Maybe it was the voices of the officials outside the curtain that woke up the sleeping official. Maybe the medicine he had taken finally took effect, and the official who was losing blood to his brain finally got a chance to breathe.
Anyway...
He groaned and opened his eyes.
Mrs. Anren, the wet nurse who had been waiting at his bedside, immediately nodded happily and said, "The official family is awake!"
As a result, the entire curtain was disturbed.
Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Xiang stood up one after another and came to the imperial court to inquire about the dragon's body.
Zhao Xu also followed Queen Xiang to his father's imperial couch.
As a result, Zhao Xu was able to see his father as he looks now for the first time in his life.
Her face was thin, her cheekbones were high, and her eye sockets were sunken. Those eyes that once could make courtiers tremble with fear with just a glance, have now lost their former luster, and they just look at the Queen Mother and Empress who are surrounding them quietly.
Only when he saw Zhao Xu's appearance did he gain a little brilliance.
"Father!" Zhao Xu didn't have to ask the queen for advice this time.
With a plop, he knelt down in front of his father.
The tears in his eyes burst out in big drops.
"My son, I pray to the gods and Buddhas, and wish my father a speedy recovery!"
…
Zhao Xu opened his eyes and looked at his mother, his queen, appearing beside him.
The queen mother and empress were wearing official uniforms, which made him instantly understand what the situation was like.
"Father!"
"My son, I pray to the gods and Buddhas, and wish my father a speedy recovery!"
In my ears, I heard the cry of a child.
It's Brother Six!
Zhao Xu became excited and tried hard to turn his head so that he could see his son.
The son he worries about the most and misses the most.
But his central nervous system was already semi-paralyzed. He had been bedridden for nearly a month, and his body was extremely weak. He no longer had much strength to control his neck.
He could only make unknown sounds.
"Queen, help the official up..." Empress Dowager Gao cried and told Queen Xiang: "Let the official take a good look at Sixth Brother!"
He stepped forward to the queen and helped her husband up from the bed.
The emperor, who has been bedridden for recent months, has become extremely thin.
Almost like a withered mummy, crying to the queen, she lifted her husband up and let his head rest in her arms.
Zhao Xu leaned on the Empress Xiang's arms, his eyes trying hard to look at the child kneeling in front of the Queen.
his son!
Queen Xiang's hand gently touched his forehead.
"Guan family, Sixth Brother has moved to the palace today!" Queen Xiang told him the matter while crying.
Zhao Xu used all his strength and nodded.
After being the king for nineteen years, he naturally knows what moving the palace means?
The young prince could only move to the imperial palace at the request of the prime minister.
This shows that his ministers have unified their opinions and formed a common force.
"Cai Chizheng will finally live up to my trust!" He thought in his heart.
"Brother Six!" Xiang Queen said, "Come to the imperial court and take a good look at your father!"
Zhao Xu immediately became excited.
He tried to cheer up and kept his eyes open.
He wanted to take a good look at his son again.
His heir!
…
Zhao Xu crawled to his father's side on his knees.
Then he raised his head and looked into his father's eyes that had completely lost their former glory.
For Zhao Xu, this was the first time he met his father after twenty-five years.
It is not the lifeless and cold portrait of the royal family enshrined in Jingling Palace.
Nor are they electronic images on the modern web.
It is my father who is still alive.
It was his father who still remembered him and was still worried about him.
Therefore, Zhao Xu's crying and tears at this moment are real and come from the heart of a pure child.
"Father, my son is here!" Zhao Xu kowtowed heavily with tears in his eyes.
At this moment, countless thoughts were beating in Zhao Xu's mind.
Those memories from previous lives and those seen, heard and known in modern times are intertwined with each other.
"My son is unfilial and cannot serve his father's soup and medicine..." Zhao Xu cried and paused again.
Yes, he is an unfilial son!
In his previous life, his lifespan was too short! Not to mention leaving no son to inherit the inheritance!
There are three kinds of unfilial piety, the greatest is not having an offspring!
Not to mention the house of an emperor?
What's more, the ancestral inheritance is entrusted to non-human beings?
so……
"Father, I will definitely give you many, many grandsons in my life!"
"I must not let my family's inheritance fall into the hands of others!"
Zhao Xu said in his heart.
Yes.
In Zhao Xu's heart, Zhao Ji and Zhao Si are all outsiders. He calls them "emperor's younger brother", but in his heart he never regards them as close brothers, let alone as someone who can be entrusted to the country. The heir!
Therefore, in Zhao Xu's previous life, even though Zhao Xu was his biological brother from the same mother, he was still alienated from him.
Zhao Ji was able to have a close relationship with him only because of his sympathy and the fact that Zhao Ji could not threaten the throne.
In Queen Xiang's arms, she listened to her son's cry and looked at the child's appearance.
A drop of hot tears finally fell from Zhao Xu's eyes.
He managed to look at his mother, with a look of longing in his eyes.
Of course Queen Mother Gao understood what her son wanted to say?
Empress Dowager Gao shed tears and told him in a low voice: "Don't worry, Emperor! My mother has made a decree. From today on, King Yong and King Jia are not allowed to enter the Funing Palace without an edict!"
"Until next month, King Yong and King Jia will move out of the confinement and live in the homes of their loved ones!"
Zhao Xu nodded gratefully to Empress Dowager Gao.
What he worried about most was guaranteed by Empress Dowager Gao.
Queen Xiang was nearby, and his son was also listening in front of him.
