After raising the emperor, he always wanted to marry me

The night before Gu Xiu left the palace, there was another heavy snowfall in central Beijing

In Guiyun Palace, Gu You and Gu Xiu were sitting side by side on the porch, Gu You's hands were tightly clasping Gu Xiu's shoulders.

In fact, ever since the court meeting ended that morning and Gu Xiu received the decree to leave the palace, Gu You has been sticking himself to Gu Xiu, as if: Where are you going, how long are you going, and do you want me when you come back? This brother, such a sad look.

"Sixth brother, you were never like this when elder sister came down. I just went to accompany the army and came back after the chaos was put down." Gu Xiu hugged his shoulders and let Gu You stick to him like a dog's skin plaster.

"That's different, you are going to risk your life." Gu You stared at Gu Xiu pitifully, "What if you go here and lose your arm or leg, or simply lose your life, what should you do?"

"Brother Six, do you underestimate me that much?" Gu Xiu pointed to the bunch of amulets of more than a dozen different styles around his neck: "Besides, you have begged all the gods and immortals for me, and there will always be one who will Does it work?"

"It's true." Gu You immediately changed his face and moved away from Gu Xiu, dragging his cheeks with his hands: "It's just that you have left the palace, and I can only talk to Snowflake Cheese in the harem."

"There are so many people in the palace, besides, after I leave, don't you also want to study in Shangshu Province?"

It's good if Gu Xiu didn't say this, but Gu You's face completely collapsed when he said this: "Seventh brother, don't say it, I don't want to live anymore."

"Is Sixth Brother reluctant to let me go, or does he not want to study in Shangshu Province?" Gu Xiu looked at the man, his heroic eyebrows raised slightly.

"Well, you wolf cub who doesn't know what is good or bad, I am sincere and sincere towards your brotherhood. Master Han can see clearly from the side. If I am willing to part with you, why should I ask you for these peace talismans?" Gu You Angrily, he slapped Gu Xiu on the back, and pointed at Han Mochu who was reading a book in the porch holding the stove.

"Yes, His Highness the Sixth Highness is indeed sincere, and the minister will be moved when he sees it." Han Mochu held back a smile, and answered with a serious face.

"Master Han, aren't you worried? I heard that the mountains in Mohe are high and the roads are far away, and there are many dangers. Are you not worried about the safety of my seventh brother at all?"

"I don't worry, because Your Highness promised that I will take good care of myself, and I trust Your Highness, so I don't worry." Han Mochu replied lightly, "It's cold outside, I ask Baode to bring out the heater."

"Okay." Gu Xiu looked into Han Mochu's eyes, and unconsciously felt warm in his heart.

"Master Han, can I sleep with my seventh brother today?" Gu You leaned over and sat as close to the stove as possible.

"Your Highness shouldn't ask your ministers, you should ask His Highness Seven." Han Mochu said with a warm smile.

"Seventh brother." Gu You looked at Gu Xiu expectantly.

"No."

"Seventh brother, you are so unfeeling." Gu You's eye circles were always red.

"I will leave tomorrow at Maozheng, do you really want to live with me today?"

"That's all, Seventh Brother, take care, go back early, Sixth Brother will be waiting for your triumphant return in Beijing."

Gu You walked like a gust of wind, it seems that no amount of brotherhood can overcome the warm blanket in winter.

Gu Xiu's army is located in the outskirts of Beijing, and it is the army of the king's division that guards the capital and rushes to help the frontier.

The immediate superior is that Ding Quan who received the favor of Han Mochu on the Hunting Mountain two years ago.

In the past two years, he has taken advantage of that opportunity and his own ability, and he has grown from a small Zhenwei captain to a fourth-rank loyal general.

When the news of Gu Xiu's joining the army arrived, he was both surprised and happy.

At three o'clock in the morning, Gu Xiu and his party arrived at the gate of the barracks, and Ding Quan and his deputy Gao Sheng went to greet them in person.

"Minister, Ding Quan/Gao Sheng have seen His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince." Two armored warriors saluted Gu Xiu with their arms extended, and the armor on their bodies collided with each other, making sporadic cracking sounds.

"Gu Xiu has met the two adults, and I am here on order. Please, the two adults, regardless of your status, treat me as the recruits this year."

At the moment, Gu Xiu was wearing silver armor and light fur, with a crow-blue cloak on his shoulders. The 15-year-old Gu Xiu has a tall and muscular figure, exuding an awe-inspiring righteousness everywhere in his body.

