He hurriedly went up, took it himself, bought the land, and still thanked him before sitting down.

"How's your injury?" When he sat down, he heard the emperor ask.

"The injury is really fine." Pei Xiao Yuanying.

"It's all blame for the incompetence of the ministers, and I frightened the princess last night, and I disappointed Your Majesty."

The Emperor did not speak. At this time, it was also Zhao Zhongfang who opened his mouth, saying that His Majesty had inquired in detail about Imperial Physician Hu's injury, and specially gave a kind of antidote called Diyejia offered by the envoy of the Fulin Kingdom, who had just arrived in Chang'an a few days ago to pay homage to the saint Wanshou, and asked the Imperial Physician to use it at his discretion.

"In addition, this is a pair of spiritual ginseng newly offered by Silla this year, the main five labors and seven injuries, and the five internal organs. Remember to use it after recovering from injury, it will help strengthen the body and restore vitality. ”

Pei Xiaoyuan looked at the place where Zhao Zhongfang was pointing, and there were two humanoid old ginseng sticks on the imperial case, with red silk tied around their waists, both of which had hands and feet, and the length was more than a foot, which was clamped with a cedar box.

This should be the imperial medicine that Silla paid tribute to the emperor, such a size is extremely rare, how dare Pei Xiaoyuan occupy it, he hurriedly got up from his seat, thanked him, and excused himself.

The emperor stared at him displeasedly: "I give it to you, you take it and eat it!" Do you want to stay sick and crooked, and you always have to wait for the princess to serve you? ”

Pei Xiaoyuan was stunned and changed his words: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness." ”

The emperor sighed, and when he set his eyes on Pei Xiaoyuan again, his expression had already turned solemn.

"How you were in danger the day before yesterday, I will tell you in detail."

Pei Xiaoyuan recounted the assassination in detail according to his words. After listening to this, the emperor pondered for a long time, and slowly asked: "Donkey, I ask you, did Li Yan have any private contact with you before?" ”

Pei Xiaoyuan was silent for a moment, and whispered.

"Don't you know what is the purpose of my Lu Wusi? Why don't you catch him on the spot or kill him? The Emperor continued to say coldly.

Pei Xiaoyuan knelt down again and bowed his head: "The minister is guilty of failing His Majesty's entrustment!" ”

"What did he tell you?"

After being silent for a while, suddenly, Pei Xiaoyuan's ears heard a question from the emperor. The tone sounded as usual, extremely calm, but when Pei Xiaoyuan raised his eyes, he met a pair of eyes that were staring at him coldly.

"Your Majesty, it's just some old words. The minister has refused. ”

He lowered his eyes and responded slowly.

"Reminiscences."

The Emperor read his words lightly, then closed his lips tightly, his jaw arced sternly, and the hall fell into a stagnant silence.

Pei Xiaoyuan always lowered his eyes. After a while, I suddenly heard the emperor speak again: "That's it, I don't care about the past." You don't have to worry about arresting Li Yan for the time being! He has a deep heart, if I assassinate you this time, if I am not mistaken, whether I succeed or not, he will definitely use this matter to make trouble. ”

"I'll give you one more thing......"

Pei Xiaoyuan raised his eyes again and looked ahead. The Emperor had closed his eyes at some point, and his face was extremely tense, and it was evident that his heart was now in a whirlpool of struggle, or an extremely important determination as if he could not make up his mind.

After a long time, I saw that he finally opened his eyes slowly, and a cold light flashed under his eyes.

"The Liu family, Guan Neiwei and Xue have been married to each other since the founding of this dynasty, and the relationship is intertwined. Inside and outside the court, they are not small, you keep an eye on me, and you must not ask them to link up in private. ”

"Next, no matter what happens in Chang'an, I will not allow something like Cangshan Chen Sida to happen in the Guannei!"

"If you are derelict in this matter, you don't have to be a colt! There is a more suitable person to match the princess! ”

When the emperor said this, Zhao Zhongfang walked out and personally guarded the palace gate.

How could Pei Xiaoyuan not understand the meaning of the emperor's words, and his heartbeat was a little faster for a while. He froze and answered in a deep but clear voice, "Your Lord's Order." The ministers will do their best to keep Chang'an safe and sound. ”

The emperor and Pei Xiaoyuan looked at each other for a moment, and the emperor's expression finally slowly turned gentle, and he flicked his hand again and motioned to get up.

"Not so fast." The emperor said, "You should rest for half a month, recuperate well, and spend more time with the princess." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, the minister knows."

