The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 685 Meeting the Empress (Part 2)

Gu Jiao and Master Nan were halfway back when Master Lu came looking for them.

When he saw Mrs. Nan being supported by Gu Jiao, with blood on her veil, he couldn't help but jump in his heart: "Ah Xiang, what's wrong with you!"

Nan Xiang gave him an angry look: "Don't yell, it's okay to scare me out of trouble."

Master Lu panicked: "No, you are vomiting blood! What happened? If you don't tell me, let Jiaojiao tell!"

Gu Jiao looked at Master Nan.

Master Nan sighed: "Okay, okay, don't embarrass the child, I met Qi Xuan."

Master Lu was stunned: "Which Qi Xuan? Your old senior brother?"

Master Nan said: "That's him."

Master Lu was very surprised: "He came to Shengdu? Isn't it true that disciples of the Tang Sect are not allowed to leave Tangjiabao at will?"

Nan Shiniang said: "It is true that his appearance does not conform to the Tang Sect's rules, but that is his business with the Tang Sect, and has nothing to do with me."

Master Lu asked, "Didn't he come to arrest you?"

Nan Shiniang shook her head slightly: "No, he was asking about forbidden techniques. He could have continued to fight Jiaojiao just now, but he didn't. I guess he has more important things at hand, so he can't stay and spend time with us. .In the short term, he probably won’t come over.”

Master Lu looked suspicious: "That's how you know him?"

Nan Shiniang smiled wryly: "At any rate, he is a senior brother who has been with him for many years. I still have a little understanding of him. Don't worry, go back."

The three returned to the house.

Nan Shiniang went back to the house to rest after taking some pills for recuperating internal injuries.

Gu Jiao also returned to her room.

Lying on the bed, she recalled the situation when she fought against Qi Xuan just now.

She can feel that Qi Xuan is an out-and-out master, and it is the kind she has never been in contact with.

First there was the beautiful monk, then the tricky boss who dared to attack the beautiful monk, and now there was another Qi Xuan, it was getting more and more lively.

"The trip to the country of Yan is really not easy."

"Sister, are you asleep?"

Gu Xiaoshun's voice rang outside the door.

Gu Jiao sat up and opened the curtain: "Come in."

Gu Xiaoshun pushed the door open, came to Gu Jiao's bedside, and handed her something.

Gu Jiao took it over and took a look,

It was a wooden ball the size of a baby's fist: "This is..."

"The mechanism ball is for your self-defense." Gu Xiaoshun scratched his head, and said with a smile, "I improved the mechanism that Master taught me to make, and it is similar to your black fire ball. Just throw it out. Trigger the mechanism, and the poisonous needles inside will shoot out from each hole."

Gu Jiao looked at the ball and said, "This ball is full of holes, so it can attack at 360 degrees without any dead angle."

Gu Xiaoshun: Although I couldn't understand what his sister said, she seemed to be praising him.

Gu Xiaoshun spread out his other hand and took out a small dome cover: "Just in case, if you accidentally drop it and shoot yourself, just put it on and you'll be fine."

Gu Jiao bent her lips and said sincerely, "Xiao Shun is really amazing."

Gu Xiaoshun was so praised that his face turned red: "This is just a low-level mechanism ball, sister, you can use it first, and if I make a better one, I will bring it to you."

Gu Jiao: "Okay."

...

The next day, Gu Jiao, who had been "on leave" for several days, finally went to the academy to attend classes.

As soon as she entered the classroom, a group of people surrounded her.

Zhou Tong and Zhong Ding crowded in front.

The two asked in unison: "Liulang, are you okay?"

Gu Jiao is still not used to being surrounded by people like this, but looking at those small concerned eyes, she didn't push people away after all.

"It's all right, healed up," she said.

Zhong Ding said: "Gu Xiaoshun said that you were seriously ill and couldn't get out of bed for a few days. We were all terrified and wanted to see you, but he said that you had pox and it was contagious, so we better not go."

Gu Xiaoshun himself suffered from acne, but he did not forget to use his experience reasonably to help her lie.

With lingering fear in his heart, Zhou Tong said, "Apox is very dangerous. It's lucky that you can get over it."

Gu Jiao said: "It's okay."

Mu Qingchen didn't come over today, but Mu Chuan, Yuan Xiao, and Zhao Wei hurried over from their classroom after hearing the news that Gu Jiao was coming to class.

There is no class yet.

The three came in through the back door of the classroom.

"Bring me a seat, brother." Yuan Xiao said to Zhou Tong who was in front of Gu Jiao.

"Oh." Zhou Tong didn't dare to offend the Ju team, so he quickly moved a seat for him.

Zhao Wei stared at the student next to him: "It's still short of a seat, brother."

The man hurried away with his bookbag in his arms.

The two sat in the front row of Gu Jiao, turned around and stared at Gu Jiao, while Mu Chuan sat down on the seat that originally belonged to Mu Qingchen on Gu Jiao's left.

Three people, six eyes, all staring at Gu Jiao.

