During Yao Chong's illness, many major political affairs were backlogged. After Xuanzong went to court, he called Yao Chong into the imperial study to discuss matters.
He trembled and knelt down towards Xuanzong: "I thank your Majesty for your kindness."
"Yao Aiqing has just recovered from a serious illness, so there is no need to perform this grand ceremony!"
A serious illness caused Yao Chong to age at a speed visible to the naked eye, like a gust of wind that could take away the old minister he relied on.
He stepped forward to help him stand up, but Yao Chong insisted on kneeling down and said: "During the time when I was sick, the tenth princess insisted on coming out of the palace every day to consult Wangji Temple, and personally attending to the illness at my side, so that I could escape from the gate of hell. After this calamity, I will come to His Majesty in person to thank you."
"How virtuous and capable is this veteran, that he can be expected to personally attend to the princess of the dynasty?"
"The little princess is heartbroken by the old minister's illness, and she also wants to develop a malaria medicine to relieve the suffering of the people. She is so calm and knowledgeable at such a young age. It is your majesty's wisdom that can raise such a magnanimous and generous princess of the Tang Dynasty."
"Your Majesty does not allow me to kneel down and thank you. I feel uneasy. I am willing to work hard for the Tang Dynasty and even die..."
When Yao Chong finished speaking, he burst into tears and lay on the ground, choked with sobs.
After listening to what his most trusted minister said, Xuanzong learned that his Xiao Shi, in addition to following Dr. Sun out of the palace for consultation, actually attended to Yao Chong himself and did not even avoid him when he was sick and vomiting.
He was shocked!
Didn't he know that his little princess could do this behind his back?
Originally, Xuanzong felt that Li Sixu's planting of artemisia in the cold palace was a bit ridiculous. After a heart-to-heart talk with Yao Chong, he was deeply moved.
After the discussion was completed and Mr. Yao was sent to leave the palace, Xuanzong immediately asked Eunuch Yang to inform the Jingshi room and turn over Yu Jieyu's sign.
When Jiang Jiao left the imperial study with Xu Fu, Xuanzong finished handling the government affairs and took Eunuch Yang and Li Linhuai to Linglong Residence.
Yu Jieyu had been sitting on the steps of Linglong Residence waiting for him. As soon as Xuanzong appeared, Yu Jieyu trotted up to meet him with the rabbit in his arms.
"Has the fish been waiting for me for a long time?"
Xuanzong wanted to talk to Li Sixu about planting artemisia in the cold palace.
He asked Yu Jieyu gently: "What is my little ten doing?"
"Reading medical books!"
Yu Jieyu smiled coquettishly: "Sisi is so amazing."
"Yes, my Xiao Shi is the most powerful."
Xuanzong looked dotingly and talked about Li Sixu serving Yao Chong. Li Sixu came out when he heard the noise. Xuanzong asked Yu Jieyu to feed the deer aside and looked at Li Sixu with relief.
"Today I heard Yao Aiqing talk about the affairs of Wangji Temple. Only then did my father know that you personally served Master Yao."
"This is what Sisi should do!"
Sitting down on the stone bench in the garden with Xuanzong, Li Sixu said obediently: "As a doctor, Sisi must try his best to treat even ordinary patients. What's more, Lord Yao is a wise minister of his father. Only when you are cured can you relieve your father's worries."
She said with admiration: "Master Yao devoted himself to the people of the Tang Dynasty. Sisi went out of the palace to go to Wangji Temple during these days, which touched her deeply. She benefited a lot from his teachings."
Xuanzong looked at her with complicated eyes for a moment, feeling that among so many children, Xiao Shi was the most like him.
At a young age, he is calm and knowledgeable, and has the magnanimity and magnanimity of a superior person.
For a moment, he felt that if she were not a girl, it would actually be great.
He stretched out his hand and rubbed her little cleavage: "How hard it is that you have such a character!"
"Father, I heard that you are going to plant artemisia annua in Leng Palace."
Xuanzong put his hand on her thin shoulder and said with loving eyes: "Would you like to tell my father why you chose a place like Leng Palace to plant artemisia annua?"
Li Sixu raised her little head, looking like she was hesitant to speak.
After a while, she sighed and said, "If I tell the truth, will my father really not blame me?"
"Actually, it's because of Xu Cairen!"
Li Sixu's answer surprised Xuanzong.
After all, Xu Cairen was thrown into the cold palace because he bumped into Yu'er.
Xu Cairen was someone who had bullied Xiao Shi and Yu'er.
As if to answer what Xuanzong was thinking, Li Sixu truthfully explained the next moment: "The palace maid next to Xu Cairen wanted to lure the son to the cold palace, so the son asked Yunying to sneak into the cold palace quietly to see what their master and servant were going to do. Tricks.”
"Yunying went to the Leng Palace, and then I realized how miserable the women in the Leng Palace were. The stewards and nuns could humiliate them at will, and all they ate were the leftovers."
"My son thought that instead of letting them be imprisoned in the cold palace and being punished, waiting miserably for death, it would be better to let them grow artemisia and work in the fields to atone for their sins."
The more Li Sixu continued to speak, the brighter her eyes became.
"Once a person starts working, he will have hope of survival."
"The artemisia they are allowed to grow is used to develop anti-malarial drugs. Their work can benefit the people and relieve the suffering of patients. This is punishment and atonement through labor reform, but this punishment creates value."
"Sisi knew that the Queen was the most virtuous and virtuous, and would pity them and give them a way out, so she took advantage of the master's consultation with the Queen and pestered her."
Li Sixu felt a little frustrated at the end: "Father, is Sisi going too far by doing this?"
Xuanzong was very touched!
I feel that Yao Chong is right. He is ten years younger, but he already has the ambition and courage of a princess of the Tang Dynasty.
She wanted to plant artemisia in Leng Palace. It seemed a bit ridiculous, but could she have such an idea?
The queen promised Li Sixu to go to the cold palace to plant artemisia annua. At first, Xuanzong thought the queen was acting recklessly and was dissatisfied with her for indulging Li Sixu.
After listening to his little princess's words, Xuanzong knew that the queen understood justice and had compassion for the sinners in the cold palace, so he agreed to Xiao Shi's request.
After Li Sixu's reminder, the emperor remembered the kindness of the queen, who had been working hard to relieve his worries from the time when she was in the feudal palace.
After he ascended the throne, the queen managed the harem in an orderly manner, allowing him to manage political affairs in the former dynasty with peace of mind.
The queen sometimes sticks to the rules and doesn't know how to adapt, but it is precisely because the queen, as the mother of the world, sets an example that the harem can be stable.
Xuanzong was originally a little displeased with the queen when Jin Wu Jieyu became his concubine. After learning from Li Sixu that the queen agreed to let her plant artemisia in the cold palace, the estrangement in Xuanzong's heart was temporarily eliminated.
"Father, I think your idea of reform through labor is a good one."
His Xiao Shi could already share the worries of his father, the emperor and his mother, and Xuanzong was very pleased.
Li Sixu raised her little head happily: "Then the father promised his son to plant artemisia annua in the cold palace?"
"I agreed!"
Xuanzong doted on him and said, "Father will ask Yang Sixu to choose a suitable person to serve as Xiao Shi's steward in the cold palace. In the future, he will not let the guilty women imprisoned in the cold palace eat leftovers and wait to die."
"Father is truly the wisest and wisest monarch in the Tang Dynasty!"
Li Sixu smiled sweetly and pulled his sleeves coquettishly: "My son, I have one more thing to ask my father."
