In the emperor's bedroom, the emperor had just finished approving a cent, and he drank two sips of tea handed over by the queen. His body was just better, but his face was still pale and pale. However, his spirit is still good today, and the reinforcements in the northwest have been gone for more than half a month. Everything is still under his control.

He was indeed seriously ill this time, but there were more elements in this illness that he was angry. He had long known that King An had ambitions, and he had been keeping an eye on him and investigating him. For the son of King An, he has always taken the way of loosening the outside and tightening the inside. After he thoroughly verified everything King An had done outside, he almost vomited blood in anger. The Wei family actually colluded with Warat outside, needless to say that the matter of King Pingxi must have been the work of the Wei family, they also privately opened silver mines in Fujian, and used the silver to raise private soldiers, not only these, but many local officials had a relationship with King An.

Take this time when the prince was seriously ill, how many people in the court secretly fell to King An, and the emperor found out very clearly. The emperor felt that King An was now a big piece of the court, and he had to pull out this root as soon as possible, but it was not easy to pull out such a big wing, and it would be very painful. But if it is not uprooted, even if the crown prince succeeds to the throne in the future, there will be endless troubles. So since King An moved, he should squeeze this tumor while he still has the strength.

At this time, Li Cheng came over and said, "Your Majesty, Concubine Yan took the little prince to ask to see you." ”

The queen frowned and saw that the emperor didn't squeak, she was really not good at talking at this time.

The emperor said: "Since Wang'er is here, let Wang'er and their mother and son come in." ”

Li Cheng withdrew, and after a while, Concubine Yan came in with a thin boy who was more than two years old. Concubine Yan first put the pastry plate in her hand on the table, and then pulled the little boy to kneel down and salute the emperor.

The little boy has clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, but at first glance it belongs to the kind of poor health, his little face is slightly pale, and there is little blood on his small lips.

The emperor felt a little heartache when he saw this son, this was his youngest son, who was supposed to be a healthy and lively child, but he was poisoned before he could give birth to his mother's womb. I don't know if this child will live to adulthood.

The emperor sighed in his heart. Looking at his little son, he looked a little unsteady on his knees and said, "Get up." Wang'er came to his father's house. ”

Wang'er saw that his mother nodded to him, and he obediently went to his father's side.

The emperor touched his little head and asked, "Wang'er, is it okay to eat during this time?"

Concubine Yan lowered her head slightly and said respectfully: "It's much better, but in the past two days, he has been saying that he wants to come to see his father, so the concubine led him here." He also brought the emperor the lotus leaf cake he liked to eat. ”

The emperor had a smile on his face, he looked at his youngest son and said, "Wang'er wants to send pastries to his father and emperor to eat?"

Xiao Wang'er nodded his little head and said, "Yes, the cakes are delicious, Wang'er likes to eat them, and my father also eats them." ”

The emperor smiled, and he said, "Okay, Wang'er is a filial child, and he still thinks about his father when he eats." As he spoke, he said to Li Cheng: "Li Cheng, bring the jade gadgets in my imperial study to play with Wang'er." ”

Li Cheng bowed and replied, "Yes." So he went to the imperial study, and after a while brought a small round ball made of very delicate jade with a base. This ornament is the size of a child's fist, and the inside of the ball is empty. So it's not heavy to pick up.

Wang'er liked this little thing very much, and was about to kowtow to his father and thank him when he was by the emperor's side, but was stopped by the emperor with a smile.

The queen and Yan Concubine next to her didn't speak, what did they have to say? Yan Concubine hated the queen to death, and the queen didn't disdain to have a verbal relationship with someone like Yan Concubine, since she didn't speculate for more than half a sentence, it was better not to say anything. So the two of them just quietly watched the father and son show their deep love there.

After sitting for a while, Concubine Yan got up and said goodbye. Wang'er reluctantly said goodbye to her father.

The emperor looked at the thin back of his youngest son and said, "Take pity on Wang'er, this child." ”

The queen said: "Your Majesty, you are still recuperating, don't work too hard." When Wang'er grows up, he will be named a rich prince, and take more care of him. ”

The emperor sighed again and said, "That's all it can be." But he was worried about how old the child would live.

Li Cheng looked at the plate of pastries and said, "Your Majesty, let the slave eat this pastry first." So saying, he stepped forward and took it and ate it.

But the emperor said, "No need to eat." Go and ask Dr. Li to inspect every piece of pastry on this plate. ”

Li Cheng is a shrewd person, he understands in an instant. So he said nothing, took out a handkerchief and put it on his plate, and quietly withdrew from the room.

The queen watched all this from the side: "Your Majesty, who are you?" During the period of time when the emperor was sick, there were many concubines who came to give the emperor food to express their hearts, and the emperor only asked Li Cheng to try a few mouthfuls to see if it was poisonous. Why is the emperor so cautious when he arrives here in Yan Concubine?

