Chapter 24: The Shadows

General Li, who was on the side, was dedicated to the country and enthusiastic, and he was always dissatisfied with the traitorous ministers playing with the government.

"General Li, you are old, I'm afraid that you can't even hold a sword steadily, and you are seen by the barbarian gang, do you think it's because there is no one in our court, General Nangong is young and promising, he should go into battle to kill the enemy and defend our country."

This prime minister Wang Cheng is far-sighted, knowing that in this dynasty, the right hand of the queen mother, Li Siyuan and Nangong Jiang Zhen guarded the palace, the emperor and Nangong Jiang were like brothers and sisters, and once told to protect the queen mother, let alone leave this palace, who in this court and the opposition does not know that Wang Anyu has always coveted this throne, and he thinks that he can seize this power at every opportunity.

In order to seize this power, it is necessary to seize the military power and property in Nangong Jiang's hands, and it is precisely because of Nangong Jiang's loyalty that Wang Anyu has always had scruples about this regime.

Prime Minister Wang Cheng has always wanted to transfer Nangong Jiang outside, if Nangong Jiang goes to defend against foreign enemies, a large number of troops obey Nangong Jiang, and there is no one in the palace to protect him, Wang Anyu can take advantage of this time to plot to seize power, and both inside and outside the court know what the hell this Wang Cheng is fighting is about.

"The Queen Mother, the old minister, although she is over half a hundred years old, she can still go into battle to kill the enemy, unlike some people who are above the court and ambitious, who doesn't know what idea you want to fight."

"You..." When Wang Anyu heard this, he didn't know if his heart was being told through, so he still pointed at Li Siyuan angrily.

"Okay, do you have a mourner in your eyes?" The dignified and majestic life on the stage.

"The sin of the minister deserves death. Please calm the anger of the Queen Mother. When the officials learned that the Queen Mother was angry, they all knelt down in a hurry and begged for mercy in unison.

"Okay, our Mu Country has not been attacked by the outside, and it is already going to be destroyed by you, what is the use of you ministers. General Lee, what exactly is the situation on the border? The queen asked without changing her face.

"The Queen Mother, now there is a general of our country on the border to resist, but the barbarians outside the Saiwai are warlike and ferocious, and our army lacks experience all year round, so I am afraid that it will be difficult to resist, and the border has been asking the court for support."

There is a loneliness inside and outside the whole court, "then, first allocate one million to replenish the military rations in time, and as for the dispatch, we will discuss it later." Today, you are tired of mourning, so let's all step down. Before he finished speaking, he didn't leave the ministers half a minute to think, and went down.

"The Queen Mother...", I only heard the shouts of the ministers behind her.

"Wan'er, please Nangong Jiang and General Li Siyuan come over to see the mourning family." Not long after returning to Anci Palace, not long after the Queen Mother sat down, she summoned Nangong Jiang and Li Siyuan to meet.

"Alas~" The Queen Mother let out a long sigh after Wan'er left, and took out a handkerchief from her sleeve, and there was a word Lu in the corner of the handkerchief. I looked at the handkerchief for a long time, and fell into my own memories.

"Grandma Huang." A milky sound remembered, and the door clicked from the outside, and staggered crookedly.

"Alas~ be careful, baby." The Queen Mother saw her beloved baby and slowly walked up to pick him up.

"Poo" kissed the Queen Mother's face, and the Queen Mother happily touched her little grandson's hand, "Eh, my little baby." The words are all doting, and her eyes can overflow her infinite love for her grandson.

"Queen Mother, Lord Nangong Jiang and General Li Siyuan have arrived." The voice of the maidservant Wan'er next to her sounded outside the door, and the Queen Mother hurriedly wiped away the tears that were almost flowing, put the handkerchief away, adjusted her appearance and clothes, and cleared her throat.

"Okay, let them in." In an instant, the grandmother who missed her grandson changed to the resolute queen mother, as if she couldn't see the sad queen mother.

"Ministers, see Queen Mother."

"Okay, let's all get up, what the mourning family asked you to investigate, how is the investigation?" The Queen Mother pondered and waited for a while and asked.

"The minister found some clues in Nanlin Temple before, according to what the Queen Mother said about finding a son with a wooden leaf dot on his arm, the people sent by the minister looked for a long time, and only then did they have some clues, saying that someone had appeared in Nanlin Temple with this boy in his arms."

General Li looked at Nangong Jiang next to him, and Nangong Jiang nodded to General Li, signaling that he could report what he had found upwards.

"Nangong Aiqing, what about you?" The Queen Mother saw that Nangong Jiang didn't speak, and she was silent in the court, as if she was out of the way.

"Please forgive the Queen Mother, there is no result on the minister's side for the time being." Nangong Jiang said unhurriedly, in fact, he has a lot of things to be busy with now, and there are many things that he can't take care of.

