Chapter 195: Death

This year, it seems destined to be eventful, and bad news comes one after another.

First, Li Tai, who was demoted to a concubine and lived in Lingnan, died of an epidemic at the end of summer, and then Gao Shilian, the Duke of Shenguo, also died of a sudden illness at the end of September. These two people are closely related to Empress Changsun, and the news spread into the palace one after another, and all of a sudden, Empress Changsun's physical condition took a sharp turn for the worse, and even Sun Simiao was helpless and waited for the destiny of heaven.

Li Hefa was busy, and he could only find time to see Yongning every day, and then in addition to focusing on government affairs, the rest of his time and energy were put into the Lizheng Palace. Li Shimin also seemed to remember the goodness of Empress Changsun, the rifts that once appeared between husband and wife have disappeared at this moment, and he also frequently travels back and forth to the Lizheng Palace, and even moves the music to the Lizheng Palace to deal with it many times.

The group of women in the East Palace, one by one, rushed to express their filial piety, and waited for the eldest grandson queen in shifts, but Yongning did not appear - the first thing the eldest grandson queen did after her illness was to send Yongning, who came over with a stomach, back to give birth to the baby, although the superficial statement was very grandiose, but anyone could hear that the eldest grandson queen was not waiting to see Yongning.

Daxing Palace fell silent all of a sudden. Yongning hid in his house peacefully, and easily did not dare to show his head. In the meantime, Yongning once saw Li Shimin from afar, the once heroic emperor, who had been passed down from generation to generation, was already old, and his back was full of exhaustion.

Everyone knows that Empress Changsun is afraid that she will not be able to survive this winter, and all forces have quieted down, and no one wants to touch Li Shimin's mold at this time. His Royal Highness Li Zhi, the crown prince, has also become more and more low-key, although he has taken over a lot of practice from Li Shimin, but there is no top-notch thing to come out, neither mistakes nor limelight, and he grasps the word "stable" accurately.

Fang Xuanling, who went home to recuperate, returned to the court in a high-profile manner at this time. Li Shimin personally came forward to build momentum for Fang Xuanling, and the authority that he had been divided between all parties during his sick leave returned to him again.

Fang Xuanling returned to the court again, and sat down firmly again, except for a few old ministers who had followed Li Shimin from the beginning, no one expected. But Fang Xuanling understood in his heart that the reason why Li Shimin took the opportunity to favor the Fang family at this time was just to let the Fang family balance the eldest grandson family in the future.

Empress Changsun saw that she couldn't pass this hurdle, and after her death, it was inevitable to grace and raise the eldest grandson's family, and Li Shimin was already paving the way for the future at this time. At this time, the eldest grandson Wuji, but also pursued a low-key policy, every time he appeared in front of people, he must have a sad face, and almost all the government affairs in his hands were rejected, and he seemed to put all his thoughts on the eldest grandson queen, today he sent some of the eldest grandson's favorite food when he was a child, and tomorrow he will accompany him to talk about the past when he was a teenager......

When he was in front of the eldest grandson queen, he forced a smile on his face, and when he left the Lizheng Palace, he was in tears, and he hugged and cried with Li Shimin's uncle in the Liangyi Hall several times. Even when Li Zhi mentioned the actions of the eldest grandson Wuji in front of Yongning, he couldn't help but turn red with red circles.

Yongning found that she had no way to think about the eldest grandson Wuji for the good, and he showed a deep brother-sister relationship, which always made Yongning feel like watching a play, how to watch it and how to feel unreal. But there is no way to tell these words to others, so you can only keep them in your heart.

On the thirteenth day of the lunar month, small snowflakes fluttered in the sky in the early hours of the morning, and Yongning slept a little unsteadily this night, always feeling that something had happened. Sure enough, just after the end of the day, there was a death knell in the direction of the Lizheng Palace.

The moment he was suddenly awakened by the bell, Yongning always had a feeling of unreality, and when he helped Fanghua to sit up, his expression was still a little trance. "Just now, I seem to hear the bell......" She frowned lightly and looked at Fanghua, but she saw Fanghua's face sad.

"Fang is the death knell of the Lizheng Palace, the queen mother, the queen mother is ......" Fanghua said in a low voice while draping a robe on Yongning's body.

"Queen, what's up? ......" Yongning pulled the placket of his clothes and said, "I'm physically inconvenient, you will all be smart for a while......"

Even if Yongning is pregnant, it is inevitable to cry for the queen. And she knows it in her own heart, I'm afraid that I don't know how many people are thinking about it, and if they want to take advantage of the chaos to calculate her, she can't help but guard against it. At this time, Li Zhi was unreliable, and even with his soft-hearted and affectionate temperament, I was afraid that Yongning would turn around and care for comfort. Yongning can be relied on at this time, that is, these people around him.

Fanghua naturally understood what Yongning meant, and while beckoning Qingwan, Qingyan and others to come in and serve Yongning to get up, she and Fangran went to do some things to use, and followed Yongning to the Lizheng Palace.

