Although Han Shanggong and Eunuch Huang were weak and trembling, they were a little faster and neater than usual, and almost in the blink of an eye, they picked up the Empress Dowager Jin with a thin silk, pulled out the blood-soaked three-layer mattress, wrapped it tightly and stuffed it into the cabinet, and put the Empress Dowager Jin back on the couch.

Han Shanggong picked up the monk's robe on the ground and looked at Li Xia.

"Put it away first." Li Xia commanded, looking at the thin silk wrapped in a strip, the lady in the fine silk must have been formed, and this matter cannot be hidden.

"There has to be an explanation." Li Xia looked at King Qin.

"Just give the emperor an explanation." King Qin's gaze fell on the empty footrest, and the thin silk on the couch was so stinging that he didn't dare to look at it again.

"Pass the imperial doctor first, and report to the emperor?" Li Xia looked at King Qin, and King Qin snorted, "I'll tell the emperor in a while, you stop the Jiang family." ”

"Okay." Li Xia responded and instructed Eunuch Huang, "You go in person and tell the emperor that Niangniang is not good, please come over immediately, ask someone to deliver a message to Concubine Yao Xian, and let her come over." ”

Eunuch Huang responded and hurriedly went out to spread the word.

Li Xia instructed Han Shanggong, "Let people watch the Jiang clan closely, and pass on Sun Baojiu to wait in the Hanging Flower Gate, let people watch it." ”

Han Shanggong ran out and ordered.

Li Xia looked at King Qin, "Have you thought about it?" ”

King Qin nodded, "Hmm." A glance swept to the thin silk on the couch, and tears came out of his eyes.

It was already past the time, Queen Jiang stood outside the gatehouse of Xuanning Palace, the anxiety in her heart could hardly be suppressed, the lights inside and outside the Hanging Flower Gate were bright, but it was quiet as if nothing had happened, this was a big deal.

What could happen? That old pious woman is dead? Empress Jiang smiled and shook her head, she really wanted to do good things, and the good health of the old pious woman gave her a feeling that she was dead and she was still alive and well.

Today is a good day for her son's wedding, what can she do to summon her son and daughter-in-law who have not yet completed the ceremony before the palace gate is locked? After dawn, how is she going to explain this summons to herself, to the emperor, to the courtiers, and even to the world?

She was never impulsive, she could see ten or twenty steps away when she took a step, and she always planned and then moved......

This time. summoned her son and daughter-in-law so suddenly, unless she was going to die, otherwise, she and her son would be doomed!

"Let's go and see if Dr. Sun has rested." Empress Jiang suddenly turned around and ordered the female envoy who was attendant.

She's going to die, whether it's impossible or not, that's the only answer.

Without waiting for the female envoy to come back, outside the Xuanning Palace, a string of lanterns came in a hurry, Queen Jiang looked straight at the string of lanterns that were approaching quickly, and a strong chagrin rushed up, and she couldn't wait to give herself a slap.

She thought of it, she had thought of it a long time ago, but she couldn't believe it, even herself, she didn't believe in herself anymore.

Empress Jiang took a deep breath and didn't step forward, but leaned into the shadows in the corner of the house, this is a violent death, there must be an inside story, the inside story is in the courtyard, what she wants to see carefully is every move, word and deed in the courtyard.

When the emperor stepped on the steps, King Qin and Li Xia rushed out of the weeping flower gate one after the other, King Qin rushed down the steps, rushed across the courtyard, and met the emperor who was walking up the steps and was walking towards the threshold, crying, "Your Majesty ......"

Empress Jiang flashed and stood beside the emperor, and was about to follow closely, Li Xiawan rushed up the steps in a few steps and grabbed her, "Niangniang is going to have a big trip, and it is already the time to die." ”

Empress Jiang thought of it, but when she heard this sentence with her own ears, her heart was still blank in shock, and taking advantage of her momentary shock and trance, Li Xia had already pulled her away from the emperor.

The emperor's face was pale, and he followed King Qin, rushed across the courtyard, and rushed into the Weeping Flower Gate.

Li Xia grabbed Empress Jiang's arm tightly, "Niangniang said that she wanted to say a few words to the emperor and the prince, and we had to wait before going in." ”

Empress Jiang squinted at Li Xia, with a slight sneer on the corner of her mouth, and was about to shake her off and rush in, Concubine Yao Xian rushed in from outside the courtyard gate, Li Xia hurriedly greeted Concubine Yao Xian and shouted: "Niangniang is going to have a big trip, if you want to say a few words to the emperor and the prince, we all have to wait." ”

Concubine Yao Xian was shocked and stunned, but her reaction was not slow, and she stepped forward to pounce on Empress Jiang, who was trying to shake off Li Xia, "Niangniang mourns, Niangniang mourns first." ”

Empress Jiang's arm was grabbed by Li Xia and Concubine Yao Xian, and she took a deep breath, trying hard to suppress the anger that was almost erupting.

