Heaven is fearless

Tingfang Garden covers a large area, and there are four seasons of flowers and trees of various colors planted inside. Even if you come to Guan to watch it in the sluggish winter, you can see bright flowers everywhere.

The plum trees here are all carefully cultivated, and each one is in charge of a special person. The curvy branches are full of abundant flowers, deep red, light white, light green, light yellow, and the palace people hold umbrellas to protect Shao Tianheng from the snow. The person wrapped in a thick cloak held a hand stove, his face was all white in the snow, and he couldn't tell which one was paler.

The joy that Chu Zhang was full of was exhausted after he walked not far away. He belatedly remembered the other party's physical condition, and thought about his words to persuade Shao Tianheng that he might as well go back. down.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince seldom goes out in winter, if he can relax...

Chu Zhang suppressed what he wanted to say, and started talking about some interesting things in Taixue to make Shao Tianheng laugh.

"...Yanzhuo later stole his father's private house to suppress this matter, and was beaten up by his father when he went back..."

Chu Zhang's imitation of Yan Zhuo was also very vivid, and Shao Tianheng's smiling face turned a little bloody, and he coughed.

"Your Highness!" Chu Zhang immediately stopped talking, imitating Ying Guang's example, pressing Shao Tianheng's chest to calm his breathing.

Shao Tianheng waved his hand: "No problem."

They were walking under a huge plum tree. Shao Tianheng looked at the plum tree with a smile on his face: "This plum tree was brought from her mother's home and transplanted in the palace when the orphaned queen mother got married. Yes, it was first planted in the harem, but it has not bloomed, and even the best gardener said that it might not survive, but the queen just didn't believe it."

"Later, he was born alone and named the crown prince, and the queen mother transplanted the plum tree to the East Palace. Unexpectedly, that winter, the tree was full of flowers. Since then, there has been no missed appointment for a year."

Shao Tianheng raised his hand, and gently folded off a plum branch full of buds. This branch was half an arm long, rugged and straight, and the translucent flowers were inlaid on the dry plum branch, like clusters of deep red jade pieces. Dazzling and lively, it doesn't look like the lonely Mei anymore.

He played with this branch of plum for a while, and handed it to Chu Zhang. His pale skin was a little healthy and rosy against the background of the crimson flowers: "As long as it blooms for a year, a solitary person can live for a year, and he can always protect you." What are you afraid of when you grow up?"

Chu Zhang stared blankly at Shao Tianheng's lightly smiling face behind the plum blossoms, his heartbeat suddenly beat like a drum, and the impact made his chest numb and painful.

He had never heard such gentle words. So, would someone like him be willing to say something to protect him?

Chu Zhang took the plum blossom slowly with trembling hands, held it solemnly and carefully, and said softly: "What you said...I remember it."

Shao Tianheng didn't feel the deep and almost paranoid tone in his words at all, he just smiled and patted his forehead with the back of his hand, as if the distinguished elder was very intimate with the junior: "Let's go."

A group of people walked slowly into the depths of Tingfang Garden. In the peaceful atmosphere, a group of people hurried in through the snow.

When Chu Zhang saw the waiter's face covered with sweat, blush and anxiety, he suddenly had a bad premonition, he subconsciously looked at the expression of the person beside him, only to see the same dignified and calm face on the other side's handsome face: "Why are you panicking? "

The little servant took a breath, knelt down in the thick snow with a puff, bowed his body to salute, and said loudly: "His Royal Highness, Your Majesty hastened to announce!"

Shao Tianheng gave a faint "Oh", as if he was not surprised by the sudden call: "Why did you announce it?"

The little servant shook his head: "I don't know, there is an urgent military situation entering the palace at three o'clock in the afternoon. After getting the report, His Majesty was furious in the imperial study, and immediately ordered the servant to come to the East Palace to announce the summons."

Shao Tianheng pondered for a while: "Well, Gu probably knows what's going on."

