Prince Rong saw the abnormality of Concubine Dong'an, turned around, and finally saw the emperor who he hadn't seen for a long time. The red face was densely covered with countless abscesses, and the placket of the bright yellow robe was sticking to the filthy blood that had broken pus. The face that used to be like a knife is now as hideous and dirty as a ghost.

The relatives and nobles of the clan recognized at a glance that this was 'red face herpes' and couldn't help but step back a lot. Even Prince Yi, who was screaming, didn't dare to joke with his own life.

"Concubine, don't you want to see me?"

"Your Majesty! This palace thought that you were under house arrest by Zhang Xiuting, so I came to rescue you! This is also the line of Concubine Dong'an inciting everyone.

"You saw me, you saw me like this." The emperor obviously couldn't even stand on his feet, staggered, and held on to the gilded red gate beside him. The outstretched hands were also stained with blood, and there was not an inch of good flesh and skin.

Prince Rong didn't care much, threw down the sword in his hand, and stepped forward to support the emperor. Zhang Xiuting's eyes were quick, so he hurriedly ran over, squeezed between the two, and squeezed Prince Rong to personally support the emperor.

Zhang Xiuting didn't want to pat himself on the back, but wanted to protect Prince Quanrong.

Prince Rong understood Zhang Xiuting's kindness and insisted on stepping forward to support the trembling emperor. The emperor took out his hand, put his arm in Prince Rong's hand, used all his strength, and said to Concubine Dong'an: "Since you have seen it, let's go back." ”

How could Concubine Dong'an stop there? If one plan fails, another plan will come up. I made a list of all the reasons in my mind, and then I chose the one that was most beneficial to me and said it. This is the reason why she incited the formation of a party for personal gain.

"Your Majesty, the country can't be without heirs for a day, you are not happy now, you should put state affairs first, establish the emperor's eldest son as soon as possible, and take the heart of the minister of the imperial court."

After Concubine Dong'an finished speaking, she glanced at Prince Yi, Prince Yi understood, and also wiped her tears and said: "Your Majesty, I haven't seen you for more than a month, why are you so sick......"

Without waiting for Prince Yi to finish speaking, the emperor decisively interrupted and said, "Eighth uncle, go back!" I know what you said, and in a few days, when I feel a little better, I will ask you to come and talk about it! ”

"Your Majesty, this matter can't be delayed any longer! You are sick and don't know what is going on outside, so hurry up and appoint the eldest son of the emperor to stabilize the overall situation. Seeing that the emperor could not refute this reason, Prince Yi grabbed it and continued to force the emperor to make the emperor's eldest son.

Zhang Xiuting pointed at Prince Yi with a look of disgust and said, "Prince Yi, the emperor said that he would discuss it in a few days, if you don't give up like this, can't you wait a few days?" ”

Concubine Dong'an knew in her heart that the emperor was waiting for the 130,000 cronies in the northwest to come back to support. Half a month ago, he had intercepted the 800-mile expedited sent by the emperor to Western Xinjiang.

Half a month ago, the emperor's 800-mile urgency had already been stopped by the Longmen Post in the Gyeonggi Prefecture before he left the capital.

Not only that, Fu Yixing, the political history of Longxi Buzheng who directly supplied the food and grass of the Western Expedition, had been assassinated by the killer sent by the king of Dong'an County four days ago, and the secret report of the killer this morning had been sent to the Dong'an Palace.

The emperor's long-awaited army of the Western Expedition is now stuck outside the plug, like a tiger with chains, unable to move. What is even more imminent is that Concubine Dong'an provoked the relationship between the emperor and the army of the Western Expedition, and the supply of the army in the summer has not yet been received. The 400 miles urging the military rations were expedited one a day, and the coefficient was intercepted by Longmen Station.

Without grain and grass, even if you wave your troops into the customs, you won't be able to walk for a few days.

What's more, all the news in Beijing is now hidden from the west. They thought that the DPRK and China were peaceful, so why did they delay the distribution of military rations?

"Is the emperor waiting for the Western Expeditionary Army to return to Beijing?" Concubine Dong'an used the most bizarre tone to provoke the emperor's fragile breath.

Sure enough, hearing these words, the emperor's body shook, if it weren't for Zhang Xiuting and Prince Rong holding him up, I'm afraid he would have collapsed on the ground.

The emperor slowed down for a long time, and finally spit out a few words: "The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics!" Concubine Dong'an step down! ”

Concubine Dong'an didn't bring the king of Dong'an to come today, which is really a failure among failures. It's not that Concubine Dong'an is unwilling, but that the son who is not angry is afraid of death, and he is unwilling to approach the emperor when he dies, so she can only let this woman come forward.

