Xie Songzhao sat under the window and watched him climb up the wall, touched the red thread on his hand and smiled lightly, and waved his hand to let him hurry up.

Gu Mingchao's figure fell into the night, Xie Songzhao couldn't hold back any longer, lying on the desk, coughing heartbreakingly.

Gui Hong was stunned, "Master Hou...... You?"

Xie Songzhao suddenly raised his hand, and the red thread fell from his sleeve, "You sober me up and tell him everything...... You don't have to go back to Yandu."

Guihong gave him a smooth breath, and his throat hurt, "Master Hou, what use can I use if I say it? Aren't you business as usual yet? Childe isn't by your side every day."

Xie Songzhao stretched out his wrist in front of him, "Loose, tie it tighter for me."

Guihong gently tightened it for him, "Master Hou, I won't say it, but you have to take medicine, the doctor said, you can take care of it well, you can take care of it for a long time."

Xie Songzhao bowed his head lightly, enduring the rich smell of blood in his throat, Guihong didn't dare to say anything else to him, so he could only withdraw with his head down.

Listen to the rain dock.

The scarlet lantern swayed gently in the wind, and Zhong Yun knelt in the corridor, Yoda's knife across her neck.

Gu Mingchao's smile on the wall was gone, "Aunt Zhong Yun."

Zhong Yun tilted his head slightly, and said with a smile: "Lord Wang, if you weren't for your servant, you would be a ghost under the knife now."

Gu Mingchao casually picked up the green and yellow fallen leaves under the corridor, "Aunt Zhong Yun, you are really capable."

Zhong Yun sneered, "Lord Wang, that cup of tea can't still be used for medicine."

Gu Mingchao sat next to her, "Yes, it's my aunt who underestimates. Then a cup of tea, when it comes to my aunt's mouth, is just the word "merely."

Zhong Yun pushed the blade away slightly with his fingers, but Yoda's hand didn't move as if it wasn't sore.

Gu Mingchao watched the east gradually turn cyan, and sighed, "This is really a good day...... Good time, Yoda, send your aunt on her way."

Zhong Yun's mouth quickly flew up and down, and he said softly: "Lord Wang, Emperor Yongzuo has really become the first emperor, don't you want to know anything?"

Yoda's knife was still next to her neck, Gu Ming's eyes were deep, as if he wanted to see Zhong Yun's heart, Zhong Yun had never been afraid of staring, who she recognized to see her, she was this idle.

Gu Mingchao turned the fallen leaves on the tips of his fingers, "Emperor Yongzuo is dead?"

Zhong Yun looked at him, "In order for you to pave the way for you, so Empress Dowager Yang killed him."

Gu Mingchao looked back suddenly, "Aunt Zhong Yun, please get up, can you go into the house for a while."

Zhong Yun bowed his head and walked in with his sore and numb feet, Gu Mingchao's eyes turned, and Yoda closed the door with understanding.

"Auntie, please be seated." Gu Mingchao knelt and sat above.

Zhong Yun looked around the room, "Lord Wang, you originally had a smooth road to the sky in the future, which was a Zixiao road that no one else could reach. But the servant didn't expect that you were really treasonous."

Gu Mingchao sneered, and the tea soup in his hand swayed and wanted to run out, "Aunt Zhong Yun, why don't you guess, I'm going to make a deal with the regent?"

Zhong Yun shook his head slightly, "No, the regent has never liked you, this is something that can be seen with the naked eye, as long as you are not crazy, you can't look away." He poured himself tea slightly sideways, "Lord Wang, the only person you go to see will be your husband, Xie Songzhao."

Gu Mingchao's face was like a frost flower, and he didn't smile at all, "Auntie, it's easy to fold over wisdom. You know so much, and your mouth is so loose, I'm worried."

Zhong Yun put down the teacup, "Lord Wang, you need someone to cooperate, don't you?"

Gu Mingchao looked at her with a smile, with a slight arc on his lips, "Auntie, why do you want to cooperate with me?" With me, maybe there is a purple road in the future? Can you be the Zhong family's ***?"

