Xiao Jiangyuan did what he said, and he was no longer helpful to Li Linfu, and told Li Longji everything he saw without embellishment.

"In this way, I am relieved." After listening to Xiao Jiangyuan, Li Longji stretched his limbs and lay flat on the seat, feeling good for a while, he wanted to find a few brothers to enter the palace to drink and play music.

Seeing that Li Longji was not displeased with Li Linfu's actions, Xiao Jiangyuan didn't say anything. She also wanted Li Longji to be comfortable, so she let him go this time.

But after waiting for a long time, the kings did not come, and even the little eunuchs sent did not return. Xiao Jiangyuan was uneasy, so he followed Li Longji to the Calyx Xianghui Building, and looked at the mansions of King Naning and King Xue, only to see that Han Si, who had been left by Li Ye to practice medicine in Xiao Jiangyuan's mansion since she fell into the water, was in a hurry to enter the gate of King Xue's mansion at this moment.

Before Xiao Jiangyuan could react, Li Longji had already turned around and went downstairs, and said hurriedly while walking: "Prepare the horse!" ”

By the time Xiao Jiangyuan and Li Longji arrived at King Xue's mansion, King Ning Li Xian and Princess Yuzhen had already arrived.

"How's Gorou?" Li Longji waved his hand to excuse everyone's salute, and then pulled the sleeve of his eldest brother Li Xian.

Li Xian said gently: "San Lang is not in a hurry, Goro is just ...... It's just about time. ”

Since Xiao Jiangyuan was shocked on the day he fell into the water, and then went to Qujiang and caught a cold again, Li Ye began to recuperate in bed for a long time. In fact, everyone, including Li Longji, knew that Li Ye had been in poor health for a long time, and he was probably terminally ill at this time, and his days were numbered, but Li Longji never gave up, and the famous doctors and medicines were constantly sent, which allowed Li Ye to live so much longer.

Hearing the eldest brother say this, Li Longji's heart instantly throbbed: "What do you mean that the time comes, Gorou is the youngest among us, although his health has not been very good, he is also ......"

Princess Yuzhen had tears in her eyes, but she still smiled stubbornly: "Think about Shiro, and Sister Jin Xian, who died the year before last, where is she so old, and she died in a hurry if she wasn't sick?" It's already a blessing to have dragged on like Gorou for many years. I don't know which immortal I offended the descendants of the Li family, and similar diseases have been passed down from generation to generation, just like the identity of the throne and the royal family...... Third brother, you have to take good care. ”

Maybe it's because I'm used to such an illness, or maybe I've seen too much life and death, no matter how fierce my mourning is, it will eventually be smoothed out by the long years and become a faint scar.

But Li Longji couldn't accept it. After learning from Han Si's mouth that Gorou only had about a month to live, he didn't recognize it, and he had to order all the famous doctors in and outside the palace to snatch this life from heaven no matter what.

He's been successful in snatching it before, and he'll be able to do it now!

But he forgot that the way of heaven is always ruthless.

In the end, it was Xiao Jiangyuan who calmed him down and let him go back to Xingqing Palace.

And she, at Li Ye's request, "borrowed" to Xue Wang's mansion to be on duty for a month.

This month, Li Ye didn't want anyone, only let Xiao Jiangyuan accompany him, or go out of the house to visit Qujiang Furong Garden, or go to the West Market to buy some things and eat with some delicious food, or simply stay at home and do whatever you want.

It is not so much that Xiao Jiangyuan accompanied Li Ye, but that Li Ye accompanied Xiao Jiangyuan and did everything she wanted to do one by one. How could Xiao Jiangyuan not feel Li Ye's gentleness and thoughtfulness, but she once asked Li Ye if he didn't have anything he wanted to do, but Li Ye didn't answer, just looked at her and smiled.

In the past month, Li Xian and Princess Yuzhen have always come to King Xue's mansion. In Xiao Jiangyuan's mind, Li Xian has always been a person with great wisdom, so she gave him her puzzles.

Li Xian glanced at Gorou who was sleeping on the couch from afar, smiled warmly, and said, "This is what he has always wanted to do the most." ”

"That's all?"

"That's enough."

Xiao Jiangyuan is a person who is not contented, so she can't understand that someone would have such contentment. But now that the matter has been figured out, she can be by Li Ye's side with peace of mind and accompany him through the last days of his life.

Li Ye's wife, concubines, and children have long been mentally prepared for his life and death. knew that Li Ye had a very good relationship with Xiao Jiangyuan, but he had no chance to be with her in his life, and since the days were numbered, they let him indulge themselves.

What makes people helpless is that Xiao Jiangyuan is always very sluggish at this time, everyone is aware, but they are also puzzled, but she is really puzzled.

Princess Yuzhen couldn't stand it anymore, so she asked Li Ye privately: "Since it has been done so obviously, why don't you just let her know?" ”

Li Ye looked at Xiao Jiangyuan, who was concentrating on affairs under the shade of the trees in the courtyard, and pretended to be stupid: "What do you know?" ”

"You think I can't see the silk handkerchief you hide under your pillow?"

“…… What can a silk handkerchief illustrate? ”

"Then why don't I give it back to you for you?"

