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Chapter 41 Gu Fuling

Gu Lingzhi almost spat out the mouthful of water she had just drunk.

She wiped her mouth hastily: "Feeling sorry for me?"

She didn't continue speaking, but instead turned to ask another question: "Where is this?"

"We'll be at the gates of Linyang soon. This is the closest point to the other side, so we can wait for Your Highness here."

Bai Lianchuan glanced at the city gate not far away, where a bustling crowd was queuing up, and many vendors and caravans were slowly moving forward.

Their group was so conspicuous that they had been spotted, and now a group of people were walking towards them.

Gu Lingzhi's heart tightened suddenly. She frowned and said sharply, "Leave here, and as soon as possible!"

Bai Lianchuan didn't understand what Gu Lingzhi meant: "Where can they go if they leave? These thousand people have been walking for a day and a night without rest or food. If they continue, some of them may run out of energy."

They left in a great hurry, and they didn't bring much food. Everyone had been hungry all day and was looking forward to this feast.

However, Gu Lingzhi was anxious but had no way of saying that they were clearly lambs to the slaughter.

She jumped down from the carriage, stopping the caravan, and saw in the distance that the people were approaching.

Gu Lingzhi looked very uneasy, because they had been discovered, and if they did anything irrational, they could very well implicate these people and cause them to die tragically.

"Bai Lianchuan, what I'm about to say is very important."

Her brows furrowed slightly. Regardless of whether Bai Lianchuan believed her or not, it was best to remind him: "There's an ambush in Linyang City. Arrange for someone to inform your prince. You know I have no reason to lie to you about something like this."

She didn't want hundreds of thousands of people to die like that.

Although Mo Jiuxiao won a Pyrrhic victory in the end, even though one general's success is built on the bones of ten thousand, she did not want so many wronged souls to appear at once.

Bai Lianchuan looked at Gu Lingzhi with a pair of fox-like eyes full of suspicion: "I've always felt that you're unpredictable. Who told you all this?"

Gu Lingzhi chuckled, showing no sign of being suspected: "Could you ask me about this after things are resolved?"

Bai Junshi was speechless for a moment after Gu Lingzhi's words. He didn't say anything more for the time being. He just took a carrier pigeon from the back and released it directly into the woods.

It was just a little bird, and no one noticed its tiny movement.

The people coming from the city gate lined up in a row, and a man who looked like a general rode over at the head.

"Who are you?"

Bai Lianchuan stepped out from the crowd, his demeanor calm and composed. "Bai Lianchuan, military advisor of Dingnan Army, wishes to see your prefectural governor."

The highest official position in Linyang was the prefectural governor, who was in charge of all the trivial matters of the entire city, almost like a local emperor.

"So it's the strategist! The governor has long admired strategist Bai. Please, please come in!"

The man was very warm and polite, and immediately made people separate to both sides without showing any hostility.

Gu Lingzhi was dressed in the clothes of an ordinary soldier, blending in seamlessly into the crowd, but her eyes were always watching her surroundings.

Led by dozens of people, the city gates opened, and a thousand people entered Linyang City in a grand procession. People came and went on the streets, and everything was no different from usual.

Even Bai Lianchuan felt that Gu Lingzhi was overthinking things.

However, Gu Lingzhi knew the plot, not some unverifiable information from others, so she was almost certain that something was hidden here.

The group was taken to the prefectural government office.

In the bright and spacious hall, Bai Lianchuan stood in the center with Gu Lingzhi and another expert. After a short while, a pot-bellied man dressed in the official robes of a prefectural governor walked out.

"Qian Hui, Prefect of Linyang City, greets Military Advisor Bai!"

The fat man smiled obsequiously and winked at his subordinates, "Where are the chairs and tea? Bring them up quickly."

Several constables hurriedly and clumsily went to get things ready, but Bai Lianchuan waved his hand and said, "No need, just prepare rooms for us to rest."

"Yes, yes, go and prepare!"

The governor of Pangzhou was very accommodating, granting almost every request the two made. Gu Lingzhi followed behind Bai Lianchuan, but the strategist turned around and said, "Go to my room."

Gu Lingzhi was taken aback, then pointed to her nose: "You're in the same room as me?"

Bai Lianchuan nodded, lowered his voice, and said in a tone that only the two of them could hear, "The prince asked me to watch over you. If you die, I'm afraid I'll be in big trouble."

Gu Lingzhi ignored him.

However, she is currently dressed in men's clothing and wearing a human skin mask. As long as she is careful, no one should know who she is.

They were led to a very bright guest room in the government office, which happened to have two rooms.

Gu Lingzhi vaguely noticed that after they entered the area, there were many more patrolling guards around them.

She clenched her fists tightly and followed Bai Lianchuan into the room, closing the doors and windows. Gu Lingzhi looked at the strategist Bai with a serious expression: "They're all around us. Are you sure you can get the message to your prince?"

Bai Lianchuan sat down at the table at some point, poured himself a cup of tea that had been prepared beforehand, and appeared calm and composed, as if he wasn't worried about the situation at all.

Gu Lingzhi suddenly felt as if the emperor wasn't worried, but the eunuch was.

