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Gu Jiao held the jerky and ate it in small bites, like a little squirrel foraging for food.
Xiao Liulang walked beside her and watched her until she finished eating. Seeing her smack her lips as though she wanted more, he handed her the other half of the jerky in his hand that hadn"t been touched at all.
As if afraid that she would refuse, he said, "I can"t eat anymore, you eat this too."
"Oh." Gu Jiao said nothing and took the piece of jerky from his hand, but before eating it, she broke off a small piece and fed it into his mouth.
……
Although the envoys of the State of Liang had entered the capital, they had little to do with the people at the bottom. Everyone just went on with their normal life doing whatever they had to do.
Little Jing Kong got up early for his morning training. Gu Jiao didn"t have to make breakfast today as Grannie Fang already did. Gu Jiao accompanied Little Jing Kong while he practiced basic martial arts skills for a while.
While wiping the little guy’s sweat, Gu Jiao expressed her doubts, "Why do you always practice just these?"
Little Jing Kong tilted his head and said, "That"s all I know!"
Gu Jiao：“…!!!”
Shoot, they were solely focused on the child’s studies and forgot that martial arts also needed to be learned step by step.
In the first few years in the temple, they focused on teaching basic martial arts skills. When the basic martial arts skills were solidly practiced, only then would they slowly teach some fighting techniques and martial arts routines.
Little Jing Kong went down the mountain early, before he had time to learn real martial arts.
Gu Jiao knew some Tai Chi and Five Animal Qigong, but she wasn’t very good at it. In her previous life, all her skills she learned in the organization were for killing people, which were inappropriate to teach to children.
Looked like they had to hire a martial arts teacher for the little guy.
Gu Jiao"s first thought was Gu Chengfeng. It was easier to think of him since she had squeezed him a lot recently.
Only, that guy was a thief, a little carelessness in their part and that guy might actually train Little Jing Kong to be a thief——
The image of Little Jing Kong wearing a mask like a ninja thief flashed through Gu Jiao"s mind, and she shook her head decisively!
Gu Jiao thought of Gu Changqing next. Gu Changqing was a good choice, but he was too busy. He was in the military camp all year round, and it was almost hard to see him on normal days.
Gu Jiao noted this matter down mentally for the time being.
After breakfast, Xiao Liulang and Little Jing Kong went to the Imperial Academy, Gu Yan and Gu Xiaoshun went to Qinghe Academy, and Gu Jiao went to the medical hall.
Not long after she arrived at the medical hall, Rui w.a.n.gfei came.
She was holding the guqin case in her hand.
In fact, after yesterday’s performance, she knew that this guqin was very valuable, so she didn"t show it in public because she didn"t want it to attract too much attention.
The two of them went to Gu Jiao"s small courtyard.
Rui w.a.n.gfei told her how she got the wrong guqin by mistake, "The young eunuch around me is incompetent, I apologize."
Gu Jiao already understood what was going on. She shook her head and said, "It was my negligence."
Little Jiang Li was still a child after all. She should have checked the guqin cases.
Rui w.a.n.gfei took Gu Jiao"s hand, "Then I should really thank you for your negligence! If it weren"t for your guqin yesterday, I would have been someone else’s foil!"
Rui w.a.n.gfei was also compet.i.tive, especially when it came to music. She would never be willing to be someone else’s foil.
"Wen Linlang must have known this; she didn"t tell me in advance that I was going to play with others! And that Musician Xie, what sudden fall? I think it"s simply her who didn’t want Musician Xie to play on the stage!”
She had inquired and Musician Xie was actually not injured.
"Humph! She just wants to sacrifice me to please those envoys of the State of Liang!"
Rui w.a.n.g already consoled Rui w.a.n.gfei after returning to the prince’s residence last night, saying that from the perspective of diplomatic means, the Crown Princess did not make a wrong move, except that it wronged Rui w.a.n.gfei.
In order to establish good relations between two countries, even princesses could be married off to far away lands. As an imperial daughter-in-law, sacrificing for the overall situation seemed nothing in comparison.
In the final a.n.a.lysis, the Crown Princess was a politician, but Rui w.a.n.gfei wasn’t. Both of them had conflicting ideas.
Rui w.a.n.gfei was so furious thinking that even his man was speaking for that woman!
"How come no one thinks she did something wrong? Shouldn"t she have informed me about it in advance? Don"t you also think that it was a show of disrespect towards me?"
Rui w.a.n.gfei"s way of thinking was very advanced in ancient times. At this era, she already awakened a part of feminist consciousness.
