Chu Lin hurried to the Qinzheng Hall to find out what had happened.

Emperor Jianhe, who was about to celebrate his fifty-sixth birthday in two days, fell into a coma again.

Unlike the last time he fell asleep, his face was extremely bad at this time, and the imperial doctor and the palace people who were close to him could judge that the emperor, who had reigned for thirty-three years, was about to go to the west.

In addition to Chu Lin, there are still twenty important ministers waiting outside the palace, all of whom are the leaders of various ministries and departments in the court, and there are several princes and county kings who have come from afar for He Shou in the hall.

After waiting for three hours inside and outside the hall, at dusk, there was finally news that under the combined effect of fierce medicine and silver needles, Emperor Jianhe woke up, and everyone was finally able to face the saint.

Some ministers have not seen the true face of the Son of Heaven for a long time, because since the early autumn of the Heng King to supervise the country, the emperor has been recuperating in the deep palace, the early dynasty has stopped for more than a month, and the excerpts of the various ministries but have to be played on weekdays are directly handed to the Heng King. Therefore, now at first glance, when they saw Emperor Jianhe leaning on the couch, everyone was shocked in their hearts, the emperor who was not yet fifty years old, was now weak and vulnerable, and there was no trace of the thunderous appearance of the past on the face of Huang Wax, and what was in front of them at the moment was just a dying weakling.

Hearing the footsteps, Emperor Jianhe raised his eyelids, when did he face his courtiers with a false appearance, but there is no way at the moment, he is too tired, more than 30 years of hard work, no matter success or failure has exhausted all his hard work, but in order to give the third son a justifiable name, he still has to do his last strength to tell the world.

"Song Chen, the third son of the emperor, has a noble character, and he will be able to overcome the unification. After succeeding me to the throne, that is, the emperor's throne, that is, obeying the public opinion system, holding the service for 27 days, releasing the obedience and proclaiming the world, and the salty envoy heard about it. ”

When the eunuch in charge announced the edict loudly, everyone kowtowed, shouted long live, and when they looked up again, the Jianhe Emperor in front of him had already closed his eyes.

On the first day of the ninth month of the 33rd year of the Great Qi Jianhe, the emperor died.

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After a day of suspension in the Qinzheng Temple, the body of Emperor Jianhe was moved to the Sheng'an Temple.

Emperor Jianhe has died for four days, the Ministry of Rites has begun to prepare for the burial of the first emperor, the new emperor will succeed to the throne, and Song Chen has moved to the Qinzheng Palace to take care of political affairs.

Xu Jinhe, as the successor queen, comforted her mother-in-law in Funing Palace, and was about to become the queen mother's concubine.

In the main hall of the Sheng'an Palace, next to the coffin of the first emperor, there are three princes who are guarding the spirits of King Huai, King Shen and King Li, and the guards in the side hall are the princesses and concubines of the princesses of each palace headed by Chu Xue and Li Jiaoyun, and the royal grandsons of each palace, as Song Chen's concubine, Xia Wanyin is also in the ranks of the guards.

The emperor will be buried tomorrow morning, and this is the last night of the vigil, so we must not slack off. Although Yu Lifa has to be observed all night, when the time has passed, everyone can disperse.

Chu Xue is pregnant, and her body is not as good as a normal person, so Concubine Jing didn't let her guard all day, tonight she actually just came not long ago, she only needs to kneel for half an hour, and when it comes, she can go back to rest.

Under the knees are two layers of cushions, there are twenty or thirty adults and children kneeling in the side hall of Nuoda, the late autumn night is cold, Li Jiaoyun is worried about the cold wind seeping into the door, so she gave her the position on the inside, she also cares about the child in the womb, does not shirk much, and goes to the inside smoothly.

Wearing a white filial piety hat on her head and a white filial piety dress on her body, the person she was kneeling down was her dead father-in-law, but she was also one of the murderers who killed her father's mother's relatives.

