Empress, you don't want to be thrown into limbo by your father, do you?

"Ah!"

Even though the temperature is getting warmer in spring, the temperature in the capital is still freezing cold at every turn.

In the imperial palace, the Imperial City Division was on routine patrol, and the sudden sneeze surprised several experts of the Imperial City Division.

"Head, do you have a cold?"

In their eyes, their own Si Zun is an iron man, who hardly needs to rest and concentrates on his business.

Almost no one can match it, and the key martial arts are still powerful, which everyone admires.

Gu Fan wiped his nose, shook his head and denied, "Suddenly his nose is itchy, it's okay, let's continue patrolling."

The situation in the imperial palace is not very good right now, even the whole capital is in a strange atmosphere, ordinary people may not feel it, but the ministers in the court have already faintly had some opinions.

"Head, I heard that His Majesty didn't go to court this morning, and the prince presided over the government?"

"Talk less and do more, don't talk nonsense!"

"I'm not curious. Why did His Majesty suddenly fall ill? Now that the crown prince has completely controlled the imperial court and our Imperial City Secretary, life is not easy!"

The Imperial City Secretary is the emperor's personal guard, and has always only obeyed the emperor's orders.

Before that, the prince tried to win over the Imperial City Secretary several times, but Gu Fan blocked him.

Now that Emperor Qianming fell ill, the life of Huangcheng Division would not be easy.

Gu Fan was also aware of this point, and when he heard the words, he calmly warned in a low voice, "Recently, let the brothers be patient, and restrain the people below, and don't conflict with the Prince's Mansion."

"This subordinate understands that just going on like this is not an option. If His Royal Highness goes to the south of the Yangtze River, it will be beyond our reach. If we stay in the capital and continue like this, please forgive me for speaking bluntly, once the crown prince ascends the throne..."

"Be careful!"

Gu Fan warned in a low voice, but then patted the shoulders of the people around him and sighed, "The days will not be long, and it is only a stopgap measure for His Highness to go to Jiangnan. His Highness has his own considerations. Since we have been entrusted with a heavy responsibility to stay in the In the capital, it is natural to guard the Imperial City Division for Your Highness."

"promise!"

However, Gu Fan himself has no idea about the current situation in the capital.

The power of the Imperial City Division comes from the emperor.

Emperor Ganming was still in power, so the Imperial City Secretary was indeed at ease.

But once Emperor Qianming falls and the crown prince takes over, everyone knows that they will all be liquidated in all likelihood.

At the least, he will lose his official position and resign, and at the worst, he will lose his head and implicate his family.

Over the past 100 years of the Imperial City Division, similar things have happened more than once.

"Fortunately, my mother went to the south of the Yangtze River with His Royal Highness, otherwise, if the crown prince rises up, I won't be able to take care of both ends."

Looking at the palace where nothing seemed to happen, Gu Fan couldn't help but feel a little helpless. Even if many ministers from the court and the central government offered matchmaking for him recently, he declined all of them.

If the big thing is not accomplished, isn't that hurting the girl now that she is married and established a business?
"I don't know how my mother is doing in Jiangnan. Is your health better?"

Thinking of the mother who had dragged him to him alone over the past 20 years, Gu Fan felt ashamed. Widows in this world would be judged by their neighbors, not to mention their mother and son whose origins are unknown, and there is no Less talked about behind the back by outsiders.

Without him, Gu Fan believed that on his mother's terms, it would be easy to find a good man to marry again.

But it was because of him that it was delayed for so many years.

"When His Highness returns to Beijing to preside over the overall situation, I will definitely find a good family for my mother."

Gu Fan made up his mind, his life is only a few decades, and his mother has already delayed him for 20 years, should he continue to delay?

As a Son of Man, you cannot be so selfish.

"Boss, the prince has entered the palace again!"

"Sure enough, it's the prince. He entered the palace without being summoned twice in the past three days. He really didn't care about the opinions of the outside world?"

