The next day, the Prince of Western Xia personally brought gifts to the door to apologize, but by the Prince of Peace refused to see.
The concierge was polite: "Your Excellency's arrival is really unfortunate, our king has something to do today, and said early in the morning that he would not see any guests."
Li Angshun expressionless will be thick gifts behind the subordinate hands, was about to turn around and leave, footsteps a beat, remembered what as with the concierge asked: "and the Prince in the past may have conquered the battlefield?"
Such news is not a secret. The concierge said, "His Majesty is the one who has fought in the battlefield."
Lee Aung Soon smiled, "Many people who fight in the battlefield are left with dark wounds."
The concierge sighed, "Isn't that so? Luckily, our prince's body is considered good, even if he has suffered some injuries, he will be able to recuperate very quickly."
Lee Aung Soon felt something was wrong, he frowned, his eye sockets deep, "Not good to raise, is it?"
Concierge, "That's not true, a tonic to take, our king this is enough."
Liang Shun's brows were furrowed into mountains.
Could it be that you can't tell the difference between a man and a woman, and that a man who looks thin and frail on the wagon is in fact very powerful and robust?
The Western Xia Emperor always felt that something was wrong, he led his men away, and when he was halfway there, he suddenly remembered Chu Wei.
This official looks handsome, very much in the eyes of Li Angshun. In his mind, the light suddenly flashed, Li Angshun suddenly thought that the carriage on the person must have some relationship with Chu Wei, the corner of his mouth coldly hooked, commanded the left and right said: "Go to check that called Chu Wei Daheng official's mansion is where."
Left and right: "Yes."
*
The Western Xia Emperor's arrival and departure, the Capital Prefect who was keeping an eye on him reported this to Gu Yuanbai on the same day.
Gu Yuanbai: "Why is it related to Prince He again."
He rubbed his brow, not having the heart to care about such trivial matters, "Keep watching, just don't let them run amok in my Great Heng Capital."
As for the Prince of Harmony, just, he still believe that his cheap elder brother is long brain, with whom to cooperate, but also impossible to cooperate with a small Xixia.
The Capital Prefect answered yes, and then retreated.
A eunuch with flexible hands came forward and rubbed the corner of Gu Yuanbai's forehead, Kong Yilin was seeing this scene when he entered the hall, he couldn't help but look a little worried, and suddenly remembered, "Your Holiness, do you remember the woman in the bandit nest in Lizhou?"
Gu Yuanbai lay on the back of the chair, closing his eyes to let his nerves rest, "I remember."
He sighed, "That woman is not easy."
However, there are millions of men in the world, and not many of them will think that women are not easy. Kong Yilin suddenly sighed a little, he looked at the saint's vaguely tired face, concerned: "saint, the court inside and outside the millions of talents, you must not do everything yourself."
"Naturally," Gu Yuanbai said, "just a few things recently, all have to go through my hands. Just, this matter is not to talk about, I remember that woman seems to be because the family relatives were killed by the bandits, up to the heart of self-extermination?"
"Yes," Kong Yilin said, "but I heard what Lord Sun said afterward and learned that the woman was a medical woman."
Gu Yuanbai, "Huh?"
"This woman's ancestors had been a branch of a famous doctor's descendant, and she had learned some medical skills since she was a child. The Supervision Department's Lord Sun once asked her since a little medical skills, and why she wants to go down the mountain to find a doctor, the woman asked: If I know the medical skills, this life where there is still a chance to go down the mountain?" Kong Yilin whispered, "She originally had the intention to commit suicide, but after Lord Sun told her about the court's plans to combat banditry and corruption, she gave up. After the governor of Lizhou fell into the net, she also followed us to the capital."
"Not bad." Gu Yuanbai nodded.
When he heard the words "doctor's daughter" or "famous doctor", he did not have the slightest reaction to these words. It was as if he had already decided that no matter what kind of doctor he had, he would not be able to cure him.
Kong Yilin couldn't help but raise his eyes to look at His Holiness.
