After finally treating all the bruises on the emperor's body, Wang Dequan found that the clothes on his back were soaked with cold sweat.
"emperor……"
Tang Shiliang, who went to the Imperial Hospital with the imperial doctors, was a little messy: "Queen... The Queen is dying. Now she is in the Imperial Hospital, saying that she must see you before she dies."
The emperor paused while arranging Jiang Xinyue's hair. After a long silence, he smiled at Jiang Xinyue and said, "Go to bed early tonight. You don't have to wait for me."
Regardless of whether the Queen can survive tonight or not, the Emperor has to prepare many things in advance and discuss them with his confidants.
Jiang Xinyue pressed the hem of the emperor's clothes with her tightly wrapped palms and looked up at him pitifully: "Your Majesty, when the fire broke out today, the beam should have fallen on me. It was the empress who saved me. She also gave the water-stained handkerchief to my concubine, and no matter what the queen did to me before... I have forgiven her."
As she spoke, tears were already streaming down her face: "So... I dare to beg the emperor to give you the last bit of dignity, okay?"
The sickly beauty blinked her clear eyes. Emperor Xuanwu bent down and kissed her on the tip of her nose: "I understand. Don't worry about these things. I know how to do it."
In the Imperial Hospital, the wound on Fenxun's face had been bandaged. She knelt beside the queen's bed, crying until the wound oozed blood, trying desperately to arouse the queen's desire to live: "Empress, please take a look. , the fifth prince is here! The fifth prince is still so young, he cannot live without his empress! Please open your eyes and look at the fifth prince!"
The fifth prince, who was already one and a half years old, was staggering over, led by an older nanny.
He didn't know why his mother was lying here, but there were injuries on her face, and Aunt Fenxun's face was also bleeding.
He knew that his mother was injured.
The fifth prince pursed his lips and howled loudly: "Mother... mother... get up... get up... wu wu wu... get up..."
The queen's hands moved and she opened her eyes with great effort. She looked at the fifth prince and gave him a weak smile.
Then he looked at Fen Hong: "Take good care of the fifth prince, Fen Hong... don't go against the virtuous concubine. It's all because of me that I have ended up like this today... It's because I don't know people well. I believe people I shouldn't believe, love. I have found someone I shouldn’t love, and I… admit it.”
Fenren cried so hard that she lowered her head and said with deep reluctance: "My queen, if you survive, I will take care of the fifth prince with you."
Tears streamed down from the corner of the queen's eyes: "I can't do it anymore. You can take the fifth prince to Hexi Palace to wait!"
She could always see the shadow of her two sons in the fifth prince, and she sincerely hoped that the fifth prince could live a healthy and happy life.
"When the fifth prince grows up, don't teach him hatred...don't let him be instigated to think that it was the virtuous concubine who killed me. As long as I...as long as he lives well, do you understand?"
She knew that Fenxun was loyal to her, and was afraid that she would be unwilling to use the fifth prince to avenge her in the future. She endured the pain: "Even...even if I want to take revenge, my enemy is Concubine De. It was she who made me lose my position." There are many opportunities for my mother...the only one I hate is her."
Fenren cried until she almost fainted, hugging the fifth prince and nodding repeatedly: "Queen, I will take good care of the fifth prince, and I will not let anyone harm him."
This is her master's last thought in this world, and she will never let him down.
Not only was the queen hopeless, she also rejected the doctors' plan to extend her life and kicked out all the doctors.
She was expressing her determination to die to the emperor in a decisive way.
The lights in the hospital were dim, and the pharmacy where the Queen was was already empty.
Under the flickering lights, the queen lay quietly on the bamboo bed, as if she was dead.
But when Emperor Xuanwu walked to the bamboo bed, she seemed to notice it and opened her eyes.
That terrifying face had been wrapped in silk, leaving only half of the intact face exposed.
The emperor was silent and did not speak, but the queen smiled softly: "I am about to die. We have been married for more than ten years. Is there nothing the emperor wants to say to me in the end?"
Emperor Xuanwu raised his hand, arranged her new clothes, and combed her messy hair with his fingers, but he said nothing from the beginning to the end.
The queen understood his silence and looked at the emperor with tender and reluctant eyes: "Your Majesty, I have been in the palace for fifteen years and have given birth to the first prince and the second prince for you, but they may not want to be royal people. , I left my concubine long ago, and now I am going to look for them..."
She couldn't speak any more and choked with sobs: "Your Majesty, I only wish you good health, a long life, hand in hand with the one you love forever, and a happy life."
The words of a dying person are also good.
The emperor took a deep breath and held her hand: "Stop talking so much, why don't you let the imperial doctor extend your life?"
Wouldn't it be nice to live longer?
The queen shook her head: "I don't want to look at this face in the mirror every day. I am afraid that I will die with resentment towards this palace."
How long can you survive?
Three days? Five days?
Or three months, five months?
What's the point?
It would be better to take advantage of the emperor's guilt and use his own death to strive for the greatest interests for the fifth prince and the virtuous concubine.
"I have abided by the rules and responsibilities of being a queen all my life, and have never made it difficult for the emperor. I have been able to marry you and become your queen, and I have never regretted it. But I... I have only One thing, I regret it..."
The emperor looked at her: "Is it for the fifth prince?"
The queen nodded with tears: "I should not leave my mother to keep my son, and take away the fifth prince from Lan Cainu. He lost his mother when he was so young. I... I beg the emperor... I beg the emperor to let the wise concubine raise the fifth prince." OK?"
She used her best strength to hold the emperor's hand, and the intact half of her face was already covered with tears: "In this harem, only the virtuous concubine is the one who truly loves her, and she is the only one who will really be kind to the fifth prince." , Your Majesty... I can hand over the evidence that the Zhu family of Chang'an intends to rebel, and I just ask the Emperor to agree to my only request."
The news that the Zhu family intended to rebel was like a thunderclap in Emperor Xuanwu's heart.
He knew that the Zhu family had always been rebellious and did not listen to the court's orders, but they could always find suitable reasons to frustrate the emperor, so the emperor never had a direct conflict with them.
He never knew that the Zhu family not only wanted to be the local snakes of Chang'an, but also wanted to be the masters of the world.
The queen did not have the energy to explain why the Zhu family could conceal the truth and escape the court's airtight surveillance to plot a rebellion.
But she is the daughter of the Zhu family, and she has solid evidence in her hands, so it is impossible for the emperor not to want it.