Just as he was thinking, a soft discussion came from beside him. Gu Fan looked up and saw the prince's carriage entering the palace. He had blocked it before, but now he is no longer surprised. He knows some things clearly.

"Head, you said that the prince enters the palace every day. I heard from the brothers of the Imperial Forest Army privately that the prince doesn't go to the emperor's palace every time to face the emperor. He even went to the harem a few times. Inside?"

Seeing his subordinate winking over there, Gu Fan patted the two of them on the shoulder, but didn't say anything.

Turning around and continuing to patrol, the others also shrugged.

Now there are a lot of gossip about the prince in the capital. Apart from suspicion, there are even more exaggerated ones. They have already mentioned what Emperor Qianming did 30 years ago.

In the end, they were all laughed at, and the tiger father has no dogs!

Not to mention that outsiders like them can't stand it, even the ministers of the Qing school in the court have complained behind their backs.

"It's not something about the royal family that you and I can talk about. If you don't want to die, just keep your mouth shut."

Gu Fan was walking in front, but he sounded a warning to his subordinates.

Will he not know?

Gu Fan is aware of what happened in the entire palace.

He even knew that the Crown Prince went to the Leng Palace several times to meet Concubine Li. Of course, Concubine Li is still young and beautiful in the harem except for Concubine Li.

……

At the beginning of the colorful lights, a building boat greeted the Qiantang County wharf from afar.

Soon the building boat docked, and the magistrate of Qiantang County had been waiting for a long time, wiping cold sweat at the same time.

After all, he was originally told that he would arrive in three days, but at noon he was suddenly informed that he would come to Qiantang in the evening, but he was so tired that he wished he could take off his boots and go down to work with the people below.

Even so, the pier is only half renovated.

"Fang Qingshan, the magistrate of Qiantang County, come to pay my respects!"

Fang Qingshan stepped forward and looked at the few eunuchs in the palace who appeared, but he didn't dare to trust him in the slightest.

A seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister's gate, let alone someone from the palace?

"It's getting late, prepare your car and go to Lin'an City."

"Your Majesty is ready, please follow me."

A few carriages had already docked at the pier, but Fang Qingshan found that he couldn't intervene at all, and even the guards and officials he arranged were waved back, and there were his own guards on the upstairs boat.

Even if it is an imperial envoy, isn't this battle a little too big?
It's a pity that he didn't dare to ask and think too much, he could only watch the visitor from the palace leave, and then waved, "Come here!"

"What's your order?"

"Immediately hurry up and inform His Highness that he has arrived before the imperial envoy!"

Fang Qingshan is now holding Li Changshou's thigh tightly, fully entering the role.

After arranging for someone to rush back in advance, he wiped off his cold sweat, "Who is this man in the palace? The scene is not small."

Not only was the pomp not small, but Fang Qingshan looked very low-key, but Fang Qingshan's eyes were venomous. The people who got on and off the big boat were all armed with martial arts, they were by no means ordinary guards, and the eunuchs and father-in-law had different auras.

The key point is that there are some people that even he, the dignified seventh-rank county magistrate, feels creepy, so he can't help but be curious.

"Shouldn't it be for His Highness?"

Fang Qingshan was so worried that he could only go back temporarily and wait for the follow-up news. He also knew that many things could not be intervened.

And the other side.

A group of people from the capital are heading towards Lin'an City. Qiantang is only tens of miles away from Lin'an, and they can arrive there in less than half an hour at a fast pace. Of course, coming from the capital to Jiangnan must be of unusual status.

So the speed of the carriage was not fast, and one of the carriages was driven by several eunuchs in the palace.

An hour later, he finally entered Lin'an City, and ran to Jiedushi's mansion without stopping.

Because the magistrate of Qiantang county ordered people to rush back to notify in advance, so when they arrived at the gate of Jiedushi's mansion, there were already people waiting to greet them.

"Humble post Guan Peng, pay my respects to my father-in-law."

