The backyard of the funeral palace –

The five rooms in the east wing are interconnecting rooms, with dozens of simple square tables and backless benches.

The eunuchs brought all the concubines into the place and forced them to sit on wooden chairs.

In front of each person is a set of celadon bowls, spoons, and wooden chopsticks with glazed drops.

The chicken, duck and fish on the table are abundant, and most of the food has been cold, making people look at it without any appetite.

At the moment of life and death, who can let go of their mood and enjoy these half-lukewarm send-off meals?

Gu Yunyao grabbed the edge of the table with her ten fingers, and her long eyelashes trembled and wept.

The crying in her ears was endless, and her mind seemed to be in a mess of rotten cotton, confused and chaotic.

I don't know what death tastes like in my life, but I'm afraid I'll taste it in a while.

recalled that he was forced to enter the palace at the age of seventeen, and the road to favor was full of ups and downs and several hardships.

Thinking that she was about to turn into a cold corpse, Gu Yunyao couldn't help but frown, her cold lips trembled, and she hid her face and cried sadly.

Is this the cruelty and ruthlessness of the emperor's family? After entering the palace, everything about a woman belongs to the royal family, and even life and death cannot be controlled by herself.

She was not a person who feared death, and since the first night of lying under the emperor, she had been sure that her true self was dead and had become a heartless shell.

When a person dies, the soul will be liberated, but it will be a quick thing.

However, if he really died, he would never see his most beloved man and sister again, and he would never see the Seventh Prince grow up.

In the future, under the aftershadow of the lonely lamp, I don't know how Zhao An will spend more bleak and cold nights; Which palace will Songqin be sent to do work again, and whether the people he meets are good......

There are also Yunxi and Leng Qingtang, at this time, it should be a warning letter sent by Dongchang Fanzi as much as possible, right?

Once King Chen ascends the throne, he will first purge dissidents and will not let go of any forces that can threaten him.

I hope that the two of them will never return to the capital again, and they will never be trapped in this filthy and evil palace again......

The woman was sobbing at the table, her body was squeezed by despair and powerlessness, and the sorrow buried in her chest flowed freely to her limbs, grinding her heart so painful that she could not breathe.

Gu Yunyao knew that there were still unfinished things in this world, and there were people she wanted to accompany. For their sake, she suddenly didn't want to die, she desperately wanted to live.

The door rang, and the old woman with a meaty face stepped into the house, and many little eunuchs rushed in behind her.

The crying in the room suddenly stopped, and the women's expressions were horrified, and their faces were blue and white from tears, and they stared blankly at the fierce gods standing against the light.

The old lady's eyes swept across the table with cold eyes, the corners of the catfish's mouth seemed to be upturned, her eyes were raised, and she said in a loud voice:

"The hour has come, it's time for the ladies to hit the road."

The temperature around them suddenly plummeted, like the gates of hell suddenly opened, and a cold and corrupt aura swept from all directions, shuttling between helpless women at will, bringing them a strong sense of terror.

Immediately, the east chamber broke out again with a howling cry, sad and sad, like a rolling ocean, which made people feel creepy, and goosebumps were about to fall to the ground.

The old lady completely wrote her irritability and impatience on her face, raised her hand and waved, turned around and walked out of the east chamber.

The eunuchs flocked to the house with hideous faces, and no longer cared about any palace rules and etiquette, pulling the placket of their clothes and pulling their necks, and carrying people out of the house like chickens.

"Let go of me, I don't want to die, I'm still young-"

A tearing scream was followed by a sharp and piercing scream, and I saw a plain-clothed woman with her hair scattered to shake away the crowd that had suddenly quieted down, and ran out of the house with her skirt up.

The front foot stepped out, and the cold wind hit the face, and the crisp slap hit half of the woman's cheek, and the Venus in front of her splashed wildly.

Before entering the palace, he was pampered, and after entering the palace, he was pampered, where were these masters treated so harshly, how could he have thought that he would also be slapped in the face by his subordinates.

The woman suddenly became much more honest, one foot in the door and one foot outside the door, her sparkling eyes were stunned, her body was tilted to the side lightly, and she leaned on the door panel and breathed.

Gu Yunyao was standing in a position where he could see half of the woman's face clearly as soon as he raised his eyes, and that person was Sun Jieyu of the Hanxiang Pavilion and Sun Shengsheng, the daughter of Sun Min, the governor of Liangguang!

With a "buzz" in her brain, Gu Yunyao only felt that the sky was spinning, and her consciousness was chaotic.

This time the southern Xinjiang was in turmoil, and both the Min and Sun families made great efforts for the imperial court. Sure enough, the new emperor was about to cross the river and tear down the bridge......

The next moment, Gu Yunyao was brought back to her senses by the continuous crying and scolding.

Sun Jieyu had been pressed to the ground on her back, her two wrists were strangled by a eunuch, her mouth was forcefully opened by another one, and a wine jug was pouring into her mouth.

Gu Yunyao saw her limbs twitch, and she couldn't swallow her breath in her throat.

She knew it was poisoned wine.

Sun Shengsheng and his female flow were tortured by this, and they were powerless to fight back, and while the throat was forced to swallow, they kicked their legs on the threshold at the same time.

After a short while, she was bleeding from all her orifices, and she was lying alone on the cold green brick floor, completely motionless.

