The kneeling on both sides were the internal and external wives who came to worship the Empress Dowager, and they all wailed and cried, looking heartbreaking, as if they wanted to be martyred.

In addition to the female dependents, there were also officials above the fourth grade in the capital who also came to worship the Empress Dowager, but most of them were incense, so they left and went to the side hall, and the same was true for Feng Yan.

Soon after Feng Yan left, Changqing and Jiuhua also came, the mother and daughter came separately, and there were still Princess Jian and Jun Lingxi in between, after Jiuhua arrived, he didn't even salute Changqing, and after giving incense to Empress Dowager He, he knelt to the side and stayed away from Changqing.

The female dependents present, whether they were the queen, the concubine and other internal women, or the external women of those humerus ministers, were all shrewd, and they immediately noticed the abnormality of the mother and daughter of Changqing and Jiuhua, and their expressions were different, and most of them were disapproving.

Empress Dowager He is Changqing's biological mother, Jiuhua's maternal grandmother, the mother and daughter are unwilling to pretend to be in the mourning hall of Empress Dowager He, doesn't this make Empress Dowager He Jiuquan not live in peace? !

Although I don't agree, no one will take care of Princess Changqing's family affairs, and besides, I can't even take care of myself.

Empress Dowager He had to stay in the mourning hall for at least seven days before her coffin could be moved to the royal mausoleum.

This means that they will have to kneel and kowtow here for seven whole days.

Duanmufei, who had already knelt for a stick of incense, just thought about it, and felt that there was nothing to love.

Duanmu Fei looked at her knees sympathetically, if it was winter, she could also tie two thick knee pads, but the weather was really the hottest in July, if she tied knee pads, she was really afraid that her knees would cover her with prickly heat.

She was thinking wildly, when a little chamberlain with clear eyebrows quietly approached her, lowered his voice and whispered in her ear: "Fourth girl, if you are tired, you can go to the west side hall to rest for a while......"

Duanmu Fei was about to send the little waiter away, when she felt someone next to her pull her cuffs.

She subconsciously looked at An Ping beside her, An Ping winked her right eye at Duanmu with a smile, and made another gesture to signal her to rest.

Duanmu Fei smiled obediently, accepted Anping's kindness, and followed the little chamberlain to the West Side Palace.

In the west side hall, it was empty, there was nothing, and the wailing on the side of the mourning hall seemed a little distant.

As soon as Duanmu Fei entered the door, he felt a cool air blowing in his face, and after looking around for half a circle, he found that the ice basins placed here were all the size of wheels.

There's really no shortage of ice in the palace. Duanmu said in his heart.

The little chamberlain diligently led Duanmu Fei to sit down on a circle chair by the window on the west side, and poured her cool sherbet.

"The fourth girl, the little one is surnamed Bei, the girl doesn't dislike it, you can call the little one a little Beizi."

"Fourth girl, even if you rest here, you don't have to go out."

Xiao Beizi said with a smile.

In fact, Empress Dowager He's mourning hall has its own princes and princesses and internal and external wives kneeling and kowtowing, where is the upper end of the wheel Mu Fei this outsider.

Duanmu Fei felt as if he was alive again, and responded with kindness, and asked, "Xiaobeizi, is there a book here?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Xiao Beizi replied again and again, her eyes narrowed with a smile, "What book does the fourth girl want to read?" ”

Without waiting for Duanmu Fei to answer, Xiao Beizi said again: "There are all books in the palace, four books and five classics, astronomy and geography, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery...... Zhiwei, drama books or something, everything. ”

Xiao Beizi just wanted to quietly bring the books in the entire library pavilion to Duanmu Fei.

Duanmufei asked Xiaobeizi to find her a few music scores and drama books to read, and soon, she was the only one left in this side hall.

The surroundings were quiet again, which also made the sound from the mourning hall a lot clearer.

The mourning hall also invited the monks of Huangjue Temple to chant the scriptures, and the dull sound of chanting Buddha and the sound of wooden fish came from time to time.

Empress Dowager He's condolence ceremony was complicated and long, and the people in the mourning hall knelt for a while, got up for a while, and cried for a while, which lasted for half a day, and when it was close to noon, everyone had time to breathe.

Duanmufei quietly took some chilled sherbet for Anping, and put an ice handstove made of ice cubes into the porcelain hand stove and stuffed it into Anping's sleeve.

Anping drank the sherbet and hugged the ice hand stove, and felt a lot more refreshed.

"Your Highness, do you want to hide quietly for a while?" Duanmu Fei leaned into Anping's ear and said.

An Ping raised his hand and rubbed the top of the little girl's soft hair, smiling lovingly and gently. My daughter-in-law is so cute.

For Anping, Empress Dowager He is not her biological mother, let alone a mother-in-law, Anping is naturally unwilling to kneel to Empress Dowager He.

