The guards sent by the Queen Mother to carry the message went out of the city overnight, rode fast horses, and went straight to Shengjing. When he arrived at the Shengjing Palace, it was the emperor's ancestor worship ceremony, and the royal family, civil and military officials, the three layers inside and the three layers outside were surrounded by water.

Worshipping ancestors is a major event of the country, and he didn't dare to rush in, so he had to entrust the little eunuch at the door and report it to the next level.

When it reached Li Yu's ears, the emperor and the empress were kneeling down to worship the ancestors, so they put it aside again.

The emperor was dressed in a five-color moire twelve-chapter court dress, covered with a stone blue dragon gown, and bowed solemnly. Yingyun also followed the guidance of the ceremonial officer and worshiped and kowtowed with him.

In the side hall, the shaman wives are still dancing the sacrificial dance, and the sound of various magic weapons colliding one after another is transmitted to the main hall one after another.

Yingyun was wearing a crown weighing three or four pounds on her head, and two strings of eastern pearls were hanging on her body, and she was extremely careful in her demeanor, for fear of making a fool of herself in front of everyone. After suffering all morning, I finally completed a whole set of processes, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Yu took advantage of the gap to attach it to the emperor's ear and whispered a few words.

The emperor's eyes tightened, and his brows furrowed slightly as he looked at the fourth elder brother Yonghui behind him, and summoned him to him.

Yonghui leaned over and called, "Huang Ama." ”

The emperor said in a deep voice: "There is a message from the palace, your mother is not very good, you should go back and take a look immediately." ”

Yonghui's face suddenly became solemn, although the emperor did not say it directly, but at such an important time to worship his ancestors, he ordered him to return to the capital quickly, and it must be the limit of Concubine Jiagui. 163

Concubine Jia has three sons under her knees, Yonghui is the eldest, and the other two sons are all young, and they still don't understand what it means if their mother dies. But Yonghui knew in his heart that although Concubine Jia was doing nothing in the harem, she eventually occupied the position of concubine, and they could also rely on their mothers.

The eldest brother Yonghuang and the third elder brother Yongzhang all went out of the palace to build a mansion two years ago, and the three people who stayed in the elder brother's office, Yongqi, and Yongjing were the same age, and seeing that in the next year, the emperor was going to give him a marriage and open a mansion, Yongqi and Yongying had their Eniang to help, and if Yonghui did not have the Eniang of Jia Guifei, the future road would be more difficult than the two imperial brothers.

Thinking like this, Yonghui became more and more sad, his heart was burning like fire, and he responded with a choked voice: "Yes, Huang Ama." ”

Because Concubine Jia was seriously ill, the emperor ended the ancestor worship ceremony in Shengjing, stayed for two or three days, and then returned to the palace.

The wheels of the royal car flipped in circles and circles, and the internal organs of the people were about to be displaced.

Yingyun originally wanted to go north to play, but now the plan can't catch up with the changes, and the matter of Concubine Jia is out of nowhere, so she can't stop the emperor from going back to the funeral.

Before the holy driver arrived in the capital, he met someone from the palace who reported that Concubine Jia had died of illness in Chengqian Palace at noon on the fifth day of August.

Due to the hot weather, the body of Concubine Jia was not easy to store, so the Queen Mother was in charge, and the golden coffin was transferred to Jing'an Village for temporary storage on the same day. The emperor is far away in Shengjing, and he hurried back to Beijing at this moment, and he could go directly to Jing'anzhuang to mourn.

Therefore, when the emperor and queen arrived at Jing'an Village, it was full of white flags, and it was very dazzling under the scorching sun. In the main hall of the underground palace, Yonghui knelt in front of the coffin wearing linen and filial piety, and the pure concubine and others also greeted the emperor here.

On August 23, the twentieth year of Qianlong, the emperor issued an edict in front of the spirit of Jia Guifei, posthumously crowned Jia Guifei as the imperial concubine, gave the nickname Shujia, and was buried in Yuling on a certain day.