In October, Ding You, the funeral procession started from the palace, stretched for several miles and slowly went out of the capital, the road was full of solemn atmosphere, many people in the capital also walked out of the house to watch the funeral procession, but for them, the Queen Mother Liu E is just a distant symbol, so at this time they are more out of curiosity.

Li Zhang accompanied Zhao Zhen and walked in front of the coffin, followed by a group of filial sons and grandsons of the Zhao royal family, and after the coffin, it was the Empress Dowager Li and Concubine Yang led the women, Empress Zhang was supposed to come, but because of pregnancy, she was left in the palace to rest, as for the Empress Dowager Li, she herself asked to see Liu E off in person.

There were forbidden troops in front of and behind the procession, and there was also a band accompanying them, and the coffin was originally very slow, and some funeral rituals were held at each stage, which also made the whole procession stop and go, and finally walked out of the city gate until almost noon.

Because the imperial tomb is hundreds of miles away from the capital, it is natural that the Empress Dowager Li and these women cannot walk over so far, so the carriage has already been prepared outside the city gate, and Zhao Zhen's jade chariot has already been prepared, and Li Zhang is riding a horse to follow the car, and then the group left the capital and rushed to the imperial tomb.

But what everyone didn't expect was that the weather was pretty good this morning, at least the sun was shining and there was no wind, not only was it not cold during the funeral in the city, but it was also sweating all over the body, but just out of the city, it suddenly became windy, and there were suddenly more layers of dark clouds in the sky, which made the sky darken all of a sudden, and the cold north wind blew on people, which was even more cold and biting.

Li Zhang, who was riding on the horse, wrapped the fur on his body tightly, but he still felt that his hands and feet were numb from the cold, and he was also regretting it at this time, he knew that he should have listened to Qingori's words when he went out today, and put on the big cotton jacket that had just been made, which was stuffed with cotton, which must be very warm.

"Cousin, why don't you get in the car, it's too cold on the horse!" At this moment, I saw Zhao Zhen in the jade chariot open the window, and then invited Li Zhang that he had a stove and a quilt in the car, and the car body was also airtight, so it was naturally very warm.

"Forget it, there are officials from the Ministry of Etiquette everywhere, let them see me get into your car, I'm afraid they have to scold me for not following the etiquette!" Although Li Zhang was moved when he heard Zhao Zhen's words, he finally shook his head and said, because the emperor's car is not something that anyone can go up, and it is nothing to ride in the same car with Zhao Zhen in private, but on such a big occasion today, he would rather be frozen than wait to be scolded in the future.

Seeing that Li Zhang was unwilling, Zhao Zhen did not force it, but then he handed Li Zhang the fur fur that Empress Zhang had prepared for himself.

However, in the afternoon, the wind was getting stronger and stronger, and the dark clouds in the sky were getting thicker and thicker, Li Zhang was wearing two layers of fur and felt terribly cold, as for other officials, entourage, soldiers, etc., they were also not light, and they didn't have time to eat at noon, at this time Li Zhang also felt cold and hungry, and finally Zhao Zhen gave him the snacks in the car, which relieved the hunger in his stomach.

At dusk, a heavy snow finally fell without expectations, and at this time there was still some distance from the reserved resting place, but at this time most of the people were exhausted, and they had no choice but to rest for a while, and then continued to hurry, and when they arrived at the rest camp, everyone was tired, even Li Zhang's frozen legs were unconscious, and after dismounting, he could only be helped by wild dogs to walk a few laps before regaining the sensation of his feet.

A hot meal had been prepared in the camp, and at this time, whether it was the princes and nobles or the prime minister and general, they all didn't care about etiquette, and they ate big bowls when they picked up the bowls.

That night, the funeral procession spent the night in the camp, and the snow fell all night, and when Li Zhang and his team came out of the tent early the next morning, they found that there was already a half-person-high snow outside, and if they wanted to drive, they had to clear the road.

In the face of this situation, I can only accept my fate, with an order, the people of several nearby counties have all been requisitioned to clean up the road, this is the agricultural season, so it does not affect the agricultural time, and with the arrival of these people, the road in front of it was quickly cleared out of a section, so the funeral procession immediately rushed away, in front of the people to clean up a section, the team went forward for a while.

But even so, the funeral procession is still very slow, originally according to the original plan, today before dusk can rush to the imperial tomb, but at dusk, the team only arrived in front of Li Zhang's manor, there are still ten miles away from the imperial tomb, but according to the plan of the Ministry of Rites, tomorrow is the day of the burial, it can be said that the time is already good, so you can only rush overnight, and when you finally arrive at the imperial tomb, the second watch has already passed half.

At this time, Li Zhang was also exhausted, because of the sudden heavy snowfall, which disrupted the whole plan, and he had participated in the formulation of the entire funeral before, so there were many things to change, for which he also ran before and after, and he felt that he was about to fall apart all day, so after returning to the residence arranged by the imperial tomb, he fell asleep without even eating.

When Li Zhang woke up the next day, he found that it was sunny outside, and the dark clouds of the previous two days had also dispersed at once, the sun shone under the thick snow, flashing with silver light, and the entire imperial tomb was also dyed white by the heavy snow, which looked a little more peaceful and gorgeous than usual.

However, when the funeral procession woke up, the tranquility and magnificence in the imperial mausoleum were quickly broken, the band began to play music, and Zhao Heng's tomb in the imperial mausoleum was also opened, which was made in advance when the imperial mausoleum was designed, in order to let Liu E and Zhao Heng be buried together in the future, which was also the common last wish of Zhao Heng and Liu E before their deaths.

Li Zhang accompanied Zhao Zhen throughout the whole process, and when he was buried, the two of them watched Liu E's coffin being carried to the tomb little by little, it had been so long, the grief in Li Zhang's heart had almost dissipated, but now seeing this scene, but once again the sadness came from it, with Liu E's burial, it also marked the complete end of her legendary life.

At the same time as Liu E was buried, the Song army, which had been stationed on the east bank of the Yellow River, finally made a move, because at the same time as the snow was falling in Tokyo, the temperature in the northwest was also plummeting, and the turbulent Yellow River water was frozen almost overnight.