After the general fell ill

Gu Yan insisted unwillingly: "Su Ce is brave and good at fighting, I think..."

He was roughly interrupted by Xiao Zhuo just in the middle of his words: "You don't think it's useless, Su Ce is a soldier like a god, but none of you here have fought against him, the only one who has fought against him is The late emperor who passed away three years ago."

The first emperor laid down a piece of foundation in the northwest, half of the country, but was still defeated by Su Ce.Gu Yan wisely stopped being obsessed with this, and asked another question that he was more concerned about: "If Su Ce is found, what does His Majesty plan to do with him?"

Xiao Zhuoping slowly raised his palm on the table, tapped his knuckles once or twice on the table, and it was flat again, "It would be great if he could return to Great Qin. The former emperor once commented that this person is rare in a hundred years." If the general is under his command, he will definitely be able to talk about Sun Wu with him."

Then he hesitated and said: "If you can't..."

Gu Yan heard the implication, and said solemnly: "Your Majesty has found General Su Ce, can you hand him over to me? I assure Your Majesty that no matter how loyal he is to the Liang family, I can persuade him to submit to Qin."

"Oh?" Xiao Zhuo's gaze was solid, like a sharp arrow.

Faced with such an oppressive aura, Gu Yan still didn't change his expression, as if he was sure that the emperor would agree to his request.

"Heh..." An abrupt laugh broke the stiff atmosphere in the hall.

Xiao Zhuo laughed softly, pointed casually at the map behind him, and said leisurely: "When you were going to recover Shuozhou in the sixth year of Shiping, you made such a promise."

"I did it." Gu Yan said without hesitation.

Xiao Zhuo nodded and said: "I believe in your ability, but this time I asked you to come back for the matter of Lingnan. Now that Yan State has surrendered, Su Ce destroyed Zheng State before, and most of the thirty states in the south of the Yangtze River lowered their money one after another. Lingnan is left. I have decided that you will go and pacify Lingnan."

Gu Yan stood up and saluted, "I obey the order."

Xiao Zhuo's good mood hasn't disappeared yet, as if he remembered something, he said with a smile: "This time when you come back, I have chosen a mansion for you. When I was still the crown prince, you followed me, and then went to the frontier , I haven’t been back to Chang’an a few times, I was thinking about what reward to give you, and then I remembered that I haven’t given you a house yet.”

Gu Yan said lightly: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Ting Yuan, you have been traveling all the way through the starry night, and you are tired. Go back and see if you are satisfied with the new house." Xiao Zhuo changed the subject and said, "It's okay if you are not satisfied. I don't have the money to build you a new house now. .”

Gu Yan smiled knowingly when he heard the words, and saluted: "I will leave."

Tingyuan is Gu Yan's character, which was taken by the emperor Mr. Zhou.

The origin of this has to start nine years ago.

Gu Yan was born as a commoner, and he was the third child in his family. He had an elder brother and a second sister, and a younger sister.

Because of the locust plague, famine and disease, the young Gu Yan lost his parents early.When they were ten years old, the four brothers and sisters chose to follow the refugee team in order to survive. In the following four years, Gu Yan's elder brother, second sister and younger sister all fell ill and passed away.

On the uninhabited road for thousands of miles, dead bodies have long been a silent landscape.

Gu Yan couldn't even find a straw mat, so he could only let them expose their corpses in the wilderness.On the day his sister died, he found a steel knife from among the corpses of soldiers piled up in a pile by the people outside the city wall. With this knife, he dug a small hole under the grove outside the city wall. Let go of my younger sister's young body and let her rest in peace.

And the turning point of fate appeared at this time.

After burying his younger sister that day, he sat quietly by the mound under the grove, hugging his knees while guarding the tomb he had set up by himself.

Xiao Zhuo, who was not a prince back then, fled through this place with dozens of people because he was hunted down, followed by a large number of pursuers.

Seeing this, Gu Yan didn't run away, as if holding back a fierce force.In a critical moment, he decisively killed the pursuers with a steel knife in his hand, and rescued Xiao Zhuo who fell off his horse.

Afterwards, Xiao Zhuo asked the boy's name.

"Gu San'er." The 14-year-old boy replied truthfully. Commoner families who work in agriculture have little knowledge, so parents can only name their children according to their ranking.

Xiao Zhuo was not as moody and angry as he is now, after hearing a "puchi" he laughed, and gradually restrained his smile under the puzzled eyes of the young man, and asked casually, "Do you want to follow me?"

The boy replied without thinking: "I want to!"

"Okay." Xiao Zhuo nodded in satisfaction, his eyes paused for a while on the pile of corpses outside the city wall, then turned to the empty road and the bleak grove, and finally fixed on the fearless man holding a blood-dripping steel knife On the boy.

After contemplating for a moment, he said solemnly, "Yan, Tianqing also. From now on, your name will be Gu Yan."

