Chapter 229: Father and Son
"Father? Which prince are you? Gu Qing lowered his β‘ and touched Chu Chengping's head.
I can actually touch it.
What soft hair!
"I'm Chu Chengping." The little prince tilted his head and hugged the ball tighter. "Can you heal?"
Gu Qing was coaxed by the little prince's sentence "fairy sister", and then there was a burst of numbness.
What "fairy sister", it's enjoyable to listen to, if you really keep shouting like this, the goosebumps will fall out.
"Don't call me Sister Fairy. Auntie is very old. "It's rare for Gu Qing to admit this fact." Auntie can heal, but I don't know what kind of illness your father has. β
As soon as the little prince heard that Gu Qing would cure the disease, his eyes immediately lit up.
"My father has a stomachache, often vomits, and can't sleep at night."
There are too many diseases that cause stomach pain, vomiting, and can't sleep at night.
Gastric ulcers, duodenal ulcers, chronic gastritis, stomach cancer, are all such symptoms.
There is no instrument here that can check the internal organs, and she is just a Piao, so she can't do anything to check Chu Rui.
Could it be that God sent her back to treat Chu Rui?
After looking at it first, then go back and check the information and ask the experts?
But there's no medicine here!
"Good boy, that sounds serious. But Auntie...... Auntie didn't bring any medicine with her. Gu Qing squatted down weakly and touched the little prince's head.
She is a Western doctor, and she is too dependent on medical equipment and Western medicine.
How she wished she really was some kind of fairy sister.
Don't the gods all have a panacea? Why didn't this god have it?
Because the status of the tanuki is very low, can't you get medicine?
Forget it, since she said that there is no rule of law, it is useless to force her.
The little prince struggled for a while, and then he thought about it.
"Then Auntie, it's not easy for you to come down to earth once, right? I'll take you around the Imperial Garden. The little prince looked at the eunuch who had been staring at this side not far away, raised his head and said to Gu Qing: "Can't others see you?" β
"Well, Auntie doesn't know why outsiders can't see me." Gu Qing smiled and said, "Maybe it's because you're special." β
The little prince touched his head, unable to understand what "special" meant.
But since only he could see this fairy aunt, then he would take her to hang around in the palace casually.
Maybe when he entertains her happily, he can help his father see a doctor.
Kasugaden.
Now it is winter, and due to the extreme heat, Chu Rui has become more and more ill, so that he has to live in the warmest spring hall in the entire palace, and often leave the court to recuperate.
There is a spring in the spring hall, the supervisor will cut off the spring, and the bottom is hot, this spring has become a natural hot pool, Chu Rui has a cold stomach, and often soak in a hot bath, which is also good for the body.
The Yin Dynasty rebelled against thieves, Li Mao went to the north, although there was a Jin Guogong to support the overall situation, but Chu Rui, who was cautious and worried by nature, still did not dare to relax for a moment, and often reviewed and listened to political affairs until he forgot to sleep and eat. He loves to drink hot tea again, and he can't stand it anymore when he reviews the recitals at night, so he asks the eunuch to fry a cup of strong tea and pour it down to refresh himself.
His stomach was already a little bad, and he used to have belching and acid reflux, but he was young at that time, and the imperial doctor took good care of him, so it didn't cause any big problems.
When he is over forty, and then he stays up late, sedentary, and has an irregular diet like when he was young, all the problems of his body will come out.
He was born to worry about his life, and he was suspicious, and he didn't feel at ease when some political affairs were handed over to anyone. The secretary of the ministry is newly promoted, and Lu Yuanhao, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, also shows his edge from time to time, and he forces himself out of serious stomach problems.
At first, he just vomited, but then he vomited yellow water and green gallbladders, and now he sometimes vomits blood.
Therefore, Zhang Xuanji said that the emperor star was dim to the point of being frightened, and he wanted to go back to the mountain to continue the emperor's life, so he let her go back.
He's only forty-six now, and he really doesn't want to die so early.
State affairs are tense, internal and external instability, and he can't go to court because of illness, so the crown prince appears more and more in front of people.
Since a few years ago, in all kinds of sacrifices, soldiers, and autumn hunts, the crown prince Chu Chengxuan has been exercising the obligations of the emperor on behalf of his father, and he has done it very well.