Ding Quan admired Gu Xiu very much. As a dignified prince, Gu Xiu is not coquettish or pretentious, which is very rare.However, Gao Sheng, the lieutenant general in charge of training recruits, couldn't understand Gu Xiu's serious face, and felt that he was unruly and unruly, and would definitely disobey control.Moreover, the pampered and pampered nobles in the palace, no matter how they try to hide it, are all strong outside but capable inside, so they must be a good-for-nothing.

Even when Gu Xiu was 12 years old, the story of killing a giant bear in the Hanyuan Hall had already spread throughout the army.

Gao Sheng thought that the more magical, the less credible it would be.

"Since your Highness is a recruit, then I will be under the unified jurisdiction of the ministers. Please enter the camp with the ministers, change clothes and undergo training." Gao Sheng looked at Gu Xiu with a stern smile.

"Then, let General Gao lead the way."

Gu Xiu saw that General Gao Sheng's thoughts coldly, didn't say much, just followed him into the gate of the barracks.

The training subjects for recruits were not as easy as Gu Xiu imagined. When it was coldest in the morning, they had to line up with an empty stomach and wear single clothes, and run around the mountain stream around the barracks.

The formal training will start after a short rest and breakfast, at least six or seven hours a day.

In addition to riding and shooting, fighting, close combat, and long-distance combat, the training subjects are.More are arrays, building ladders, driving chariots, etc. A series of projects that require the cooperation and cooperation of people who join the army.

Those projects are Gu Xiu's shortcomings.

As a prince, he is used to being alone, and rarely needs to cooperate with others like this.

Fortunately, years of self-discipline gave Gu Xiu strong physical strength and endurance. Even if General Gao Sheng deliberately made things difficult for him by tying sandbags to his legs, he never fell behind and never complained.

Gu Xiu's riding and archery skills, in addition to the teachings of his grandfather's relatives when he was young, and the simple and rude ruler of Han Mochu later, made Gu Xiu amazed everyone on the first day he got on the horse.

Not to mention Gu Xiu's boxing skills, almost none of the recruits of his age in the new barracks could be his opponent.

Except for a guy as tall as a bear.

That guy's name was Xiong Hu, and he was five or six years older than all the recruits.Not only was he not smart, but he also ate so much that his family couldn't afford to support him, so he was sent to the military camp. The conscripts thought he was stupid, and he didn't want to stay with only his strength, so it was Gao Sheng who decided to sign his citizenship contract. , Incorporate him into the army.

On the first day Gu Xiu entered the military camp, he almost slapped him to death because of two steamed buns during lunch.

However, during the training on the second day, Gu Xiu stepped off the ladder, and he was the one who caught Gu Xiu.

The night wind at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month was bitingly cold.This is about the coldest night this winter.As a recruit, Gu Xiu also had to take turns to watch the night.It was late at night, and the lights were turned off everywhere in the recruit camp, making it extremely quiet.Looking at the full moon hanging alone in the sky, Gu Xiu seemed to see Han Mochu's gentle smiling face.

He couldn't count how many days he hadn't seen Han Mochu, and he didn't know what he was doing in the palace right now.

Are you thinking about him?

"Xiao... Xiaoxiu... I'll give you something to eat."

When Gu Xiu turned his head, Xiong Hu had already stuffed a piece of freshly baked sweet potato into his hand. The hot sweet potato regained consciousness in Gu Xiu's frozen palm.

"Where did it come from?" Gu Xiu broke open the sweet potato and tasted it, it was very sweet.

"That's right over there, the commander of the Huotou army who was on duty at night said that it's cold today, so he gave one to each of our night watchmen." Xionghu smiled innocently: "Xiaoxiu, they say you are a prince, you are a nobleman, is that true? ?”

"Yes." Gu Xiu replied, he was actually not used to the name Xiao Xiu, but Xiong Hu couldn't remember anything else in his mind, so he could only let him call him like a girl.

"They also said you killed a bear, is that true?"

"Yes."

"Then you are so powerful, how could you be a recruit like us?" Xiong Hu slapped Gu Xiu's back with a slap that was neither light nor heavy, causing Gu Xiu's body to be unstable and almost stumbled. The sweet potato, which was only half eaten, also fell out.

"This is the king's will, and I am acting according to the order." Gu Xiu barely stood firm, patiently explaining to the mentally handicapped Xionghu in front of him.

