"Little father-in-law, do you know what the emperor's grandfather summoned him?" Zhu Youxiao asked the eunuch who passed the message.

"The slave maid doesn't know, but recently, the emperor and his old man have become more and more energetic as before, and the slave and maid want to come to Xu is the emperor who misses the two highnesses." The little eunuch bowed and replied.

Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen looked at each other and followed the little eunuch without saying much, since entering the palace, Zhu Youzhen obviously felt that the guards in the palace had strengthened a lot, and when they arrived at the gate of the Qianqing Palace, this feeling was especially great, in addition to the Jinyi guards, even the Jinyi guards commanded Luo Sigong to personally inspect, and the team of Jinyi guards also looked quite unusual, maybe several of them were the rumored ghost gate thirteen bad.

Zhu Youzhen just glanced at the Jinyi guard guarding the door and entered the Qianqing Palace with Zhu Youxiao, the little eunuch led the two to the door of the Qianqing Palace and retreated, and then Wang An took the two to the Hongde Hall on the west side of the Qianqing Palace, where the Wanli Emperor was resting.

"Your Majesty, the two princes have arrived." Wang An came to the bed and said softly.

The old emperor was still lying on the bed with his eyes closed, and there was no reaction.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty." Wang An whispered a few more words.

It wasn't until the emperor opened his eyes with some difficulty that Wang An added, "The two princes have arrived." ”

"Oh." Emperor Wanli answered, and then with some difficulty, he turned sideways and stretched out his hands to the two people standing not far away.

The two hurriedly stepped forward and one of them held one of the emperor's hands.

I haven't seen him for two months, and the old emperor has grown old to such an extent, Zhu Youzhen thought to himself as he looked at the old emperor's struggling movements and somewhat yellow face.

Emperor Wanli said to the two with some difficulty, "Grandpa Huang knows that he treated you unfairly before, but you can't resent Grandpa Huang, this huge country is tied to one, and it is difficult for me." ”

The old emperor said as if he remembered the previous difficulties, absurdities, etc., and two lines of tears flowed, "But these days, what I want to think about is to see you, I know, this country is handed over to you, and my heart is also at peace." ”

The so-called bird is dying and its voice is sad, and the man's dying is also good, probably the old emperor is like this.

After the old emperor finished a few words, it was already a little difficult, and he took a little breath and continued, "My time is short, and I have many things to say to you but I can't say them, and I only have one sentence to explain to you." ”

After speaking, the emperor let go of the hands of the two and gestured to Wang An, Wang An handed over two things, and the old emperor had a lot of difficulty holding them in his hands.

Then the old emperor handed them two things, "I want to tell you one last sentence, brother. ”

The two of them took the things handed by the old emperor and looked at them, they were all shocked, Zhu Youxiao was in his hand was a jade seal, and Zhu Youzhen was a token in his hand, which was engraved with a few small characters of the pro-army capital protector.

"Little Wu, the token will be collected by you, I know that you have this ability, as for the jade seal, you will hand it over to your father first, but sooner or later it will be yours. You are here today to accompany me, so that I can see you more. After speaking, the old emperor's face was a little ugly, and he closed his eyes to rest.

Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen took the things given by the old emperor and sat on the chair brought by Wang An.

The old emperor did not hand over the jade seal directly to the crown prince, but handed it over to Zhu Youxiao, which is somewhat intriguing. And the pro-army capital guarded the mansion, but Zhu Youzhen had never heard of it, but there was a pro-army capital governor's mansion during the Hongwu period, but it had already been withdrawn.

The emperor rested for a while, then tried to open his eyes and looked at the two brothers with a kind face, Zhu Youzhen also looked at the old man who was lying on the bed and trying to look at them more, only to find that this was no longer the powerful Ninety-Five, just an ordinary old man who wanted to feel a little more family fun.

Imperial power or family affection, which is the joy of family? At this moment, Zhu Youzhen already had an answer.

