Harue Kagetsu

Xiao Yongjia returned to the banquet hall and still sat back.

Seeing that she had returned so soon, the county magistrate couldn't help but be surprised. He stopped to chat with her little husband and asked Gao Qiao.

Xiao Yongjia picked up the cup in front of him that was filled with fine wine by the servant boy, took a sip, and said with a smile, "He has something else to do, come back."

The county owner was a glass-hearted person, so he went out for an excuse and asked Gao Qiao to the next person.

Hearing just now, the two of them didn't know what they said. After a while, Gao Xianggong was sent away by the eldest princess, hurriedly chased out, caught up at the door, and asked him to stay.

With a smile, he said, "It's rare for Gao Xianggong to come to my house, why don't you sit down and leave like this, and being known by others, doesn't that mean I'm being neglected?"

When Gao Qiao came, he only felt a cavity of emotion in his stomach. When he really saw someone, Xiao Yongjia only said a few words, and he was discouraged. In addition to the previous incident, seeing her unwilling to understand, doubled the shame. He was stunned for a moment alone, and could only turn around.

He is a person who can't put his face down. He only said that Xiao Yongjia didn't want to see him, so how could he still stay? Daoming went to court early, resigned from the county head, and went.

The county magistrate watched Gao Qiao and his entourage leave on horseback, and turned back, seeing that Xiao Yongjia was also tired, and his face was tired, so he dispersed the night banquet and sent her to bed in person.

Xiao Yongjia smiled and said, "I'm not an outsider, so be free. Come back quickly, so as not to neglect your little man."

The county owner snorted and smiled: "He probably wants me to stay with you for a long time. Men in the world, who is not a stealing cat? Just keep your eyes open, just be honest in front of me and coax me. Be happy, think about what to do."

Xiao Yongjia shook his head.

The county magistrate glanced at her.

"However, there are exceptions. I've never heard of any affair with Mr. Gao. Ah Ling, it's not that I talk too much. He is such a busy man that he rode dozens of miles overnight to come to my house to look for you, saying: What's the urgency, what's the urgency? If you keep him for one night, can you get less meat? I went to see him just now, and I couldn't bear to see him like that."

Xiao Yongjia sat in front of the mirror case and took off his hair on the temples. He didn't say anything at first. Hearing that the county owner laughed again, as if thinking of something interesting, he couldn't help but glance at her: "Why are you laughing?"

The county head said: "I suddenly remembered what happened when I was young. I think back then, how many daughters Jiankang had, and he dreamed of marrying the elegant son-in-law of the Gao family? Who would have thought that he would be so disgusted by you now? Now I think of it. , what happened at that time seems to have only happened yesterday. Look in the mirror, we are all old. Now if I have something unpleasant, I often use the three dead men in front of me as an example. For a few years, maybe you don't even know where you are lying, and what can't you think about, you have to talk about one, two, three, or four, and argue about right and wrong everywhere?"

Xiao Yongjia took off his bun and lowered his hand slowly, looking at his figure in the mirror, motionless.

Seeing that she was stunned, the county magistrate knew that she was speechless, and hurriedly said: "Blame me for talking too much! Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, how are you and me? I asked you to come to my house for fun. But I'm telling you these spoilers. Don't take it to heart."

Xiao Yongjia smiled, raised his hand, and was reaching for the comb, when he heard footsteps outside, and said, "The eldest princess, county magistrate, it's not good! Just now, Gao Xianggong fell off his horse, his hand fell, and he was sent away. return!"

The county magistrate said "Ouch".

Xiao Yongjia paused, put down the comb, stood up immediately, walked to the door in a few steps, opened the door, and walked out.

When he came to the front hall, he saw Gao Qiao sitting with his right hand on his left arm, frowning as if he was in pain, and his face was a little pale. Gao Qi was at the side, talking to the steward of the county head's mansion. He stopped and scolded sharply: "Gao Qi, what are you doing? You can't even protect yourself?"

Gao Qi was very frightened, and repeatedly accused him of guilt. The road was dark and the road was narrow. He was negligent for a while and did not look at the road.

