"Yesterday." Qi Ziruo covered his face and choked.

"If only it could be sooner." Emperor Jin An didn't say anything in the end, but said: "Come with me, your mother has something to leave for you." ”

As soon as these words came out, Qi Ziruo immediately raised his eyes, got up and followed behind Emperor Jin An.

The two entered the inner sanctum where Concubine Qin had rested before.

Now the temple was deserted, and there was nothing.

Emperor Jin An's eyes were on the brocade box on the table in the hall, where a letter was placed.

Emperor Jin An said: "If you can come back early, your mother will not think about paying you for her life." ”

"What do you mean, Father?"

"There's a letter there, and all you want to know is in that letter, go and read it, and you'll understand."

After finishing speaking, Emperor Jin An took a deep breath and pursed his lips and left the inner hall.

As the owner of the entire palace, what was written in that letter, Emperor Jin An had already read it.

all

The cause and effect, except for the secret about the prince, everything else is clearly written.

Qi Ziruo couldn't wait to open the envelope and took out a whole piece of rice paper from it.

Qi Ziruo read it word by word.

Shortly after, she made a terrible 'grunt' sound in her throat, as if she was swallowing blood.

"So it was, it turned out to be so." Qi Ziruo cried and laughed, looking crazy: "It was I who harmed my mother, and it was all my fault." ”

When the people outside the temple heard the roar coming from the inner hall, none of them dared to show surprise.

They wore plain clothes and knelt on the ground, burning paper money sadly.

Nothing outside could affect Qi Ziruo in the inner sanctum.

Qi Ziruo couldn't be distracted at all.

At this moment, her whole being was shrouded in a thick despair, and it seemed that she would never be able to struggle out.

She sat on the ground with the letter in her arms.

"Mother, how can you be so stupid, if I die, I will die, why bother to carry your life again? Those people use me to threaten you to persecute the prince's brother, you just have to act as if you don't know anything, why do you need to do this? ”

Qi Ziruo cried forbearance.

If she had known that this was the result, why did she try her best to escape back, it was better to die from the beginning, so as not to affect her mother and the prince's brother.

Now, she understood why her father had said, 'If only she had come back sooner'.

Because the mother concubine committed suicide when she fled yesterday.

Yesterday was the half-moon period agreed between the thief and the mother, and the mother was unwilling to cooperate, so her life was about to be lost.

gave up her in order to protect the prince's brother.

is willing to commit suicide to accompany her, which is a mother-daughter friendship between them.

But how can she bear such a deep friendship?

When the spring breeze came in April, there was already a faint warmth in the hall.

However, Qi Ziruo only felt cold and biting.

She walked out of the inner hall and knelt in front of Emperor Jin An: "Father, it is I who has burdened my mother, and I am willing to bury my mother." ”

She said this sincerely.

In fact, if she didn't escape, it would be her mother who buried her.

But now she survived, and her mother died......

There is no such thing in the world.

Emperor Jin An held a red hosta and looked at Qi Ziruo quietly for a long time.

In the end, he slowly stretched out his hand and slapped Qi Ziruo in the face.

Qi Ziruo was beaten and fell to the ground, but she stubbornly held on without saying a word, only pain could give her a short period of salvation.

"Since she wants you to live, then you should live well, just be, you owe the prince a life."

The biting cold wind blew into the hall, and Emperor Jin An crossed Qi Ziruo, who was kneeling on the ground, and walked away to the wind, leaving her alone in the eerie quagmire, and did not want to reach out to help.

Qi Ziruo, who has been running around for days, has escaped death several times and has had time to rest in the future, can be described as unkempt.

The thirteen princesses, who used to be soft and lovely, finally lost their original appearance.

She sat on her knees with dull eyes, the broken hair on her cheeks was tightly clinging to the place where the tears flowed, and her eyes were as red as rabbits.

I don't know how long it took, Qi Ziruo slowly got up from the ground, called a palace person, and asked softly: "In the palace, are there still mourning clothes?" ”

"Yes, yesterday the Shangyi Bureau made a dress for the princess overnight, and the slave maid went to get it."

"Waiting in the soup pool, I will send my mother away cleanly."

"Yes."

The palace people stepped back.

Half an hour later, Qi Ziruo, dressed in plain white clothes, reappeared in front of everyone.

Seeing her boring appearance, the palace people who had been serving her couldn't help crying.

Hearing the crying of others, Qi Ziruo immediately turned around and warned in a low voice: "What are you crying for, the mother concubine hates people crying in front of her the most, if you want to cry, go out and cry, and come to the wake after crying enough." ”

Princess, don't be like this, the mother will not leave with peace of mind if she sees it in the sky. The cries of the palace people became more and more sad.

Hearing this, Qi Ziruo frowned fiercely, and said without hesitation: "You go out." ”

"Princess ......"

"Get out!"

As soon as these words came out, the palace people didn't dare to refute anymore, and got up aggrieved and knelt outside the hall.

Seeing this, no one dared to touch Qi Ziru's moldy head.

And so it went on for three days.

