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shadow guard returned after almost an hour.

So it turned out that concubine had really gotten sick. However, because of Long Xiaoyuan's ascension to the throne, concubine's side naturally did not receive much attention.

The servant ignored concubine. concubine had a gentle personality, and spent all year in the palace eating and chanting, so she didn't care too much about herself.

As time passed, the servants became even more negligent.

About ten days ago, concubine had caught a cold. At the beginning, it wasn't serious, but because the servants didn't take it seriously, she didn't even cook a bowl of ginger soup. Two days later, concubine's cold became severe.

One of hymen in the Lili palace went to ask for imperial physician, but she didn't expect that she would run into some other things on the way there. Sofia from Water Palace found him and told him about it for a while, and by the time hymen remembered that she was going to ask for imperial physician, it was already about time for the palace ban.

Therefore, hymen didn't go.

Unexpectedly, that night, concubine suddenly became extremely ill, and her entire body was burning.

palace maid and the two eunuchs in the entire palace became anxious. They were worried that if they were to go and invite imperial physician over now, the higher-ups would pursue the responsibility!

Thus, the four servants treated concubine randomly.

After a night of tossing and turning, concubine couldn't say if it was better or not. The fever seemed to have subsided a little, but not all of it.

The servants were afraid of taking responsibility, so none of them mentioned anything about asking imperial physician. Instead, they secretly got themselves some medicine and fried it in the palace. With this delay, it took them half a month's time.

Then, just yesterday, Imperial Consort Shan suddenly ran over to him for some reason.

When Imperial Consort Shan saw concubine lying unconscious on the bed, she immediately started yelling.

Imperial Consort Shan caught up with the servants and asked them if they had invited imperial physician.

The servant didn't dare to say that he had never gone to invite imperial physician, so he could only say that he had. However, imperial physician didn't come.

Imperial Consort Shan was beyond furious … And then there was the scene of today.

Long Xiaoyuan rubbed his forehead. Just like that? "How many servants?"

Shi Qingzhou walked behind him and rubbed the center of his brows.

Long Xiaoyuan sighed. Sigh … What the hell is this? "

Shi Qingzhou said slowly, "I'll go over to concubine's place to have a look. I keep having the feeling that..." Maybe it's more than that. "

Long Xiaoyuan nodded. It's good for you to go and take a look, I can be at ease. "

Shi Qingzhou smiled. "Don't worry."

Therefore, while Long Xiaoyuan was dealing with the imperial reports, Shi Qingzhou brought his men to concubine's place.

Several servants had been arrested, but they were not brought to the cell. Instead, they were locked inside concubine's palace.

Now, the eunuchs and eunuchs that he had sent over were all newly trained.

After imperial physician's diagnosis, concubine had already woken up.

In truth, she did not know what had happened. She only remembered that she seemed to be very sad, but she did not remember anyone visiting her, so she could only remember someone changing her into a kernels and wiping her body …

When Shi Qingzhou arrived, concubine wanted to stand up and greet him, but Shi Qingzhou stopped her.

"There's no need to be so polite, Grand Concubine. Just lie down."

concubine hurriedly said, "Thank you, Empress."

Although concubine's voice was a little hoarse, it seemed like she had crawled out from the gates of hell.

Shi Qingzhou nodded. If the Grand Concubine takes more rest, then those servants who didn't die in the first place won't have to be taken to heart. "

concubine smiled wryly when she heard this. The servants, but at the queen's mercy. "

Shi Qingzhou nodded again. Grand Concubine will rest well, imperial physician will be waiting here for your summons anytime. "

"Yes." "Thank you, Empress."

Shi Qingzhou left concubine's room and went outside to the room where the servants were locked.

"Liu Xiangyang came with the other party. Before entering, Shi Qingzhou had already given the order." Separate the people from one another. "

Liu Xiangyang immediately went in to make the arrangements, and very quickly, the four people were separated.

Shi Qingzhou walked to the room where hymen was locked up. She was supposed to invite imperial physician, but she didn't go …

While Shi Qingzhou was interrogating the servants, Long Xiaoyuan was working on the imperial report in the study.

