faint [rebirth]

After finishing Xiao Wuchen's request, he quietly waited for Prime Minister Zuo's answer.

Prime Minister Zuo secretly groaned in his heart, but the crown prince was waiting for his answer. He thought for a moment, and could only sigh: "The crown prince has been extremely intelligent since he was a child. Even if he is more arrogant than the deposed prince, he is just right. Your Majesty is now bewitched by villains to take pills, and now he is overjoyed, thinking that those pills can really lead to longevity..."

Prime Minister Zuo lowered his voice lower and lower: "Under such circumstances, if the Crown Prince really wants to leave, His Majesty may not stop him. After all, the matter of the frontier is over, and the military merits are not on the Crown Prince. Even if the Crown Prince wants to meet the Huns for a while If Shan Yu negotiated with him, the credit for the negotiation might not fall on the crown prince. Moreover, the road is difficult and dangerous, and if the crown prince is willing to listen to the old minister's advice, he should not go. After all, the crown prince has worked so hard all his life. Hey, credit is hard to get, and you have to risk the whole way...why bother?"

After Xiao Wuchen listened, he knew that Prime Minister Zuo was always honest and thought highly of Antai from Daxing, so naturally he also valued him as the crown prince.

"What the prime minister said, I understand it in my heart." Xiao Wuchen chuckled lightly, and said, "But, I am seventeen years old, besides going to court every day, I find some things to pass the time to do when I have free time. Life in Luoyang City is really boring."

Prime Minister Zuo said nothing.

Xiao Wuchen said: "Although the trip to the border is dangerous and may return without success, it is still much more interesting than lounging alone in Luoyang City. I know that the prime minister is always fair and honest, and I hope the prime minister can make this matter clear." Just mention it in Father's ear, as for the next thing, I will let Father agree."

Prime Minister Zuo was startled, and then realized that the most respectable people in front of His Majesty are not the favorite concubines in the harem, nor the virtuous courtiers, but those Taoist priests who refine the "Longevity Pill" for His Majesty.

Xiao Wuchen was waiting for him here, he just wanted to whisper a word in His Majesty's ear through his prime minister's mouth, so that His Majesty would know.As for the next thing, Xiao Wuchen probably asked those Taoist priests for help, so that His Majesty really let go.

Prime Minister Zuo thought about it, and had to sigh again: "Your Majesty is old and frail, and now he is only deceived by traitors. Fortunately, His Majesty is still clear in his heart, knowing that the Daxing Dynasty is the most important thing for him. Now that the Daxing Dynasty is here Your Majesty's heart is the most important thing, so the Crown Prince of the Daxing Dynasty should also be very important to His Majesty." He bowed slightly, "The lessons learned from the abolition of the prince are still there, and the old minister looks to the prince and waits with peace of mind."

Xiao Wuchen only smiled lightly and said: "Prime Minister is at ease. Father loves Gu's thoughts, and Gu knows it in his heart, and he will never do anything to betray father."

Prime Minister Zuo then stepped back in peace.

Xiao Wuchen then went to Emperor Chengguang's bedroom, had lunch with Emperor Chengguang and ate the elixir, and then he left with a gloomy gaze.

——Xiao Wuchen originally thought that since he could be reborn, he could change all the things he wanted to change.

However, what Xiao Wuchen obviously didn't expect was that he was reborn, he didn't take the poison that Concubine Shen had originally prepared for him, and his body began to heal step by step due to his untie knots in his heart and daily exercise.

This was originally what Xiao Wuchen wanted in his heart.However, what Xiao Wuchen never imagined was that after his body gradually improved, his father listened to the words of the alchemy Taoist sent by Yuan Wang, and began to take the "magic pill" that "prolongs life" in order to seek truth. Can "long live".

Xiao Wuchen never thought that his improved health would make his father believe in those absurd things.He tried to persuade him, but when he tried to persuade him for the first time, his father only reassured him, and when he tried to persuade him again, his father dropped a teacup, which made him kneel under the scorching sun for two hours. Afterwards, the royal father directly promoted the position of concubine Shen, and promised that the eighth prince could return to the palace from time to time.