He waved back the little servant, turned his head and smiled peacefully at Chu Zhang: "Go and see Father first, go back to Chengming Terrace, the winter is long and the night is long, and the snow is heavy, let them add more braziers for you."

Chu Zhang didn't know why he suddenly said that he knew what happened, and he answered yes blankly, then saw Shao Tianheng stretch out his hand, and patted his forehead lightly again. The dark blue figure walked away with a large group of servants.

Chu Zhang went back to Chengming Terrace by himself, stayed up all night for some reason, hugged the quilt and sat in front of the window far away from Yaoyi Hall, looking at a corner of the crimson palace through the cornice copper bell.

It wasn't until nightfall that he vaguely heard the commotion in the Yaoyi Hall. It was like daytime lights winding up from the Yaoyi Hall. This was only when the master of the palace came back. Wanted to sleep, but found something wrong.

That noise...was too noisy.

Shao Tianheng is weak, and he doesn't like making noise the most, and the servants know this best, so how dare they make such a scene in front of Shao Tianheng?

Chu Zhang's heart beat suddenly quickened, he sat up abruptly, thought for a while, threw off the quilt, put on his boots hastily, picked up the heavy cloak from the shelf and wrapped it around himself, ignoring the cries of the awakened servant, plunged into the snowstorm.

He didn't wear much clothes, but he didn't feel cold at all in the wind and snow. His blood flowed to the top of his head, and he tripped over a snowdrift on the road and fell twice. .

The gate of the Yaoyi Palace was opened, and the court ladies and imperial doctors hurried in and out. No one noticed him even though he was in such a mess. Only when he was about to walk in the door did the palace maids find him, and the water basin in her hand dropped with a clang. Land: "Ah! Who are you!"

Chu Zhang didn't pay attention to her questioning, and stared straight at the reddish water in the basin. All the warm water was poured on the ground, and immediately a servant lay down to clean it up.

Ying Guang heard the noise coming out of Nuan Pavilion, her clothes also had some bright red traces, her face was full of panic, and she was shocked for a moment when she saw Chu Zhang's appearance: "Why is the lord here at this time?"

She just asked indifferently, then turned her head to look inside the Nuan Pavilion, and pointed to the two maids after a long while: "Go and serve the Lord to change a suit of clothes."

After finishing speaking, he gave a hasty blessing to Chu Zhang and entered the Nuan Pavilion.

Chu Zhang asked them to change clothes in silence, his tight throat thawed out in the scorching air, and he asked hoarsely, "The water...the water, what's going on?"

The little maid who took off his boots paused, as if she was about to cry, and replied in a low voice: "That's the blood that His Royal Highness vomited."

Chu Zhang trembled all over: "What's wrong with him?"

The little maid sniffed and looked around, another maid stood up in good time and closed the door of the side room.

"It's Your Majesty... His Majesty fired a big fire at His Highness, causing His Highness to kneel and reflect. It's so cold and hard in the imperial study room, even normal people can't stand it, not to mention His Highness's body...Second Highness still put it on halfway." Please leave, Your Majesty, let His Majesty kneel from the afternoon until now..."

The little maid probably didn't like that Second Highness either, as soon as he mentioned him, there was a bit of imperceptible disgust in her tone: "In the past, Second Highness often embarrassed His Highness like this, but today he is even more insane... His Highness has a cold in his body. He vomited blood non-stop, and changed several basins of water..."

She lowered her voice, Chu Zhang suddenly stood up, his face darkened, after a pause, he asked in a low voice: "That Second Highness... who is it?"

He had never cared about the affairs of the court hall in the Great Wei Palace before, and was careful not to overstep every step of the way, but now, he suddenly discovered that he should not be protected by Shao Tianheng at all.

——What qualifications does he have to be protected by Shao Tianheng? !

The little palace maid described the relationship between Concubine Zhuang, the Second Prince and the Crown Prince like beans in a bamboo tube, and there were some accusations filled with righteous indignation.