He is the eldest son of the righteous grandson to succeed to the crown prince, and at the age of sixteen, he married Jiang Qingling, the daughter of the Jiang family, the largest family in Jiangnan, as the crown prince's concubine, although he has not given birth to a son and a half daughter for two years, but Jiang Qingling was originally young when he married, and it is normal to be pregnant in the first two years.
In the eyes of the world, such a prince is simply perfect.
The queen is from a generous heart, although she is young, she is good at admonishment, the prime minister is his cousin, the clan faction stands behind him, and the noble faction does not hate this prince.
In addition to being less experienced, he can't handle most of the state affairs on behalf of the emperor, and he can almost get a full score.
The ministers were very satisfied with him, but there was one person who was very dissatisfied.
That is his own father, Chu Rui.
Chu Rui didn't know if he had pressed him for more than ten years and did not establish a prince, which made him feel a sense of crisis, all in all, this child has shown a kind of eagerness since he inherited the prince.
An eagerness that can do well on its own.
A kind of eagerness to befriend all parties and show that they can balance it.
An eagerness to get involved in politics.
And the last item is the most intolerable for Chu Rui.
When Chu Rui was thirty years old, he was still the crown prince, and he only ascended the throne at the age of thirty-two. Before that, he studied with his father for ten years before he dared to let him learn how to govern.
National events are different from things like sacrifices and autumn hunting, and once you rush to achieve something, you will fall short. Social affairs are related to the livelihood of tens of millions of people, and if you are not careful, it is likely to be a scene of family destruction and separation of wives.
He originally thought that he would live for at least ten years, Chu Chengxuan was appointed as the prince at the age of fifteen, and after ten years of study, at the age of twenty-five, his temperament was settled, and his son was also available, which was just right for him to succeed to the throne.
But it's only been three years, and he can't wait.
Is it because the Duke of Jin and the Jiang family have been standing behind him, giving him some kind of illusion?
Or is it because his subordinate officials in the East Palace are so obvious that he really thinks that he already has a "small court"?
If there is anyone who is most familiar with Chu Rui in this world, it is none other than Queen Zhang Shaoguang. She was the first to feel the emperor's uneasiness about the prince's excellence, so she insisted that her eldest son be more humble and filial to the emperor. On weekdays, I should also have less contact with ministers.
But as a prince, the emperor was unwell, and the situation that he couldn't even go to court was clearly there, even if he didn't come and go, there would be countless people surrounding him.
Chu Rui is a very tolerant person, he never shows this dissatisfaction in front of the prince, but he does not move to mobilize the prince's right-hand man, and even transfers three of the four guests from the East Palace to replace them with henchmen around him.
Nominally, it was the emperor's favor to the crown prince, but in fact it was a kind of surveillance in disguise.
For this situation, Chu Chengxuan was very depressed in his heart, and even had self-doubts. Fortunately, the crown princess Jiang Qingling acted as the interpreter flower, and the elders of the uncle's family and a few henchmen who have been studying since childhood have been solving it, so they survived.
As for his father, the emperor, who is also his own monarch, the crown prince can only be more respectful and lower his posture to the mud.
Today, Chu Rui fell ill again, at this time the prince was being tested by the emperor, and when he saw that his father was about to vomit again, he didn't have time to look for Sheng Wu for a while, so he lifted the hem of his clothes and used the hem to pick it up.
Once Chu Rui vomits, it is his nose and throat that come out in unison, and everything in his stomach will not stop if he does not vomit clean. The eunuchs had long been accustomed to it, and when they saw the emperor vomiting, they immediately went to order the imperial physician who accompanied them, and there were palace maids who prepared things to wash and bathe, so they waited to serve the emperor.
After the prince received his father's vomit, Chu Rui had already vomited to the point of collapse, and he really couldn't stand anymore, so he asked a eunuch to take the prince to the back to bathe and change clothes, and then come to the school for the exam.
Chu Chengxuan went to the bath of the Spring Hall with a sour body, Chu Rui's heart suddenly moved, and he didn't know why he had a thought.
"Huang Shenchun?" Chu Rui evoked his henchman eunuch.
"Your Majesty, the slave is here."
