Time passed slowly, Changchun Palace was filled with a thick dead air, the queen lay quietly on the bed, her eyes staring blankly at a point in the void, and her voice was hoarse like an old woman: "Your Majesty...... Hasn't the emperor come yet? Her face flushed unnormally, like the last blink of a dying coral on the seabed, and her eyes involuntarily looked towards the screen in the distance, hoping that her husband would appear there.

But no, only a few false candle shadows swayed on the plain white screen, the candlelight was clear, but it could not illuminate the haze that filled the room, nor could it illuminate the gloom in the queen's heart, she heard Sui Lan reply in a trembling voice: "Gonggong Li said that the emperor is busy with government affairs and will not be able to come over until later." ”

The queen's breath suddenly withered, she burst into tears, and her voice trembled: "Yes, there were many things in the previous dynasty, and the emperor didn't come...... It is also reasonable...... "It's just that the weakness in her eyes exposed her, at this moment, she is no longer the queen of the middle palace in the world, but a poor woman who is cowering in the corner, cowardly begging her husband to love, tears are falling down the corners of her eyes, she stretched out her hand and grabbed Yu Guiren who was sitting silently at the end of the bed, "Ah Yuan, don't hate him." ”

Yu Guiren's face was hidden in the dim shadows, but the queen could clearly see the tears on her face.

"Ah Yuan, it's my own uselessness, it's not the emperor's fault that I'm dragging down day by day, don't blame him." The queen's voice was still as gentle as usual, and she sighed softly, "Since I was a child, I have been taught how to be a wife, husband and children, and preside over family affairs, but I never thought that I would become a queen one day. This position has brought supreme glory to my family, but I know that this position is not easy to sit on, I stand at the highest point of the Sixth Palace, and if I make a mistake by taking half a step, I will be crushed and fall into the abyss, Ah Yuan, I am really afraid. Tears poured out, and the queen's cry was low and graceful, even at this moment, she was still so gentle and soft.

"What's so good about him? It's worth it for him! Yu Guiren choked up and gritted his teeth and said, "Shu Yao, he is full of imperial power, in order to achieve his goal, he uses love as bait to lure you into the game, and set you up as the queen, but he lingers in the thousands of flowers and snubs you, and now you are so sick that he doesn't even look at you - Hongli He is not worthy of you to treat you so sincerely!" ”

"Ah Yuan, don't talk about him like that." The queen's eyes widened slightly, "Everything is voluntary to me, and it has nothing to do with the emperor." He is the lord of the world, and he can't stick to petty love, he has given me enough. Yonglian was just born, and the emperor secretly appointed him as the crown prince, even if Yonghuang was born early, he didn't let his concubine occupy the throne of his son-in-law, Ah Yuan, he has me in his heart, blame me...... It's all my fault for not being able to take care of Yonglian......"

Yu Guiren wiped a handful of tears fiercely: "I won't forgive him." ”

The queen opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but a cold chill rushed up from her body, she coughed violently, and clumps of scarlet exploded on her lips, staining her jade-like face and Yu Guiren's hazy eyes.

"Shu Yao—"

The wind and cold came at night, blowing out the lanterns, alarming An Lingrong and Zhen Huan, who were lying on the desk to analyze the situation in the previous dynasty, and then Xiao Yinzi hurriedly ran in: "The Queen Mother, the Queen Mother, the Changchun Palace is here, and the Queen is gone." ”

The queen died, these four words were like a thunderbolt, rolling in the hearts of An Lingrong and Zhen Huan, the two glanced at each other, and saw surprise in each other's eyes, or Zhen Huan opened her mouth first to ask: "What's the matter?" Didn't Imperial Doctor Qi say that the queen's body was much better when he came back and forth a while ago? Okay, why are people suddenly gone? ”

"The slave doesn't know, I just heard the palace people of Changchun Palace say that the queen mother was not a serious illness first, it was caused by the death of Prince Duanhui and excessive sadness, but then the illness lingered, and he couldn't even get up anymore, a while ago, Imperial Doctor Qi changed a new prescription to get better, but after that, somehow, his body deteriorated, until the past two days...... "Xiao Yinzi came one by one, and when he said that he also noticed something wrong, "Queen Mother, do you need a slave to check?" ”

An Lingrong frowned tightly: "Go and check, don't miss the slightest detail." She turned her eyes to Cardamom and said in a low voice, "You and Xiao Yinzi go to check together, and you must find out." ”

Cardamom and small seals responded in unison.

An Lingrong lowered his eyes in contemplation, and then raised his head and instructed Dill: "Please invite your nobles to come over tomorrow." ”

"Yes." Dill leaned over to receive the order.

