In the early morning of the next day, the Jinyi Guard Brigade escorted the princess on the road, and the civil and military officials of Nanjing City, including Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, who stayed in Nanjing, all went out of the city to send them off, and watched the princess's car gradually disappear outside the north gate, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The princess is in Nanjing for a day, everyone's hearts are hanging, how can the palace defense be so hard, the princess stays here for a month, everyone is tired enough. What's more, there is a new big incident in the palace, Gu Dayong was assassinated by assassins, and the palace burned down a few buildings, these things are all to be investigated, and at this time, the princess stayed here, and everyone was busy and worried.

For Zhu Chenhao, Song Nan's departure, his heart became more and more suspended, although the two tacitly reached a tacit understanding, but Zhu Chenhao couldn't believe that Song Nan would abide by this kind of silence. He was restless, and the day after Song Nan left, he set off to return to Nanchang, unwilling to stay in Nanjing.

Nanjing Jinyi Wei dispatched 500 soldiers and horses and Song Nan's 100 personal guards escorted the princess back to Beijing slowly, three days later in the capital Fengyang Mansion stayed for one night, local officials arranged for the princess and Song Nan to visit the former residence of Taizu and the place where he had stayed, in the shrine of Huangjue Temple, offering a tattered robe, the official who explained the description of how Taizu endured here, in the Buddhist door with the world in mind. Song Nan looked at the gray and black oil stains on the robe for a long time.

If this robe is indeed the monk's robe when Taizu Zhu Chongba became a monk, then the oil stains on it must be evidence of the crime left by the grandfather who stole wine and meat; Song Nan's brain made up for the ugly bald head Zhu Yuanzhang who was full of pockmarks and looked ugly, pretending to be a home in the temple, and the chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs that plagued the surrounding people day and night, sighed more and more at the unpredictability of fate. Zhu Yuanzhang was in a difficult situation back then, how could he have thought that he would sit on the world in the future?

After leaving the central capital, he traveled north, and a few days later arrived in the territory of the capital of Gunzhou, Shandong, where local officials came to meet the princess in a chariot into the city of Gunzhou, and at the same time quickly returned to Beijing to report the princess's arrival in Gunzhou. It is rare to get along with the princess, and the closer you are to the capital, the fewer opportunities you have to get along, so Song Nan decided to stay in Gunzhou for a few days and take the princess to play for a few days.

However, on the morning of the second day of the Gunzhou Mansion, when Song Nan and the princess were having breakfast in Xingyuan, Wang Yong rushed in in a hurry, looking quite flustered.

"My lord, my lord, it's not good, it's not good."

"Wang Yong, the older the official, the more unruly he becomes, and he doesn't bow to the princess to make amends? Princess Luan is here, how can you shout so much. Song Nan reprimanded.

Wang Yong hurriedly bowed to the princess, Zhu Xiufu waved Bai Shengsheng's little hand and said: "No courtesy, General Wang is not an outsider, you have something to report to your family, do you need to avoid this palace?" ”

Wang Yong hurriedly said: "No, no, it's someone from the capital who came to announce the decree, and asked my lord and princess to hurry up and accept the decree." ”

Song Nan and Zhu Xiufu were both stunned: "The holy decree has come to the capital? ”

"Yes, the proclamation is on the way, and the speech is coming; Li Tai, the prefect of Gunzhou, greeted him in the morning, and sent someone to inform him of the humiliation and asked him to report to the lord and the princess to prepare for receiving the order. ”

Song Nan hurriedly got up and went back to the room to change into official clothes, and the princess also changed into a dress under the service of the palace maid. ”

Song Nan hurriedly came to the open space in the middle of the courtyard with Princess Kang Ning, and three eunuchs from the inner court walked in at the door, led by Ma Yongcheng, the eunuch of the head of the imperial horse eunuch, and saw Song Nan and shouted expressionlessly: "Song Nan takes the order." ”

"Minister Song Nan took the order." Song Nan and Kang Ning bowed to the ground, and a group of brocade-clothed officials also knelt aside.

"Song Nan, there are important matters in the court that require you to go back to Beijing to negotiate, quickly escort the imperial sister back to Beijing, and you must arrive in the capital within three days, Qin this." Ma Yongcheng unfolded the holy decree and read it aloud.

Song Nan waited for a long time and didn't have a follow-up, so he listened to Ma Yongcheng and said: "Lord Song, thank you for your order." ”

Song Nan looked up in amazement and asked, "It's gone?" Just a few words? ”

Ma Yongcheng smiled: "Yes, just these few words?" ”

Song Nan was helpless, and led everyone to bow and receive the decree, and after the decree was announced, Ma Yongcheng became a humble Ma Yongcheng again, stepped forward to salute the princess and Song Nan respectively, and asked some words such as whether the road was hard and whether the road was difficult.

