"I ······"

"Uh·········"

"How many days are left?"

After the edict was drafted, it was successively sealed by the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven, and then read by the ministers and ministers present in order, and finally the Prime Minister Kaifeng Hou Taoqing stamped the Prime Minister's seal, and the hundreds of officials and ministers present retreated in order under the guidance of Tao Qing.

- The Son of Heaven has woken up, has no other instructions, and obviously needs to rest;

It was obviously not too necessary for everyone to continue to stay in the Xuan Room.

After everyone withdrew from the Xuanshu Palace, only the Empress Dowager Dou who was sitting on the edge of the couch was left in the hall, Queen Jia and Liu Sheng who knelt in front of the couch, and the eunuchs Ling Chuntuo and Lang Zhongling Zhou Ren on both sides of the couch.

With the Son of Heaven Qi's light question, everyone in the hall, including the Empress Dowager Dou, who had almost completely lost her eyesight, all cast their eyes on Lang Zhongling Zhou Ren behind the Son of Heaven.

- Lang Zhongling, this 'Lang Zhong', is naturally not the doctor stereotyped by later generations, but the commander of Lang Guan's guard.

said that Lang Zhongling was the commander of the forbidden army of the Han family, and that was not a problem at all.

But coincidentally: as early as when the first emperor was still alive and when Ziqi was still the prince today, Zhou Ren, the commander of the court, was received by the first emperor precisely because of his 'excellent medical skills';

After the preliminary investigation, it was determined that Zhou Ren was a qualified personal doctor, and the first emperor sent Zhou Ren to the imperial palace to recuperate for the then crown prince Qi.

At this moment, the imperial physician ordered the imperial doctors to retreat with Tao Qing, Chao Cuo and other ministers;

Regarding Tianziqi's question of 'how many days do I have left', among the people present, only Zhou Ren could give an answer······

"Your Majesty's body, the minister has been advised a long time ago: stay away from wine and color, avoid spicy and cold, and reduce salt and fat."

"And you need to eat and sleep in a good manner, and when you don't have to, you also need to use medicinal food and medicinal baths to recuperate."

"It's just that Your Majesty is in charge of state affairs, and he really can't take care of ······"

···

"Alas······"

"Just now, the minister also exchanged views with the Imperial Doctor Ling."

"Your Majesty's body is malnourished, his spleen and stomach are out of harmony, and he can't eat much anymore."

"The Imperial Physician Ling and the ministers are foolishly thinking: From today onwards, every time Your Majesty falls asleep, the ministers and others dare not guarantee that Your Majesty will ······be able to wake up."

"At most, that is, when it is determined that His Majesty cannot wake up, after the Queen Mother's consent, Xing Needle will wake His Majesty for a while;"

"It's just that after this moment, Your Majesty, I'm afraid I will really never wake up again······"

Through his own professional knowledge and the results of his exchange with Taiyi Ling, Zhou Ren tried his best to give the answer to Tianziqi's question in a more understandable way.

And after hearing Zhou Ren's conclusion that 'from now on, every time Your Majesty falls asleep, he may never wake up again', Tianzi Qi, who was lying flat on the sickbed, only fell into a long silence.

No one knows what Tianzi Qi is thinking;

It's just that as time passed, a burst of sobbing sounds, which were originally inaudible, began to fill the sky above the Xuanshu Hall little by little.

In the end, it was the mournful sobbing sound that pulled Tianziqi's mind back to his eyes.

"Come ······"

As soon as they raised their hands, Chun Tuo and Zhou Ren hurriedly stepped forward and helped Tianzi Qi to sit up;

After a short period of hesitation, Zhou Ren didn't care about the etiquette, sat down directly behind Tianziqi, and supported Tianziqi's upper body from behind.

saw Tianzi Qi get up with difficulty, and adjusted for a while before he found a barely comfortable position.

Then, he grinned at Liu Shengwei.

"Did you hear what Lang Zhongling said?"

"-This man~"

"Alas······"

"Once you can't eat, it's not long before the days are left······"

"Remember, don't turn day and night upside down all day, forget to sleep and eat, and patronize those two volumes of ······"

"Sit in that position, and your body will no longer be yours, but the whole world······"

"Take care of this piece of body and bones that belongs to the temple, the community, and the whole world······"

was already grieving because the Son of Heaven was about to die, and hearing the words of the Son of Heaven, Liu Sheng only subconsciously lowered his head, and before the tears flowed, he hid his face in an angle that the Son of Heaven could not see.

Then, Tianziqi's gaze slowly moved to Liu Sheng's side and fell on Queen Jia, who had long been crying.

