Empress Dowager Dou was anxious, uneasy, and obviously questioned with urging, only to let the man kneel on the ground without tears.

And beside the Empress Dowager Dou, Tianzi Qi and Dou Ying almost tightened their faces when they saw that person's face!

- Dou Pengzu!

Among the contemporary sons and nephews of Dou's relatives, they are second only to Dou Ying's leaders!

Nanpi Hou who passed away at the beginning of this year: Dou Changjun's son, the contemporary Nanpi Hou - Dou Pengzu!

As for Tianzi Qi and Dou Ying, why did Qi Qi change his face because of Dou Pengzu's appearance, it was naturally not because of Dou Pengzu himself.

But from Fang Cai, the question that the Empress Dowager Dou sent to Dou Pengzu, and Dou Pengzu's expression of wanting to cry without tears, the two monarchs and ministers vaguely understood something.

So much so that no one noticed that at the moment when Dou Pengzu appeared, Concubine Liu, who was quietly sitting beside the Empress Dowager Dou, had already lowered her head with evasive eyes······

"Yu, Empress Dowager!"

"King Liang!"

"Liang Wang ······"

was stared at anxiously by the Empress Dowager Dou, and Dou Pengzu, the Marquis of Nanpi, who was less than thirty years old, was already crying breathlessly after only three or two sentences.

This attitude only provoked the Empress Dowager Dou's body to shake up, and then her eyes were red.

"My son ······"

"My son ·········"

The trembling two 'my son' also made Tianzi Qi and Dou Ying behind the Empress Dowager Dou anxious;

Turning sideways and seeing the eagerness on the face of the Son of Heaven, Dou Ying also hurriedly stepped forward and held Dou Pengzu's wrist tightly.

"Where's King Liang?!"

"What the hell is going on, make it clear!!"

Frightened by Dou Ying's deep voice, Dou Pengzu, who was in a state of crying, only stopped crying abruptly.

was awakened by the dull pain from his wrist, and then he woke up like a dream and turned around and kowtowed to the Empress Dowager Dou.

"The ministers, the ministers went to Hangu Pass according to the instructions of the Queen Mother;"

"Four days ago, I finally waited for King Liang's car."

"But the car is ······"

"--In the car, there is no trace of King Liang at all!"

"King Liang!"

"—King Liang! It's gone~~~"

"Woo~~~ Woo woo woo woo ······"

"Minister, I'm sorry Queen Mother~~~"

"Minister!"

"I have failed the Queen Mother's entrustment~~~"

"-Wow~~~ Ahh·········h

···

In the center of the hall, Dou Pengzu used all his strength to say these words, and then collapsed to the ground with all his strength, crying loudly.

On Dou Pengzu's side and behind Empress Dowager Dou, Tianzi Qi and Dou Ying breathed a sigh of relief.

Call~~~~~~

The two long shouts that sounded at the same time finally brought the Empress Dowager Dou back from her stunnedness;

subconsciously blinked, hurriedly groped up two steps forward, and instinctively beckoned to the left and right: "Go, go and find!" ”

"me!"

"······ my son"

The two murmurs, which completely obeyed instinct, quietly drifted away with the suddenly frozen face of the Empress Dowager Dou.

I saw Mrs. Dou froze in place with astonishment, and turned around very, very slowly;

The dim and unfocused, but already tearful eyes, were only locked on the blurred figure in front of them.

"Is it the Emperor?"

"Emperor, kill my son?"

"—Emperor! Kill my son!! ”

Kill my son!

My son!

···

···

······

A roar of extreme sorrow and anger echoed in the hall of Changxin for a long time;

The entire known world seemed to be plunged into complete silence by the roar of the Empress Dowager Dou.

Even outside the Changxin Palace, those palace people who were walking on the palace road couldn't help but stop because of this roar.

It's been a long time, it's been a long time······

Smack!

A crisp sound of the wooden pole falling to the ground fluctuated the solidification time again, and also made the Son of Heaven who was stunned on the imperial couch in the Changxin Hall come back to his senses.

I saw five paces away, when the most noble woman of the day was opening her eyes with anger and her face distorted, but she had already burst into tears;

And the dove staff that fell to the ground was like a bell hammer hanging in the bell chamber, smashing down on the heart of Tianzi Qi!

Pain.

Unforgettable pain.

