The Empress Dowager looked at her strangely for a while, as if she had discovered something, and it seemed that the problem of suddenly losing her memory had flare-up again.

Seeing that Concubine Wen was anxious and furious, she looked away, and then smiled at a grandmother next to her and ordered, "Since this is the case, call a few more people." ”

Concubine Wen's heart was hot, but as soon as she raised her head, she bumped into the Empress Dowager's seemingly cloudy and sagacious gaze that actually saw everything, "The place is big, and a few more people can help catch that little thing quickly." ”

Since the ancestor had an order, the people below naturally gathered a large group of palace people very quickly, and then went straight to the queen's Fengqi Palace to catch the puppy.

Because of the banner of the Empress Dowager, they went straight to Fengqi Palace very quickly and smoothly, and before the news reached the queen, they began to look for the puppy in Fengqi Palace.

"What? The ancestor personally brought people to the palace to find what cats and dogs? When the queen suddenly heard the news, her face, which had always been cold and unmoving, was really stunned.

After being stunned, Feng's eyes sank faintly, and then he turned a little deep thinking.

"Niangniang, I'm afraid there is something else wrong with this." Seeing that she was silent, she thought for a while, and said cautiously, "Look, the slave maid, it was Concubine Wen who came with the Empress Dowager." ”

"Moreover, this will, they have already directly asked people to look around for that puppy in Fengqi Palace."

"Concubine Wen?" The queen's willow eyebrows slanted, and her face immediately turned a little colder, "It does seem unusual." ”

Having said that, her cold and unparalleled face did not change significantly. Except for the slightly drooping phoenix eyes, there was a faint cold light overflowing from the corners of the eyes, but there was no command.

The grandmother glanced at her quietly, and had to ask cautiously tentatively, "Niangniang?" Do you want to stop them? ”

The queen glanced at her with a strange expression, waved her hand, and when the grandmother turned around and went out, she suddenly said, "Let Mama Feng come to see the palace." ”

"Yes," the grandmother bowed her head and withdrew, and after a while, Grandma Feng hurried to the main hall.

"Mother?"

"Leave them alone," the queen glanced at Mama Feng coldly, and raised her hand to interrupt her words, "Tell me about this palace, what has happened from yesterday to now?" ”

Her expression was indifferent, although this was a question, but listening to her tone, she was sure. What is especially strange is that the queen has a laissez-faire attitude towards the empress dowager's behavior.

Xu was silent for a long time, and the queen's cold knife-like gaze suddenly cut over lightly, Mama Feng's heart sank, and she quickly gathered her mind and said softly, "Yu Niangniang, from yesterday afternoon until night, Your Majesty stayed in the imperial study and did not come out. ”

The queen raised her eyebrows noncommittally, her eyes turned thoughtfully, but she did not interrupt Mama Feng.

Mama Feng thought of what she said next, but she was nervous for no reason, "Last night, Your Majesty didn't rest until after the time was over. After resting, less than an hour, he suddenly had night terrors and cough, and he called for a royal doctor. ”

The queen still listened expressionlessly, these are not secrets, Emperor Chu suddenly fell ill last night, everyone must know today, what she wants to listen to is something that everyone does not know.

"According to reliable sources, Qin Tianjian used to observe the heavens all night, and when His Majesty suddenly contracted an illness last night and asked for a royal doctor, he once said and said: The crape myrtle star is dim, and the southeast is now a demonic mang."

The cup in the queen's hand suddenly touched the table with a small sound. Mama Feng's heart jumped suddenly, and she looked at the graceful and dignified lady from the corner of her eyes with some uneasiness.

The light outside the hall dimmed for some time, and when Mama Feng raised the corner of her eyes and quietly looked at the queen, she suddenly found that the queen's face had become unprecedentedly ugly.

It was not the coldness that always looked down on all beings, but the gloomy and oppressive dreary that seemed to be before the approaching storm. But the cold face was not only dull, hidden under that thick gloom, but also seemed to reveal a desperate and sad anger.

There seemed to be others, but Mama Feng couldn't understand it, and she didn't dare to look at it for too long, so she had to bow her head cautiously with doubts.

