Chapter 128: Si is a human being
"...Why are you going to leave that jade seal to the Sixth Prince?"
Although Meng Qi discovered the jade seal, he did not take it away. He reloaded the jade seal and put it back into the tree hole.
First, Meng Qi doesn't take this treasure with extraordinary value seriously. Second, the jade seal is not easy to hold in his arms. It will bulge out wherever he stuffs it. You can't fall or knock it.
Besides, being an emperor is not a jade seal. Even holding the jade seal cannot determine the ownership of the throne. What should I do if I take it?
Still a burden!
"After the fall of the Chu Dynasty, the whereabouts of the jade seal are unknown. Have you found it?"
"Ahem."
The prince nodded, looking sad.
Palace maid Yulan sobbed in a low voice. Although she didn't speak, she had despair in her eyes that could not be dissolved.
"It's not that I'm greedy for life and fear of death, but that when I die, there will be problems inside and outside the court." The prince gasped for a few times, then smiled bitterly, "The court officials in the outer court only need to think about who the next master of the East Palace is, pick among the princes, find a prince who they think is the best to speak and make their lives better. The national teacher has also served as an official position. It should be clear about the calculations in the hearts of these civil officials. The Third Emperor's brother is the most suitable candidate in their minds. But it doesn't work, the Third Emperor's brother's temperament is simply...can't..."
Seeing that his face turned pale, Mo Li sent another internal force over.
"Be calm and don't be excited. You know how to take care of yourself," he said.
“The doctor said yes.”
The prince slowly lay back on the bed, Yulan wiped her tears and went out to take the medicine.
Mo Li called her and whispered: "Give the prescription together, I'll take a look."
Yulan raised her eyes and responded after receiving the prince's permission.
The medicine was prepared long ago and placed on the stove in the outer hall. The medicine was collected by General Manager Chen. Yu Lan unboxed the key and opened the box to get it.
Mo Li smelled the medicine and stopped him, "Wait first, are there any other herbs in the East Palace? Take me to see it."
"There is something wrong with the medicine?" Yulan was shocked.
The prince did not respond and was not panicked.
"Do you trust the imperial physician?" Meng Qi asked meaningfully.
"I believe in them, their brains."
The prince laughed self-deprecatingly, "The queen of my father. In the palace, several low-ranking concubines die every year. In addition, my princess, my brothers, and the doctors know too much. The ending of it is death. Those living doctors know better than court officials. Who can survive as emperors can survive? They don't want me to die. As for the medicine, it was made by my confidant palace maids and eunuchs. They don't even use other people's hands to make water and firewood. I can trust their abilities and loyalty. No matter where they are, there will always be someone with other thoughts, and this Eastern Palace is no exception. The lonely confidant knows how to deal with these people and will not give them any loopholes."
The prince waved weakly, and the raccoon on the beam looked at him for a while and slowly came over.
Meng Qi: "..."
The national teacher walked to the other side of the bed without a trace.
When the Taijing dragon vein first transformed, everyone would "bully" because of the chubby gerbils. Although those were natural enemies of gerbils, Master Meng was only afraid of cats, so there was naturally a reason for this.
The gerbils run quickly and can dig holes, and there are rocks as natural barriers. Before they have human form, the Taijing Dragon Vein never leaves the "home". Since they can become humans, go down the mountain, and have the power to defend themselves, the Taijing Dragon Vein has become bolder and wandering around, which leads to the increase in the dangers they encounter.
Many years later, Meng Qi, who became the national teacher of the Chu Dynasty, learned a lot of martial arts and drove away the alchemist who cheated. It can be said that he was fearless and thought he could walk sideways in Taijing.
Then, I met the cat.
During the prosperous Chu Dynasty, every household in the capital had surplus of money and food, and had no worries about food and clothing, and then a rat attack broke out.
Originally, there were only a few families who raised cats, but the rats were rampant, biting furniture, clothing, stealing food, lamps, oil, and even stealing children from the candy they kept in their pockets. The people of Taijing could no longer bear it, and either went to the farmlands of the Jingji, or went to other prefectures to hire raccoons to go home to catch mice.
If you catch it well and catch more raccoons, you can eat fresh fish every meal.
Those who are good at catching mice are famous. Every time they give birth to a kitten, the threshold of their owner can be broken.
——No one knows what the fat mouse has encountered. Anyway, the national teacher will no longer easily turn into a gerbil and go out for a walk in the middle of the night.
Meng Qi admired General Song's garden, not only because the garden was well-built, but also because General Song liked birds with bright fur, so there were no cats in the house and no people were allowed to keep cats.
In order to steal Prime Minister Deng's mutton, Meng Qi almost met the black cat from Prime Minister Deng's house several times. Fortunately, the cat was raised too fat by Mrs. Deng and could not run fast at all. But unexpectedly, the cat actually recognized the true body of the dragon vein. Every time he saw the national master, he would rush up and scratch it wildly. Who is Prime Minister Deng? Zhiwei saw it and immediately became suspicious of Meng Qi. Although he did not catch the current situation, he still identified the prisoner who stole the mutton.
The bad-tempered nurse Deng raised a short-protective cat with a small eye.
In order to follow him, he squatted on the wall of the National Teachers' Mansion every day, and suddenly appeared like a ghost. If the real ambush master, the gerbil, was suppressed, would probably faint directly. The most terrible thing is that this cat holds revenge and fails repeatedly, and he will fight again and again. Within half a year, he is completely thin like a cat. This is even more troublesome, and his combat power is doubled.
