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The capital is cool and pleasant in September.

Compared to previous years, there was very little rain this autumn, but it was still a good harvest year.

The emperor has not been in court for more than two months, and during this period, he has been reviewing the folds, and if there is anything, he will let the internal supervisor pass the word to the prime minister.

The emperor still refuses to see anyone, even if a hundred officials kneel in front of the palace gate, it is useless.

It's just that once King Duan wanted to take someone to break in, and was called in by the emperor to apply for a beating.

The five princes are already able to climb, with white and tender arms and legs, wearing silver anklets and silver bracelets, which are very cute.

The emperor's illness always comes and goes, and he has to commit it every two or three days.

When he really can't stand the headache, he can only use acupuncture and moxibustion, which is pricked on the big vertebral acupoint, so that he is temporarily unconscious.

On this day, the emperor felt dizzy after getting up early and having breakfast, so he lay down to rest.

Zeng Wanshou was originally accompanying her, but a palace maid quietly lifted the curtain and looked at her, and Zeng Wanshou got up and walked out.

"Tell Niangniang, there is news from Fengyi Palace...... He died after being abolished. The palace maid whispered in Zeng Wan's ear.

"But why didn't you say that?" Zeng Wanzhi asked.

"He said he died of illness." The maid replied, "The guards went in and looked." ”

"In that case, what is there to hide?" After Zeng Wanshi listened, the expression on his face was obviously relaxed, and he deliberately raised his voice higher: "I'll see how to deal with it after I have asked Your Majesty." ”

The emperor heard movement in the room and slowly opened his eyes. It just so happened that Zeng Wanzhi also walked to his side and asked softly: "Your Majesty, just now the palace people came to report that she died of illness in Fengyi Palace, what do you think of her future?" ”

"How?" Although the emperor himself thought that he had no affection for the abolition queen, when he heard the news of her death, he still trembled in his heart: "It ...... so fast"

After all, the body of the abolished queen has always been good, and he didn't feel suspicious, but he felt a little sudden.

Zeng Wanshi would never be jealous in front of the emperor, let alone a dead queen.

She waited quietly on the sidelines, waiting for the emperor to reply.

It took a long time for the emperor to regain his thoughts, and he waved his hand a little dejectedly and said, "Funeral according to the etiquette of ordinary concubines!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the concubine will order someone to do it." Concubine Zeng Li agreed: "It's just that what should those palace people do?" ”

The emperor pondered for a moment and said, "Let's bury her with her!" ”

Less than three days after his death, on a rainy autumn night, the sound of the rain fell poignantly, which made people feel sad.

Qu Qing came to the prince's bed with a bowl of medicine in his hand and said, "Your Highness, it's time to take the medicine." The old slave is serving you to take the medicine! ”

The prince was already skinny, and coughed twice weakly and said, "Take it down, I won't eat it." ”

"Your Highness, you can't be willful." Qu Qing hurriedly explained: "You are too sad because of your mother's death, if you don't take the medicine on time, how can your body be better?" ”

"I can't get better," the prince shook his head with a wry smile and said, "I know my own body, but it's just a matter of life." Qingqing's death has already taken half of my life with her, and now that the queen mother is gone, I have nothing to worry about in this world. ”

Although the queen was deposed, the crown prince never changed his name for his mother.

"Your Highness, don't say these discouraged words, you are the prince of a country, and you will take over as the unification in the future, how can you say that there is no concern in this world?" Qu Qing said sadly: "If you don't think about yourself, you have to think about the world!" ”

"Mr. Qu's words are bad, I am not the Son of Heaven, and I don't have this right." The prince shook his head and said, "Besides, it is a blessing for the country to die early. There will never be a shortage of candidates for the prince, and it doesn't have to be me. ”

"Prince......" The prince said this, and Qu Qing couldn't think of what words to use to comfort him.

"Manager Qu, I still have something to entrust to you." The prince struggled to sit up, but was unable to do so. The maid put two pillows behind him so that his upper body could get up a little.

"The prince is serious, if there is anything, just tell the old slave." Qu Qing hurriedly knelt down.

"Get up, don't kneel." The prince said gently: "It's not a big deal, but I can't rest assured that Sixian, he is also very sick now, and there is no reliable person around to serve." After I die, you explain to your father that these big palace maids around me will go over to serve him. I still have some valuable things here, and if you share it, even if it's a little bit of my payment. ”

When several palace maids heard this, they all knelt down in a hurry, crying and saying that they would not ask for the prince's things.

"Don't cry, this is my reward for you, and it can be regarded as a memory! You have served me once, and in the end you have not been able to earn one, and it is better to have something to rely on in the future than to be helpless. The crown princess was in a hurry, and I didn't have time to explain many things, so I made the decision for her. Her jewelry, the palace maids and eunuchs who usually serve well, have all been divided, and there is no need to keep them. After speaking, the prince sighed: "I have been made the prince since I was one year old, and it has been twenty-two years now, and since I can remember, I have endless homework and rules to keep every day, and today, I am finally free." Then he left for the west.

On September 27, the thirtieth year of Longyu of the Great Zhou, the prince died in the East Palace.

He lived a gentle and generous life, but when he died, he kept his eyes open and refused to close his eyes.

Qu Qing truthfully told the emperor, and the emperor went to see it in person after hearing about it.

At this time, the crown prince had already finished decorating the coffin, and he only waited for the emperor to see it and cover the coffin.

Since he was claustrophobic after the abolition, the emperor has never seen the face of the prince again, for fear that he will intercede for his biological mother. Now the master and son have not seen each other for three months, but unexpectedly, goodbye is already yin and yang.

The prince is scary and thin, and his eyes are particularly big.

It was so empty that people who watched it panicked inexplicably.

Of course, the emperor was sad in his heart, so he stretched out his hand and gently closed his eyes for him, and said, "Go and reunite with your mother and brother, as well as your wife." Don't devote yourself to the emperor's family in the next life, you and I have a weak father-son relationship, and we don't have to see each other again in the next life. ”

It's strange to say, how many people couldn't close the eyes of the prince, but the emperor closed them as soon as he closed them.

The crown prince is gone, and the position of the prince is empty.

The ministers of the previous dynasty were naturally very concerned about this matter, and after the funeral of the crown prince, the emperor went to the court for the first time.

proposed to appoint the fifth prince as the crown prince, and of course many people in the ministers opposed it.

Among them, Xu Guolao jumped out to support the Four Princes, thinking that the Four Princes are now fifteen years old, unlike the Fifth Prince, they are still an infant baby, and it is unknown whether they can become adults.

Of course, the emperor didn't want to hear this, but he couldn't quarrel with the ministers because of this.

The final result was naturally unhappy, the emperor's headache occurred again, and he went back to the harem to lie down for several days, and the early dynasty was abolished again.

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