80. Chapter 80: Prologue to the Duel

Qiwen thought that this night would be overexcited and cause insomnia, but she didn't expect that because of the heavy body work, she slept very well, and she didn't know if she punched and kicked in her sleep.

After sleeping, Qiwen was woken up by him, opened her eyes to see the still dim vision, and felt the tingling and itching on her face and neck kissed by him, Qiwen's first reaction was: "Should you ...... it" Although I have slept a lot, but four times, it's too much, right? There should always be a green mountain.

The emperor leaned on her shoulder and laughed sullenly for a while, and scratched her face with his fingers: "You are really not afraid of heaven and earth." ”

The tip of his nose was wafting with the aroma of a good smell of bamboo salt tooth balm paste, and it seemed that he had already gotten up, Qiwen hurriedly covered her mouth and asked, "Is it time to get up?" ”

"It's coming, it's not in a hurry." The emperor lay on his side and hugged her tightly, so that her head rested on his chest, "There are some things I wanted to say to you yesterday, but I didn't have the heart at the time, so it's just right to tell you now." Yesterday afternoon, when I went to Ciqing Palace, I told my father about you......"

Qiwen listened to him quietly, and looked up at him in surprise: "Should you ...... or not" The same four words refer to a different one from Fang Cai.

The emperor's face was full of smiles, and he was extremely warm: "I will canonize you today, give you a serious title, and I can make you a concubine in one step, and you don't have to be crowned from a lady by a palace woman." How, Gao is not happy? Come and think about it, what kind of title do you want? ”

Qiwen's face didn't show the joy he expected at all, she blinked her eyes for a while, but frowned bitterly: "This, isn't it?" Can you not seal it first? Yes, according to what you just said, it is more beneficial for us to leave it unsealed for the time being, right? ”

The emperor was stunned: "What are you afraid of?" I said that if you can canonize it, you can canonize it, and you don't have to be afraid of anyone who will make trouble. ”

"No, it's not." Qiwen's brows furrowed even tighter, "If I really seal the concubine, I won't be able to live here all day anymore." Although...... It's not appropriate to live like this now, but ...... After all, I can still justifiably stay all day to serve your tea and daily life, and after sealing the concubine, I can only go to live alone in a single palace, and it will be deserted all day long. If we want to meet, we have to find another name......"

Not only was she not happy, she was so sad that she almost cried. The news came too suddenly, and it was too different from her previous imagination of the short-term future, which was really hard to accept.

She really wants to be a palace maid for the rest of her life, and the emperor is discouraged when he sees this: "You have suffered so many grievances, you have been bullied by the little palace maids, you have been beaten by my queen mother, and you have been called by this and that, you don't want to turn over and be the master at all, and you will not be angry with anyone?" Do you know that people are too indifferent to fame and fortune, and they become useless! ”

Qiwen made a bitter face aggrievedly: "The slave is so useless, it's a waste of your hard work." For the sake of me being so muddy that I can't support the wall, drag it out a little longer. ”

The emperor sighed secretly, and coaxed him well: "Don't worry, you can live here as a concubine, and you will always be by my side." Don't worry about who can't look at it, this is what I have planned for a long time, and it is not without precedent for the favorite concubine to live in the emperor's bedroom. ”

Qiwen was still skeptical: "Really? ”

The emperor laughed: "I can't lie to you?" Whether you are a palace maid or a concubine, it is obvious that you will monopolize the holy favor. Others can't see it, but they can't see it for a long time, but if you are a palace maid, they can make trouble and bully you, and when you seal the concubine, they will only have a secret slander, what's wrong with this? ”

I thought she would be able to smile like this, but I didn't expect Qiwen to be awkward: "It's still too sudden, and people don't have the heart to change their identities at all." In the end, she can't reverse her concept and accept reality.

The emperor was very angry, and he didn't be polite to her anymore, and directly turned over and pressed her: "I said canonization, canonization, where is so much nonsense?" Come on, let's discuss which title is the best while doing business. ”

Qiwen was shocked: "This ...... How many times, I'm afraid it's too much, right? ”

"What's not to do?" As the Emperor spoke, the hand that reached into her midcoat suddenly stopped.

