Chapter 118: The Cowardly Emperor
Dong Guifei crashed to death in the cold palace.
His Majesty didn't want the royal scandal to spread, but Dong Guifei's Su Yiting incident made too much trouble, and Xiao Beiyan led all the remnants of the Western Xinjiang to be arrested outside the city, so a huge group of people were all seen by the people of Kyoto.
Thus, the scandal of the royal family became a scandal known to the world.
His Majesty also fell ill because of this incident.
King Li stayed in the house and closed the door.
As soon as Su Yiting and Dong Guifei fell, the people who were attached to them in the past all turned their heads and began to cling to the sky.
But these wall-to-wall grass can't be looked down upon.
Since they can betray Shu Yiting and Dong Guifei, they will inevitably betray him in the future.
Don't use suspicious people, don't suspect people.
During the period when His Majesty was sick in bed, Prime Minister Lin Cheng was in charge of the country, handling political affairs on behalf of His Majesty, who was seriously ill.
Except for entering the palace every day to visit His Majesty's sick body, he did not do any more strange things.
"Drink the medicine."
Xi Qingyan pushed the door into the study, and when he saw that he was a little distracted, he deliberately reminded him.
"This king is already well, and he doesn't need to drink these anymore."
Shu Lixiao felt that there was nothing wrong with his body, and since he had taken the medicine made from the Nine Soul Grass, he had never been poisoned.
"If I say no, I can't, King Li, are you a doctor or am I a doctor?" Xi Qingyan did not give up, smiled lightly and put the medicine bowl into Su Lixiao's hand, and then, she sat next to Su Lixiao and stretched out her hand to take his pulse.
Su Lixiao was helpless, seeing that Xi Qingyan cared about him so much, his eyebrows and eyes stretched, and he raised his head and drank the medicinal soup in the bowl.
"You are the Divine Doctor Valley Lord, my pulse is really completely good, you don't have to worry about me all the time, Dong's words are just nonsense."
Su Lixiao reached out and covered Xi Qingyan's hand and held her hand.
But his words did not dispel Xi's worries.
"Su Lixiao, Concubine Dong Guifei didn't lie, there are indeed two poisons on your body, and these two medicines are very strange."
"In the past, I thought that you would be left with a body injury because you had been fighting on the battlefield for a long time, but the fact is that the poison given by Concubine Dong Guifei forced the old wounds on your body to repeat."
Xi Qingyan only regarded Su Lixiao as her patient before, but now their relationship is different, and her state of mind in treating Su Lixiao has also changed.
Concern is chaos.
Xi Qingyan now also understands this truth.
"Qingyan, no matter what poison the Dong family put on me, I believe in your medical skills, if there is one person in this world who can cure me, that person must be you." Su Lixiao said to Xi lightly sincerely.
There are thousands of people in the world, and the only person he believes in is Xi Qingyan.
He can put his heart and his future in the hands of Xi Qingyan along with his life.
"Forever ......"
Xi Qingyan listened to these words, and his heart was full of emotion.
She also reached out and hugged Su Lixiao, because the person in her arms was too bitter in this life.
"Your Majesty is now sick in bed, what are you going to do?" Look at the book
Xi Qingyan didn't want to keep Su Lixiao immersed in the matter of illness, so he changed the conversation.
"If your father is very ill, I can go to the palace to treat him."
Xi Qingyan doesn't have a good impression of His Majesty today, but that person is Su Lixiao's father, and Xi Qingyan will care about the person Su Lixiao cares about.
"No!"
When Su Lixiao heard Xi Qingyan say this, he tightened his arms, Xi Qingyan, this woman was really too good to him.
However, his father is not worthy of a light face.
"Father didn't actually get sick at all, he just couldn't face his mistakes for a while."
"He wronged my mother many years ago, and he has been pampering Dong Guifei, a woman from Western Xinjiang, for so many years, and his father has always known with his discernment
Zhu pretends to be a self-proclaimed person, but now he is beaten in the mouth, of course he can't sit calmly on the Jinluan Hall and let the ministers and the world see his jokes."
The emperor was wrong and refused to admit his mistake.
The so-called sick in bed is just for his poor self-esteem and ridiculous face.
"If Your Majesty keeps not admitting that you are wrong, does it mean that your mother's framing will be delayed again and again?"
Xi Qingyan thought of the more serious consequences and asked worriedly.
She didn't care about whether His Majesty was healthy or not, but if His Majesty kept avoiding it, all the efforts made by Su Lixiao and the Li Wangfu for so many days would be in vain!
"Father, he couldn't escape for a while, and now, the scandal of the royal family is well known, even if he turns a blind eye, he is just covering his ears and stealing the bell."
Su Lixiao sneered and spoke.
When he was a child, his father was loving and majestic in his eyes; After his mother committed suicide, she saw the emperor's hard-hearted heart and ruthlessness.
Now, he only thinks that his father is an incompetent and cowardly man.
"My father is reluctant to come forward to clear my mother's name, but Lin Xiang, who is in charge of the prison country, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty will act according to the rules."
Everyone says that the emperor is the supreme in the world and the dictator above ten thousand people.
But in fact, he is just a puppet pushed by a group of people, and many times things are already doomed as soon as they happen.
This truth is clear from Xiaoxiao, and His Majesty who is far away in the deep palace pretending to be sick also understands it.
"Your Majesty, the imperial hospital has sent a tonic, and the servants are waiting for you to take the medicine." In the dragon's bed, the chief attendant of His Majesty brought the medicinal soup from the imperial hospital to the bed.
"Lonely sick or not, you don't know, a minion? And what will you do with these soups and water?"
His Majesty was displeased, frowning and prevaricating.
