After the prince was reborn, he forced me to marry him and took me into the East Palace

Gu Jingheng pushed Nan Jiamu away and walked forward.

Nan Jiamu closed his eyes helplessly, resigned to his fate and waited for Nan Yuan to be discovered.

"Walls have ears. It would be better for you to stand up and talk, Mr. Shen."

As Gu Jingheng spoke, he calmly pulled Shen Zhaixing up from the bed.

The bed board was built very low, and when Shen Zhaixing sat on it, the bed board collapsed downwards. When he stood up, the bed returned to normal.

Shen Zhaixing was a little puzzled. What did the fact that walls had ears had anything to do with him sitting and talking?

But in the end, he did not ask Gu Jingheng for the reason in front of outsiders. He stood up obediently and walked in front of Nan Jiamu.

However, Nan Jiamu seemed to be distracted, staring at Gu Jingheng in a daze.

The way the man in front of him spoke to Shen Zhaixing didn't sound like an aide talking to his lord, and Shen Zhaixing seemed to listen to this aide in particular.

And today, when they were fighting with the Li family, Shen Zhaixing actually fought with Li Youning for him. The two of them looked like neither an assistant nor a master.

Suddenly, Nan Jiamu had an idea.

Could it be that the young man behind Shen Zhaixing is the one who can really deal with the disaster relief and banditry? Is Shen Zhaixing just a cover?

Nan Jiamu felt that he seemed to have discovered the truth. If this was true, he had to be more respectful to this aide and must not treat him with disrespect as before.

Even if he guessed wrong and this aide was not a big shot, he could follow Shen Zhaixing and had a certain say in Shen Zhaixing's opinion, so he definitely could not treat him badly.

Shen Zhaixing had already arrived in front of Nan Jiamu, but he still didn't show any reaction. Shen Zhaixing and Gu Jingheng looked at each other and coughed twice in a low voice: "Ahem."

“Hmm?” Nan Jiamu finally came back to his senses. He realized his mistake and quickly bowed to Shen Zhaixing to apologize: “I was rude at the time, please forgive me, Lord Shen.”

Shen Zhaixing couldn't argue with him at this time, so he just waved his hand.

"Say what you want."

Nan Jiamu naturally knew what Shen Zhaixing meant, and he immediately took out a map from his sleeve: "Sir, please take a look. This is the distribution map of the Li family's manors outside the city."

"What do you mean by giving this to me?" Shen Zhaixing waited for Nan Jiamu to tell him everything.

"If I can lead you to find where they hide the grain, does that count as irrefutable evidence that they embezzled the imperial grain?" Nan Jiamu crossed his arms and asked instead, "If the evidence is irrefutable, will Lord Shen handle the matter impartially?"

Shen Zhaixing raised her eyebrows and asked, "Do you want me to handle this impartially, or do you want me to kill you all?"

"It's easier to talk to smart people." Nan Jiamu smiled. "If I remember correctly, Lord Shen's father is the prime minister, right? The Li family is a big threat to your father. As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

"Sir Shen, if I help you find their stolen goods, I hope you can hand over General Li and Li Youning to me, regardless of life or death." Nan Jiamu directly told Shen Zhaixing his request.

Shen Zhaixing's eyes darkened and he quietly observed Gu Jingheng's expression.

But if it were up to him, he would fully support Nan Jiamu's plan.

But for Gu Jingheng, this is not certain.

Gu Jingheng learned the art of being an emperor and the way of checks and balances. He didn't want to have only one dominant voice in the court.

Therefore, the fact that the Li family was able to gain the right to make suggestions in the court in such a short period of time was ultimately due to Gu Jingheng’s instigation.

They are discussing this issue in front of Gu Jingheng now, they are really... not afraid of death!

"It's too early for you to state your conditions. The couple hasn't even started yet, and you're already thinking about the future?" Shen Zhaixing said vaguely.

His vague statement made Nan Jiamu realize that Gu Jingheng's identity was unusual.

"Master Shen, please."

Nan Yuan's feet were numb from lying under the bed, but they were still talking about some details outside that Nan Yuan couldn't understand.

There was no choice but to continue lying there.

Nan Yuan didn’t know how much time had passed. She only felt that it was getting dark and the noise of conversation outside gradually died down.

"Okay! Let's set off tomorrow morning." Shen Zhaixing's voice was very brisk, and he seemed very satisfied with the discussion. "I will find a doctor for you today to heal your injuries. Don't delay tomorrow's important event."

"Thank you, Lord Shen." Nan Jiamu responded neither humbly nor arrogantly.

Shen Zhaixing looked inside the tent, as if he was observing carefully: "Your environment is not very good, do you want me to..."

"Let's go." Gu Jingheng interrupted Shen Zhaixing's long speech.

Shen Zhaixing noticed Gu Jingheng's look and suddenly couldn't say anything: "That's it for today."

"Farewell, Lord Shen."

It was not until Gu Jingheng and Shen Zhaixing left the tent and Nan Yuan could no longer hear any noise that she crawled out from under the bed.

"Are you okay?" Nan Jiamu reached out and helped Nan Yuan up, letting her sit on the bed.

Nan Yuan looked at Nan Jiamu with a look of despair. Shen Zhaixing's sitting just now almost broke her waist. Fortunately, it didn't last long, otherwise she would have slept forever under the bed.

"Heh!" Nan Yuan pulled the corner of her mouth, not intending to say anything more to him, but just left him a bottle of pills: "I made these pills some time ago, they are very effective for high fever."

These were the pills she had taken great pains to pull out some time ago in order to avoid having to bring medicine to Gu Jingheng. She happened to have some left, and now they came in handy.

After saying that, Nan Yuan picked up the medicine box, held her waist and walked out. She didn't want to stay here for a moment.

Nan Yuan returned to her tent. The environment was much more comfortable than Nan Jiamu's, but she felt sleepy as soon as she came in.

She felt a little puzzled. She had often suffered from insomnia when she was in the capital, but why did she feel so sleepy now that she was out of the city and at the refugee camp?

But she didn't think too much about it, and instead took out the map Nan Jiamu gave her.

Although she hadn't thought about whether she should leave or not, it wouldn't hurt to memorize the map first.

Nan Yuan simply washed up and lay on the bed to start memorizing the map. She felt more and more sleepy as she memorized it, so she put the map away and went to sleep.

As the night deepened, a figure loomed over Nan Yuan's fair face.