And when Peng Liang took the head and stuffed it into the skin, and when they were riding horses and rushing to the imperial city, Youdao, wearing the uniform of a Dali Temple official, also hurriedly mounted his horse and rushed to the mansion of the Minister of Etiquette. .
…
In the palace and royal study.
The old emperor put down his jade pen, leaned back in his chair, and stretched greatly.
He sighed: "I'm old and useless. I used to be able to review memorials all night long, but now that my talent has begun to shine, my energy is a little weak."
Hearing this, Eunuch Su stepped behind him, gently pressed his shoulder, and responded: "Your Majesty is in good health and beautiful, how can he be a bit old? I'm tired. It's because you have been too diligent in recent times. That iron-clad body You can’t bear it, right?”
"It's just your sweet mouth."
The old emperor closed his eyes and enjoyed Eunuch Su's massage, then smiled and scolded him.
The corners of his mouth were slightly raised.
After a few breaths passed, the old emperor said without opening his eyes: "The female officer Shangguan Yue is intelligent, versatile, and knowledgeable. She is very considerate and dedicated in serving me, and she handles official duties with grace and purpose.
Xiao Hongzi, how about I leave it to her to review the memorials that don’t involve major matters in the future? "
After Eunuch Su heard this, the smile on his face did not change at all, and he responded: "Your Majesty, just feel comfortable."
"Speaking of comfort,"
The old emperor sat up as he spoke, looked at the lantern outside the palace and said, "I haven't seen Xue Qing for a few days. Go and send him into the palace."
"yes."
Eunuch Su agreed and bowed before raising his feet.
Neither of them said a word to Shangguan Yue about reviewing the memorials on his behalf.
At this time, a loud report suddenly sounded outside the hall.
"Master Di Yingdi, the Right Prime Minister of Dali Temple, is injured and begging to see Your Majesty!"
The old emperor suddenly stood up.
Eyes widened suddenly.
"Xuan!"
After shouting, he said again and again: "Mr. Xuan! No, Mr. Xuan, hurry up!"
Seeing the young eunuch running away, the old emperor walked around the palace twice and asked Su Hong again: "Xiao Hongzi, why do I have a bad premonition?
Di Huaijie was suddenly injured. Instead of treating himself, he came to me and attacked him. Do you think it was..."
The word "Wu family" was swallowed back in time by the old emperor just as he was about to say it.
Su Hong lowered his head and replied in a low voice: "Your Majesty, there is no need to worry. The fact that Lord Di was injured and he was able to run into the palace means that the injury is not serious. I heard that there are not even a few serious furniture in Lord Di's mansion." ."
At this point, Su Hong shut his mouth.
The old emperor understood: Even if the Wu family did it, Zuo could just pay some compensation to Di Ying.
She took a breath and just stood there waiting, calming down.
Soon, she saw Di Ying staggering over.
Under the candlelight, Di Ying's face was pale, making the blood stains on her arms even more dazzling.
It stung the old emperor and turned his face away. What he was thinking in his heart was: How much gold should accompany this?
But his face was twitchy. With a taunting look on his face, he asked: "You came to see me like this on purpose. Who do you want to bring bad luck to?"
After asking, the old emperor waited to hear his name.
She was prepared to hear the names of those in the Wu family.
Unexpectedly, the response to her was: "Plop!"
She turned around in shock and saw that Di Ying had fallen down and fainted.
The old emperor: "..."
This doesn't mean the injury isn't serious.
She glared at Su Hong and was about to go over. The hospital was running in panting, carrying a medicine box.
He was so old that he was out of breath while running.
This made the old emperor want to blame him for being too slow, but he choked back.
Stopping Yuan Zheng from saluting, the old emperor pointed at the person on the ground and said: "Go, show him. If he pretends to be faint, I'll kick him awake."
I really thought I was a fool. The blood was black, red, dry, wet, and there was so much bleeding. It didn't look like an injury.
He deliberately held on until he came in front of me before he fainted, huh! "
The old emperor said, curling his lips and looking at the sky.
The hospital would not dare to accept this.
He nodded in agreement and asked Eunuch Su to help him turn Di Ying's body upright.
After taking the pulse and observing the wound, the hospital director finally regained his breath and replied.
"Your Majesty, based on Wei Chen's experience, the diagnosis is that Master Di should have been injured in the afternoon. Because the arrow was not removed, the amount of bleeding was not very large.
However, it seems that he had ridden a horse and run after being injured, which caused the blood to flow faster..."
"Stop talking nonsense. Who has the patience to listen to you talking about medical science? You just ask whether he can still live?"
The old emperor interrupted the dean's words.
Yuan Zheng glanced sideways at the old emperor, nodded and said, "I can survive."
I heard the old emperor snort softly.
The court official asked: "Your Majesty, although Mr. Di's life can be saved, if the arrow is not pulled out, it may cause the wound to fester, which will be dangerous. Look at this, it is already red and swollen, I don't know..."
"Pull it out right here! Pull it out now!"
The old emperor knew what Yuan Zheng wanted to ask and gave the order directly.
Yuan Zheng sniffed, looked at the cold and hard ground, then looked at his old legs, sighed, and knelt down to sit down and start pulling out the arrow.
Suddenly I heard a shrill howl outside the palace: "Your Majesty!!"
The birds, which had been howling so hard that they had fallen asleep, fluttered and flew into the air.
The old emperor was so shocked that he trembled.
Yuan Zheng was so frightened that he sat down on the ground.
The old emperor wanted to get angry.
How many times have you said this? How many times have you been given strict orders? This is the imperial city, her palace, what are you yelling about? !
But when he saw Wu Qiongsi running in with howling, stumbling and almost crawling, the old emperor pursed his lips.
He thought to himself: This is one of our own, our own nephew, we cannot scold him in front of outsiders.
"Your Majesty, my second son, Xiangjin, is dead... dead!"
Wu Qiongsi entered the palace crying, almost tripping over the high threshold, so he simply knelt down, crawled in front of the old emperor, hugged the old emperor's legs and shouted.
Old Emperor: "...What did you say? Who died?"
Wu Qiongsi: "This is Xiangjin, I am my second son and your grandnephew, woo woo woo~~"
Old Emperor: "How did he die?"
Wu Qiongsi wiped away his tears and runny nose, stared at his bloodshot eyes, and gritted his teeth and said: "It's Di Ying! It was Di Ying who held a court in Dali Temple privately, and beheaded my son behind all of our backs!"
The old emperor: "..."
She finally knew why Di Ying ran into the palace even though she was injured, and why she fainted as soon as she entered the palace.
The old emperor raised his hands to cover his chest, feeling that he couldn't go up and down, and he couldn't go down. He was very depressed.
It wasn't until Wu Qiongsi shook her legs twice that the old emperor took a deep breath, pointed at Di Ying, and said to Yuan Zheng: "I'll wake him up with a stab!"
