Compared with the hustle and bustle of the city's street market, the Ouchi Imperial Palace is a little frightening. Several palaces were darkly lit, and between the passages and porches, dappled dim lights shone in, making them look even more deserted and gloomy.

Several guards carried lanterns back and forth, and the maids held Guo Caiwei's hand beside them, and the group walked silently under the shadow of the tall palace. From time to time, someone would come out of the shadows of the corner of the temple and the passage of flowers and trees, and ask for the password in a low voice. After Shen Tan gave the password, these people quickly disappeared again.

Since the incident of that day, Shen Tan ordered the guards of the front of the palace to block the front hall of the Great Inner Palace. In order to prevent accidents, the vigilance of the Ouchi front hall at this moment is greater than ever. Of course, this is not that Shen Tan is too cautious, but it is his old spiciness. Shen Tan knew that when the incident of that night happened, the news would inevitably spread. Knowing that Guo Kun is in a bad situation now, someone must come to the rescue. Mo said that Guo Kun has no popularity, no connections, and his identity as an emperor alone will attract countless speculators. I don't know how many people hiding in the shadows in the whole Great Zhou want to take this opportunity to get Guo Kun in their hands, and then use Guo Kun's hands to raise the banner of rebellion. I don't know how many ambitious people want to use Guo Kun's big fat meat.

In the past few days, several groups of masters have infiltrated the palace. These people are all here for Guo Kun. Some wanted to kidnap Guo Kun, and some wanted to take the opportunity to assassinate Guo Kun, causing a big mess in the situation and letting Lin Jue carry this black cauldron. Of course, all this was ruthlessly shattered by Shen Tan. has been in the rivers and lakes for many years, Shen Tan is familiar with the routines of these people, so they all have to return home.

The group walked through one tall hall after another, until they came to the gate of Yanfu Palace, the harem on the northwest side of the palace, dozens of steps away from the palace gate, and all the guards stopped and did not dare to take another step. Guo Caiwei saw it in her eyes, and secretly praised in her heart, Shen Tan is obviously abiding by the rules, in the harem, the concubines and palace maids live here, if Shen Tan lets the guards go in and out of the harem, it means that he is presumptuous and rude to a certain point. The harem is a bottom line, and Shen Tan obviously understands the symbolic meaning of this bottom line.

"County Lord, in front of you is Yanfu Palace, the emperor and the queen mother are both in Yanfu Palace, and they both live in the Cuiwei Hall of the queen mother's bedroom. I can only escort the county lord here, and then the palace maid is responsible for escorting the county lord there. Wait for the county lord to come out here, and then send the county lord out of the palace. Shen Tan stopped and bowed and said.

Yanfu Palace is a harem, and Shen Tan naturally didn't dare to be rude, but the emperor and the queen mother couldn't let it go inside, so they mobilized part of the women's battalion of the Luoyan Army to act as female guards to ensure the safety of Yanfu Palace. The Praetorian guards were responsible for the protection of the perimeter of the palace front hall. That's how the female guard in his mouth came about.

Guo Caiwei nodded and said softly: "I'm tired." ”

Shen Tan beckoned, and more than ten women walked in front of the Yanfu Palace, dressed up

is no different from palace maids, but Guo Caiwei recognizes them. These are all female soldiers in the women's battalion of the Luoyan Army, although the Luoyan Army has never fallen to the point of relying on these female soldiers to go to the battlefield, but the women's battalion born from the female guards around Gao Muqing has always had hundreds of people. Their duty is actually very simple, that is, to protect women and children, because it will be much more convenient. Although Guo Caiwei did not participate in the women's camp, one of the female guards used to accompany her to protect her, so Guo Caiwei recognized the female guard named Jin Mei at a glance.

"Jin Mei led the female guards to see the eldest princess." The female guard did not hide her identity, and took all the female guards to salute respectfully.

Guo Caiwei sighed and nodded slightly, feeling speechless in her heart for some reason. There are all kinds of signs that Fujun is ready for all this, he seems to have calculated today's situation, as if he has opened a big cage and is waiting for Guo Kun to crash in. But Guo Kun really crashed in. Guo Caiwei didn't know how to describe the feeling in her heart. Is his husband too smart, or is his brother too stupid? Was all this deliberate or unintentional? Who's counting whom? Guo Caiwei really can't figure it out.

"Please come with us, eldest princess." The female guard Jin Mei said softly, and after getting up, she made a look, and several female guards guarded the direction from front to back, left and right, and hugged Guo Caiwei in the middle. Under the illumination of several palace lights, Guo Caiwei and his entourage slowly entered the Yanfu Palace.

