In the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was also a precedent for handing over the prince to be raised by important ministers, so it was not impossible to ask for this. What's more, at this time, Ji Xie couldn't cry anymore, so he couldn't stop nodding. Fanji pointed to his neck, Ji Xie understood, gently lifted her neck, took off the red and bright jade lock, and gently placed it in the swaddling clothes of the fourth prince. Fanji pointed to King Zhou Yi's chest again, and then pointed to the crown prince, Ji Xie hurriedly took off his half of the red jade concentric lock and put it on Ji Hu.

"You brothers, even if you don't grow up together, you ------- have to help each other in the future, understand?" Prince Ji Hu stroked the jade lock on his chest, nodded again and again, and sobbed: "Yes, Queen Mother!" ”

"Summoning Zimu!" Fanji suddenly became louder, and Zhao Bohu hurriedly took a step from behind and knelt in front of the queen's bed. He was originally a minister who should not have come here, but the queen's move was clearly to support him on his deathbed, and neither he nor King Zhou Yi could take care of the great defense of the monarch and the ministers.

"The queen mother, the minister is here!" Zhao Bohu's voice trembled slightly.

"The prince was born stubborn, he has had an extraordinary relationship with the Guogong since he was a child, and he asked the Guogong to assist him wholeheartedly. These two sons of mine have to ask you to take care of them! Fan Ji said word by word, and every word was very difficult to spit out.

Zhao Bohu and his wife both bowed down, wept and kowtowed: "The minister and his wife have been favored by the queen, and they will do their best, if they have two hearts, they will be thundered by the sky!" ”

The baby cried louder and louder, and Zhao Bohu suddenly asked, "Please give the name of the fourth prince to the queen!" ”

"Imperial father, just call him the prince and imperial father." Fan Ji finished speaking slowly, it seemed that all his strength was exhausted, and he didn't even have the strength to open his eyes.

Ji Xie waved his hand: "You all go down!" Lone is to speak alone with the queen. ”

The room is silent, the husband and wife are teary-eyed, and it is already a line between life and death. Ji Xie's face was full of tears, and he pulled his wife's thin palm, which was both infinite nostalgia and deep remorse: "Ah Ji, you shouldn't be lonely!" You didn't want to have any more children, but I insisted on giving them, and I hurt you! I knew it would be so dangerous, and I wouldn't be so lonely for you! ”

"The past is no longer traceable, and the king must not be angry with the imperial father because of his concubines. He lost his mother at birth, and if his father didn't see him again, how could he be embarrassed? Fanji's expression was sad: "Also, don't let the king give innocent lives in vain because of the death of his concubine, don't let his concubine go underground with countless lives, okay?" ”

"Ahh Ji Xie wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes: "Lone will not kill innocents indiscriminately, but those who have harmed you, Lone will be found out and executed one by one, none of them want to live, and they all have to cut off their children and grandchildren." Speaking of this, he suddenly fell into Fanji's arms and cried bitterly: "Actually, I know that it is me Ji Xie who really hurt you-------

"Da Lang!" Fanji gently stroked his sideburns and said in a trembling voice: "I never regret marrying you!" Over the years, I have also been at fault for failing to treat you well. This is why Ji Jiang has Yiji, and there are so many things------ if I can't be of the same heart with you, I will give others an opportunity to take advantage of it, and I won't blame you! ”

"Aji!" Ji Xie held Fanji's shoulder tightly, as if he wanted to do his best to grasp the life that was about to pass in front of him: "Don't go, don't leave me alone in this world, we said that life and death go hand in hand, you can't leave me!" ”

"Great King," Fan Ji smiled bitterly: "Although you are the king of the Great Zhou, you can't control the matter of life and death!" ”

In the early hours of the morning, with the morning breeze, the sound of cloud panels in the palace of Hokyo resounded in the sky. The subjects of Western Zhou were shocked to hear the bad news that their queen Fanji had died suddenly late yesterday night at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve.

The death of the mother of the nation is not trivial, and it can be regarded as a great ceremony of the country. The furnace fire in the workshop is kept day and night, casting funeral vessels for the queen. Two huge white lanterns are hung outside the eight gates of the royal palace, and the middle palace and the east palace are even more vegetarian, wearing linen and filial piety.

The Autumn Palace is lonely. It was the height of summer, the golden wuxi fell, the palace was silent, the grass and trees were silent, and the heat was scorching. When the sound of the queen's passing cloud plate sounded, a team of palace guards in black sheath and gray clothes surrounded the Qiuliao Palace, not allowed to enter or leave, all of them were solemn, no matter how the palace people screamed and pleaded, they did not say a word. All of a sudden, everyone had the feeling of "the mountain rain is coming, the wind is full of buildings".

couldn't inquire about the news outside, and Ji Jiang was also uneasy. Ji Diao comforted her and said, "Niangniang, we have made arrangements before we act." The things in this palace are all planned by Yi Yi and arranged by Eyao, we are only responsible for the liaison between the palace and the outside of the palace, and the sky is falling because they are on top of it, what are you afraid of? ”

"That being said, I have a deep grudge against the palace, and now that she's dead, everyone will think that I killed her. It's just that others are just afraid, if you are afraid, you are afraid of the king------" Ji Jiang snorted, thinking about her relationship with Ji Xie, who was getting cold today, and the deeply suspicious gaze when he looked at her, she trembled in her heart.