Xiao Wuchen then knew that he could no longer comment on the matter of pills.

Back in the East Palace, Xiao Wuchen let Ah Ya and the others help him change his clothes, and when he saw the longevity lock in the inner coat, his frowning brows relaxed slightly.

If he was not in good health before, he might still be able to persuade his father.But now...he is 17 years old, and his father is sixty-three, he really can't speak to his father about this matter.

For a moment, Xiao Wuchen didn't know whether he should be grateful for his rebirth, or miss his father who didn't mind his frail body and regarded him as a treasure in his previous life.

He couldn't help but sighed again.

Ah Du was putting on Xiao Wuchen's jade pendant, when he heard this sigh, he turned to look at Ah Yao who was beside him.

Ah Yao laughed and said, "Your Highness, why are you sighing again? You forgot what Doctor Zhang said, you have to relax and think less in order to be healthy. Now your health is finally much better, don't think too much, don't worry about it anymore. It's just like before."

After Ah Yao finished speaking, she hurriedly turned her head and said "Bah bah" a few times, "It's my servant who said something wrong. Your health must be getting better and better."

Only then did Xiao Wuchen smile a little, and said: "Gu should take good care of his body. If not, how will he go to the border to meet the emperor's uncle in a few days? On this journey, his body is weak, but he can't survive it." .”

Ah Yao was slightly taken aback when she heard this, and then said: "But after traveling a long distance, His Highness's body..."

Xiao Wuchen waved his hand: "It's better than staying in the palace and feeling depressed."

Ah Yao immediately stopped talking.

That's right, if in the past, His Majesty was devoted to the prince, then the prince naturally didn't have to work so hard to go to the border.But now, His Majesty trusts those alchemy Taoist priests too much, and even began to trust Concubine Shen Gui who had been neglected by him for a long time.If it weren't for the eighth prince's appearance being completely ruined, it is impossible to say that His Majesty would like the eighth prince even more because of his age.

It's not good for His Majesty to spoil anyone but Concubine Shen Guifei... Ah Yao was discouraged, Concubine Shen Guifei had been treated by His Highness to be honest, but now she turned around again.Even if Concubine Shen's status as a concubine could not do anything to His Highness, His Highness has often been angry because of Concubine Shen in the past six months.

This matter was too boring, Xiao Wuchen thought about it for a while, but he refused to think about it any more. Instead, he walked towards the greenhouse and ordered: "Go to the eighth princess, and take the eighth princess over."

The tall and tall Ah Zhuang scratched his head and said, "Your Highness, at this hour, the princess should be in class."

Xiao Wuchen remained silent and walked forward.

Ah Yao patted Ah Zhuang: "Stupid! Waiting for the women's work class, the eighth princess is a golden branch and jade leaf, where do I need to learn? Your Highness wants us to go down to pick up the eighth princess now, so that the eighth princess will commit crimes sooner and pass by sooner. ?”

Only then did Ah Zhuang suddenly realize that he hurriedly went to the princess courtyard to pick up the eighth princess.

In the princess courtyard, the female teachers who are teaching now heard the crown prince's dictation, so they turned their heads to look at the concubine Shen Gui who was watching the princess, the princess, and a dozen other ladies who were practicing female workers.

Shen Guifei's appearance was damaged more than two years ago, she was only willing to see people when she wore a veil.It was only half a year ago that Shen Guifei did not know where she got the panacea. After taking it, the scars on her face gradually disappeared, and even her face looked younger than before.

Now Concubine Shen is valued by the Holy One again, so naturally in this harem, she wants the wind and the rain.

Simply put some girls in the princess courtyard, let them "accompany" the princesses to study, and even add the female work class that was not included in the princess's curriculum, Shen Guifei did it.

"Niang Niang?" The female master put down her needle and thread, and was about to ask again if she wanted the eighth princess to leave with the prince's servant, when she saw the eighth princess stand up by herself.

