Chai Rong folded the two pieces of letter paper and put them under the inkstone. Seeing that there were no memorials that needed to be reviewed on the side of the desk, he said as usual: "Li Tingfang will send someone to the three provinces and the Privy Council to see if

There are also military and government affairs that need to be handled by me."

Li Tingfang replied: "My husband knows that Your Majesty is not feeling well, and he has been very diligent recently. If he goes there, it will be a wasted trip. It is getting late, so Your Majesty might as well have lunch."

"You just go when I tell you to go. Where did all this nonsense come from! Lunch was also delivered. I was eating while handling political affairs, without any delay."

Li Tingfang immediately went to the door to help Zhang Dejun do something. Just as she turned around, she suddenly stopped and said in surprise: "Why is the princess here?"

He took a few steps forward and led a little girl into the back cabinet. When Chai Rong saw the little girl, he stood up from behind the case and said, "Did Yan Qi come to pay his respects to Father again? Where is your aunt?"

Unexpectedly, when the little princess heard this, she curled her lips and started crying in aggrieved manner, "Auntie...she treats me harshly!"

Chai Rong held Yan Qi in his arms and asked with a smile, "Tell me how my aunt treated you harshly."

The little princess pouted and said: "After lunch, the imperial kitchen brought popsicles to relieve the heat. My aunt gave them to Brother Yang and Brother Four but not to the children. She obviously had some but told me that they were gone. Ugh...

"

"Haha...then you came out to complain to me while they were on their lunch break?"

The little princess nodded and shook her head, and replied: "My child is not here to complain. I am here to ask for popsicles from my father. Recently, I have seen that Brother Yang and Fourth Brother have popsicles to eat every day. I really want them. Father, I beg you."

Give the child a popsicle as a reward."

Chai Rong stroked the little princess's soft and smooth hair, "The imperial doctor said that Yan Qi cannot eat raw or cold things, especially cold things like popsicles. My father is going to have a meal soon, so let's have some with me."

How about a bowl of lotus seed soup."

The little princess begged with a bitter face: "I don't want to eat lotus seed soup, I want to eat popsicles, I want to eat popsicles, please, father, just let me take a bite."

"No! You can't eat even one bite. If you have a gas problem, I don't know how long it will take to recover."

"I want to eat! I want to eat!..." The little princess twisted her body in annoyance, and kept slapping Chai Rong's head with both arms, even knocking the soaring futon on his head to the ground.

The little princess has always been obedient, but she is still a child after all. Once she becomes stubborn, it is extremely difficult to coax her unless her wishes are fulfilled.

Chai Rong was not a qualified father. He would coax children and bluff with a black face: "You are not allowed to eat. If you continue to act up, I will spank you."

The little princess looked stunned for a moment, then immediately looked up to the sky and howled, "Mother, Yan Qi wants to eat popsicles, but my aunt won't give them, and my father wants to beat the child, mother? Where are you..."

Hearing the little princess calling for his dead mother, Chai Rong's troubled heart twitched. Feeling the trembling from the little person in his arms sobbing, infinite sadness and helplessness surged in his heart. He sighed and said: "Li Tingfang went to the imperial kitchen to get two

Bring me a popsicle."

"This..." Li Tingfang couldn't help but hesitate.

"Go ahead, Yan Qi has always been sick in winter and spring, but never in summer? It shouldn't hurt if you eat less? Just go and get it!"

Li Tingfang responded, turned around and walked out of the back cabinet. After a while, he came back with a small incubator. When he opened the lid, he saw a chill coming out of it. The little princess couldn't wait to grab a popsicle in each hand.

inside.

Popsicles are already a common snack for people in Tokyo, but to this little princess, they are like a luxurious delicacy. Her eyes like black grapes are staring at the cold air coming out of the popsicles, like a puppy.

He stuck out his little red tongue and added something to it, his face full of surprise and joy.

She moved her head, looked up at Chai Rong and said with a smile: "It's delicious!" She handed another popsicle to Chai Rong. Chai Rong thought it was her daughter's filial piety, but the little princess said: "This father is gangster."

Keep it for me, baby, so I can eat it in the evening!"

The little princess leaned on Chai Rong's arms and sipped the popsicle with a face filled with enjoyment. She let out a pleasant moan in her throat. Ever since the death of Empress Fu, the little princess's brows have always been filled with a sense of gloom. If she had known that a small

If a popsicle could make her so happy, Chai Rong would have given it to her a long time ago.

Chai Rong patted the little princess's back gently, "Eat slowly, there is still plenty in the imperial dining room."

"Can the child eat again tomorrow?"

"If you can eat it, you can eat it the day after tomorrow!"

The little princess ate very seriously. It took half a stick of incense to finish chewing a popsicle. She also licked the sweet little stick and said with her tongue: "It's so delicious. Hey, I gave it to my father just now."

Where are the popsicles?”

"Father has already put it away for you. Didn't I promise you wouldn't eat it until evening? You can't break your promise."

The little princess nodded heavily and said: "Okay, let's eat in the evening. The child is a little sleepy now and has to go back for a lunch break."

"Don't go back and disturb your aunt. Father has a bed here!" Chai Rong got up and carried the little princess to the inner room. He placed her on the bed, covered her with a thin blanket, patted her belly, "Yan Qi, go to sleep.

"

"The baby is a little hot and doesn't want to cover himself with a blanket!"

"Cover it, I will fan you for father, close your eyes." Chai Rong took a dough fan and shook it. The breeze blew through the little princess's fine bangs, and soon he could hear her even breathing and faint whisper.

snore.

Chai Rong then put down the ball fan in his hand and went outside. Li Tingfang had already laid out lunch, "Your Majesty, please have a meal. Today, I know that Your Majesty has no appetite, so I specially ordered some light dishes."