"Go find my old clothes and give them to the prince on the other side of the bath. His clothes are still in the East Palace, although there are fire cages everywhere in the palace, but it is too time-consuming to come and go, and it is easy to get cold. Let him wear my first. β
"Your Majesty's kindness is a blessing for the crown prince."
"When he's fully dressed, let him come to me."
Huang Shenchun got the emperor's will and immediately went down to make arrangements.
On the way, Huang Shenchun kept thinking: 'Although Your Majesty is sometimes strict with the prince, after all, he is still flesh and blood, once something happens, the prince does not care about the dirt, and His Majesty cherishes his son, which is really emotional. β
He even wondered if he should also stand in line next to the prince.
Your Majesty's stomach ailments are getting worse and worse.
On the other side, Chu Chengxuan was vomited by his father, although it was a little disgusting, but it was much more suitable than standing next to him and being at a loss.
He removed all the dirty clothes under the service of the maids and buried them in hot water.
After a while, the palace maid wearing only tulle also went into the water, wiped his body behind him, and massaged him to relieve fatigue.
The bath of the Kasuga Temple, he also used to come when he was young. The baths here are hot spring water, and in the past, when it was still winter, his grandfather would sometimes rise up and leave him behind and take a dip in the water with him.
But that was a long time ago.
Chu Chengxuan's whole body was numb by the palace maid's rubbing, and he was bored for a while, so he drank her.
Since he became an adult, there have been more and more people in the palace who have thrown themselves into their arms, and if they are not careful, they will fall into the way. He doesn't have a son-in-law now, and if there is any scandal of the "eldest son", he won't have to live in the future.
He soaked in the water alone, fell on his back on the edge of the pool, and quietly closed his eyes to recuperate.
With his father's illness, he has become more and more moody in recent years. If Li Guogong returned to Beijing, he would be kind to Li Guogong, but he would be a little unkind to his uncle Jin Guogong.
Half a year ago, the Duke of Jin asked for severe punishment of Qin Feng, the Shence general who was the head of the Lu clan, and reprimanded him for a scolding of his father and the emperor.
And in the past, no matter how angry his father was, he would not be so unkind to the important ministers of the court.
suppressed his uncle's face, which was a slap in the face. The whole world knows that the Jin State Mansion is the biggest relative, his dependence, and the former official of more than half of the subordinate officials of the East Palace.
Chu Chengxuan really doesn't like to be manipulated by others, but sometimes, he has to admit that if he wants to be a good prince, it is not enough to have ability.
Someone has to be.
As soon as he thought of these depressing things, Chu Chengxuan felt that even the originally warm pool water had become cold, so he simply wiped it a few times and was about to get up and change his clothes.
His father didn't like to have people around when he had a stomach attack, he had been here for so long, the imperial doctor should have already treated it, and the mess in the main hall must have been dealt with.
When he was dressed, he was startled by the half-worn robe in front of him.
The clothes are not unusual, but they are embroidered with dragons, Zhai patterns and twelve chapter patterns, and they are his father's regular clothes at a glance.
He also had a dragon on his crown robe, but it was a dragon, and it only had four claws.
Huang Shenchun, the chief eunuch, intended to sell it, so he explained to the prince with a smile: "Your Majesty is worried that His Royal Highness the crown prince will suffer from the cold, so he asked the slave maid to send these robes. Although they are all half-old, they are all extremely clean, and His Highness can wear them to protect them from the cold. β
"Are these really from my father?"
"Your Highness, if it were not given by Your Majesty, who would dare to take the robes of the Son of Heaven out and wash them for you? This is the honor of the heavenly family, and you are the only one who can make Your Majesty remember it so much, and you are worried that the East Palace is far away, and you will catch a cold here. β
Chu Chengxuan's heart was hot by Huang Shenchun's words, and he shed a few tears while holding his father's old clothes.
No matter how moody his father is, just like his mother said, his father is now sick and weak, so he naturally thinks more, but as long as he serves with a sincere filial piety, his father can always see it.
"Your Highness, change your clothes quickly, don't really catch a cold, but let Your Majesty work hard. I don't know what the situation is in the palace now, Your Majesty β‘ weak, and I still need you to serve you. β
Huang Shenchun couldn't help but urge when he saw the prince patronizing and hugging his clothes in a daze.