He had been lying on the dragon bed for a few days, although the whole person was extremely tired from his bones, but he just couldn't sleep, and when he looked at the bright yellow tent with his eyes open, his head was like a wave surging, and he couldn't be quiet for a moment.
"Yes, the old slave knows his mistake."
The attendant handed the medicinal soup to the others, stood beside him with both hands, and saw that His Majesty wanted to get up, so he hurriedly stepped forward to support His Majesty.
"You don't need to support me, although Lone is not young, he is not old enough to need help."
His Majesty repelled those who wanted to serve him.
Although he said that, he still staggered a little when he got up, and so many things had happened in the womb these days, and everything made him exhausted.
"Is there something important in the court today? Can Prime Minister Lin Cheng come to the lonely dormitory to report?"
"Back to Your Majesty, Prime Minister Lin Cheng didn't dare to disturb His Majesty's sleep, and he didn't come to the palace to pay his respects, but in the evening, Prime Minister Lin Cheng handed over an excerpt and asked the old slave to present it to you after His Majesty woke up."
As he spoke, the attendant turned around and took the fold and put his hands in front of His Majesty.
"Lone is dizzy now, I don't want to stare at those twists and turns, you think for Lone." His Majesty did not take the fold, but he did not put it aside either.
"Yes."
The attendant helped His Majesty sit in the dragon chair in the study, and only then did he take the fold and read it aloud.
"Wechen governs the country on behalf of His Majesty, and now there are major decisions that cannot be resolved, so I will send a fold to Your Majesty to decide."
"First, Xiao Beiyan, the remnant of the royal family in Western Xinjiang, has died, and the bones have been exposed to Zhengyang Gate for ten days, and the discussion on the handling of his corpses and bones has been fruitless, so please make a decision."
"Second, Shu Yiting found out this morning that he was hacked to death in the palace by the concubine of the palace, what are the specifications of the funeral ceremony of Dong Guifei, who died by colliding with the pillar of the cold palace, and whether he was buried in the imperial mausoleum?"
"Third, thirteen years ago, the Empress Yuan had an affair with Li Kuan, the imperial guard, and now it has been confirmed, and the Empress Yuan died unjustly, and the ministers asked His Majesty for an order to restore the reputation of the Empress Yuan, and when will the coffin be transferred to the imperial mausoleum after the relocation of the Yuan Dynasty."
The more the attendant reads, the quieter his voice becomes, and the piece of music folds the piles before the play
are poking His Majesty's heart.
His Majesty did not speak for a long time after hearing this.
Sure enough, even if he wanted to avoid these things, they would eventually find him.
"Your Majesty......"
The attendant asked cautiously.
"You go to King Li's Mansion tomorrow afternoon to announce the decree and bring the little princes to the palace, I miss them alone."
His Majesty suddenly bypassed the matter on the fold, and as soon as the words changed, he mentioned the two little dolls, Su Xiaomo and Xi Xiaochen.
He already knew that Xi Qingyan gave birth to two little ones for his son Su Lixiao.
However, His Majesty never saw the two children at the same time.
"It seems that Lone is really old, and Lone doesn't think about anything now, just wants to see his two little grandchildren and enjoy the fun of ordinary people teasing his grandchildren."
His Majesty not only laughed at himself, but also sighed to himself.
The eunuch didn't dare to come out, and the royal affairs were not something that he could meddle in as a *** minion.
Day 2.
According to His Majesty's instructions, the eunuch went to King Li's Mansion to announce the decree.
After Xi Qingyan heard the holy decree, she subconsciously protected the two children, His Majesty wanted to summon Xi Xiaochen and Su Xiaomo for no reason, how could she not be worried?
"Mother, I will take care of Brother Xiao Chen."
Shu Xiaomo sensed Xi Qingyan's worries and whispered beside Xi Qingyan.
"Brother Xiaomo, I don't need you to take care of me, the two of us were born in one day, and my mother said that we should take care of each other."
Xi Xiaochen corrected Su Xiaomo's words.
Even if he was still a little doll, he didn't see anything wrong with his face.
"Mother, look at my little bag, here are my secret weapons!" Xi Xiaochen pulled Xi Qingyan to the side, opened the bag he was carrying on his body and showed Xi Qingyan that there were all kinds of bottles and cans, those were all the medicinal powder that the little guy had been thinking about in Liwang's Mansion these days.
Xi Qingyan was amused by the two little guys and couldn't cry or laugh for a while.
"This king has not had time to enter the palace for several days to pay homage to his father, and today is empty, and this king will go with them."
Seeing Xi Qingyan's face full of worry, Su Lixiao directly decided the matter.
「……」
The chief of the palace waiting for His Majesty did not dare to say anything.
Nowadays, everyone inside and outside Kyoto knows that King Li is now the most powerful and noble one among the princes.
"What the prince said is that the two little princes have noble status, and the old slave may be inconsiderate in escorting them alone, and he also asks the prince and princess to accompany him."
The waiter explained with a smile.
Su Lixiao's family of four all entered the palace.
His Majesty was waiting in the imperial study, but when he saw Su Lixiao coming with his two children, his heart swelled with deep helplessness.
Sure enough, his son no longer wanted to trust him as a father.
Even if he really just wanted to see his grandson, he had ulterior motives for his son.
"The son has seen his father."
"Courtiers, see Your Majesty."
"My grandson has seen the emperor's grandfather."
A family of four saluted His Majesty who shook the gods.
"Okay, get up," His Majesty retracted his thoughts, then squeezed out a smile and stretched out his hand to the two little ones, "Quick, you guys come over and let the Imperial Grandpa see."
Su Xiaomo pulled Xi Xiaochen and walked in front of His Majesty.
His Majesty looked at the two little dolls with similar eyebrows, stroked their immature shoulders, and sighed.
"Sure enough, you are worthy of being a child of Lixiao, exactly like when he was a child......