Dong Gong Mei

Chapter 499
While thinking, the emperor's cough came from the hall.

Zhao Xi hurriedly turned around and entered the hall.

The emperor was half-slumped and was coughing out of breath.

Cao De knelt on the ground, holding a copper basin in his hand.

Li Xuanye was sitting by the bed, holding the emperor's shoulder with one hand, and was wiping the emperor's face with a hot cotton towel in the other.

Zhao Xiwei walked over lightly, and knelt down next to him, then took a dry cotton towel, soaked it in water, wrung it lightly, and handed it to him as a spare.

Li Xuanye couldn't help but look at her more.

In the small incense burner with animal ears next to the bed, the agarwood was burned out, and she had already replaced it with a new one calmly, and took the decoction in her hand, and blew it gently to cool it down.

He smiled slightly, feeling a little softer in his heart.

At this time, whether kneeling outside and crying, or staying inside to suffer, it is better to do some practical things quietly.

Li Xuanye's movements were very skillful, and he served the emperor refreshedly in just three or two strokes.

Zhao Xiwei took the medicine with just the right temperature and handed it over.

The emperor half leaned on the dragon couch, and the two of them waited on him to finish drinking the medicine, then half-opened his eyelids, and said wearily, "Who was it that was kneeling outside the hall and crying just now?"

"It's the empress of each palace." Zhao Xiwei answered truthfully.

Li Xuanye snorted coldly.

The emperor sighed and said with a faint smile: "Let them go, they are all people who have been with me for decades. I don't know what they think? Cao De—" called again, and ordered: "Go back to the warehouse to find some novelties...Forget it, let's enjoy some hot mutton soup, and let me say that I thought they blow the cold wind to replenish my body."

"Yes." Cao De replied.

Zhao Xi was slightly surprised.

I thought the emperor would be angry, but I didn't expect it to be so generous.

The emperor asked again: "Listen, it seems that there is no Concubine Shu and Pei Cairen?"

Zhao Xiwei came back to his senses, and hurriedly said: "I didn't pay attention to it, but I heard the lady mention it, saying that the little princess didn't sleep well yesterday, and the concubine Shu will come to visit your majesty later..."

Although she didn't have any special feelings for Concubine Shu, she was still from the Zhao family anyway, and she would not hesitate to help when she could.

"Hmm..." The emperor nodded and frowned again: "The little princess didn't sleep well? Is it Nan Xing or Yao Guang? Cao De, hurry up, let someone take a look! Forget it, I will go and see it myself after dinner." Look……"

"Father—" Li Xuanye didn't know whether to laugh or cry, pressed his shoulders, and said: "The imperial doctor said that you want to rest, you should rest well! If you continue to behave like this, I will have to move back to the palace to watch over you! "

Cao De also looked worried: "Yes, the little princess will be taken care of by Concubine Shu, so nothing will happen!"

"Okay..." The emperor was still worried, and confessed: "You two will go over to take a look on my behalf. Nan Xing just changed her teeth, so she must have a bad appetite. Let's see what Concubine Shu gave her... "

Although he was sick and his face was full of tiredness, he spoke in a calm and orderly manner, giving people a comfortable feeling like warm water.

"My son knows." Li Xuanye complied naturally.

The emperor laughed, raised his hand and patted his son's arm lightly, his expression was full of relief: "Although you are a bit willful, you have always loved and cared for these siblings, I am very relieved."

Zhao Xi was slightly startled.

Li Xuanye called out in a daze: "Royal Father," in a somewhat low tone.

The emperor took his hand, but looked at Zhao Xiwei: "The princess is doing very well just now... It's rare that you act so calmly and generously at such a young age, unlike those who can only cry and cry The lady in the deep palace..." smiled, and said lightly: "Whatever the princess wants, just ask, I will reward you..."

Zhao Xiwei hurriedly said: "This is what a minister should do, how can you ask for a reward from your majesty." She pursed her lips and smiled, looking very cute, "If your majesty really loves your minister, then take good care of your body. It is the greatest reward for my son.”

The emperor laughed, his eyes were rarely bright.

"Good boy, you are a good boy." He took her hand and put it on Li Xuanye's palm, making their hands folded together, and his eyes narrowed with a smile: "With a sensible child like you With the crown prince, I have nothing to worry about!"

The more Zhao Xiwei listened, the more he felt that something was wrong...

A strange thought sounded, and her fingers immediately stiffened reflexively.

The emperor continued to mutter: "It is difficult to be a human being, and it is even more difficult to be a family member. I have been ill for most of my life. In terms of state affairs, I am not a good emperor, but I have never done anything wrong. You have a clear conscience... If there are not two things that I hold dear to my heart, it would be your mother and her grandfather..."

The emperor is old and looks like an ordinary person. His eyes dimmed, and he sighed helplessly: "Shen Mu is a loyal minister. I know that he is loyal to me. I have no choice but to dismiss him as an official..."

The voice became lower and lower, almost raving.

Zhao Xiwei couldn't hear clearly, so he had to prick up his ears to distinguish.

"On the day he left, it was raining heavily. He knelt at the palace gate to bid farewell to me. I couldn't go to see him... I feel ashamed..."

Zhao Xiwei couldn't help looking at Li Xuanye.

It was even more strange to see him frowning slightly with a pensive look on his face.

What happened between the emperor and his grandfather, which can make the dignified emperor unable to let go for so many years?

……

A question was not solved, and a new one was added.

Combined with the two worries, Zhao Xiwei couldn't calm down anymore.

The emperor's illness came and went suddenly, so he had to rest for a night and recovered.

Combined with the two worries, Zhao Xiwei couldn't calm down anymore.

The emperor's illness came and went suddenly, so he had to rest for a night and recovered.

Zhao Xiwei and Li Xuanye stayed in the palace overnight, and when they left the palace on the second day, it was clear after snow and the sky was as clear as wash.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, on the palace road leading to Zichen Palace, officials in red and purple shuttled through it, and the major government offices began to resume their bustle.

The imperial court only granted a seven-day spring break. The officials stroked their chubby bellies, looked at the bacon hanging on the beams of the house, and began the painful days of getting up early and going to court in the dark.

Looking at the bright sun, Zhao Xi made a bold decision...

She wants to go back to Zhao Mansion.

Li Xuanye didn't let her go, it's not like she has no choice...

Li Xuanye didn't let her go, it's not like she has no choice...

The next day, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince stepped into the gate of the palace, and smelled a gust of fragrant wind, and then the beauty swept her sleeves, and brought an envelope to her eyes.

"What is this?" Li Xuanye had been busy for a long time, wrapped his arms around the beauty's slender waist, gently smelled her hair, took the envelope from her hand with a smile, and focused his eyes: "Please!" post?"

Flipping his fingers, he was taken aback again, "The teahouse opened? So soon?"

(End of this chapter)