Before Jiang Ye's words could be said, the news of Xue Changfeng's death spread into the palace. The emperor's old face had a complicated expression, and Jiang also looked at him quietly.
"Let the third and the ninth go and have a look." The emperor said hoarsely, and said to Eunuch Mu, "After all, he is his nephew, and he expressed his affection for me."
"Yes..." Eunuch Mu heard the words and immediately turned around to do it.
Imperial Physician Li hesitated for a while, and saw that the emperor's face that had been bad all the time turned pale after hearing the news.
On the other hand, Jiang Ye held back half of what he had said, and now he is suffering. Seeing that Imperial Doctor Li was also a little embarrassed, Jiang also said softly, "Your Majesty, why don't you ask Imperial Doctor Li to take a pulse first."
"No need." The emperor coughed and said, "No need for today, you should step back first."
Imperial Physician Li had no choice but to nod, then bowed and said, "Then Wei Chen retire first."
After Imperial Physician Li left, the emperor leaned on the soft collapse, and Jiang also stood aside. The Anshang Hall was quiet, and the atmosphere seemed to be a little more dignified than usual. If so, the emperor is probably thinking about Xue Changfeng, Jiang also thought to himself.
"You just said, is there something you want to show me?" After a long while, the emperor suddenly said.
Jiang Yezheng was stunned. He was brought back to his senses by the words, and he said a little blankly: "Ah? No, no..."
The emperor gave him a deep look, and without further questioning, he said, "Help me up."
"Yes."
Jiang also stepped forward cautiously, helped the emperor to stay, put on his shoes, and then helped him get up. The emperor is actually very reluctant to walk around every day. The poison is really powerful. For half a month, the emperor is getting old every day.
"Help me to the main hall."
"Yes."
The emperor spends less and less time awake every day. Most of the time he is on the couch, resting between half asleep and half awake. The early court has not been carried out for a long time, and the courtiers are talking about it, and even Jiang, who is staying in the Anshang Hall, has heard about it.
And every time the emperor woke up and chatted with Jiang a few times, he would go to the main hall to read the mountain of memorials. Jiang also looked at it seriously and felt that being an emperor was not as good as the ordinary people outside the market thought. It can even be said that they are not as comfortable as they are. Perhaps because of this, the emperor liked to listen to his gossip about trivial matters, especially family affairs.
He helped the emperor out of the side hall carefully, maybe because the emperor really had no strength, his legs were not high enough, he was tripped by the threshold, and the whole person leaned forward, seeing that he was about to fall to the ground.
Jiang didn't even think about it, and hurriedly hugged him, but he didn't have time to stop him from falling. He responded quickly, grabbed the emperor's hand and pulled it towards him, using his strength to change positions with the emperor. Then it became that he was on his back, and the emperor fell down on top of him.
Jiang also scolded in a hurry: "Be careful, you can't stand falling if you don't look at your body!"
As he spoke, he helped the emperor up, and he was relieved after confirming that he had nothing to do with him. The emperor looked at him with a strange light in his eyes.
Only then did he realize that he seemed to have uttered wild words just now, committing a crime of disrespect. Jiang also helped the emperor, and hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy: "The emperor forgives his sins, the servants were in a hurry and offended the emperor!"
The emperor stood there and did not speak for a long time.
Jiang also lowered his head, not knowing what he meant, just waiting for him to speak. The longer he waited, the more uneasy he felt in his heart, for fear that he would wait for a sentence, "Put it out and behead it to the public." When he really couldn't stand this torment, he slowly raised his head and gave the emperor a careful look.
The emperor said: "I won't blame you."
"... Thank you, Your Majesty."
"Why do you care so much about me?" the emperor asked curiously.
Jiang Ye was still kneeling on the ground, and could only say truthfully: "I... a servant is... in a hurry..."
"Why are you in a hurry?"
"This... of course it will be urgent."
"But I and you are not related, not related." The emperor said slowly.
"Because, the emperor is not in good health..." Jiang didn't know what he was going to ask, so he had to say something perfunctory. The emperor then asked: "If you were someone else, would you do the same?"
"Yes." Jiang said without hesitation.
"Get up." The emperor whispered, "No need to kneel."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Jiang also got up from the ground in a sluggish motion, and supported the Emperor to the main hall again.
The main hall was lit with a lot of candles, and it looked bright. The emperor sat at the table and read the memorial carefully. Jiang also stood aside and had nothing to do, so he started to feel sleepy, covered his mouth and yawned silently.
"Sleepy?" The emperor asked suddenly while his eyes were still on the book in his hand.
"Go back to the emperor, don't be sleepy." Jiang also said.
He closed the booklet in his hand, threw it aside without any criticism, and turned to look at Jiang Ye.
"You are kind-hearted." The emperor said suddenly.
"Ah? The servants don't quite understand what the emperor meant." Jiang also bowed.
I have been with the emperor for a long time, perhaps because I am afraid that the emperor will not
Yue took his life, and Jiang became more and more proficient in these rituals. Over time, self-proclaimed "minions" also became less important. But then the emperor said: "I promise you don't have to call yourself a 'slave', after all, you are not."
"..." Jiang didn't know how to answer, and the emperor didn't need him to answer. He went down to himself: "If I order you to tell the purpose of entering the palace, would you tell me?"
