Emperor Chengtai returned to Qianyuan Palace with a sullen face. Feng Liao followed behind him.
Sitting on the throne in the main hall of Qianyuan Palace, Emperor Chengtai looked at Feng Liao, who looked haggard and sad, and suddenly felt that he was a little strange.
A year ago, Feng Liao seemed to still be fooling around in front of her. At that time, he was a sunny and cheerful teenager.
The prince standing in front of him now has a fierce and sharp attitude, and is also very contradictory intertwined with a sense of depression, and he can no longer see the energetic and pure appearance of the past.
He suddenly felt a little heartache, and involuntarily slowed down his tone: "Why did you bring up those rumors in the court?"
Feng Liao bowed to him respectfully: "I don't want those ministers in the court to be like hungry wolves, staring at this wealthy son-in-law. It will make me feel sick, so sick that I can't eat or sleep! "
Emperor Chengtai's anger soared again, but he tried his best to restrain himself and asked angrily: "Do you know what the consequences will be
Feng Liao sneered slightly: "What consequences can there be? Does the emperor think that it will make Er Chen a bachelor for the rest of his life?"
Emperor Chengtai said with a sullen face: "I am not afraid of you being a bachelor. From ancient times to the present, there has been no emperor who is a bachelor. I just don't want you to marry an unqualified woman to be a princess and future queen.
"You also said that the future empress has a lot to do with it. She can have no looks, and she can even come from a low family background, but she can't lose her heart, and she can't be virtuous!"
Feng Liao was silent for a while, and then slowly said: "I never want to marry a virtuous woman, I just want to marry a caring woman. Even if you give me a woman who is the embodiment of womanhood, if I don't like her, Nor will you feel happy.
"Father, you have been sitting in that position for almost twenty years, and you know how difficult and hard it is to govern the world well.
"My son is willing to work hard without fear of hardships and dangers. But my son hopes to have a caring, caring woman who can comfort my son's loneliness in the forbidden palace and the loneliness in the nine heavens..."
Hot tears welled up in Feng Liao's eyes: "This little bit of extravagance, doesn't the emperor want to let his son fulfill his wish? Are you... really the uncle who loves me?!"
Tears welled up in his eyes, blurring his vision.
Emperor Chengtai gritted his teeth slightly: "You can't forget that wild plum blossom?!"
Feng Liao looked at him with teary eyes, and curled the corners of her mouth sadly: "I don't know if I will forget it in the future. But now, I can't forget it! The pain of lovesickness for the past two months has made my son feel so sad. …”
Thinking of this, he was so choked up that he couldn't say a word, he could only stand there, eyes closed and weeping.
He felt his ears ringing, his head swelled, and the throbbing got worse. Everything around him became a little illusory, and his whole body began to sweat.
"Believe it or not, I'm asking someone to kill the Yong family?" Emperor Chengtai gritted his teeth.
"Whatever the father wants, I have no power to stop it. However, if the Yong family is dead, I will never live." Feng Liao's voice was a little erratic, but her tone was extremely firm.
"If you dare to seek death and life for the Yong family, I will let the Yong family be buried with you!"
Feng Liao lowered her eyes in silence, enduring the dizziness that could not be ignored gradually.
After a long while, he opened his eyes, looked at Emperor Chengtai expressionlessly, and said word by word: "If that's the case, my son will go to the Nine Springs...please apologize to the Yong family!"
"You..." Emperor Chengtai was too angry to speak.
Feng Liao raised her trembling hand and wiped the tears on her face indiscriminately, feeling exhausted: "Father, my son always thought: You love me! I also always thought that the Tian family also has flesh and blood. Yes. But now, I'm not so sure...”
"Do you think... I don't love you?" Emperor Chengtai felt sad.
I broke my heart for you, and you actually think that I don't love you? ! Do you think I have no blood relationship? !
"If the emperor loves my son, why does he force him to do things like breeding cattle and horses? Is it because he is worried that his life will not last long and wants him to stay as a queen?"
Feng Liao said sarcastically: "Actually, why bother? If one heir can adopt one, he can adopt two or three. There are many children in the royal family. Are you afraid that no one will be the emperor?"
Emperor Chengtai trembled with anger, and was terrified by his ominous words.
"Feng Liao, stop talking, take a break first!" He looked nervously at Feng Liao's crumbling body, "Come here, show the prince a seat! Go pass the imperial doctor!"
Feng Liao felt dizzy, her body was getting weaker and weaker, and her mind was a little blurred: "Before Mr. Yong left, he told me never to feel hopeless, let me take care of myself, and let me do what I should do every day. things, never indulge and degenerate.
"I promised her, and I worked hard to fulfill my promise! But now, Erchen feels... I... have worked so hard..."
Thinking of what Ruoruo and Ruoruo had suffered, the pain in his heart once again swept through his whole body and mind.
His whole head throbbed and throbbed, and it looked as if it was about to explode.
Suddenly, he felt that everything in front of him became pitch black, and the surroundings became silent, even he himself didn't seem to exist...