When the first empress was alive, Shao Tianheng was the jewel of the stars. The first empress died when Shao Tianheng was 11 years old. Afterwards, Concubine Zhuang became the dominant concubine. With the favor of the emperor, the second prince gradually became equal to Shao Tianheng.

The little palace maid spoke vividly of the prince who was young and helpless, guarding the East Palace, and gritting his teeth to rise up, but Chu Zhang noticed the strange disappearance of another person in her superficial lingering words between Concubine Zhuang and the second prince. .

—Where is the Great Wei Emperor?

Where was he when his eldest son, his best prince, was being made things difficult by his favorite concubine?

Abandoning the frail eldest son to kneel in the imperial study room, and being ordered to leave by the second son, this is not at all like the behavior of the emperor who dotes on the prince according to the outside world!

Chu Zhang seemed to have touched something secretive, like a poisonous snake, or something colder and entangled along his back.

Shao Tianheng... In addition to the praise from the outside world, is he really living so calmly as he imagined?

The imperial doctor did not leave until late at night, and the head of the imperial hospital brought two medicine boys to decoct medicine in the outer room. Chu Zhang quietly opened the warm curtain, walked into the dark and ignorant sleeping tent wrapped by heavy curtains, and sat on the floor beside the bed .

The thin gauze curtain blocked the last ray of soft light, and the light orange light cast a rippling and blurred warm color on the gold-plated gauze curtain. Chu Zhang carefully lifted the gauze curtain. With this little light, he finally saw Clear the face of the person on the bed.

He probably suffered a lot, but in just a few hours, his cheeks became thinner, his long black hair splashed on the soft pillow, his black eyelashes were quietly closed, and his thin lips were always blue Uncharacteristically, she was abnormally gorgeous like a drop of blood, and her cheeks were also flushed with the redness that can only be seen in high fever. The whole person was like a thin piece of paper, or a handful of ink like flowing clouds. Li was silent, as if it would be crushed if touched lightly.

Chu Zhang clenched the soft gauze curtain tightly. For the first time, he felt Shao Tianheng's fragility, which made him feel uncontrollably sad and panicked.

Despair like the deep sea soaked his eyes, ears, mouth and nose, and his heart sank and sank in a deep black sea, almost sinking into the abyss of mourning.

There was a strong medicinal fragrance from the outer room, Chu Zhang put down the gauze curtain, and tiptoed out, hearing the conversation between the imperial doctor and the little drug boy.

The drug boy also seemed to worship the prince very much, and was pestering the head of the hospital to ask about the prince's condition.

The aged head of the hospital squinted his eyes to see the flames under the medicine stove, and sighed softly: "It's difficult, Your Highness, this is an old illness, and you should take good care of it, and you should avoid exhaustion. And cause, this medicine is already a medicine for tigers and wolves, if His Highness continues to work hard like before..."

The imperial doctor stopped talking, and after a while, in the quiet and warm fragrance, Chu Zhang vaguely heard a sad sigh belonging to the old man: "Huiji will be hurt, what a pity..."

Chu Zhang didn't make a sound, but he just held on to the curtain hanging beside the pillar, pierced his nails into the flesh, and suppressed the low moan in his throat with the bloody pain.

When Shao Tianheng woke up, his eyes were dim, and he could only see a faint figure shaking. It took him a while to see the specific person clearly. Seeing Chu Zhang's panicked face as if he was about to lose everything, he tried his best to lift his finger, and made a low voice. Said: "...Gu... It's not time yet... Plum blossoms are still in bloom..."

Chu Zhang was shocked, but Shao Tianheng fell asleep again.

Amidst the frightened walking and impetuous murmurs of the maids, no one saw the dim flame that suddenly ignited in Chu Zhang's eyes. It was like a will-o'-the-wisp lit from hell, silent and without even a temperature, but But it contains the most ruthless poison. At this moment, it is lit with a resolute heart and fear, faintly and coldly, as if it wants to burn all the thorns and barriers that dare to stand in front of him.

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