The Evil Emperor's Favorite: The Sickly and Poisonous Concubine Goes Crazy

Gu Yan'an raised his eyes and looked at the imperial ship in the distance. He narrowed his eyes, concealed the coldness in his eyes, and walked towards the imperial ship.

"Your humble servant Gu Yan'an greets the Queen Mother."

"I am sorry that you have frightened your Majesty by coming late. Please forgive me."

Gu Yan'an bowed to the Queen Mother, suppressed the smile on his face, and had a bit of coldness in his eyes.

Shen Zhiyi helped the empress dowager off the boat. The empress dowager smiled kindly and personally helped Gu Yan'an up.

"No need to be so polite, no need to be so polite, hurry up, I still have to thank you today."

The Queen Mother looked kind and gentle, and she looked up at Gu Yan'an.

With tears in his eyes:

"You look exactly like A-Yao. I have been cultivating hard in Qingzhou for many years, but I have never seen you. I watched your mother grow up. It's a pity. Sigh... I won't say more."

The empress dowager stroked his hand and spoke, as if she had touched upon a sad matter. She picked up a handkerchief and gently wiped the corners of her eyes, with sadness and regret in her eyes, as if it was not her who had ordered the Netherworld Guards to kill Gu Yan'an a few days ago.

Gu Yan'an smiled and gently pulled his hand away: "Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. You were frightened today, but there are still remnants of Chen Xu in the city, and the defense of the city gate has not been resolved. I have to inconvenience Your Majesty to wait on the boat for a while."

"Wait until the hidden dangers in the city are resolved, and then welcome Her Majesty off the ship."

The Queen Mother nodded and said: "I still have the Netherworld Guards with me. There seems to be a sound of commotion outside the city. You go first."

Gu Yan'an bowed and saluted before turning around and leaving with his people. But the moment he turned around, the faint smile on his lips disappeared.

The Queen Mother looked at the young man who was leaving with a serious expression, lowering her eyes as she thought about something.

The Prince of Beiyang is so young, yet so calm. I sent someone to kill him, but now he pretends nothing happened and doesn't mention the assassination at all. His cunning is hard to fathom.

And his eyes, where had she seen them before? But she had never seen him before today.

"An Gui, have someone keep an eye on him." The Queen Mother turned around and got on the boat, and gave orders to An Gui beside her.

"Yes."

Shen Zhiyi stopped where she was, watching Gu Yan'an walking away, her eyes full of joy. Since the moment he got off the military ship, her eyes had never left Gu Yan'an. He was not dead! He was back, suddenly appearing like a god, resolving their crisis.

At the city gate, due to a sudden incident at the ferry, the defense of the city gate was greatly reduced. There was also a lack of generals to command on the city wall.

After Guan Hong ordered the attack on the city, the city was in chaos. Gu Yan'an led his men to attack from the inside and outside, and the city gate was soon breached. Chen Xu's men were quickly controlled by the Jizhou army and taken away.

The Jizhou Army temporarily took over Liangjiang City and was responsible for its defense.

The remnants of Chen Xu in the city were quickly cleared out by the Jizhou Army. The Queen Mother was placed in the Governor's Mansion of Liangjiang City and left after she had a good rest.

The news of Chen Xu's capture will spread throughout the entire Eastern Territory tomorrow, and even those with evil intentions in the Eastern Territory will not dare to act rashly.

In the government office of Liangjiang City, Chen Xu was temporarily detained in a prison, under heavy guard by Jizhou Army, waiting to be escorted to the capital the next day.

Su Jingchen and Gu Yan'an saw Chen Xu coming out of prison.

"Even if so many Jizhou soldiers were guarding Chen Xu, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to survive."

Su Jingchen had a worried look on his face. Chen Xu knew that the Queen Mother had done too many dark things. Now that he was in their hands, the Queen Mother would not let him go to the capital alive.

Gu Yan'an lowered his eyes and gently stroked the white jade bodhi Buddha beads in his hand, without saying a word. The Jizhou army was able to protect Chen Xu from being killed. But if Chen Xu himself did not want to leave the East Territory alive, then no matter how many people there were, they would not be able to protect his life.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Su Jingchen knew that he had no chance of protecting Chen Xu's life, so he said no more.

"By the way, where is Ningning? I just happened to need help from her."

Su Jingchen was originally going to Wandu Valley to pick up Su Jingning, and Ah Mo happened to be there, so the three siblings could return to Beijing together. But Gu Yan'an told him that Ningning did not go to Wandu Valley, but had always been by his side.

"Everyone in the city is the Queen Mother's people. Her identity should not be exposed. I've asked someone to send her out of the city first." Gu Yan'an replied in a low voice.

Su Jingchen was stunned for a moment. Gu Yan'an was very thoughtful. But when he thought about Ning Ning falling off the cliff with him to save him, he felt a lump in his chest. He really didn't want to communicate with the man who kidnapped his precious sister. So he left Gu Yan'an and walked away with his head down, leaving behind a word.

"Oh, I know."

The next morning, at dawn, Su Jingchen was awakened by Guan Hong's loud voice.

"General Su! General Su! Something happened!"

Su Jingchen quickly put on his clothes and came out. When he saw Guan Hong's anxious look, he knew what had happened.

"But something happened to Chen Xu?" he asked.

Guan Hong nodded anxiously:

"Chen Xu just committed suicide by hitting his head against the wall in prison. The brothers didn't have time to stop him. He hit his head and bled. The doctor came and found that he had no pulse."

"Have the Netherworld Guards learned about this?" Su Jingchen looked calm as he walked quickly towards the government office.

"He came shortly after the doctor arrived." Guan Hong replied.

The two of them walked all the way to the government office and met Gu Yan'an at the gate of the government office.

Several people entered the prison cell of the government office together.

Chen Xu's body was wrapped in white cloth and placed in the cell.

A pungent smell of blood came to his face, and Gu Yan'an frowned slightly.

Su Jingchen walked to the corpse, reached out and pulled open the white cloth to take a look.

Chen Xu was so cruel to himself that he hit himself into this state.

He raised his eyes to glance at Gu Yan'an, then looked to the other side of the cell, where he saw a dark ghost with a red mask on his face and a huge sword in his hand.

He walked towards him and bowed to him:

"Since Your Excellency is here too, I think the Queen Mother has already heard the news."

The dark ghost looked at Su Jingchen with his cold eyes and said coldly:

"Chen Xu committed suicide out of fear of punishment. I will report the truth to the queen."

After saying that, he walked over to Su Jingchen, nodded to Gu Yan'an, and walked out of the cell.

Su Jingchen looked at his leaving back, his expression somewhat cold and hard.

Gu Yan'an looked at Chen Xu, who was covered in white cloth: "He committed suicide out of fear of punishment..."

The Empress Dowager was really good at tackling this. She solved her hidden danger with just a few words of committing suicide out of fear of punishment.

But no matter what she did, the military power of the East Territory would not fall into her hands. Even half of her elite Netherworld Guards were killed by Chen Xu. She could not gain any benefit from this plan.

Since Chen Xu was dead, there was no need for the army to escort him back to the capital. Guan Hong stayed in Liangjiang City to deal with the affairs there first. The Queen Mother set off in the afternoon and left the East Territory escorted by the Netherworld Guards.