Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 342 Xiaoman

The prince's mansion, in the bedroom.

After getting off work, Jin Zidian took a chariot to visit the prince.After not seeing him for just three days, the prince looked haggard and looked seriously ill.

"Senior, what did the doctors say?" Jin Zi nodded and sat on the edge of the bed, looking earnestly at Shizi's face.

"The medical officers in the palace came one after another, but they were all inconclusive. Some said that the prince had malaria, while others said that he was infected with wind and cold. Alas, I don't know who to listen to. I don't have an idea in my mind." The concubine said from the side.

"These quack doctors are supported by the state on weekdays, but they are useless!" Jin Zi pointedly scolded.

The prince smiled bitterly and said: "No wonder the doctors, my illness has been going on for several years, and it can't be cured. I think I may be too tired recently, so the old illness has relapsed, but I know it well. In the past, when I was ill, I would rest for a while. It will get better every day, and it will not be a big problem if I think about it this time.”

"Having said that, how can you have time to rest, my son?" The imperial concubine pursed her lips and complained, looking at Jin Zi and pointing, "Master Zuo Yizheng, please persuade your son, I want him to go to Wenyang Hot Spring Go to recuperate for a few days."

"It's a good idea. Onyang Hot Spring is near Seoul. Since King Sejong, the kings of all dynasties have used that place as a resting place. I heard that it is very effective." Jin Zi nodded.

The prince shook his head and waved his hands: "No, how can I easily leave the royal city at this critical moment? Let's talk about it later, when the Ming Dynasty mission is sent away, and my father's condition improves, then I can rest assured to recuperate."

"You are a hard worker! Maharaja Fenglin can go to the hot spring, why can't you go?" The princess concubine babbled.

"What do women know, step back!" the son said angrily.

The concubine Shizi left unhappy, Jin Zi nodded and said: "The concubine Shizi also cares about you, so don't be angry."

While talking, a servant came to report: "Your Majesty, the king sent a doctor named Li Xinyi, who is waiting in the gatehouse. Do you see me or not?"

"Li Xinyi?" Jin Zidian stood up and said, "I know this person. He is a relative of Zhao Zhaorong's natal family. I heard that he is very skilled in medicine, but I'm afraid that he has evil intentions."

The son said: "Since it was sent by my father, I have to see you. Mr. Zuo Yizheng, I know what you are worried about, but it's okay to let Li Xinyi feel the pulse and let him make a diagnosis."

After a while, Li Xinyi came outside the bedroom and knelt down to pay his respects: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty ordered me to come and treat you. A villain is not talented, and he is trembling like walking on thin ice. If there is any impoliteness, I hope your Majesty forgives me."

The attitude is very respectful and humble, and Zhao Zhaorong is not mentioned at all.

Jin Zidian looked at him suspiciously and vigilantly, and the prince said, "Doctor Li, please come in."

Li Xinyi didn't talk nonsense, she entered the bedroom and came to the bedside, and immediately listened, asked everything, and focused on diagnosis without distraction.He felt the pulse of the son, sat upright and muttered silently.

Jin Zidian urged: "Do you see what happened? Is the son suffering from malaria or a cold?"

Li Xinyi carefully considered his words and said: "It is neither malaria nor infection with wind and cold. It is said that the prince's pulse condition is very peculiar. According to the theory of Four Symbols medicine, the prince has a 'Shaoyang' constitution, with chest tuberculosis, yin deficiency and fever, Symptoms of alternating cold and heat. Moreover, the prince stayed in a foreign land for a long time, served in the army several times, hunted in the wilderness in the east, traveled through Yansai in the west, walked through mountains and rivers, and was prepared for danger. Although he looked calm, he was injured internally..."

"Speak bluntly!" Jin Zidian was impatient.

"According to the villain, the son is overworked and lacks vitality."

This judgment coincided with what the prince was thinking. The prince couldn't help but look at Li Xinyi and smiled: "Doctor Li's diagnosis is completely different from other medical officials, but it makes sense. I dare to ask Dr. Li, can you be cured?" method?"

"Actually, the son's illness doesn't need to be bothered to heal, just rest well."

"I don't have time to rest, so I should ask Dr. Li to prescribe a prescription."

"I created my own acupuncture treatment method. There is no need to prescribe medicine. I can give the prince acupuncture for five consecutive days and it will be effective."

"Really?" Shizi asked eagerly.

"The villain dared to use needles!" Li Xinyi took out a cloth cover and opened it, revealing long and short silver needles.

During the acupuncture process, Jin Zidian stood by and watched.Later, seeing that Li Xinyi's needles were all common acupoints, and the needles were accurate and steady, and her technique was extremely skillful, she felt a little relieved.

After the acupuncture and moxibustion, Li Xinyi left.

After an hour, the son felt refreshed, and said with a smile: "This Li Xinyi is really talented. I will promote him to work in the palace medical center in the future! I'm so hungry, Mr. Zuo Yizheng, come and have dinner with me."