She slammed her hand on the table: "Bai Lianchuan, are you even listening to me?"

He had no idea how important this matter was. If she knew the outcome and still let so many people die here, she would feel guilty.

This was the first time Bai Lianchuan had ever seen Gu Lingzhi so angry. Her bright eyes held a shocking aura, and at this moment, Gu Lingzhi had a bit of Mo Jiuxiao's imposing presence.

The woman who exudes such an aura is definitely not the useless, pretty daughter of a wealthy family in the capital.

Bai Lianchuan said calmly, "Whether or not the message can be sent out, we're already in a bind. Do you have a way to help us escape? Since there's no way, why think about it so much? It's getting late, let's finish dinner and get some rest."

His words were full of reassurance.

Gu Lingzhi rubbed her forehead. "Okay, you said it yourself. If anything really happens, don't blame me."

She turned and went to another room.

As soon as Gu Lingzhi left, Bai Lianchuan's calm expression vanished, replaced by a cold glint in his fox-like eyes as he lightly clapped his hands.

A man in black appeared out of nowhere in front of him.

The man knelt on one knee on the ground, and Bai Lianchuan, with water in his eyes, wrote a few words on the table.

After reading the order, the man in black calmly left the room and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Time is slowly passing by.

Pang Zhoufu pushed open a door, and moonlight shone down, revealing his somewhat flustered face in the darkness. The door creaked open.

In the darkness, a candlelight flickered, and a figure appeared before Pangzhou Prefecture.

A flash of light appeared in the room, revealing a woman with a maidservant behind her, a sword at her waist.

One was standing, the other was sitting or lying down. The woman sitting next to the table was wearing a white dress, and her delicate face exuded a gentle and graceful aura.

When she saw the Prefect of Pangzhou enter, she smiled gently and asked, "Prefect of Qian, how did things go?"

The governor of Pangzhou quickly bowed and said, "Your Majesty, rest assured, there will be absolutely no mistakes."

Gu Fuling stood up from the chair, her eyes sparkling, her lips slightly pursed, "That female slave named Gu Lingzhi, is she really dead?"

"Your Majesty, this news is absolutely true. He was killed directly by the Ninth Prince. There were many people present at the time, and they saw it clearly!"

A moment of relaxation appeared on Gu Fuling's face, but a sharp glint flashed in her eyes.

"Well done. By the way, has dinner been served yet?"

"It's all set."

Gu Lingzhi never expected that Gu Fuling would appear in Linyang City.

Because of her, the plot seemed to have a fork in the road, starting to diverge at the most crucial point.

The dinner at the Linyang City government office was very lavish, and yamen runners delivered the food to the rooms of more than a thousand guards.

Gu Lingzhi and Bai Lianchuan's room was naturally equipped with the best food. Bai Lianchuan called her out of her room, and her stomach, which had been empty all day, couldn't resist the delicious food.

But as soon as she sat down, she smelled a faint, strange odor emanating from the steam.

Gu Lingzhi had studied medicine since childhood, so she was naturally very sensitive to this strange smell. When she saw Bai Lianchuan about to pick up some food without any suspicion, she snatched his chopsticks away.

"Don't eat it! The food is poisoned!"

Bai Lianchuan was taken aback, and then produced a silver needle from somewhere, placing it in his palm.

Seeing his actions, Gu Lingzhi immediately realized that she had been meddling in other people's business. Bai Lianchuan probably had no intention of eating at all and was testing her.

The needle tip, gleaming with a silvery light, turned black after being stirred in the dish.

Bai Lianchuan narrowed his eyes, flicked his sleeves, quickly stood up, and turned to walk out.

Gu Lingzhi knew he was going to see the more than a thousand soldiers, so she followed closely behind. But as soon as she pushed open the door, she saw that outside the huge courtyard, there were dozens of yamen runners with swords and knives.

The night was desolate, and dozens of people held weapons that gleamed with silver light.

Pang Zhoufu stood smiling in the crowd, watching the two people walk out of the room.

Even before the other party made a move, Bai Lianchuan understood what had happened from this scene.

He stood in front of Gu Lingzhi and whispered, "Now let's pray that the Prince will arrive soon."

Gu Lingzhi raised her eyebrows, finding Bai Lianchuan's words somewhat amusing.

She never believed in coincidences or luck. If they were counting on Mo Jiuxiao to save them, they might as well wash their necks clean and wait to die.

Bai Lianchuan's gaze fell on the fat prefect: "Prefect, we are men of the Dingnan Army. Are you trying to rebel by doing this?"

Pang Zhoufu narrowed his eyes, which were squeezed into slits by the fat on his face, and suddenly shouted, "Rebellion? My master is the Third Prince, how can you say he's rebelling?"

Bai Lianchuan glanced at Gu Lingzhi subconsciously.

Even though Bai Lianchuan trusted Gu Lingzhi to some extent because of her identity, he was still skeptical of her words. But he never expected that everything she said was true.

If the troops stationed here are all from Nanhuai, then for Mo Jiuxiao to lead his already weakened army into this place would be tantamount to being trapped in a dead end.

"Take down both of them!"