"Oops! Marquis Wu Qing fainted! Come and see! Several jailers immediately opened the door and rushed in with torches, and the tall jailer put Wu Qing Hou Ping on the bed, and while pinching his man with his hand, he shouted: "Go and call a doctor." The light of the torches shone on his face, which was clean, with neither blood nor fangs.

The panicked crowd didn't notice that a faint black shadow disappeared in a flash, only the flames in the hands of the jailers shook slightly.

"Ah, there are ghosts!" Li Guorui woke up, he looked at everyone in fear, suddenly shrank to the foot of the wall, and gathered himself into a ball, constantly shivering, muttering: "There are ghosts, there are ghosts......

A few jailers, you look at me, I look at you, one said: "There can't really be ghosts, right?" ”

"How can it? Definitely scared today. Another jailer said.

"Let it go, let it go, the doctor is coming......" someone shouted.

Everyone was busy for half the night, and poured a stomach of calming decoction on Li Guorui before he calmed down. However, in the days that followed, his mental condition was not quite right, and he was always shouting about ghosts from time to time, so there was no way to force him to take out the money. However, Wang Dehua felt that as long as the emperor was resolute and got money from Li Guorui, there was actually hope.

……

Emperor Chongde did not wait for the good news that Li Guorui had donated a large sum of money, but waited for another bad news. That is, his fifth prince suddenly fell ill. First he coughed, saying it was a sore throat, and then he started to get hot. The doctor came to see it and said that it was an external wind and heat, but the condition was not dangerous, so he prescribed a dose of Bupleurum Wood Soup. The medicine was fried in the hospital, and when it was served, Concubine Tian watched the child drink it.

If you want to say that this medicine really has some effect, the fifth prince drank this medicine, and the heat on his head was lowered, and he was able to eat a little. Concubine Tian followed the doctor's instructions and asked the five princes to stew some water chestnut and pear porridge, and personally fed the children to eat it. The fifth prince ate the porridge, the heat went down a little more, and he fell asleep deeply.

As soon as the child fell asleep, Concubine Tian saw a palace maid come in and said to her, "Niangniang, the emperor is here." ”

Concubine Tian hurriedly greeted her, but saw that Emperor Chongde had already entered the Chengqian Palace with Cao Huachun, so she hurriedly greeted her, and said, "Why is the Holy Lord here at this time?" ”

Emperor Chongde said: "Aifei, I heard that Ahri is sick?" How's it going? ”

"Ahri" is the nickname of the five princes, and the child is not yet five years old, which is the time to be cute. Emperor Chongde has also always been very fond of this lively child. Even the name "Ahri" was given to him by Emperor Chongde himself. In this era, children are prone to early death, and the royal family is no exception. The secular belief is that if a child is given an animal milk name, the little ghosts who harm the child will think that the child is just a small animal, so they will not harm him, so the child will be easy to feed. So if you just listen to your child's name, many times, you will feel like you have entered a zoo.

Ahri suddenly had a cough and fever in the afternoon. Imperial Physician Li came to see it, saying that it was an external wind and heat, and he had just prescribed a dose of medicine, Ahri drank it, and the heat dropped a little, and the concubine fed him some porridge, and now he has just slept peacefully. Concubine Tian hurriedly replied.

"The Imperial Doctor said it doesn't matter, right?" Emperor Chongde asked again.

"It's not dangerous." Concubine Tian smiled reluctantly.

"External wind and heat", that is, what people often call "hot cold", put it in the offspring, "cold" or something, as long as it is not preceded by "epidemic" and the name of a certain or a certain type of animal as a definite term, it is basically a trivial matter. But in ancient times, colds often killed people. Children, in particular, are more likely to die. There are some figures that mention that the average life expectancy of ancient people was only in their twenties and thirties, and one of the reasons for this is the high child mortality rate. Even if it is royal, there is no guarantee that the young prince will grow up safely.

"That's good." Emperor Chongde nodded and said, "I'll go see him." ”

Concubine Tian took Emperor Chongde into the room of the five princes, and at this time, the five princes were already asleep, and an old lady and two palace maids were guarding beside them.

Emperor Chongde stepped forward, stretched out his hand and touched the child's forehead, then put his hand back on his forehead, and then turned around and walked out of the room, Concubine Tian following him. Out of the room, Emperor Chongde turned to Concubine Tian and said, "Aifei, Ahri still seems to have a fever, but fortunately, it is not too hot." There should be no problem. ”

Then he turned his head to Cao Huachun, who was following him, and said, "Who is on duty at the Tai Hospital tonight?" Let them be a little more mindful. ”

After explaining these things, Emperor Chongde suddenly remembered that this morning, those people on the cross seemed to have just performed a ceremony to pray for the blessing of the country, and the result was ...... in the afternoon

"It seems that these foreign monks are still not up to the task." Emperor Chongde couldn't help but think so.

