Live up to the country

"Don't worry? Do you think I can rest assured? I'm going to find her!" Liu Fan flicked his sleeves and strode out of the Taoist temple, but was stopped by the master at the door.

"Fan'er, Miss Luo is the teacher who let Miss Luo go."

"Master, please let me go." Liu Fan looked at Master with stubborn eyes.

"No! You have also seen the emperor's persistence. You and Miss Luo will not have an ending. Just end this bad relationship and let her fend for herself!" Mu Shi stretched out his whisk to block the way.

"Fend for itself? Let her fend for itself? Not to mention that I am the majestic prince of Xiling, I am also a seven-foot man, but I want to let my beloved one fend for itself?" Liu Fan looked at Master in pain, and took a step forward. One step closer to his whisk.

Taoist Mu Shi didn't seem to have any intention of giving way, and kept his whisk in a blank expression.

"Master!" Liu Fan had already walked in front of him.

"If you want to go out, you must pass the test of being a teacher first." Taoist Mu Shi said solemnly.

Liu Fan looked at him sadly, his lips trembling.Xiao Zhu ran over, grabbed his arm, and said tremblingly, "Your Highness, listen to Master!"

Liu Fan turned to look at her and said, "Xiaozhu, if it's you, or Wuyou, Yunshang, any of you, I'll look for it desperately."

Xiao Zhu looked at him, and the hand holding his arm dropped weakly.

"Being a teacher will also prevent you from looking for any one person. The heavy responsibility on your shoulders is not these few people, not these children's affairs. What you shoulder is the thousands of miles of Xiling, the country and thousands of people!" Mu Shi Daochang did not move.

"You can't even protect the people around you, how can you be responsible for thousands of miles?" Liu Fan stretched out his hand to push away the whisk that the master was blocking.Mu Shi raised his hand, a strong internal force threw Liu Fan into the air, and Liu Fan flipped around in the space for a few times before landing on both feet.Taoist Mu Shi stood tall and looked at him coldly.

"Report—" A young disciple ran up to Taoist Master Mu Shi and said, "Master, the father-in-law in the palace is waiting for His Royal Highness to receive the order on the hillside."

Taoist Mu Shi hurriedly looked at Liu Fan, and motioned for him to go over.

Liu Fan didn't know why the imperial decree came suddenly, and strode out of the Taoist temple with a frown.

The eunuch declared that the emperor was seriously ill and urgently called him back to the palace immediately.Liu Fan was so anxious that he received the order, he summoned Xiao Zhu, he didn't care about looking for Luo Lianyi for a moment, followed the chariot and horses, and hurried back to the palace.

In Ruoxi Palace, Liu Hongjing was lying on the bed, looking at the portrait of Noble Concubine Xi on the wall, as if in trance.Concubine Xue Shu was sitting by the bed, holding medicine in her hand, and the maid standing beside her was holding a bowl of porridge, which was full of medicine and porridge, it seemed that he didn't drink anything.The imperial physicians kneeling on the ground in the hall were all prostrate on the ground, silent as if chilling.

"Your majesty—" Concubine Xue Shu looked at the emperor with pity.When Concubine Xi was alive, she had the best friendship with her, and the two sworn sisters, probably because of love for the house and Wu. After Concubine Xi left, among the concubines in the harem, she was the one who received the most favors, and she was the only one who could sit like this. his side.

"Stand back, I'm tired." Liu Hongjing waved his hand weakly.

"Your Majesty, when you take the medicine, the concubine will step down. The concubine will feel distressed when she looks at you like this, and sister Xi'er will also feel distressed when she looks at it from the sky." Concubine Xue Shu said with a choked voice.

"Xi'er, why are you so close to me?" Liu Hongjing sighed, took the medicine from Concubine Xue Shu's hand, and drank it in a few gulps.

Concubine Xue Shu helped him pass the medicine bowl to the maid beside her, patted his back and helped him to lie down.A eunuch came in and reported softly: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness is waiting outside."

"Let him in." After Liu Hongjing finished speaking, he glanced at Concubine Xue Shu. Concubine Xue Shu hurriedly knelt down, turned around and ordered the imperial physician to retreat, and left Ruoxi Palace with all the court ladies.