She didn't have any expression on her face, in fact, it wasn't just her, the people in this side hall, except for a few children who were still ignorant and still laughing, had no expression on their faces. Although that person is nominally their father-in-law, most of them have never seen this former emperor a few times, such as Li Jiaoyun, although she has been a side concubine for nearly ten years, she has only seen both sides of Jianhe and the emperor, she has long since remembered the face of that person, and may not even have seen it clearly.

Chu Xue still remembered that although she had only seen Emperor Jianhe twice, she remembered his appearance deeply. Because it was this person's suspicion and credulity that killed all his former family members, so that his father, who should have been admired by the people of Daqi, is still wronged and burdened with absurd charges of treason.

He is dead now, and there is the whole world wearing linen and filial piety, but what about his father, his mother, his brother, and more than 30 people from the Yue family, where are their graves now? Does anyone know?

Not even she, the only one alive, didn't know.

I just feel cold.

But after thinking about it, although there is a world that wears linen and filial piety for him, how many people can really grieve for his departure? Song Chen has been busy these days, and he is still in the filial piety period, she has never seen him, I don't know his feelings, but looking at the few princes in the main hall who are still leisurely, you can understand that as long as Lao Tzu's death does not affect their glory and wealth, they are not much sad, let alone the daughters-in-law who are not related to each other in this palace.

Chu Xue was distracted, and suddenly smelled an uncomfortable odor at the end of her nose, she was extremely sensitive to smells after being pregnant, but she could smell what others couldn't smell. She frowned and turned her head to find the source of the smell.

When she saw the scene on the other side of the hall, she was shocked and hurriedly shouted: "Fire, fire!" It's on fire, it's on fire! ”

Hearing her voice, the women who were napping and not napping finally cheered up, and they all looked in the direction of her finger, and saw that at the end of the hall, the fierce flames had swallowed up a large number of curtains, and they were rushing towards them with their teeth and claws through the layers of filial piety tents overhead.

There was a sudden panic in the side hall, and shouts rang out for a while, and a few people close to the temple door ran a few steps to grab the door, but they were crowded together, and those trapped in the center of the hall were already at a loss.

Then the fire and smoke became stronger and stronger, and the shouts entered her ears, Chu Xue had a headache, and the tragic scene when she was a child seemed to reappear in front of her, and she trembled to help Yanling's arm. The shouts and fires in the hall startled the palace people around and several princes in the main hall, everyone went out to see, they were also frightened and their legs were weak, the place where the fire was burned, all of them were trapped by their own families, today is the last night of the vigil, and the women and children are all on battle!

The calmer King Huai hurriedly ordered people to save people, and the young King Li even went to carry water to extinguish the fire himself, and King Shen had already rushed to the side hall......

When King Shen arrived, a few people in the side hall had already come out, and the eldest princess ordered someone to save the children first, and the children were naturally the ones who came out first.

In the hall, Li Jiaoyun hugged Song Ning, looking for Song Qi in the firelight, just now she had seen Song Chi and Song Qian being sent out, but she never saw Song Qi. Song Chi and Song Qian are the princes of the new emperor, and it is understandable for people to save them first, but her Qi'er is just a child! She shouted with a crying voice: "Qi'er, Qi'er......"

Suddenly, she felt a pair of hands holding her arm, and the boy cried, "Mother, I'm afraid of ......"

Li Jiaoyun held the boy's hand and recognized that the child in front of her was Song Qi, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly comforted, "Qi'er is not afraid, mother is here, mother is here, mother is here, mother will take you and your sister away......"

She held a child in one hand and squeezed towards the temple door with difficulty.

The children and their dependents escaped one after another, and Li Jiaoyun, who was finally out of the predicament, hugged the two children and cried with joy.

