Prince Ying left the palace, and the left and right ministers, Yongkang Hou and others did not leave, and were waiting for him at the palace gate.

Seeing him come out, Zuo Xiang immediately stepped forward and grabbed him, "Lord Wang, what's the matter?" You talked to Grandpa Wu in private, what did Grandpa Wu say? What's going on inside? What happened to the emperor? ”

Prince Ying's face was very discouraged, he glanced at a few people, and almost cried, "Gonggong Wu said, Hua Yatou ......" paused, and seemed to feel that it was not appropriate to call Hua Yatou again, so he changed his words, "Miss Fanghua gave the emperor a pulse, and said that it would be no more than tomorrow afternoon." ”

When the left and right ministers, Yongkang Hou and others heard this, their faces changed greatly.

"How so? The emperor seemed to be fine a few days ago, obviously not so soon...... How can this ......" Yongkang Hou was a little incoherent.

"Yes, how could the emperor ...... How can it be at most tomorrow noon? Zuo Xiang also felt incredulous.

Prince Ying shook his head, tears rolling in his eyes, "I don't believe it either, but Gonggong Wu doesn't look like he's telling a lie, so no one can't believe it, the prince has been guarding it inside, and he doesn't dare to leave." ”

"We haven't seen the emperor for several days." The left minister looked at the right minister, "What do you think of the emperor that day?" ”

"It's not good, that's why I stopped you that day." Right Xiangdao.

"In this way, the emperor really can't stand it?" Yongkang Hou stepped forward and asked.

The right minister nodded, "Miss Fanghua's medical skills are superb, we all know that if she says that she really can't stay up, but tomorrow at noon, it will be true." ”

"We all know that the emperor has always disliked her, and she doesn't like the emperor either, and now ...... Is Miss Fanghua's words credible? Zuo asked.

The right minister sighed, "You don't believe Miss Fanghua, you should always believe the prince." ”

Zuo Xiang was suddenly silenced.

"Let's go, let's go back to the house first, the prince ordered to enter the palace early tomorrow morning, and we will enter the palace early tomorrow." Prince Ying waved his hand.

The left and right ministers, Yongkang Hou and others nodded in unison.

The group left the palace gate.

Prince Ying returned to Prince Ying's mansion, the house was brightly lit, Prince Ying and Princess Ying had not slept yet, and was waiting for Prince Ying, when she saw him coming back, she immediately greeted him and asked anxiously, "I heard that Hua Yatou followed the prince back to Beijing?" Entered the palace? ”

Prince Ying nodded heavily.

"How could Hua Yatou follow the prince into the palace?" Prince Ying asked.

Prince Ying shook his head.

"Have you seen Hua girl? What did she say? Prince Ying asked again.

Prince Ying shook his head, "Call me the prince, give me a salute, and don't say anything." ”

Princess Ying's face changed slightly, "So...... Did she and the prince take it seriously? ”

Prince Ying stretched out his hand to hold her hand, tightly, "Now is not the time to talk about this, it is Gonggong Wu who told me that Hua Yatou will diagnose the emperor's pulse, at most at noon tomorrow." ”

"What do you mean at noon tomorrow?" Princess Ying was puzzled for a moment and didn't react.

Prince Ying looked at her, "It's the emperor, and his life is short." ”

Prince Ying's face changed greatly, her body shook suddenly, and she was silent for a while.

Prince Ying patted her hand, pulled her into the room, and sat down in a chair, his face full of pain.

After a while, Prince Ying came back to her senses, turned her head, and asked in a loud voice, "Are you saying that the emperor won't live until tomorrow afternoon?" ”

Prince Ying nodded, "That's right." ”

"This ...... How could it be so sudden? Princess Ying was a little incredulous.

Prince Ying thought for a moment and said, "When I came back from the palace, I thought all the way, and at first I couldn't figure it out, but then I understood. The emperor's younger brother was seriously ill, there was no medicine in the medicine, his life's insistence was to get rid of Xie, so that the history of the Southern Qin Jiangshan was clear, for a long time, it became an obsession, stubbornly thought that Xie was blocking his way to Shizhi Qingming, many years of hard planning, I thought that this life could achieve his wish, but he was repeatedly frustrated, after he fell seriously ill, hope was pinned on the prince, but the prince was heartfelt to Xie, proposed to change the military system, and returned the military power to Xie's hands, his obsession became a bamboo basket to draw water. He was already tense, but now his strength has dispersed, and the people have run out of oil and the lamp has dried up. ”

Princess Ying sighed, her eyes were a little red, "I really didn't expect that he was a few years younger than you." ”