The vigil lasted for three days and three nights, and on the last night, Qi Ziruo couldn't hold on and fainted in front of Concubine Qin's coffin.

By the time she woke up again, it was two days later.

She was awakened by lying on her bed, and suddenly lifted the quilt and got up, but she accidentally pulled the wound on her knee, and she snorted in pain.

Through the thick bed curtains, Qi Ziruo's uneasiness in his heart became heavier and heavier, and he called out in a loud voice: "Cuckoo! Cuckoo! ”

Hearing the sound, a figure appeared outside the bed curtain, but it was not a familiar shadow.

Before Qi Ziruo could raise his vigilance, a pair of flawless hands reached in from the outside, slowly lifted the light-colored curtain, and then hung it aside.

Qi Ziruo's eyes widened slightly, and he saw clearly the string of sandalwood beads on this person's wrist.

In an instant, Qi Ziruo had a plan in his heart, and tore open the curtain, and the eyes of the people outside were square.

One was stunned, the other was indifferent.

Seeing that she looked at herself stunned with her eyes open but didn't speak, Qi Ziruo paused, but still reached out and touched her forehead gently, and asked gently: "Why, I haven't seen you for two months, you don't know Lonely?" ”

"Brother ...... Prince"

As Qi Changrong's voice sounded, Qi Ziruo's eyes slowly turned red, she didn't want to cry, but she couldn't stop her tears, and all the disguised coldness completely collapsed at this moment, revealing her original weakness.

"The mother is dead."

Qi Changrong's voice was very soft: "Lone knows." ”

Hearing these three words, Qi Ziruo's tone became more and more panicked, like a child who had done something wrong, and subconsciously clenched the sheet: "The mother died because of me." ”

"Lone knows." Qi Changrong's words were full of pity, all her emotions were hidden deep in her eyes, she sat on the edge of the bed, and gently removed the hair stuck to Qi Ziruo's lips: "But this matter, you can't blame your head, if you want to blame it, you can only blame Lone, everything is because of Lone, which will lead to the death of the mother concubine." ”

"No, no, no." Qi Ziruo shook his head again and again, instinctively taking all the responsibility on himself: "It's all my fault, if it weren't for my existence, the mother concubine wouldn't have died in vain." ”

Yes.

It's her fault no matter what she thinks, a gentle person like the mother concubine, but she ended up like this, so she couldn't calm down.

If there is no existence of its own......

None of this is going to happen today.

Qi Ziruo shook his head in a daze, and the emotions in his eyes tended to collapse more and more.

Seeing this, Qi Changrong stretched out his hand, fixed Qi Ziruo's shaking head, looked at her eyes and said tightly: "Lone said, this matter is not to blame on your head, if you really want to judge right or wrong, then Lone is the culprit." ”

Qi Changrong's voice was very soft, slow, and slow, as if with inexplicable magic.

Every time she said a word, Qi Ziruo could be calmer.

After a while, Qi Ziruo suddenly came back to his senses, hurriedly wanted to get off the ground, and said while putting on his shoes: "It's not good, I'm keeping a wake for my mother's concubine, how can I suddenly fall asleep?" ”

Qi Changrong lowered his eyebrows and stopped Qi Ziruo's movements: "You didn't fall asleep, you fainted." ”

"The mother concubine was buried yesterday, and she was buried by herself alone, and you don't have to remember it anymore."

Qi Changrong hid the sourness in his eyes.

She came back too late.

I didn't even see the last side of the concubine, I only had time to watch the spirit all night, and the next day I hurriedly arranged for the concubine to be buried in the imperial mausoleum.

Knowing that Concubine Qin had been buried, Qi Ziruo's tears fell even more: "It's because I'm not filial and I can't send my mother on the last journey." ”

"Your filial piety, no one knows better than the concubine." Qi Changrong sighed slightly, and helped Qi Ziruo to lie down again: "The mother concubine will never blame you for this." ”

While speaking, Qi Changrong covered her with a quilt and continued: "The imperial doctor said, your body is weak, you must take good care of it, and the injury on your knee has begun to fester, and the carrion was only cleaned up yesterday, remember not to move these days, lest the injury continue to deteriorate, and you will hurt in the end." ”

In the empty and excessive inner sanctum bedroom, only Qi Changrong's voice kept echoing, her voice was very kind, like a very talkative elder, not only did not have any sense of blame between her words, but also was full of worry and comfort.

However, in this way, Qi Ziruo only felt more and more guilty.

Originally, the mother concubine didn't have to die.

But everything in this world is always full of mistakes and misses.

Whether it is the mother concubine, or the prince's brother, or her.

Qi Ziruo's eyes were red, and he didn't know what to say.

At this time, the big palace maid cuckoo beside Qi Ziruo came to the bed with a bowl of extremely fine rice porridge.

Seeing that Qi Ziruo woke up, the cuckoo's eyes were also slightly red, but he said to Qi Changrong: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, the Imperial Doctor gave instructions before leaving, saying that once Her Royal Highness the Princess wakes up, feed her some rice porridge." ”