Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Fu Jinzhan said: "There is only one door in front of the dormitory where the official family stays, and there is no other entrance. But I can ask Cao Tai to go over and dismiss the attendants and the imperial doctor first, and then let him come out and take you along the corridor next to the main hall. Go along the verandah to avoid people's sight... I will wait for you inside, and you can come in to see him later."

Guo Shao got up to worship and obeyed her arrangement.

He went out from the main hall first, sat in the side room outside and waited for a while. This is outside the main hall, the doors and windows are wide open, facing the square under the steps, the sight is very wide; the light is also very good.

Guo Shao stayed in the hall for a while just now, when he saw the sun had risen high. The bright sunshine, on the contrary, caused some hesitation in his heart.

Not long after, Cao Tai came out to call him, and he got up and left the house again, went down the steps of Jinxiang Hall, and entered this majestic building complex through the corridor. Cao Tai stopped on the verandah, Guo Shao silently entered the bedroom he had been to before, and sure enough, he saw Fu Jinzhan was in front of the hospital bed.

Guo Shao kowtowed to the dragon bed and bowed to inspect it. I saw Chai Rong quietly closing his eyes, he couldn't see any difference from yesterday, but it wasn't worse; what got a little better was that he was quieter today, as if he was closing his eyes to rest his mind.

Guo Shao was not a doctor, so he couldn't figure out what kind of disease the emperor was suffering from. Zuo You once heard the description and suspected it was "lung swelling". What kind of disease is this? It may be a chronic disease such as emphysema... In short, it will not be an emergency, otherwise Chai Rong would have suffered from it for several years; Hebei has had the disease for a month or two, and it is indeed very delayed.

He looked carefully for a while, and motioned for the queen to come out and talk.

Fu Jinzhan then left first, Guo Shao followed out of the dormitory, and gently closed the door.

After she went out, she turned her head and took a look inside, her expression was not as calm as usual... Guo Shao found that the only person who could make Fu Jinzhan lose his temper in fear was Chai Rong.

She whispered: "He may be asleep now. He can talk in the morning and drink porridge."

Guo Shao pondered for a moment, his tone suddenly became less tense than before, and he asked: "Has the Queen heard of Huiguang Huizhao?"

"Yeah." Fu Jinzhan nodded and looked at him suspiciously.

Guo Shao said in a deep voice: "The performance of the officials is to return to the light! It won't last long."

"How did you find out?" Fu Shi asked. Guo Shao said solemnly: "I have been in the army for a long time, and I have seen many dying injuries. Anyway, I can see it... It's just that I can't explain it for a while, and I will tell the queen later."

Fu Jinzhan was skeptical, and said: "There is still an excuse for the turmoil in the past two days. Once the court settles down, even if the ministers and concubines dare not ask for it, if we don't let them see the emperor, they will think that we have imprisoned the emperor."

"That's true." Guo Shao nodded and said, "However, the official family is really returning to the light, and we only need to wait two more days to know the result."

His eyes gradually became very bright, and he stared at Fu Jinzhan's eyes without hesitation and said, "The queen doesn't want to harm him in her heart, does she?"

Fu Jinzhan said: "Of course I don't want to, I wouldn't think about that kind of thing if I had to."

Guo Shao said again: "Now the empress is thinking of other more appropriate ways to solve the urgent task, isn't it?"

Fu Jinzhan frowned and said, "General Guo suddenly spoke very strangely, what do you want to say?"

Guo Shaodao: "I just want the empress to understand that before you were only afraid and flustered, you would occasionally think of some extreme means. In fact, you didn't have any intentions in your heart." He didn't wait for Fu Jinzhan to speak, and said, "The empress can't do it either. First of all, the official is a strong warrior, and even if he is sick, his strength may hurt someone. Yesterday, grabbing the empress's hand, can you break free? Secondly, the empress can't bear it. After all, the empress and the official couple have always had a lot of kindness."

Hearing the kindness, Fu Jinzhan's lips moved.

Guo Shao immediately said again: "Think about it, when Li Shouzhen rebelled, if the great-grandfather hadn't rescued the queen, the queen might be in a worse situation now."

After hearing this, Fu Jinzhan murmured: "Taizu is indeed kind to me..."

Guo Shao guided her softly: "Now the queen thinks about whether there is a better and gentler way. The queen is ice-snow wise, as long as she calms down, she will definitely come up with a better way."

Fu Jinzhan nodded slightly and said, "Let's think about it again, there should be a better way... I really shouldn't treat him like this."

"Very good." Guo Shao said, "The Queen will sit there and wait for me, and I will go in to confirm his condition."

There was no one else in the huge apse, Fu Jinzhan was frowning and thinking hard, she also trusted Guo Shao, and let him go with a wave of her hand.

... In the gloomy deep palace bedroom, the emperor lay quietly on the dragon bed, and the air seemed to be full of conspiracy.

