When the news of the expedition of the Great Monarch of Western Liang reached the palace of the Chu King of Jinyang, it was already after the beginning of summer in May.

Gu Qiuyue brought the secret letter to Guan Sui Yuan, and he saw that the steward Qingkong standing at the gate of the courtyard was still wearing a gray robe, and he looked listless and his eyes were empty, but in the end, he returned to his post, and he was no longer like a few days ago, and he only knew how to borrow wine to drown his sorrows, and even with Ash, he was often full of wine and his eyes were blue and black.

All the way in, the grass and trees are flickering and thriving.

Gu Qiuyue remembered the late autumn of that year, he was anxious and expectant to send a note to see, the first time he entered the Guan Sui Garden, standing in the corridor to see the garden in the autumn wind and autumn rain, was feeling the unassuming elegance of the furnishings in his eyes, not dazzling beauty, he heard a soft call "Qiuyue", he looked at the oncoming woman and asked a little stunned, "how does the girl know the next", and then found out that it was a beautiful misunderstanding.

At that time, he didn't expect to be trusted by the prince and evolve into the relationship he is today, he just wasn't used to fantasizing, no matter how slim his expectations were, he had to try to put it into his efforts.

But for some reason, on that hazy night in the autumn rain, a girl's soft and soft voice and surprised but steady demeanor have been quietly occupying a corner of his memory, and he is touched by thoughts from time to time.

As the number of visits to the Chu Palace's increased, he knew that her name was Xia Ke, and she turned out to be a first-class maid beside the princess.

Gu Qiuyue had never carefully pondered the sometimes inexplicable melancholy mood, until the first month, when he learned that the two maids he met by chance at the beginning, one died of incense and jade, and the other was uncertain about life and death.

When she learned that the body suspected of being Xia Ke appeared, the grief in her heart stunned Gu Qiuyue, and then, when she knew that it was not her, her heart fell heavily, and it aroused endless worries that made Gu Qiuyue even more confused.

He didn't know what was wrong with him.

Over the past few days, the prince has asked him to collect all kinds of information about Xiliang in a targeted manner, and he has paid close attention to the Dajun's Mansion, but because the Dajun is heavily guarded, he has not gained much, and the news about Xia Ke has not said a word, but whenever he receives a secret letter from Xiliang, Gu Qiuyue still looks forward to it.

So at this time, his "greedy" gaze stared directly at the few sheets of tissue paper full of handwriting held by Shizi's slender fingers.

It wasn't until he heard a few extremely low muffled coughs that Gu Qiuyue came back to his senses slightly, and he saw a man in a jade robe clenching his fist to his lips, and there seemed to be some fatigue and a faint pain between his eyebrows, so he realized that he hadn't seen him for a few days, and the prince seemed to have lost some weight again.

The servant woman who combed the woman's bun on the side put the cloak on the shoulders of the prince and whispered: "After the needle is applied, the prince is too wasteful." ”

Gu Qiuyue recognized her as Rib.

Yu Feng gathered his cloak and motioned for Rib to retreat, before handing the letter to Gu Qiuyue, leaning back in the chair, and his eyes fell on the golden sun shining in outside the window.

Gu Qiuyue quickly browsed the letter in her hand, but there was still no news from Xia Ke, disappointed, but excited because of the news: "The Maharaja led the troops to the battle? ”

Isn't it a great opportunity to infiltrate the Maharaja's Mansion!

"Even if he goes on the expedition, he should arrange it without flaws, and he can't be in a hurry." Yu Feng seemed to immediately understand Gu Qiuyue's thoughts, and slowly rubbed his eyebrows with one hand: "This battle is obviously Xiliang's long-term preparation, and the plan may not only be the two alliances, Yu Haoxi wants to use this battle to establish prestige, which is very important to him, but he left his confidant Xue Dongchang in Dajing, which shows how cautious his precautions are." ”

Xue Dongchang is as far as Yu Haoxi is concerned, equivalent to the gray crossing next to Yu Feng, a veritable henchman, and a person who can stand in front of his master at any time to prevent all kinds of dangers, the battlefield is full of crises, no one dares to say that he is sure of victory, and there are many unguardable accidents that threaten people, if there is no beautiful scenery in the Dajun Mansion, Yu Haoxi will not stack Xue Dongchang in the rear anyway.

