Gu Chao stood by and waited. Not long after, he saw a large group of people walking towards this side with three people.

The leader was wearing a four-clawed python suit, tall and handsome. He was frowning and listening to someone beside him saying something.

I guess this is Li Qian, the King of Lintong.

It is said that he was attracted by Princess Jianan because of his good looks. Looking at Li Qian's current appearance, the rumors are a bit true.

Gu Chao was thinking a lot, and went up to meet him, and bowed from afar to report to his house.

Li Qian was waiting for the people sent to worship the Empress Dowager from Jinling. He looked at Gu Chao and said coldly: "When did Lord Gu arrive in the capital? Twenty days have passed since the national mourning for twenty days."

Is there anyone who acts like this?

If the people sent by Zhao Xi are not yet sent, Li Qian will decide that they will make their own funerals, regardless of Zhao Xi's will.

Gu Chao knew that this job was not easy to do. But he admired Zhang Yi since he was a child and wanted to imitate Zhang Yi to go to the border country, which led to this trip to the north.

He hurriedly stepped forward and saluted respectfully, saying, "Prince, please calm down. The war in the south has begun again. The emperor has just taken power, but he has no regard for the end. He also thinks that the Empress Dowager is noble, and the envoys who go north will not know who to choose for a while, so this has been delayed. However, before the ministers traveled, the emperor gave an order and asked them to listen to the orders of the Prince, saying that the prince must have his own arrangements for the Empress Dowager's funeral, and we will obey the orders."

He blushed a little.

In fact, Zhao Xi didn't really want to take care of the funeral of the Empress Dowager. Zhao Xi said in his words, "Whoever has the idea will pay the money." Since Jiang Xian wanted to take care of the funeral of the Empress Dowager, let them take care of it, and they could just be the shopkeepers who were scattering their hands.

Zhao Xi's envoy was not slow. Zhao Xi agreed to the conditions they had put forward as long as they were false names. As long as it was involved in money, they were all vague. Li Qian already knew what Zhao Xi meant. Hearing this, there was no trouble in his heart. He nodded calmly and said to Gu Chao: "Follow me!"

He didn't even introduce who the people around him were.

Gu Chao had heard many rumors about Li Qian. When he saw Li Qian, he realized that Li Qian was gentle and like a scholar, but not like a general who went to fight to kill the enemy. Throughout history books, the more he had such a contrast, the more he had the more independent and personalities. In addition, the more powerful the soldiers in Li Qian's hands in the north, the Tatars, who had been entangled with the court for almost 30 years, are now obediently retreating 500 miles. He is a real chief official with great power. How dare Gu Chao say more?

He carefully followed Li Qian into the main hall.

The main hall is covered in white.

The officials stepped forward to greet Li Qian.

Li Qian nodded, said "Thank you for your hard work" and introduced Gu Chao.

Everyone politely greeted Gu Chao.

All the officials who stayed in the fourth rank and above in the capital were here. There were more people than Gu Chao had imagined. He tried to match the people with his names as much as possible.

After a wave of greetings, the people from the Yili Department came over. Gu Chao first burned incense on behalf of Zhao Xi, and then burned incense on his own.

Li Qian asked him to sit down in the side hall next to him and asked him about his purpose: "...Does the emperor have any other explanation?"

Gu Chao's face turned slightly red and said, "That's not. I just said that everything is followed by the prince's arrangement."

It is also a good thing not to point fingers.

Li Qian comforted himself, but could think of Jiang Xian's anger after hearing this.

He sighed softly in his heart, said a few words to Gu Chao, arranged for Gu Chao and others to stay in the Siyi Pavilion and return to Cining Palace.

Jiang Xian spent these days in Cining Palace. In addition to sorting out the relics of the Empress Dowager, he was also recalling the past events.

Li Qian was afraid that she was sad, so he thought of asking Jiang Xian to go back to the eldest princess's mansion to live for a few days or to stay with the Empress Dowager, but Jiang Xian refused. Not only that, she also comforted Li Qian: "I'm fine. Just let me indulge indulge. When the Empress Dowager goes up the mountain, I should let it go."

Back then, she had experienced the death of the Empress Dowager, but she was not as sad as this time. Is it because she vaguely knew in her previous life that after the Empress Dowager passed away, she had to rely on herself, so she had to be strong? Or was it because she was still confused and ignorant at that time, unlike in this life, the Empress Dowager's life was saved by her, and she lived twelve years more than her previous life?

Jiang Xian snuggled in Li Qian's arms powerlessly, not worried that in the future, she did not need to be strong. She would be weak when she wanted to be weak when she wanted to be sad when she wanted to be sad.

Li Qian hugged Jiang Xian tightly, feeling full of regret.

It was the first time he saw Jiang Xian like this.

It seems that I have given up on myself and just want to rely on him, and go wherever he goes, and stay with him forever, the sun, moon, stars and day.

Such Jiang Xian surprised him and intoxicated him.

It seems that the longer she is with Jiang Xian, the more she will show, and each side makes him feel interesting.

Thinking of this, Li Qian's pace of returning to the palace was a little faster.

But today's Jiang Xian is a little different from usual.

She did not lie on the big pillow next to the window just like the previous few days, and her clothes were casually laid on the big pillow next to the window, nor did she silently tidy up the Queen Mother's clothes with the palace maids and eunuchs. Instead, she neatly combed a relatively complicated bun, and also wore two silver ornaments, wearing a plain white plain silk kesi sack, and sat there quietly listening to Meng Fangling talking about the Queen Mother's coffin and the tomb in seven days.

Seeing Li Qian come back, she interrupted Meng Fangling and greeted Li Qian: "You are back!" The voice was filled with a spoiled look that she didn't even notice, as if she had been waiting for him for a long time.

Li Qian's heart suddenly felt infinite tenderness and sweetness.

He didn't care about Meng Fangling being present, so he stepped forward and sat next to Jiang Xian a few steps, and asked her warmly: "Did you use refreshments in the afternoon?"

Jiang Xian has not eaten well these days, and he has lost weight.

Jiang Xian nodded, with a smile in his eyes, and said, "Yin Xia asked the Yushenfang to make a lot of rice cakes." Then she thought that she hadn't taken care of the children these days, and said, "I called Brother Shen and others over and asked them to cushion their stomachs."

Li Qian sighed and felt that Jiang Xian had finally "lived" and slowly recovered from the death of the Empress Dowager.

He couldn't help but hold Jiang Xian's hand on the chair and whispered: "Don't worry about the funeral of the Empress Dowager. Chengen and I have agreed to discuss it repeatedly with our relatives, Prince En. You just follow Aunt Meng at that time. It's hard for you to burn incense to the Empress Dowager every day in the past two days. You have to rest well."

Otherwise, the Empress Dowager would be exhausted during the funeral.

Jiang Xian also knows it.

She nodded, saw the blue color in Li Qian's eyes, and couldn't help but sigh, "I don't care about you these days, you should take care of yourself."

Jiang Xian closed the door and only cared about his own sadness, but Li Qian was responsible for the specific matters of the Queen Mother's funeral. The one who was really suffering was Li Qian.

Li Qian said, "You are fine, I can be fine!"

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Chapter completed!