A motorized carriage returned to the palace in the middle of the night.

Ding Rong guessed well, the emperor didn't have time to care about them at all. The harem was full of people on their backs.

Ci'an Palace, where the Queen Mother lived, was brightly lit, especially in the dormitory, where some imperial doctors guarded the Queen Mother's bedside and gave acupuncture treatment to the Queen Mother who had fainted. Most of the imperial physicians gathered in the central hall to discuss changes in their conditions and rescue measures.

At one end of the queen mother's bed, a little palace maid carefully wiped the blood marks on the side of the bed.

When the emperor and King Rui came in, they saw such a scene.

I went to the Queen Mother to take a look and found that the Queen Mother's eyes were closed, and the emperor asked in a low voice, "The Queen Mother hasn't woken up yet?"

The imperial doctor who applied the needle wiped a sweat on his forehead, and said weakly: "I haven't woken up yet...... However, hemoptysis stopped. ”

The emperor retreated, went to the central hall, and asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, what happened to the Queen Mother?"

The imperial doctors looked at each other, and the oldest of them, Huang Imperial Doctor, said: "The Queen Mother, she has always been in good health, but recently for some reason, her lung qi is deficient, her middle qi is not continuous, she has hemoptysis all the time, and the medicine is ineffective...... The ministers have been discussing it for a long time, and they don't know what the cause is. I don't know the cause, so I can only treat the symptoms, but the treatment effect is not good. As he spoke, the imperial doctors knelt down together and said, "The minister is useless, and the minister asks the emperor to punish him." ”

The emperor didn't get angry, but his face darkened.

King Rui patted the emperor on the shoulder to show comfort, and said: "Your Majesty, the minister heard that there is a divine doctor in the Ankang Hall of the imperial capital, and the common people praise him. I immediately sent someone to ask for this folk miracle doctor. ”

The emperor nodded.

At this time, the imperial doctor in the Queen Mother's bedroom walked out quickly and said, "The Queen Mother is awake!"

In the dormitory, the weak voice of the Queen Mother did come: "Your Majesty ......"

At this time, a little palace maid ran out and said, "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother has called you over." ”

The emperor hurriedly walked in, and there was a grandmother who had already helped the queen mother to sit up, and the queen mother said breathlessly: "Except for the emperor, you all step back first...... This palace has something to say to the emperor......"

When the other people who were waiting withdrew, the door was closed, and the queen mother stretched out her hand to the emperor.

The emperor immediately sat down on the edge of the bed and held his mother's hand. Until a little more than a month ago, my mother was still much younger and more beautiful than her peers. After only a month of illness, she had gray hair, fine lines on her face, and her face was gray. The emperor couldn't help but say: "You better lie down and rest, don't talk, don't bother." ”

"Son, I'm sorry for you......" said the Queen Mother, tears streaming down her eyes.

The emperor and the queen mother and son have a deep relationship, and they are usually together like a folk mother and son, and they rarely use honorific titles, so the emperor said: "Mother, why do you say that? You have never been sorry for me." ”

"No! I'm sorry for you. The Queen Mother insisted.

"You're sick and confused, so get some rest. ”

The Queen Mother said: "I shouldn't have passed on this cursed bloodline to you!"

"What did you say?"

"Your Majesty, my life is not long. There are some things I have to tell you, and if you don't talk about them, you won't have a chance. ”

"Don't say that, you'll be fine!"

"I can't get better, this evil curse can never be solved!" said the Queen Mother, tears streaming down: "Even if I am cursed to death, it may even affect you, my poor son." As an emperor, it is the luckiest thing in the world, but you are so unlucky. ”

"I ......"

The Queen Mother interrupted the emperor's words and said, "Let me finish it all at once, otherwise I don't know if I can wake up again." ”

The emperor kept his mouth shut.

"Son, the blue eyes of you and me are proof of the curse. My mother's father, my grandfather, did not have blue eyes when he was a child, but ordinary black. He practiced a strange art, and when he completed it, his black eyes turned into blue eyes. But we people from the Northwest, blue eyes and gray eyes are not uncommon, and there is not much of a problem. However, he used this magic to deal with a witch, and she found out that the witch had a death curse on him and his descendants before she died: in the family, the man will not live to be thirty, and the woman will not live to be fifty, and as the price of the magic is the retribution of her grandfather for using the magic to deal with her. ”

"My grandfather stopped breathing with hemoptysis the day before his thirtieth birthday. However, my mother had been born at the time, she was born with blue eyes, and she had inherited the magic, and she was in great pain, she didn't want any magic, but she didn't want to interrupt her life. She spent her life searching for a way to break the spell, but she died before the age of fifty. Although I had blue eyes, I didn't have any strange skills, so I used to think that bad luck had changed. However, seeing that I was about to turn 50, I was just like them coughing up blood and unable to breathe. Rui Kai, my son, you are also blue-eyed, and you are almost thirty years old, this retribution may not be avoidable, how is it good?"

The emperor looked at his mother's sad appearance and comforted: "You also said that our ethnic minorities in the northwest already have blue eyes, and blue eyes do not mean that they will definitely encounter misfortune. Don't worry about it anymore, rest in peace, and you'll be fine. ”

"Fortunately, you have been blessed by the gods, and you have been harmless and painless. Speaking of this, the Queen Mother suddenly saw the blood on the emperor's forehead, and was shocked: "Are you injured?

"It's just a small injury. ”

"But after you were thirteen years old, you have never been injured again!" the Queen Mother remembered clearly, and her eyes suddenly became fierce: "Was that woman harmed?" That woman, the eldest princess Jin Le Yin tried her best to destroy the protection of the gods for you. She thought I didn't know what she was doing!"

"Mother, this has nothing to do with my aunt......"

"It must have something to do with it! Also, is King Rui also out there? You have to guard against him, he is also a harborer. It is impossible for the eldest princess to be the emperor herself, so she naturally unites him. ”

"King Rui, he won't. ”

"Son, don't be too naïve, Jin Leyin has always admired his eldest brother and hated her second brother, that is, your father, who ran away from home for a long time in order to succeed to the throne, and then your father took her back after succeeding to the throne, and let her help you manage the government regardless of previous suspicions. Her kindness to you now is a sword. ”

"Aunt is an aunt, King Rui is different from her. ”

"How many times have you escaped poisoning and assassination with the protection of the gods, but now that your protection has been broken, I'm worried...... cough cough cough cough ......" As she spoke, the Queen Mother coughed profusely, and bright red blood flowed from the fingers covering her mouth.

The emperor hurriedly helped the Queen Mother to lie down, and the Queen Mother pointed to the dresser groggily and said, "I wrote a decree...... It's in the box next to the bronze mirror...... As soon as I die, you will let Gonggong Ling award it......"

"Yes. The emperor replied respectfully.

The Queen Mother fainted again. The emperor walked out, and the imperial doctor hurriedly came in to take care of the queen mother. Everyone didn't notice that the emperor was holding a box in his hand, and the box contained the queen mother's deathbed decree. The emperor didn't look at it, but he knew that it must have listed the eldest princess and King Rui's major crimes such as collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, and gave him death. It was his mother who cleared the way for him, but, King Rui, could not be killed.