Lord Prime Minister

Chapter 45

It was the tenth day since Mu Zihuai left Ji County.

Lord Minqing woke up at mao shi today as usual, first went to the open space where the army was stationed outside the city to watch Gu Li train his troops. Gu Li is indeed a famous general in the capital. After a few days, more than a thousand soldiers have begun to show their heroic appearance.Discussed with Gu Qianhu for a while on how to lead troops, and the whole morning passed like this.

In the afternoon, Ren Danfeng, who was in charge of the reserve army, came and said that the [-] soldiers who came back five days ago had been settled in the city, and they were only waiting for Mu Zihuai to return to discuss the specific route of the canal before starting construction.

In the evening, the prince brought Ren Danfeng and County Magistrate Chen stood at the gate of the city, looking into the distance.After waiting for a long time, when the last ray of the setting sun was captured by the horizon, a carriage slowly came from the end of the official road.

As stated in the letter sent a few days ago, when the sun is setting, you can return home.

The faces of the three couldn't help but to be filled with happiness. Mu Zihuai mentioned some of the experiences of this trip in his heart. The most important thing is that, just as he guessed, he found the "disappeared" water of the Ning River at the seaside.

Only at this moment did I feel that the carriage was really slow. I had already seen it early in the morning, and after waiting for another two moments, I heard the creaking sound of the carriage.

County magistrate Chen brought a lantern from nowhere, illuminated the city gate, and guided the carriage.

After waiting for a while, the carriage stopped at the gate of the city.The person driving the carriage was Mu Zihuai, and the woman sitting next to him was known to everyone.

"My lord." Mu Zihuai jumped down from the carriage, bowed his hands and bowed in salute. "Living up to the prince's entrustment, Ninghe's difficulty can be solved."

The knife was killed and two other soldiers were seriously injured. This trip can be regarded as rough.In order to take care of the two wounded soldiers who were not fit to go on the road, and guard the exit of the underground river channel that they had finally found, all four soldiers were left in Fenshui County. Only Mu Zihuai and Su Ye returned from this trip.

Huangfu Yunhua nodded and glanced around behind him. The matter of Su Ye was also mentioned in the letter, so he didn't ask any further questions, but said in a calm voice, "Let's go back to the yamen first."

County magistrate Chen led the way with a lantern, followed by Wang Ye and Mu Zihuai.Ren Danfeng was a little excited. She thought that Miss Su had been angered by the prince and ran away, but she didn't expect to follow Zihuai to Fenshui County.

"Miss Su." Ren Danfeng leaned over and couldn't help but said: "There are only two of you on the way, but it's going well?"

Su Ye was grateful to him for taking care of him all the time, and seeing him smiling honestly at this moment, he really cared about herself. "Thank you, Mr. Ren, for your concern. Everything is going well."

"I was worried for a few days after Miss Su left, and it was only later that I found out that I went to Fenshui County with Mr. Mu."

Su Ye's pupils shrank slightly, and he was a little panicked for a moment. Seeing Mr. Ren's honest and straightforward appearance, he didn't know the meaning of asking this question suddenly. "I met on the road, and we met by chance, so we made an appointment to go together"

Ren Danfeng nodded, but stopped talking.Su Ye was a little nervous walking beside him, and when she finally arrived at the yamen, she excused herself and left beforehand, and went back to the room that magistrate Chen had prepared for her.

After several people sat down, the prince looked at Mu Zihuai carefully, and said with a smile, "I told Dan Feng today that if you don't come back today, I will go find you in person."

"It's a good thing that Mr. Mu came back on time, otherwise the prince would not be able to sit still." County magistrate Chen also laughed and joked beside him.

"Let the prince worry." Mu Zihuai cupped his hands, and then said again: "The exit of the underground river is not far from Fenshui County. There was originally a forest blocking it, but it was burned down before we came. The road is still easy. .Let the artisans draw a map and choose the best route to bring the water.”

"The artisans were found yesterday, and they can start drawing the map tomorrow."

County magistrate Chen was listening to it, his face was full of red. He had some eyebrows before, but now that the horoscope is almost drawn, how could he not be excited. "Mr. Mu has worked hard. Thanks to Mr. Mu, the people are saved."

Mu Zihuai shook his head, not daring to take credit for it, so he peeked at the prince, saw that his face was still smiling as usual, and felt relieved.

"Here these few days, I don't know how the soldiers are doing?"

"Thousands of soldiers selected to dig the canal have been training for a few days, and they are still in good shape. Those who went out of the city to buy food, came back 800 people, including young and old, good and bad. But they all lived in the city. Let Gu Li have time to take them to do some simple training."

"Gu Qianhu...how is it now?" Mu Zihuai asked in a low mood after hearing what the prince said.