The person waiting at the door was none other than Guan Peng. When he saw people arriving, he immediately stepped forward, cupped his hands and recognized that some of them were eunuchs from the Imperial Palace's servants, and they were even inferior to him in terms of rank.

But he is a smart person. The status of the person who came to Jiangnan to proclaim the decree in the capital this time is definitely not low. If he can be accompanied by the Minister of Internal Affairs like this, could it be Eunuch Cao, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs?
Then he saw a person getting out of the carriage, wearing a sable cloak, it was hard to tell who it was, as if he wanted to keep a low profile.

It was not easy for Guan Peng to ask too many questions, so he hurriedly welcomed him in.

But just for a moment, he took a peek, and he was surprised to find that the person who was escorted to the south of the Yangtze River by the internal servant was actually a woman?
Before he could think too much, a group of people entered the door and came to the front hall.

Li Changshou was already waiting there.

"Shou Wang accepts the order!"

……

It was part of Li Changshou's plan to have someone from the capital to declare the decree, but he had no idea who the person would come to proclaim the decree.

In fact, he was already skeptical about the information he had inquired from the Imperial City Division.

Too low-key, too mysterious.

I also arrived three days early, and everything was confusing.

When the carriages arrived at the gate, Li Changshou suddenly noticed something, turned on the system with an incredulous expression, then looked outside the door, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

"You all, go down!"

The imperial decree was sent by the eunuch of the Internal Servant, but this time it was obvious that the Internal Servant was not the most important one in the group, they were just escorting someone to the south of the Yangtze River.

Li Changshou quickly waved everyone else back, and the internal servants also retreated tactfully.

When everyone left, only Li Changshou was left alone facing the man who was always covered by a cloak.

"My son, I pay my respects to my concubine mother!"

As Li Changshou stepped forward to salute, the woman in the cloak finally revealed her true face. When the cloak was lifted off, she revealed a peerless face of joy, anger, joy, and beauty, and her lively and gentle eyes were full of words.

Correct!
Concubine Zhou!

He actually left the capital, secretly went down to the south of the Yangtze River and came to Lin'an!

Appeared in front of Li Changshou!
Who would have thought?

No one in the world would have imagined that the imperial concubine, who is a concubine, would come to the south of the Yangtze River alone.

But now the facts are in front of him, and there is no room for others to believe it.

Of course, Li Changshou waved off the others in advance, because he knew that this matter could not be spread, otherwise it would cause a lot of trouble.

"Get up."

The imperial concubine's water-like eyes looked at Li Changshou lightly, her voice was still so pleasant, but it sounded a little deliberate and cold.

It's just like……

angry?Or angry?
"Mother, why are you here?"

Li Changshou thought of anyone coming to proclaim the decree, but he did not expect the imperial concubine to come here in person. This is a journey of thousands of miles, and even walking by water is bumpy and tiring.

While asking, he quickly turned on the system to check the relationship between himself and the imperial concubine.

After reading it, I feel relieved, the relationship between the two is still 95, which means that the imperial concubine is not here to ask questions.

At the same time, he couldn't help but re-scan the information of the noble concubine with the system.

【Zhou Huier】

[Identity: Grand Imperial Concubine]

【Age: 36】

[Battle Power: Grand Master of Tianpin]

【Relationship: 95】

[Appearance: 99]

【Special: 1】

After confirming that it is correct, then consider the purpose of the imperial concubine's visit. It can't be to send an imperial edict after traveling thousands of miles, right?
"What? Can't I come?"

The imperial concubine's eyes that were faintly happy at first became a little dissatisfied when she heard it, and she snorted coquettishly.

Li Changshou laughed quickly, "How can it be, didn't my son not expect this? Seeing the appearance of the concubine mother, I didn't come back to my senses."

He really didn't expect that, seeing that the concubine was a little displeased, he immediately started coaxing out of habit, "If the concubine mother hadn't spoken, my son would have mistakenly thought that a fairy from the sky had descended to the mortal world and ran to Erchen's mansion! "

"Spoof!" The imperial concubine snorted, but finally laughed.