"Don't worry? Do you think I can rest assured? I'm going to find her!" Liu Fan flicked his sleeves and strode outside the Taoist temple. He was stopped by his master at the door.
"Fan'er, I let Miss Luo go as my teacher."
"Master, please let me pass." Liu Fan looked at Master with stubborn eyes.
"No! You have seen the emperor's persistence. There will be no ending between you and Miss Luo. Let this bad relationship end and let her fend for herself!" Mu Shi stretched out his fly whisk to block the way.
"Let her fend for herself? Let her fend for herself? Not to mention that I am the majestic prince of Xiling, I am a seven-foot man anyway, but I want my beloved to fend for himself?" Liu Fan looked at his master in pain, and took a step
One step closer to his whisk.
Taoist priest Mu Shi seemed to have no intention of giving way, and waved his whisk sideways expressionlessly.
"Master!" Liu Fan had already walked up to him.
"If you want to go out, you must first pass the test of becoming a teacher." Taoist Master Mu Shi said solemnly.
Liu Fan looked at him sadly, his lips trembling. Xiaozhu ran over, took his arm, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Highness, listen to Master!"
Liu Fan turned to look at her and said, "Xiao Zhu, if it were you, Wuyou, Yunshang, or any of you, I would still be searching for you at all costs."
Xiaozhu looked at him, and the hand holding his arm dropped weakly.
"As a teacher, I will also prevent you from looking for anyone. The heavy responsibility you bear is not just a few people or the personal relationships of these children. What you bear is Xiling's thousands of miles of land and millions of people!" The Taoist priest, Mu Shi, didn't move at all.
"If you can't even protect the people around you, how can you say you are responsible for thousands of miles of country?" Liu Fan reached out to push away the fly whisk that Master was blocking. Mu Shi raised his hand, and a strong internal force threw Liu Fan into the air. Liu Fan was in the space
After flipping several times, he landed on his feet. Taoist priest Mu Shi stood tall and looked at him coldly.
"Report——" A young disciple quickly ran to Taoist Master Mu Shi and said, "Master, the father-in-law in the palace is waiting for His Royal Highness to receive the order halfway up the mountain."
Taoist priest Mu Shi looked at Liu Fan hurriedly and moved to signal him to come over.
Liu Fan didn't know why the imperial edict suddenly arrived, he frowned and strode out of the Taoist temple.
The eunuch announced that the emperor was seriously ill and urgently summoned him back to the palace immediately. Liu Fan received the order and was extremely anxious. He summoned Xiaozhu, but he didn't care about looking for Luo Lianyi for the moment and followed the carriage and horse back to the palace in a hurry.
In Ruoxi Palace, Liu Hongjing was lying on the bed, looking at the portrait of Concubine Xi on the wall, as if in trance. Concubine Xue Shu was sitting beside the bed, holding medicine in her hand, and the maid standing next to her was holding a bowl.
The porridge, medicine and porridge were all full, but it looked like he didn't drink anything. The imperial doctors who were all kneeling on the ground in the hall were as silent as cicadas.
"Your Majesty—" Concubine Xue Shu looked at the emperor with pity in her eyes. When Concubine Xi was alive, she was the best friend with her. The two became sworn sisters.
He loves him the most, but she is the only one who can sit next to him like this.
"Please step back, I'm tired." Liu Hongjing waved his hand weakly.
"Your Majesty, after you took the medicine, I will withdraw. If you look like this, I will feel distressed. Sister Xi'er will also feel distressed looking at you in the sky." Concubine Xue Shu said with choked sobs.
"Xi'er, why are we so close to each other?" Liu Hongjing let out a long sigh, took the medicine from Concubine Xue Shu's hand, and drank it in several gulps.
Concubine Xue Shu helped him pass the medicine bowl to the palace maid next to her, patted his back and helped him lie down. A eunuch came in and reported softly: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness is waiting outside."
"Let him come in." After Liu Hongjing finished speaking, he glanced at Concubine Xue Shu. Concubine Xue Shu knelt hurriedly, turned around and ordered the imperial doctor to step back, and then left Ruoxi Palace with the maids.