"Royal Father." Liu Fan came in, seeing his father's haggard appearance on the bed, feeling deeply guilty again.

"Fan'er, Father feels that his physical strength is weakening, and he may be about to follow your mother." After Liu Hongjing finished speaking, he coughed violently.

"Father, you have been so tired and worried these days that the evil spirits have invaded your body and made you fall ill. You just need to relax your mind a little, and your illness will recover naturally." Liu Fan comforted.

Liu Hongjing shook his head, closed his eyes and said nothing, and after sleeping for a while, he coughed violently again.

Liu Fan tucked his back for him, silently stood by his side, full of worries.

Nearly half a month passed in a blink of an eye, the snow stopped, and the trees in the palace compound began to sprout, and the little dew was springy, but the emperor's illness was lingering, and there was no sign of improvement.

On this day, in Qingning Palace, Duanmu Yunji and Liu Huo looked at Ruoxi Hall from afar, with complacent expressions on their faces.

"Emperor Zhao said that your father might not survive February."

"Father is thinking about that bitch, it's better to go and meet her earlier, so as not to be separated from heaven and man, suffering day and night." Liu Huo smiled darkly.

"Hmph! As long as he kicks his feet, I will take back everything that should belong to you for you! The Duanmu family, plus your father-in-law, the King of Nanjiang, is enough to force the prince to step down!" Duanmu Yunji sneered.

"When the time comes, let the three of them go there for a reunion, haha, haha, hahaha——" Liu Huo laughed with a suppressed voice, which was creepy.

"Huo'er, Imperial Physician Zhao gave the Queen Mother something, which is said to speed up their reunion." Duanmu Yunji took out a small paper bag from her sleeve pocket, held it up to her eyes and shook it.

"Oh? It won't be detected?" Liu Huo asked.

"Naturally not. It's a tonic for healthy people. It's a tonic for weak people. It's poisonous. Women and eunuchs are fine if they take this medicine. Only men..." Duanmu Yun Ji smiled coldly.

"Well, queen mother must be careful, don't be self-defeating." Liu Huo followed the queen and nodded with a sneer.

"This palace knows."

The mother and son conspired for a while, Liu Huo knelt down and retreated, Duanmu Yunji stayed until evening, surrounded by court ladies and eunuchs, went to Shangyao Bureau.

"Is the emperor's medicine ready?" she asked the maid in charge.

"Go back to your mother, it's boiling." The maid in charge reported back.

"Take me to have a look."

"Yes."

The maid brought her to the fire, Duanmu Yunji turned her head and said to her: "Go down, I want to make medicine for the emperor myself."

"This—your empress—" the maid was noncommittal.

"Bold!" Duanmu Yunji waved her hand abruptly, knocking the maid staggeringly. After the maid stood firm, she covered her face and lowered her eyebrows and bowed back a long way.Duanmu Yunji glared at her, and the maid hurriedly backed away, not daring to look this way.

Duanmu Yunji pretended to look at this and that, then opened the pot for boiling medicine and smelled it, and quietly sprinkled the medicine powder in her hand into the pot.

"Come here!" She called out loudly, and the maid hurried over.

"Pour out the medicine, and I will personally deliver it to the emperor."

"Yes!" The maid picked up the medicine jar and poured the medicine inside into a bowl.

"Your Majesty, be careful, don't burn yourself." The palace maid said tremblingly.

"I know." Duanmu Yunji carefully picked up the medicine bowl, left Shangyao Bureau, and headed for Ruoxi Palace.As soon as she left, Concubine Xue Shu came over, and the maid hurriedly told her that the empress had already taken the medicine away.

"She delivered the medicine?" Concubine Xue Shu frowned, raised her eyes to see the fingerprints on the maid's face, and asked, "What's going on?"

"The empress said she wanted to cook the medicine herself, but the maidservant was beaten for talking too much." The maid said aggrievedly.Concubine Xue Shu has always been kind, and all the court ladies like her. When she complained to her, it was like facing her relatives, and she shed tears while talking.