Chapter 9: Undercurrents (3)

There is a saying that illness comes like a mountain, and illness goes like a thread.

Another three full days passed, and Guo Wei's body slowly improved under the careful care of Yang Shufei, but his mental head was far less adequate than before. As long as I sit for half an hour every day, I start to be drowsy again. The appetite when eating is getting worse and worse.

The imperial doctors did not dare to give the emperor too strong medicine, but only advised him to eat more and eat less. In other words, when you have the spirit and appetite, just take a few bites, and when you don't want to eat, don't force it. In this way, Guo Wei, who was already a little emaciated, became more and more disfigured.

"Concubine Shu, in recent times, even you have suffered. On the afternoon of the fourth day after waking up, Guo Wei drank a bowl of ginseng soup. Leaning on the bed, looking at Yang Shufei, whose sideburns suddenly leaked white hair, she suddenly sighed in a low voice.

"Your Majesty, what do you say about this? Isn't it all right for the concubines to do for you? Even if you change to the people, there is no reason for your own man to be sick and his wife to ignore it?" Yang Shufei took Guo Wei's hand, her smile was full of tiredness and worry, "Now the concubine is just hoping that the emperor can recover as soon as possible." Get out and meet the sun as soon as possible. In that way, even if the concubine is hard and tired, her heart will be more steady!"

"Yes, we are also old husbands and wives. "Guo Wei slept for most of the day today, and at this moment, he was finally lifted up by the ginseng soup. He smiled and whispered. "Alas, the days go by so fast! It's like in the blink of an eye, how many years have passed. ”

Once upon a time, I was drinking with a group of old brothers in the army, and three or five jars were not a problem at all, even if I was drunk, I could still wear perseverance and charge into battle the next day. And now, an overdose has left him in bed for days.

"Your Majesty is busy with government affairs all day, and of course the days go by quickly. Yang Shufei heard the unwillingness in Guo Wei's words, lest he remember the past when his family was slaughtered again, so she hurriedly looked left and right and said to him, "If it is in the people, life will be much slower." When the concubines were at home, they finished harvesting silk in the spring, and they looked forward to harvesting the millet in the beginning of autumn day by day. When the grain is in the warehouse, I look forward to the New Year. During the Chinese New Year, you can buy new clothes, new shoes, meet adults in a good mood, or have a good year, you can also buy a pair of bracelets or hairpins! Although they are all tin, only a layer of copper water is plated on the surface, but it looks like it is shining, and it also feels so happy. ”

"Look at what you said, your family is not an ordinary person, why is there a lack of a pair of gold bracelets for you?

"That's different, I'm a daughter. Born with a foreign surname, the family's money has to be left to the elder brother and younger brother. Therefore, when the sister-in-law enters the door, she can buy a gold bracelet. And I'm destined to lose money, so it's good to have a tin bracelet plated with copper water!" Purely wanting to distract Guo Wei's attention, Yang Guifei deliberately pretended to be full of envy and slowly added. "It wasn't until later that my brother and sister-in-law really felt guilty that they secretly stuffed me with a gold one while my grandmother wasn't paying attention. As a result, I didn't dare to wear it, so I had to hide it under the box and take it out at night when no one was around. ”

"The more you talk about it, the more miserable it becomes, be careful that my Lord Taishan comes to the palace to settle accounts with you!" couldn't bear to live up to his wife's hard work, Guo Wei deliberately pretended to be amused, pouted and shook his head. "However, Brother Ling is indeed a kind person. How's he doing? It looks like he hasn't been to Bianliang for a long time!"

"The concubine doesn't know how he's doing, he's very careless, and he doesn't know how to send someone to send a letter to the concubine!" Yang Shufei shook her head and complained a little frustratedly, "Maybe it's also busy with official business, his person is not an official at all." His Majesty should not have promoted him in the first place. ”

"What kind of exception is the small official with the size of sesame mung bean?" Guo Wei reached out and grabbed Yang Shufei's hand, patted it, and said with a smile, "The eldest brother may not be strong, but it is rare to be serious and willing to work." You don't have to worry about him, with his character, in the locality, he will never rely on his identity to do something pretending to be a fox, so that you can't get off the stage in the end!"

