Huyang is waiting for a result.
But it was too late to wait.
Half a month has passed since Bai Zhong brought the imperial physician to the Princess Mansion for consultation.
Outside the window, there was a vast expanse of whiteness, and it was snowing in the capital.
The first snow this year came earlier than in previous years.
Princess Huyang went from being complacent and looking forward to it at the beginning, to disappointment, and then to despair.
A pair of eyes also lost their brilliance.
She laughed at herself.
It was she who overestimated herself and underestimated the two in the palace.
This time, Huyang was really ill, lying on the hospital bed and unable to get out of bed.
It snowed three times in the whole winter, and each time was a torment for her.
She lay on the bed and didn't move for a long time. She would have been a corpse were it not for the movement of her eyes.
Her heart was cold and cold.
Do you have any complaints
Of course there are.
If Wuwang hadn't boarded Queen Gu Jiu's pirate ship and hadn't gone to Xiliang, she and Wuwang would have had a chance to meet each other.
Nothing needs to happen, she just wants to look at him.
One look is enough to satisfy her.
However, that person is in Xiliang, without the queen and His Majesty's will, he will die in Xiliang even if he dies.
Hu Yang's heart was broken by reality.
…
Gu Yu and Chen Min's husband and wife, with their children, traveled all the way and returned to the capital before the Chinese New Year.
The couple and their children came to the Princess Mansion to visit Huyang.
"Mother, what's wrong with you? How can you be so sick?"
Chen Min knelt on the footstool and began to cry, unable to control herself.
"My daughter will send someone to invite the imperial physician to cure my mother's illness."
"No need!" Hu Yang said weakly.
Chen Min looked at Hu Yang anxiously, and held her hand tightly, "What can a daughter do? Mother, please cheer up, please don't..."
Huyang laughed softly, like a bellows leaking air, the laughter was very dry, and there was a sound of Ula Ula.
"It's good that you can come back. I've been away from Beijing for so many years, I didn't expect your children to grow up so big."
Hu Yang looked at the grandchildren without any fluctuations in his heart.
She doesn't love children, doesn't like children.
She doesn't even like her own children.
She was born a selfish person.
Chen Min nagged in her ear, talking about the situation of several children.
Hu Yang's eyes had already been emptied, and his eyes passed over the children, as if he saw Xiliang thousands of miles away, and saw Master Wuwang.
"Your Majesty, someone is coming from the palace!" The servant girl reported, waking Huyang awake.
When she came back to her senses, she was at a loss at first, and then laughed again in a blink of an eye.
Is the palace finally willing to give her a response
"Invite people in quickly."
The person who came from the palace was still Bai Zhong from Chang'an Palace.
Chen Min wanted to stay by Hu Yang's side, but Hu Yang insisted on driving him away.
There are some words that Minmin cannot hear.
Bai Zhong brought a letter and a portrait to Hu Yang.
Seeing the letter, Hu Yang's heart tightened, and he almost lost his breath.
The familiar yet unfamiliar handwriting is a personal letter from Master Wuwang.
The portrait is a life-size portrait of Master Wuwang, with a solemn treasure appearance and a high-end demeanor.
Looking at the portrait, Hu Yang's eyes were filled with tears for an instant.
She stretched out her hand and stroked the person in the portrait, "He's old too!"
Bai Zhong said softly: "Your Majesty specially sent someone to draw a portrait of Master Wuwang and presented it to Her Royal Highness the Princess."
Princess Huyang laughed, with tears still in the corners of her eyes.
"Thank you queen for me!"
After all, Gu Jiu did not let Hu Yang die, but she would not call Wu Wang back either.
A life-length portrait and a letter are her wishes.
"Is he okay?" Hu Yang asked cautiously.
Bai Zhong nodded, "Master Wuwang is very good! He preached Buddhism in the Western Regions, and he is recognized as an eminent monk who has attained the Tao."
Hu Yang wept with joy, "I'm really happy for him! I knew that he would become a real eminent monk."
Bai Zhong reminded her, "Doesn't the princess read letters? This is a letter written by Master Wuwang. He wrote it to you. It will be sent back to the capital together with the portrait. We just arrived yesterday, and today our family is ordered to send the letter and portrait to you." Brought it to the princess."
Hu Yang stared at the letter with a smile on it, which said "Hu Yang's personal letter"!
Just four words, already made Hu Yang shed tears of happiness.
She smiled and said: "The queen has a heart! It was Ben Gong who misunderstood her before, and thought that the queen had forgotten Ben Gong."
Bai Zhong said: "Xiliang is too far away, so far away that the empress is not sure what will happen. Therefore, the empress has been coldly treating the princess before, because she didn't want to give her hope, and finally she was disappointed."
Hu Yang cried out, "She is really caring, and I am grateful to her from the bottom of my heart."
Tears dripped on the envelope.
Hu Yang wiped it hastily, very nervous.
Bai Zhongzhi said, "Our family has to go back to the palace, so let's bid farewell! Take care of your health, princess!"