When King Shen saw the people who had escaped, he tapped it slightly, only to realize that the number of people was wrong, and hurriedly asked, "Is there anyone missing?" Is there anyone else who hasn't come out? ”

A side concubine of King Huai's Mansion suddenly exclaimed: "Wen Pei, Wen Pei hasn't come out yet!" Come on, go and save the county lord, the county lord is still inside! ”

The Wen Pei in her mouth is the five-year-old daughter of King Huai, because she is the only daughter, although she was born to a concubine, she also got the title of county lord. Wen Pei's biological mother has a low status and is not among the guardians today, so no one noticed her when she fled for her life just now.

As soon as the words fell, Li Jiaoyun looked around, and suddenly exclaimed, "Sister Xue...... Why didn't Sister Snow come out? Hurry up and save people......" She hurriedly looked at King Shen, "Lord Wang, go and save people, Sister Xue is pregnant!" ”

There were still people inside, and King Shen immediately commanded people to rush in.

Just when the number of people was counted outside, the smoke in the hall was getting more and more choking, and when the vision was clear just now, Chu Xue didn't dare to squeeze to the door, because she was inside the hall, not only far away from the temple door, but also afraid that many people would hurt the child in the womb, but when the door was finally empty, there was already a thick smoke around, and she could hardly distinguish the direction, but fortunately, Yanling was still with her, and she was led by Yanling and reluctantly walked out. He had just taken a few steps when he suddenly heard the little girl's cry.

She exclaimed, "There are still people! It's a kid! Yanling, go and find it! ”

Yanling was still worried about her and hesitated, but she had just had a child, and now she couldn't hear the child crying, so she didn't care about herself at all, and only hurriedly told Yanling, "Go, the child is so young, he can't escape!" ”

Yanling had no choice but to obey and hold her breath to look deep into the smoke.

After a while, she saw Yanling coming over with a little girl in her arms, she was relieved, and the three of them wanted to go out.

But surprisingly, the three of them were not the only ones who remained in the temple.

Xia Wanyin and the maid Suqian have not escaped yet.

But they didn't just squeeze out, but deliberately stayed, waiting for this opportunity.

No one knows that tonight's fire is not an accident, but man-made.

In the middle of the night last night, Qiu Gui sent a message to Xia Wanyin, saying that there would be an accident in the side hall of the Sheng'an Hall tonight, and she wanted to take the opportunity to act.

So Xia Wan waited all night, how could she let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity now?

Yan Ling hugged Wen Pei, followed by Chu Xue, and the three of them moved a few steps, but they were blocked in front of them.

Seeing the woman in front of her clearly, Yan Ling exclaimed, "Mrs. Xia? Why haven't you gone out yet? The situation is critical, you guys go quickly! ”

saw that Xia Wanyin didn't seem to be in a hurry, "The concubine has been waiting for Mrs. ”

Chu Xue vaguely felt that her tone was wrong, and asked suspiciously: "Are you waiting for me?" Now is not the time to speak, let's go quickly......"

Before she finished speaking, she saw Xia Wanyin take a clay pot from Su Qian's hand, and after she opened it, she sneered: "The concubine has been waiting for a year, just waiting for this moment...... Just stay and enjoy! ”

With a wave of his hand, the water-like liquid in the clay pot splashed Chu Xue's body, and then the master and servant took the lead in running out of the hall.

The strong smell of tung oil on her body was pungent, Chu Xue suddenly understood what Xia Wanyin was going to do, she poured tung oil on herself in the fire, and she wanted to kill herself!

And why did she bring tung oil, could it be that tonight's fire was premeditated?

Just as she shuddered, the curtain that Su Qian had torn off had already ignited a fire, and the raging fire dragon stood in front of the three of them, trapping them alive.

The situation is critical, Yanling has kung fu in her body, and it is not impossible to rush out hard, but she is still holding a child in her hands, and Chu Xue who has been splashed with tung oil behind her.

Is God going to destroy them today?

The three of them were about to despair, when they suddenly saw a person rushing in from the window, the person was dressed as a palace person, Yan Ling looked a little familiar, and before he could react, he saw him pick up Chu Xue and whisper to her, "Go!" ”

Yan Ling nodded, and immediately followed him, rushing out of the sea of fire.