The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 1051 - 1051 508 Storm Strike (Third Shift)

Chapter 1051: 508 Storm Strike! (Third Shift) Chapter 1051: 508 Storm Strike! (Third Shift) Gu Chengfeng felt like he had taken a hundred thousand critical hits to his heart and not even vomiting blood could alleviate the symptoms; he wished he could gouge out his own heart and liver to smear them on the ground!

Literally, smear his heart and liver on the ground.

He wanted to rub himself on the ground to see if this was really happening; his sister and his grandfather had become sworn siblings… what did that make him?

She said she came to the border pass to save a brother of hers… Was she talking about his grandfather?

She really had a brother!

No, that’s not right; she said there was also an idiot.

Gu Chengfeng choked abruptly, his eyes widening in horror as he glanced at his own immobile right arm, then at Tang Yueshan’s immobile left leg.

The fool had to be Tang Yueshan!

No objections accepted!

Tang Yueshan looked at Gu Chengfeng, his eyebrows tightly furrowed.

Why is this kid looking at me so weirdly?!

In the room next door, Gu Changqing, who had personally witnessed the scene of the siblings’ recognition, was also on the verge of losing his composure.

Although he had known about this matter long ago—when the old Marquis got dead drunk and acknowledged Gu Jiao as his sworn sister, Gu Yan and he had been in the adjoining room, and it was he who had carried the senseless old Marquis onto the carriage going back to the Governor’s Mansion.

He just thought she was teasing her drunken grandfather, and he truly had not expected this girl to get addicted to it, taking her brotherly bonds all the way to the border pass!

Way too cheeky…

Gu Changqing looked at his grandfather and Gu Jiao with a complex expression; the two of them really dared to call out and respond in kind.

The old Marquis got excited about recognizing his sibling and from the moment he saw Gu Jiao, his eyes could no longer accommodate anyone else; Gu Chengfeng, who stood by his side, was ignored so much it hurt!

Gu Chengfeng, who had been neglected by his older brother and now also by his grandfather: Chengfeng’s heart is bitter, but Chengfeng won’t say!

Afterward, Gu Jiao and the old Marquis chatted away as if no one else was around.

The old Marquis wiped away tears of relief and was deeply moved as he asked, “Little brother, how did you end up at the border pass too?”

Gu Jiao took out her notebook, found a brush, and quickly wrote, “I came to save you.”

The old Marquis’s emotions surged, his eyes once again brimming with hot tears; what a righteous little brother she was! He would firmly remember this kindness and would never forget it for as long as he lived!

Suddenly, a vague memory surfaced in his mind.

He remembered that after he was thrown into the wine cellar at the Governor’s Mansion in Lingguan City with his limbs broken by the remnants of the former dynasty, it seemed that someone had come to rescue him.

“Was it you, little brother? Were you the one who rescued me from Lingguan City?” There seemed to be something more, but he couldn’t remember.

Forget it; generally, what one can’t remember isn’t important!

Gu Chengfeng: Grandfather, there’s me too! There’s me! I went to rescue you too! Ahhhh! Why do you only remember that stinky girl!

Gu Chengfeng was going crazy!

“It seems we also went to a family’s home? Or was it a cave?” The old Marquis tried hard to search his memory; he felt there was something else there, but he still couldn’t remember.

Tang Yueshan: What a good fellow, he doesn’t even remember me!

I carried you from the hut all the way to a cave, lifting you until my fingers got frostbitten!

“And my injuries… were they also treated by you, little brother?” The gratitude and excitement of the old Marquis were beyond words; he patted Gu Jiao’s hand and choked up, “The two most correct things I, Gu Chao, have done in my life were to establish the Gu Family military and the other was meeting you, little brother.”

Gu Jiao gripped his hand tightly, nodding earnestly and with deep affection!

Brothers walk together for life!

Afterward, the old Marquis also inquired about Gu Jiao’s injuries; knowing that she was unharmed, he finally felt relieved.

Gu Chengfeng: No, just now when big brother came in, you didn’t even bother to ask if big brother was injured!