Compared to the day of the palace examination, the saint seems to be getting thinner and weaker. The fingers poking out from the sleeves, the heavy robes seem to be able to crush them.
Kong Yilin didn't know the way of looking and smelling, but he knew whether a person was healthy or not, which was something that could be seen at a glance.
Even if His Holiness looks good, he can't stop the signs of weakness.
Kong Yilin retracted eyes, lips open and close a few times, but can only dry persuasion: "Your Holiness, if you do not mind women's medical skills, can you let it for you to diagnose a pulse?"
Only then did Gu Yuanbai open his eyes, his gaze flicked around Kong Yilin's body, and then pointed to the two wolves lying in the corner, saying with a smile, "If that woman of honor isn't afraid of these two wolves, then come and check my pulse."
*
The woman really did come.
Xue Yuan once said that if anyone touches Gu Yuanbai with one finger, one hair strand, those two wolves will bite off anyone's fingers. Whether others believed it or not, Tian Fusheng believed it anyway, because every time he served tea and passed water to the saint, those two wolves would crouch low, their eyes staring intently at Tian Fusheng's hand.
However, it is also very strange that every day when the Imperial Doctor of the Imperial Hospital took the pulse of the Holy Spirit, the two wolves did not show any sign of attack.
And this one too.
This woman that Lord Sun Shan of the Supervision Office brought back from the bandit nest in Lizhou was named Jiang Bajiao, she was clear looking but tall, and it was rare that there was a bit of Ying Qi still between her eyebrows. Lady Doctor Jiang calmly saluted with His Holiness and unfolded the medicine bag, "Please raise your hand, Your Holiness."
Gu Yuanbai raised his hand, appreciating such a female, he smiled slightly and with his other hand pointed to the two wolves that were slowly walking over to the side, "These two things are here, can you still be calm?"
The two wolves seemed to understand Gu Yuanbai's words, and one of them even came over, sticking out its coarse scarlet tongue and licking Gu Yuanbai's outstretched finger. The sticky wet saliva made a layer of light come through the finger, and Gu Yuanbai was surprised, then looked at the wolf helplessly.
Jiang Bajiao also stiffened at the sight of the two wolves, but forced himself to calm down and took Gu Yuanbai's pulse.
Tian Fusheng wanted to go forward to rub over his hand to the saint, but he didn't dare to when he looked at the wolf, Tian Fusheng said with a bitter face, "How is it that when Miss Jiang goes forward there is nothing wrong with her, and when I go forward, I keep staring at the little one?"
Gu Yuanbai thought about it and realized, "She smells like medicine."
Tian Fusheng froze, "Huh?"
Gu Yuanbai grunted, thinking that Xue Yuan had really thought of everything, even the imperial physician who needed to get close to him to take his pulse, and his words about biting off the fingers of anyone who dared to touch him, couldn't it be that they were still true?
*
"My lord," the adjutant general pointed to the water pouch girdled on Xue Yuan's waist side, "could it be that this is filled with mellow wine?"
Xue Yuan clearly had a water sac on his body, yet he took another water sac to drink from. Upon hearing the adjutant general's question, Xue Yuan grinned and leisurely patted the water bladder on his waist, deliberately lowering his voice, "This is something better than mellow wine."
The Adjutant General got curious, "Oh, what could that be?"
Xue Yuan said, "Soup, the soup of ecstasy."
The Vice General laughed, "Your Excellency is joking."
Xue Yuan raised his eyebrows and didn't retort, he finished the water and then strutted over to another unoccupied place and sat down, unwrapping the mesmerizing soup around his waist.
After several days of scorching sun, the water in the water sac seems to be less, Xue Yuan uncovered the lid, probed his nose and smelled it, the scent inside silk drilled into his nose, this water is thoroughly smoked by the medicinal and smoky scent, smoked by the incense of the little emperor, even after such a long time has passed, there is still a smell of spring water.
