The army of more than 100,000 dragged back to the imperial city with slow and tired steps, and along the way the sand and dust were billowing and sleeping in the open air, and everyone had a sad face on their faces.

Emperor Weiwu took the wind and cold, and in the depths of his heart, he couldn't let go of the defeat, regardless of the queen's dissuasion, and after coming back, he drank a lot of special drinks, and finally fell heavily on the bed.

When Ye Mei saw the mighty emperor, he had already become an aging man, his original black hair had grown a lot of gray hair, his back was stiff, and he still saw bloated places on his body, which was frostbite.

Ye Mei put the carbon fire in the hall, it was not very cold in the rejuvenation season, but the emperor replied that he was sick and asked for a carbon fire, and he still had a fever, so he sat up in front of others, and held on to Qingming.

"It's been almost a month, why hasn't the emperor's illness recovered yet?" A maid whispered to the maid standing next to her.

"Don't talk, you just transferred, don't you want to die?" The maid next to him said.

"What are you afraid of, Xiao Meizi didn't go in, and she couldn't hear it."

"Remember the rules, my sister can't protect you if you make a mistake."

"Do you think Xiao Meizi will ...... step?"

"Shut up."

……

"Come here and help me up." The mighty emperor beckoned to Ye Mei, his voice was sickly hoarse, with the majesty of an emperor.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Ye Mei walked over and helped the emperor up, he sat hard at the head of the bed and looked at the side, looking at the sunlight through the window and said.

"When I left the dynasty to crusade against the enemy, the sun didn't even come out! Unexpectedly, I was full of confidence to lead an army of 300,000 to the enemy, and I actually broke half of my men and horses, cough cough ......"

"The emperor is the true dragon son of heaven, and this expedition is just a matter of heaven." Ye Mei said halfway to the bed.

"This heavy snow has damaged hundreds of thousands of good men in my Haoyue Dynasty!!" The Mighty Emperor slammed his hand on the bed hard.

Ye Mei lowered her head and listened to the mighty emperor continue.

"If I go on another expedition, I will definitely take down the leader of the enemy country with my own hands, cough cough cough... I want to go out again to crusade against the enemy country, let the enemy country know the Haoyue Dynasty's great son's ability, let them be frightened, cough ......cough violently in the excitement of the mighty emperor said.

"The emperor is wise." Ye Mei said respectfully that after a maid before her euphemistically proposed to let the emperor take care of his body and be pulled out, Ye Mei did not mention this topic.

"I..., cough, I must... Ahem... Take it, take the enemy country. The Mighty Emperor said this intermittently and lay down on the bed, and Ye Mei respectfully retreated.

The maids saw Ye Mei come out unscathed, did not speak, and listened to the intermittent coughing sound from inside, everyone was cautious, the king was wise, and at the same time he had a temper, and the king who accompanied the king was like a tiger, and the king who was sick began to become sensitive, and he was sick for more than a month, not that the imperial doctor was incompetent, but that the emperor was in repeated moods, and he was addicted to alcohol, and the illness was getting worse and worse, and the illness came like a mountain.

Ye Mei looked at the anxious prince, the sad queen, and even Princess Mingru came to visit the emperor.

When she saw Princess Mingru, Ye Mei was taken aback, Princess Mingru looked bright and lively before, and she was not afraid of heaven and earth, but this time she was indeed a lot haggard.

Princess Mingru smiled when she saw Ye Mei, she didn't go in to see her father, she just watched from the side, didn't speak, watched for a while before leaving, didn't disturb the mighty emperor, and pulled Ye Mei out when she left.

"Ye Mei, I'm sorry, I broke my promise, I can't take you out of the palace, you won't blame me, right?" Princess Mingru said.

"What did the princess say, it is Ye Mei's blessing to be remembered by the princess, how can you blame the princess?" Ye Mei said in a flat tone, the princess used 'me', she didn't use the identity of the princess, she was a friend, and Ye Mei was not polite.

"Actually, I went to look for you that day." Princess Mingru said: "My sister said that you can't come out, you have committed something, I want to go to the imperial study to find you, and ask my father to forgive your sins, and then my mother came out, my mother knows, right?" She is one of the four concubines of my father's favorite concubine, she asked me not to go, she hugged me to the death and didn't let me go, she cried, she said like her sister that my father is no longer the father he used to be, he doesn't love me anymore. ”

Princess Mingru recalled, and two tears flowed out.

