The emperor guessed where the antidote was, and immediately gave Lei Gonggong a wink, signaling him to quickly send someone to protect the "antidote" and deliver it.
Gan Sui stretched his waist and said, "There's no need to go, it's too late."
The emperor changed his color and said, "What do you mean?"
"If you haven't touched the antidote for three months, it will be too late. There are two months left, and you can enjoy the little time left." The more ugly the emperor's face, the happier Kansui's smile became.
As long as the "Lian Lizhi" on the emperor's body does not understand the medicine, it will only have one year of life at most. If it can be saved by re-exposure to the antidote within three months, it is too late now, even if the portrait left by Concubine Yue is swallowed whole. useless.
"Mother often told me that you are a ruthless bastard. I don't understand why Auntie just likes you. I don't understand why she came Death is still obsessed with obsession, leaving you with a way out. But mother also said that sooner or later you will break your promise, and sooner or later you will have this day." Gan Sui continued to stimulate the emperor's nerves mercilessly.
The emperor trembled all over, and said in a trembling voice: "There must be a way, Xiao Mi, you have your mother's true biography, and you will be able to detoxify me. As long as you detoxify me, I will promise you anything... I will always be yours." Father, I have taken good care of you mother and child these years..." In his panic, he had already forgotten to use the noble self-proclaimed "Zhen". For more than half a year, he was almost driven mad by this strange disease, and he couldn't care about anything else. Dignity.
"Take good care of me?" Gan Sui said word by word, as if he had heard some great anecdote.
The emperor said eagerly: "Your mother can become the leader of the demon sect, and you can become the leader of the martial arts alliance at a young age. You must have my help, right? I, I am your biological father!"
"Oh? Who deliberately picked the critical moment of my mother's practice and brought the news of Auntie's death?" Gan Sui smiled softly.
"It was an accident, if I had known..." the emperor hurriedly argued.
"You knew that my mother was the most prone to madness at that time, so you sent someone to bribe the great elder, and at the most suitable time, injured the four guardians, broke into my mother's retreat, and reported the news of aunt's death in time. 'Send it, right?" Kansui interrupted his explanation slowly.
The emperor was speechless, he was afraid that Gan Qinglan would recklessly come to take revenge when he found out that his sister had been killed in the palace, and spoil his affairs, so he intentionally made her go crazy and couldn't go out to take revenge, and wrote letters afterward. Appeasement promises a lot of benefits and calms things down.
He always thought that this matter was done seamlessly, but unexpectedly, Kansui knew it clearly.
Kansui's voice was chilling, as if it came from the dark world: "After my mother got mad, she couldn't survive ten years, so she went early. I kept thinking, why wasn't you the one who died? If It's not that mother is worried about Yang Heng and wants me to fulfill her long-cherished wish, do you think you can live to this day?!"
The emperor was stunned by the hatred in his words, but he calmed down quickly and said through gritted teeth, "Then what do you mean by coming today?"
Kansui tilted his head and asked suspiciously, "Didn't you want to see us?"
The emperor got angry, rolled his eyes, and said to Yang Heng: "You find a way to detoxify me, you are the prince!" After all, Yang Heng has been by his side for many years, although the relationship between father and son is not close, but his temperament is not as ruthless as Gan Sui Spicy and ruthless, work hard on him, there is still hope.
"I promised my mother and concubine about this back then." Yang Heng was unmoved. The emperor is now bringing up the old matter again, using it as a life-saving straw, it only shows one thing, he never took his promise to Concubine Yue seriously from the beginning to the end.
"And as I said, what my son wants is not the crown prince." Yang Heng said with a slight smile, looking at the emperor.
The emperor was startled, and suddenly understood the meaning of his words, pointed at him tremblingly: "You, you..."
"What I want is your throne. What's the point if the crown prince is established today and can be abolished tomorrow? Father, you really underestimate my son." Yang Heng said the outrageous words with a calm face.
The emperor was about to have a seizure when he suddenly heard loud gongs coming from outside, and a eunuch screamed, "Fire! Fire! Behind the palace, call someone to put out the fire!"
