When everyone thought that the Empress Dowager had survived the catastrophe, the Empress Dowager Xiaohe left in the most peaceful way.

On that day, she took Zhiyue's hand and came back from watching the green chrysanthemum in the small garden, and then rested on the embroidered pillow of the low kang.

She said to Zhiyue in front of her eyes, "Zhiyue, burn a stick of Ning Shen incense, if the imperial concubine comes, you call the mourning family, and the mourning family has something to say to her." ”

Zhiyue let out a cheerful 'hey', and after lighting a Ning Shen incense, he went out to prepare desserts for Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager.

But when Zhiyue came back, Xiao and the Empress Dowager were already asleep.

fell asleep forever, ending her remarkable life.

The death of Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager was a great blow to Lingxi. She no longer remembered how she walked to the Changle Palace, and how she hugged the arms of Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager and cried bitterly.

When Emperor Yong'an arrived, pulled the Lingxi away and asked the palace people to bathe Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager and wear shrouds, Lingxi's nerves were already wooden.

She snuggled in the arms of Emperor Yong'an, opened her eyes that had cried into walnuts, and looked at the sleeping filial piety and the empress dowager in a daze, and she couldn't react at all.

Filial piety and the Empress Dowager are mourning for the country.

Her golden silk nanmu coffin was parked in the longevity hall of Yongshou Palace, and was worshiped by military officials and subjects of the world.

The harem concubines even put on plain clothes and went to cry and mourn three times in the morning, noon and evening to show their filial piety.

On the seventh day of November in the eleventh year of Emperor Yong'an, it snowed heavily.

The coffin of the Empress Dowager Xiaohe was transported from the west gate of the palace to the mausoleum that had been built 40 years ago for burial.

When watching the coffin of the Empress Dowager of filial piety being carried out of the palace by sixteen little eunuchs wearing filial piety clothes, Lingxi's tears fell again.

For the past month, others have been spirits who keep four hours a day, but she has kept eight hours a day.

If it weren't for the repeated persuasion of Lotus Ye and the Fifth Princess, Lingxi would probably have gone with Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager.

On the eighth day of the eleventh year of Yong'an, the grief-stricken Lingxi fell ill.

She lay on the bed, burning to the point of nonsense. She always remembered Zhiyue telling her that Xiao and the Empress Dowager had said before leaving, and there was something to say to her.

She could always hear Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager in a half-dream, either happy or indifferently shouting to her, "Girl." ”

With a single sound, the spirit rhino would wake up from his dream and cry profusely.

The only life-and-death parting she experienced in her previous life was that she was shot to death by her partner, and before she had time to grieve for herself, she had already traveled to this great Shun Dynasty.

Even Allure, who was sure that she was no longer there, did not look at it disappearing in front of her eyes so stiffly.

Seventeen years, a full seventeen years.

In these seventeen years, Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager were the only ones who held her in the palm of her hand.

Now that Xiao and the Empress Dowager are gone, Lingxi suddenly feels that she is the only one left in this big palace.

No one will teach her how to go on in this harem, no one will tell her to go forward with peace of mind, and there will be grandmothers in the back, and she will no longer treat her, who is already the mother of five imperial heirs, as a naughty child.

No one nodded at her forehead and scolded her, "You little monkey! ”

Whenever Lingxi thought of the warmth she could never get back, she was so sad that she couldn't help herself.

As soon as Lingxi fell ill, he became ill until November of the eleventh year of Yong'an.

On the third day of December in the eleventh year of Yong'an, filial piety and the Empress Dowager Qianqiu.

Lingxi, who had recovered from a serious illness, held the lotus leaf and pushed open the door of the Changle Hall with trembling hands.

With a 'squeak', the familiar pendulum of the Changle Hall was imprinted into Lingxi's eyes.

After Xiao and the Empress Dowager left, the Changle Hall was emptied. Emperor Yong'an did not order to clean up here, so this place is still the same as it has always been.

It's just that people go to the temple empty.

Seeing Lingxi's frowning, Lotus Ye hurriedly stroked Lingxi's chest with her hand and persuaded, "Niangniang, you must pay attention to your body." If the Empress Dowager had a spirit in the sky, she would not want to be so sad as her mother. ”

Lingxi picked up the plain cotton handkerchief, wiped the corners of his eyes, lifted his skirt and stepped into the Changle Palace.

Lotus Ye wanted to follow up, but Lingxi turned around and said, "Lotus Ye, today is the ancestor Qianqiu, you just let me stay alone with her old man." ”

Lotus Ye choked up and withdrew the hand that was holding Lingxi's arm.

Lingxi turned around and walked to the Changle Hall step by step.

Raising his eyes, he took the outer hall into his eyes with nostalgia, and walked to the inner hall of the Changle Palace.

Sitting on the low kang, Lingxi rubbed a jade ruyi in his hand that was played with by Xiao and the Empress Dowager two months ago, and his eyes were red.

Curled up on the dwarf kang, Lingxi cried sadly, "Grandmother Huang, the girl misses you......"

I don't know how long I cried, Lingxi only felt that she couldn't shed tears anymore, so she sobbed again and again.

Zhou An, Zhiyue, and Zhiqiu walked in from outside and knelt in front of Lingxi.

