"Ahh As soon as Wang Yi walked out of the side hall with the freshly boiled medicinal soup, he saw Luo Liyao walking alone through the guards outside the hall to the dormitory, and hurriedly called her, "Why are you in such a hurry?" ”

Hearing this, Luo Liyao stopped and looked at him, and said, "Manager Wang, I have an urgent matter to ask to see my father." ”

"It just so happened that Your Majesty had reached the time to take the medicine, and he just woke up, so the servant led His Highness in." Wang Yi took the medicine bowl in his hand, leaned over slightly and smiled, "Please also ask Your Highness to forgive the sin of the slave's poor etiquette." ”

"Mr. Wang is just for his father's medicine, it's okay." Luo Liyao stabilized her mind, and her eyes moved to the bowl of medicine in his hand, "What kind of medicine is my father using now?" ”

"It's just some medicine for the body." Wang Yi sighed softly and led her into Luo Zhuangxi's bedroom, "Your Highness is smart, so naturally you understand." ”

Nature is understood.

Luo Liyao's brain "buzzed", and a little sadness suddenly appeared in her heart.

The father is not strict with himself, and he can even be said to be surprisingly conniving - he was born in the deep palace and grew up in the royal family, even if the father and daughter are like monarchs and ministers, Luo Liyao has always respected him more than he loved.

But after all, blood is thicker than water.

"Your Majesty, Princess Yao has come to see you." Wang Yi put the warm medicine bowl on the table next to the bed, and helped him sit up.

"Father." Luo Liyao saw Luo Zhuangxi's haggard face tormented by illness, and bowed to him with sadness in her heart.

"It's A-Yao, hurry up." Luo Zhuangxi casually called her to get up, took the medicine bowl handed by Wang Yi and drank it all, but the handkerchief handed by Wang Yi wiped the corners of her mouth before saying, "Have you had dinner?" ”

"I used it before I came." Luo Liyao recalled the delicacies that Bang Yue had set up on the table, but in fact, she hadn't eaten a few bites. "Father's ......"

Luo Zhuangxi shook his head, coughed a few times and then interrupted her: "How are you and Meng Yan?" ”

"Huh?" Luo Liyao was a little stunned, and for a moment she even forgot what she wanted to say, "Why did Father suddenly ask him?" ”

"I have already written the edict for your marriage and placed it behind the second compartment on the left side of the bookshelf in the main hall of Yiyuan." Luo Zhuangxi glanced at her meaningfully, "A-Yao, don't you like him very much and don't want to marry him?" ”

Luo Liyao: "......"

"Tell the truth." Luo Zhuang smiled, and stretched out his hand to touch her head as he did when he was a child, "Ahem, cough, ahem-A-Yao will never lie to her father, right?" ”

"Yes." Luo Liyao obediently lay beside his bed to help him breathe, and lowered his head to make his head touch his head more relaxed, "Erchen understands the painstaking efforts of his father and queen mother, but he feels that it is not necessary - Erchen doesn't hate him, he just thinks that he is very boring, isn't it very boring for Erchen to marry him." ”

"Hahaha, A-Yao is talking about it, how is he boring?" Luo Zhuangxi seemed to remember something that made him extremely happy, and his face was a little more bloody, and he looked at his daughter with a little tangled expression with a smile, "But he is too dull and doesn't know how to hurt people?" ”

"Uh...... Not really. Luo Liyao rubbed her temples and said with a headache, "It's just that when I'm with him, I feel very boring, and Erchen and him have nothing to talk about." ”

"It's no wonder that Meng Yan followed Meng Hui around at the age of thirteen, and he was never taught how to please girls in the barracks." Luo Zhuangxi gently stroked her soft and smooth hair, thoughtfully, "But since Meng Hui was martyred, the burden of the Meng family has been on him alone—now is not a good time for you to get married." ”

"Father, the sons are telling the truth - the sons and sons can't get along with him." Luo Liyao looked up at him, and boldly said this sentence to his gentle eyes, "Meng Yan will be a pillar of the country in the future, and he really shouldn't let Erchen delay him." ”

"A-Yao, you are the most outstanding daughter of your father." Luo Zhuangxi was still gentle, and looked at her indifferently, "Meng Yan is very good, and you will not be worse than him - my father hopes that you will be willing to marry him." ”

"Erchen ......" Luo Liyao bit her lip, but the word "willing" was like a fish in her throat, and she couldn't say it.

"That's it, barely coming." Luo Zhuangxi sighed softly, "It's really too early to say this—I know why you're here." ”

"Father." Luo Liyao took his hand, looked at him and said, "It's too much of a coincidence that such a thing happened before the Shi family found out whether the Shi family was plotting rebellion. ”

"Then according to Ah Yao's opinion, what should my father do?" Luo Zhuangxi smiled at her, "Do you send the imperial doctor first, or ask the prison guard first?" ”

"Since my father knows, I think my father must have already made a decision in his heart." Luo Liyao blinked.

"At this time, the Imperial Doctor should have already arrived in prison."

Luo Liyao's eyes lit up: "Father is wise!" ”

"Then Ah Yao promised her father one thing?" Luo Zhuang Xi changed his head, "If you agree to this matter of your father, then the edict of marriage will be handed over to you, whatever you want, how about it?" ”

The implication is that if she agrees, her marriage contract with Meng Yan will be up to her.

