On this night, His Majesty the Emperor, who had not come to visit the Queen Mother for six months, came to Fu'an Palace.

Yingxiu stood aside, watching the emperor stay by the queen mother's side, alienated and indifferent.

Empress Dowager Gu felt a stump in her heart, but she still looked at Her Majesty with gentle and tolerant eyes as usual, just like after Your Majesty made a mistake when he was a child, the Empress Dowager would always patiently point out his mistakes and urge him to make amends, and her eyes were like this at that time.

"I haven't seen you for a long time, the emperor has lost a lot of weight, don't patronize and deal with political affairs, but also take care of yourself." Her greetings with concern.

The emperor's cold expression was slightly moved, and he thought of the time when he had been with the Empress Dowager Gu as mother and son, and his eyes softened a lot. After all, she raised him for 20 years, if it is false to say that there is no emotion, but he cares about her concealment and deception of him, and some people even say that she killed his biological mother, although he doesn't believe it, but there is a gap in his heart after all.

"How did my birth mother die? I hope the Queen Mother can answer my doubts. He asked the question that had been in his mind for a long time, stubbornly trying to get an answer from her mouth.

She watched his gaze gradually dim, "She died of illness, and the mourning family never harmed her." Zhao Guiren was already frail and sickly, and after giving birth to you, her body was even weaker, and the imperial doctors were helpless, saying that she would not survive the winter. ”

Her originally radiant face suddenly had a tired look, "If the emperor still has any doubts, say them together, and the mourning family will answer them for you one by one, if not, then retreat, the mourning family is tired." ”

The emperor looked at the emaciated and old queen mother, moved his lips, and finally did not speak.

"Zhao'er." As soon as the emperor turned around, he heard the Empress Dowager Gu behind him call his name softly, since he was fifteen years old, the Empress Dowager had not called his name so affectionately for a long time, and it was said that his name was given to him by the Empress Dowager.

Zhao, Riming also. It has the meaning of light and beauty.

She gave him this name, not hoping that he would live under the light and live a happy life.

"Although you are not my own child, I treat you like a parent, and I have never harmed you, let alone want to replace you. This country was built by your father's hard work, and the mourning family hopes that you can protect it. She leaned against the edge of the bed and looked at him with a smile.

The emperor's heart moved slightly, he came here with countless questions and condemnations, he resented her and hated her, but now that he saw her, he remembered her companionship and love from childhood to adulthood, looking at her gentle and tolerant eyes, the thousand words in her heart were finally unspeakable.

He just nodded and smiled: "Take care of the phoenix body after looking at the mother, and the son will come to visit the queen tomorrow." ”

After the emperor left, the Queen Mother called Yingxiu to her side, held her hand and smiled: "After my funeral is over, you can go home to care for the elderly." ”

There was already an earth dragon in Fu'an Palace, and the room was as warm as spring, but the queen mother's hands were cold, without a trace of temperature.

"Queen Mother......" Yingxiu's voice choked, all she could say was that the Queen Mother would get better. But she knows best that the Queen Mother won't last long now.

"My life seems to be complete but there are many regrets, I lost my childhood, lost my youth, lost my husband in middle age, and had no children in my life. My brother has not been found. I have too many regrets in my life. When I was young, I couldn't know people clearly, and when everything was clear, everything was understood, and everything was too late. Empress Dowager Gu held her hand and muttered to herself, with deep regret and remorse in her eyes.

"Although I have become the most noble woman in the world, I have lost more things."

"It would be nice if everything was a dream, if I woke up from a dream, I would still be the eldest lady of Zhenyuan Houfu who didn't know anything about the world, my father and mother were still there, how good it would be, how good it would be......"

"I'm really tired......" She leaned on Yingxiu's shoulder and slowly closed her eyes.

The next day, the bell rang in the palace, and His Majesty the Emperor, who had just retired from the court and planned to visit the Empress Dowager Gu, stood in place in a daze, and after a while, a small yellow door rushed over and knelt down, and said with trembling lips: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager...... Pickles, sprouts. ”

According to the "Biography of the Queens of the Qi Dynasty", it is recorded that in November of the twelfth year of Zhengde of the Great Qi Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Gu Shixue was buried with the emperor in Anding Mausoleum, and was nicknamed "Minghui".