"Your Majesty? Your Majesty?"
Emperor Yong felt someone calling him in a daze. He slowly opened his eyes and what he saw was Huang Pei's tearful face.
"Huang Pei?"
"Your Majesty!"
Huang Pei cried out loudly and burst into tears of joy.
Emperor Yong was in a trance. It was only when he looked up and saw the familiar bed curtain that he realized that he had returned to the Palace of Tranquil Longevity.
"How did I come back?" Emperor Yong asked in a hoarse voice.
When talking about this, Huang Pei's tears rolled down instantly.
As the eunuch beside the emperor, it was really against the rules for him to behave like this, but he was so scared that he was shaking all over!
He returned to the palace from the Huguo Temple to report, but when he arrived at the Yangxin Palace, he did not see the emperor. The guards at the door said that the emperor had gone to the imperial prison.
His heart skipped a beat when he heard this.
The emperor went to the imperial prison at this time, he must be going to try Jin Zhu.
But His Majesty is in poor health now, and the reason has not yet been found out. He really cannot stand the slightest stimulation.
When he hurried to the imperial prison, he found all the guards waiting outside. When he asked, he found out that the emperor wanted the trial to be held in secret and no one was allowed to attend.
He asked again how long the emperor had been inside, and the guard replied that it had been at least quarter of an hour.
He suddenly felt something was wrong and bravely shouted "Your Majesty" twice at the door of the interrogation room, but the only response he got was Jinzhu's hideous laugh.
He suddenly panicked and pushed the door open without hesitation, only to see the emperor lying on the ground with a pool of black blood in front of him!
His legs went limp almost instantly, and he shouted "Your Majesty" loudly, feeling as if half of the sky had collapsed!
When Jinzhu saw them come in, her expression twisted and she laughed uncontrollably.
"Hahaha, the dog emperor is dying. He deserves it! He deserves it, haha!"
When Huang Pei relayed all this to Emperor Yong, the Emperor's eyes were dull and he nodded slightly.
Huang Pei wiped the tears from his face, and then the voice of Emperor Yong floated over.
"Is it all ruined?"
Huang Pei was slightly stunned, then quickly nodded, "Your Majesty, they are all destroyed. I burned them myself."
Upon hearing this, Emperor Yong nodded again and lay quietly on the couch without saying a word.
Huang Pei couldn't bear to watch it any longer, and suddenly took a few steps back, knelt beside the couch, and kowtowed heavily, not daring to stop.
"Your Majesty, I beg you, please call the imperial physician to come and see me! I beg you, Your Majesty!"
Emperor Yong turned his head and saw Huang Pei's red forehead.
In the end.....it's still Huang Pei...
"Stop knocking, just say it."
Huang Pei felt relieved when he heard this. He staggered out, shouting, "Call the Imperial Physician!"
After Zou Qi left Beijing, the Imperial Medical Bureau was taken over by the left and right judges. The medical skills of these two were only second to Zou Qi, but they were also extremely skilled.
Huang Pei led the two men to the bedside, and Emperor Yong reached out his hand very cooperatively. After the judges on the left and right sides took turns to feel the emperor's pulse, they discussed a few words in a low voice.
Huang Pei saw this and hurried forward to ask: "How is it?"
The two judges knelt in front of the couch, looked at each other and nodded at the same time, and then the left judge spoke:
"Your Majesty is in the prime of his life, and his body is healthy, but his pulse is long and stringy, which indicates that his Qi is stagnant and his emotions are not smooth."
"The main focus should be on soothing the liver and regulating qi. Once the qi is flowing smoothly, you can then regulate your mind and spirit, and you will be fine."
Huang Pei became anxious when he heard this.
His Majesty has vomited blood several times, and his right hand still trembles uncontrollably. How could it be possible that he is just suffering from qi stagnation?
"The two judges—"
"Forget it, leave now."
Emperor Yong's slightly lazy voice sounded, interrupting Huang Pei's words.
Upon hearing this, the two judges withdrew respectfully, but Huang Pei was so anxious that he could not sit still.
A quack! It's indeed a quack!
"Your Majesty, please urgently summon Doctor Zou back to the capital!"
