They are all concubines, so of course they choose the future emperor.

"younger sister!"

It’s Cui Yan.

Cui Yan hurried in, holding up her skirt.

"What's wrong, sister? Is there anything wrong?"

Jiang Wanyue stopped and asked.

Cui Yan opened her mouth to speak, but when she saw so many people in the yard, she stopped talking in time.

"Let's talk after we go in."

But there was still anxiety on her face.

Shen was taking the servants to check the delivery room. Jiang Wanyue thought for a moment, took her to her bedroom at the back, and asked Xiuchun to guard the door.

"Can you tell me now, sister?"

Cui Yan rubbed the handkerchief, his expression changing from time to time.

"I suspect something happened to my father."

Jiang Wanyue's eyelids twitched and her heart skipped a beat.

"How could it be? Didn't General Zhu go to the palace? How could something happen? How did you know about it, sister?"

Although there were guards at the palace, the emperor was still worried, so he asked Zhu Zhiwen to go there in advance to make arrangements.

General Zhu set out yesterday morning.

I heard that he took 5,000 people to the palace.

The others set off this afternoon.

When Jiang Wanyue woke up, Prince Jing and the Princess had already left with the child.

Cui Yan took a deep breath and started from the beginning.

"Yes, my father left Beijing for the temporary palace yesterday. Before he left, he said he would send a letter back after he settled down. But I waited for a whole day yesterday and didn't receive any letter. Today, half a day has passed, and I still haven't seen his letter."

Jiang Wanyue calmed herself down.

"Perhaps the palace is busy and they are not available for the moment. Don't worry about it. The prince and his men have already set out, haven't they? If there is something wrong, they should send a message back soon. If you are really worried, you can still make it by riding a horse now."

Cui Yan hesitated for a moment.

But she soon thought of her daughter.

Yin'er had been coughing for the past two days, and she really couldn't bear to leave her alone in the mansion.

"I hope I'm just overthinking it."

Cui Yan sighed.

She didn't stay long, as she was anxious to go back and see her daughter, so she left in a hurry.

As soon as she left, the smile on Jiang Wanyue's face disappeared instantly.

She tapped the table with her fingers, thought for a moment, then turned around and instructed Xiuchun.

"Where are the two hundred people the prince mentioned now?"

Xiuchun's expression tightened: "Half of them are in the guard barracks, and half are in the back alley."

Jiang Wanyue touched her cuffs.

Then she turned and walked to the bed, took out a token from under the pillow and handed it to her.

"This is a gift from the prince. It can mobilize the guards in the palace. Call two people together and gather these people to guard the various gates of the palace. Then ask someone to invite my eldest brother."

Prince Jing still acts in the style of his former army. This token, just like his tiger talisman, can not only command those old soldiers, but also mobilize all the servants in the palace.

By this calculation, she can command more than three hundred people.

Xiuchun took the token and walked out of Wutong Courtyard quickly.

With this token, she had free access to the palace, and even the housekeeper in the front yard came over to ask about it.

As soon as Xiuchun said this, the housekeeper went to call someone.

With the help of the housekeeper, it was faster to gather people.

Soon, all the entrances and exits of Prince Jing's Mansion were guarded.

Not long after, Jiang Yang also arrived.

Jiang Yang couldn't enter the backyard, so Jiang Wanyue could only bring people to the front yard to meet him.

After hearing this, Shen wanted to go with me, and she also said, "You want to find your elder brother, why didn't you tell me before? Just ask him to come with me."

"It's my fault. I wanted to ask my elder brother for something, but I just remembered it at the last minute. Mother, if there is no problem in the delivery room, can you help me look at the things in the small kitchen? Madam Zhou prepared a lot of confinement menus, but there are too many, and I am a little undecided. Can you help me look?"

Jiang Wanyue's few words immediately diverted Shen's attention.

Shen turned around and went to the small kitchen.

Jiang Wanyue held Mi'er's hand and walked slowly towards the front yard.

Jiang Yang was waiting for her in the side hall.

When Jiang Wanyue saw her eldest brother, she spoke directly without even having time to say hello.

"Brother, please take some reliable people with you to go to the various gates of the capital to inquire if there have been any unusual inflows or outflows in the past few days."

Jiang Yang was stunned at first, then he frowned.

"What did you know?"

Jiang Wanyue shook her head and sat down on the chair.

"I don't know, I just have a feeling that something might happen in the next two days."

Jiang Yang's eyelids twitched.

Without waiting for him to continue asking, Jiang Wanyue started talking herself.

"The emperor always celebrated his birthday in the palace in previous years. Why did he suddenly want to go to the temporary palace this year? Brother, have you heard the reason?"

Jiang Yang rubbed his brows and nodded.

"I actually know this. A month ago, a strange stone emerged from a lake near the palace. It happened to be the emperor's fiftieth birthday, so some people linked the strange stone with the Wanshou Festival, saying it was an auspicious sign from heaven to celebrate the emperor's birthday."

Jiang Wanyue pursed her lips.

"This timing... is too coincidental. Is there no one in the court who objects?"

"Of course there is, but what can we do if the emperor doesn't listen?" Jiang Yang sighed.

Jiang Wanyue didn't know much about the emperor's temperament, but from his behavior, she could tell that he was not the kind of person who would listen to advice.

She was silent for a moment, wondering how much Prince Jing knew.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Jiang Yang waited for a while and couldn't help asking, "You just said that there were unusual people coming in and out of the city gate? But there are so many guards at the city gate, if there was anything unusual, they would have reported it long ago."

Jiang Wanyue withdrew her thoughts.

"The guards don't know everything. Recently, due to the Wanshou Festival, there are countless people entering and leaving the city gates every day. No matter how patient the guards are, it is impossible for them to carefully check everyone and everything."

She paused, lowering her voice a little.

"Mother said that the price of marine fish in Beijing has dropped a lot. It was extremely difficult to get a marine fish last month. It has only been a short time and the price has suddenly dropped. Isn't brother suspicious?"

Jiang Yang was slightly stunned.

He really never doubted it.

"Although the population of Beijing is large, most of them are from inland areas. Cuisine from all over the country is flourishing, but seafood is the only exception. Because it tastes too fishy, ​​few people like to eat it."

The smell of sea fish is much stronger than river fish, especially dried fish, which is even stronger and difficult for people who don’t eat it often to accept. There are also very few restaurants of this kind in Beijing.

Otherwise, Madam Zhou wouldn't have specially learned how to make the sweet and sour seafood from the cook at Nianyun Pavilion.

General Zhu would send sea fish to Cui Yan because he had served in the Dengzhou army before and stayed there for about two or three years, so he was used to the food.

Jiang Wanyue's appetite suddenly changed. Since she couldn't eat crabs, she turned to eating sea fish.

How many people like this are there in the capital?

It certainly won’t be much.

Jiang Wanyue didn't believe that she could change the eating habits of the capital city by herself.

Merchants are profit-driven. Even though there weren't that many buyers in Beijing, so much goods suddenly came in.

There are so many things that are greatly reduced in price, that is not ordinary.

It's so unreasonable.