Under Qin Jiyan's deliberate attack, it only took Gu Chenghuan ten days to break through the imperial city and lead troops to surround the palace.
The moment the city was destroyed, the maids and eunuchs in the palace panicked. They had the courage to put on ordinary people's clothes, stole some gold and silver and tried to run out. However, before they could reach the palace gate, they were stopped by the attendants.
Killed with one knife.
These guards were naturally the elite around Qin Jiyan. They did not go to defend the city, nor did they guard at the palace gate. Instead, they were outside the palace as usual to protect the safety of Qin Jiyan and Long Bao.
In the palace, all the civil and military officials had been driven away by Qin Jiyan, and Tang Wanjin had also been driven out by Qin Jiyan. There were only Qin Jiyan and his son in the huge hall.
Long Bao nestled in Qin Jiyan's arms, his pink and tender face was exactly the same as Qin Jiyan's, cold and serious.
It's just that the same expression made by Qin Jiyan, which is called the pressure of an emperor, but made by Long Bao can only be called pretending to be an adult, making people want to pinch his face and call him cute.
However, the father and son looked as serious and indifferent as usual, but from their stiff sitting postures, it could be seen that each of them was more nervous than the other.
"Father, do you think my mother won't like me?" Long Bao's little face tightened, and his hands were tugging at the hem of Qin Jiyan's clothes, and his palms were sweating.
The father said that his mother would be back today. He wanted to see her and wanted to know if she was as beautiful as the portrait, but he was also worried that her mother would not like him.
His father said that his mother liked well-behaved and obedient children, and he was very well-behaved and obedient, but Uncle Tang said that he didn't look like a child at all, and his mother definitely didn't like his appearance as a little old man.
But, how do you look like a child and not like a little old man?
Long Bao's brows were furrowed and he was thinking very seriously about what a child should look like. But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't think of what a child should look like.
Everyone around him is the same as him. At most, Taifu Feng smiles a little more than others. Uncle Tang said that his mother and Taifu Feng are good friends. Does he want to learn from Taifu Feng to smile more?
Long Bao asked for a long time but didn't see his father's answer, so he couldn't help but ask again, "Father, do I have to smile more so that my mother will like me?"
There was still no answer. Long Bao became anxious and tugged on Qin Jiyan's sleeve, "Father, please answer my question quickly. Otherwise, what should I do if my mother comes and doesn't like me?"
"Cer, what did you say?" Qin Jiyan was completely immersed in his own thoughts and did not hear what Long Bao said at all.
"Father." Long Bao felt aggrieved, but the education he received did not teach him to act coquettishly, nor did he allow him to cry when he was wronged.
Although he felt aggrieved, Long Bao didn't say anything. He just repeated his question with an unhappy look on his face, and then looked at Qin Jiyan eagerly, waiting for Qin Jiyan's answer.
Qin Jiyan's originally uneasy mood suddenly calmed down after seeing Long Bao, who was equally uneasy. He gently touched Long Bao's head and said softly in a gentle tone that was completely inconsistent with his appearance.
: "Si Ce'er, if your mother doesn't like anyone, no one will dislike you. Your mother would even risk her life for you, so how can she not like you."
In order to give birth to Ce'er, Gu Qiancheng could cut open his own abdomen. Not everyone has this kind of courage.
If Gu Qiancheng didn't like Ce'er, he would be the first to disagree.
"But, but...mother has never seen me before, will she not recognize me?" Although Qin Jiyan gave a positive answer, Long Bao was still uneasy.
His mother is not someone else. If his mother doesn't like him, he will definitely be very sad, sad, and even cry out of sadness.
"certainly……"
"Of course not!"
"Bang!" The palace door was kicked open, and Gu Qiancheng, wearing silver armor, walked in.
Mother and son are connected, how could she not recognize her son?
"Qian, Qiancheng!" Qin Jiyan saw Gu Qiancheng walking towards him and opened his eyes wide in disbelief, fearing that this was his illusion.
