Chapter 533 Peace of Mind

Guo Silang nodded, feeling like he had found a backer again, so he looked at the other side, and the people who were still happily talking, and his eyes showed disdain.

And Lord Li was also a smart man, how could he not see the anger between the two factions? Although his family and the Duke's Mansion were relatives, in the end, if you count the families in Sui'an City, they are all related to each other, so naturally, they would not fall out with the Dingping Marquis Mansion.

"Lord, please give me some face. It's a great day, so be polite."

"Lord Li, I will give you some face, otherwise I wouldn't have come to congratulate you so early in the morning. However, I give you some face, but it doesn't mean that others will give you some face. For example, Lord Guo, even if no one comes, you should send the eldest son of the Guo family. You only send Silang. You really don't give you any face at all."

"The eldest son of their family has something to do temporarily, so he naturally has to go to do it. The Silang who came is also a grandson who is very favored by the Minister Guo. Same, same!"

Lord Li laughed it off, and Lord Dingping was too lazy to say anything more after seeing this.

After taking a look at Silang Guo, he retracted his gaze and talked about other things with the people in front of him.

A big battle was suppressed like this, and the people of the Li family naturally had to take a breath, so this birthday banquet was also full of energy, from morning to night.

Before lunch, the emperor asked Eunuch Liu to pass the imperial edict from the palace and send gifts, which was considered to give the Li family enough face. At the same time, he also brought a picture of a hundred children celebrating the birthday hand-painted by Concubine Li, which pushed the atmosphere to a high point.

After the Li family thanked the emperor for his grace, they were ready to send Eunuch Liu out. Who knew that before leaving, Eunuch Liu went to Gu Shaoyu and said a few words. Others didn't hear it clearly, but Lord Li understood it very well.

"His Majesty said that the general should go to the palace to accompany him for breakfast tomorrow morning."

With such a great favor, in the eyes of outsiders, Gu Shaoyu's favor is still the same as before, but he also knows that this meal will not be a simple breakfast.

"I obey your order."

With the departure of Eunuch Liu, those court officials who were just considering whether to cause trouble in front of Gu Shaoyu were very quiet at this moment.

Only Lord Dingping was left standing there, and he and Gu Shaoyu were quite incompatible.

The adults were not necessarily happy, but the children played all day, and on the way home, they were all so tired that they were about to fall asleep.

The three brothers shouted that they wanted their eldest cousin to go back to sleep with them, and Du Jingyi naturally agreed.

Although He Qianyun wanted to, he still had to get his mother's consent, so he looked at Du Jingxiang with a little pitiful expression. Du Jingxiang was a little disapproving at first, but from the children's expressions, he really didn't want to affect their good mood today, so he could only agree.

The children were so excited that they took a carriage together and rushed back to play.

When the couple came, they picked up people, and when they left, they naturally had to send the Du family back first. When they returned, the sky was already a little dark.

In the carriage, the couple chatted about today's events.

"General, tomorrow is the first time for you to enter the palace after the mourning period is over. What should you prepare?"

"No need. I will be back soon. But this time, I don't think I will stay in Sui'an City for much longer."

"What do you mean?"

"For three years, His Majesty has always wanted to place people in the Huben Army, but unfortunately he can't find a suitable opportunity. Now he asks me to have a meal when I come back. I am afraid he wants me to go to other places to expand the army."

"General, are you saying that His Majesty might let you go back to Cezhou?"

"If you really go back to Cezhou, I will be satisfied, but I am not sure. Going to Qizhou and Wangzhou is the most likely."

The armies in these two places are absolute royal forces, so if he wants to make a move in the Huben Army, how can he not arrange some of his own people?

When Du Jingyi heard this, he couldn't help but sigh.

"After three years of silence, the wind will come after all."

Gu Shaoyu didn't say much, just gave instructions.

"Grandfather Guo is ill again. We should go and see him when we have time. He has been through life and death with grandparents, so when he is here, Daxing Dynasty will be more stable."

"I know. I will prepare some good medicinal materials when I go back, and I can go to Guo's house at any time."

The couple was mentally prepared for the crisis they might encounter, so they were not caught off guard.

The next day, when Gu Shaoyu came out of the palace, it was almost the same as he guessed.

Gu Shaoyu was ordered to transfer troops to Wangzhou for half a year to reorganize the army.

It sounds good to say that he will be away for half a year, but in fact there is no accurate transfer order to return to Beijing, so it is not clear how long he will be away, so in the past two days, he has been running around various mansions in the name of visiting relatives.

The Du family and the Duke's Mansion were visited frequently, and neither of them attracted much attention.

On the day when the couple went to the Prime Minister's Mansion, Gu Shaoyu had just entered the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion when he met the emperor himself who came to visit Guo Xiang in secret.

That was just right.

After three years, when Du Jingyi saw the emperor again, she thought it might be at the palace banquet at the end of the year.

Who knew that when she was still playing with the children in Xue Niang's yard, she saw the servants of the Guo family hurriedly reporting that there was a distinguished guest, and asked all the Guo family members to go to the front hall to wait.

With the status of the Guo family, the person who could ask them to wait would not be a simple character.

At first, Xue Niang and the others thought that the Queen Mother was coming. Who knew that it would be the Emperor who came through the door? Therefore, everyone's heads lowered more and more obviously.

"My grandfather has been ill for several days and has not gone to court. I am very worried, so I came out of the palace to have a look today. Unexpectedly, I went to see Shaoyu together."

Guo Xiang coughed, and he was no longer as scheming as before. He looked more like an old man recuperating at home, who was forced to open the door to welcome guests.

"Your Majesty, you have a high status now, how can you go out just because you want to go out? If anything happens, wouldn't you make me die of guilt?"

"What about immortality? Grandpa is talking nonsense again. You should live longer and watch me manage Daxing better."

When they heard these words in the past, most of the Guo family were still excited, but now, the overt and covert suppression in the past three years has made them aware of it. The Guo family is going to end up being cooked by the cunning rabbit, so it is not possible. Don't hold out any hope anymore.

Gu Shaoyu stood next to Guo Xiang. Before he sat down and said a few words, the emperor came, so naturally the topic was brought to him again.