Chapter 34: The Visitation
There are two reasons why Li Ronghe's beating of Pei Jing has become a household name and made all the people talk about it.
First, after being silent for many years, a county lord suddenly appeared in the East Palace, and he was not young, which really surprised people, and even had a feeling of time break.
The second is because people finally realized that the so-called ancient saying that dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes give birth to phoenixes is not unreasonable.
For example, today's little county lord has proved to everyone with practical actions that even if he looks gentle and pure on weekdays, as the daughter of the crown prince Li Yong, she was born to beat people.
Of course, everyone knew about being beaten by the county lord, and Pei Jing, who left Chang'an City, didn't know about it. But this does not prevent him from worrying about this matter, or rather, for Li Rong and his soul.
Pei Jing was about to go crazy with his thoughts, and he couldn't wait to go to Youzhou, so now he immediately turned around and went back to Chang'an, and took someone to the East Palace to propose marriage.
But the only remaining sanity told him that he couldn't do that.
So after they traveled for a day and finally arrived at the first resting official post in the evening, the first thing Pei Jing did was to send someone to immediately send a letter back to Chang'an to his father Pei Qin.
Time was in a hurry, and the content of the letter written by Pei Qin was very simple, only six words: Erchen wants to marry the county lord.
Yes. He wants to marry the county lord, as long as he can marry the county lord, he can not have any concubines in the side room.
After all, after seeing the immortal posture of the county lord, how could he still be interested in those vulgar fans at home?
Pei Jing clenched his fists and secretly made up his mind: he must find a way to return to Chang'an as soon as possible.
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Pei Jing's thoughts are far away in the sky, and at this moment, in the palace of Chang'an City, Li Jin is dragging his sick body and walking towards the dormitory of Emperor Yongping with difficulty with the support of the eunuchs.
Since a few days ago, I heard that my youngest son Li Kai was tired of winning the third son Li Jinxing, and Emperor Yongping fell ill due to the rush of fire.
Therefore, Li Jin planned to visit his father on this trip.
Empress Changle loves flowers, so in the past, Emperor Yongping's bedroom was always full of flowers, and as soon as she entered the door, she could smell a faint fragrance lingering on the tip of her nose.
But now there is no floral fragrance in the dormitory, only a strong smell of herbs, which cannot be covered by two incense burners.
Empress Changle sat on the side of Emperor Yongping's bed, holding a towel in her hand and carefully wiping the sweat oozing from his forehead, asking if he was thirsty or hungry.
Emperor Yongping shook his head weakly, his eyes always followed the queen's every move, and his eyes were full of affection.
A eunuch approached and whispered something in the queen's ear.
Empress Changle nodded, motioned for the eunuchs to stand down, and stood up as well.
Emperor Yongping thought that she was leaving, and hurriedly stretched out a hand from the brocade quilt to pull her sleeve robe, looking nervous.
As I get older, I get sick and I feel more like a child.
Empress Changle patted Emperor Yongping comfortingly, and said softly, "It's Jin'er who has come to see you." ”
Hearing her mention Li Jin, a trace of unhappiness flashed in Emperor Yongping's eyes.
Although they are all sons, Li Jin was not raised by his side, how can Li Kai be close to him?
Now because Li Jin is tired of winning, and he is also involved in the impeachment of his favorite youngest son, even if Emperor Yongping knows that this matter has nothing to do with Li Jin, he still hates Wu and Wu and is a little disgusted with this son.
"I don't think he's sick enough, otherwise why wouldn't he stay in the mansion to recuperate, and still have the strength to run to the palace?" Emperor Yongping snorted, simply closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep.
has been a husband and wife for decades, and Empress Changle naturally understands what Emperor Yongping is angry about, and can't help but look at him with disgust.
Soon, I saw Li Jin stumbling in with the support of the two eunuchs.
It has been more than two months since the last time they met, and Li Jin has lost a lot of weight in the past two months, and his robe no longer even fits, and he is swaying on his body. His face was sickly yellow, his body was shaky, and he knew that he was not lightly ill at first glance.
