At the same time, Li Huai also received a tip from Donggong.His pupils trembled suddenly, as if it was a bit unacceptable.

"The news is true?"

"It's true, the pulse was diagnosed by Imperial Physician Chen himself."

The cinnabar condensed on the vermilion pen blurred into a ball of bright red on the memorial.Li Huai's hands trembled a little, he thought he wouldn't care about that child's life or death.

These days he often dreams about Shuning, when they were still in the Prince's Mansion.At that time Chang Le was born not long ago, he would always go to Shuning's yard after finishing his official duties, holding Chang Le in one hand and taking Shuning's hand for a walk in the garden.At that time, he often said with a smile that he would spend the rest of his life with her.

But the dream changed, and he dreamed about the day when Shu Ning was dying, and he swore to take good care of her two children.But in fact, he hurriedly forced Changle to make a marriage, causing him to fall off the cliff halfway to his death, leaving no bones left.He imprisoned his four-year-old boy in the East Palace and ignored him, but now he drowned and died...

Li Huai suddenly pressed his forehead with exposed veins, and gasped with a 'hiss' sound.

Mingde hurriedly stepped forward and asked: "The emperor has a headache again, and this servant is going to teach the imperial physician."

Li Huai waved his hand: "Forget it."

"That side of the East Palace..."

Li Huai closed his eyes and frowned tightly.After a while, he said: "Bury according to the prince's rites. Everyone in the East Palace neglected their duties and neglected the prince, causing him to die. He committed a heinous crime and ordered to be buried with him."

Mingde opened his mouth to persuade him, but he couldn't say it, so he bowed and retreated.

Little Mozi took water to wipe Prince Li Pei's body, and changed into the Prince's costume specially made by the Ministry of Rites.The East Palace is solemn and solemn.

Doctor Chen paced to a secluded corner with the medicine box on his back. Seeing that there was no one around, he spread out his palms and unfolded the crumpled note.It said: Tell the truth to His Majesty.

Doctor Chen frowned.Like other courtiers, the first thing he suspected was His Highness, although he admired His Highness from the bottom of his heart.But after all, he was the most popular candidate for the crown prince before, and if the crown prince had an accident, he would be the one to benefit.Especially when he found out that the prince's death was unusual, Imperial Physician Chen became more and more hesitant.

But this note was slipped to him by Xiao Mozi when he was unprepared. Little Mozi was left behind by Empress Wei, so there is no need to doubt his loyalty.It's just that he didn't understand why such a note was given to him for a while.

There is still a need to return to the Xuanming Palace.Doctor Chen was not sure how to answer the emperor for a moment.Fortunately, Li Huai was disturbed and did not inquire carefully, only knowing that Li Pei was indeed dead, so he sent Imperial Physician Chen away.

Doctor Chen breathed a sigh of relief after leaving the Xuanming Hall a long way away, and then began to think about the contents of the note.

He is also just an imperial physician and has no faction in the palace.Although he felt sorry for the little prince's death in vain, he wanted to pass the news to the Wei family.But now that the Wei family has been convicted and the old lady is still in prison, it is not easy for him to contact the Wei family rashly.

But since Xiao Mozi asked him to tell the Eldest Prince, could it be... Imperial Physician Chen couldn't figure it out after much deliberation, hesitating, he still found an opportunity to meet the Eldest Prince.

Li Kui frowned immediately when he heard what Chen Taiji said, "You mean the prince's death was not drowning?"

Imperial Physician Chen nodded: "Although I haven't checked carefully, according to the veteran's experience, it is indeed not drowning. However, after repeated pulse checks, although it seems that he died of suffocation at first, there is something wrong. In short, the death of the little prince It's very weird. Xiao Mozi thought that the old minister could see it, so he wrote a note to the old minister and entrusted the old minister to pass it on to His Highness."

The corners of Li Kui's mouth almost collapsed into a straight line, his brows were tightly furrowed.

"Even Imperial Physician Chen can't see the cause of death?"

Doctor Chen shook his head: "I'm ashamed."

"That note..."

"The veteran has been destroyed."