Anping is the concubine of the first emperor and the queen of Yuan, if there is no usurpation today, the Empress Dowager He is just a concubine, where is it worthy of her to bend her knees!

She knelt in the mourning hall not because she was willing, but because her identity was too eye-catching, if she was not there, it would only cause unnecessary trouble when it reached the ears of the emperor.

The afternoon ceremony soon began again, and everyone returned to the mourning hall.

Duanmufei could only ask the waiter to bring food and a novice stove to Anping from time to time, and then went to the Huangyuan envoy of the Tai Hospital to ask for ginseng tablets for Anping to hold.

For a few days, the weather was hot, and many elderly women fainted from heat stroke.

The imperial doctors are always on standby in Cining Palace, so busy that their feet do not touch the ground, and in addition to the strong smell of incense and candles in Cining Palace, there is also a smell of medicine.

There are many people, and there are many rights and wrongs, even if they kneel on the ground most of the time, they can rest three or four times a day, and in the rest again and again, some rumors gradually spread among the women.

Some people say that Empress Dowager He was angry with the emperor.

Some people say that Empress Dowager He had a big quarrel with the emperor before her funeral.

Some people say that it was the emperor who killed his mother and killed the Empress Dowager He with his own hands.

There have been a lot of rumors, and even Duanmufei, who is hiding in the west hall and ignoring what is going on outside the window, has heard some of them.

waited until the last day of Empress Dowager He's funeral, the funeral was completed, and even Anping was tossed and thin.

Duanmufei got on the vermilion wheel of the princess's mansion again, and under the escort of Feng Yan, he returned to the princess's mansion first.

An Ping smiled and told his son: "Ah Yan, you have to send Scarlet home safely!" ”

Before Feng Yan agreed, Ben Xiao had already snorted excitedly, as if echoing An Ping's words.

Duanmu Fei was amused by Benxiao, stretched out his hand through the window of the carriage, and touched Benxiao's sturdy horse's neck, Benxiao made a "bang" sound and rolled his upper lip happily.

Feng Yan glared at Ben Xiao hatefully, however, Ben Xiao couldn't see Feng Yan's face at all, and put his head to Duanmu Fei's little hand, making the little girl let out bursts of laughter as crisp as silver bells.

Looking at this scene, An Ping was also amused, only to feel that the fatigue on his body was swept away, and he said in his heart: It would be great if Scarlet passed the door earlier, just watching this little couple every day is like watching a play, it's so interesting!

Feng Yan looked at Anping, and then at Duanmu Fei, who was also infected with a smile, and his eyebrows soared.

He didn't want to send Duanmufei home, but he also knew that Duanmufei had been away from home for so many days, Duanmujun was afraid that he was worried, and Duanmuxian was afraid that he would even settle this account on his head.

When Anping's Zhulun drove into Duanmu Mansion, Duanmu Jun was already waiting at the Yimen, and he didn't give Feng Yan a chance to behave, so he personally helped his sister get out of the car, pulled her little hand and looked up and down several times, and then said: "Zhen Zhen, you have lost weight." ”

The pothos almost didn't fall, and I felt that the big girl, every time I met the fourth girl, my eyes became bad.

She could see clearly that her four girls had been out for seven days, and it stands to reason that it was not easy to enter the palace to mourn, but she was red as if she had taken some panacea, and she was a little fatter.

Duanmujun felt that the emperor was really unreliable, obviously his sister hadn't passed the door yet, why did he have to count his sister in those royal matters, but these words could only be put in his heart to complain, and he could only say when the words came to his mouth: "Zhen Zhen, I will ask the kitchen to cook you more delicious and delicious food these days, and stew some supplements, you are still growing at an age, you have to make up more." ”

Feng Yan nodded with concern, and said in his heart: He was careless.

When he returns to the princess's mansion later, he will hurry to open the warehouse and see if there are any supplements suitable for summer for Zhen Zhen and her mother.

Duanmufei originally planned to go back to Zhanqing Courtyard with Duanmujun, but seeing that Feng Yan didn't leave, he had to remind him euphemistically: "Ah Yan, you should go back." ”

However, Feng Yan didn't want to leave at all, and said with a smile: "Don't worry." ”

But she's in a hurry. Duanmu Fei slandered in his heart.

In the afternoon, the sun was scorching, and even though there was shade from the trees, it was still so hot that Duanmu Fei felt that he was about to be roasted.

Gotta find a way to coax this guy away. Duanmu Fei pondered in her heart, when she looked at Shang Fengyan's bright and clear phoenix eyes, she suddenly thought of the little fox staring at herself with her head up and blinking when she was begging for food, which made people can't bear to refuse.

So, she naturally changed her tone and said, "Ah Yan, do you want to stay for lunch together?" ”

"Yes." Feng Yan responded beautifully.