Gu Jiao closed the half-opened book: "What's wrong? It's like looking at a monkey."

"You've lost weight." Mu Chuan said.

"Hmm." Gu Jiao hummed lightly.

Mu Chuan whispered, "Do you really have acne?"

Gu Jiao said seriously: "Really."

Mu Chuan suddenly stretched out his hand, touched Gu Jiao's forehead, and then touched his own: "It's not hot anymore. You recovered quite quickly. My fourth brother had acne when he was young, and he was sick for more than ten days."

Gu Jiao said without changing her face, "I'm recovering quickly."

The three exchanged a look.

Zhao Wei looked at Yuan Xiao: "Say it."

Yuan Xiao looked at Zhao Wei: "Say it."

Mu Chuan raised his hand: "Forget it, stop arguing, let me talk."

Zhao Wei and Yuan Xiao: "..." We didn't quarrel!

Gu Jiao looked at the three of them strangely.

Mu Chuan cleared his throat, and said seriously, "The three of us came to see you. Besides seeing you, we have two news for you. One good news and one bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?"

Gu Jiao asked without hesitation: "Bad?"

The three of them were embarrassed at the same time.

Mu Chuan bit the bullet and said: "Then what... just... the days when you were sick... we competed with Canaan Academy."

Yuan Xiao said impatiently, "The period of being sick was yesterday!"

Gu Jiao looked at the three of them and said, "The bad news you want to tell is—"

Mu Chuan said ashamedly: "We lost, and we failed your expectations."

Don't let me down, don't let me down, don't let me down at all!

You are heroes!

I am so proud of you!

Gu Jiao said with bright eyes, "What's the good news?"

After getting 10,000 taels, there is actually other good news. Is it an extra 1,000 taels of gold?

Mu Chuan straightened his back and said, "The good news is that although we lost, the people from Canaan Academy finally agreed to exchange rewards with us through my hard work, and we can go to see the monarch right away! Woo Haha! Am I amazing!"

Gu Jiao punched down and smashed Mu Chuan's head onto the table!

What a hammer!

Who the hell wants to see the king!

Give me back my gold—

Throughout the day, the murderous intent in the back row was exceptionally strong.

Gu Jiao sat in her seat with a dark face, and the whole classroom became her little training ground.

The students of Mingxintang collectively held books in their hands, trembling.

On the other side, Xiao Heng just sent Xiao Jingkong to Lingbo Academy.

He asked for leave at Canglan Academy.

He has good grades, takes the first place in all his homework, and is the most promising student of his master. Even if he asks for leave for several days, none of his masters refuses him.

He wanted to go to the outer city to see if Gu Jiao was back.

After getting into his carriage, he changed back into his clothes: "Leave the city."

The coachman was a servant he bought, and he knew his man's identity, and he also knew that the way out of the city he said must be through the south inner city gate.

The coachman drove the carriage to the south.

When passing by a time-honored shop, Xiao Heng said to the driver: "Stop, I'm going to do some shopping."

"Yes." The coachman parked the carriage on the side of the road.

The coachman wanted to say that he could actually go shopping, but according to his observation, when buying things for people around him, his son would always choose them himself.

Xiao Heng went to buy jerky for Gu Jiao, and the jerky in this shop is very to Gu Jiao's taste.

There were not many people in line at this hour, so Xiao Heng ordered a little of each of the two flavors.

The spicy ones are sold out, and the boss went to the back to get new ones: "Master, wait a moment, it will be soon!"

Xiao Heng waited patiently, and several people waiting for jerky came one after another.

A young scholar said: "Hey, have you heard? The princess is back?"

The companion on the side said: "Have you returned? Why don't I know?"

A middle-aged man came over, smiled, and said: "They didn't put on the honor guard of the prince, of course you don't know. By the way...she is not the prince, right? Didn't the king depose her a long time ago? Didn't she do it back then?" sacred."

The young scholar lowered his volume a little: "But I heard that the original words of the monarch's oral order were to bring the princess back."

"Mouth...cough." The middle-aged man covered his mouth.

What he wants to say is, the monarch is probably a mouthful, right? The princess has been abolished as a commoner, and now there is no princess in Yan, only the prince.

While a few people were talking, a carriage suddenly drove slowly from the long street behind them.

The carriage has a large body and is pulled by six horses, escorted by four guards on each side.

The number of guards in Zhenlun is not too many, but six horses, which is the standard of the royal family.

Xiao Heng gasped when he heard the middle-aged man beside him: "It's the princess!"

Xu didn't expect them to say that Cao Cao had arrived, so he was so surprised that everyone around heard the call of the princess.

Everyone rushed towards the carriage.

There were too many people, Xiao Heng didn't plan to join in the fun at this juncture, he got the dried meat handed over by the boss, turned around and left.

Unexpectedly, the person who wanted to see the princess was so excited that he knocked him out!

He was caught off guard and staggered and fell in front of the carriage.

It's the end of the month, check your pockets, do you still have a monthly pass?