"Forget it, I was careless myself, it has nothing to do with people."

Gao Qiao said.

Xiao Yongjia just gave up, went to him and asked him about his injury. The steward over there had also sent someone to urgently ask for the beater.

In no time, people came. After touching it a bit, he said that he had broken his arm bone. After he was in the right position, he took two bamboo splints to fix it and wrapped it up.

After a hectic moment, the injured arm was finally dealt with. Langzhong and others retreated, and Gao Qiao thanked the county owner, but got up again and said that he was going back.

Xiao Yongjia frowned and said, "Tomorrow morning without one of you, the imperial court will collapse because of this? It's a dark light, it's tens of miles away, and one broken hand is not enough. Do you want to get two together? You don’t mind tossing yourself, and at least you can be considerate of those who follow you.”

Gao Qi was very frightened when he saw that Xianggong was robbed by the eldest princess, and quietly looked over to see that he was silent.

"He stayed at night. Excuse me."

Xiao Yongjia turned to the county magistrate and said.

The county owner smiled and said: "I can't ask for it. It's getting late, you and your wife should go and rest. I still have something to do, so I won't stay here and go first."

She instructed the steward to lead Gao Qi and others to arrange accommodation, and she left.

Xiao Yongjia turned to Gao Qiao.

"Come with me."

Gao Qiao followed Xiao Yongjia silently and entered the house where she lived.

The next person is sent into the bath water. Xiao Yongjia went to wash himself first, came out, changed into a loose shirt for sleeping, glanced at Gao Qiao who was struggling to take off his coat with one hand, and stopped: "Do you want me to help you? "

"I don't have to, I can-"

Gao Qiao hurriedly declined and turned his back. Speeding up his movements, he grabbed the injured arm and made a slight "hiss".

Xiao Yongjia twisted his lips, went over, reached out and grabbed his good arm, and with a swipe, he swung his whole body back and faced himself.

While **** for him, he sneered: "I thought I was a fragrant fruit when I was young, everyone wants to take a bite!"

Taking off Gao Qiao's clothes, she turned around and entered the bathroom, took a twisted bath towel, ordered him to turn around, wiped the sweat from his back for him, and then threw the bath towel back into his hands.

Gao Qiao squeezed the bath towel, entered the bath room silently, and came out after a while, Xiao Yongjia pointed to the medicine that was just delivered that night on the table and asked him to drink it.

Gao Qiao went to drink. Putting down the bowl, he turned his head to see that she was still sitting on the edge of the bed, hesitated, walked over slowly, and sat beside her.

"A-ling, thank you..."

"Go to sleep."

Xiao Yongjia covered his mouth, yawned, climbed into the bed, and lay down facing inside.

Gao Qiao was stunned for a moment, then slowly lay down. But how to sleep?

The broken arm was aching.

Thinking that Xiao Yongjia was tired of himself, he left him alone and ran here for fun, staying for a few days.

Think of the young man next to the county lord.

Think of her leaning on the embroidered couch, beautiful as a flower, with a variety of styles, beautiful boys and servants, competing to wear clogs for her.

She wanted to be the most caring Jiaojiao daughter with her since she was a child, but she was coaxed away by Li Mu and didn't want him anymore.

The most annoying thing is that even Gao Huan started not listening to him.

The dream of the Northern Expedition when he was young has long been empty. The son-in-law who was sent to the door seemed to have the intention of inheriting the mantle, but he looked like a rebel.

As for the current imperial court, there is a mess of sand, even if he is exhausted and painstakingly managed, he is only half-dead and barely able to maintain.

Gao Qiao was full of bitterness, and suddenly felt that life was boring. He closed his eyes and murmured: "Forget it, I want to open it up. Aling, now I am old and you are still young. If you are like the county owner, you have other preferences. Man, if you want to leave me and marry another person, if you want to reconcile, just let you go, I won't stop you..."

Xiao Yongjia sat up slowly.

"Gao Qiao, are you serious?"

Gao Qiao opened his eyes, saw her eyes, staring at him coldly, suddenly short of breath, hesitated, closed his eyes and said nothing.

"Can you say that again!"

