"Gift?" Gu Yan raised her eyebrows slightly.
"Yes, tell me what you want, as long as I can get it, it's fine." Song Wan waved his hand and said heroically.
Gu Yanji's lips curled up unconsciously, "I already got what I wanted."
"Who gave it to you?" Song Wan frowned when she heard it, and asked angrily, someone actually gave Gu Yan a gift before her.
"It's Awan." He replied in a gentle voice.
How come Song Wan didn't remember giving it to you? "When did I ever give you a gift?"
"Not long after I got on board," he replied.
Song Wan tried hard to recall what happened after they boarded the ship, but couldn't recall any gift she had given Gu Yanji. "But why don't I remember anything at all?"
"Awan said she liked me that day." Gu Yan's eyes lit up slightly and she looked at Song Wan affectionately.
"Is this the gift you're talking about?" Song Wan was surprised. Gu Yanji was too easily satisfied. It was just a sentence.
"To me, Ah Wan's love is very precious." Gu Yan explained softly, "It is the best gift."
Song Wan seemed to feel a little nauseous, but mostly confused. However, her focus quickly shifted. "My love is so valuable, can it be sold?"
Gu Yan anxiously "..."
The tower return level has finally arrived.
After sitting on the boat for half a month, Song Wan was almost going crazy. Fortunately, she earned a lot of money, which made up for her inner boredom.
During the last ten days on the boat, Song Qi and Gu Wu were forced to do the work of cooks. Perhaps they actually had some talent in this area. Except for the first day when they fried the fish into pieces, the fish tasted pretty good in the following days.
Yun Zhuo didn't expect that he would gain weight during this boat trip.
Every day on the boat, there were different kinds of fish, fried, deep-fried, and boiled. It was the first time for him to eat fish with such rich and diverse flavors.
This further strengthened his determination to cooperate with Song Wan, and he was determined to rely on Song Wan.
Having made up his mind, Yun Zhuo didn't intend to say goodbye and directly relied on Song Wan and the others.
Having a few more followers didn't make much difference to Song Wan, and she felt that having more people would make things more lively, at least on the surface it would look more imposing. But the most important thing was that Yun Zhuo was really generous.
In order to completely cling to Song Wan's strong support, Yun Zhuo directly took out one thousand taels and took care of Song Wan's food, clothing, housing and transportation in Tahui Pass.
Song Wan was very satisfied with this, but she didn't come here just to have fun.
Because Tahui Pass is very close to the southwestern border, it is not considered rich. Except for the lack of imperial fugitives, it is not much different from Guizhou.
After entering the city, they first found an inn to stay in and have dinner.
In the next few days on the boat, there were only two kinds of meat left, which were fried over and over again. After eating fish for more than ten days, Song Wan had long wanted to change her taste.
The city of Tahuiguan is not big, and there are only two inns. Song Wan chose the larger one. The business in the inn seemed average, and most of the people who came in to stay overnight and eat were passing merchants or escort teams.
There were many of them, so they chose a seat closer to the inside, where they could see people coming in and out of the inn.
Since someone was willing to pay for it, Song Wan didn't keep the money and ordered double portions of several of the inn's signature dishes.
Perhaps it had been a long time since the waiter had met such generous customers. He saw that although the group of people were dressed inconspicuously, their behavior was not like that of ordinary people at all. The service was much more attentive, including pouring tea and wiping the table.
Although it is called a signature dish, it actually just has a little more oil and water than the dishes of ordinary people. However, it can change the taste. Even these ordinary meals are enjoyed by Song Wan.
"This braised pork is good." Song Wan finished a bowl of rice and pointed to the little braised pork left on the table.
Most of the heavy-flavored dishes here are made with bean paste. Song Wan felt that it tasted very similar to the soy sauce of later generations, but this bean paste was thicker.
"Eat more if you like it." Gu Yan said hurriedly and helped her pick up another piece.
"I also think this braised pork is okay." Yun Zhuo, who has tried all kinds of cuisines from all over the country, followed suit.
"It seems that the people of Tahui Pass are not having a good time."
What Gu Yanji really didn't say was that less than a year had passed, and King Yu's uncle Xu Lie had taken advantage of the fact that the generals currently leading the troops in the southwest had no prestige in the army and had managed Tahui Pass into this state.
Take their entry into the city for example. Other cities charge two copper coins per person, but Tahuiguan charges five copper coins per person. No wonder there are so few pedestrians on the streets in the city and the vendors' business is getting worse and worse.
"Indeed, I heard that the one guarding Tahui Pass is General Xu Lie." Yun Zhuo put down his chopsticks, his expression unusually serious. "I wonder if he knows what the real life of the people at Tahui Pass is like."
"You'll know if you come over and take a look." Song Wan was finally fully satisfied and touched her bloated stomach, saying it calmly.
Yun Zhuo was shocked by her words, "Miss Song, we can't just enter the general's mansion casually."
Song Wan glanced at Yun Zhuo and the other two, and said in a cryptic way, "I really can't be too casual about bringing you along."
He didn't know if it was an illusion, but Yun Zhuo heard obvious disdain in the other person's words.
If she didn't bring Yun Zhuo and the other two, she would only need to use her mental power to look after Qi Fu, which wouldn't take much.
But if there were three more, things would be completely different. Her mental strength was now firmly stuck between level eight and level nine, and expending too much would still be very stressful.
"Can you easily enter the general's mansion without me?" Yun Zhuo didn't believe it.
There were five of them, a woman, a teenager, and the other three looked quite powerful.
But there were only five of them, no way they could withstand the layers of defense at the general's mansion.
"Of course." Song Wan said confidently, "You can ask my third brother. I rescued him from Chunfeng Tower."
