Chapter 11: The New Emperor
The Heart Cultivation Hall was shrouded in a tense and murderous atmosphere, and if you looked closely, you could see that the Heart Cultivation Hall had twice as many forbidden troops than usual, led by General Cui Qi, the deputy commander of the forbidden army.
Cui Qi stood under the porch with a knife on his shoulder, and suddenly saw a drenched figure jump in front of him, his hand holding the handle of the knife tightened, and he saw that the figure was a little familiar, and he didn't dare to say uncertainly, "Imperial concubine Niangniang?" ”
Tang Feng stood still, uncovered her cloak, and a wet face was revealed, she nodded at Cui Qi, and walked towards the hall with her legs raised.
"Niangniang, you're drenched all over, do you want to change your clothes and go in again?" Cui Qi chased after him.
Tang Feng looked at him sideways, although the rain made her a little embarrassed, but her face was white and translucent, with the beauty of a hibiscus out of the water. With just one look, she made Cui Qi take a step back in awe. She turned and walked back into the hall, ignoring him.
Cui Qi pursed his lips, he knew that the imperial concubine probably mistakenly thought that he was stopping her, so he looked at him with such cold eyes. But...... Cui Qi's hand holding the handle of the knife loosened tightly, he really cared that she would get sick from the rain, and he didn't mean to stop her from entering.
In the hall, Xu Zhong had been waiting outside for a long time, and when he saw that she was mostly wet, he couldn't help but say, "Niangniang, don't be in a hurry at this time, why don't you change into clean clothes?" ”
"No, Your Majesty matters."
On the dragon bed, Xu Kangdi was groggy, awake for a while and confused for a while, and the imperial doctor said that it was a high fever caused by wound infection. Tang Feng came a little coincidentally, Xu Kangdi had just woken up, and he still retained three points of sobriety.
"Your Majesty." She grabbed the handkerchief on the side, wiped her hands, walked forward with her half-wet skirt, knelt beside the bed, held his hand and asked with concern, "How does Your Majesty feel?" ”
Xu Kangdi didn't know that this illness would be so dangerous at first, and he had overcome all the bigger difficulties, but he didn't expect to die from a small wound infection, which is really ironic. The high fever made his mind a little confused, but he could still make out who was in front of him, and when he saw her kneeling wet in front of his bed, he took her hand back and asked, "Outside, is it raining heavily?" ”
Tang Feng nodded: "The concubine has never seen such a heavy rain. ”
"Jiangnan, I'm afraid it's going to flood again......" he exhaled, hot and hot.
Tang Feng turned his head to look at Imperial Physician Fu and asked, "Is there any other way to lower the temperature now?" ”
"If you go back to your mother, you have used all the methods that should be used, and it is useless to forgive the ministers." Fu Yuanbo, the head of the hospital, replied on his knees.
Xu Kangdi closed his eyes, galloped on a horse when he was young, and ruled the world in middle age, like a play in front of him. When he was dying, he knew that he could not escape this pass, and he had to do the last thing he had as emperor to leave with peace of mind.
"Xu Zhong, go and send the eldest prince to see you." Xu Kangdi gasped and said. He felt like a big ball of fire, breathing fire at any moment, threatening to explode and die at any moment. He swept over the men in front of the couch and said, "Go down all of you." ”
Everyone couldn't make up their minds, and with His Majesty's current illness, they didn't dare to leave. saw Tang Feng raise his hand and waved.
"Yes, the ministers are leaving." The imperial doctors did not dare to go far, and retreated to the outside to obey orders.
Tang Feng looked at his face, his lips were dried and chapped by the high fever, and his whole person was abnormally red, but his eyes were surprisingly bright. Her heart trembled, and a sourness welled up in her heart. What he did to the southern Xinjiang royal family and Feng Yu was unforgivable. But for Tang Feng, he really put a lot of effort into love.
"Feng'er, I'm afraid I'll have to go first." He forced out a smile and looked at the woman he loved the most, "I said that I would protect you for the rest of your life, and now I broke my promise." ”
"Your Majesty......" she shook her head, indicating that she didn't care.
Xu Kangdi let out a long sigh, he knew that after he left, he was afraid that the life she faced would not be easy, and he would even think about whether to leave with her? After much consideration, give up. People want to live, and he wants to.