Gao Qiao didn't move, as if he had fallen asleep.

Xiao Yongjia stared at her husband and sat for a while.

"In your eyes, I don't want to have **** with you again, because I have changed my mind and want to marry someone else?"

"In your eyes, what kind of person is I, Xiao Yongjia? Jealous, majestic, vicious, and willing to kill people to vent their hatred, right or not?"

"Don't play dead! Tell me!"

She clenched her fist and slapped him on the shoulder hard.

Gao Qiao opened his eyes: "A-Ling, I didn't say that..."

"But that's what you think!"

Her eyes were red and her breath was trembling.

"If I said that those people who robbed Shao Yuniang back then were not arranged by me! In the past, I wanted to get rid of the killers arranged by Li Mu, and I didn't even know it beforehand! Do you believe me?"

Gao Qiao was stunned: "It's not you, who is that?"

Tears finally fell.

Xiao Yongjia raised his hand to wipe his tears, turned his face away, took a long breath, turned back to face Gao Qiao, and was actually smiling.

"Now there is another sin of liking the new and hating the old," she nodded.

"It's also hard for you. You have endured me for so many years and wasted time. It's best to figure it out now. That's it. You and I go back to the bridge and return to the road, and the two are irrelevant."

After she finished speaking, she crawled off the bed.

Gao Qiao finally reacted and knew that he had said the wrong thing.

No matter how sluggish he was, he could hear the sadness and grievance in her words, and saw her go away decisively.

Panic.

He really likes Xiao Yongjia. I especially miss the first few years of their marriage when they were young.

Her enthusiasm always made him a little overwhelmed. The surface is light, but in fact it is fun. So later, although he was dissatisfied with her a lot, he still endured it and only hoped that she would repent.

He is also not a saint, and he has no ordinary thoughts at all. In recent years, the relationship between husband and wife has been indifferent, and having a wife is equivalent to having no room. The reason why he didn't find another lover after killing his desire was because he knew she was jealous and didn't want to completely turn his face over this kind of thing.

But when they were young, the two just got married, and in the relationship between husband and wife, Xiao Yongjia was originally with him.

Gao Qiao was accustomed to accepting it, and also enjoyed the care and diligence from the princess' wife. Even if he likes her a lot, he rarely shows his love.

Later, the relationship between the husband and wife turned cold, and Xiao Yongjia no longer insisted on him.

But over the years, the habit of holding it in front of her has become deeply ingrained and difficult to change.

In the face of his wife's indifference, even if sometimes he wants to keep or please, he can't do it or say it.

So gradually became weak, thinking about not having trouble with her. Just let her, tell her to be happy, just let it go.

Day by day, the days went by like this.

At this moment, he didn't care about his face anymore, and hurriedly reached out his hand to hold her back: "It's so late, it's dark outside, where are you going!"

Xiao Yongjia was trapped on the bed by her husband, irritated in her heart, and pushed her angrily.

Gao Qiao fell in response, and when he leaned down, the broken arm was being pressed down.

Hearing his cry of pain, he stopped and turned his head.

He was surprised to see that her husband was so weak that he was pushed down by himself, lying on the bed, motionless.

He saw that his face was slightly twisted, apparently caused by pain.

"What's the matter? Do you want someone to come back and re-bandage you?"

After a while, she said, her voice still indifferent.

Gao Qiao shook his head, frowned, and endured the pain, he slowly turned over, raised his good arm, and grabbed her hand.

"A Ling, I'm very tired... Don't go, lie down and sleep with me. If you have anything to say, tell me..."

"You don't say anything, just get mad at me and drive me away, how do I know what to do..."

For the first time in his life, Xiao Yongjia saw her husband look so tired in front of him.

There was a hint of weakness in his tone, not the lessons and perfunctory she had been accustomed to over the past 20 years.

Xiao Yongjia suddenly remembered that when he wiped his body just now, his waist and ribs were so thin that he could see the bones, and he no longer had the hidden strength he had when he was young.

Before he knew it, he was getting old too.

For a while, I couldn't help but be at a loss.