When he was quiet, Qiwen also heard it suddenly, and there was a movement outside, as if someone was approaching in a hurry, and he couldn't really hear it at first, but just a moment later, the footsteps entered the door of the apse.

This is a strange thing, the palace people who can enter the emperor's bedroom to serve in close proximity have been strictly educated, not to mention that there is no life under their feet, at least it is very rare to step out such a hasty and obvious footsteps. Not to mention that everyone in front of me knows what is special today, and if you want to come over in such a hurry to disturb it, something must be wrong.

"Master." Wang Zhi's voice resounded in the room, and the emperor had already taken the first step to open the bed and sit on the edge of the bed: "What's wrong?" ”

Wang Zhi's voice was full of obvious anxiety: "Master, it's the Emperor Taishang, his old man...... Yan drove it. ”

Emperor Yan drove it, and a word made the warm pavilion as warm as spring cool down suddenly.

Qiwen Huo Ran, who was lying on the bed, sat up, put her hand on the emperor's shoulder, and was full of worry for a while, not knowing what to say.

Wang Zhi outside didn't make a sound, and the emperor didn't move, for a while, only to hear the faint sound of people walking and talking in the quiet night outside, and the emperor sitting on the edge of the bed seemed to turn into a clay sculpture, and he didn't make a sound at all.

"You...... Say something to me. Qiwen turned to the side and grabbed his shoulder and shook it, "The more you talk like this, the more you have to be calm!" ”

Since he came back last night, she could clearly see how happy he was, and after listening to his relays of the conversation, she could better understand how happy, grateful, and happy his father was when he woke up and finally had the opportunity to talk to him.

On the premise of his father's temporary recovery, he made a series of happy dreams, and suddenly heard this bad news, what a blow it should be to him!

The emperor's long hair was scattered over his shoulders, and a sad look slowly condensed on his stone-carved face, and finally closed his eyes and shed two lines of tears.

Qiwen saw that her heart was about to break, hugged his shoulder tightly and cried out, and forcibly persuaded: "Father, he has been sick for a long time, and it is only a matter of time, I can have the opportunity to talk to you yesterday, I think it is also a big wish for his old man, and he must be at ease when he leaves." ”

"You don't understand," the emperor said through biting his lower lip, "it's Qiao Anguo!" ”

Qiwen was taken aback: "Qiao Anguo? "If you want to talk about the person in the world who doesn't want the emperor to die, it should be Qiao Anguo, right? How could he harm the Emperor?

The emperor shook his head sadly, and tried his best to suppress his feelings and explain to her: "He didn't want to harm his father, he was...... In order to save his father's life, he tried his best to search for all kinds of prescriptions for medical treatment and prolongation, and I heard that I just got a new prescription recently, and I practiced pills to make up for my father. ”

Qiwen suddenly understood that the body of the Emperor Taishang was at the end of the crossbow, relying on the gentle swallowing techniques of the imperial doctors who did not seek merit but sought no fault, it could still be barely maintained, and sometimes there was a time when it was as good as yesterday, and Gonggong Qiao's means of quick success and quick profit were to do bad things with good intentions, which made the Emperor Taishang unbearable.

"I know, I know! But he didn't stop it. The emperor was remorseful, and supported his forehead with his hands, and his shoulders trembled violently, and he could not cry silently.

Qiwen held his arm and cried with him, not knowing what to persuade for a while.

"And you." The emperor raised his red eyes suddenly, grabbed her wrist, and was in a hurry, "Your business, this time it is gone." ”

Her father is newly mourned, how can she be canonized immediately?

Qiwen hurriedly said: "What is my business? As I said, I didn't want to be canonized right away. ”

She took his hands and said very solemnly, "This is an eventful autumn, what kind of fate we can end up in the future, all in one move, you know all this, you don't need me to advise more." You promise me that you must act calmly, and do not be distracted by the desire to miss me. We will have a long life in the future. ”

The emperor's face was still shining with clear tears, his expression had slowly returned to calm, and finally, he nodded solemnly at her.