"Well, does the prince brother want to see me?" The eighth princess is almost six years old now, she stood up by herself, showed a sweet smile, and knelt in the direction of Concubine Shen, " Concubine, the prince is calling me, I am going to go to the prince's place. I will make up for the homework tomorrow."

There was no intention of asking Shen Guifei if she would let her go.

Concubine Shen Guifei paused, touched her face, there was no trace of anger in her expression, but she waited for the eighth princess to bend her knees to drink a cup of tea and then said: "That's all right. Since the prince is looking for The eighth princess, the eighth princess must not disappoint the prince's love for the princess. The princess can go as much as she likes."

The eighth princess showed another cute smile, turned around and said goodbye to the sixth and seventh princesses, and then left.

The sixth princess and the seventh princess saw that the eighth princess was gone, but they didn't dare to sit down, they just stood helplessly.

Shen Guifei suddenly waved away the case around her.

The sixth and seventh princesses hurriedly bowed their knees, and the rest all knelt down.

There was only a pretty girl in a yellow shirt who knelt down beside Concubine Shen and said with a smile, "Auntie is angry again? Getting angry hurts the liver, it's not worth it. Besides, Yin'er heard that uncle will be with you at night." Let's eat together, if my uncle sees the grievance on your face, won't his heart be very distressed?"

The girl in the yellow shirt is only seven or eight years old, her voice is gentle and soft, her appearance is somewhat similar to Concubine Shen Gui, so she is very amiable.

Shen Guifei's temper was not like this before, but since she was favored by Emperor Chengguang again, her temper became more and more violent.Fortunately, with Emperor Chengguang's new attention, she has a bigger temper now, so there is nothing wrong with it.

"Your uncle is busy with political affairs, how can he see aunt's grievance?" Concubine Shen sighed, seeing her niece's well-behaved appearance, although she liked it in her heart, but thinking of her son's current appearance, her interest faded again, "That's all , you continue to learn from the female workers, I have something to do in the palace, so go back to the palace first."

Seeing this, Huangshan girl bit her lip slightly, unexpectedly Shen Guifei could only let Concubine Shen lead her away alone.

Now that there is no empress in the harem, Emperor Chengguang handed over the entire power of the harem to Concubine Shen, and Concubine Shen is the prince's direct aunt.In the harem, Concubine Shen is naturally the dominant one.

But even so, Shen Guifei couldn't be happy in her heart - how could she be happy?Her only son is now completely disfigured, not to mention Emperor Chengguang, even if she is not used to even taking a second look at her own son, how will such an eighth prince inherit the throne in the future?Even if she is willing, how can the court officials agree?After Emperor Chengguang has a prince who is amazingly talented and physically healthy, how can he see the Eighth Prince?

Concubine Shen Gui felt resentment in her heart when she thought of this.

Hong Qing saw Concubine Shen's expression from the side, and thought of what the old woman in the Hou's mansion had said to her, she bit her lips, and said in a low voice: "Madam, the imperial doctor said that your body has been taken care of. As long as you Your Majesty...as long as Your Majesty visits the Empress frequently, the Empress will always be able to conceive again. At that time, it doesn't matter whether there is a princess or a prince, it will be good."

Concubine Shen Gui was startled, and then said: "But, so what if the palace is well taken care of? Your majesty is pure-hearted for longevity, even if you come to see me, you have never... and your majesty is old, so I don't know what to do. Even if the palace has another child, how will it compete with the prince in the future? Now, the palace is only unwilling, and only hopes that these days can serve His Majesty well, so that His Majesty can return the fief to the altar again. In the future, the palace will also So follow Tan'er to the fief."

After hearing this, Hong Qing felt anxious, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is wrong. You never thought that if you were pregnant again, according to the rules, wouldn't you be promoted again? You are a noble concubine now, if you Being able to give birth to a little prince again, His Majesty is overjoyed, thinking of your previous nomination, maybe he will directly canonize you as a queen?

Shen Guifei paused.