"I don't believe it, my father who once loved me so much will be gone, I pushed them away and ran out, I didn't see them hugging each other and crying, I knew they were crying, but I still didn't believe it, I ran to the door of the imperial study, thanks to the previous father's favor to me, only I don't need to report wherever I go, I have the right to rush in directly, like today, I don't have the right to report, I heard my most beloved father at the door of the imperial study to marry me to the outer country as a queen, When I am sixteen years old, I will travel far away, and I will not be able to return to the land of the Haoyue Dynasty for the rest of my life. ”

"Hahaha......" Princess Mingru laughed and laughed and tears faster, and she suppressed her laughter: "I don't even have the courage to open the door and ask in person, but the funny thing is that I still enjoy all the privileges that my father promised me when he favored me." ”

"The favor is gone, what's the use of these privileges?" Princess Mingru asked but didn't need an answer: "I walked back in despair, along the way I was thinking, my sister is right, she stopped me from getting into trouble at will, and it was right not to let me mess around, if I hadn't listened to her, my privileges would have long since disappeared, I thought I could do nothing after I went back, I didn't know anything, but when I saw my mother and sister hugging each other in pain, I didn't want to cry, but I couldn't control it, my sister cried very sadly when she married a concubine, I can finally understand why she cried so sadly, we didn't have a choice, ever. ”

"Princess, you've grown up." Ye Mei looked at Princess Mingru and said softly: "Since you are a princess, you should assume the duties of a princess, and rights and obligations are relative. ”

"But no one has ever asked me if I want to be this princess, I don't want to be, I don't want to be like my sister." Princess Mingru said, her face flushed with excitement.

"You are a princess, no one can change the fact, but princess, do you hate the emperor?" Ye Mei asked.

Princess Mingru stopped talking, and the coughing sound from the hall couldn't reach where Ye Mei and the others were, but Ye Mei felt that Princess Mingru could hear the coughing sound inside, she was listening to the coughing sound inside, and through the layers of barriers, she could see her father who was suffering from illness inside, and calmed down and said.

"I don't hate him, I love him, but the premise of my love for him is that he loves me as much as I love him, so I love him, he doesn't love me anymore, and I don't want to love him."

"Princess, you're still as straightforward as ever." Ye Mei said: "How do you know that the emperor doesn't love you?" He married you far away, you are still a queen, the place is far away, it is remote, it is barren, but to tell you the truth, princess, you are happier than most women, you are a person who has always been on the pyramid, you have never seen real despair to say so, you can't understand the struggle of ordinary people to survive as a princess. ”

"I wasn't like this before, I don't hate my father for marrying me far away, other princesses have married far away, but why me, all the palace people, including me, think that my father's favor on me will not marry me far away, and marry so far, how can my father still see me, we have always thought that my father is reluctant to me, when I was a child, he liked to hold me the most, gave me a lot of privileges, even the queen did not have privileges, we thought it would go on like this, but now the privileges are still there, but he has changed, since sooner or later it will change, Why did you treat me so well before, so good that I thought I was different, the youngest daughter of my father's favorite emperor, everyone thought so, he made me think for so long, why did I find out that all this was just my self-righteousness. ”

"Princess, accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, in fact, the princess is already very lucky, at least you have really felt the emperor's unique love for you, even if it is just a flash in the pan, it is a blessing that others can't cultivate in several lifetimes." Ye Mei comforted.

"If you were me, would you accept it?" Princess Mingru looked at Ye Mei, her previously lively and cheerful appearance had become haggard, her eyes were red from crying, and there were bags under her eyes, which was not good-looking.

Ye Mei sighed: "I'm not you, I don't know, but what I do know is that if you don't go in to visit your father and tell him what is in your heart today, you will regret it for the rest of your life, go ahead, ask everything you want to ask!" So as not to leave regrets. ”

"I don't want to look at him, what he needs is not me." Princess Mingru wiped the corners of her eyes clean and said in a firm tone.

"Princess, are you sure? Time doesn't turn back, sometimes if you miss it, you won't have a chance, no, I said it wrong, I'm just afraid that the princess will regret it. ”

"I'm not going in today, in a few days." Princess Mingru said that she cried like this so that she didn't let him see it!

"Whatever you want, princess." Ye Mei said, sent Princess Mingru out, Princess Mingru gave the bracelet on her hand to Ye Mei, Ye Mei couldn't push it and accepted it, looking at the back of Princess Mingru leaving with her maids.

Being in the game, I can't see what I should do, I want everything, etc., and the things in the world are what you want to wait.

A few days later, Princess Mingru didn't come, maybe she hadn't let go yet, and she didn't have the courage to know the answer, in short, she didn't appear, this is a fact that no one can change.

One day half a month later, the mighty emperor stood up with a radiant face, and threatened to issue an order to recruit 300,000 troops, march into the enemy country, and take the enemy country in one fell swoop.

The enemy country is separated from the Haoyue Dynasty by a sea distance, and the practice of taking the enemy country down shocked the hundred officials, and even the enemy country has never thought of occupying a mile of the Haoyue Dynasty, they really have no crops in winter to send troops to plunder the marginal property, you can imagine how unrealistic this idea is.

Before anyone could object, the mighty emperor who put on his armor himself fell, silently, and slept forever.

Even the crown prince Hao Xiaofeng didn't realize what was happening, obviously the emperor who was still energetic and talking arrogantly a moment ago fell unconscious in a blink of an eye, and the imperial doctor completely lost his breath before he arrived.

The era of the mighty emperor passed, the heavy bell rang, the whole palace was pressed by dark clouds, everyone was breathless, depressed, painful, and finally, permeated with a cry.