Days passed by, and two months had gone by in the blink of an eye. The Ming King and General Yang's army had not yet attacked. However, Zhu Qiuyu and Zhu Xichen went to probe the enemy camp a few times and found that the extraordinary individuals in the enemy camp were indeed quite capable.
The eldest and third senior brothers fought the other side several times but failed to gain the upper hand, which shows that those people were truly skilled and not easy to deal with.
However, the people of Fairy Mist Island were not afraid. They were ready to take any challenge they had.
On this day, the emperor suddenly became very well, and both Xingxing and Zhulin felt a jolt in their hearts, a bad premonition spreading through their minds.
After the imperial physicians and Zhu Chumo examined the emperor's pulse, they both shook their heads. This was truly a final burst of energy before death; the emperor probably didn't have much time left.
That evening, Xingxing was feeding the emperor medicine when she suddenly felt nauseous and began to gag uncontrollably.
The dejected emperor suddenly perked up, "Quickly, summon the imperial physician!"
The imperial physicians were waiting outside the palace and soon came in to take the princess's pulse.
"Congratulations, Your Majesty! Congratulations to the Princess and her husband! The Princess's pulse is slippery; she is more than a month pregnant," the imperial physician said repeatedly.
"Good, good, very good! Reward them! The palace servants will all be rewarded today." The emperor said with satisfaction, and generously rewarded the imperial physicians who had treated the patients.
The emperor and empress were overjoyed that the princess was pregnant, but the princess and her husband were not happy at all. They couldn't sleep all night and were very uneasy.
They simply stopped sleeping, changed into their outer robes, and went to guard the emperor's bedchamber. If the emperor hadn't insisted that they return to Chang'an Palace to rest and forbade them from guarding Kunning Palace at night, none of them would have left.
At that moment, the two of them had just arrived at Kunning Palace when they saw the imperial physicians bustling in and out. The emperor was in very bad condition, staring blankly at the top of the tent, and could not hear anyone speaking to him.
Only when Xingxing arrived did the emperor slowly regain his senses. He grasped Xingxing's hand with all his might and said, word by word, "Convey my decree..."
The emperor summoned several important officials to the palace, and then, in front of them, issued an imperial edict, passing the throne to the eldest princess and appointing several other important officials as regents.
At the quarter-hour of Yin, Emperor Taikang breathed his last.
In the twenty-third year of the Taikang era, the emperor passed away at the age of forty-nine.
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