Speaking of this, Song Wan's face was filled with regret, "What a pity, what a pity."
Gu Yan was anxious to skip this topic.
"Otherwise, a disobedient man could be made obedient by being stabbed twice," Song Wan said reluctantly. "How could such a good punishment be wasted?"
Gu Yan anxiously said: ...
He decided to remain silent.
Leaving Qingyun Mountain, crossing Suizhou, they finally arrived at the state capital that Song Wan had never been to. The closer these places were to the capital and Jiangnan, the richer they were. Of course, this wealth referred to the officials and wealthy businessmen, and had nothing to do with the common people.
The people here just have fewer patches on their bodies than the people in Xinzhou, Guizhou.
Gu Yan hurriedly carried Gu Yu onto the horse, allowing him to see the real life of the people of Dai Viet along the way.
"Ayu, the future of these people depends on your efforts." Gu Yan raised her eyes quickly and looked at the beggars in tattered clothes at the corner of the alley. There was a dead look in her eyes.
Gu Yu pursed her lips and nodded heavily, "Second brother, A Yu will remember this."
He just saw a big beggar holding a little beggar kneeling at the door of the clinic. They must have been kneeling for a long time. When they passed by, a doctor finally came out to take the pulse, but it was too late. The little beggar in the big beggar's arms was already dead.
A circle of people gathered around, pointing and talking, but no one was willing to lend a hand. However, after the little beggar died, copper coins were thrown at the feet of the big beggar one after another.
Seeing that he was still frowning, Gu Yan asked, "Are you still thinking about the little beggar?"
Gu Yu nodded. He tilted his head back, his face full of confusion. "Why did they throw the copper coins after the little beggar died?"
Gu Yan paused anxiously and was about to open his mouth to answer, but someone got there first.
"Because copper coins can't cure the little beggar's illness." Song Wan rode up on horseback with four more strings of candied haws in her hand. She gave one string each to Baozi and Gu Yanji, and kept two strings for herself to eat slowly.
Gu Yu seemed to understand but also seemed to understand nothing.
Song Wan bit off a sweet and sour candied haws, and used one hand to pinch the bottom of the bun. Well, fake ones are fake, and they are not as comfortable as the real ones.
"They can barely even provide for their families, so how could they possibly have extra money to save others? A few copper coins are just a tiny glimmer of hope for these two beggars, only to be repeatedly snuffed out by reality." Song Wan had experienced this countless times. "So, Ayu, you must work hard to ensure that your people never have to go hungry again."
"Your sister Awan is right. In the future, they will all be your subjects. What you and your descendants need to do is to ensure that all the people of Dai Viet no longer suffer from hunger and war." Gu Yan gently stroked his hair and whispered, "This is also your father's wish."
Hearing about his biological father, Gu Yu showed a trace of confusion and hesitation. He pursed his lips and mustered up the courage to ask, "Second brother, what kind of person is my father?"
It was the first time that Gu Yanji heard Gu Yu mention the late emperor, and the corners of her lips couldn't help but curl up slightly, "Your father, he may not be the best emperor since the founding of Dai Viet, but he is definitely the one who is most willing to sacrifice himself for Dai Viet."
"What about my mother?" Gu Yu asked cautiously, "Did she go to accompany my father?"
Perhaps it was the bond of blood, Gu Yu's eyes turned red.
Soon, Gu Yu's eyes were covered by a pair of large palms, and a warm and wet feeling fell on the palms.
Gu Yan sighed anxiously, "Ayu, you need to look forward."
As the only child of the late emperor and Queen Qi, he had to grow up quickly.
Gu Yu sniffed, wiped away the tears that had flowed for unknown reasons, and after a while said, "Second brother, can you take your hand away? The candied haws that Sister Wan gave me will melt if I don't eat them now."
Gu Yan's anxious expression paused, she laughed, and took her hand away.
"Eat it," he said.
No matter how fast he grows, it cannot change the fact that he is only seven years old and still at the age where he craves candied haws.
Gu Yu licked the candied haws and said, "So sweet."
Song Wan hadn't even finished the first of the two candied haws in her hand. There were five in a string, and there were still four left.
Seeing Gu Yu start to lick the candied haws, Song Wan tempted him without thinking, "Baozi, take a bite."
Gu Yu didn't suspect anything and obediently opened his mouth wide to bite off the first candied haws. However, after chewing it for less than two times, he hissed fiercely, and a lump formed on his cheek. "Sister Wan, this is so sour!"
Song Wan laughed heartily, "You must have been fooled by me! Hahaha~"
Gu Yan was anxious and helpless because his wife was too good at playing.
The old man selling candied haws was lying. The candied haws were not sweet at all. The sugar coating was not thick enough, and the hawthorn fruit was too sour. Song Wan ate the first one and vomited it after just two chews.
After successfully tricking the little bun, Song Wan expressed a sense of accomplishment.
Gu Yu adhered to the principle of not wasting food and tried hard to chew and swallow the candied haws in his mouth. In the end, his brows were wrinkled into the shape of the Chinese character "川".
Song Wan stuffed the remaining candied haws into Gu Yanji's arms, picked up Baozi and threw him towards herself, and at the same time stuffed the candied haws in Baozi's hand into Gu Yanji's hand.
"Baozi! Sit tight!" Song Wan leaned forward slightly and raised the whip.