Looking at the entire recruit camp, everyone dared not associate with him because of his status as a prince, and only this heartless and stupid big man was willing to pester him to talk.

After a few days, Gao Sheng didn't know what he was thinking, and regardless of Ding Quan's obstruction, he added an endurance training of lifting heavy objects to the training subjects of the recruits. This kind of training is a group of ten people, and these ten people have to work together. Supporting a stone slab weighing about [-] jins, Zha Ma took an hour to get up.

The group that Gu Xiu was assigned to had only five people because of Xiong Hu.

The heavy stone was pressing on the shoulders, consuming the energy and stamina of the young people little by little, but after half an hour, everyone's physical strength had almost reached their limit.

In Gu Xiu's group, there was a recruit named Song Yu who was the same age as Gu You, only three months older than Gu Xiu.His physical fitness is also similar to that of Gu You, and he can be heard crying and howling every morning when he runs up the mountain.

Now was the time to fight for endurance, the boy couldn't take it anymore, he straightened his shoulders a few times, his whole body was on the verge of fainting.

"Hold on, if it falls down now, this stone slab will crush you to death." Gu Xiu gritted his teeth and pushed Song Yu out with one hand.

Song Yu tilted his body in a daze, and fell to the ground beside him. The stone slab that originally carried the weight of five people began to tilt and shake.

Xionghu roared: "I can't hold it anymore!"

"Hold on, let's get out of the way together." Gu Xiu endured the severe pain in his shoulders, and signaled to several people in the same group. Everyone understood, and they all got out of the way until the stone slab crashed to the ground.

"What are you doing! Lazy?" The loud noise attracted General Gao Sheng, who was patrolling the ranks, and saw the tragic scene of the stone slab falling in front of him, as well as Song Yu, who was pale and disarmed: "Which trash is going to hold up first?" Can’t stop? Stand up by yourself.”

"General Gao Sheng, the stone slab fell to the ground and almost hurt people. You should call the military doctor quickly." Gu Xiu supported Song Yu's shoulders and stood upright in front of Gao Sheng.

"Your Highness Seventh, although you are a prince, in this new barracks, it is the minister who has the final say. If the minister says he wants to punish those useless wastes, he will be punished. You seem to have no right to intervene." Gao Sheng looked at him contemptuously. This strong young man said, "I remember telling you from the first day you entered the camp that the most important thing for a recruit is obedience."

"The recruits are not slaves, and you are not born generals. The recruits come here to be trained to serve the country, not to break their arrogance and let you humiliate them." Gu Xiu looked at him with a cold face, his eyes as sharp as a knife. That Gao Sheng who was holding a horsewhip, had that natural aura of nobleness from the heavenly family, which overwhelmed Gao Sheng, who was born in a military force, somewhat out of breath.

"Your Highness, as you said, today's matter is the minister's mistake?"

"It was wrong, and it was a big mistake. The stone slab is heavy, and if you are not careful, you will fall to the ground and hurt people. If there are recruits with insufficient stamina, they will be easily injured by it. The recruits will be killed or killed in the barracks before they go to the battlefield. General Gao Sheng thinks that he has a few brains and can bear such negligence." Gu Xiu raised his voice very high, almost scolding General Gao Sheng.

"Okay. I admit my mistake. I can let the recruits put down the slate and no longer receive training." Gao Sheng calmed down and regained his airs as an officer: "But your highness is a recruit today, and he refuses to obey the military regulations and contradicts the officer. , and how should I be punished?"

"Everything, act according to the military regulations." Gu Xiuli stood in front of Gao Sheng, his eyes did not flinch, and his tone did not back down.

"According to the military regulations, Your Highness has to run around the barracks twenty times today." Gao Sheng straightened up, pointed at the new barracks with a radius of more than a mile, and looked at Gu Xiu with raised eyebrows.

"Okay, I accept the punishment." Without hesitation, Gu Xiu adjusted the light armor on his body, turned around and ran away.

Gu Xiu ran half a circle around the barracks, and Xiong Hu pulled Song Yu to follow him: "Your Highness, run slowly, we will accompany you."

"What are you going to do with me? Don't make trouble for yourself." After Gu Xiu glanced, he waved his hand impatiently.

"Don't, we have agreed to accompany you."

Gu Xiu ran forward alone for a while, and suddenly felt a dark shadow behind him.

Turning around again, I saw those recruits who were trained with Gu Xiu all followed.

Gu Xiu's words saved everyone.