During the meal, Jin Zidian saw that the prince had a good appetite and was very happy, so he no longer had any prejudice against Li Xinyi.

On the third day, the prince was able to enter the palace to pay his respects, and even sat in the duty room for a while, talking with Jin Zidian.

Jin Zidian was sincerely delighted, and thought to himself that if there were no accidents for the eldest son, the court would have the backbone, and the power would still be in the hands of the pro-Qing faction of the Western People's Party.

Unexpectedly, on the fourth day, there was shocking news that the son died in the mansion!

When Jin Zidian heard the news, he was shocked out of his wits.He almost ran all the way to Shizi's mansion, tripped on the threshold and broke his scalp.

"What's going on, what's going on..." Jin Zi didn't care about etiquette, and rushed into the prince's bedroom in a panic.

The crown prince and her family gathered around the bed, weeping bitterly.Jin Zizhi squeezed to the side of the bed, glanced at it, and suddenly became suspicious.

I saw that the prince's body was completely black, with blood coming out from all his orifices, and he died extremely tragically.Judging from various signs, the prince seemed to have died of poisoning.

"Concubine Shizi, tell me what happened? What about Li Xinyi, as the son's doctor in charge, why is there no one around at this time?" Jin Zi asked.

"Ah, Li Xinyi was still in the mansion just now... After he gave the crown prince an injection today, the crown prince's condition took a turn for the worse and he vomited a lot of black blood..." The crown prince broke down in tears.

Jin Zidian roared: "Come on, come on, search for Li Xinyi in the city, don't let him escape!"

Jin Zidian dispatched thousands of soldiers in the name of Zuo Yizheng, strictly ordered to guard the gates of the city, and searched for Li Xinyi intensively in the city.

Then he told the concubine Shizi: "Don't let anyone get close to the body of the son, and don't restrain yourself for the time being. I will report to the king first, and ask for a thorough investigation of this matter."

……

The soldiers went to the streets to search, causing a commotion.There was a panic in Seoul, and many citizens on the street avoided them, and were beaten and reprimanded for no reason.

Just as the city was in chaos, Li Xinyi had already escaped from the city and came to the Han River on the east side of the city.

There was a pavilion by the river, and in the pavilion stood three men, all wearing cloaks to cover their faces.

Li Xinyi looked around to make sure that there was no one else, then raised her legs and walked towards the pavilion, asking, "Where is Lord Linping?"

One of them took off his cloak. He was the housekeeper of Li's residence, and said, "Majesty Linping has something to do, so he can't come to see you. Are you done?"

"Okay, I quenched the poison on the silver needle, and watched the prince vomit blood with my own eyes, and then escaped from the city. The benefits you promised me should be fulfilled, right?"

"I can't miss you!" The butler raised his hand and threw a cloth bag over.

Li Xinyi caught the cloth bag, feeling that it was heavy, opened it and glanced at it, and saw that there were yellow gold leaves inside, so she smiled broadly.

While putting away the cloth bag, he said: "Remember, besides gold, I have to become an internal medicine doctor..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly felt dizzy, and the two attendants beside the butler rushed over, one of them tightly clamped Li Xinyi's arms, and the other grabbed his neck.

"You..." Li Xinyi's eyes widened, the veins on her forehead bulged, and she struggled desperately.

In an instant, he passed out from suffocation.The butler urged: "Don't delay too long, put him in a sack and throw him into the river."

After a while, Li Xinyi woke up, only to find herself in a sack, kicking her legs desperately and howling: "You go back on your word, you will die! I want to see Lord Linping, I want to see Zhao Zhaorong, I want to see His Royal Highness... "

"Go to hell, Lord Yan is waiting for you to see him!" The housekeeper raised his foot and kicked down, hitting Li Xinyi's stomach, causing the sack to roll on the ground.

The three of them worked together to lift the sack, walked to the river and threw it far away.Watching the sack sink into the river, the butler raised his hand and said, "Go, it's not suitable to stay here for long!"

The three walked away without looking back.If they turned their heads, they would definitely see several people quietly descending the river and swimming quickly towards the place where the sack sank.

……

But in Xushi, Jin Zidian came outside Changde Palace, only to see that the gate of the palace was closed.He patted the palace gate and shouted: "The minister Zuo Yizheng Jin ordered himself, if there is an urgent matter, report it to the king!"

"Lord Jin, the time has come, the palace gate is closed, please go back!" The eunuch who was in charge of closing the palace gate shouted standing on the city wall.

"The son is not rich, and he has gone west on a crane, and I have to report the funeral to His Highness in person!" Jin Zi nodded and roared.

When the eunuch listened to these words, his face changed drastically, and he hurriedly turned and ran down the city wall.The son died, but it was a big deal, he didn't dare to delay, he wanted to put gold into the palace by himself.

After getting off the city wall, she saw Zhao Zhaorong approaching on foot, she asked, "Who is yelling outside the palace gate?"

The eunuch said: "Qi Zhaorong, the empress, is Lord Zuo Yizheng Jin Zidian. He said that the prince was not rich and wanted to go to the palace to report his funeral."