While the old Marquis and Gu Jiao were talking, new wounded soldiers were transferred into the Courtyard. One of the soldiers accidentally fell from the bed, causing secondary damage to his wound.

Gu Jiao quickly wrote in her notebook, “I’ll go check on him, and come back to talk to you later.”

The old Marquis nodded: “Little brother, go and do what you must.”

His little brother was truly incredible, not only skilled in martial arts but also in medicine; this is what it means to be both valiant in a narrow path and to have the heart of a benevolent healer!

Gu Jiao had gone.

Gu Chengfeng stood up straight, it was finally his turn!

He was determined to show his grandfather that he, too, was a brave and capable defender of the border pass, and the wounds on his body were his most honorable medals!

He beamed with a smile, “Grandfather!”

“Huff~ Huff~”

What responded to him was a series of very rhythmic snores.

The smile on Gu Chengfeng’s face gradually stiffened, “…”

…

After the wooden wall collapsed, Mr. Hu from the Governor’s Mansion quickly had someone bring over a landscape screen.

With the old marquis asleep, he had no choice but to address Tang Yueshan and the two brothers of the Gu Family in another room, “Well, for now, there are no carpenters available to come over, so let’s make do with a screen as a temporary partition, shall we?”

Then everyone fell silent.

Mr. Hu: Uh… are you not satisfied with this arrangement?

But he wasn’t lying; all the carpenters in the city had been conscripted to build and repair military equipment, and there really was nobody available to fix the wall!

“Put it here,” Gu Changqing said.

“Eh! Yes! Yes!” Mr. Hu had the wooden planks on the ground cleaned up and personally arranged the screen, “Then, I’ll take my leave.”

“Mhm,” Gu Changqing nodded faintly.

Mr. Hu left as if a heavy burden had been lifted from his shoulders.

Was it an illusion?

Why did he feel the atmosphere in the room was a bit eerie?

Tang Yueshan was unable to move his leg, so he lay back down on the sickbed. Gu Chengfeng’s leg was fine, but his arm hurt, and he too was ordered by Gu Changqing to lie back on his own sickbed.

At this moment, the atmosphere in the room was indeed somewhat eerie, but not because of Gu Jiao’s brotherly recognition with the old marquis. It was because both Gu Changqing and Gu Chengfeng realized that Tang Yueshan had also witnessed everything that happened that day.

Including their mother’s identity as an espionage agent.

What did this mean?

It meant that if Tang Yueshan were to leak the news, it would immediately overturn the entire war situation.

The Gu Family troops would not fight for a spy from the previous dynasty; if they found out that Gu Changqing was the offspring of a spy from the previous dynasty, they would revolt.

Gu Changqing said to Gu Chengfeng, “From now on, keep an eye on him. Don’t let him have contact with anyone else. I will talk to Jiaojiao. From now on, all the doctors in this courtyard will be replaced with doctors from the Divine Hand Hall.”

Gu Chengfeng pursed his lips and said, “No need, that girl plans to poison him mute!”

Gu Changqing paused and then said, “Even if he’s poisoned mute, he can still write.”

Gu Chengfeng spoke with an indifferent tone, “Oh, then tell that girl to cripple his hands too, the kind that doesn’t show.”

Tang Yueshan trembled in his heart!

Are you siblings so vicious!

And when did I ever say I would leak the news?

Am I, Tang Yueshan, someone who disregards the larger picture?

Can I, for the sake of a little merit, shake the morale and spirit of the troops and officers at the border pass?

I was planning to triumphantly return to the capital and then secretly report you three little spies to the Empress Dowager and His Majesty!

After a moment of thought, Gu Changqing sighed and said, “Forget it, it’s better if I do it. I don’t want Jiaojiao to dirty her hands.”

He drew out a dagger with a whoosh and approached Tang Yueshan.

Tang Yueshan’s body tensed up at once!

Just at that moment, Gu Jiao returned to the room after finishing the surgery.

Without a second thought, Tang Yueshan reached out to her, “Do you still need a little lackey—”