After Emperor Chu heard the news of the queen's death, he sat on the dragon chair and was silent for a long time.

"Your Majesty, the queen mother has been put into the coffin." Emperor Chu was silent, and Emperor Liu's concubine waited quietly for a while before she slowly spoke. "The coffin hasn't been covered yet, Your Majesty will go and see her for the last time."

Emperor Liu's concubine knows the temperament of Emperor Chu best, and Emperor Chu is the most affectionate, so it is inevitable that she will act a little softly.

How to say, the queen and Emperor Chu are husband and wife after all, even if she and Emperor Chu have not yet reached the time when young couples are old companions. But what is undeniable in the heart of Emperor Liu is that in the difficult years of Emperor Chu, the person who really accompanied Emperor Chu was the queen.

It is for this reason that Emperor Chu, who cares about his old feelings, will be particularly kind to the queen and Xiao Jin.

Concubine Liu slowly walked to Emperor Chu's side, and she put her hand lightly on Emperor Chu's shoulder.

"Your Majesty, condolences." Emperor Liu's concubine looked at Emperor Chu's appearance, she had always been clever and clever, she didn't know what to say, and she stopped talking for a long time before she squeezed out such a sentence.

Since the day Emperor Chu ordered Zhaoyang Palace to seal the palace, until today, Emperor Chu has not seen the queen again.

"You can accompany me to see her." Emperor Chu was in a state of mind, he pulled down the hand that Emperor Liu put on his shoulder, and held her hand tightly.

"yes, okay." Concubine Liu felt that Emperor Chu's hand was trembling slightly, and she replied softly. "The concubine will accompany His Majesty."

Emperor Liu's concubine accompanied Emperor Chu, and the two returned to Zhaoyang Palace together.

In front of the coffin of the queen in Zhaoyang Palace, kneeling in front of the harem of more than a dozen concubines who were above the nobles, whether their tears were true or false, at least when Emperor Chu came, they all cried sincerely.

"The concubine has seen Your Majesty." Concubine De was coordinating the matter, and when she heard that someone was coming to report that Emperor Chu was coming, she hurriedly took someone to greet her.

"Concubine De, let the concubines in front of the spirit retreat outside first." Concubine Liu was by Emperor Chu's side, turned her head to look at Emperor Chu, and said to Concubine De. "Your Majesty wants to see the Queen Mother alone."

"Yes, the concubine will get rid of all the people inside." Concubine De was bored when she heard the cries in the hall, and hurriedly ordered the people around her to go into the hall to evacuate the concubines.

Knowing that Emperor Chu had arrived, Concubine Degui sent someone in to clear the people, and the concubines who were originally kneeling in the palace and crying miserably were quickly stopped. Some people even took out a small mirror hidden in their sleeves to check whether the makeup on their faces was still decent.

Concubine De glanced at it, and was about to reprimand it out loud, but Concubine Liu covered her lips and coughed lightly. Seeing Concubine De coming over with her prestige, he shook his head at her. Concubine De understood, so she had to swallow the words back from her mouth.

After the idle people in the palace were cleared out, Emperor Liu's concubine sent Emperor Chu into the palace, but she stayed outside the palace.

"Your Majesty, the concubines and others are waiting outside." Emperor Liu's concubine said to Emperor Chu intimately and gently.

Emperor Chu glanced back at her, he opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything after all.

Emperor Chu walked to the coffin and saw the queen's face. At that moment, Emperor Chu looked at the empress's already disfigured face, and his throat choked for a while.

Before the closure of Zhaoyang Palace, the last time Emperor Chu and the queen met, even though the queen had been weak for many years, she was still pampered and pampered, and she still had a graceful and dignified face.

And the queen at this time, even if she was lying in the coffin, even if she was wearing a heavy and complicated queen dress, she could still see that she was very thin.

In the years when Zhaoyang Palace was closed, in the first year or two, the queen would make noise from time to time to see Emperor Chu. Emperor Chu didn't want to see her, and over time, the queen stopped making trouble.

Later, her health got worse and worse. Bowls of soup and medicine were sent into Zhaoyang Palace like water, but they still couldn't stop the queen's body from deteriorating. Emperor Chu didn't pay attention to the situation of the queen and Xiao Jin, Xiao Jin went to the fiefdom and completely lost the East Palace, but became more and more indulgent. The more Xiao Jin was like this, the more dissatisfied Emperor Chu was with the queen in his heart, and gradually he was no longer willing to learn about the queen's recent situation from Emperor Liu's concubine or Wu Chuan's mouth.

Emperor Chu didn't expect Xiao Jincai to die unexpectedly in the fiefdom so unexpectedly, and the queen actually fell ill like this.

Xiao Jin and the empress died one after another, and the dissatisfaction that Emperor Chu had with the two of them in his heart slowly faded. One is his wife who accompanied him when he was young, and the other is the second son who was once held in his arms, how can Emperor Chu not be moved.

Emperor Liu's concubine and Concubine De stood side by side outside the hall, watching Emperor Chu caress the coffin with one hand and hide his face with the other.

"I didn't expect her to die like this." Concubine De glanced at the concubines gathered behind her, and said to Emperor Liu in a low voice. "It seems that Your Majesty is still soft-hearted."