"Ah, how could the prince..." Zhao Zhaorong looked shocked and mournful, she said to the eunuch, "the palace rules, after the time of Xu, the palace door must be closed tightly, and no one is allowed to enter or leave without authorization. Besides, His Highness is seriously ill. How about yelling and frightening His Highness? How about this, I will tell His Highness that you don’t have to pay attention to Mr. Zuo Yizheng.”

The eunuch wished that more things would be better than less things, and Zhao Zhaorong was deeply favored by His Highness, so it was more suitable for her to report the funeral than anyone else. The eunuch nodded and bowed: "Then please trouble Madam Zhaorong."

After all, Jin Zidian failed to enter the palace to meet the king. He waited until Haishi, and there was no one in front of the palace gate. People!"

Jin Zidian directed the soldiers to continue searching for Li Xinyi all night, and they were busy until dawn, but found nothing.He was angry and tired, but there was nothing he could do, so he decided to meet the king.

Unexpectedly, when he was about to arrive at the palace, he saw three large sedans being carried in front of the palace gate. Three people walked out of the sedans, namely Fenglin Grand Prince Li Hao, Linping Grand Prince Li, and unemployed scholar Kim Sang-heon. They walked into the palace with their heads held high. .

Jin Zidian has been able to hold a high position for so many years, and he has his own merits. Many thoughts flashed through his mind, and he cried secretly: "It's a bad thing, the situation in the court is about to change drastically, Fenglin Dajun Li Hao has gained power. !"

Thinking of this, Jin shuddered a little. He had different political views with Li Hao, and he was a political enemy with Jin Shangxian. Once Li Hao took power, his leftist political affairs would come to an end, and he might even be killed.

"Turn around the sedan chair, let's go!" Jin Zi nodded.

Returning to his mansion in a panic, Jin Zidian was running around like ants on a hot pot. He had already figured out many key points at this time, and he knew that there was a huge conspiracy hidden in the death of the son, and his life was at stake.

"I can only flee to the Qing Dynasty!" Jin Zidian muttered as he entered the living room, and was about to call his family to discuss important matters, when he raised his eyes and saw a very strange person sitting in the hall.

The man drank his tea without raising his eyelids, and said in Chinese: "Lord Jin, if you want to survive, you'd better come with me."

……

On this day, an imperial decree came out from the palace, canonizing Li Hao as the son, and re-appointing Jin Shangxian as the chief admonisher.

This day happened to be Xiaoman solar term.

Li Hao received the canonization and became the son of the prince, and he said proudly: "Da Sijian, you once said that Xiaoman doesn't plant flowers, and he doesn't return home when he grows flowers, but I not only planted flowers on Xiaoman's day, but also returned home. Hahaha... ..."

The laughter didn't stop, but there was thunder rolling in the sky. When I looked up, there was a sudden gust of wind and a sudden rainstorm.

Jin Sangxian said: "Your Majesty, it's not time to be happy yet. The former Crown Prince and Jin Zidian have many gang members in the court. We have to start eradicating these people."

Li Hao said: "Admonisher, you hold the power of supervision and impeachment, and you have many disciples. Mobilize people to file bullets to impeach and report pro-Qing officials. Make your momentum bigger. Let's cut the grass and root out."

Jin Shangxian took the order to go, Li Hao turned his head and saw Li Dalai staring at the dark clouds in the sky, he patted him on the shoulder and said: "What are you thinking? Don't worry, I will definitely not let you down in this life, we two brothers Work together to enrich the country and strengthen the army, and then seek revenge from the Manchu Tartars!"

Li came back to his senses, and said: "My lord, I feel flustered, and I always feel that something will happen."

"What could have happened?" Li Hao lowered his voice and asked, "Could it be that Li Xinyi ran away?"

"Li Xinyi sank into the Han River, I was worried about Jin Zidian and Zhao Zhaorong."

Li Hao's face was murderous, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Jin Zi pointed out this old man, and he must not let him escape. I have issued a secret order and sent someone to arrest him. Just wait for the impeachment memorial to be issued by the chief minister. Immediately." Dismiss Jin Zidian and take him into custody. As for Zhao Zhaorong, she is a grasshopper on the same rope as us, she dare not talk nonsense, and I will deal with her slowly after I ascend the throne."

"That's the only way to go." Li smiled and said, "The thunder probably scared me just now. My brother knows it. I'm very timid."

"Really? Are you timid?" Li Hao narrowed his eyes.

Li Hao's gaze was fixed on Li Hao, and he knelt down hurriedly and said: "My lord, I will always be your brother and your subject, please protect me, my lord!"

"Get up, let's go see the queen mother." Li Hao smiled.

As the brothers walked down the steps, rain poured down.

Li held the umbrella and walked side by side with Li Hao. After thinking for a while, he took two steps back on purpose. The umbrella was completely raised on Li Hao's head, and he let the wind and rain blow.

(End of this chapter)