Chapter 120 one nine

Seventeen unraveling the cocoon The night was dark, and gusts of westerly wind whimpered mournfully through the empty hall, rolling up the heavy curtains.From the prince's bedroom came a woman's fearful voice: "Let me go, let me go!" It was Haitang who uttered the voice, her eyes were closed tightly, and the corners of her face showed an expression of infinite pain, rolling and struggling on the couch , reaching out to try to grab something. Ling'er held the candle and came over and called softly: "Crown Princess, Crown Princess, what's wrong with you?" Haitang opened her eyes, with a horrified expression on her face and her chest heaving violently, she said: "It's so scary, Just now I saw this palace collapsed suddenly, and the world is full of dirty blood and broken limbs! I shouted desperately, but I couldn’t call you.” Ling’er comforted her: “Crown Princess, are you doing something? What a nightmare!"

Haitang took a look at Linger, then settled down and said: "Oh, it was a dream! Where is His Royal Highness?" Linger replied: "He has been standing in the yard." Haitang wondered, it was so late, he still What are you doing standing in the yard?She quickly dressed, jumped out of bed, and walked outside.When he arrived in the courtyard, he saw Li Chengqian standing under a tree in a single suit. Haitang shouted: "Your Highness!" Li Chengqian didn't respond at all.Haitang amplified her voice: "Your Highness, what's wrong with you?" Li Chengqian suddenly woke up and looked at his wife without speaking.Haitang said: "Go back to the palace." Li Chengqian said with a tinge of fear on his face, "No, I won't go back, such a big house is so dark that it makes me afraid." Haitang felt sour, shed a tear and said: "It's windy here, be careful of catching a cold." Li Chengqian said hysterically, "I'd better freeze to death, look at this palace, how deserted is it any different from a tomb?" Haitang persuaded: "Your Highness, don't say that. "

Li Chengqian said with a desolate face: "I am the crown prince. It has been a few days since my father announced his pardon. No matter who looks at me, I look so weird. No one dares to approach me. Am I still the crown prince? No, I am the crown prince." He is the most pitiful death row prisoner in the world. Other death row criminals have to wait at most half a year to fall to be executed. As for me, a sword is hanging above my head, and I don’t know when it will fall, maybe a month , or twenty years, think about it, who can endure the fear of waiting to die for twenty years?" After speaking, Li Chengqian suddenly slammed into the tree, Haitang was shocked, and hurried forward to talk to Linger. Together they desperately grabbed Li Chengqian: "Your Highness, don't be fooled!" Li Chengqian yelled wildly: "I can't take it, I really can't take it, let me die quickly!"

Haitang cried: "Your Highness, you don't think about your concubine, don't you think about him?" Haitang took out a baby bellyband and held it in front of Li Chengqian.Li Chengqian was stunned for a moment, and looked at Haitang: "You, you are already happy?" , How can I face this child? There are already enough people who look down on me in this world, why should I face another one?" After crying a few times, Li Chengqian said to himself: "No, I want to I'm going to die, I'm going to die." After speaking, Li Chengqian broke free from Haitang, and slammed into the tree like crazy, Haitang and Ling'er couldn't pull it back.

Ling'er was a little scared and said: "Crown Princess, Your Highness is probably possessed by a demon." Haitang shouted: "Come on! Come on!" Two people came over and dragged Li Chengqian, Haitang panted and told Linger to quickly get rid of him. The empress please come.After a while, Empress Changsun came to the East Palace panting. As soon as she entered the courtyard, she saw two eunuchs dragging Li Chengqian. He yelled and wanted to rush towards the tree: "Let me die! Let me die—" Haitang panicked. I had to cry: "Your Highness, please! Don't let yourself get overwhelmed!"

Empress Changsun said sharply: "Let him go and let him die. I want to see how the eldest son of the hero Li Shimin was killed by this tree!" The eunuchs let go of their hands, and Li Chengqian was dumbfounded. Don't dare to look at this woman who is proud and inviolable with frosty face.Empress Changsun said solemnly: "In the seventh year of Wude, your uncle Li Jiancheng poisoned your food. You have been carried into the coffin and climbed out again. You have recovered your life from Lord Yan. I ask you why You don’t want to die, what did you say back then? You said that you are the eldest son of the King of Qin, and you have to die vigorously! But today, look at yourself, what have you become!”

Li Chengqian fell to his knees and yelled: "Mother's queen!" Empress Changsun pointed to the tip of his nose and said, "You are kneeling here today, think it over for me." This whole night, Empress Changsun sat in the East Palace with her eyes closed and did not leave.At the time of the second watch, a red candle burned to the end, and a little eunuch came over to replace it with a new one. The cold wind was howling and the candle was flickering. Haitang picked up a robe and walked towards the gate gently.Empress Changsun suddenly opened her eyes and said, "Crown Princess, what are you doing?"

Haitang trembled, not daring to look into the queen's eyes, and whispered: "It's so windy outside, my minister will send him a padded robe." Empress Changsun shouted: "Don't go!" Haitang knelt down and begged: "Mother, the crown prince He'll get sick from the cold!" Empress Changsun said with a sullen face, "I just want him to freeze through, or he won't be able to wake up!" When it was almost dawn, Li Chengqian finally passed out in the yard, feeling hot all over.Empress Changsun ordered him to be carried in, and at the same time sent someone to invite the imperial physician, and at the same time sent someone to report to Li Shimin.After a while, the imperial physician He Sidao came, but Li Shimin did not come. Empress Changsun asked the emperor what he was doing, and the eunuch who reported the letter replied that he was about to get up and drive to visit Fang Xuanling.Empress Changsun knew that the emperor remembered the old grievance that the prince was almost enthroned, and she didn't want to come to see him. She felt helpless, so she had to order the imperial physician to quickly diagnose the prince's pulse.

After He Sidao checked the prince's pulse, he reported to the queen with a solemn face that the prince had typhoid fever.Both Haitang and Ling'er's expressions changed, but Empress Changsun's face sank like water, as if she was not moved at all.Haitang anxiously asked: "Doctor He, is it serious?" He Sidao said: "I will prescribe a few medicines, and you ask His Royal Highness to take them on time, otherwise it will be dangerous if it turns into lung disease." After speaking, he picked up a pen and wrote a prescription , and handed it over to Haitang, the queen waved him back.Haitang had seen the prescription, and asked Linger to quickly arrange for someone to grab the medicine. Empress Changsun stopped her, asked for the prescription, and put it on the side table without even looking at it.Haitang looked at the queen in surprise: "Queen, He Sidao said that this medicine cannot be delayed."

Li Chengqian suddenly started talking nonsense from the sidelines: "Run bloody horse - where is this - dice - let's see who can throw it far!" Haitang hastily stretched out her hand to his forehead and exclaimed: "It's so hot! !” She went back to Empress Changsun and knelt down on the ground, begging: “Queen Mother, quickly ask your ministers to get the prince medicine.” Empress Changsun said coldly: “This recipe can’t save the prince!” Li Chengqian's illness became more and more serious, but Fang Xuanling's condition improved a lot. When Li Shimin came to visit this time, he was able to open his eyes and talk.Looking at Li Shimin sitting next to him, his haggard face was slowly filled with surprise, and then turned from surprise to surprise, his lips moved a few times, and finally he called out from the depth of his Adam's apple: "Your Majesty—is that you?" ? The minister is not dreaming, is he?"

Li Shimin nodded and said, "It's me, Xuanling."