At this time, shadow guard came to report that Zhou Huan and Zhou Yuer had met and that they had gone to the outskirts of the city.

"Hmm? "Suburb?" Long Xiaoyuan raised his eyebrows. What are you doing in the suburbs? "

"They went to the Nanshan." shadow guard reported.

"Hmm? They even entered the Nanshan? " Long Xiaoyuan frowned. What's in Nanshan? "

"For the time being, your subordinate does not know."

"Stay close and see what they're doing."

"Yes." shadow guard accepted the order and left.

Long Xiaoyuan rubbed his chin and muttered to himself. What were they doing in the Nanshan? "Other than the jungle, there's nothing else up there …"

Long Xiaoyuan frowned and decided to let this question go for now. Anyways, with shadow guard watching them, he believed that there wouldn't be any big problems.

However, when it was almost time for lunch and Shi Qingzhou still hadn't returned, Long Xiaoyuan started to worry.

"The empress hasn't come back from concubine's place yet?"

"To reply your majesty, I haven't."

Long Xiaoyuan frowned. "Go and see if something has happened."

"Yes." A eunuch received the order and hurried off.

About half a quarter of an hour later, Shi Qingzhou finally returned. Long Xiaoyuan hurriedly went up to greet him.

"What took you so long?"

Shi Qingzhou said, "Although those servants can see that they are above average, but that's not right. I separated them into different switches and got something out of their mouths."

"Huh?" Long Xiaoyuan raised his eyebrows in surprise. Is there really a problem with those servants? "

"Yes." Shi Qingzhou nodded. "We've found a few nails, and now we're going to leave them to shadow guard. We haven't pulled them out yet, so we might as well see what kind of people they find."

"Mm, I trust you on this matter."

Shi Qingzhou walked towards the study room, and Long Xiaoyuan followed him. What are you going to do? "

Shi Qingzhou said, "Prepare some things."

Long Xiaoyuan looked at Shi Qingzhou curiously and saw that he had written two letters.

"This is for your father, I understand … "But for whom?"

Shi Qingzhou smiled, " for the Heavencraft Tower. "

"Huh?" Long Xiaoyuan was a bit surprised, "For the Heavencraft Tower? "What for?"

"Those nails are sent to the outside world, I want the Heavencraft Tower to go with the flow. Now that we are cooperating, it is not convenient for our people, but the people from Heavencraft Tower are fine with it." Shi Qingzhou explained.

Long Xiaoyuan couldn't help but laugh when he heard this. You have to use it, tsk tsk, the Heavencraft Tower was really unlucky to meet you. "

Shi Qingzhou smiled, " No, all these years, the Heavencraft Tower has attracted a lot of attention. If they were to offend the imperial government again, then there would be no need for them to exist. "

"Huh?" Long Xiaoyuan was confused.

Shi Qingzhou smiled faintly. If it were not for the fact that Heavencraft Tower has always understood how to conduct himself, I think he would have been targeted by many people. This time, we took the initiative to look for them to cooperate, and it seems like it is forced, but if we obtained the goodwill of the imperial government and the permission of the imperial government, then the Heavencraft Tower would not be afraid of the other forces in the martial arts world. "

"Ugh …" "Yeah." Long Xiaoyuan rubbed his chin. Could it be that in this world, the Heavencraft Tower did indeed need to find a great backer, and the imperial government was undoubtedly the best choice. "Qingzhou, your brain is still the best."

Shi Qingzhou smiled at Long Xiaoyuan after sending both letters. Is the Emperor hungry? "

"Eh, if you didn't say it, I would have forgotten that it was already past lunchtime!"

"Hur hur." Shi Qingzhou laughed. "Then let's go have a meal."

"Alright!" Long Xiaoyuan took the initiative to drag Shi Qingzhou by the hand and walk outside...

Ten days later, he found something else in the secret room that was destroyed by the Liu Family.

It was a namelist. It was a list of the places where house transactions were conducted throughout the kingdom.

Hu Qingyuan had spent most of his time searching for this register in the secret room of Liu Family. For the sake of this list of houses, Hu Qingyuan was tired.

