The reason for Gu Yun's trip to the South was because Commander Fu Zhi Cheng's family recently had a grand funeral. General Fu's elderly mother had just passed away, he had brought forth his request to return his plaque in order to come home to attend his mother's funeral, to express his filial piety.

The 'funeral' was in fact, simply an excuse that was neither here nor there, whether one attended or not was not of importance, they could easily make up a reason not to attend. But the high-ranking officials at the frontier had never done so before.

If the commander returned home for a few years, who would be responsible if war was to break out?

Moreover, in the entire Great Liang, there was no one who did not know of General Fu's background as a bandits' leader. It was the old marquis who had thoroughly defeated him into surrender, and he was then later recruited into the official military ranks.

On several occasions when having an audience with His Majesty, he had often been unable to restrain himself and let out a number of crude curse words. He was not one to pay particular attention to mannerisms.

General Fu was clearly dissatisfied with the Drumming Order, combined with the flood situation in the South this year, he had chosen this opportunity as the Southern front line had been plunged into horrible chaos, to abandon his duty, threatening the Imperial Court.

Sitting in the carriage was the personnel of the Ministry of War, Master Sun Jiao, a loyal supporter of the drumming order. The Emperor sent him as an imperial supervisor, to 'appease' the subject. But unexpectedly, Master Sun had cowered in fear, expressing to His Majesty while in tears - that he had fully prepared himself to sacrifice for the country in this trip, and once he departed, there would be no return.

His Majesty had no other choice but to send a gold medal order straight to the Northwest, throwing this messy state of affairs and a good-for-nothing burden to Gu Yun.

Gu Yun had spent all year round exhausting himself wiping the Emperor's behind, his temper hadn't been good, he was not able to reason with His Majesty, and could only torment Master Yao without shame.

This time as he was conveniently passing by Sichuan, Gu Yun had asked someone to write a letter to Chen Qing Xu, planning to meet with her here.

In recent years, he had become more and more aware of the decrease in effectiveness of the medicine the old Doctor Chen prescribed to him in the past. Before, one dose would be able to get him through four to five days, but as of right now, it had come to the point where he had to take his medicine every other day.