"You minion, let this palace in quickly." Zhu Yijun's voice was angry and anxious, and he shouted at the immature voice of the Tai Yi who didn't let him in.

The imperial physician was very embarrassed and said, "Your Highness, Wang Baihu is suffering from a severe wind chill. Not to mention that he is still groggy now, if His Majesty and His Royal Highness are also infected with the cold, Weichen will not be guilty of his crimes! ”

It is said that on that day, Wang Chonggu's reinforcements arrived in time, but Zhang Fan was nowhere to be seen. Everyone held torches in the cold and dark desert to search, and finally found three war horses on the bank of the river with the turbulent flow of the river. Everyone immediately carried him ashore and continued to search, but Zhang Fan and Li Yingyue were missing.

Wang Chonggu immediately sent people to escort the people of the Ministry of Rites and Wang Meng, who was seriously injured, back to Beijing. He was afraid that someone would attack him, and that the thousands of men and horses of Alta would be in great danger, so he did not return until the 50,000 troops that Alta had sent to summon him. I replied that I was very worried about Zhang Fan's uncertain life and death, but it was really hard to say anything. These days, he and Wang Chonggu sent people to look for hundreds of miles along the river, but they never found any trace of Zhang Fan and Li Yingyue, but found Zhang Fan's brocade clothes guard waist card at a river bend more than ten miles away.

Long Qing was shocked when he heard the news after the people from the Ministry of Rites returned. And the crown prince Zhu Yijun cried when he heard the news. Long Qing immediately ordered Wang Meng to be sent to the Tai Hospital for treatment, but when he was found, he had already suffered multiple knife wounds on his body, and he was washed away in the icy river for most of the day, he had a severe wind chill and a fever, and he was sent to the capital by a horse for so many days. The bumpy road aggravated his injuries, and he still showed no signs of soberness, and sometimes he would talk nonsense.

Now that Longqing and Zhu Yijun are standing in front of Wang Meng's recuperating room, Longqing actually wants to go in very much, after all, Zhang Fan is a person he is very optimistic about, and he will definitely be able to become Zhu Yijun's humerus in the future, but as an emperor, he must also have the prestige of an emperor. So Zhu Yijun was clamoring to go in, but he didn't stop him. Seeing the embarrassed eyes of the imperial doctor, Long Qing spoke: "Jun'er, you must pay attention to your identity, how can you lose the royal etiquette." ”

"But, Father!" Zhu Yijun looked at Long Qing, his eyes were full of pleading.

Long Qing showed a helpless expression and said to the imperial doctor: "Open the door, I will accompany the prince in." ”

The imperial doctor was shocked when he heard this, and immediately stopped: "But, Your Majesty ......"

Before he finished speaking, Long Qing interrupted him and said, "You go and prepare some anti-wind and cold medicine, I and the prince will take it when they come out." ”

"Yes." When the imperial doctor saw him, he could only reluctantly accept the order and open the door.

Zhu Yijun ran in as soon as the door opened, and Long Qing followed.

Inside, in order to maintain ventilation, the doors and windows are still wide open, even if the wind outside is not small today. Wang Meng was lying on a kang covered with a thick futon, and a fire was burning on the kang below. When you walk to the bed, you can feel a burst of heat.

"Wang Baihu, Wang Baihu, where is he, teacher!" Zhu Yijun pushed Wang Meng and shouted.

"Jun'er, Wang Baihu is seriously ill, isn't this aggravating his condition!" Long Qing scolded Zhu Yijun and walked to Wang Meng's bed.

At this moment, Wang Meng's face was flushed, his eyes were closed, and he was not asleep, but he was not awake. A thick white cloth can be seen on the neck of the exposed bedding, and some blood is oozing from it.

"Imperial Doctor!" Long Qing shouted loudly.

"Your Majesty." The physician outside the door immediately entered.

"What's wrong with Wang Baihu, why is there still blood oozing out?" Long Qing asked.

The imperial doctor listened to his words, looked at Wang Meng, and hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, Wang Baihu has suffered many deep knife wounds on his body, and he is infected with wind and cold, and the wounds are difficult to scarre. I used the best gold sore medicine in the palace, but I was always wet with blood. ”

"Then why are you still stunned, don't change the medicine for him!" Long Qing said sharply. The voice was not loud, but there was great anger in it.

"Compliance...... Obey! The Imperial Physician was startled by his tone. Quickly close the window and door, and call the eunuch who came to help bring gold sore medicine, bandages, and hot water towels.

