Chapter 463: Five Years Later
Qiwang Mansion, study.
Vice General Yu knocked lightly on the door, and only after hearing Murong Qi's answer inside did he enter.
Murong Qi leaned back on the back of the chair, his eyes were closed, and a layer of green stubble on his chin added a lot of haggard and vicissitudes to him.
Vice Admiral Yu slowed his steps and closed the door of the study.
Only then did Murong Qi open a little eyelid, and when he opened his mouth, his voice was hoarse.
"Any news?"
"Qiu Sishao has already set off for Jiangnan."
"When, with whom?"
"Just this morning, when the sun first came out. Only his lady and the nurse got into the carriage with the child in her arms. ”
"Didn't see the princess?"
Vice General Yu was silent for a moment, and then spoke cautiously: "The princess is really gone, Lord Wang, you saw it with your own eyes, your breathing and heartbeat are gone, how can you come back to life?" ”
"But the people of Mobei and Nanzhao all said that they didn't succeed, who took Qinghuan away? There must be a reason. Moreover, I don't believe that Qinghuan will kill herself, she is a mother. ”
"The princess has fallen off the cliff, and there is absolutely no chance of survival."
Deputy General Yu cautiously persuaded and waited for a long time with his head down, but Murong Qi was not as angry as usual, and refuted him fiercely. Quietly looking up, he saw Murong Qi's eyes looking straight ahead, his body crooked, and then a mouthful of blood spurted out.
He couldn't stand it anymore, the last glimmer of hope was shattered, and there was no longer support. Murong Qi slowly fell.
Deputy General Yu was shocked: "Come on, hurry up and call Lang Zhong!" ”
Murong Qi was sick and was in a coma for many days.
The doctor was also helpless, saying that he was exhausted, and even if he took the decoction, he would have to take care of it for a long time.
As for when he is willing to come to his senses, it depends on his own wishes.
Concubine Hui and the emperor were also anxious, looking for famous doctors and medicines everywhere, but heart disease still needs heart medicine, how easy is it to talk about?
It is the illness that comes like a mountain, and the illness goes like a thread. Especially for a man as iron-clad as Murong Qi, as long as he falls down and gets up again, it will be difficult.
His illness lingered through the beginning of spring before he regained his strength, put on his battle robe, carried his sword, turned over and jumped on horseback.
The snow-white little milk dog has grown into a handsome and majestic appearance, with a tail raised high, and a fine long hair stretching an umbrella on its back, and swaying from side to side when it encounters people, quite like a snow fox.
Murong Qi rode his horse across the street, and the dog followed him inseparably, spreading its little hooves and running wildly, so tired that he stuck out his tongue and almost rolled his eyes.
As soon as Murong Qi turned his face to glance at him, it immediately became excited again, jumping, as if it was about to run on the horse's back.
Just this one person and a horse, with a dog, is clearly high-spirited and majestic, but the people in Beijing have seen loneliness and gloom from Murong Qi's arrogant and beautiful figure.
As a result, Princess Qi's deeds back then, many years after she left Beijing, will still be mentioned and talked about with relish.
Five years is neither a long time nor a short time.
The stars are changing, things are people, and Shangjing is changing every day, with different changes.
Five years can smooth out the sharpness of other people's nature, can change the fate of other people's lives, and in the same way, it can also heal wounds, and some things will gradually become forgotten from unforgettable.
After experiencing the cold appearance of this change, he suddenly looked bearish, and finally agreed to the family affair between Leng Qinghe and Chu Ruoxi, sat down with General Chu, and awkwardly finalized the family affair of his children.
Leng Qingyao has successfully married into the Hao Palace, becoming the first side concubine that King Hao married into the door, and the glory of the Leng family has risen again.
Several princes worked hard, and King Xuan and King Qian each added two small county lords to the Chang'an Dynasty, but the emperor's old man's golden grandson had been looking forward to it for many years, but he still didn't find it.