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Huang Zide's thousands of men and horses have crossed mountains and mountains all the way, and now they are less than a day's journey from the county seat of Songxian County. Once here, you will go out of the mountains and continue north to the vast Heluo Plain. The army set up camp near the Yihe River valley at a place called Badougou, preparing to rest well before the battle, and also sent several reconnaissance personnel to Song County.

Song County is the place where the Songshan Mountain Range begins, and hence the name. The vast majority of the county is deep in the mountains, with only a little arable land in the valleys of the three rivers, the Ru, Bai and Yi rivers. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "nine mountains, half tombs and half rivers". Because of the lack of arable land, the population and products are naturally small, so in Henan, this county is also a poor county.

The reconnaissance unit was expanded on the basis of Huang Zide's personal guards, and the number was small, only more than 20 people, but most of them had experience in walking the rivers and lakes. The captain is still Hu Yidao, and the two vice captains are Huang Roll and Fan An.

This battle of Songxian was the first real siege battle after Shangluoshan. Although Song County is a poor county, the city wall is not tall, and the strength of the county must be limited, but as the first battle, it is still necessary to be cautious. So this time the reconnaissance was not led by Hu Yidao, but by Xuan Yidao, who has now been appointed as a military advisor by Huang Zide.

Xuan Yi changed his clothes, dressed up as a vendor, and together with Hu Yidao, Fan An, and Huang Roll, he took eight other scouts, pretending to be merchants who collected medicinal materials, and pushed four or five carts to Song County. Although there are no fields in Song County, almost all of the territory is deep mountains and old forests, but such an environment can produce all kinds of medicinal materials. In particular, the Bupleurum produced in Song County is well-known in the world and is called Songhu.

The group took a detour from the side road to the north of the county seat, and then went to the county seat from there. When I arrived at the gate of the county seat, I usually had to look at the road guide. But this is actually useless, because Xuanyi and others have "authentic" road guides. When Huang Zide dominated the world, he didn't know how many county towns he had beaten, how many county orders he had caught, and how many county seals he had seized. In addition, at that time, there was no photography technology, and there were only some very brief descriptions of the holder's appearance on the road. To discern it, the main thing is to look at the large seal on it. And the big seal on Xuanyi's road guide is too real to be true. So now Xuan Yi and others have an "authentic" road guide.

It's just that there is an "authentic" way, and when entering the city, the soldiers guarding the city gate still have to find trouble for these outsiders. Hu Yi, the follower who pretended to be Xuanyi, took out more than 20 copper coins with a knife, and the group entered the city smoothly.

When Hu Yidao negotiated with the soldiers guarding the city gate, Xuan Yi took the opportunity to inspect the situation in this small city. Song County is a typical poor county, which can be seen from the city walls and city gates.

The city wall of Song County is only a little more than a zhang high, and Xuan Yi feels that he can easily climb over such a city wall with his bare hands without even using any spells; And a quick guy like Hu Yidao, who climbed over the city wall, was afraid that he couldn't even use his hands, so he ran directly and pedaled on the city wall with his feet. The gate was a little taller, but it was only six feet long.

The walls of Song County are not only too short, but also very dilapidated. Most of the city walls of the Jokhang Dynasty were covered with bricks, and compared with the rammed earth walls of the previous generation, the brick-covered city walls were not only stronger, but also greatly reduced the weathering of the rammed earth city walls by the sun, wind and rain. The city wall of Song County also has bricks, but because of disrepair, many of these bricks have fallen off. There was also a noticeable collapse of the walls in some places. For example, on the right hand side of the city gate, there was a gap that was so high that it was only seven or eight feet high. As for the female wall and the arrow battlements on the city wall, more than half of them were also damaged, and in some places there was a long section without either a female wall or arrow battlements.

The few soldiers standing at the gate of the city were also crooked. The mandarin duck jackets on their bodies were worn out, and cotton wool was exposed in many places. If you weren't standing at the gate of the city with a weapon in your hand, I'm afraid you would be seen as a flower child. And the weapons in their hands, they only have the cheapest spears in their hands, even these cheapest spears are not very well maintained, some of the guns are rusty at the tips, and some of them are obviously bent at the barrel.

Except for the five or six soldiers at the city gate, there were not even people on the city walls, which showed the laxity of guards. When he entered the city gate, he saw the open door panels of the city gate. This door panel has probably not been rolled over for a few years, and the paint on it is naturally gone, judging from some nails left, this door should have been wrapped with iron sheet before. But now, there is nothing left of this iron sheet.

"In this state, this city can be taken with just one charge. Even with the ten people now, when they were caught off guard, they suddenly attacked, and they were able to snatch the city gate. It's a pity that the large army behind is still repairing, and even if he grabs the city gate, he can't hold it. Xuan Yi said to himself in his heart.