He can finally rest assured!
So, he groaned and looked away.
While sleeping, he once heard the voice of his minister.
Therefore, he knew that the ministers were now in Funing Palace.
When Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Xiang met, they both shed tears and said to the left and right: "The officials want to see the ministers. Go and ask the ministers to go into the palace and pay homage to the emperor in front of the emperor!"
Then he ordered the people around to raise the curtain in front of them and the emperor's royal couch.
This is etiquette!
So Empress Xiang gently put down her husband's body, and with Empress Dowager Gao shedding tears, she retreated behind the imperial couch and into the raised curtain.
At this time, the ministers who had received permission had just divided into two teams under the leadership of Liang Weijian and arrived at the imperial court with the licorice.
Just like every day in the past, the ministers came to the imperial court to pay their respects, held fennel in their hands to worship, prostrated themselves, worshiped again, and rose again.
At the end of the service, Wang Gui, the Prime Minister on the left, and Cai Que, the Prime Minister on the right, held the fluorine and said: "I risk my life to beg in front of the emperor to see the Holy Face!"
Zhao Xu nodded on the imperial couch.
The two prime ministers, leading the ministers, came forward with fluorine in their hands and looked at the officials on the imperial couch.
In the past, the officials were always stick to their word, Qian Kun was arbitrary, and even invented the ingenious method of asking the "prime minister to pay a fine" to control the ministers.
Now, lying there, his face was pale, his eye sockets were sunken, and his cheekbones were bulging.
There is no longer any appearance of a human king, no dignity at all.
In the hearts of all the ministers, there are all kinds of mixed feelings.
Especially Cai Que and Zhang Dun couldn't help crying.
Both of them are ministers promoted and appointed by the official family!
Especially Zhang Dun, without the promotion and trust of this official, given his age and qualifications, he could only stand firm in one state even if he died.
How could he open up Meishan Mountain, expand the territory thousands of miles without a single blow, recover the barbarians, and broadcast the achievements of the king in Jinghu Lake?
However, no matter what the ministers think.
What needs to be done must be done.
Han Qi and Wen Yanbo are already there!
What's more, the prince is kneeling in front of the emperor, watching from there!
So, the ministers came forward with fluorine in their hands, bowed and worshiped, and said one after another: "I am waiting for you to die, but I dare to tell your majesty: For three generations, if you want to achieve a thousand-year career, you must have an heir! This is why this Han has touched the world!"
"Your Majesty is ill now and is unable to attend the palace. The ministers are frightened. Please ask Zao Jian to be the crown prince to unite the world!"
Zhao Xu, who was lying on the imperial couch, sighed in his heart as he listened to the progress of the officials.
Although he was very reluctant to give up, he was also very reluctant.
But...he knew it was time!
So he nodded.
Anren, the official wet nurse who had been serving in front of the emperor, bless his wife and immediately said: "The holy will has been granted!"
The ministers then held the fluorine and bowed again: "Your Majesty, Fu Wei, can do great things and bring blessings!"
Then he ordered people to send the provincial notes, which had been written, signed and deposited, to the imperial court for the officials to read.
The ministers again played: "The emperor's sixth son, Prince of Yan'an County, your majesty's eldest son, the queen's legitimate son, has the reputation of the world, and has the behavior of a filial son, studious and polite, handsome and intelligent, the empress dowager has appointed Da Zongzheng as his heir. King Pu respectfully asked for the hexagram of the prince before the ancestors, and they all said: The meaning of the ancestors' spirits also belongs to the emperor's sixth son, the king of Yan'an County!"
"If you are brave, I would like to ask your Majesty to appoint the Emperor's sixth son, the Prince of Yan'an County, as the crown prince until Your Majesty recovers!"
Zhao Xu listened to the words of the ministers, and then took a deep look at the child kneeling in front of him, crying all the time, and then looked at the written provincial notes that were sent to him, and the words on the provincial notes and The monograms of all the ministers are clearly visible.
Although he had doubts in his heart.
When did Sixth Brother become the Queen's legitimate son? This is true in terms of etiquette, but the actual manipulation is not the same thing!
But he ultimately chose to ignore it.
His current situation no longer allowed him to think too much, so he nodded again.
When Mrs. An Ren baoyou saw the officials nodding, she said to the ministers again: "The holy will has been approved!"
The ministers all let out a long breath, held the phoenix in their hands, stood up and bowed, and prostrated and said: "I only pray for His Majesty's blessings and a speedy recovery. The Imperial Palace is in charge of the matter! A capital crime! A capital crime!"
Then the officials stood up.
And their mental state, at this moment, completely changed.
Everyone looked at the prince kneeling in front of the emperor.
A new and strange look burst out in their eyes.
The reserve position has been decided, and it’s time to clarify the justice of the monarch and his ministers!
So, they all faced the empress dowager and empress in the curtain, and then paid homage: "I am so frightened that I kneel down in front of the emperor in the palace to pay homage to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
Empress Dowager Gao, who was in the curtain, nodded and said: "The invitation from the minister is very much in line with my wishes!"
He also said to the Queen: "The ancestral system is indeed like this. Please follow the story of Zhiping and pay your respects to the Crown Prince!"
Zhao Xu, who was kneeling in front of his father, raised his head and looked at his father, the father who gave birth to him, raised him, taught him to love him and protect him, with hot tears in his eyes.
Zhao Xu knew it.
From this moment on, the last trace of the emperor's remaining attributes in his father's life was stripped away.