The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics. These words made Concubine Dong'an unable to refute. She can only give her friend Prince Yi a look.

"Your Majesty, talking about the eldest son of the emperor is a family matter, and the concubine ......"

"Shut up!" The emperor interrupted directly without waiting for Prince Yi to finish speaking, and then said to the imperial guards: "Take down Prince Yi, lock him up in the Zongren Mansion, and be banned for life!" ”

A cadre of clan relatives was already frightened and his legs were weak, and he quickly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" ”

"Go back, I don't want to pursue you, and I don't want to see you!"

"Your Majesty, you don't want to see us, but now that you are terminally ill, and there is still no candidate for the emperor's eldest son, you are so irresponsible, it will inevitably cause turmoil in the DPRK and China!"

The emperor was already angry, and said weakly: "The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics!" Drive out Concubine Dong'an! Then he said to the two hundred guards brought by Concubine Dong'an: "I am not guilty of the past, you can take her away!" ”

Everyone was caught off guard, Zhang Xiuting pulled out the long knife worn by the guards next to him, and Concubine Dong'an had already noticed something strange and hid behind a guard. shouted: "Zhang Xiuting wants to assassinate the palace, Zhang Xiuting wants to assassinate the palace." ”

More than 50 guards surrounded the concubine of Dong'an, Zhang Xiuting couldn't do it for a while, grabbed the emperor's arm, put it to his ear and whispered: "Your Majesty can't let the tiger return to the mountain, correct the law on the spot, correct the law on the spot!" ”

Prince Rong and Zhang Xiuting coincided, and before they could speak, they saw that Concubine Dong'an had realized that the situation was not good, and said to the two hundred guards: "Escort the palace to leave the palace, hurry up and escort the palace to leave the palace!" ”

A group of people scattered like birds and beasts.

"Your Majesty, letting this woman go is undoubtedly letting the tiger return to the mountain, hurry up and stop it!"

The emperor shook his head weakly, and said weakly: "If you kill her, you can't even have this quiet tonight." ”

When the emperor said this, Prince Rong and Zhang Xiuting were very sad. is also at stake, and there is indeed a difference between killing her and not killing her.

At this moment, if the concubine of Dong'an is killed, the king of Dong'an will definitely respond overnight and force the palace to rebel. When the time comes, the two sides will be fighting to the death.

And let Concubine Dong'an leave the palace in a panic, she must discuss the plan to force the palace when she goes back, even if she makes a comeback, the palace gate is under the key, and she can only sit and wait for dawn.

Prince Rong and Zhang Xiuting watched a small sedan chair in the crowd fly out of Zichen Gate like crazy, and their hearts were like the night that had just fallen, and they couldn't get up again.

"Zhang Qing, if the secret letter reaches the west, it should be replied to the day before yesterday. It is estimated that I didn't even run out of the capital boundary in the 800-mile expedited ...... Don't wait any longer. ”

"Your Majesty, if you don't draw up another secret letter, the minister will find a reliable person and send it to the western frontier day and night."

The emperor shook his head weakly, helped the two into the palace, and the emperor grabbed Zhang Xiuting's sleeve and said: "There are many mountains and valleys in Western Xinjiang, and it takes ten days to rush eight hundred miles, and it takes twenty days to come and go." Can we wait 20 days for the current situation? ”

"Your Majesty, do you want to send an expedited one to Fujian?"

The emperor waved his hand, "Have you arranged all the edicts I asked you to send to the archives?" ”

Zhang Xiuting nodded, her face filled with endless sadness.

"Zhang Xiang, go back and see your family, I've been with me for more than a month."

"Your Majesty, the guards inside and outside the palace have changed, and the ministers will not toss blindly. The ministers are by His Majesty's side. ”

"You man! I want to say a few words to the sixth brother, you are here, what do I say? ”

Zhang Xiuting knew that the emperor was afraid that he would have to tell Prince Rong about the future, and the ninja said with tears in his eyes: "Your Majesty, the ministers will go outside the palace." The minister went outside the temple. ”

"Hey, I told you to leave earlier, but if you didn't leave, you can't get out now."

The tears in Zhang Xiuting's eyes couldn't hold back anymore, and poured down: "Your Majesty, the minister is a scholar, and he was able to serve on the emperor's side by Emperor Longen, and now His Majesty has difficulty telling the minister to leave, isn't it to let the minister be a rat, ant, pig and dog who steals peace?" ”

"Okay, okay, I'll say it, you have eight sentences waiting for me. Go and find a place to rest outside the temple for a while, everyone who should come is here, and it won't be tonight, you can rest for a while. I'll talk to Brother Six, you can step back first. ”

"Zhang Xiang, you go outside and rest for a while. The emperor has something to do, and this king calls you. ”

Zhang Xiuting wiped away her tears and closed the door of the palace.

