The Rebirth Of The General Who Always Sees Himself As A Replacement

Everyone waited quietly for Shaoqing, Gu Miao came with his son Gu Heyan in military uniform with a heart mirror and armor, the emperor saw that he was wearing the armor, and spared the father and son from bowing down.

Mu Zhiming's eyes fell on Gu Heyan, and he saw that he was wearing an elegant bamboo blue dress and a three-foot-wide crescent white belt. Such plain clothes set off the vermilion agate jade on his waist, which was particularly eye-catching.

I thought that after I fell into the water and was rescued, I was lying ill on the bed, and I hadn’t thanked Gu Heyan for saving my life. I just got the emperor’s favor to reward the wild wild boar, and it was Gu Heyan who hunted it again. I really can't justify not visiting later to thank you.

"General Gu, how is your health these days?" The emperor always treated the virtuous and kind, and exchanged warm greetings with concern.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern, I'm in good health." Gu Miao saluted with cupped fists.

The emperor looked at Gu Heyan who was standing behind Gu Miao again: "The child of the Gu family is imposing and extraordinary in appearance. He is quite as heroic as a general in those days. Son, did you hunt this wild boar?"

"Return to the emperor, that's right." Gu Heyan replied calmly, neither humble nor overbearing.

"How old is it?" The emperor asked with a smile.

"I tied my hair a few years ago, and I'm already sixteen." Gu Heyan replied.

The emperor clapped his hands and said with emotion: "This wild boar was killed with an arrow. He was only sixteen years old, and his archery skills are so superb? Come, bring me a bow carved with jade unicorn and rhino horn! I want to test him!"

Mu Zhiming lowered his head and suppressed a smile.

Whether it's literature or martial arts, they can't escape the emperor's exam.

The eunuch quickly fetched the emperor's precious bow, bowed his head and presented it to Gu Heyan, Gu Heyan took it with both hands, tried to pull the bow and string.

The emperor asked him with great interest: "How big are the birds in the sky that can be shot down with full confidence?"

Without any hesitation, Gu Heyan replied, "The size of a copper coin."

As soon as the voice fell, there was an uproar all around.

"Copper coins? You can't talk big, your father is here, if he is ashamed, he will save face." The emperor half-jokingly half-seriously reminded.

"I'm not joking." Gu Heyan said firmly.

"Okay, okay, okay." The emperor laughed loudly, and ordered the eunuch to fetch three copper coins, and fearing that Gu Heyan was young and arrogant, he ordered in a low voice to take a larger copper coin.

The eunuch brought three copper coins about two fingers wide with a square hole in the middle. Gu Heyan tried it, and saw that the arrowheads attached to the bow were too small, and although it was barely enough, the arrowheads could still pass through the copper coins, so he asked the eunuch Nodding his head, the eunuch took a few steps back and vigorously threw the copper coins into the sky.

Gu Heyan immediately opened his bow like a full moon, and the three arrows roared and pierced straight into the sky. Before anyone could see clearly, two arrows were nailed into a tree trunk not far away, and one arrow was pierced into the ground.

The clever eunuch immediately stepped forward, retrieved the three arrows, and presented them to the emperor. They saw that the three arrows passed through the square hole in the middle of the copper coin, and everyone gasped in amazement.

In his previous life, Mu Zhiming had often heard that Gu Heyan's archery skills were at the pinnacle, and he could shoot through Yang with a hundred steps. Now that he saw it with his own eyes, his chest was full of admiration, and three points of awe remained. Like everyone else, he couldn't help but look at the A high-spirited young man.

The eyes of the two collided in the air, and they were both stunned.

Mu Zhiming never expected that Gu Heyan would look at him at this moment, so he quickly bent his eyes and smiled at him in a friendly manner, but Gu Heyan frowned, and hastily withdrew his gaze.

Of course Mu Zhiming didn't see the panic in his eyes, the young prince of Duke Yan doubted his appearance for the first time in embarrassment and bewilderment.