Cuiwei Hall is in the northwest corner of Yanfu Palace, on the verge of the northwest lake, this is the highest terrain in the palace, the most beautiful palace palace, so the Queen Mother Shen Akui occupied this palace at the beginning of the palace. Of course, in addition to the benefits of this Cuiwei Palace, there is another reason that this Cuiwei Palace was originally the palace where Lu Zhongtian's daughter and Guo Xu's mother, Concubine Mei, lived. Shen Akui used this to show that she had occupied the harem master of the Great Zhou, and what Concubine Mei and Concubine Rong had been before, she was now the one who had the last laugh. The intention outside of this kind of behavior can actually be understood by anyone with a discerning eye.

It's a pity that Shen Akui didn't expect that she had only lived in this Cuiwei Palace for less than half a month, and she was completely trapped in this palace. It can't be said that he is a prisoner of the stairs, but he has also lost his freedom of movement. Early that morning, she was told that she could not take half a step out of the Cuiwei Palace, because the plan she had designed for her son Guo Kun to stick a knife in the back had completely failed.

Shen Akui was panicked in her heart, but on the one hand, she panicked, and on the other hand, she was extremely arrogant. It is an ambivalent state of mind that manifests itself in the first few days through some extreme manifestations. First of all, she made a lot of noise to the female guards, threatening and intimidating, saying that as the queen mother, they had no right to restrict their freedom, and she could go wherever she wanted. provoked and even insulted the female guards guarding outside the hall in every way. But although the female guards did not talk back, they expressed their attitude with their actions. When Shen Akui gathered a group of palace maids and tried to break out of Cuiwei Palace, the female guards used their whips to mercilessly whip the menacing palace maids

Their faces were covered in blood. Shen Akui, who was hiding behind, saw this situation and knew that they were serious, but he didn't dare to test the whip.

Next, Shen Akui performed a hunger strike again, she threatened to die on a hunger strike and would never compromise. The female guards did not interfere with her fierce behavior, and the female guards received an order not to allow the Queen Mother to leave the Cuiwei Palace, and everything else had nothing to do with them. After Shen Akui was hungry for two days and two nights, he suddenly found that even if he really starved to death here, no one would know, because the female guards didn't plan to report the news at all. Of course, Shen Akui didn't really want to die, otherwise there were many ways to die, and the female guards didn't look at her closely. No one stopped him from hanging himself and hitting the wall, but Shen Akui didn't do it. So Shen Akui found himself a step down and resumed eating.

"The mourning family can't die, the mourning family wants to see the fate of these rebellious ministers with their own eyes, and the mourning family is dead, but it is their will." Shen Akui drank the lotus seed soup viciously and said.

Later, Guo Kun also moved to Cuiwei Palace, according to Guo Kun, he was worried about the safety of the Queen Mother, so he was forced to die, and Shen Tan had to agree to him to live in Cuiwei Palace from the dormitory. Guo Kun's real intention is naturally to discuss countermeasures with his mother, and he really has no good way to do it alone. At this moment, his mother's situation is much better than his, after all, even if Lin Jue retaliates, he doesn't dare to touch the queen mother's hair. The Queen Mother is safe. He only has to follow the Queen Mother now, and maybe there is some hope.

The mother and son faced each other all day long in Cuiwei Palace, and for a while they partnered to curse Lin Jue's great rebellion, Shen Tan's ingratitude, and the ruthlessness and unrighteousness of the courtiers. For a while, he was relatively sad and silent, panicked, and didn't know what to do. Or standing at the gate of the temple and shouting madly and scolding, mad and crazy. In short, in less than ten days, the mother and son lived like years, suffering like ants on a hot pot.

Guo Caiwei was escorted by the female guards to the door of Cuiwei Palace. After the female guards retreated, Guo Caiwei slowly walked into the hall accompanied by the maids. The front hall was dim, and there were chamberlains and palace maids dozing in the corner, and when they suddenly found Guo Caiwei coming in at the entrance of the hall, they all screamed in surprise.

"The eldest princess is here, the eldest princess is here. Thankfully, the eldest princess is finally here. Hurry, report to the emperor and the queen mother, and say that the eldest princess is here. The chamberlains and palace maids rushed to tell each other, as if a great event had come. The footsteps were mixed, the light and shadow were swaying, and the noise was heard far away in the lifeless hall.

Guo Caiwei frowned, she didn't stop their actions, she only held the maid's hand and walked quickly to the apse. After the atrium corridor, someone at the vertical door of the apse in front of him shouted in surprise: "Is it a girl?" Is the girl coming? Is my good girl here? Woooo ”

The cry of surprise quickly turned into a loud cry, and then Guo Kun, who was covered in alcohol, stumbled from the front corridor with his hair in a messy bun.