wind and their collars and sleeves were filled with wind. Their hair tangled together as if they were playing.

The night breeze carried her scent into his nose. Because they were close to each other, the scent was even stronger than when they were in the house just now, lingering around his nose.

Seeing that their hair was tangled together, Chu Qianchen untied it.

Gu Jue naturally noticed her little movements. For some reason, at that moment, he felt that everything from his hair to his scalp was unusually sensitive. His scalp was numb and his heart was slightly beating.

Gu Jue finally couldn't help but said, "Don't move."

Chu Qianchen seemed to have released a spell to immobilize himself, not daring to move at all, his fingers grasping the two people's hair.

Gu Jue coughed lightly and took the initiative to bring up the topic: "We were ambushed in Changjing Town, Yuzhou..."

It was not convenient to go into details in a pigeon letter, so Gu Jue did not go into details. He just wrote in a simple sentence about when they would arrive in Beijing.

On that day, Gu Jue and Wuhejialou and his group narrowly escaped death.

The entire Changjing Town had long been a dead town. All the townspeople and passing merchants had been killed. The people lurking in the town were all Nanhao people sent by Uhaduro.

At that time, they planned to leave from the back door of the restaurant, but the Nanhao people had already set up an ambush at the back door of the restaurant. At that moment, Mo Chen released a signal flare, and the accompanying Xuanjia Army that was waiting outside the town immediately rushed to Changjing Town for support.

Even so, it was not easy for them to break out of the siege. It came at the cost of blood and lives, and Uhagaru's attendant Tama died.

Gu Jue didn't want to make Chu Qianchen worry, so he only mentioned the matter of breaking out in two sentences. But even so, when he heard the news of Duomo's death, Chu Qianchen's pupils shrank slightly.

She and Tama had only met a few times, and although they did not have any close relationship, she was still somewhat moved when she learned of the other's death.

However, she soon returned to normal. She had faced countless deaths in her previous life...

Gu Jue continued, "After we left Changjing Town, Wuhejialou concluded that something must have happened in the Kingdom of Hao, and planned to return home quickly. However, to return to Hao, we must cross the river, and to cross the river, we must take a boat."

After the ambush in Changjing Town, they all knew how cruel and cold-blooded the other party was. They were willing to kill even the entire town's residents just to set up an ambush and kill Wuhejialou alone.

Well, maybe there has been a new group of people at the dock, and they might have walked into a trap by going to the dock.

But they couldn't cross the river without a boat, so they were in a dilemma.

As they were talking, the two of them came near the city wall.

It is curfew time now and the city gates have been closed long ago, so if Gu Jue wants to take her out of the city, he can only climb over the wall.

Gu Jue used the flying claws and Hundred Practice Ropes fixed on the top of the wall to carry Chu Qianchen over the high city wall.

The whole process took less than half a cup of tea, and the two of them landed steadily on the ground.

Seeing a thin layer of sweat on his forehead, Chu Qianchen quickly took out a handkerchief to wipe it for him. She wanted him to put her down when she heard a familiar "Huaihui" sound.

Not far away, the black horse that had been waiting alone outside the city for a while saw its master coming and walked towards them briskly.

"Jueying!" Chu Qianchen greeted the black horse happily. Before she finished her words, she was carried by Gu Jue and placed on the high horse's back.

Then, Gu Jue also climbed onto the horse and held her petite body in his arms. "Wuhejia Tower is in a village in the southern suburbs, about thirty miles away from here."

Gu Jue squeezed the horse's belly and Jueying rushed out. His figure was like a black lightning, and only his four snow-white hooves were particularly eye-catching in the night.

“De de de…”

The black horse ran back along the same path it came from with all its might. With the tacit understanding between it and Gu Jue, it didn't even need Gu Jue to give any instructions.

Chu Qianchen, who was on horseback, gently touched the black horse's slender neck and thought to himself: The prince has lost weight, and Jueying has also lost weight.

She had to tell the people in the stable to prepare more of Jueying's favorite sheep grass and cattail grass. As for candy, he couldn't eat too much, only one piece a day.

After a while, when Chu Qianchen looked back again, he could no longer see the capital city behind him.

The silver moonlight poured down gently, illuminating the road ahead. There was no one around except the two of them and their horse. The monotonous sound of horse hooves made the suburbs even more quiet.

Chu Qianchen could hear Gu Jue's heartbeat coming from behind him.

“Boom, boom, boom!”

She counted his heartbeats, feeling very relieved. She touched the horse with her right hand from time to time and asked, "What happened next?"

Gu Jue was stunned for a moment before he realized that she was asking about Wuhejia Tower.

He gathered her cloak that was blown by the night wind, and then continued, "Later, Wuhejialou took the initiative to offer himself as bait and boarded a boat at the dock. When the boat reached the middle of the river, it sank..."

Chu Qianchen immediately guessed their plan and said thoughtfully, "You are planning to follow Fan Sui's example."

In ancient times, Fan Sui faked his death to escape from Wei State to Qin State, and was eventually appointed Prime Minister of Qin State.

"That's right." Gu Jue said calmly, "The Hao people thought he was dead and left. I calculated the speed and direction of the river in advance and sent people to pull him out of the river from a mile away."

Gu Jue put it simply, and it sounded like just a very ordinary plan, which was for Wuhejialou to pretend to fall into the trap, get on the boat at the dock, then sink the boat in the middle of the river, and then escape, so that the people of Nanhao would think he was dead.

However, this plan was not easy to implement. On the one hand, the river was flowing fast, and diving to save people required extraordinary swimming skills and good timing. Moreover, this plan also required Wuhejialou to have great trust in Gu Jue.

Just imagine, if Gu Jue changed his mind at the last minute, or simply pretended to be submissive and did not let his subordinates go into the water to rescue people, then Wuhejialou who fell into the river would be dead.

Chu Qianchen was fascinated by what he heard, his eyes sparkling, and he clapped his hands and said, "It can be said that Wuhejialou has some vision."

He dared to propose this plan because he knew that the prince was a man of his word.

The prince is the best!

She was praising the Wuhejia Tower, but Gu Jue heard her hidden meaning and raised the corners of his lips in pleasure.

He couldn't help but hug the little girl in his arms tighter, and said, "If you are tired, just lean on me for a while."

In the cool night breeze, there was a hint of warmth in his usually cold voice.

Chu Qianchen frowned, raised his head and said: "My Lord, you must be more tired, why don't I do it..."

It would be better if she rode the horse and he could lean on her.

(End of this chapter)