As soon as he heard this, Li Ye had to lean on Princess Yuzhen's shoulder as he had been as a child, and he was so anxious that he had to take several breaths before he could finish the whole sentence: "Why...... I have to let her ...... You know? That's good......"

Princess Yuzhen only thought that Gorou didn't want to compete with the third brother, so she said, "You don't have to worry about the third brother, he has me there." The word love is the most important thing about your love and my wishes, not that he can win as a son of heaven. ”

"But...... Ah Yuan's you and I are willing, I gave it to the third brother many years ago...... I...... I've never let her know, sister, don't ...... you."

Princess Yuzhen had to sigh and said, "That's right, if you really love me, how can she be so dull?" I don't know what you all think, there is no shortage of good wives and beautiful concubines, but you just fancy a eunuch...... The word love is really the most unreasonable to talk about. ”

Li Ye smiled: "Just like Sister Ah and Maha? ”

Princess Yuzhen hurriedly said: "Why do you think so?" Maha and I are really just confidants, innocent! What do you mean by that expression, don't believe me......"

The two siblings started to make trouble as they spoke, laughing and laughing as they did when they were children. Li Xian was tending to the flowers and plants in the courtyard, and when he saw this scene, he looked at each other and smiled at Li Longji, who had just been admitted to the hospital.

After a leisurely and happy month, on a sunny morning, when Xiao Jiangyuan delivered medicine and breakfast to Li Ye, he found that Li Ye was neatly dressed and died in his sleep.

Just three days after the seventh day of the seventh month. Because the sky has been very good in recent days, Xiao Jiangyuan has not confiscated the books that Li Ye has published; Li Longji stayed here for a few days, and only yesterday had to go back to the palace; Li Xian deliberately transplanted some precious flowers and plants from his house, and the buds had not yet opened; Princess Yuzhen agreed to urge Wang Wei's new poem, and the manuscript of the poem has not yet been in her hand.

Everything is clearly going on, and everything has an ending.

Xiao Jiangyuan suddenly remembered that last night's candle had burned extremely hot, and the wax kept falling, and Li Ye also said that it was really like tears.

He didn't see that the candle flame was just like his life, releasing the last bit of fire in his life, but he noticed the "tears" flowing from the candlestick. He even smiled slightly, pointed to the candlestick and said, "Those are tears of reluctance." ”

After speaking, he urged Xiao Jiangyuan to go to sleep early for the first time.

Waiting for Xiao Jiangyuan to leave, he got up and put on his clothes, took out the silk handkerchief under the pillow, and stuffed it into the placket. Then he settled down and slowly lay down on the couch. He glanced at the candlestick one last time, but he couldn't see anything anymore. He could not hear any sound, but could speak: "If there is an afterlife......

After being quiet for a long time, he didn't know what to say next, so he only left this half sentence and fell asleep calmly.

On the day of Li Ye's funeral, it rained heavily.

Li Longji posthumously crowned every dead brother the crown prince. The second brother Li Yu is the prince of Huizhuang, Shiro Li Fan is the prince of Huiwen, and Goro is the prince of Huixuan. Several brothers were buried in the Ruizong Bridge Mausoleum with the gift of the prince to accompany their father.

"Everyone has asked several princes to accompany Emperor Ruizong, but what about everyone?"

On this day, all the officials of Chang'an went to attend the funeral of Prince Huixuan, and the funeral was presided over by Li Xian himself. Everyone was afraid that he would grieve too much, and refused to let him send Gorou on his last ride.

Xiao Jiangyuan had to be there, so Li Longji went to Concubine Wu Hui. But it didn't take long for Li Longji to disappear without paying attention for a while. Concubine Wu Hui turned over almost the entire Xingqing Palace, but she still couldn't find it. The disappearance of the Son of Heaven can be big or small, she was furious in the palace for the first time, and she was a little relieved until Xiao Jiangyuan returned early in a restless mood.

Xiao Jiangyuan heard that there was no trace of Li Longji in Xingqing Palace, so he directly took over the search. She didn't bring anyone, she walked out of the palace and walked to the gate of King Xue's mansion, and sure enough, she saw Li Longji sitting on the steps.

In the pouring rain, she came out in a hurry, she didn't bring an umbrella, but Li Longji didn't bring it either, so the two of them were drenched in the rain for a long time, and their clothes were soon soaked.

Li Longji was obviously in the rain longer than Xiao Jiangyuan, and his lips began to turn purple, and Xiao Jiangyuan didn't know what to say, so he opened such a mouth after thinking about it.

Li Longji said in a deep voice: "I don't need to ...... anyone"

The mausoleums of emperors in the past dynasties have countless burial tombs of relatives and courtiers, but in his opinion, whether it is a concubine or a princess, they have been tied up all their lives before their deaths, so why should they continue to be entangled after death, and they will never be at peace?

Xiao Jiangyuan knelt down and sat in front of Li Longji: "That...... What about the ministers? ”

Li Longji slowly raised his head, only to see Xiao Jiangyuan staring at him seriously. Droplets of water kept sliding down her face, rain or tears. He stretched out his hand, caressed her cheek, was silent for a long time, and suddenly the corners of his lips hooked: "You serve me on weekdays, you are tired enough, don't you want to rest after death?" ”

"Of course the minister wants to, but the minister can't let everyone be alone."