Fast Travel: The Hundred-Life Couple

Dongxu still looked a little childish. He walked into the throne room with steady steps and bowed his head to the emperor.

"Raise your head!" the emperor said lightly.

Dongxu lowered his eyes slightly and raised his head. When the emperor saw that face, his heart was filled with shock. The young man below was 80% similar to him when he was young.

The words of the immortal master in his dream flashed through his mind for a moment, and he felt as if struck by lightning. After a long pause, he asked with trembling lips, "How old are you?"

Dongxu said, "Your Majesty, I am approximately fifteen years old this year. I was found by a villager in my cradle, so I don't know my exact birth date. I can only give an approximate age."

"Fifteen..." The emperor pondered the number. Although he was still agitated, he forced himself to change the subject. "How could you, at such a young age, have developed a preventive formula for smallpox?"

Did he steal someone else's research results?

Before today, many people had this question, wondering whether General Dingguo used his power to coerce others and forcibly snatch the achievements of others for this young man.

But Dongxu said calmly, "In reply to the emperor, although I am young, I have been traveling with my master and my senior sister since I was four years old. During our travels, we discovered a strange phenomenon: all those who have had cowpox have never had smallpox in their lives."

"I stumbled upon this phenomenon by accident, and then I visited many butchers and some elderly people who had been raising cattle for generations. I learned from them that their ancestors, generation after generation, had basically all had cowpox but never smallpox."

"So, I made some guesses about this fact, then carefully verified it, and finally came to a definite conclusion.

All of this is due to the Emperor's wisdom, who freed tens of thousands of people from the fear of smallpox. His achievements are of great benefit to the present generation and will benefit future generations. The Emperor is a wise ruler, and the Tang and Song dynasties are only slightly inferior in brilliance."

"Hahaha... stand up and talk!" The emperor was flattered by Dongxu's praise and couldn't help laughing out loud.

I thought to myself that if he was really my son, he would be much better than that waste Li Chengjian.

But this matter requires caution and needs to be thoroughly investigated. If this man is not my son, if he is really outstanding, I may recognize him.

After all, the people come first. As long as the child changes his surname to Li in the future, does it really matter whose bloodline becomes the emperor?

The emperor pondered.

After asking a few more questions, a clever eunuch reminded the emperor that it was time to meditate. The emperor immediately interrupted his conversation with Dongxu and ran to meditate without stopping. He was so pious.

Those who went to Taoyuan Village to investigate came back very quickly.

The result of their investigation was that Dongxu appeared out of thin air and no one knew where he came from.

After hearing the report, the emperor was silent for a long time, and secretly asked someone to go to a small compartment in the imperial mausoleum to open a small coffin to see if there was a small skeleton inside.

The results of the investigation showed that the small coffin was empty.

The people who were investigating had mortal eyes, and what they didn't see was that the coffin actually contained a soul that had brought disaster upon itself, and had been sealed in this small world for generations, with no chance of reincarnation.

The Emperor remained silent for a long time after hearing this, completely baffled. Finally, he heaved a sigh of relief and said to the heavens, "Never mind. He was a man of great fortune, and his fate wasn't meant to end. I guess someone was unwilling to do something so sinister as this, so they pretended to obey and secretly rescued the child."

"Back then, I was so obsessed with Concubine Chen that I actually listened to the Imperial Master and tried to change Li Chengjian's fate in order to make him better.

As soon as the child was born, I ordered his body to be nailed to death in the coffin, in order to transfer all the luck and fortune of the prince to Li Chengjian.

I was truly wrong, but thankfully the child escaped and prevented me from making a serious mistake that would have blocked my path to ascension."

After some self-reconciliation, the emperor summoned Dongxu into the palace again and announced his life story to him.

Seeing Dongxu's calm and composed expression, he felt relieved again, and had a feeling of "this is my son".

Unlike Li Chengjian, it makes me feel bad just thinking about him.

After discussing with Dongxu, the emperor announced to the world that his third prince Li Dongxu was born weak. The imperial teacher said that if the third prince wanted to grow up healthily, he must be accompanied by people with profound Buddhist knowledge for many years and be more exposed to Buddhist nature.

So the emperor gave the third prince to Master Miaokong to raise until today.

As soon as the imperial edict came out, the whole world was in an uproar, all the officials were in an uproar, and Gu Honglian was in an uproar... Oh, Gu Honglian was stunned.

She had just gotten in touch with Li Chengjian, and just like in his previous life, Li Chengjian fell in love with her at first sight and became extremely infatuated with her. She confirmed this fact and felt very proud.

She thought that when Li Chengjian ascended the throne and she became the queen, she would persuade Li Chengjian to adopt the sons of her brothers. Then, the world would belong to her Gu family bloodline.

Who knew, she had arranged the world so well, but something unexpected would happen!

Where on earth did this damn Third Prince come from?

Gu Honglian's temper has become very violent since her rebirth, and now she's even more furious, with nowhere to vent her emotions! She's suffocating herself to death!

The royal banquet to recognize Dongxu was very lively.

Most of the court officials brought their families, especially their beautiful daughters, hoping to marry Dongxu.

If I'm lucky enough to succeed, I can at least be a concubine in the future!

Of course, there were also many young masters who took a different approach and set their sights on Ye Xiaoli. After all, Ye Xiaoli was the "senior sister" of the Third Prince. They had been together day and night for more than ten years, and their relationship was very deep.

If the third prince successfully ascends the throne in the future, Ye Xiaoli will have the honor of being the eldest princess.

The third prince cannot be plotted casually, as he is the emperor's only son. If they accidentally anger the emperor, all nine clans will be wiped out. They dare not take that risk.

But Ye Xiaoli is different. The emperor will not punish the court officials for her.

When the time comes, I will marry her and have a few children with her. I don’t have to worry that she won’t be loyal to her husband’s family.

Some people's imaginations were very beautiful, but Ye Xiaoli was still lucky. Not a drop of the wine that was "accidentally" spilled fell on her clothes.

There's no need to change clothes.

But Ye Xiaoli never expected that her clothes were not wet, but Dongxu's clothes were wet. Just because others don't dare to do something doesn't mean the heroine doesn't dare to do it!

"Anyway, Li Chengjian loves me. In my last life, I married someone else, and he never remarried. He didn't even have a concubine. I'm still going to marry someone else in this life, and I believe Li Chengjian won't mind."

Gu Honglian thought so as she held a glass of wine and poured it on Dongxu.

"No matter what outrageous things I do, Li Chengjian will cover for me. Even if I anger the emperor, Li Chengjian will protect me at all costs!"

So, Dongxu lost his luck and went to the locker room, where he got infected.

"Xiaoli~" He pulled Ye Xiaoli away with red eyes and went to an empty room. He felt very uncomfortable all over. "Xiaoli, help me!"

Ye Xiaoli looked at Dongxu, whom she had loved since childhood, and felt torn and at a loss as to what to do.

She has always treated Dongxu as her younger brother, so how could she help him with something like this?

"Xiaoli, wu~ I feel uncomfortable, Xiaoli save me~" Dongxu hugged Ye Xiaoli tightly and kept begging in her ear. Even though he was in great pain, he was very honest and did not move rashly.

Seeing tears coming out of his eyes and him showing his most vulnerable posture to her without reservation, Ye Xiaoli finally couldn't help it and closed her eyes.

"I've always been lucky, maybe he'll be quick." Ye Xiaoli thought secretly.

Finally, after a quarter of an hour, Ye Xiaoli was finally freed.