He cupped his hands towards Gu Youyou and said, "So it’s Doctor Gu, may I ask what business Doctor Gu has with me?"
Gu Youyou said with a smile, "It’s , my husband went out of the city to the army camp today and forgot to bring something important, so I’m planning to deliver it to him. However, I have never been to the army camp and do not know its exact location, could General Kang help me out?"
In her hand, she was holding an envelope sealed with wax. Envelopes sealed with wax were usually confidential, which made it likely to be something important.
Kang Shouyi pondered for a moment and said, "Does Doctor Gu mean that you want us to deliver the letter for you?"
Gu Youyou stumbled, which eye of yours saw that I wanted you to help deliver it?
She hurriedly replied, "No, this is something important to my husband, and I dare not entrust it to others. I plan to deliver it myself, General Kang just needs to tell me the location of the army camp."
"This..." Kang Shouyi started to feel troubled, rubbing his chin.
Gu Youyou understood and quickly handed a piece of silver to him with tact, "General Kang, this is a small token of my appreciation, please use it to enjoy some tea."
Kang Shouyi was so frightened that his whole body shook, and he hastily said, "No no, not at all. Doctor Gu, I wouldn’t dare to accept your silver. The problem is that the army camp has very strict military rules, and women...women are not allowed to enter!"
Gu Youyou paused, surprised. Were the ladies of the Yue Family not women?
Well, this was a world where officials could start fires but common folk couldn’t light a lantern.
Gu Youyou became troubled as well, rubbing her sleeves and looking anxious.
"Then this...my husband said last night that it was very important, and we cannot afford any delay."
"Then..." Kang Shouyi eyed the envelope in Gu Youyou’s hands.
Gu Youyou hurriedly hugged the envelope to her chest protectively like a chicken guarding its chicks and said, "This is so important that I can’t trust anyone else with it, I must personally hand it to my husband to be at ease."
"Sigh, let’s do this!" Gu Youyou said helplessly, "How about you send someone to follow me? I will not go in, but just stand far away. Your man can go inform my husband, and he will surely come out to meet me."
...That actually wasn’t a bad idea.
Kang Shouyi said, "Agreed, let’s do that. Doctor Gu, it’s not that I intend to make things difficult for you, it’s really just that..."
"General Kang, please don’t say such things, I understand."
A soldier followed behind Gu Youyou on horseback. The soldier’s horse was a military horse, which as a civilian woman, Gu Youyou was not allowed to use, so Kang Shouyi lent his own personal horse to Gu Youyou.
Even though the personal horse was not as fierce as a military horse, the soldier simply couldn’t outrun Gu Youyou.
Gu Youyou stopped to wait for him, and when the soldier caught up, wiping sweat from his forehead, he said awkwardly, "Doctor Gu truly is a hero among women!"
Gu Youyou hummed, saying, "You go ahead, I don’t know the way anymore."
Up ahead was a three-way junction.
The soldier’s face stiffened and looked rather uncomfortable.
It turned out that Doctor Gu wasn’t waiting for him; she just didn’t know the way.
Army camps generally weren’t located too far from the city, just about ten miles out, so they quickly arrived.
The soldier bowed to Gu Youyou and said, "Doctor Gu, please wait here for a moment."
Gu Youyou nodded and replied, "Alright, hurry on then."
It wasn’t long before someone came, but it wasn’t Jin Zijin; it was Yue Rujing.
Gu Youyou gritted her teeth.
Well well, Yue Rujing, the very person I was looking for.
He seemed to know what Gu Youyou was there for, and didn’t ask about the important letter. Instead, he said to the soldier behind him, "You can go down now; it’s all the same if Doctor Gu hands that important letter to me."