Fishing

Mr. Qin caught two fish, which were fried golden and fragrant by Gu Ling. He, Lao Mu and the two little guys sat by the lake, eating fried fish and drinking flower and fruit tea. It was very comfortable.

It wasn't until nightfall that Mr. Qin had dinner at Su's house before leaving. Accompanying him were the guards from the Duke's Mansion, and Mr. Qin had made an appointment with Lao Mu and Zheng'er to go to Huguo Temple together tomorrow.

But whether it is true or false at that time will not be determined until the two little brothers play games at night to decide the winner. It wasn't the first time this happened, and they all enjoyed it.

At the same time that Mr. Qin returned home, Gu Ling also secretly returned to Min Shangshu's mansion, "changing shifts" with Cen Man, and asked her to go home to eat and rest.

As for whether Cen Man heard any useful information, the two did not communicate immediately. If nothing else, Mrs. Min is also a master, so she needs to be careful to avoid alerting the enemy.

After Cen Man left, Gu Ling heard Min Rou's voice coming from the room, "Dad's complexion has improved a lot. He will be able to get out of bed and go out in a few days. It is right to come back. There is no Changxinhou on the island." Such a miracle doctor."

On the island... Gu Ling immediately caught the key word. The food and grass from Yan Kingdom and the legendary fairy island further confirmed his and Su Liang's previous guesses.

Mrs. Min's voice was unhappy, "Rouer, I have told you so many times, be careful what you say."

"Okay." Min Rou said helplessly, "I just don't understand why...forget it, mother, don't glare at me. I know I was wrong and I will pay attention to it in the future."

Min Rui's voice said, "It's getting late, Rou'er, go to bed."

"Father and mother should go to bed early. I'm going back." After Min Rou finished speaking, there were sounds of footsteps, opening and closing doors.

The room became quiet, and after a while, Mrs. Min's deliberately lowered voice reached Gu Ling's ears, "Damn it. That man named Qin went to the Su Mansion today, and I don't know if he's back."

"Let's take a look tomorrow." Min Rui said, "If we start at night, we won't be able to cause any accidents. People may be suspicious of me."

Mrs. Min snorted coldly, "It's good that you know. I have to wait for the right time before I take action, and I can't act rashly."

After another quarter of an hour of silence, Mrs. Min spoke again and asked Min Rui, "Don't you want to kill Xing Ji and his son?"

Min Rui took a while before replying, "If there is a chance."

Mrs. Min sneered, "No matter how many people you kill, you will never get Qin Yuan in this life."

Min Rui immediately counterattacked, "Your lover died earlier than Qin Yuan. No matter how much you hate me, you can only stay with me, my substitute."

Gu Ling knew a little more about how the couple got together.

"That's it. I won't mention Qin Yuan in the future, and you are not allowed to mention that person again." Mrs. Min calmed down.

The lights in the room went out and the surroundings became calm again, but Gu Ling did not leave. He still stood quietly in the dark night, waiting for Min Rui's father-in-law who might not appear.

…

In the palace, Duanmu Chen is not asleep yet, and he does not plan to sleep tonight.

Chang'an looked at the table of wine and food that Duanmu Chen asked the imperial dining room to prepare, as well as the double jade chess piece that was specially taken out, and had to remind him weakly, "Your Majesty, Gu Hou said that he will not come tonight."

"He came the night before and didn't make a sound." Duanmu Chen asked Chang An to go out and have a look, "Did he hide in that tree last night again?"

Chang'an actually went out to take a look, and even went up a tree to confirm that there was really no one there.

After waiting and waiting, Duanmu Chen didn't see Gu Ling coming. Duanmu Chen felt strange, "How does he seem to know when there will be an assassin? If I didn't believe him, I would have suspected that the assassin was arranged by him to take credit."

Chang An thought about what kind of merit Gu Ling needed. This is unreasonable.

Just listen to Duanmu Chen sigh, "But he doesn't need to take credit. Is it possible that he can predict the future?"

Chang'an saw Duanmu Chen looking over and quickly shook his head, "I think this is unlikely."

"It would be great if he could really predict the future." Duanmu Chen said, "Anyway, I absolutely believe now that they are my good friends and they will definitely help me."