When he lifted Wang Meng's quilt, he was not wearing any clothes, but his body was covered with white bandages oozing with blood. The imperial doctor immediately unbandaged him, but fortunately, there was only one eunuch who was neither male nor female except for the man, but there was no embarrassment.

Long Qing was present, the imperial doctor and the eunuch did not dare to be sloppy, washed Wang Meng's wound with water, gently sucked the blood of the wound with a cloth with excellent water absorption, sprinkled with gold sore medicine that did not survive much in the palace, and then carefully bandaged it with a bandage. The little eunuch brought a warm quilt from elsewhere and covered it for the king.

When everything was done, the imperial doctor put a towel moistened with cold water on Wang Meng's head to lower his temperature.

Long Qing came to Wang Meng at this time, and said in a rather majestic voice: "Wang Baihu, Wang Baihu, do you know who I am" In a hurry, he forgot that in this world except for himself, the emperor, who else dares to call himself me.

I don't know if it was really Long Wei Zhen or what, Wang Meng was said by him, he really opened his eyes, looked at Long Qing, and said, "Your Majesty...... Your Majesty...... Next ......"

"Yes, yes, it's me." Long Qing was very happy to see that he recognized him, and immediately continued to ask, "Wang Baihu, where is Zhang Tongzhi?" Zhu Yijun didn't dare to speak on the side, and looked at him nervously.

Zhang ...... Zhang Tongzhi ...... "Wang Meng muttered this name, still a little confused.

"Zhang Fan, Zhang Tongzhi!" Long Qing immediately reminded.

"Zhang Fan......" Wang Meng said, and suddenly shouted loudly, "Lord Zhang, Lord Zhang!" ”

Seeing that he thought of Zhang Fan, Long Qing hurriedly asked, "Master Zhang, what's wrong!" ”

"Dead ...... Dead ......," Wang Meng said.

"Dead ...... He's dead? Long Qing was a little distracted.

Zhu Yijun listened, pushed Wang Meng hard and shouted: "You deceive people, you deceive people, the teacher is not dead." Tell me where the teacher has gone, otherwise the palace will ask your father to cure you of the crime of bullying the king! ”

But no matter how Wang Meng shook Zhu Yijun, he just said a dead word over and over again.

Zhu Yijun was still struggling to shake Wang Meng, but Long Qing stopped him and said, "Jun'er, don't be like this!" ”

But Zhu Yijun still pushed Wang Meng again. Long Qing was distraught, and shouted: "Emperor! ”

Zhu Yijun was stopped by his voice and looked at his father. Long Qing saw that there were tears on his little face, and his big hand pressed on his head, comforting him and said, "Jun'er, Zhang ...... Zhang Aiqing is dead. ”

"Father, ......" Zhu Yijun shouted, threw himself into Long Qing's arms and cried.

The ministers outside the house were also very sad when they heard the crying inside the house, and most of them knew Long Qing and Zhu Yijun's appreciation of Zhang Fan. It's Gao Gong, he hasn't been in contact with Zhang Fan, but he heard the ministers of the court and the central government talk about the relationship between Longqing and Zhu Yijun and Zhang Fan, just thinking that Zhang Fan is a favorite minister who is very loved by the emperor and the prince, but he didn't expect the emperor to care about Zhang Fan so much, especially the prince's cry, so that Gao Gong couldn't help but regret not seeing this promising upstart when he had a strong interest in Zhang Fan.

Zhang's house, Zhao and Ru Xue's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have been worried about their son and husband day and night since Zhang Fan left, hoping that he will return as soon as possible. Now that they heard that the envoy of the Ministry of Rites had returned, but they did not see Zhang Fan go home, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law thought that Zhang Fan had attacked and reported it. But he waited left and right, and waited until the evening, and Zhang Fan was still nowhere to be seen. While the two of them were uneasy, Zhao Xue was also comforting on the side, maybe there was a banquet in the palace to celebrate, but it was to blame Zhang Fan for not letting people come back to inform him, which made the family worried.

Zhang's family waited until the end of the day, and suddenly, the maid at home came to report that Zhang Juzheng was coming. Zhao and Ru Xue immediately asked people to welcome him in.

"Master Zhang." The two of them immediately stepped forward to salute.

"Madam, Ru Xue." Zhang Juzheng greeted them and sat down, but he didn't know how to speak. After all, one is the mother of her own student, and she has not lived a good life for long; And one is the newlywed wife of his student, who has just been married for less than two months, and is about to be widowed. Zhang Juzheng really couldn't speak.

