Chapter 146: The Queen Mother dies

The death of Princess Shujun, the self-hanging of the people of the Ma Palace, the death of the imperial physician Guo Jin, and the successive deaths permeated the court.

Yin Li asked her aunt Deng to find a Taoist priest to practice things in the Anfu Palace. That person made people set up order flags in the south, south, north, and west, a total of twenty-eight, which were twenty-eight star dormitories, and seven green flags in the east, in the shape of a dragon; Seven soap flags in the north are the momentum of Xuanwu; Seven white flags in the West, standing in the power of the white tiger; Seven red flags in the south are in the shape of a red bird. In the middle of the hall, sixty-four people stand according to eight directions, each wearing a hair crown, wearing a soap robe, a windbreaker and a belt, and a square coat of red shoes.

The Taoist priest was in the center, holding a long rod with a chicken feather on the tip of the pole, and he stood the pole in the center, and he did not see what he did, but the pole stood and did not fall. The concubines of the whole palace are concentrated in the Anfu Palace, and the palace is so quiet that you can hear a needle falling to the ground. I saw him pick up the sword, put incense on the incense burner and salute it, and wander around the altar with the sword, sometimes making one or two strange howls, which frightened several timid concubines, and covered their eyes and did not dare to look.

Yin Li stood in front of the hall with a group of concubines, and waited for the Taoist priest to dance the sword before asking, "May I ask the immortal chief, but is it done?" ”

The Taoist priest said: "Exactly, but it only counts if you have drunk the rune water, otherwise the disaster star will not be eliminated!" ”

Yin Li nodded, took the lead in taking the rune water, drank it in one gulp, and looked at the concubines who had drunk it, so that they could be relieved. He asked again: "Immortal Chief, may I ask, what kind of yin thing is in the palace?" ”

The Taoist priest shook his head and said, "The yin qi in this palace is heavy, and the yang qi is weak. Has the emperor or queen ever cast a spell or something like that before? ”

Yin Liqi said: "Immortal Chang is really a god, this is true, back then." The emperor once killed a person, and that person passed some immortal methods, and gave the emperor a spell before he died. ”

The Taoist priest said: "This matter is incomprehensible, the person who gave the curse is dead, the curse before death." It's mostly a death curse that can't be solved. There is only one way, all the heirs who are born and raised are sent out of the palace to be raised. And there will be no trouble. ”

"Sent to the outside of the palace to raise?" Yin Li secretly remembered it in his heart, and for some reason, when he heard this sentence, his heart was much more steady.

Shortly after the ceremony. On the first day of the new year, I worshipped heaven and earth. A feast was held again. The palace, which was panicked due to some unfortunate things, finally calmed down.

Since the incident last time, due to the emperor's care, Yiying's items have also been delivered, and life has been quite peaceful. At the family banquet, I saw my mother and brothers from afar, and when I saw that they were all well, my heart was relieved. It's just that every time the emperor looks at her, he still has eyes like still water in the abyss, which always warms her heart. It's like a person who has lost his way in the snow, and when he sees the lights from afar, he has a landing. But as soon as he met Yin Li's gaze flashed. The emperor's gaze immediately looked away, as if he was just so indifferent to her. On the first day of the new year, Liu Zhao stayed in the Changqiu Palace again, and the emperor's smug eyes, everyone could only dodge, but as usual, when the yin glass came back, Liu Zhao had fallen asleep peacefully.

The days were in such a calm, and in February, the Empress Dowager Dou finally couldn't get through, and Wang Yin'er spread the word that the Empress Dowager had died of illness. When Sui'er arrived at the Qianyuan Palace, he saw that the red palace lamp had been removed in front of the palace, and the attendants and maidservants were busy pasting the door gods with hemp paper and hanging white cloth hemp tents with gloomy faces. Before he reached the gate of the temple, he heard a faint cry from inside. Although Sui'er has a shallow relationship with the Queen Mother, but thinking of her words to herself, as well as everything she arranged for herself, her nose was sore, and tears were rolling out, but she didn't dare to make a sound, and only followed a group of concubines into the Qianyuan Palace, and saw Liu Zhao with Liu Quan, Liu Qing, Liu Shou, Liu Kai, Liu Shu, princesses Liu Nan, Liu Wang, and Liu Ji all wrapped white cloth filial piety hats on their heads, and they didn't even have time to wear hemp, and they knelt on the ground and cried loudly. Tears welled up again.

Wang Yin'er seemed calm, commanding the palace people in the palace to hand out white cloth filial piety hats to everyone. Sui'er looked around while wrapping her filial piety clothes, only to hear Wang Yin'er say to a few attendants: "You go to the library to get sackcloth, and change it for the emperor, the queen and the princes, as well as yourself, where are your filial piety clothes?" This statement reminded everyone that they had gone as if they had flown away.

Yin Li was the last to arrive, but she had been in the palace for a long time, and she was very calm when she was old. Seeing that the imperial doctors were also kneeling under the corridor, it was expected that Liu Zhao had not fallen, so he walked over and said, "You guys retreat!" Since bypassing the crowd, he came to Liu Zhao's side and looked at the Queen Mother, who had just stopped in bed.

