"Master Gu, may I come to the palace with you?"

Seeing his anxious expression and the beads of sweat on his forehead, Gu Nanyi knew that he must have encountered a difficult situation.

"Young Master Fu, please come up."

"Thank you, Master Gu."

After getting on the bus, Fu Wencai recounted the whole story.

The Fu family were imperial merchants. Fu Wen's elder sister, Fu Bing, received an invitation to the banquet, but she was still in Xiangcheng, thousands of miles away, and couldn't return for a while. So she had to send her younger brother, Fu Wen, who had just come of age, to the palace in her place.

But I don't know which bastard gave his horse laxatives and aphrodisiacs in the middle of the night last night. It had diarrhea and was drunk. This morning, the stable was full of horses, and only this one could barely walk.

However, the drunken horse was walking too slowly, and it collapsed and fell asleep halfway there. Fu Wen was extremely anxious, but luckily he ran into Gu Nanyi, who arrived late.

If the Fu family doesn't attend the banquet at the palace today, they are just imperial merchants without real power. They even dared to stand up the Empress. They're afraid they won't have a good time in the future.

Gu Nanyi is an upright person who never judges people by their appearance and never looks down on businessmen.

So he led Fu Wen into the palace and headed to the Imperial Garden.

Not far from the entrance of the Imperial Garden, under a large tree, a few furtive figures peeked out, only their heads visible, watching the passersby.

"Biluo, why hasn't Gu Nanyi arrived yet? Did she already go inside and you didn't notice?"

“Your Highness, although I have never met Gu Nanyi, I am very good at judging people, and she is definitely not among those who went in.”

Bai Yu took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from Leng Qingning's forehead: "Master, please be patient. It's already this late, they should be here soon."