Ten thousand people think gloom is reborn

what?

Is there a bug?

I looked around, the palace was cleaned by the palace every day, so there would be no insects that bite and bleed.I touched the back of my neck again, and except for a little blood, I couldn't feel anything unusual, and the pain was only for a moment.

Seeing this, I could only temporarily suppress the weirdness in my heart and focus on the letter in my hand.

The letter was written as an article, talking about what I saw and heard when I traveled to a certain place. I recognized the words on the letter as written by Lin Chongtan, but compared to the words he wrote in the past, the pen was softer. , I was unable to write, and I also saw a few drops of blood that had dried up on the letter.

This seems to be written by Lin Chongtan when he was injured. Was it the time I stabbed him?

Why did he give me a travel article?

As soon as this idea came to my mind, I remembered a past event.

When Lin Chongtan was giving me a supplementary class, I found a book about assassins on his bookshelf, which mentioned that assassins were going to assassinate the monarch, but because the letters he communicated with his friends were intercepted, the monarch knew about him early on. assassination act.

I said at the time that the assassin was stupid and shouldn't have written to tell others about his plan.

Lin Chongtan seemed to be interested when he heard what I said, he put down his pen and asked me: "What good idea does Xiaodi think?"

I said it casually, but he asked me seriously. I have always been unwilling to admit defeat in front of Lin Chongtan, so I racked my brains to think of two ideas.

"One can say it face to face, but the walls may have ears; the other is to follow the example of acrostic poems, but acrostic poems are too short to write too much content in a poem. You can change acrostic poems into acrostic articles. To be on the safe side, no It is necessary to connect the first characters in each row together, which can be the first character in the first row, the second character in the second row, the third and the third... and so on."

After I finished speaking, I looked at Lin Chongtan with some trepidation, afraid that he would think my idea was stupid, but he didn't. He even reached out and touched my head, "Xiaodi is so smart."

When he praised me, my face couldn't help but get hot.

Lin Chongtan actually praised me for being smart.

I couldn't help being happy in my heart, but on my face I deliberately put on such a nonchalant expression, turned my head to avoid his hand, and complained: "Don't touch my head."

I looked at the letter in my hand again, and tried to use the second idea I had told Lin Chongtan to connect those words together.

After connecting, I looked at the copper bell next to me.

Lin Chongtan wrote in the letter that there are two holy medicines of the northern kingdom in the bell, the red one is a detoxification pill, which can cure most poisons in the world, and the black one is a fake death medicine, which can cause seven days of suspended animation after taking it symptoms.

He also said that in the chaos in the court, don't trust anyone, including the private soldiers around me. If necessary, you can go to my uncle, King Dongxuan. He is upright and will help me.

I didn't know how to react for a while, if I didn't get angry with Lin Chongtan, I would have read this letter early, and I wouldn't let Xiaoxi commit suicide by taking poison and end up dead without evidence.

But should I trust him?

I removed the bell from the copper bell, and then pried the bell open from the gap with flower scissors. Sure enough, I found two small pills inside, wrapped separately with thin oil paper.

A few days ago, I was bound by Lin Chongtan's side, and I couldn't see, so I didn't know about Concubine Zhuang Gui's illness, but from what the prince said, it can be concluded that the prince deliberately released the news to lure me back.

Lin Chongtan should know about this.

Why didn't he tell me?

Is he hesitating?

He hesitated whether to let me go back or take me to the North Country. In the end, his choice was obviously the former, but he gave me two more pills. He was still seriously injured and couldn’t get out of bed. I refused to see him, so he wrote Letter, hide the pill in the brass bell.

He did it so secretly, maybe he was afraid of being discovered by others.

I suddenly remembered Lin Chongtan's appearance before he left. He was standing in the porch, the plum blossoms on his sleeves were paled by the gloomy weather, and he was also pale, his face was pale, only his eyes were dark.Those eyes looked at me, fixedly.

I shook my head and forced myself to stop thinking about Lin Chongtan's appearance that day, and only carefully looked at the pill in my hand.

Will Lin Chongtan lie to me?

He probably wouldn't lie to me with Concubine Zhuang's life.

I thought about it for a long time, but I still didn't give the detoxification pill to Concubine Zhuang directly.After all, Lin Chongtan and I have been separated by hatred, and he hates me.

In the evening, I went to the emperor's place, but the prince didn't stop me from meeting the emperor.

When I saw the emperor, my eyes couldn't help being sore, I couldn't connect the man on the bed with the emperor I met more than a month ago, and I couldn't connect with the emperor I met for the first time.

