Gu Yun slowly took out a glass mirror from his bosom, put it on his nose, strolled to Chang Geng's side, opened the window, squinted his eyes and looked at the Tingyuan Terrace.

The glass mirror was inlaid with a thin platinum chain, which slanted across his ear and covered one of his peach blossom eyes. His nose became straighter, and his whole temperament suddenly became cold, with a faint breath of a beast in human clothing.

Chang Geng stared at him blankly for a while and asked, "Godfather, what are you wearing?"

Gu Yun tilted his head and teased him, "It's a foreigner's little thing. Does it look nice? It's popular over there. Let's go out for a walk and I'll trick you into bringing back a foreign stepmother, okay?"

Chang Geng: “…”

A young soldier from the Black Eagle Division tried to ease the tense atmosphere and said wittily, "Marshal, you are not my biological father!"

Gu Yun laughed heartlessly.

The young soldier shook his head and said, "The world has changed in recent years, and people's hearts are no longer the same. In the past, women valued our virtues, abilities and temperaments, and we didn't worry about them. Now, they only care about whether a man is handsome or not. Marshal, our brothers are single not because we are ugly, but because we were born at the wrong time."

The local specialty of Xuantie Camp is bachelors. Upon hearing this, everyone started to make a fuss.

Gu Yun laughed and said, "Get lost, don't drag me into this. Who is ugly? I am the most beautiful girl in the three divisions of Xuantie. My reputation has spread far and wide."

A group of rough men in the army were shocked by their commander's shamelessness and could only laugh. Shen Yi said coldly: "Commander, you are as beautiful as a flower, why can't you find a wife?"

This sentence touched upon Gu Yun's sorrow, and Marshal Gu had no choice but to cover his chest and said, "I'm waiting for a good price. All the good things are kept at the end. What do you know?"

Speaking of this, it’s really not Gu Yun’s fault.

The late emperor had very conflicted feelings towards him back then. He loved him but was also wary of him. It was still okay when he was a child, but when he grew up a little, the issue of Marquis Anding's marriage became a fishbone stuck in the late emperor's throat.

If he chose someone of humble status, he would be afraid that people would say he had treated loyal and good people unfairly, and the late emperor would not be able to explain himself to anyone. But if he chose someone from a powerful family, the late emperor would be worried.

It was a dilemma for both sides. I believe that the late emperor must have wished that Gu Yun was a little eunuch.

The marriage of Marquis Anding was delayed for a long time, and finally the late emperor arranged for him to be the daughter of Grand Secretary Guo.

The Guo family has been a family of scholars for generations, and their family background is noble. Miss Guo is said to be as beautiful as an orchid, and her talent is well-known in the imperial capital. She is known as the two beauties of the capital together with the former Crown Princess and the current Queen. She is not involved in anything, and it is not an insult to Gu Yun.

But it was really strange. Since the engagement, this famous flower was like being hit by frost, getting weaker day by day - before Gu Yun finished the war and returned to the capital, Miss Guo had already passed away.

In fact, there are many people whose wives have died, so it is nothing strange, let alone a fiancée who has not yet married into the family. But when this happened to Marquis Anding, it was hard not to think of his widowed and lonely grandfather and his parents who died young.

Thus, the reputation of Marquis Anding for being unlucky in marrying wives spread like wildfire.

Being able to marry the Marquis of Anding would certainly bring her all the honors and not require her to serve her parents-in-law, but she also had to be alive to enjoy such a great blessing.

Later, Gu Yun traveled around the Western Regions and Northern Frontiers and had not returned to the capital for four or five years, so he had no chance to make arrangements. Now that the late emperor has passed away, although the current emperor is a few years older than Gu Yun, he grew up calling him uncle. There is a generation difference between them, and even though there is a difference between the monarch and the subject, it is somewhat inconvenient for him to take care of his marriage.

Gu Yun himself didn't have the energy to take it seriously, so he kept putting it off until now.

Shen Yi refused to let him off: "Waiting for a good price? Marshal, who do you want to sell yourself to?"

Gu Yun raised his head and saw Chang Geng staring at him closely through the glass mirror. His face was a little tense involuntarily. He thought that the young man was worried that he would not love him after getting married.

Gu Yun raised his hand and patted Chang Geng's head in a soothing manner: "I like people who are smart, gentle and good-tempered. Don't worry, I will definitely not bring another Hedong Lion back to mess with you in the future."

These words seemed to have torn a hole in Chang Geng's chest. The false thoughts that seemed to have been conquered by him took the opportunity to come out and cause trouble again, stirring up the despair and sadness that he had nowhere to relieve.

He had to force himself to smile stiffly.

