The little village girl dressed as a disaster star led the whole village astray

Chapter 212 A bigger plot?

Gu Jingzhi gently twisted his hair, and the hair, which was still dripping with water, slowly dried under his gentle movements.

"How's the investigation going? Have the identities of those people been confirmed?" Li Xi squinted her eyes and enjoyed Gu Jingzhi's service.

"There are indeed about 100,000 troops stationed on the grassland fifty miles away. Based on observations over the past few days, they do not seem to be the Huns, but their specific identities and purposes still need to be investigated in detail." Speaking of this, Gu Jingzhi's eyes darkened.

Ever since he separated from Li Xi that day, Gu Jingzhi had led his team to rush to the border at full speed. Without the burden of baggage and carriages, their speed was naturally much faster, but Gu Jingzhi was anxious to return. Although he did not know the origins of the 100,000-strong army at that time, he knew that they had come with ill intentions.

So they were rushing along the way, and would not stop if they could. In this situation, people could bear it, but horses could not.

Therefore, every time they arrived at a post station along the way, they would immediately change horses and then set off at once, traveling an expedited distance of 800 miles.

You have to know that when riding a horse, although the person sitting on the horse's back may feel uncomfortable, at least he can take a break. However, the horse under the person is not so lucky.

Therefore, when faced with an emergency and a message needed to be delivered, the messenger would change the horse for a new one at the post station every certain distance to prevent the horse from dying from overwork.

Because they kept changing horses along the way, their progress was greatly accelerated. On the third day after leaving Li Xi, they arrived outside Jiayuguan.

The news of his return had already spread throughout the capital, so on the way back, Gu Jingzhi did not hide his identity and actions. After all, since someone was secretly watching him and couldn't find him, he might as well let him find him.

When they arrived at the city gate, Gu Jingzhi was no longer in a hurry.

He looked at the wide-open city gate in front of him. There were many farmers setting up stalls around him, selling vegetables. Seeing the smiles on their faces, Gu Jingzhi felt warm in his heart, an emotion he had never experienced before.

Most people will subconsciously relax if they return to their own place, because subconsciously, such a place is peaceful and comfortable.

But Gu Jingzhi is different. The more familiar the environment is, the more cautious he will be.

So, as soon as he entered the city, he noticed that someone was staring at him in the dark. He pretended not to see it, and then gave a subtle look to the secret guard behind him.

The secret guard took a look at the sneaky man in the corner, quietly went around behind him, hit him with a club, and took him away.

When the man woke up again, he was already in jail.

"What is this place!" Fang Sunming had just woken up and felt a throbbing pain in the back of his head. He was unable to react for a while.

Why is he here? Isn't he following Gu Jingzhi?

No, the confusion dissipated and Fang Sunming came to himself. He remembered that someone hit him with a club from behind, but he didn't know who it was.

But the next moment, he knew who had attacked him.

Because right in front of him, Gu Jingzhi was sitting on a chair, bored, looking at himself fixed on the cross.

"Why are you here?" Fang Sunming looked at him with an unpleasant expression.

"Why can't it be me?" Gu Jingzhi leaned on his arm and looked at him with a faint smile, "Isn't it me you are looking for?"

At this point, how could Fang Sunming not know that he has been exposed?

He stopped talking, closed his eyes, and looked like he was doing whatever he wanted and wasn't resisting passively.

Unfortunately, there had never been a prisoner under Gu Jingzhi's command who could not be interrogated to reveal something. No matter how stubborn a person was, once he entered his cell, he would eventually have to say whatever he should or shouldn't say.

What's more, he is not a tough guy.

By the time Gu Jingzhi walked out of the prison, only an hour had passed.

Gu Jingzhi took the handkerchief handed over by the secret guard and wiped the blood off his hands casually. "He is a good person, but it's a pity..."

Unfortunately, he is not of my kind.

Through interrogating him, Gu Jingzhi learned the truth of the matter, those wounds that he had never mentioned to anyone.

At first, he thought that this person was sent by the crown prince, the second prince, or the third prince. However, it didn't matter who sent him, because no matter who he belonged to, he had to give him a "return gift".

But what he didn't expect was that this person was not one of those people.

Fang Sunming was a spy sent from the grassland. The people of the grassland and the people of the Central Plains have different appearances, but the man they captured had no flaws in his appearance, form, speech and behavior.

The reason why he was able to discover his true identity was because of a word of Hun language that he inadvertently uttered in a daze.

From Fang Sunming, they learned that the people stationed on the grassland were not Huns. Their identities were very mysterious. Some Huns had doubts about it, but they were suppressed by the leaders of their tribe.

The tribe that Sun Fangming belongs to is very small. They have always been easy-going. Well, actually, they are a little timid, so they have always been excluded by other tribes. It is also because of this that a lot of news in their tribe is delayed.

Fang Sunming's mother was a Han Chinese who was captured by the Huns. He looked like his mother and had learned fluent Chinese, so he would come to Jiayuguan to buy things every day.

However, he came here ostensibly to purchase things, but in fact he secretly wanted to find out Dayan's attitude towards the 100,000 troops stationed on the grassland.

The original location of their tribe was not too far from the 100,000-strong army that suddenly appeared, but after the army appeared, the leader of their tribe moved them to another location for safety reasons.

After asking clearly, Gu Jingzhi did not intend to make things difficult for Fang Sunming. The Huns and the Han people had a feud and a long-standing feud. If the Huns dared to come to Jiayuguan, they would definitely be torn to pieces by the excited people.

But for a Hun like Fang Sunming who had Han blood and had never done evil, Gu Jingzhi was still willing to give him a chance.

After releasing Fang Sunming, Gu Jingzhi personally led the team to the grassland. After walking about fifty miles, he also found the camp. They went there in the daytime, and he did not alert the enemy. Instead, he waited until night fell and sneaked in from behind the camp under the cover of darkness.

But he did not gain anything from this trip. From outside the camp, their guards did not seem strict, but after entering, he found that it was not the case. Perhaps the outside was just a trick.

Although there wasn't a guard post every five or ten steps inside the camp, it was impossible to find out where it was.

Although Gu Jingzhi was confident in his skills, he did not intend to take any risks, so he quietly retreated the same way when no one noticed him.

However, I felt even more wary of them. They seemed relaxed on the outside but tense on the inside. They must have bigger plans.