The prince died, the queen was seriously ill, and the whole palace was shrouded in gloom for a while.

Although the courtiers complained, they did not dare to say it, after all, the affairs of the harem can be big or small.

I meditated on the days, and it was time for Zhongxuan to go out for the funeral today, but I still just locked myself in the Buddhist hall, listening to the death knell strike, one by one, as if laughing at my incompetence......

It is indeed incompetent, incompetent enough to have the courage to attend the funeral.

I knelt in front of the Buddha and felt the passage of time.

"The funeral procession has probably arrived at the cemetery, and it's time to bottom out and fight back." I bowed to the Buddha statue for the last time, "May the Buddha bless Zhongxuan forever ascending to Bliss and not entering the emperor's family in the next life." ”

Now that I had made a decision, I was not allowed to continue to be hypocritical, so I got up and left the temple.

"Second Miss, you are finally willing to come back, the slave is worried to death." Seeing that I had returned to Yaoguang Palace, Qiu Xiang took my hand with tears in her eyes.

It's really hard for her, I don't want to see her every day to deliver food to the Buddha Hall these days.

"It's all over, help me prepare, I want to bathe and meet the Queen Mother." I smiled and wiped the tears from Akika's eyes, then turned and walked back into the room.

"Yes." Qiu Xiang happily rushed out after receiving the order.

Bathing, grooming, I changed into the queen mother's favorite emerald green clothes, the palace is not popular to wear filial piety to the prince, so I picked a plain white hairpin, and after wearing it, I went out of the Yaoguang Palace to Anshou Palace.

When she arrived, Aunt Liu Ruo was still standing at the door of Anshou Palace.

"The Queen Mother knows I'm coming?"

"Yes."

"Why are you sure I'm coming?"

"The Queen Mother is the Queen Mother, and the slaves dare not speculate on the psychology of the Queen Mother."

I looked at Aunt Liu Ruo, I haven't seen her for a few days, and there seem to be a few more gray hairs in this sideburns, and it seems that we have not stayed out of it.

Entering the hall, the Queen Mother was sitting upright chanting the scriptures, but in front of her was an empty chess game that was different from the past.

"Min'er participates in the Queen Mother."

"Min'er is here, sit down." Hearing the voice, the Queen Mother opened her eyes and smiled at me. "Play chess with the mourners."

"How did the Queen Mother know that I was coming." I sat down and was the first to drop a white disc in the game.

"From the moment you saw Jasmine, I knew you were coming." Between answers, the Queen Mother also left the sunspot behind.

"The Queen Mother is wise, I don't know the ...... of Zhongxuan"

"I know you are suspicious, but in this deep palace, the most important thing is evidence." The Queen Mother interrupted me from what I had not finished speaking.

"So, the Queen Mother knows?"

"I don't know."

It seems that the Queen Mother is reminding me, yes, no evidence is equal to nothing.

"Yes, Min'er Xie Empress Dowager taught."

"Min'er came to the mourning family today, but it's not just for this, right?" The Queen Mother is really the Queen Mother, and I am afraid that she has already seen everything I have today.

"The courtiers came here today to invite the queen mother to the palace to serve the emperor." I got up and knelt down.

"Early this morning, the mourning family has already sent someone to deliver the will to the Zhou Mansion." Hearing my request, the Queen Mother was not a little surprised, her eyes were still staring at the chess game, and she said lightly: "Get up, continue to play chess." ”

It seems that the Queen Mother had long expected that I would enter the palace.

During the few days in the Buddha Hall, I always kept thinking of my past life, the days when I was humiliated in the enemy country, and the last time Li Yu died in my arms......

I also kept reflecting on my own life, I could have worked harder, but I always just wanted to be a turtle with a shrunken head, until Zhong Xuan's death told me that fate is fate, and what should come will eventually come. And what I'm going to do is not run away, but try to keep the people I want to protect.

Can't change it? Then I will try to fight against this fate, even if the final result is the same, I will fight hard, I squeeze the chess pieces in my hand hard, and secretly swear.

"What's wrong with Min'er, it's your time." The Queen Mother's voice suddenly sounded, pulling me back from my contemplation.

"No, it's just that I'm homesick all of a sudden." I hurriedly lowered my head and avoided my gaze, I naturally knew that I couldn't deceive the Queen Mother.

"If you're homesick, go back and have a look."

"This is also what the courtiers think, now that Zhong Xuan has died suddenly, the mother must be very sad, so I want to ask the Queen Mother to resign and go home first."

"You rightly worry about your mother. It's just that you're in the palace......"

"No election, no fame, just let me stay in the palace and live with my sister." I rushed to the Queen Mother in advance and said it.

Now that Zhong Xuan has just gone, if I rush into the palace as a concubine, I will definitely make my sister unhappy, although my sister has clearly expressed her support, but the previous life is vivid, I naturally have scruples.

"Min'er is sensible."

"Empress Dowager Xie."

Xu is absent-minded, the Queen Mother won me all afternoon in chess.

Near dinner, when I was about to return home, Concubine Shuniang suddenly brought Princess Wenlin to visit, saying that she was worried that the Queen Mother would be injured by Zhongxuan's incident, so she specially prepared a good ginseng soup for the Queen Mother, and other words were full of provocations to me.

I didn't pay attention to it, just changed the itinerary and stayed, eating my own food on the table, seeing me who didn't fight back, Concubine Shu couldn't find an outlet for a while, so she had to stare at me angrily throughout the whole process, which also made me feel better in an instant.

It's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, since she wants to play, then I will enter this deep palace to play with her.

The Queen Mother is a smart person, so she naturally saw the smell of gunpowder between me and Concubine Shu, but she chose to pretend, still smiling.

While eating, Aunt Liu Ruo suddenly walked in with a sad face.

"Queen Mother, the slave is in trouble."

"Why are you in such a hurry, you need to say it at the dinner table."

"It's the Queen's side." Aunt Liu Ruo glanced at me, then lowered her head and said,

"What's wrong with the Queen?"

"What's wrong with my sister?" I stood up and spoke up with my colleagues from the Queen Mother.

"I'm afraid it's not good, Yaoguang Palace sent someone to look for it, saying that it was for the second lady to go back quickly."

When Aunt Liu Ruo said this, I obviously felt the change in her expression, and it seemed that my sister's condition was getting worse.

I glanced at the Queen Mother, who nodded at me.

"Then the courtier will retire first."

"The concubine also retired first." Seeing me leaving, Concubine Shu also got up and said goodbye.

"You sit down, the mourning family still has something to say." The Queen Mother rejected Concubine Shu's proposal. This can be regarded as invisibly in order to cut off the entanglement of the concubine.

I glanced at the Queen Mother gratefully. Then he ran out of the Wanshou Palace to the Yaoguang Palace.

Am I really unable to think of a way to keep my sister?