in the sound of swallows

Chapter 187 Trap
Gu Chaobei folded his arms and looked at him: "What's the use of knowing you're wrong and not admitting it? I won't force you, don't you want your mother to worry all the time?"

The eldest prince stopped talking, and muttered, "She lied to me first..."

"I lied to you because I was afraid that you would be hurt and sad." Gu Chaobei snorted coldly, "Your mother is the person who is the least likely to harm you in the world. You should remember this clearly. Now that you are young, I won't tell you. What's the big reason, just one sentence, you can't make your mother sad, you know?"

The eldest prince was silent, his face was lowered, he looked left and right for a long time before humming: "Got it."

Gu Chaobei reached out and squeezed his face, took over the position of the harem man, and pushed him in personally.

"Elder Prince." Seeing him coming in, Nuo'er jumped over happily, pulled the wooden wheelchair and said, "Are you here to pick up Nuo'er?"

Ming Sigui's ears turned red, and he looked up at Shen Guiyan who was standing on the side and said: "My highness came down to confess to the queen mother, and I didn't come to pick you up. Little maid, pay attention to the rules and stand by the side."

"Oh." Nuo'er lost her face, obediently let go of the wheelchair and stood aside.

Shen Guiyan couldn't laugh or cry, who did her son learn from?It's so awkward.

"Mother's queen." Sitting in a wheelchair, the eldest prince gritted his teeth and bowed his head: "I know my mistake, and I will definitely come to pay my respects to my mother's queen every day from now on."

As a mother, who doesn't love her son? It's rare that her son is willing to take the initiative to admit his mistakes. Shen Guiyan didn't want any airs. She went up and hugged him and said: "The mother does not blame you, the mother is also wrong, it is wrong to lie, In the future, the emperor will not learn from the queen mother."

"Yeah." The eldest prince nodded obediently, he hadn't been hugged by his mother for a long time, and after this hug, the eldest prince returned to the appearance of a child, playing coquettishly in his mother's arms.

Once you have settled your mind, you can go on the road without any worries.Gu Chaobei admired himself in his heart, he thought he was a genius.

However the next day.

"My son came to pay my respects to my mother."

The morning light is faint, who kind of Ann are you inviting?Gu Chaobei hastily got up to let the palace servants change their clothes, but the warmth was not enough.

Just after lunch, Gu Chaobei took Shen Guiyan to go boating on Taiye Lake. After all, he was leaving the palace tomorrow, so it was better to walk around.

As a result, before he even left the gate of the Yonghe Palace, he heard the treasure fan report: "The eldest prince has come to pay his respects."

Gu Chaobei's face darkened.

"Queen, Nuoer caught the cricket, look, it's such a big cage, isn't it amazing?"

"Queen, are we going far away? Can I take Nuoer with me?"

"Queen Mother, the wreath made by my son, you see..."

The sun outside turned from the center to the west, Gu Chaobei propped his chin, looking dully at his own wife who was playing with the two children outside.

The promise of boating, the promise of spending a good day in the palace, the promise of being a lover and concubine to pack up, all were ruined by this brat!
He said he admitted his mistake, but in fact he still hated him, right?ah?Otherwise, why bother him?

The eldest prince sat in the yard, and proudly glanced at his father in the palace.The queen mother said that if you encounter a strong enemy, you should not meet it squarely, but try to make a detour, and wait until your own strength is strong enough, and then attack it back.

He understood clearly, and finally summed up his experience in this actual battle with his father.

If he can't beat his father, and his power is not as great as his father's, then don't confront him head-on. He has a mother, and the mother is a sharp weapon to contain his father.

Don't bully your children.

The Shen family's embezzlement of food and salaries for the drought relief in the north was revealed, and the emperor was furious. He demoted more than a dozen members of the Shen family from their official positions, and put the queen, Shen Guiyan, in the cold palace.At the same time, Fanbang provoked, and the emperor decided to go to Yecheng to support him with his young prince and elite soldiers.

The Empress Dowager Nian and Prime Minister Gu were in charge of the government, and General Yuwen guarded the capital together with Shen Guiwu.

Shen Guiyan confidently followed the emperor into the carriage and headed west.

Nuo'er and the first prince were riding with the empress, everyone was traveling lightly, the carriage was quite spacious, and Nuo'er was rolling around and jumping next to the first prince.

"After walking for two months, we will pass by the Western Mountain." Shen Guiyan looked at the eldest prince and said, "When the time comes, the queen mother will take you up the mountain."

The eldest prince nodded, but Nuo'er's body paused, glanced at Shen Guiyan, and whispered: "Xishan is terrible."

"Have you been to Xishan?" Shen Guiyan raised her eyebrows.This child should have grown up in the capital, right?

"I haven't been there before." Nuo'er whispered: "But when I left this time, when I came to help me pack my things, I said that you can't go to Xishan, Xishan is a very scary place."

Guilan said?Shen Guiyan was slightly taken aback, and reached out to hug Nuo'er: "What did your mother tell you?"

Nuo'er thought for a while and said, "My mother said that there used to be a mountain called Xishan. There were wild beasts on the mountain that could eat people, and the road inside could never get out after going up. But the mother next to me said that Xishan was not so Terrible, mother is telling a story."