Zhou An wiped his tears and said, "Imperial Concubine Niangniang, please also mourn by the way." ”

Zhiyue's eyes were red and swollen, she looked at Lingxi, and choked up, "Imperial Concubine Niangniang, the Empress Dowager once said that if there is any day, let the minions follow you." ”

Zhiqiu nodded again and again, sobbing, unable to say a word.

Lingxi sat up, wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and asked Zhiyue and Zhiqiu, "Don't you want to leave the palace?" ”

Zhiyue shook her head, "The slave doesn't want to leave the palace, the slave and the maid are orphans, and they don't have any relatives outside." ”

"Slaves and maids don't leave the palace." Knowing autumn is also the way.

Lingxi nodded and said, "If you don't want to leave the palace, follow me." ”

Zhou An raised his head and glanced at Zhiqiu and Zhiyue, and Zhiyue and Zhiqiu retreated.

Zhou An said to Lingxi, "Imperial Concubine Niangniang, the Empress Dowager left you a letter before leaving. She told the minion, when will you stop crying, and when will you give it to you. ”

Lingxi paused, looked at Zhou Andao, "Bring it." ”

Zhou An looked at the tear stains on Lingxi's eyes and lowered his head.

Lingxi picked up the cotton handkerchief and wiped the tears off his face, stretched out his slightly trembling right hand to Zhou An, and said, "Give it to me." ”

Zhou An still shook his head, "Imperial Concubine Niangniang, the Empress Dowager Yizhi, you must have neat makeup to give you the letter." ”

Lingxi looked at the plain clothes on her body, and after holding the low bun on her head, she called Zhiyue and Lotus Ye in to clean her face and pull her hair.

When Lingxi cleaned her face and re-tied her neat hair lily bun, she no longer looked so decadent, she stretched out her hand to Zhou An again, "Bring it." ”

Zhou An lowered his head and said to Lingxi, "Niangniang, you know the secret grid in the dormitory, and the key to the Empress Dowager has already been given to you." ”

Lingxi pressed his hand to his chest, lifted his skirt and hurriedly walked to the dormitory of Changle Palace.

Since Xiao and the Empress Dowager told Lingxi that the ordinary jade pendant was the key to Fengyang Palace, Lingxi never let the jade pendant leave his body.

Lingxi lifted the futon on the phoenix couch, opened the secret compartment with the jade pendant, and took out a letter from it with trembling hands.

Sitting on the small table, Lingxi held the letter in his hand.

On the envelope are four small characters written by Xiao and the Empress Dowager: The girl is personally opened.

Lingxi covered her mouth with her hand, calming down for a while before letting her tears fall.

It wasn't until he felt his mood calm down that Lingxi took out the letter inside the envelope.

In the letter, the Empress Dowager Xiaohe wrote in an intimate tone, "Girl, when you see this seal, your grandmother must be gone. Grandmother is old, you always call grandmother ancestor ancestor, grandmother will follow ancestor one day later. I'm afraid that when the time comes, your little monkey will cry again. ”

Lingxi hugged the letter tightly to his chest and looked at the painting on the roof of the dormitory for a long time before blinking the tears floating in his eyes.

Snorting, Lingxi looked down again at the letter from Xiao and the Empress Dowager.

Holding back her tears, she read a letter from beginning to end, and Lingxi understood why Xiao and the Empress Dowager insisted on not letting her be the queen, and also understood why Ye Jin would agree to recognize her as a granddaughter.

From the perspective of court politics, the Empress Dowager Xiaohe is not optimistic about King Ning or the second prince inheriting the throne.

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe believed that King Ning would do whatever it took to achieve his ends, and he could only be the king of troubled times, which was not conducive to the current stable development of Dashun. thinks that the second prince has the talent to be an official but has no ability to be a king, and such a person ascends the throne as the emperor, which will only ruin the century-old foundation of Dashun.

The most optimistic about filial piety and the Empress Dowager is King Rui. After being imprisoned by Emperor Yong'an for five years, King Kerui lost his ambition and no longer had the momentum to be a king.

In the case of no one to want, the Empress Dowager Xiaohe looked at the heir who had not yet grown up.

But it is not an overnight thing to think that those imperial heirs grow up and reveal the talents of kings. Anyone who is canonized as a queen is likely to put his heir to the crown prince.

There is only the spirit rhino, only the spirit rhino has nothing.

The Empress Dowager Xiaohe pushed Lingxi to the position of the imperial concubine, in order to no longer canonize the queen. As long as Lingxi's heir cannot be made the crown prince, then the prince of another person will have enough time to grow up, and then let Emperor Yong'an find a suitable person.

The only thing that the Empress Dowager Xiaohe did not calculate was that Emperor Yong'an would hastily set up the seventh prince as the crown prince in order to get rid of King Ping.

That's why Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager said that sentence to Lingxi, and she lost when she fought with life.

As for the Ye family's recognition of Lingxi as a relative, in addition to the reason why Ye Yang's daughter is missing, the most important point is that the person who really looked at each other from Xiaohe Empress Dowager a few decades ago was the patriarch of the Ye family, the eldest brother of Ye Jinkao, Ye Jinshi.

When Ye Jinshi agreed to be a backer for Lingxi, the only request he made to Xiaohe and the Empress Dowager was to protect the Ye family.