Chapter Eighty-Four: Death
The sky was about to dawn, and the seriously injured King Fuling was left in the palace for emergency ambulance, and the wound was bandaged at this time, and the gauze with a little blood stains on his chest was exposed, although he was tired but not sleepy. All his details have been exposed by Jiang Qi, what will his father do with him?
It was he who colluded with Liang Hulu, and it was he who deliberately transferred King Liyang and Lu Jiajun away, because if they didn't leave, he couldn't do it. He deliberately instructed his ministers to participate in his relationship with the Xian clan, so that his father was not worried about him and would never send him to the expedition. As long as the Lu family army comes out, Liang Hulu and the Xian clan will not let them come back so easily, lose their troops and lose their generals, and they will be sent to death in vain.
Not loyal to his army, he doesn't want it.
The female priest of the Tianji Pavilion who entered the palace dressed as a eunuch hurriedly came.
"Your Highness, the young pavilion master has replied."
"Say."
"The letter from the Lord of the Young Pavilion said that the leader of the Blood Hand Alliance is the son of the Holy Maiden of Nanyue and the former King of Qi, Xiao Han. When Xiao Han was still the son of the world, he once sent an envoy to Nanyue and met the holy woman, and the two made a private agreement for life, agreeing to come to propose marriage after Xiao Han returned to China. Unexpectedly, after Xiao Han returned to China, he married someone else, and then lingered in love with men and women every day, and could not hold himself. In the next few years, Xiao Han became the king of Qi, and he was addicted to women and couldn't extricate himself, and finally gave up his life in vain between the beds. Everyone only said that Xiao Han died of a horse stroke, but they didn't know that he couldn't help himself, his absurdity was caused by Liang's drugging, not only his physical lust was hot, but also his intelligence was damaged, and even his death was poisoned by Liang's family, but he was disguised as a horse wind, and people were robbed of the throne unknowingly. ”
The breath of the king of Fuling was weak, and the woman saw him close her eyes, and called tentatively: "Your Highness? ”
"Go on."
"When the young pavilion master said that the Liang clan poisoned Xiao Han, Xiao Xuan and the Jiang family had a deep love affair for a long time, and they were planning to retreat with their beloved, but the throne was in front, and Xiao Xuan had to give up the idea of returning to Qi State."
"No wonder the Blood Hand Alliance wants to help her, the Liang clan is their common enemy."
"That's true. At that time, the Liang family was afraid of future troubles, so they pretended to pass on Xiao Han's edict and deceived the Holy Maiden of Nanyue and her son Hu Ali to come to the palace of Qi, intending to kill the killer and cut the grass and eradicate the roots. Something went wrong, Hu Ali was rescued by the Jiang daughter and sent out of the palace, Jiang Qi was not born at that time, but Hu Ali vowed to protect her for the rest of her life. ”
"A lifetime ......," King Fuling muttered to himself, both envious and unwilling, "Where is it so easy in a lifetime." What about her story? ”
She naturally refers to Jiang Qi.
"The young pavilion master doesn't know. The Young Pavilion Master and Buli have met a few times, but they have never seen Jiang Qi. I only know that Jiang Qi entered Eagle Eagle Mountain ten years ago, and went down the mountain five years ago, and has been deliberately low-key, if she hadn't come to Ruian this time to make trouble, I'm afraid the world would not know her ability. ”
"Wait a minute! Are you sure she lived on Eagle Eagle Mountain for five years? ”
"Sure. The young pavilion master said that he could not leave, and he personally said that the person he wanted to protect was on Eagle Vulture Mountain. His Royal Highness is not the Eagle Eagle Mountain that he entered ten years ago, maybe His Highness has seen Jiang Qi and I don't know. Your Highness, what's wrong with you? ”
The candlelight reflected the gray face of King Fuling, and he suddenly tightened the brocade quilt and threw off the bed angrily. New blood stains spread under the gauze, and he looked like he was about to cry.
"Your Highness, what's wrong?"
"Get out!" He thundered for no reason. Since he met Jiang Qi, he has been angry more and more.
The woman retreated in panic and collided with the eldest princess of Wangjing.
The latter still had the same clear demeanor as before, picked up the fallen brocade quilt, re-covered it for King Fuling, and tucked the corners of the quilt.
"Auntie ......" he grabbed her hand and buried his face in her palm, like when he was a child.
"Entropy, what's going on?"