The 14-year-old boy still doesn't understand the meaning of this name, but he will spend the rest of his life trying his best to interpret it.

After Xiao Zhuo brought Gu Yan by his side, he gave him the best educational resources under the conditions at that time, allowing him to learn and read with his teacher. Regardless of politics, history, literature or military affairs, Xiao Zhuo spared no effort to train him.

After Gu Yan showed military talent, Xiao Zhuo recommended Gu Yan to the former emperor Xiao Jiang.

In the fourth year of Shiping, Su Ce had just repelled Xiao Jiang who was planning to go east, causing the development direction of Qin State to turn to Shu and the frontier.

It was in this year that Gu Yan changed from an official of the East Palace to a general in charge of soldiers and horses.

In the next few years, he regained his lost homeland, maintained peace on the frontier, and never let down Xiao Zhuo's kindness.

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5. Dream

"Mom, are you here to pick me up?"

Su Ce walked in a daze on the fog-shrouded street, surrounded by a vast expanse of whiteness, and the scene of the street seemed to be Yinzhou nine or ten years ago.

He felt strange, as if he remembered that he was about to cross the boundary of Yinzhou when he fell off his horse, but now, where did his horse go?His soldiers were gone too.

Su Ce belatedly touched the saber hanging around his waist, but he didn't feel the cold touch in his memory, and there was nothing beside his waist.

Su Ce suppressed his doubts, only to realize that he was not wearing a marching armor, nor was he wearing a red forehead belt.

He shook the large sleeves of the blue-gray toga, which was covered with gauze and lined with satin. He hung a jade pendant around his waist, and his long blue silk hair was gently rolled up in half by a jade hairpin.

This is his attire in the Su Clan of Yinzhou, with the aristocratic temperament of Rulan.

Su Ce was walking aimlessly at first, but following his memory, he turned around and went to Su's mansion.

He had a hunch that this old house deep in his memory would solve all his confusion.

Walking all the way to the Su family's mansion, Su Ce stared at the steps in front of him, and found that not only the street was obscured by the white fog, but even Su's mansion was not immune.

He took the first step without hesitation, and was ready to be held accountable by his ancestors since he sold his business and abandoned the Su Mansion.

As if responding to his expectations, a woman slowly walked out of the misty gate.

The woman is still young, with picturesque eyebrows and a gentle smile on her lips.She was dressed in an ai-green dress, with a concubine-colored shawl around her shoulders, a step shaker on her head, and a fan in her hand, and she walked slowly towards Su Ce.

"mother……"

Su Ce couldn't realize for a moment what year and month it was, and the woman was his mother Liu who passed away when he was young.This outfit is also exactly the same as the portrait drawn by my father.

Why did he meet his biological mother who had passed away for many years?

"Ce'er." In a daze, Mrs. Liu had already walked in front of him.

Her appearance was the same as before, but Su Ce was no longer the urchin of yesterday.

There is a step between them, but their heights are the same.A man who is eight feet tall already needs his mother to look up.

"Come in." Mrs. Liu nodded and smiled at him, then turned and walked into the gate of Su Mansion.

Su Ce followed her step by step, returning to his hometown, as if in a dream.

Mrs. Liu asked softly, "How is Ce'er doing now?"

Su Ce paused, then mumbled, "Baby...very good."

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Liu stopped, turned around, looked him in the eyes, and said in a gentle voice, "Speak up in front of mother, don't hide it."

Su Ce painted her face intently, as if he wanted to imprint her appearance deeply in his mind.

After hearing what his mother Liu said, his eyes gradually filled with water, and Su Ce blinked, trying to let the tears flow back.

Liu's gaze was as warm as a warm spring breeze, Su Ce looked at her gentle expression with a smile like a flower, and gently closed his eyes.

Tears rolled down his cheeks.

Su Ce's knees softened, and he knelt down in front of Mrs. Liu, took a deep breath, and said in a hoarse voice, "Mother, are you here to pick me up?"

Mrs. Liu lifted Su Ce's shoulders and slowly pulled him up, handed him a handkerchief from his arms, and said with a smile, "Ce'er, you still have a long way to go, you're just too tired."

Su Ce followed her strength and slowly got up. There seemed to be a thousand words in his heart, but he didn't know where to start. At the end, he only asked one sentence.

"Mom, how are you doing?"

Liu looked at him strangely, "Of course it's fine."

Su Ce laughed at himself. His mother passed away many years ago, and she might have been reincarnated long ago.

Immediately, he realized a problem that he had neglected, if the mother was really reincarnated, whether the world is suitable for a mother to live in today's world, no matter how rich or poor?

The mother died of illness before the war in the last years of the Jin Dynasty, and the world is not yet unified. If the Qin State really annexed the Yan State, the new dynasty would be in vain.

Thinking of this, Su Ce deeply felt that his mission had not been completed.

He also recalled the man he met in Zhuoguang seven years ago, with whom he had made a covenant against Udi, but now he is only left with a burdened body.

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