Behind the bedroom, isn't that the place where the portraits of Concubine Yue and Gan Qinglan are kept? !
The emperor originally thought that even if Gan Sui refused to take action to detoxify, he handed the portrait of Concubine Yue to the famous doctor invited by the palace to study, maybe he could develop the antidote.
If the portrait is burned, there is really no hope at all.
Eunuch Lei also thought of this, and waved his hand to tell the other two trusted eunuchs to go and find out the situation.
The emperor's face was ashen, he knew without looking at it, since Gan Sui and Yang Heng made their move, and he was completely defenseless, they must have succeeded. What's more frightening is that the fire will start at this time sooner or later , clearly demonstrating to him!
Just imagine that within the scope of the emperor's palace, they set fires whenever they said they wanted to. What does this mean
I'm afraid it would not be too difficult for them to kill the emperor.
"What exactly do you want?" The emperor stared at Yang Heng and Gan Sui with red eyes, as if he wanted to pounce on them and eat their flesh and drink their blood.
Yang Heng and Gan Sui looked at each other, then turned their heads and said: "Father, put aside the mundane affairs, abdicate and become the Supreme Emperor with peace of mind, just take care of your health."
The emperor stopped talking. Yang Heng didn't urge him, he got up and bowed to leave: "Father thinks about it slowly, two months must be enough." After saying that, he turned around and left with Gan Sui without looking back.
Eunuch Lei wanted to step forward to grab the two of them, but he knew it was useless. Seeing the two of them walking to the door of the bedroom, he suddenly heard the emperor yell: "Wait!"
The two of them paused, and the emperor said in a deep voice, "Yang Heng, do you think you can safely sit in my place after I die? I am not just your son!"
Yang Heng didn't turn his head back, his voice was calm and firm: "It's just a matter of spending a little more time. The ministers have been here for more than ten years. Father thinks they can threaten me?"
For more than ten years, the emperor said that he alienated him to protect him, and he suffered a lot for this, the cynicism of the concubines, the bullying and insulting of the brothers, and the contempt of the officials... Countless times of death threatened him. Once he saved himself from danger and accumulated strength little by little, he no longer needs the help of the noble "father" on the throne.
The arrival of today is just to make him understand. If he is willing to abdicate to the virtuous, he can save himself a lot of effort. If he insists that power is more important than life, then let him hold the throne and go to hell to go to the mother concubine. Please forgive me.
Slowly opening the door of the bedroom, Yang Heng and Gan Sui strode out without hesitation.
A gust of cold wind mixed with the smell of mud and drizzle powder came from outside the dormitory, which blew away the smell of incense and herbs in the dormitory. Unfortunately, it did not bring the vitality and freshness of spring, but added to the empty dormitory. It was a bit cold and gloomy.
The emperor blankly looked around the palace filled with the smell of death and decay, and suddenly laughed nervously, the laughter was hoarse and unpleasant, intermittently like the desperate mourning of a dying night owl.
"Two good sons I have raised! Good! Good! Gan Qinglan, Gan Bishe, you have good means! Good sons! Good! Good! Good!" The emperor laughed out of breath.
Eunuch Lei shouted for someone to come in to serve him, and at the same time supported him and gave him comfort. Feeling panic and helplessness in his heart, he was one of the few people who knew about what happened back then. He didn't expect that there is a karmic cycle in the world.
Yang Heng and Gan Sui walked towards the palace gate side by side, many court ladies and eunuchs retreated to the side of the road and bowed their heads to salute, secretly wondering who would be walking side by side with His Highness the Sixth Highness? Ordinarily, with the status of the Sixth Highness, apart from a few princes and the three or five important ministers in the court, there is really no one who has this qualification.
After leaving the palace gate, the two of them got into the carriage and went to the Sixth Prince's Mansion. They entered the palace in such a high-profile manner, how many people would be alarmed, especially Gan Sui went with Yang Heng under the name of a famous doctor, presumably the other princes Already nervous, they will soon call their staff to discuss countermeasures, and seek information from insiders in the palace.