Emperor Yong slowly withdrew his arm, which showed what it meant when the emperor was not anxious but the eunuch was.
"Huang Pei, you are so anxious that you are confused. I sent someone to tell Qiao Zhongguo to bring the second son back to the capital. Zou Qi will naturally come back with them."
Huang Pei thought of Doctor Zou's old bones. If he was asked to travel day and night, he would probably run out of energy on the way before reaching the capital.
But he was still worried in his heart, because the emperor's health was a matter of great importance!
At this time, Emperor Yong suddenly sat up.
Huang Pei rushed to help upon seeing this, but Emperor Yong suddenly grabbed his wrist.
Huang Pei raised his head and met Emperor Yong's dark eyes, and his whole body trembled involuntarily.
"Your Majesty?"
Emperor Yong said in a low voice with a sullen face: "Huang Pei, you are the only one who dares to tell me the truth. Tell me, have I changed?"
Huang Pei could not hide his panic and asked anxiously, "Your Majesty, what do you mean?"
Emperor Yong let go of Huang Pei's hand and leaned back on the pillow with a calm expression.
"Huang Pei, tell me, how have I changed in the past ten years? And when did I start to change? Tell me everything one by one."
"Don't worry, I told you to say this, and I will definitely not take your head."
Huang Pei really couldn't guess what Emperor Yong was thinking now, but he was 100% obedient to Emperor Yong. In fact, there were some things he had wanted to say for a long time, and now he simply made up his mind.
"Your Majesty, you have changed."
"In my opinion, you have changed since you received the letter of surrender and the portrait written by Concubine Yu."
Everyone thought that the Northern Kingdom's letter of surrender was sent when General Qiao's troops were approaching the Northern Kingdom's capital.
Actually not.
Concubine Yu prepared for a rainy day. Her handwritten letter of surrender was delivered to the desk in the imperial study even before the news of General Qiao's victory at the gates of the city.
The formal letter of surrender submitted by the former king of the Northern Kingdom to King Jincheng was only submitted after General Qiao had besieged the city for several days and the Northern Kingdom's court was forced to do so when it could no longer continue.
what does that mean?
This meant that General Qiao had only attacked halfway, but Concubine Yu had already foreseen the Northern Kingdom's defeat.
But the Northern Kingdom will not turn back until it hits the wall, and will fight to the end.
Concubine Yu was unable to persuade her father and brother, so she wrote a letter of surrender in her own handwriting, offering cession of territory, payment of compensation, and expressing her sincerity, and requesting the emperor to withdraw his troops.
At the end of the letter of surrender, she said that if the emperor insisted on breaking through the gates of the northern capital, she, as a princess, would sacrifice her life for the country to prove her loyalty.
To this day, Huang Pei can still recall the emperor's expression when he saw the letter of surrender and the portrait.
Even though he was a disabled person, when the portrait appeared before him and he saw the heavenly figure of Concubine Jade, he couldn't help but feel dazed.
His Majesty walked around the long table and approached the portrait. He raised his hand to touch the fairy face and murmured:
"This kind of heavenly demeanor is rare in the world. What is even rarer is that he is brave and resourceful, prudent in making choices, and has the courage to cut off his own arm."
"In this case, I really want to meet this Princess Yu Liu."
Huang Pei could hardly guess what Emperor Yong was thinking at the time.
After all, General Qiao was brave and good at fighting, and the Northern Kingdom had already been defeated.
After getting the beauty, if the Northern Kingdom is still not honest, it will be very easy to find a reason to destroy them.
But who could have expected that after seeing Concubine Yu, the Emperor would be so completely captivated and obedient to her, as if he had become a completely different person!
What followed was exclusive favoritism and indulgence, even to the point of allowing a foreign princess to become pregnant with the emperor's heir, which ultimately led to the estrangement between the emperor and empress, and the weakening of the crown prince, leading to the chaotic and irreversible situation of today!
The young emperor was ambitious and conceited, thinking that he had the country and the people's hearts in his control. However, he made one wrong step after another until he was deserted by his friends and relatives, and the destiny of his country was shaken!