160, the mysterious guest in the middle of the night
In the imperial study room, everything was quiet.
The emperor and the prince didn't speak, each was thinking. After a long while, the emperor spoke.
"Ling Yao, I've given you a task." The emperor leaned forward with a serious expression, "No matter what, we must find this woman!"
"Yes, father." The prince lowered his head, with a humble attitude and an easy-going voice, but something strange flashed through his covered eyes.
The emperor looked at the prince and laughed, "The advantage of your child is straightforwardness, and the disadvantage is also straightforwardness. Haven't you ever thought about taking that woman for your own use?"
The crown prince lowered his head with a respectful expression, "I made my father laugh. My son admires this woman very much. It is precisely because of his appreciation that he respects her even more."
The emperor smiled and nodded, "You are both principled and compassionate. You have done a good job. But you must always remember your identity. What you do does not represent yourself. You are a prince. No matter what The first thing to think about is the interests of the country, do you remember?"
The emperor's voice was not loud, but it was full of deterrence, and even more of a reproach. Blame the prince for meeting the woman who gave the secret recipe, but not staying.
"My father taught me, my ministers will always remember it." The prince replied respectfully.
The emperor thought about it for a while, and then said, "The epidemic situation in the south of the city is also left to you." Because he didn't want to disclose the penicillin formula, only the crown prince can handle it.
"Yes, Royal Father." The prince still replied firmly.
"If you have nothing else to do, let's go down." The emperor sat back on the imperial book table, started reviewing the memorial again, and ended the topic.
The communication between the father and son was brief and no nonsense, the prince had long been used to the emperor's behavior.
Sometimes he is very curious about the communication mode of father and son in other ordinary families, whether they are more cordial, and whether they are also guarding against each other. He even envies his elder brother, King Li very much. Because only in front of King Li, the real warmth can be revealed in the eyes of the father.
He knew the reason, not only because of the deep relationship between Concubine Qin and the emperor, not only because the elder brother was the eldest son of the emperor, but also because the elder brother had no one to follow him, and he was the most trusted person of the emperor.
It was afternoon, the sun was westward, and the wind was getting colder.
The prince's servants followed the prince from afar and did not dare to approach him, because the servants could tell that the prince was in a bad mood, and accompanying the king was like accompanying a tiger. Although the prince was usually gentle and polite, the servants had to learn to look at him.
The prince stopped suddenly, his tall and slender figure was slightly weakened, and the golden prince's suit was noble but lonely under the reflection of the setting sun.
He stretched out his hand to cover his chest, because it was so tight that he couldn't breathe, but almost instantly, he put his hand down again, as if nothing had happened. Take a deep breath, dispel the boredom in his chest, and prevent others from discovering his emotions. The deep eyes full of haze regained clarity and gentleness.
After returning to the East Palace, the prince withdrew the palace people, and in the study, he spread out the drawing paper and drew the Miss Han from his memory.
The prince's painting skills are excellent and very vivid, but his painting style is limited after all. In addition, the prince's attention was not on the woman's appearance before, and now he can only draw a rough outline, not to mention the image, even the resemblance. less than.
The prince looked at the woman on the drawing paper, thought for a while, and added a few more strokes, making the portrait that was not like Gu Qianxue even more like Gu Qianxue herself.
That night.
Because penicillin had an effect on the epidemic, Gu Qianxue was in a good mood, which meant that her previous efforts were not in vain, and she was satisfied, so she slept more soundly.
What's more, the night before, he really didn't close his eyes at all.
Suddenly, the atmosphere in the quiet room suddenly changed, and it became very strange. The lamps and candles on the table were suddenly extinguished, and the room was plunged into darkness.
But Gu Qianxue didn't know it at all, and was still sound asleep.
In her sweet sleep, Gu Qianxue only felt pain in her ears and heavy eyelids. She reached out to touch her aching ears, but she felt a big warm and hard hand beside her ear.
Gu Qianxue opened her eyes suddenly.
"Who?" The darkness made Gu Qianxue even more frightened, she shot in the direction of that person without hesitation, but in the next moment, the pain in her ear disappeared, and her hand was pressed hard against the bed.
Severe pain hit her whole body along her arms, Gu Qianxue didn't dare to move at all. "Are you here to rob money?" Gu Qianxue asked.
The man didn't answer.
"I guess you didn't come to kill me, or you could have killed me before I woke up. You didn't come to rob me, otherwise I wouldn't be safe in my bed." Gu Qianxue's voice was calm, refusing to panic Fear was revealed in the voice, "Just say what you want, as long as I have it, I will give it to you."
The man still didn't answer.
"There is no moon today, I can't see your face clearly, don't worry." Gu Qianxue tried to fight back as she spoke, but her arm hurt too much, as if moving it up and down would break it.
Finally the man spoke, his voice was cold and arrogant, with a sense of arrogance. "It is rumored that the father sent people to look for a woman everywhere, and that woman offered the prince a secret recipe of a strange medicine. It is you."
Gu Qianxue was shocked, but it wasn't because the man in the epidemic area was the crown prince, but because the person who spoke was clearly... King Li who was thousands of miles away.
"You... are back...?" The voice trembled slightly.
Gu Qianxue is not afraid of others, only afraid of Li Wanggong's abuse, because besides being unreasonable, that guy doesn't know how to be sympathetic to women, and he doesn't hesitate to attack women.
"Answer this king's question." King Li's voice was filled with hidden anger.
Gu Qianxue suddenly became angry and wanted to explode, but she had a premonition that as long as she was rude, her arm would definitely be useless. "My lord, please let me go first, I will answer truthfully whatever you ask." First save my arm before speaking.
Gu Qianxue didn't dare to shout, because since King Li could appear in her room, it meant that the outside had been taken care of, and she was afraid that if she could not save herself, she would end up hurting herself.
"I haven't seen you for a few days, have you forgotten my king's habits?" What King Li hates the most is repeating a sentence many times.
Gu Qianxue only felt that her already numb arm was more painful, and the pain was piercing, and she even seemed to hear the slight cracking of bones.
"Don't... I said, I said." Gu Qianxue gritted her teeth and said, "The secret recipe of penicillin was indeed sent by me, but I didn't know that person was the prince. I just wanted to save the people in the epidemic-stricken area. If I can't control it anymore Due to the epidemic, the emperor will order the people in the entire region to be transferred out of the city, the epidemic is extremely contagious, I believe that if those patients leave the capital, they will have to wait to die."
However, King Li sneered, "Gu Qianxue, don't try to challenge this king's patience. How dare you say that you gave the prince the secret recipe of penicillin not to claim credit, but to seduce the prince?"
161, you are a man!