My system is three thousand years ahead of time.

The Great Zhou Palace has four gates, Zhengyang Gate faces south, Shenwu Gate faces north, and Qinghua Gate and Ziwu Gate are on the left and right sides.

Officials enter the court from Zhengyang Gate and leave from Ziwu Gate.

The imperial guards who change guards in the palace enter from Zhengyang Gate and exit from Shenwu Gate.

Qinghua Gate is generally used by royal relatives, ministers who are summoned on short notice, and civil and military candidates who are able to enter the palace examination.

Arriving at Qinghua Gate, even a princess must get off the jade sedan chair and walk in, and must submit a summons and an admission book before entering the palace.

The process is cumbersome, and missing one will be blocked outside. Even if Cheng Guang is the son of the Zhenguo Duke, he cannot enter the palace today without Wu's guidance.

From this moment on, a sense of solemnity permeates the surroundings like air.

Cheng Guang got off the jade sedan chair and looked at the surrounding red-tiled high walls, which are inexplicably similar to the palace seen in the film and television dramas of the previous life.

However, the Great Zhou Palace is much more magnificent than the palace Cheng Guang had seen in his previous life. The city wall alone is ten feet long.

Thanks to the fact that there are many powerful warriors in this world, the city walls and pavilions are all cut from a whole piece of hard white jade, which is ingenious.

While bringing a strong sense of refinement, it also gives people a sense of visible luxury and nobility.

There are imperial guards guarding outside the Qinghua Gate Palace. Each imperial guard is wearing heavy chain mail, armed with sharp weapons, exuding coldness all over the body, and they are all first-class martial arts masters.

After the imperial guards on both sides carefully checked the summons and the book, they let them go, but there were also restrictions on the number of people accompanying them. Except for the two close maids, others were not allowed to enter and waited outside.

"Guang'er, let's go."

Wu said. She was very familiar with the palace and grew up here since she was a child, but Cheng Guang didn't come here many times, so she deliberately pulled him to her side, holding his hand, and walked towards the palace.

The palace is very large, visible to the naked eye. At a glance, you can't see the end of the palace. Under the cover of many buildings and high walls, you can only see luxury and solemnity everywhere, just like a small city.

If it was the real prince, Cheng Guang would not be too nervous even if he came to the palace, but he was just a small substitute. If he was arrogant and thought of himself as the real prince, he would probably die miserably if he was exposed in this palace.

Cheng Guang knew himself well. He tried not to touch things that he shouldn't touch. If he could keep his mouth shut, he would keep his mouth shut, otherwise he would not know how he died.

Just as Cheng Guang was thinking, the group paused and arrived at a small palace gate.

The number of imperial guards here was obviously much less than that of the imperial guards outside the Qinghua Gate of the palace, but in terms of quality, they were several orders of magnitude higher than the imperial guards outside.

These imperial guards were wearing silver armor and stood there with a cold face, motionless all over. But the next moment, it seemed as if they were looking at themselves. People with low cultivation felt a chill in their hearts when they saw them.

It was not that these imperial guards did it on purpose, but that the temperament naturally brewed in the long-term fighting, which was similar to the existence of a field. People who were not as strong as them would directly reduce their combat power by 30% if they approached them within a certain range.

Most of these people were generals on the battlefield, but now they were only used to guard this palace gate.

Cheng Guang couldn't help but sigh in his heart at the inhumanity of the royal family.

Entering the palace, Cheng Guang was secretly amazed by the strange flowers and strange scenery. After a quick visit, Cheng Guang came to the main hall of the palace.

Entering the main hall, he saw an old woman with a kind face, holding a Buddhist scripture in her hand, wearing a lens device similar to reading glasses, squinting her eyes and looking carefully.

The old woman had gray hair, wore a purple dragon robe, a nine-dragon jade hairpin on her head, and a string of white jade pearls, looking extremely luxurious.

This was the Queen Mother of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Queen Mother Li, who served Taizu in the past. The current emperor was brought up by her. She also planned the series of events such as abandoning the prince selected by Taizu and Wu Shang's ascension to the throne.

This old woman looked kind and kind, but her inner self was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.

At this time, Cheng Guang was also very alert. Although this old woman had not seen the prince much, who knew if she would recognize that he was just a fake.

"Mother, Yuemei greets mother."

Wu pulled Cheng Guang to bow in front of the old woman.

"Oh, Yuemei is here."

The old woman Queen Mother Li, who was reading a book, suddenly heard Wu's voice, and looked down at it, with a smile on her face.

Cheng Guang noticed that the old woman was looking at him and Wu, and immediately followed Wu and said obediently.

"Greetings to the Royal Grandmother, I wish the Royal Grandmother good fortune as vast as the East Sea, longevity as vast as the South Sky, constant smile, and good health."

Cheng Guang subconsciously said the blessing from his previous life, and just after he finished speaking, Cheng Guang couldn't help but want to slap himself a few times.

