The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 1043

Chapter 1043: 503 Siblings Step In (Second Update)

At night, Gu Chengfeng fell asleep feeling unfairly treated as he didn’t wait for his elder brother to come.

"Hmph, tomorrow, big brother will definitely come to see me!"

The next day, Gu Changqing left the Capital City...

Gu Changqing had left the city together with Gu Jiao.

The crisis in Yuegu City had been resolved, but two more crises were waiting for them in the upcoming battles: one was Gu Changqing getting both his legs chopped off, and the other was the annihilation of the Gu Family army.

These two incidents were actually related, with the cause traced back to Lingguan City, held by remnants of the former dynasty. _{freēwēbηovel.c૦m}

To deal with the Gu Family army, those remnants had resorted to anything necessary. They somehow brought in a plague patient and let him infect the townspeople. After the Gu Family army recaptured Lingguan City, they were unaware that a plague was quietly spreading within the city.

By the time the doctors confirmed it was a plague, the Gu Family army had already been infected.

It was highly likely that the plague was the Black Death, with a short incubation period, extremely rapid onset, severe symptoms, and a very high mortality rate.

The Gu Family army quickly took measures, but it was still one step too late, and a large number of their forces were infected.

Without proper medical treatment, hundreds of Gu Family soldiers died in the quarantined barracks every day.

To completely stop the plague, their bodies could only be burned, leaving no remains to be taken back.

Gu Changqing was ambushed on his way to find medicine for them, by a very formidable dead soldier, not inferior to the Dragon Shadow Guards of Zhan Country. However, the opponent didn’t take Gu Changqing’s life but just chopped off his legs.

The enemy’s purpose seemed to be to let Gu Changqing live in clear and painful awareness of his condition, having lost the Gu Family army, his grandfather, and his own brother, yet leaving him Gu Chenglin at the mansion, leading him to a life worse than death, wanting to die but unable to.

He was to live forever in the abyss of agony.

Gu Jiao genuinely thought it through, to save the Gu Family army, the source of the plague had to be eradicated to prevent its spread.

To avoid the tragedy of Gu Changqing, not letting him leave the army to search for medicine was secondary. The decisive solution was to find and kill that formidable dead soldier!

Gu Jiao didn’t know where that dead soldier was for the time being, so she decided to deal with the plague first.

On their way to Lingguan City, they rode across the snowfield, and Gu Changqing suddenly turned his head to look at her, "Your horsemanship has improved."

Gu Jiao didn’t really know how to ride a horse when she was in the Capital City.

Gu Jiao said, "From the Capital City to here, I rode a horse, so I learned."

To be honest, her horsemanship wasn’t great—it was the horse that was good, running joyfully without her needing to manage much.

But even a small improvement in her sister’s skill was significant.

Gu Changqing felt very reassured and his eyes shone when he looked at Gu Jiao.

"By the way," he spoke again, recalling the purpose of their trip to Lingguan City, "how did you know there are plague patients in Lingguan City?"

Gu Jiao unflinchingly answered, "I have been to Lingguan City before, and even to the former dynasty’s Governor’s Mansion."

But that has nothing to do with me knowing this news.

Gu Jiao added to herself mentally.

However, Gu Changqing naturally filled in the blanks with the information she didn’t disclose—that Gu Jiao had been to the Governor’s Mansion and overheard the plans of the former dynasty’s remnants.

It must be said, the skill of mental filling was very well mastered by the Gu family patriarch and his sons.

The news of the Gu Family army’s annihilation of Chen Country’s twenty-thousand strong army spread far and wide, making the defenses of Lingguan City tougher than before. However, the cities at the border pass were not like the Capital City, surrounded by walls on all sides; Lingguan City only had several checkpoints on essential routes.

Passing through those checkpoints posed no difficulty for the two of them. They hid their horses in nearby woods, and then Gu Changqing, using his light body technique, led Gu Jiao around from the side.

Such a dangerous place naturally wouldn’t be within the Governor’s Mansion; the remnants of the former dynasty kept the plague patients in a small fortress to the northwest of Lingguan City.

After entering the city, the two made their way straight to the small fortress.

The small fortress was situated at the foot of a mountain, surrounded on three sides by mountains and facing water on one side.

To enter the fortress, they had to cross a wooden bridge over the river.

The two crouched behind a bush, watching the activities inside the fortress carefully.

The fortress was small, with only about a dozen little houses made of mud and vegetation, all closed tight, with occasional muffled coughs coming from inside.

After observing for a while, Gu Changqing whispered, "Strange, there are no guards."

"There are no locks on the doors either," said Gu Jiao.

Gu Changqing nodded.

This was a significant mystery.

Those inside were plague patients, and although they were intended to be used against the Gu Family army, the Gu Family forces had not reached Lingguan City yet, and those stationed here were the rebel army of the former dynasty.

The streets were full of soldiers from the former dynasty.

Were they not afraid that these patients might accidentally run out and infect their own people?

Gu Jiao found it very strange too; in her dream, she only saw the outcome and not the process, so she couldn’t immediately guess what the remnants of the former dynasty planned before releasing these patients.

However, since they had come, they would surely find out the truth eventually.