Empress Dowager Li was dressed in a shroud and lay in a heavy, cold coffin.

It had only been a few hours, and the Empress Dowager Li's face had not yet turned completely blue, and she looked as if she was asleep, as if she would wake up at any time.

Finally dead!

What a good death!

Empress Dowager Yu stood by the coffin, looking at the corpse of Empress Dowager Li, and the pleasure in her heart almost overflowed her chest.

This old pious woman has pressed her for decades and rubbed her for decades. In this world, the person she hates the most is the old pious woman in front of her.

From the first day she married Emperor Jianwen, her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law hated each other and looked at each other unpleasantly. As a daughter-in-law, she was born at a disadvantage. Her husband, who claimed to love her, was also a filial son, but he turned a deaf ear and turned a blind eye. She also suffered for several years because of this.

At that time, she was still young and immature, and she didn't know how sinister people's hearts would be.

After giving birth to her daughter Changping, the Empress Dowager Li came to visit in person and ordered someone to bring her a bowl of tonic soup, which comforted her quite gently, and first blossomed and then fruited. and then have a son.

She was flattered by the rare warmth of her mother-in-law, and she did not suspect him, so she drank the bowl of tonic soup with a slightly strong smell.

This was the beginning of her nightmares in the future.

In the following years, no matter how much she adjusted and worked hard, she never got pregnant again. And her husband, who loved her deeply, needed an heir, and had to take a concubine into the palace. Soon, one after another, the princes were born.

She slowly became a virtuous and virtuous wife, a good queen praised by everyone, and the mother of a bunch of concubines.

Her heart was sunk in ice, day after day, year after year.

After a long time, she learned that there was a secret medicine in the palace, and after taking it, it would be difficult for a woman to get pregnant.

After more than ten years, things have changed, and the imperial doctor in the palace has changed. The palace maids beside Empress Dowager Li didn't know how many things had changed. Without any evidence, just guessing, there is no way to do it to Empress Dowager Li.

All she could do was knock out her teeth and swallow blood.

She swore angrily in her heart more than once that she would take revenge ten times and a hundred times back, so that Empress Dowager Li would not die a good death.

As soon as Emperor Jianwen died, Emperor Jian'an succeeded to the throne. She no longer had any scruples, and tossed the Empress Dowager Li to the point that life was worse than death. It's a pity that Emperor Jian'an's life didn't last long, and after Sheng Hong ascended the throne, Xie Mingxi also took action to save the old goddess from fire and water.

Unexpectedly, the old goddess was choked to death by a lotus seed.

God has eyes!

There is a lotus character in her maiden name, and the old goddess was choked to death by the lotus seed. There seems to be an invisible hand of fate in the dark, avenging her.

Empress Dowager Yu stood by the coffin for a long time.

Everyone was kneeling, and when they raised their eyes, they could only see the mournful back of Empress Dowager Yu.

Only Xie Mingxi, who was standing beside the Empress Dowager Yu, could clearly glimpse the almost cruel pleasure in the eyes of the Empress Dowager Yu.

After a long time, the Empress Dowager Yu sighed: "The mourning family came to see the Empress Dowager for the last time, and it can be regarded as a filial piety of the mourning family." I hope that the Empress Dowager will be able to reunite with her children and grandchildren when she goes underground. ”

After finishing speaking, he turned around tremblingly and walked out of the mourning hall.

……

Empress Dowager Yu came to the mourning hall with her sick body, full of filial piety, and also put an end to right and wrong.

After a few days of silence, Empress Dowager Yu never showed up again.

As the queen, Xie Mingxi led a group of concubines and noblewomen to kneel for the Empress Dowager Li. Ah Luo and a group of cousins also come to kneel for an hour every day.

The courtiers were also to keep a vigil.

6636 days later, the body of the Empress Dowager Li was buried in the imperial mausoleum.

The emperor and queen have to keep filial piety for another year.

Originally, the imperial historians who wanted to play and invite the Son of Heaven to open the harem and elect concubines had to stop fighting. Wait for a year of filial piety before mentioning the matter.

As the Son of Heaven, the ministers who favor the queen of the middle palace can't control it. However, the Son of Heaven is empty under his knees, and there is only one daughter, Princess Duanrou. It is supposed that the palace concubine should be admitted to the palace and spread out for the heirs of the heavenly family.

Fortunately, the Son of Heaven is very young, twenty-two this year, and he will only be twenty-three years old next year. Emperor Jianwen of that year, but he only had an heir at the age of twenty-seven.

These rumors inevitably reached Xie Jun's ears.

After Xie Jun became the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, his official career went smoothly. The Son of Heaven loves the queen and is polite to his father-in-law. Xie Jun was proud, and the only regret was that the emperor had no intention of giving him a knighthood to the Xie family.

It seems that the hope of being Cheng Engong is gone.

Xie Jun had to put all his hopes in the cabinet.

I know my pound best. Xie Jun knows that his talent is acceptable, and his ability to be an official is also passable, but he can't say how to stand out. His biggest advantage is the identity of the queen's father-in-law.

He also hoped that Xie Mingxi could give birth to a prince as soon as possible. In this way, Xie Mingxi's position as queen can be as stable as a mountain. The glory and wealth of the Xie family can also last for decades.

Xie Mingxi and the others are not out of the palace, although Xie Jun is the queen's father, there is no reason to enter and leave the harem at will. This "fatherly heart" was "conveyed" to Xie Mingxi when the Xu family entered the palace to ask for peace.

“…… The death of the Empress Dowager was too unfortunate. Speaking in private, not so particular, Xu Shi was blunt: "It was only a few months after the national mourning period, and the Empress Dowager returned to the West." You and the emperor have to keep filial piety for another year. ”

"You can't get pregnant during the filial piety period. As a result, I had to delay another year before I could have a son. ”

Speaking of which, Sheng Hong Xie Mingxi is also pitiful enough. After giving birth to Aluo, she first kept filial piety for Emperor Jianwen for three years, then guarded the national funeral for Emperor Jian'an for one year, and now she has to keep filial piety for Empress Dowager Li. Even Xie Mingxi was pregnant when she was born in filial piety, and she will not be able to give birth until the end of next year.

After all the calculations, it's really urgent.

Xu counted the time with his fingers, and then said in a low voice: "...... Ah Jun specially told me yesterday that after entering the palace today, I must talk to the queen about the heir. ”

"The emperor and the queen are a young husband and wife, and their love is deep and meaningful. However, men's hearts are the most fickle. Don't talk about it far away, let's just say that when the first emperor was alive, he and the queen mother were also a loving couple. Later, didn't they go to the palace one after another to take concubines? ”

"I still have a son to really gain a foothold in the palace. Otherwise, just like the Queen Mother, busy making wedding dresses for others......"

Xie Mingxi listened casually, and didn't take half of a sentence to heart.

Empress Dowager Li died too suddenly. Now that I think about it, it's not without benefits. Sheng Hong and her have another year to plan and arrange calmly.

Arlo is six years old this year, and will be seven years old next year.

According to the customs of Daqi, children can only be regarded as really raised when they are over eight years old.

Sheng Hong wants to make his daughter the queen daughter, so he has to wait a few years.

After one year, it may be possible to keep it for another three years...... By then, it was time for Arlo to grow up.