——For a long time, every time Meng Qi heard a cat's meow, he subconsciously looked for the black shadow around him.
The roosters have a very strange personality. Sometimes they don’t catch them when they see gerbils running past them. Some are obviously sleeping on the walls, but suddenly they turn over and head straight for the fat rats. Their claws are so fast that they can see the afterimages. They are as good as the hands of Qianye Tathagata in Hengchang Temple and the white boneless claws of the evil sect.
Even the masters of the third-rate martial arts world can’t learn it.
Meng Qi looked at the cat's pedal parked in front of the bed and shook his tail, but he couldn't go up.
"Ahu refused to get close to me a month ago, so I knew that I had not had much time. Some people said that the black cat Tongxuan. Although Ahu was not a black cat, it might also see some things that ordinary people could not see."
The prince reached out to touch the raccoon's head, and the latter immediately avoided it.
Meng Qi couldn't hear others saying good things about Li Nu, so he couldn't help but speak, "This has nothing to do with Li Nu. The creatures in the mountains will stay away from their companions who are about to die of illness. This is their instinct. If they are seriously injured or hungry, they do not have this taboo."
"Have you seen the national teacher?"
"There is a pack of wolves deep in Shangyun Mountain. A wolf suddenly became seriously ill. The next day, he couldn't even stand up. The pack looked at it from a distance, and waited for a day and a night until the sick wolf died, and then he left wailingly."
Upon hearing this, the prince couldn't help but sigh: "Ahu is a cat, no one cares about its whereabouts. When I die, it will be able to leave these numerous palaces and courtyards, and the sky is high and the earth is far away. But what can a person do? It is not as good as a small raccoon cat."
At this time Mo Li came back, and he took the prescription and said, "The prescription you originally used can replenish blood and nourish qi, and it is also very symptomatic to treat diseases, but you..."
My health is too bad to make up for it.
Mo Li paused and changed his mouth and said, "I will reduce the amount of medicine, add another auxiliary medicine, and decoct three times a day. As long as you don't get angry and don't move, you can at least extend your life for another half a month."
"Thank you, doctor, for this, I can wait for the Sixth Emperor to come back."
The prince did not look happy. Obviously, living for a few more days would not resolve the endless sorrow in his heart.
"Actually, the Sixth Emperor brothers do not have this ability. There are no wise ministers in the court. The noble and virtuous people are either killed by my father or refused to be an official... The three kings of the previous dynasty in the south do not want to make progress and indulge in pleasure. There is also the Heavenly King in the west to plan a rebellion... Cough cough, the world is in chaos, there is no way to do anything."
This is always the case in the world. People who shouldn't die will die. People who live only know how to make bad things will live for a long time.
Meng Qi was distracted, and he thought of Li Yuanze's eldest son, Prince Zhaohua of the Chu Dynasty in a trance.
Prince Zhaohua died young, which was a great blow to the inside and outside of the Chu Dynasty. Li Yuanze stood in front of his son's coffin, as if he was over 10 years old. Although Emperor Yuan of Chu had other sons and there were many talented people, those sons were not as good as Prince Zhaohua.
Emperor Yuan of Chu changed his temperament and slaughtered meritorious officials, which began with this.
The prince who succeeded to the throne could not suppress the meritorious deeds of the court. The old emperor felt suspiciously that when he died, powerful officials like Jingyuan Hou would plot against the throne.
Although Meng Qi had never been an official in the Qi Dynasty for one day, looking at the prince of Qi Dynasty, he understood the deepest thoughts in the hearts of the palace maids and eunuchs in the Qi Dynasty court, from princes and concubines to imperial physicians.
——Why is it not the emperor who is sick, if it is the prince?
The prince was originally the hope in these people's hearts. Even if he wanted to kill the lord, he could still plan rationally, or endure it because he was timid and incompetent, and just endured it because the emperor was not young and there would always be a day when he was in poor health.
The old and sick emperor is like a toothless tiger. His orders are no longer good, and the imperial guards will not continue to be loyal. They were originally willing to be a lackey to bully the palace maids at will, and even the eunuch who was lowly concubines would change their faces to welcome the prince.
The owner of this imperial city will change hands invisibly.
Everything will happen before the emperor dies.
As long as the emperor is old and as long as those villains feel that it is unprofitable, the opportunity comes!
"Lu Zhang probably didn't know that his prince was about to die. Not only did he not stimulate other sons to please him and fight for the position of the next prince, but he made them completely lose their minds and want to kill the regicide."
Meng Qi held his arm and took the initiative to block the cat for the doctor.
However, the raccoon ignored him and jumped to the table beside Mo Li, stretched out his claws to take off his bag.
The moli avoided it, and the cat chased after it again.
Just chased and gave in, and unknowingly arrived at the bedside.
Mo Li: "…"
I always feel like I was chased by a cat.
Yulan looked at the cat, then looked at Mo Li, and whispered: "Your Highness's cat seems to want the doctor to treat your highness?"
"There are herbs in my bag, maybe I smell it." Mo Li stood in front of the bed helplessly.
"Meow." The raccoon cat urged and cried.
The prince had to say to the cat, "Ahu, the doctor has taken my pulse."
The cat squatted there and kept motionless, staring at him.
Meng Qi came back to his senses first and couldn't help but say annoyed: "I probably saw that I lost my internal strength for its master, and I still hoped to ask for more."
The internal force of the dragon vein is not internal force. It is simply spiritual energy, and it is also the "birth" energy of mountains, rivers and earth veins. Cats have nature and know good or bad.
"Forget it, Ah Hu, this is destiny."
Chapter completed!