When Zhou Gu returned to the Protector's Mansion, it was already the fourth watch, and he didn't have the habit of climbing over the wall, so he walked through the main gate.

Today is the first day of the new year, there is a big court meeting, the old protector got up early to rush to the big court meeting, happened to meet him into the house with a cold air, and immediately asked, "Where did you go? Why did you come back?"

Zhou Gu glanced at the old protector, "I went to the welcome shop."

The old protector didn't smell the smell of wine on him, and showed a suspicious look.

Zhou Gu walked inside and explained casually, "I didn't drink, so I went and sat there."

The old protector asked keenly, "With whom?"

Zhou Gu didn't answer, and went straight to the house.

The old protector understands that the drunken flower drink sold in the welcome shop comes from Jiangning County, if he didn't know who opened it before, then now the old protector already knows that it is Su Rong. So he went to see Su Rong? Only when he went to see Su Rong would he not answer his question.

He wanted to catch up and ask clearly, after all, he only came back overnight, but he was afraid that he would miss the time of the court, so he could only press down, get into the carriage, and rush to the court meeting first.

Zhou Gu returned to the Frost Forest Garden and greeted him at midnight, "Childe, where have you been?" How can you throw your subordinates in the house?"

In the past, no matter where Childe went, he basically took him with him, but recently he really felt that he was not Childe's little intimate anymore. I don't even know when Childe left.

Zhou Gu glanced at Midnight, didn't speak, and entered the house.

Midnight hurriedly followed in, saw that he was cold, and asked cautiously, "Childe, will you let the kitchen bring water to bathe you?"

"Not necessarily."

"Do you want to boil a bowl of ginger soup and bring it?" It's so cold at night, I see that you're all frozen, and you're carefully dyed with the wind chill." Midnight was a little worried.

"No, I don't."

Midnight retreated and asked, "Then bring you a hand stove to warm your hands?"

"Don't." Zhou Gu raised his hand to interrupt his continuous questioning, and instructed him, "Send two people to Nanchu to check Yejia and Yeguixue, I want to know everything about Yejia and Yeguixue."

Midnight: "Huh?" snorted.

Zhou Gu stood still and said to him affirmatively: "Find two suitable people and set off today."

Midnight scratched his head, wanting to ask why, but looking at Zhou Gu's face, he still nodded, "My subordinates will do it."

Zhou Gu said "um".

Walking out in the middle of the night, the room was quiet, Zhou Gu lay down on the bed, and he didn't even untie his coat, so he slept with his clothes.

Today's big court meeting, and the previous 15th day of the first day of the month of the big court meeting routine is different, today the focus of the court to discuss the scientific examination papers, the emperor urged several examiners to speed up the progress, and the court focused on the case of the assassination of the princess of Qingping, and reprimanded the Dali Temple Qing Qing for the crime of lax prison management, and actually let the prisoner commit suicide by poisoning in the Dali Temple, it is really ridiculous, strictly ordered that from today onwards, the criminal department will intervene, and the three divisions will re-investigate the case.

After the court meeting, the emperor sent someone to invite the old protector to go to the imperial study to speak.

The old protector is old, in a year, only the court will go to the court, the emperor in a month, it is rare to see his side, mainly in ordinary times, when there is no major event, the old protector will even take a leave of absence.

It has been two months since the old protector went to court, and the emperor has not seen the old protector.

The old protector came to the imperial study and bowed his hand, and the emperor hurriedly helped him, "The old prince is exempt, I haven't seen you for two months, is the prince in good health?"

The old protector coughed and gasped, "Your Majesty Lao cares, the old minister's body is bone, and when it comes to autumn, he will be a little unbearable. The wounds and old diseases that fell in my early years, every night, I have a faint pain, and the old problem is not a big deal, but it is a panic in my heart, and it is difficult to sleep."

The emperor immediately said, "Let the Imperial Hospital take a closer look, if you need good medicine, I have it in my private vault."

The old protector nodded, "The imperial doctor often comes to the house to ask for a safe pulse, but the old illness is also helpless, and he says every day that the old minister should take care of it, hey, this has been raised for several years, and the more he raises it, the more painful it becomes." As he spoke, he waved his hand, "But Your Majesty, rest assured, the old minister's old bones can still hold up."