"yes." Prince Ying clenched his hand and looked at her, "To this day, are you still thinking about Brother Wang in your heart, complaining that he didn't insist on marrying you back then?" ”

"What do you say?" The princess knocked off his hand, "On the day the holy decree was given to you, I let it go." Just to hear that he was about to ...... I feel a little uncomfortable. ”

"Brother Huang, I have been thinking of you for so many years, I know it in my heart." Prince Ying said, "He has really suffered all his life." ”

Prince Ying glared at him, "You have been thinking about Yuwan in your heart, and I know it too." ”

Prince Ying choked, looked at Prince Ying, paused for a moment, and said, "A few years ago, I couldn't let go, and then I thought about it." I don't think about it anymore. ”

Princess Ying snorted softly.

"I'm so old, why are I still jealous?" Prince Ying said.

Princess Ying laughed suddenly, "It's obvious that you are jealous, and you blame me?" ”

Prince Ying also smiled.

After the two laughed, their sad faces were covered again.

After half a ring, Prince Ying said, "What should I do?" Do you have an idea? ”

Prince Ying shook his head, "The crown prince ordered that all the adults go back to the house to rest, and enter the palace again tomorrow morning." Today, the emperor has been asleep and has not woken up since noon yesterday. ”

"Who is guarding the emperor now?" Prince Ying asked.

"Yesterday afternoon, the queen, the concubine, and the concubines of the harem all went, and the emperor was clearly awake at that time, and no one saw him, not even the queen and the concubine. The queen kept watch for a long time and went back. The eighth prince has been guarding for the first two days, and he has not seen the emperor, the sun is so big, the eighth prince has a heat stroke and asks the imperial doctor, and is taken back to the palace by the concubine. Prince Ying said, "Now only the prince and Hua Yatou are here." ”

Prince Ying nodded, "In that case, let's rest early, you watched for a day yesterday, and now your complexion is so bad, how can you be tired and sick?" It's better to rest, and tomorrow I can have the spirit to deal with the next thing, and I will enter the palace with you early tomorrow morning. ”

Prince Ying nodded, "I wonder when Zheng'er will come back?" ”

Princess Ying shook her head and sighed, "At this time, it's better if he doesn't come back, if he comes back to see ...... Maybe it will overturn the sky in the capital. ”

Prince Ying's face was heavy.

The two of them went into the inner room together.

After a while, the lights of Prince Ying's mansion were extinguished, and the lights of the major mansions in the capital were also extinguished one after another.

Only the palace is brightly lit, as if it were daytime.

The queen had already heard the news of Qin Yu's return to the palace, and was about to rush out, but when she heard that Xie Fanghua had returned to Beijing and entered the palace with him, she stopped again and turned around and asked, "Really?" ”

Ruyi nodded and whispered, "The prince took Miss Fanghua to see the emperor, and now she is in the emperor's bedroom." ”

Although the queen had been prepared, she was still a little surprised, "Is the emperor awake?" ”

Ruyi shook his head, "The emperor has been asleep since noon and has not woken up yet." ”

The queen asked again, "Who is in the emperor's palace now?" ”

Only the crown prince and Miss Fanghua, and the rest were stopped outside the palace and could not be seen. Prince Ying and Zuo Xiang have been guarding for a day. Ruyi asked tentatively, "Niangniang, are you going over now?" Is the prince back? If you go over, the prince will definitely let you in to see the emperor. ”

The emperor stood at the door for a while, looking at the direction of the emperor's bedroom, and after a long time, he said in a deflated manner, "That's it, this palace is not going." ”

Ruyi looked at her puzzled.

The queen's complexion was extremely bad, "For many years, I have been looking at the emperor's bedroom in this Fengluan Palace, although the two halls are not far away, but I, the queen, have never been summoned or entered." Husbands and wives all over the world, can they be like us? At dawn, the people of thousands of families are happy, but who knows that this most noble and glorious palace is a husband and a wife. It's not that I stick to the three outlines and five constants, but the emperor doesn't have me in his heart from beginning to end, so what if I take a look? ”

Ruyi looked at the queen distressedly, walked over, and stretched out her hand to support her, "That slave and maid help you to bed." ”

The queen nodded, and let Ruyi help her to the bed.

Although she went to bed, the queen didn't sleep until late at night, and the lights of Fengluan Palace were not extinguished.

Wu Quan brought supper, and Qin Yu said softly to Xie Fanghua, "You eat some, I will order the imperial dining room to decoction medicine for you, and your decoction will also be eaten on time." ”

Xie Fanghua nodded.

