The prince said: "I will bury my mother, build a mausoleum for her, and ......"

Qi Hao looked at him lightly and said calmly: "Please also ask Your Highness for permission to let me send my mother away." ”

The prince's eyes flickered, and he took half a step back, and the guards and eunuchs outside all followed to get out of the way, Qi Hui held his mother's body steadily, and the snowflakes in the sky became denser and denser, falling on her face, falling on Qi Hui's shoulders, and the palace road full of white flags and white lanterns seemed to be solemn for the virtuous concubine.

For the first time, Qi Hui walked on these roads as a prince, and his mother left the cold palace for the first time in twenty years.

"I'm on the throne tomorrow morning, and I hope you'll come." The crown prince walked out of the cold palace and said behind Qi Hui, "I will make you the prince, you will be the most honorable person in the empire under me, and I will correct the name of you and Concubine Xian." ”

But the figure in front of him walked farther and farther, as if he didn't hear it, and as if he didn't care at all, the hem of Concubine Xian's skirt was long and swaying, and the prince remembered the scene when the emperor's whip entered the room like a snake last night, and remembered the words he said when he pressed on Concubine Xian, is it really only Qi Hui who is his flesh and blood? Is only the arrogant figure in front of him the only heir to the royal family?

The prince frowned deeply and ordered left and right: "Send someone to follow him, I have seen anyone anywhere, and I will come to ...... Tell me. ”

Qi Hui hugged his mother and walked to the palace gate step by step, before he returned to the city, the prince announced that the first emperor of the world was given death by Concubine Li, and corrected the name of the mother and son of the cold palace on the spot, and said that his younger brother has been under his protection for 20 years, and now he is also going to run errands for him, and he wants the ministers and the people of the world to respect the second prince.

At this moment, Qi Hui walked out with his mother in his arms, all the way unimpeded, the gate of the imperial city was open, and the guards sent each other solemnly, but is this part of the glory that should have belonged to him, or the belated grief of his mother?

Stepping out of the city gate, Shi Feng and Jian Feng were already waiting there in plain clothes, Shi Feng prepared a coffin for Concubine Xian, his eyes were scarlet, he stayed up all night without sleep, his eyes were black, and the whole person was so haggard that he seemed to be able to fall down at any time, in his heart, maybe if he didn't leave, there would be no future, he felt that he pushed Concubine Xian and Xiangxiang into danger.

Behind Jian Feng, Shen Yan was also with her, she was dressed in white solemn and serious, Qi Hui looked down at her mother in her arms, and at that moment she felt that someone stood up from behind Shen Yan, and then raised her eyes, Xiangxiang stood there, her dejected eyes were soaked with sadness.

Seeing Qi Hui walking out of the palace gate with his mother in his arms, Xiangxiang bit his lip tightly and couldn't hold back his crying. Master Jian said that Qi Hui was now an upright second prince, and they could generously go to the palace gate to pick him up, saying that he would definitely leave with Concubine Xian, so he brought Xiangxiang with him.

It's easy to meet Qi Hui's eyes, and when Xiang Xiang was about to walk up, Qi Hui avoided his gaze indifferently, as if he didn't see Xiang Xiang, and as if he didn't know her at all.

The loss and panic in my heart at that moment could only be compared with life and death, but Qi Hui left her indifferent back and didn't say anything.

He carefully put his mother into the coffin, said a few words to Shi Feng, and then drove out of the imperial city in person. Pang Shifeng and Jian Feng both rode their horses to follow, and the subordinates of the Jian Mansion on this side came up and persuaded Shen Yan: "Miss, the slave will send you back to the Prime Minister's Mansion, or go back to our own house?" ”

Qi Hao's ruthless gaze, Shen Yan also saw it in her eyes, how familiar this situation is, the heart-rending pain under Xiangxiang's eyes, she can't bear it just by thinking about it, she once thought that she was going to die, only by experiencing it, can she understand Xiangxiang's trembling.

"Go back to Jianfu, you go to Pangfu to take Juan'er home, just say that I am sad for the first emperor, my health is not very good, and the date of returning to Pangfu is to be determined." Shen Yan ordered her subordinates like this, so she came up and pulled Xiangxiang to ask her to get into the carriage with her, Xiangxiang stone sculpture was fixed there, and it was easy to ask, "Sir, is he blaming me for hating me?" ”

Shen Yan didn't understand, so she could only comfort: "I asked Jian Feng to ask if he was okay, why should he hate you, it's not your fault." ”

Xiang Xiang nodded, no one is more sad than Qi Hui at the moment, she shouldn't be entangled in this one look, maybe Qi Hui thinks that she is not suitable to appear in front of the palace gate, maybe Qi Hui is afraid that she will be discovered by the prince. Xiangxiang obediently followed Shen Yan into the carriage, and after returning to Jian's Mansion, he followed Mr. Shen as usual. There are hundreds of maids inside and outside the Jian Mansion, one more person can't see it at all, and there are not a few who have never seen each other, and today I saw Xiangxiang follow the young lady and the young master in and out of the house, so I naturally regarded her as a maid at home.

At this time, the domestic servant had arrived at the Pang Mansion, Mrs. Pang did not know the relationship between Shifeng and the second prince, and she felt even more strange that Shen Yan was sad for the first emperor, thinking that Shen Yan was unwilling to teach her daughter again, and she was not willing to raise a person for nothing, but after all, it should be the master's decision, she said a few polite words, and asked people to send Juan Er out.

