The first night of Northern Qi's return to the palace turned into a painful night, because on this night, the seventh girl finally passed away because of too much poisoning. It was also destined to be an extraordinary night for Chang Gui, and he never believed that the Lotus Society was sent by Lord Yanlan.

Xiao Lizi knelt on the ground and told the queen everything that happened, and after listening, the queen waved her hand in satisfaction and told Xiao Lizi to retreat.

Until the last moment of her life, the poor and timid girl did her best to protect the person she liked. At this time, the queen couldn't help but sigh for that girl in her heart, and she still liked her very much when she saw her for the first time.

In exchange, the queen gave Lotus the arsenic that Lotus had prepared, and told Lotus to kill everyone in that room except the little prince. And if the matter is revealed, all the responsibility must be put on Lord Yanlan. The queen also promised that she would be married to Chang Gui after the matter was completed.

It was Chang Gui who met the depressed Lotus on the way back to the room and asked her to send some food to Gong Zhu, but Lotus finally blamed all the blame on herself and drank the poisonous porridge.

Chang Gui recalled the bits and pieces of getting along with Lotus on this night, and thought of the last time she saw Lotus. Lotus looked at him like that, did she have something to say to him? If I had asked a few more words, would Lotus not have done such a thing? There were more and more questions in Chang Gui's heart, and he became more and more unsolvable, and finally sat down until dawn.

The blackened corpse of the seventh girl was still placed in the original room, and before leaving, Imperial Physician Meng used some methods to say that the corpse could be preserved. The dawn of the world has come, even if Beiqi cries again, the seventh girl will not wake up. Flower Face stood aside, although he couldn't see his face, but his eyes betrayed his sadness.

Gong Zhu sat at the table and looked at the kneeling Beiqi.

From the time the Seventh Girl closed her eyes to the present, Northern Qi has gone from the initial crazy wail to the current silent sobbing. Beiqi's eyes are crying, and his heart is also crying. Before the seventh girl died, the corners of her mouth were stained with black blood, and she kept twitching, but she still looked at Beiqi and smiled. Northern Qi will never forget that look in his life, and that voice,

"Emperor. Above. ”

Bei Qi looked at the ground and said in a voice that shouldn't belong to him,

"Mother, don't worry, I will definitely be a good emperor."

There are palace people who come to pass the palace bamboo to the queen. Gong Zhu stood up, walked to Bei Qi's side and knelt down, grabbed Bei Qi's little hand, looked at Bei Qi and said,

"That's all I can do, kid. But you, you have to hold on. ”

Beiqi didn't understand what Gong Zhu meant, but he still nodded preciously.

Gong Zhu stood up again and walked over to Hua Face.

"Flower face, I beg you, you must protect Northern Qi, at least until he has the ability to protect himself, you must not leave."

"Yes, sir."

After saying this, Gong Zhu took a step back, knelt heavily in front of the seventh girl, and kowtowed three times. stood up, didn't say anything more and followed the palace people.

Beiqi turned his face to look at the flower face,

"Uncle Flower-Faced, where did Grandpa go?"

Hua Mian didn't speak, looking at Gong Zhu's distant back, knowing that it was gone.

The palace people did not take the palace bamboo far away, but the main hall of the Zhengyang Palace next to it, where the emperor's body was parked. The queen stood next to the huge coffin, put her hand lightly on it, and looked at the person lying inside with a gentle gaze. After Gong Zhu saw the emperor's tablet, his heartbeat did not become more violent.

"Gong Zhu, you're here."

The queen watched Gong Zhu gradually walk in, waved her hand, and all the palace people retreated. Gong Zhu didn't pay attention to the queen, but walked directly to the front of the rank and knelt down heavily, bowed three times and bowed nine times, and after the last bow, Gong Zhu did not raise his head. When the queen saw Gong Zhu like this, she felt guilty about the emperor, and she no longer had the idea of teasing Gong Zhu before.

The queen straightened her face,

"Gong Zhu, I don't want to mention the previous things, no matter who is right or wrong, even if it is the fault of this palace, you have to pay the price. Now, there is only one most important thing to do in the palace, to send that prince to the throne. ”

Gong Zhu slowly raised his head from the ground and straightened his body. His eyes were fixed on the coffin, as if he saw the emperor sleeping in it.