Lunch time has passed, but Duanmujun knows that his sister can go home today, although he doesn't know the specific time, but he has been keeping the food warm on the stove.

After this command, a small banquet was placed in a side room on the west side of the True Fun Hall.

It's only been two teas, and the meals are already ready.

The four cold dishes are refreshing and clean, the four hot dishes are full of aroma, and there is a soup and a soup and sherbet instead of wine, and a table full of colors and flavors.

Everything on this table is Duanmufei's favorite food, Feng Yan knew it at a glance, you can imagine how dedicated Duanmujun is to Duanmufei's sister.

The weather was hot, Duanmufei didn't eat much, she couldn't finish eating, Feng Yan emptied the plate for her.

The table was full of dishes, and Duanmujun almost doubted that he hadn't eaten for three days and three nights, and quietly gestured to the maids, so that they could serve another table of sweet water snacks.

Feng Yan feasted, and when Duanmu Xian rushed back to the house when he heard the news, he saw Feng Yan's full-fed appearance, and he really wanted to lift the table.

It's not like Duanmuxuan, in fact, when Duanmuxian heard that Duanmufei entered the palace to mourn the Queen Mother, he quietly ran to see Duanmufei, and when he saw that she was doing well, his heart was also relieved.

However, Duanmu Scarlet went to the palace and suffered this crime because of Feng Yan, and when Duanmu Xian saw Feng Yan now, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

Feng Yan also knew that he was suspicious, so he reluctantly arched his hand at Duanmu Xian, "Grandfather, I'll leave first." ”

Since he sneaked into Zhanqing Courtyard and was caught by Duanmu Xian, Duanmu Xian saw that he had no good face, so he found the seven-star chessboard and gave it to Duanmu Xian, but he didn't expect the Empress Dowager He to die suddenly......

It seems that he has to match Duanmu Xian with another set of rare chess pieces, and then come to him to play chess, and maybe he can have another meal at Duanmu's house openly.

Duanmuxian asked a grandmother to send Feng Yan away, his attention was all on Duanmu Fei, and he asked for warmth, making sure that she had not suffered a little grievance in the palace, so he put the person back in Zhanqing Courtyard and told her to rest well.

Duanmu Mansion returned to calm with the return of Duanmu Fei, after all, the life and death of Empress Dowager He were not important to Duanmu Mansion at all.

Outside Duanmu Mansion, there is a turbulent dark tide in the capital, just a few days, a rumor spread all over the streets and alleys, saying that the Empress Dowager He was killed by the emperor, and it became more and more intense, even when Bi Cicada went out, he heard a sentence or two, and came back to Duanmu Fei.

"Girl, now it's said everywhere in the capital, the emperor ...... The emperor killed his mother. ”

Bi Cicada swallowed her saliva with difficulty, and after she finished speaking, the small study room fell silent.

Duanmu Fei put down a chess book in her hand, which she copied from the palace a few days ago, and she played chess against the chess game in her spare time recently.

Duanmu stared at the chessboard dotted in front of him, his big black eyes shining thoughtfully.

Empress Dowager He's age is not very old, she has just passed the year of knowing the destiny of heaven, and she died too suddenly, many people who want to come to the palace to celebrate the Queen Mother's birthday on that day are suspicious.

Duanmu put the sunspot in his hand back into the chess box, and with a "click", the chess pieces collided with the chess pieces, making a crisp sound.

"Bi Chan, what else is there outside?" Duanmu asked as if unintentionally.

Bi Cicada's expression was a little complicated, dignified, suspicious, thoughtful, and shocked...... It's all there.

She sorted out her thoughts, and replied:

"Some people say that it was because the Queen Mother pleaded with her mother that the emperor and the Queen Mother quarreled, and in a fit of anger, she killed the Queen Mother by mistake."

"Some people say that the emperor's temperament has become more and more violent in the past two years, unloading the mill and killing the donkey, and the people who followed the emperor to force the palace Chongming Emperor were all killed by the emperor."

"Some people also say that when the emperor was seeking to usurp the throne, he naturally used these old ministries; Now that the country is settled, the emperor sits firmly on the dragon chair, and there is no need for these former old ministries. ”

"The emperor doesn't want his stain to remain in this world, so he must get rid of those old people who know his secrets...... Including the Queen Mother! ”

Bi Cicada said with a clear eye, with a slight tremor and apprehension in her voice. After all, this is a royal matter, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a head-killing.

Duanmu Fei just grabbed a chess piece and put it back, rewarded Bi Chan with a plate of snacks, and sent her down.

She herself was still sitting in front of the chessboard, and she didn't continue to play chess, but just looked at the chess game on the chessboard with a stunned expression, as if she was in a daze, and seemed to be thinking about how to break the game.