Hongqing continued to work hard, lowered her voice, and said: "Your Majesty takes pills every day, and grows stronger every day. Even if you don't live to be a hundred years old, how can you live to be eight or ninety years old? These times are enough for the little prince to grow up. Taking a step back, even if His Majesty can't live for such a long time, as long as His Majesty canonize you as a queen before he is alive, and then tell the world that you took good care of the crown prince, let the world know that you are not only the crown prince's aunt, but also have great respect for the crown prince. Dim-mother of the kindness of nurturing, in this way, you will have a title in the future, even if the prince succeeds to the throne, what will happen to you in the future, won't it be up to you?"

Concubine Shen Gui's eyes flashed, obviously her heart was moved.

Although she is looking at the scenery now, her scenery is all obtained by Chengguang Emperor.Once Emperor Chengguang is gone, or she wants to "love" other Taoist priests who can contribute, her current glory will disappear in the blink of an eye.

And if this happens, her son's appearance will be ruined, and Emperor Chengguang will not bother to take a look at it, and even deprive the eighth prince of his fiefdom. At that time, how will she and the eighth prince be under Xiao Wuchen's eyelids? Standing on the bottom?

But if she can conceive again and beg Emperor Chengguang to make her a queen, she, the eighth prince and her youngest son will have a foothold from now on.No matter how majestic Xiao Wuchen is, could he still kill her who has the identity of the aunt?

Now everything is still uncertain, but Shen Guifei felt extremely comfortable just thinking about these things.

Isn't it just a child?She couldn't coax Emperor Chengguang to come and bless her, couldn't she order those Taoist priests to coax Emperor Chengguang?Therefore, she will definitely become pregnant again, and will definitely be a queen. Even if Xiao Wuchen hates her so much in his heart, he can only lay down at her feet and call him queen mother!

How Concubine Shen Gui plans, Xiao Wuchen doesn't know.

However, although he didn't know that Concubine Shen Gui was moved by the position of empress, but since Emperor Chengguang started taking those pills, he began to secretly arrange that he would not allow Concubine Shen Gui, who had been a queen in the previous life, to become pregnant. He was once again made a queen by Emperor Chengguang.

Xiao Wuchen arranged these things early on, and didn't care about them, he just waited for the eighth princess in the greenhouse.

The eighth princess is now two years older, and being favored by Xiao Wuchen is more cheerful. Although the eighth princess's body is not as good as before due to the poisoning two years ago, she is still young, and Xiao Wuchen insists on taking care of her. After two years, he deliberately pampered her, so that the eighth princess is almost like an ordinary girl's family - after all, those girls' families are all ladies who do not leave their homes. Xiao Wuchen not only spoils the eighth princess, but also loves her. He taught the eighth princess how to box and kick, often took the eighth princess to ride horses, etc., so the eighth princess's body is not too bad.

It's just that during this period of time, Concubine Shen deliberately tormented the princesses and princesses, which made the eighth princess not energetic.

"Brother Prince, do you really want to learn those needlework all the time? But don't there be those palace people who embroider and make clothes? Why does Concubine Shen insist on making us learn this? Every time we can't do it well, we will be punished." "The eighth princess buried her whole head in Xiao Wuchen's arms, and whispered, "My daughter doesn't want to learn anymore, but she doesn't want to pretend to be sick and take hard medicine. Brother Prince, can you teach my daughter what to do?"

Xiao Wuchen touched the head of the eighth princess, and said: "Ninny bear with it for a while, and when Brother Wei comes back from the border this time, he will come to help her solve this matter. I promise not to let her little finger be pricked again. .”

After hearing this, the eighth princess became happy.It's just that she wasn't happy for too long, she came back to her senses, and began to chatter about Xiao Wuchen's border affairs, and said: "So this time, brother Prince is going to pick up Uncle Zhao back? It's like, um, like the bridegroom. Like picking up the bride, brother Prince, go to the border and bring back Uncle Zhao?"

Everyone: "..."

Xiao Wuchen smiled slightly, and said: "Your Uncle Zhao Wang is not the bride. He has a big beard now, look, this is the portrait he sent a few days ago, but does it look half like a bride?"

