Steward Liu entered the forest and walked through five sentry posts before coming to a meadow in the middle of the forest. Hua Guan, who had been waiting outside for a long time, greeted him in advance.

After the two of them briefly said a few words, Steward Hua walked inside.

Inside, more than a dozen soldiers walked around and patrolled, and a four-horse cart was parked in the middle. A middle-aged man in a silver brocade robe was standing there talking with a slightly older lady dressed in a blue brocade dress. Although the two people were dressed simply, they did not wear gold or silver, but their clothes were luxurious and their bearing was extraordinary.

But at this time, there was a bit of melancholy in the eyes of both of them.

This is a mother and son, and the two of them have a lot of origins.

The man Xuanyuan Liqun is the emperor's younger brother, and the old lady is Concubine Liu.

The current emperor was originally the inconspicuous third prince among the princes of the previous dynasty, but the former emperor died of a violent illness, and when he died, it happened to be the mother of the third prince, Concubine Xiao Guifei, who was serving in front of him.

When the emperor is alive, he usually has to prepare an edict to write down the name of the prince he wants to pass on to the throne in his heart. In case of his sudden death, the world will not be in chaos. The former emperor is no exception.

Xiao Guifei is a powerful person, seeing the emperor's sudden violent death, she did not cry like ordinary people, but colluded with the powerful eunuch beside the former emperor, and first others found this edict that had become an edict.

It is also a coincidence that the former emperor would think that he would die in his prime, and the edict was also written simply, except for the upper and lower payments, a line of words was written on it: If I return to heaven with a dragon, the second prince will succeed to the throne.

At that time, the emperor did not appoint a prince, the eldest prince died early, and the second prince was born by the queen, and he was also wise and generous. Therefore, according to his background, he is a descendant, and he is an elder brother according to the eldest and youngest, so it is not surprising that he will inherit the throne.

Concubine Xiao Guifei will let go of this opportunity, and instruct the chief eunuch to directly add a sum to the second, and she will become the third prince to succeed to the throne.

Next, it is logical, all the courtiers and concubines know the news of the emperor's return to the west. Then he found the edict, and although the queen and the second prince did not agree at the time, the third prince ascended to the throne with the full support of the eunuchs led by his maternal grandfather.

Later, after the new emperor eliminated dissidents and killed other princes with different intentions, his position was stable.

It's just that after the world is peaceful and the throne is stable, the emperor begins to govern. He is an emperor who is pretentious, so he has a lot of thoughts.

At that time, Xuanyuan Liqun's mother, Liu Guifei, was friendly with Xiao Guifei, and when the emperor was still the third prince, she helped her mother and son in the back. Therefore, after most of the princes were either dead or disabled, Xuanyuan Liqun simply used the excuse that his biological mother was ill and missed his homeland in the south, and asked to take Concubine Liu back to Jingnan Prefecture, the hometown of the Liu family, to support Tiannian.

The emperor saw that he was interested, which meant to stay away from the imperial power, and it was approved.

But after all, the two brothers had a good relationship before, and the emperor didn't want people to talk about him behind his back, so he directly named him the king of Jingnan and made Jingnan Prefecture a fief for 800 miles. Then he rewarded a lot of things and let their mother and son leave.

Jingnan Prefecture is located in the south of the Great Shang Kingdom, and it is also three or four thousand miles away from the capital. It's been more than 20 years, and the two brothers have never seen each other again.

Three years ago, when the Queen Mother was on her birthday, the emperor recalled many royal relatives and nobles to participate in the Queen Mother's birthday ceremony. At that time, Concubine Liu was seriously ill, and their mother and son did not go back.

In March this year, they received a holy decree from the emperor and asked them to go to the capital to participate in the prince's winter wedding ceremony.

I didn't go back for the first time, and if I didn't go back, I couldn't say it, so the two of them began to go to the capital in June.

Because Concubine Liu has been in poor health, the mother and son also have the psychology of visiting a famous doctor while walking.

Originally, Jingnan Prefecture was still some distance away from Changzhou, and they didn't need to go through there to get to the capital. But Xuanyuan Changqun heard that the most famous divine doctor in the Great Shang Kingdom, the Holy Hand Fuji Daozi, went to Changzhou, thinking that there was enough time anyway, so he rushed to Changzhou with Concubine Liu in July.

I didn't expect that in Changzhou, a moon god doctor Holy Hand Fuji Daozi was not found, but a few days ago, he suddenly received a secret order from the emperor, asking Xuanyuan Changqun to take care of the five princes who were also in Changzhou.

After receiving the secret order, Xuanyuan Changqun was immediately shocked in his heart. Although he did not act secretly, he did not reveal his identity in a high-profile manner for the sake of convenience along the way. But the emperor knew that he was there, and sent a secret letter.

The meaning of this makes people shudder and send chills down their spine.

But Xuanyuan Changqun thought about it for a while, and asked himself that he had not done anything disrespectful to the current emperor in Jingnan Prefecture for more than 20 years, and the emperor also gave him gifts on his birthday every year, and his heart suddenly became calm.

He didn't bring much manpower with him when he went out this time, on the surface it was only a fifty-person escort team, but he used twenty secret guards to protect the safety in the dark.

After receiving the secret letter, he sent fifteen secret guards out to find the five princes.

In the early hours of yesterday morning, several secret guards returned with the unconscious Fifth Prince.

Xuanyuan Changqun and Concubine Liu were taken aback when they saw it, and when they asked, they learned that they were also on the way to the frontier, and they happened to encounter a group of people chasing and killing the five princes and others.

At that time, the fifth prince had already been hit by a hidden weapon and was unconscious, and there were only two or three people left around him. More than a dozen people surrounded the five princes, and they all made fatal moves. If they hadn't rushed over in time, I'm afraid those people would have succeeded.

Xuanyuan Changqun's secret guards were naturally not vegetarians, and when they saw the situation clearly, they went up and directly put all the people who were chasing and killing the Five Princes to the ground, saving the Five Princes and others.

Then these dark guards divided into two ways, and directly escorted the five princes back to Xuanyuan Changqun's mother and son, cleaning up the battlefield all the way, leaving no traces of the enemy's pursuit.

When Xuanyuan Changqun and Concubine Liu's mother and son went out, although they also brought a doctor with them, this doctor was not good at red injuries. In particular, the fifth prince was hit by a dart in the chest, and he was unconscious. This doctor didn't dare to move the darts on the patient's body, but when he heard that it was the fifth prince, he was completely numb.

And the two people who were treated by Wei Qingluan in the pharmacy before were the two surviving guards around the five princes. The two of them were anxious when they saw that the five princes had been unconscious, and they originally hurt themselves with a little shame for the five princes, and at the same time, they also wanted to let the doctor practice on them now, and then treat the wounds of the five princes.