"I hope so!. Yang Shufei held Guo Wei's hand, sighed softly, and said in a low voice.

"Even if you do, you won't be left unmanaged. Seeing that she was a little distracted, Guo Wei smiled and comforted, "Don't worry, Chang Kegong's guy looks confused on the surface, and he is doing things carefully." Your brother is under him, it's not easy to make mistakes!"

When the words fell, he suddenly remembered that it had been a long time since he heard from his old brother Chang Si. couldn't help frowning, and asked in a low voice, "Recently, Chang Sike has been sent over, and his station is next to the pseudo-Han, don't let Liu Chong get a chance!"

"No, there are only a few excerpts sent to the palace every day. The concubines are all placed on the bedside for the emperor!" Yang Shufei thought for a while and smiled with a smile.

Turning his head at her signal, Guo Wei saw more than a dozen folds on the small table next to the bed. Most of them have been reviewed by him in the past few days, and they have not yet been sent back to the Privy Council in time. There are also a few copies that were newly sent to the palace when he was sleeping today, and they look light and thin, and obviously there will be nothing worth caring about.

Still, he didn't want to waste his time. Struggling to sit up straight, he whispered a command. "Help me bring it, I can take advantage of my soberness today, and I can cope with the errand anyway!"

"Hmm!" Concubine Yang agreed softly, got up and held the unapproved recital fold to the head of the bed with both hands, "It shouldn't be anything important, otherwise, the Privy Council and the Monk Book Province will make a special mark!"

"It's okay!" Guo Wei grabbed the folds and quickly flipped through them one by one. Before he fell ill, he was tired and tired every day, and he couldn't finish government affairs. Suddenly, there was less than a tenth of the original amount left, which made it really difficult for him to get used to it.

Sure enough, there was no big deal, from west to east, from south to north, it was peaceful. Good signs have appeared one after another in all parts of the country, the officials are honest, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the people of Liao seem to have suddenly changed their temperament.

If Liu Chengyou saw this situation, he would definitely be happy on the spot, and then ordered a banquet to be held in the palace to celebrate. However, after all, Guo Wei is an old Jianghu who has served several local festival envoys, and when he was a little serious, he felt that the situation was very wrong. He frowned, and asked with a smile: "Is that all?" It seems that as soon as I get sick, the country and the people will be safe." If I had known this, I should have been sick a few more times!"

"Your Majesty, don't say that!" Yang Guifei was taken aback, and quickly reached out to cover Guo Wei's mouth. stretched out his hand halfway, but remembered that the other party was Da Zhou Tianzi, and he was not an ordinary folk couple. Suddenly, his body stiffened, and he added in a low voice with tears in his eyes, "Your Majesty, how can Your Majesty curse yourself like this." There are few twists and turns, because the Privy Council is worried that your dragon is not in good health, so it was deliberately not sent to the palace. Your Majesty, Your Majesty, how are you ......?"

"Alright, I know. Who made the decision to keep the fold and not give it to me Yulan?" Guo Wei's heart twitched, and his face suddenly became gloomy as water.

"Concubine, concubine doesn't know very well. Yang Guifei was originally timid, but seeing that he seemed to be really angry, she became more and more incompatible, "The concubine has never had the heart to ask about this, and the concubine also knows that His Majesty doesn't like the concubine to ask about this." Therefore, how much is sent in from outside, the concubines can only accept as much as they can for His Majesty. ”

"Okay, I know!" Hearing this, Guo Wei felt even more unsteady, waved his hand impatiently, and commanded in a low voice, "You don't have to cry, I don't blame you." I never expected to suddenly become so sick. You're tired these days, so go down and rest for a while. By the way, by the way, I called Li Fu in. ”

"Yes, the concubine obeys!" Yang Guifei raised her hand to wipe her tears and slowly got up. But he refused to leave immediately, but hesitated for a moment, lowered his head again, and replied in a very small voice, "Your Majesty, Li Fu has been expelled from the palace! The newly selected eunuch leader surnamed Lin is the original imperial horse eunuch official. ”

Guo Wei's eyebrows quickly raised, like two upside-down steel knives. "What? Li Fu was expelled from the palace, who expelled him, why don't I know?"

