After Emperor Ming Yuan had a calm talk with Prince Rui, he issued an order to Prince Ji's Mansion, and he returned to the imperial study.
Eunuch Mu Ru advised him to rest, but he shook his head and said, "Come in and talk to me."
Eunuch Mu Ru agreed, came in and made tea first, then stood aside with his hands down.
Emperor Ming Yuan was half leaning on the Arhat bed, and stretched out his hand to rub his eyebrows. The wrinkles on his forehead seemed to be deeper.
"Boss is thirty this year, right?" Emperor Ming Yuan spoke slowly, his voice hoarse from exhaustion.
"Back to the emperor, yes, Prince Ji is thirty this year." Eunuch Mu Ru arrived.
Emperor Ming Yuan hummed, "These days go by so fast. It seems like yesterday I saw them, they were just half-grown children. In the blink of an eye, I knew they were fighting each other."
Eunuch Mu Ru was startled, knelt down quickly, and said in fear: "Your Majesty!"
Emperor Ming Yuan sneered, "I never say it, right? If I don't say it, don't I know it in my heart?"
Eunuch Mu Ru did not dare to speak.
"Among my sons, I have high hopes for the eldest. He has been outstanding, smart and steady since he was a child. However, in recent years, he has become more impetuous and complacent, and his arrogance has grown. I will not know what he has in mind.
You know? He disappointed me very much."
"Your Majesty, Prince Ji will change his ways." Eunuch Mu Ru didn't know what the Emperor's intention was, and he didn't dare to speculate, so he could only comfort him softly.
Emperor Ming Yuan said sternly: "Change? Temperament can be changed, but how can ambition be changed? Now he is not the prince yet, and he is already killing each other. Once he becomes powerful, and I am older, his brothers will not all die.
In his hand?"
Eunuch Mu Ru's face turned pale, "Your Majesty, calm down!"
"The second child is ordinary, the third child is capable but has a bad temper, the fourth child is quite capable, but unfortunately, he is narrow-minded and cannot tolerate others, and the sixth child is calm. After being ill for these years, after recovering, I am afraid he will have no choice but to divide the feudal lords.
On the one hand, I want to be a happy king. Lao Qi and Lao Ba are my legitimate sons. Lao Ba has something wrong with his brain. Lao Qi is even more confused than the brainless Lao Ba, especially he married a disgusting wife. As for Lao Ninth
, that’s all.”
He counted eight of his nine sons, and they all sighed heavily and feebly.
Eunuch Mu Ru didn't hear the emperor talking about the old five kings of Chu, so he asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, there is also a king of Chu."
Emperor Ming Yuan picked up the tea and slowly pushed the tea foam on the water with the lid of the cup, his eyes far away, "Lao Wu..."
He closed the lid of the cup and said, "My fifth daughter-in-law is quite good. Although she is always smart, she is kind-hearted, brave and decisive, but her mother's family is a bit annoying."
"Yes!" Eunuch Mu Ru responded, but the emperor never said anything about King Chu.
Emperor Ming Yuan stopped talking.
Eunuch Mu Ru retreated.
As soon as I went out, I saw someone coming from the Qinghua Palace, saying that the Eighth Prince had woken up.
Eunuch Mu Ru hurriedly went back to report to Emperor Ming Yuan. Emperor Ming Yuan was shocked and said to Eunuch Mu Ru: "What I just said about my fifth daughter-in-law is one less thing. She has the ability to turn decay into magic. Show me!"
Eunuch Mu Ru laughed and preached loudly: "Your Majesty is riding in the Qinghua Palace."
The Eighth Prince woke up, but he just snorted in a daze and never opened his eyes again.
However, when I called him, he also felt that his eyelids were moving but he couldn't lift them up.
Yuan Qing Lingxun reported: "The eighth brother's injuries were always too serious. Now the internal bleeding has stopped, but he started to have a fever since midnight. He was given antipyretic medicine and the fever subsided. But after the fever, he felt very uncomfortable."
strength, so we still have to keep an eye on it."
