Chapter 14: Beren

All the hustle and bustle and strife stopped on Chinese New Year's Eve, and there was a rare tranquility in the palace. In addition to the concubines of the first emperor in Xihe Garden, the emperor and queen, as well as the Nie family and the empress dowager, all spent the New Year in Yongning Palace. After the New Year, the Nie family is about to give birth, and Chun Yunian is too busy to take care of himself, so it is still the Queen Mother who cares about it.

"The queen is weak, eat more." The Empress Dowager said with a smile.

Chun Yunian felt that Xu was a father who had lost power, and the Empress Dowager was better for her. She answered, saying that so was her grandmother.

According to the previous rules, the emperor and queen should accompany the empress dowager to keep the New Year, but Chun Yunian's cough kept stopping, and even it was difficult to speak, and the empress dowager waved her hand and let them go back to the palace. Before leaving, he also told Chun Yu to rest and not think too much.

On the sedan chair back to the palace, Zhao Huan kept holding her hand. She leaned on Zhao Huan's shoulder and said with a smile: "I should have asked the imperial grandmother just now for the New Year's money." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Huan couldn't help laughing, "How old are you?" Three years old? ”

She snorted lightly and said unconvinced: "If you receive the New Year's money, you can buy delicious food, and Your Majesty will not understand if you don't need to be taboo." ”

He sighed lightly and said comfortingly: "The taboo is also for your good." ”

"Alas...... I hope that I can have a good body in the next life and not suffer like this. She let out a long sigh.

"This life is not over, what do you want to do in the next life." Although he was reproachful, his tone was unspeakable, and he gently kissed her forehead with his head sideways.

……

When she returned to Chengqian Palace, it had passed, and Zhao Huan originally wanted her to rest early, but she said that she wanted to see the New Year's fireworks, Zhao Huan's left and right coaxing and deception didn't work, staring at him with a pair of big eyes, and he wanted to watch the New Year's fireworks. He had no choice but to hold his forehead, why didn't he find out that this person was so willful before?

"Your Majesty......" She called him sweetly, took her hand and shook it, and looked at him with a smile, full of flattery.

His heart jumped and he softened, "Okay, I'll have the stool and stove moved." ”

She burst out laughing, grabbed his waist at once, and rubbed it flatteringly in his arms. He sighed in his heart, no matter how smart he was, he was still a child.

When the bell rings, the first fireworks of the new year also rise into the night sky, followed by the second, third, and fourth flowers...... The dark night sky suddenly became gorgeous.

"Zhao Huan, Happy New Year!" She looked at him with a smile.

"Happy New Year, Chun Yu Nian!" He put his arm around her and said.

She leaned on his shoulder, watched the fireworks in the sky go out, and said lightly: "When I was a child, I liked the New Year the most, especially the fireworks on Chinese New Year's Eve, so my grandfather would put a lot of them every year." She didn't want to be with him anymore, anyway, everyone already knew it.

"I don't really like the Chinese New Year, it's very troublesome, there is too much red tape, and there are often people at home who follow me, and I can't have enough fun."

"......Boring," she said with a smile, "how interesting the temple fair is, and there are sugar people, rock sugar gourds, jujube cakes...... But the concubine couldn't eat rice cakes if she had a bad stomach, and then she slowly didn't like to eat rice cakes...... The Southern New Year is to eat glutinous rice balls, which is also glutinous food, and it is uncomfortable to eat too much for a day, and it will also pan stomach acid, so I am very happy to have dumplings tonight. But you said you can't eat too much, it's not easy to digest. Alas...... When I was in Qingzhou, my grandfather was in charge, and when I went home, my father and my second brother were in charge, and I finally became a queen, but I was managed by you again......"

She said these few words very quietly and intermittently. Zhao Huan hugged her tighter, and said softly: "Follow your father at home, follow your husband when you marry, who cares about you as a husband?" ”

She chuckled and after a while asked him softly, "Do you believe in the afterlife?" ”

"The afterlife is too far away, don't think about it." He knew what she was worried about, her body was getting worse, and the imperial doctor didn't dare to tell the truth in front of her, but he told him privately that she was congenitally deficient, and she was overly anxious, and her body couldn't afford to consume it. If that's the case, it's been nearly a month.

Thinking of this, he only felt a faint pain in his heart, an indescribable bitterness welled up from the bottom of his heart, the tip of his nose was sour, and a line of tears fell. He reached out and wiped it away, but fortunately she was unresponsive and didn't notice.

"Zhao Huan, if there is an afterlife, I wish I was born in an ordinary family and married an ordinary man, even if it is coarse tea and light rice...... I can live my whole life safely......"

"It's me who can't stand you......" he put his face next to her and kissed her forehead, "It's me who can't stand you......"

I don't kill Beren, but Beren died for me.

She held his face and shook her head gently, "You are the emperor of the Yong Dynasty first, and then my husband, you have done a good job...... It's that I can't be one with you, it's that I can't live with you......"

"Don't talk about it...... Let's not talk about it......" he said softly, gently wiping away the tears from her face, "How beautiful the fireworks are, let's watch the fireworks ......"

At this moment, a purple firework exploded in the air, enveloping almost the entire Miyagi Castle, and lit up for a while before falling......

She leaned on his shoulder, looked at the fireworks in the sky, and said with a smile: "I don't like your words for calling me, it's very hypocritical, and I don't like calling your words, it's Nie Shuyuan's ......."

"Hmm...... The lady likes to call her husband whatever she wants, just in front of the ministers, just leave a little thin face for the husband. ”

She couldn't help laughing, she originally had a lot of things to say to him, but there was only one sentence that came to her lips, and she whispered: "Zhao Huan...... I have no regrets in my life......"