"Yes, it's the king's privy. Yang Guifei was so frightened that she shuddered, lowered her head, and her lips almost touched Guo Wei's ears, "The concubine is also unwilling, I want to wait until Your Majesty wakes up." But on the night that His Majesty fainted, Wang Shumi's secret learned that it was Li Fu who had added wine to His Majesty, so he ordered someone to expel him from the palace. The concubine once dissuaded him, but the king said that it was a matter of His Majesty's safety, this was a state matter, and he had the right to call the shots!"

"Oh, that's it!" Guo Wei's face suddenly became sunny again. The tone of his voice is not as sharp as before. It's just that in his eyes, the light inadvertently revealed, but with a piercing coldness. "Forget it. Xiufeng's words also make sense. By the way, the two of them haven't had any conflicts lately, right?"

Hearing that Guo Wei automatically changed the topic again, Yang Shufei quickly wiped her eyes and shook her head with a smile: "These two children always love to mess around, and I haven't heard anything about the two of them recently." Oh, I also came to see the emperor at noon today, and the old mountain ginseng used in the ginseng soup in the afternoon was also offered by him. But the emperor was still sleeping at that time, and the concubine didn't dare to wake you up. ”

"Oh!" Guo Wei smiled and nodded slightly.

Baoyi is his fourth son-in-law, the cousin of Zhang Yongde, the Marquis of Yu in front of the palace. Since this person can still enter and leave the palace, it means that the army in front of the palace has not been completely controlled by others. The safety of him and Yang Guifei will not be a problem for the time being.

However, the current situation is obviously much more serious than it was three days ago. If he continues to delay like this, I am afraid that before he recovers from his illness, the overall situation will be completely controlled by Wang Jun and others. But now he got up and confronted Wang Jun and others, and he was powerless.

The old brothers are not good at stubble, and if they want to take back all their power without a trace, and not provoke a backlash from each other, the scale must be strictly grasped. I am afraid that the slightest mistake is two completely different results. even let the blood flow in Bianliang City.

As a founding emperor, Guo Wei's intuition has already made his heart ring.

The eunuch who served him personally was expelled from the palace without his consent. The folds sent into the palace have been less than one percent of what they normally do. As half of the master of the harem, Yang Guifei actually went to taste the meals and all the soup for herself, served her own diet and daily life with her own hands, and was sick for so many days, and only Wang Jun, Li Chongjin, Zhang Yongde and a few others came to visit him in the palace, and other civil and military generals didn't know about it, or ignored the life and death of his emperor!

If none of this can make him realize that he is afraid that he will encounter danger at any time, he will live in vain for half of his life. But the old brothers, how prepared they were, whether they intended to put him in the air, the emperor, or whether they were ready to kill him despite the feelings of fighting side by side for many years? It is even more impossible to judge how many civil and military generals have fallen to Wang Jun inside and outside Bianliang in the days when he was in a coma and bedridden? If he made a move now, how many people's hearts could be saved, and what were the odds of victory?

Knowing this, when he just woke up a few days ago, he should have listened to Concubine Yang's persuasion and quickly transferred the prince and Zheng Ziming back to Bianliang! For the first time in his life, Guo Wei began to regret his decision. Although the soldiers and horses in the hands of the prince and Zheng Ziming are less than 5,000, they are also an absolutely trustworthy force. Among the forbidden army and palace guards, Guo Wei doesn't know if he can still move half of it now!

No, no matter what, you can't stay bedridden anymore. Otherwise, it is equivalent to sitting still! Suddenly raised his hand and patted the edge of the bed, Guo Wei struggled to jump out of bed. He was about to order Concubine Yang to help him put on his regular clothes, when a hoarse voice suddenly sounded in his ears, "Emperor Qi, Duke Yingguo, Privy Deputy Envoy Feng Dao, please ask the emperor to see you!"