"Empress Dowager Li has great wisdom." After a while, Guo Shengcai sighed in a low voice.

To be able to give such a peerless sword from the Lu family to the latecomers who married into the royal family, to those girls from some family that she didn't know or know about, this kind of mentality and this handwriting made him unable to express how full he was.

That butt is hot.

No wonder the legend of the former Empress Dowager Li is everywhere, while Gaozu and even Taizu only exist in sacrifices and history books.

"General Lu said that he brought out these guards from the palace and brought them into the capital. What about the guards of the Lu family before him?" Guo Sheng asked suddenly, not knowing what he was thinking of.

"The former head of the Lu family was the uncle of General Lu. He had been accompanying the Empress Dowager Xian Zheng. The day before the death of the Empress Dowager Xian Zheng, the head of the Lu family died of a sudden illness."

Li Xia pursed her lips tightly, and then continued after a moment: "The former head of the family's bodyguards, and some of the internal bodyguards."

Guo Sheng's face turned slightly green, this was such a coincidence.

"This lifelong loyalty is for the head of the Lu family for life, or is it?"

"Head of the Lu family, after Empress Jin left, she pointed out General Lu to the prince..." Li Xia paused and lowered his eyelids, "I don't need to hide this from you. Before I left, I gave this generation of the Lu family to me.

This is your Majesty’s promise to me. It is my promise to your Majesty that I will let General Lu protect the prince’s safety wholeheartedly.”

"What about Queen Mother Zheng first?" These words seemed to be forced out of Guo Sheng's mouth.

"Well, when Empress Dowager Zheng proposed to marry Queen Jin on behalf of the late emperor, she had promised that the one who would take the throne after the late emperor must be of Queen Gold's blood. If Queen Gold had no heirs, the person who would take the throne would be

Designated by the Golden Queen.

Neither Queen Jin nor the Jin family are gullible. The promise made by Queen Mother Zheng must have enough weight. Only the Lu family can afford this weight. Probably because of this, Queen Mother Zheng wants the head of the Lu family to die.

In front of her."

Li Xia's voice was soft and cold, "The Lu family has a rule when choosing a queen to serve as a servant. You must have a son. When the Empress Dowager Zheng came to power first, she must have felt that it was a perfect plan. She must not have thought that the empress would later give birth to the prince."

There was a faint smile on Li Xia's lips.

"Your Majesty is really the late emperor's..." Guo Sheng couldn't help the sudden gossip. At the end of the sentence, he raised his hand and waved.

"What do you think?" Li Xia glanced at him sideways, and then said: "This is not something you should think about. Ask General Lu if he knows who his uncle's guards were and where they went. The guards in the palace

How many of them are his uncle's old friends? Have any of these old people ever visited him? You know what to ask."

"Yes." After the "yes", Guo Sheng let out a long sigh, "General Lu often mentions his eldest brother, his uncle's eldest son, and his eldest brother treats him very well."

"Well, he is the eldest brother who is in charge of the Lu family in the south now. How is Jingui doing?" Li Xia changed the subject.

"Sure enough, it will be almost done in a few days." Guo Sheng bowed and answered. Seeing that Li Xia indicated that there was nothing else to do, he bowed out.

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In the afternoon, it started to rain lightly, and it didn't stop until the evening. Instead, it started raining harder.

Jin Zhuoyan and Guo Sheng were wearing coir raincoats and bamboo hats, riding horses, accompanied by their long attendants and young men, as well as the wealthy and powerful officials, and walked leisurely to the West Water Gate.

One of the ten scenic spots in the capital is called Jinchi Night Rain, which is the Jinming Pond in the rain outside the West Water Gate.

At this moment, Jin Zhuoyan's mood was very suitable for the desolate and gloomy night rain in Jinchi.

After leaving the West Water Gate, they walked not long before arriving at the Jinming Pond. Guo Sheng dismounted his horse, threw the reins to the boy, motioned for Fugui and Changgui to follow, and smiled with Jin Zhuoyan: "Walking around the Jinming Pond.

Well, I think you have to walk around Jinchi Yeyu in this way to get the real Jinchi Yeyu scene."

"I hate this Jinchi Yeyu the most." Jin Zhuoyan also dismounted and motioned to Mingjing and a few other confidants to follow him. With his hands behind his back, he and Guo Sheng walked forward side by side, while frowning and scanning the surroundings, "Those sad wind injuries

Qiu, a boring person moaning about nothing, thinks that the rain falling on the pond can also be regarded as a scenic spot. Do you really like this? "

"I quite like it now." Guo Sheng looked around very intently.

"What's going on?" Jin Zhuoyan stopped looking around, only looking at Guo Sheng, squinting at him as he took about ten steps, and asked directly.

"The princess said, it's best if you don't know about this, and the princess didn't tell the prince either." Guo Sheng saw a big black stone on the shore, jumped up in a few steps, stood on the tip of the stone, looked around in circles, and jumped down again.

"Where's Ah Feng?" Jin Zhuoyan watched him jump down and stared at him and asked.

"Then I don't know." Guo Shengji answered irresponsibly, "The Bianhe River exits the West Water Gate and enters the Jinming Pool. The West Water Gate goes down to the Water Gate. What about the place where it enters the Jinming Pool? Is there a Water Gate?"

Guo Sheng looked around and asked.

"There is no water gate, but there are a few secret gates." Jin Zhuoyan frowned, his expression a bit solemn.

"This Jinming Pond only has one entrance from Bianhe River? The amount of water in the Bianhe River is not small, but this Jinming Pond is indeed not small." Guo Sheng continued to walk and look at it and said.

"There is a secret communication to go out and there are water gates. Among the royal guards, there are water ghosts who specialize in managing these water gates and water gates. They are all selected from the navy army in the south."

After a pause, Jin Zhuoyan stared at Guo Sheng and said: "On the day of Jinmingchi's martial arts performance, in addition to the Mingchao and the shore, from outside the East Water Gate to the entrance of Jinmingchi, and in Jinmingchi, almost all the water ghosts among the imperial guards were dispatched to guard everywhere.

.In the past three days, all the hidden sluice gates along the line from the East Water Gate to the West Water Gate, as well as the Jinming Pond, were closed. The water in the water is even more impregnable than on the shore."

"I know that." Guo Sheng seemed not to be aware of the temptation and solemnity in Jin Zhuoyan's words, and his tone was casual, "The imperial guard office is already busy, and General Bai doesn't even have time to taste a glass of wine."

"Fugui, go down and take a look." Guo Sheng said, reaching out and grabbing the jade pendant from Jin Zhuoyan's waist, and threw it into the water.

"Alas!" Before Jin Zhuoyan could finish the word "Alas", Fugui followed the jade pendant and plunged into the water like a swordfish.

"Why are you grabbing my jade pendant? It was a gift from my aunt!" Jin Zhuoyan glared at Guo Sheng.

"I don't have one." Guo Sheng patted his gown and said confidently, "Don't worry, I can definitely fish out such a big piece of jade pendant. Let's move forward." Guo Sheng pushed Jin Zhuoyan who almost wanted to bite him.

"What do you want to do?" Jin Zhuoyan asked after taking more than ten steps.

"I told you, you don't know the best. Tell me, how do you perform martial arts in Jinmingchi? What are the rules? It was so lively on the day of the martial arts performance. Look at such a big pool, and there are people watching the excitement everywhere.

, someone has to fall into the water every year, right? What if someone falls into the water? Is there anyone who can't be fished out?"
Chapter completed!