Great Tang princess

Chapter 290 Li Zhi is critically ill
Pei Xingjian's sudden death was beyond Li Yuechen's expectation.

He was ill at the end of last year and has been in poor health, but he didn't expect it to be so soon.

As an all-around talent capable of both literary and military skills, he has made a lot of contributions to Datang, which made Li Zhi feel a little sad.

In the court hall, Li Zhi came to the court in person on a rare occasion, and ordered all the officials to go to his home to express condolences.

Li Yuechen and Pei Xingjian also had contacts several times, and they cooperated together when they fought against the Turks, so she also went to express their condolences in person.

Naturally, it is impossible for members of the royal family to wear mourning for their courtiers, so Li Yuechen wore black clothes and rode to Pei Xingjian's mansion.

Seeing the princess coming, her family all came out to salute.

Li Yuechen waved his hand: "You are welcome, I am only here to express my condolences today, the dead are the most important, so there is no need to be more polite!"

That's what I said, but in fact Li Yuechen came here, and to a certain extent, it can be said that he came here on behalf of the emperor. For the courtiers, this is also a great honor.

Pei Xingjian's eldest son died young, and the second son Pei Yanxiu and third son Pei Qingyuan were in charge of the funeral.

"Please worry about the princess. My father always said that if he can go to war with the princess again, he will have no regrets..." Pei Yanxiu said in a deep tone, "If there is a chance in the future, I am willing to make up for it!"

This is very straightforward, that is to say, Pei Xingjian's family is willing to continue to hang out with the princess, and is willing to stand in her camp.

Although now that Pei Xingjian died, the power of the Pei family would definitely be greatly reduced, but for Li Yuechen, it could be regarded as a boost.

Regarding this, Li Yuechen just smiled and didn't say much.

In the future, her main power will still be in the army. Of course, it would be a good thing to have more supporters of her own in the court.

At this moment, Pei Guangting, Pei Xingjian's youngest son, suddenly ran over, looked at Li Yuechen and raised his head and said, "I've seen Your Highness!"

Today's Pei Guangting is only seven or eight years old, and he is still a little boy with a thick head and a thick head. Li Yuechen smiled and patted his head: "Excuse me."

At this age, he still doesn't have an accurate concept of death, but at least he understands that his father will never come back.

His expression was a little sad, he raised his head to look at Li Yuechen and said, "I want to join His Highness's army, and in the future, I will replace my father and continue to glorify the family!"

"If you really want to enter the army in the future, then eat well and study hard. If you don't change your mind in the future, you can enter the army." Li Yuechen replied.

Li Yuechen did not reject this little boy's current thoughts. If he really had such thoughts in the future, he could naturally be assigned to the army.

……

After returning from Pei Xingjian's funeral, Li Yuechen felt a little emotional for a while.

Now he is only in his early 60 years old. If it is more than a thousand years later, maybe he can live another 20 years.

In this era, the average life span of human beings is too short...

Feelings are emotions, the work that should be done is still to be done, Li Yuechen went back to the palace to say hello to his parents, and then returned to the barracks.

Nowadays, thanks to the blessing of sewing machines, the production efficiency of parachutes is very high, but the production of hanging baskets on the hot air balloon side is more troublesome, so the number is not large.

Although not enough to equip an air assault company, it is enough to train skydivers.

Just after returning to the barracks, Li Yuechen saw more than [-] hot air balloons on the training ground already inflated.

"Are you going to practice skydiving?"

"Yes!" Geng Yunqiang nodded and replied, "We will continue training today."

"Let's go, I'll jump too." Li Yuechen waved his hand and asked Geng Yunqiang to fetch a parachute, and followed him into a hot air balloon.

As the hot air balloon gradually lifted into the sky, the surrounding scenery began to gradually become smaller, and the clouds in the sky began to pull in the distance.

Geng Yunqiang judged the altitude according to the method taught by Li Yuechen. After a while, almost all the hot air balloons had risen above the clouds. Looking down, there was a vast expanse of white everywhere, and nothing could be seen.

At present, the altitude has reached about 3000 meters, and it is almost ready to start jumping.

In fact, the highest safe altitude for skydiving is 5000 meters, but considering that this is a hot air balloon after all, not an airplane, and for this era, the height of 3000 meters is enough.