"The Queen Mother has explained a few things, let me discuss them with you." Li Xia looked directly at Empress Jiang, "First, Huang Daban and Han Shanggong, as well as other old people who have been waiting behind the Empress Dowager all the year round, the Empress Dowager said that they should no longer be in the palace, or go out of the palace, or guard the mausoleum." ”

Empress Jiang's anger that was about to erupt seemed to be poured with a bucket of cold water, and she shook off Concubine Yao Xian forcefully, looking directly at Li Xia, her eyes narrowing slightly.

Concubine Yao Xian trembled slightly.

What does this mean, after the death of the mother, will all the people in the palace have to withdraw? And what about her?

"The prince is in pain, and he plans to keep his filial piety for three years behind closed doors." Li Xia lowered his eyes under the forced gaze of Empress Jiang and continued.

"Mother, it's good, how can you say that you can just leave? Is Imperial Physician Sun on duty today? Empress Jiang didn't answer Li Xia's words.

"Niangniang's health has not been very good, and the palpitations have become more and more serious in the past two years, I am afraid that you and the emperor will worry, and Niangniang has not allowed the doctor to say more." Li Xia replied very quickly.

"Niangniang has always forgotten things in recent years, often upside down, Niangniang often said that she can have such a lifespan, thanks to your ability and filial piety." Li Xia continued.

Empress Jiang's eyes were sharp, and she stared at Li Xia coldly, "You said such a thing......"

"Niangniang is over sixty and seven this year, she is a long-lived person, and it can be regarded as a happy mourning, Jiang Niangniang, please mourn." Li Xia avoided Empress Jiang's gaze and lowered her eyebrows.

Concubine Yao Xian listened attentively to the words of the two, her face was tense, but her heart was like a stormy wave, turbulent.

Empress Jiang turned her head to look inside the hanging flower door, and then looked at Li Xia, her face tense.

What did she want to get in exchange for withdrawing all the people from this palace, plus a concession of filial piety after three years of closed doors? The violent death of the Queen Mother could not be her and the second child's hands and feet, what is she afraid of? was so afraid that she even threatened her, if the queen mother died violently, accusing her of the fault of the master of the harem, what was she hiding for?

Li Xia hung his head and took half a step back to the side, "You also know, the prince and I are both idle, the mother is gone, the prince is in pain, beyond words, from now on he is a person who has nothing to rely on, from today onwards, but to live a bleak life, they all say that the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, and in the future, I will rely on the eldest sister-in-law to take care of her." ”

Li Xia bent her knees slightly, Queen Jiang's eyebrows raised slightly, this step of concession is too big, the Queen Mother is dead, she and Lao Yi are indeed backers, and the future is uncertain, but is that so?

Empress Jiang looked inside the weeping flower door again, the emperor went in, she didn't give an inch at this time, she didn't even know what to let and what not to let ......

"On the first day you got married, you gave birth to such a thing, it's hard for you, let the mother and the emperor, and the prince and the three of you talk, we shouldn't go in and disturb." Empress Jiang took the first step, she didn't want her to go in now, so wait, the emperor was inside, she didn't break in just now, and it would be harmful to rush in again at this time.

Li Xia was obviously relieved, turned her head to look at Concubine Yao Xian, opened her mouth, and before the words came out, tears fell and fell, "Niangniang, she ......"

"Birth, old age, sickness and death, no one can escape the cycle of reincarnation, mourning." Concubine Yao Xian hurriedly grabbed Li Xia's hand and said mourning, but her tears kept falling.

Empress Jiang leaned at the two of them, the corners of her mouth pulled down, and she looked away and looked at the Hanging Flower Gate.

King Qin leaned sideways, sobbing all the way, and entered the main hall, and in the smell of blood in the room, the emperor stared at the thin silk on the couch that was human-shaped, and not human-shaped, and was dumbfounded.

"Your Majesty," King Qin knelt down in front of the emperor, hugged the emperor's legs, and cried bitterly.

Eunuch Huang quietly moved the chair behind the emperor, and the emperor sat down on the chair in a daze, looking down at King Qin, who was crying breathlessly, with his head on his lap, and only after a while did he speak, "What's the matter?" Why did it suddenly ...... Is that...... What is that? ”

The emperor pointed to the thin silk on the couch.

"Yes...... Empress. King Qin looked up at the emperor, tears on his face, "Your Majesty, eldest brother, I ......" King Qin couldn't help himself in pain, "Niangniang won't let you tell you, but I ...... Big brother, I'm scared, I'm ......"

"What the hell is going on?" When the emperor heard that King Qin was a mother, he looked at the thin silk on the couch again, and a burst of horror came up in his heart, where was that one human-shaped?

"That Jin Guifei, Duanjing Empress, I don't know, does the emperor still remember?" King Qin looked up at the emperor with his tear-stained face and asked.

The emperor nodded subconsciously, of course he knew that it was the emperor's favorite concubine, and after her death, the emperor was like Qing Xiu, and he didn't favor anyone in the harem.

