Minister Gu Ming can't take care of himself

From the end of the winter month to the twelfth lunar month, the old emperor's condition improved, just in time for the New Year's Eve, and the situation in the court eased slightly.

During these days, the old emperor summoned Xu Guanchen twice, and what he talked about was only the method of health preservation and recuperation.

Until the New Year's Eve palace banquet.

According to the rules of previous years, the palace banquet on New Year's Eve was just a royal family banquet accompanied by the emperor, and it was regarded as a royal family banquet.

This year's palace banquet, the emperor was thinking about Xu Guanchen, saying that he lost his relatives when he was young and was lonely, and asked Xiao Zhi to bring him with him when he came to the palace banquet on New Year's Eve, and specially ordered Si Zhifu to make new clothes for Xu Guanchen.

This day Xu Guanchen got up early, got up and washed, then held Fuchen to meditate and chant scriptures, finished his morning homework, it was still dark.

He poked his head out to look, only to realize that the sky was cloudy today, and the clouds rolled over, pushing down the sky.

Back in the room to change clothes.

A few days earlier, Si Zhi Mansion had sent Ding Guogong's dress over.Duke Dingguo was originally a general and official, and even his gown was narrow-sleeved and tight-waisted.

However, Xu Guanchen had never practiced martial arts, and Dingguo's mansion's martial arts was completely exhausted, and the clothes sent by Sizhi's mansion also followed the example of toga and sleeves.

Crimson heavy material with dark lines of cloud and water.When Xu Guanchen changed his clothes and came out, Feiyang was playing with Eunuch Cheng in the corridor turning flower ropes.

Feiyang looked up at him: "Beauty."

Xu Guanchen was taken aback for a moment, and quickly realized: "Eunuch Cheng, did you pass by Faun Lane when you went out yesterday?"

"I don't remember this old slave." Eunuch Cheng said with a smothered smile, "Young Master, hurry up, if you don't go, you should tell His Highness to wait."

"Feiyang, change it." Xu Guanchen turned his head and ordered Cheng Gonggong, "He is not allowed to eat candy today, and we will talk about it when I come back at night."

He straightened his clothes and walked down the steps.

Standing for a while in front of the mansion with folded hands, Xiao Zhi came out in a wheelchair.

There is nothing else to say except greetings.

Political enemies and enemies naturally have nothing to say.

Xu Guanchen sat in the carriage with his eyes downcast, secretly recited the "Qingjing Sutra", and recited it backwards and forwards several times.

When he read it for the fourth time, Xiao Zhi glanced at him and said, "Sizhifu has a grudge against you?"

"No." Xu Guanchen was suddenly dragged out of the scriptures, he answered casually, and hurriedly added, "Return to Your Highness, no."

Xiao Zhi took one last look at him, then turned his head away, as if he was too ugly to look at.

A piece of clothing offends him.Xu Guanchen twisted the hem of his sleeves, thinking that someone still called me "beauty" this morning.

The carriage was unimpeded all the way, the bells jingled for a while, and it stopped directly in front of Funing Hall, the emperor's bedroom.

When he was about to get off the car, Xiao Zhi said, "You come with me today." You should also go back with me.

Unable to understand what he meant, Xu Guanchen didn't speak.

Xiao Zhi said coldly: "Don't go to Xiao Qi."

Although Xu Guanchen didn't understand, he nodded in agreement.He has never failed to obey His Royal Highness's will.

The old emperor is in good spirits today, all the princes came to Funing Hall to pay their respects and make some jokes from time to time.

It was all right, but Xu Guanchen suddenly wanted to see "returning to the light", and also wanted to see the sentence "a person who is about to die has good words".

He bent down to worship, and when he raised his eyes, he saw the old emperor beckoning to him: "Guanchen, come."

When even a little eunuch brought a cushion and Xu Guanchen sat down with his clothes on, the old emperor said: "I heard that the fifth bully you again?"

If he was talking about Xiao Zhi calling Xu Guanchen to chant scriptures every night.

Xu Guanchen shook his head and said softly, "Don't dare."

The old emperor laughed twice and stopped looking at him.

Xu Guanchen looked at his nose, nose and heart, and after listening to what they had said for a while, the old emperor raised his hand and summoned his attendants to come forward: "The Taoist priests in Qinghe Hall used ancient recipes to make two pills a few days ago, and showed them to Guanchen. look."

He turned his head and said to everyone: "This is a matter of the immortal family. You don't understand it, so go."

When everyone heard the words, they quickly stood up and knelt back.The attendant approached holding the sandalwood box, and inside the box was a small porcelain vase depicting lotus flowers. The old emperor nodded towards Xu Guanchen, and Xu Guanchen wiped it off, picked up the small porcelain vase, and poured the pills into the palm of his hand.

There are two pills of bright red color.

Xu Guanchen is cultivating the Tao. To put it mildly, he practiced the Tao for the purpose of self-cultivation. To put it harshly, he practiced the Tao just to have something to do.He didn't believe in ghosts and gods, let alone pills, but at this time the emperor asked him to read it, so he had to.

Xu Guanchen held the pill in the palm of his hand, and pretended to read it two or three times: "My minister is still inexperienced, so I don't know the secret."

"The little Taoist priests in the Hall of Qinghe tried it, and it was not bad." The old emperor said, "I will share one of these two with you."