Chu Chengxuan picked up the bright yellow middle coat and held it in his hand for a while, and inexplicably felt uneasy.
But the bright yellow color and the pattern of the rising dragon had a great temptation for him. Just like a gambler sees a gambling game, a prostitute sees a peerless beauty, and a foodie meets the best delicacy.
He rubbed the dark cloud pattern on the collar of his coat, but he finally did not resist the temptation.
"Wait for the main palace to change clothes."
Chu Rui had a seizure this time, in addition to the burning of his stomach, his head also hurt a little. Don't say that it's a review and a fold, and I feel very weak even when I sit.
He lay on the bed in the dormitory, wondering what his son would do.
Is it sincerely afraid to refuse, let the palace people go to the East Palace to find a set of clean clothes and send it over?
Or do you change into dirty clothes, confess to him and go back to the East Palace to change clothes?
And in the end, Chu Rui only waited for the prince who was wearing a half-worn dragon gon and stepping on foundation boots.
His crown prince has grown to such a big age before he knows it.
Big enough to fit into his shirt, and decent.
He even changed his shoes.
Chu Rui felt tired, so tired that he even felt that it was a kind of torment.
The air around him was pressing down on him as if it were a thousand pounds, and he felt like he was about to transform into a beast.
The wrath of the Son of Heaven is thousands of miles away.
β¦β¦
No, no, no, he can't turn into that kind of monster.
"Prince, I am really too tired today, you have done your homework well today, go back to the East Palace first." Chu Rui covered his forehead and weakly ordered his son.
"This shirt was worn more than ten years ago when I first ascended the throne, and now that you are wearing it perfectly, I will give it to you. It is also an old thing, and it is also a wonderful thing to look at it from time to time, see things and think about people. β
This is very pessimistic.
Chu Chengxuan felt sad for a while, choking up and not knowing how to play it right.
Chu Rui looked at his son with his head down and didn't even say a word, his heart was even colder, and he waved his hand to let him go down.
"Father, the son still stays to serve......"
"I'm going to keep talking!"
Chu Rui suddenly took down the hand that was rubbing his forehead, opened his eyes, and shot at the prince with a sharp gaze.
"I'm tired."
Chu Chengxuan was so shocked that he could only bow down and withdraw from the hall, not daring to say anything more about staying to serve the sick.
Forget it, let's go to the queen mother.
The queen mother must have a way to make her father show her face.
The tiger in Chu Rui's heart was forcibly suppressed by him, but the disappointment and sadness in his heart could not be dissipated.
Let's think about the happy things.
"Come on, bring the little prince here, I want to ask him about his homework."
The palace man at the door covered his mouth and smiled.
said that he was asking about his homework, but I was afraid that he would tease the little prince again.
The little prince is also interesting, in this palace, I am afraid that I will never find someone with such a lovely personality.
Even children.
The little prince was walking around the gardens surrounded by a group of palace maids and eunuchs. Because he didn't allow the palace people to approach, these palace people could only watch him stay aimlessly in various places a few steps behind him, and talk to flowers and trees from time to time.
"This one was struck by lightning, that's why it's like this." The little prince touched a pitch-black trunk and asked Gu Qing, "Auntie, everyone in the palace said that this tree has become a spirit, so God wants to kill it." You see, is it really a refinement? β
Gu Qing didn't know if this tree had become a spirit, and he didn't even know what kind of tree it was, so he could only smile dryly and touch the dead tree indiscriminately, and was about to speak......
"Your Highness, I've finally found you!"
A red-clothed eunuch who came in a hurry picked up Chu Chengping from behind.
"Your Majesty misses you and is recruiting you to accompany you."
"But I promised the queen mother that I would go back before dinner......"
"Ouch, my little highness! His Majesty the Emperor summoned you, how could the Empress blame you for not going back for dinner! β
"I promised my mother. What you promise must be done. The little prince finished slowly, and thought about it again. But I miss my father too. Forget it, take me to my father first, I told my father that I must go back before dinner. β
"Okay, okay, what are you talking about, Your Highness!"
The eunuch walked quickly with Chu Chengping in his arms, and Gu Qing was curious, so he also followed the eunuch and the little prince.
When the little prince saw that the fairy aunt was still following him, he opened his mouth to shout, but Gu Qing was so frightened that he hurriedly gestured, covered his mouth with his hand, and gestured again and again.
