Chapter 61: The Grave of Branches

The news of the queen's death soon spread throughout the harem, and Shan Li soon learned about it. When I rushed to Jingyang Palace, she was lying on the queen's coffin and beating the coffin.

"Why did you leave so quickly? You can tell me about it! Didn't you say that Lilo wasn't my real mother? You mean! Why did you leave so quickly? Is it because of the fear of lying? You mean! ”

Seeing me standing behind him, Shan Li turned around: "What are you doing here?" ”

"Crown Princess, who told you this about your background?"

"Naturally, someone told me that you were playing tricks and deliberately arranging my life experience, why?" Shan Li asked.

"Mother, what do you think this is?" I took out half of the jade pendant that the queen had given me for safekeeping.

The crown princess took the piece of jade suspiciously, and took out the piece of jade pendant she was carrying. These two pieces of jade are completely put together to form a pattern of mandarin ducks. On the back of the mandarin duck jade pendant is written the words "even branches and mounds".

"How do you have this jade?" She asked.

"This was given to me by the queen mother, and the last four words were carved by your father himself."

"The two of them really secretly communicated with each other, and my mother was right." She said through gritted teeth.

I took out the strand of fetal hair again: "Niangniang, this jade pendant has been divided into two halves since the day you were born, half on your body, and half on the queen mother's body with this fetal hair." This hair is what you take. ”

"My mother said that I was born in the countryside, how could the queen have my fetal hair, and how could she give me a jade pendant?"

"Because you are the flesh and blood of the queen mother and the general!"

"It can't be." Shan Li is unbelievable.

"It's true! The Queen Mother can self-mutilate and go blind for you, if it weren't for the fact that you are her own flesh and blood, would she have done that? ”

"No, it can't be, it's impossible!" She still didn't believe it.

"The queen refuses to let you marry into the palace, also because she is afraid that you will encounter danger in the palace. Xiangyuan, the palace maid in your palace, is the person the queen put on your side, and you will know it if you ask her! I said.

Xiangyuan, who had been waiting outside the hall, entered the inner hall. "Niangniang, what this girl said is true, the slave maid has served the queen for many years, and the slave maid is clear about the things of the year. Since you entered the palace, the queen mother has asked the slave maid to serve the young master, and told the slave and maid to assist the master in everything and protect the safety of the master. Xiangyuan said word by word with tears in his eyes.

"You guys! You're hiding it from me! I'm being played around like a fool by you. In this way, the right to manage the harem was also deliberately given to me by her, and I was stupid to think that I could defeat her by myself! Wow, you guys! One, two, I trusted, you all deceived me! Shan Li scolded angrily.

Xiangyuan knelt in front of the queen's coffin, and did not refute, but just kowtowed deeply in the direction of the coffin.

"Even if the queen is wrong, you should not come and question her when she is discouraged. This caused her to be discouraged and bent on death. I said.

"You mean, I killed her?"

"You don't kill Beren, but Beren dies because of you." I looked her in the eye.

"Say no more! You're not me, do you know how painful I am? I hate all this, I hate all this she brought me! I won't forgive her! After Shan Li said this, she left Jingyang Palace, and her maid Xiangyuan kowtowed to the queen again, and then went to chase her master.

Emperor Fu Jian had a shallow affection for Empress Gou, so Gou's funeral was unusually simple. I begged the phoenix to plead with Fu Jian to bury Gou's family, and Fu Jian finally made Gou's funeral more grand for the sake of his mother's family. Gou had a will before his death, and he did not want to enter the royal mausoleum after his death. Fu Jian followed Gou's will and buried her on the southern slope of Wenshan in the suburbs, living in the sun.

The jade pendant given to Gou by General Shan reads: Lianzhi Gongzuka. In this life, they can't get their wish, and they hope to tie the knot in the next life and fly like wings.