Once a son of heaven and a courtier, the new emperor was busy with political affairs after he ascended the throne, and the Empress Dowager Jian was also too sad to be sick in bed, so Queen Rong wore filial piety clothes and personally led the princes and clan relatives and concubines to guard the soul of the first emperor.

The clansmen and concubines who knelt on the spirit, the noble officials and women who came to cry, the focus of everyone's attention was not the first emperor lying in the coffin, but the three princes who were guarding the spirit in one place.

The appearance of the eldest son of the emperor is the length of the emperor and queen, clear and elegant, and his bearing is the same as that of the new emperor, calm and atmospheric.

The third prince was born very much like the new emperor, and because the queen was raised by his side, there was a shadow of the queen acting gently in every gesture, and the white and fat young child with a small face meticulously followed the eldest brother to complete the various rituals, a clever and cute.

The second son of the concubine stood behind the two princes, and although his biological mother's appearance was handsome, there was a faint restraint in his expression and demeanor, and because of that restraint, his first-class appearance was also much darker.

As the saying goes, three years old looks old.

After looking at it quietly, everyone couldn't help but sigh in their hearts: The queen is really blessed.

has such an eldest son, and Queen Rong's status in the middle palace is as stable as a mountain.

With a plan in their hearts, everyone became more and more respectful when dealing with the queen.

The queen knew where this respect came from, and she looked at her eldest son, full of pride and honor.

But that pride only lasted for three days, and it came to an abrupt end as the emperor's eldest son suddenly collapsed beside the coffin of the first emperor.

Later, whenever she recalled what happened on the day her eldest son died, Queen Rong's memory was very vague.

She only remembered that her eldest son, Chunxiao, had been kneeling in the Soul Hall for three days and three nights when he fainted.

Having said that, if you really don't close your eyes for three days and three nights, you can't bear it, let alone a teenager?

At that time, she felt sorry for her son, and every few hours she would specially ask the palace people to wait for her eldest son to rest in the side hall.

The eldest son was extremely self-disciplined, and returned to the main hall without closing his eyes slightly.

Therefore, when she saw her eldest son fainting, she was not very panicked, she thought that her eldest son was just too tired, and he would recover in a few days after recuperation.

But she was wrong.

Miss by a mile.

The old doctor of the Tai Hospital was shaking his hands and asking for the pulse of his eldest son over and over again, pinching the middle of the person, and feeding him elixirs such as ginseng pills and heart-saving pills.

On the couch, the breath of the eldest son gradually weakened, until it was faintly inaudible.

Finally, the old doctor took off his official hat and knelt at the feet of the new emperor with tears in his eyes, begging the emperor to give him death and spare the lives of the old and young in his family.

The queen only felt a thunderbolt from the sky.

She couldn't believe it, and she couldn't accept it.

She sat on the edge of the eldest son's couch, holding his hand tightly, staring at his face without blinking, for fear of missing the moment he woke up.

In her palm, her small hand was still getting cold.

The queen's tears fell uncontrollably.

She couldn't remember how long she had been sitting at the eldest son's couch.

She only remembered that she was trying to warm his hands, but she couldn't.

How did those little hands get cooler little by little......

is the day of the eldest son's death, the only clear memory of Queen Rong.

And except for that scene......

There are very few eldest sons in her memory.

The way he was when he was born, the first time he smiled, the first time he walked, the first time he spoke.

She didn't know anything.

In her impression, she always felt that he was still the young child who went to school with his master in the academy of Duanwang's Mansion.

She cared about him, and prepared melons and fruit snacks to see him, and although the nurse stopped her at the door of the school, he always looked at her from afar, and when she smiled at him, he turned his head away in embarrassment, and buried his face in the book.

She always felt that he was still the same three-year-old child who had just been enlightened.

But he was already a ten-year-old boy.

When she was anxious to learn the housekeeper to socialize, when she was raising her young son, time passed in a flash, and the child she ignored had grown up.

She always thought that there was a chance to make up for it.

However, there was no chance.

When she was sick for three years, the young child was waiting for her in the academy, looking at her curiously and expectantly.

This time, no matter how long she survived, no matter what she did, there was no such child waiting for her.

Wait for her and look at him......

She gave birth to him, but failed to raise him properly.

So......

He's dead, and she's going to have to make him blind.

After the death of her eldest son, Queen Rong repented and blamed herself, and at the same time was sure that there must be something strange in it.

Not to mention the second prince, even the young third prince also knelt every day, but he was safe and sound.

How could a healthy child, who was only tired for a few days, die suddenly?

She told the emperor of her speculation and begged the emperor to investigate thoroughly.

It was only at that time, beside the coffin of the eldest son, that the emperor told her that the eldest son was born with a deficiency and was born with a heart disease.

Healthy children can be affected, but children with heart disease cannot.

Not only can they not be affected, but those who suffer from heart disease cannot be happy or sorrowful, nor can they ride horses and shoot hunting.

It should be carefully rested.

But her eldest son, who suffered from heart disease, was brought up by the emperor as a prince since he was a child, and had little leisure, and died of exhaustion in front of his grandfather's coffin at the age of more than ten years......

She especially could not understand the emperor's concealment.

Does he think heart disease is nothing, or does he think that her wife is nothing?

A year has passed since the death of her eldest son, but every time the queen thinks of these pasts, she still remembers them vividly, and her heart aches.

She came back to her senses and looked at Tong Meiren who was begging her for an explanation in front of her.

This morning, she killed a palace maid beside Tong Meiren.

Tong Meiren was still asking angrily: "This morning, Niangniang made a sacrifice for His Royal Highness the Great Prince, and Qia Ahe held a box of reddish and pink silk flowers, which was indeed a collision with Niangniang......"

"But Ah He is just a little palace maid, she took silk flowers just to act on orders, and she never intended to collide with Niangniang, but Niangniang killed Ah He on the spot, aren't you afraid of the notoriety of being mean and careless of human life?!"

Mean-spirited, careless of human life......

The female official beside the queen was shocked when she heard this, and she didn't care about the rules, so she shouted and said, "Please be cautious!" ”

Tong Meixin reluctantly shut up.

To Tong Meiren's surprise, the queen not only did not get angry, but smiled slightly.

She lowered her eyes and rubbed the string of Buddha beads in her hand, and said to herself: "That Ah He, how can she forget the sacrifice day of the eldest prince......

Then, she put away the Buddha beads, raised her eyes and said to Tong Meidao: "You said that Ah He took the silk flowers and acted on orders, according to what you said, this palace should not only punish Ah He, but also punish the person who ordered her to do things?" ”

Isn't the person who told Ah He to do things ......

Tong Meiren's face turned pale, but she still forced her composure and said: "Niangniang, the concubine is not a palace maid, you, you can't ...... wantonly"

The queen sneered noncommittally.

The fear on Tong Meiren's face grew, and she shouted in a panic: "Niangniang, what you have to deal with at the beginning is not Ah He, but a concubine, right?" ”