Old things in the Red Chamber

The eunuchs who took care of the emperor were the first to discover. They could often smell a faint smell of alcohol from the emperor. This would never have happened before. The emperor has a deep attachment to being the emperor. After I became the emperor, I realized that it is not easy to be an emperor. Every day I was trembling like walking on thin ice, and it was midnight when I lit the lamp to review the memorials, for fear of doing something wrong. I can be said to be a hardworking emperor.

As a hardworking emperor, he would not drink alcohol in court or in his study.

And during this period of time, drinking every day is not once or twice, it happens almost every day.

The eunuchs in front of the emperor didn't dare to reveal this matter at all. If the emperor knew that they were talkative, everyone would have to be skinned.

But this matter cannot be hidden from the emperor's bedside person. The empress is getting old, and there are not many opportunities to share the bed with the emperor. She just meets her every day or night to have dinner together. Fortunately, the other concubines had to go back to their own chambers, so when they had dinner at night, the queen didn't care when she smelled the wine on the emperor's body, but she often felt something wrong when she smelled it.

"Your Majesty, wine is something that wears the intestines. If you drink it frequently, it will be bad for your health."

The emperor didn't take it seriously, "This is not necessarily true. Everything is too much. If you have a few drinks every day and don't delay other things, it's okay. If you get drunk, it's a sin, so this day is just a small thing." Have a drink or two, and it won't get in the way of anything important."

The queen thought about it for a while and acquiesced in this matter. She knew that everyone would be obsessed with certain things. She always wanted her son to live a good life underground. Is a Mingjun.The Supreme Emperor likes to have fun. When people get older, they become attached to the things they care about. Firstly, it is because they understand that there are not many days left in them, and they have done almost all the things that should be done. The rest of your life should belong to you.The second is because I have done many things, but I have not done what I like the most. If I do not succeed in the end, I will always leave regrets.

So the queen didn't say much.

Secondly, the imperial physicians discovered that as imperial physicians knew the emperor and queen's body well, he usually only needed to smell it to know what medicine the emperor had used.

Su Hexiang.

Soaking styrax pills in wine and drinking a few glasses a day can delay aging, and it is also a way to treat chronic diseases.

After the imperial physicians found out, they were all numb. They couldn't say or ask about this kind of thing, and they couldn't even change the prescription quietly.

After all, the emperor didn't want everyone in the world to know about it.

This news has been concealed for more than half a year. During this period of time, the emperor has to take a period of time every day to call the Ninth Prince to teach him carefully. The content of the teaching is all about the way of being a king. This incident made other princes in the harem envious and jealous. , and even the eyeballs of a few older ones were almost red with jealousy.

Inevitably, there are some sour gossips on the side.The Ninth Prince didn't take it seriously at all, and showed more love and tolerance to his younger siblings.Thinking of this to reassure his father.

However, the emperor sneered at the behavior of the nine princes. After the weather was hot, the royal palace was full of concubines and concubines who came to escape the summer heat. Naturally, the emperor was indispensable here.

"What should be yours is yours. I like your boldness in the early years, but now you are more and more timid, trembling all day long, like a quail. I raised a son to let him whip the world, but It’s not about letting my son be like a good old man to please the subjects of the world endlessly.”

"Mencius once said that the king is the most important, the people are the least important, and the community is second. Tang Taizong also said that water can carry a boat and also capsize it..."

The emperor laughed, poured a glass of wine from his carry-on jug, added two pieces of finely chopped ice fish into the wine glass, shook it a few times, and drank it in one gulp.

"What is the people? Whoever can speak is the people. But they are right. Qin Shihuang became violent and finally died in Qin Dynasty II. Tang Taizong has been working hard for nearly 200 years. It is up to you, what do you want to do in the future Just do whatever you want, you don’t have to listen to what I say, when you’re my age, you’ll know that what the predecessors said is fart.”

The Nineteenth Prince is in an innocent and romantic age. This kind of child has another characteristic, that is, jumping up and down is very naughty, and people hate dogs.

He saw his father and brother talking by the lake, and hurried over with a group of people. He saw a silver cup on the table, and ran over to drink it without saying anything. , frightened the children with a bitter face, "Drinking this kind of thing hurts the stomach, be careful that a worm will come out of your stomach at night."

"That's not the case, my father drinks this kind of thing every day."

The emperor's eyes dimmed for a moment, but he didn't expect that it was his youngest son who paid attention to him, "I drink every day, but you can't drink. If you drink, be careful that I will let someone beat your ass."