I just thought silently in my heart, looking at Niangniang's expression, I'm afraid something big is going to happen. But what kind of big deal will this be, she can't see it from the mother's face at the moment.

At this time, there was a sudden commotion outside the hall.

Mama Feng frowned, and then bowed her head and asked, "Niangniang, let the slave go out and take a look?" ”

The queen raised her eyelids and glanced at her, and with a slight head of her jaw as if she were very tired, she ignored her.

Mama Feng hurriedly walked out of the hall, and only then did she know the reason for the commotion outside.

It turned out that the people brought by the Empress Dowager had not caught the puppy with a snow-white fur like a fluffy ball, but in the process of chasing, they found other things in several places in Fengqi Palace.

As soon as Mama Feng came out of the hall, she suddenly saw those things, and her heart immediately shrank nervously, and she immediately blurted out a low exclamation, "The thing of the witch cup? ”

Just under the stone steps outside the hall, next to the two brilliant Yingshan Hong, there are a few small dolls full of silver needles in a mess.

The little silver needles were reflecting the glittering cold light at the moment, and those cold rays were reflected in Mama Feng's eyes, like an invisible sharp blade cutting on her heart.

And next to these little dolls, there is obviously the most noble woman in the harem - the Queen Mother.

No one paid attention to Mama Feng, because at this time, a palace maid approached the Empress Dowager and nervously reported something.

"There is such a thing," the Empress Dowager, who had been smiling, suddenly turned pale when she heard this, and immediately became furious, "It's just presumptuous." ”

Mama Feng was so startled by this roar that she shrank back, and was about to quietly go in to report the matter to the queen, but suddenly heard the sharp singing voice of the eunuch in the distance, "Your Majesty has arrived." ”

This is not a solemn occasion, so you don't have to kneel when you see the driver, but you must not walk around without permission at this time.

Mama Feng's heart jumped a few times, and she could only stand in place respectfully with her head down.

After a while, I saw the sick-looking Emperor Chu walking slowly under the support of the inner attendants, and the Empress Dowager was still outside, and he had seen the Empress Dowager before entering the main hall of Fengqi Palace.

"Mu Tian is here?" When everyone gave Emperor Chu a salute, he didn't speak, but he was squinted by the Empress Dowager first, and directly intercepted, "Okay, since you are here, you can deal with these messy things by yourself." ”

After speaking, she glanced at the dolls that were still stacked randomly next to Yingshanhong out of the corner of her eye, and then waved her hand and left.

The queen did not go out to the door of the main hall to greet Emperor Chu, but just waited in the hall, and waited for Emperor Chu to come in before saluting.

Emperor Chu came over at this moment, and it was not a matter of whether he was courteous or not to care with her.

Of course, he didn't go to the top and sit down, but stood in the middle of the hall, staring at her condescendingly at close range. A cold, serious gaze swept across the glittering hall before condensing to her cold face.

He stared at it fixedly, and didn't speak. The eyes are heavy, and there seems to be a complex color floating in those deep eyes that makes people unable to see clearly, and there seems to be no emotion.

Just staring coldly like this, the innate coercion of being an emperor slowly spread all over the hall silently.

However, the queen is not a fuel-efficient lamp, no matter how coercive he stares, Mu Ran stands silently.

"Witch Cup?" Emperor Chu finally spoke, but this opening was a violent and cold snort, and he directly threw a small puppet full of silver needles in front of the queen, "I really can't imagine that there will be such a day." ”

The queen glanced at him calmly, but she echoed coldly but in an inexplicable mocking tone, "I can't think of it." ”

"Your Majesty came over today, there is nothing else to tell the concubine?"

Just to use such clumsy means to frame up!

However, after asking this sentence, the queen seemed to have a premonition, and her heart suddenly shrank.

Emperor Chu raised his head slightly, but looked at her deeply without making a sound.

The queen would not be stared at by him, but a certain uneasy mood had suddenly spread rapidly in this eye.

After a while, Emperor Chu slowly seemed to look at her again with a faint sadness, and even his cold voice seemed to be choked, "Prince, he ...... It's already gone. ”

The queen was suddenly shocked, but she staggered a little but quickly stabilized, looked at Emperor Chu's solemn face, and then laughed miserably, "It turns out ...... So! ”

cut off all her hopes, so she quickly laid out this rough trap.

