Princess and the General

When a Cold Face Meets a Cold Face (Part Two)

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“Father, can I go and exchange pointers with Tian Shu?”

After dispersing, Gu HanMo was unable to hold back and brought up what he truly desired.

Everyone stopped in their tracks.

Gu HanMo was a martial arts idiot.
What he loved doing most each day aside from sword training was sword training.
Today, he had seen the unique style of Immortals Valley, and that was what he yearned for.

He naturally did not dare to look for Xun Chi to exchange pointers.
The result of that would be a foregone conclusion.

But exchanging pointers with Tian Shu, he felt that there was still a possibility of winning.

Gu HuaiJiang looked over at Gu ShuBai.
He was the young sir of Marquis Gu’s Manor with the best martial ability.
He wanted to hear what he thought about this.

Gu ShuBai said: “Tian Shu is a disciple of Immortals Valley, but Deity of Medicine’s main accomplishments are in medicine and poisons, not martial arts.
Tian Shu’s abilities are strange, and he is agile like a bird, but when it comes to pure strength, he might not be able to beat third brother.
Son believes that allowing them to exchange pointers will allow us to learn some of Immortals Valley’s secrets.
It would also be helpful to us in our martial arts.”

Gu HuaiJiang nodded, “Since your eldest brother has said it, go ahead.
But at the end of the day, he is Yu Fu’s senior disciple, thus he is Marquis Gu’s Manor’s guest.”

“Yes!”

Gu HanMo performed a rushed salute then basically sprinted out of the main hall.

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Everyone looked at him in a daze from the back.

This meant that he was going to look for Tian Shu right now?

It was rare to see Gu HanMo get so excited, and Gu Yi and Gu Xiang were the first to react, “Third brother, wait for us! We want to watch!”

Aside from Gu HuaiJiang, everyone followed after him, but who would have known that they would run into Tian Shu and Yu Fu along the way.

Their eyes meeting, the two sides reached a tacit understanding.

What a coincidence, they were both anxious to start fighting.

It felt like a powderkeg.
Yu Fu did not have much understanding of martial arts thus wanted to leave first to avoid getting hurt.

Gu ShuBai saw that she was carrying her medicine kit and said: “Yu Fu, where are you going?”

“The antidote has already been made with the two medicines that master mentioned added in.
I was just about to go and give it to head general.”

Gu ShuBai said: “I will go with you.
Second brother, keep an eye on them and stop them when it’s time.”

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Gu JiuGe nodded, “Eldest brother, don’t worry.”

The two returned to the main hall with the antidote.
Behind a screen, Yu Fu began performing acupuncture for Gu HuaiJiang.

This medicine needed to be given together with acupuncture to properly treat the poison within.

The candlelight was bright, casting Yu Fu’s shadow onto the screen.
Gu ShuBai sat in the outer area with something on his mind.

He suddenly started wondering how they should treat Emperor Ning’s poisoning.

After a long time, Yu Fu helped Gu HuaiJiang lie down to rest then walked out from behind the screen.

At the same time, the sound of footsteps came from the courtyard outside the main hall along with the sound of chatter.

“Hush, head general just started resting.”

Everyone hastily lowered their voices, as Gu JiuGe said: “How is father doing?”

Yu Fu wiped away the sweat on her brow: “With medicine personally adjusted by master, it’s guaranteed that he will be fine.
Head general is already completely fine.
It’s just that he’s been overly exhausted and needs to rest.
Let’s come and see him again tomorrow morning.”

Gu HuaiJiang was fine.
This allowed everyone to finally feel relieved.

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Gu ShuBai looked around the group, “Why has third brother not returned?”

“Hah, he’s still fighting! I think those two would need to fight all day and all night to find the victor, yet neither is willing to back down!”

Gu Yi was getting sleepy just watching them go back and forth.
Everyone thought it over and decided to return to the main hall to check on Gu HuaiJiang’s condition.

Gu JiuGe said: “Eldest brother, don’t worry.
Out of deference to Yu Fu, the two of them will know to act within proper boundaries.”

They closed the door to Gu HuaiJiang’s bed chamber then moved out to the courtyard to speak.

Gu Xiang held his hand as if holding a sword then performed a demonstration in an open space.
Gu ShuBai’s eyes lit up upon seeing this.

“This is Tian Shu’s technique?”

“Yes, we watched them fight a round and felt that there were quite a few benefits.
What does eldest brother think?”

Gu ShuBai thought about it for a bit then sidestepped the question, saying: “It turns out that this Deity of Medicine isn’t the only one with a stern mouth but soft insides.
Yu Fu, this second senior disciple is also the same.”

Gu Xiang did not understand.
How was this related to whether or not Tian Shu had a stern mouth?

Gu WenQing said: “Eldest brother means to say that Tian Shu is deliberately teaching us the essence of his techniques.
Isn’t that right?”

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Saying this, he turned to Gu JiuGe, and the latter revealed a smile.

It seemed that he had noticed it long ago.

“This true.
High-level martial artists would not reveal the essence of their techniques so easily, but Tian Shu’s techniques could even be understood by Gu Yi and Gu Xiang.
It’s clear that he’s deliberately trying to teach us.”

Gu WenQing saying it like this made Gu Xiang and Gu Yi unhappy.

What did he mean by even they understood.
It sounded like he was saying that their martial abilities were very poor.

But in Marquis Gu’s Manor, aside from yu fu, it seemed that they were indeed the worst…

Gu ShuBai smiled and said: “The Gu family’s martial have always been extremely rigid and insufficiently flexible.
This is something that father realized a long time ago but has never been able to fully remedy the problem.
Since Deity of Medicine and Tian Shu want to help us, you must be sure to learn properly.
Do you understand?”

Everyone looked over at Yu Fu, feeling very grateful.

If not for Yu Fu, how could Xun Chi, who never left Immortals Valley, have come to save Gu HuaiJiang, and how could he have allowed Tian Shu to teach them the essence of his martial arts?

It was not Marquis Gu’s Manor that had taken in Yu Fu.
It was Yu Fu who had always been helping Marquis Gu’s Manor.