"Uh······"

"Uhh·········h

tried to speak, but could only squirm his lips and make two such sounds;

The raised hand covered his chest, but it still couldn't let the suffocating pain soothe it for a moment.

"Mother, ······"

···

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty!!"

A moment later, Tianzi Qi, who covered his chest with his hands, only fell lightly and lay on the couch.

Seeing this, Chun Tuo on the side hurriedly stepped forward, and while checking the condition of Tianzi Qi, he did not forget to shout with tears in his eyes: "Imperial Doctor! ”

"Hurry up and find the Imperial Doctor!"

"Your Majesty~~~"

"Your Majesty······"

A few successive cries mixed with crying finally relieved the stunned crowd;

The palace people hurriedly walked out of the Changxin Palace, as if they were racing, and ran towards the imperial doctor's office.

Dou Ying and Dou Pengzu looked at each other slightly, and they tacitly ran up the imperial steps from the center of the hall.

- Dou Ying stood beside the Empress Dowager Dou, ready to hold the Empress Dowager Dou who had no dove staff to lean on and might not be able to stand steadily;

As for Nanpihou Dou Pengzu, he didn't care about the sobs on his face, wiped his hands on his chest casually, and quickly knelt down in front of the royal couch.

With a solemn face, he stretched out his hand, quickly checked the pulse for Tianzi Qi, stood up again, cooperated with Chuntuo, and helped Tianzi Qi to lie flat on the royal couch.

took a long breath before finally turning around and bowing his hand to the Empress Dowager Dou.

"King Liang, it's just that it's missing, and it's not necessarily an accident."

"——The minister also asked the Liang Guoxiang Xuan Qiu Leopard around the car, as well as the accompanying officials and soldiers."

"Although no one told me where King Liang went, from their faces, the ministers did not see the sad faces."

"Come to think of it, even if King Liang disappears for the time being, he will not encounter accidents."

···

"On the contrary, Your Majesty, you have been really overworked recently, and you have made a big fuss several times today······

"-Please also ask the Queen Mother, go to the apse to rest first."

"When the imperial doctors come over, you may need to give your majesty needles and bloodletting······"

was obviously a little grim, and at the same time there was no lack of respectful words, but they did not make Empress Dowager Dou come back to her senses from a long period of stunnedness.

Just stunned, standing in place with a dull gaze, looking at Tianzi Qi, who was already lying on the royal couch and had a hideous face in pain, let the tears flow backwards into a river······

"My son ······"

"My son ·········"

Murmuring softly with tears, only to make Dou Ying next to him and Dou Pengzu in front of him feel a pain in their hearts!

But I can't hear it at all: which son is the Empress Dowager Dou worried about and worried about.

After about half a burnt of incense, several old doctors with medicine boxes on their backs finally came to the imperial couch in the Changxin Palace.

didn't care about adjusting his breathing, so he tacitly surrounded the couch and got busy with a clear division of labor.

The other two old men, who were slightly younger but also over fifty years old, quickly took out the needle bag from the medical box, and spread the needle bag flat next to Tianzi Qi, where the Tai Yi Ling could reach out.

I saw that the Imperial Physician Ling stretched out his hand, trembled and helped Tianziqi's wrist, "Uh-huh" groaned, and took the pulse for Tianziqi.

Standing up again, he turned on the light and looked at Tianziqi's pupils and burnt tongue.

With a number in his heart, and then he rigorously rechecked the pulse, the imperial doctor Ling took a deep breath, and then he also breathed a long sigh of relief······

"Your Majesty, I'm so tired······"

"Day and night, irregular meals, and clearly a little physically and mentally exhausted, so that His Majesty's body is already in a very bad situation."

"Such a bad situation, coupled with the fact that in recent days, there have been several times of upheaval······"

As she spoke, the old lady took another deep breath, and finally adjusted her breathing;

Beckoned to the apprentice who was over fifty years old beside him, rolled up the needle bag in his hand again, and the old lady turned around.

Seeing that the situation was not quite right, he habitually cast his eyes on the body of Liu Xuan, the owner of the pavilion.

"The old man will go back and make a decoction for His Majesty."

"Your Majesty, take care of the eldest princess, don't let Your Majesty be angry again, today and tomorrow, you must not review the file day and night······"

The old lady doctor explained, only to provoke Liu Xuan's mixed nods, obviously thinking about something, or struggling with something.

