In Chang'an City, inside the Prince's Mansion.

It was already late at night, but Li Jiancheng was still reviewing documents. He held a writing brush in his hand and wrote comments on the documents from time to time. He held a pancake in the other hand and occasionally took a bite to satisfy his hunger.

But he was so focused on marking the paperwork that he didn't even know that his pancake was dipped in ink. He thought it was condiments and continued to put the pancake into his mouth.

Therefore, the circle around the mouth is completely black.

However, Li Jiancheng didn't feel any peculiar smell at all.

He is the only one in the world who works so tirelessly and forgets to eat and sleep.

Fortunately, when he was about to bite the pancake again, Qianqian Su's hands suddenly came over from beside him and snatched the pancake away, leaving it heavy on the table.

Then I heard a woman smile bitterly, and said helplessly and distressedly: "Husband, look at what you are eating?"

Li Jiancheng was slightly startled and looked up at the desk, only to find that it was his wife Zheng Guanyin who was pointing angrily at the pancakes on the table.

Li Jiancheng looked at the pancake, and his face suddenly became embarrassed. The prince of the Tang Dynasty squeaked twice, and said with a slightly embarrassed smile: "I was busy approving documents just now, and I didn't notice it for a moment. Guanyin, don't be angry, I will not do it next time."

Got it."

"You say you can't do it every time, but you've eaten ink more than a dozen times in the past six months. No, I'm going to get angry. I'm going to call the guards and reprimand them severely."

"It's not the guard's fault, it's my fault that I didn't pay attention."

"But they are your guards, why don't they wait for you in the study? If someone were in the study, how could they not see you dipping the cake in ink?"

"Hey, please don't get angry, please. I drove them out. I don't want people to get too close to me. You know, I always cough. If it spreads to others, I will feel very sad..."

"Husband, why are you always so soft? You are the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, and the guards should serve you."

"They are also born to parents, and they also have wives and children at home. How can I put them in danger just because they are greedy for comfort? Once the disease is transmitted to them, won't it harm the guard's family?"

"Husband, you..."

"Okay, okay, don't be angry. Tell me what medicine you brewed again? Why do I smell so fragrant tonight's medicine?"

…

I'm afraid only Li Jiancheng in the world can describe the taste of the decoction as a fragrance. If he were a terminally ill person, he would never be able to feel this relieved.

He has really seen everything, so he is not afraid of his own death.

Zheng Guanyin sighed. She was used to her husband's leisurely attitude. She slowly placed a bowl of concoction on the table and said softly: "Drink it while it's hot. This is a miracle medicine. Don't waste it. Don't waste it."

I was so engrossed in grading documents that I forgot to drink. I will keep an eye on you this time and watch you finish drinking with my own eyes..."

Li Jiancheng laughed and said: "It's a miracle medicine again? You have to drink it."

As he spoke, he winked at his wife and asked jokingly: "Where did you get the secret recipe for this miracle medicine?"

Zheng Guanyin glared at him and said angrily: "Anyway, it's a miracle medicine that can cure your disease."

"Yes, yes, it's a miracle medicine."

Li Jiancheng followed his good deeds and kept comforting his wife, praising her again and again: "Over the years, you have collected prescriptions for me everywhere. I feel that the disease is getting lighter and milder, and maybe one day I will suddenly be cured."

Zheng Guanyin looked at him softly, didn't she know that her husband was coaxing her?

She almost couldn't help but want to tell one thing and tell all the secrets to her husband, but she was alert in time and finally suppressed it with determination. She just said: "Drink quickly, drink quickly. If the medicine gets cold, I will give it to you."

I’m going to be angry.”

"Okay, okay!"

Li Jiancheng smiled warmly, picked up the bowl at his waist and drank it all in one gulp. He then carefully placed the bowl beside his table and said with a smile: "Old rule, don't touch the bowl. I'll burn it with fire before letting the guards bury it."

Lose."

Zheng Guanyin nodded softly and said softly: "Actually, I'm not afraid of getting sick. I want to cough with you."

Li Jiancheng stretched out his hand to touch his wife's face, but he suddenly withdrew his hand halfway and said warmly: "You have to take care of your children. Don't have such thoughts."

As he spoke, he looked out the door, his face became extremely reluctant, and he murmured: "Time is running out, but the children haven't grown up. Sometimes I really want to drop everything and live in seclusion with the children. Even if it's just

In two years, I will be able to leave without any regrets."

Zheng Guanyin's eyes turned red, and she finally couldn't hold back the depression in her heart. She suddenly spoke softly and hinted: "Husband, do you think your cough has been serious recently?"

Li Jiancheng was startled for a moment, and then he seemed a little confused, and subconsciously said: "If you didn't mention it, I wouldn't have noticed that in recent times, my cough has indeed become lighter. Moreover, my energy has become stronger. I used to review documents.

, I am completely exhausted by midnight, but in recent days, I have occasionally been able to stay up all night. No matter how much paperwork I have, I can finish it in one night."

As he spoke, he looked at his wife and couldn't help but ask: "Could it be that you really happened to come up with an effective secret recipe?"

Zheng Guanyin carefully looked outside the door, then suddenly leaned down and spoke softly, "Maybe you won't die and can live for decades."

Li Jiancheng was obviously shocked. He suddenly reached out and grabbed his wife's hand, and asked in a trembling voice: "Tell me the truth, what's going on? You've been to Hebei half a year ago, and you've become a little strange since you came back. Although you've been there all the time,

I try hard to hide it, but the joy you occasionally show is hard to conceal. Guanyin, you are my wife, and you should know that I am very familiar with your nature. You used to have a death wish, and you always wanted to die with me, but in the past six months,

Since then, you have never shown this kind of emotion. Instead, you started to cheer up and became a completely different person. Tell me, what happened half a year ago..."

