The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 1078 - 1078 521 Finished (second update)_3

Chapter 1078: 521 Finished (second update)_3 Chapter 1078: 521 Finished (second update)_3 “I’m sick,” Gu Jiao said, “It’s the epidemic.”

So you must put me down.

Gu Jiao spoke with the seriousness of a physician.

However, to Gu Changqing’s ears, it seemed like his little sister had a severe illness, and her heart was full of grievances.

“It’s my fault,” Gu Changqing sincerely reflected, “I didn’t take good care of you.”

Gu Jiao: “…”

What is all this about?

Gu Jiao: “I don’t want you to carry me.”

Gu Changqing: “Then I’ll hold you.”

Gu Jiao: “I don’t want you to hold me either.”

Gu Changqing thought about it seriously, “Then… how about a piggyback ride on my neck?”

Gu Jiao: “…!!”

Gu Jiao wore a mask, and she had Gu Changqing wear one too. Moreover, she made sure Gu Changqing took the medicine for preventing the epidemic, and of course, Princess Ning An and Lianlian took it as well.

The siblings walked at the very front.

The other three had already learned that Gu Changqing was the young master of the Gu Family’s army, and they also knew Gu Jiao was his sister.

Along the way, Gu Changqing would always offer the best things to his sister first. He would only carry her.

In his eyes, he was first and foremost a brother to his sister, only after that was he a subject of Princess Ning An.

“How did you find this place?” Gu Jiao asked.

Gu Changqing responded indifferently, “I got the maps of the mountain stronghold and secret pathways from the mouth of a former dynasty’s aide.”

He didn’t want her to know how he “asked.”

He had found out why Gu Jiao had gone to kill the Sky Wolf. That day, when he couldn’t find Gu Jiao in the forest, he returned to the Governor’s Mansion to see if he could track down any clues. Indeed, he found out a thing or two from the mouth of a detained son-in-law’s aide.

It turned out that the son-in-law had bought a batch of formidable dead soldiers from Yan Country, with the leader named Sky Wolf, and the one who ranked second was probably the one he had just killed.

The son-in-law and the Prince of Yi had brought in plague patients to infect the Gu Family’s army, while the son-in-law had bought Sky Wolf from Yan Country to deal with Gu Changqing.

They wanted Gu Changqing’s legs—hoping that Gu Changqing would lose everything and live the rest of his life neither like a human nor a ghost.

Gu Jiao must have learned about the son-in-law’s plan by accident.

She did it for him.

Thinking of this, Gu Changqing’s heart ached.

He had the best sister in the world, and he would be her best brother.

“You are disobedient!” Gu Jiao, the doctor, spoke sternly and then fell asleep on Gu Changqing’s shoulder.

Gu Changqing heard the even breathing on his back and a tender indulgence flashed in the depths of his eyes.

He threw his cloak over his hand and gently covered her petite body.

She had suffered so much hardship—all of which he would tenderly make up for, bit by bit.

The biting, relentless snowstorm kept coming, cutting against his face like knives, but not a single flake touched Gu Jiao.

She slept soundly, nestled comfortably on his warm and broad back.

…

The power of the former regime had completely disintegrated.

Beiyang City and Ye City’s Chen Country army were left with eighty thousand troops.

On November 27th, Gu Changqing led sixty thousand Gu Family troops to attack Beiyang City, and overnight, they annihilated twenty thousand of the enemy. Prince Bo was defeated, leading the remaining twenty thousand Chen Country troops to flee the city and join with the forty thousand Rong Family’s troops at Ye City.

Three days later, Gu Changqing led ninety thousand Gu Family troops right up to the city’s gates.

And by that time, eighty thousand reinforcements for Chen Country had arrived.

Prince Bo, overjoyed, planned to attack the Gu Family’s troops from both front and back with the eighty thousand reinforcements but had no idea that the leader of the reinforcements was Yuan Tang.

Yuan Tang, mounted on a tall steed, looked down at Prince Bo and Rong Yao on the City Tower and revealed the golden imperial edict in his hand, succinctly declaring, “By the emperor’s command, I am here to eradicate the rebel army—those who surrender will be pardoned; those who resist will be killed!”

Nearly one hundred thousand Gu Family troops and eighty thousand of Chen Country’s imperial army left Prince Bo and Rong Yao’s sixty thousand troops caught in a pincer. Even if they pierced the heavens, they had no chance of victory.

Not to mention, Yuan Tang had the imperial edict, his cause was justifiable.

The morale of the sixty thousand troops plummeted.

Yuan Tang then turned to Rong Yao, smiling obediently, “Uncle, my father only aims to capture Prince Bo. Kill him, and you can atone for your crimes.”

As he spoke, as if afraid Rong Yao wouldn’t believe him, he passed the imperial edict to a soldier nearby, instructing him to deliver it into the city.

The edict indeed dictated the execution of the traitor Prince Bo.

Rong Yao, clutching the edict, had a glint in his eye.

Prince Bo was visibly shaken, “Rong Yao! Don’t fall for this father and son’s trick! You’ve already rebelled—killing me won’t save you; my elder brother won’t let you off the hook either!”

Rong Yao coldly declared, “The Emperor won’t spare me once I return to the Capital City, but if I don’t kill you, Yuan Tang won’t spare me right now, so… Sorry, Prince Bo!”

Gu Changqing wasn’t interested in Chen Country’s internal strife, but subduing the enemy’s troops without a fight was also a clever strategy.

Prince Bo and Rong Yao commenced fighting on the City Tower.

Yuan Tang, at his leisure, rode his horse towards Gu Changqing. The Gu Family’s troops intended to stop him, but Gu Changqing raised his hand to prevent them.

Yuan Tang, coming alone, showed his sincerity.

Yuan Tang stopped in front of Gu Changqing’s horse, raised his eyebrows, and introduced himself, “A friend of Doctor Gu, Yuan Tang.”

Gu Changqing looked at him deeply, straightened his back, and with a rare hint of boastfulness, said, “Jiaojiao’s brother, Gu Changqing.”

The soldiers of the Gu Family: “…”

Isn’t there something odd about that introduction?

Shouldn’t it be the sixth prince of Chen Country and the young master of the Gu Family’s troops?

So in your eyes, are those two titles less significant than “Doctor Gu’s friend” and “Jiaojiao’s brother”?