Chapter 203: Aunt

The imperial mausoleum, the emperor's resting place, in a sense, the guards of the imperial mausoleum are stricter than the imperial palace, for example, the army led by Huyan Shouxin is responsible for inspecting the east side of the imperial mausoleum, but in addition to the scope of the inspection, it is strictly forbidden to take another step forward, and it is impossible to enter the imperial mausoleum, so Li Zhang has stayed in the imperial palace for so long, and he has only seen a few imperial mausoleums from a distance outside, and he wants to enter unless he gets Liu E's consent.

Thanks to the first anniversary of Zhao Heng's death, Zhao Zhen wanted to go to pay tribute in person, so Li Zhang also took this opportunity to finally enter the imperial tomb, and when the carriage entered from the main gate of the imperial tomb, Li Zhang was also quite excited.

The imperial mausoleum occupies a large area, and it is also divided into underground buildings and above-ground buildings, needless to say, the underground is mainly the underground palace where Zhao Heng's body is stored, and the above-ground part is a heavy palace, in fact, the buildings here are not much worse than the palace, and there are many people living here, in addition to the outer guards and craftsmen responsible for the maintenance of the imperial tomb, there are also many concubines produced by Zhao Heng also live here, and there are also many palace maids and maids who serve them, adding up to thousands of people.

The carriage entered the imperial mausoleum, Zhao Zhen and Li Zhang no longer took the car, but got off the car and walked, this time there were many people who came with Zhao Zhen, in addition to the sacrifices offered to Zhao Heng, there were also many artifacts to give to the concubines who lived here, after all, these concubines were also Zhao Zhen's elders.

Today is not early, and the day after tomorrow is Zhao Heng's sacrifice day, so Zhao Zhen and Li Zhang still need to live in the imperial mausoleum for a few days, just taking advantage of these two days, they can distribute the gifts they brought to the concubines who live here.

"Cousin, is it necessary for me to deliver it myself?" The next morning, Zhao Zhen was holding a gift in one hand, but complained to Li Zhang, originally distributing gifts, just let the servants brought to do it, and there was no need for Zhao Zhen to come forward in person, after all, there are dozens of concubines who live here, and it takes a lot of time to send them one by one.

"After all, they are all your elders, and I heard that these concubines were sent here because they have no children, but you only have one sister, in other words, except for Miaoyuan's mother Du Guifei, almost all the other concubines are here, they can only eat fasting and pray for the Buddha on weekdays to pray for the emperor, as a junior, you naturally have to do some filial piety, so that you can set an example for the people of the world!" Li Zhang persuaded with a smile at this time.

Hearing that Li Zhang took out all the filial piety, Zhao Zhen couldn't say anything, so he had to personally carry gifts to visit one palace after another, the hero Twilight Li Zhang has not seen, but the beauty has seen too much today, these concubines were all peerless back then, but unfortunately now they have become white-haired women, even if there are some young ones, but because of Zhao Heng's death, there is no spiritual sustenance, the whole person is like a lost soul, and it makes people feel pitiful.

"Cousin, can you not go, the palace where these concubines live is really uncomfortable!" After walking more than a dozen houses, it looked like it was about to be noon, but Zhao Zhen said very reluctantly again, in fact, he couldn't be blamed, after all, those concubines were lonely, even if they didn't have to worry about food and clothing, but their mental state was worrying, so Zhao Zhen felt uncomfortable.

"There is no reason to do things, there is not much left, the next one is Li Shunrong, let's go back to eat after visiting her!" Li Zhang spoke again at the moment, and when he mentioned Li Shunrong, a little fluctuation flashed in his heart, because Li Shunrong was also his aunt, who was named Wanyi before, and was crowned Wanrong after Zhao Heng's death.

In fact, the reason why Li Zhang wanted to come to the imperial mausoleum was that he wanted to see his aunt, which was also the reason why he encouraged Zhao Zhen to give gifts to the concubines who lived here one by one, because only in this way could he have the opportunity to see each other openly, and he couldn't only see Li Shunrong alone, otherwise he would tell Liu E clearly that he already knew the relationship between himself and Li Shunrong, and it might even make Liu E wonder if Zhao Zhen knew about it, and it would be bad then.

Zhao Zhen is a soft person, hearing Li Zhang say this, he had to fight his spirit, and then led by the chamberlain to another palace, saying that it was a palace, in fact, it was a closed courtyard, after entering it, he found that there was not much difference between it and other concubines, but there were more flowers and plants in the yard, but I don't know if it was because of neglect to take care of them, so that these flowers and plants were all half-dead, and even some weeds grew on the ground.

At that moment, someone went inside to report, and after a while, I saw a noble lady in her thirties walking out in a hurry, and when she saw Zhao Zhen and Li Zhang, her face flashed with great excitement, but soon she suppressed her feelings, but slowed down her pace and saluted Zhao Zhen and said, "See Your Majesty!" ”

"No need to be polite, I came to pay tribute to my father, and the eldest lady asked me to bring some gifts to Li Shunrong, and you have worked hard to pray for your father during this time!" Zhao Zhen showed a very formulaic smile at this time and said, he has said this passage more than a dozen times, except for changing the name of the person receiving the gift, the others have not even changed a word.

"If you are worried about Aunt Lao, Your Majesty, please come into the palace and drink tea before leaving!" I saw that Li Shunrong held back her excitement at this time and invited Zhao Zhen again, she knew that the person in front of her was her son, and she also knew that Li Zhang behind Zhao Zhen was her own nephew, but she didn't dare to recognize each other, because it would only bring heavy consequences to them, so she could only endure it, fortunately, she had endured it for more than ten years, and she had already learned to hide her feelings in front of others.

Zhao Zhen immediately nodded in agreement, and then entered the hall with Li Zhang, he didn't have any special feelings for Li Shunrong, after all, he didn't know that the woman in front of him was his biological mother, so he also planned to drink a cup of tea here and chat a few words before leaving.

Li Zhang also quietly looked at his aunt when he left, only to see that the other party was taller than the average woman, with a well-proportioned body and fair skin, and extremely delicate facial features, although she was in her thirties, she was still a rare beauty, but she might have been too heavy, so that there were a few vertical lines between her eyebrows.

Li Shunrong originally put all her thoughts on Zhao Zhen, after all, this was also a rare opportunity for her to see her son, but when Li Zhang looked at her, she also seemed to feel something, and turned her head to look at Li Zhang, but the two aunts and nephews faced each other, and Li Shunrong immediately noticed something strange from Li Zhang's eyes.