Zhong Yun was not surprised at all that he knew about this, "No, my ancestors were loyal to the Chen State, could it be that Emperor Yongzuo didn't please him? Definitely. It's the monarch who is afraid of high-ranking generals, it's the time when the country has reached the end of the road, so why should I help him? I will overthrow him."

Gu Chao Chao Er turned his head to look at her, but there was no firmness in her eyes

Reduced by half a point, slowly, some madness came out, as if to set a fire and burn this filthy place, so that it would be clean.

Gu Mingchao turned the teacup, and the plan in his heart gradually took shape, "Aunt Zhong Yun, people have a clear name, it's really rare for you to do this."

Zhong Yun looked at him with some sarcasm, "After all, I'm not like your husband, it's thankless to work hard, I just want Zhou Guo to be prosperous and strong, how different is his situation from mine?"

Gu Mingchao's face fell when he landed, "Zhong Yun, I am talking to you, but it doesn't mean that you can speak disrespectfully to my husband."

Zhong Yun put away the ridicule on his face and bowed his head and said, "Yes, slave remember. Now, what I say, please weigh it carefully."

Gu Mingchao held up the teacup and motioned for her to continue, "This king listens to you."

Zhong Yun dipped his fingers in some tea, got up and walked to Gu Mingchao's desk, stretched out his hand and wrote the word "Wen".

Gu Mingchao raised his eyebrows slightly, "Wen Gu Jiangdu."

Zhong Yun erased the water marks, "Exactly, if anyone wants to destroy Chen Guo the most, it must be her. If this person helps, the head of the regent will be the head of the prince, that is, to sell Seoul by inserting a bid."

Gu Mingchao was worried about the credibility of his words, and the smile on his face remained undiminished, "Wen Gujiang doesn't know about this king, but this matter will be clear tomorrow."

Zhong Yun dipped the tea again, and then wrote the word "leaf", Gu Mingchao sneered, "This person is quite ambitious, I am afraid that he disdains to be in the company of nobodies such as us."

Zhong Yun took out the silk from his sleeve, and did not say that his words were hypocritical.

Zhong Yun glanced at his wrist, "Lord Wang is asking for peace for Lord Xie. You are so filial."

Gu Mingchao moved his wrist and covered the red line, "Auntie, please go and rest, tomorrow's birthday banquet will still work for auntie."

Zhong Yun bent his knees and walked into the courtyard in the light of day.

Jianzhang Palace, dormitory.

Emperor Jianwen was lying on the couch and moaned, "Water...... Water...... Water ......"

Empress Dowager Yang knelt in front of the Buddha statue and read the scriptures, and the sandalwood was so strong that she almost blasted Gu Changkan out.

"Yang Yunkuo, what are you doing?" Gu Changkan pinched his nose and stood by the door from a distance.

Empress Dowager Yang lowered her head slightly, like a mother.

Gu Changkan tilted his head and took a deep breath, then pinched his nose and rushed in, "Yang Yunkuo, why did Jianwen suddenly fall ill?"

Empress Dowager Yang sighed, "Life and death are fateful, and wealth is in the sky. I can only pray for him in front of the Buddha."

Gu Changkan's tone was stiff, "Yang Yunkuo, he is sick, you should call him a doctor, you move a Buddha statue and burn incense here, are you going to smoke him to death and send him to die early?"

Yang Yunkuo got up, then her Bodhisattva statue looked at Gu Changkan, "It seems that the regent is in a good mood?"

Gu Changkan sat on the couch, crossed his legs, and said proudly, "Yes."

Yang Yunkuo said disgustedly: "I was scolded by Wen Gujiang again?"

Gu Changkan pouted and said, "You can't think of me to order something good? Thinking about me being scolded all day long, I can't be beautiful in my family?"

Yang Yunkuo's eyes were raised, "You? Home and beauty? You...... You're not going to laugh at me, are you?"

Gu Changkan took off the jade pendant on his waist and held it up in front of her, "Look at this, this, she gave me a birthday gift."

Yang Yunkuo glanced at the jade pendant, then looked at Gu Changkan, and said with difficulty, "Gu Changkan, haven't you seen the world? The color of this jade pendant is neither beautiful nor transparent. At first glance, it is an inferior product. Scold...... You're a treasure."