Prince Rong helped the emperor into the dormitory, and suddenly saw an old man with a bright head, and before he could ask the reason, the emperor said, "Sir, let's go outside and rest for a while." ”

"Sixth brother, I'll show you something." The emperor pointed to the head of his bed, suddenly let go of Prince Rong's hand, and walked to the side of the bed by himself.

Prince Rong was simply stunned by the scene in front of him, the emperor, who was trembling just now, was able to walk upright in a blink of an eye, and effortlessly.

Prince Rong stood in place in a daze, and the emperor himself took out an edict pressed under the bright yellow pillow, handed it to Prince Rong, and said, "Sixth brother, open it and take a look!" ”

Prince Rong still couldn't believe the scene in front of him, opened the edict in his heart, and then hurriedly returned it to the emperor in fright, half-knelt on the ground and clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, are you going to distance yourself from me?" ”

The emperor pulled Prince Rong to sit directly on the cashmere carpet in the dormitory, spread out the edict in his hand, and placed it between the two.

Prince Rong sat cross-legged across from the emperor with a sad look on his face.

"Sixth brother, I'm tired. Don't want to be this emperor. ”

The huge Zichen Hall is lit by a candle behind the emperor. The halo reflected a silhouette from the side of the emperor's figure, which was his brother who had been with him for more than 20 years. But Prince Rong still couldn't believe the scene in front of him.

"Your Majesty, I see that your complexion is better than I imagined."

The emperor raised his head, hoarded the tears that were about to be left around his eyes, and muttered: "I have walked twice in the ghost gate, I am tired, and I don't want to be this emperor anymore." ”

"Your Majesty, you have to cheer up, my mother has asked Taiyuan Mansion to find the miracle doctor who can cure bean rash."

"Sixth brother, the old man just now is the miracle doctor you were looking for, Zhang Xiuting had quietly entered the palace half a month ago."

Prince Rong sprouted a light of hope in despair, put his arm around the emperor's shoulder, and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, you are still talking nonsense!" ”

Prince Rong shook this and used a little more strength, and he actually shook the suppressed tears in the emperor's eyes.

Two lines of crystal clear tears crossed the abscess-covered face, and suddenly two dirty tears hung on the emperor's face. Everywhere the tears went, a few filthy acne marks faded.

Prince Rong didn't care whether it was contagious or not, wiped the tears on the emperor's face with his hands, and wiped off a few pus-filled blood cells.

"Your Majesty, are your pox marks fake? You didn't catch the plague? ”

The light of hope in Prince Rong's heart has formed a trend of burning the prairies.

"Nine deaths and one life can be regarded as stealing a life from the hands of Lord Yama. The acne marks on the face are half true and half fake, and it is difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake. ”

"Your Majesty, since it has improved, why do you have to do this."

"I said, I'm tired and don't want to be this emperor anymore."

"Your Majesty, how can the king of a country give up easily?"

"Sixth brother, don't call me the emperor, call me seventh brother, just like when we were children, okay?"

"The Emperor's ......"

"Sixth brother, call me seventh brother."

"Seventh brother, I know that you have worked hard in the past ten years, and others say that being an emperor is to enjoy the wealth of the world, only I know that I have enjoyed the wealth of the world, and I have also suffered the suffering of the world."

"If you had known earlier, my brother would never have wanted my brother's five hares, and this throne would have been yours from my brother. It was my brother who snatched it from you. I robbed the crown prince because of my competitiveness, but I lost my own mother because of it, do you think I'm a fool? ”

"Your Majesty, after so many years, why do you think of this matter again?"

"Sixth brother, there is no one in the hall now, shall we talk about what is in our hearts?"

"Seventh brother, you have been sick for so long, let's not say these words."

"Sixth brother, in the past ten years, my younger brother's heart has been turning over and over for more than ten years. My brother figured it out and decided to give you back the throne! Back then, my father took five of us brothers to hunt, and judged our merits by the number of prey, so as to determine the position of the crown prince. The eldest brother is mediocre, the second brother is not parent-raised, and the third brother does not learn all day long; In fact, the father is also hesitating between you and me. My mother is so competitive, she has to fight for the position of the crown prince! The Queen Mother's mother feels sorry for you and would rather let you be a happy prince for the rest of your life. ”