Zhao and Ru Xue are both smart women, how could they not see that he has something unspeakable. Ru Xue was very scared, she was already trembling with fear, and thanks to her sister Zhaoxue on the side, she didn't fall down thanks to her sister Zhao Xue on the side. Zhao may have guessed a little, although his heart was like a knife, he still mustered up the courage and asked, "Master Zhang, is it my family...... Fan'er ...... He ...... after he said, his voice trembling more and more, and finally he could no longer speak.

Zhang Juzheng looked at her and Ru Xue's appearance, and knew that they could already guess, so he had to say: "Fan'er, Fan'er, he's dead." ”

As soon as he said this, Zhao and Ru Xue immediately fainted. "Madame, ma'am!" "Sister!" There was chaos in the hall.

On the second day, the atmosphere in the court was quite sad. Wang Xilie first reported to Longqing about the matters of the envoy to Tatar, and the following people began to discuss the future affairs of Zhang Fan.

"Your Majesty, this time we were able to return safely, and even avoided the misunderstanding with Me, and avoided the war between the two countries, all thanks to Lord Zhang." Wang Xilie also heard me talk about this that day, so he immediately stood up and said, "Although I don't know what Lord Zhang and I said and promised, if it wasn't for Lord Zhang saying that I would personally lead 10,000 horses to escort our return, I'm afraid the old minister would have ...... today."

Longqing and the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu understood as soon as they heard it, when Wang Xilie and others just came back yesterday, Longqing listened to the report, saying that when they were attacked, it was I who personally led people to help protect them, and Longqing at that time felt strange, Wang Xilie said this, he understood that it must be Zhang Fan who promised something, and I answered that he would lead the army to protect him.

Sure enough, someone objected: "Lord Zhang's merits are indeed admirable, but he is not the leader of this mission, but he has made any conditions for me to agree, in case I answer once for blackmail......

"There is no need to discuss this matter, Zhang Fan does have great merit and the court." Long Qing's voice came, "It was I who personally gave Zhang Fan and me the qualification to negotiate, this matter is recorded, if you don't believe it, you can go to the palace to check the copy." As soon as Long Qing said this, the voice of opposition immediately disappeared.

"Not to mention what contract Lord Zhang made with me, it's just that I replied that Lord Zhang is dead, but I don't plan to pursue anything anymore." Wang Xilie added this sentence again and retreated. Now no one in the Manchu Dynasty has anything to say, since I don't want to pursue it, Zhang Fan did save the envoy of the imperial court, what else do you have to say.

Long Qing said: "Zhang Fan is my minister of the Ming Dynasty, and even died outside the territory for the imperial court, Zhang Qing's family." ”

Zhang Juzheng immediately came out and said, "The minister is here." ”

"Bury Zhang Fan, you are the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Zhang Fan's mentor, you will do it." Long Qing said.

Zhang Juzheng said respectfully: "Minister, Zhang Juzheng obeys the order. It had been a long time since he had used such a formal and complete reply.

Long Qing seemed to be a little tired, but he beat his spirit and continued: "Zhang Fan has made a great contribution to the imperial court, not only saying that he made the envoy of the Ministry of Rites return safely, but also saved me from a big battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Tatars, and saved countless soldiers and soldiers. Although Zhang Fan has died, I should be buried well and treat his family well. This matter, Gao Gong, you will do it. ”

Gao Gong came out and said, "The minister obeys the order." Although the minister had never met Master Zhang, he had also heard a lot of things about him from his colleagues. It can be seen that Lord Zhang is loyal to His Majesty and the court, and is a loyal and brave minister for the people. The minister suggested that Zhang Fan be promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, be loyal to Yongbo, and add the title of prince and prince to treat the descendants of the Zhang family well. ”

He said this, and the courtiers below were even more sorry for Zhang Fan. Thinking that he is only a weak crown year, he is in this high position, if he can come back alive this time, Gao Gong said that these positions are not impossible to give him except for the title of a loyal and brave earl, after all, he has also been the prince's teacher and taught the prince to read. However, Gao Gong's last sentence "Be kind to future generations of price increases", everyone listened to it but it was very unpleasant. Everyone knows that the Zhang family is just a man, and he is newly married, where are there any descendants left!

"You have prepared your decree and present it." Long Qing said with a tired face, "I'm a little tired, let's retreat." ”