Guo Shao walked into the room and bolted the door behind him. He bowed before Chai Rong's bed, and said silently: Your Majesty, I have lived carefully under your wrath for a long time, but I still respect your majesty, and dare not deny your martial arts skills and the achievements you have made for the prosperity of the country. But in terms of personal feelings, I have some loyalty and can only be with Empress Fu. Without her, I would not be who I am now.

He quickly got up from the ground, and saw a towel hanging on a copper basin not far away, so he walked over and picked it up, but it was still wet in the palm of his hand. Guo Shao carefully folded the towel, pressed it firmly with his hands, quietly walked to the bed, and gently put it on the emperor's mouth and nose. Then the quilt was suddenly covered over his head, and his body was pressed up immediately, the iron-like arms firmly controlling the torso of the person below. Soon the emperor struggled...

After a while, Fu Jinzhan seemed to hear a noise, and behind Guo Shao came her terrified voice: "Guo Shao! What are you doing?"

Guo Shao ignored the movement outside. After a long time, Guo Shao turned pale, widened his eyes, and let go of the quilt. He stretched out his hand to touch the nose of the motionless man, and then opened his eyelids to observe. Then I washed the towel in the copper basin and gently put it back in place.

He went forward and made the bed and quilt, then bowed deeply to the bed, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, if you die like this, you will receive the emperor's funeral ceremony, and the whole nation will mourn for you."

Silence returned in the shadows, a thin beam of light was in the dark air, fine dust was dancing like a ghost. Under the conspiracy, Guo Shao felt that his blood was slowly turning black.

He took a long breath, turned around and walked to the door, pushed the latch, and when he opened the door with a "creak", he saw Fu Jinzhan leaning against the door weakly, looking inside with trembling shoulders.

"It's okay." Guo Shao comforted her, "Let's get out of here."

Fu Jinzhan leaned on the wall and wanted to walk in: "Let me go in and have a look."

"Don't look!" Guo Shao's tone suddenly became a little rough, "He's dead. I killed him."

Fu Jinzhan looked up at Guo Shao, shaking his head meaninglessly: "Why...why?"

Guo Shaodao: "No reason, I just want to kill him!"

"I'm not asking why you killed people..." Fu Jinzhan's eyes widened, and there was pitiful pain in the complicated eyes.

Guo Shao said in a deep voice as if cursing: "We can deceive others, but we cannot deceive ourselves! I don't want to see the queen become a sinner who killed her husband and regicide. In my heart, you should be a beautiful, wonderful, smart and pure girl, just like a fairy. You are already thinking of ways to protect the emperor, and the evil things you have done have nothing to do with you!

If guilty, it is all my fault. I deceived the queen first, and then conspired to assassinate the monarch. I killed the king and killed the heaven who rewarded me with official salary. I am a rebellious minister who does not know how to repay his kindness and is ambitious, a treacherous traitor! If you want to be infamous for thousands of years, if you want to be condemned by God, I will do it alone, come on!

Fu Jinzhan shook his head speechlessly, tears were falling down unpreparedly.

Guo Shao tremblingly said: "No matter what happens, I will protect the queen. No matter what you have had before, in my heart, you are a noble and pure fairy."

Fu Jinzhan burst into tears immediately, without the restraint of a lady at all, crying very recklessly, lying on the wall as if to cry enough.

Guo Shao only felt that the sky and the earth were spinning, as if a thunderbolt was brewing. His worldview and values ​​collapsed in an instant, and a kind of guilt lingered in his heart. He felt that he might become a sinner of history.

Guo Shao took a deep breath, looked back at the dark room, saw Fu Jinzhan sobbing silently, and said: "I killed your relatives, you can hate me..."

"I want to hate you, but I can't." Fu Jinzhan choked up.

Guo Shao said: "Now we should leave here as soon as possible. The empress first asks her cronies to guard the door, don't leak the news, and wait for the imperial doctor to find out that the emperor has passed away. Then she pretends to be shocked, and instead of mourning, she summons the ministers to discuss important matters... It is said that the Taizu once praised the empress for her fearlessness in times of danger.

Fu Jinzhan finally turned around, her eyes were a little red, she directly wiped the tears on her face with her sleeve, and said: "You go first, Cao Tai is on the veranda. Let me go in and stay for a while."

Guo Shao gradually calmed down from the state of surging blood, he let out a long breath and cupped his fists and said, "Farewell...I'm really sorry."

Fu Jinzhan opened his mouth, held back for a while and said, "I can't explain clearly, you don't understand the affairs between me and the official family at all! You go."

Guo Shao bowed again, turned around and walked towards the palace gate calmly.

When he felt that the sky was falling apart in his bedroom, the whole hall was actually quiet. Walking out of the palace gate, being dazzled by the sun, and then hearing the chirping of birds, there was no sign of anything, as if nothing had happened.

He walked towards the side veranda, and at this moment his mind became a little clearer, and his steps became more and more heavy for a while.

It is indeed a very serious event! But after thinking about it, he just felt afraid, but he didn't regret it.