"Puff! Chunfeng Tower?!" Yun Zhuo almost choked on his tea. During their journey together, he already knew that Song Wan and Qi Fu were not biological siblings, but he did not expect that the process would be like this.
"Is it the one from Xinzhou?" Because of his aunt, Yun Zhuo knew that there was a Chunfeng Tower in Xinzhou, which was full of tender and beautiful young prostitutes.
In an instant, Yun Zhuo looked at Qi Fu again with sympathy in his eyes.
Qi Fu's mouth twitched when he realized he was being misunderstood. "I was just arrested, nothing happened to me."
Song Wan hummed and added, "If I had gone there later, I wouldn't have known what would have happened."
Qi Fu...
Yun Zhuo suppressed his laughter and said, "Brother Qi has had quite a rough life."
Yuanbao on the side also tried to hold back his laughter.
Qi Fu was so angry that he didn't want to talk.
Song Wan also knew that she couldn't bully this little rebel too harshly, so she added, "Don't look at his young age. If the two of you were to fight, you would definitely not be able to beat him."
Yun Zhuo was not convinced. After all, he came from a family of generals. Although he had an older brother to take charge of his generation and did not need to practice martial arts to carry on the family business, he had at least been taught by his uncles for a few years since he was a child. He believed that his skills were more than enough to deal with a few ordinary thugs, not to mention the rather thin-looking teenager in front of him.
"Brother Qi doesn't look like he knows martial arts." Yun Zhuo suspected that Song Wan was just trying to be pretentious.
Song Wan: "He doesn't know how, but I taught him a few deadly moves."
Yun Zhuo raised an eyebrow, "For example?"
"For example, stabbing the heart, slitting the neck, and how to quickly pierce the head with a sword." Song Wan spoke clearly and crisply, as if describing an extremely common move.
Yun Zhuo felt a chill down his spine when he heard this, and subconsciously said, "...At such a young age, do you really need to learn to be so ruthless?"
Song Wan said bluntly, "The enemy won't give you a chance to show mercy." This was all her experience of killing zombies in the apocalypse.
In her original world, there were many team members who were infected by zombies along the way and eventually turned into zombies.
Among them, there are always some people who are soft-hearted and end up being attacked by their closest companions, and both of them turn into zombies.
Yun Zhuo subconsciously wanted to refute, but when the words came to his lips, he found that what Song Wan said made quite a bit of sense.
If you are soft-hearted towards your enemies, they may not appreciate your kindness.
They must go to the general's mansion. Gu Yanji is her man now. If he is bullied, she will definitely fight back.
However, Song Wan has not yet decided whether to bring Yun Zhuo and the other two along.
Yun Zhuo was shocked to hear that she was actually considering taking him with her. "You guys really want to break into the General's Mansion?"
Who are they? They have just arrived at the tower for less than half a day and they are about to take on a dangerous and difficult task.
"Do you want a day trip to the general's mansion, plus a luxury package? Not 9,880, only 888." Song Wan thought about it and charged him less money because he was a descendant of a soldier.
"What set meal? Nine thousand eight, eight hundred and eight, what do these mean?" Yun Zhuo didn't understand.
"If you want to go to the general's mansion with us, I will guarantee the safety of the three of you for 888 silver coins." Song Wan explained patiently.
Eight hundred and eighty-eight taels were more than enough for her to recover her mental strength, not to mention that she now had Gu Yanji as her mobile energy body.
Yun Zhuo had never expected this to be the meaning. He leaned against the table and lowered his voice, "Song family, won't you try to persuade them?"
Gu Yan paused for a moment before realizing that "Song family" was referring to him. "Awan is already very experienced in this kind of thing. There's no need to worry."
What he was more worried about was whether she would be too tired if she brought three more people with her.
Yun Zhuo nearly spit out his tea again. "What do you mean by already proficient? Have you ever broken into other people's houses before?"
The people he encountered weren't just a few bandits, were they?
"You should know the Xinzhou prefect, right?" After knowing Yun Zhuo's true identity, Song Wan no longer had too many concerns.
"I know." Yun Zhuo nodded. It was just his ex-uncle, a rotten guy.
"He is at my house now, tending to the crops and applying fertilizer." Song Wan said calmly.
This time, Yun Zhuo finally couldn't hold it in anymore and spat out a mouthful of tea, spraying the person opposite him in the face.
Fortunately, Gu Yan sensed the situation in advance and separated himself from Song Wan. Song Qi and Gu Wu, as secret guards, were naturally sharp, so they also dodged in time.
Only Qi Wu was affected because he didn't react in time.
Qi Fu was stunned for a moment, and finally closed his eyes expressionlessly, using his sleeves to wipe off the tea leaves and water stains stuck to his face.
He swore that if he sat opposite Yun Zhuo again, he would be bullied by Song Wan for the rest of his life.
Yun Zhuo coughed violently several times. Why did the food in this inn become so salty that he had to drink water all the time!
"Are you talking about Yao Xu, the prefect of Xinzhou?" Yun Zhuo said the name accurately.
When passing by Xinzhou, he vaguely heard that the current Xinzhou prefect had suddenly changed his mind. Not only did he abolish all unreasonable private taxes, he even repented and used his own property to subsidize the people of Xinzhou.
Originally, he thought that it was his aunt's determination to divorce that made the other party suddenly repent, and it turned out to be related to her.
No, Miss Song said that Yao Xu is now farming in her house, so who is the one in Xinzhou now?
Yun Zhuo thought of a possibility and his eyes widened immediately, "Don't tell me that the person now is someone you arranged!"
"Of course." Song Wan blinked. "So, do you want to join us?"
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