"You, you're finally back. You're back!" Although he had been prepared, the moment he saw Gu Qiancheng, Qin Jiyan still stood up glumly and stumbled forward.
However, Gu Qiancheng didn't even look at him, her eyes fell on Long Bao.
"My... child." Gu Qiancheng's face was covered with tears. He wanted to step forward and hug Long Bao, but he was afraid of scaring him, so he could only stand there and look at Long Bao tenderly, "Your name is Qin
Ce, right? My...my name is Gu Qiancheng, and I am you...your mother." By the end, Gu Qiancheng was choked up and couldn't speak.
"I..." Long Bao was held in Qin Jiyan's arms, looking motionless at the woman who was similar but not unlike the one in the painting, his big eyes full of confusion.
This is his mother, so familiar yet so strange.
"Ce'er, can you... come to mother? Can you give me a hug?" Gu Qiancheng was dozens of steps away from Qin Jiyan. This distance was not too far, but it was not close either.
"Father, let me down." Long Bao twisted his body and struggled to get out of Qin Jiyan's arms, but at this moment Qin Jiyan only had Gu Qiancheng in his eyes, and he didn't notice Long Bao's movements at all.
It wasn't until Long Bao almost fell to the ground due to excessive struggle that he realized what he was doing.
"Ce'er, be careful!" Qin Jiyan reacted very quickly and caught the dragon treasure, but due to excessive force, he opened the wound in his heart and coughed violently.
"Ce'er!" Gu Qiancheng was also startled and rushed forward to catch Long Bao from Qin Jiyan's arms.
"Cough, cough, cough..." Seeing the person he missed so much in front of him, Qin Jiyan wanted to hold him in his arms, but he couldn't... He was coughing violently and couldn't do anything.
"Father, father..." Long Bao was held in Qian Cheng's arms, but before he could feel what his mother's arms felt like, he was frightened by Qin Jiyan's cough.
Struggling to jump out of Gu Qiancheng's arms, Long Bao ran to Qin Jiyan with his short legs and said, "Father, father, you are okay, nothing will happen to you."
At this time, Qin Jiyan curled up into a ball due to severe coughing. Long Bao skillfully patted Qin Jiyan on the back and shouted at the same time, "Imperial doctor, imperial doctor, please declare the imperial doctor quickly!"
"Father, where is the medicine? Where is your medicine? I'll get you some water. Quick, drink the medicine." Long Bao's eyes were red, but he didn't cry.
The education he received since childhood told him that as the prince of Qin and the future emperor, he could not cry, even if he died.
He can't cry, he must not cry!
His mother was right in front of him, and he couldn't cry in front of her.
The Tutor said that a crying child is not a good child. He must not cry to make his mother hate him or his father.
"No, my father is fine." Qin Jiyan coughed violently for a while, as if he wanted to cough out his heart, liver, and lungs.
"Father, take the medicine, take the medicine quickly." Long Bao found his medicine beside Qin Jiyan, opened it in a panic, and was about to feed it to his mouth, but as soon as he handed it to Qin Jiyan's mouth, he remembered that he had not poured it out.
Water, and hurriedly took the pills back, "Water, water, Father, please wait, I will pour you some water."
"Water!" But when he turned around, he saw a glass of water handed to him. Long Bao was stunned for a moment, raised his head blankly, and called out in an unfamiliar and cautious voice, "Mother, mother?"
"Good boy, give your father the medicine first." Gu Qiancheng smiled happily, there were still tears in his eyes, but there was no sadness.
Her child is a hundred times better than she imagined.
As for Qin Jiyan?
Gu Qiancheng gave him a cold look and then withdrew his gaze.
She has plenty of time now, so she can settle the debt between her and Qin Jiyan slowly...
A message to readers: I was struggling to write about the meeting. I wrote 4,000 words before, but I didn’t feel comfortable deleting it. This is a rewrite.