There is a black lotus in the deep palace

Chapter 180
After a night of leisure, the old emperor thought of the queen again.

The queen has been with him for so many years, and she is considerate and deeply aware of the holy will, so she can handle everything properly for her.

She is good everywhere, virtuous, generous, gentle and considerate, but the only bad thing is that she failed to give him a good son.

Xia Houyan, that wolfish ambition, actually wanted to kill his father and king, how could he not be angry?

If it wasn't for the support of the queen, how would he dare? After all, this mother and son have been coveting the throne for a long time, and he also...

"That's all!" The old emperor restrained himself from going to Fengyang Palace.

He was leaning on the soft chair, his body was bent, and he was in his dying years.

"Li Baoyuan"

"The slave is here!" Li Baoyuan shrank his neck and stepped forward.

"What do you think... Jue'er or Yan'er, which one is more worthy of the big job?" The old emperor squinted his eyes.

"This..." Li Baoyuan broke out in cold sweat, and he was trembling for a while: "What are you talking about, Your Majesty? Why can't you understand me, you are at the peak of your age, so why do you need to think about this kind of question?"

"You are the Son of Heaven, you are going to live forever!"

This flattery, Li Baoyuan had an idea, and the old emperor immediately had an idea.

"Yes! That's right, I want to live forever. I believe that there is a medicine for immortality in this world. Go and find it for me!"

Since there is a pill that can bring him back to his youth, there must be a pill that can make him live forever, right?There are so many masters outside the world, there must be, there must be!

"Li Baoyuan, I will give you a secret decree now, ordering you to send someone out of the palace to look for someone who can refine elixir, and once you find it, bring it back to the palace immediately!" The old emperor's eyes were urgent and his heart was excited.

"The servant complies with the order!" Li Baoyuan was shocked in his heart, but respectful on his face.

"Go! Go, go now!"

"Yes!"

Li Baoyuan retreated tremblingly.

He took the secret decree, and sent two young eunuchs out of the palace that day, one was really looking for a wandering monk, while the other went north to the northwest city.

The crown prince went to the Northwest, and the date of return is uncertain, so the crown prince should know about such a big event.

It was already mid-September when Xia Houjue received this letter. At that time, he had just raised food and grass from the southwest, and personally escorted it to the northwest, and the fighting in the northwest became more and more intense.

"Absurd! Absurd!" Xia Houjue's face was ashen, and he crushed the letter paper.

"Father is really ridiculous, he is really... so idle!"

Tang Wanning picked up the letter paper and looked it over, her expression was a little ugly, and she didn't bother to say what she said was unpleasant.

After a while, Xia Houjue gave instructions to his subordinates.

"Report all the war in the northwest to the capital, and at the same time, let the father raise food and grass in the capital, train the soldiers, in case of emergencies!"

"Yes!" The subordinate accepted the letter and left with a whip.

Three days later, the capital city received an urgent call from the northwest [-] miles away, and the barbarian tribes invaded the Northwest City.

The old emperor was furious when he heard the news, he couldn't breathe and fainted in the imperial study, all the ministers panicked.

As a last resort, I had to report it to the harem. The empress and Concubine Chen knew about it almost at the same time. They brought all the concubines in the harem and swarmed into the emperor's bedroom. All the women gathered around the emperor's bed and wept.

"Your Majesty! What's wrong with you?"

"Your Majesty, you also said that when the chrysanthemums bloomed, you would bring your concubine to enjoy them. Why did you..."

"emperor!"

The women cried and wiped away their tears, even Concubine Chen Gui, who had always been in charge of palace affairs, was crying beside her.

"Enough!" the queen shouted to stop the crying women.

"The emperor is not dead yet, why are you crying? Why don't you hurry up and tell the imperial physician?" At the critical moment, it was the empress who had some courage.

"Going back to Empress, the imperial physician has already arrived, and the adults are helpless, saying...saying...the emperor is furious, and there is no cure for medicine and stones. We can only rest well and not be stimulated any more!"

"Fart!" the queen was furious.

"The veterans in the Imperial Hospital are becoming more and more useless, and they don't even know about the emperor's old illness!"

She suddenly took out a golden pill from her bosom as if by magic, and quickly fed it into Emperor Jing Yuan's mouth while everyone was not paying attention.

"The Empress!"

"This! This is against the rules!" Li Baoyuan was sweating profusely.

"Your majesty is in danger, so how can you control the rules? Don't worry, your majesty will wake up soon!" The queen was very confident in the monk's medicine.

She has tried this medicine. Normal people can be excited for three days and three nights without sleep after taking it, and weak patients can immediately restore their spirits after taking it.

Li Baoyuan was speechless.

As soon as the other concubines heard that the emperor was able to wake up, they immediately shut their mouths and stopped crying, and they stopped talking. They just stood beside Emperor Jing Yuan quietly, waiting for him to open his eyes.

"Well……"

A quarter of an hour later, Emperor Jing Yuan suddenly opened his eyes, and an abnormal flush appeared on his face at some point.

"Li... Li..." His voice was extremely low.

"Your Majesty, are you awake?" The Empress pushed Chen Guifei away, and moved closer to Emperor Jing Yuan, her face full of joy.

"Your majesty, you have finally woken up, my concubine... Is this concubine looking forward to you?" She wept with joy, the crown prince has not been abolished, and her own son has not become the crown prince, how can this old thing die?
"Empress?" Emperor Jing Yuan slowly propped up his body, "Why are you here? Zhen... what happened?"

He looked around in confusion, and his last gaze fell on the page of letter paper on the desk.

"He...he..." He tremblingly pointed at the letter, his face gradually turning pale.

The queen understood almost instantly, she smiled and waved.

"You all go down first, it's enough for me to take care of you here! Li Baoyuan, you can take people down too!"

After all, the queen is the lord of the harem, and the emperor didn't object, so they naturally didn't dare to resist, and they all retreated.

When there were only two people left in the room, the queen smiled and handed the letter to Emperor Jing Yuan.

"Your Majesty, what happened? Why are you so angry?"

Emperor Jing Yuan didn't even look at her, he stared at the contents of the letter, and suddenly tore it to pieces in a fit of rage.

"How could it be such a coincidence? How could it be such a coincidence?"

"He just went to the northwest, and there was a war there, and he said that he asked me to raise food and grass for them in the capital, and train soldiers and horses! Hehe!" The old emperor sneered.

"Looking at it, I don't know. Maybe they have colluded together and are planning to rebel and usurp the throne!"

The queen was at a loss, and after careful consideration, she finally realized that...it was because of the prince, she said cautiously while holding back a smile.

"The emperor calm down, His Royal Highness has always been filial, it is impossible to do such a thing, maybe there is really a shortage of food and grass over there?"

"Why don't you call him?"

(End of this chapter)