Ming Palace.

The night was already deep, and the deep night was even colder, even though the hall was full of curtains, candlesticks, and braziers filled with black gold charcoal were steaming vigorously, but Emperor Wei still felt a biting chill seeping into his every pore from all directions, and he couldn't help but stomp on his somewhat cold feet. Looking up at the Imperial Physician Ling next to him, the old man was already sitting on the steps with his eyes stunned and about to fall asleep, but Emperor Wei snorted, and he instantly opened his narrow eyes.

"What does the emperor command?"

"Old thing, I haven't rested yet, how can you close your eyes?"

"Back to the emperor, the minister didn't dare. When does the emperor close his eyes, the ministers dare to close their eyes. ”

Emperor Wei seemed to mean something when he heard this, looked at him and said, "How dare you play dumb riddles with me?"

Imperial Physician Ling replied calmly: "The minister doesn't dare." The minister is the emperor's imperial physician, and he follows the emperor in life or death. Otherwise, with too many sins, the minister will not be able to live. ”

"Sins?" Emperor Wei threw away the brush in his hand, "What happened back then, do you still think it was a sin? Look at the Great Wei over the years, it is already the strongest power in the north, and the surrounding small countries have been in the bag, even if the Li Dynasty in the central capital has been prosperous for a hundred years, he does not dare to despise the Great Wei for half a point, so, do you still think it is a sin?"

"Sin is sin, no matter what the reason for it, it cannot be changed, and if it is a sin, it will be repaid one day, and no one can escape it. Just as Zhen Ji's son found this palace, found the emperor's bedside, and held the emperor's handmade 'lotus blade' against your neck, this is just to repay everything you did to Zhen Ji and the Snow Clan back then, but it is just the fruit of your sin. ”

"Imperial Doctor's Order, you're talking too much. ”

"The emperor forgives the sins. Even if you give the minister death immediately, the minister can accept it in peace, because the minister has nothing to worry about, and he is alone. But Your Majesty, you still have a son. ”

"Prince...... What's wrong with the crown prince? Isn't everything I am doing now to lay a flat political situation for him, and a courtier who can listen to him!"

"Your Majesty," the imperial physician Ling was thin and not tall, but he still straightened his waist and looked at Emperor Wei, "The prince is a minister who grew up watching from a young age, and his heart is clear to the ministers, so the emperor must know better." If you let him ascend to the throne of this Ninety-Five, it will be tantamount to making him suffer for the rest of his life, and perhaps, he can't be a person at all-"

"Impossible!" Emperor Wei suddenly slapped his palm on the case, shaking the lights on the candlestick next to him, "I have been doing it for so many years, and I don't hesitate to eat this poisonous night burning pearl to continue his life, how can he not be it? He must be it! If he can't be it...... He can't be it, who else can!"

Imperial Physician Ling closed his lips tightly and stared at Emperor Wei tightly, although he did not speak, Emperor Wei felt the heat in his gaze, he instinctively refused that gaze, lowered his eyelids and shook his head, and said heavily: "Old thing, you are crazy." ”

"Your Majesty, if the events of the year hadn't happened, the current crown prince should have been him. ”

"But he wants to kill me!"

"He also wants to take your throne – or rather, his brother's throne. "The Imperial Physician Ling slowly approached Emperor Wei, "After you leave, those two brothers will kill each other, no matter who wins, the losing side will have no way to live, and Great Wei will also be hit hard, and all the things of the past years will also be revealed——"

Emperor Wei's eyebrows jumped, and he said in a deep voice: "No." ”

"You should have discovered that only this son is most like you, most like an emperor. The corners of the Imperial Doctor's mouth were sly, although there was no one in the hall, his voice was still surprisingly low, so low that it didn't seem to come out of a person's mouth, but like a ghost in the middle of the night: "It's okay for brothers to kill each other, or for him to be the emperor, or to reveal the things of the past, you know very well in your heart." ”

"I'll find him—"

"But it turns out you've tried all your stops to find him, and your days are numbered. The interruption of the imperial physician order was rude and presumptuous, but Emperor Wei was not angry, he slanted a glance at this person who had rarely appeared in front of him, but was really a person who had followed him for decades, he rarely summoned the imperial physician order over the years, and rarely saw him so presumptuous, as presumptuous as he was back then. However, Emperor Wei did not get angry, because he knew that there were almost no more people who would be presumptuous towards him, and he needed such a person, a needle, always there, forever pierced in his heart, until he also left this world.

