"Boom."
"Boom."
The death knell sounded in the palace, and it stopped after a full seven tones.
The queen in the prison slumped to the ground, crying and laughing after a while, "It's over, it's over."
She and her concubine married the emperor, and later became a queen under one person and more than ten thousand people, and successfully gave birth to an heir for the emperor.
If the queen mother is still alive now, their Fang family still has a chance of life. Now that the queen mother is gone, everyone in the world thinks that she has harmed the queen mother. , So the historian wrote another record about Yan Jinqiu.
The queen mother said before her approach: Ziling, a filial son, I am not afraid of going home, but I am worried about this son, and hope that the emperor will be kind to him.
In order to show his filial piety, Emperor Qilong even disregarded his own identity. He dressed in filial piety for the Queen Mother, and was a vegetarian every day. Whenever he mentioned how the Queen Mother treated him well in the past, he couldn't help crying. cry.
This behavior of Emperor Qilong finally regained some of his reputation for benevolence and filial piety. Although many people still think that he is acting, it is still acceptable on the face.
The rumors about the Queen's poisoning of the Queen Mother have already spread beyond recognition. Maybe people naturally respect the dead, so most of these rumors are about how vicious the Queen's behavior is. The Queen Mother is a lonely old lady in the harem. What a sad day.
It was also rumored that the queen had deliberately eaten the bad ginseng and donkey-hide gelatin for the queen mother, and she was very condescending to the queen mother.
The queen's reputation has plummeted, and she is no different from a poisonous woman who brings disaster to the country. There are even many storytellers who describe the queen as a monster who only knows conspiracy and tricks, but has no kindness at all. Otherwise, how could the prince be so bad? The prince taught well.
"The world is always accustomed to blaming the child's bad on the mother's lack of education. If the child is successful, he will have no children," Hua Xiwan played with the plain silver hairpin in her hand and slowly inserted it into her hair. Wiping off all the powder on his face, "Although the queen is not a good person, she is not as bad as the rumors say, she is just..."
Hua Xiwan suddenly stopped talking and looked at Yan Jinqiu who was wearing a linen robe beside her, "Those rumors outside..."
"It has nothing to do with me," Yan Jinqiu picked out a plain silver bracelet from the box and put it on her hand, then glanced at the three plain silver hairpins in her hair that were only used to fix her bun, "The queen has fallen. At this point, I don't have to go out of my way to target her."
Hua Xiwan smiled when she heard the words, "I'm not asking about this rumor, but the rumors about the emperor's grandson."
"This is a warning from God," Yan Jinqiu straightened out his outer robe. The burlap robe was very rough, but it was not uncomfortable to wear a snug and comfortable silk tunic inside. "The world only likes to believe what they think of. It has nothing to do with me."
"Haha," Hua Xiwan smiled and took off the plain silver bracelet that Yan Jinqiu put on herself, "Re Xiaoqi, what are you wearing this for?"
Looking at Hua Xiwan, who was facing the sky, Yan Jinqiu sighed, "I can't bear to make you feel wronged."
Hua Xiwan smiled, reached out and pinched his earlobe: "Slippery tongue."
Holding Hua Xiwan's hand with a backhand, Yan Jinqiu stole a kiss on her cheek: "This is my truth."
"Have you heard a word?"
"what?"
Hua Xiwan giggled and said, "It's better to believe that a man can see a ghost in the daytime."
"Nonsense," Yan Jinqiu smiled helplessly. He didn't expect Hua Xiwan to dare to say such shocking words, so he reached out and took her into his arms, "I can't let others hear this."
"You're not someone else," Hua Xiwan threw a wink at the other party, and after seeing Yan Jinqiu's eyes getting hotter, she pushed him away and got up to straighten her clothes, "Your Highness, let's prepare to enter the palace, This is in the heat of filial piety."
With a helpless smile, Yan Jinqiu said, "I understand."
The two went to the palace every day to cry for the queen mother, because the weather was too hot, so after watching the day, Qin Tianjian decided to let the queen mother be buried for fourteen days, which was the shortest auspicious time.
There are countless ice basins around the empress dowager's golden coffin. When half of the ice has melted, it will be replaced with new ice to prevent the empress dowager's corpse from rotting, but even so, when Hua Xiwan entered the mourning hall, she still felt that sandalwood was mixed. The scent of various candles made her very uncomfortable.
She knelt on the futon, listened to the mournful cry of the crying spirit, and threw the paper money into the basin one by one. Through the firelight, she glanced at the coffin of the queen mother, and she felt an indescribable complex feeling in her heart. In this harem, the queen mother is also the last laughing person. Who would have thought that she would die in this way.
She didn't believe that this matter was done by the queen at all, and maybe the emperor didn't believe it in his heart, but the evidence was too conclusive. If the emperor was willing to stand up and speak for the queen, if the verdict was not successfully overturned, then in the eyes of the world Here, the emperor just wanted to cover up the queen and deliberately delayed the time.
The queen has been with the emperor for many years, but now she is being plotted against her. I am afraid that her man will not risk his reputation being ruined and come out to complain for her.