The old lady couldn't care about so much, only glanced at the rest of the people, and then took out the old steps and walked towards the outside of the hall in three steps.

On the couch, the Son of Heaven frowned and closed his eyes;

Although his breathing had calmed down, his bruised hand was still tightly pinched on his left chest.

Five steps away, Empress Dowager Dou stood stunned, her face covered with tears, and her lips trembled slightly.

As for Wei Qihou Dou Ying and Nanpihou Dou Pengzu, they stood beside the Empress Dowager Dou on the left and right, as if they wanted to say something, but they really didn't know how to speak.

Such silence maintained a full stick of incense.

In the huge Changxin Hall, you can only hear the inside of the imperial couch, and the eunuch Ling Chuntuo is obviously already suppressing, but he can't stop the low cry.

Until this time, the princess Liu, who had always had a different color, finally couldn't bear it anymore and stepped forward full of entanglement.

sat down next to the Son of Heaven, then leaned down with his upper body, and whispered twice in his ear;

When Liu Yan straightened up with guilt, she lowered her head and walked to the side, but when she saw Tianzi Qi on the royal couch, she coughed and smiled bitterly······

"Mother, ······"

"Queen Mother······

"-Queen Mother, I have three children~"

"Mother, there are two sons······"

"In the eyes of the queen mother, why can't she tolerate me alone?"

···

"I am the one who serves and does my filial piety by the side of the queen mother······"

"Let the queen mother become the queen mother, and it is I who lives in this Changle Palace, ······"

"It's me······"

"It's ······ me"

···

Extremely painful, and full of mournful murmurs, so that everyone in the hall bowed their heads with sorrow.

Dou Ying and Dou Pengzu also had red eyes.

As for the 'culprit' of this accident, Liu Yan, she was already full of shame and lowered her head and secretly wiped her tears.

"Uh, uh, ah······"

A laborious moan only made Dou Ying, Dou Pengzu, Liu Xuan, and Chuntuo anxious!

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty!"

"—Your Majesty, Your Majesty, slow down······"

I saw that Tianzi Qi ignored everyone's obstruction, and sat up from the couch with great difficulty with the support of the old loyal slave Chuntuo.

Gritting his teeth harder and pressing down the thorn in his chest a little more, Tianzi Qicai finally laughed miserably and looked at his mother Dou Shi, who was still standing five steps away.

"When the queen mother gave birth to Ah Wu, her son was just four years old."

"The mother had just given birth, and her face was still sweating, so she did not forget to point to the baby in swaddling clothes, and said, "This is your brother."

"In the future, let your brother go."

"Erchen said at the time: Okay."

"And he said, whatever it is, whatever it is, what it eats, drinks, plays, or uses."

"—As long as the son has it, he will give it to his younger brother."

"In the end, what the queen mother wanted her son to give to her younger brother was the ancestral temple and the ······ of the shrine."

···

"When Erchen became the crown prince, he was only eight years old."

"Before the imperial grandmother's canonization edict was issued, the queen mother pointed to Ah Wu again and said: Remember, this is your own brother who is related by blood and has a mother's compatriots;"

"In the future, I have to protect my younger brother."

"Erchen said at the time: Okay."

"Erchen said: No matter what Ah Wu did, whether he killed someone or set it on fire;"

"-As long as the son-in-law is still alive, he will definitely protect his younger brother."

"In the end, the queen mother asked her son to forgive him for the crime of assassinating Jiuqing······"

···

"Erchen, inherited the throne at the age of thirty-one, and pacified the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu at the age of thirty-four."

"Erchen's ninth son, the queen's favorite young grandson: Ah Sheng, is also thirteen years old."

"Erchen said to his mother: Ah Sheng should become the crown prince, and his mother Jia Ji should become the queen."

"The queen mother said, "Yes."

"The queen mother said: As long as Ah Sheng is the prince, the queen mother will definitely support her grandson and sit on the throne of the prince left by her son."

"——The queen mother said that as long as it is Ah Sheng, she will never mention King Liliang again!"

"Never mention !! again"

···

"And now?"

"Hey!"

"Hey······ hey"

"The third child, lost ······"

"——Mother thought in her heart, Liu Wu, the king of Liang, who was afraid of melting in her mouth and afraid of falling in her hands, hid in her sister's house because she was afraid of the crimes she had committed!"

But the queen mother didn't ask, so she pointed to her sons and said, "Emperor, kill my son?"

