Inside a military camp on Luoyi's Dragon Roaming Plain, Gu Tieqi shamelessly sidled up to Gu Kuang, commander of Princess Changle's guards. "Uncle, I'm begging you, just let me out, will you?"
"Uncle, I'm begging you, just treat me like a fart and let me go!"
"Or just say I escaped, all right? If someone above comes to investigate, just tell them that, okay?"
Gu Kuang's face darkened. Hearing Gu Tieqi grow more and more outrageous, he lifted a foot and kicked him flying.
"You little bastard, say something like that again and see if I don't take even this bit of freedom away from you and lock both of you up immediately!"
Liu Feng silently walked over and helped Gu Tieqi up. "Commander Gu, honestly, if you let Tieqi leave, his situation might actually be much better than it is now. A concubine-born son who has been completely struck off by his family—how much worse could it get even if he escaped?"
Gu Kuang looked at Liu Feng and Gu Tieqi with a headache. Ever since the two brats had returned, they had been sent to his guard camp and confined there.
As Princess Changle's personal guards, they had returned alive while Princess Changle herself had vanished. No matter what, that alone was a grave crime.
Perhaps because Princess Changle's fate remained unknown, no decision regarding their punishment had yet come down from above.
Liu Feng was better off. Though he was not the eldest legitimate son, he was at least of the direct bloodline, and his family was protecting him. Gu Tieqi had it worse. Within days of returning, he had been struck from the Gu Family register by its current head.
So that when punishment came, the Gu Family would not be implicated.
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