My system is 3000 years ahead of schedule

Chapter 3

The Imperial Palace of the Great Zhou Dynasty has four gates, Zhengyang Gate faces south, Shenwu Gate faces north, and Qinghua Gate and Ziwu Gate are on the left and right sides respectively.

When the officials enter the court, they proceed from Zhengyang Gate and leave from Ziwu Gate.

When the imperial guards change the palace, they enter through the Zhengyang Gate and exit through the Shenwu Gate.

The people who pass through the Qinghua Gate are usually the royal family members, the ministers who come for temporary recruitment, and the civil and military candidates who have passed the imperial examination.

When you arrive at Qinghua Gate, you, as a princess, have to get off the jade chariot and walk in. You also have to submit a summons warrant and an admission brochure before you can enter the palace.

The process was cumbersome and anything less would be blocked. Even if Cheng Guanggui was the eldest son of Zhenguo, he would not be able to enter the palace today without Wu's leadership.

From this moment on, a sense of solemnity filled the surroundings like air.

Cheng Guang stepped off the jade chariot and looked at the high red-tiled walls around him, which were inexplicably similar to the palace seen in movies and TV shows in his previous life.

However, the Great Zhou Palace was much grander than the palaces Cheng Guang had seen in his previous life. The city wall alone was ten feet long.

Thanks to the fact that there are many powerful warriors in this world, the city walls, pavilions and pavilions are all cut from a single piece of hard white jade, which is an ingenious workmanship.

While bringing a strong sense of sophistication, it also gives people a visible sense of luxury and nobility.

There are forbidden troops guarding the Qinghua Gate Palace. Each of the forbidden troops is wearing heavy chainmail, strong and sharp, and has a coldness all over their body. They are all top-notch martial arts masters.

The imperial troops on both sides carefully checked the summoning warrants and brochures before letting him go. However, there were restrictions on the number of people accompanying him. Except for the two personal maids, no one else was allowed in. They were waiting outside.

"Guang'er, let's go."

Wu said, she was very familiar with the palace and had grown up here since she was a child. However, Cheng Guang didn't come here often, so she deliberately pulled him beside her, held his hand, and walked towards the palace.

The palace is very large, so vast that it can be seen with the naked eye. At a glance, you can't see the end of the palace. Covered by many pavilions and high walls, you can only see the luxury and solemnity everywhere, just like a small city.

If he were the real crown prince, Cheng Guang would not be too nervous even if he went to the palace, but he is just a small stand-in. If he drifts away and thinks that he is the real crown prince, he will most likely die if he is exposed in the palace. Very miserable.

Cheng Guang is self-aware. He tries his best not to touch things that he shouldn't touch. He shuts up and doesn't talk if he can, otherwise he doesn't know how he died.

While Cheng Guang was deep in thought, the group of people paused slightly and arrived at a small palace gate.

The number of forbidden troops here is obviously much smaller than that of the forbidden troops outside the Qinghua Gate of the Imperial Palace, but their quality is several orders of magnitude higher than that of the forbidden troops outside.

These imperial soldiers were wearing silver armor and stood there with cold expressions. They were motionless. But the next moment, they seemed to feel that they were looking at them. People with low cultivation level would feel unreasonable in their hearts when they saw them. A chill.

It's not that these forbidden troops did it intentionally, but the temperament that was naturally brewed in the long-term fighting has become similar to the existence of a field. Without their strong people, if they get close to them within a certain range, their combat power will be directly reduced by [-]%.

Most of these people were at the general level on the battlefield, but now they were only used to guard the palace gate.

Cheng Guang couldn't help but sigh in his heart at the royal family's inhumanity.

Stepping into the palace, Cheng Guang secretly smacked his lips at the strange flowers and scenery. After walking around and looking at the flowers for a while, Cheng Guang came to the main hall of the palace.

Stepping into the main hall, you saw an old woman with a kind face, holding a Buddhist scripture in her hands, wearing a lens device similar to reading glasses, squinting her eyes and looking at it carefully.

The old woman has gray-white sideburns, wears a purple dragon robe, has a Kowloon jade hairpin on her head, and wears a string of white jade pearls. She looks extremely luxurious.

This is the Empress Dowager of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Empress Dowager Li, who served Taizu back then. The current emperor was brought up by her. She abandoned the prince chosen by Taizu and the martial arts merchant ascended the throne. This series of events was also caused by her. She planned it all.

This old woman looks kind and kind, but she is not as simple as she seems on the inside.

At this time, Cheng Guang was very excited. Although the old woman had never seen the crown prince, who knew whether she would recognize that she was just a fake.

"Queen Mother, Yuemei pays homage to Queen Mother."

Mrs. Wu pulled Cheng Guang and bowed down in front of the old woman.

"Hey, Yue Mei is here."

The old woman Queen Mother Li, who was reading a book carefully, suddenly heard Wu's voice and started reading with a smile on her face.

Cheng Guang noticed that the old woman was looking at him and Wu next to him, and immediately followed Wu and said obediently.

"Greetings to the Imperial Grandmother, I wish the Imperial Grandmother to be as blessed as the East Sea, live as long as the southern sky, smile often, and be in good health."

Cheng Guang subconsciously said the blessings from his past life. As soon as he finished speaking, Cheng Guang couldn't help but want to slap himself a few times.