Surrounded by a group of guards, the carriage drove slowly. The two brothers in the carriage were relatively speechless. They had just had a showdown with the emperor. Even though these two men were decisive and decisive, their moods were unavoidably turbulent and difficult to calm down, so they looked at each other at the same time Throw out the window.
Pedestrians and vendors on the road saw the prince's car from a distance and had already given way to the side of the road. A few flower sellers carried their burdens and stood at the corner of the street, poking their heads and looking this way. Luokung couldn't help but think of Bai Fuling, and her expression softened a lot.
It was rare for Yang Heng to see genuine joy in his eyes, his heart moved, and he couldn't help asking: "Why?"
Gan Sui glanced at him, intentionally and unabashedly showing a look of yearning: "Ling'er likes flowers very much, every time she receives beautiful flowers, she smiles very happily."
Before Yang Heng asked the question, he had already guessed that the reason why Gansui showed such an expression was probably related to Bai Fuling. It was not surprising to hear him say that, so he smiled and replied, "Really? No wonder there are so many different things on Baili Mountain. She has accompanied me to several places to visit various flower gardens and flower forests."
Gan Sui narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "I've said it several times, she is already my fiancée, your future sister-in-law."
Yang Heng's heart tightened, but his face didn't reveal the slightest clue: "Will she agree to marry you willingly?"
Right when he hit the vital point, Gan Sui immediately turned dark and said, "Are you forcing me to kill you?"
That little girl must have said something to Yang Heng! She didn't want to marry him so she complained to Yang Heng
No, the little girl is not such a person! At least she has not regretted any of the things she promised him so far. If he loses his temper with her because of this matter, he will fall into the trick of that bastard Yang Heng! It just happened to give him the opportunity to take advantage of it.
Gan Sui slowly calmed down and said, "Be honest and be your emperor, you know better than me that Ling'er will never enter the palace as a concubine."
Yang Heng clenched her fists secretly, and kept saying to herself: It's okay, Bai Fuling is still young, she was just bewitched by Kansui for a while, and she will soon understand that Gansui is not suitable for her.
What he has to do is to make himself stronger as soon as possible, at least until Bai Fuling changes his mind in the future, he can have enough strength to protect her and take care of her, so that she doesn't have to be afraid of Kansui's entanglement and threats.
It's not entirely groundless for him to think so. Kansui's complicated identity, moody and cruel and bloodthirsty temperament are not a good match from any point of view. Even if Bai Fuling is confused by him for a while, sooner or later she will not be able to stand it. leave him.
It wasn't that he was making excuses for his disappointment in love, Bai Fuling's reason for rejecting him was always because he cared about his identity, and he thought that the reason she would choose Kansui might not be as simple as liking him. Especially the conversation on the boat outside Fengshui City last time made him believe that the relationship between Bai Fuling and Kansui contained some unknown secrets.
Thinking of this, Yang Heng smiled and said to Gan Sui: "You only talk about killing people? Do you dare to try to let Ling'er choose who to be with without coercion? I dare say, even if she If you don’t choose me, you will definitely not choose you.”
Gan Sui's face became more and more ugly, he knew in his heart that Yang Heng was telling the truth, he really didn't dare to let Bai Fuling choose by himself! He can't wait to tie her by his side all the time to make sure that she belongs to him and won't disappear in the next moment.
The more he looked at Yang Heng's smiling face, the more disgusted he became. Without saying a word, Gan Sui raised his palm and slammed the door of the car, and jumped onto the roof of a shop by the road, and several ups and downs disappeared without a trace.
The people nearby couldn't believe their eyes when they saw this scene... Did someone jump out of the prince's car just now? Could it be an assassin? !
Yang Heng waved his hand to dismiss the guards who came to inquire, closed the car door and continued on his way, the smile on his lips could hardly be concealed—it seems that his eldest brother is also very unsure about Bai Fuling...
The emperor persisted in the palace for more than a month, and finally announced his abdication in early April, and appointed Yang Heng as the new emperor. The enthronement ceremony was scheduled for the first day of August.
