Chapter Seventy-Four: The Breath of the Son of Heaven (II)
Those who are stupid will be punished even if they are far away, not to mention that you are at the door of your home!
"Your Majesty"
At this time, it happened to be the time for Tian Qianqiu, the prime minister, to ask for instructions early and report late. Hearing the emperor mention the emperor's great-grandson, he chuckled in his heart, the emperor should have an emperor's great-grandson, I don't know whether he is dead or alive, nominally there is. And this Lord Tian is also one of the people who sympathize with the crown prince.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty should have a great-grandson."
"Yes is yes, no is no, what should be!" It seems that the old emperor is always old, but he is not completely confused, "How can you say this?" ”
"Your Majesty, can you remember that Prince Wei had a son, Liu Jin, and had a son, if this son is still alive, he will be His Majesty's great-grandson." The old emperor's heart was suddenly tugged, and a wave of sadness rose. If there were no foolish things back then, I would have been in the same house for four generations.
"According to the son, according to the child" Liu Che muttered to himself, this is my first son, and the eldest princess, my first daughter, and my son-in-law, how high-spirited I was back then, waving the army in Mobei, and sealing the wolf Juxu. It seems that since my prince died, it seems that everything is not going well, and the villain who can't be dug up, why do you hate me so much, and you are all cursing me?
The old emperor slowly recalled the past, this child, such a toss, can still survive: "This is really providence!" ”
"Someone, stop it!" When the waiter ran out to give the order, he said to Prime Minister Tian Cheng: "Tian Qing's family, you can go and see it on my behalf, if this matter is true, send him to the court to raise, counting, he should be more than four years old." Let the rest be pardoned."
"Nuo" Prime Minister Tian received the emperor's command, bowed and retreated, turned around to leave, and the old voice came from behind him: "Liu Chang, this name seems to be very familiar, where have you heard it." Does Tian Qing's family have an impression? ”
Hearing the emperor calling him, he immediately turned around: "Your Majesty, I don't know this name." ”
The cold sweat behind Tian Qianqiu was scared, why did your old man think of this evil star at this time, this is the best medicine to stop crying at night. After the reorganization of the Northern Army, now when you go out to handle cases, you have to bring a paperwork, for fear of being labeled as a vain killing.
"Let's go"
The old emperor looked older and older, and his eyes were cloudy again.
"Immortals, where are you?" This is the call of the old emperor's heart, and the blood affection of the dear relatives has not dispelled the expectations of the old emperor for the immortals.
When Prime Minister Tian arrived, Guo Sui's people had already retreated. Liu Ling and Liu Chang's aunt and nephew also left, and when Prime Minister Tian announced the pardon, those prisoners also left with great joy, and only Bing Ji and Sick were left in the prison.
"This is the grandson of the crown prince of the past, and the great-grandson of the saint today. The sky really has eyes. Tian Qianqiu was very emotional.
"I want an uncle, I want an uncle" is a child after all, and when he saw so many strangers, he was a little scared, and kept shouting to see his uncle.
"The illness is obedient and obedient, didn't the uncle tell you, when you grow up, he will come to pick you up" Bing Ji hugged the illness, and the tears in his eyes couldn't stop flowing, while whispering to comfort the illness.
"Uncle doesn't cry, uncle doesn't cry, illness is obedient." Xiaoxiao has used his little hands to wipe Bingji's tears.
Prime Minister Tian Cheng, who is old and sophisticated, heard that he was sick and called uncle, but he didn't listen, and silently watched them say goodbye.
After learning about the situation of the illness, Prime Minister Tian Cheng confirmed that this son was Liu Jin's son, Liu Ju's grandson, and the emperor's great-grandson.
Of course, the top of the sick head is no longer radiant, and the task of missing the heart and eye has been completed. Only Bing Ji was left in the prison, and the unlucky guy who continued to be unconscious in the corner. Bing Ji looked at the empty surroundings and felt a little trance, things were too bizarre, as if he was in a dream.
