The emperor felt heartbroken when he saw Gu Changyan crying bitterly.

He had eight sons, four of whom died in infancy. The remaining four children were also useless, and now there is only this bastard left!

The queen looked at Gu Changyan hesitantly, and after much hesitation, she finally stood up and spoke tentatively: "Your Majesty..."

The emperor's health is failing, and this last bloodline must be preserved at all costs!

But the Queen had just opened her mouth when the Emperor raised his hand to interrupt her. The Emperor frowned and signaled the Imperial City Army to drag Gu Changyan away.

Just a moment after Gu Changyan went out, a shrill scream was heard outside. After the scream, the second prince Gu Changyan was completely silent.

The emperor sat upright in the first seat, his back suddenly bent, like a lifeless old man.

He paused for a long time before he slowly said, "Call Fourteen."

In the Fourteenth Prince's Palace, Gu Ci was slightly surprised when he heard the summons, but he also felt that it was reasonable.

Jin Yan looked at Gu Ci worriedly and asked cautiously, "Master, what if there is a trick here..."

Gu Ci raised his hand to stop him from talking, with a cold light in his eyes. He chuckled and spoke lightly.

"It doesn't matter. It's probably because my good brother can't hold on any longer."

Come to think of it, he should probably thank his group of ignorant nephews, otherwise his good brother might not even have the strength to breathe.

"What a pity, Gu Changyan is also a powerful man." Gu Ci sighed again: "But he chose to rebel when the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo was present."

Jinyan looked at Gu Ci, wanting to say something but stopping himself several times.

Gu Ci found it funny, and asked as he strode forward, "What do you want to say?"

"Master..." Jin Yan said hesitantly, "Are you sure that the one who summoned us to the Imperial City was not the Second Prince, but the Emperor?"

Gu Ci smiled and shook his head, tapping his ear with the folding fan in his hand: "Have you heard any noise outside?"

Jinyan was a martial artist, so he was naturally sharp-eyed and sharp-eared. However, after listening for a while, he could not make any sense of what was going on. He only tentatively said, "The army's footsteps are in unison, and they seem to be different from the previous few days..."

Gu Ci smiled and sighed quietly: "Did you hear the crying?"

Jinyan doesn't understand. With the war going on these days, isn't it normal to hear crying?

Gu Ci said, "This is the cry of the family being confiscated..."

No matter which prince wins, he will definitely not start large-scale property seizures when the war situation is unstable.

Now that this action has been taken, it must mean that the winner has been decided, and the emperor has personally ordered a settlement.

Jinyan didn't believe it at first, but when their carriage passed by a mansion, he saw with his own eyes the imperial troops going in and out escorting prisoners, and he believed it completely.

"Master is truly as good as a god."

Gu Cixiao was unfathomable. If he couldn't even understand this, he would have died with his mother in the deep palace.

But even he had missed some things.

When Gu Ci arrived at the palace, the emperor had already returned to the imperial study.

When Gu Ci arrived, he happened to see two young eunuchs dragging the limp body of Doctor Wu out, and he couldn't help but pause.

Eunuch Fu came trotting over, followed Gu Ci's gaze, and hurriedly smiled and advised: "Hey, Your Majesty, the Emperor is still waiting for you inside!"

Gu Ci smiled and followed him inside, asking casually, "Doctor Wu is also an old man by my brother's side. What's wrong with this?"

Eunuch Fu sighed regretfully, "It's not that he made a mistake. Doctor Wu was unlucky. He happened to meet a thief and was killed. The emperor even ordered a grand funeral for him!"

It was also unlucky for Doctor Wu. Although he saved the emperor, he shortened his life after all! It was better that he committed suicide now, so as not to implicate the whole family!

Gu Ci said "oh" thoughtfully, and then pretended to walk into the imperial study.

When he went in, he looked around, but found that there was no one around. Even Eunuch Fu and others retreated quietly after he arrived.

"Your humble servant greets His Majesty." Gu Ci bowed politely. The emperor looked at Gu Ci coldly, and suddenly snorted, waved his hand and threw the imperial edict that had just been written on the table in front of Gu Ci.

Gu Ci looked at the contents of the imperial edict and was suddenly shocked. He looked up at the emperor in surprise and found it unbelievable.