The emperor was worried that Yang Heng would lie to him, and that once he got the edict of abdication, he would disregard his life and death, so he specially ordered Qin Tianjian to push the auspicious day of enthronement to August. It is necessary to take good care of your body and take care of your life. I am grateful for Yang Heng's filial piety and his ability in dealing with the Ning'an River disaster, so I specially passed it on to him in advance.
If it was true as Gan Sui said, his life would only last until April or May, then Yang Heng would have a bad reputation if he allowed him to die of a serious illness, and the other princes who failed to win the throne would have enough reasons to embarrass him.
Yang Heng didn't mind his small gestures. It was to handle state affairs on behalf of the emperor. While making preparations for enthronement, he sent someone to Haizhou to invite the Bai family to attend his enthronement ceremony in August, and awarded The imperial decree summoned Bai Changshan, the former chief assistant of the cabinet, to return to Beijing to resume his post.
The imperial envoy in charge of announcing the decree waited until the end of June in Haizhou before seeing the Bai family members who had returned from the long voyage. After discussion, the Bai family decided to go to Beijing together with Bai Changshan, while Bai Shanglu stayed in Haizhou to preside over maritime business and other related matters.
Bai Fuling has decided to officially transfer the center of the Bai family's business to the south. Preparations for this have been started a few years ago, and now everything is ready, and the time is right, and Bai Shanglu, the chief executive, is needed to sit in charge.
The family still walked slowly to the capital while playing.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter. In order to escape the heat, I only travel in the morning and evening, and I can only walk a few dozen miles a day. It is already late July when I reach the capital.
This morning I got up and walked for a while, and rested at the teahouse next to the official road at noon. I was expected to set off when the sun was setting in the afternoon, just in time to enter the capital before the city gate closed.
This time there are no annoying relatives in Beijing, even if Bai Changshan's original mansion has not been tidied up, he can live in Lin Pingzi's Duke's mansion or Lu Ying's general's mansion, instead of going to the Yunqueshan other courtyard in the south of the city .
It's just that the Bai family didn't want to cause too much trouble, so they didn't inform Lin Pingzi and Lu Ying of their specific arrival time.
The teahouse where the Bai family stayed up and down happened to be the one they visited when they came to Beijing last time. Bai Guo poured tea for Bai Fuling, glanced at the official road outside the tea booth, and muttered in a low voice: "I remember someone was here last time. Sending flowers to the lady..."
Bai Fuling was slightly taken aback, recalling the scene of that day, it felt like a lifetime away.
At that time, she didn't know the true face of the sea pumice at all. A few pink plum blossoms made her feel happy with a word of sorry, and she forgot all the grievances. I can't stop laughing when I see those flowers.
I was in a trance when I suddenly saw a little girl walking in with a bunch of unknown tender yellow flowers in her hand. Before she entered, Bai Guo shouted loudly: "Stop! Don't come in! Fang Hai, come and see this flower! "
The last time she encountered the assassination of flowers outside Beiguan City, she had lingering fears. Now when she sees someone passing by with flowers, she is frightened, fearing that they are here to poison again. What was originally a romantic and elegant incident, has already disappeared in Baiguo's mind. became synonymous with terrorist attacks.
The little girl was so frightened by Bai Guo's screaming and nervous attitude that she burst into tears, blinking and looking at her, with a pitiful look about to cry at any time. Fang Hai hurried over, took the bouquet of flowers carefully, making sure that they were just ordinary flowers and wanted to give them to Bai Fuling, the little girl finally couldn't help but burst into tears.
Now it was Fang Hai's turn to be at a loss.
This little girl is the niece of the owner of the teahouse. The owner rushed over after hearing the sound, looked at Fang Hai and then at his niece, and asked repeatedly: "What's wrong?"
The little girl choked and pointed at Fang Hai and said, "He, he robbed me of flowers."
Now Xiang Hai was embarrassed, Bai Guo smiled and said, "Didn't someone ask you to send this flower?"
The little girl shook her head vigorously.
Bai Fuling gave Bai Guo an angry and funny look, which made her nervous, and ended up being affectionate and made a big oolong!