Song Nan ordered someone to watch the tea on the seat, and after sitting down, he asked, "Gonggong Ma, what's the matter?" The emperor's holy decree has no eyebrows, what happened in Beijing? So urgent? ”

Ma Yongcheng bowed and said: "My lord returned to Beijing from Nanjing, and I have been walking all the way for ten days, and the emperor is anxious to miss the princess and Lord Song, so he is in a hurry to let you go back." ”

Song Nan shook his head and said: "This is impossible, the emperor said that there is something important to discuss, I'm afraid something really happened in Beijing, you are from the capital, don't you know what is happening in the capital?" ”

Ma Yongcheng frowned and said: "No, it's normal, the adults go to court normally, and they are still noisy, and the Jingzhong market is also very peaceful." ”

Song Nan frowned and said, "That's weird." ”

Kang Ning said softly: "Let's rush to the capital as much as possible, Emperor Xu thinks that we have been out for too long, and there are some ...... Some...... Lose sleep over something. ”

Song Nan suddenly realized what Kang Ning meant by worry, the name Song Nan had an affair with Kang Ning, and this time he escorted Kang Ning back to Beijing alone, wasn't it sticky with Emperor Hu Tianhu along the way? It's good to say that you're worried, but Zhengde is afraid that he will vomit blood in anger and jump off the building in a hurry.

Song Nan rolled his eyes and said helplessly: "It seems that the plan is going to be in the soup, I was going to go to Nanxiaoqingshan in Gunzhou to play, where is it called Xiaohuangshan, it seems that I can only wait for next time." ”

Corning snorted under his breath, "There will be a chance." ”

Hurry up, two days later, Song Nan and his entourage arrived in the capital, as soon as they entered the capital, Song Nan felt that something was wrong, there were obviously more heavily armed soldiers on horseback on the street than usual, and when they passed through several Beijing camp stations, they found that these places were much stricter than usual; There is also a large group of soldiers stationed in front of the gate of the Beijing camp, which is not like the chaotic and scattered appearance before.

Song Nan ordered someone to go back to the house to inform the family that he had arrived in the capital, and after sending the princess back to Shouning Palace, he hurried to the Qianqing Palace. In the afternoon, the door of the Qianqing Palace should have been crowded, because this is the time when Zhengde is not seen, and they generally hide in the apse to sing and dance, or play riding and archery games. But today, there are more than a dozen eunuchs and guards at the gate of the Qianqing Palace.

After Song Nan reported, he entered and was led straight to the imperial study, and at the door, he heard the noisy voices of people inside, and it seemed that there were dozens of people discussing something. When Song Nan entered the door, everyone turned their heads to look, and Zhengde and Zhang Lun were surprised: "Song Nan is back." But the rest of the people were silent and turned their faces away.

Song Nan stepped forward to bow to Zhengde, briefly reported the matter of escorting the princess back to Beijing, and wanted to report the assassination of Gu Dayong of the Nanjing Imperial Palace, but was interrupted by Yang Tinghe coughing rudely.

"Lord Song, we are discussing major matters in the imperial court, and those things in Nanjing can be reported to the emperor later, so don't delay the big things."

Song Nan was silent, found a seat and sat down, Yang Tinghe said again: "Is there anything else to do with Marquis Song?" ”

Song Nan said: "It's okay, Yang Shoufu and the adults continue to talk about things." ”

Yang Tinghe said: "There is no need for Lord Song to participate in this matter, if Lord Song wants to wait to see the driver's recital, please wait outside the imperial study." ”

Song Nan felt a pang in his heart, Yang Tinghe was unceremonious to himself, and he was completely above himself when he said such a thing in front of so many people. Song Nan didn't say anything, got up and left, Zhengde hurriedly said: "Slow, I ordered Song Nan to return to Beijing urgently, I want him to hear about this matter." ”

Yang Tinghe, the cabinet scholars, and the dozen or so leaders in the room were all surprised, Yang Tinghe couldn't understand why, at this time, Zhengde still seemed to be supporting Song Nan, hadn't he already fallen out of favor?

Zhang Lun glanced at Song Nan, turned his head and said, "Lu Shangshu, you go on, how is the battle going?" ”

Lu Wan swallowed and spitted at the mouth, and said: "Just now I said that the 80,000 soldiers and horses of the Tartars stole Jiayuguan to our Suzhou guard ten days ago. Gansu Xingdu Division mobilized Gansu Wuwei and Yongchang, Shandanwei a total of 40,000 soldiers and horses to meet the enemy, now the two armies are facing against the northwest of Gansu Town, more than a dozen small-scale encounters, both sides have casualties. The news sent by Chang Ning, the chief soldier of Gansu, today that the Tartars had come prepared this time, carrying firearms and siege equipment, which was obviously different from the past. ”

Song Nan's eyes widened in surprise, it turned out that it was really a big deal, no wonder Zhengde's holy decree was incoherent.