"What do you mean, sister?" Liu Qi pondered for a while, then Fang looked at Liu Concubine and asked in a hissed voice.

"Alas! I don't think Kurihime can be trusted. Concubine Liu sighed, looked at her younger brother with some pity, and her voice softened: "The disaster of the Lu family, Yin Jian is not far away." My sister can only remind that Her Majesty has to take the idea himself. ”

"I know what I know." Liu Qi nodded.

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A few months later, Liu Qi had a serious illness, and gradually recovered under the careful care of the imperial doctor. The Imperial Physician instructed you to recuperate. The court had to suspend the deliberations for the time being, and the prime minister, the princess, and other ministers were temporarily responsible for the day-to-day affairs, but fortunately there was no major event in the court.

Liu Qi was lying on the sickbed, inevitably irritable and worried.

He remembered sadly that he was eight years old Chinese New Year's Eve this year, and he was not called a dead man after 50, and his father Liu Heng only lived to be 47 years old, and according to his father's lifespan, he only had ten years left.

The older a person gets, the more he can feel that time flies, year by year, in the blink of an eye, ten years and eight years, it seems to be just a matter of a moment.

The eldest son, Liu Rong, has been made the crown prince for more than a year, mediocre and mediocre, whether he is a person or a scholar, he has not grown much. Is he really someone to be trusted?

and the prince's mother, Li Ji, who has been sick for so long, she has never come to see her.

Liu Qi shook his head and smiled bitterly: Alas! When he was young, he was like glue, and he was deeply righteous, but he was a stranger to today. How did it get to this point? Ask yourself, I have indeed alienated her over the years.

Thinking of this, Liu Qi cleared his throat and instructed the eunuchs beside him: "Pass Li Ji to accompany him." ”

The eunuch agreed.

Soon, Li Ji hurried to Liu Qi's dormitory.

According to the rules of the palace, it is unlucky to give a big salute to the patient, looking at Liu Qi on the sickbed, Li Ji only performed the usual courtesy.

Liu Qi waved his hand and squeezed out a smile, "You're here?" ”

Li Ji got up and said in a muffled voice: "I just said that Your Majesty forgot that there is a person like me." ”

"......" Liu Qi closed his eyes, I don't know when it started, the two met like this, arguing endlessly.

A eunuch brought a cushion and placed it on the side of the couch. Kurihime sat down on her knees slowly.

Another eunuch entered the hall and whispered, "Your Majesty, it's time to take the decoction." ”

Liu Qi opened his eyes, and the eunuch stepped forward and helped the emperor up. Liu Qi took the eunuch's hand and drank the decoction in the bowl.

Li Ji was a little uncomfortable, as if she was an outsider, and the emperor was sick once, and she was busy taking care of her, which was a long, long time ago......

Liu Qi drank the decoction and lay down again.

The eunuch put down the pottery bowl, covered the quilt for the emperor, and then picked up the bowl and stepped back silently.

There was silence in the dormitory.

The atmosphere was a little awkward, and Li Ji twisted her body uneasily and asked, "Your Majesty is better?" ”

"Remember. Much better. Liu Qi replied in a deep voice.

"......" was silent again.

"Your Majesty don't worry." Li Ji searched her intestines and scraped her belly, and said in her words: "As the saying goes, illness comes like a mountain, and illness goes like a thread." ”

"Hmm." Liu Qi was noncommittal, turned his face to look at Li Ji, and suddenly asked, "Are you forty years old?" ”

Li Ji's nose was sour, wiped the corners of her eyes and said, "Yes." His Majesty was two years old. ”

"As of this year, it has been twenty-five years since you entered the imperial womb." Liu Qi sighed.

"Your Majesty still remembers......" Li Ji smiled bitterly, "It's old in a blink of an eye." ”

"I've thought a lot about this illness since I got sick." Liu Qi said quietly, his tone was as cold as frost: "There is nothing to regret in this life so far." Only don't worry about the children, although they are princes and princesses, they grow up in the deep palace, and they are not even as happy as the children of the common people. ”

He paused, his eyes burning, and he stared at Kurihime, "I hope that in the future, you will be kind to the children and their mothers." ”