"Then you, did you know about the eldest prince back then?"

The queen's body shook slightly, took her hand away from the coffin wound, and looked at the sky outside,

"Yes."

"Then you, did you know that the eldest prince was killed by your brother?"

Under the backdrop of Gong Zhu's calm tone, the queen's brief answer made people tremble,

"Yes."

"Then you, know the emperor's innocence?"

When the queen heard this, she withdrew her gaze and looked inside the coffin again,

"Yes."

"Then you know how ridiculous you have been thinking all along. I know how ridiculous my approach has been. You have been coming, you cholera harem, mutilating the emperor's heir, and the emperor can't save a little prince. Do you really think that your good father and your good brother are going to be emperors in order to save you! No, they killed the eldest prince first, and they used you to get rid of the prince, so that they could be on the throne! ”

"Shut up Hongu!"

Gong Zhu shouted so loudly, but the queen was awake, because every sentence Gong Zhu said was reasonable, and every sentence was a fact. But the queen still gave Chang Gui an angry slap.

Gong Zhu was slapped in the face, but he didn't stop, and continued,

"Why, because I'm so right! Why don't you let me say it! I'm telling the truth! Finally, let me ask you one more question, Queen Mother, do you know that the emperor loves you? ”

When the queen heard this, the angry expression on her face gradually faded and turned to sadness. She also knelt in front of the emperor's coffin like Gong Zhu and began to cry.

Gong Zhu looked at the crying queen mother, stood up and walked closer to the coffin, and then he saw the appearance of his old friend for decades. He looked at the emperor and said silently in his heart,

"Your Majesty, the little one has done it. The little one brought the little prince back to the palace. You, there is a successor. ”

The main hall echoed with the queen's cries and the sobs of the palace bamboo.

After a long time, Gong Zhu made a final farewell,

"Queen, you're right, everything has passed, and the most important thing now is to send the little prince to the throne."

The queen also stopped crying, raised her head, looked at Gong Zhu and said,

"Yes, Hongu will definitely do it. However, there are conditions in this palace. ”

Gong Zhu said indifferently as if he knew that the queen would say this.

"Just say it."

"This palace wants you to die."

This is a condition that the queen has long thought of, and only when Gong Zhu dies can she feel at ease. If Gong Zhu is alive and helps that child ascend to the throne, when that child grows up, where will he have his own place.

Gong Zhu easily gave the answer,

"Okay, but I also have conditions."

Gong Zhu replied like this, walked to the door step by step, and looked at the sky like the queen just now,

"If I die, that brother of yours, General Yanlan, must also die. I must guarantee that no one will be able to hurt Northern Qi in the future. ”

The queen sneered and agreed to Gong Zhu very easily.

"Okay."

Gong Zhu happened to see Chang Gui outside the palace gate at this time, and quickly turned around and asked the queen,

"I have one last question. Did you send that palace maid named Lotus to kill us? ”

The queen didn't hesitate much,

"Yes, but I told her to kill anyone but the child."

"Queen, you have to do what you say."

Before Gong Zhu's words fell, the queen saw a blur in front of her.

With a 'bang', Gong Zhu used all his strength to hit the coffin, shattering his skull and killing him on the spot.

Chang Gui got up early to dispose of Lotus's corpse, and when he came back, he saw Gong Zhu and the queen. He saw the queen kneeling in front of the emperor's coffin with her back to him, and Gong Zhu seemed to be looking at him. He felt bad in his heart, and he was about to run over when he handed over the lotus ash jar to the people around him.

Before he could run a few steps, he saw Gong Zhu hit the coffin himself. Chang Gui was stunned by this scene and hurriedly ran over. Ran to the door of the main hall and stopped, only to see the queen who was also stunned.

Looking at the blood and white spots all over the ground, Chang Gui didn't do anything more and knelt down.

The emperor's funeral was held as scheduled in the next two hours, and the little prince did not show up.

The next day, the prince succeeded to the throne and became the 14th emperor of the Northern Qi Kingdom.

The queen of the Yanlan clan is the queen mother, and the biological mother of the posthumous emperor is the concubine Duan.

Three days later, General Yanlan was sentenced to death for the crime of killing the emperor's heir, and the merits of the Yanlan family were exempted from punishment for the nine clans.

It's like all the stories are settled, but that's just the beginning.