Chapter 194: The King’s Heart Is Hard to Predict

Li Zhaonian said with red eyes: "I have summoned the imperial physician. Father will be fine."

Emperor Tongxu was so weak that he couldn't even shake his head.

"Zhaonian, the body of your elder brother Jincheng..." Emperor Tongxu's eyes were filled with tears.

Emperor Tongxu remembered what Li Jincheng said. He said that he would never admit it even if he didn't do it. At that time, he said to Li Jincheng: "Then you will die to show your determination."

Li Jincheng wrote 15 letters of apology in succession, and he didn't read any of them because he was afraid that he would be soft-hearted.

After all, they were his own flesh and blood. Although he was an emperor, he would also be weak.

He didn't expect that it was really not Li Jincheng who did it, and he didn't expect that Li Jincheng would really die to show his determination.

"Don't worry, father." Li Zhaonian said, "My elder brother's body has been properly placed, but father is in a coma, and I am not sure what regulations should be used to bury him. The ministers have been arguing for several days but have not come to a conclusion." Emperor Tongxu looked at him, tears streaming down his face, "According to...according to the regulations for princes...bury him in the imperial mausoleum." Li Zhaonian: "Yes." "I can't do it anymore." "Father will live a hundred years." Li Zhaonian shed tears. They knew each other tacitly, and they all knew that this was just empty talk. Tongxu's bony hand suddenly grabbed Li Zhaonian, "Don't let him go."

Li Zhaonian said, "Father, you mean..."

"Thank you for stopping the boat." Emperor Tongxu panted a few times, "We can't let him go."

"But." Li Zhaonian said, "When father was in a coma, news came that the King of Beilin was critically ill. It was said that he would not be able to survive for much longer. The cabinet did not advocate letting the prince return to Beilin, but some bad news has been heard in the capital in recent days."

The eunuch outside the palace reported, "Your Highness, the imperial physician has arrived."

"Father, let the imperial physician..."

"No." Emperor Tongxu interrupted him with a breath, "You speak first."

Li Zhaonian did not dare to delay the imperial physician's treatment, so he had to make a long story short: "It is rumored in the capital that the King of Beilin is loyal to the emperor and patriotic, and the prince of Beilin has suffered injuries in the battlefield. The people are saying..."

Li Zhaonian did not dare to say it, for fear of irritating Emperor Tongxu.

Emperor Tongxu's eyes were full of understanding, "Are you saying that Beilin's achievements are so great that they threaten the emperor, and that I am afraid of Beilin." Li Zhaonian saw that Emperor Tongxu was so calm, so he spoke boldly, "The people have said that Beilin saved the people of Yanliang Pass and saved them from suffering. Now the King of Beilin is seriously ill, but the prince can't fulfill his filial piety by his bedside. The King of Beilin and the prince have worked hard for the Great Zhou for decades, but ended up with a father and son who couldn't even see each other for the last time." "There are still many people and students kneeling outside the palace gate, begging to let the prince go back to Beilin, father." Li Zhaonian tried Persuaded: "I think, let the prince go back."

"No." Emperor Tongxu half closed his eyes and said: "Bei Lin is a sharp blade. This knife can cut foreign enemies and can also stab our own people. He is the scabbard that binds Bei Lin. You... you must hold him in your hand and can't let the blade face yourself."

Emperor Tongxu coughed a few more times, and the handkerchief wiped the corners of his mouth with blood. "Let, let Shen Yu come in, I have something to say."

"Father, let the imperial physician see the patient first." Li Zhaonian persuaded: "I am worried."

Emperor Tongxu agreed, and the imperial physicians entered the palace for consultation.

The court envoy retracted his pulse diagnosis hand and said: "Your Majesty, I will discuss and consider with several imperial physicians before deciding on the prescription."

Emperor Tongxu moved his fingers weakly, and Li Zhaonian went out with the imperial physicians, but saw that the imperial physicians knelt down at the door of the palace.