Geng Yunqiang next to him suddenly asked: "Your Highness always said that if the altitude keeps rising, you will freeze to death before seeing the sky, but if you keep warm..."

"It's not just about the cold." Li Yuechen shook his head and said with a serious face, "I can understand that you are now curious about Tianwai, but you must understand that Tianwai is not something you can spy on in this era!"

In fact, theoretically speaking, the maximum height of a hot air balloon can fly to the stratosphere, and it is already possible to see the dark universe.

But if a person wants to go to that height, in addition to the necessary warmth, he must at least have an oxygen cylinder.

Li Yuechen doesn't know how to make oxygen cylinders, so there is no way for them to see what the universe looks like in this era.

In fact, in the final analysis, there is only one sentence, so that they don't have nothing to do and don't kill them casually.
Seeing how serious she was, Geng Yunqiang didn't continue to ask, and changed the subject: "Your Highness, it's almost time to dance."

"You guys jump first, I'll follow behind."

Hearing what she said, Geng Yunqiang nodded and asked the soldiers next to him to use semaphore to tell them they could jump.

After the order was issued, the soldiers on the surrounding hot air balloons lowered their heads to check the parachutes, and then turned over and jumped off.

After all the soldiers jumped down, Li Yuechen greeted the soldiers in charge of piloting the hot air balloon. After two steps of run-up, he dived out of the gondola.

After rolling twice in the air, Li Yuechen faced the ground with his back facing the ground during the rapid fall, with his hands behind his head, posing in a posture of lying in the air.

The wind pressure generated by the high-speed fall made her hair flutter in the air, and her clothes were blown.

Speaking of it, I haven't tried this feeling for a long time, and I feel a little nostalgic for a while.

As the altitude dropped rapidly, when the altitude reached 800 meters, the parachutes of the soldiers opened one after another, and densely packed parachutes suddenly appeared in the sky.

The soldiers glanced at each other, and then gradually moved to the training ground by manipulating the parachute.

And at this moment, almost everyone saw that Li Yuechen passed them quickly while maintaining a lying posture, surpassed them like a cannonball, and continued to fall rapidly.

The soldiers who saw this scene were shocked. They were all at this height. If they didn't open their umbrellas...

Of course, Li Yuechen didn't need them to worry. After turning his head slightly to take a look, he turned over and opened the parachute all at once.

When she opened the parachute, she was only about 300 meters from the ground. This is a very extreme height. If she was a little slower, she might have hit the ground directly.

With the opening of the parachute, Li Yuechen didn't hang in the air for too long, and landed steadily on the ground in less than 1 minute, a little faster than all the soldiers.

When she took off the parachute and looked up at the sky, the fastest soldier was still more than [-] meters above the ground.

After waiting for a while, the soldiers landed on the ground one after another. Even though the ground had been beaten countless times, they still scratched a lot of marks one by one.

When the parachute lands, the impact force is actually still very large. If this force is not well controlled, it is still quite easy to get injured.

As soon as the soldiers landed, they ran towards Li Yuechen, asking why she was able to open the umbrella at such a low place.

"Don't think about that, mine is an act of death, just open your umbrella obediently at a safe altitude." Li Yuechen smiled.

Even after more than a thousand years, many special forces would not dare to play like her, as she said, it is an act of death.

After jumping out of the parachute, Li Yuechen was in a much better mood, and instead of continuing to observe their training, he turned to do his own thing.

……

Half a month passed in the blink of an eye. During this period of time, the weather was calm and nothing major happened. The Tang Empire was running in an orderly manner.

Li Yuechen has been busy with the expansion of the army during this period, and it was finally almost completed in mid-April.

When I was going to think about developing new products and continue to make some money, my father suddenly became critically ill!

After receiving the news, Li Yuechen immediately rushed back to the palace. Just after entering the Hall of Renshou, he saw a group of doctors from the Shangyao Bureau surrounded by doctors, and his mother Wu Zetian also hurriedly asked them to give them a quick diagnosis and treatment.

Dad lay on the bed with his eyes closed, motionless.

"How's the situation?" Li Yuechen grabbed a doctor and asked.

"Your Majesty has fainted, and the ministers are doing their best to rescue him!"

Hearing these words, Li Yuechen didn't bother them in the past, just stood aside and watched them save people, and came to Wu Zetian by himself: "Mother, why?"

