Shen Tingnian's most disliked scene was the current one, the people on the sickbed had sunken cheeks, gray hair and her pale face looked heavy.

I don't know how others face death, but everything she has seen will tell her about the lowliness and fragility of life, because no matter how much you pray, Heaven will still take it away.

She understood this at a very young age.

"Shen Tingnian......" The Queen Mother's eyes burned with the last bit of brilliance at the end of her life, she smiled slightly, so her eyes were not gray and dull, they were very moist, "The woman I admired the most in the past was Yu Siyao, I thought that this was the answer all my life." ”

She didn't say the rest of the words, and they both knew.

Shen Tingnian silently stroked his slightly bulging belly, and couldn't say a word: You don't know, I waited to see how long you lowered your head.

But at the moment, there is no victory at all, and for a dying old man, she only thinks that people are dying, and their words are good.

"Come here." The Queen Mother's eyes also fell on her stomach, "Don't be afraid, my body is clean, I have never been so clean in my life......"

Although she is very sick, she pays great attention to cleanliness, and there is no smell of a sick person on her body, if it weren't for the thin and meatless person, it was scary to look at, Shen Tingnian took two more steps forward, but never sat down on the edge of the bed.

"I'm afraid that Xu'er will call someone to eavesdrop, so I have to be quiet"

Shen Tingnian's expression when he saw her say this was like Pu Yangxu's usual teasing of Brother Zhan, very childish, and he actually saw the connection between mother and son from this point.

Person...... It's not impossible to get back to basics.

"I don't know who told him about the defects in the Puyang clan's bloodline, I thought that this matter could be brought into the soil by me to be buried." It wasn't until this moment that the Queen Mother confided her regret for telling Shen Tingnian about it, "I scared you at that time, because I was not happy, because you are really too arrogant, Xu'er is from such a background, he has the confidence to be arrogant and arrogant, and what about you, what do you ...... You are even more proud than him, and you have contradicted him several times, and it is a dead end for anyone......"

I don't know if it's the long-accumulated resentment, but it spreads out as she speaks, why doesn't she like Shen Tingnian all along? In the final analysis, it is uneven, why is such an outstanding son of himself being pinched to death by a woman?

"Of course, it turns out that you do have the right to be proud."

The Queen Mother took a breath, and Shen Tingnian finally spoke, "Let's get down to business." ”

To put it mildly, don't let her come here for nothing.

"Ahem......" The Queen Mother endured a pain in her heart, dizzy for a while, or Mama Qi came out of the curtain behind her and fed her a pill, obviously used to relieve pain, because Shen Tingnian smelled the smell of medicinal herbs blowing cloud grass.

After relieving for a while, Mama Qi retreated again, Shen Tingnian couldn't help but think, could it be that Mama Qi didn't know, and the Queen Mother was the last person to know?

"Do you remember the concubine Niangniang who ruled the palace during the Taisun period? This incident was told to me by her before she died, at that time, not long after the death of Emperor Renwu, I became the queen at the beginning, and the whole person was in a very happy state, I didn't think at all about disposing of the messy women of Emperor Kang'an, I wish he had been hollowed out by those women earlier, and it was best to die suddenly-"

Although in the end, Kang An Di did as she wished.

"But she told me that Emperor Renwu killed batch after batch of concubines after middle age, not only to satisfy his thirst for killing, but also to extinguish his mouth, and not to let outsiders know that there were defects in the bloodline of the Puyang clan."

That's why as soon as she took the throne, she began to vigorously rectify the harem, and disposed of those who were weak and sick mixed with some pampered and arrogant concubines, and everyone thought that she was a new appointee to establish authority, and the inside story and pain were not revealed until today.

If it weren't for that, why would she be stained with so much blood, so that her own sons would be alienated and disliked.

"What is it?" Shen Tingnian has studied for so long and read through various ancient records, but there is no information about this disease.

"It's not a strange disease and a terminal disease, they call it blood, one is taken from the meaning of blood relationship, because it is passed down from generation to generation, the second is because of the blood blockage, and the third is that husband and wife will also infect each other, because each other's qi and blood are connected......"

"The seizure of good health will be lighter, the weak body will live not long after birth, eight or nine times out of ten will die, because it is related to the royal bloodline, very secretive, before Emperor Renwu did not have dementia, he strictly ordered the imperial doctor to study it secretly, and then he became demented, and the group of imperial doctors were mistakenly implicated in the case of murdering Emperor Renwu, and were disposed of by Xu'er, if there is anyone who knows this disease best, then there is only - Yu Si Yao."

"She once relied on the golden needle acupoint and fire therapy to save the life of Emperor Renwu, you should have seen the royal genealogy, Emperor Renwu is the longest-living emperor since the opening of the Great Zhou Dynasty, that is, counting the rest of the royal family, he is also the longest-lived one."

Emperor Kang An has not even lived fifty, and the father and son still live much longer than others, only in the extended time year, will they find abnormalities, especially women, who are even more thin-lived, and the queen mother is a minority who has passed forty.

