Jingmen Fengyue

Chapter 132
"Old Hou, please get up quickly. Today is the New Year, and I don't care about these gifts." The emperor stood up himself, walked away from the seat, and gave Zhongyonghou a vain support.

The Prince of England, the Marquis of Yongkang, the Prime Minister of the Left and the Right, the Academician of the Hanlin University, the Supervisory Censor and others all twitched their brows when they saw the emperor leaving his seat to help each other. I have never enjoyed the courtesy of Zhongyonghou.

Zhongyonghou straightened up, "Thank you, the emperor, for loving this old minister. The old minister is getting old. The excitement of this year's festival really makes the old minister unbearable. I can come into the palace today, but I am worried about this boy and girl in my family. They make trouble."

"The children enter the palace as if they were in their own home. The old Marquis doesn't have to worry. With me here, who can bully the eldest son and young lady of Zhongyonghou's mansion?" The emperor laughed loudly, looking at Xie Mohan and Xie Fanghua , "Excuse me!"

Xie Mohan stood up.

Xie Fanghua got up slowly supported by Shi Hua and Shi Mo.

"Naturally needless to say, Mr. Xie, I have watched him grow up since he was a child. In addition to his poor health, he is smart and eager to learn, and he is more promising than my princes. My heart is very comforted that the old Marquis can have such descendants. Ah." The emperor smiled.

"How can this kid compare to the princes? No matter how smart and studious he is, it's useless if he doesn't have a good body." Zhongyonghou sighed.

"Old Hou is worrying too much. I think Xie Shizi looks good now, much better than in previous years. Take your time, and your body will always be in good shape." The emperor patted Zhongyonghou on the shoulder. Looking at Xie Fanghua, he said again, "Girl Fanghua, in the past, when your father Xie Ying was alive, I had the same temper as him and called him a brother. I am two years older than him, so you should call me uncle. There are no outsiders here. You open Veil, let me take a look at you, it is said that the Queen and Princess Ying have seen you when you were young, and you look like your mother, but I have never seen you before."

"Fanghua has been ill for a long time and looks ugly, so she wears a veil to see the emperor. It is no problem for Fanghua to tear off the veil, but it is Fanghua's fault for fear of disturbing the emperor and several adults." Nodding his head, he said in a low voice.

The emperor was startled, staring at her vague face under the veil, and waved his hand, "I'm not afraid." After saying that, he looked at Prince Ying and the others behind him, "How many of you are scary?"

"Miss Fanghua is worrying too much. I'm not three years old, so I'm afraid of being frightened by your appearance?" Prime Minister Zuo said.

Xie Fanghua seemed to hesitate for a moment, and reached out and gently tore off the veil.

A face that was so pale that there was no trace of blood was displayed in front of them, the sun was shining down, it looked like a ghost in the daytime.

The emperor's body suddenly trembled.

The Prince of England let out a low cry, he couldn't help taking a step forward, and then stopped suddenly.

The left minister, the right minister, the Hanlin University scholar, and the supervisory censor also all showed expressions of surprise. Fortunately, they have gone through wind and rain for half their lives, so they did not lose their composure.

Lingque Terrace was silent for a moment.

"Girl Fanghua, you'd better put on your veil!" Zhongyong Hou turned his head away, commanding with some unbearable pain.

Xie Fanghua nodded, and raised her hand to cover the veil back.

The emperor came back to his senses, waved his hand, and stopped him, "You don't need to wear it, take it off!"

Xie Fanghua clapped her hands and looked at the emperor puzzled.

The emperor put away all the emotions on his face, and said to her gently, "Your face has not seen the sun for a long time, it is too pale, and it is not shameful? Why do you have to wear a veil all the time? You should expose yourself more sun."

Xie Fanghua pursed her lips and remained silent.

"I originally thought that there was nothing difficult in the world that the Zhongyonghou's Mansion could not do, and the imperial physician's medical skills in the Imperial Hospital might not be superb, and could rival the miraculous doctor privately hired by the Zhongyonghou's Mansion. Therefore, I have never asked about it. The condition of your virtuous nephew and virtuous niece. Old Marquis, I have neglected your pair of grandchildren and grandchildren, so I should have asked about it long ago." The emperor sighed.

"What did the emperor say, their parents died early, it's because the old officials didn't take good care of them." Zhongyonghou wiped his eyes.

"Wu Quan!" The emperor shook his head and shouted behind him.

"Your Majesty, this old slave is here!" An old eunuch stepped forward, bowing his head.

"You go and invite Dr. Sun from the Imperial Hospital here." The emperor ordered.

"Yes!" The old eunuch walked out of Lingque Terrace quickly.

"Your majesty, do you want to..." Zhongyong Hou looked at the emperor and asked tentatively.

"Old Hou, please sit down! All lovers, please sit down too! Xie Shizi, Fanghua girl, please sit down!" The emperor sat back on his head, greeted everyone kindly, and then explained to Zhongyonghou, "Let Lin The imperial doctor came to see the young girl's symptoms, his medical skills may not be very good in the past few years, but he has been studying hard all these years, and his medical skills have improved a lot."

Marquis Zhongyong glanced at Xie Fanghua. Xie Fanghua lowered his head, unable to see his expression. He let out a "hey", sat down slowly, and agreed, "Today is the New Year's Day. If it hadn't been for the emperor's decree earlier, the old minister would not Bring this girl into the palace to annoy the emperor."

"What did the old Hou say? If Brother Xie Ying was still alive, I'm afraid he would have blamed me for not caring about his daughter." The emperor waved his hand, seeing the left and right prime ministers, academicians of the Hanlin University, and supervisory censors all regained their expressions. The prince looked in a trance, and shouted, "Brother Wang, don't you think so?"

Prince Ying came back to his senses, looked at Xie Fanghua with complicated eyes, nodded, and said sadly, "Yes."

"Brother Wang, sit down! If you don't sit down, these two children will not dare to sit down." The emperor laughed.

The Prince of England seemed to try his best to hide the emotion in his eyes for a moment, and then slowly sat down.

Seeing the emperor looking at him and Xie Fanghua, Xie Mohan calmed down, stretched out his hand and pulled Xie Fanghua to sit at the bottom together.

"This girl looks shocking at first glance, but her appearance is one in a million." The emperor poured a cup of tea for Zhongyonghou himself, and asked everyone, "If you look at her now, is there nothing wrong with her face?" Whiter, with an excellent appearance? I'm afraid that the Southern Qin capital can't pick out a few such appearances."

"That's right!" Prime Minister Zuo took over, "I look at Miss Fanghua very much like the late Mrs. Xie Ying."

"That's natural, mother and daughter!" The emperor smiled.

"Speaking of which, brother Xie Ying and his wife have been dead for more than ten years, right? Time flies so fast." Prime Minister on the right stared at Xie Fanghua's eyebrows for a moment, then slowly said.

"I remember 14 years!" the emperor recalled.

"Back to the emperor, my father and family have been dead for 14 and a half years, and my younger sister was only half a year old at that time." Xie Mohan said.

"Yes, it's been 14 and a half years. Isn't time passing so fast? At that time, I sent brother Xie Ying to visit Lingnan unannounced for me. Mrs. Xie couldn't bear his long-distance toil and no one to take care of him, so he followed him. Later, he died on the way. I left a pair of children behind." The emperor rubbed his forehead, "I have always regretted these things. Brother Xie Ying should never have been sent to Lingnan at that time."

(End of this chapter)