Pei Gonggui

Neichao dissipated amidst the gloom in the hall.Jiang Zhan had no intention of dealing with the officials anymore, so he postponed the afternoon political affairs under the pretext of being ill.

After leaving the Zhongqing Hall, he intended to go back to the palace to rest, but was invited by the Queen Mother to have lunch. During the banquet, with rice bowls and chopsticks in hand, he listened to the Queen Mother talking about her upcoming [-]th birthday. When it comes to local tributes, whether it's the cost or the utensils, the Empress Dowager's every word is covered with gold and silver. She seems to be completely unaware that the situation outside the palace is already tense and can't last all day. The more sinking, without saying a word.

Finally, when the Empress Dowager asked him to embrace the dragon heir with the imperial concubine quickly, he suddenly raised his hand and smashed the white glazed round bowl in his hand to the ground.

There was a loud piercing sound, which made the Empress Dowager touch her chest and scream inwardly, she was so frightened that she couldn't speak.

Seeing that she had finally shut up, Jiang Zhan raised his eyebrows and let out a sour breath, then stood up and went back to Chongning Hall without saying a word.

The summer in the palace is growing, green branches and pink flowers climb up the walls along the way, and the warm wind blows a sweet smell.

Supported by Hu Li, Jiang Zhan walked towards the rockery pond in the Royal Garden. For a while, he saw flowers falling into the pond and being picked up by birds, and for a while, he saw a thin cat jumping from the eaves. He couldn't help but look back at the palaces he saw along the way. The pavilion suddenly felt a sense of strangeness that was not unfamiliar to the palace that had never been far away from childhood.

He frowned and walked back to the Chongning Hall. When he walked towards the side hall, he saw a tall figure vaguely revealed between the gauze curtains flying in the main hall. He was leaning over the desk and copying a book.

He stepped into the hall involuntarily, and stared at the man through the draped veils in the hall. He was dazed for a moment, and his thoughts seemed to return to a very similar summer afternoon a few years ago, thinking of a certain When a very similar person came, when he looked back again, he saw that the person in the palace had already walked up to him and knelt down to salute him: "I don't know if the emperor returns to the palace, I will be far away to welcome you."

Jiang Zhan stared at him for a while before he came back to his senses: "Oh... Cai Lan, it's you."

Cai Lan kowtowed and said with a smile: "Yes, Your Majesty. The Empress Dowager's birthday is approaching. The Emperor told me about dinner yesterday that I asked my minister to stay here and copy a Buddhist scripture for the Empress Dowager. I dare not disobey this order."

When Jiang Zhan heard the words, he couldn't think of what he said for a while, but after a while he realized that it was a slip of the tongue after drinking last night, he couldn't help feeling a little headache, and said: "It's all nonsense from drinking too much, don't take it to heart, It's better to go back to the Council of the Imperial Academy as soon as possible."

After he finished speaking, he turned and wanted to leave, but Cai Lan stepped forward to block his way, leaned closer to him and said: "Then what the emperor said on the bed last night, is it also nonsense after drinking?"

Jiang Zhan was forced to take half a step back, looked up at him, and felt his ears burn.Seeing that he was shy and silent, Cai Lan didn't intend to force him, but gently took Jiang Zhanyubai's hand and said: "The emperor is not a joke, and a humble minister is a matter of loyalty to the emperor. At present, half a volume of Buddhist scriptures has been copied, the emperor may as well Let's see how the copy goes?" As he spoke, he led Jiang Zhan into the hall.

Bewitched by his words, Jiang Zhanhuang couldn't help but followed him two steps, pushed his arm away suddenly and said: "No, no... I still want to go to the Liuying Palace to see the emperor's nephew, but I just came back to change clothes " After saying that, he hurriedly walked out of this side hall without further delay, his steps seemed to be fleeing, he hurriedly and brokenly stepped into the Chongning Hall, panted several times, then closed his eyes and frowned to calm himself down, and changed his mind. Putting on the court clothes, he asked Hu Li to lead the way to Liuying Palace.

Before entering the Liuying Palace, Jiang Zhan raised his eyebrows when he saw a palace of maids and eunuchs rummaging around for things.He raised his hand to stop the eunuch at the palace gate from shouting, stood outside the hall and watched for a while, then went in and asked directly: "What are you looking for?"

The servants of the first palace were frightened immediately, and hurriedly knelt on the ground: "Returning to the emperor, your highness lost a jade bell a few days ago, and I don't know where it is. Wait and find it quickly."

Just as he was talking, Jiang Xuan heard that the emperor's uncle had arrived in the inner hall, so he ran over and knelt down in front of Jiang Zhan, picked up his robe in a dignified manner, and knelt down: "My nephew pays respects to the emperor's uncle."

"Hey, Your Highness, how many times have I been taught, why do you still call the emperor the emperor's uncle?" Hu Li stepped forward and corrected him with a frown, "You should call him 'Father Emperor'."

Jiang Xuan's palm-sized face showed a perplexed look, his eyes looked at Jiang Zhan's young and handsome face, his two short eyebrows frowned, and he said in a discordant voice: "Father."

Jiang Zhan didn't care too much about what he called himself. He just sat down on the precious chair in the hall and called Jiang Xuan to his side: "They said you lost a jade bell, so you can't eat or sleep?"