The prince's image is not that of a person who can say such things. In the past, he was like a boring gourd, with at most a little arrogance and a sense of aloofness that everyone in the world is drunk and I am alone.

collapsed.

People are broken.

Cheng Guang's heart felt as if he had fallen into an abyss, and he did not dare to look directly into the old woman's sharp, needle-like gaze.

However, the progress of things at this time was not as bad as Cheng Guang imagined.

After hearing Cheng Guang's words, the old woman was stunned for a moment, and then the smile on her face instantly grew dozens of times stronger.

"Hey, long time no see. Xiao Guang'er is so good at making the Emperor's grandmother happy. Let the Emperor's grandmother take a good look at it."

One thing I have to say is that the reason why the prince has such a distinguished status is that he even dares to find a substitute at random, secretly hide it from Cheng Zhihai and Wu Yuemei, and sneak out to play by himself.The big reason was that the Queen Mother was particularly fond of Cheng Guang.

No one understands this.

Logically speaking, the closest blood relationship is to one's own grandson, and the great-grandson is more popular.

But things were just the opposite. Everyone knew that although Empress Dowager Li also liked her grandson, she liked her grandson Cheng Guang even more.

Everyone couldn't help but guess whether the influence of Zhenguo Gong Cheng Shiyuan was behind this.

Empress Dowager Li completely ignored her daughter at this time and pulled Cheng Guang to her side, expressing her heartache.

"Hey, Xiao Guang'er, it's been a while since I last saw you. Why have you lost weight and your hands have become so rough? Is your father forcing you to practice martial arts again?"

"Your face doesn't seem to be that good. Are you sick or something? Grandma will take you to the imperial doctor in a while to prescribe some medicine for you."

"If you need anything else, just tell grandma. If your father still forces you to practice martial arts in the future, grandma will help you reason."

Cheng Guang was at a loss for a moment. He did not expect that the prince's grandmother would react like this. At the same time, he breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that he was not exposed.

As for whether he is thin or not, he has been working as a groom before. He doesn't have enough to eat or wear warm clothes. It's good if he can avoid starving to death. He has gained a lot of weight recently.

Cheng Guang cursed in his heart, but did not dare to say the words after all. After thinking about it for a while, he became concerned about his grandmother with some scheming.

"Grandma, I'm fine, but Grandma, you have to take good care of yourself and don't overwork yourself. As long as Grandma is healthy, your grandson will be satisfied."

As soon as these words came out, the old woman's heart was almost broken, and the corners of her eyes became a little moist. Although the language was simple, her emotions were sincere.

My heart is full of warmth and touching.

"My dear grandson, you still know how much you feel for your grandmother. She is still strong and strong."

"Come on, come on, come all the way, are you hungry? There are many snacks here that you have liked since you were a child. Take them and eat them."

"Huang Ying, go and tell the imperial kitchen to prepare some more spiritual food."

Empress Dowager Li was very kind and directly ordered the maids around her to prepare spiritual food.

The palace maid nodded immediately, turned around and left the arrangement with a smile.

"Mother, Guang'er is not young now. I plan to find a match for him soon. I don't know which girl is good. Mother, please give me some advice."

Wu Yuemei lowered her eyebrows and told her her plan.

When Queen Mother Li heard this topic, she immediately cheered up and sat upright.

"I will naturally have a keen eye for his marriage, Yuemei, do you have any favorite candidates?"

Empress Dowager Li turned her attention away from Cheng Guang and focused on Wu. Then the two of them began to discuss Cheng Guang's marriage.

To be precise, it was not Cheng Guang's marriage, but the prince's marriage.

Yuemei relaxed a lot in front of her mother, counting on her fingers like a little daughter.

"Song Wanyu, the legitimate daughter of the Household Secretary, is a well-known talented woman in Kyoto for her poetry and poetry. Her cultivation level has reached the third-grade Purple Mansion realm at a young age. She is considered to be both civilized and martial. I feel pretty good."

"The girl Wan Duoduo from the Minister of War is also very good. She has a figure that is fertile and her cultivation level is also very high. She is already in the fifth-grade Kaishen realm. She is considered a beauty among the entire younger generation."

"..."

Queen Mother Li listened to them one by one, and then gave her own opinions and comments at the right time, which unexpectedly gave people the feeling of picking melons and shopping for vegetables, as if as long as she liked them, they would be able to marry her.

In fact, it is.

The eldest son of Duke Zhenguo, the nephew of the current emperor, and the only son of Princess Yuemei... With all the names added up, it was basically a matter of one sentence to choose a girl.

Cheng Guang breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Queen Mother Li and Wu were chatting enthusiastically and no longer paying attention to him. You guys can talk, I will just listen.

Anyway, I am just a stand-in, a little transparent, these have nothing to do with me.

However, also at this time.

The maid's voice suddenly sounded.

"The Queen Mother, the Queen Mother and several noble concubines are here with their highnesses and princesses."

As the voice sounded, the smile on Queen Mother Li's face was obviously lessened.

Yuemei paused in her tone of voice, straightened her clothes a little, and did not continue to talk to Queen Mother Li about Cheng Guang's marriage, but moved her eyes demurely to the palace door.

Obviously, it would not be appropriate to talk about Cheng Guang's marriage when other people arrive.

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(End of this chapter)