During the morning assembly, Long Xiaoyuan praised Hu Qingyuan and allowed the position of vice minister to be taken into account.

In addition, he had also bestowed a lot of gold, silver, and jewelry.

The list of people was under Qiu Ming's army, and the residences of the various locations were dug out. If there was someone in the mansion, they were all arrested and investigated.

Large amounts of sulfur had been found underground in all the houses.

Shi Qingzhou took out the map and was shocked to find that the mansions were located in the imperial court and could form a line of march!

There were routes from the city to the outside of the city. Clearly, those mansions were not randomly chosen after the sulfur was buried!

Shi Qingzhou had calculated before that if the East Night Country detonated after the war started, it would bring a lot of obstacles to reinforcements!

But, besides the house, would there be these obstacles in the way?

When Long Xiaoyuan asked this question, Shi Qingzhou immediately said, "That's a possibility, but don't worry. People walk regularly during the march. Also, if you are careful, you won't suffer much casualties even if you explode." "That's why I can relax."

Long Xiaoyuan heaved a sigh of relief. "That's good …"

The sulfur in the houses had been dug out, and there were several groups of assassins blocking them. However, in front of the army, no matter how high their martial arts value was, it was useless.

In the end, the amount of sulphur in the world could be counted in a ton.

"If we can make good use of so much sulfur … "Hehe, that's more than enough for them to eat." Long Xiaoyuan sneered.

Shi Qingzhou nodded. "That's right."

"Qingzhou, since they sent us so many good things, we might as well not take advantage of them and let them down. However, the business path here needs to be tidied up, with so much sulfur being brought over from the East Night Country, no one will notice it. Tsk tsk, if it weren't for some unexpected factors, we would have noticed it, now …"

Shi Qingzhou nodded. "You're right, we do need to put a lot of effort into this."

"Qingzhou, I think you must have been thinking about this matter for the past few days, right?"

"Yes." Shi Qingzhou nodded.

Long Xiaoyuan smiled, "Then come up with a plan. We should also discuss this in the morning assembly. "

"Aren't you afraid that those ministers will go against the rules?"

Long Xiaoyuan sneered when he heard that. If they dare to disobey us in this matter, then we will have as many heads as we can take out! "

Looking at Long Xiaoyuan's bold words and the cold light in his eyes, Shi Qingzhou slightly raised the corner of his mouth. He felt that Long Xiaoyuan at this moment was a little fascinating.

After two months, the entire imperial court, from the common people to the martial arts world, knew that the imperial government was vigorously overhauling the business road.

Some of the caravans involved in the smuggling had even been completely exterminated by the imperial government!

However, outsiders did not know what kind of people were caught in those merchant groups's smuggling. Only Long Xiaoyuan and the others who knew about it knew that these merchant groups were related to East Night Country's smuggling of sulfur over here!

Such a caravan, in these two months, had already captured five or six of them! There were still a few more to be investigated!

Those who had never done anything shameful would be trembling with fear. Those who had done something shameful would probably not even be able to sleep at night!

And now, two months later, the Imperial Palace also welcomed a major event.

That was The little prince being conferred the title of Crown Prince. Moreover, he was already one year old!

As the Crown Prince was one year old, this matter naturally had to be specially arranged. Thus, in this time of panic, this could be considered a happy occasion. In addition, it was also able to relax many people.

Only the heavens knew that these few days, those ministers that were in the direction of the capital were also very upset.

The officials that he had captured from the caravan had all been eliminated, so how could there not be panic?

Thus, the current court had truly been purged of half of its former glory!

Today was an extremely lively day.

The little guy probably knew what kind of lively day it was, so he was very happy since he woke up in the morning.

However, on such a big day, he had to be wary of causing trouble. However, all the nails in the palace were being watched by shadow guard.

In addition, there were also a lot of people that were arranged by shadow guard.

Long Xiaoyuan held the kid. The kid seemed to feel a little constrained, so he pulled at his clothes unhappily. Long Xiaoyuan quickly pulled on the guy's hand.