The nineteenth prince stuck out his tongue, and happily threw himself into the arms of his elder brother, not paying attention to the emperor's words.

"Brother, I miss you so much", the little guy shook his buttocks and pouted his mouth like a puppy, his ability to act like a baby can catch up with those princesses.

The Ninth Prince pushed his younger brother away, "It's so hot, don't dawdle here, just do what you have to do."

The little prince bid farewell to his father and brother after hearing this, and ran in another direction with the people bouncing around. The emperor heaved a sigh of relief and put the wine glass on the table and complained to his little son, "Of all the sons, he is the most mischievous. 28, who is younger than him, you don't know how cute he is, he is a living monkey, jumping up and down all day long, endlessly."

The Ninth Prince just smiled apologetically, seeing that the father and son had nothing to talk about, the emperor put away the wine glass, handed it to the eunuch beside him, pretended to tidy up his clothes casually, and covered his waist with his sleeves "Go ahead and do whatever you want, I'm going to sleep for a while."

The Ninth Prince looked at the emperor's back and thought for a while, only to feel that the smell of wine was still lingering on the tip of his nose.

"Father actually likes this kind of wine. It smells very strong, as if he has never smelled it before. Ask someone to find out where they can get it and offer it to Father. It will also please him."

The eunuch who followed him agreed, and immediately arranged for people to prepare, but at night, he came back to the Ninth Prince in a trance.

"Your Highness, today the servants told the masters outside about the smell, and the masters all said that this is not wine but medicinal wine. It is soaked in Su Hexiang," and quickly said a bunch of medicine in the Ninth Prince's ear Use value.

The Ninth Prince knew the news and sent someone to verify it. He walked around in the hall like a trapped animal. For a while, he thought about it as if he didn't know, and then felt that since he was his biological father, of course he should care about it. Concern, I just had this thought, and suddenly felt that if my father was really gone, I would really be enthroned as emperor. There was a disturbance, and the whole person kept pace in the hall, thinking and thinking, and in the end, the conscience of the Son of Man prevailed.

I specially sent someone to find out that the emperor was sleeping alone in the palace tonight, and sent someone to quietly tell the eunuch in front of the emperor, saying that he wanted to go to see him.

Word came from the bedroom quickly, and the emperor allowed the Ninth Prince to enter the bedroom.

"What's the matter with you coming to find your father at night?"

The Ninth Prince was very nervous at first, but when he heard the emperor's words, tears fell from his eyes.He walked up to the emperor with the hem of his clothes on his knees, hugged his legs and fell on the emperor's body and cried a lot.

"Son didn't mean it. It's just that I smelled the wine you used today. After I sent someone out to inquire about it, I realized it was medicinal wine..."

The emperor was not at all surprised that the Ninth Prince could find out about this, "Since you are here, only you and my father and son are here today. Some words have come out of my mouth, and you will forget them early after hearing them. If you are also unlucky If you encounter a situation like mine, you have to make plans early."

At this time, he put down the emperor's mask and stroked his son's hair with his hand.

"Our ancestors suffered from heart palpitations. The older they are, the more they suffer from them. Since becoming emperor, the ancestors have chosen concubines widely. Some of the princes born have this problem, some do not have this problem, and some I also felt this problem, but I never thought about it in this direction. I just felt that my heart was wide and fat, which caused restlessness. This is a secret of our family. There are not many of them, most of them are very long-lived, you see that your grandfather eats delicious food and drink, and there is nothing wrong with it, and you look at the father, although he thinks about health every day, but he has fallen into such a problem."

"Father is rich all over the world, is it true that the imperial physician is helpless?"

"The group of wine bags and rice bags have the ability to cure this disease long ago, and they have to wait until this time to commit another crime. Don't think about it. I have also asked someone to see it, but the effect is not good. I can only drink this kind of wine to continue my life. What is the purpose of teaching you all this time? You should know by now. Although I have taught you, there is one thing that I am still worried about."

The Ninth Prince didn't dare to ask at this time, because he was afraid that he would ask urgently, which made his father regret that he was not filial, so he thought of himself as an unfilial son.

The emperor didn't care what the Ninth Prince thought at all, and continued on his own, "Get a family and start a business, you have to start a family, and if I have an accident, I can leave with peace of mind. I have said long ago what kind of marriage I want to marry. What kind of daughter-in-law the princess wants to marry is up to you. I mentioned this matter to you a few days ago, but you have never taken it to heart. I will give birth to a son, and I can rest assured that I will close my eyes when I have a descendant."