"Niangniang said, Jin Guifei is ......" King Qin was painful and reluctant, but had to continue, "was beaten to death by her, because, Jin Guifei also gave birth to a son, three days younger than the emperor, Niangniang said, Jin Guifei relied on favor, let people change their birthday, changed in front of the emperor, Niangniang said that she was irritable when she was young, and she was annoyed that the emperor favored Jin Guifei too much, and she was angry...... Beat Jin Guifei to death, and the child. ”

The emperor glared straight at King Qin, Jin Guifei gave birth to a son, he knew it, said that he was sick and died, and he died of illness with Jin Guifei......

Niangniang said that before Jin Guifei was beaten to death, she screamed...... Don't let go of the mother, you have to ...... The mother is the same as she died...... Big brother, mother...... Empress...... How so? How can it be? King Qin pointed to the thin silk on the couch, and said bitterly, he really couldn't go on.

The emperor looked at the couch again with the direction of King Qin, looked at the thin silk, and stayed for a moment, and then he shivered a few times in a row, and his back was cold.

and the paradoxical human figure in the knot in front of him, it was the curse of Jin Guifei who was beaten to death back then, and it was retribution, so when Jin Guifei died, she was beaten to death, and she was beaten like this...... The emperor's cold hair stood up, stood up, took a step back, took another step, and retreated four or five steps in a row.

"It's called Qin Tianjian ......" Before the emperor finished speaking, he was interrupted by King Qin, who was following him on his knees, shaking his head incessantly, "Big brother, Niangniang...... How to say? ”

The emperor opened his mouth, and opened his mouth again, yes, this is the Queen Mother, his biological mother, because of the tyranny in the past, died so tragically, announced to the public, what will the people of the world say? What will you think of him, the emperor, the lord of the people?

However, it was the tyranny of the Queen Mother that saved him......

"Who else knows?" The emperor stayed for a while, and asked with a dumb throat.

"Ah Xia and I, as well as Han Shanggong and Huang Daban, didn't dare to ...... Niangniang said that you have taken on too much responsibility and don't let you tell you, but I ...... Big brother, I'm afraid ......" King Qin slipped from the emperor's lap and fell to the ground, crying bitterly.

"Now is not the time to cry, the mother has to hurry up and bury." The emperor subconsciously wanted to look at the fine silk on the couch, his eyes just touched, and he hurriedly moved away, and subconsciously wanted to retreat, but he had no way to retreat, the emperor stretched out his hand against the wall, and motioned to Eunuch Huang and Han Shanggong, "You two, hurry up." ”

Han Shanggong and Eunuch Huang bowed down, took out a set of big dresses, wrapped the fine silk on the couch layer by layer with fine silk, put it into the big dress, and supported an almost similar human shape.

"The pulse case of the Tai Hospital, you go and arrange it." The emperor looked at Eunuch Huang and Han Shanggong from a distance, dressed in a dress, placed Zhou Zheng, looked down at King Qin who was kneeling at his feet, looking at the dress with tears in his eyes, commanded, paused, sighed, and bent down to pull King Qin, "Get up, Niangniang's aftermath can't be taken lightly, since the Li family knows, the matter of going into the coffin to take care of it will be handed over to her, and the rest of the things will be taken care of by you." ”

King Qin stood up, wiped his tears, and lowered his head.

"Ring the bell to show your condolences." The emperor looked at Eunuch Huang and ordered.

Eunuch Huang agreed in a low voice and withdrew with his hands down.

Just after the hour, a dull and clear bell came out of the palace, waking up the entire capital.

Jin Xiang stood in the middle school, looking at the palace city in the dark night, crying into tears, and the howling cry accompanied by the dull bell drifted in the empty imperial city.

Jin Shuyan and Lu Yi were sitting in the gatehouse of the Qin Wangfu absentmindedly playing chess, the first bell rang, the two of them looked up at each other at the same time, and in the second bell ringing, the two jumped up at the same time, pounced on the door, bumped into each other in the door frame, stumbled on the threshold, and fell to the ground together.

Guo Sheng was busy in Yongningbo Mansion for a day, sending everyone away, tired for a day but not sleepy, was drinking wine and gossiping with Xu Huan in his small courtyard, when he heard the bell, both of them were stunned.

"Ring the bell in the middle of the night, what is the rule? This is not ......" Before he finished speaking, he came to his senses, and his fingers were still pointing in the direction of the bell, and he was stunned like a puppet.

Guo Sheng had already jumped up, rushing out and yelling, "I'll go to the palace, you're here, don't go!" You can't move around at this time, go and call Jin Gui! Look at home. ”

"Hey......" Xu Huan didn't finish shouting a word, Guo Sheng had already rushed out of the courtyard door and rushed to King Qin's mansion.

Ringing the bell in the middle of the night, the dead are either the emperor or the queen mother, this bell rings suddenly, it is definitely not the emperor, if the emperor is gone, it should be riding out at this time, and the guard is tight, and after that, it is the bell ringing.

The Queen Mother is gone!