Changan nodded immediately, "Yes."

"You can eat these." Duanmu Chen stood up, "Put the chess set away and send it to the Su Mansion tomorrow. Just say it is a gift from me to thank Gu Ling for his vigil."

Chang'an responded and Duanmu Chen entered the inner room, "I have to go to sleep. Since Gu Ling said it's okay, then it's okay."

…

Su Mansion.

Cen Man had just told Su Liang what she had learned from the afternoon of monitoring. She wasn't sure what the purpose was, so she kept everything she heard in her mind and told Su Liang from beginning to end.

The content of the conversation between Min Rui and his wife is basically invalid information, but it can be heard that their relationship is very bad.

However, Mrs. Min secretly left Shangshu's Mansion once in the afternoon, and Cen Man followed her secretly without being discovered. Mrs. Min went to the Duke's Mansion, hid in a place in the garden where she could see the lake, and waited for a long time. She then went to the courtyard where Mr. Qin lived, and then returned to the Shangshu Mansion without doing anything.

Cen Man didn't understand what was going on, but Su Liang completely understood. Mrs. Min had previously gone to the Duke's Mansion to investigate. It was planned that Mr. Qin would go fishing at the Garden Lake this afternoon. There was no one else around when he was fishing, so it was a good time to take action.

Unfortunately, Mrs. Min's plan came to nothing because Mr. Qin "made a temporary decision" to change fishing places and came to Su Liang's house.

After Cen Man had dinner, she asked Su Liang if she needed her to come back to replace Gu Ling.

Su Liang said no and asked Cen Man to go to bed early. She might need to trouble her again during the day tomorrow.

When Su Liang carried the sleepy Gu Xiaonuan upstairs, she heard laughter coming from the study.

The door was half open. Su Liang walked to the door and saw Lao Mu and the two little guys competing to see who could stand upside down the longest. Ji Xiaoshu had already lost and was lying on the carpet, making faces at Zheng'er and yelling at Lao Mu.

"Master's wife!" Ji Xiaoshu got up from the ground excitedly when she saw Su Liang, and "accidentally" knocked Zheng'er down. When Zheng'er fell to the ground, he kicked Lao Mu in the face, and the three of them fell together.

Lao Mu sat up with one child in one hand, and the three of them smiled at the door, "That kid can't come back tonight? How about I go for him?"

"I can do it too!" Ji Xiaoshu raised his little hand.

Zheng'er went around from behind Lao Mu and pressed Ji Xiaoshu's hand back, "You can't, don't make a fuss."

Ji Xiaoshu smiled, "Then I can sleep with Master's Wife!"

Su Liang chuckled, "No need. Stop making a fuss and go to sleep quickly. Didn't we say we're going to Huguo Temple tomorrow?"

"Master's Wife, guess who will go out and who will stay at home tomorrow?" Ji Xiaoshu asked excitedly, "If you guess right, we'll go to bed right away!"

"Then I guess..." Su Liang pretended to hesitate, "Xiaoshu will go out to play tomorrow?"

"Master's Wife is so good, you guessed right!" Ji Xiaoshu had already climbed onto Lao Mu's back, "Master will take me out to play tomorrow, and Master will stay at home to write."

Su Liang smiled at Zheng'er, knowing that he must have intended to let Ji Xiaoshu. In fact, Zheng'er was already very skilled in the game they played, but he knew it was not easy for Ji Xiaoshu to go far away from home, so he would let Xiaoshu win as long as they competed.

Zheng'er silently puffed up his chest. He is the eldest senior brother, the most obedient child in the eyes of the master's wife, and it is his duty to take care of his junior brother.

After Su Liang returned to his room and put Gu Xiaonuan down, he was not sleepy for a while, so he sat at the table, pondered for a moment, picked up a pen and wrote down all the fragmented information about the mysterious strength and the traverser that he knew so far, and then connected them bit by bit.

Finally, Su Liang took out a new piece of paper and wrote three questions on it, "Who is the enemy? What do you want to do? Why do you do this?"

The answer to the first question is incomplete and inaccurate, but there is, "traverser".

The answer to the second question, which is directly related to them, is "Gu Ling, alive."

