Chapter Ninety-Three: The King's Heart Is as Deep as the Sea
Nian Yun only felt that Li Yi's attitude was a little strange, and she actually came in with such a hasty excuse! Could it be that he really sympathized with the seriously ill saint at this time?
But she didn't have time to think about it, and she was afraid that he would regret it the next moment, so she hurriedly went to the inner palace.
Although she was allowed to enter, the palace maid and inner supervisor guarding the gate of Zichen Hall searched her seriously to ensure that nothing special was brought in, and then allowed her to enter the dormitory.
The dormitory was guarded by three or four palace maids, and the saint had his eyes slightly closed, but it seemed that he was not asleep, because a palace maid was feeding him medicine with a medicine bowl.
Nianyun walked to the center of the dormitory, knelt down to the people on the couch, and kowtowed: "The courtier Guo Nianyun sees Your Majesty." ”
The saint slowly opened his eyes. He was really sick, his face was pale and gray, and there was a lingering black qi lingering on the Yin Hall, and his face was very bad. Although the eyes were open, they were cloudy and grayish, as if they were unfocused.
Hearing her name, she seemed to react for a long time, but she still had some doubts and asked hesitantly, "Who is it?" ”
"Back to Your Majesty, it is the niece of Guo Xi, the acting prince of the country, Guo Nianyun."
She didn't promote Princess Ping, but said Guo Xi's name. Sure enough, His Majesty frowned slightly.
Nian Yun glanced at the palace maids beside him, but the emperor understood and told them all to retreat. The palace maids glanced at each other and retreated obediently. Only the one who fed the medicine hesitated for a moment, and Nianyun said, "I'll come." ”
Nianyun walked to the couch, helped the emperor's head to pilllow in his arms, took the medicine bowl in one hand, scooped up a spoonful with a spoon in the other, put it on his lips and tested the temperature, and blew carefully before sending it to the emperor's mouth.
The emperor swallowed the medicinal juice silently, like a child, "bitter ......"
Nian Yun also smelled the bitter smell from the medicine bowl, so he took a candied fruit from the table and fed it to him, he seemed to be very satisfied, and his face was better.
Nian Yun gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, do you remember Wei Taozhuo in Wangshu Tower back then?" ”
"Momo...... Profound? ”
His eyes instantly gathered a bit of bright brilliance, and his eyes stared at her directly: "Where is Tao Zhuo, where is Tao Zhuo?" ”
Nianyun coaxed him gently like a child: "Your Majesty drank the medicine first, let's finish the medicine and then tell you." ”
The emperor was like a child, obediently fed by her spoonful by spoonful. When he had finished drinking the half bowl of medicine, she took the candied fruit and fed it to him. He took the candied fruit in his mouth, and squinted his eyes and smiled.
In fact, coming in under the banner of Aunt Wei was just a pretense, and Aunt Wei actually never mentioned that she had anything to do with the palace. Looking at the emperor's situation, she can't say a few words about Tao Zhuo.
She was struggling with what to say, but the emperor opened his mouth first: "I remembered, you are Chun's daughter-in-law, right?" ”
Nianyun lowered his head: "Your Majesty has a good memory." ”
"I've been sick for a long time, Chun'er, Chang'er, and the prince, why don't they come to see me?"
Nian Yun only felt frightened, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "Your Majesty forgives your sins!" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince suffered from rheumatism again and was unable to walk. But Chun and Chang have come many times, but they are not allowed to come in outside! ”
Although the emperor is sick, his brain is not completely confused. He thought about it for a while, then understood, and asked, "Is it Yi'er?" ”
Nian Yun was silent for a moment before nodding slightly.
The emperor sighed and raised his hand: "Daughter-in-law Chun, come here and sit on the edge of the couch." ”
At this time, it seemed that he was no longer the majestic emperor, but just a sick and weak old man. Nian Yun remembered Guo Xi's appearance when he was seriously ill, and he felt sad in his heart, and sat down lightly on his couch.
"The first time I saw you, I knew you must know Taozhuo. Otherwise...... It's not like that. I've thought about it for a long time, but you don't look like each other at all, not like you. But his words and deeds, a smile and a smile, are too much like ......" He said so many words in one breath, panting slightly.
Nian Yun took a deep breath and said slowly: "Your Majesty, the courtiers deserve death for bullying the king!" It was the courtier's sister who died of illness that year. Courtiers...... The courtier's daughter is the one who has been fostered outside since she was a child, and she has always grown up by Aunt Wei's side. ”
The emperor frowned slightly, pondered for a moment, but didn't ask, I don't know if he had already figured out the clues, or didn't want to pursue it at all, he just sighed: "In my life, I owe Tao Zhuo and Guo Laosan!" ”
Nian Yun understood that he was talking about Guo Xi, and said softly: "Now that my aunt's ashes have been buried with the third uncle, they are in the ancestral hall of the Guo family, and the third uncle does not blame Your Majesty......"
The emperor waited for a while, but he didn't wait for the next step, he thought that Nianyun would say that Wei Taozhuo didn't blame him, but she stopped thoughtfully.
He was anxious: "That Taozhuo ......"
