Poor Lady

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace." Qi Surong raised the imperial edict and bowed to King Jing.

"Don't be too busy to thank you." King Jing stood with his hands behind his back, "I have already completed one thing for you that you asked for before. As for the second thing..."

Qi Surong suddenly raised her head and looked at King Jing with expectant and cautious eyes.

"When I sent people to investigate, I found the bodies of several Gu family nurses in the wild. From the way the murderer killed, we can roughly tell who did it." King Jing looked at Qi Surong and said slowly, "The murderer and the Gu Gongzi has nothing to do, but has a grudge against you, can you guess one or two?"

"Have a grudge against me?" Qi Surong was stunned for a moment. Before she married Gu Jinyun, there were only a few women who had grudges against her, but it wasn't enough to get rid of them, right? If she really wanted to kill, then the only person Qi Surong could suspect was Luo Yanyi. Her father was the minister of punishment and secretly trained many dead men. Now that King Jing has ascended the throne, the Eighth Prince has fled with Luo Yanyi, while Luo Yanyi's father is being held in the Heavenly Prison, awaiting disposal.

Although Qi Surong knew something in his heart, he couldn't say it clearly. King Jing may be open-minded, but as a high-ranking person, it is taboo for his subjects to have too much unknown information.

She pondered for a moment, and replied: "The women can't guess, and ask the emperor to make it clear."

King Jing stared at her for a long time, and said with a smile: "If you can't guess, then you can't guess. The methods of those murderers are the same as those of the Luo family's dead men, but the people who used this group of dead men, But it's not the Luo family's daughter, but the Liu family, Feng Zhan's wife."

Liu Qianer? A hint of surprise flashed in Qi Surong's eyes: "Why did she want to do this?"

"This, I don't know." King Jing continued, "The group of dead soldiers are all mute. If one of them is not a little bit knowledgeable, I'm afraid I won't be able to ask anything."

"Then did the emperor ask about my husband's whereabouts?"

King Jing looked at her with a half-smile but not a smile: "Seeing that you have been calm since you entered the palace, I thought you were like this by nature. Now, when you ask about your husband's whereabouts, you just revealed a bit of authenticity."

"Your Majesty laughed." Qi Surong lowered her head, secretly depressed, knowing that others were impatient, she deliberately made people's appetites, and looked at him, was it funny?

"The dead man explained something." King Jing said, "Their target was you originally, but after they stopped the carriage, they only found your husband. The two sides conflicted. Your husband fled in the chaos, and his whereabouts are unknown since then. I sent people to investigate along the way, and finally found this."

Saying that, he took out a jade pendant from his sleeve.

Qi Surong took it with both hands, and his expression was a little excited. This jade pendant was the jade that Gu Jinyun carried with him, and the pattern engraved on it was the pattern of the Gu family business.

"Your Majesty, where did you find this jade pendant?"

"A pawnshop." Before she could ask, King Jing said again, "The people who pawned it were the villagers of Ruoshui Village. Your husband was rescued by them, but he left after only a few days."

"Leave?" Qi Surong was stunned, "Where did you go?" Why didn't you go home? And there has been no news for two years.

"I'm afraid it wasn't his intention to leave." King Jing walked to the side of the carved chair and sat down. "According to the villagers, your husband was not only seriously injured, but also was poisoned and unconscious."

"Then how did he leave?"

"He was taken away by a group of business travelers from the Western Regions." After King Jing finished speaking, he found that Qi Surong, who had been eager, calmed down. He felt strange and asked, "Aren't you worried about your husband's safety? Are you not afraid of those Western Regions? The businessman is conspiring to do something wrong?"

Qi Surong smiled and said, "Who would conspire against a person who is dying? On the contrary, the woman is very fortunate that it was not someone else who took him, but a person from the Western Regions."

"Why?"

"Because my husband's body is a strange poison from the Western Regions, and only people from the Western Regions can solve it."

"Then how do you know that among the group of Western merchants, there are people who can solve this strange poison."

"If not, my husband is probably buried in Ruoshui Village now, instead of being taken away by them."

"Haha." A glimmer of admiration flashed in King Jing's eyes, and the woman in front of him did not disappoint him. She was meticulous, calm and composed, and always maintained a clear judgment. Can a weak woman grow up to this point after a few years of experience?

"Next, are you planning to go to the Western Regions to find people?" King Jing asked.

"Yes." Jin Yun hasn't contacted his family for two years, and he doesn't know what happened. Qi Surong believed that he was still alive, but it was hard to say that the poison on his body would not cause damage to his health.

"So, then I also have something to entrust to you." King Jing restrained his expression and looked serious.

"What is the emperor's order?"

"I received news a few days ago that there are several tribes in the Western Regions that are eyeing my country's borders, but I am not sure which tribes are secretly planning. So I hope to use your Gu family's business network to visit the various ethnic groups in the Western Regions."

It turned out that this was King Jing's purpose to secretly summon her today. No wonder she specially allowed her to come to face the Holy Spirit wearing men's clothes. There are forty or fifty tribes in the Western Regions, most of which are good neighbors and friendly to the Wei Kingdom, but for hundreds of years, conflicts on the borders of the Western Regions have not been uncommon.

