Unparalleled Concubine

It's November now, it's not cold outside, but it's quite cold. Five copper stoves were lit in the warm pavilion, making the temperature here not only warm, but even hot.

The emperor was half lying on the soft couch, and there were a few court ladies waiting beside him.

The eldest princess walked over lightly.

Then she glanced at the emperor from a distance.

At this time, the emperor's face was even more ugly, not only pale, but also without a trace of blood on his face, his whole body was emaciated, and he was a completely different person from before.

Originally, because of some quarrels between the Jing'an Hou Mansion and the emperor, the distance between these elderly princesses and the emperor has been shortened a lot, and even they will not see each other for several months. The two brothers and sisters have a lot of distance.

But seeing the Son of Heaven at this time, the sense of distance in the eldest princess's heart disappeared immediately, her eyes were red, and tears welled up all at once.

The two of them are brothers and sisters. The emperor is seven years older than her. Since childhood, the emperor has loved this sister very much, because the empress dowager is trapped in the deep palace. It was he who was playing around with this little sister.

This kind of feeling cannot be faked.

The eldest princess walked up in two or three steps, and squatted halfway beside the emperor's bed, tears streaming down her face like rain.

"Brother, what's wrong with you..."

The emperor was thinking with his eyes closed, when he suddenly heard his sister's voice, his eyes opened suddenly. After seeing the eldest princess beside him, the emperor was stunned for a moment, and then a smile appeared on his pale face.

He barely supported his body and let himself sit up.

"Xiao Jiu is back..."

The eldest princess wept and said: "I went to the palace to see my brother last year, and my brother was still in good health, why did he suddenly look like this this year..."

The emperor waved his hand and shunned the palace people away.

He sat on one side of the soft couch, reserved a place on the other side, then patted the empty space with his hands weakly, and said softly, "Sit and talk."

The eldest princess just stood up from the ground and sat next to the emperor.

The emperor held his sister's hand, his voice was weak.

"This is fate, you can't resist."

"Since the fifth year of Taikang, I have suffered from physical problems, but at that time the problem was not serious, and I did not tell outsiders. I have been relying on medicine to support myself."

The son of heaven, who had been emperor for ten years, sighed slowly.

"People from the Zhang family in Longhushan said that I have no destiny to be the son of heaven. I was forcibly pushed to the position of emperor. I was destined not to last long. The shortest period is seven years, and the longest period is ten years."

Having said that, the emperor slowly closed his eyes.

"I succeeded to the throne in the twelfth lunar month of the 18th year of Chengde, and now...it is November of the [-]th year of Taikang, and there is still one month left before the [-]th year."

The eldest princess widened her eyes.

"How can my brother believe in evil ways and heresy?"

"I don't want to believe it either."

The Son of Heaven sighed slightly: "But everything he said has come true."

"Back then, without Chang'an, I probably would not have been able to be emperor. It was Chang'an who pushed me to this position. This is one of them."

The emperor closed his eyes and said slowly: "Secondly, in the seventh year of Taikang, I did have a serious illness and almost died."

"At that time, the Tai Hospital was helpless. If it weren't for the Taoist priests from Longhu Mountain, you would have never seen brother."

The eldest princess frowned.

In the seventh year of Taikang, that is to say, three years ago, the emperor did stop court for a month, but no one knew what was the reason at that time. It was also rumored that the emperor accepted a new beautiful concubine, so he stopped court for no reason.

Unlike Li Xin, the eldest princess is also a person of this era, and she will believe in some ghosts and ghosts. Hearing this, she has already believed some, and said: "In this case, brother, let the people from Longhushan come to Beijing again. , let me take a look..."

The emperor shook his head.

"My own body counts."

He took the eldest princess's hand and forced a smile on his face.

"I thought I would never see you, but now I can see you, I am very happy."

The eldest princess was in tears.

The emperor forced a smile: "My mother is still here, if I die, my mother may not be able to bear it, I have to rely on Xiaojiu to comfort you..."

Hearing these words, the eldest princess couldn't bear it anymore, and lay in the emperor's arms, crying loudly.

"Brother, you will not die, you are only 33 years old..."

The emperor shook his head, patted the eldest princess on the back, and continued: "Listen to me..."

He glanced at Xiao Jiu, and continued: "To be honest, I regret letting you marry Li Xin now."

The eldest princess raised her head and looked at the emperor.

The emperor smiled.

"If he is not your husband-in-law, even if I die, I will definitely take him with me."

Chapter 821 Forever a minister of Jin!

The emperor's words were actually a lie.

He is indeed very kind to the eldest princess, and the brother-sister relationship between the two is indeed very strong, but when sitting in the position of the emperor, no matter what kind of affection it is, it is not very useful.

Take that Emperor Wu Zhao as an example, no matter how much she loves her daughter, Princess Taiping, she will kill her son-in-law Xue Shao as soon as she says, sitting in the position of Nine-Five Supreme, it is difficult for personal feelings to affect their decision .

The emperor did not kill Li Xin to be buried with him. To a large extent, it was because he could not kill Li Xin, or it was not easy to kill Li Xin, not because he was unwilling to kill Li Xin.

The reason why I said this to the eldest princess is to ask for affection. If Li Xin has any wrong intentions in the future, the eldest princess, the person next to him, may be able to persuade him.

Of course, this kind of small trick can't restrain Li Xin very well. It can only be said that talking is better than nothing. For the emperor, this is just a casual sentence.

All people who have climbed to high places, or stand on high places themselves, like to keep some backhands intentionally or unintentionally. Most of these backhands are useless, but there is no cost. It doesn't matter.

But after the eldest princess heard these words, she was moved and burst into tears.

She is very clear that there is already a deep conflict between her royal brother and her husband, otherwise Li Xin would not have tried everything to send their mother and son out of the capital at the beginning of the year. In a word, it is naturally impossible for the eldest princess to remain unmoved.

She took the emperor's hand, choked up and said: "Brother is still young, so I can't say a word of death, just rest and recuperate for a while, maybe it will be all right."

The emperor smiled slightly, but did not speak.