His entire body lost the strength to support it...
Sitting on the throne, Emperor Chengtai watched Feng Liao collapse, his eyes widened in horror.
A few eunuchs who had been on alert for a long time, hurried forward to support Feng Liao, so that he did not let him fall straight to the ground.
"Feng Liao!" Emperor Chengtai rushed towards Feng Liao anxiously from the throne, with the pen holder and a stack of memorials turned over by his sleeves.
An eunuch sniffed Tan Fengliao's breath, and said without hesitation in great surprise: "Your Majesty, the prince is still angry!"
While Emperor Chengtai breathed a sigh of relief, he was extremely annoyed: "What are you talking about? Of course the prince is still angry! Where is the imperial physician? Hurry up and urge the imperial physician!"
Just now when he called Chuan imperial doctor, a young eunuch with fast legs and feet had already rushed to pass it on. At this time, seeing his urging, another eunuch rushed away.
Cai Qingnian, the chief eunuch, felt that something was wrong with the situation today, so he whispered to a young eunuch: "Go and invite the empress!"
"Bring up the spring stool! Help the crown prince onto the spring stool!" Emperor Chengtai ordered again.
The eunuchs quickly brought up a spring stool, and carefully helped Feng Liao onto the spring stool so that he would not lie on the ground. Another chair was moved and placed beside the spring stool for Emperor Chengtai to sit on.
Emperor Chengtai sat on a chair and held Feng Liao's hand tightly. He looked at Feng Liao who was motionless, his black eye circles and pale face, and couldn't control his trembling.
He prayed in his heart: Feng Liao, you must be well! There must be nothing wrong! As long as you get better, I promise you everything! If something happens to you, I will chop your lovely family to pieces!
For many years, he had never been so dazed, annoyed, and panicked.
He has also had many years, and he has never experienced this feeling of living like a year.
I don't know how long it took, Chen Shou'an, the judge from the left courtyard of the imperial hospital, and several on-duty imperial physicians, were half-supported and half-supported by the young eunuchs, and rushed over sweating profusely.
"Come and see the prince." Emperor Chengtai hurriedly greeted them, got up and stepped aside a bit, so that the imperial doctor could treat him.
Those imperial physicians hastily bowed their hands to Emperor Chengtai, which was regarded as a salute.
They surrounded Feng Liao, checking the pulse and rolling their eyelids.
After busying themselves for a while, they discussed a few words in a low voice with solemn expressions. The leader of the Zuoyuan judge, Chen Shouan, replied to the emperor: "The prince was deeply saddened by worries and thoughts, and then he was deeply saddened, so that the five internal depressions and the seven emotions were internally hurt..."
Before he finished speaking, Emperor Chengtai interrupted him impatiently: "Don't drop the book bag for me! You only said how the prince's condition is? Is it... dangerous?"
When he asked this question, he was extremely nervous.
Chen Shou settled down and said respectfully: "The crown prince is young and in good health, so his life should be safe. The biggest danger lies in...
He gritted his teeth, and bowed deeply to Emperor Chengtai: "This disease can easily make people lose their minds, and they will suffer from... madness from then on!"
Emperor Chengtai looked at him, and there was no trace of blood on his face.
He stayed there for quite a while before shaking his lips and muttering, "Madness?! You said the prince will suffer from madness?"
"Your Majesty, please calm down!" Chen Shou'an looked at Emperor Chengtai worriedly, worried that the emperor would do something bad, and the trouble would be even greater. "I just said that there is such a danger, but I didn't say that it will definitely happen!"
Emperor Chengtai closed his eyes and took a few breaths, trying to calm down his emotions.
After a while, he raised his head and looked at Chen Shou'an sharply: "Treat the prince well, and do everything possible to keep him safe!"
Chen Shou'an bowed: "Yes! The crown prince's illness should rest in peace first, and not be stimulated any more. In addition, I invite the emperor to summon the envoy of the Academy and Xu Xinglin, the imperial physician, to discuss the crown prince's illness..."
"Understood!" Emperor Chengtai pursed his lips, "When will the prince wake up?"
"Earlier is tonight, later is tomorrow."
"Can't the prince wake up earlier?"
"It is possible, but doing so will do harm to the prince."
Emperor Chengtai had no choice but to let Feng Liao go to the wing of Qianyuan Palace to recuperate, and he refused to let Feng Liao go back to the East Palace now.
He also ordered Cai Qingnian to convey the prohibition order, strictly prohibiting the palace people from discussing or divulging today's events.
After Feng Liao was carried away, Emperor Chengtai sat on the chair in the palace with his back bent and dejected, as if he had aged ten years in an instant.
A familiar aroma came, and a gentle hand pressed on his shoulder.
Emperor Chengtai didn't need to look up to know that it was Empress Wei.
He suddenly felt that he was very weak, so weak that he wanted to cry, so he hugged Queen Wei's waist and buried his head in her waist and abdomen.
"Don't worry too much! Liao'er will be fine!" Queen Wei comforted him softly.
