"Get this old man out of here!"
With a crash, everything on the table and table was wiped flat to the ground. Shan Chao gasped for a while, and under the horrified gaze of his cronies, he stood up and said slowly: "...Please get the imperial doctor out. Prepare the car and prepare to enter the palace."
Xie Yun's condition deteriorated rapidly, his pulse was weak and his Qi sea was empty, and what made Shan Chao even more terrified was that the true Qi that was constantly circulating in his body and that was exclusive to practicing inner martial arts disappeared.
In the end what happened? Poisoned? acute disease? How could it develop into this in just a few days? !
Shan Chao was ordered to assist the government, and like the other auxiliary ministers, he had the right to enter the palace at any time. After entering the Xuanwu Gate, he went straight to Lingluan Palace. When he arrived at the palace gate, he asked Ming Fangshi, but Ming Chongyan did not see him behind closed doors. .
"Mister meditated inwardly and said that unless His Majesty summoned him, he would never..."
The young disciple's voice was trembling, and he felt the general's gaze above his head was as powerful as a thousand pounds, making him speechless with fear.
"General, if you have something important to do, the younger one will write it down first, and after the sir leaves customs..."
Crash!
The little disciple's knees suddenly softened, and he felt the gust of wind passing by his side. Shan Chao passed him without looking back, climbed the palace steps and came to the closed gate.
What is this for? The little disciple's face was pale, and before he could scream "The general is merciful", Shan Chao drew his sword out of its sheath, and let out a thunderous roar: "Ming-chong-yan!"
Boom!
The thick palace gate was torn apart under Long Yuan's sword, splashing countless sawdust and dust!
In the main hall, Ming Chongyan opened his eyes and looked at the gods and Buddhas who looked down at the common people amidst the cigarette smoke, and there was a slight sadness in his eyes in the shadows. Ten feet behind him, Shan Chao was standing against the light in the ruins at the entrance of the hall, exhaling a scorching breath from his chest, and inserting Long Yuan into the scabbard inch by inch with his veined hand.
"Xie Yun is ill." Shan Chao said in a low voice, "I beg you to save me one more time, sir. Your life-saving grace will be rewarded."
Ming Chongyan asked back: "When I first met the general in the Puyang Palace, what did I say, the general, do you still remember?"
There was a palpitating silence, and all the disciples stood at the foot of the palace steps in the distance, looking at them in fear.
I don't know how long it took before I heard Shan Chao repeating hoarsely: "...Xie Yun is ill, please help me again..."
Ming Chongyan finally stood up helplessly, and sighed: "It's God's will, so just take a look."
However, when Shan Chao "invited" Ming Chongyan to return to the mansion, he found that Xie Yun had driven out all the people who served in front of the sick bed, and the carved door of the dormitory was tightly closed, and a faint blue light was faintly visible from under the door. The housekeeper and the servants were standing in the garden tremblingly. Shan Chao felt wronged, so he knocked on the door and asked, "Xie Yun?"
There was no voice inside.
"... Xie Yun? Open the door!" Shan Chao said furiously, the ending sound was mixed with unconcealable fear: "Quickly open the door!"
With a bang, Shan Chao kicked the door open and rushed in!
Layers of bed curtains hung down, and hoarse gasps came from the gaps, as if they were weak struggles in pain. Shan Chao went up and was about to lift the curtain of the bed, but was stopped by Ming Chongyan who followed in, and then gently raised a corner, sighing: "Thank you Commander."
Shan Chao froze on the spot, his breathing stopped.
There was a little dragon entrenched on the bed!
The little dragon emitted a soft blue light all over his body. His head was buried in his body and rose and fell with his breath. The dragon's claws glowing with a pale golden halo tightly twisted the silk quilt, and he convulsed slightly in extreme pain.
"... Xie Yun..." Shan Chao shook his head slightly for a long time, and said in despair, "What's going on?!"
Ming Chongyan stretched out his hand forward, as if he wanted to touch the dragon, but saw it dodge back sensitively, and the alchemist stopped cautiously immediately. At this moment, Shan Chao rushed forward, trembling and stroking the scales and dragon horns on its head, only to see Qinglong finally whimpered, raised his head and looked at Shan Chao.
Its originally vigorous dark green has faded to light blue, and its scales are extremely fragile, cracking at the slightest movement. But even so, it still struggled to lean over and rubbed Shan Chao's hand with nostalgia.
Following this movement, Shan Chao and Ming Chongyan's expression changed at the same time, and they both saw a certain part of it that had been buried all along—
On the dragon's neck, a scale was torn off alive, exposing a hand-sized piece of dripping flesh.
"Ni Lin!" Ming Chongyan lost his voice.
The dragon has reversed scales, which are indestructible, and if you touch it, you will die. It can be called the most deadly point on the Qinglong.
But now this precious reverse scale disappeared.
Who made it? How is this going? !