From a distance, Liu Chang and his aunt quietly watched a group of Imperial Forest Army, coming and leaving. Thinking of the past few days of getting along with the sick, the corners of my eyes can't help but be a little dry, as if the little nephew who saw him stumbling and running to him, opened his arms and said, 'Brother, hug'.
After dealing with their nephew's illness, they had nothing to do in Chang'an and were ready to go back to the mountain. Early in the morning, I went out of the south gate and walked southwest.
"Auntie, what's wrong with you?" Liu Chang found that his aunt's mood had been very low and she had lost her soul.
"San'er, I just miss your grandfather and want to go into the palace to have a look. I don't know how long it will take to come back, and maybe I'll never see you again. Liu Ling's eyes were red and her voice was choked.
Originally, the purpose of this trip was to pay homage to his grandmother and brother, the cemetery of his father Liu Ju and others, Liu Chang didn't know, he couldn't worship, and he didn't plan to enter the palace, after all, the palace was heavily guarded, and he didn't want to make too much movement in the palace, the key was that Liu Chang had no feelings for the emperor's grandfather, and the experience after being sensible made him feel a trace of resentment in his heart.
At the same time, I don't know much about the relationship between my aunt and my grandfather, after all, I was still young at that time. Looking at my aunt's current appearance, I couldn't bear it, I didn't want my aunt to leave any regrets in the future, and when I heard my aunt say this, I stopped.
"If my aunt wants to go and see it, I won't go, I don't want to go back to that cold place."
With Liu Chang's approval, Liu Ling's mood immediately improved.
"You find a place in front of me and wait for me, I'll take a look and I'll be back, and soon" My aunt, who is over fifty years old, looks like a young girl, her face is full of youthful vitality, and her face is smiling. Seeing his aunt's brisk back leaving, Liu Chang turned around and walked slowly according to the original route, this is Shanglin Garden, the emperor often hunted here when he was young, and built a lot of pavilions and pavilions, now, the emperor is old, there are basically no hunting activities, many pavilions are idle, and it is not difficult to find a place to rest.
In less than half an hour, Liu Ling hurried back. Liu Chang knew that the emperor had gone to Wuzuo Palace a day ago. Wuzuo Palace is Liu Che's palace, located in Zhouzhi, a hundred miles away from Chang'an. The environment is beautiful, the scenery is pleasant, Liu Che in his later years often lingered here, because there are five oak trees in the palace and got the name.
The aunt and nephew had to return to Chang'an City, find a post station, and rent a carriage to rush to Zhouzhi. By the time they arrived at the week, it was already dusk. The palace is the emperor's temporary residence, not a palace group, is a separate palace, although there is a road to connect with Chang'an, there is no market and residents around the Wuzuo Palace, the environment is elegant but deserted.
Due to the emperor's stay, the surrounding vigilance was significantly strengthened, almost three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry. Liu Ling opened the stealth light curtain of the messenger ring, so that there was no longer a reflection of light within a foot around him, and followed the back of the changing guard soldiers into the palace, similarly, Liu Chang did not go in, but found a hidden place one mile away. Of course, this is also a warning range, and for Liu Chang, it is nothing.
Wuzuo Palace, in the candlelight, the same familiar palace, the same familiar road, everything is familiar. I used to follow my parents a lot, and it was my father's palace, that is, my own palace. When I came to my father's dormitory, the candles in the palace were held high, the lights were bright, the main entrance was closed, and only one side door was open. The palace maids, eunuchs, and eunuchs went in and out, in a panic, but there was almost no sound, and they were all tiptoeing when they walked.
It turned out that when Liu Che came, it may have been a tiring journey, coupled with his age and cold weather, he suddenly fell ill, became delirious, and had a high fever that did not go away.
Liu Ling stood in a corner, silently looking at her flushed and emaciated father lying on the bed.
Now this aging body can no longer support and carry that manic heart, and it collapsed with a bang. That heart is now delusional to even control its own body, let alone wield a knife across a horse, this is the end of the hero, and the beauty is in the twilight.
