Taming beasts starts with understanding bird language

After crawling forward for half an hour.

Tian Ying and the others were already covered in mud, and they were all lying on the ground with a foul stench.

But despite this, everyone still crawled forward slowly, not daring to stop at all.

Because whenever they stopped, Gu Chan and the other two would take the sticks in their hands and hit them hard on the back, making them grimace in pain, but they dared not get angry.

After all, there are dozens of silver-armored soldiers guarding nearby. If anyone dares to dissent, they will draw their swords and chop off their heads. Who would dare to be so presumptuous?

Seeing that everyone was behaving well, Gu Chan's heart, which had been hanging in her chest, finally calmed down temporarily.

On the other side, behind the east gate of Zhongyuan City.

At this moment, the people gathered together, looking at the notice posted on the wall of the east gate in surprise.

There are three points in the notice.

First, the current ninth prince, who is also the new general sent by the emperor to Zhongyuan City, decided to recognize Gu Chan as his sworn brother. According to the rules of the royal family of Tiancang Kingdom, once the prince recognizes a sworn brother, that person becomes the emperor's godson and can take the position of prince. So the current emperor has a total of sixteen sons, and Gu Chan becomes the seventeenth prince.

Second, the Ninth Prince, in the name of his sworn brother, is seeking a wife for his sworn brother and hopes that the young ladies from the big families in Zhongyuan City will sign up to participate.

Thirdly, whoever becomes the seventeenth imperial consort and later recovers the border, her whole family can return to Kyoto with the ninth and seventeenth princes to be ennobled, granted a mansion and the title of royal relative.

Following the release of this notice, the entire Zhongyuan City was in an uproar by noon, and countless heads of prominent families rushed to the Zhongyuan Medical Clinic in the refugee area to discuss the selection of a concubine with Zhang Wanshan and Zhou Dachuan.

Everyone in the clinic was dumbfounded and didn't know what to do with this sudden situation.

Some even went straight to the rich Shen Mansion and found Shen Sanfeng to negotiate. After all, Shen Sanfeng was Gu Chan's godfather. Now that Gu Chan had become the seventeenth prince, he, as the godfather, was like a brother to the current emperor! He was truly a relative of the emperor, so of course everyone wanted to curry favor with him.

For a moment, whether it was Zhang Wanshan and other people in the clinic, or Shen Sanfeng and other people in the Shen family, everyone looked confused, as if they were at a loss.

Look at Gu Chan!

As the person involved, she has no idea about this matter at the moment.

From morning till now, she has been training Tian Ying and others by the creek. Since the morning requirement was to crawl and swim fifty times back and forth, up to now, the generals have only trained more than thirty times back and forth, and there are still more than ten times to be completed.

She also did her best to supervise and never left the stream.

It was not until the afternoon that Ma Zheng came quickly on his horse.

When Gu Chan saw him coming, she handed over the supervision to Xue Lihua and Ren Nanshan, and she went forward and asked, "Why are you here, kid?"

"Boss, something bad has happened. Sister Wan'er is crying her heart out in the clinic and has even fainted several times." Ma Zheng grabbed Gu Chan's hands and said anxiously.

"Ah? What happened?" Gu Chan asked in shock.

Ma Zheng quickly told her everything about Xuanyuan Qing's announcement.

After she finished listening, she froze in place, completely stunned, even herself.

Ma Zheng said anxiously, "Boss, what should we do now? You have inexplicably become the seventeenth prince of Tiancang Kingdom, and now you have to choose a royal consort! Sister Wan'er is your fiancée, and logically, she should be the royal consort. But according to the notice of the Ninth Prince, she can't be the royal consort. At best, she can only be a concubine. This is unfair to her."

"Damn it, I did it! You're so bad, Xuanyuan Qing! I gave you advice last night, and you're trying to trick me today, damn it!" Gu Chan came to her senses, stomped her feet and cursed in anger.

It was obvious that Xuanyuan Qing was trying to trick her!

He himself did not want to choose a royal consort, and took this opportunity to raise military funds, so he sold out Gu Chan. On the surface, he said that he recognized her as a sworn brother, and made her the seventeenth prince of Tiancang Kingdom, but in fact, she was just a scapegoat. After the matter was settled and the border was recovered, couldn't he just find a reason to sever ties with her?

So in a word, she was just a tool to raise military funds. Could she really be allowed to be the seventeenth prince of Tiancang Kingdom?

Isn't this pure nonsense?

Ma Zheng comforted him in time, "Boss, stop scolding me and think about what to do! I feel like the Ninth Prince has done you a big disservice this time. If you don't handle this well, you will definitely become the target of public criticism."

"Well, you go back and help me comfort Wan'er, tell her that it was the Ninth Prince who tricked me. I will find a way to solve it and tell her not to be sad. Also, you have to cheer her up and help me manage the clinic and the tailor shop well. She should continue to make money. As for me, I will slowly fight with the Ninth Prince." Gu Chan calmed down and spoke in an orderly manner.

"Well, boss, I'm going to go back first. Take care of yourself! Anyway, we can't afford to offend the Ninth Prince, so you must not fall into his hands." Ma Zheng reminded.

Gu Chan nodded seriously.

Ma Zheng said no more, quickly got on his horse and left.

After he left, Gu Chan temporarily handed over the training to Xue Lihua and Ren Nanshan, and then she rode a fast horse and quickly returned to the Central Plains camp.

After one stick of incense.

Gu Chan came to the meeting hall on the top floor of the command building of the Central Plains Camp.

"Hahaha……"

As soon as she walked into the lobby, Xuanyuan Qing and the other two who were sitting inside looked at her and couldn't stop laughing.

Gu Chan walked forward with a stern face, raised her finger and pointed at Xuanyuan Qing and shouted angrily, "You are so good, Your Highness the Ninth Prince. I tried my best to help you, but you actually tricked me to death like this. Are you still a human being?"

"Oh, Manager Gu, you are wrong to say that. How am I cheating you? It is precisely because you have helped me so wholeheartedly that I reward you, recognize you as my brother, and make you the seventeenth prince of Tiancang Kingdom! It would be fine if you didn't thank me, but now you come to blame me. This is wrong on your part." Xuanyuan Qing said with a smile.

"Yes, Manager Gu, please don't be ungrateful!" Qingluan said happily.

"Why don't you kneel down and thank us?" Huo Feng urged.

"You guys..." Gu Chan was suddenly speechless after being choked by the three people.

She had to admit that in the eyes of everyone outside, this was the Ninth Prince rewarding her.

But in fact, this is not a reward at all, it is a complete trap for her and it is pushing her into the fire pit!

At this moment, she was really furious and wanted to beat the brat up severely.

It’s a pity that he is a prince, so she doesn’t dare to act rashly and can only swallow her loss.