"Ah, darling, bear with it. It'll be fine after today!"

The little fellow pursed its lips, as if it was unhappy.

Shi Qingzhou chuckled. "Let me hug you."

Hearing that, the little guy immediately stretched out his arms towards Shi Qingzhou.

Shi Qingzhou carried the child out. This little guy won't cause any trouble when it's time to sacrifice to the heavens, right? "

"If he's causing trouble, then spank him." Long Xiaoyuan said fiercely.

Shi Qingzhou's mouth twitched slightly.

Long Xiaoyuan patted his son's head. Do you hear me? When the time comes, you're not allowed to pee or anything like that! "

Shi Qingzhou chuckled. He doesn't understand, does he? "

"No, I think he definitely understands!"

"Will it?" Shi Qingzhou couldn't believe it.

Long Xiaoyuan pinched the little guy's cheek. "Come on, baby, tell royal father if you want to hear it or not."

The little guy chuckled, as if he understood everything.

Long Xiaoyuan was proud. "See, he understands."

Shi Qingzhou rolled his eyes and didn't say anything else.

After the family of three had a warm meal, Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou also made their own preparations.

When it was time to sacrifice to the heavens, Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou walked up to altar holding hands.

Chief Steward Zhou Qing, who was carrying Crown Prince Long Huan, followed behind the two of them.

However, Zhou Qing stood still on the last step with the kid in his arms and didn't go up.

From the beginning of the sacrificial ceremony, Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou kowtowed while the officials followed suit.

When the High Priest was reading the sacrificial text, Long Xiaoyuan looked at the altar at the top and the statue on top with a serious expression.

After the speech was finished, Liu Xiangyang stood in front of the crowd and announced the order.

Zhou Qing held the child and stood in front of Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou.

Prince Long Huan's position was officially confirmed at this moment.

Night time.

A banquet was held in the palace to celebrate the crown prince's first birthday.

Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou held the Crown Prince as they attended the banquet. During this time, all the ministers toasted him. Long Xiaoyuan drank two cups.

Shi Qingzhou only drank one cup before leaving with the kid after the banquet went on for a third of the way.

A quarter of an hour after Shi Qingzhou left, Long Xiaoyuan rubbed his head, gave another toast to the ministers, and left as well …

After leaving the banquet hall, Long Xiaoyuan stopped rubbing his forehead. Two cups of wine wouldn't be enough to hurt him!

Riding on the palanquin, he went straight to the Kunning Palace, where Shi Qingzhou had already made a soup and was waiting for him.

"Hehe, I've only had three or four cups, what do you need?"

Shi Qingzhou smiled, " The child was asleep. "Drinking the sobering soup will always make it more comfortable."

"That's true." Long Xiaoyuan didn't reject the Queen's good intentions and drank all of her sobering soup.

Shi Qingzhou saw the bitter look on the other party's face and laughed. This is just soup, not medicine, why are you frowning like this? "

Long Xiaoyuan twitched his mouth. "It doesn't taste good."

Shi Qingzhou smiled. Why are you acting like a child? "

Long Xiaoyuan glared at him. Does adults like to eat things that don't taste good? "

"Eh …" Shi Qingzhou was a bit speechless.

Long Xiaoyuan did not want to say any more nonsense, he went forward and held the other party's waist. Light Boat... "It's time for us to rest …"

Shi Qingzhou paused for a second and looked towards Long Xiaoyuan.

Although he said "rest", the other party's eyes were sparkling. It was as if he wanted to eat someone alive.

Shi Qingzhou's ears were burning. "You …"

Long Xiaoyuan almost pounced on Shi Qingzhou, hugging his waist, he led him towards the bedroom …

"There's still someone else …" Shi Qingzhou struggled.

Long Xiaoyuan said, "It's alright..." "Who cares what they do, they will naturally withdraw …"

Emotions were hard to bear.

Heartbeat, for love.

They were in love just because the person in front of them was called Shi Qingzhou, the person he loved the most...

When the feelings deep down, Long Xiaoyuan tightly hugged the other person … It was as if she couldn't hug him enough no matter what …