Sure enough, early the next morning, there were chamberlains who came to the palace to deliver the decree, and the queen was mourned, and the princesses and concubines were ordered to enter the palace to cry and mourn.

Chan Yi had already prepared, and she got up early in the morning to tidy up her clothes and accessories, choosing a solemn and unobtrusive color and appearance, and after packing up Chu Shaoyuan, she asked the maids to come in and dress her.

Chu Shaoyuan sat aside and advised: "Don't panic no matter who you see, it's always a show, Feng Yi also let people take care of it, keep her too hard to come to your trouble, today's funeral is handled by the Queen Mother, if the Queen Mother invites you to question, don't be afraid, it's not our fault after all......"

Chanyi couldn't help but want to laugh at him when she heard it, and it was not the first time she entered the palace, although it was the day of the queen's funeral, but the people in the palace have always known how to observe words and feelings, and the only ones who can ascend the throne are Chu Shaoyuan and the four princes.

But hearing him chatter like this, she still couldn't hold back a laugh and nodded again and again: "I've written it down, and there will be no mistakes in keeping it." ”

Chu Shaoyuan was still a little uneasy, and carefully instructed Jinxin to guard Chanyi, leaving only a Jinse at home to take care of the garden.

When I arrived in the palace, I got off the sedan chair in front of the Chongxing Gate, and first changed my filial piety clothes outside the inner palace gate, and then I was led to Chaofeng Palace by the inner attendant according to the grade of the foreign woman.

At this time, Chaofeng Palace was covered in silver, and it was quiet, and only the sound of the monks outside the hall reading the scriptures could be heard.

Although Chanyi is a foreign woman, but in the end she bears the name of a third princess, the queen is her mother-in-law, after she entered the palace, the inner servant first took her and the eldest princess to Chaofeng Palace, first kowtowed in front of the erected mourning hall, and then knelt down on both sides of the mourning hall, ready to cry and mourn.

Chanyi's eyes were sharp, and at a glance she saw Princess Fengyi kneeling in front of her, dressed in plain linen.

Princess Fengyi knelt on each side of a palace person, who seemed to support her and prevent her from falling, but in fact, she was suppressed there and prevented from moving, and Princess Fengyi also saw Chanyi, and she shot at her fiercely with a sharp blade in her eyes.

Chan Yi snorted slightly and ignored it.

Today's Feng Yi is like a tiger with its claws and teeth pulled out, looking at it with such a ferocious appearance, it is actually useless at all, otherwise it would not have been controlled so easily by Chu Shaoyuan.

And the crown prince is even more afraid, a prince who is about to be deposed after the failure of forcing the palace, even if the queen dies, it can't offset his rebellious crimes, and now the emperor is pressing, but he just doesn't want people to say that he is unkind.

Everyone cried for a while, and then an attendant came to deliver the decree, and the queen mother invited a few princesses to come over.

Chanyi hurriedly stood up and walked with the eldest princess in the direction of Ci'an Palace.

The eldest princess is a twenty-three or four-year-old woman, with a slender figure, perhaps because of her background, she is a little cowering in front of people, and her eyebrows are delicate and she looks very soft.

At this moment, she lowered her head and looked at Chanyi, and because her steps were slower, she walked side by side with Chanyi.

Her voice was weak but enough for Chanyi to hear clearly: "In recent days, the Queen Mother has been worried about the Queen Mother, and her heart is depressed. ”

Chanyi was surprised, what she said was as if she was going to scold her in public when the Queen Mother announced her in the past.

When she wanted to ask the eldest princess again, the eldest princess had already quickly followed the chamberlain in front of her.

Chanyi frowned, when did Chu Shaoyuan actually talk to the eldest prince? Although the eldest prince is long, he was born in the palace, and his background and upbringing are not as good as the prince, so almost no one in the court regards the eldest prince in his eyes, and the eldest prince opened the mansion early, and he is also in charge of the duties of guarding the imperial tomb, and he is far inferior to other princes, so the eldest prince has always been a person with no sense of existence.

The background of the eldest princess is not good, it is said that she is the daughter of a family, she has followed her mother to learn female training and female precepts since she was a child, and she has always been rigid, and she almost does not dare to speak in front of people, so she will remind her at such a moment.

Chan Yi felt a little unbelievable in her heart, Chu Shaoyuan even enveloped the eldest prince, how far has his power developed?

And the sentence reminded by the eldest princess, when she saw the queen mother, Chanyi understood what the eldest princess meant by her words.

But I haven't seen her for a few days, and Empress Dowager Zhu's cheeks have been obviously flattened, and the white hair that suddenly appeared on the sideburns looks more like an old man in his last years, but he still holds on to his breath and doesn't let himself fall.

Chanyi didn't know what had happened between Empress Dowager Zhu and Emperor Wen in the past few days, but it was obvious that Empress Dowager Zhu's appearance was really not good.

And when Empress Dowager Zhu saw Chanyi, she couldn't even collapse with the kindness on the surface, and her aging face drooped down, revealing a sharp expression, which made Chanyi couldn't help but be shocked in her heart.