Two lines of old tears fell from the eyes of Emperor Chengtai. After a while, he asked Empress Wei in a low voice: "Is it wrong for me?"
Empress Wei sighed: "As the saying goes: Don't be stupid or deaf, don't be a family member. It is also said: Children and grandchildren have their own blessings... Your Majesty, I really worry too much!"
Emperor Chengtai did not speak.
Empress Wei added: "I heard from the little eunuch, Liao Er told you personally: before the Yong family left the palace, he told him never to feel hopeless, to take good care of himself, to do what he should do every day, and never to indulge or degenerate? "
Emperor Chengtai gave a muffled hum.
"Women who can say such things when the wind and rain are precarious have great wisdom and a big heart. Yong's broad-minded vision, character and strength, love and talent are by no means those 'virtuous women who only give their husbands a concubine' 'comparable."
Empress Wei sighed heavily again: "Your Majesty, let me tell you something you don't like to hear: It's a pity that such a woman can't stay with Liao Er forever! Liao Er's vision for picking women is much better than the Emperor's." Already!"
"Since she has great wisdom and a big heart, why doesn't she want to be a 'virtuous woman' as I said?" Emperor Chengtai was still outraged.
"No one is perfect. If she doesn't even know how to be jealous, the concubine will suspect that she is too perfect to be a real person! Her refusal to submit to the emperor and do things against her will is her strength of character and the most respectable thing. "
Emperor Chengtai looked up at Empress Wei angrily: "Is it reasonable for her to be jealous?"
Empress Wei ignored his anger and said, "It's not entirely jealous! The day before she left the palace, she once said to her concubine: If the prince himself doesn't want to favor the newcomer, she doesn't want to embarrass the prince for her own reputation..."
She told Emperor Chengtai what Yong Ruo had said when she took the poison.
He said again: "Yong said: The prince of a country should not be in such a situation! I think what she said is very reasonable.
"Look at what you've forced Liao'er into? If there's something good or bad about him, what face do you have to meet your sixth younger brother under the Nine Springs? Who are you going to hand over this country? Feng, who plotted against his brother Kuan, or the well-behaved Fengshi?"
Emperor Chengtai was still a little annoyed: "Could it be that the wild plum blossom that refuses to obey discipline is allowed to enter the hall and enter the house, so that the mother will not be able to succeed in the world?"
Empress Wei said with a sad expression: "Her appearance has been ruined, her black hair is gone, how can she be a mother to the world?"
Emperor Chengtai was speechless.
After a long time, he finally sighed: "I am a dignified son of heaven! Is it an extravagant wish to have a grandson earlier?"
Speaking of this question, Empress Wei couldn't help but smile wryly: "The fate of children and grandchildren may be predestined in the previous life. You and I didn't have enough blessings in the previous life, so we have to accept our fate!"
Emperor Chengtai hugged Empress Wei's waist again, buried his face between her chest and abdomen, his eyes were moist, and wept again.
The imperial physician gave Feng Liao an incense for calming the nerves.
Feng Liao didn't wake up until noon the next day.
When he woke up, he still had a headache, but he was sane and showed no symptoms of madness.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Feng Liao moved back to the East Palace to recuperate, and brought Jiao Zhu over: "Tell me about Emperor Liang's stay in the Zhuangzi! What does she do every day?"
How dare Jiao Zhu annoy the prince again? I picked up many happy and interesting things to say.
Liang Di led the maids to open a vegetable field, and said that she would grow some vegetables to eat by herself.
Liang Di led the maids to pick cherries by hand and make cherry wine; now she is staring at the plums in the villa every day, saying that when the plums are ripe, she will make plum wine.
Liang Di went to swim in the soup pool every day. It is said that in order to swim faster, Di Liang also made a strange costume called "swimming suit". The maids were too ashamed to talk about "swimming suits", but the servants had never seen what this kind of clothes looked like.
Di Liang also liked to bring tea and snacks and sit in a pavilion with a good view on the hillside, watching the rural scenery below.
Listening to these trivial and lively little things in life, Feng Liao's mouth gradually showed a little smile.
Of course he knew that Jiao Zhu was just picking up light and happy things to say, but from these things, he could feel that Ruoruo hadn't become depressed.
For him now, this is enough!
He suddenly felt a little ashamed: Ruoruo fulfilled his promise to him, but did he fulfill his promise to Ruoruo? If he took good care of himself, how could he get sick like this
After two days of raising her, Feng Liao's headache was basically gone.
He put on his clothes and got out of bed, and wrote back a letter to Yong Ruo. The general idea is: If you want to live there for a long time, then live there! Take care of yourself and don't worry about the rest.
He handed the letter to Jiao Zhu. They prepared a lot of things, and specially ordered the Inner Court Secretary to choose two little milk dogs with white fur, and asked Jiao Zhu to take them back to Zhuangzi.
Finally, he told Jiao Zhu: You must tell your master that the two Liangyuans have gone to Puhui Nunnery.