The answer to the third question is the most critical, and it is still foggy and clueless. A traverser, looking for another traverser, secretly investigating and confirming the identity, the purpose is not to kill, so what is he going to do?

"How did the communication come about? Discuss how to go back..." Su Liang blurted out a self-talk, which made her stunned. She picked up the pen and wrote the word "go back" under the word "travel" on the paper, drew a circle, and fell into deep thought again.

Is it possible... Su Liang was thinking. Although she and Gu Ling have often mentioned this topic since they met, they are mostly fantasies and assumptions. Whether she chooses to face reality or Gu Ling longs to see another world, they all know in their hearts that this is impossible. If a person's soul can travel back and forth in different time and space, wouldn't it be true to become an immortal. One-way travel is already a dream-like adventure, and it usually happens when you are on the verge of death. Who can really let their life fall into the brink of extinction to gamble on an uncertain future? Thinking of this, Su Liang's face condensed! Near death... gambling life... Could it be that another traveler really wants to travel back, doesn't want to gamble himself, and wants to find a similar person to do an experiment? However, Su Liang soon discovered that this hypothesis is not true. The so-called near death is to recall the last moment in the previous world from the perspective of successful travel, but people in the same time and space see that the person must be dead, and there is no way to verify whether the soul of the dead person has traveled to another place. Reasoning hit a bottleneck again. Su Liang tidied up the table and planned to wait for Gu Ling to come back to discuss her immature new ideas.

Looking out the window, there was no moon in the night sky. After midnight, it was already the first day of March. If nothing unexpected happens, the war in the north may start at any time.

Su Liang didn't know whether the other party would use special weapons, such as explosives, in addition to the mysterious food and grass. Just in case, she had sent someone to send a car of secret weapons to Qiu Cong, as well as a letter, telling him not to use the things in the car easily unless the other party used similar ones first. Although it may be possible for the other party to use a big killer first to end the war faster, it may also lead to the other party's retaliation, making the situation out of control.

What Su Liang hoped most was that Qiu Cong could destroy the food and grass of Liang before or at the beginning of the war. Without enough food and grass to support it, Liang found that it was stood up by Yan State, and it would not be able to jump much.

But if there really is someone on the other side with a huge storage space to serve as a warehouse for the Liang army, this matter will be very tricky.

…

That night, Gu Ling did not wait for Min Rui's father-in-law to appear, and Min Rui and his wife did not say anything or leave the room to do anything.

At dawn, Cen Man came over, took over from Gu Ling, and asked him to go home.

Gu Ling approached Yuanming Pavilion and saw Lao Mu leading Ji Xiaoshu and Zheng'er running around the lake in the morning light.

Ji Xiaoshu waved at Gu Ling from a distance, "Master!"

Gu Ling stopped and waited for them to run over, and grabbed the little guy who rushed over with one hand each.

"Master, Master's wife and sister are still sleeping." Ji Xiaoshu pointed upstairs, and then used his hands and feet to try to climb onto Gu Ling, as if he was a tree.

Zheng'er pulled Ji Xiaoshu down speechlessly, "Don't make trouble, Master has not slept all night, he must be tired. We still have to exercise."

The next moment, Ji Xiaoshu was caught by Gu Ling. His little body turned 360 degrees in the air. When he reacted, he had already passed Gu Ling's head and landed steadily.

Ji Xiaoshu scratched his head in confusion and looked at Gu Ling who walked into Yuanming Pavilion, with a look of "Who am I, where am I, what just happened?"

Zheng'er pulled Ji Xiaoshu forward, "Master is playing with you, are you scared?"

Ji Xiaoshu immediately shook his head, "How is it possible? It's so fun, let's have a somersault competition later!"

Gu Ling washed and changed clothes before entering the room. When he walked to the bed, he saw Gu Xiaonuan leaning against Su Liang. Both mother and daughter were sleeping soundly.

Gu Ling didn't call them. He turned around and saw a stack of papers on the table. He walked over and picked it up. At first glance, he saw the three questions and answers analyzed by Su Liang. His eyes finally fixed on the circled word "go back" and frowned.

"Goddess, you are back." Su Liang stood up and picked up his daughter. "How is it? Was there any new situation last night?"

Gu Ling nodded and shook his head, "A little bit." It was the word "island" that Min Rou mentioned when he first went there last night.