A white shadow knelt down beside her, she turned her head and glanced at him, bowed her head slightly: "Prince Concubine."
"Happy Princess," the Crown Princess threw a few pieces of paper into the basin, and wiped the corners of her reddish but no tears with a handkerchief, "The Princess seems to have lost some weight, please take good care of yourself."
"It's just that I haven't slept well in the last few days," Hua Xiwan lowered her eyebrows and said pleasingly to her eyes. "The princess has just given birth to her grandson, so how could she come here?" Moon, right
"I just want to see the old lady before her burial," Lin said, and then threw a stack of paper money in. Seeing that the fire in the basin was getting bigger and bigger, she said blankly, "Besides, I heard the princess. Here, I want to see it even more.”
Hua Xiwan didn't know the meaning of her words, so she didn't speak.
"I heard that Wang Fei's cousin and my brother are engaged?" Lin Shi didn't care that Hua Xiwan didn't speak, and said straight, "My brother is a reliable man, you don't have to worry about marrying a girl from the Hua family. Aggrieved."
Hua Xiwan then burned the paper to prevent the fire in the basin from going out: "I don't think it's appropriate to talk about these issues above the mourning hall."
"You're right," Lin slapped his head three times at the Queen Mother's coffin, and threw all the paper money in his hand into the flames, "It's too out of place to put such a festive event here."
Hua Xiwan noticed that something was wrong with Lin Shi, she frowned, and after a moment of hesitation, she said, "I also ask the Crown Princess to take good care of her body. His Royal Highness still needs you."
Lin shi smiled. It was really a sin to see this smile in the mourning hall, but Hua Xiwan could see the infinite sorrow from this smile.
"I once thought that if I didn't marry into the royal family, I would be very happy to get close to a woman like you," Lin shi gently shook Hua Xiwan's hand, "It's a pity that there are not so many if-or-if Princess, may you be different from us."
After she finished speaking, she stood up from the futon, bowed deeply to the coffin of the Queen Mother, turned and strode away from the mourning hall.
"Prince Concubine," Hua Xiwan faintly felt that something was not right, she hurriedly looked back, but only saw Lin's determined and straight back.
She was stunned for a while, and when she looked back, she saw that the fire in the basin was about to go out. She hurriedly threw a few chapters of paper money back, but her brows wrinkled unconsciously.
Just at this moment, another person knelt down beside her. It was Prince Xu, Princess Consort Xu.
After half an hour, Prince Ning and Concubine Shengjun took their place, and they walked out of the mourning hall rubbing their numb legs. The outer hall of the mourning hall was still guarding many members of the royal family. The face is sad, as if the queen mother has a supremely respected position in their hearts.
When Yan Jinqiu saw Hua Xiwan come out, there was something wrong with her walking posture. Knowing that she had been kneeling for a long time, her knees were uncomfortable. It's not good to do anything else, so I can only squeeze her palm gently.
Concubine Xu Wang Shizi sat down on the other side, she and Hua Xiwan looked at each other and nodded to each other again.
Concubine Xu Wang Shizi thought to herself, if it wasn't for the Queen Mother's mourning hall, probably Wang Xian would not be able to help rub his knees for Princess Xian. She originally thought that King Xian's treatment of Princess Xian was a false feeling, but now she feels that if these are not real feelings, then King Xian is too scary, because a person can act to such a degree that he doesn't know how ruthless he is to himself.
Every day, after the younger generation of the royal family took turns kneeling, they returned to their mansion in a carriage with a white lantern, and then continued the same way the next day.
On the day when the Queen Mother was buried, the weather was exceptionally sunny, and the morning sun hanging in the sky was enough to bake people.
Hua Xiwan and Yan Jinqiu sat in the carriage and drove forward. Whenever the team stopped, they would get off the carriage and kneel down. Only after the ceremony official spoke, could they get up in the carriage and continue to move forward.
After such tossing halfway, Hua Xiwan felt that she was about to be roasted, and after secretly drinking a few sips of herbal tea in the carriage, she felt a little better.
The coffin was sent to the imperial mausoleum, and the empress dowager was buried together with the late emperor in the name of the empress dowager Cihe. When the gate of the imperial mausoleum was closed, all the spirit carriers knelt down and bowed three times and nine kowtows, and the emperor himself read an article written by himself. After the prayer, they ordered everyone to get up.
Before getting on the carriage, Hua Xiwan couldn't help but look back at the imperial mausoleum behind her, feeling an indescribable bleak feeling in her heart.
"Be careful with your feet," Yan Jinqiu gently held her hand and said softly, "It's hot outside, come in quickly."
Looking back at the man standing beside her, Hua Xiwan smiled and stepped on the footstool into the carriage.
Yan Jinqiu followed into the carriage. After entering, seeing Hua Xiwan sweating profusely, she took out the brocade handkerchief hidden in her sleeve and carefully wiped the sweat off her face, "Go back and have a good night's sleep."
Hua Xiwan shook the back of his hand and said with a smile, "Okay."