"Your precious prince, of course. He wanted to get the throne, so he asked the servant to bring you the medicine. Eunuch Xi's tone was extremely treacherous.

Li Chonghuan stared at the vicious eunuch with a firm look "Impossible, Shan'er will never do such a disobedient thing, you don't want to cheat!"

Xi Si didn't bother to play strategy with this dying king: "You are right, it is indeed not the prince who killed you." But you're about to die, what's the use of knowing that? Rest assured, our lord's wings are not yet full, and the crown prince will inherit the throne smoothly! After saying that, he walked out with a wicked smile.

When he was dying, Li Chonghuan thought of Li Xiao. But when it comes to this, it's too late to regret it. He had no choice but to sigh to the sky: "It's Shun who is blind, it's Shun who is blind!" After saying that, he vomited black blood and died in bed.

At three o'clock on the second day, Xiao Chaohou unconsciously woke up from his dream, as if he had foreseen the ominous: "Someone! Come and change your clothes! The serving palace maid hurriedly walked to the bed: "It's still late at night, and it's still early?" Mother, you better rest in peace for a while. ”

"Rest in peace? Hongu suddenly has a sense of foreboding! This palace asks you, yesterday morning, did the emperor make a holy decree? Empress Xiao's hands clenched tightly in the quilt.

"Yes, and it is especially important to hear from the courtiers that this decree is of great importance. Probably because the emperor said that he knew that there was no time left, so he added the title of the prince of Qingjun, and the public army of the filial piety dynasty was the new emperor of the Taishi, which is probably what it means. Why, don't you know? ”

"The emperor has never mentioned the king of Qingjun to the palace this year, and the palace still thinks that the saint (third person honorific title) he has ......"

"What do you mean, mother?"

"This palace wants to be a saint again, you quickly help this palace change clothes."

"Niangniang, the slave advises you not to be anxious, the saint's condition is not very good, especially when you wake up suddenly in the middle of the night. If Niangniang goes to see the saint now, I'm afraid it will ......, presumably it must be that Niangniang is lonely in the empty room, right? ”

"You little slave still cares if the palace is lonely?" Xiao Chaohou thought for a while, "But what you said also makes sense, for the sake of the emperor's body, this palace will still go to see him tomorrow." Okay, there's nothing else to do in this palace, so you can step back first. ”

How could Empress Xiao, who had fallen asleep again, sleep with peace of mind? Lying on the bed, he thought to himself: "Li Xiao is a sinister person with a sinister heart, stealing and playing tricks. Bengong has long seen that he has bad intentions, and over the years, Li Xiao has been vain and loyal, and has bewitched the saint. Speaking of which, it's all to blame for the fact that Bengong failed to put down the old things and remind the saint as soon as possible, and also blamed Bengong for thinking too shallowly and failing to keep an eye on it. No, this palace will be directed to the saint early tomorrow morning. ”

Unknowingly, when the time came, the ministers had already walked to the court in order and waited patiently. But at three o'clock in the morning, there was still no figure of the emperor, and there was no eunuch to announce the message.

The ministers talked about it.

"When has this been, why hasn't the Holy One arrived yet! With the diligence of the saints, there has never been an early pilgrimage and a late arrival. ”

"Brother, the Holy Lord has been very weak in the past few days, how can it be the same as before? I think that with the current body of the saint, it is a great blessing for me to be able to stick to the morning pilgrimage every day! The Holy One has delayed the early morning due to illness today, how can we, as courtiers, be qualified to doubt the Holy One? ”

The minister shook his head: "No, how dare the minister doubt the king, the minister is just telling the truth." If he is sick, how can he not let the governor inform his ministers and others now? According to what Wei Chen saw, something must have happened to the emperor. ”

"Da Dan, do you know that cursing the Holy One is the sin of extermination!" The minister warned in a low voice.

At this time, only the two Gu Ming ministers who were appointed by the emperor, Li Xiao and Yuan cheated, were silent, and their faces showed unusual expressions.

When they came to the palace of the emperor, those eunuchs became panicked and anxious because the emperor could not afford to be late: "What time is this?" Why can't the saint get out of bed? "Chief, you said that this saint is what's wrong, even if the emperor is seriously ill, he will tell the minions, but why today?"

In order to hide people's eyes, Xi Si had to pretend to be ignorant: "How do we know? But then again, the emperor may have fallen asleep because he was seriously ill, so you might as well go in and visit for the sake of the saint's safety. ”

The slave didn't dare to disobey, he pushed open the door of the palace in fear, slowly walked to the dragon bed and knelt down and said: "Emperor, it's time to go to court!" Emperor Chao, it's time to go to court early! He shouted a few times, and when he saw that Li Chonghuan had not returned, the eunuch looked up. When he found the emperor's pale face and the dull black blood on the bed, he was completely panicked. Frightened, he hurriedly ran out: "It's not good, it's not good." Holy Him, He ...... Something happened! ”

"What happened to him, is it a recurrence of the old disease?