Gao Qiao's arm exerted a little strength, and she threw it down, slamming into her husband's chest.

The two looked at each other.

"Arling—"

Gao Qiao called out in a low voice and raised his hand, as if to caress a strand of her hair that fell to her forehead.

There was a burst of hurried footsteps outside, and someone shouted: "Gao Xianggong! The envoy from the palace, urgently looking for Xianggong!"

Gao Qiao stopped and looked at Xiao Yongjia.

At midnight like this, and others are not in the city, if it is not a major event, they will never find it here.

Xiao Yongjia's face changed slightly, he quickly got up from her husband, got out of bed, saw him sit up, leaned over, put on his shoes with one hand, he squatted over by himself, put them on for him, and then replaced him Get clothes.

Gao Qiao wrapped his clothes, went out in a hurry, came to the front hall, and saw a person pacing anxiously in the candlelight, Chen Tuan, the city guard, hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?"

"Xianggong, there is news from the palace that His Majesty had a sudden illness overnight, and his illness seemed to be serious. Xu Situ was summoned into the palace overnight by the queen. I was afraid that it would be a big deal, so I was looking for it. "

Gao Qiao was taken aback.

The emperor fell ill last time, and after Gao Qiao's words and admonitions, the emperor seemed to be afraid. Afterwards, Gao Qiao's people in the palace sent him news that he had never seen His Majesty Shi Wushi San again, and even the few concubines who were petted on weekdays had gone to sleep in the Queen's Palace.

In the palace of the Empress of the Emperor Su, not only is it right and proper, it is in line with human relations, but it should also be more restrained than before when it comes to sexual intercourse, which is of great benefit to the emperor's physical weakness. And these days, Gao Qiao saw that the emperor's face was red, and when he was meeting, his spirit was much better than before, so he slowly let go. How could he have imagined that he had a sudden illness tonight?

Gao Qiao was in a hurry. Knowing that Xiao Yongjia would also want to go back, he told her to take a car, and there was no need to hurry, and he rode back to the city again.

Xiao Yongjia was anxious and watched Gao Qiao and his group hurriedly ride away. He ordered two fast horses from the county chief who got up and rushed after hearing the news, changed into an ox cart, and then returned to the city.

Gao Qiao rushed back to Jiankang, entered Taicheng, and went straight to the palace.

Xin'an Wang Xiao Daocheng also came.

This time, Empress Xu did not stop her in any way.

Gao Qiao and Xiao Daocheng hurried inside and saw Xu Mi standing in front of the dragon bed, scolding the imperial doctor who was kneeling on the ground. Empress Xu hugged the still young prince and wept aside.

The emperor, who was fine during the day, is now lying on the dragon bed, his mouth and eyes crooked and motionless.

"His Majesty!"

Gao Qiao was terrified, hurried to the dragon bed, and shouted.

The emperor rolled his eyes and looked at him, his face flushed red, as if he wanted to say something, he tried his best, but his mouth only squirmed, and there were a few vague and unintelligible voices in his throat.

His hands were even more immobile, and only his fingertips could shake slightly.

"Your Majesty! Well, why are you doing this!"

After all, he has been a monarch and minister for nearly 20 years, and he is also a brother-in-law and a brother-in-law. Although the relationship between Gao Qiao and Emperor Xingping has become increasingly estranged over the years, there is still an old relationship.

Seeing this, the voice was choked up.

With tears in her eyes, Xu Mi dropped the imperial doctor who was scolded by her, and came over and said: "Gao Xianggong, it really happened suddenly, I was also awakened in my sleep, and when I came, I saw that His Majesty was like this. His Majesty Humanity cried out in a nightmare, fell off the bed, and the person was unconscious. The imperial doctor tried his best to treat him, and he woke up like this. I am afraid that it will be difficult to recover in a short period of time, so I can only take care of it slowly. "

Gao Qiao's eyes were red as he looked at the imperial doctor.

An imperial doctor said in a panic, "Your Majesty has always been weak and fiery, and has been in disharmony for a long time. Last time, because of the consumption of Wushi Powder, there was an accident. Xianggong also knew. I am afraid that the poison has been buried in the internal organs and cannot be removed. I encountered nightmares, became over-excited, and fell to the ground again, causing a stroke.