The image of the prince is not that of a person who would say such things. In the past, he was like a dull person, with a little bit of arrogance and a sense of nobleness that everyone else is drunk but I am sober.

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Cheng Guang's heart seemed to fall into the abyss, and he dared not look directly at the old woman's sharp eyes.

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However, the development of things at this time was not as bad as Cheng Guang imagined.

The old woman was stunned when she heard Cheng Guang's words, and then the smile on her face instantly became dozens of times stronger.

"Oh, long time no see, Xiao Guang'er is so good at pleasing the Royal Grandmother, let the Royal Grandmother take a good look."

One thing must be said, the reason why the prince is so noble is that he dares to find a substitute and secretly hide it from Cheng Zhihai and Wu Yuemei, and sneak out to play alone.

A big reason is that the Queen Mother of the current dynasty likes Cheng Guang very much.

No one understands this.

Logically speaking, the blood relationship is still closer to her grandson, and the Crown Prince is more popular.

But the opposite is true. Everyone knows that although Queen Mother Li also likes the Crown Prince, she likes Cheng Guang more.

Everyone can't help but wonder if there is the influence of Cheng Shiyuan, the Duke of Zhenguo, behind this.

Queen Mother Li completely ignored her daughter at this time, pulled Cheng Guang to her, and said with heartache.

"Hey, Xiao Guang'er, it's been a while since we last met. How come you've lost weight and your hands have become so rough? Did your father force you to practice martial arts again?"

"Your complexion doesn't look that good either. Are you sick or what? Grandma will take you to the imperial physician to prescribe some medicine for you later."

"If you need anything else, just tell grandma. If your father forces you to practice martial arts again in the future, grandma will help you to reason with him."

Cheng Guang was at a loss for a moment. He didn't expect that the grandmother of the prince would react like this. At the same time, he was relieved in his heart. It seemed that he was not exposed.

As for whether he was thin or not, he had been working as a groom before. He didn't have enough food and warm clothes. It was good enough that he didn't starve to death. He even gained a lot of weight recently.

Cheng Guang complained in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it out loud. After thinking about it, he cared about his grandmother a little bit.

"Grandma, I'm fine. But you have to take good care of yourself and don't work too hard. As long as you are healthy, I will be satisfied."

After these words came out, the old woman's heart was almost broken, and her eyes were wet. Although her words were simple, her emotions were sincere.

She was full of warmth and touching.

"My dear grandson, you still know how to care for your grandmother. Your grandmother is still strong."

"Come on, come on, are you hungry on this way? There are many snacks that you have liked since you were a child. Take them and eat them."

"Huang Ying, go and tell the imperial kitchen to prepare some more spiritual food."

Empress Dowager Li was very kind and directly ordered the maids around her to prepare spiritual food.

The maids nodded immediately, smiled, and turned to leave to make arrangements.

"Mother, Guang'er is not young anymore. I plan to find a marriage for him recently. I don't know which girl is good. Mother, please give me more advice when the time comes."

Wu Yuemei lowered her eyebrows and told her plan.

When Empress Dowager Li heard this topic, she immediately perked up and sat up straight.

"I, an old woman, will certainly keep an eye on his marriage. Yuemei, do you have any good candidates?"

Empress Dowager Li shifted her attention from Cheng Guang to Wu, and the two began to discuss Cheng Guang's marriage.

To be precise, it was not Cheng Guang's marriage, but the prince's marriage.

Yuemei relaxed a lot in front of her mother, counting on her fingers like a little girl.

"Song Wanyu, the daughter of the Minister of Revenue, is a famous talent in Kyoto. She has reached the third-grade purple mansion realm at a young age. She is both civil and military, and feels pretty good."

"Wan Duoduo, the daughter of the Minister of War, is also very good. She has a fertile figure and a high level of cultivation. She is already in the fifth-grade Kaishen realm. She is considered a beauty among the entire young generation."

"..."

Empress Dowager Li listened to them one by one, and then gave her opinions and comments at the right time, which unexpectedly gave people a feeling of picking melons and buying vegetables, as if as long as she liked someone, she would marry her.

In fact, it was true.

The son of the Duke of Zhenguo, the nephew of the current emperor, the only son of Princess Yuemei... With all these titles, it was basically a matter of a word to decide which girl to take a fancy to.

Cheng Guang saw that Empress Dowager Li and Wu were chatting enthusiastically and no longer paid attention to him, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, you guys talk, I'll just listen.

Anyway, I'm just a stand-in, a little transparent, these have nothing to do with me.

However, at this time,

The maid's voice suddenly sounded.

"Empress Dowager, the Queen Mother and several concubines are here with several princes and princesses."

As the voice sounded, the smile on Empress Dowager Li's face was obviously less.

Yuemei paused for a moment, tidied her clothes a little, and did not continue to talk about Cheng Guang's marriage with Empress Dowager Li, but dignifiedly turned her eyes to the palace door.

Obviously, it would not be so appropriate to talk about Cheng Guang's marriage when other people arrived.

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