In the boudoir, knowing that the virtuous concubine had passed away, she cried so much that her eyes were red and ran to the study, and when she saw Juan'er packing up her things, she asked her where her husband went, and Juan'er said: "Our husband's house has gone, and his health is not very good, so he has not come for a few days, and he has just sent someone to take the slave back." Miss Pang, wait a few days, maybe you will be back in a few days. She looked suspiciously at Pang Qianyou, whose eyes were swollen like walnuts, an old emperor died, or a legendary tyrant, what did she have to be sad about?

Juan'er was not happy to stay alone in Pang Mansion, so she hurriedly followed the people of Jian Mansion home, and only smiled when she saw her own young lady, but the sad atmosphere in the house made her a little afraid to speak, Xiang Xiang sat on the side in a daze, and the young lady instructed her: "Xiangxiang has been serving in my house for the past few days, you and I have worked hard in Pang Mansion, go and rest for a few days first, but there is chaos outside, don't run around." ”

Juan Er sighed, and when she was about to leave with her baggage, she said casually: "Miss Pang doesn't know what she is sad again, she cried so much that her eyes were swollen when the slave left, it won't be for the dead emperor." ”

Shen Yan glanced at Xiangxiang, she didn't know if she didn't hear it, or she didn't care at all, she sighed lightly, and drove away Juan'er and advised: "Don't talk nonsense everywhere, no matter how important you are, I'll send you home." ”

Juan Er stuck out her tongue and ran away, but she felt so strange when she saw Xiangxiang sitting in a daze, but the whole house was busy preparing plain clothes, she grabbed a little girl to talk, and forgot about these things in a long way. And Shen Yan was sick and didn't want to be disturbed by her family, the people in Jian's Mansion were waiting for the imperial court to treat the funeral, and no one came to visit her, the cousins came to sit down and say a few words of gossip, and saw that the cousin was lazy, and gradually stopped bothering, and then all day long, Shen Yan was very clean here, but Xiangxiang people could still hold a little spirit, once there was no one else, she sat in front of the window in a daze.

Shen Yan didn't know what happened last night, but there were obvious bruises on Xiangxiang's neck, she seemed to have been pinched by someone, and Shen Yan didn't dare to imagine what a terrifying thing it was.

At this time, Qi Hui and Shi Feng had already driven the carriage to the cemetery of the former Mu family, which had already been robbed by tomb robbers and became a ruin, Qi Hui found his grandmother's tombstone, parked his mother nearby, and then began to pick up dead branches from the surrounding area, but the wind and snow were getting bigger and bigger, and the branches were soaked in snow and water, and it was difficult to ignite them, so Shi Feng stepped forward to stop him: "You want to cremate Niangniang?" ”

"My mother will not want to stay in this world, and she will not want to stay in this land under the roots of the imperial city." Qi Hui's face was expressionless, holding the withered branch in his hand, his eyes looked at the coffin in the wind and snow, he had imagined this scene countless times, he used to worry that if his mother left early, he wouldn't even be able to do such a thing, but now what is it, his mind is blank.

"I'll ask the mage to overkill the undead for the mother, don't be so impatient." Shi Feng's eyes turned red sharply, and he dragged Qi Hui and said, "If you want to blame me, just make it clear here, will we all have to worry about this matter in the future?" It's not good for me, and if I hadn't left, there wouldn't have been anything like this. ”

Qi Hui didn't see what kind of pain his mother and Xiangxiang had experienced, but when he hugged his mother, there were hideous whip marks on the skin exposed in his mother's clothes, and he remembered that there was a whip on the ground in the cold palace, he could guess what happened, the fragments of water-colored satin made him desperate for a while, what kind of devastation Xiangxiang had endured.

Fang saw her standing in front of the palace gate intact, in the ice and snow, Qi Hui's heart warmed a little, but he couldn't drag Xiangxiang down anymore.

"My mother was terminally ill, and she even refused to seek medical death, not wanting to be a burden to me." Qi Hui broke the dead branch in his hand and said calmly, "I don't blame you, it's not your fault at all." As for Xiangxiang ......"

Jian Feng walked up, he was standing with his cousin just now, and he had the same line of sight as Xiangxiang, he saw Qi Hui's indifference to Xiangxiang, and he had been worried until now, and couldn't help but ask at this moment: "Why don't you bring Xiangxiang here, I specially brought her to wait for you, don't you want her to give her a ride?" ”

Qi Hui looked at him fixedly, and said, "She followed me and didn't have a good day." ”

At this time, the wind and snow are getting bigger and bigger, and the entire imperial city is shrouded in paleness, I don't know whether it is for the death of the first emperor and mourning, or for the sake of the virtuous concubine and tragic, the people in the palace are panicked, because those countless women who have climbed the emperor's couch have become widows, and the domineering Concubine Li has become a prisoner. I heard that the third prince has been crying, no wonder there is a creepy cry in the wind.

Furong Curie, Jingshu sat under the window with a quilt, the emperor's bad news made her laugh all morning, but she was reminded by the palace maid that she would be a widow in the future, and her clothes and jewelry could no longer be gorgeous, she realized that her future was uncertain, maybe her fate would not be much better than Concubine Li.

At this moment, there was a movement outside the door of the Furong Residence, and a big eunuch broke in with someone, and the women in the room were panicked, thinking that they were going to drive the widowed concubines away, but the big eunuch said: "Jingmei takes the order." ”