"Okay, if you bring the memorial, read it to me!"

"Yes!" Li Tingfang casually picked up a memorial and started reading it with a swaying head. She must have read too much. Li Tingfang grasped the cadences very accurately, but she couldn't read it well no matter how hard she sounded.

Li Tingfang finished reading one and placed it on the upper left corner of the table. Just as she took the next volume, she heard someone walking quickly outside the back room. Li Tingfang rushed to greet Fu, who was sweating and panting.

Liying said: "Madam, don't worry, the princess is in the back cabinet."

Fu Liying's nervous expression eased, and she took a long breath, "I just squinted for a while, and when I opened my eyes, the little princess was gone. But it scared me. Why did the princess come here when she was fine?"

Chai Rong smiled and said, "It's not because you treated Yan Qi harshly and didn't give her popsicles, so she came to me to complain because she was unhappy."

Fu Liying knelt down and said seriously: "Your Majesty will always joke. I don't let the princess eat popsicles because I am following the doctor's orders and for the sake of the princess' health."

"You know I'm joking, but you're still so serious. You're much more boring than your sister."

"I have little knowledge of Pu Liuzhi. I dare not compare with the former empress. I don't know where the princess is. I take her back to the harem."

Chai Rong smiled and sighed: "Yan Qi ate the popsicles and fell asleep inside. When he wakes up, I will ask someone to take her back."

Fu Liying froze, "Did your Majesty eat popsicles for the princess? How could your Majesty give her popsicles! Have you forgotten that she has a gas problem?"

"Yan Qi was clamoring for food, but I couldn't bear her crying, so I gave her one to eat. There was nothing wrong with her. She is sleeping soundly at the moment. You will know when you go inside and take a look."

"Fortunately, there is nothing wrong, otherwise Your Majesty would have regretted it too late. Eunuch Li, take me to see the princess quickly!"

"Mrs. Wei Guo, please come this way!"

Fu Liying followed Li Tingfang and walked towards the inner room. She had just taken two steps when she suddenly heard a heavy gasp coming from the inner room. Fu Liying's feet went soft and she staggered. She exclaimed, "Not good!", and then stumbled.

Run towards the inner room.

Chai Rong's heart suffocated, and the chopsticks in his hand clattered onto the bowl. He stood up suddenly and shouted: "Old Mu, go to the imperial doctor!" Then he rushed into the inner room with a few strides.

I saw that the little princess, who was sleeping soundly just now, had opened her eyes now. She was breathing heavily, her chest was rising and falling violently, her face was red from holding it in, she stretched out her finger and pointed to Chai Rong and said vaguely: "Father

...Emperor...save...me..."

Chai Rong stepped forward and grabbed the young little hand, which was cold even though it was a hot summer day, "My son, don't panic, my father has sent someone to send the imperial doctor, please bear with me for a moment longer!"

However, the little princess' breathing became more and more rapid, and within a short time her lips turned blue and purple. Her hands and feet were constantly struggling, and she seemed to be in extreme pain.

Fu Liying pressed the little princess's body and cried: "Princess, don't move. The more you move, the more breath you will lose. Princess! Princess!..."

The little princess' breath suddenly slowed down, but her eyes rolled up and slowly closed. Fu Liying quickly opened her mouth and blew air inside.

Chai Rong, who had always been calm and calm in the face of danger, was at a loss. He held the princess's little hand tightly and shouted loudly: "Yan Qi, Yan Qi, you can't sleep. Open your eyes and see if you are a father. You are not a father."

Well, as a father, you shouldn't ask you to eat popsicles..."

At this moment, Chai Rong didn't look like an emperor at all. His face was full of fear, regret, pain and helplessness. At this moment, he stepped down from the altar. Like most parents, he prayed to God for the biggest blessing in the world.

Don't let tragedy happen to him again.

"The royal doctor is here! The royal doctor is here! Your Majesty, please let the royal doctor diagnose and treat the princess!"

Chai Rong quickly stood up and ordered the imperial doctor: "Cure the princess immediately, or I will kill you!"

Even when he was extremely ill, he never said such serious words to the imperial doctor. The imperial doctor was surprised and horrified, "I will do my best!"

The imperial doctor stepped forward and felt the little princess's pulse, then probed the little princess's breathing, but stopped. Chai Rong behind him shouted sternly: "Why don't you diagnose and treat the princess yet!"

The imperial doctor turned around and knelt on the ground, paused and said: "I am incompetent, the princess is already dead!"

Chai Rongru was struck by lightning and staggered back a step. He felt like the world was spinning and he fell to the ground...

Chai Rong slept for a long time but was extremely uneasy, until he was woken up by the pain like needles in his chest. He saw himself lying on the dragon bed, with the tent opened, and Lao Mu Tou and Li Tingfang were guarding the side.

superior.

Thinking of the situation before coma, Chai Rong asked in a weak voice: "Yan Qi, how are you?"

The old mutou sighed and said, "That happened the day before yesterday. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

Upon hearing this, Chai Rong felt a heartbreaking pain in his chest. It took a while before he recovered, "Help me get up, I'm going to see Yan Qi."

Old Mu replied: "Mrs. Wei Guo has restrained the princess. Your Majesty, it is better not to look at her anymore, so as not to hurt yourself again."

Chai Rong lay back on the bed, "It doesn't matter, I will meet Yao Yanqi in a few days anyway."

"Your Majesty is in the prime of life, why do you say such unlucky words? Li Tingfang went and brought your Majesty's medicine!"

"Don't drink anymore. I know my body best. I am going to die, and my great Zhou is probably going to die too!"
To be continued...