Chapter 199 Liu Changgui

If the emperor had not responded, Gu Junqing might have retorted to Xin Chuan, but Qi Yunjin agreed with what Xin Chuan had just said, which made Gu Junqing at a loss as to what to say.

She could only lower her head and stare at the dishes on the table, then watch Qi Yunjin pick up a piece of pork for her with the serving chopsticks.

After pinching it a few more times, he said to her, "Pinch it more often, so no one will say you are a rabbit."

It turns out that the emperor knew that he didn't like them describing him as a rabbit.

Gu Junqing thought so in his heart, and obediently ate the meat that Qi Yunjin had just passed to him.

Xin Chuan watched the series of actions of the two men, especially the emperor. He always felt that something was wrong. Between two grown men, apart from the care of the elders on their backs, they would pick up food for each other out of concern. However, the emperor and General Gu were only two years apart in age. Why did he always feel that something was wrong when he saw the emperor picking up food for Gu Junqing?

Xin Chuan didn't take what was happening between the two of them to heart, and instead focused all his attention on the dishes in front of him.

At three quarters past noon, the emperor returned to the palace alone. Gu Junqing and Xin Chuan followed him on the way, and it took them half an hour to return to their respective residences.

The next morning, Gu Junqing and his men were heading for the northern suburbs. On the way, they happened to meet Xin Chuan who was heading for the southern suburbs. The two nodded to each other as a greeting, and then went their separate ways at the fork in the road, one heading north and the other heading south.

Gu Junqing didn't bring many people with him, and compared with Xin Chuan, he seemed like a dwarf compared to a giant. It was like Xin Chuan brought almost twenty people, while he only brought ten people.

It’s not that she was lax about the task or didn’t take it seriously, but Gu Junqing felt that ten people were enough.

The northern suburbs were not far away, and they arrived soon. Gu Junqing glanced at the group of people behind him, thinking that it was a good idea to let them follow in the dark at the beginning, so that they would not easily attract attention.

After all, it is the suburbs, so there are not many people living in the suburbs of the capital, and they are all those who can't make a living in the capital or who are here to flee. There are all kinds of people.

But it is also prosperous.

However, yesterday's clues only pointed out that there was something in the northern suburbs, but no one knew where it was hidden exactly. Also, Gu Junqing had no idea where the starting point of the topographic map was.

She had basically never been to the northern suburbs, so she wasn't very familiar with the terrain here. Even if she had a topographic map, it would not be too late to find out what the situation was like nearby.

In fact, it is quite easy to find the starting point marked on the topographic map. You just need to ask the locals to find out.

Gu Junqing took the topographic map in his hand and came to the border between the northern suburbs and the southern suburbs. This is the starting point.

Gu Junqing stood here and looked towards the southern suburbs again, wondering how Xin Chuan was doing now, and then turned his attention to the map in his hand.

This topographic map is actually not complicated. On the contrary, it is very easy to recognize.

Go straight for 100 meters from the starting point, turn right, go straight for about 50 meters and turn right again, you will arrive at the gate of a medium-sized house.

At present, only Duan Jun is following Gu Junqing. The others should have sneaked in by now.

Gu Junqing stood outside the door, watching with squinted eyes.

However, the two of them did not plan to go in so quickly. Instead, they wanted to say hello to the neighbors around them and get some information just in case.

Of course, the sight of two people standing in front of a house, doing nothing, was still quite eye-catching. When the people passing by saw this, they looked at them curiously.

After looking at it, he looked away and ignored the enthusiasm.

However, a few bolder women, seeing Duan Jun standing next to Gu Junqing with his handsome and stern face, couldn't help but want to talk to him and ask questions like whether he needed marriage, so they took the initiative to approach the two of them, mainly to Duan Jun.

A woman came forward and asked with a smile:

"I see you two gentlemen have been wandering around here, is there anything you need our help with?"

The question was asked to the two young masters, but the person he was looking at was Duan Jun.

Any normal person will subconsciously pursue beautiful things.

Gu Junqing was no exception, so she touched her disguised face, which must be ordinary and without any characteristics, so compared with Duan Jun's undisguised face, maybe in the eyes of the woman, her face might seem a little unsightly. Gu Junqing could understand, so she stood silently behind Duan Jun, trying to pretend to be a nobody.

Duan Jun: “…”

Judging from Gu Junqing's behavior, it seems that he intends to leave all current matters to himself.

Duan Jun thought so in his mind, but he still had to answer the woman's question just now, after all, he was trying to get some information.

After Duan Jun exchanged a few simple greetings with the woman, he pretended to be casual and asked who the owner of the house was.

The woman's expression did not change when she heard this. Her eyes were filled with carelessness and she answered casually:

"Who else could it be? It's Liu Changgui, who couldn't make it in Beijing anymore and bought a house in the northern suburbs. It's said that he's working as a pastry chef in a restaurant in Beijing. I'm not sure, anyway, I just heard it from the neighbors."

Liu Changgui.

Gu Junqing silently repeated the name in his mind and raised his head to listen to some other useful information. However, the woman in front of him seemed unwilling to discuss this topic in depth and changed the subject to marriage.

Of course, this topic completely separated Gu Junqing. The woman kept asking questions left and right about whether there was any marriage in the young master's family, just like a matchmaker.

But seeing that Duan Jun was really embarrassed and seemed to want to just turn around and leave, Gu Junqing felt sorry for him, so she tried her best to persuade the woman in front of her to leave.

Before the woman left, Gu Junqing received a glare from her.

Gu Junqing smiled helplessly, turned his eyes to look at Duan Jun, and said to him lightly: "Let's go."

Duan Jun restrained his expression and followed Gu Junqing with a stern face.

The two did not plan to enter the house so quickly, but instead wanted to go to a place that the woman had just mentioned.

In a pastry shop somewhere in the northern suburbs, Gu Junqing and Duan Jun approached the pastry shop one after the other.

The location of the shop here is quite remote, so few people are willing to come in and take a look at this pastry shop, which makes it look particularly desolate and deserted.

When Gu Junqing first came in, she thought that the pastry shop was open but no one was watching. She thought that this was too careless. Turning her head, she looked at the waiter (or the shopkeeper) who seemed to be still dozing off on the table. Gu Junqing took back the words she had just thought in her mind.

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