The palms and backs of the hands are full of meat. Empress Changle did not have the favoritism of Emperor Yongping, and when she saw that her son's body was so weak, she hurriedly excused him from saluting and greeting him, and directly asked someone to give him a seat. Looking at Li Jin full of distress, "Why do you come to visit when you are sick?" ”
Li Jin sat on the chair and smiled weakly, "Erchen's body is fine, but he is really worried about his father's dragon body, if he doesn't come to visit, I'm afraid that he will worry about it every day, and it will not help his condition." ”
Empress Changle sighed, "Jin'er really has a heart. ”
As she spoke, she subconsciously glanced at Emperor Yongping, who was still pretending to be asleep.
"It's a pity that your father fell asleep just now, otherwise he would have been happy."
Li Jin hurriedly said, "The queen mother doesn't have to wake up her father for her sons, she is already very satisfied to stay by her father's side like this." ”
Empress Changle had to nod, full of helplessness.
The mother and son were speechless for a while, and after sitting quietly for a while, Li Jin suddenly began to cough violently. coughing and wheezing, and finally an abnormal flush even appeared on his cheeks, which seemed to be extremely painful, and it really made others uncomfortable.
Empress Changle was quite worried and persuaded, "Your father's illness only needs to be recuperated, and now that I have seen it, why don't you go back first, I think your body can't bear such a toss." ”
Li Jin looked at Empress Changle, suddenly his nose was sore, and two lines of tears fell, he raised his cuffs to wipe his tears lightly, and couldn't help but repent, "It's Erchen's guilt that deserves it, and all this is Erchen's fault for being sick......"
As Li Jin spoke, his body swooped forward, slid directly off the chair, and knelt on the ground with a thud.
Li Jin prostrate at the feet of Empress Changle, his head was not raised, he only choked and said, "It's all because Erchen is sick at this time, so he will rush back to Chang'an to clarify the truth of the matter." ”
Empress Changle was startled, and hurriedly bent down to help him up, "Nonsense, how is this your fault?" ”
Li Jin refused to get up and continued to cry, "Queen Mother, Erchen always believes that the matter of disgust has nothing to do with the fifth brother, and I beg my father and queen mother to open the net and not criticize the fifth brother for this." ”
Empress Changle sighed, "When is it, do you still have the heart to think about this?" Let's go home and recuperate in peace, these things are decided by Your Majesty. ”
Li Jin shook his head and burst into tears, "The son came this time to ask the father and the queen mother to agree to a request from the son, if the queen mother should not, then the son will kneel here forever." ”
Empress Changle asked, "What request do you want us to do with you?" ”
Li Jin solemnly kowtowed twice again, "Erchen begs his father and queen mother, no matter what the results of the investigation after the fifth brother returns to Chang'an, and asks his father and queen mother to look at the fifth brother's young age, open up to him, and let him go this time......"
"Enough!"
Emperor Yongping on the bed finally couldn't help but let out an angry shout.
Li Jinden was so frightened that he shrunk his neck, panicked and held back what he had to say in the future, and looked at the emperor with a pale face.
Emperor Yongping sat up with the help of Empress Changle, leaned on the head of the bed, looked at Li Jin, who was kneeling on the ground and was extremely weak, and subconsciously slowed down his tone, "Which is right and which is wrong, after Ah Wu comes back, he will have his own criminal department and Dali Temple ruling, how can there be a reason for being partial as a prince?" This matter will be mentioned again in the future, you should go back to recuperate, and don't have to work hard again until you get well. ”
Li Jin was stunned, his eyes were red, there were tears in the corners of his eyes, and his expression was full of emotion, "Father, ......"
Emperor Yongping waved his hand, "Okay, let's go down." ”
Li Jin had no choice but to kowtow, and slowly retreated under the support of the two eunuchs.
In the room, Emperor Yongping was silent for a long time.
After a while, he finally spoke, and called the old eunuch to instruct, "Pick out some good things in the palace that replenish qi and blood, and send them to the palace of the king of Shu today." ”