It’s as if I’m forcing myself to close my eyes and go to sleep every night.

At this time, there was a sudden commotion on the stage. Several Westerners took down the monkeys and parrots that were jumping around on the stage, and carried a large iron cage covered with velvet onto the stage. A pale-faced Western clown twisted and turned to set up a large circle of fire, and posed for a long time, whetting people's appetite, before he pulled off the velvet cover on the cage.

I saw a big tiger in the cage.

Fat Ge leaned his whole body out of the window, asking repeatedly: "Is it true? Is that a real tiger?"

The clown stepped forward, opened the iron cage, and led the big tiger out by its collar.

I don’t know if it was because there were too many people watching, but the tiger seemed a little anxious and kept struggling.

Gu Yun frowned and said coldly: "These foreigners really know how to behave. They brought such a beast - Xiao Jia - during the New Year."

The young man Xuan Ying, who had spoken the most just now, looked serious and said, "Yes."

Gu Yun said: "Find someone to keep an eye on it. There are too many people down there, so don't let anything mess up."

Xiao Jia took the order and flipped down directly from the Red Head Kite Terrace. At a height of dozens of feet, his black shadow flashed, leaving a thin wisp of white steam in the air, and he disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Amid the noise of the crowd, the restless tiger began to jump through the fire ring reluctantly, with a ferocious look on its face as if it was forced into prostitution.

The cheers from the observation deck of Yunmeng Grand View were getting louder and louder, and some people got so excited that they started throwing money from the top down.

It was harmless to throw some copper coins onto the platform when people were enjoying the singing and dancing. Many people did the same. But on this day, an idiot came out of nowhere and started throwing gold leaves onto the platform.

The crowd who were watching the excitement in the audience burst into laughter and shouted "Gold, gold" one after another.

Before the clown could figure out what was going on, the tiger that was trying to dive into the fire ring was suddenly enraged. It roared, turned around and bit the clown who was caught off guard.

The clown had his arm and half of his shoulder bitten off on the spot, and he let out a shrill scream.

The tiger roared, broke free from control, and rushed towards the sea of ​​people under the Qiyuan Tower.

The people in the inner circle were frightened by the beast and rushed out like headless flies. The people outside had no idea what was going on and somehow heard that people inside were scrambling for gold leaves, so they kept trying to squeeze in.

When the two sides collide, no one can move.

Some were calling out "gold", some were crying "tiger", some were falling down and couldn't get up; it was a complete mess.

The Jinwu Guards on duty were thrown into chaos by the crowd. There were many dignitaries near the Qiyuan Tower, some of whom did not care about the lives of ordinary people. They were only concerned about escaping for their own lives in a hurry, and even did not forget to show off while escaping - they asked their servants to push and squeeze a path for them.

Gu Yun grabbed Chang Geng's shoulders and pushed him back. He took down the quiver and longbow that Shen Yi had hung behind the door and ordered, "Don't come out."

The soldiers of the Black Iron Camp beside the table all stood up.

Shen Yi grabbed Gu Yun's elbow and blurted out: "Your eyes..."

Chang Geng raised his head sensitively and thought: "Eyes? What's wrong with my eyes?"

Gu Yun ignored him, waved away Shen Yi's hand, and kicked open the door of the private room on the Red Head Kite without saying anything.

Several black eagles on the Red Headed Kite leapt down from the sky and flew low to the ground. Several tiny fireworks exploded with cold light. Another black iron armored soldier stood high up and climbed up the mast of the Red Headed Kite. He held a copper roar in his hand and shouted loudly to the chaotic crowd: "The Marquis of Anding is here, don't move rashly!"

These words were actually more effective than the emperor's decree. When many people heard the three words "Marquis of Anding", they instinctively stopped their crowded steps.

A tiger roar came from a distance, and the enraged tiger pounced out like lightning, pinning a young man who looked like a servant under its claws. Gu Yun stood on the bow of the Red Head Kite's koi boat, leaning against the door frame of the private room, and pulled the longbow sideways.

His glass mirror was still hanging on the bridge of his nose. No one would shoot arrows while wearing a glass mirror as it would distort his vision. His thin clothes fluttered in the hot wind from the fire wings, and he looked indescribably casual and nonchalant, as if he was shooting arrows with his eyes closed.

But Shen Yi knew that as long as Gu Yun took off the glass mirror, he could not distinguish between humans and animals more than ten feet away, which was almost the same as closing his eyes.

Why did it happen at this critical moment?

A thin layer of sweat broke out on Shen Yi's palms involuntarily, and his entire back tensed up.

At this moment, Gu Yun suddenly let go.