Yongning was eight months pregnant at this time, and her body was already quite bulky, and it was already very inconvenient to walk around. By the time she arrived at the Lizheng Palace, the inside and outside of the hall were already full of kneeling people. The crown princess Wang took a concubine from the East Palace to kneel in a relatively forward position in the hall, but surprisingly did not leave a place for Yongning.

Yongning was already walking slowly, and he saw the situation around Wang clearly from a distance, wiping his tears with a handkerchief while walking a little slower. Sure enough, when Li Shimin, who was mournful, saw Yongning staggering over, he asked the eunuchs around him to take Yongning directly to the side hall for a salute.

There was no one else in the side hall, but there were palace people hurrying back and forth at the entrance of the hall from time to time. Yongning didn't want to fall at this time, kneeling on the specially made thick cushion, silently shedding tears, no matter how Fanghua and others persuaded her, she refused to take a break.

In fact, where is Yongning who is willing to abuse herself, but after she entered the side hall, she found that Youdao had been staring at her, obviously someone was secretly peeping, although she didn't know which side it was, she didn't dare to relax at all.

After Yongning knelt alone in the side hall and cried for half an hour, Princess Jinyang was also sent in. Princess Jinyang is also pregnant at this time, and she will be three months old, which is the most suitable time to have a baby. After she got the funeral report and rushed into the palace, she didn't bother to say a word to Li Shimin, so she fell directly on Li Shimin, and Li Shimin was so shocked that Li Shimin immediately sent Princess Jinyang to the side hall here, and the imperial doctor who was waiting outside the palace also followed in.

As soon as Princess Jinyang came in, Yongning immediately stopped pretending, and called Qingwan and Qingyan to carness her up with a shocked face, and then called people to prepare some decoctions to calm the fetus and wake up the mind. Waiting for Li Shimin to arrange the affairs of the main hall, when he came to visit with Li Zhi, he saw his sister-in-law and two pot-bellied women hugging each other and crying bitterly, surrounded by a circle of palace maids who were in a hurry, but no one could persuade them.

Li Shimin's tears were also hooked, rubbing his eyes, and he turned around and walked outside the hall to look at the flying snow in the sky and mourn. Li Zhi endured his sadness, hugged Yongning with one hand and Princess Jinyang with the other, and shed tears, but persuaded the two women in his arms to think more about the child and take care of their bodies......

"Jiulang ......" Yongning looked up at Li Zhi with tears in his eyes, and said: "I always feel sorry for the queen, I don't know how much I have been angry with my mother for me all these years, I, I ...... in my heart"

"It's none of your business...... It's all my fault...... "Li Zhi often thinks of the disputes with Empress Changsun these days, the things that he thought were very important at the time, and at this time, when facing the threat of losing his mother, he suddenly felt that those were not so important......

He regretted it more than once, he shouldn't have made Empress Changsun angry, and even gradually he didn't dare to face Yongning. Yongning sensitively noticed Li Zhi's psychological changes, and at this time, with a desperate determination, he forcibly uncovered this scar in Li Zhi's heart.

"Brother Jiu," Princess Jinyang's lips trembled slightly, looked at Li Zhi pitifully, and said, "You say, is the queen mother still angry with me?" ”

"How so?" Li Zhi's tears fell again, gently patted Princess Jinyang's back, and said, "The queen mother's favorite ** is you, where is she willing to be angry with you?" She always looks forward to us, and we children can be safe and well......"

The more Li Zhi said, the more he felt that he was really unfilial in the past, and he unconsciously let go of Yongning's hand.

"Jiulang ......" Yongning buried his head deep in Li Zhi's arms, choked up and said: "I want to go to the queen's mausoleum and keep filial piety for the queen for three years......"

"What nonsense?" Li Zhi's tearful glare did not have the desired effect, but his tone became stiff: "You are still pregnant with a child, where can you say this?" ”

"But I always wanted to do something for the queen...... When my mother was sick, I couldn't serve in front of me, and I, I always wanted to do my part...... "Yongning's tears easily wet Li Zhi's clothes and his heart.

Princess Jinyang was next to Yongning, crying and said: "The queen mother also doesn't allow me to enter the palace more, and every time she sits for less than a moment, she is in a hurry to get me out...... Brother Jiu, I want to go with Yongning to guard the tomb of the queen mother, and do my best to fulfill this last heart......"

Li Shimin stood outside the hall, listened to the conversation in the hall, stretched out his hand to summon a little eunuch who had been turning sideways in the corner of the hall, and asked, "Is there anything unusual about the Fang family in the hall?" ”

The little eunuch shook his head and said, "The concubine on the side of the house seems to be extremely sad, kneeling in the palace and crying bitterly, until Princess Jinyang was sent over, she got up to take care of the princess......"

Li Shimin nodded, sighed lowly, and said in a whisper: "Wuji, you finally misread Fang's ...... She is not only the daughter of Fang Xuanling, but also can be loved by Jiulang, where will it be what you think......"