The emperor's face was gloomy and he said, "Concubine Yan has been very close to Concubine Shu for a while. I've been sick for days, and this is the first time she's come to visit me. ”

The queen's eyes widened: "Your Majesty, are you suspicious ......?"

The emperor said: "At such a time, it is always good to be cautious, but I hope there is nothing." ”

An hour later, Li Cheng came back, his face was a little not good, he bowed cautiously and said, "Your Majesty, in that plate of pastries, three pieces placed next to it are not poisonous, and the others are poisonous. But it's not a deadly poison. ”

The emperor's face turned pale: "What kind of poison could that be?"

"This poison will make people sore, weak and weak after three hours, and it will be difficult to stand up, and there is no antidote to this medicine. Li Cheng's face was sweating.

The queen sneered angrily: "What a strict concubine, she knows that Manager Li just eats first, and she just tastes the piece close to her very regularly." She would never take the middle or the emperor's side without rules, so to speak, she had already set the direction when she put the pastries. ”

Li Cheng said: "Yes, and even if the emperor took it at the time, it was fine, because the onset of this medicine was too slow, and it was not a lethal poison, that is, the emperor was poisoned, and it was very difficult to think that he had been poisoned." But if the emperor really eats it, he will always be paralyzed in bed in the future. ”

The emperor said expressionlessly: "Li Cheng, we will give him a plan, and pass it on to the imperial doctor in three hours." ”

Li Cheng bowed and replied, "Yes, Your Majesty." ”

The next day, the news that the emperor was paralyzed in bed and unable to move spread throughout the capital. So the hearts of the people in the capital are even more fluctuating, the prince is not seriously ill yet, and the emperor is paralyzed again. The third prince is still young, and now it seems that the most promising one should be the eldest son of the emperor, King An.

A lot of people in the court began to fold their heads, begging the emperor to let King An temporarily take care of the government, and King An's voice suddenly came up.

However, the emperor left all the twists and turns in the middle, and let the three princes born to the queen temporarily supervise the country. The ministers who supported King An were disappointed, and they thought that the concept of concubines in the emperor's heart was too clear.

King An is even more cold-hearted, it seems that the crown prince is gone, and the throne is still not his turn. Yes, the emperor also has a son-in-law. He smiled coldly in his heart: Since you don't have a place for me in your heart, I don't need to feel guilty in my heart. Since ancient times, the royal family has no family affection, father, don't complain about your son's cruelty.

In the prince's mansion, a familiar face was sitting opposite the prince, and this person was Ling Yuanhang, who was on an expedition to the northwest. At that time, the expedition of the Ling family father and son was just an illusion for King An, and the king of the county did go to the northwest, but Ling Yuanhang took his own people and secretly turned back when he walked out of Tongzhou. His men and horses are currently secretly living in his Zhuangzi, where only people are allowed to enter and not to leave, so no one knows that there is still an army living there. This is a plan set by the emperor and their father and son.

The person sitting next to him is still Cui Ji. The three of them were listening to Feng Tong's introduction to the situation in the capital in the past few days. Feng Tong said: "It's strange to say, the number of single refugees outside these days is not as large as a few days ago, and the refugees who come here now really look like refugees." ”

Ling Yuanhang said: "You have cut off the passage for them to enter through the city gate, and they can only find another passage, so where can they enter the capital from? According to the agreement we have agreed with the third uncle, we will let more than 1,000 of them enter the capital, and now there are only four or five hundred people in the city, where did those people go?"

Several people were silent, but the prince said, "Is it possible that there is a tunnel outside the city to enter the city?" ”

Cui Ji said: "This is very possible, I remember that there is a record in the history books that in the previous dynasty of our previous dynasty, it should have been the Chen Dynasty, there was a great traitor who had an escape channel at home." The minister did get away with it. ”

Several people became excited, the Cui family deserved to be a family of cultivators, and their amount of information was far more than that of others, Ling Yuanhang said to his brother-in-law: "Do you remember which one?"

Cui Ji said: "The surname of this escaped minister is Wu, but I don't know where his home is in the capital, ask my grandfather maybe he can know." ”

Ling Yuanhang said: "We will act at two ends, Cui Ji you go home and ask your grandfather, and I will send someone to follow and find the tunnel outside the city." Since they have a crossing, there will be someone answering them. But the person answering must be very hidden, so we have to be very careful not to let them find out. ”

The prince said, "That's an idea, all right, we'll do it, and we must find out as soon as possible." I think King An's move is just a matter of the past few days. The father is now pretending to be poisoned, which is a good opportunity for him to act.

On the third day, the people sent by Ling Yuanhang finally found out the location of the cave entrance, and Cui Ji's grandfather and father also speculated that the location of the cave entrance should be in the area where the Wei family lived. Even if it can't be conclusively determined to be the Wei family now, judging from the current situation, there is a good chance that the person leading to this cave is the Wei family.

This was much easier, so the prince immediately arranged eyeliner around the Wei family.