Zheng Guanyin hesitated to speak, she really wanted to tell her husband everything.

But she suddenly remembered Gu Tianya's warning, and quickly turned to avoid Li Jiancheng's gaze, saying weakly: "Actually, it's nothing. I just think that God will have eyes. For a prince like you who loves the people like a son, God should not let you be in a miserable situation."

"wrong!"

Li Jiancheng shook his head slowly, staring straight at his wife's face.

Suddenly he reached out and picked up the medicine bowl, put it in front of his eyes and observed it carefully, and said in a deep voice: "For the past six months, you have forced me to drink medicine every day. Once I forget to drink it, you will get angry and even follow me.

I argue a lot and cry every time after the argument, but you were not like this before, because at that time you knew that it would be useless for me to take medicine."

He slowly put down the medicine bowl, looked at his wife again, and said: "In the past six months, you have always said that you have found another secret recipe, but do you know that I have already noticed it?

The prescription is changed every day, but it has never been changed, right?"

"Husband, I..."

"I can taste the medicine I take. The medicines I have taken in the past six months all have the same taste. In other words, what you have given me from beginning to end is just the same medicine."

"Husband..."

"This medicine is not actually a herbal medicine, right? You boiled it into a concoction to cover up the uniqueness!"

"Husband, I don't know what you are talking about. It's too bizarre. It's just a wild guess..."

"Haha, people say that a long-term illness makes a good doctor, so I am a good doctor myself. I can tell that what you gave me is not medicine at all. Guanyin, was it the medicine given by our brother-in-law?"

"..."

"It seems that he really gave me the medicine."

Li Jiancheng suddenly stood up, looked at the night outside the door with his hands behind his hands, and murmured: "I heard my second brother say before that he had seen his brother-in-law take out a medicine. That medicine was not a common herbal medicine in the world, but a medicinal herb.

A pill with an extremely unique shape. It was used to treat Niu Niu’s mother’s stomach problems. It is said that one pill of that kind is worth one hundred thousand gold.”

Zheng Guanyin's eyes were anxious, obviously looking for excuses.

But Li Jiancheng suddenly smiled and murmured to himself again: "But it's strange, why didn't my brother-in-law give this medicine to me personally? Instead, he gave it to you and asked you to secretly give it to me."

Zheng Guanyin finally couldn't bear it any more, so she hugged her husband's arm and said with red eyes: "Because he is afraid that you will not want to live, and he knows that you are determined to sacrifice yourself. If it is built, if it is built, our brother-in-law can let you live...

"

"I see!"

Li Jiancheng nodded slowly.

He suddenly walked out of the study, stood in the courtyard with his hands behind his hands, looked to the north, and said softly: "He knows my nature and ambition, and he also knows that I will never retreat for that important matter. Even if I know that the terminal illness is gone, I will still

I chose to die, so he hid it with you and secretly let me take the medicine to cure my illness... Well, if you can have such a brother-in-law in your life, you will have no regrets even if you die with a smile."

Zheng Guanyin turned pale with fright, rushed out of the study and hugged his arm again, saying in a trembling voice: "Jian Jiancheng, Jiancheng, since you already know, please have mercy on us for our painstaking efforts. You must not die, this matter will have serious consequences."

Turnaround."

Li Jiancheng was still looking at the north, his eyes seemed to be attracted by the stars in the sky. After a long time, he said softly: "But the Li family has been planning for so long, Li Jiancheng must die."

Zheng Guanyin suddenly grabbed his shoulder, looked up at Li Jiancheng's face, and said: "Jianjiancheng, you have no idea how much our brother-in-law has sacrificed to save you. Do you think I got this medicine half a year ago? No.

Yes, he didn't have this kind of medicine at all at that time. It was only half a month ago that he finally made this medicine. He asked someone to secretly bring it to him. By the way, he also said, he asked someone to tell me, with your

Shrewdness will definitely detect the drug, so he asked me to tell you that after you notice it."

Li Jianguo was really attracted and couldn't help but asked curiously: "He guessed my reaction in advance, so he responded specifically. Tell me, what did he ask you to tell me?"

Zheng Guanyin took a deep breath and said, as if imitating Gu Tianya's tone: "Brother, you have to take this medicine, because this medicine is the hard work of hundreds of thousands of people."

Li Jiancheng was obviously startled and said subconsciously: "There are only a few hundred thousand people in the entire Hebei Province now."

Zheng Guanyin nodded and said: "In other words, this is the hard work of everyone in Hebei Province."

As she spoke, she looked at Li Jiancheng and said: "Although I don't know what my brother-in-law means, I know that he is definitely not lying. He knew you had a terminal illness half a year ago, but it was not until half a month ago that you were born."

Regarding the medicine, although he said that this medicine was the hard work of the entire Hebei Province, he did not say why it was the hard work of hundreds of thousands of people. There must be a mystery involved that is difficult for us to understand."

Li Jiancheng nodded slowly, suddenly sighed softly, looked up at the sky and said: "Did you know that the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty relegated the immortal to the sky, Guanyin? Our brother-in-law's father was an immortal, and his mother was Princess Guangping of the Sui Dynasty.

!”

He looked at his wife and said with a smile: "Strictly speaking, we all have to call him aunt. Fortunately, we can't count him as a blood relative, otherwise my brother-in-law and Xiuning will not be able to get married..."
To be continued...