She was a little surprised. You should know that Zhu Fengcai was just discussing this matter with the prince in the warm room last night. He announced early today that at this moment, Li Bushang was about to set off, which was too fast.

Nan Yan thought for a while and said, "Let him come in."

Delu immediately turned around and ran out, and soon he led Li Bushu in.

He was wearing serious official uniforms, and probably walked in from outside, with a chill of ice and snow. Even when he walked into Yonghe Palace, his eyes and expression were cold.

Only when I looked up at Nanyan, my eyes seemed to have a little warmth.

He bowed and said, "Greetings to the Imperial Concubine."

Nanyan sat in the chair and said calmly: "I heard you are here to say goodbye to me."

Li Bushen said, "The emperor ordered me to go to Yongzhou to take office. I don't know when I will be able to return to Beijing when I leave. It was the empress who brought me back from Yongzhou, so I - I want to say goodbye to the empress."

Nan Yan smiled and said, "Just remember where you came from."

"Where comes..."

Hearing these two words, Li Bushen, who had always been calm and composed, seemed to have a little confusion in his eyes. He lowered his head and said softly: "I can't forget it."

Seeing him like this, Nan Yan couldn't help but think of that year again.

He met in Yongzhou back then, just a thin, helpless boy. In order to steal a steamed bun for his seriously ill mother, he was chased and beaten all over the street. His helpless look had been remembered for a long time since he was the most powerful minister.

When I think about it at this time, I couldn't help but feel a little sad.

Although she knew that there were no unchanging people and things in the world, it was naturally a good thing for this child to be the most powerful minister now, sometimes she really hoped that some things could be left in the past forever and never changed, just that.

Thinking of this, she smiled bitterly in her heart and reminded: "Although you came from Yongzhou, today's Yongzhou is different from the past, and people and things have changed. You should still be careful when you go there and don't take it lightly. You should do the errands assigned by the emperor with your heart."

Li Bushen said in a deep voice: "I understand."

“…”

"Of course I will—attentively."

Nan Yan nodded, suddenly remembered something again, and said, "By the way, is Xie Jiaojiao going with you?"

"ah?"

Suddenly hearing her mention this, Li Bushen was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't think of this person at all. Seeing him suddenly appear, Nan Yan smiled faintly and said, "What's wrong? You are going to go to such a faraway place to take up your post, don't you even take your own wife?"

Li Bushen blinked his eyes before he remembered it.

He said, "I haven't considered this yet."

"When will the emperor ask you to set off?"

"As soon as possible, I'll leave tonight."

"Let's leave tonight, why don't you tell me about my family? Besides, you have to go so far away. You just said that you don't know when you will be back, so how can you not bring your family?"

“…”

Li Bushu frowned, and after a while, he said, "The Empress is right."

“…”

"I, I'll ask someone to go back and notify her later."

Nan Yan nodded and said, "I've become a family member, and I have to have a little family member in my heart. You are different from being alone in the past. There is someone who is thinking about you."

“…”

Li Bushu looked up and looked at her deeply.

That glance seemed a little deep, with a hint of nearly desire. His lips opened and closed, as if he was about to ask something, but after hesitating for a while, he still didn't ask, and just said in a depressing manner: "I understand."

After saying that, he took a deep breath and said, "Then, I will take my leave."

Nan Yan said softly: "Be careful on the road."

"Xie Niangniang."

After saying that, he bowed, turned around and left Yonghe Palace soon.

Delu stood on the other side of the yard, looked at his back as he walked out, frowned slightly, and Ruoshui on the side said, "What are you thinking? You're so trance?"

Delu said: "Sister Ruoshui, what does this Lord Li have to do with our Empress? Why did he come to see the Empress first when he goes to another place to take office?"

Ruoshui said: "I don't know much. I just heard that he was picked up by the Empress from the territory of Yongzhou. When he was picked up, he was still young. He was the one who was grown up with the Emperor and the Emperor, just like the Empress's son."

"son?"

Delu shook his head: "I don't think it looks like it."

Ruoshui thought for a moment and smiled, "I was wrong. He was not as old as the Empress's son. It should be said that the Empress treats him as a younger brother."

Delu said: "Brother? Still not like it."

"What do you think?"

"He, he was like a wolf, looking at the Empress, as if he was going to swallow the Empress."

Ruoshui pouted and looked at Li Bushang's back, saying, "What are you talking nonsense? He is so much younger than the Empress. He was picked up by the Empress. Now he is married again, so he will have that kind of thought. Don't talk nonsense. If the Emperor hears this, he might be punished for your sins!"

Delu stuck out his tongue and turned around and left.

That night, the Jinyiwei set out for Yongzhou. Although the Jinyiwei's actions have always been light and simple, because the imperial concubine said hello, Commander Li's wife also accompanied him.

At the same time, an order was quickly sent to Yongzhou. A few days later, Taining Wei and Fuyu Wei, who were far away in Yongzhou, also began to mobilize their troops and head northwest.

Soon, winter passed.

After the Chinese New Year, the weather became clearer and clearer day by day. The thick snow that had accumulated over a winter melted in the warmer and gentle breeze, and the spring breeze also brought some good news.

It was the fifteenth day. The concubines from each palace came to pay their respects to the imperial concubine early in the morning. Nan Yan talked to them for a while and let them disperse themselves, leaving only Concubine Yi and Princess Yongping. The two of them teased the children and spoke privately. After a while, King Chengjun of Han came over.

As soon as he entered the door, he saluted Nanyan and Li Paner in a regular manner: "Greetings to mother, and to Concubine Yi."

Li Pan'er smiled and said, "Your Highness has grown a lot taller again. Now it's almost over to the emperor's shoulders?"

Nan Yan smiled and said, "It's still early."

She pulled her son over, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and smiled, "Where are you going to be crazy about this sweat?"

Zhu Chengjun said, "I just practiced swordsmanship with Bei Yu for a while."

"Oh, what about him?"

"He went home. Just now, an outsider from the palace said that something happened to his family, and he went back."

"What happened to his family?"
Chapter completed!