As time went by, the weather became hotter and hotter. Emperor Longqing's condition became more and more violent, and his temper became more and more irritable. In the palace, there were many palace people who were killed by Emperor Longqing's stick because of poor service. For a while, everyone in the palace felt like walking on thin ice. Trembling, not even daring to take a breath.

One night in the middle of the night, there was a sudden heavy rain, violent wind and showers, accompanied by lightning and thunder. Emperor Longqing's nightmare was awakened by the thunder. His life expectancy was only one month, and he was worried that Emperor Longqing's condition would worsen after he knew that he was going to die soon. The imperial physician did not dare to report the truth to the emperor. The imperial concubine and several important ministers.

Emperor Longqing woke up the next day, after taking Ji Fengyao's golden elixir, he felt a little refreshed, so he ordered someone to help him go to the study room, and after entering the study room, he stepped back and stayed in the study room for a long time, not knowing why, It was not until it was almost evening that people were sent in.

The news of Emperor Longqing's serious illness could not contain the fire, and soon spread to the capital. I'm afraid that a bloody storm will be inevitable.

However, before Emperor Longqing passed away, bad news came from the frontier.

Due to the rebellion of the abolished prince, no suitable candidate could be found to be sent to Baiyue as a proton for the time being, which temporarily affected the alliance between Daliu and Baiyue. After the summer, the grassland was full of water and grass, which was the strength of Beiliang during the year. At its peak, the king of Beiliang was undeterred and coveted the border city of Daliu because of its dangerous terrain and sufficient manpower and material resources, so he repeatedly sent cavalry to harass him.

At this time, the general guarding the border is Jiang Shuheng. Jiang Shuheng has a hot temper and has always hated the Beiliang people who killed his father and brother. When the Beiliang cavalry invaded, he personally led [-] soldiers out of the city to meet the enemy and took the lead. The Beiliang cavalry was defeated.

Jiang Shuheng killed on a whim, and pursued the remaining Beiliang remnants desperately, wanting to wipe out the enemy army. In the end, he forgot the great taboo of military strategists that the poor should not chase after him, and fell right into the treacherous scheme of the Beiliang people to lure the enemy deep. Jiang Shuheng and the five thousand soldiers They went to Beiliang to ambush and were captured, but everyone would rather die than surrender. In the end, they were all slaughtered by Beiliang people and sacrificed heroically!

The military report was delivered to the capital ten days later. After hearing the news of Jiang Shuheng's death, Emperor Longqing was silent for a long time, and then decreed that Jiang Shuheng and his father and brother should be posthumously named, and ordered to select a suitable male from among the same clan of the Jiang family as the heir. The title of the Jiang family came to comfort the loyal souls of the Jiang family.

After this incident, Emperor Longqing couldn't afford to be sick, like a candle in the wind, which might be extinguished at any time, while he was still conscious, he ordered Lie Wang and Xi Wang to enter the palace to serve the sick.

When Bai Jinfu in the capital heard the news of Jiang Shuheng's death, he was stunned on the spot like a thunderbolt, remembering the time he spent with Jiang Shuheng in the past. One month, the two are separated forever.

Bai Jinfu was deeply saddened, and cried a lot for Jiang Shuheng in the mansion, and even passed out from crying once. After waking up, he personally sent Dian Yi to Jiang's mansion, but it was a pity that Jiang Shuheng died at the hands of Beiliang people. His corpse was never returned, so the funeral in the Jiangfu had to be replaced by Jiang Shuheng's clothes. When Bai Jinfu saw the clothes that Jiang Shuheng had worn in the past, he couldn't help feeling sad when he remembered the past. He cried again in the Jiangfu and came to the Jiangfu. The other ministers who paid condolences saw that King Xi could do this for a courtier, and all of them praised his benevolence in private.

Although Bai Jinfu was deeply saddened by Jiang Shuheng's death, Emperor Longqing needed him even more, so after returning from condolences in Jiangfu, he ordered his servants to pack up and prepare to go to the palace. Before leaving, he called Fang Shi and asked Fang Shi Would you like to go with me.

Fang said hesitantly: "Going back to the lord, there are many people in the palace, and I am worried that people will find out about the fake pregnancy. It's better to stay in the mansion to cover people's eyes."

Bai Jinfu smiled and said: "You don't have to worry about it, there are people from my king in the palace, and you will have someone to take care of your daily life."

Fang lowered her head and said: "My lord, please let this concubine stay in the palace, my status is humble, and there are so many nobles in the palace, I am afraid that I will not be able to handle it, but I will show timidity, which will affect the prince's life." event."

Bai Jinfu saw that Fang Shi repeatedly refused to go with him, so he took a deep look at Fang Shi, but said nothing, "Since you want to stay in the mansion, the king will not force you. People take good care of you, and you should also pay attention to your words and deeds every day, and now you are pregnant, so don't forget this."

Fang saluted respectfully and said: "I understand, thank you for your compassion."

Bai Jin waved her hand to let Fang Shi go down, stared at Fang Shi's back with thoughtful eyes, and after Fang Shi went out, Jing Yu came out from behind a screen in the room.

Jing Yu walked to Bai Jinfu and sat down, looking at him with concern, "When are you going to leave for the palace?"

Bai Jinfu lowered his head and flicked his sleeves, "Let's go tonight."

Jing Yu asked: "The emperor is seriously ill, going to the palace will be dangerous, do you want me to accompany you?"