The weather is hot, the window is closed, only the lush shadow of the tree is reflected in the house, reflecting the coolness of the room, the summer breeze outside, the shadow of the tree is swaying, mottled and scattered, cast on Duanmufei's delicate little face, so that her expression looks a little dignified, with a bit of unstained fireworks.

"Tuk Tuk!"

There was a sudden knocking sound on the window, which suddenly woke Duanmu Fei from his contemplation.

As soon as her eyes lit up, the word "A" on her lips was about to blurt out, but it was a pair of eyes as clear as amber outside the window.

She was stunned, and for some reason there was an inexplicable loss in her heart, so she changed her tone and called: "Little eight." ”

The little starling, who was only a window away from her, glanced at her, flapped his wings, and flew away, as if it was just to see if her soul was still there.

The little starling happily flapped his wings in mid-air, and the branches in the courtyard rattled, and when the wind blew, the branches swayed even more, as if whispering.

"Rustling ......"

The rumors outside spread for three or four days, and then they stopped again.

It is said that after Dongchang stormed into a teahouse and took away a few people, the others no longer dared to talk nonsense outside, and as for closing the door, the wooden scarlet did not know.

"Four girls, who do you think these rumors are from?"

Duanmu Xian originally wanted to pretend to be deaf and dumb, but on this day, looking at Duanmu Fei, who was pruning the iris for him, he suddenly asked.

Duanmuxian said without a beginning or an end, but Duanmufei knew what he was talking about.

"Click."

Small shears carefully cut a calamus leaf.

Duanmu Fei casually threw the cut branches and leaves on the desk, and looked at the verdant iris in front of him, the craggy strange stones and the vibrant calamus set off each other.

"Geng family."

The scissors in Duanmu Fei's hand glistened in the afterglow of the setting sun, and the sharp scissor blades were aimed at another branch and leaf, "Click." ”

Duanmufei's big dark eyes were also reflected in the cold light of the scissors.

She's just skeptical.

Since the emperor issued an edict, the rumors of his usurpation have long been a household name, and the old ministers when the emperor seized the throne have also died, and only the Geng family is still in the capital.

The current situation of the Geng family is very bad, for the Geng family, only by erecting the emperor up, the emperor with the most important reputation will not move the Geng family, but will show grace to the Geng family to calm down the rumors.

Duanmu Xian slowly stroked his beard, and his face was groaning.

Although there is no evidence, he also agrees with Duanmufei's speculation, but-

Did Empress Dowager He really die at the hands of the emperor?!

Or maybe this rumor is just the Geng family taking advantage of the trend......

Duanmu put down the scissors, picked up the small watering can on the side, sprayed the potted plant with some water, and then smiled with satisfaction.

Duanmu Xian looked at Duanmu Fei's cute appearance, and really wanted to rub it on the top of her head.

As soon as his hand moved, he remembered another thing and asked, "Fourth girl, you are going to go to Huangjue Temple with the eldest princess of Anping tomorrow, right?" ”

As he spoke, Duanmu Xian's face sank.

According to the rules of the Dasheng Dynasty, on the seventh day after the Queen Mother's funeral, a great ritual should be done for the Queen Mother.

Duanmu pouted and nodded, and his little face almost didn't collapse.

I don't know what the emperor is thinking, he really treats her as his own person, and he has to take her on everything.

Hey, tomorrow morning's ritual has to be early, which means that when she crows, she will have to get up.

I can't sleep anymore!

Duanmu Xian recited the emperor's unreliability again in his heart, and felt that all this was caused by Feng Yan, and calculated all this account on Feng Yan's head

"Four girls, you rest early in the evening, don't be tired."

"If there is anything you need to prepare, grandfather will help you prepare, you just need to go to someone."

"Grandfather asked someone to prepare some dry food for you, and you hide it in your sleeve, and you will eat it secretly tomorrow when you are hungry......"

Duanmu Xian earnestly admonished, and let Duanmu Fei go.

When Duanmu Fei returned to Zhanqing Courtyard, the sunset was only half set.

As soon as she entered the door, she was taken care of by her sister, urging her to have dinner early, and urging her to rest early, God knows that this is only the hour, and even before it is completely dark, she can't sleep at all.

Turning over and over.

Over and over again.

Even she didn't know when she fell asleep, only that she heard the rooster crowing in a daze, was helped up from the couch by the two maids in a daze, was served half-asleep, half-dreamed and half-awake ate breakfast, and half-dreamed and half-awake got on Anping's vermilion wheel.

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Tomorrow is limited to free, the update time is at 22:00, this is the rule set by the website, I have no right to change, please forgive me.

And then there is the explosion you want after 0:00 on the 2nd...... The monthly pass is going to be left to me~

(emmm, if I'm not wrong about the time, it should be like this, if I'm wrong, let's talk about it, hide your face...... ）