"Well, the mourners know. You are working hard to find it, now that the national crisis is at the head, you really need to be alone. What are your thoughts on the border? The Queen Mother saw that Nangong Jiang really didn't seem to have found any clues, so she stopped pursuing it, knowing that she had been very annoyed by the border matter recently.

"The minister is willing to go to the border, but... Worried about the safety of the Queen Mother. ”

Nangong Jiang Ben also wanted to fight and take down the barbarian enemy in one fell swoop. But now that he is suffering from internal and external troubles, he really can't move away, so he wants to see what the Queen Mother means, so he can only say what he thinks.

"The mourning family knows that now is also the time to burn their brows." After the Queen Mother finished speaking, her feet trembled, and she held her head with her hands, as if she was about to fall.

"Queen Mother, be careful of the phoenix." Nangong Jiang and Li Siyuan said it at the same time, knowing that the current situation was really bad.

"Okay, you all step down, tomorrow I will go to Nanlin Temple to ask for blessings, first, I want to pray for the common people in this world to have a Ming Jun, and second, I will see if I can ask her whereabouts." The Queen Mother thought about it for a long time, so she planned to do so and explained the matter.

"The minister obeys the order, the minister will arrange it, the queen mother, and she can leave tomorrow." Nangong Jiang replied that he was doing his duty, and after speaking, he retired with General Li Siyuan.

Not long after Nangong Jiang and Li Siyuan left, the Queen Mother instructed Wan'er, the personal maid next to her, to go down as well. From the cuff took out a golden palm-length flute, which seemed to have been stroked many times, and some of it was old and yellow.

The Queen Mother looked at it for a long time, put it in her hand and looked at it for a long time, and finally put it on her mouth and blew it.

"Master."

For a while, the doors and windows in the palace were closed by a gust of wind, and a group of people wearing black armor appeared in the Empress Dowager's Ci'an Palace.

"Did you find it? How is he now? ”

The Queen Mother said without wave, the Queen Mother had been communicating with the Shadow Letters before, so she knew the current situation of the Shadow's search.

It is said that this shadow was formed by the first emperor, and it is the last shield used to protect the royal family, so that even at the last moment, as long as the royal family is still there, then the shadow is still there. As long as you can keep the royal family and keep the royal line, you will always keep it.

Just more than 20 years ago, the first emperor informed the queen mother that there was a man left in the people because of the family dispute that year, and the first emperor has been looking for it for more than 20 years, but those people really made the news too secret.

As a result, the Queen Mother also left her grandson with the Queen Mother before the emperor's death a year ago, in order to avoid him from being plotted by the government and the opposition, she has been constantly protecting herself, in order to let him have a good childhood.

In the palace, the emperor of the previous dynasty was constantly carefully protecting his bloodline, but he was still plotted by the villains around him.

In order to avoid fighting in the palace, when I had been planning to send him out, I don't know if there was a rumor that someone held the prince hostage halfway, and then there was no news.

Since then, I have been secretly searching, and until now, there is no sound. It was only a few days before the emperor left that he told the Queen Mother about this, and the Queen Mother only knew at that time that the prince who had died in the palace was still alive after being told by the emperor at that time, and was not jealous of God.

As for the shadow, the Queen Mother hopes that she will be able to find the long-lost prince through the shadow in the future.

At that time, the queen mother was in tears, hating the emperor for why he didn't tell him that he had a grandson earlier, and he had been trying to get his grandson back after knowing that there was a shadow.

Why let your grandson wander, I don't know how much my grandson has suffered. Thinking about this, the Queen Mother's heart tightened.

"I found it, but the prince doesn't seem to know his identity, and he still has a certain status in the rivers and lakes." The heads of the Shadows stepped forward to report their message.

"Is that him? Are you sure? So what does he do now? Are you alright?" The Queen Mother was a little unsure when she heard the news, but it felt so unreal.

"Well, the prince used to be a gangster, and it was sometimes difficult for his subordinates who were elusive all day long to find the prince, but his subordinates had already found out that the prince was the speaker of the fire on the rivers and lakes."

"Agni? It's an organization that you almost leaked about yourself before, and you're very good at gathering intelligence?" After hearing this, the Queen Mother had some appreciation in her eyes.

"Yes, at present, the prince is managing that organization impressively." There was also admiration in Shadow's eyes, and Shadow was happy to think that there would be such a king in the future.

"Well, it's really a royal descendant, is there any other information? Let's see if we can contact him, try to let him contact the court as soon as possible, now the form is also grim, above the court, there is an urgent need for someone who can speak. The Queen Mother suppressed her emotions.

"I'll continue to investigate." Then he vanished, leaving no words, as if he had never been here again.

"Emperor, the mourning family has been found, and he has found his grandson, God really blesses our royal family, he is really the son of heaven of my Mu country, he really deserves to be the descendant of the royal family, no matter where he goes, he can make his own brilliance." The Queen Mother muttered.