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When the first snow fell in the northern border, the Zhenbei General's Mansion sent people to search for the missing mother and her five children, and a caravan full of furs appeared on the road to Jiangzhou.

Next to a tightly wrapped carriage, a man riding on a horse had a tough face, sword-like eyebrows, a high nose bridge, slightly raised corners of his lips, and a finger-long scar on his forehead.

He is tall and majestic, riding a black horse, with an extraordinary aura.

In the carriage, Gu Hua squinted his eyes happily, lying on a tiger skin with a thick mattress underneath, which was no less soft and comfortable than a big bed.

Looking at the four babies sleeping beside him, Gu Hua slowly closed his eyes.

Xia He, who was half-kneeling and adding silver frost charcoal to the small stove in the corner of the carriage, saw her master closing his eyes to rest. She slowed down her movements and thought to herself that she had to keep a close eye on him this time.

Gu Hua, who closed his eyes to rest, did not fall asleep. He thought of the scene that night when Qi Yan, Mu Feng and Mu Xue jumped in from the window...

Gu Hua was wondering how these three people, whom she didn't know at all, could appear in front of her at the same time.

It can also be seen that the injuries on Mu Feng and Mu Xue's faces have not yet fully healed. What happened to them that caused them to be injured?

Before Gu Hua could even open her mouth to ask, she and the children were packed up by three men and dragged out of the Zhenbei General's Mansion.

After seeing Xia He's story, Gu Hua learned about many things that happened after her disappearance, and also about what Mu Feng and Dagui had encountered.

It was only after Qi Yan found him in Bahrain that he learned that Gu Hua was being hunted by Shah Rukh and his gang. When he rushed to the gate of the northern border town, he saw corpses everywhere.

Afterwards, Qi Yan went back to take over the batch of furs that Balin and his men had taken away, and hired someone to transport the goods into the border town through the smuggling mountain trail according to the address Gu Hua left for him.

When I arrived at the inn to look for Gu Hua, I saw Mu Feng, Mu Xue, Xia He, Ergui, who did not leave with the Gu family caravan, and Yan Minghua and others who insisted on staying.

Later they found out that Gu Hua was rescued by people on the city wall that day. The next day, a midwife who came out of the general's mansion reported that she had delivered quadruplets for a young lady in the general's mansion, and all the babies were alive.

Qi Yan, Mu Feng and the others guessed that the young lady the midwife was talking about was most likely their pregnant mistress, so when Gu Hua was one month old, she was found and secretly taken out by several people.

Before Gu Hua left with the guards who were secretly waiting for her in the border town, the newly formed caravan, the evidence of corruption hidden in the secret cabinet of the study by the prefect of the border town, was thrown into the Zhenbei General's Mansion where Prince Li Xiao Junlin lived.

The house of the brother of a local bully and the favorite concubine of the prefect of the border town was also burned by a huge fire, which illuminated half of the city.

The culprit was the time when she was taken out of the general's mansion by Mu Feng and others and was heard to be away.

Someone actually trespassed on her and not only seized 40% of the goods she left behind, but also took advantage of the prefect's fake brother-in-law to make the caravan she brought homeless and chased them out of the border town with shouts of beating and killing.

Given Gu Hua's protective personality, how could he let them off so easily?

Gu Hua guessed that after Xiao Junlin learned that she had left the general's mansion, he might send someone to look for her.

That night, after Gu Hua finished packing and the prefect and his bully brother-in-law came back, she was ready to go. As soon as the city gate opened in the early morning, she ordered Mu Feng to lead the team out of the border town.

.........

Xiao Junlin never expected that the next day after his poison was suppressed, when he woke up at noon, he would hear the servant report that the mother and her five children who lived in the main house had disappeared quietly.

He originally thought that the mother and her five children were being kidnapped, but when he discovered that the daily necessities of the five children had also disappeared, everything else in the room remained intact.

Even if Xiao Junlin was deceiving himself, he could guess that it was the woman who was unwilling to reveal her name who left with her children. Situ Haoran looked at the main house where Gu Hua and her four children had lived, and thought of the liveliness and warmth of the five of them living here. He also felt that the general's mansion had become empty without them.

Looking at his senior brother who always came in with him to see the child every time he came in to check the pulse, Situ Haoran patted Xiao Junlin on the shoulder and said, "You have searched the border town and couldn't find her. Maybe she has already left here with the child."

"An ungrateful bastard." Xiao Junlin's expression was as cold as autumn water, and he sneered, "Is the General's Mansion short of food for them, mother and son, or water for them?

I didn't even force her to tell me why she knew the conversation I had with the person who saved me, but she still left with the child."

Ye An was punished to kneel in the yard.

The eldest brother Ye Ping went up and kicked him, saying in a hateful voice: “You don’t know how much our general likes those children. They are not feeling well, so the young lady sent someone to ask Master Situ to take a look at the children.

He doesn't have time, so you can't go out to take care of the young lady and find another doctor to treat the child. Why do you just send him back? Never mind.

Now, the young lady is leaving with the children. Look how long the general has been in the main house. He must be reluctant to leave them."

Ye An felt wronged: "Brother, the master was poisoned and everyone was busy, I didn't think much about it, who would have thought that the young lady would leave with the child."

"Okay, stop talking." Ye Ping: "Get up, the prince is in a bad mood.

Someone just happened to throw evidence of the prefect's corruption and bribery into our mansion, and the master asked us to investigate. If it is true, the prefect will be finished."

.........

Jiangzhou City.

As Fang Kuan and Dagui, the Gu family's caravan that went to the northern border for business, returned to Jiangzhou with the young master of the Chen family, the news that they had lost all their money in the trade trip to the northern border spread throughout the entire Jiangzhou city's business circles, big and small.

Everyone who heard about it laughed at Gu Hua, the young master of the Gu family, saying that he was incompetent and a waste, and that he suppressed and excluded the Gu family's shop.

The chief steward Gu Fu learned that the master of the house trusted his eldest son with 40% of the goods and asked him to take them to trade but Dagui lost them. He was so angry that he almost beat Dagui to death with a big stick.

Fang Kuan became depressed because of this incident and lost a lot of weight in just over a month.

All of a sudden, the news that the Gu family's business was going to go bankrupt and the Gu Mansion was about to decline spread throughout Jiangzhou City. The four major families, except the Chen family, were eyeing the remaining 40-odd shops of the Gu family, especially the dozen or so prosperous shops located in Jiangzhou City.

Su Fuying and Gu Chen, who had returned from Jiangnan, were under tremendous pressure from all directions for a while.

Even those ladies who liked the styles of clothes sold at Gu's silk and satin shop were ordered by their husbands not to shop there anymore.

They were just worried about offending the three major families in Jiangzhou City who wanted to acquire the Gu family's business: the Jiang family, the Song family, and the Wan family.

The mother and daughter of the Miao family from the fourth room also felt that they had done the right thing and were complacent because they had stopped their husbands and father from letting Gu Huazhen take their money to do business that day.

Gu Hua, who was being blocked by a group of bandits, had no idea what was happening in Jiangzhou City. Even if she knew, she would be unable to do anything about it.

(End of this chapter)

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