"Go ahead!"

Pei Xiaoyuan saluted like a ceremony, finished, and withdrew from Ziyun Palace.

He returned to the Shenshu Palace, thinking about the emperor's words in his mind, walked on the palace road for a while, and when he looked down, he accidentally found that the fish bag hanging on his body was missing.

I think that when he went out today, he hurriedly put on his waist, which was not fastened at the time, and he took off his belt with his actions and lost it somewhere.

The fish bag is similar to the official seal, which is a symbol of identity and entering and exiting the palace gate, which is very important. If you lose it, you will be impeached by someone with a heart, and if you are unlucky, you may have to be punished.

He remembered that when he came, the fish bag was still with him, and it was possible that he had just come out and left it in the area of Ziyun Palace, and he was thinking about it, but he didn't notice it.

Pei Xiaoyuan had to turn around. Along the way, I asked a few palace people I met on the palace road, and they all said that they had never seen it.

Or right in the Purple Cloud Palace.

When he returned, the palace eunuch standing at the gate of the palace also said that he did not know. Pei Xiaoyuan looked in through the palace threshold, and in the distance, he finally saw something similar to a fish bag on the ground in front of the next door where he had just left the palace. said goodbye to the palace supervisor, said that there was no need to report, and walked in.

If he was replaced by any other person, the palace eunuch naturally did not allow it, but he was a concubine, and the palace eunuch also obeyed.

He didn't want to alarm the emperor or Zhao Zhongfang inside, when he was about to get to the next door, he deliberately slowed his steps, and when he got closer, he leaned over and was about to pick and exit, but at this time, he heard a violent cough from the hall. The coughing sound was extremely painful, as if it was about to cough out all the internal organs, and when the sound finally stopped, there was a sound of hurried footsteps.

"What are you hiding?" The Emperor's voice was a little hoarse.

"Nothing. The old slave changed the veil for His Majesty......"

The Emperor laughed as if heck.

"You old eunuch! Do you think I don't know? Fang Cai is coughing up blood again, right? ”

"Your Majesty, don't be cranky. Nothing at all. Zhao Zhongfang's voice trembled slightly, obviously trying his best to suppress his emotions at the moment.

After a moment of silence, the Emperor's voice sounded again: "I don't care. It's just that you can't let the princess know, you must hide it for me! She just got married. I still want her to happily marry that Pei family! ”

"Your Majesty is relieved...... The old slave won't say anything if he is killed......" Zhao Zhongfang choked up.

The Emperor was silent again, as if he was thinking about things in a trance, and suddenly, leisurely, asked, "How long do I have to live?" ”

"Next spring. It's almost now, and there are less than four months left. ”

"yes, that's fast......"

The emperor sighed, and he should have been helped to lie down slowly.

"No matter what, I must stay up until that moment and give everything that should be explained properly. The living alive, the damned, all to die! I deserve to die, but I must be the last to die-"

Another cough. After being forcibly suppressed, the emperor urged: "What about my medicine!" Bring it to me! Don't miss a meal! ”

"Your Majesty, the time for the next meal of medicine has not yet arrived......"

The emperor seemed to be depressed, and suddenly, only to hear him sigh softly again: "Last night, my concubine went to the Pei family's boy's house, and my heart was empty!" I can't bear it! My daughter...... I didn't sleep all night...... Again and again...... Always thinking about her mother. If only she were still alive now, it would be nice to see her concubine getting married! It's a pity that she was left in the wilderness after she died, and even the last bit of her bones were gone...... I'm sorry for her...... I wish she could be in my dreams...... I don't dare hope that she won't resent me, I just want her to tell me where she is, where I can go to find her, and bring her back, even if it's just a strand of her hair...... But not once. For so many years, she has not been in my dream once...... The mass graveyard in the eastern suburbs is so big...... Where the hell am I going...... to find her......"

Pei Xiaoyuan's whole body tensed slightly.

He closed his breath, slowly reached over, and finally reached the fish bag on the ground, scooped it up, quickly pinched it into his palm, and then turned around, and was about to tiptoe away, when he was taken aback.

I saw that the princess had come at some point, and she was standing behind her at this moment. Her face was as white as if she had been drained of blood, her eyes were round, and she stood upright, stiff as if she were a lifeless wooden figure.

