On the tenth day of July in the twenty-eighth year of Kangxi, Queen Tong Jia's incense disappeared, which was unprecedented, and she only became a queen for one day.

The news reached the Qianqing Gate, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military mourning, the emperor set to drop out of the dynasty for five days, the kings below the civil and military officials, and the princess, the princess below the eight banners and the two rank of women above, all gathered to mourn, for the queen of Daxing to serve for the 27th.

After leaving the Qianqing Gate, Xuan Ye had to go to Ningshou Palace to comfort the Queen Mother before he could go to Chengqian Palace, and then the Queen Mother sent someone to inform him halfway through, asking the emperor to take care of his condolences on the Day, and there was no need to remember the Queen Mother, everything was important to the Empress Daxing's future affairs.

When Xuan Ye walked to Chengqian Palace again, the concubines of the six palaces and the princess and elder brothers had gathered to cry bitterly, he frowned and glanced at it, and called Concubine Rong and said, "It's all scattered, and the Chengqian Palace needs to be clean." ”

Concubine Rong tearfully agreed, and Xuan Ye called Liang's father-in-law and ordered: "Go to Changchun Garden and bring the prince back." But when the words came out, his brows trembled, and he said, "That's it, he is infected with a cold, and the queen is kind and does not want him to come with illness, so that the prince must recuperate." ”

Father-in-law Liang listened blankly, when did the prince catch the wind cold, why didn't he know?

Xuan Ye stepped into the palace door, but saw that the queen was lying on the bed peacefully, no different from the previous day's sleep, but a few days ago, he could still hope that his cousin would wake up, and from now on, she would never wake up again.

Looking around the hall, only Qinglian and a few palace maids who were close to her were already wearing silk and crying, Lan Qi stood there in front of the half-open window, the sun fell behind her, and a layer of golden light was plated on her slender body.

"Where's Yinzhen?" Xuan Ye asked.

"The fourth elder brother cried too sadly and had a nosebleed, so he was taken to his room by the imperial doctor for treatment, and he will come over in a while." Lan Qi said calmly, "Concubine Tong's sister fainted, she has been sent back to Chuxiu Palace, Chengqian Palace is too busy, otherwise it is better to keep her, but I will come over when I wake up in a while, and ask the emperor to bear with Concubine Tong's sister in the past few days, so that she can finally send her sister." ”

The person in front of her was so calm, Xuan Ye remembered that the former Empress Niu Hulu was gone, and she cried and fainted directly in Kunning Palace, naturally it was also because she was pregnant with the fourth elder brother at that time, but this time she didn't seem to be really sad. When he entered the door, he saw that the piano was outside the door, and Liang Gonggong came all the way to describe the queen's last time to him, saying that Concubine De was sitting and playing the piano, and the fourth elder brother was studying in it, and when she was comfortable and quiet, Concubine Tong suddenly cried bitterly, and the people below knew that the queen was gone.

Xuan Ye wanted to ask yesterday if it was Lan Qi who played the piano in the room, but he remembered that she said that she would never play the piano again, but she didn't ask. He has three queens, all three of whom died young, and in addition to accompanying his wife through the last life, the last time of the others is by Lan Qi.

"What about you?" The river and the sea turned over in his heart, and for a long time, Xuan Ye only asked these two words.

"The concubines should cheer up and organize the most decent funeral for the queen." Lan Qi raised her head slightly, her calm expression was full of perseverance and bravery, "Your Majesty, this is also your wish." ”

Xuan Ye's heart was inexplicably hot, and he replied: "I will hand it all over to you." ”

While speaking, Xiao Hezi helped the fourth elder brother to come, the child had already changed the vegetarian food, and the nose was stuffed with cotton to stop bleeding and coated with a plaster to defeat the fire, and he looked very embarrassed. At this time, the fourth elder brother does not see the seriousness of weekdays, and does not see the personality of not admitting defeat on weekdays, and he is not the excellent imperial elder brother in the study at all, at this moment, he is just a child who has lost his adoptive mother who loves him deeply.

But when Xuan Ye saw his son like this, his brows frowned, and without waiting for him to salute and get up, he reproached in a deep voice: "Your mother has been clean and dignified every day since she couldn't afford it, when have you ever been so embarrassed?" If you cry in front of her like this, she will dislike you in heaven. ”

The fourth elder brother looked up at his father with teary eyes, his blurred eyes couldn't see his father's angry face at all, he kept crying and crying, and couldn't stop the tears in his eyes, as if a lifetime of sadness was going to melt into today, Lan Qi stood aside and felt heartache, but their father and son were opposite, she couldn't intervene and couldn't interfere.

"Huang Ama ......" the child couldn't cry and tried to speak, "I read the story to Huang Eniang, her favorite story of the monkey." ”

Xuan Ye said coldly: "What about the principle of self-cultivation and Qi family governing the country and leveling the world? ”

Yin Zhen cried and shook her head: "I said it, she didn't want to listen." But immediately he raised his head and said, "But I remember, Huang Ama, I remember everything." ”

Xuan Ye stretched out his hand to bring Yinzhen to his side, when he lost his mother, he was younger than Yinzhen, but he was already an emperor, he couldn't cry like this in front of people, most of his sons were older than when he ascended the throne, he always felt that children should be sensible and strong, but children are children after all, and the queen's words before her death made him break his liver and intestines.