Qin Yu glanced at Wu Quan, Wu Quan understood, and hurriedly went out of the inner hall to find the waiter painting and the waiter ink to ask Xie Fanghua for a prescription.

Because the waiter painting and waiter Mo were in the palace, they were not worried about Xie Fanghua's decoction in other people's hands, so they said politely to Wu Quan, "Father-in-law, you can find someone to send the two slaves and maids to the imperial dining room, and we will fry the medicine of the young lady ourselves." ”

"It's fine." Wu Quan nodded, waved to one person, and ordered him to take the two to the imperial dining room.

Xie Fanghua didn't have much appetite, and after eating a few bites briefly, he put down his chopsticks and said to Qin Yu, "You can eat some too." ”

Qin Yu shook his head, "I can't eat it." ”

Xie Fanghua stopped talking.

An hour later, the waiter and the waiter came with the decoction, Xie Fanghua drank the decoction, looked at the sky, and it was already the third watch.

The drum of the third watch sounded, and the drum sound seemed to carry a depressing heaviness.

At the fourth o'clock, the emperor on the bed suddenly moved his eyelids and opened his eyes.

Xie Fanghua had been sitting on the low couch and looking at the bed, so she saw him the first time the emperor woke up.

The emperor seemed to feel something when he woke up, and slowly turned his head to see Xie Fanghua sitting not far away.

His slightly convex eyes met Xie Fanghua's eyes.

Xie Fanghua looked at the emperor calmly and did not make a sound.

The emperor also looked at him, countless emotions flashed in his eyes, and he didn't make a sound.

The two looked at each other, and the air seemed thin and cold.

Qin Yu had been lying on the head of the bed, holding the emperor's hand with both hands, his head lowered, his face against the back of the emperor's hand held by his own hands, silently hurting, and he didn't find that the emperor had woken up.

The emperor and Xie Fanghua looked at each other for about half a cup of tea, and the emperor suddenly coughed.

Qin Yu woke up suddenly, raised his head, immediately looked at the emperor, and said in surprise, "Father, are you awake?" ”

The emperor coughed so hard that his chest seemed to be about to cough out, but he did not answer his words.

Qin Yu hurriedly got up, but he knelt and sat for a long time, his legs and feet were numb, and as soon as he got up, he fell back to the ground, and hurriedly shouted, "Hurry up and get water." ”

Wu Quan hurriedly rushed in, took a glass of water, handed it forward, and reached out to help the emperor.

The emperor waved his hand to open it, and the water cup fell out of Wu Quan's hand and shattered to the ground with a "snap".

Wu Quan was shocked, "The emperor ......"

"Father?" Qin Yu was also a little frightened and looked at the emperor.

The emperor coughed profusely, his already pale and bloodless face was flushed, and his eyes were bloodshot.

"Fanghua!" Qin Yu turned his head and looked at Xie Fanghua for help.

Xie Fanghua slowly stood up and walked forward slowly, Wu Quan hurriedly got out of the bed, she stood at the head of the bed and looked at the emperor.

She didn't take the Emperor's pulse, and when the Emperor arrived, his coughing suddenly stopped, and a pair of eyes looked straight at her.

Xie Fanghua also looked at him.

The emperor looked at her for a moment, and suddenly said, "Good, good, good!" ”

Xie Fanghua was silent.

"What a Xie Fanghua!" The Emperor said again.

Xie Fanghua was still silent.

"You deliberately came back to see me close my eyes, didn't you?" The emperor said two words, and when he saw that she did not say a word, he glared at her deadly.

Xie Fanghua remained silent.

The Emperor suddenly said angrily, "Are you dumb? ”

Xie Fanghua looked at him calmly, "It is said that people are about to die, and their words are good." Your Majesty, you can't be so angry when you see me now. ”

The emperor choked, his eyes were on fire, and he looked at her with a gaze that seemed to be about to eat people.

Xie Fanghua looked at him quietly, "Three hundred years ago, the Northern Qi and Southern Qin fought against each other, and the Yu family and the Wang family were both defeated, and the troops were reconciled. Neither of the two monarchs is reconciled, and no one knows how many years of peace will be repaired, and they both want to enrich the country and strengthen the army as soon as possible, intending to conquer the opponent again and unify the country. Because the Northern Qi Dynasty is the site of the old capital of the former dynasty, as the saying goes, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, even if the vitality of the Yu family is greatly damaged, the comprehensive national strength of the Northern Qi is still stronger than that of the Southern Qin. Southern Qin was afraid that Northern Qi would enrich the country and strengthen its troops in the short term and surpass Southern Qin, and Southern Qin would no longer be an opponent. It is the ancestor emperor who repeatedly implored the Xie family to go out of the mountain and enter the WTO, and with the respect of the hereditary princes, he promised to take half of the Xie family and the country, and he would never have to worry about it. The head of the Xie family was touched by the ancestor emperor, so he used the power of the family to loyally assist Southern Qin. ”

The Emperor's gaze was fixed for a moment.