"Father." Liu Fan came in and looked at his father's haggard appearance on the bed, feeling deeply guilty again in his heart.
"Fan'er, my father feels that his physical strength is weakening, and he may be about to follow your mother." After Liu Hongjing finished speaking, he coughed violently.
"Father, you have been tired and worried these days, which has caused evil spirits to invade your body and make you sick. As long as you relax your mind, your illness will naturally get better." Liu Fan comforted.
Liu Hongjing shook his head, closed his eyes and said nothing. After sleeping for a while, he coughed violently again.
Liu Fan tucked his back for him and stayed by his side silently, filled with sorrow.
In the blink of an eye, nearly half a month passed, the snow stopped, and the trees in the palace courtyard began to sprout, showing a little spring color, but the emperor's illness lingered and showed no signs of improvement.
On this day, in the Qingning Palace, Duanmu Yunji and Liu Huo looked at Ruoxi Palace from afar, with a proud look on their faces.
"Doctor Zhao said that your father may not survive February."
"My father is thinking about that bitch. It would be better to go over and meet her earlier, so as not to be separated from heaven and man and suffer day and night." Liu Huo smiled gloomily.
"Hmph! As long as he kicks his feet, I will take back everything that belongs to you! The Duanmu family, plus your father-in-law, the King of Southern Xinjiang, can force the prince to step down!" Duanmu Yunji sneered.
"Let the whole family of three go there to reunite then, haha, haha, hahaha -" Liu Huo suppressed his voice and laughed, making people's hair stand on end.
"Huo'er, Imperial Physician Zhao gave the Queen Mother something, which is said to speed up their reunion." Duanmu Yunji took out a small paper bag from her sleeve pocket, held it up to her eyes and shook it.
"Oh? It won't be detected?" Liu Huo asked.
"Of course not. If you give it to people who are in good health, it is a tonic. If you give it to weak people, it becomes poison. Moreover, women will be fine if they take it, and eunuchs will be fine if they take it. Only men..." Duanmu Yun
Ji smiled coldly.
"Well, the queen mother must be careful not to make things worse." Liu Huo followed the queen and nodded with a sneer.
"I know."
Mother and son conspired for a while, Liuhuo knelt down and retired, Duanmu Yunji stayed until evening, then went to Shang Pharmacy surrounded by palace maids and eunuchs.
"Is the emperor's medicine ready?" she asked the maid in charge.
"Go back to your Majesty, I'm having a hard time." the maid in charge replied.
"Take me to have a look."
"yes."
The palace maid took her to the fire. Duanmu Yunji turned around and said to her: "Go down, I want to prepare medicine for the emperor myself."
"This——Your Majesty——" The palace maid was noncommittal.
"Bold!" Duanmu Yunji suddenly waved her hand, knocking the palace maid staggering. After the palace maid stood firm, she covered her face and lowered her eyebrows, bent down and retreated far away. Duanmu Yunji glared at her, and the palace maid quickly retreated further and looked.
I don't dare to look here either.
Duanmu Yunji pretended to look here and there, then opened the earthen jar where the medicine was boiled, smelled it, and quietly sprinkled the medicinal powder in her hand into the earthen jar.
"Come here!" She called loudly, and the palace maid hurried over.
"Pour out the medicine and I will personally deliver it to the Emperor."
"Yes!" The palace maid picked up the medicine jar and poured the medicine inside into the bowl.
"Be careful, my dear, don't burn it," the palace maid warned tremblingly.
"I know." Duanmu Yunji carefully picked up the medicine bowl, left Shang Pharmacy and went to Ruoxi Palace. As soon as she left, Concubine Xue Shu came over, and the palace maid hurriedly told her that the Queen had taken the medicine away.
"Did she deliver the medicine?" Concubine Xue Shu frowned, raised her eyes and saw a few fingerprints on the palace maid's face, and asked, "What's going on?"
"The Empress said she would brew the medicine herself, but the servant said too much and was beaten," the palace maid said aggrievedly. Concubine Xue Shu was always kind, and the palace maids all liked her. When she complained to her, she felt like she was facing a relative, and she shed tears while talking.