As Xiao Wuchen said, he took out the portrait sent by Xiao Junye and showed it to the eighth princess.After all, Xiao Junye asked him for a portrait every once in a while, so he naturally wanted to reciprocate by asking Xiao Junye to send the portrait too.

It's just that he didn't expect that the portraits he sent were carefully drawn by himself, and they were seven or eight percent like himself.But the paintings Xiao Junye sent over... Except for the eyes, he couldn't tell at all whether the faces under those beards belonged to Xiao Junye.

The eighth princess saw Xiao Junye's portrait at this moment, and hurriedly probed to see what the uncle who was often mentioned by the prince's brother looked like.After waiting to finish watching, the little face of the eighth princess was tightly wrinkled, serious and cute.

Xiao Wuchen was about to ask her what she saw, why she was so serious, when the eighth princess turned the portrait of Xiao Junye upside down, then pointed at Xiao Junye's big beard, and said seriously: "Prince elder brother!"

Xiao Wuchen was a little puzzled, he couldn't help crying and laughing, and was about to say something, when he heard Ah Chou next to him say "Hey", then he compared the upside-down portrait, and said: "It's really His Highness."

Xiao Wuchen was startled.He didn't see any clues from the painting before, but now the Eighth Princess and A Chou said it at the same time, and A Chou pointed out the places where his appearance was outlined by those few strokes. If Xiao Wuchen can't see anything strange again, then That's weird.

"Uncle Zhao Wang drew the elder brother of the prince." The eighth princess still frowned pretending to be serious, "So, is Uncle Zhao missing the elder brother of the prince?"

And, what she said earlier that the prince brother would pick up Uncle Zhao Wang like a bride, is it true?After all, Uncle Zhao Wang is not a child, so he needs the elder brother of the prince to pick him up in person, which is obviously the same as picking up a bride.

However, the prince's elder brother lied to her.

Xiao Wuchen had no idea what the eighth princess was thinking.He held the portrait for a while, frowned slightly, and asked Ah Chou to put the portrait away.

On the second day after staying, Prime Minister Zuo was entrusted by Xiao Wuchen, and he really mentioned asking the prince to go to the border to preside over the re-signing of the agreement on the annual tribute with Shanyu the Xiongnu. Come on, let's preside over this matter together.

When Emperor Chengguang heard this, he frowned at first, and when he heard the last sentence, he opened his mouth and said, "Let's discuss this matter again." This is the meaning of drama.

Two days later, Emperor Chengguang took a kind of elixir newly refined by those Taoist priests, and suddenly felt energetic, so when Prime Minister Zuo mentioned the prince's going to the border again on the second day, Emperor Chengguang pondered for a while , it should come down.

"Since the crown prince is the crown prince, it is natural for me to go to discuss this matter with the Xiongnu Shanyu on my behalf. However, the crown prince has not yet reached the crown and is too young. This matter should be presided over by Marquis Ningyang, with the prince assisting."

However, he finally agreed to this matter.

Xiao Wuchen breathed a sigh of relief, thinking of the fact that the Huns suddenly went to war again during the peace talks in his previous life, his eyes flickered slightly, and he lowered his head—in fact, Prime Minister Zuo really saw it right, he really went here for military merit, And the morale of the border soldiers.

But so what?After all, he is the crown prince, and since his father began to distrust him and began to restrain him, he always wanted to find ways to make his position more stable.

There was only one way he could go.

the frontier.

Xiao Junye came back from military training, his whole body was dusty and dirty, and he was about to send someone to boil water for him to take a bath, so that when he took his dust-free portrait and began to look at it slowly, he could hear the report from his subordinates , the prince is coming.

Xiao Junye was stunned, and the towels in his hands fell off.

Then he heard his chest, "bang bang bang", the sound of his heart beating faster.

So, can he finally see his Wuchen again?

It was his Wuchen who sent himself to him.

Under Xiao Junye's beard, the corners of his lips parted wide.