This question has been lingering in Gu Yunji's heart for a long time, you must know how unkind the emperor's family is, and there is no friendship in the battle for succession, only interests. Li Jinze is fifteen years old this year, not an ignorant and naïve age, Gu Yunji sometimes really doesn't know what he is thinking.

Did he really want Gu Yunji to be healthy out of guilt, or did he have another purpose?

Cheng Yan smiled when he heard this, took a sip of tea unhurriedly, and said leisurely: "Then let me ask you, what were you thinking when you gave the prince a hidden weapon? Do you want the prince to owe you something so that you can better deal with Fang Zigui, or are you really righteous and selfless to save the prince from danger?"

Gu Yunji was stunned and fell silent.

At that time, the incident happened suddenly, seeing that Gao Shishu's poisonous needle was about to stab Li Jinze, and he was the closest, he just subconsciously wanted to pounce on the prince to avoid the hidden weapon. As for what the purpose is, Gu Yunji himself is not clear.

Perhaps he was worried that if something happened to Li Jinze, the officials of the entire Zhejiang Province would suffer; Maybe it was because during that time, everyone put Li Jinze first in everything and protected it for a long time, so it became natural to get used to it, or some other reason...... In short, if Gu Yunji was asked to think about it at this time, he really couldn't say why.

Cheng Yan saw it clearly, smiled clearly, filled the half-cold tea in front of Gu Yunji, and pulled back his thoughts: "Don't think about it if you don't understand, sometimes some people's behaviors are subconscious, so if you think about it, you can do it, how can there be any long-planned purpose and motive."

"Whether the prince is true to you or fake, at least for now, he treats you well. Even if he pretends, if he can pretend for a long time, the fake will become real. In short, in any case, your current interests are tied together, and since you have chosen this path, you should go on with determination and don't hesitate."

As he spoke, Cheng Yan paused and looked at Gu Yunji's eyes with a smile: "And I still say that, I will help you."

Gu Yunji was silent for a while, and suddenly said, "What about you? In the years that I have been away from the capital, how did you become an emperor?"

After a few years of separation, seeing each other again, he and Cheng Yan had a tacit understanding as always, as if nothing had changed, but it seemed that something had changed.

Cheng Yan was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing and patted Gu Yunji's shoulder: "Because I want to be an emperor, I did it. You have your way to go, and I have my way to go."

Gu Yunji's heart was relieved, and he also laughed: "Then shouldn't I be glad that you voted for His Majesty's faction, not the Second Prince's Party?" Otherwise, you and I will become political enemies for-for-tat?"

Cheng Yan pretended to sigh, and said with a smile: "So, this is called tacit understanding, in the dark, I think you want to be the crown prince's person, so I rejected the olive branch thrown by the second prince again and again, don't you feel moved?"

Gu Yunji was stunned, and then laughed again: "When did you learn Su Qi's set, flamboyant!"

"People always change, and that's not a kind of progress."

Cheng Yan smiled in his eyes: "Now that the matter is about to settle, I will rest assured, when you are completely healed in a few days, most of the holy decree of the reward will come down." I, the representative of the Imperial Party, should not stay in the residence of your princelings."

"It's better to wait for everyone to come to congratulate you, I'll get in again, and by the way, I'll say a few words of joy to you." With that, Cheng Yan stood up and said goodbye to Gu Yunji.

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「…… The prefect of Shaoxing and Zhejiang both commanded the envoys to experience Gu Yunji, served loyally, worked diligently, leveled the thieves in the southeast, sacrificed himself to save the prince in danger, and was called a model of people and ministers.

"Gu's wife Xu, dignified and gentle, gentle in nature, awarded the three grades of the lady, admire this-"

Gu Yunji and Xu Shuhua knelt down respectfully: "Thank you, Your Majesty's grace, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

After announcing the holy decree, Ning Fuhai hurriedly helped Gu Yunji up, and handed him the holy decree with a smile: "Congratulations to Uncle Gu! This time is really a grace and glory, since the founding of Great Xia, you are the first civil official to be knighted!"

Taizu has a hadith, and all lords inherit the position, and those who have not made military merits cannot be awarded, which is equivalent to subordination

Fundamentally cut off the possibility of civilian knighthood. Gu Yunji previously served as the military affairs officer of the capital division, and he has always participated in the fight against the Japanese invaders, plus he has outstanding contributions to saving the prince, so he is barely qualified.

However, Gu Yunji entered the government through the imperial examination, and he is still a civil official in essence, and it is not easy to break too much, so the third-class loyal and diligent uncle is only his lifelong title, and cannot be inherited by his children.

But since Emperor Jingfeng abolished the shadow officials of the lord's children, the old lords had an empty name, and there was no actual treatment of official positions, and their status was worse day by day. Compared with real benefits, the current title brings more glory in reputation, and for Gu Yunji, it doesn't matter whether the title can be inherited by his sons.

Gu Yunji expected that Emperor Jingfeng would reward him, but he didn't expect him to give him a knighthood directly, and he was a little surprised for a while, but Xu Shuhua next to him was even more surprised.

Since Gu Yunji was brought back to the capital by the crown prince, Xu Shuhua was worried about her husband's illness, and worried that he would be punished by Emperor Jingfeng.

finally waited for Gu Yunji's news and learned that he was in good health, Xu Shuhua cried with joy and hurriedly took his daughter to Beijing for a reunion. I never wanted to be happy, not a few days after she entered Beijing, when Gu Yunji was knighted, she actually got an order.

Holding the golden decree in his hand, Xu Shuhua was still a little abrupt: "The lady of the three grades is a lady...... It was my husband who was born and died, and it was also my husband who made outstanding contributions to the court.

Ning Fuhai said with a smile: "Mrs. Xu, don't be arrogant, who in the government and the opposition doesn't know that you are Lord Gu's virtuous helper? As the Duke of Xu Wenzheng, he is full of poetry and books, has outstanding talents, has the courage to carry a sword to force out a criminal cousin from the family ancestral hall, can also assist the government, and can talk freely with the Buddha Lang Jiren, all of which have spread in the capital."

After Gu Yunji was poisoned, even the officialdom in Zhejiang was in chaos, Xu Shuhua was in a mess, and the two were naturally in no mood to act in a pretending unfamiliar drama. So the matter quickly spread - Mrs. Xu, who pointed at her cousin, and Mrs. Xu, who was proficient in the Franc machine, were actually the same person, and it was Gu Yunji's wife.

In the face of such a legendary experience, the storytellers could not let it go, so they added fuel and vinegar, combined Gu Yunji's deeds of saving the prince and the southeast to fight against the Japanese invaders, and compiled a story of ups and downs, which was passed on by word of mouth, and even everyone in Beijing had heard of it.

After Emperor Jingfeng learned about it, he sighed in his heart, praised Xu Shuhua as a model of contemporary women, and simply waved her hand and named her a third-grade lady.

After carefully reading the holy decree again, Xu Shuhua suddenly found that something was wrong, and said suspiciously: "Generally speaking, the grade of a woman's order is that of her husband, which is the same as her husband's official rank. Why is it that my husband is a fourth-rank prefect, but I am a third-rank lady?"