Xue Yuan really quite wanted to take a taste of it, but it was too much to taste one bite and too little to give up. He was now covered in stench, and the hans in the barracks were also covered in stench, the only thing that smelled good was Gu Yuanbai's bath water.
What if there's one less bite to sniff on as well?
Counting the time, the All Souls Festival should also have begun. He had also been gone for more than ten days, and the one in the palace didn't know if he would think of him by chance.
Fingers rubbing together, soon the foot rest was over, Xue Yuan pinned the water pouch back to his waist and got up, "Hurry up, all of you."
The Vice General hurriedly went forward and together they walked towards the front. Gale was being bolted to a tree and burying his head in the grass, and when he saw Xue Yuan coming over, he kicked his hooves in resistance.
The deputy general laughed, "This fine horse is truly spiritual, and knows that we should depart, and that he can't eat any more."
But Xue Yuan didn't take his words.
The Vice General turned his head in confusion and saw Xue Yuan with a serious face, he looked at the tree somberly and suddenly stepped forward to catch something. The Vice General stepped forward to see that it was a yellow locust.
The Vice Admiral was creeped out.
Xue Yuan crushed the locusts and looked around the perimeter, "It looks like we're about to walk within the northern disaster area."
"Protect the grain and grass, and prepare torches and large nets," Xue Yuan uncovered the reins and led his horse away at a stride, "Go to the officials who are treating the locusts and tell them to make adequate preparations."
*
At the end of September, the days had come to the eve of All Saints' Day.
The congratulatory gifts sent by various countries have already been put into the national treasury one by one. Regarding the congratulatory gifts of those powerful people, Gu Yuanbai had them returned, and then hinted at the matter of the northern locust plague.
The magnates were really all powerful people with flexible brains, and immediately reacted to the hints of the saint; they inquired about the locust plague in the north, gathered together, and finally planned to transport 100,000 ducks to the north to exterminate the locusts.
Locusts produce toxins when they gather in large numbers, the yellow locusts are poisonous and only the green locusts that fall alone are non-toxic. It is the toxicity emitted by the locusts in large numbers that keeps the birds of prey away from the locusts.
Autumn locusts can only live for three months, when they are about to die, they will look for a place to lay eggs, this period is called the waking period. Waking period, the locusts in the body of the toxin will be dissipated, this time is the ducks to go up to eat them, 100,000 ducks, a duck a day can eat two hundred locusts, can quickly control the locust plague.
The magnates counted the time, now to the northern border to send ducks, delivered just when the locusts have arrived in the period of waking, ducks to that can play a role, and so will the locusts ate up, these ducks can eat the belly full of meat in the bowl of the soldiers, which is not a bad idea?
His Holiness has burned all those letters sent to them by the rebels and refused to accept their valuable gifts, and now that he finally knows where to offer them, the magnates naturally refuse to miss it.
They were busy expressing their loyalty and attentiveness to His Majesty, while His Majesty, in the middle of the capital, was burning with a little, a tiny bit of hope that he could survive.
A few days ago, Mistress Jiang took Gu Yuanbai's pulse, and she confessed, "My daughter is not as capable as she should be."
After Gu Yuanbai smiled faintly, she pondered for a long time and said, "But my grandmother had given birth to a miscarried child at the age of forty, and my little uncle was born with a bad birth, and his body was weak to the point of being extremely weak, but he survived until just before I was captured by the bandits and taken to the mountains. At that time he was already much healthier, and my daughter has also seen his pulse, so if he is well-conditioned, he should be able to last a long time."
At that time, Gu Yuanbai closed his eyes, face calm and wave-free, no one knows his inner fluctuations raging, "Oh? But your relatives at home, have been killed by the bandits."
"Indeed," Doctor Jiang was silent for a long time, "but if my daughter remembers correctly, the grandfather of the family had a younger brother, and more than half of the family's medical books are in the hands of this brother, and the two of them were separated when they were teenagers because of fleeing the famine, and it's been forty years since then."