"Because of the Xie clan in Southern Qin, Shinong industry and commerce prospered rapidly, but a hundred years is enough to attack the Northern Qi and seize the world. But a hundred years later, the emperor of Southern Qin is no longer the ancestor emperor, and he has long forgotten the merits of the Xie family, and has long forgotten the ambition of competing for the world, but he can only see that the Xie family is becoming more and more deeply rooted, and he is afraid of threatening the imperial power. Xie Fanghua looked at the emperor, "Since a hundred years ago, Southern Qin began to guard against the Xie family, constantly seizing power in the open, and secretly fighting infighting, obviously the national strength is stronger than that of the Northern Qi, but because of the continuous infighting, it can't fight for the world wholeheartedly." ”

There seemed to be a crack in the emperor's eyes.

"After two hundred years like this, in your generation, the suppression of the Xie family is even worse." Xie Fanghua looked at the emperor, "I only know that the side of the couch does not allow others to sleep soundly, but I don't remember that without the Xie family, how could there be today's Southern Qin Jiangshan?" Without the Xie family, Southern Qin would have been a fish and meat ridden by the Northern Qi Tie, and it would be slaughtered by others. In the past three hundred years, how many chances did Southern Qin have to conquer Northern Qi? However, all of them were abolished because of this, but in the end, the Northern Qi Iron Cavalry took the lead in attacking Southern Qin. ”

The Emperor's gaze cracked again.

"The emperors of Southern Qin are not as good as the next generation, and they only know suspicion and prevention to get rid of loyal ministers, but the emperors of Northern Qi are more wise, ambitious, and ambitious than one generation after another. Nowadays, the Northern Qi is thriving, even if the Yu family is powerful, the king of the Northern Qi is still good at using it, but what about the Southern Qin? The hidden mountain collapsed, the hidden guard grandmaster secretly countered the murder, and his own hidden guard all became sharp swords aimed at his own country's emperor industry, and when he was in internal and external troubles, he still needed the Xie family. Xie Fanghua looked at him, "Is the Shi Zhiming you want to get rid of the Xie clan as the foundation of Southern Qin for a hundred years?" If that's the case, it won't take a few decades for the Northern Qi to drive straight into the mountains and rivers of Southern Qin, and Southern Qin will disappear in the long river of history like those countries that destroyed the country in history, so you will be satisfied? Do you think you have the face to go to the Nine Springs to meet the First Ancestor Emperor of Southern Qin? ”

The emperor's gaze suddenly shattered, like the surface of ice, shattered in an instant, and the anger and anger on his face also receded. Slightly leaning back, he fell back to the dragon bed.

"Father!" Qin Yu's voice was hoarse, and he leaned forward to check on the emperor.

The Emperor suddenly closed his eyes, and there was a dead silence on his face.

Wu Quan glanced at Xie Fanghua carefully, silently took a step back, and didn't say anything.

Seeing this, Xie Fanghua said calmly, "How many generations of emperors have been deceived by appearances, on the throne of this golden brick palace, they only remember that they are emperors, but they don't remember that they should be emperors who work for the benefit of tens of millions of people in Southern Qin, but they don't know the truth that the Qin family and the Xie family can only coexist. ”

The emperor suddenly spoke, and his voice was extremely unpleasant, "Yes, I can't solve it." ”

Xie Fanghua stopped talking.

The emperor was silent for a moment, and then said, "I didn't expect that how many generations of Southern Qin emperors are not as insightful as a little girl in the Xie family. ”

Xie Fanghua stopped making a sound.

The emperor suddenly turned his head again and looked at Qin Yu.

Qin Yu's eyes were red, and they were full of bloodshots, and when he saw him, he shouted in a low voice, "Father!" ”

The emperor looked at Qin Yu for a moment and said to him, "I have the same vision as you, I took a fancy to a woman back then, and she also has both ability and political integrity, and she can be the mother of the country." Unfortunately, I am not blessed. After a pause, he said, "Your mother is short-sighted, and I am also self-contained, this country ...... I am not a good father, nor am I a good emperor, this life ...... That's all there is to it. ”

Qin Yu's tears rolled in the corners of his eyes, and he clasped his hand tightly, "Father, Emperor......"