"Father!" Gu Xin jumped off the carriage and ran over happily.

Gu Shouxin reined in his horse and dismounted.

Gu Xin tugged at Gu Shouxin's arm: "Dad, I haven't seen you for over a month, I miss you so much! Dad, did you come here especially to pick us up? Dad, you're so wonderful! You're the best dad in the world."

Gu Shouxin smirked and looked down at his little daughter: "Daddy didn't come to pick you up, he came to beat you up. Didn't you say you were coming with Grandpa and Grandma? Why did you come by yourself?"

Gu Xin shook Gu Shouxin's hand, saying, "Dad, I missed you and Mom so much. I've never been separated from you for this long in my life. Really! I want to come and accompany you during your exam!"

Gu Hui and Lu Zheng also got out of the car and came over to greet him: "Second Uncle".

Gu Shouxin glared at the two of them: "I'll talk to you two later!"

After speaking, he glanced at the carriage parked beside him and gestured to Lu Zheng with his eyes, asking what was going on.

In front of others, Lu Zheng couldn't say that Shen Feng was the Empress Dowager's man, since he was still young and didn't know Shen Feng yet.

Gu Xin answered for Lu Zheng: "Dad, we met Uncle Shen in Liangzhou when we came here. He, his aunt, and his daughter boarded our boat together, and we just met them here."

Gu Shouxin glanced at Shen Feng, nodded, and didn't intend to exchange pleasantries with him.

He handed the riding whip to Lu Zheng and led the two sisters onto the carriage.

As he boarded the carriage, he happened to see an old woman sitting in the carriage opposite him. The old woman was staring at him with undisguised gaze, as if she were looking at someone else through him.

Gu Shouxin nodded, looked away, and drove the carriage away.

Lu Zheng followed behind on horseback.

"Let's go!" the Empress Dowager instructed.

Gu Shouxin is in her thirties. She has never seen her son in his thirties. If anyone looks similar, it's the little girl dressed as a boy. The older girl should be seventeen. Apart from the eyebrows and eyes, the only similarity is in the overall demeanor.

In the past, whenever she saw her younger son pretending to be as mature as her older son in public, and acting lively in front of her, she would wonder if her older son, now that he was cured of his illness, was acting just like her younger son was.

In fact, the emperor did not recognize the Gu family members; it was Empress Dowager Jiang who told her out of her suspicions.

The emperor had never seen what her son looked like, but Empress Dowager Jiang had seen him when she married into the royal family. However, she was too young at the time, and Empress Dowager Jiang was not sure.

The Empress Dowager sent people to investigate Grandpa Gu last year, but unfortunately, she was not entirely sure. It wasn't until recently, when Grandpa Gu sold a large batch of jade artifacts, that the Empress Dowager dared to be certain.

Grandpa Gu believed that this large batch of jade artifacts was given to him by Empress Dowager Jiang. When he became a refugee, he knew he couldn't possibly keep all these things when he ran away, so he hid them. After he married Grandma Gu, he asked her to help him dig them up after things settled down.

Grandma Gu's father left her a large sum of money. Over the years, apart from banknotes, she hadn't used any of Grandpa Gu's things, but Grandpa Gu also gave them to Grandma Gu.

After Gu Shouxin passed the imperial examination, the old couple went to Qingzhou Prefecture to pawn their jade artifacts and gave Lu Zheng a silver note, asking him to help them find someone to buy a house in the capital.

Even the house was named after Grandma Gu.

The Empress Dowager breathed a long sigh of relief. Finally, she found it. Finally, she found it.