I can't help but feel sad from my heart, my father's strength and aging seem to be a blink of an eye. My father wanted to get too many things in his life, wanted to completely eliminate external troubles, and wanted to live forever. wanted to eliminate external troubles at the expense of people's livelihood, but the result was that the people were struggling to make a living, and the Huns were still in the desert; I want to abandon family affection in exchange for immortality, but the result is still that my relatives have passed away, and I am now lying there dying, dying of old age, surrounded by people, but there is no one relative. The world is full of helplessness, you have to lose something if you want to gain something, and in the end you don't get what you want, but you lose it forever.
As the night wore on, the people around had withdrawn, and most of the candles around had been extinguished, and the main hall had suddenly darkened. In front of the emperor's sickbed, there was also a woman kneeling alone, but Liu Ling recognized this person, it was Mrs. Jieyu Gouyi.
Liu Che patrolled and passed by Hejian Kingdom, the "Qi Seeker" who watched the sky and divined the auspicious fortune told Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that there was a strange woman here, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty immediately sent an edict to find it. Sure enough, as the hopeful said, after a while, the accompanying officials found a young and beautiful woman, who was said to have been born with her hands clenched into fists, and although she was more than ten years old, she still could not stretch out.
Emperor Wu of Han called the woman over, and saw that her hands were really clenched into fists, Emperor Wu of Han stretched out his hands and gently broke the woman's hands, and the girl's hands were separated, and a small jade hook was held tightly in the palm of his hand. Subsequently, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered someone to help this woman into the accompanying carriage and bring her back to the palace, which was favored by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, known as Mrs. Fist, also known as Mrs. Gouyi, this woman is Zhao.
Thinking of this, Liu Ling couldn't help but smile easily, saying that a companion is like a tiger, but as long as the fur is smoothed, it is not a cat. Such a little trick is that even children can't deceive, how can they deceive an adult, and this adult is still the wise and martial emperor himself? One is willing to be deceived, and the other is willing to be deceived.
Don't believe it, you find a pockmarked aunt to give it a try, the will be punched out for you, and the fist can't be opened, right? Chop and feed the dogs! Just when Liu Ling was recalling the past, the emperor seemed to wake up, his lips moved slightly, and he was talking to the Zhao family. Zhao Jieyu also showed an expression of excitement and shock, but before this expression could subside, Liu Che suddenly supported half of her body, and Mrs. Gou Yi lay on the ground and kowtowed, crying bitterly and begging for mercy.
"You don't want to accompany me!?" The anger made the weakened old emperor's eyes erupt with anger, and he even propped up half of his body and glared angrily at the woman lying on the edge of the couch and kowtowing desperately.
"Your Majesty, go around me, I'm only twenty-four years old, I don't want to die. Bypass me, Your Majesty! Gou Yi cried and pleaded.
"Come on, Jieyu is disobedient. Sent to the court prison and given death. This is Liu Che's voice.
Before Liu Ling could react, the two eunuchs came in and took Mrs. Gou Yi, who shouted "Your Majesty spares your life, Your Majesty spares your life".
No one knows what happened, and no one knows what they said. When the sound outside grew farther and farther away, and disappeared, the emperor's body lay down again, as if all his strength had been exhausted. In this space, the entire dormitory was empty. Liu Ling slowly approached the bed, staring at the person she called her father on the couch, he was still so cold-blooded, still so ruthless, still so majestic, still so inviolable.
"Father, why are you doing this?" Liu Ling also showed her true face, tears flowed into a river, and she also knelt where Zhao Jieyu was kneeling just now.
"Who? Who's shouting at me? Who's calling me? As if hearing his daughter's voice, Liu Che immediately opened his eyes and looked around. Liu Ling immediately hid her figure. But he still saw Liu Ling's figure slowly disappearing.
"Lin'er, is that you? Is it really you? My Lin'er, my eldest princess? Where are you? Liu Che, who lacked family affection, finally lost all his prestige under the call of his relatives, and was no longer a high-ranking emperor, but more like a kind old man and a helpless father. He even rolled over and climbed off the bed, trying in vain to catch the figure that had disappeared.