At that time, he was majestic and arrogant, and he was not angry. Now he is lying on the bed, at least ten years old, his temple hair is all white, like an old man lingering on a sick bed.

He was awake, and when he saw me, he didn't show any expression, he just lay on the bed indifferently, until I carefully sat down on the footsteps of his dragon couch, and called him, "Father, my son is back."

Hearing my words, the emperor suddenly turned his head and stared at me carefully for an unknown amount of time. He looked around and panted, "You all step back!"

He was talking about the palace servants who served beside him.

After the palace servants withdrew, the emperor said a word, "Punish without teaching, and the punishment will be complicated and evil will prevail."

This is when the two brothers Lin Kunjie pleaded with the saint, and they annoyed the emperor. At that time, the emperor asked me how to punish me. I said this sentence.I realized the meaning of the emperor, and hurriedly continued the rest of the words, and said at the same time: "The Lin family has been exiled for more than three years."

The emperor's frowning eyebrows finally relaxed, he was anxious to say something, but the words were almost out of breath, I couldn't help getting closer, "Father, don't worry, just speak slowly."

"Congxi, your concubine... how is your concubine?" the emperor said with difficulty.

When it comes to mother and concubine, I feel even more uncomfortable, but I dare not reveal too much, "Mother and concubine is fine, father doesn't need to worry, father only needs to take good care of his body."

The emperor shook his head, as if he was about to faint at any moment, "No, I don't have time, Congxi, you listened carefully to the next words, Yu... The seal was hidden by me, if the crown prince can't get the jade seal, even if I die Now, he is not justifiably enthroned, civil and military officials will not obey him. I know you have no intention of the throne, and you want to send you and your mother and concubine to the fief early, but it's too late...it's too late, then Several people want to be the emperor, and they all ran to me to show their filial piety, but I don’t believe them, I only believe in you. Congxi, I put the jade seal behind the plaque in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and you take the jade seal to find you Uncle Dongxuan King, he has organized the coronation ceremony for you, and seeing that you have a jade seal, he will definitely believe you. It must be difficult for you to go out of the palace now, ask the national teacher for help, go, go quickly!"

When he said the next few words, he spit out a mouthful of blood, and his cloudy eyes stared straight in an instant, but his hands firmly grasped my arm, so hard that I felt that my bones were about to shatter.

I realized that it was not good, and immediately turned my head and shouted: "Come here! Imperial doctor!" Then I turned back, "Father, you will be fine, mother and concubine, she has been thinking about you, she wants to see you, Father!"

When the emperor heard my words, his eyes rolled slowly, and then he closed his eyes slowly, and the hand that grabbed me suddenly loosened his strength.At this time, the imperial physicians who had been guarding outside rushed to the hall immediately. I hurriedly moved aside for the imperial physicians, but my hands in my sleeves were still trembling uncontrollably.

The emperor asked me to find King Dongxuan, and so did Lin Chongtan.King Dongxuan's fief is far away in Hanzhong, and it will take half a month to go fast, and it will take a month to go back and forth.

Soon, the crown prince rushed over. He checked on the emperor's situation before walking to me.When I met his gaze, I was shocked to find that I didn't see a trace of worry about the emperor in his eyes. He was more like a power grabber with a sure chance of winning, not like a son whose father was dying.

"Brother, you go back first, you're tired today, go to bed early," the prince said.

I know he is driving me away, but I can only obey orders now, and I will find a way to get the jade seal out from behind the plaque in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

There are so few people I can trust right now.

National Division……

I need to see the national teacher.

That night, I didn't go back to my bedroom to rest, but stayed next to Concubine Zhuang Gui's bed. I was so tired that I fell asleep lying on the side of the bed unconsciously, but my sleep was extremely restless.

In my dream, it was either the face of the emperor talking to me, or the face of Concubine Zhuang Gui weeping.I saw the two of them standing together, as if they were talking to me, but I couldn't hear clearly, and then I watched them walking out together, I felt wrong, I rushed up to stop them, and told them not to go, but I I missed it.

"Mother Concubine! Father Emperor!"

I woke up from the dream, and just wanted to check on Concubine Zhuang Gui's situation, but I heard a voice first.

"Brother had a nightmare?"

The crown prince appeared next to me at some point, he showed me a very shallow smile, regardless of the fact that there was Concubine Zhuang next to me, he reached out and stroked my cheek.

The author has something to say: the second dog in the memory.

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Quote: If you don't teach and punish, the punishment will be complicated and evil will prevail; if you teach but don't punish, the traitors will not be punished. ——Xun Kuang's "Xunzi Rich Country"