The two eunuchs got up and wiped their hands frequently with white handkerchiefs.

The old lady hooked her lips and sneered, and the fork-waisted fox fake tiger might:

"I've seen it all, horizontal and vertical is a death, why do you have to make a black and ugly death? Since the masters don't want to eat, please move to the main hall and hang it on the silk by yourself.

Rest assured, the people who serve the Emperor Daxing underground are also considered meritorious, and after death, they will be posthumously titled, and it is also a matter of supreme glory in the mother's family......"

Gu Yunyao's heart beat faster when she heard this, and Mu Mu turned his head to look at the sumptuous meals on the table.

When she was a maiden, she heard in the tribute courtyard that the royal family used the method of martyrdom of the living, and the most cruel of them was to pour mercury.

Before the procedure, the deceased is usually drugged to put them to sleep, waiting for an opportunity to open their skulls, pour mercury into them, and then suture the skulls together.

It is said that by doing so, the face of the mourner will remain fresh and incorruptible for a long time.

Gu Yunyao sat on the ground with soft feet, and suddenly realized that those drinks and dishes had been given drugs to make people drowsy.

Gu Yunyao was frightened, her body collapsed and couldn't get up, she was held by the eunuchs one by one, and followed Su Bai's team out of the east chamber and into the main hall.

White silk flew in the air, like withered ghost hands ruthlessly reaching out to the women.

A few people were completely desperate, no longer crying or making trouble, pedaling on the beam of the spring stool, grabbing the white silk and sticking it into their heads.

As soon as the spring stool fell, the body hung in the air and fluttered for a while, and there was no movement.

The woman on the ground screamed again, covering her face and stoning, and howling "sister" and "sister" in her mouth.

Strange to say, because of the grace of rain and dew, gold and silver wear, the women who are like black-eyed chickens when they meet seem to have forgotten all the grievances and grievances in the past, hugging each other and joining hands with each other.

The old lady has no humanity, and said with a deep face:

"Do it."

The eunuchs rushed forward to separate the weeping women, one by one, and hung on the spring stool and hung it on the white silk.

The vision was suddenly chaotic and blurred, and Gu Yunyao had been carried on the shoulders of a short and fat eunuch.

Her hands and feet were cold and dry, her mouth was half open, and she couldn't say anything from excessive panic.

"King Chen has arrived—"

Outside the hall, the eunuch's sharp voice pierced the air.

The main hall fell silent immediately, and everyone knelt down and bowed their heads to welcome the new king in the future.

Song Qin followed King Chen into the hall, his anxious eyes searched the crowd, suddenly concentrated, and ran to Gu Yunyao's side and cried loudly:

"Master, master, are you alright... The slave and the maid should die, and the slave and maid are too late to harm the master and the aggrieved, woo woo ......"

"Ode to the ......"

Gu Yunyao raised her face to see her relatives, hugged them and cried bitterly.

King Chen looked at the old lady and commanded sharply:

"Don't send someone over, send Concubine Yu to Jingyang Palace first."

The old lady's eyes were worried, and she glanced at King Chen with a worried glance, quickly lowered her head, and said:

"Return, return to the prince's words, the above explained, to... Be especially ......"

"Confused old thing—"

King Chen scolded a wall with wide sleeves and flew diagonally, impartially slapping the back of the minion's heart.

She threw herself to the ground, a mouthful of old blood spurting out of her mouth.

"The prince spares his life, the prince spares his life......"

The old lady prayed with a dying breath, and fainted with the whites of her eyes.

King Chen no longer paid attention to her, walked over in three or two steps, and stretched out his hand to Gu Yunyao:

"Yu Niangniang, it's all a misunderstanding, and you have suffered......"

Gu Yunyao was overly frightened, and reflexively struggled to push back, avoiding King Chen's hands.

The man looked embarrassed, slowly straightened up, laughed dryly twice, and said to himself:

"Hehe, Concubine Yu raised the seventh brother of this king is really hard work, this time this king has exempted you from the funeral ceremony for Emperor Daxing, it may be that the minions are confused and mistaken......"

Gu Yunyao's stained face turned to King Chen, thinking of the bloody night palace, thinking of the angry Emperor Jingxiao and Empress Qian, and Sun Jieyu who had just been forcibly poured into poisonous wine, her internal organs were occupied by endless sadness and anger, and her damp and misty eyes were immediately dyed with clusters of fire.

"Hongu ...... Don't have to die? ”

With grief and indignation, she looked directly at King Chen and asked in a quiet voice.

The handsome man's expression was tense, as if he was shocked by her tenacious and unyielding face, and his facial features were stagnant for a moment and then quietly unsealed, and he smiled lightly, determined:

"Yes, you don't have to go to the funeral...... Aunt Songqin, help your master to go back to the palace, and when he is properly built, he will move to live in the old age. ”

Song Qin was so excited that she cried, wiped her face, and said in a trembling voice:

"Master, master, you heard it, you don't have to be martyred for the first emperor, the slave and maid will escort you back......"

On the other side, the tall father-in-law Rong scolded:

"Bold, not grateful."

Song Qin didn't dare to slack off, a few heads knocked on the ground, and was about to help Gu Yunyao up, when a figure flashed into the main hall and asked everyone in an undisguised sullen tone:

"Who is so bold as to refute the edict of the mourning family?"