Wu Zetian explained that just now Li Zhi had a sudden illness, yelled twice and had a headache and passed out.

After hearing the explanation, Li Yuechen nodded and didn't leave, just stood by and watched.

Fortunately, the doctors of Shangyao Bureau are all skilled. After a period of first aid, Li Zhi slowly opened his eyes and woke up slowly.

"Wake up, wake up! The saint is awake!"

Hearing the cheers from the crowd, Li Yuechen quickly took two steps forward and entered the crowd: "Grandfather!"

"Chen'er..."

Li Zhi opened his eyes and smiled slowly: "Why did you come back..."

"Just came back!" Li Yuechen grabbed his hand and asked with concern: "How does Grandpa feel?"

"No problem, much better..." Li Zhi took a deep breath, "Where's Meiniang?"

Wu Zetian hurried over: "Your Majesty, I am here!"

"It's good to be here, it's good to be here..."

Li Zhi's spirit seemed to be in a trance, and his words were somewhat incoherent.

At this time, Li Xian and others also shouted outside: "Grandfather, how is my grandfather?"

"Be quiet!" Wu Zetian frowned, turned around and growled, making Li Xian and the others who came in immediately quiet down.

"It's okay, it's better to be more lively... I'm fine..." Li Zhi, who was lying on the bed, waved his hands, and then muttered something to himself, but he couldn't hear it at all.

Li Yuechen stroked the back of his father's hand: "Grandpa, rest well first, and the child will meet when he goes."

"Well, come back earlier..." Li Zhi murmured in agreement.

Seeing his father's appearance, Li Yuechen felt sore in his heart, but he didn't cry out, but stood up and said, "My mother and brothers and sisters are here to accompany Grandpa."

Then he turned around and waved to a group of doctors: "Follow me!"

Wu Zetian nodded, sitting on the edge of the bed, holding her husband's hand, comforting something softly.

Brothers and sisters also stood quietly beside him, patiently accompanying him.

……

Li Yuechen brought a group of doctors to the outside of the hall, sat on the table with some irritability and asked, "How is the condition of the saint?"

"This……"

The doctors looked at each other, not knowing how to speak.

"You just say it clearly, I promise, no crime!" Li Yuechen said firmly.

However, although the princess's character is not stained, the royal family is the royal family after all, so what if she finds trouble?So no one talks.

After a while of silence, Liu Shenwei, who still had some dealings with Li Yuechen, spoke first, "Return to Your Highness, this... I'm afraid, time is running out..."

Hearing these words, Li Yuechen's heart sank.

Shangyao Bureau is a medical institution dedicated to serving the emperor. It can be said that it has gathered the top medical talents of this era, and they represent authority.

Since they all said so, it means that this time has indeed come.

Li Yuechen took a deep breath, sniffled and asked, "How much longer?"

Liu Shenwei thought for a while: "If it is properly maintained and there are no accidents...it will be no problem to persist for another year or two..."

"Okay, I know about it." Li Yuechen nodded slightly, "The saint's condition, you can't disclose it to the outside world!"

"Don't worry, Your Highness, I'll find out naturally!"

……

After the doctors prescribed the medicine, they stood up and left, and Li Yuechen returned to the inner hall.

At this moment, Li Zhi had fully woken up, and was leaning on the bed with a big pillow.

Although his eyes had returned to clarity, his face still looked a little weak, without blood, and his face was pale.

"Chen'er, how is the situation?"

"It's okay, it's just that I'm a little anxious," Li Yuechen smiled, and sat by the bed and said, "It will be fine after a while."

But Li Zhi suddenly smiled and shook his head: "You, you have been able to coax people since you were young... How can I not know my own body? I'm afraid I'm exhausted..."

"No, grandpa wants to live a hundred years!" Li Yuechen retorted.

Of course she knew that she couldn't fool her father, but at this time, what else could she say besides these?

The instinct of living beings is to be afraid of death, so what Li Yuechen can do is to comfort his father as much as possible.

Other people around him also said good things to comfort him, and besides that, they didn't know what they could do.

Of course, Li Zhi also knew it very well, so after the children said a few good words, he waved his hands and said: "Okay, you all go back first, I'm a little tired, I want to take a rest... Chen'er stay .”

Li Yuechen turned his head and nodded to his brothers and sisters.

The children bowed and left, leaving only the couple and Li Yuechen.

(End of this chapter)