"So, did you play well?" Gu Jiao asked.
Rui w.a.n.gfei raised her chin and said proudly, "Of course!"
In the prince’s residence, she was still very reserved, afraid to be too open, but here in Gu Jiao’s place, she felt so relaxed that her little excitement and pride that had been suppressed all night were easily displayed.
"You didn’t see the amazed look in their eyes!"
"Yu Qinw.a.n.g also applauded me!"
"That Lord Yue Ying"s direct disciple is just that in the end!"
Look, look, look, her little tail was up in the air.
All the gloom just now disappeared.
But no matter how smug Rui w.a.n.gfei was, she still did not hog all the credits, "Actually it was all thanks to your guqin. Based on just my own guqin and skills, it would have been hard to dominate that piece of music."
Gu Jiao didn’t find it too surprising.
After seeing Little Jing Kong"s golden abacus and several house deeds, Gu Jiao had long since stopped treating this damaged guqin as an ordinary broken guqin.
"The musician of the State of Liang wanted to buy your guqin, but I refused." Rui w.a.n.gfei said and looked at her.
"En." Gu Jiao nodded approvingly. "Little Jing Kong gave me this guqin. I will never sell it."
Rui w.a.n.gfei breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that she was right to refuse Wu Ming yesterday.
Her eyes rested on the guqin and said, "Then again, what kind of guqin is this? It"s engraved with the word f.u.xi, is it really the real f.u.xi guqin?"
Rui w.a.n.gfei thought Gu Jiao would deny it, but Gu Jiao thought about it and said seriously, "Maybe."
Rui w.a.n.gfei：“…”
There wasn’t much business in the medical hall in the morning. Rui w.a.n.gfei sat in Gu Jiao"s small courtyard for half an hour and chatted with her for a while.
Rui w.a.n.gfei only said little about the envoys. After all, she wasn’t a person of politics and she had no wild ambitions, so she didn"t pay much attention to the envoys’ visit.
On the contrary, because Rui w.a.n.gfei and Yao shi were both pregnant, Gu Jiao was rather interested in this topic, and they talked about stuff related to pregnancy and babies.
After that, the medical hall got busy, and Rui w.a.n.gfei went back to the prince’s residence.
Meanwhile, in a splendid courtyard at the imperial garden, soft coughing sounds could be heard from time to time.
The servants outside the door all looked solemn and didn"t dare to breathe under the atmosphere.
Inside, Yu Qinw.a.n.gfei, holding her son whose face had already turned red from coughing, looked distressed and anxious as she asked, "When will w.a.n.gye come back?"
The accompanying attendant said, "Responding back to w.a.n.gfei, w.a.n.gye and the officials of the State of Zhao were in a terrible dispute; this servant is simply unable to see w.a.n.gye at all!"
This was how the two sides negotiated, always arguing, and even flipping the tables in serious cases.
Yu Qinw.a.n.gfei didn"t care what they were arguing about, she was only worried about her son"s illness.
Her son had been coughing for ten days, and the imperial physician they brought had been feeding him with medicine, but apparently he couldn"t cure her son"s illness.
The attendant hesitated for a moment before asking, "Why don"t... this servant go into the palace to seek an audience with Empress Xiao, and ask her to send over an imperial physician of the State of Zhao?"
Yu Qinw.a.n.gfei thought for a moment, then said, "Wait, don"t enter the palace yet."
During this important moment of negotiation between the two sides, she was not comfortable leaving her son"s life in the hands of the other party.
Although the imperial family of the State of Zhao would definitely not harm her son, her son would be in danger in case someone tried to borrow the hands of the State of Zhao’s imperial family to create trouble.
And even if there wasn’t someone to create trouble, the State of Zhao could also use her son"s treatment to raise the price, which wasn’t conducive to the State of Liang"s negotiations.
She had been a w.a.n.gfei for so many years after all, and her mind was a little more than ordinary.
Yu Qinw.a.n.gfei instructed, "Go and ask around, which are the famous medical halls in the capital? Make sure no one finds out."
"Yes!"
The attendant changed into an ordinary servant’s attire and left the imperial garden, avoiding the eyes and ears of people.
An hour later, he came back, "w.a.n.gfei, I have inquired. There are the three largest medical halls in the capital—— the Longevity Hall, Mutual Heart Hall and Rejuvenation Hall, and there is another famous one, the Miraculous Hands Hall, which is said to have good medical arts."
Yu Qinw.a.n.gfei asked, "Which is the nearest medical hall?"
The attendant answered, "Miraculous Hands Hall."Raz P."s Thoughts
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