Empress Dowager Dou died peacefully, and her face was slightly flushed. It's just that the eyebrows are slightly frowned, the lips are slightly furrowed, the body is already too thin to look good, the previous charm can no longer be talked about, and the corners of the face between the eyebrows are wrinkled. She was the most favored queen when she was Emperor Zhang, and when Liu Zhao was young, she was the queen mother who was in charge of the power of life and death in the world. Thinking of the exclusion and persecution by her when she first entered the palace, and thinking of her lessons to herself, I suddenly felt a sense of relief in my heart. Such a woman who was amazed went like this, as if she was saying something and explaining something, and she said that she went, and suddenly went without a squeak. I thought of my nursing mother again, and I felt that life was uncertain, and it was impermanent.

She mobilized her feelings, couldn't help but boil, kowtowed, and cried out loud, the grievances of the Empress Dowager Dou when she was in the past came to her heart in an instant, and she couldn't hold back the tears rolling out like beads.

After a while, he restrained his mind, and when he looked back, he knew that all the concubines had arrived, so he sobbed and got up, arranged for the concubines to be arranged according to their positions, and said: "The Queen Mother is going to the west, we are the concubines, we must do our best to assist the emperor in the funeral, and don't let the Queen Mother be uneasy in the sky." ”

"Whoa!" The concubines replied like warblers and swallows, Yin Li pursed her lips, glanced at Deng Sui, and saw that she was dressed in filial piety clothes, but her skin was better than snow, and her slender waist was full of hand. I felt uncomfortable for a while, and turned my head and knelt in front of Sui'er. The emotions that had been accumulated just now disappeared without a trace, just babbling and howling.

At this time, the third division had come to the Qianyuan Hall and was persuading Liu Zhao to mourn. Chen Pet said: "Your Majesty, there is a lot of sorrow, and the Queen Mother has finally returned to the west. Now the important thing is to discuss the funeral, so that the Queen Mother can be relieved. You just have to be sad, the Queen Mother is also distressed when she looks at the spirit of heaven. Besides, how many major events are still waiting for you to bow down and break them, and you hurt your body and bones, so how can the courtiers get by in their hearts? ”

"The queen mother-" Liu Zhao cried: "It's the son's unfilial piety, I have been in charge of my mother for three years, and I haven't seen my mother and son, and now that you are gone, where can I go to fulfill my filial piety." As a son, his body is his mother's, and he still cares about who his country is, and now that he thinks about it, his son is very unfilial. Mother, forgive your son for his unfilial piety. The more he cried, the more sad he became, and a large piece of the green bricks on the ground were wet with his crying, no matter how many people persuaded him, he just refused to get up, and he was already crying softly on the ground.

Wang Yin'er has been standing in front of the bed of the Empress Dowager Dou, not a single tear has fallen, looking at Liu Zhao's appearance, sighed and said: "You quickly help the emperor to get up and sit on the couch over there, now that the people are gone, what's the use of crying." Your Majesty, the slave advises you to arrange the queen mother's funeral if you want to fulfill your filial piety! ”

Liu Zhao wiped his tears and asked, "Aunt Yin'er, what did the Queen Mother say when she was dying?" ”

"The Queen Mother said, she doesn't point to you to give her a good coffin and a good coffin, everyone is gone, she doesn't care about those things, if you don't see each other in life and death, it's okay, she doesn't have that blessing, and she doesn't count on it. The Queen Mother only hopes that the emperor will be gracious and bury the Queen Mother and the first emperor together, even if it is a small tomb at the foot of the first emperor, and she will be content. ”

Hearing her miserable, Liu Zhao's heart was even more sore, tears crackled and fell again, and he fell to his knees again, crying: "Queen Mother, what do you think of your son? My son has wanted to come to see you for a long time, but because of the quiet mouth, he can't help it. Queen Mother, my son deserves to be a wreck! All the resentment that he had been holding back for a long time in his heart seemed to burst out in an instant, and he could listen to the sweat of his courtiers, and he didn't know how to persuade the incoherent emperor.

Suddenly, Liu Qingdao, the king of Qinghe: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother is dead, and some ministers have to say something." Please also ask the emperor to mourn! ”

Liu Zhao raised his teary eyes and looked at Liu Qing, who was dressed in filial piety clothes. These days, the relationship between the two has faded a lot, but the brother's affection has not changed. When I saw Liu Qing, I felt even more sad, and took his hand and said, "Brother, I'm sad." There are eight of us brothers, and who is left now? The eldest brother went early, Banzai just died, Liu Shu was sick again, and the brother couldn't stay with him for a long time, let alone the queen mother. Although I understand the truth, when I think of my mother's life, I didn't do much filial piety, and my heart hurts like a pinprick. O Queen Mother—" He hid his face and wept again.

King Qinghe said coldly: "Your Majesty, why are you crying?" She is not your mother, your mother is Liang Guiren! As soon as his words came out, Wang Yin'er let out a long sigh, she had long known that as long as the Empress Dowager Dou died, this matter would definitely be revealed, so the Empress Dowager Dou would leave those humble words, and only hoped that Liu Zhao could let her go for the sake of her raising him.

The words were shocking, Liu Zhao stopped abruptly, and looked at Liu Qing stupidly, his eyes were glazed.

Liu Qing knelt down, "Your Majesty, the minister is telling the truth, what happened back then, Liang Guiren's relatives are still there, and the emperor can ask the people of the Liang family to understand." It is impossible for the people in the palace and the old people not to know, but the Empress Dowager Dou was still alive at the time, and Yu Wei was still there, and no one dared to pierce this layer of curtain. Now that she is dead, it is no longer possible for the Dou family to be evil, so the ministers have the courage to say it. Your Majesty, don't you want to find your own mother, but to call a vicious woman who has been eyeing you all the time, call her mother, and bury her? ”。 (To be continued......)

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