Jiang Xuan nodded quickly when he heard the words, stood beside Jiang Zhan's chair, twisted Jiang Zhan's arm, the corners of his mouth twitched, and said aggrievedly: "The great-grandson of Empress Dowager He came the day before yesterday. Look at the jade bell on my waist. Noisy!" I wanted to see it, so I took it off and played with him. After a while, he said he lost it, but he didn’t know where it was, and no one could find it.”

Jiang Zhan heard this remark in Jiang Zhan's ears, and he could have guessed that it must be Concubine He's great-grandson who hid Jiang Xuan's bell but refused to recognize it. This child Xuan is kind-hearted, and he couldn't think of the reason, which made everyone in Yigong busy for nothing.

Thinking of this, Jiang Zhan seems to have found a way to relieve his emotions suppressed by the government for the past few days. Looking at the aggrieved child in front of him, he couldn't help but think of some interesting things when he was young, and a faint smile gradually floated on the corners of his lips. : "Is there any jade bell in the palace? You just tell me what it is, and I will order someone to carve a better one for you immediately."

Unexpectedly, Jiang Xuan shook his head honestly when he heard the words: "No, Uncle Huang, that jade bell was given to me by Uncle Qi to keep me safe, and no other bell can replace it. Uncle Huang, please find it for me! Please! Please!"

When Jiang Zhan heard the word "Seventh Uncle", the depression that had just been suppressed in his heart suddenly rolled up like a wild wave: "What, this bell was given to you by King Jin?"

Seeing his sudden change of color, Jiang Xuan was startled: "Yes... it was given by Uncle Qi."

Jiang Zhan pushed him away in anger, slapped the handle of the chair and stood up, scolding His Highness, "Listen everyone! Whoever helps him find that jade bell again, don't want his head! This If anyone in the palace dares to talk about this jade bell again, don't even want to talk about it!"

The servants of the palace were in a hurry to receive the order, and tremblingly kowtowed to the ground.Jiang Xuan on the side didn't know, so he was pushed to the ground by him. He was terrified, but he didn't dare to speak, and couldn't help crying with red eyes.

Seeing the child's birth, Hu Li felt distressed, and quickly stepped forward to help Jiang Xuan, wiping his tears while admonishing him in a low voice.But at this time, he wiped Jiang Xuan's face, but suddenly found a red rash on Jiang Xuan's ear, and followed the rash to remove Jiang Xuan's collar, and he saw that Jiang Xuan's neck had also grown A patchy red rash stretched all the way down his back.

Hu Li's heart felt cold, and he suddenly remembered the affairs reported to him by the eunuchs in the palace in the past few days. Your Highness has a red rash! Looking at the symptoms, I'm afraid it's smallpox!"

"What?" Jiang Zhan was shocked, and immediately took a step back to look at Jiang Xuan who was in Hu Li's arms. Sure enough, Jiang Xuan's ears and neck were red, and he became angry, "How can there be smallpox in the palace?"

Hu Li hurriedly sent someone to invite the imperial physician, and hurriedly answered Jiang Zhan: "Yesterday, Concubine He sent away a sick maid from the palace, saying that there was something unclean on her body. The Ministry of Internal Affairs kicked the maid out of the palace. The old eunuch in charge saw that he had smallpox, so he hurriedly sent him out of the palace. Looking at it now, the smallpox probably appeared a few days earlier, and was brought to the little highness by the great-grandson, who also infected the little highness. up!"

"Then hurry up and take Jiang Xuan away!" Jiang Zhan took a few steps back when he heard the words. The experience of suffering from illness for many years made him immediately pick up his sleeves and cover his nose and mouth, "Hu Li, I will not allow you to approach him again!" Then he casually ordered a little eunuch to pick up Jiang Xuan, and hurriedly ordered: "You, and you, send him away immediately, and the news of his illness must not be private inside or outside the palace. Pass it on, and offenders will be beheaded!"

The eunuchs were too busy responding.Hu Li didn't dare to disobey, so he quickly let go of Jiang Xuan and asked, "Then where are you sending your highness, Your Majesty?"

Jiang Zhan looked at Jiang Xuan with complicated eyes, frowned and said, "Send it to Fenglinzhai."

Hu Li was taken aback by these three words, and he heard Jiang Zhan say: "Hurry up!" He came back to his senses, and hurriedly called all the eunuchs to bring blankets to wrap Jiang Xuan, and the group hurried out of Liuying Hall.

Along the way, Jiang Xuan was extremely uneasy under the careful and fearful embrace of the little eunuch, and raised his face to ask Hu Li beside him what smallpox was, but he saw Hu Li hurrying along with a worried expression on his face, and did not answer.

The little eunuch holding Jiang Xuan was about to cry at this time, while holding Jiang Xuan and trotting, he asked Hu Li with a bitter face, "Master, will this, this smallpox kill me?"

Hu Li was annoyed when he heard this, and he couldn't help but angrily reprimanded: "If you die, you must die stupidly. What kind of shit is Lai Tianhua?" In his eyes, he saw himself shaking under the palace wall at this moment.

The next moment, he gritted his teeth and thought, stopped and ordered the eunuch behind him: "Go, prepare a car for me. I'm going to Zhongyihou's Mansion."