The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 1025

Chapter 1025: 489 Tricky Jiaojiao (Second Update)

Gu Chengfeng searched the entire cabin and was sure Gu Jiao was gone, his heart tightened. Of course, he wouldn’t think that Gu Jiao had abandoned them and walked away, because if she had wanted to leave them, she didn’t need to follow from the beginning.

The firewood was about to run out, and the food was even more scarce. Gu Chengfeng guessed that Gu Jiao had gone to find either food or firewood.

He couldn’t let her venture alone in the forest of the Snow-sealed Mountain, so he decided to go out and look for her. But as soon as he pulled the door open, he saw from a distance someone carrying a bundle of firewood on their back, holding what seemed to be someone else’s fur as a banner, silently dragging a... person, struggling through the snowfield.

The struggle was partly because she hadn’t slept for too long, partly because she was completely drained of energy, and partly because the snow in the forest was really too heavy, making movement almost impossible, not to mention that she was carrying a bundle of wood and dragging a person.

Gu Chengfeng was a bit dumbfounded.

He had guessed she went to chop firewood, but he hadn’t guessed she would bring back a person!

Gu Chengfeng trudged through the thick snow toward her.

When he got close enough to hear faint breathing, he confirmed that this was not a corpse.

Gu Chengfeng’s expression was somewhat hard to describe, "What’s the situation? Don’t tell me you’ve picked up another person!"

The reason he used "again" was because of the old grandma and Xiao Liulang’s incidents before.

Without waiting for Gu Jiao to answer, Gu Chengfeng’s mouth twitched, and he said with a look of disdain, "Do you have a habit of picking up people and bringing them home? Or did you not find any food, so—"

Gu Jiao gave him a look of caring for the mentally challenged, "Are you idle?"

"I am not," Gu Chengfeng denied categorically, pointing at the man whose face was smeared with tangled hair and snow, "Who is this?"

Gu Jiao said, "Look for yourself."

Gu Chengfeng crouched down and cleared the hair and snow from the man’s face. A familiar and authoritative face met Gu Chengfeng’s eyes, and he was startled, standing up suddenly and taking a big step back, "Tang Yueshan!"

He looked incredulously at Gu Jiao, "You, how did you pick him up? No, that’s not the question I should be asking. How did he end up here? And dressed... like this?"

Without a doubt, the fur mat under Tang Yueshan had been stripped from him, his legs were also wrapped in fur for warmth, and he was wearing a fur hat, a perfect hunter’s garb.

"Wait, the owner of this cabin... couldn’t be Tang Yueshan, could it!" Gu Chengfeng’s mouth fell open.

Gu Jiao said, "Who the previous owner was isn’t clear, but the current owner ought to be Tang Yueshan."

"So the reason the remnants of the former dynasty and the Chen country’s army have been unable to find Tang Yueshan is because he has been hiding here? But why is he injured?"

There were bloodstains on his clothes, and Gu Chengfeng naturally assumed he was wounded.

Following Gu Chengfeng’s gaze, Gu Jiao explained, "You mean his blood? That’s from him vomiting; he has been poisoned."

"Poisoned?" Gu Chengfeng was even more puzzled. Wasn’t Tang Yueshan very formidable? How could he be poisoned?

Gu Chengfeng had imagined a hundred ways Tang Yueshan might fall, but none involved poisoning. A general like him should die from injuries on the battlefield.

Gu Chengfeng didn’t expect Gu Jiao to answer this question since she just stumbled upon Tang Yueshan. Whether Tang Yueshan was even aware he was poisoned was uncertain, and even if he was, he would not share any details with Gu Jiao.

"Give it to me," Gu Chengfeng extended his hand to Gu Jiao.

He actually didn’t want to save Tang Yueshan. It was Tang Yueshan’s blind ambition and refusal to heed his grandfather’s advice that led to their defeat, and his refusal to lend troops to his grandfather, causing his grandfather to be taken hostage and suffer the remnants of the former dynasty’s revenge.

If Tang Yueshan died in front of him, he wouldn’t even blink.

But since Tang Yueshan was brought back by Gu Jiao, Gu Chengfeng thought about it and felt he probably had no right to interfere in what Gu Jiao did to Tang Yueshan.

However, he still felt he should remind her of her standing with Tang Yueshan, "Don’t say I didn’t warn you, but you crippled Tang Ming, and Tang Yueshan holds a grudge against you. If he finds out you’re the one who hurt Tang Ming, he won’t let you off."

"Mm," Gu Jiao responded, indicating she understood.

"And you’re still saving him?" Gu Chengfeng asked, puzzled.

Gu Jiao looked at Gu Chengfeng and said, "Among all of you, he’s the best fighter."

Gu Chengfeng looked at himself, wrapped in bandages, and thought of his grandfather who was unconscious. He found himself unable to argue.

If the Chen country’s army and the remnants of the former dynasty caught up, besides this girl, it seemed that indeed only Tang Yueshan could really hold his own.

However, as if thinking of something, Gu Chengfeng grabbed Gu Jiao’s wrist and pointed at Tang Yueshan in the snow, saying, "Wait, but didn’t you say he was poisoned? Then he can’t fight, can he?"

Gu Jiao shattered his hopes with a single sentence, "The poison can be cured; he’ll recover faster than you all."

Gu Chengfeng: "..."

Gu Jiao dragged Tang Yueshan into the cabin.

Along with him, she also brought in Tang Yueshan’s prey—the animals Tang Yueshan had caught and then discarded, which Gu Jiao picked up again, were three plump rabbits and two fat wild chickens.

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