Cui Jinxi lit the candle again, and the dormitory lit up again, but Zhen Huan's eyes were as cold as ice: "I hope it's not what we think." ”

However, the truth is always cruel.

"The slave went to investigate the prescription of the Tai Hospital, and the prescription left by the Imperial Physician Qi has been shown to Imperial Physician Zhou, saying that there is nothing wrong with the prescription, but there are two flavors of medicine to pay attention to, and it is not good to decoct more or less, the slave kept an eye on it, and went to check the residue of the medicine that the queen had drunk two days ago," Xiao Yinzi's voice paused a little tightly, "The amount of the two flavors of medicine is fully doubled." ”

"Who is the person who decocted the medicine?" An Lingrong glanced at Yu Guiren, who was sitting on the couch, and asked Xiao Yinzi.

Before Xiao Yinzi could reply, Yu Guiren whispered with a pale face: "It's a bamboo branch." ”

Xiao Yinzi nodded, and then stepped back silently.

"Zhuzhi is the emperor's person, you should know, right?" An Lingrong looked at Yu Guiren faintly, "Don't you have anything to say?" ”

Yu Guiren raised his head to look at An Lingrong with empty eyes, and pulled the corners of his mouth stiffly: "What does the Queen Mother want to know?" She looked at An Lingrong's deep eyes and laughed in a low voice, "What the concubine knows is just some absurd things, if the queen mother is willing to listen, it doesn't hurt the concubine to say more." She told An Lingrong all the things written in the booklet left by Concubine Zhe, until her mouth was dry.

At the end, Yu Guiren slowly took a sip of tea to moisten his throat: "After the concubine finished, is there anything else the queen mother wants to ask?" ”

An Lingrong looked at her and shook his head slowly: "No, you can kneel down." ”

Yu Guiren got up and saluted, and before leaving, she said intentionally or unintentionally: "That booklet says that the emperor can live to be eighty-eight years old, does the queen mother believe it?" Without waiting for An Lingrong to answer, she sneered again, and said to herself, "The concubine doesn't believe it." ”

Looking at the back of Yu Guiren leaving, An Lingrong suddenly remembered the dream she had when she sat under the porch and fell asleep in the middle of summer, and her heart chuckled suddenly.

"I knew that the emperor was bewitched by Concubine Zhe." Zhen Huan walked out from behind the screen, her face was so gloomy that she could drip ink, "No wonder the emperor has no rules at all now, he thinks he is a prophet, not only to make some achievements, but also to do better than what is written in the booklet - isn't this nonsense?" Although I don't know where Concubine Zhe got such a booklet, a discerning person should know at a glance that her words are untrue, and the emperor is really confused. ”

An Lingrong pursed the corners of his mouth tightly and guessed: "Yu Guiren said that the emperor has not read the booklet, and we don't know how much Concubine Zhe said to the emperor, but I always feel that what she said will be very different from what Yu Guiren saw." She looked at Zhen Huan with a burning look, "As the noble Yu said, Concubine Zhe died before the emperor ascended the throne, if Concubine Zhe wants to live, she must cover up this matter in every possible way, otherwise, wouldn't it be a curse for her to die early?" She misled the emperor and even instilled in him many wrong ideas, for example, the empress. ”

Zhen Huan's expression was grim, and her eyes sank slightly: "If I were Concubine Zhe, I would definitely do my best to pour dirty water on the queen, so that the emperor would hate the queen, in exchange for a glimmer of life." She walked slowly to An Lingrong's side, "And when the queen dies, in order not to let the power fall, the Fucha family will definitely choose the latter between sending the family woman into the palace again and supporting the Fucha family, who is already on the throne of the concubine...... Oh, she's so ambitious, she actually wants to be a queen. ”

"She's stupid enough to know what the consequences of saying something like that to a king can be." An Lingrong took a sip of tea slowly, only feeling bitter in his mouth, "The emperor is really ruthless, he attacked the queen, probably because he felt that she couldn't give birth to a concubine for himself." In what Yu Guiren said, the queen gave birth to two princes before and after, but in the end she couldn't keep them, and the reality is true, the queen did not protect Yonglian......"

"Is he so obsessed?" Zhen Huan also sighed a little, "The Wulanala clan back then was too, valuing the dignity and humility of the concubine almost to the point of pathology, I don't understand, is it really so important to be a descendant?" ”

An Lingrong breathed violently, and Zhen Huan's words seemed to be a heavy hammer slamming into her heart, as if something was about to break through the ground.

The palace rang the mourning bell, the emperor dropped out of the dynasty for nine days, served on the twenty-seventh day, and ordered the concubines and princes to wear white cloth filial piety clothes, the prince cut off the braids, the concubines cut their hair, the Manchu and Han civil and military ministers were all allowed to shave their heads after 100 days, the whole country mourned, stopped marrying and having fun on the 27th, the men went to the crown, and the women went to the earrings. All the subjects of the world mourn for the death of the mother of the country.

