Half an hour later, the secret room welcomed a guest again.

The two guests who came this time were very unusual. They were actually the two generals of Kingo Left Guard and Kingo Right Guard...

After the two Jinwu Guard generals left one after another, Li Zhong stayed inside for a while. After his men were sure it was safe, he wandered away from the place.

As soon as Li Zhong stepped into the palace of the Prime Minister, a servant came to inform him that it was Empress Li from the palace who had sent eunuchs to invite the Prime Minister to the palace to discuss something.

Empress Li, Li Zhong's daughter, although she was ostracized by Concubine You and seemed to be relegated to the cold palace, she was still the empress after all, and her status was there.

Therefore, if she wants to see her biological father, it is still possible. She only needs to send a eunuch to deliver the message.

However, Empress Li also knew how powerful she was, and she rarely sent people out of the palace to invite her parents' family.

So when Li Zhong heard the news, he was stunned for a moment: "The Queen...sent someone to invite me to the palace for a briefing?"

"Yes, Your Excellency, the Prime Minister, the eunuch from the palace has just left. He said that he will invite you into the palace when you return. The Queen has something urgent to discuss with you," the servant said, cupping his hands.

Li Zhong frowned and rolled his eyes, he had already guessed it.

Empress Li, why did you invite him to the palace?

Reminiscing about old times is probably fake, but asking about her precious son, King Jinling, is probably the real thing!

When I think of King Jinling...

Li Zhong sighed in his heart.

King Jinling went on an expedition with King Zhongshan. Now King Zhongshan’s 100,000 troops are all trapped in the north of the Yangtze River. So what will happen to King Jinling...?

If Li Zhong and Empress Li knew that in Qingliu County in Chuzhou in the north of the Yangtze River, King Jinling and War Horse were "neighbors" and suffered from broken arms all the time, I don't know what their expressions would be.

Li Zhong shook his head and did not enter the mansion. He turned back and rushed towards the palace...

The current capital city shows that both the north and the south are enemies, and there are undercurrents surging behind the scenes. This is the real internal and external embarrassment.

In addition, the Yulin Guards, Jin Wu Guards, Shen Lei Army, and Beijing Camp, etc., are recruiting civilians, various materials, etc., causing public resentment to boil.

In addition, all kinds of rumors are flying everywhere...

As a result, the current capital city is really in chaos.

It's like a big furnace. Everyone in the city is the "food" being roasted, and they are suffering from all kinds of suffering, pain, and fear at all times.

And maybe at some point, someone will come to lift the lid of the stove and eat all the "delicious food" inside.

Fear, rumors, cries, and curses have always hung over the capital.

Everyone was not calm anymore.

Beatings, smashings, lootings, even setting fire to houses, and visits to seek revenge occurred one after another and occurred all over the city.

His father-in-law, Dong Cheng, was very busy as the governor of Runzhou Prefecture.

And the magistrates of Shangyuan County and Jiangning County under him are also very busy, putting out fires everywhere...

It can be said that chaos has emerged in the capital.

If the external situation continues to get worse, I'm afraid the capital itself will be in chaos first.

However, this is truly a critical moment for the capital's life and death. Neither the Royal Guards, nor the Jinwu Guards, nor the Divine Thunder Army stationed in the city have time to pay attention to the chaos in the capital.

As for the soldiers in the Beijing camp, they are still outside the city, so naturally they cannot take care of things inside the city.

The Yan army north of the Yangtze River is now known to number more than 100,000, and they will attack at any time.

The Beijing Camp, Yulin Guard, Jinwu Guard, Divine Thunder Army, etc. need to make all preparations as soon as possible, the sooner the better.

In other words, they are busy with their own affairs, so how can they have time to manage the chaos in the city?

Therefore, the Runzhou government office, which is responsible for maintaining stability in the city, seems to be in a hurry.

Fortunately, Dong Cheng, the governor of Runzhou, is the father-in-law of Zhu Xiuyuan, the general of the Divine Thunder Army.

Zhu Xiuyuan naturally could not stand by and watch. In addition to the generals of the Jiangcheng Bofu to protect his safety, he also mobilized more than a thousand soldiers of the Divine Thunder Army to help put out the fire.