"So what, even if there is no evidence, suspicion can only be suspicion. What's more, Niangniang is Sister Jihou, and the king has to rely on Niangniang's mother country to balance the Qi country, nothing will happen! Before he could be persuaded again, he could only hear a chaotic sound of footsteps outside, and as soon as the door curtain was lifted, Jia Tieqing, the waiter, walked in with a green face.

didn't wait for Ji Jiang to speak, and the chamberlain Jia said calmly: "Niangniang, take away the second prince on the order of the king." After speaking, there was not much nonsense, and with a wave of his hand, the first few small attendants rushed to the back room.

Seeing his son being carried out and struggling to call his mother in the arms of the waiter, Ji Jiang couldn't help it, and pulled the sleeve of the waiter Jia and pleaded: "Why did the king take his son away from me?" Where are you going to take him? ”

The waiter Jia was expressionless: "The slave is just acting on orders, the king's will, who dares to ask more?" As for where to go, the king will properly settle the second prince, and the mother doesn't need to worry! ”

"The queen's death has nothing to do with me, why should the king target me so much? Birth separates our mother and son! Ji Jiang let out a desperate cry.

"Humph!" The chamberlain Jia let out two cold snorts: "Whether it has anything to do with it or not, the king will find out, and he won't bother with it." ”

Looking at the distant backs of this group of people, Ji Jiang leaned on the door frame, as if the last trace of vitality had been sucked away, and he collapsed to the ground weakly. Although this is not the first time that the palace has been sealed, King Zhou Yi did not take away his son last time, but this time he ------ that he has really reached the end of the road?

On the top of the main hall, Fanji lay quietly on the spiritual bed, and after tonight, she was about to be buried, Ji Xie cherished this last night together, and kept guarding her inch by inch, just watching it with good eyes. Although she knew that she would never sit up again, and she would never be happy or angry with him again, as long as this person was still in front of her, at least she could deceive herself, she was still there, and she hadn't left yet------

What annoyed Ji Xie was that there were intermittent cries outside the hall from time to time, constantly reminding him that his beloved wife Fanji had passed away. It was a hot summer, and huge ice basins were placed in the four corners of the main hall, and two palace maids stood next to each ice basin, sending cool breezes from time to time with huge fans. But his heart was already cold, and even if the sun was scorching, it couldn't warm him up. At the end of the spiritual bed, there was a prince Ji Hu who bowed his head and cried------ alas! The poor child, who was only eleven years old, suddenly lost his mind, and seemed to have grown up a lot in one night.

Barely hearing any footsteps, the chamberlain Jia gently approached, knelt behind King Zhou Yi, and reported in a low voice: "Your lord, the servant has sent the second prince to Meng Jiang Niangniang." It's just ------" He raised his eyes and didn't see any reaction from King Yi, so he gritted his teeth and continued: "It's just that Meng Jiang Niangniang lives in the same palace with Concubine Eyao, and now she ------"

Before he could finish speaking, Ji Xie said categorically: "Move Meng Jiang to another palace, you can arrange this matter, and you don't have to play it again." ”

"No!" The chamberlain Jia was about to turn around, and Ji Xie suddenly stopped him: "Is Zhou Zhao's second duke here?" ”

"The king, I am waiting outside the palace for the king to summon you!"

Ji Xie thought for a moment and said: "No need, you pass on my decree and order Princess Zhou to take care of the queen's funeral, and there must be no mistakes." Otherwise------" A bone-chilling chill suddenly appeared in his words: "Please summon the male tiger in, there is another edict!" ”

"No!"

"Lone and Zhaogong have something to explain, you all go down!" Ji Xie waved his sleeves, and everyone in the hall, including the crown prince Ji Hutong, withdrew from the hall. Just as Zhao Bohu was advancing under the guidance of the inner servant Jia, the two quickly exchanged glances.

"King!" Zhao Bohu knelt beside King Yi, and when he looked at it from the angle he was, he saw that the side of King Yi was cold and abnormal, like a blue-gray sky, with lines cut by a steel blade.

"How is the Imperial Father?" After waiting for a long time, Ji Xie suddenly popped up with such a sentence.

"Uchiko has chosen a proper nurse for the fourth prince to take care of, please rest assured." With the queen's dying trust, how dare the husband and wife not be unsatisfied? It's just that this responsibility is too heavy, and when I think of it, Zhao Bohu's heart is like a copper hammer, heavy.

"That's good." Ji Xie nodded: "Please ask Mrs. Zhao to concentrate on taking care of the imperial father, and the affairs of the queen's death will be taken care of by others, so there is no need to be distracted." As for you, Aiqing, Lone has another important appointment. ”

"Please let the king give orders, and the ministers will do their best to complete it." Zhao Bohu said firmly.

"On the day of the queen's birth, a cadre of related people, etc., has been divided and detained. The two second concubines in the palace have also been grounded in the palace, isolating the news from the outside world. He has entrusted this matter to you, and I will investigate all the circumstances of the day of the queen's birth. No matter who or what is involved, we will investigate to the end and will not be tolerated! Aiqing understands? Ji Xie's tone was very cold.