"Queen, pure and good by nature;"

"I don't have anything to worry about the queen."

"It's just that after a hundred years, the queen will be the queen mother······"

"The Queen Mother is pure and kind, that is to let the emperor's son be bullied by traitors inside and outside the government and the opposition······"

As soon as she heard this, Queen Jia's suppressed crying only rose sharply, and the kneeling posture that she had barely maintained collapsed into a slanted leg paralyzed in an instant.

"Your Majesty······"

"Concubine ······"

"Concubine ·········"

Several successive 'concubines' mixed with crying did not disrupt the rhythm of Tianziqi;

withdrew his eyes from the mother and son kneeling in front of the couch, and in the end, it fell on the mother who was sitting on the edge of the couch and crying: Empress Dowager Dou.

"Queen Mother······

"Child, unfilial ······"

With just these words, I saw that the Empress Dowager Dou's figure trembled slightly, her face was still full of sluggishness, her eyes were still full of hollowness, and only those two lines of hot tears seemed to have completely turned on the faucet and began to gush out of her eyes like spring water.

Seeing his mother like this, Tianziqi was only worried for a while, and wanted to raise his hand to wipe away the tears for his mother, but he didn't even have the strength to do so.

I tried several times in a row, and I even let out a faint 'hmm!' Belch! The Empress Dowager Dou realized that she was relieved and hurriedly moved her body forward;

groped and pulled up Tianziqi's hand, grabbed Tianziqi's hand and wiped it all over his face, as if it was not Tianziqi's hand, but a handkerchief tied with a long rope.

As he wished, touching his mother's tearful face, Tianzi Qi finally relaxed his body;

At the neck, the green tendons that were picked up by exertion also returned to Tianziqi in an instant, which was still white and tender, but it was already all over the horizontal striated neck.

After an unknown amount of time, Empress Dowager Dou removed the 'veil' from her face, clasped her hands tightly, and gently placed it on her thighs.

It was only at this time that Tianziqi's weak, hoarse voice sounded again on the couch.

"Queen, you're too honest······"

"If you are honest until you have a birthday, you don't dare to make a big show, and you still have to ask the prince to point out that he is powerful, and the queen mother to encourage him before he dares to comply."

"-I will be the queen mother in the future, mother, teach more······"

"With the queen mother here, I don't worry so much about the queen······"

···

"Uh······"

"Since Emperor Taizu Gao established the Han Dynasty, my Han family has had three queen mothers;"

"These three queen mothers, no matter which one is missing, they are not as good as my Han family today."

"—Empress Dowager Lu, who became the empress of Emperor Taizu and the empress dowager of Emperor Xiaohui, and then became the empress dowager for eight years;"

"——Therefore, the Empress Dowager Bo became the empress dowager of the first emperor, and after her son ascended the throne, she became the empress dowager for several years."

"The queen mother, I also want to be the queen mother······"

"The Empress Dowager who wants to be the crown prince······"

"I was the queen of the first emperor and the queen mother of my son, and now, I want to be the queen mother of the crown prince······"

In just three or two sentences, the little vitality left by the Son of Heaven seems to have passed with the naked eye;

Seeing that Tianzi Qi's eyes were becoming more and more distracted, the expression on his face was becoming more and more depressed, and even his tone was becoming more and more ambiguous, Zhou Ren on the side only lowered his head when he wanted to speak.

On the edge of the imperial couch, the Empress Dowager Dou only held the weak hand of Tianzi Qi, regardless of the tears on her face again, she only nodded vigorously.

"I know ······"

"I know ·········"

"Ah Qi, a good emperor······"

"When you go underground, you will definitely be praised by the emperor······"

"In the future, my family of five can also be reunited underground······"

Before Empress Dowager Dou said these words in tears, the Son of Heaven on the royal couch had already shown the tiredness of falling asleep again;

But after hearing that Empress Dowager Dou inadvertently said these words, especially the sentence 'we are a family of five', Tianzi Qi, who was already about to fall asleep, only held on and cheered up some spirits.

blinked vigorously, and finally focused his pupils on his mother, and the Son of Heaven finally expressed his biggest worry about the future in his heart.

"After the child, the mother, will suffer······"

"What the Empress Dowager Lu had to suffer back then was to endure humiliation when she was bullied by foreigners;"

"The Empress Dowager Bo at the time of the first emperor only needs to help the first emperor stabilize his power."

"But after the son, the queen mother wants to be the queen mother, watching the prince raise troops to the north and fight the Huns."

"Mother, I'm going to suffer······"

···

"The crown prince is nineteen years old this year;"

"By next year, we will be crowned."