Soon, when she blinked, seemed to react, and was about to rush in, Pei Xiaoyuan suddenly stretched out his hand, grabbed her arm, and stopped her and hugged her. Then, his other hand covered her mouth, almost half-hugging and half-hugging, so that her feet could not be landed in the air, and only then did he force her out of the struggle.

"Don't let Your Majesty know that the princess and I have returned!"

Pei Xiaoyuan gave a short order to the stunned palace eunuchs near the palace gate, continued to carry her forward, and soon took her, and the two of them disappeared at the end of a remote palace road.

Chapter 100

She struggled so hard that Pei Xiaoyuan had to carry her forward completely halfway, and after turning to an ancient cypress tree at the end of the palace road at her feet, Fang loosened her arms and landed on the soft ground covered with cypress needles.

At this time, it was already dusk, and the twilight clouds over Chang'an were suddenly formed into a huge thick dark cloud by a gust of wind that suddenly rose from the wilderness outside the city, and slowly pressed down the city. The clear sky quickly darkened. A few palace crows that have always nested in this palace cypress tree, which is rarely passed by on weekdays, spread their wings noisily and flew away.

Before his feet landed and he was free, and before he could stand firmly, Su Yu pulled away his other palm that was still covering her mouth and not telling her to make a sound, and then without saying a word, he turned around and ran back in the direction he was coming from.

"Princess, stay behind!"

The powerful palm gripped her arm again, and she couldn't break free, and she had to pause again.

Fortunately, this time, I finally didn't cover her mouth anymore.

Su Yu turned his back to the man and froze for a moment, and suddenly couldn't hold it back anymore, Huo Ran turned his head: "Why didn't you ask me in?" Let me go! Anger was already flowing in her eyes.

The last rays of the day, not yet swallowed up by the dark clouds, leaked through the cracks in the green branches of the cypress and fell on her countenance. Her face was a pale, pale color he had never seen before, and the anger in her eyes that had moved to him and the stern tone that questioned him was something he had never encountered with her before.

"Princess, rest easy."

Pei Xiaoyuan accepted her anger and questioning. The voice and tone of voice when he spoke to her at this moment were softer than he had ever been.

"The princess will know if she thinks about it. His Majesty clearly knew the last ...... of Empress Zhaode"

He paused for a moment, and replaced the words with a tactful finger that was so cruel that he could not bear to speak.

"The place where Empress Zhaode's last immortal trace is gone, but she has never told you. Why? He was afraid that if the princess found out, she would be heartbroken and couldn't accept such a result. ”

"If the princess breaks in and asks questions, what is the use of the rest except to make Your Majesty frightened, add remorse to your heart, and worry about the princess?"

At this moment, Pei Xiaoyuan couldn't help but think of the scene when he was taken to the mass grave in the eastern suburbs that night.

When the emperor recounted that period of the past, the feeling of despair and depression that seemed to have fallen into the boundless darkness of eternal night made Pei Xiaoyuan think of it at this moment, and he was still deeply impressed.

He sits on the world, kills and kills, and is known as a million corpses in a rage. However, the woman who had a relationship with him disappeared into the world like that, scattered into mud and scattered without a trace. And all he can do is forbearance. Moreover, this forbearance is more than ten years.

How many more than ten years can be used for forbearance in a person's life?

And all this happened to a person who honored the title of the Son of Heaven, which is not the greatest irony.

I have to say that even though Pei Xiaoyuan still can't let go of the people in the Purple Palace, he can't help but feel a little moved when he thinks of it.

"If possible, it is to do all the power of the world to bring Empress Zhaode back to Anbong, I think, Your Majesty should also be willing."

He said slowly.

The rain froze.

Slowly, the sparks that were shooting at him dimmed in her eyes, and finally went out. She closed her lips and stopped questioning him. It's just that her face is still so pale, and her eyebrows are even more covered with a layer of despair and bleakness because of his words.

A gust of wind with a sense of dampness and cool autumn that foreshadowed the night rain crossed the palace walls one after another, and the palace buildings poured into the corner at the end of the palace road, rolling up the fallen leaves on the ground.

Pei Xiaoyuan stared at her quietly.

He guessed that when she arrived, he should have heard only the last words of the emperor and the old palace eunuch lamenting about the affairs of Empress Zhaode.

She should not know that the emperor, who looked like he was becoming tougher in front of people, was now decaying to the point of vomiting blood.

He was glad she didn't know at the moment. Otherwise, he really couldn't imagine how she would face such two misfortunes at the same time, which should have been infinitely cruel to her.

"You already knew, didn't you?"

Suddenly she asked again.