So this group of people willingly accompanied Gu Xiu.

***

At the palace banquet on New Year's Eve, Gu Xiu did not receive the order to return to the palace, but King Gu Hong sent three hundred fat lambs to the recruit camp in Gu Xiu's name.

The tender and delicious mutton made the garrison in the entire barracks who couldn't go home remember the Seventh Prince Gu Xiu who shared weal and woe with them on this cold winter night.

The training in the new barracks was very hard, and it was accompanied by a big appetite.Under Han Mochu's careful upbringing over the years, Gu Xiu, the little wolf cub who became well-behaved, recovered overnight to the state he had when he was a child in the Northern Wilderness.

Because of hunger, Gu Xiu didn't care about the image of a prince at all, and sat on the ground with everyone, holding a leg of lamb in one hand, eating it until his face became shiny.

While chewing, Gu Xiu thought, luckily Han Mochu is not here at the moment, otherwise he would probably die of anger when he saw his eating.

But at this moment, his master Han Mochu should be in the palace to celebrate the new year, so he would never come here no matter what.

"Hey, Your Highness, look there is a man over there, so beautiful!" Xiong Hu tugged at Gu Xiu who was gnawing on the leg of lamb, and pointed to the bonfire not far away.

Under the tireless teaching of 1 people, Xiong Hu finally learned to call Gu Xiu His Highness.

Gu Xiu raised his head and looked in the direction of Xionghu's finger, his heart skipping involuntarily.

Under the bonfire not far away, a man dressed in ivory-white soft fur with gentle features was talking to the chief of the army, Ding Quan.

Looking around the world, only his master, Han Mochu, could be born with that appearance.

Gu Xiu was taken aback for a moment, then he slowly stuffed the leg of lamb into Xiong Hu's hand, silently turned his back, and wiped the corners of his mouth hastily.

"Your Highness, what are you hiding from? You don't want to eat?" Xiong Hu held the leg of lamb left by Gu Xiu in a daze, and looked at Gu Xiu who was obviously avoiding back.

"Your Highness."

What should come will come anyway, Han Mochu's gentle Highness called out Gu Xiu's heart felt guilty, he closed his eyes, got up resignedly and turned around.

"Master." Gu Xiu stood in front of Han Mochu, and put his left hand behind his back calmly.

"I thought Your Highness would be very happy to see you, but I didn't expect His Highness to be so indifferent. I haven't seen you for two months. Has Your Highness completely forgotten you?" Han Mochu looked at Gu Xiu and smiled suddenly, in front of everyone. The recruit took out a soft handkerchief from his pocket, and wiped the corners of his mouth with Gu Xiu.

A group of recruits, including Xiong Hu, just watched helplessly that Gu Xiu, the leader among them, was being taken care of by a fairy-like man like a child.

"I never." Gu Xiu stood in front of Han Mochu, for a moment he didn't know what to say, and he couldn't get close to him with everyone, so he could only freeze his body and let others wipe his mouth with him: "Can you go back to the tent and talk?" ?”

"Okay." Han Mochu put away the handkerchief in his hand, and followed Gu Xiu back to his daily tent.

The lights in the tent were dim, and there was no one around, so Han Mochu sat on Gu Xiu's wooden couch.Gu Xiu lifted up the hem of his shirt, knelt on the ground, and put his upper body on Han Mochu's knees: "Master, why are you here today?"

"Let's see if Your Highness is doing well in the army." Han Mochu stretched out his hand to caress Gu Xiu's back, the cold iron armor stuck to his hand, and it was terribly cold.

"I'm in the army, fine." Gu Xiu raised his head, staring at the face he hadn't seen for a long time, suddenly lost his mind: "How is Master in the palace?"

"Your Highness isn't here, and I'm idle in the palace." Han Mochu raised the corners of his mouth and said with a soft smile, "So, I've come to join the army with His Highness."

"What?" Gu Xiu propped himself up from Han Mochu's knee in disbelief.Han Mochu is a fourth-rank internal official, and he holds the title of civil servant, how could he join the army with him.

"Your Highness doesn't believe it?" Han Mochu finished speaking, and took out a letter of authorization from his sleeve robe with the official seal on it: "This minister is appointed by His Majesty to be a serious military staff officer."

Gu Xiu took the certificate of conferring an official and opened it for a glance, and instantly understood that the night before his departure, Han Mochu's mood was calm and breezy.

Because, from the very beginning, Han Mochu made up his mind to go out with him.