When the words came to his lips, Nian Yun still groaned for a moment. After all, at this time, she was facing the Ninety-Five Venerable, and some words involved the dignity of the Heavenly Family.
Although he was seriously ill, he was not confused in his heart, and said lightly: "I forgive you for your innocence, just say it." Didn't you come today to speak for Taozhuo? ”
Nian Yun took three steps back and kowtowed to the emperor on the couch.
"Your Majesty, one of the things that Aunt Wei regrets the most in her life is that she mistakenly believed in the so-called sisters around her!"
Looking at His Majesty's situation, I don't think there will be a chance for her to say these words next time, so she simply poured beans into a bamboo tube, and told everything she knew about how Concubine Wei Xian betrayed her sisters, and how she approached the emperor through Wei Taozhuo, and how she was disheartened and avoided Yangzhou.
Even Concubine Wei Xian assassinated her for fear of her leaking secrets and accidentally injured her sister.
So many palace secrets fell on the ears of the emperor who was full of vicissitudes, but it seemed to be swallowed up by the boundless void. His eyes were half-closed, and his face was like an ancient well.
Just as Nian Yun began to wonder if the emperor was about to fall asleep or fall into a coma again, the emperor slowly raised his head: "I don't know what you said. ”
Nian Yun looked up in amazement, she suddenly began to regret that she had just said so much. He knows it, so today the emperor knows that she knows so much, shouldn't he kill her?
The emperor still half-closed his eyes and said in a deep voice: "It's all my fault." I shouldn't have forced Tao Zhuo to enter the palace in the first place, her stubborn temperament was not suitable for the palace. To survive in this imperial city, there is no justice at all, you must know how to protect yourself and know how to fight for your own interests......"
He actually blamed Tao Zhuo for not knowing how to protect himself! Watching his sons kill each other is normal for him! Like a beast, only after defeating all the other beasts, the last one left is worthy of being the king of the jungle?
"Nianyun, the harem is like this, and the same is true between princes, if there are not enough means, even if I can protect him to climb up, sooner or later someone will make him fall down! I have always liked the second child, but it's a pity that ......"
Nian Yun looked at him in a daze.
What is a pity?
"It's a pity...... The second child is a seed of infatuation, for the sake of a woman, you can't even want the throne, how can I entrust the Tang Dynasty to him! ”
For a woman?
"Your Majesty......"
The emperor's eyes suddenly opened slightly, but some kind of sharp light shot out of his eyes, which had become a little cloudy due to the disease, like a knife blade scraping across her face, making her suddenly feel a chill behind her.
He suddenly withdrew his stunning gaze, and his tone became erratic: "However, you are good, and you will ...... Assist Chun'er well! ”
Nian Yun breathed a sigh of relief.
Wait, Assist Jun'er?
She looked at the emperor: "Your Majesty...... But there's something you need to take out of Nianyun? ”
The emperor looked at her with a smile: "What do you want?" ”
Nian Yun bit his lip vigorously, took a step back and knelt down: "The courtiers risk their lives to ask for their lives, please give an order to Your Majesty, once the mountain collapses, it will be passed on to the prince!" ”
The emperor still maintained a posture with his eyes half-closed, but she felt that he was looking at her, and she felt furious in her heart.
He has been an emperor for more than 20 years, and the merits and demerits of this life have to be left to historians to comment. But in this life, he couldn't live with every woman around him, and he also hurt his sons in vain, and his sons were also trying to guard against him and calculate him.
is the most ruthless emperor's family, now he is terminally ill, he is not dead, but this group of people are all calculating to snatch his interests after death.
She is also one of them.
But he didn't think about it for long, but after a moment's effort, he laboriously raised his finger and pointed at the wall: "You go to the closet over there and get a piece of five-colored silk." ”
Ordinary holy decrees are written on scrolls made of these five-colored silks, and finally stamped with the emperor's seal, and then read by the inner eunuchs, and finally handed over to the person who receives the decree.
Such a scroll is obviously not suitable for carrying, so he asked Nian Yunna to take the kind of silk that does not have a scroll and only has a five-color silk.
The closet was very high, Nian Yun stood on tiptoe and rummaged through it, and finally found a piece, the silk with a bright yellow background was woven with five-colored auspicious cloud patterns and crane patterns.
The Son of Heaven's dormitory is so sacred, Nian Yun can't help but think that in this closet, I don't know how many people's lives and deaths have been written on this five-colored silk, and I don't know how many people are happy or sad about this holy decree. After receiving this divine will, some people were promoted to become wealthy, some people were ruined, some people were displaced, and some people left their homes.
This once powerful generation of emperors has issued countless irreversible wills, and all of them are trembling to please him and flatter him.
And now, he dragged the remnants of the oil lamp that was about to run out of oil and became a trapped beast in the Zichen Palace. Nian Yun carefully arranged the closet so that there were no signs of rummaging.
But there is no pen and ink in the closet. Nian Yun looked around the room, but couldn't find pen and ink, so he had to go back to the couch and put the five-colored silk in front of him.
The emperor motioned to help him up. In front of this five-color silk, he was stunned for a long time.