"I've met Jiang Qi, I saw her on Eagle Eagle Mountain ten years ago. I just forgot, I just didn't expect it to be her, I always thought she was from the Southwest......" he said sullenly, reluctant to look up.
"What should I be, didn't you think about it a long time ago? You child, you came back from Eagle Vulture Mountain that year, and said you had seen a girl. I'll tell you, maybe you'll see you again sooner or later, and I'm afraid you won't recognize you when the time comes. Okay, what's the matter, let it pass. ”
Under the comfort of the eldest princess, King Fuling gradually felt a lot more comfortable, he lost his mother early, but he got a lot of love from the eldest princess.
"How's my father?"
"Your father, it's all right. Silly boy, what you have to worry about is yourself......" She raised the corners of her eyes with a deep meaning, if Emperor Qingli wanted to pursue it, King Fuling would definitely not be able to run away.
He squeezed her hand tightly, and his watery eyes were sincere: "Auntie, you promised to save Entropy." ”
Her loving smile reassured: "Don't worry, my aunt and grandmother said that I would accompany you to fight for the world." ”
With this promise, Dawei's throne is about to be replaced.
The time was approaching, and Emperor Qingli, who thought it was difficult to sleep, fell asleep with a wide heart. In his dream, he saw what happened twenty years ago. That night, the Lin family entered the palace to celebrate the full moon of the prince, and when they were drunk, they were caught off guard by his ambush soldiers.
It was also in the early morning that he ordered Lin Wan to be deprived of the queen's position and sent to the cold palace, and Lin Wan calmly accepted the order with the sleeping Zhao Entropy in his arms. Her father and brother were killed, her family was destroyed, she saw the end from beginning to end, and after the initial pleas and obstacles, she never shed a single tear.
He didn't expect that the arrogant she was determined to die from the moment she saw her relatives being killed.
The white silk floated and floated, she hung herself on the white silk, the shadow of the corpse shook off one by one, and her son fell asleep quietly on the couch......
The candlelight was blocked, and a figure came to him, could it be that the ghost of the evening was looking for him......
"Late ......"
Emperor Qingli woke up covered in sweat and found that it was not the ghost who came, but the figure in front of the bed blocking the wax light.
The face of the eldest princess of Wangjing has the effect of reassuring people's hearts, peaceful and quiet.
"Auntie?"
"I've brought medicine to Your Majesty. Did Your Majesty dream late? ”
Emperor Qingli covered his eyes to hide the guilt in his heart.
"I don't want her to die, I want to save her. The Lin family is powerful, and if it is not eliminated, Dawei cannot have a second Jiang family. I didn't let her have a son because I wanted to grow old with her, but she didn't listen, but she wanted a son......"
"Women always want to have a child for the man they love. Your Majesty, it's not late to blame. ”
"Isn't it weird! The Lin father and son were aggressive, and when the prince was born, they formed a party with the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty to force me to establish the crown prince, and the intention of the relatives to usurp power was clearly revealed. ”
"So Your Majesty had no choice but to pretend to be crowned the crown prince on the day of the full moon, and unexpectedly killed the Lin family." The eldest princess of Wangjing sighed, "Your Majesty, it's over, there's no need to mention it again." ”
"But Entropy hates me! I always thought that this child was kind and cowardly, but today I know that he is full of hatred to kill my prince and grandson. ”
"Your Majesty, Entropy doesn't hate you, if he does, how can he repay your heart's blood for you. He's gone for half a life, and he doesn't know when he'll wake up. Iniquity......"
The sadness of the eldest princess of Wangjing was contagious to Emperor Qingli, and after being silent for a while, he sighed: "This child is like me." ”
"Yes! I have raised him for 20 years, and the more he looks at his temper and temperament, the more he looks like His Majesty. ”
These words aroused the guilt of Emperor Qingli: "If it weren't for the first emperor, my aunt would not be lonely in this life, and no one would be happy." I know that my aunt likes her late children, and her later children are like my aunt when she was young. ”
Thinking of that delicate and willful woman, the eldest princess of Wangjing showed a warm smile.
"It's like. But the late son is better than my life, she has a high ancestor to marry, His Majesty thinks about her, and a good son who is filial. The only pity is that I didn't have the opportunity to see my son grow up. ”
"It's that I can't live with her."
The eldest princess's hand stirring the medicine bowl paused, but she still spoke: "Your Majesty, it's time to drink the medicine." ”
Emperor Qingli drank the medicine and felt that drowsiness hit again. "Auntie, talk to me for a while."