Emperor Ming Yuan was a little disappointed, "So, it's not certain that he can be cured?"
Yuan Qing Ling said: "I'm not sure."
The main reason is that there are too few medicines that she can use on the Eighth Prince.
I hope the Chinese medicine will be effective.
This situation lasted for two days. The Eighth Prince woke up several times, but he only opened his eyes, looked at them, and slowly closed them again.
The queen's patience was completely gone. As soon as Yuan Qing Ling gave the eighth prince an infusion, she said angrily: "I don't know if it was the blood of those people that was injected into his body that made him sick."
In the Queen's opinion, the eighth prince's blood is noble, and the ninth prince and those imperial troops are naturally incomparable.
Yuan Qingling knew that many people here had blood superstition.
It seems that if the blood is messed up, one's identity will be greatly reduced or God's blessing will be lost.
Yuan Qingling did not answer the queen's words. In fact, she was exhausted and almost collapsed.
The queen became more and more angry when she saw that she was ignoring him, but the emperor believed in her and there was nothing she could do.
On the fifth day in the palace, Xu felt pity from heaven and saw that Yuan Qingling was almost dying, and finally the eighth prince's condition improved greatly.
He really woke up. He opened his eyes and kept looking at Yuan Qingling.
Yuan Qingling smiled and backed away.
The queen rushed towards him, hugged him and cried heartily.
The maid came to help the queen away, and the imperial doctor stepped forward. Finally, she happily said to Emperor Ming Yuan: "It's stable, it's stable."
Emperor Ming Yuan dismissed everyone, leaving only Yuan Qing Ling in the palace.
The queen was very puzzled, but she could only go out according to the order and wait outside.
Yuan Qingling's heart was beating wildly.
He knew that the emperor wanted to make a final verification.
This verification may be because he still doesn't believe Lao Wu.
Or maybe, he wants to completely clear Lao Wu's innocence.
But no matter what, you have to ask.
What she was worried about was that the Eighth Prince had just woken up, did he still have that memory? And was his memory confused?
Emperor Ming Yuan's hand caressed the eighth prince's face, even doting on him, "Good boy, does it still hurt?"
"It hurts!" the Eighth Prince said, his voice was very low and he had no strength at all.
"Be good, bear with me for a moment, it won't hurt anymore." Emperor Ming Yuan comforted him.
"It hurts!" the Eighth Prince still said.
Emperor Ming Yuan looked back at Yuan Qingling, "Is there any painkiller?"
"I gave it to you," Yuan Qingling said.
Emperor Ming Yuan held the eighth prince's hand, "Did you hear that? I gave you painkillers, and the pain will go away in a while."
The Eighth Prince remained silent and turned to look at Yuan Qingling.
Yuan Qingling moved a little closer and gave him an encouraging look.
Emperor Ming Yuan then asked softly: "Chang'er, tell my father who hurt you?"
The Eighth Prince frowned and thought for a moment. His pale face was almost transparent and fragile, like a human figure made of sand.
"Fifth brother..."
When these two words came out from his lips, Yuan Qingling was so shocked that his head exploded, his heart suddenly jumped into the air, suspended, and he couldn't even control his breathing.
Emperor Ming Yuan's expression remained unchanged and he continued to encourage softly, "Well, what's wrong with fifth brother?"
The eighth prince said: "I reached out to grab the fifth brother, but it was not the fifth brother. Xiao Dezi fell down, and I started bleeding here."
He retracted his hand and touched his wound, with tears in his eyes, "It hurts."
Yuan Qingling almost fell to the ground. Hey, what you said is that if you don't work hard enough, you will be scared to death.
Emperor Ming Yuan comforted him with a smile, "Okay, the imperial doctor also has a Purple Gold Pill. My father ordered someone to take it for you. It's been a few days and I can take another one. This Purple Gold Pill was given by your ninth brother."
your."
"Ninth Brother!" The Eighth Prince's voice rose slightly, "Ninth Brother, I want Ninth Brother."