Bai Jinfu turned his head and gave him a faint smile, "No, today is different from the past. Now I am no longer the seventh prince who is helpless and has to rely on others for everything. Since the palace is dangerous, only you stay in the capital, we Only then can you rest assured."

"But you agreed to let the Fang family stay. I always feel that this is inappropriate." Jing Yu frowned and said, "You are not in the capital, and there is no one in the palace, so I am afraid that someone will take advantage of it."

Bai Jinfu snorted softly, and said sarcastically: "How can I not know what you said, but if I don't pretend to show my feet, how can others think that I really have a handle on me. I will learn from it this time. Mr. Jiang is fishing, Mrs. Fang, is the hook I left for those people."

Jing Yu relaxed slightly when he heard the words, and said with a slight smile, "It seems that I was worrying too much, and you have already made up your mind. Then I will guard you in the capital and wait for the good news from the palace."

Bai Jinfu looked at Jing Yu silently. He knew that Jing Yu was magnanimous and didn't like these intrigues and schemes. Therefore, he would not tell Jing Yu about the many shameful things he did, lest Jing Yu be in front of him. It is difficult to choose between principles and principles, but Jing Yu has a tacit understanding with him, and never asks him why he acts like this, and chooses to trust him unconditionally, support him, and do anything for him.

That's enough.

Bai Jinfu reached out to cover Jing Yu's hand on his knee, and sighed softly, "I don't actually like to live in conspiracies and tricks. Although imperial power is noble, it also means many constraints. It is in my heart, far away." It's not as important as freedom and you. Although I don't care about the throne and imperial power, but if you want me to hand over these things to people like Lie Wang Duan Wuji and let them become the masters of Daliu, I am not reconciled, and I am even more unwilling to be People use manipulation, so I have to fight this time."

Jing Yu held Bai Jinfu tightly with his backhand, closing the distance between the two, "Have you ever thought about what you should do if you lose this time?"

"It's up to people to plan, but it's up to God to succeed. If you lose, you're just going to die. People are mortal, so why not be afraid, but if you don't fight for yourself and live like a puppet for the rest of your life, then life is worse than death." It's a waste of life." Bai Jinfu raised his head arrogantly, his eyes were full of recklessness, and a ruthless determination that was completely different from his beautiful and feminine temperament appeared on his beautiful face, "Speaking of which, you may Believe it or not, there is a kind of person in the world who can't escape the mercy of fate no matter how hard they struggle, because their fate is arranged, and they all say that people can't fight with fate, but I want to be the one who controls my own destiny, if I can't be free , don't, rather, die."

Jing Yu couldn't help being infected by the pride in Bai Jinfu's words, his chest was hot, as if something was spreading wantonly. When he fell in love with Bai Jinfu before, he thought Bai Jinfu was a weak and pitiful little girl who needed to be relied on Relying on him to survive, later he realized that he had misjudged, those were just Bai Jinfu's disguise, now he has realized what kind of person the real Bai Jinfu is, the unruly and unruly personality under his beautiful face , doing it rashly, but it made him even more obsessed with it.

Jing Yu took Bai Jinfu's hand, kissed the back of his hand reverently, and said in a deep voice, "Whether you win or lose in this life, regardless of life or death, wealth or honor, you will always be with me."

Bai Jinfu left for the palace that night, King Lie set off earlier than him, and when Bai Jinfu arrived at the palace the next afternoon, King Lie had already met Emperor Longqing.

When they arrived at the palace, Bai Jinfu didn't even change his clothes, so he hurried to visit Emperor Longqing's bedroom. However, when he got outside the bedroom, he was told by the internal officials that Emperor Longqing's condition worsened last night, and he didn't close his eyes all night. He just took the medicine before closing his eyes. Seeing that he could sleep peacefully for a while, it was not appropriate to disturb him for the time being, so Bai Jinfu had to go back to his residence first, and wait for Emperor Longqing to wake up and communicate.

The emperor may die at any time. According to the rules, the important royal relatives and ministers will take turns to serve in front of the emperor, in case the emperor has any will to explain. When Emperor Longqing was conscious, some ministers tentatively asked the emperor's successor , but Emperor Longqing refused to speak out, seeing that the old emperor was dying, no one knew what was going on in his mind.

Bai Jinfu went back and waited for two hours before the eunuch beside Emperor Longqing came to inform him that Emperor Longqing had woken up and ordered King Xi and King Lie to have an audience together. Bai Jinfu simply packed up and went out, and walked halfway Coincidentally, I met Han Yucheng who also went to face the saint.

The two greeted each other, and Han Yucheng smiled and said, "Your Highness is here too."

Bai Jinfu looked at him with a cold snort, and walked forward without saying a word. Han Yucheng was not ashamed when he saw Bai Jinfu's indifferent attitude, and followed him and asked relentlessly, "What's wrong, Your Highness? With such a cold attitude?"

Bai Jinfu walked forward a few steps quickly, stopped abruptly and turned around. Fortunately, Han Yucheng behind him stopped in time and did not bump into Bai Jinfu. Han Yucheng saw Bai Jinfu sizing him up sharply. He put on an inexplicable expression, blinked blankly and asked, "Your Highness?"

Bai Jinfu opened his eyes slightly, took a step forward, and approached Han Yucheng. It was hot summer, but his voice was as cold as snow in midwinter, "Han Yucheng, let me ask you, Jiang Shuheng's death Does it have anything to do with you?"

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