Chapter 21 (1/2)

Gu Yun joked: “Tell me, what if one day I just suddenly die, what are we supposed to do then?”

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It is impossible for the Marquis of Order to rest at ho’s officials start with attendance at 5 or 7 in theofficers, they can go home to their families after the court session ended at 3 or 5 in the after afternoon But of course, Gu Yun was no low ranking idling officer

Gu Yun rarely returned to the capital, hence even after the court session had ended, if he wasn’t being su looked for by other coworkers, his socializing schedule was packed with no room left to breathe In the very rare occasion where there was a free day, he had to travel to the Northern ca able to return to the manor before sundoas extremely rare

In short, he lived a worse life than chickens and dogs

Therefore, if one wanted Marshal Gu’s personal guidance, onebefore the court session started

Fro up at the break of dawn and returning in the ht Every day when the chickens were still sound asleep, he would already bring the sword training puppet over to wait in Gu Yun’s courtyard

The adolescent was growing fast, his figure tall and thin, he led the ith a sword in hand, the iron puppet noisily following behind Its pair of iron ar a steaht, rese a food delivery man

When he arrived at Marshal Gu’s, the old servant would take the container, then would start a small fire to keep the food ith a stove And Gu Yun will start his adopted son’s earlysession

The food delivery ‘et coic

After the lesson was finished, their breakfast was also heated up The two of theether, then they would part ways to take care of their own things Gu Yun had to leave, Chang Geng went back for the reading session with his teacher, and in the afternoon, he still had uards in the Manor

Truth was, Gu Yun was not a good teacher Much like Shen Yi, he also had the habit of going on about whatever subjects that ca the iron puppet, he had already explained about how to dispatch and form Heavy Armors forht Ar Ziliujin, and even the differences between the horse breeds froions and Central Plains, which type of ration was best for fighting against hunger, so on and so forth

Only until these lectures took one trip around all of Great Liang that Gu Yun would finally becoain? What did I intend to talk about at the start?”

Chang Geng: “…”

The two sat on the big ” sound of the gears turning inside the body of the iron inal topic that had escaped for a thousandthat Marshal Gu was personally passing on his knowledge, Ge Ban Xiao and Cao Niangzi were both extre ed to run over to listen to his teaching But unexpectedly, fro – what is this!?

Ge Ban Xiao secretly commented: “I feel that it’d be better to listen to Teacher Shen’s chanting”

“It’s General Shen, how cozi corrected hi to choose between ‘beautiful man’ and ‘conscience’ In the end, his conscience won and he added, “I feel the sa has absolutely no opinion If he could stay by Gu Yun’s side for just a while every day, then he would be content to even stand guard at the door all throughout the night After all, his nights of sleep were nothing but repeated nighto of

Much like how strongly he believed that he could restrain Bone of Impurity, he believed that he could become a sharp blade, scrape away all the unnecessary excesses every day, including his own strange thoughts about yifu

What’s anized – if one would listen carefully, they will find that the matters he talked about were all valid and reliable

Gu Yun was brought to the battlefields by his parents back when he was still very young, his few years living a coe of fifteen, he began to follow an old veteran generalto the South to suppress bandits Since then, he had continued to roll around in the military until this day

The seven ons used for traveling on seas that he was not too familiar with – he had clashed with all the others He had had victories, but also suffered ths and weaknesses – he knew the listened to it all as if he was starving Gu Yun was like a mountain to him – for him to look up to every day and find his direction forward, and with every step, trying to suppress the inappropriate thoughts he harbored in his heart

However, Gu Yun did not consider this to be teaching

He had especially invited a teacher and a , whether it was giving Chang Geng pointers on fighting the iron puppet, or talking about whatever subjects to his knowledge – in Gu Yun’s opinion, it was only hi

After a long period of observation, Gu Yun did not think that Chang Geng was suitable to walk the saentle and restrained deh he could be somewhat stubborn at times, overall, he was still a sensible person

Gu Yun thought that when the boy grew up, he should be a righteous and noble character, not a killer general that both demons and Gods would not dare to come close to

Just like that, the end of the year had arrived

In the first year of the new e An, and announced that there would be amnesty for the entire country

The country, of course, also included the barbarian Prince Jia Lai Yinghuo, as currently imprisoned in the capital

The Emperor had patiently suppressed this matter for more than two months and had finally used this roundabout ’s condition of increasing ten percent tribute each year was si, yet he did not want to disrespect Gu Yun directly at the same time, thus the matter was put aside after each and every discussion The letters from both the Ministry of Revenue and the Marquis of Order were both delayed up until the Festival to appease the Heaven – now they could finally see the result of this long and drawn out debate

The capital guard forces lined up on both sides, Shen Yi ushered his horse and went straight to Gu Yun’s side – who donned a Light Armor suit, then stopped

Gu Yun looked at him then slowly turned his horse to walk back, Shen Yi quickly followed after him and whispered: “Grand Marshal, I see that this tier back to its mountain’ What should we do?”

“The Son of Heaven wishi+ng to show his pledge to the God are prestigious words from the supreme ruler, how could there be any room for me to cut in?” Gu Yun said with a blank expression, “And in order to appease me, His Majesty had promised to supply the Black Iron Camp with thirty chariots and four hundred Iron Ar Shu Institute His Majesty has done his best like this, how can I be so sha him with such a trivial matter?”

In ancient China, the son ofheaven is another way to refer to the Ee of thirty, co-willed

Gu Yun did not concern about pohether the new Eh or not, he did not care, but the problem was that his policy on the hted than that of his father

The two men walked side by side in silence for a while, Gu Yun then said: “But it is also a fact that the treasury is empty His Majesty just inherited the throne, it could not be helped that he was a bit rushed – you don’t know, yesterday, the ‘big hat’ Western er over, they have talked sonow”

“…” It took a moment for Shen Yi to react “You mean the Western Pope?”