Bai Guo fumbled out a few candies and stuffed them to the little girl, "It's all right, my brother thinks your flowers are beautiful, so I want to take a look, eat candy, don't cry."
Fang Hai took a big blame and stood there helplessly, accepting the strange gazes of the teahouse owner and the little girl.
The little girl wiped away her tears and saw her uncle nodding to her, so she boldly took the candy from Bai Guo, gave up the flowers, and ran back in a hurry.
Fang Hai took the bouquet of flowers and walked up a few steps to Bai Fuling, and said in a low voice, "Miss, I'll give you the flowers!" He seemed to have exhausted all his strength to spit out those few words. Zhang Qingxiu's face was flushed like a drunk.
Bai Fuling only thought that he was embarrassed because he snatched the little girl's flowers by mistake, took the flowers and joked with a smile: "It's the first time to be a flower thief and bully the little girl, how does it feel?"
Where Fang Hai could answer, he bowed his head and stepped aside without saying a word.
It was a false alarm, and everyone laughed and laughed at the ginkgo. No one noticed the sweetness and sadness that flashed across Fang Hai's face when he peeked at Bai Fuling holding the bunch of bright yellow flowers.
Bai Chou later confessed to Mu Peilan that his daughter was hijacked by Gansui when he was out on errands, and she disappeared for a day. Xiao Guozi did the right thing, you are not allowed to laugh, you should be more cautious when you go out."
She is the head wife of the Bai family, since she speaks for Bai Guo, the other guard maids can't keep laughing, and instead "give a glance" at Bai Guo, and Bai Guo is not easy to bully, and each of them returns with big eyes.
Little Lihua tilted her head to look at the flower in Bai Fuling's hand, then looked at Fang Hai, probably remembering that Fang Hai took care of it when it was sick and weak, and was also an acquaintance who often appeared by the owner's side, so she licked her paw, It is very face-saving to not pounce on and wreak havoc.
Surprised, Bai Fuling patted its head and said with a smile, "Bad cat, so you know how to treat it differently."
Little Lihua meowed, flicked her tail, and looked proud that she didn't bother to explain.
This small incident was quickly forgotten by everyone, and Bai Fuling felt a little lost. She remembered that Gan Sui once said that he was going to the capital for business. Could it be that he had already left
In the afternoon, the Bai family packed up and set off again, and arrived at the south gate of the capital at sunset. There was still a long line of people waiting to enter the capital in front of the gate.
Bai Changshan called the decree into the hands of his old family member, Bai Quer, and told him to go forward to negotiate with the city guards. Bai Chuer took the decree and got off the car. After walking a few steps, he saw the direction of the city gate, and two housekeepers came to dress up. But the middle-aged people who obviously came from different mansions.
They seemed to know each other, they came forward to salute together and asked, "Excuse me, is your honorable family member of the old Baige in Baichangshan?"
Bai Cianer nodded, and immediately understood the patterns embroidered on the cuffs of the two people, as well as the characters Lin and Lu: "The two are from the Zhongguo Duke's Mansion and Lu Da Dudu's Mansion?"
Lu Ying's official title is the second-rank governor. Because he was the Great General of Zhenbei before, it is customary to refer to his mansion here in the capital. Now he has stepped down from the position of General of Zhenbei for more than two years. It's so inconvenient to address people who are interested in it, and they don't know what it will be like. Bai Chuer followed Bai Changshan and was used to these things, so he was very careful when he spoke.
The two butlers nodded in unison. The one on the left was the butler of the Lu Mansion, and the one on the right was the butler of the Lin Mansion. They both said that they were waiting here under the order of their master. With them leading the way, the Bai family and his party were very happy He quickly entered the capital and went to Duke Zhong's mansion. After the housekeeper of Lu's mansion paid a visit to several masters of the Bai family, he quickly went back to Dudu's mansion to report.
The main street where Duke Zhong's mansion is located in the east of the city is still so bustling and lively, but there are seals pasted on the front of several mansions, and the Bai family members have mixed feelings in the car, but the personnel affairs have been renovated several times in two years, I really don't know what kind of Can a person have the last laugh proudly