"Er originally planned for Ah Wu, as 'Zongbo', to preside over the coronation ceremony after the crown prince's accession to the throne, but Ah Wu actually went to see the ······first emperor one step earlier."

"-Ah Wu, it's really not a ······"

"Alas······"

···

"After the crown ceremony next year, the queen mother can make the decision, and let Gillian enter the pepper room justifiably."

"The year after tomorrow, you can let the prince govern in person······"

"Gillian is still young, if she doesn't wait, I'm afraid it will be difficult to survive the ghost gate of birth and raising."

"The queen mother persuaded my sister to wait for Gillian to be older, and then urge Gillian to ······"

"Although Gillian is young, the prince is not young anymore······"

"——If there are still no heirs for many years after being crowned pro-government, it is easy for the government and the opposition to give birth to some gossip that they dare not have."

"The queen mother is in charge, let Sheng give birth to a few concubines as soon as possible······"

"The eldest son and princess of the emperor are all ······"

···

"And Sister;"

"What I'm most worried about is my sister."

"The prince's temperament, with the queen - too emotional."

"If you sit on the throne in the future, it is inevitable that you will not be troubled by the eldest princess at that time, using the word 'love'."

"- The queen mother is difficult, and the future prince will be even more difficult, and the burden on his shoulders will be heavier."

"Sister's side, I still have to worry about my mother······"

The sincere and uneuphemistic confession only made the Empress Dowager Dou's face even more sad, but she still held Tianziqi's hand tightly, and nodded again and again with a dull face.

After a long time, the Son of Heaven Qicai once again looked tired and lay down a little lower.

"Let's do it first······"

"If there is a real case, it will be carried out according to the edict and the order of the queen mother······"

"Son, I am tired of ······"

As soon as these words came out, Empress Dowager Dou finally got up from the edge of the couch, subconsciously wiped her tears, and was supported by Queen Jia, who was also in tears, and slowly walked out of the Xuan room step by step.

Empress Dowager Dou doesn't know if today is the last time she will enter the Xuanshu Palace;

But Empress Dowager Dou probably had a hunch: Today's side is almost the last side that she and her son Liu Qi have seen in a normal state.

Next time, there is a high probability that the Son of Heaven will return to the light, and take advantage of his last time to explain some things after his death······

"Embroidered clothes, are they all arranged?"

！

At the moment when the figures of Empress Dowager Dou and Empress Jia walked out of the palace gate, Tianzi Qi on the royal couch suddenly widened his eyes!

Although it is not as angry as the angry eyes when he is angry, it is also much better than Fang Cai's extreme waste, which can only open half of the state.

Frightened by Tianziqi's unexplained state change, and recalling Tianziqi's 'glorious history', Liu Sheng quickly calmed down from his surprise.

It was Liu Sheng's rapid calm in a very short period of time, and the sadness that still hung between his eyebrows after calming down, that made Tianziqi completely give up his plan to test it again.

Zhou Ren, who was beside him, nodded heavily, then sat up and beckoned to Liu Shengwei.

"The embroidered guard is a secret guard established by Emperor Xian when I was in charge of the country."

"At first, in order to guard against Liu Bi, the king of Wu, he might send assassins to assassinate me."

"Later, it slowly became the eyes of me in Kanto, watching the eyes of the princes of the Kanto clan."

"——The first commander of the embroidered guards is my Lang Zhongling: Zhou Ren, Marquis of Ru Tomb."

···

"After me, whether the embroidered clothes guard is saved or went, you can do it yourself."

"But at least until the crown is pro-government and power-in-power, the embroidered guards must exist and must not be known to others."

"-After me, Zhou Ren can no longer be the commander of Lang Zhong, but he must continue to be the commander of the embroidered guard;"

"Sit firmly on the throne, and whatever you want to do, you will have you."

Before Liu Sheng could recover from the horror brought about by the mysterious department of 'Embroidered Guard', a gold half-sided tiger talisman was lifted in front of him by the Son of Heaven.

When Liu Sheng reached out to take it with a dull gaze, the hand of Tianzi Qi was still weak and weak enough to wipe away tears for Empress Dowager Dou, but he tightly grabbed Liu Sheng's wrist.

"Don't believe anyone!"

"Anyone, including the queen and the queen mother!"

"—including my !!"

"Before you sit on the throne, listen to every word that rings in your ears as a lie!"

"Don't trust anyone!"

"Always remember: anyone can be thinking about how to take your throne!!"

"Including the palace people and maidservants around them, the street vendors, pawns, and even the homeless people who beg for food······"

(End of chapter)