He thought for a while and said solemnly: "Nian'er, if there is an afterlife, we must be an ordinary couple." ”

When the last fireworks rose into the night sky and fell again, the brilliant night sky finally returned to its previous darkness.

It's quiet.

Quiet, dead silence.

He turned his eyes to look at her, she seemed to be asleep, and there was a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, but the hand that held her shirt fell weakly. He looked at this scene in a daze, and for a moment he didn't know how to react.

"Nian'er...... When we are sleepy, we go back to the house...... Hurry up, I won't hold you...... Nian'er? ”

No matter what he said, she didn't respond in the slightest. He only felt as if his internal organs were being torn by sharp claws, and the pain was so unbearable that he couldn't even make a sound. An unprecedented despair surged over him, almost suffocating him!

"Someoneβ€”"

"Doctor Xuanβ€”"

The desperate wail of the emperor of the Yong Dynasty floated over the Chengqian Palace, and was finally blown away by the wind, and I don't know if the soul of the pure mind heard it......

……

On the first day of the first lunar month, the palace should be happy and peaceful, but for some reason, the palace people are all sad, not to mention the joy that the New Year should have, but the appearance of a dead father and mother, looking at it makes people unhappy.

Ouyang Yu brought a gift to greet the Empress Dowager, and when she saw that her aunt was also sad, she finally couldn't help asking, "What happened in the palace?" Let my aunt be so worried. ”

Ouyang sighed and said slowly: "I'm afraid the queen can't do it." ”

Hearing this, the young man couldn't help but be shocked, "What's the matter?" ”

"I suddenly fainted last night, and the doctor went over to see it, and said that it was at most a matter of the past few days. The emperor did not give up, and hung with thousand-year-old ginseng, as long as the medicine was broken, it was estimated that ......" She didn't say the rest of the words, and Ouyang Yu also understood.

"Why did the illness come so suddenly?"

"She's not in good health, and there have been some changes in her family recently, so she can't stand it." Ouyang said lightly. For Chun Yunian herself, she didn't hate it, but she died suddenly, afraid that Chun Yujia would take the opportunity to make trouble. So Zhao Huan wants to hang her life, and she will also let him go, if there is really anything at that time, the palace will not be so passive.

His aunt's words reminded him of the deceit between Chun Yujia and the emperor, and a strange anger gushed out from his heart! Forget about the flies and dogs between them, how innocent is Chun Yunian?

He stood up and bowed to his aunt, "I hope my aunt will send someone to lead the way, and my nephew wants to go and have a look." ”

Ouyang raised his eyes and looked at him, although his nephew was gifted in medicine, but Chun Yunian was a dying person after all, even if he went, what could he do?

"Jiang Tong, take the second master over to have a look." She said to the little yellow door beside her, "You just go and do your best, and persuade the emperor well, the queen's life is like this, let him not be too sad." ”

"The nephew understands, and the nephew retires." He hurriedly saluted the Ouyang clan and then followed the palace people out.

On that day, she vomited blood and fainted, and he stepped forward to check his pulse, although his body was indeed weak, and his heart and kidneys were failing, but he would not die in just a few days. Unless...... Someone is deliberately murdering!

……

The master wandered outside the ghost gate, and the atmosphere in the Chengqian Palace was heavier than in other places. Ouyang Yu arrived in a hurry, but he didn't have time to report and went in directly, but he was still stopped outside the dormitory by Zhao Huan's chamberlain before he said anxiously: "My father-in-law told Your Majesty that Ouyang Yu is not talented, and I came to check on Niangniang's condition, and I hope Your Majesty will agree." ”

Ping'an seemed to have heard of the Ouyang family's second master's excellent medical skills, and hurriedly ran into the house to report, and came out after a while, and hurriedly said, "Second master, please!" Second master, please! ”

When Zhao Huan saw someone coming in, he waved his hand and excused him, and hurriedly said, "Go and have a look." ”

Chun Yu Nian lay on the bed with a pale face, and Nan Xing hurriedly took out her hand so that Ouyang Yu could take the pulse. He didn't care much, so he sat directly on the edge of the bed and touched the pulse of Chun Yu with his bare hands. The pulse is weak, and it is really as my aunt said, only that breath is not broken.

He stretched out his hand to open her eyelids, and saw that his pupils did not diverge, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, fortunately Zhao Huan was persistent, and he should still be able to save it. When she was about to ask Zhao Huan about her previous symptoms, she suddenly noticed that her lips were a little bruised.

"Your Majesty, Niangniang's lips?"

"I had a high fever last night, and I accidentally bit it when I was cramping." His voice was hoarse, and the one-night parting of life and death made him haggard, and he instantly seemed to be several years old.

"Offended." As he spoke, he ignored the etiquette of the monarch and the minister, and even ignored Zhao Huan's presence, and directly reached out to pinch Chun Yunian's chin, only to see that the inside of her lips was faintly purple. Looking at her fingers again, they are also a little purple.

"Needle."

Everyone didn't know why, but the imperial doctor who was still on duty reacted and hurriedly took out a silver needle, "Second master, silver needle." ”

Ouyang Yu took the needle and pierced a hole in Chun Yunian's finger, blood flowed out, and the color was not like the normal red, but very light. Seeing this, he knew in his heart, turned back to Zhao Huan and said, "Your Majesty, Niangniang was poisoned!" ”

"Poisoned!?" Zhao Huan looked at Ouyang Yu in disbelief, and instantly slaughtered the entire Chengqian Palace's heart!