What King Jing was worried about, Qi Surong knew the general situation without going to check. Because in the last life, King Jing took advantage of the border turmoil to disperse his military power and finally succeeded in winning the throne. In this life, because of her influence, this matter was brought forward by more than two years.

This border turmoil involved eleven tribes and about 35,000 people. They occupied five border cities and captured nearly 100,000 people of Weiguo in just three months. However, after all, they were only nomads, they attacked rather than defended, and the number of people was too small, but they were driven back to the western grasslands in half a year. In the end, only two or three of the eleven tribes were left to survive until they were annexed by other tribes. .

Although Weiguo's rule has not been shaken, many people of Weiguo died in this turmoil. If it can be stopped in advance, it might be a blessing.

Qi Surong accepted this task cautiously. Ever since the emperor found out that Jin Yun might have gone to the Western Regions, he had planned to entrust this matter to her. First, what she did in the past made King Jing quite trusted; secondly, she had nothing to do with the imperial court on the surface, just a businessman with some connections; thirdly, the Gu family had business dealings with merchants in the Western Regions, which would not arouse suspicion.

Qi Surong's eyes turned on the imperial decree in her hand, and she finally understood why King Jing chose to hand over the imperial decree to her instead of directly sending someone to the Gu Qi family to read it publicly. Before she returned from the Western Regions, this imperial edict could only be suppressed temporarily.

"Okay, I will send ten guards to **** you along the way." King Jing sighed, "It will attract attention. I can only help you so much, and you have to adapt to your own needs for the rest."

"Yes, the women must do their best."

"You don't have to call yourself a woman of the people. In my heart, your status is no less than that of any official lady."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your appreciation."

"Well." King Jing looked at the imperial decree in her hand and said, "After you go back, this imperial decree..."

"Secret." Qi Surong only said four words.

King Jing smiled.

When he got home, Qi Surong handed the imperial edict to Gu Chang and asked him to keep it safe. He would not disclose it to the public for the time being, and then told about his upcoming trip to the Western Regions. She didn't tell Gu Chang about Jinyun, worried that if no one could be found, the Gu family would be hit again. For more than two years, Gu Chang and Gu Yufeng had almost given up, and Qi Surong didn't want to break their peace at this time.

Gu Chang naturally disapproved of Qi Surong's going to the Western Regions, but since the emperor personally appointed him, he could only accept it.

"Sister-in-law, shall I accompany you?" Gu Yufeng wanted to go out for a long time, and now is a good time.

"You're gone, who will manage the Gu family's business?" In the past two years, Gu Yufeng has grown a lot and is gradually familiar with the Gu family's business process. Qi Surong thought, maybe in a few years, she will be able to step back behind the scenes.

Gu Yufeng was discouraged, his face full of frustration. Why does Qi Surong, who is a woman, can walk thousands of miles, but he has to stay at home?

After arranging everything for the Gu family, Qi Surong sent another letter to the family, without telling him where he was going, just saying that he would go out for a few months. She calls herself "Zhuofan" to the outside world, and it is not convenient for her to return to her parents' home, so she can only communicate with her by letters. Fortunately, the Qi family is now being cared for by many parties, both openly and secretly, and there is basically no trouble.

Afterwards, Qi Surong went to Yunwu Mountain in person to bid farewell to Yunyouzi.

Yunyouzi nodded, handed her a small porcelain bottle, and said, "This is for you. When you meet that kid, let him eat one every day. No matter whether he is sick or not, he can keep fit."

Qi Surong was overjoyed and quickly thanked him.

Immediately, she looked around and asked, "Where's Big Brother Feng? Are you home yet?"

"No, I'm chopping firewood in the back mountain." Yun Youzi smiled, "He can work more than you, and you can see how tidy the house is."

Qi Surong secretly sympathized and fell into the hands of the master, Feng Zhan was afraid that he had suffered a lot. It is said that in the first few months, Feng Zhan escaped dozens of times, but was easily caught by his master. I want to use force to solve it, but I am not the master's opponent at all, so I can only admit it in the end.

Yunyouzi did not trap him on the mountain, and would let him go back every other month. His position did not require him to go to court every day, and the Feng family was affected by the Luo family, and his father's position was temporarily removed. Although he did not blame his younger generation, most of them were left idle, so Feng Zhan accepted most of the time on the mountain. The training of the wanderer.

In the past two years, Qi Surong has seen his changes. A little less aggressive, a little more composure, although his personality is a little weird, at least he is still in the category of normal people.

It's good that I didn't see Feng Zhan this time. I just learned that the murderer who hurt Jin Yun was actually Liu Qian'er. She really didn't know how to face him. This couple has really caused them too much trouble, and it would be a lie to say that they don't hate them. But after more than two years of precipitation, nothing is as important as Jin Yun.

In a sense, Feng Zhan and Liu Qianer are really a perfect match.

Three days later, Qi Surong took the Gu family caravan on a journey to the Western Regions.

Jin Yun, Su Rong is here, are you okay?