Li Qi nodded with a sullen face, and said: "Don't mention this matter to the second person."

Physician Chen bowed in response.

Back in the bedroom, Zhang Bao, Li Kui's personal supervisor, came in with a tray in both hands, and said, "This is the new clothes sent by the Department of Internal Affairs, Your Highness, try it on?"

Li Qi waved his hand: "Let's put it aside for now."

Zhang Bao turned his head and looked outside the hall, then moved a step forward and said, "Your Highness, let's try it, these are new clothes for spring, if there is something inappropriate, you can change it."

Li Kui raised his head when he heard the words, seeing Zhang Bao blinking at him, he understood.He coughed and said, "Okay."

The master and servant went into the inner room, Zhang Bao shook off his outer shirt, took the scissors and picked apart the embroidery thread, carefully took out a note from inside.

While handing the note to Li Kui, he yelled, "Hey, this slave is guilty, this dress is off the thread..."

"It's okay, send it to the Commander of Internal Affairs tomorrow for repairs..."

Li Kui unfolded the note and wrote a line of small characters: When encoffining, steal the corpse and hand it over to Gao Hai.

Li Qi's eyes widened suddenly, and he took a closer look by the candlelight, and sure enough, he was right.He couldn't help whispering softly: "Gao Hai, Eunuch Gao?"

Li Pei died young, if he had not been blessed by the crown prince, his bones would have been collected and buried in the prince's mausoleum at this time.Now the emperor ordered that the crown prince should be buried generously, and the etiquette must be thorough.The inner and outer coffins were to be buried in the East Palace, and the coffins were sealed after the bones were put into the coffin, and then buried in the imperial mausoleum.

Li Qi conveniently folded the note and stuffed it into his sleeve pocket, and hurried to find Mr. Yu.Mr. Yu burned the note directly after reading it, and then said: "Master Feng is now serving as the servant of the Ministry of Rites. Jane is in the heart of the emperor, and Mr. Feng will preside over the funeral of the prince. It is convenient to do it. But after the event, Eunuch Gao needs a reason to leave the palace. I hope His Highness will help you deal with it one or two."

Seeing that his expression was quite calm, Li Qi suddenly had a bold idea in his mind, and he couldn't help leaning over: "Teacher, is the younger brother of the prince, is he..."

Mr. Yu stroked his beard and said, "His Royal Highness is dead."

Li Qi stared at him, as if he saw a little spark in the teacher's eyes that saw through the desolation of the world.

The crown prince is dead, but Pei'er is still alive.

Knowing that Li Huai wanted the East Palace to be buried for the young prince, Gao Hai, who was raised in the palace, begged to see Li Huai.

The master and the servant haven't seen each other for many years, and now Gao Hai doesn't care about anything, but he has a free and easy heart.However, Li Huai has been visibly haggard in recent years.

As soon as we met, we were so sad.

The moment he saw Gao Hai, Li Huai seemed to have returned to the beginning in a trance, and his gloomy expression eased a lot.

"Eunuch Gao, long time no see, how are you?"

Gao Hai hurriedly said: "Thanks to the great blessing of the emperor, I am very grateful for giving this old slave a place to settle down."

Li Huai said with a smile: "Eunuch Gao has served me for many years, he has worked hard and made great achievements. You deserve this."

Gao Hai bowed his body and clasped his hands and laughed dryly, but was speechless for a moment.

The atmosphere was a little stagnant.

Gao Hai hesitated for a moment, took a step forward, knelt down, bowed, and said: "This old servant is bold, please take back the order of the emperor to be buried."

Li Huai's face darkened: "The imperial decree has been issued, you want me to break my promise?"

Gao Haidao: "The empress was benevolent during her lifetime, and she always opposed the system of burial. Although the death of the little prince was the negligence of the palace people, it is right to punish those involved. However, most of the nearly [-] palace people in the Eastern Palace were innocent. , it is cruel. If the queen has a spirit in the sky, she must not bear the emperor to do this."

Li Huai knocked over the inkstone with his hands back, pointed at Gao Hai angrily with bare eyes: "Bold slave!"