"Will you die if you don't say it?" Jiang also asked with a sad face.
"meeting."
"Then all I have to say is..."
Seeing his appearance, the emperor was unexpectedly amused, and some let go of the royal majesty and laughed heartily.
"You all go down." After the emperor laughed, he ordered in a deep voice.
Several small eunuchs in the main hall who were waiting for dispatch at any time heard the words and stepped out of the main hall with small steps.
"Come on, sit across from me." Emperor Chongjiang also beckoned.
"It's not good..."
"I'll let you sit down," the emperor said. "If you don't sit, you will resist the decree."
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Ye walked to the table with a single stride, and hurriedly sat down face-to-face with the emperor.
"Then from now on, Zhen... I am the seventh master, and you are Jiang Ye." The emperor said, pushing the tea he had never drank in front of Jiang Ye, "In that case, you can let it go. "
"Even if you say that, I'm very..." Jiang also felt a pain in his head when he heard what he said. If it were someone else, let him be a little more casual, Jiang would have really gotten used to it after being in the barracks for so long. But when these words came out of the emperor's mouth, he always felt that there was something in the words, and maybe he was going to let him drill.
But on second thought, he didn't mess with the emperor. At best, he violated the palace rules by pretending to be a eunuch to enter the palace, but the emperor knew it early on, and he didn't have to wait until now if he wanted to deal with him. play fish.
"Hey." Jiang also sighed, picked up the cup of tea and drank it all at once, pretending that he was drinking to strengthen his courage, Zui Muxi finally said, "I am a soldier under General Xue Ziqin."
The emperor's reaction was completely expected by Jiang Ye. In the past, in the emperor's few words, he had already noticed the emperor's guard against the Xue family, especially in the matter of establishing the reserve, the Xue family was doing more and more every day, and the emperor could not feel at ease.
After listening to Jiang Ye's confession, the emperor's relaxed expression immediately disappeared, and he turned gloomy and said, "Are you here to monitor me?"
"Your Majesty..." Jiang also thought about it for a while, and said to himself, "No, Seventh Master, it was you who originally asked me to come to the temple."
"That's true." The emperor said, "Did you come to gain my trust in Huishan Building that day?"
"The conscience of heaven and earth, I know that the emperor is inside, and I will never go in." Jiang also sincerely said, "Didn't you ask me about the life of the common people? Then I say now, it really doesn't matter who the common people are the emperor."
The emperor's face was ugly, Jiang also knew that what he said was really outrageous, but if he didn't say it and let the emperor think about it, I'm afraid it would only make it worse, but he wanted to kill him even more. So I broke the jar with Jiang Ye in my arms, and before the emperor spoke, he quickly said, "I entered the palace because the ninth prince was once killed and rescued by me, and then I followed him into the palace to protect him."
"You mean..." "Yes, someone wanted to kill the ninth prince and the third prince. It was three years ago that they sacrificed to the heavens. It's a pity that the third prince was not dead, and the ninth prince was rescued."
"I remember this matter." Jiang Ye's quick answer really worked, and the emperor immediately lowered his head slightly and pondered, and did not pursue the matter that Jiang was also the Xue family. Jiang also quietly glanced at the emperor's expression, had some calculations in his heart, and then continued: "Seventh master, I will not hide it from you, just like the murder of the first prince, these things are for the position of the heir. When the prince was killed, I was in the Northern Army."
"Are you in the Northern Army?" The emperor was slightly startled and confirmed.
"Yes." Jiang also nodded, "I can testify that the death of the eldest prince has nothing to do with the Xue family."
"what?"
The words have already come to this stall, and Jiang also wanted to tell the whole story of the second prince, but what Wei Lin said suddenly flashed in his mind. Even if he told the emperor now, it would be empty words... But if he didn't say it, for this sake, if he didn't say it, it would appear that what he said before was all nonsense.
Jiang also raised his head, looked directly at the emperor without being humble or arrogant, and said, "Just die, the first prince should have been murdered by the second prince!"
"Bold!" As soon as Jiang Ye finished speaking, the emperor slapped a few cases angrily, even with the teacup trembling, he fell from the several cases to the ground, and got out all the way.
"Here! Cough, cough... Come!" the emperor roared, coughing incessantly, his pale face flushed with the lack of breath, "Drag this sloppy bastard out to me and beat him up. Enter the prison!"
The little lady who was guarding outside saw the sound and immediately entered the hall.
Jiang was also stunned, and only then did he understand that it was really the case that companions were like companions. Looking at it now, even if it is a tiger, it may not be as fast as the emperor.
But Jiang is also not the kind of person who can't be captured. He quickly got up slightly, then knelt down on the ground, fell on the ground and said loudly: "Your Majesty! I have evidence! I can prove it! If I have a half-truth today, my Jiang family will not end well!"
"What evidence?" the emperor asked angrily.
"I snatched the things on my body from the gangster that day, and now they are in my room, and I can bring them over to the emperor at any time."
"Okay," Yuemo was too excited, and the emperor's chest heaved violently. He reached out and patted his chest lightly, trying to make himself feel more comfortable, and then said, "If you deliberately deceive me, I will make your oath come true!"
"Okay!" After the emperor said so, the stubborn force in Jiang Ye's heart also came up, looked up at the emperor and answered loudly.