Oh, my God! This is going to be shouted, will the little prince be treated as a hysterical child!
It's not the same inside the palace as it is outside!
The little prince bit his finger, and when he saw that the fairy aunt didn't let him speak, he obediently stopped talking.
He wanted to ask if he could take a look at his father's stomach.
Since Auntie followed him, she should be able to watch it.
When he arrived at the dormitory of the Kasuga Palace, the eunuch put down the little prince and opened the door to let him in. Gu Qing followed Chu Chengping and also entered the dormitory together.
This was the first time she had entered the emperor's bedroom.
Tsk, how many women squeeze their heads to get here.
Girl, I didn't just come in!
"Is my Ping'er here?" Chu Rui saw a red thing coming over, and his mood was a little better.
"Come to me."
The little prince walked unhurriedly to his father's bedside and knelt down to salute.
"The son of the emperor greets his father."
"Get up."
"Is my father's stomach hurting again?" The little prince got up and looked worriedly at his father who was leaning on the bed.
Gu Qing on the side covered his mouth in disbelief, completely unaware of why Chu Rui became like this.
Just like those patients who were tormented by various malignant diseases in later generations, Chu Rui was already in shape, and even lost his spirit.
She still remembered that when she came to ask the emperor for help before, Chu Rui just bent down slightly, and she was so scared that she knelt down, without any modern person's integrity and equality.
And now, she felt that she could casually strangle two such crumbling emperors.
"Yes, my father's stomach hurts again. Can you come to your father's bed and rub it for you? Chu Rui looked at his most beloved young son and smiled slightly.
"Oh, there's ......"
"Chu Chengping, don't go up. That's your father's bed, not yours! Gu Qing suddenly spoke.
She suddenly remembered the time when the prince had come to visit him in the past.
This emperor and his crown prince are the same kind of people.
On the side of the couch there is no room for others to snore.
He can say that, but you can't. Although Chu Chengping is still young, who knows if Chu Rui will have a pimple in his heart and dislike this child in the future?
This kid is so cute, and he is as naΓ―ve as a pig, and he should be treated well.
"Erchen, don't go up." Chu Chengping felt that it was right to listen to the immortals, so he hesitated beside the bed, but still didn't climb up.
"Oh, don't you want to help your father rub it?" Chu Rui pinched his youngest son's earlobe with interest.
"Erchen will help you rub it, you can lean over a little." The little prince stood by the bed and put his little hand on his father's stomach. It's just that he has short hands and can't reach his father who is behind.
Chu Rui sat up straight all of a sudden.
"Ping'er, since you want to help your father rub it, why don't you come to bed? It's cold down there. β
"Because it's the father's bed, not the child's bed." Chu Chengping repeated Gu Qing's words, "Isn't the father's bed only the father and the emperor sleeping?" β
The sleeping palace of the Son of Heaven can only sleep alone in the Son of Heaven.
Even the queen and the concubines can only wait for the emperor to come to their palace.
Chu Rui squinted his eyes and looked at his youngest son.
After a long time, he let out a long sigh of relief and moved his body to the side of the bed.
"Okay, my father came to the bedside, if you are cold, ask the palace people to move a charcoal basin for you."
The little prince nodded, knelt on the pedal beside the bed, and reached out to rub his father's stomach.
"Father, my son will go back to Kunyuan Hall when it gets dark. Is it good for you to go to bed early? β
"Oh, why do you have to go back to Kunyuan Hall when it's dark?"
"The son promised the queen mother that she must go back before dinner, and she can't be greedy."
"Can't you come here?"
"But the son promised that the queen mother was in front, and people should have credit."
"Hahaha, okay, my father let you go back before dinner. Father and Emperor will sleep later.
The small hand, soft and warm, stuck to Chu Rui's stomach, gently rubbing it one by one.
From the stomach, all the way to the heart.
Gu Qing stood aside, looking at Chu Rui's gentle expression that even the corners of his eyes relaxed, and he also breathed a long sigh of relief.
Great, she guessed right.
The author has something to say: Little Theater:
Chu Chengping: Aunt Immortal, have you seen what my father's illness is?
Gu Qing: ...... Completely forgot about it.