"For several months, except for knowing that we have taken back 'Qianpan', we can't find out any inside information about the Dajun Mansion." Yu Feng's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he shook his head: "Besides, that's Xiliang, we can't use it." ”

Gu Qiuyue understood the concerns of the prince, even if most of the soldiers in the Dajun's Mansion accompanied the expedition, there should be more than 100 left, and there were hundreds of families, although with the ability of the Chu Palace, it was not difficult to mobilize the dead to forcibly attack the Dajun's Mansion, but there was no way to get out of trouble safely, let alone publicize the fact that the princess was taken captive by the Dajun, if one was not careful, this matter was likely to evolve into a hostile relationship between the two countries, and when it reached an uncontrollable situation, the one on the dragon chair was bound to be investigated, as long as the Chu Wangfu did not plan to raise troops to rebel, he must not act so rashly at this time.

It can only be secret, but it is so difficult to infiltrate the Dajun's Mansion, let alone save the princess from trouble and return to the country safely under such strict precautions.

"Fortunately, Wei Ran also went out with the army this time, maybe he can find a chance to win the trust of the Maharaja, if he can enter the Maharaja's Mansion, he should have the opportunity to contact the princess." Gu Qiuyue said, but she was worried: "But Xue Guoxiang knows the details of Wei Ran, and he will definitely tell the monarch that Wei Ran's background ......."

"This is Wei Ran's cleverness." Yu Feng smiled lightly: "Xue Yaotai is the prime minister of a country, and he is also powerful in Xiliang, this person is cautious and wise, and will not be gullible, even if Wei Xi recommends, if Wei Ran fakes his identity, he will be aware of the flaws, and simply use his real identity to dispel his doubts, presumably Yu Haoxi knows more about Wei Ran's family, and will also think that if Wei Ran is my eyes and ears, he will not dare to show it like this, and there is that Wei Xi has been in Xiliang for several years, and he was deeply trusted by Jin Yuan as early as the fifth year of Yuanqing, and even An Jinyuan's marriage did not happen at that time, Yu Haoxi should not suspect that their brothers and sisters are the ones we have installed. ”

Wei Ran did not hide that she was brother and sister with the good doctor of the princess's mansion, Miss Zheng Chenxi, of course, it was impossible for the Qing clan to know, Wei Ran's current identity in Xiliang was forged by Xue Guoxiang, and the Qing clan couldn't detect any flaws, but Xue Guoxiang was an insider, so naturally he couldn't hide it from the monarch, and because of this, with Wei Xi as a cover, Wei Ran might not be suspected by the monarch.

Wei Xi was indeed not pre-arranged by Yu Feng, she went to Xiliang for no other purpose at first, just because Xiliang would accept a woman's medical practice and treat her with courtesy.

Yu Feng smiled again: "Besides, I received a letter from Donghua a few days ago, she has already met with the princess, and immediately went to Yanzilou to verify, presumably Yu Haoxi will not let go of this opportunity to stalk." ”

Gu Qiuyue suddenly said: "No wonder the prince has already ordered that Yanzilou can no longer communicate with us except for contacting and communicating with us." ”

"I asked you to deliberately spread the news that there is a 'favored concubine' in the Maharaja's Mansion, just to make the Qing clan nervous, they are trying to marry the Maharaja, and they are bound to pay attention to the Maharaja's taking over to Xiliang." Favorite concubine', sooner or later will use Donghua to tempt, since Yu Haoxi knows that I have insight into his conspiracy, when Donghua, who knows nothing, visits in a grand manner, he will definitely be suspicious, and want to find out what Donghua's purpose is, I bet that he will allow Donghua to meet with the princess, in front of the Qing clan, it is impossible for the princess to recognize her identity, Donghua must be surprised and suspicious when she sees the princess, and she will contact Yanzilou without thinking much. ”

Yanzilou is a wine shop, the Xiliang folk style is open, the ladies and ladies are very free to enter and exit the market, An Jin is happy, going to the wine shop will not attract attention, and Yanzilou is only used for liaison under Yu Feng's arrangement, and it is not a big deal to expose it, so An Jin usually does not directly contact Wei Ran, Du Yuniang, etc., and is transferred through Yanzilou.

"On the contrary, exposing the Swallow Tower will make Yu Haoxi focus his attention here, and it is inevitable that he will be negligent elsewhere." This is like knowing that the opponent has arranged a tenant, of course, he will be fully guarded, but anyone who is inexplicably close to him cannot be gullible, but if he finds the opponent's dark line and has a target, he will be a little lax.