Liu Ling's tears blurred her vision, and in the blurred vision, the thin figure who was helped up by the eunuch who hurriedly ran over, but her two eyes were still looking around, and her two dry hands searched forward to search for temptation: "My daughter, my eldest princess, my father has seen you, you come out!" Come out and see me. Several times, Liu Ling couldn't help but want to come out to meet, this is his biological father, this is the father who gives him thousands of favors, he doesn't have much time left, this meeting is goodbye.
In the end, reason prevails over emotion, Xiao San is right, what can be done when they meet, no one can change the ending. On the contrary, once she appears, it will bring variables to the overall situation, first, the rules of the base do not allow it, and second, she will disrupt all her father's arrangements and bring turmoil to the imperial court, because she is not only a royal person, but also a member of the Wei family, and a member of the Cao family.
Liu Ling covered her mouth tightly with her hands, for fear that the word "father" would blurt out. This is the helplessness of the heavenly family, in the face of interests, everything has to be given up, including family affection and love.
Enduring the heartache like a knife, she slowly moved towards the door. There's also a poor man over there, I haven't met it, I haven't met it, since I have met it, I can help it, this is a little white rabbit who crashed into the tiger's mouth because of the worship of heroes.
She knew that it was the place where the harem concubines lived, and he also knew that it was the place where the concubines and palace maids who made mistakes were kept, and the Wuzuo Palace was not as big as the Chang'an Palace, and within a moment, Liu Ling found the place where Zhao Jieyu was held.
Although it is called a prison, it is not a real prison, but an ordinary room, where it is mainly a place of confinement. As the emperor's age gradually increased, and the arrangements for leaving the palace this time were in a hurry, there were very few concubines in the harem, and the court was basically uninhabited, and it seemed very empty.
In front of the door of a palace room, there were two eunuchs, and Liu Ling knew that it was Mrs. Gouyi inside. After Liu Ling knocked out the two eunuchs, she showed her figure and pushed the door in. There were also two eunuchs in the house, touching the ground with their heads, and they kept saying "Please Niangniang ascend to heaven" and sat on the side, their eyes were scattered, their eyes were blank, and their mouths were chanting: "I am only 24 years old, I don't want to die." ”
In the middle of the beams hangs a white silk, quiet, snow-white, as if mocking and waiting. Below it is a high one. Seeing Liu Ling stunned the two eunuchs from behind, Jieyu didn't react, but instinctively knelt upright, she didn't know who the comer was, and she didn't know what the purpose of the comer was, she just kept kowtowing: "The emperor is gracious, the emperor spares his life"
Liu Ling held her chin with her hand and stuffed a pill into Gou Yi's mouth. Gou Yi, who had collapsed, instinctively grabbed Liu Ling's hand to lift her chin, as if grasping a life-saving straw, and even swallowed the pill that I don't know what it was, but she didn't feel it, and her eyes were full of hope:
"The emperor won't kill me? Has the emperor forgiven me? Liu Ling shook her head wordlessly, and after a few inhales, she was waiting for the effect of the medicine to melt.
In the language, Gou Yi slowly fell to the ground, and his eyes full of hope slowly closed, of course, the language stopped.
"Whether you can escape this catastrophe or not depends on your creation." Liu Ling's body began to fade and disappear, she couldn't take the Zhao family away directly, that would bring an impact to her father, provoke her father's murderous intentions, and bring a new round of blood.
As the door closed, the eunuchs inside and outside the house also woke up, they looked at each other blankly, and looked themselves up and down, and there was nothing unusual. Hurriedly rushed into the house, and saw Zhao Jieyu lying on the ground silently, they were all relieved.
It's good that people are still there, whether they are dead or alive. Even if she is alive, they have to kill her, this is the emperor's order! Seeing the body lying on the ground, the four of them hurriedly felt their pulses and sniffed. After getting a definite answer, the four of them just hung up and discussed for a while, and the final result was that no matter if he was really dead or faked, he would be buried immediately anyway, and he wouldn't be able to live even if he faked his death. Because of the results of this discussion, our poor Jieyu, the little mother who gave birth to a dragon son for the emperor in her teens, escaped.