Emperor Xun

Said: "Since the old Imperial Doctor Chen told the old man to leave Beijing, the imperial doctors of the remaining Tai Hospital are indeed a bunch of waste. In my opinion, I still have to post the emperor's list and recruit people for the Tai Hospital. It is necessary to seek good medical skills before it can be used. The concubine also complained to me a few days ago, saying that the current imperial doctor is useless, she has a small cold, and it will only be better in half a month."

The old protector stroked his beard and said, "Lao Chen's grandson is said to be alive, why don't Your Majesty send someone to ask him if he is willing to come to Tai Hospital to join him?" If you have the mantle of the old minister, you can't go wrong."

The emperor clapped his hands, "You don't say that I will return it to his grandson and forget, Cheng, I will send someone to ask when I turn around."

After the two of them chatted for a while, the emperor got to the point and asked the old protector tentatively, "I heard that the daughter of Jiangzhou Assassin Shi Su Xu, many people feel a little like the county lord of Zhenmin after seeing it?"

The old protector nodded, "It's a little similar."

Emperor Zhengse said: "Old Guogong, you and I are honest, what was the reason for the marriage between you and Su Xu in the first place?"

The old protector looked at the emperor and kicked the ball back, "What does Your Majesty think?"

The emperor wants to say, how do I know? I don't even know a lot about your Protector's Mansion. He was dissatisfied in his heart, and he didn't show it on his face, but said: "I just asked you because I couldn't think of a reason, when the Protectorate Mansion and the Su family had a marriage contract, Su Xu was still a little Taishou in Jiangning County, and the lintel was very different, unless there was a special reason, how could it not be connected."

The old protector nodded, "What Your Majesty said is that there is a special reason."

The emperor waited for him to continue, but when he saw that the old protector had shut up and stopped talking, he was angry, "Old prince! How? Can't even I say it?"

His voice was a little heavier, "If it's just a little girl, I don't want to know, but since she looks like the county lord Zhenmin, I naturally want to find out. Do you have to ask me to send someone to find her?"

The old man thought to himself, you must have sent someone to investigate, but nothing has been found out so far, so he blocked me to ask today, but this is also the purpose of his participation in the court meeting today.

So, he deliberately hung the emperor for a while, and then he pretended to sigh helplessly and swept towards Yu An, who was standing aside and waiting.

Yu An looked at the emperor with a spirit, the emperor nodded to him, he quickly retreated, and closed the door of the imperial study very interestingly.

There were only two people left in the imperial study, the emperor and the old protector, and the old protector said: "This matter, it stands to reason that the old minister promised the county lord Zhenmin, and he should not say anything until the day he brought it into the coffin. But at this moment and then, as Su Rong grew up, she really looked too much like the county lord of Zhenmin back then, and after the old minister saw her, he knew that this secret could not be hidden."

The Emperor sat up straight, "What do you mean?"

The old protector sighed, "Su Rong is the daughter of the lord of Zhenmin and the king of Southern Chu. Before the county lord died, he found the old minister and begged the old minister to protect her daughter, and the old minister consulted with her and made a marriage contract between Su Rong and Zhou Gu."

"What did you say?" The Emperor stood up, "Didn't she die in Great Wei back then? How could it be ......?"

Seeing the emperor's shocked face, the old protector nodded affirmatively, and said, "When the county lord of Zhenmin and his relatives arrived in the Great Wei, they found that they were pregnant, and they were inevitably discovered, so they could only fake their deaths and get out incognito. The Emperor and the Queen Mother also knew about it."

The Emperor was stunned, "Why don't I know? Why didn't anyone tell me?"

"Lord Zhenmin has a deep relationship with Your Majesty, and I probably don't want Your Majesty to worry about her. It was only before the death of the county lord Zhenmin that Lao Chen learned that she did not die and lived in Jiangning County." The old protector of the country briefly talked about how the county lord Zhenmin found him back then and made a marriage contract.

The Emperor took a step back, his expression still dazed, as if his mind was buzzing with the impact of this secret, and he couldn't think for a moment, "She was eight years ago...... Go?"

The old protector bowed, "I went shortly after the engagement."

The emperor paused for a while before asking, "Since the marriage contract was made by her on her deathbed, why did Su Rong withdraw from the marriage?"

These days, Su Rong and Zhou Gu divorced, and the trouble in Beijing was boiling, and it was spread into the palace, and he had already heard about it.