This man, this man who has supported each other all the way with her.

Except for a miserable laugh, the queen didn't make a sound, let alone accuse Emperor Chu out of shape.

Silence, a silence as heavy as lead stretched across the main hall.

Emperor Chu looked at the cold and noble woman in front of him, and what he was thinking about was not the death of the prince, nor the love of his youth in the past.

But after the crown prince quietly left the imperial tomb, he continued to intensively present all kinds of evidence to his desk.

These evidences, without exception, all point to the Li family's conspiracy to rebel. From soldiers and weapons to money, from the Li family's lineage of Li Huaitian to the Li family's side branch Li Jiangxiao, and then to Wang Xian and Wang Gui, a large amount of factual evidence shows that they have long secretly formed an alliance and contributed money and people to make rebellion preparations to support the crown prince's ascendancy.

Oh no, it's not that it's preparing, it's already a rebellion.

Emperor Chu remembered those secret reports, and his heart gradually calmed down and became cold because of the anger and grief of the prince being shot.

He raised his majestic eyes, stared at the queen coldly, and said slowly, "Did you kill the prince by mistake or secretly raise troops to rebel?" The queen chooses for herself. ”

Such a heart-pounding word as rebellion came out of his mouth so lightly.

The queen glanced at him silently, and smiled at the corners of her lips as if she was extremely mocking, but her cold face was still calm and calm, "Since Your Majesty has already made a decision in her heart, the concubine can only comply." ”

From the time she heard the word rebellion, she already understood that the Li family was full of people, oh no, it was the Li family, and the whole family would be wiped out.

This man still has to let her choose at this time, but he has to use her last bit of value before stopping.

The crown prince will not be killed by mistake, if the prince is killed by mistake, then he has already exposed the illusion that the prince is still in the imperial tomb.

He is reluctant to leave a strong mark in the history books in the future, recording a heavy stroke of cannibalism between father and son. He would rather that the prince would soon die of a sudden illness and leave a good name for the prince, or deceive himself and others to leave a good name for himself.

The Li family lineage, from then on, the entire clan was wiped out.

"The concubine is tired, please move your majesty to the palace of Concubine Wen's sister." After that, she didn't even look at Emperor Chu anymore, and turned around and walked directly to her bedroom.

This ruthless and unrighteous man, since En has broken off his love, she looks at it again and is a strong irony of her life.

Emperor Chu listened to her cold voice, and then squinted at her calmly faded figure at this moment, and suddenly a trace of absurdity for no reason suddenly arose in his heart.

He looked at her back, and saw a resolute mockery that made him regret it.

Regret?

He is a noble ninety-five, and he has never regretted what he has done.

Squinted his eyes and stared for a while, then he flicked his sleeves and turned around and walked out of Fengqi Palace without hesitation.

An hour later, the news came that the queen had hanged herself with a three-foot white silk.

The mansion that supported her has collapsed, and the man who has been with her young and ambitious all the way has long since changed from the initial mutual respect and love to the fastest.

Therefore, the queen's death, just like a portrayal of her strong life, is decisive and simple.

Next, the news of the death of the crown prince was announced; Then, it was a vigorous and resolute purge of the court situation, and the queen's maternal family was almost wiped out. In addition, Wang Xian and Wang Gui also suffered the scourge of extermination.

A month later, Emperor Chu, who used thunderous means to regain military power, suddenly fell ill without warning.

This disease is so rapid and dangerous that it has the potential to fall like a mountain.

However, in just ten days, I thought it was just a small cold disease, but it reached the point where I was terminally ill and ignored.

Because of his sudden illness, the situation in the court, which had just stabilized, was turbulent again.

When the princes were vying for power and sharing the benefits, the King of Jin, who was usually inconspicuous, also quietly stabilized the court situation.

And this King of Jin is the son of Concubine Wen. On the same day, Concubine Wen set up a situation to force the queen to commit suicide, which was instructed by Emperor Chu.