"Good archery!" The emperor laughed, full of praise, and looked back and forth at Mu Zhiming and Gu Heyan, "I am so lucky! , will surely promise a hundred years of peace and prosperity, and the world will be prosperous!"

Seeing the emperor's high interest, the ministers responded and praised him one after another.

Being praised by the emperor, Gu Heyan didn't show any complacent expression, and returned the precious bow to the emperor with both hands.

"No, no, this precious bow is for you! A good bow should be given to a young talent, so that it will not be in vain!" The emperor said cheerfully.

Gu Heyan reacted very quickly, and immediately knelt down to thank him: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Get up, this matter is over, there is one more thing you must not forget, Gu's son, the wild boar you hunted, the son of Yan Guogong wants to ask for it, I ask you, are you willing to give it?" The emperor laughed.

Gu Heyan was slightly taken aback, speechless for a moment.

Seeing his silence, Mu Zhiming became more and more ashamed, thinking that Gu Heyan hesitated so much, whether he was taking away the beauty of others.

"Give it up." Gu Heyan came back to his senses and said hastily.

"Okay." The emperor nodded again and again, and immediately ordered people to freeze the wild boar in ice and send it to Duke Yan's mansion on horseback.

After the matter came to an end, the emperor continued to chat and laugh with his ministers, discussing meritorious deeds and rewarding them.

Busy until the setting sun melts gold, the Spring Hunting Ceremony is over, and a group of people are preparing to leave for the capital.

The imperial concubine stood outside for a whole day, and as soon as she got back to her tent, her feet were sore, she sat cross-legged on the soft mattress and knocked sunflower seeds without any manners because there was no one else around.

Mu Zhiming, who went back to the camp with her, couldn't laugh or cry.

"Li Zhu, come, come here." The imperial concubine waved to Mu Zhiming.

Mu Zhiming knew what she meant, so he walked over a few steps and held out her palm. The imperial concubine smiled and shared half of the melon seeds with him, and asked him to sit aside: "We are packing up things, counting the number of people, preparing horses and sedan chairs, and we have to wait for the return trip back to Beijing. Let's chat and let's get rid of boredom."

"Listen to what your mother said." Mu Zhiming said with a smile.

"By the way." The imperial concubine said "Kaba Kaba" and knocked on the melon seeds neatly, "Although your father is full of loftiness, but this time you chose the prey, which originally belonged to General Gu's mansion, and the wild boar is not a weak beast. There is also the greatness of the emperor's grace, you should return a gift to the general, let your father accept his aloof literati stink, and give him a gift, and tell your father, if General Gu does not accept the gift, just say My younger sister was taken care of by his wife when she was young, so General Gu will definitely accept her."

"Understood." Mu Zhiming responded obediently, and only then did he know that the imperial concubine has a relationship with the general's mansion, so he asked curiously, "The imperial concubine, do you know General Gu's wife?"

"Hey..." Speaking of this, the imperial concubine let out a long sigh. She put down the melon seeds in her hand and said, "The general's wife is gentle and virtuous. She was a few years older than me. She used to be my playmate when I was young. It's a pity. She... hey... died of dystocia, 15 years ago, when she married General Gu, I was still worried about her, saying that she was cowardly and didn't like to talk, but now she is married to a cold-faced Hades, and she is bound to suffer Now, I don't know that General Gu is an infatuated type. He looks fierce on the surface, but he cares about her and cares about everything. The two of them are a fairy couple that everyone envies, but it's a pity...she..."

Speaking of sadness, the imperial concubine couldn't help choking up a few times: "The general's wife left early, how many people persuaded General Gu to continue, but General Gu turned a deaf ear, and brought up his son alone, how affectionate."

Mu Zhiming sighed unceasingly, seeing that the imperial concubine's eyes were slightly red because of the old man, he hurriedly made tea and handed it to her, and he also made a cup from time to time, and held it to his lips to sip.

"That's right." The imperial concubine remembered something again, "Today, did you see the phoenix nirvana vermilion jade pendant worn by General Gu's son? It's his mother's relic."

"Puff, cough, cough!!!" Mu Zhiming choked a mouthful of tea into his throat, and coughed for a while.