Gu Yu quickly hugged Song Wan's waist. The next moment, the horse suddenly galloped forward and left Gu Yan far behind in the blink of an eye.
At this time, Song Wan turned sideways and looked back, wearing a red dress, very low-key.
She blinked and said, "Those are the candied haws that Ayu and I treated you to!"
Gu Yan anxiously said: ...
At this time, Song Qi and Gu Wu finally caught up in their carriage.
Gu Wu glanced at the two men, one large and one small, galloping ahead on horseback, and asked, "Master, where is Miss Song taking the young master?"
Where to go? Gu Yan lowered his eyes and looked at the candied haws in his hand that his wife disliked, and couldn't help laughing twice.
He took the one Song Wan had eaten and handed the rest to Gu Wu who had come up to him. "Ah Wan is treating you to some candied haws. You and Song will share it. Remember, don't leave any behind."
Gu Wu was suddenly stuffed with three strings of candied haws, and he was confused. Why was a grown man like him eating such sour and sweet food?
Finally, he took it back and asked Song Qi, "The master gave it to me and said that your eldest daughter invited us."
Gu Wu looked at the three strings of candied haws. One of them still had some residue on it, as if someone had taken a bite. Otherwise, why did the other two strings have five, but this one only had four.
Song Qi was not as attentive as Gu Wu. When he heard that it was the eldest lady who was treating them to dinner, he snatched a string from Gu Wu's hand and put it into his own mouth without thinking.
Gu Wu: "...Can you be more polite?"
Song Qi was about to open his mouth to take a bite, but when he heard this, he immediately stopped and refuted him, "A grown man eating something, why should he be so polite! I think you are possessed by Gu Wen!"
Song Qi was about to bite after he finished talking. He had been traveling for more than two hours and his stomach was really empty. It would be nice to have two candied haws to satisfy his craving.
As a result, when I took a bite, I almost vomited out the dry food I had eaten in the morning.
Gu Wu noticed his strange expression and asked hurriedly, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with the candied haws?"
Song Qi quickly shook his head, and after calming down his expression, he spoke, "The candied haws are delicious. You should try some now. It's so hot, and the sugar on top will melt and it won't taste good."
Gu Wu: "I don't like it. If you like it, take it."
Song Qi blocked it in time, his face serious, "You can't do that! My eldest lady treated me to this. If you don't eat, be careful that your master will find out and beat you up!"
Gu Wu: "...The master would never beat anyone up for no reason!"
Song swallowed the candied haws whole, then spat out the core and said, "Believe it or not, as long as my eldest lady mentions it, your master will definitely do it."
Gu Wu, who was gradually losing confidence, said, "Just eat it!"
Gu Wu angrily bit off a candied haws and chewed it hard. Then Song Qi burst into laughter, and his face froze with soreness.
While Song Qi laughed unscrupulously, he quickly took out the water bag and poured it into his mouth.
In order to trick Gu Wu into eating this bite, he was almost jealous to death.
Gu Wu took a long time to calm down before finally spitting out the candied haws in his mouth and raising his fist to hit someone.
Song Qi hurriedly picked up the water bag, didn't even want the carriage, and ran away using his lightness skills, forcing Gu Wu to chase him in the carriage alone.
Song Qi must have learned this from his eldest daughter!
After playing and fighting all the way, we finally arrived in Jingzhou. Two hundred miles out of Jingzhou is the capital.
In order to avoid being discovered, Gu Yu has been wearing the □□ made by Zhang Sheng during the day for more than a month since Xinzhou. His handsome white bun has turned into an ordinary yellow bun.
Gu Yanji still had a long scar between his eyebrows and a full beard.
Song Qi and Gu Wu also disguised their faces. This was a very simple thing for them. When they were secret guards, simple disguise was a skill that every secret guard had to learn.
Song Wan was different. Although she lived in the capital until she was ten years old, Qi kept her under control at that time and rarely allowed her to go out. After she turned ten, she went to the northwest and had not returned to the capital for five years.
All the officers and secret guards who had seen her face were dead, so there was no need to disguise herself, she just had to change her name.
Gu Yan quickly changed his surname to Liu after his mother. Song Wan had been calling him Liu Er for a long time.
Gu Yu didn't change his name. No one called him by his name anyway, so they still called him Baozi and A Yu.
Song Qi and Gu Wu really didn't have much talent for naming, so Song Wan helped them come up with one, "One of you will be called Durian, and the other will be called Coriander."
Taking advantage of the fact that these two things did not exist here, Song Wan began to make up stories.
Gu Wu repeated the two names in his mouth and asked, "Then who among us is the coriander and who is the durian?"
Song Wan tried to keep a straight face, with her hands behind her back, "Your name is Durian, the same as my last name, Wan Durian, and Song Qi's name is Xiangcai, the same as your master's last name, Liu, so Liu Xiangcai."
Song Wan changed her name to Wansong.
Gu Wu frowned, "Why don't I take my master's surname, Liu?"
Song Wan frowned and deliberately asked seriously, "Do you think Liu Durian sounds good?"
"Alright, let's follow what Awan said." Gu Yan said anxiously, "After entering Beijing, Liu Xiangcai (Song Qi) and Wan Liulian (Gu Wu) will swap your identities."
Gu Wu: “…”
In fact, what he wanted to say was that he and Song Qi could just exchange their names.
I always feel that durian is not a good word.
The author has something to say:
I support coriander this time!
Durian is really not my thing!
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