"Since I knew that you were studying medicine diligently, I guessed what you were going to do, useless, Yu Siyao once told me that this disease cannot be cured, and there is no way to prevent it, if you get sick before the age of thirty, you will not live for three years, if you are thirty years old, it depends on personal willpower to survive for a few years."

Shen Tingnian finally knew why Yu Siyao dared to follow her to deceive the Queen Mother in Sister Xian's matter, and why she dared to give her medicine when she was locked up in Yuhua Pavilion, and took Min Yun away from Anle Hall and buried it properly.

She always thought that Yu Siyao was subject to the Queen Mother, and was willing to be her eagle dog, but now that she thinks about it, the truth is the opposite, Yu Siyao ostensibly obeys the Queen Mother's dispatch, but in fact, she is for outsiders to see, no one thought that she is in control of the initiative, no wonder she can say that she will leave the palace when she leaves, and if she wants to leave Beijing, she will leave Beijing - the only person who can really influence her is the man who took her away.

If this is the case, this Yu Siyao is also a strange woman, because according to her age, she should be in her teens when she saved Emperor Renwu, less than twenty, and she can walk with golden needles at this age...... It's really a genius.

Thinking a little far for a while, Shen Tingnian was disturbed by another burst of coughing from the Queen Mother, she probably knew that the effect of an analgesic pill was limited, so she didn't talk nonsense anymore, "Shen Tingnian, what did Zhao say to you, I know, but you are still willing to conceive a child." ”

There are so many people in this palace who don't know it, and the good hands that can move in the Qinzheng Hall that night have been transferred out to find the little prince, so when the Zhao family entered the Qinzheng Hall to talk to Shen Tingnian, there were people eavesdropping in the corner of the wall outside, who could find out.

"Aside from everything else, even being a mother, not everyone can be as brave as you."

After all, giving birth to a child may be three or five points dangerous for others, but she is seven or eight points.

Shen Tingnian shook his head, "Giving birth to a child is a dangerous thing, it will not be dangerous just because you are in bad health, and it must not be dangerous if you are in good health." ”

Since danger is unavoidable - "always have to be born." ”

The Queen Mother let out a laugh with difficulty, yes, she always has to be born, so she just took advantage of the young life.

"I'm leaving, and I say this last thing to ask you to promise me one thing."

She waited for a while and didn't wait for Shen Tingnian to answer, so she could only drag out her breath and say first, "You must get Yu Siyao back!" ”

"By next year at the latest, we must get her back...... Xu'er will be twenty-nine next year. ”

Why do you have to open this mouth and lower your head, it is because the person who took away Yu Siyao is King Cong, and she has no way to get it back, but Shen Tingnian must have a way.

Xu is pregnant with a child again, since he came into Ci'an Palace, Shen Tingnian has been very peaceful, compared with the one who once broke in and scolded her, he was not afraid of the sky, and judged the two of them, and from sharp to gentle, not compromise, but learned to be better for himself and others.

Shen Ting responded in the end.

Pu Yangxu hurried over, the Queen Mother was already dying, her eyes were dilated, and she couldn't see people clearly, but as soon as Pu Yangxu held her hand, she reacted and moved her mouth: "Xu'er ......"

People will always have such times of weakness and regret, the Queen Mother swallowed her last breath and still shouted his name.

"Mother......" Pu Yangxu hadn't called her mother for too long, but she didn't hear this one.

Emperor Kang An didn't catch up with the delivery, and the Queen Mother barely caught up. Pu Yangxu's heart was empty for a while, and he really stopped being a child in the future - because he no longer had parents.

Shen Tingnian looked at Pu Yangxu, who was kneeling in front of the bed with his head buried so that no one could see his face, and the hand that had been stroking his stomach reached over and patted his back gently.

She suddenly thought about her mother a little bit - can she also let go of some things and go to real tolerance and understanding.

The funeral of the Queen Mother was hosted by the Queen Mother and the Ministry of Rites, and the emperor guarded the spirit for three or four days, and was forcibly dissuaded to return to the Qinzheng Palace.

Every funeral is a sign of mourning.

Except for Shen Tingnian, who normally raised a baby in Yanxi Hall, everyone else even began to observe filial piety. The Son of Heaven replaced the month with the day, and after a month of filial piety, he was removed after the twenty-seventh day, and the others headed by the queen still had to wear filial piety for a year, but compared to the various rules of the previous imperial mourning, it would be much broader.

The forces of the previous generation in the entire harem really got off the stage with the departure of the queen mother, and the latecomers came to the top and naturally took over all this, while the younger generation is also quietly thriving.

At the end of the third year of Jianyuan, the eldest son of the emperor, Puyang Zhan, was canonized as the crown prince and named Qiongguang. Taken from the ancient book poem: Tianbao Dinger, Mao Yiqiongguang.

Prince Qiongguang is as his name suggests, and his brilliance since childhood is far better than his father, which is also a later story.