"Emperor, kill my son······"

···

"The queen mother, how ungrateful ······"

"- Queen Mother, what a widow!"

"Queen Mother, why is it so thick and the king is so thin on me?!!"

···

"Could it be that the son-in-law didn't call himself 'son-in-law' in front of the queen mother?"

"It's still a son, and I didn't call the queen mother: What about the queen mother······"

full of misery and full of grief;

Sometimes bitter, sometimes angry;

The extremely resentful and helpless words finally made the Empress Dowager Dou, who was standing still, finally have some signs of 'soul returning'.

But at this moment, the Son of Heaven is already like ashes······

"Chuntuo~"

"Go get that ······"

As soon as the pretended to be casual words arrived at the exit, Tianzi Qi found that his tone had brought a crying tone.

The tears that never got out of control, and I don't know when, wet the tired face full of vicissitudes.

He lowered his head with a wry smile, raised his sleeves again, and wiped the tears from his face with a big grin.

When he raised his head again, Tianzi Qi's face was full of empathetic and sad smiles······

"Go to the eldest princess's mansion and invite King Liang into the palace."

"—hurry;"

"If you can't see King Liang again, the Queen Mother, you will blame me again and kill the Queen Mother's son······"

"The only son······"

"Hey;"

"Hey······ hey"

seemed to be joking, and with a slightly self-deprecating smile, Tianzi Qi turned his head sideways.

looked at Liu Yan's gaze, and there was also a touch of sadness.

"Even my sister can't trust me anymore······"

"Is it true that if you become an emperor, you will never be able to have a family again?"

"Is it that as long as you become an emperor, you can no longer be trusted by your closest relatives, and even such a small thing will be hidden?"

—······ Aqi

was stared at by the sad eyes of the Son of Heaven, and was stung by this heart-wrenching word, and Liu Yan only raised her head with tears.

Ah Qi;

The last time Tianzi Qi heard this title should have been four years ago.

At that time, the first emperor was still there;

At that time, everything was still there······

"Erchen, lack of ······"

"Lack of ······"

"It's the emperor, it's the son, it's the younger brother, it's the elder brother;"

"Erchen, I really can't resist it······"

With tears and laughter, the Son of Heaven finally lowered his head, propped his hands on his sides, and stood up from the couch vigorously.

With the support of Chuntuo, he took two steps forward, shook for a moment to stabilize his figure, and then was full of tears and smiles, and bowed deeply to the Empress Dowager Dou.

"Erchen, retire ······"

"Son, don't disturb the queen mother, and reunite with your only son······"

"I only hope that the queen mother will not only care about the relationship between mother and child, but forget the responsibilities of the queen mother······"

"—Earlier, the courtiers and hundreds of officials have asked for the appointment of the prince three times."

"This Fourth Please ······"

···

"Hey;"

"This fourth invitation, let the sons come······"

As he spoke, Tianzi Qi smiled bitterly, wept, and snorted again;

Then, in front of the dozens of people in the hall, he knelt in front of the Empress Dowager Dou with a 'poof'.

"Emperor Liu Qi!"

"See the Queen Mother!"

"May the Queen Mother, a thousand blessings, and a long life!"

"——Liu Qi, the emperor's minister, pause his head and bow to death!"

"I implore the Queen Mother to establish the crown prince as soon as possible!!"

"Ian! Ancestral temple!!!!!! ”

The loud sound of worship caused everyone in the hall to bow their heads and hide their tears as much as possible from an angle that only they could see;

Next to the royal couch, Liu Yan was even more out of breath, holding on to the low wooden fence of the couch so that she did not sit on the ground.

And in front of the royal couch, Tianzi Qi only resolutely leaned down and bowed to his mother in front of him!

Then, he slowly got up, supported by Chuntuo, and walked towards the outside of the hall step by step······

Looking at the back of Tianzi Qi when he left, Dou Ying and Dou Pengzu only felt hazy in front of them;

Only the Empress Dowager Dou, because her thoughts were scattered, did not notice that when Tianzi Qi left, her hand was still on her left chest;

He didn't even notice the last two whispers left by Tianzi Qi before leaving.

"The queen mother has not lost her son······"

"It's me, I lost my mother······"

"-I, without my parents······"

···

"Hey;"

"I'm an orphan."

"I have become a real lonely ······person as my father said."

"—Alone, Widowed········"

(End of chapter)