"Let Yanzilou associate with a few irrelevant dark people, and then let these people find a way to climb the Dajun's Mansion and further confuse." Yu Feng's fingers tapped lightly on his eyebrows: "I want Yu Haoxi to believe in the importance of the Swallow Tower, and I will use this as the basis for judgment in the future, so that when he finds out that Wei Ran and the Swallow Tower are extremely secret, and people have never been in contact, he will definitely dispel his doubts." ”

Yu Feng was sure that Yu Haoxi would not be unfavorable to An Jin, as long as An Jin could not contact Yijing, Yu Haoxi would not move to eliminate An Jin's people.

After Gu Qiuyue heard these words, she added another layer of convincing to the prince, and deeply realized that she still had a lot of room for improvement.

Yu Feng simply asked the two maids to come in to study the ink and polish the pen, and asked Gu Qiuyue to write a letter sent back to Xiliang in person, the wording and sentences were all considered by Yu Feng himself, and the few secret people exposed were also personally selected by him.

At this time, the spring twilight who had combed her hair in a bun entered, she was not on an errand in Guan Sui Yuan at this time, but became the internal manager of the palace, in charge of internal affairs, and now this, naturally, is because there are important things to be done.

Gu Qiuyue often went to the old princess to have fun during this period, she was no stranger to Chundui, and she knew her importance, so she wanted to avoid it, but was stopped by Yu Feng and asked him to stay aside.

"Shizi, it was someone from the Weiguo Mansion who spread the word and said that it was ...... Earlier, Kunren Palace sent an inner servant to meet the eldest princess. ”

Edict? Yu Feng raised his eyebrows, sarcastic eyes flashed, and only said, "I know." ”

The timing was just right.

"Qiuyue, it's time to leave Jinyang, you prepare." Shizi said.

Gu Qiuyue's heart was surging: "The prince has finally decided to go to the domain?" ”

If you go to Chuzhou, it is only 100 miles away from Tongling Pass, and the correspondence with Dajing is more timely.

"I had made up my mind, I was just waiting for the right moment...... The five princes died violently soon after they arrived in the forbidden land, and now, Concubine Yang and the infant orphan also died of illness. Yu Feng stood up with a calm expression: "The news of the death of Concubine Yang's mother and son will be transmitted back to Jinyang in the next two days." ”

Gu Qiuyue only felt that her heart was beating rapidly, and after hesitating, she couldn't help but ask: "The fifth prince is really ...... by the saint."

Yu Feng chuckled: "Everyone in the world thinks like this, it is the saint who cuts the grass and eradicates the roots. ”

As soon as the news of the death of the five princes spread, many people talked about the revenge of the Son of Heaven, the five princes were the murderers who wanted to poison the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven naturally did not allow him to live in the world.

After learning of the rumors, the Son of Heaven was furious and arrested many people who were discussing in private and beheaded and executed, and it didn't take long for Concubine Yang's mother and son to die of illness in the forbidden land.

The sixth and seventh princes are still imprisoned, Li Concubine has been given to death, and even the King of Liao, who was personally sealed before the collapse of the first emperor, was delayed by the Son of Heaven for various reasons, and was not allowed to go to the domain.

Gu Qiuyue knew that the prince was as early as February, so she secretly ordered Gray Du to search for the Jiang Han brothers and sisters, and secretly escorted them to Jinyang.

At that time, in order to get close to the prince, he also made a lot of effort, knowing that Jiang Han was a friend of the prince and the son of Jiang Qinggu, and the prince actually used the word "escort"! So Gu Qiuyue immediately thought that on the day of the death of the first emperor, only Jiang Qinggu and King Qing were in front of the sickbed, and it was precisely because of Jiang Qinggu's testimony that King Qing was able to ascend the throne smoothly.

Gu Qiuyue broke out in a cold sweat.

In March, he saw Jiang Han once in the palace of the king of Chu, although he was "escorted" back, but the prince did not restrict Jiang Han's personal freedom, and still treated him politely.

Then not long ago, the five princes died violently, and before his violent death, Gray Ferry disappeared for a while.

Gu Qiuyue couldn't help but wonder if the death of the five princes had anything to do with the weak and polite prince in front of him.

If so, is it ...... Gu Qiuyue only felt a tremor rise to his feet, but the strange thing was that he didn't feel fear, but had a complicated excitement and expectation.

At this time, he bowed down, and when he left, his steps were heavy, but his eyebrows were full of spirit.

It wasn't until she went out of the corner gate and saw the Weiguo Mansion on the other side that Gu Qiuyue realized another strange thing-

The queen saw the eldest princess, why did the Guogong Mansion inform the prince of this?