The imperial physician could not stop kowtowing, and Dao would definitely give his best treatment, hoping to cure the emperor's illness.

Gao Qiao looked at Xiao Daocheng, the king of Xin'an.

He fixed his eyes on the emperor, his face as pale as earth.

Those who suffer from stroke disease are rarely cured, especially those who are as severe as the emperor.

The biggest possibility, but just be a living dead like this, lying on the bed, lingering on.

The emperor suddenly lost his ability to govern, and it was okay in a short time. If the country is not without a king for a long time, sooner or later, the prince must be enthroned.

When the prince ascended the throne, Empress Xu and Xu Mi, who were promoted to the empress dowager, were there. In the future, even his own identity and status would be more restrained - if he hadn't let go of the current situation, he would have already had it. Heart of retreat.

Not to mention the royal family who gained power by relying on the emperor?

I just thought it was in the future. Unexpectedly, the emperor suddenly developed such a vicious disease, which caught people completely by surprise.

Gao Qiao looked at Empress Xu, who was wiping her tears with her head down, and looked at the emperor on the dragon bed. Suddenly, she heard the sound of running footsteps behind her. She turned her head and saw his wife Xiao. Yongjia has also arrived.

"Brother!"

Xiao Yongjia rushed in, rushed to the bed, held Emperor Xingping's hand, and tears fell.

When the emperor saw her coming, he suddenly opened his eyes wide, his eyes squinted in the direction of the queen, his lips squirmed hard, as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say it after all. , rolled his eyes and fainted.

Xu Mi's expression was solemn, Xiao Daocheng was like a concubine in mourning, the prince was crying, and the imperial doctor surrounded him and rushed to give first aid.

Xiao Yongjia stared at his brother, slowly let go, turned around and walked out.

Seeing her pale face, Gao Qiao knew that the emperor's place was going to be bad for a while, so he chased after her and was about to tell her to take a breath, but Xiao Yongjia suddenly stopped and turned around and said, "My brother suddenly developed this vicious illness, There is another inside story. He has something to say, and the truth is that he was harmed, but he can't say it. I know."

Gao Qiao was startled, looked at his wife for a moment, and immediately called Chen Tuan.

After a while, Chen Tuan brought a palace servant. He was a personal attendant of Emperor Xingping.

Xiao Yongjia looked stern, stared at the palace staff for a long time, and then asked, "Why did your Majesty suddenly live in the Queen's Palace recently?"

The palace servant did not dare to look at her, bowed his head, and said terribly, "Princess Chang, I don't know."

"In the Queen's Palace, are there any unusual people coming and going recently?"

"Princess Zhichang, this slave is not very clear..."

Xiao Yongjia said coldly: "You are the one who is serving you personally. I don't know this, and I don't know that! Your Majesty has been served like this, so what's the use of keeping you! Pull him out and chop him off!"

Chen Tuan stepped forward, dragged the palace servant and left.

The palace people know that this eldest princess has been arrogant and domineering for decades. Now she is angry with herself and wants to chop his head off, but it is just a matter of lip service. Her legs suddenly fell to the ground, and people rushed over and begged. : "The eldest princess is spared! There is indeed something suspicious, but before, the slave was not sure, and His Majesty has repeatedly ordered that the slave is not allowed to spread it, and the slave dare not say it."

"What's the matter?"

Now that this is the case, how dare the palace servants dare to hide it, and whispered: "Your Majesty has entered the Queen's Palace these days because of a new maid next to the Queen. The maid seems to be from Xianbei, and it is Murong who is dedicated to it. The Queen's, and then for some reason, Your Majesty..."

Before the palace servant's words were finished, Gao Qiao suddenly realized, his eyes darkened with anger, and he almost fainted.

His body swayed, and before he could stabilize his mind, he said, "Someone! Go and arrest Murong for that fellow immediately! If there is any resistance, kill him!"

"Wait, stay alive!"

When Chen Tuan left, Gao Qiao sternly added another sentence.