Gao Hai grabbed the ground with his head, and cried bitterly: "Please take back your order, so that Empress An is the spirit in heaven!"

Li Huai kneaded the space between his brows, feeling a sense of dryness pressing down on his heart, which made him unable to breathe.In a daze, he seemed to see Shuning.She always wears light blue clothes, like a magnolia flower, light and elegant.

She is honest and kind, takes good care of the harem, and raises his children well.

Gao Hai saw that Li Huai was in a daze, and said again: "The empress believes in Buddhism, if the emperor is saddened by the death of the young prince, this old servant will boldly ask for orders, and go to the Huguo Temple to chant scriptures and pray for the young prince."

Li Huai looked down at Gao Hai, with a complicated expression on his face.He was brought up by Gao Hai, but compared to himself, Gao Hai is closer to the queen.In other words, what he hopes more is the harmony between the emperor and empress.It's not that Li Huai doesn't understand his thoughts.

This is why Gao Hai has repeatedly violated the rules, and he can tolerate them.

He sighed and finally gave in.

"Okay, after sealing the coffin, Eunuch Gao will go."

Gao Hai bowed down again: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your fulfillment."

Not long after returning to Jingyuanbei's residence, Gao Hai received a large box.It is said that it was given by the Holy Spirit.

Gao Hai thanked him, dismissed the little eunuch who was serving him, closed the doors and windows, and opened the box with trembling hands.Then I saw a small person shrinking inside.Under the warm yellow candlelight, his eyebrows and eyes were delicate and soft, very much like Queen Wei.

Gao Hai carefully carried Li Pei out, unable to hold back his tears.

"If the empress is alive in the sky, I really don't know how to be distressed."

Trembling, he took out a blue and white porcelain bottle from his sleeve pocket, poured out the pills inside, dissolved it with water, and fed it carefully to Li Pei.

Gao Hai didn't dare to close his eyes that night, for fear of missing Li Pei's waking up.

The pill was delivered to him with a secret letter.At first glance, the content of the secret letter is really appalling.But he has carefully distinguished, and the handwriting is undoubtedly that of Mrs. Wei.Because the old matriarch's handwriting is strong and has her own style, the queen likes to copy the old matriarch's handwriting most.Only the queen can imitate three or four points of charm.

The letter said that if the prince took the fake death pill, someone would steal the prince out of the coffin. Gao Hai only needed to take the antidote for the prince before sunset on the third day.Today is the third day, and everything is arranged just right.

If there is no other way, I believe the Wei family will not take such a risky thing.

The candle was burnt out, the east was showing a bit of fish belly, and the faint light shone into the room, Li Pei couldn't help but snorted.

Gao Hai sat up straight in shock, and called softly, "Your Highness?"

Li Pei opened his eyes in a daze, and what he saw was an old man with a kind face.He slowed down, and it took a long time before he opened his mouth and said, "Are you Eunuch Gao?"

Gao Hai smiled and said, "Your Highness recognizes this old slave?"

Li Pei nodded obediently: "I heard my mother mentioned you. Xiao Mozi also said that the first person I saw when I woke up was Eunuch Gao."

Gao Hai touched his little head: "That's great. Is Your Highness hungry?"

Li Pei rubbed his stomach, pouted his mouth and said, "I'm so hungry. Little Mozi didn't prepare lunch before I fell asleep."

Gao Hai took out a cloth bag from the cage, which contained a few pieces of snacks.

"It's not time for breakfast yet, Your Highness, let's pad our stomach first."

Li Pei turned over and gnawed on his snacks like a little hamster.

"Is there any water?"

Gao Hai thought for a while and said, "Your Highness, bear with it, we still have a long way to go. If Your Highness drank water, he might not be able to hold back the urge to urinate."

Although Li Pei didn't know what they were going to do, Xiao Mozi said that he wanted to listen to Eunuch Gao.

He pouted unhappily: "Okay."

Gao Hai spread out his palms like a magic trick, and said, "Your Highness, please have a sweet mouth."

Li Pei was happy all of a sudden: "It's so sweet!"

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