Shan Chao let out a chaotic and hoarse gasp, the recent events flashed through his mind one by one, and a terrible thought was about to come out from the bottom of his heart. He held Xiaolong in his arms, his lips moved slightly, and was about to grab Ming Chongyan to ask something, when he suddenly heard the voice of the butler from outside the bed curtain: "General, general! Prime Minister Dai and Prime Minister Zhang came to invite me together, and said Something important happened in the palace..."
Shan Chao didn't even think about it: "What's the matter? No see!"
"It's urgent!" The steward's voice changed at the end: "Ms. Dai said, if I don't see you today, I'm going to rule the country!"
An evil fire rushed straight to the top of Shan Chao's head, and said, "Then let the little emperor go to death!" Just as he was about to growl, Ming Chongyan held him down, and whispered: "There must be a big event in the palace, we can't Refuse to see him, if the two prime ministers become suspicious, they will forcefully barge in later..." He pointed to Xiao Qinglong on the bed with his eyes.
Qinglong slowly retracted his body, curled up in a corner of the silk quilt, and hugged the neck that had lost Nilin in pain.
"I'm here to take care of you, general, please go quickly." Ming Chongyan said solemnly: "Once the situation changes, I'll send someone a message right away, don't worry."
The housekeeper also said: "Dai Xiang and Zhang Xiang are waiting in the front hall, constantly urging..."
Shan Chao had no choice but to lean over and stroke Qinglong's scales with his warm and dry hands, then got up and hurried to the front hall. Dai Zhide and Zhang Wenguan were waiting there, and when they saw him, they immediately strode forward to meet him, and there was an unconcealable panic on their two old faces that had experienced many careers.
Shan Chao glanced behind them, the table was empty, and the two of them didn't even order tea.
"Excuse me, my two gentlemen, for waiting so long. It's my fault. It's just that my family members are suddenly ill today, and I really can't leave..."
Shan Chao's head start did not have any effect, and Dai Zhide stunned him with one sentence: "The messenger in the palace has sent a message that the Holy Majesty wants to be in Zen—"
Shan Chao was stunned.
"... Yu Wei Xuanzhen." Zhang Wenguan continued the sentence slowly, and closed his eyes heavily.
Two days ago, the little emperor made a big fuss over the incident at the Anton battlefield. He first blamed Shan Chao and then Dai Zhide. The courtiers fought to the end.
But the little emperor's foundation in the court is too weak, so weak that he has already shown such great determination, but no one is willing to follow the trend to cater to Shangyi. In the early days of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, there were even situations in which important civil and military officials spoke out against the emperor, and impeached Wei Xuanzhen for occupying the temple fields.
The isolated and helpless little emperor did not give in to his officials. He adopted the tough method his father used to make the Wu family empress - to fight all the opponents to the end.
Therefore, the little emperor decided to appoint Wei Xuanzhen as a servant, and the second prime minister of Zhongshu Province.
"Crazy?" Shan Chao frowned and said, "How can Wei Xuanzhen be promoted to servant by leapfrogging? Where are Dai, Zhang, and Lai Xiang?"
After meeting in the front hall just now, Dai Zhide immediately pressed Shan Chao into the palace to face the saint. Shan Chao was thinking about the little Qinglong in the backyard, and almost turned against the two old prime ministers with gray beards, but Ming Chongyan sent someone to report that Xie Yun had turned back into a human body and the situation was stabilizing, so he reluctantly let go A trip to the palace.
The three of them rode in a carriage together, Zhang Wenguan sighed and said: "Exactly! Therefore, the old man argued hard and tried to persuade His Majesty to change his mind. However, the words in the argument were a bit fierce, which aroused His Majesty's anger. He will immediately summon the general's Shangfang sword..."
Shan Chao was thinking about Xie Yun at home, and he realized after a while: "Shang Fang's sword? What are you doing?"
Zhang Wenguan burst into tears: "I think I want to kill the old minister!"
"..." Shan Chao just felt it was ridiculous and couldn't speak.
"More than that." Dai Zhide seemed to see through his thoughts, and said, "The news spread that His Majesty is going to promote Wei Xuanzhen as a servant, and the memorials of opposition flew into the imperial study like snowflakes, which made His Majesty even more intolerable. I have An acquainted eunuch was on duty in the imperial study, and this morning he sneaked out of the palace, and told me that His Majesty was angry in the palace, and said to others: I want to give the world to Wei Xuanzhen, so why not?! Why be stingy with a mere servant? If there are any objections from the ministers, I will imitate the virtues of Yao and Shun, Zen is located in Wei Xuanzhen, let's see what they have to say!"
Shan Chao: "..."
The carriages and horses drove into the inner palace, and the three of them got out of the carriage, and hurriedly stepped into the door of the imperial study room. From afar, there was only a loud crash of porcelain being overturned, followed by the roar of the little emperor: "Don't take me away!" Take it seriously! Everyone wants to ride on my neck!"
Dai Xiang and Zhang Xiang were not surprised, as if they were used to this scene.
Shan Chao walked to the door of the imperial study room, was stopped by the palace guards tremblingly, and said gently: "Go and report to Your Majesty, King Ping has come to ask for an audience."