Seeing this, Qiwen barely calmed down, and was about to get up to change his clothes.

"Not necessarily." The Emperor pressed her shoulder, stood up, took the robe from the truss and put it on, "You wait here, and then walk around when there is no one outside, and wait for me to arrange it." ”

The day she went to bed was the day of the Emperor Yan's drive, which was embarrassing for her, and it was better not to let her face outsiders for the time being. After the emperor finished explaining, he quickly walked out of the warm pavilion.

Wang Zhi had already taken Qian Yuanhe and the other two close attendants to prepare toiletries and plain clothes and wait at the door of the room, and when he saw him striding out, he immediately stepped forward and waited for him to change clothes and wash up quickly.

"Immediately send an order to arrest Qiao Anguo, his mansion, his outer house and the grange under his name should be sealed, and his relatives and servants and relatives in Jing will all be detained!"

It was only a moment before he stepped out of the door of the Xinuan Pavilion, and the emperor changed his face with a resolute and resolute expression, his eyes flashed with cold light, and his tone was cold. Fang Cai's hasty grief can no longer be found.

Straightening the cuffs of his plain clothes, when he walked out of the door, he glanced back in the direction of Nuan Ge, and his heart was full of bitter self-deprecation: if she saw his instantaneous change in face with her own eyes, I am afraid that she would suspect that Fang Cai's sadness and hesitation were all pretending to deceive her, right?

With her acuity, she must soon figure out what he was doing knowing that Qiao Anguo was searching for home remedies for the Emperor Taishang, but he didn't stop it.

If he said that he was lucky, seeing that his father was in critical condition and the dead horse was used as a live horse doctor, it would not make sense to let Qiao Anguo give it a try, but his more important plan was obviously to wait for his father to die, so he would use this matter as a raft, and deduct the felony of killing the Emperor Taishang on Qiao Anguo's head, and take advantage of the situation to wipe out his forces, so that those who have the intention to defend him will have nothing to say.

Seeing that his father woke up and improved yesterday, at least he should have stopped Qiao Anguo from continuing to make up for him in time, in that case, maybe his father would not suddenly stop driving today, but he didn't. In the final analysis, it was because he had selfish intentions and didn't want to break the plan, which indirectly led to the death of his father, how much difference is this from killing his father for personal purposes?

He is really a heartless person, but he still has to pretend to be a filial son and grandson in front of her, even if she will not despise him and despise him because of this, he himself will inevitably be ashamed of himself.

The emperor sighed deeply, and when he turned around, he was already awe-inspiring and dignified, and strode out of the door, leaving no longer a little gentle and hasty. Gloomy and sensitive may be his innate personality, but at the same time, he is also the style he adheres to.

The news must have been sent out of the palace, and the sound of the death knell outside the imperial city pierced the silence of the early morning and entered the Longxi Pavilion.

The chimes echoed and stretched out in a single piece, as if they were blurred by the cold and wet air, and became one with the winter. People are trapped in it, forcibly soaked in an atmosphere of haste and sorrow, and there is no escape.

Qiwen was dressed in a middle coat, draped in the middle single he had replaced, and walked slowly to the door of the warm pavilion, slightly lifting the brocade curtain and looking out.

The death of the Emperor Taishang, this heavy threshold that they had been looking forward to and fearing for many days has finally come to their eyes, and what awaits him will be a tough battle that will determine life and death, and also affect the world.

Although she has already planned well, she doesn't know if she can make every step go according to the plan, and if there will be any mistakes, no matter how worried she is, there is nothing she can do, and the frontal battlefield of this battle is something she can't help after all, and can only be faced by himself.

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Bathed in the sound of the same death knell, the king of Tan stood in the main gate of the palace Caiwei Hall, and when the servants and maids took care of the plain clothes for him, he stepped out of the threshold.

Even if he is familiar with the person and the world's shrewd eyes, it is difficult to distinguish the slightest joy, anger and sorrow on his face......