Splendid Pastoral

Chapter 33
After Po Gu came back from picking herbs, she saw thick smoke billowing from her yard from a distance, and she couldn't help being startled. Is this a fire?
Immediately, he quickened his pace, opened the door, and saw that the thick smoke was coming from the kitchen, and Gu Lingqing squatted on the ground, blowing hard into the stove.

"My young master, what are you doing?"

Gu Lingqing saw that Po Gu came back, and came out of the kitchen coughing, "I want to make something to eat, but I didn't expect..."

Seeing his appearance, Gu Po laughed out loud, walked to the side and took a cloth, after it was wet, walked to his side, and gently wiped the soot on his face.

"Master, these things can be done after the old slave comes back. Why bother you to cook yourself? You have never cooked before."

Gu Po was also wondering, why did the young master suddenly think of cooking?
"Zhao Min is awake, I want to find something to eat for her."

When Gu Po heard this, she was overjoyed: "Zhao Min is awake?" The current Gu Po seems to have regarded Zhao Min as her own.

Gu Lingqing nodded, and Gu Po went directly to the room where Zhao Min was lying, and saw her lying on the bed with her eyes open, not knowing what she was thinking.

"Zhao Min, you're awake."

Zhao Min recovered from his thoughts, looked at Gu Po who came in and smiled slightly: "Gu Po, you are back."

Zhao Min struggled to get up, but Gu Po quickly stepped forward and held her down: "Lie down, I heard the young master say that you are hungry, so I will go and make something delicious for you."

Zhao Min nodded, this well-behaved appearance made Gu Po touch her forehead distressedly, there is no such vitality in the past, it seems that helping the young master to detoxify this time also hurt her vitality.

She must take good care of her and the young master's health, Gu Po secretly made up her mind, and got up: "I'll cook right now, it will be fine soon."

Zhao Min watched Gu Po go out in a hurry, and felt extremely warm in his heart, it seemed that Gu Po and Gu Lingqing's attitude towards him had changed.

It seems that treating people with sincerity will pay off. It feels so good to be cared about.

For a whole week, from Gu Lingqing being poisoned to Zhao Min being able to get out of bed and walk.

Gradually, Zhao Min also felt that he was gaining strength slowly, and began to help Po Gu with her work.

This morning, I heard the sound of crying and mourning in the village. Zhao Min ran out to take a look. It turned out that today was Zhao Xiu'e's first seven, and Grandma Zhao was walking around the village with Zhao Xiu'e's tablet, crying for the funeral.

This can be regarded as a unique local custom. According to Zhao Min's understanding, generally speaking, the first seven days are the days when the dead souls "go home and have a look", and they should be "entertained" at home.

But the original body's memory showed that in the local area, the blood relatives of the deceased had to walk around the village holding the memorial tablet, crying and mourning, so that the souls of the deceased would disperse.

At this time, the cry in the village was Grandma Zhao.

"Unlucky!" Zhao Min, who wanted to go out for a stroll, closed the gate tightly when he saw this, and went back to the yard to play with the cricket he raised.

Po Gu obviously heard the mourning outside, but she was not affected at all, as if Zhao Xiu'e's death had nothing to do with her.

"Gu Po, don't you feel uncomfortable?" Zhao Min still couldn't help asking, after all, it was three lives.

As soon as Gu Po heard what Zhao Min was asking, she knew what Zhao Min was asking: "Who let her break the young master's secret? If she tells it, the consequences will be unimaginable. I have seen more miserable ones than this."

Gu Po seemed to be caught in the memory, and it took a long time to come back to her senses: "It doesn't matter if you don't mention it, anyway, you remember, the matter of the young master pretending to be stupid and knowing martial arts cannot be mentioned by outsiders."

Zhao Min nodded. After experiencing this incident, Zhao Min also had further bold guesses about Gu Lingqing's identity.

Although Gu Po never told her what their real identities were, but they were spies and palace secret medicines, so it was hard not to make people think of that place - the imperial city.

In the imperial city, I traveled to this small mountain village by myself, but I didn't expect to get involved with the people in the imperial city.

"Gu Po, what did you do with the spy's body?"

Gu Po was stunned for a moment, and then she started talking to Zhao Min.

It turned out that Gu Po came back in a hurry after collecting the medicine that day, saying that she had gone to dispose of the corpse. She said she went to a cliff on the mountain, and when she saw someone passing by in the evening, she threw the corpse down.

"Thinking about it, the people over there have already noticed that something is wrong, and new spies will come in a few days..."

Zhao Min almost blurted out, asking Po Gu who they are, but she opened her mouth, but still didn't ask, that's all, don't ask if you shouldn't ask yourself, Po Po Gu will tell herself when the time comes.

This morning, as soon as Zhao Min came out of the house, he saw Gu Lingqing with disheveled hair squatting in a corner of the yard playing with mud.

Zhao Min was stunned for a moment, then he realized that the new spies from over there were already nearby, and they would definitely investigate the whereabouts of the previous spies.

At this moment, on a tree not far away, a person was squatting secretly watching the situation in the Gu family's yard.

Seeing that Gu Lingqing was still looking stupid, and remembering the adult's explanation, the man took a few steps, then used lightness kung fu to leave, and went to investigate the whereabouts of the last spy.

After Gu Lingqing felt that the spy had left, she got up with a cold face and cleaned her hands. Zhao Min watched him change so freely, and admiration flashed in his eyes.

Seeing her surprised expression, Gu Lingqing threw the water in her hand towards her.

Zhao Min was slapped with water drops on his face, and looked at him speechlessly, isn't he Master Gao Leng?

"childish…"

Zhao Min spit out these two words from his mouth, then turned and left, leaving Gu Lingqing petrified in the wind, is he being despised...

The spy searched all over the village, but he couldn't find the original spy, not even a trace of a code.

On this day, I accidentally saw a notice of claiming the corpse pasted at the gate of the yamen. He was dressed very much like the original spy, so he changed his appearance, changed into linen clothes, and entered the yamen to claim the corpse.

After beating the drum a few times, I saw a person slowly coming out of the room yawning.

"What are you doing? What are you doing! Don't let people sleep at noon!"

The spy laughed along with him, imitating the farmer's naivety.

"My lord, I saw a notice claiming the corpse in front of the door. It looks very much like my cousin who came to defect to me."

"Your cousin?" The official frowned.

"Yes, it should have arrived seven days ago, but it hasn't arrived yet. I didn't expect to see the notice today." The spy took some money from his belt and handed it to the official.

The officer's face improved a little, and he patiently answered his questions.

"Since you are a local, you should know the rules here. Our yamen only keeps unclaimed corpses for seven days. After seven days, if no one claims them, we will cremate them ourselves." The official yawned and finished. these words.

"what?!"

(End of this chapter)