The old emperor looked at him, under the undercurrent of his gaze, there was a suppression that could not tolerate his refusal.

It is clearly a temptation.

Xu Guanchen comforted himself in his heart, it was nothing more than cinnabar, he would not die if he ate one, he said "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward", he turned his head to pick up the tea on the table, and swallowed it.

"Okay." The old emperor smiled, but hid the elixir in his palm and folded his hands together, "Originally, I wanted to make you Duke Ding, but many courtiers objected, saying that you are too young to understand martial arts. An embarrassing task."

He remained silent, and the old emperor continued: "You are Xu Guanchen, but you are still Xu Xian, Xu Xian from Dingguo's mansion. You are famous all over Jinling when you are young, and even the Seventh Prince of mine is overwhelmed by you. You don't know martial arts, they don't know, the court is criss-crossed, killing more people than on the battlefield."

Xu Guanchen lowered his head even more, not daring to speak.

"You have been back for nearly a month, and you have lived in Lao Wu's mansion again. Have you seen the situation in the court? The fifth is fighting with the seventh." The old emperor said, "You have a feud with the fifth, and he always bullies you." You, you will definitely not help him..."

As if some vain thought flashed through Xu Guanchen's mind, was the so-called holiday between him and Xiao Zhi also arranged by someone with a heart?

He didn't have time to think, and he didn't have time to speak, the old emperor said again: "You and Lao Qi have a good friendship, it's a bond they grew up with since childhood, you will help him."

"The end of my life is approaching, and I am powerless." The old emperor grabbed his hand and clenched it tightly, "The sons under my knees... the fifth prince is ruthless, and the sixth prince is weak. But Wang Tianxia. I hope Aiqing...do my best to help."

But Xu Guanchen only said: "Your Majesty is blessed with great blessings."

"I'm tired, so you can go too." The old emperor let go of his hand, "Come back later, there are two people for you to meet, and there is another important matter for you to do."

Xu Guanchen shook his hands that were hidden in his sleeves, got up and bowed, and said "retire".

When he was about to go out, the old emperor said one last word: "You can keep the iron coupon of the alchemy book from Dingguo's mansion."

The sky was overcast this morning, Xu Guanchen stayed in Funing Palace for a while, and it started snowing outside.

As soon as he went out, a little eunuch with a baby face came up to him: "My lord, all your highnesses sat in the side hall for a while, but they all dispersed. It was cold outside, and His Royal Highness ordered the side hall to be tidied up, my lord." Lord, let's go and have a rest."

Since he was in the palace, Xu Guanchen didn't worry much about anything else, he rolled up his sleeves and let him go.

The side hall was neatly tidied up, and the baby-faced little eunuch was nimble, put down the hot water and tea, and went out.

Xu Guanchen burned incense to wash his face, and sat cross-legged on the mat to meditate.The side hall was warm, which made him a little sleepy.

After reading the "Qing Jing Sutra", Xu Guanchen didn't open his eyes to look at the sound of the palace door, he just thought it was the little eunuch, and said softly: "Go and rest yourself, don't need to wait on me, I will reward you when I wake up."

Through the curtain, the man paused when he heard the words, and then withdrew.

The fragrance floats in the sinking water, and the tent on the dragon bed is warm.

Xu Guanchen has practiced Taoism for so many years, and fell asleep while meditating for the first time.

This matter needs to be known to the patriarch, and it has to be played.

Perhaps after sleeping for too long, his flesh and bones were sore, Xu Guanchen closed his eyes and rubbed his neck.

He reacted, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, and secretly picked up the brocade quilt covering his body to see, the pattern was indeed the royal pattern, could it be...

Seventh Highness?

When the little eunuch brought him here, he was talking about His Highness the Seventh Prince, and the first thing Xu Guanchen thought of was naturally Xiao Qi.

He hugged the quilt and laughed, after all, it was because of his affection since he was a child, he could still know that he was asleep when he was meditating, so he put him on the bed and covered him with the quilt.His Highness Xiao Qi has always been so gentle.

Until someone behind him stretched out his hand and rescued him from the crumpled quilt in his arms, he laughed twice, and seemed to be in a good mood: "Are you awake?"

This doesn't quite sound like Xiao Qi's voice.

Xu Guanchen was startled, and wanted to speak, only to find that his voice was hoarse, and he coughed twice but it remained the same.

He rubbed his eyes, there were still tears in the corners of his eyes.

Not quite right, really not quite right.

He has practiced Taoism since he was a child, and he has always adhered to the essence, self-denial and self-cultivation, and has never experienced love affairs.Just now I was confused and couldn't react, but now I understand it.

He embraced the brocade quilt, endured the pain and sat up from the couch, hid on the edge, and said in a hoarse voice: "You..."

The phrase "your uncle's" stuck in his throat, and he saw the clothes in front of the couch in disarray, the shadow of a red candle shaking, the quilt spilled with wine, and the most obvious thing was - a tooth mark on Xiao Zhi's shoulder.

Xiao Zhi couldn't bite his shoulder by himself.Xu Guanchen opened his mouth, and gnawed his hand in a strange way.

hurts a little.

There was an inconspicuous tooth mark on his hand, and a mark on Xiao Zhi's shoulder. Xu Guanchen looked back and forth four or five times, and finally had to admit that the two tooth marks——

He bit it all.

Xu Guanchen said in a daze: I'm so wild.