"I haven't treated you well all these years, and after I'm gone, you may have to suffer a little." He didn't say this to coax her. At first, he was just greedy for this face, thinking that being a thing and keeping it around would also be pleasing to the eye, so he didn't take the misunderstandings and rumors about her outside to heart. Although he was moved by his true feelings after getting along, he believed that he would be able to protect her for decades to come, so he never uprooted those deep-rooted prejudices.
"They all say that I am too good to you, but in fact I am not, if I am really good to you, I will not let you bear the infamy of being a traitor." People are dying and their words are good, and people who have always been arbitrary even have times for introspection.
Tang Feng's eyelashes fluttered, and his lips straightened into a straight line. She thought of every step she took, existed as a gadget, existed as an accessory of a man, and she had almost personally stepped her dignity into the mud along the way.
"I have decided to leave a testament to protect you in the future when your life is at stake." Xu Kangdi clenched her hand, not missing a trace of surprise that flashed in her eyes.
He knew that this was what she had come for, and the only thing he could do for her.
Tang Feng lowered her head, and a smile suddenly climbed into the corner of her mouth, she never thought that this person who killed her entire clan would protect her like this, so that she didn't even have a chance to hate him completely.
"Xu Zhong, help me up." He let go of her hand and raised his hand to hand it to Xu Zhong on the side, he wanted to write the edict himself.
His body at this time could not support him to sit for too long, and then sit on the familiar dragon chair, as if he was in a different world. For countless nights, he sat in this chair and pointed out the world. Now, he trembles even when he picks up a pen.
Xu Zhong laid out the paper, and Tang Feng stood aside to grind the ink.
Emperor Xu Kangdi wrote two edicts, one was Tang Feng's talisman and the other was the edict of the crown prince.
When he was done, he dropped his pen and sat limply in his chair, gasping for air, sounding a bit like a broken bellows. He closed his eyes, and his whole body became heavier and heavier, as if a force was pulling him down.
"Your Majesty, the eldest prince has arrived."
The eldest prince Zhu Yonghong was grounded by His Majesty for two months because of the last time he was in charge of the country, and when he was released again, he didn't expect that his tall and mighty father in his heart would decay to the point of decay.
"Father, what's wrong with you?" Zhu Yonghong knelt on the ground and asked eagerly. Seeing that Emperor Xu Kangdi didn't open his eyes, he turned his head to look at Xu Zhong on the side, his eyes were full of doubts and expectations, "Father-in-law Xu, what's wrong with my father?" ”
Xu Zhong shook his head, not knowing whether he couldn't say it or didn't dare to say it.
Zhu Yonghong looked at the imperial concubine on the side again, he had always feared and hated her, and seeing that she was also present at this time, he didn't dare to continue asking.
Xu Kangdi opened his eyes with great difficulty, he could no longer see the appearance of his son kneeling opposite, he beckoned, signaling him to come closer.
"Father......" Zhu Yonghong stepped forward, knelt beside the dragon chair, and looked up at him.
Emperor Xu Kangdi raised his big hand, patted his head weakly, and said, "Emperor, I have already made you the crown prince......
Zhu Yonghong was both surprised and delighted, and didn't dare to show it, so he bit his lip stubbornly.
"You have to rely more on Zhou Xiang and others in court politics in the future, your father didn't have time to teach you too much, but you have to figure out how to be a good emperor." Xu Kangdi's hand fell on his face, gently stroked this face that resembled the former empress, and said with a slight smile, "I know that you have this ability, but you are still young, you must learn to hide your thoughts, and don't let others easily see it." ”
After Zhu Yonghong was overjoyed, he gradually wondered why his father seemed to be talking about this...... At...... He didn't dare to think about it anymore.
Emperor Xu Kangdi looked at the imperial concubine behind him and said, "The imperial concubine is the woman I really loved, you must treat him well in the future, you know?" ”
Zhu Yonghong froze there, nodding or shaking his head.
Xu Kangdi knew that his knot was still there, but he didn't have much time to untie him, so he forced him to swear. Zhu Yonghong looked at him in astonishment, his father obviously knew that he had a deep grudge with the imperial concubine, why did he do this?
"Don't you listen to me?" His tone accentuated by two points.
Zhu Yonghong glanced at the woman beside him, and reluctantly swore that "if the sons and daughters are not good for the imperial concubine for time, they will let the sons and ministers abandon them together, and they will not be forgiven after death." ”
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