At this time, everyone saw the ability of King Jin, and it was natural for Qi Qi to ask Emperor Chu to make him the prince.

On this day, Emperor Chu probably returned to the light, knowing that his time was short, so he first summoned a group of important ministers. However, when he was dying, he drove everyone out, and left Chu Lige alone.

In the Taihe Palace, the light is weak, but there is a handsome and long figure in the swaying lights, standing in front of the bed.

"What else does Your Majesty want?" Chu Lige did not sit down in front of the bed as Emperor Chu intended, but stood straight three feet away. Even if the man on the bed who used to be high up has been described as withered, it has not touched his cold heart.

Emperor Chu stretched out his withered hand at him, trying to beckon him closer. It's a pity that the graceful man lowered his eyes slightly, as if he hadn't seen his movements at all, and he was nailed to the spot like a nail.

And except for after he finished asking this sentence, he pursed his lips slightly, and he didn't mean to speak.

Seeing this, Emperor Chu had no choice but to sigh and hang down his hand, and his deep and weak voice hissed with a bit of dying decadence, "You, still hate me? ”

Chu Lige raised his head, glanced at him quickly, lowered his eyes coldly and indifferently, and still had a cold and constant tone, and asked rhetorically, "Do you regret it?" ”

Do you regret what you did in the past? Did he regret using his mother to overthrow a country and harm her life?

Emperor Chu's originally cloudy and gloomy eyes suddenly burst out with a glimmer of light, and he gasped a few times before snorting coldly, "I have stood up to the sky and the earth in my life, and I have never regretted it. ”

Opening up territory, gathering power, and creating a different kind of prosperity are the things he should be proud of as a man and a member of the Southern Chu royal family, why should he regret it?

As an emperor, the most important thing is to look at the success or failure of the result, not the process.

He has no regrets and will never regret it.

Then this sentence welled up in his heart, and his gradually blurred consciousness returned to clarity for a moment, "Why am I suddenly so sick?" ”

No one paid attention to his muttering, and he certainly didn't need anyone else's attention. His memory suddenly reverted back to the day when he forced the queen to die, and his heart once again floated to the strange feeling he had when he watched her back disappear on that day.

"Could it be the woman? What did that woman do to me? ”

As soon as this thought came out, Emperor Chu's body, which was already dying like mud, suddenly trembled violently.

It's a pity that with this answer, he can only ask the queen on Huangquan Road.

Chu Lige glanced at him lightly, and the deep light lingered on his trembling body for a while. There seemed to be a sneering sneer on the thin lips, but there seemed to be no sound at all.

After a while, he glanced at the man expressionlessly, and then, with an extremely resolute turn, extremely firm and steady steps, walked out of the Taihe Hall step by step without looking back.

Emperor Chu narrowed his eyes and looked at the figure that gradually faded out of sight, opened his mouth, and tried to make a sound.

Eventually, however, the slits of the strong eyes gradually closed, and no light could be seen.

The death knell of twenty-four rings spread over the capital in the afternoon, and the Chu Emperor Lin Mutian, who had reigned for 25 years, finally died overnight.

When the mournful bell rang in the sky, Mu Xiaofeng was watering the flowers in the courtyard, she paused in her sprinkling action, then looked up at the sky and muttered, "Finally free." ”

However, when the whole country was mourning, an even more unfortunate news also reached the capital.

Xia Xingshen, the right minister who had gradually controlled the epidemic in Jiangnan, died the day after Emperor Chu's funeral.

When the news was transmitted back to the capital, the courtiers who had a good relationship with Xia Xingshen in the past all sighed with emotion, "Lord Right Prime Minister is loyal to His Majesty and will follow him." ”

Of course, the sadness and sadness of these people only lasted for a while and then dissipated.

Originally, such news should have been collected by Leng Yue and then reported to Mu Xiaofeng, but on this day, it happened that Leng Yue had something else important, and it was the news that Hongying collected on her behalf.

"Right Minister-sama...... Unexpectedly, he was infected with the epidemic...... Deceased? She squeezed the news in her hand blankly, and after a long time, she stumbled towards the flower hall. There, Mu Xiaofeng was sitting idly in front of the window watching the falling flowers.