The old man didn't know if he could still hug his golden grandson in his lifetime, and when he thought of Leng Qinghuan and the child who was about to be born, he had a toothache.
The denture braces that Leng Qinghuan wore for him, on a certain day, at a certain time, when he took it off and cleaned it, he didn't know why it disappeared.
The little eunuchs searched through his dormitory, but in the end they could not find it, guessing that the child might have been taken by rats.
Anyway, since then, the emperor has rarely smiled, his face is tense, and he is not angry and arrogant.
Everyone said that Leng Qinghuan's death made the emperor depressed, so it was difficult to see a smile.
Everyone, including the courtiers of Chang'an, as well as the eunuchs and maids in the palace, and even the concubines, saw the emperor's tense face, as if they were sinking into water, and sometimes, they would miss Leng Qinghuan. If Princess Qi is still here, their life will definitely be a little better.
In the past five years, the wind and rain have been smooth, and the country's fortunes have prospered, until, five years later, a natural and man-made disaster broke the tranquility of Chang'an.
This year, the rain is abundant, and in Yuzhou, south of the Yellow River, the Yellow River burst its banks, flooding, and the victims were displaced.
When the emperor heard of the disaster, he immediately sent a minister to Yuzhou to relieve the disaster with two pieces of relief silver and grain and rice.
Who knows, this time the emperor looked away, this Qincha and the prefect of Yuzhou colluded, embezzled disaster relief funds and grain, inaction, and nonsense, causing the victims to change their children and eat, and complained.
After the catastrophe, there will be a great epidemic, those displaced people starved to death on the side of the road, the corpses were not buried, coupled with the heat, the corpses decomposed, so there was a plague outbreak from Huaizhou City, and then began to spread.
Fearing the spread of the plague, the prefect and the prefect could not afford to bear the sin themselves, so they ordered that all those with fever, vomiting and diarrhea should be confined and those with severe symptoms would be buried alive.
In this way, who would dare to stay and wait for death among the people of Yuzhou, break through the city gates, and flee for their lives in all directions.
Yuzhou is not too far away from Shangjing, separated by the Yellow River. The victims dragged their children and daughters, helped the old and the young, and came to Beijing to make a living. Naturally, the plague spread to Shangjing, and even the eunuchs in charge of purchasing in the palace were infected with the disease and brought it into the palace.
For a while, even the people in the palace were panicked and uneasy.
The emperor ordered the Tai Hospital to study the cure day and night. For many days, there was no result, and there was no way out.
For the disaster in Yuzhou, the officials in the court were impeached, and the emperor Long Yan was furious, and he immediately sent ministers to Yuzhou to investigate and verify, and presided over the overall situation.
The emperor's meaning has not yet been revealed, and there are a few ministers in the court who call them sick and have something to do, which means that they don't want to go to Yuzhou for disaster relief and handle cases.
After all, the disaster in Yuzhou is serious now, who dares to take the initiative to ask for life and run to find death? What's more, not only disaster relief, but also investigation of cases, and treatment of the crimes of the prefect and the Qincha, this kind of thankless errand that ordinary people dare not accept.
In the past, this kind of thing, the emperor liked to send his sons to experience, and by the way, to assess their ability to preside over the overall situation, it was a good time to win people's hearts. Moreover, the identity of this prince is quite deterrent, and those corrupt officials are stabbed one by one, and they are also happy to cut it. But this time with the addition of an epidemic, the emperor was reluctant to give up his own son.
He was in trouble for a while, who should he let go?
The official is small, and he can't control this situation.
It just so happened that at this time, someone hit the muzzle of the gun himself.
Shen Linfeng.
Shen Linfeng is now famous in Chang'an, and he is a terrifying god. In addition, he is heroic and upright, and the emperor is very optimistic about him, and originally intended to promote him to be Jing Zhaoyin and take charge of the security of Shangjing.
But Shen Linfeng annoyed him, and he jumped on his feet in anger.
Because, Shen Linfeng actually handled the case on the bed of his baby daughter Luwu.