Until the evening, the old emperor coughed violently in his sleep, and then opened his eyes violently and spit out a mouthful of blood.

"Quickly pass on the Imperial Doctor." Wang An shouted loudly outside.

Soon, several imperial doctors arrived.

Seeing the emperor's appearance, he quickly took out a set of silver needles and applied continuous needles to several acupoints in Zhongguan, Qize, Zusanli, Diaphragm, Liver Yu, Heart Yu, and Lung Yu, and soon the old emperor stopped coughing, but his face was still white and terrifying.

The envoy of the Imperial Hospital re-examined the emperor's pulse for a long time, and then shook his head at Wang An, "The emperor's illness has accumulated and it is difficult to return, and he can only rely on medicine to hang, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to wake up in the future." ”

Wang An instructed a little eunuch, "Quickly send someone to invite the prince and Concubine Zheng to come." Then he bowed slightly to the envoy of the Imperial Hospital, "Please wait for the envoy of the Imperial Court, at this time, the prince still needs to make a decision." ”

The royal envoy also knew that this matter was serious, so he only prescribed medicine and ordered people to go down to decoction the medicine, and then waited with several other imperial doctors.

Soon Zheng Guifei came to Hongde Palace, because of the suspicion of the draft, Zhu Youxiao did not go up to say hello, Zhu Youzhen only looked at Zheng Guifei, and heard that Zheng Guifei had recently been more polite to Buddhism, and the whole person looked a lot duller.

The envoy of the royal court first told Concubine Zheng Guifei about the emperor's situation, and Concubine Zheng looked a little sad, but she just glanced at Wang An, then sat down in front of the bed, took the old emperor's hand and held it tightly without speaking.

Not long after, the crown prince also came, and the royal envoy repeated the emperor's situation again, and the crown prince Zhu Changluo looked at the emperor lying on the bed with some complicated feelings, and he didn't have much sadness in his heart.

Zhu Changluo has never felt the love of his father since he was a child, and even a prince was assassinated by someone who broke into the palace with a wooden stick, but only dealt with the assassin and the two eunuchs in a hasty manner, and the fifteen-year dispute over the country showed his father's partiality.

At this time, looking at the lying father, Zhu Changluo only felt some pity, and he said to several imperial doctors, "Please also ask a few imperial doctors to take care of it, this matter must not be spread outside." ”

Although Zhu Changluo said this to the imperial doctor, he also said it to everyone in this palace.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao came to Zhu Changluo with the jade seal and handed it over, "Father, this is what the imperial grandfather asked me to hand over to you." ”

Zhu Changluo took the jade seal and looked at it with a somewhat complicated mood, and then handed it over to Wang An, "You still have to keep this thing." "By now, it doesn't matter to Zhu Changluo who the jade seal is.

Wang An didn't say much, took the jade seal and put it back in its place, going around in circles, and the jade seal was still there.

Zhu Youzhen also stepped forward and took out the token in his hand, "Father, this token was also given to me by the emperor's grandfather." ”

Zhu Changluo didn't take the tiger talisman, "Since it was given to you by the emperor's grandfather, you can keep it, but we don't have a pro-army governor's mansion in the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Changluo rubbed Zhu Youzhen's head, he had also heard about what happened to his youngest son during this time, and the change in his father's attitude might be related to his two sons, but he regarded the Duhu Mansion as the Duwei Mansion.

After saying that, Zhu Changluo left the Qianqing Palace, Luo Sigong saluted Zhu Changluo, Zhu Changluo just nodded, and left the palace in a hurry.

The atmosphere in the Hongde Hall was a little depressing, and Zhu Youzhen couldn't stand it at first, so he pulled Zhu Youxiao out of the Qianqing Palace. However, he was still thinking about the token, although the emperor was old, it seemed that he should not have reached the point where he could hold a salted fish as a sword of Shang Fang.