Shen Guiyan glanced at the emperor next to him, who had the same puzzled expression as her.

Reaching out his hand in the cabinet under the couch, he found the map that Xu Mengdie had given him. The map was drawn very carefully. It showed the hills along the road, the directions and hills, and even the trees growing on which hills.

With such a map, you can go directly to Xishan without asking for directions.

Could Nuoer's words be just a child's joke?

When leaving the capital, Shen Guiyan also went to see Gao Jinxiu. Jinxiu was not in good health and her face was pale. When she heard that she was taking Nuo'er on a trip, she said with a smile, "Nuo'er is a clever child."

The nurse next to him said: "That child likes to talk nonsense occasionally, so don't cause trouble for the empress."

"How could it be?" Shen Guiyan said with a smile, "I like Nuo'er very much."

At that time, Gao was smiling, with a strange look on his face, as if he had something to say.Looking back now, Shen Guiyan's back felt a little cold: "Where's the treasure fan?"

Gu Chaobei said: "In the carriage behind."

"parking!"

With a loud shout, all the convoys outside stopped. Before Gu Chaobei could ask her what was wrong, Shen Guiyan ran to the carriage behind Baoshan.

"Bao Shan, do you still remember that every time I accompany Ben Gong to see Gao, is there a blue-clothed nun standing beside her?"

The treasure fan was a little confused by the sudden question from the master, but still thought about it, and said: "I haven't seen it in the past two years, but it seems to have been there since this year. The servant thinks that the nanny is a little strange, so I went to ask about it. Yes, I heard that the housekeeper hired me to take care of Mrs. Gao, so I didn't ask any more questions."

last year?Shen Guiyan frowned, she went to see Jinxiu once this year, and Jinxiu didn't say a word to her, so she left in a hurry.

"Yan'er." The emperor called her from the front: "Don't delay everyone's schedule."

And to dispatch soldiers.

Shen Guiyan picked up her skirt and went back to the carriage in front, grabbed Nuo'er and asked, "Who sent you into the palace?"

Nuo'er was taken aback, and went straight to hide beside the eldest prince, and said in a low voice: "Mother sent Nuo'er, the nanny in the mansion said Nuo'er was smart, and she learned the rules from the nanny in the palace, and in the future she will tell you how to behave." Might be useful…”

Guilan sent it, so who came up with the idea?Shen Guiyan pursed her lips, and said in a soft voice: "Don't be afraid, I don't have any other intentions, just ask casually. Now that the eldest prince is protecting you, Nuo'er doesn't have to be afraid."

Ming Si closed his eyes and rested his mind anyway, when he heard this, he withdrew his sleeve from Nuo Er's hand, who would protect her!

Nuo'er blinked, feeling that there was something wrong with the empress's smile today.

Gu Chaobei also felt it, but he didn't ask. Yan'er would tell him when he was resting.

"Then Nuo'er, why were you in the Imperial Garden the day you met the First Prince?" Shen Guiyan asked with a smile: "This palace has issued an order that no children are allowed in the Imperial Garden."

Nuo'er pursed her lips, put her hands behind her back, and said in a low voice: "I don't know anything, I just follow the other big maids, and then go to the imperial garden, and they let the servants play in it."

If the little palace maid is ignorant and casually broke into the imperial garden, it is understandable, after all, those who do not know are not guilty.But the maid of honor should know the rules, and deliberately pushed Nuoer to go to the imperial garden, what does it mean?

Xu Mengdie once said that Nuo'er, a maid of unknown origin, might harbor evil intentions. In order to protect the eldest prince, it is better to get rid of her directly.

She took it as advice, but thinking about it now, if she had killed Nuo'er that day, the separation between Huang'er and her would not be white lies, but human life.

His eyes sank, Shen Guiyan put the map in his sleeve, took the emperor's arm and said: "You don't need to go to Xishan, just go to Yecheng, Xishan, please send someone to draw a map and come back. In the capital... the concubine wants to have the courage to ask the emperor to send someone reliable back to save Jinxiu."

Gu Chaobei raised his eyebrows in surprise.

Gu Chaonan and Xu Mengdie were halfway, and the army was stationed in a small town. Xu Mengdie was reading with a secret letter. Gu Chaonan gently hugged her from behind: "Mengdie."

"Huh?" Xu Mengdie didn't turn his head.

Gu Chaonan sighed lightly: "Will you be too tired like this? Now we have enough things, so why plan these things?"

Xu Mengdie frowned, looked at him sideways, and said, "Are you stupid to be an emperor or queen? Many things have already been done, and there is no turning back. Rather than waiting for them to catch us and put us to death, it is better We strike first."

"But..." Gu Chaonan frowned: "A gentleman will do something and not do something. This collusion with a foreign country is tantamount to betraying the country and will be reviled by the people of the world."

"Who wants to betray the country?" Xu Mengdie chuckled lightly: "I just wanted to use them from the beginning. They have iron bumps, but they don't have enough troops. We can take their iron lumps as our own. With that kind of strength, Are you afraid that the emperor will treat us again?"

(End of this chapter)