"Really?" Luo Liyao was a little incredulous by his words, and then there was some inexplicable joy that was about to be relieved, "What does the father want his son to do?" ”

Luo Zhuang was silent, turned to Wang Yi and said, "Take out that thing." ”

Wang Yi's expression was grim, and he opened the dark grid behind a picture of rivers and mountains hanging on the wall, and took out a golden box carved with dragons and phoenixes.

"Father, this is ......" Luo Liyao's heart was shocked, and she suddenly realized what this was.

The Qianqiu box of the Tianqi royal family.

The Qianqiu box symbolizes "thousands of years of meritorious deeds, passed down from generation to generation" in the Tianqi royal family, and it is a box specially designed and built by the first Tianqi emperor who spent a lot of money to entrust the world-famous craftsman zygote. Each generation of Tianqi emperors determined the heir when the oil was about to run out, and he would personally write an edict to put it in, and when the mountain collapsed, it was the time when the Qianqiu box was opened again.

Luo Zhuangxi took the Qianqiu box, and slowly stroked the finely carved dragon and phoenix totem with his five fingers: "Ahem, cough, cough...... Yao, you know what this is, right? ”

"Erchen knows." Luo Liyao's eyes were complicated when she looked at Qianqiu Box, "Father, are you ......?"

"I still have a number of my body in my heart." Luo Zhuangxi smiled helplessly and shook his head, sent the Qianqiu box in front of her, and said, "Ah Yao, are you willing to agree to this matter of your father?" ”

Seeing that he was a little struggling to move, Luo Liyao hurriedly went to pick up the box, but she still hesitated: "Father, do you believe in your son?" ”

"Nature is believed." Luo Zhuang Xi saw that she took the box, the smile on her face deepened, and her tone was gentle and seductive, "In my father's heart, A-Yao is the most suitable person to do this." ”

"Father......" Luo Liyao only felt that the Qianqiu box in her hand seemed to weigh a thousand catties, and the hand pressing her made her a little breathless, but she still couldn't suppress the curiosity in her heart, "Yes...... Who? ”

"It shouldn't be long before you'll be able to open it." Luo Zhuangxi patted her cheek and didn't answer her question, "When the time comes, it's up to you to read it out in front of everyone-cough cough cough cough ......"

"Father...... Father! Luo Liyao hurriedly put down the box to ease him, took the handkerchief and wiped the blood stains from the corners of his mouth, and said astringently, "Father, don't worry, A-Yao will definitely handle this matter." ”

"Ahem...... Good...... Later, I will ask Wang Yi to give you the marriage edict as well-cough. Luo Zhuangxi was a little out of breath for a while and his face flushed a little, and it took a while to stop.

"Father, rest, the sons are here to guard-" Luo Liyao helped him lie down, carefully folded the quilt for him, and sat down on the side of the chair sent by Wang Yi.

Luo Zhuangxi no longer had the strength to respond to her in words, so he only smiled weakly and slowly closed his eyes.

If it weren't for the fact that his chest was still gently heaving with his breathing, it would almost make people think that he was out of breath.

Luo Liyao silently hugged the Qianqiu box like that, looked at Luo Zhuang Xi's sleeping face, and let tears come out of her eyes.

Wang was also very unbearable, turned his head and secretly wiped a handful of tears, and quietly withdrew.

"Is that true?" Ning Zhong was so shocked that he could barely hold the teacup in his hand, and the hot tea shook out and scalded him violently, and there was a crisp sound of porcelain falling to the ground and shattering.

He didn't dare to slack off, and lowered his head and said: "The news that the secret line in the palace personally rushed back was overheard by him with his own ears - at this moment, the Qianqiu box should have been brought back to the Canglan Palace by Princess Liyao." ”

"Now that the Qianqiu box has been released, there is no reason why we should not take action." Ning Zhong immediately looked at the thoughtful Fei Fei in front of him, and the hand holding the teacup tightened unconsciously, "If the name written on the edict in the box is not him, we can only start the plan on the other side - those people who were placed in the army before, but they have already been arranged?" ”

"My lord, rest assured, there is no obstacle except that the oil and salt do not enter the Meng family, which is like an iron wall." He didn't look up, still looking indifferent, "It's just that now most of the people in the army are looking at the horses with their faces, and the half of the tiger talismans belonging to the royal family are in the hands of the Third Highness......"

"The Meng family has always been loyal and will only support the person written in the edict of succession." Ning Zhong said hatefully, "It's just that this Qianqiu box is still in the Canglan Palace, and we can't move at all!" ”

"Didn't your lord also install a secret line in the Canglan Hall before?"

"With the mind of the one in the Canglan Palace, it is just a few inconspicuous third-class maids - as a result, the last incident was discovered by the Shi family, and this dark line must have been exposed a long time ago, and it can no longer be used." Ning Zhong didn't seem to be relieved, and slapped the table fiercely, "I knew this was the case, when she invited herself to refuse the captivity, she should have sent someone to solve this trouble!" ”

"Don't be impatient, sir, we don't know what the content of the edict is, maybe it's just as we think?" He frowned, but he was still calm and surprised, "The person sent by His Majesty to investigate that matter was either dropped or solved, and it is impossible for him to know the truth - and with his attachment to the concubine, it is impossible not to leave her a way out." ”

"Prepare for the worst, anyway." Ning Zhong frowned more displeased when he heard him mention Zhao Tianyuan, "If it backfires, I will send an order to all the dark lines that we have planted in the palace——"

"Kill Luo Yinghua and Luo Yuanjing at all costs!"