Such a grand funeral has never been held, and the emperor personally set the word "filial piety" as the queen's nickname, and told the Ministry of Rites: "The queen Fucha clan, Dezhong Xun clan, and the famous sect of the sect." I have been in the middle palace for five years, and I have been in the middle palace for two years, and I have been filial piety to Emperor Coke, and I have been deeply loved by the Holy Mother. Ask Anlan Palace, extremely pleasant and joyful; Apply the pepper coating, and treat it with worry and diligence; Sex Fu Kun Shun, the court's solemn and cautious etiquette; Demao Hengzhen, the ode to the wisdom of the Picture History Association; Qin Kuanren is caught, and thrift is bowed. It is known in this palace and is also admired by hundreds of millions of people. He died on September 11, the second year of Qianlong. Look at the inner sa, and praise for a long time. In memory of Yi Gui, Liang deeply mourns. It is advisable to add praise, and Zhao Maodian is in the future; Forever Huiyin, sowing the legacy of Fen in Yixi. There is no one who knows his ministers as a king, a son as a father, and a wife as a husband. I yesterday Fu the queen's elegy has the sentence "Holy mercy deeply remembers filial piety, and the palace is full of virtuous people", thinking about the name of the word filial piety, which is really the lady's virtue in her life, and should be called the queen of filial piety. All the ceremonies that should be carried out were performed as usual. ”

Such a solemn matter, everyone admired the emperor's deep love for the queen, and the Fucha family was even more grateful for the emperor's kindness, and they all folded their thanks, repeatedly expressed their loyalty, and bluntly swore to follow the emperor.

"He's going to take advantage of people's hearts." After Zhen Huan heard about this, she couldn't help but feel a little ironic, "When Rong Bao married his daughter, he was still a little reluctant, but now that his daughter is gone, he is busy showing his loyalty." She took the scissors and carefully trimmed the bouquet, "Then a large family, I see that only the queen's brother has some growth, and the rest, hmph, is just a façade." ”

"Isn't that the case in all big families? From generation to generation, there will always be one or two generations of bad bamboo shoots, who are lazy and lazy, only greedy for pleasure and do not seek to be motivated, then it is natural that good bamboo shoots are crowded out by bad bamboo shoots, and no matter how big the family is, it will be defeated. An Lingrong watched Zhen Huan prune properly, the bouquet slowly took shape, stared at the most gorgeous purple chrysanthemum in the middle, and muttered, "But if a good bamboo shoot grows into a towering green bamboo and supports the entire family, it is another matter." ”

Time flies very fast, get up in the morning to comb and draw your eyebrows, rain and dew at night, pillow the dark, wait for the dawn, the days will gallop away day by day, open your eyes, it is a new day.

Winter goes to spring, spring goes to summer solstice, the newly selected show girls came to the palace in the summer of the third year of Qianlong, all of them have red lips and white teeth, delicate and bright, especially in the Lu family, but in half a year they were promoted all the way to Qing Concubine, and they were in the limelight for a while, even if Jia Concubine came out with the news that she was pregnant, she never shook her favor by half a point.

"What kind of thing is the Lu family? A show girl from a broken portal, but she dares to be on an equal footing with this palace? Jia Concubine held her stomach, so angry that her body couldn't stop trembling, "Just sealed the concubine, she dared to confront the palace in person, what a big boldness!" ”

Lu Zhu hurriedly comforted Concubine Jia and gently persuaded: "Don't be angry, don't be angry, beware of hurting the little prince in your belly." She helped Jia Concubine sit down, and then said, "Qing Concubine is someone to gualate, I heard that she pleases the concubine everywhere, and she goes to Xianfu Palace at every turn." ”

"Now that the back position in the palace is vacant, although the concubine has the highest position, she is a useless body, and she will be gone in two years, please her? Hmph, Qing Concubine is also stupid. Concubine Jia calmed down, touched her stomach and breathed deeply over and over again, "When the palace gives birth to a prince and is promoted to the concubine position, then dispose of the concubine, the queen's throne is the property in the palace, and when the time comes, the palace will take time to slowly clean her up." ”

The dormitory was lit with sandalwood, which was heated and made it appear three points stronger than ordinary sandalwood, and the charcoal fire in the stove crackled and exploded, making it look more and more strange in the lonely night.

However, what Jia Concubine didn't know was that at this moment, Qing Concubine was also plotting to attack her.

"Sister Yu, that Xiangjia Concubine is already using it, do you need me to do anything?"

"No, just wait for the right time." (End of chapter)