"Holy him, he, he's dead!"

Xi Temple and other eunuchs instantly knelt outside the hall.

"This bad news, the slave has to go to the Taiji Hall to inform the ministers quickly. so that they are prepared. The eunuch hurriedly went to the Taiji Palace, and it was because of this panic that he accidentally bumped into the queen mother who was in a hurry to move on the road. The frightened eunuch's legs were so weak that he knelt on the ground: "The slave should die, the slave should die!" He slapped his mouth as he spoke.

Xiao Chaohou must have found out that something was wrong: "Slow, what's going on, so panicked?" ”

"Qi Yu Niangniang, the saint has died and returned to heaven!" That eunuch can be regarded as a soul scared out! At this moment, Xiao Chaohou's whole person was blinded: "This palace doesn't believe it, this palace doesn't believe that the emperor has died." What are you still doing, why don't you go to Xuan Taiyi, Xuan Taiyi! ”

Xiao Chaohou's face suddenly turned pale, his brain was in chaos, and his whole body was sweating. Impatient, she did not hesitate to run towards the Taiji Palace, and at this extremely anxious juncture, she did not pay attention to the eunuchs kneeling outside the hall, but rushed directly into the palace. Xiao Chaohou looked at that scene, knelt on the ground suddenly, held Li Chonghuan's cold and blood-stained hands, and cried: "The imperial concubine is here, the concubine is here." Wake up! The concubine is here! ”.

After a while, the original eunuch entered the palace with Imperial Doctor Zhuang.

"Qi Yu Niangniang, Imperial Doctor Zhuang is here."

"Doctor Tai, what are you still doing in a daze, why don't you quickly diagnose the pulse of the emperor?" Xiao Chaohou said eagerly, his eyes full of murderous aura.

Imperial Doctor Zhuang nervously put down the medicine box and hurriedly knelt beside Li Wenhuanlong's bed to check his pulse.

"How is it, how is he?" Xiao Chaohou was anxious and kept asking,

Hearing this, Imperial Physician Zhuang turned and knelt. Xiao Chaohou saw that his eyes were full of tears, and he complained sadly: "Qi Yu Niang Weichen doesn't dare to lie, he is saint, he, he went to the west due to serious illness yesterday!" ”

The bad news has been confirmed, and Xiao Chaohou is even more painful. Now she is like a woman who has been tortured in a prison cell, she is paralyzed on the ground, crying hysterically: "Why did you leave your concubine, why did you abandon your concubine and go away first, why did you leave so suddenly, Holy Lord?" You let the concubines ......"

The subordinates also knelt behind them, not daring to stand up.

In fact, Empress Xiao had already guessed that the culprit who killed the emperor was Li Xiao, but she also knew that Li Xiao had secretly controlled the imperial court, otherwise she would not be so bold. She can't expose Li Xiao's crimes, it will only harm the emperors. Now she can only face this cruel fact: "Let Xi Temple enter the Taiji Hall to report to the ministers in the palace, and announce the death knell of the first emperor in the world, and sound the death knell after an hour!"

The ministers are still waiting patiently in the Taiji Palace, and many ministers are still whispering that something bad has happened. It wasn't until the hour of the morning that Xi Si walked into the main hall trembling all over, and he knelt down under his gaze and cried: "Ministers, the Holy Lord has died!" ”

"Emperor!" As soon as the news was announced, all the ministers knelt down, and according to the ancestral system, the ministers all kowtowed twelve times in the hall, and each kowtow had to sigh to the sky with the honorific name of "Emperor Chao".

"I also ask the ministers to go back to their homes first to prepare for the emperor's funeral, and there are still small things to deal with, so I will leave first."

Faced with the departure of his father-in-law, Li Jianguo was very painful. But at this time, Gao Yang Yanxin appeared in front of him. Of course, this is not surprising to Li Jianguo at all, but what Gao Yang Yanxin said......

"I'm sorry, my lord, I was just thinking about how I could marry you. But I really didn't know that things would suddenly turn out like this, Lord Wang, Xin'er really didn't mean to ......" Gao Yang Yanxin felt sad for Jianguo, and her heartache blocked her words. She opened her hands to warm Jianguo's heart and hugged it with her heart.

The stupid Li Jianguo tasted bitterness, and he knew that Sister Xin'er was sad because of her again. asked, "Sister Xin'er, why are you asking me that?" ”