"Grandfather had said to my daughter that the formula for the treatment of the congenital malady one, he also only got fifty percent of it, and his younger brother was more talented than him, if this uncle survived from fleeing the famine with a large number of medical books, there must be a formula in it that can cure His Holiness's disease."
It was an unknown whether or not the fleeing people who were dispersed forty years ago would be alive now. However, after Dr. Jiang finished saying this, the people from the Inspection Division immediately pressed for details, they broke the pot and already planned to do everything in their power to find this lost uncle.
Even if there was a possibility that the person might die, even if the person's medical books had been sold long ago, or even if he himself had completely lost his medical skills, as long as there was a glimmer of hope, the people in the Inspection Office were like chicken blood.
Although Gu Yuanbai didn't say anything, he acquiesced to the Inspectorate's actions.
A bit of hope was kindled in his heart, only this spark of hope was too small and subtle, and Gu Yuanbai didn't dare to make it bloom in a big way, and could only wait sensibly and calmly for the final result, placing his eyes on things such as the locust plague, the nomadic herdsmen, and the Manzanita Festival, before he found the answer.
In the midst of this calm and uneventful atmosphere, the day of All Saints' Day finally arrived.
On the day of the Manju Festival, Gu Yuanbai followed the emperor's clothing specifications of the Daheng Dynasty, he wore a complicated and low luxury, and after all of the paillettes were hung on his body, Gu Yuanbai held his breath and looked at the person in the bronze mirror.
Heavenly decorations and noblesse oblige.
Gu Yuanbai raised his eyebrows and smiled, the coronet on top of his head swaying slightly. The incense burner lingered, and the dragons swam on his yellow robe as he turned around, walking slowly towards the outside. Tian Fusheng stepped forward to help him, "Your Holiness, you're going to be more tired today."
But can't the sight of the world bowing down in celebration of me be a cure for exhaustion?
For an ambitious person, such a distinction would be addictive, as if it were the sweetest poison. Gu Yuanbai smiled without saying a word, his steps were calm and steady as he headed towards the Golden Palace.
After the saint stabilized the dragon chair, the following hundred officials dressed in python robes and gowns, have stood solemnly on both sides, in the east of the rising sun, uniformly said congratulatory words, with Gu Yuanbai pilgrimage.
At the same time, each local incense case is prepared, the local officials are neatly dressed, leading the officials in the government house, three times toward the capital: "May the Holy Body be well, the world peace!"
Smoke billows from incense cases as the nation celebrates everywhere for the birthday of the saint. During these three days of rest, the government sends craftsmen out into the streets to show how prosperous Daheng is under today's rule.
Rich local magnates or officials even paid out of their own pockets, for the people free of charge for the printing of the word "life and prosperity" four cakes, in order to get a good luck.
These three days without curfew, restaurants are lively, red and prosperous, between the people say "harvest geometry? The word "good weather", will smile to see the teeth, and then coincidentally exclaimed: "This year is a good harvest ah."
And thousands of miles away in the North.
Xue Yuan looked up at the midday sky as he reined in his horse and raised his voice, "Dismount and form up!"
The armor-clad soldiers didn't hesitate for a second, and the next moment they heard the order they rolled over and dismounted.
With the cavalry in line, and the infantry following closely behind, the large force had in a few moments become a formidable square formation.
Xue Yuan led the crowd to face the direction of the capital, lifted his robe, knelt down cleanly, and said aloud, "I wish for the prosperity of my Great Heng, and I wish for the well-being of my saint's dragon body."
This voice was passed back by the officers with a bang, tens of thousands of soldiers who ate the food of the Holy Spirit and wore the clothes of the Holy Spirit also knelt down solidly, densely packed in black, and the sound of the voice, shocked the birds and birds flying in the dense forest.
"May my Great Heng prosper! Wish my Emperor's dragon health!"
Xue Yuan shouted three times together with the soldiers, he looked at the distance and thought, if there is really a shameless god in the sky, then this god can give him a clear hearing.
With so many people praying for Gu Yuanbai, the little emperor would have to live a long life anyways.