Gu Changkan snorted and snorted, "You don't know the goods, what she sent is the best." It's just you...... Bodhisattvas, only to be high in the sky, not to touch the red dust."

Yang Yunkuo didn't argue with him, he only looked at Emperor Jianwen deeply, Emperor Jianwen was still muttering "water" in his mouth, but Gu Changkan didn't seem to hear it, and Empress Dowager Yang didn't pay attention to him at all.

Gu Changkan looked sideways at Emperor Jianwen, "What's wrong with him?"

Empress Dowager Yang said nonsense: "I saw something unclean, and I was scared."

Gu Changkan was suspicious

Glancing at her, "Unclean things?"

Empress Dowager Yang refilled three more incense sticks, "Buddha bless."

Gu Changkan had a headache when he heard her speak slowly, "Yang Yunkuo."

Empress Dowager Yang said softly, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid time is running out."

There was no joke in Gu Changkan's eyes, "Your Majesty? That Your Majesty? Still is...... Two?"

Empress Dowager Yang held the handkerchief at the head of the bed in her hand, "This child, born wrong, how could such a good child be born in this emperor's family."

Gu Changkan listened to her incoherent words and sneered twice, "Yang Yunkuo, you are really a good chess player. Emperor Yongzuo died twice, you caused it. Now you're going to kill Jianwen, and you're going to give him such a good name, "I saw filthy things", hum...... Yang Yunkuo, good calculation."

Empress Dowager Yang turned a deaf ear, "Regent, you can eat indiscriminately, but don't talk nonsense, it's not good to spew less blood."

Gu Changkan usually saw her treat other people like this, but he only felt happy, and asked the other party to be dumb and eat Coptis chinensis, and he couldn't say anything about his suffering. Now that it's on me, I finally know that talking like this is the most annoying, and you can't catch her mistakes.

Empress Dowager Yang gently patted Emperor Jianwen and coaxed him to sleep, Gu Changkan grabbed her wrist and forced her eyes, "Yang Yunkuo, you want him to die."

Empress Dowager Yang gently struggled and dragged down, and gave up when she couldn't break free, and only glanced sideways at Nian Yi by the screen.

Nian bowed his head and closed the door tightly.

Gu Changkan let go of her inexplicably, "Qingtian and white day, what are you doing when you close the door?"

Empress Dowager Yang straightened her sleeves, "You are a prince, you have neither a calling nor a holy decree, but you enter and leave the harem at will, what is your intention?"

Gu Changkan didn't expect her to divide things so quickly, as if the friendship over the years was all imagined by herself, and her face suddenly turned cold.

Empress Dowager Yang's eyebrows stretched, and she lowered her eyes slightly and sneered, "Gu Changkan, people must have ambition, and what you say yourself should be clear and distinct, then you should do what you say."

Gu Changkan grinded his back molars and said stiffly: "Okay, okay, Yang Yunkuo, let's see who is better between civil and military."

Gu Changkan was so angry that he got up and left, walked to the door and turned back, "Haven't you always regarded Jianwen Xiao'er as your own son? How can you do it now?"

Empress Dowager Yang tucked the corner of the quilt for Emperor Jianwen and asked him, "Didn't you still want to use Emperor Yongzuo before?"

Gu Changkan was angry when he said this, "If you say no, I'll say no. Am I not good enough to follow you? You are now determined to use Gu Mingchao."

Empress Dowager Yang looked back at him, "Because he is ambitious."

Gu Changkan was puzzled, "What? Ambition?!"

Empress Dowager Yang exhaled slowly, "Gu Changkan, if he is ambitious, he will not be willing to be subordinate, and when he sits firmly on the throne, at that time, it will be the ...... for our Chen State to move towards Zhongxing." z.br>

Gu Changkan looked at her dumbfounded, "You really want to live forever—you want to go crazy."

Empress Dowager Yang approached him, "'Men with lofty ideals and benevolence do not seek to survive to harm benevolence, but to kill themselves to become benevolent¹. This has been true since ancient times, and it is true today."

『¹』: From the Analects of Wei Linggong, it refers to the willingness to sacrifice oneself for the sake of ideals.