The emperor's health was deteriorating day by day, and Xia Muyan knew that he had to speed up many of his tasks.
Now that he had confirmed that Li Shushu was safe in the Eastern Palace, he felt more at ease to plan his layout.
Sometimes, after finishing the affairs of the previous dynasty, it was already midnight when he returned to the East Palace, and Li Shushu had already fallen asleep.
He would still tiptoe to her room to see her.
Li Shushu fell asleep most of the time, and occasionally when he was awake, he was pretending to be asleep.
That night, Xia Muyan came back from the Yangxin Palace and sat by Li Shushu's bed for a long time.
The emperor had just woken up for half an hour, and as if he had a premonition that his end was approaching, he took his hand and explained his affairs after his death: the secret guards, the military command (which could lead an army of 200,000), the national treasury, etc. were all handed over to him.
Finally, he asked him with concern when he was planning to marry the girl from the Bai family.
It would be too late to have a child. Could he still see him get married before he died?
"No, I don't want to marry Bai Bingjing." He refused bluntly.
"When the emperor granted me marriage, I didn't understand." Although Xia Muyan couldn't bear to hear such news during his illness, he didn't want to hide the truth. "But now, I already have someone I love. She saved my life. Apart from her, I don't want to marry anyone else now."
He chose not to tell anyone for the time being about how Bai Bingjing colluded with the Imperial Noble Consort and the Third Prince to frame him.
He knew that speaking out now would do nothing but make his father angry.
After so many years, he had no evidence. Be it the Imperial Noble Consort, the Third Prince or Bai Bingjing, he could not strangle them with just a few words. He had to wait patiently for his ascension to the throne.
The emperor sighed, "No matter what the Bai family girl's character is, General Bai, and even General Bai himself, are kind and loyal people. If you can get the Bai family's help, your future path to becoming an emperor should be more secure..."
"I will earn my future through my own efforts, without any sacrifice from my mother's family." Xia Muyan said
The emperor nodded in understanding after hearing this, "It's a pity indeed.
But since Yan'er has your own ideas, I will support you unconditionally!
I don't want the tragedy that happened between your mother and me to happen to you again.
So, whatever comes to mind, just do it.”
Back then, he and Xia Muyan's mother, the former queen, grew up together as childhood sweethearts. His original intention was to marry only her as his queen and not marry any other women.
But in the end, due to considerations of balancing the court and his own weak character, he still took in so many concubines, causing the former queen to be depressed all day long and eventually died early in the palace fight.
If his son could be better than him in this respect, it wouldn't be a bad thing...
"However, the Bai family has a large number of troops under their command, and General Bai was once my teacher. Yan'er must consider carefully how to place them."
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Xia Muyan stood at the head of Li Shushu's bed, thinking about his father's imminent departure and the entanglement with the Bai family, and felt very depressed.
He wanted to talk to her to himself, but was afraid of waking her up. In the end, he couldn't help but sigh and went out.
Li Shushu happened to be still awake at that time, and felt that he must have encountered some difficulties.
The next day, she called Ali and Leng Qi over.
When these two guys first found out that Li Shushu was a woman, they were very embarrassed. This was completely different from the way they treated her like brothers and sisters and were so close to each other in the village.
But they couldn't resist Li Shushu's rhetoric, and in the end, the two of them were asked all sorts of questions by Li Shushu: It turned out that the emperor's illness was getting more and more serious. The imperial doctors came one after another, but all shook their heads, saying that there was not much time left.
Xia Muyan knew that his father had always been in good health, and now that he had become like this, he might have been poisoned by some powerful unknown poison. However, the imperial doctors had checked everywhere but could not find the cause, let alone detoxify him.
When Li Shushu heard this, she thought it was easy to solve, as she still had the universal detoxification pills.
She originally wanted to take it out directly and give it to Leng Qi and A Li, and let them feed Xia Muyan to the emperor.
But on second thought, this is just an antidote pill, not a life-saving pill. The old emperor is seriously ill now, maybe he was poisoned, or maybe he is really sick.
The situation was getting worse, and if she rashly offered a medicine to the old emperor, it would be fine if the old emperor got better. But what if he didn't get cured, or if his condition suddenly worsened, and others misunderstood her as poisoning the emperor, what should she do?
Thinking of this, Li Shushu decided to hand it over to Xia Muyan in person and explain the situation to him.
The next night, when Xia Muyan sighed again at her bedside, Li Shushu pretended to be awakened.
She propped herself up and sat up, rubbing her eyes sleepily. After seeing who was coming, she moved further into the bed. "Am I dreaming? Why is His Highness in my bedroom at this time?"
"Did I wake you up?" Xia Muyan was happy to see her wake up, but he also felt a little disappointed when he saw her slightly defensive movements.
"I'm sorry." He lowered his head and rubbed his eyebrows with his fingers.
At this moment, he felt lonely and helpless, and really hoped that someone would come to comfort him. It would be even better if that person was Shuer.
Li Shushu could sense a loneliness in his voice that was different from usual. Seeing that he had no further action, she relaxed her guard and gently moved closer to the bed.
"Your Highness, have you encountered any difficulties?
Although I am a humble person and may not be able to help Your Highness solve any problems, if Your Highness needs me, I don't mind trying my best to be a qualified listener. "
Xia Muyan was delighted: It seemed that she didn't hate him as much as he thought, and she also cared about him?
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