"I live in a tent outside the city, and I told him in the morning that you are coming back today."

"That's it." Looking down to the ground, he murmured: "It's late today, let's look for him tomorrow morning."

The voice of whispering to himself reached the prince's ears. "What do you want him for?"

Mu Zihuai raised his head violently, remembering the tragedy of that day, and said in a low voice, "Apologize."

At a quarter o'clock the next day, the sun's rays shone on the floor of the room through the gap in the window, and Mu Zihuai woke up immediately. It may be caused by the bumpy ride in the carriage for several days, and his whole body ached when he sat up.

He wanted to find water to wash his face, but suddenly found that he was no longer in that small seaside town, but in Ji County, which was arid and lacked water.Rubbing his eyes and face, Mu Zihuai put on his gown, stepped out, and headed out of the city.

As soon as he left the city gate, he heard the voice of password, the voice was deep and deep, and it spread far away, and it seemed to be full of vigor now that the sun had just risen.

Mu Zihuai was suddenly a little timid. Although Xiaodao and the others had been mentioned in the letter, he was not aware of Gu Li's attitude.All I know is that Gu Qianhu must have attached great importance to these soldiers, otherwise they would not have been brought to Ji County to fight the disaster.

But just going out with Mu Zihuai lost three of them.He loves soldiers like Gu Li, how does he feel?

As I said to Su Ye before, if you can't let go of yourself, why ask others to look away?

Entering the barracks, he immediately saw Gu Li standing in front of the soldiers' phalanx, with sweat on his forehead, directing the soldiers to practice chopping and stabbing in a calm voice.

Mu Zihuai stood by, patiently waiting for the training to end.Until Gu Li saw him, he ordered the soldiers to practice by themselves and walked over here.

Impressive.

Mu Zihuai had also seen many officials and emperor's heirs. At this time, Gu Qianhu was striding towards him with sweat on his face, and he was a little scared.

"Gu Qianhu."

As soon as the person approached, Mu Zihuai bent down deeply.

"Mr. Mu, you are..." Gu Li was frightened by his actions for some reason, and quickly helped him up.

"Thousands of households sent people to see each other. There were five people when we went there, but now there are only four people left, and two of them are seriously injured. All the responsibility rests with Zihuai alone." Mu Zihuai bent down, cupped his hands above his head, Eyes closed tightly, I don't know what Gu Li will plan.

"Mr. Mu..." Gu Li's breath was stagnant, his right hand held the cross knife at his waist, loosened and tightened, and finally let go, and helped Mu Zihuai with both hands. "Birth, old age, sickness and death, you are resigned to fate. Why should Mr. Mu take everything on himself and embarrass himself."

Muzi couldn't bear it, and his voice was a little depressed. "It's my fault, it's my fault, it's Zi Huai's ineffective leadership, and it's my fault."

Gu Li withdrew his hand, the loss of three beloved generals was really sad, but he couldn't blame Mu Zihuai, seeing him so uncontrollably at this moment also felt a little sad.

"In that case, Mr. Mu will take care of the old mother on behalf of Xiaodao."

Mu Zihuai quickly responded, bowed again, and asked again: "Then who is in the other two families?"

Gu Li shook his head. "They are only injured, how can they not have the ability to support their families."

"Their injuries are serious, and they may not be able to live like ordinary people in the future."

"There are a lot of people who lost their legs and arms on the battlefield, and they are living well. If they can't even overcome this difficulty, they just stretch out their hands and open their mouths. I, Gu Li, don't recognize him as a soldier." After helping him up, Gu Li laughed twice, with a bold voice.

Mu Zihuai thought about it, nodded yes, but thought in his heart that he would take more care of the two families in the future, and he must not treat them badly.

With a big stone in his heart falling, Mu Zihuai finally got up and looked around at the soldiers who were stabbing with swords and guns.

"Gu Qianhu, were these soldiers picked out at the beginning? After a few days, they already look good."

"This is only half. The rest of the soldiers are cleaning up the Ninghe River. There are not enough people, and some of the purchased soldiers are selected for training together."

"Oh?" Mu Zihuai raised his eyebrows. It seems that there are still good soldiers among those who came back, and he seems very satisfied with Gu Li's words. "What soldier made Gu Qianhu so satisfied?"

"Those two just came back five days ago. They came back in the last quarter of an hour. They didn't have any food in their hands. Fortunately, the money was still there, so they were let in too." Gu Li stretched out his hand and pointed The two humans at the end of the phalanx said.

Mu Zihuai squinted his eyes and looked at it, but couldn't see the face clearly, only knew that he had a strong body and was a good material for a soldier.He asked casually, "What's your name?"

"The elder brother's name is Gangping, and the younger brother's name is Gangzheng."