"You have to be good, your emperor can rest assured, what's the use of crying?" Xuan Ye wiped away his son's tears with his own hands, and the fourth elder brother was in front of him, except for the ignorance when he was a child, and when Yinzuo was gone, he went to chase the coffin that was going to be sent out of the palace, he had never been so weak and helpless. He knows that Yinzhen is a child who values love and righteousness.

"There's still a lot to do, and no one is free to take care of you crying." Xuan Ye lowered his face again, pushed the child in his arms in front of Lan Qi, and instructed Yinzhen, "Follow your mother, see how she manages the affairs of the queen and does what you can do, which is also filial piety." ”

Lan Qi stretched out her hand cautiously, she has always been overly sensitive and cautious about Yinzhen, she is afraid of losing it so carefully, and now the child belongs to her again, but it is just what she sees, she understands that the grace of raising in the past ten years will be engraved in his heart for a lifetime.

What warmed her heart was that Yin Zhen did not refuse, after being held by her mother, she followed her for a few steps, Lan Qi said to Xuan Ye that she was going to take the fourth elder brother to clean up, Xuan Ye nodded and did not speak, looking at the back of the mother and son leaving one after the other, looking back at the peaceful face of the person who would never wake up again, remembering the last sentence his cousin asked him, he lied, but the cousin knew it, and still smiled: "Even if you lie to me, I will take it seriously." ”

When he lost his wife, he thought that it was the greatest pain experienced in life other than family affection, except for the imperial grandmother, probably never be defeated by any pain in the future, when Queen Niu Hulu passed away, his sadness stopped at regret for life, but his cousin left, his heartache was indescribable, but he couldn't cry and didn't want to cry, others only thought he was calm and even ruthless, and the pain in his heart was only known to himself.

The other person didn't cry, it wasn't the sluggish and tearless after the sixth elder brother left in the past, nor the grief of the empress dowager who wanted to die after her death, she calmly and mentally faced everything and took care of everything, there was no chaos or inappropriateness in the Chengqian Palace, and the delicate body seemed to be the most powerful support at the moment, so that Xuan Ye felt relieved when he approached the hall and saw her for the first time.

But this peace of mind can easily turn into dependence, and in Xuan Ye's heart, he has indeed relied on that person for a long time.

After that day, the funeral of Empress Daxing was held in an orderly and solemn manner. On the tenth day of the first month, the Daxing Empress Zigong stopped the Ling Chengqian Palace, three days later the emperor sent it in person, moved to the Chaoyang Gate to enjoy the palace, and then several sacrifices, all brought the princes to come in person. On July 26, he was awarded the first-class merit of Tong Guowei, the father of Empress Daxing, and was given a decree and hereditary replacement. By September, he ordered the prince of Heshuo Jian, Yabu, the king of Doroshin County, Eza, the treasure of the book, and the queen of Shangdaxing, and the queen of Xiaoyi. In October, the filial piety queen Zigong Feng'an underground palace, the holy car came to lay the wine, the prince and below, the minister of civil and military affairs all accompanied the salute.

In the early autumn of July, late autumn in October, and in the blink of an eye, the funeral of Empress Xiaoyi seemed to be different from any previous funeral, whether it was Hesheli and Niu Hulu, or the Empress Dowager, this time the funeral was so orderly that it made people feel as if nothing major had happened at all.

On the fourth brother's birthday at the end of October, Yonghe Palace suddenly announced that the imperial doctor, Concubine De was unbearable, and finally fell ill. At this time, the fourth elder brother has resumed his schoolwork in the study, and in the next few days, he will come to Yonghe Palace to visit before going out every morning, and he will also go to Yonghe Palace to say hello after school. But everyone also saw that the fourth elder brother still lives in Chengqian Palace and has not returned to Yonghe Palace.

In July and August, it can be said that it is for the adoptive mother to hold the clothes, but in the days to come, in addition to the memorial and burial and other important days, the life in the palace is no different from the past, and the elder brothers cannot abandon their studies, but after the fourth elder brother is removed, he still lives alone in the Chengqian Palace, where there is no concubine now, except for the prince, there is no elder brother who guards a palace alone.

And when it comes to the prince, this time the queen of filial piety is mourned, from beginning to end there is no trace of the prince, every time there is a big sacrifice, it is the eldest brother who recites the sacrifice as the eldest son of the emperor, and even the fourth elder brother is not on the wheel, the prince is saying that he is recuperating in Changchun Garden, but no one can visit except the emperor, and no one knows how the prince is there.

Since July, the emperor has appointed the eldest brother for all major events, and the eldest brother is also considered to be angry, and everything is safe and there is no mistake, everyone knows that the Pearl Mansion must be behind the assistance and guidance, and Suo Etu obviously successfully signed the "Treaty of Nebuchu" with Tsarist Russia four days after the death of the empress, but the emperor left him there for many reasons to continue to deal with the aftermath, and it is said that he could only return to Beijing in early November.

In three or four months, the people of the Hesheri clan were completely inactive, and the prince lived in Changchun Garden to study, but no one saw what was going on, but the eldest brother grew up day by day, which was impressive.

The sadness of Empress Xiaoyi's death gradually faded, and the palace returned to its previous calm as usual, but everyone was a little tired after the event, and it was not suitable to celebrate during the mourning period, and the atmosphere in the palace was just a sigh of relief, and there was no spirit up and down.

It seems that the only thing that is angry is the gossip about several elder brothers, and then the strange relationship between the mother and son of Yonghe Palace, many people are looking for someone to poke open this layer of paper, so that people can see clearly what is going on between Concubine De and the fourth elder brother now.

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