"Your Majesty's temperament has always been like this, gentle and affectionate." Emperor Liu's concubine looked at Emperor Chu's slightly slumped back and sighed. "The Queen Mother and Her Majesty are young couples, and they were also gentle and virtuous in their early years. Now that she is gone, His Majesty is afraid that he can only think of the queen at this time. ”

"She's so sick that she won't have to suffer anymore if she's gone." Concubine De couldn't help but sigh.

Because the queen is her mother-in-law, on the day of her death, in addition to Xiao Yu and his wife who lived in the East Palace, the children of Emperor Chu who got the news changed into mourning clothes and entered the palace.

Xiao Xuan and Duan Shaolan entered the palace with a pair of children, and as soon as Xiao Xuan entered Zhaoyang Palace, he saw Xiao Lu standing in the corner talking with Concubine Chen.

"Big sister, Concubine Chen." Xiao Xuan took Sister Su and walked forward.

"You've arrived too." Xiao Lu was also wearing a plain white filial piety dress, but there was no trace of sadness on her face. "I really didn't expect it, it wasn't long after the last funeral, and it was her turn."

Hearing the news of the queen's death, Xiao Lu almost laughed out loud in her own mansion.

But after all, the queen is the mother of all the children under Emperor Chu's knees, even if Xiao Lu is reluctant in her heart, she has to take Sister Rou to change into plain clothes and filial piety clothes into the palace.

Xiao Lu hated the queen very much in her heart, and she was reluctant to wear filial piety clothes, so Concubine Chen persuaded her that even if she was acting on the spot, it was best to go to the queen's spirit to salute and wipe her tears.

Where would Xiao Lu be willing to kneel in front of the queen's spirit, so when Xiao Xuan came, he saw that their mother and daughter were arguing quietly in a corner of Zhaoyang Palace.

"Auntie." At this time, Sister Rou, who had been quietly following Xiao Lu's side, called Xiao Xuan in a low voice.

"Sister Rou, good boy." Xiao Xuan beckoned to Sister Rou gently, waiting for Sister Rou to walk up to her. "Aunt has something to say to your mother, can you watch Sister Su for your aunt for a while?"

Sister Su is looking at Sister Rou with her eyes.

"Okay." Sister Rou nodded softly, took Sister Su and went aside.

Xiao Xuan turned around and glanced at Duan Shaolan, who was still standing in place, Duan Shaolan nodded and left with Brother Min first.

"Big sister, what Concubine Chen advises you is, I probably have a little bit in my heart." Xiao Xuan watched Sister Rou take Sister Su to the side, and then said to Xiao Lu. "My father is still in the palace, and the queen is our mother-in-law after all. She is all dead, and there is no harm in the eldest sister going to act in front of her father. ”

"I can't cry." Xiao Lu raised her eyebrows and said. "Knowing that she's finally dead, it's nice that I can control myself from laughing."

"You!" Hearing Xiao Lu's words that she didn't eat oil and salt, Concubine Chen almost held her breath and didn't catch her breath. "How old are you, why are you still so self-willed?!"

"Concubine Chen, don't worry." Xiao Xuan said helplessly to Concubine Chen. "Concubine Chen, you might as well go to the palace first, I'll talk to the eldest sister."

"That's it." Concubine Chen persuaded Xiao Lu for half an hour before, knowing that Xiao Lu couldn't listen to her words, so she had to pin her hopes on Xiao Xuan. "It's bothering the princess."

"It's okay, Concubine Chen, let's go in quickly." When Concubine Chen shook her head and sighed and left, Xiao Xuan said to Xiao Lu. "Why should the big sister fight for this little bit of will? She's dead, and there are things that still need to be done for the living. Let's just say that among the concubines in the palace who are crying and crying but still have exquisite makeup, which one really cries for her? ”

"Hey, I don't know what you said to your mother." Xiao Lu followed Xiao Xuan's line of sight, looked at the concubines in the hall and couldn't help frowning and said. "It's just that I can't get past that level in my heart, and I really can't cry."

"I know my sister can't pass that level in her heart." Xiao Xuan suddenly turned sideways, took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and stuffed it into Xiao Lu's hand. "I have a good thing here that can help my sister."

Xiao Xuan was coldly stuffed with a handkerchief, she suspiciously approached the handkerchief to take a closer look, as soon as the handkerchief approached her face, the choking smell on the handkerchief immediately smoked and she almost burst into tears.

"Ginger?" Xiao Lu hurriedly moved the handkerchief away. "How much ginger have you poured into this veil?" Smoked me. ”

"Of course, the thicker the better." Xiao Xuan said to Xiao Lu with a smile. "The ginger juice is not thick, how can the effect be so good?"

Just when he heard that, Xiao Lu's eyes and the tip of his nose were red, and tears were rolling back and forth in his eyes.

"Did you bring this one?" Xiao Lu took the handkerchief with a smile and asked. "This is given to me, what are you going to do?"

"It's okay, I still have one hidden in my sleeve." Xiao Xuan smiled and patted his sleeve with a handkerchief hidden and said. "My father is a soft-hearted person, I always have to make more preparations."

"It's hard for you." Xiao Lu said. "Thank you."

"It's just a handkerchief, big sister is really polite." Xiao Xuan replied. "But if the eldest sister really wants to thank me, it's better to wait for this matter and send Sister Rou to live in my house for a while later. Sister Su is really pestering, there are always endless questions, I really can't deal with her. ”