Empress Dowager Zhu looked at Chan Yi who was kneeling on the ground and saluting, her old eyes narrowed, she began to think that the sister of the Xia family was a little lady with a soft personality, and she really thought that she was a good child like Sister Jin, but she didn't expect that she had so much careful thinking, and even dared to calculate herself!

She thought about the prince forcing the palace for a long time, and finally understood that if she had met Prince An at that time, there would have been no such things later, but Princess An obviously knew the cause and effect, but she still refused to tell her about the matter, and used the queen as an excuse, no one in the palace knew that she was most annoyed by the queen, and Princess An had no ill intentions at all!

Thinking of this, the anger in Empress Dowager Zhu's heart could no longer be endured.

"Prince An!" Empress Dowager Zhu scolded sharply, "Do you know what is wrong?"

Chanyi was startled by Empress Dowager Zhu's unprovoked anger, and she was still kneeling, so she couldn't help but raise her head and look at the Empress Dowager with a pair of clear eyes.

Seeing the anger in Empress Dowager Zhu's eyes, she shook her head, and her expression was a little sluggish.

Empress Dowager Zhu was so angry that her stomach hurt, this Prince and Princess An obviously hadn't been able to do it yet, how could she pretend to be like this? She still looked at her with such innocent eyes, as if she had been wronged and frightened and didn't dare to speak out.

"Well, you don't want to admit it, the mourning family came to ask you, what did you do on Chinese New Year's Eve? How did you get so angry that the empress let her get sick and die in such a short time!

Chanyi looked at Empress Dowager Zhu with wide eyes in disbelief, this basin of dirty water splashed made her almost want to laugh.

Is the queen mother crazy? How did the queen die, could she, who is in the harem, not know? In front of a room full of women inside and outside, splashing such a basin of dirty water on her can cover up the fact that the prince forced the queen to kill herself?

Even if the Queen Mother wants to cover up such a big matter, I'm afraid that the emperor won't cover it up, besides, the prince has always been in the same breath as the queen, when did the Queen Mother attach so much importance to the prince? Previously, the Queen Mother obviously wanted Chu Shaoyuan to be the prince, but later saw that Chu Shaoyuan couldn't win over Chu Shaoyuan, so she voted for the four princes, why did she start to complain for the queen now?

But no matter what the truth of the matter is, Chanyi knows that she can't mention the matter of the prince's forcing the palace at this moment, otherwise she will be smearing the queen.

There was silence in the main hall of Ci'an Palace, and the foreign women around the Queen Mother looked at each other, I don't know what kind of trouble the Queen Mother and Princess An were making, but it was certain that the cause of the queen's death was not simple, at least not as reported in the palace.

Chanyi stabilized her mind, kowtowed to the Queen Mother respectfully, and then said slowly: "What the Queen Mother said, the concubine didn't dare to agree, at the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet that night, everyone also watched, if the concubine really made a mistake, the concubine would never dare to shout grievances in front of the Queen Mother, but ......"

Speaking of this, she glanced up at the Queen Mother, and before the Queen Mother spoke, she hurriedly said: "At the banquet that night, the concubine body saw that the queen mother seemed to be unhappy, and the concubine body was a junior, since the queen mother did not like the concubine body, the concubine body did not dare to go against the wishes of the queen mother, as soon as the banquet was over, the concubine body came to the queen mother, and wanted to tell the queen mother, but the palace people said that the queen mother rested......

"The concubine waited and waited anxiously, and after thinking about it, she found Concubine Zhuang, and Concubine Zhuang was anxious after learning about it, and she wanted to ask the imperial doctor to come to the queen mother overnight, but she also fell ill with the burden of Concubine Zhuang, all of them are concubines, if the queen mother blames the concubine for this, the concubine is willing to be punished!"

Empress Dowager Zhu was furious when she heard this, and she didn't mention her own faults, but only said that the infection between the queen and Concubine Zhuang was simply beating her with the change in the imperial womb!

Princess An said that she was still using the events on Chinese New Year's Eve to repeatedly remind her what was the reason why she missed the opportunity to punish the empress.

She scolded angrily: "What a clever and flattering obstacle! So you are not at fault at all?"

Empress Dowager Zhu refused to let go of Chanyi, and she would definitely be punished for disrespect and unfilial piety today.

Chanyi also understood the meaning of Empress Dowager Zhu's words in her heart, as long as her reputation was ruined, when she talked about Chu Shaoyuan in the future, everyone would feel sorry for him.

But she just didn't want Empress Dowager Zhu to succeed.

She lowered her head, shrunk her shoulders, and replied softly: "Queen Mother, you are angry, since you said that it is the concubine's body, then it is all the fault of the concubine's body, and the Queen Mother should not be angry." ”

Empress Dowager Zhu was furious, and when she heard the words of Prince An, it turned out that she had suffered a grievance herself, but because she didn't want to make herself, the queen mother, angry, she had to grit her teeth and swallow the charge.

How could she allow Prince An to go wild here, and just as she was about to open her mouth to let her be pulled out to play the board, she heard the sharp voice of the chamberlain call:

"The emperor has arrived!"