Li Zhaonian had expected this, "Can't you prescribe a prescription?"

The court envoy bowed his head and said, "Your Highness, we are powerless and can only prescribe some decoctions to keep you alive. Your Majesty is already on the verge of death. I'm afraid... I'm afraid..."

Li Zhaonian looked at the night, "How long will it take?"

The court envoy's forehead was sweating, "I can't say for sure, but it should be within five days."

"Go prescribe a prescription." Li Zhaonian listened to the footsteps of everyone leaving and turned to look at Shen Yu, "Father wants to see you."

Shen Yu entered the bedroom, and Li Zhaonian did not follow in.

"Your Majesty."

Just now, Tong Xudi took a piece of ginseng to refresh himself, and his spirits were slightly better. He opened his eyelids a little and looked at Shen Yu, "Zhong An and I are old friends. You, come over here."

Shen Yu walked to the dragon bed, and Tong Xudi looked at her for a moment, and a faint smile appeared on his face.

"Your eyes are like your mother's, but your nose is like Shen Zhongan's, which is heroic. This is what your father told me. I didn't see it."

Emperor Tongxu seemed to want to laugh, but he coughed.

"In fact, my temperament is more like my father." Shen Yu said, and sat down on a chair beside him.

"Yes." Emperor Tongxu said: "I can see it. Although I am more than ten years older than him, I regard him as a close friend."

Shen Yu thought of her previous life. Her father and brother were defeated at Yanliang Pass. Everyone wanted to kill them, but Emperor Tongxu did not punish the Shen family and even gave her a marriage.

In her previous life, she thought that her father's achievements were so great that the emperor was shocked. It was Emperor Tongxu who gave her a marriage to comfort the widow after killing someone with a borrowed knife. Now it seems that it was the remaining friendship in the emperor's heart.

It can be seen that if you don't see it with your own eyes, don't doubt it.

"I have never heard my father mention it." Shen Yu said softly. "On the surface, we are the monarch and his subject." Emperor Tongxu said, "In private, we are close friends. We once talked late into the night, wanting to clean up the world and bring peace and prosperity to the people."

"He, Shen Zhongan, did it. He fought through all the difficulties and guarded the border for me, but I...didn't do it."

Emperor Tongxu's voice was already choked with sobs, "Who was not high-spirited when they were young? When I came to the throne, I also wanted to do something big, but I was hindered everywhere. I am ashamed of my ancestors and your father."

I don't know what he thought, but the water in his eyes gradually receded, and his eyes became sharp, "But I am the emperor! I am the emperor! There are some things that I have to do."

He suddenly grabbed Shen Yu's hand, "Do you understand?"

The veins on the back of Emperor Tongxu's hands were all visible, and he was holding Shen Yu's hand that was shaking, "I'm ashamed of your father, I owe him once, and I don't care about this second time. If I go to hell, I will go and apologize to him. "

An ominous premonition suddenly came to Shen Yu's heart. She frowned slightly, and Emperor Tongxu had already spoken: "I can let Xie Tingzhou go and leave."

There was a thunder in Shen Yu's mind. He looked at Emperor Tongxu and tried his best to stay calm, "Your Majesty, your Majesty and your colleagues said such things. I don't understand what you mean?"

"There is no airtight wall under the sky." Emperor Tongxu said: "Some things can be hidden, but you can't hide them by looking at a person's eyes."

Those people were all deceived by Shen Yu's disguise as a boy, but Emperor Tongxu knew early on that she was a girl, and he knew how a man looked at a woman.

He was a wise and wise emperor, but it was a pity that he was born at the wrong time.

"When I sit in this position, I must take the overall situation into consideration." Emperor Tongxu paused and said, "Whether Beilin has any rebellious intentions or not, I have to guard against it."

Shen Yu calmed down and said, "His Majesty just said that he would let the prince leave."

"Yes." Emperor Tongxu said, "I can let him go, but you must stay and make this scabbard to restrain him and Beilin for me."