Mikago

At the turn of winter and spring in Ruihe's 32 years, more than ten consecutive days of sunshine and warmth melted the snow in the upper reaches of the Weihe River early.The spring tide rolled down with dust, and along the way, it washed away many fertile land ports and flooded many villages and farmhouses.

When the flood receded, the river mud and corpses were exposed to the warm sun and quickly rotted, and then the plague spread, and the black smoke of burning corpses was everywhere in the wilderness.

There was no flood in Chaojing City, but after a few days, the epidemic entered the city along with the fleeing victims.It was first hidden in Jingfang in the south of the city, and then began to spread to the north of the city.

In the autumn and winter of last year, the Chen Family Medicine Garden brought a batch of medicinal materials from Liuquan City, such as Bupleurum, Pinellia, Platycodon grandiflorum, etc. After a winter of growth, many of them are ready to be harvested.It was sent to Dongshi, and it was looted soon.That Lu Ying'er is really wretched, she only shared the account with Lu You after concealing part of the income; Lu You didn't go into details, saved some by herself, and converted the rest into flying money and attached it to Ye Yueshan.

By the middle of March, a female official in the Zichen Palace had contracted the disease, so Emperor Huiming and Empress Xiao went to the Heshan Palace temporarily to take refuge.The ceremony of expelling the plague god was performed for three consecutive days and three nights, and the inside and outside of the house were full of the smell of ageratum and wormwood.Palace ladies and eunuchs even set up a private bet on which member of the clan would be the first to be infected with the disease.

But in Huiqing Hall, something strange has already made people nervous.

Xuan Wang, Zhao Yang, had a fever for two days in a row.On the evening of the third day, he secretly ordered someone to call Lu You and the imperial doctor into the bedroom.

Through the dim candlelight, Lu You saw Zhao Yang leaning on the bed weakly and feebly.It was already past the cold spring season, but he was wrapped in a thick quilt.

The imperial doctor lifted the quilt tremblingly, and a gust of hot wind came, even accompanied by a faint rancid smell.

I saw that Zhao Yang's face and body, which should have been smooth and white, had actually burst into large patches of red spots.Some places even began to fester and stink.

"According to the humble opinion...the humble opinion..."

After a careful diagnosis, the experienced and well-informed old imperial doctor stuttered, but finally told the truth.

What Zhao Yang got was not a plague, but a yin disease.

Well, an unmarried prince, even if he has an affair with a woman in the palace, he will not contract any shameful diseases.Naturally, this matter has an inextricable relationship with Zhao Yang's frequent visits to Huajie and Liuxiang.

The imperial doctor knew it well, he knew that he had pierced the sky this time, and his life might not be long.Fortunately, Zhao Yang seemed to have made up his mind a long time ago, so he asked the imperial doctor not to tell anyone, to concentrate on other things, and to treat him alone.

The yin disease has reached Zhao Yang's level, and it cannot be cured by one or two doses of decoction.According to the estimate of the imperial doctor, at least one or two months of recovery period will be needed.

In fact, time is not a problem, the problem is that during this period of time, people must not let people see Zhao Yang's abnormal state; let alone let the news spread to Heshan Palace and into the ears of Emperor Huiming.

After threatening the imperial doctor, Zhao Yang immediately turned his attention to Lu You again.

"From today onwards, you will guard me in this Huiqing Palace, pretending to be my usual appearance. If anyone asks to see you, you are not allowed to make a claim, and report to me later. If the father, the queen, and the queen send someone over, they will also send me Be careful and agree... If you show some flaws and make this king unhappy, then I will naturally have a thousand ways to make you hurt slowly... By the way, go tell that Qi Yunchu again, from the inner flying dragon Wei Litou selects a few clever ones, and Ming Ke Quli to Hong Yinger and her family, from top to bottom, wipe them all out, leaving no one behind."

Zhao Yang's order cannot be questioned, Lu You has no choice but to nod.After leaving Huiqing Palace, he immediately reported the matter to Duke Changqiu.Naturally, Qi Yunchu still didn't say anything, just said a word lightly.

"Just now there are messengers from the Heshan Palace to report that the Emperor and Empress Xiao are going back to Zichen Palace soon, so you can take care of yourself."

There are many reasons for the empress to return to the palace, and the dark and humid Heshan Palace accounted for [-]%; There are also routine sacrifices that need to be completed.

Of course, King Xuan must also participate in these ceremonies.

The real king of Xuan, Zhao Yang, was unable to attend, and this responsibility naturally fell on Lu You's shoulders. The pressure involved is self-evident.Fortunately, it wasn't the first day that Lu You pretended to be Zhao Yang, and the royal family's advance and retreat behaviors had already been learned.

And sacrifices are not necessary every day after all.What made Lu You even more troublesome was the court officials who would come to him every now and then.

After the Chongyang birthday banquet, there were more and more people who "loyalty" to King Xuan.

On the evening when he just came back from Liuquan City, Lu You once asked Qi Yunchu a question: Since there is already a prince in the dynasty, why would anyone want to be loyal to another prince.Qi Yunchu only let Lu You think for himself.And during this time, Lu You finally found the answer.

Most of the people who came to find King Xuan and Zhao Yang were people who had suffered from the crown prince.

It is said that in the early years, in order to cultivate the prince's self-cultivation in governing the country, Emperor Huiming ordered him to handle government affairs in Suzhangmen every few days.Among them was a memorial from Jiangnan Dongdao, imploring the imperial court to send someone to investigate a case where a local businessman accused local officials of confiscating grain.

This was originally just a trivial matter, and it could be dismissed with a wave of the ink pen.However, the crown prince decided to investigate and supervised the investigation all the way, and finally involved five or six local officials suspected of monopoly.When the incident got to the level of the governor, someone close to him once begged for mercy in private.The prince didn't agree, and in the end a distant relative of the Xiao family was involved, which embarrassed Empress Xiao.

Afterwards, this distant relative was nominally relegated, and after many years, he returned to the capital to work.But if the crown prince ascends the throne, his future can be imagined.

There is also Yu Cheng, the imperial censor, who once dedicated his beautiful younger sister to the prince.The prince pretended to accept it, but expelled the woman from the Jiafu Gate of the East Palace when all the officials came to court the next day.The younger sister of Shi Yushi cried for half an hour, threw herself into the water, but was rescued by someone, and left Zhaojing not long after, and married in another country.

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All these people who came to Huiqing Palace to pay homage, most of them had similar experiences.

The prince is stubborn and upright by nature, and often does things based on his likes and dislikes, without asking cause and effect.There are supporters, and there are not a few people who hate and fear him.It took Lu You a lot of thought just to figure out the backgrounds and plans of all these people.After that, he had to report the appeals and schemes of all these people to Qi Yunchu and Zhao Yang respectively.

Qi Yunchu is like a deep pool, he has always just listened, and rarely expresses any opinions; but it is Zhao Yang, who is stuck in a secret room with no light all day long, his personality becomes more and more surly, every day he thinks of ways to make things difficult, making him Lu You was dizzy.

"I heard that this morning, the servant under the door brought loquats from Yuefu?"

That night, in the secret room at the deepest part of Huiqing Palace, Lu You was reporting as usual.Zhao Yang, who was lying on the soft couch beside him, yawned, and said this sentence suddenly, "You fake King Xuan, you did it with gusto."