The old protector was helpless, and when he mentioned this, he was sincere

sued, quite a bit of heart-to-heart with the emperor, "Brother Gu is unwilling to withdraw from the marriage. But Your Majesty, you know that the king of Southern Chu now has no heir, and Su Rong is the only royal daughter. For many years, the queen of Southern Chu has been sending people to assassinate Su Rong, and now it has intensified and intensified. On her way to Beijing, what was even worse, she was intercepted and killed by several waves of people and horses in Southern Chu. Under such circumstances, can Su Rong continue to be an ordinary person? It's impossible. Therefore, she was forced to withdraw from the marriage. After all, if it goes on like this, sooner or later she will go to Nanchu to be the princess again, otherwise, wouldn't she have to live like this in her life? Only by sitting in that position can I not be artificially knifed and treated as fish, right?"

Hearing this, the emperor gradually calmed down, "So, she is going to Nanchu to seize the throne? And Zhou Gu ......"

The old protector arched his hand, "Your Majesty, Zhou Gu is not still the lord, the princess of Daliang is not still good, and the princess of Southern Chu is not still good."

It's not that he wants to say it bluntly, but the emperor once intended to let Princess Zhou Gushang die, and after being pushed by him, the emperor connived at Qingping and connived at Duanhua to entangle Zhou Gu, and he may not have the intention of tying Zhou Gu to death in the position of a horse or a county horse.

The emperor paused, nodded slowly, didn't say anything, and asked, "How did Queen Nanchu learn about Su Rong's existence?"

The old protector shook his head, "The old minister doesn't know, according to Su Rong, someone killed her many years ago, and later found out that it was from the queen of Southern Chu."

The emperor's face changed, "I want to meet Su Rong."

The old protector nodded and shook his head, and suggested, "Your Majesty, the old minister feels that you don't need to rush to see Su Rong, once you see her, her identity will be completely confirmed. A lot of distractions will follow. You should not summon her until you are ready. When you're ready, it's not too late to see her again."

The Emperor fell silent.

The old protector no longer spoke, believing that his unfinished words would be understood by the emperor.

The emperor naturally understands that as an emperor, he has already perfected his power skills, as long as he calms down and thinks about it, he will soon understand that once Su Rong's identity is recognized by him, there are a lot of pros and cons involved, and the pros and cons must be carefully weighed, I don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing.

It is indeed not suitable for him to see Su Rong at present, even if he has learned her identity, even if countless people in Beijing have seen her now, they are suspicious of her because of her appearance, and they suspect the county lord Zhenmin, but as long as he doesn't see her for a day, her identity will only be guessed by everyone, and she will not be characterized as the daughter of the county lord Zhenmin.

He is the emperor, and his every move is deeply concerned, and Su Rong, although she is currently a little concubine, she has been involved in many mansions, and because she looks like the lord of Zhenmin, her every move is also in the attention of countless people.

The emperor was also silent for a while, and acquiesced in the old Protector's suggestion, "Now in Beijing, except for the people in the Protector's Mansion, who has learned Su Rong's true background?"

The old protector shook his head, "The old minister doesn't know, but Su Rong has lived in Princess Qingping's mansion for a long time, and Princess Qingping has also grown up with Lord Zhenmin since she was a child, so she probably can't hide it, and now Su Rong lives in Shen Xian's mansion again, and Shen Xian has a deep friendship with Xie Yuan, so it's not easy to say."

The emperor's greatest concern was not the people in the princess's mansion and the Shen mansion, but his princes, especially the crown prince, who simply asked directly, "Where is the prince?"

The old protector thought that no matter when, His Majesty would not forget to be jealous of him, his own son, and he was extremely guarded, so he shook his head, "The old minister doesn't know."

"Zhou Gu knows, won't tell the prince?" The emperor asked.

The old protector said: "The old minister has been hiding from Gu Ge'er, and it was not until these two days that he didn't know about it, since the scientific examination, he has not been to the East Palace, and he has not spoken to the prince."

The old protector also directly hit the straight ball, and said bluntly: "If Your Majesty doesn't want the prince to know, the old minister will go back later, and he will sternly tell him not to tell the prince."

The emperor paused, thinking that the prince was smart, even he was suspicious, and he might not be able to hide it, he had this question, it was just to test the relationship between the old protector and the prince, and since it had been tempted, he naturally waved his hand, "This is not necessary, the prince is the prince, this matter is very important, find an opportunity, I will also discuss with him."

The old protector nodded, "What Your Majesty said is that this matter is a state affair in the end

Indeed, you should be cautious."

See you tomorrow for a monthly pass!