But this amount of manpower, in front of the entire capital, still seems to be a drop in the bucket and simply not enough.

But at least Dong Cheng's safety was guaranteed. Apart from that, Zhu Xiuyuan really didn't dare to spare more manpower...

When you are busy, time flies by.

Before I knew it, it was already approaching noon.

Zhu Xiuyuan walked out of Shenleifang and looked up at the sky. It was sunny and windy today, but it was a good weather.

"Prepare the car and go back home!"

Zhu Xiuyuan kept looking up at the sky and gave instructions to Yan Dashan beside him.

"I obey!" Yan Dashan handed over his hand and ordered the surrounding generals to make preparations.

"My benefactor, the chariot is ready." After a while, Yan Dashan returned.

"How are you doing in the house? Is there anything wrong?" Zhu Xiuyuan looked up at the sky and walked towards the carriage.

"Don't worry, my benefactor, there are still 500 generals in the mansion who are patrolling and guarding all over the mansion to ensure that the mansion is safe and sound. Only a quarter of an hour ago, a general came to report that everything was fine in the mansion!" Yan Dashan followed closely!

Wish you good luck on your long journey.

"Where is my father-in-law? Are you not in any danger?" Zhu Xiuyuan asked again.

"My dear benefactor, please rest assured. There are two hundred generals who are protecting me openly or covertly. Nothing will happen to me."

"Um."

Zhu Xiuyuan nodded, got on the carriage, and when the driver took his seat, he led hundreds of generals to the Jiangcheng uncle's mansion.

The reason why Zhu Xiuyuan returned to the mansion at this time was to go back for lunch and take a look at the situation in the mansion with his own eyes.

The only person he couldn't worry about was actually Dong Shuyu.

Because Dong Shuyu has no power to restrain a chicken, and she is a weak woman by standard, if there is chaos in the city, Dong Shuyu will be very prone to problems.

As for the young lady Dong Shuzhen, he is actually not very worried.

The only thing he worried about was that Dong Shuzhen would get too excited, let go of her temper, and run after people on the street to beat her...

When he thought of Dong Shuzhen's strange character, Zhu Xiuyuan couldn't help but smile while sitting in the rickety carriage.

Zhu Xiuyuan was smiling when the carriage suddenly stopped and came to an abrupt stop.

Zhu Xiuyuan frowned and opened the curtain. At that moment, Nayan Dashan leaned his head over.

His face looked a little embarrassed, a little shy, and a little scared... These expressions were really strange on the face of Yan Dashan, a rude man.

"Benefactor, note!"

He said that Dashan Shen was mysterious and his voice was so low that even the driver who was kicked out of the carriage probably couldn't hear him. He handed over a note in a cryptic manner.

Zhu Xiuyuan frowned, stared at the note in Yan Dashan's hand, reached out to take it, then waved, put down the curtain, and sat back in the carriage.

Sending notes through Yan Dashan was one of the ways he and Kou Wanwan agreed to deliver news.

In other words, Kou Wanwan has received news.

Zhu Xiuyuan suppressed the excitement in his heart and took the small bamboo tube in his hand with the note hidden in it.

Pulled out from the bamboo tube, it was a roll-shaped note. Unfold it, the entire note was only as long as the palm of your hand and about an inch wide. There were two lines of beautiful handwriting on it:

"Sir, please go to the Yang Building on your left and check into the Tianzi room. There will be a surprise!"

This was Kou Wanwan's handwriting, and Zhu Xiuyuan seemed to smell a scent of her body.

Zhu Xiuyuan didn't think much, thinking that Kou Wanwan had first-hand information about the enemy troops outside the city.

So he hid the small note, jumped out of the carriage, and looked to the left. Sure enough, there was a restaurant called "Yang Lou" there.

Zhu Xiuyuan calmed down and walked away.

Yan Dashan and the other generals behind him didn't know what was going on, but no one ran to ask. They just followed behind him silently, keeping an eye on all directions and listening in all directions to protect Zhu Xiuyuan's safety at all times.
Chapter completed!