"It really is an island." Su Liang said, "So, the strange things we encountered were all caused by the same group of people, right? The food and grass sent by Yan State Ji Yuebai also disappeared at sea."

Gu Ling sat down on the bed, hugged Gu Xiaonuan and kissed her, "Do you think that person wants to go back?"

Su Liang shrugged slightly, "It was just an idea last night, a bold guess, but it was not sorted out."

"You once talked about something like a time machine. Maybe the way that person traveled through time is different from yours, and it is really possible to go back." After accepting new knowledge and new ideas, Gu Ling's thinking is sometimes more open and bold than Su Liang.

Su Liang was stunned, "What I said are all purely fictional novels or science fiction movies and TV dramas. When I came here, the level of technology had not yet realized that fantasy."

Gu Ling thought for a while and said, "Perhaps, that person is not in the same world as you, maybe he traveled from the future of your world or a parallel time and space?"

Su Liang thought seriously for a moment, "If what you said is true, then it is hard to imagine. If that person came from a time and space more advanced than mine, and came here with a treasure like a storage space, he is the chosen one, and I, a traveler, am just making up the numbers."

Gu Ling shook his head, "Maybe we think too much, it's not that complicated."

Su Liang sighed, "Maybe I think too much. If that person wants to go back, but doesn't come to us directly, but keeps doing things in secret, it's also inexplicable."

For a long while, the old doctor Gao didn't come again, and Gu Ling went to the residence of the Minister of Industry by himself.

When Gu Ling went out, Lao Mu had already brought Ji Xiaoshu's disguised "Zheng'er" to meet up with Old Man Qin and went to Huguo Temple together.

...

Min Mansion.

Gu Ling saw Madam Min again. The black mist between her eyebrows was still there, indicating that she had not yet killed Old Man Qin and might succeed. However, Gu Ling was already intervening.

The acupuncture was performed as usual. After the end, Gu Ling was cleaning up, and Min Rou appeared again, "My Lord, have a cup of tea before leaving."

Gu Ling's expression was indifferent, "Thank you, no need."

Min Rou smiled, "My Lord, are you afraid that I will poison the tea?"

Gu Ling shook his head, "You think too much."

Madam Min frowned, pulled Min Rou, and signaled her to speak less.

Gu Ling took the initiative to say, "My wife and I learned medical skills from each other." This was in response to the question Min Rou asked yesterday.

Min Rou was surprised that Gu Ling actually remembered and answered. When she reacted, Gu Ling had already gone out.

Madam Min pulled Min Rou again, "Pack up quickly, we still have to go to Huguo Temple."

The mother and daughter are going to Huguo Temple together to burn incense and pray for Min Rui. This was a temporary decision made by Madam Min this morning, and Gu Ling heard it when she went out.

After leaving the Min Mansion, Gu Ling went straight home, but as soon as she entered the mansion, she secretly left again and went to the palace.

When Duanmu Chen saw Gu Ling appear, a smile appeared on his face, "Are you here to confirm whether I am safe?"

Gu Ling shook his head, "Your Majesty, please go to Huguo Temple today."

Duanmu Chen was stunned, and then frowned, "Why?"

"Min Rui's daughter Min Rou, she is in Huguo Temple. The emperor will meet her and issue an order to take her into the palace as a concubine after returning to the palace." Gu Ling said.

Duanmu Chen was speechless, "You are too nosy. Give me a reasonable explanation!"

Gu Ling's face was calm, "I suspect that Min Rui's family of three is related to that mysterious force, but we can't alert the enemy now. Granting marriage is not the purpose, but just a means of testing, "fishing", to see how some people react."

Duanmu Chen's face was shocked, "You mean, they may be colluding with Liangguo?"

Gu Ling nodded, "It can't be ruled out."

"Okay!" Duanmu Chen narrowed his eyes slightly, "I understand what you mean. It has nothing to do with Min Rou, it's for the people behind her... I know what to do, and I will accompany my mother to the Huguo Temple to burn incense later, pretending to like her. In this way..."

Gu Ling continued, "In this way, the people who assassinated the emperor the night before may come again."

Duanmu Chen held his forehead, "I am getting more and more interesting as an emperor."

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