"What does Your Majesty want to say?"
He asked the question that Pan Huan had been thinking about for forty years.
"Back then, Gaozu ignored the stability of the Dawei Jiangshan Sheji, connived at his aunt to rob the married man, and broke with Jiang Tai at the expense of killing the Qi family, was it because of jealousy?"
The eldest princess smiled bitterly.
"Your Majesty, don't you understand very well, and you have to ask knowingly. Gaozu admired the Qi family, so he was naturally crazy and jealous of Jiang Tai because of love. Not only Gaozu, but all men in the world love Qi, but Qi loves Jiangtai alone. Gaozu couldn't snatch the courtier's wife openly, so he had to connive at me to rob Jiang Tai, and even Gao Zu secretly sent a lot of women to Jiang Tai, but no one could successfully seduce Jiang Tai. In the end, Gao Zu was disheartened, so he had to take advantage of Jiang Tai's absence in Beijing to let me trick Qi into the palace, wanting to hide her in the palace in the name of her fake death, so that she could be given a title at another time in the future. ”
But Qi would rather die, even if Gaozu promised to courtship face-to-face in the future, she was ruthlessly refused. Gaozu was furious, and he was still reluctant to kill her, but in order to preserve the throne, your mother deliberately leaked the news of the Qi family, and there was a lot of discussion inside and outside the capital. In order to protect the reputation of Gaozu, the empress dowager decided to kill the Qi family to quell the disaster, which caused Jiang Tai to return to Beijing in a hurry, and he did not hesitate to enter the palace to save his wife in the name of rebellion......
Emperor Qingli's eyelids were so heavy that he fought, and after trying in vain a few times, he was still sleepy and couldn't open them, so he simply closed his eyes and spoke.
"A wise monarch like Gaozu also has times when he is confused. Troubled water, troubled water. If it weren't for a woman, Gaozu would not have blamed Jiang Tai, Dawei would have no such civil strife, and the monarchs and ministers would have ruled the world long ago. ”
"For the sake of beauty, regardless of the country, Gaozu is stupid! And my second brother, your uncle King Jing, the emperor's younger brother back then, is above 10,000 people under one person, what a beautiful scenery. It's a pity that he only wants to find the Qi family, and he doesn't even want the big position. If it weren't for the fact that he loved beauty and didn't love the country, it wouldn't be your turn to succeed to the throne. ”
Such a royal secret, only this aunt and nephew can chat casually.
"What my aunt said is extremely true, so I didn't want to follow in the footsteps of my ancestors back then, and it was imperative to get rid of the Lin family, so I had to be sorry for the late son."
Lin Wan, a girl he didn't appreciate when he was young, but the latecomer came first, and occupied his whole heart with the brutality of daring to love and hate. She is the love of his life, not the Lu family who swore by the mountains and seas when he was young.
"Your Majesty, don't blame yourself anymore, you are a good emperor, you really liked the late child back then, how can my aunt not know. You don't let her get pregnant for her good, as long as she has no children, she can continue to live, and the Lin family will not do it. But you don't know, women are willing to fight for their lives to leave blood for their loved ones. Speaking of which, I am also responsible for the death of the late child. My mother's mother died young, and she recognized me as her mother and begged me to help her have a child. I relented for a moment and called for a miracle doctor for her...... Otherwise, Wan'er would definitely be alive and well, and the Lin family would not be full of beheadings. ”
Therefore, what she owes Lin Wan must be returned to Lin Wan's son.
"Auntie, I'm sorry for my late son, and I'm sorry for Lu Yan, treat the Lu family well for me."
The eldest princess's fingers trembled, and on her excellent face, there were wrinkles that were not dense, but they were tightly frowning together at the moment.
"Your Majesty......"
"Auntie, I haven't been standing because I'm afraid that there will be a son-in-law competing for the throne after I stand up, and I don't want to treat Entropy badly."
The sky was bright, and the cold wind passed through the brocade tent, stirring the eldest princess's hair and cooling the tears on her face.
"Your Majesty, you are a good father."
"Auntie, thank you for protecting Entropy for so many years. Auntie, I'm sleepy. Emperor Qingli's voice became lower and lower, more and more inaudible, until it was silent.
"Sleep, Your Majesty."
Emperor Qingli's eyelids closed and never opened again.
In the forty-second year of Dawei, in winter, Emperor Qingli died without illness.