The lights of the Ming Hall gradually went out, one by one, and slowly fell into the deep darkness. And the imperial physician Ling squatted in the apse with a bow and looked at the medicine on the stove, without saying a word, and the eunuch next to him said cautiously: "My lord, is the emperor going to bed?"

"I don't know. ”

"But the candles in the hall seem to have been extinguished. ”

"If the heart cannot be quiet, what is the difference between sleeping and not sleeping? ”

Early in the morning of the second day, Emperor Wei did not go to the court, and sent the prince to the Zijin Palace to deal with the courtiers to deal with government affairs, and then suddenly made a decree, saying that the weather was cold, and he wanted to go to the hot spring palace in the suburbs of Beijing to recuperate, and the affairs of the court were still handed over to the prince to supervise the country.

It is said that this hot spring palace in the suburbs of Beijing is a must-go for Emperor Wei every year, although it is not yet the coldest season in the north, but since Emperor Wei is sick, this move is not abnormal. It's just that in the past, the harem concubines, palace people, and favored ministers' families were all accompanied by a large number of people, and there were dozens of carriages and horses alone. And this time, Emperor Wei didn't bring a single concubine, the light car was simple, and the will had just spread throughout the previous dynasty and the six palaces, and Yang Guifei had not had time to come to the Ming Palace to ask for peace, and Emperor Wei's carriage and horses had already left the gate of Changqing Palace.

Two carriages, only twenty or thirty guards, in front of Zhang Changyan, behind the imperial doctor's order, the group of people did not stop for two hours, before lunchtime, they had arrived at the hot spring palace. At this time, the daylight is abundant, the sky is cloudless, the air is dry and cold, there is almost no wind, it is not so cold that people can't stand it, Emperor Wei got out of the carriage wearing a pure sable, he looked back at the road he came, as if confirming the direction of the Evergreen Palace, and was speechless for a while. He didn't move, and the others didn't dare to make a sound, and the imperial physician Ling walked to his side wrapped in a cotton robe, bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, go in." ”

At this time, the hot spring palace had just received the flying pigeon from the Changqing Palace, and the chief eunuch was hurriedly ordering the people below to tidy up and clean the various palace rooms.

"The eunuch Pang Xue, the head of the Minion Hot Spring Palace, knocks to see Your Majesty, long live the emperor!"

"Flat. ”

"Your Majesty, as soon as the news in the Evergreen Palace arrives, the servants have already arranged to clean and arrange, and the main hall and dormitory have been sorted out at this moment, will the emperor go to rest and settle first?"

"No, go to the Seven Treasure Pagoda. ”

"Uh...... Yes!"

Pang Xue couldn't help but secretly complain, this seven-treasure pagoda is built with seven floors, the location is the most remote in the hot spring palace, although it is built very magnificent, but it has rarely been used, except for the daily worship and cleaning of the Buddhist shrine inside, almost no one goes up. After all, in the climate of this Wei country, no one will have nothing to climb a tall building to blow the cold wind, even if the emperor came in previous years, he couldn't go once or twice. In such a place, he naturally would not arrange for cleaning as soon as possible, who knew that the emperor was going to Qibaolou as soon as he came this time, Pang Xue saw that Emperor Wei was vigorous, and it didn't look like he was coming to recuperate but came to inspect, so he patted his head helplessly, and hurriedly trotted all the way to follow.