The palace people didn't dare to stroke the tiger's beard in the emperor's anger, but they didn't dare to disobey Shan Chao's order, so they had to go in trembling. After a while, the little emperor yelled hoarsely: "No see!" Then there was a bang.
"..." The palace man came out with blood from the corner of his forehead: "Return...Report to King Ping, Your Majesty... Your Majesty is gone..."
Shan Chao inhaled slightly, his face sank like water, and he stretched out his hand to push the palace man away.
"—Ping, King Ping, stay away! Hey! Trespassing in the palace is..."
Shan Chao didn't turn his head back, and strode into the imperial study amidst the panic-stricken shouts of the palace people.
The little emperor stood panting among a pile of broken porcelain decorations, and the table and the ground were full of scattered memorials. Shan Chao picked up a copy, and the first line that caught his eye was "Although Webster was born as a queen..." After that, his eyes were full of blood and tears from the censor.
Shan Chao shook his head and sighed, and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty."
The little emperor turned his head suddenly, and shouted: "Who told you to come in?! Sure enough, you all take my words as fart, don't you?!"
"I don't dare." Shan Chao said, "I heard that His Majesty wants to hand over the world to Wei Shilang?"
The little emperor turned around and looked Shan Chao up and down, folded his arms provocatively for a while, raised his head and asked, "Are you also here to prevent me from promoting Wei Xuanzhen as a servant?"
"—Don't dare." Shan Chao raised his hand and said euphemistically: "Although I was wrongly loved by the first emperor and was able to assist the government, I know that my talents and knowledge are very shallow, and I am far inferior to the ministers of Zhongshu Province. Your Majesty wants to promote Wei Shilang I don't dare to comment, as long as Dai Xiang, Zhang Xiang, Lai Xiang, and Hao Xiang agree, I naturally have no opinion."
— In other words, even if I beat him to death, I would not agree.
The little emperor opened his eyes wide in disbelief, and then roared angrily: "This world belongs to me! I can promote whoever I want to promote, and bestow death to whoever I want! Even if the real Zen seat is given to Wei Aiqing, there is no one for you to talk about." share, do you know?!"
Shan Chao shook his head and said, "No, Your Majesty...you are wrong."
"In the thirteenth year of Daye at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Gaozu, in the name of King Qin, raised troops from Jinyang, captured Daxing City all the way, changed his name to Chang'an, proclaimed himself emperor under Zen, and established the country. Prince Jianjian was abolished and King Yuanji of Qi pacified Eastern Turks, conquered Goguryeo, established the four towns of Anxi, and created the Zhenguan rule of the Great Tang Taizu. In the 23rd year of Zhenguan, the first emperor ascended the throne of Chang'an, stopped the battle of Liaodong, avoided civil engineering, and pacified The Western Turks fought against Goguryeo, and erected sixty-one statues of Fanchen…”
"This country was brought down by the iron horses of our ancestors in battle, and this country was governed by generations of loyal ministers and good ministers." Shan Chao was gentle and irresistible, with a trace of condescending pity, and said: "Even you can't just give it up , Your Majesty, this is not your personal thing."
The little emperor's face was pale, his lips were trembling, and it took him a while to make a voice of hatred: "You think... you think you are my cheap brother, so you can teach me a lesson, don't you?"
Shan Chao said calmly: "I don't think I am, I am."
Dai Zhide and Zhang Wenguan supported each other, and when they reached the door, they were both stunned there.
"Get off... get off!" The little emperor picked up a few memorials and threw them over, "No one is loyal to me, they are all traitors! Get out!"
Shan Chao fixedly stared at him, bowed his body for a while, and there seemed to be some kind of cold and hard meaning in that movement, then turned and walked out.
"Don't get complacent too early!" The little emperor's roar came from behind: "The former emperor also disobeyed the wishes of the officials. If the former emperor can do it, I can naturally do it!"
The main gate of the Shan Mansion opened with a bang, and the horseshoes leaped forward like raindrops, and then stopped in the front yard with a long hiss. Shan Chao got off his horse and strode towards the backyard: "Where is Commander Xie?"
The housekeeper said cautiously: "Mr. Ming has been accompanying the inner room..."
Shan Chao nodded. The frivolity and frivolity of his youth had completely faded away from him, replaced by an astonishing calmness and composure, as if the violent storm in the palace just now hadn't affected him in the slightest, and he wouldn't let any uneasiness from the outside world And danger, brought to Xie Yun.
Just like every man who guards his family should do.
He walked quickly through the corridor, and saw Ming Chongyan standing outside the inner room door, watching him approaching, and then silently lowered his head.
"..." Standing in front of the closed door, Shan Chao asked in a low voice, "Xie Yun, he..."
"The medicine has been used, but it can only be saved for a while. The life of the dragon is at stake, once it returns to heaven, there is no way..."
Ming Chongyan paused, and signaled him to go in: "Commander Xie is awake, I'm afraid he would like to talk to you more."