"Thank you, Eunuch Bai."
With the letter from the hopeless master, Huyang was full of vitality again.
However, her body has been overdrawn too much.
Her age meant that her body was so devastated that she could never recover.
Then Huyang didn't regret it.
…
The four years of Jingming was destined to be an uneasy year.
In February, Huyang passed away.
Before she died, she made a list for herself to be buried with her.
In addition to various gold and silver utensils and various funeral supplies, she specified that hopeless letters and portraits should be buried with her.
For this reason, skilled craftsmen were specially recruited from the Shaofu to ensure that the letters and portraits would not be corrupted in the underground palace for a hundred years or a thousand years.
If one day, later generations opened her underground palace and found letters and portraits, she didn't care what guesses they would make.
She just needs long-term company after death.
Empress Gu Jiu left the palace and came to the Princess Mansion to visit Hu Yang for the last time.
When Huyang was dying, he returned to the light.
She was smiling, very warmly.
She said happily: "I thought I didn't love anyone in my life. It's good to be a heartless royal princess. I didn't expect that one day I would fall in love with someone. Although I can't stay together forever, there is love in my heart , I feel happy. Looking at his portrait and reading his letters to me, it seems that he is by my side.”
Gu Jiu asked calmly: "Do you hate Ben Gong? Ben Gong didn't let him come back to see you for the last time, do you hate it?"
Hu Yang shook his head slowly, "I'm so ugly now, how can I let him see it. It's right for him not to come back. In this way, I will always be the most beautiful Hu Yang in his mind. You say, he still remembers What do I look like?"
Gu Jiu nodded solemnly, "He remembers! He drew your portrait with his own hands and kept it with him all the time."
"Really?"
Hu Yang looked surprised, "He actually has my portrait! It would be great if you told me sooner."
Gu Jiu shook his head slowly, "If I had told you earlier, you should have chased him to Xiliang."
Hu Yang smiled, "No way! I was born rich and well-clothed, and I'm used to living a luxurious life. I can't bear to run thousands of miles, eat sand and drink wind. As a person, I am as deep as the sea , On the one hand, I can’t let go of things outside of me. In fact, my love is not pure. From the beginning to the end, I am still that selfish Huyang.”
Gu Jiu asked, "Do you really love him?"
Hu Yang was at a loss at first, then nodded and said: "It should be! I have been obsessed with it for twenty years, what is it if it is not love."
Gu Jiu asked again: "Are you sorry?"
Huyang laughed, "Nephew and daughter-in-law, this should be the last time I call you that. You don't have to feel guilty to me, you just did what you should do, and no one can do it better than you. I don't Sorry, don't hate anyone, just a little bit sad."
Gu Jiu nodded heavily, "I understand."
"I would like to ask the Queen two things."
"you say."
Hu Yang breathed a sigh of relief, "Don't let Gu Yu and Minmin leave the capital, okay? It's so hard outside, you can be an official anywhere, and it's good to be a Beijing official. Minmin is a bit stubborn. If the queen I can’t thank you enough for taking care of her a little bit.”
Gu Jiu agreed, "I promise to let them stay in the capital."
Hu Yang laughed, "Ask Minmin to put incense sticks on me every year during the Ching Ming Festival, to show the love between mother and daughter."
"This palace will remind her."
"Second thing, if Wuwang returns to Dazhou and the capital one day, can he visit my grave, talk to me, and recite the Pranuyo Diamond Sutra to me. I haven't heard him recite for many years. , I kept thinking about it in my heart. Others recite scriptures, not like him. After all, he is an eminent monk who has attained the Tao, and others are not as good as him."
Gu Jiu nodded, "Okay! If he comes back, let him go to your grave to chant scriptures."
Hu Yang laughed, very warmly.
Gu Jiu seemed to see that high-spirited and reckless Hu Yang again.
It is inevitable that there will be many emotions in my heart.
Everything is arranged afterward.
The second day after Gu Jiu visited Hu Yang, Hu Yang closed his eyes and passed away with expectation.
Emperor Liu Zhao ordered the Shaofu to organize Huyang's funeral, and everything was in accordance with the princess etiquette.
Chen Min cried very sadly.
"My mother passed away, and there was not even a single person who fell into a trance."
She is a married woman, so she is not qualified to be a wreck.
So she was very sad.
No matter how much hatred and dissatisfaction there is, everything will disappear after death, and only remember the goodness of the biological mother in my heart.
The more she remembered her, the more Chen Min blamed herself.
"I should go back to Beijing earlier and spend more time with her."
Gu Yu comforted her: "The princess walked very peacefully, which shows that she has no regrets."
Chen Min's eyes turned red from crying, "I don't even have a descendant who keeps the spirit, how can I not feel sad. I want to keep the spirit for my mother!"
"Okay! It's all up to you!"
Chen Min guards the spirit as a filial daughter and sends Huyang for the last journey.
Half a month later, the funeral ceremony ended and the official burial took place.
The underground palace of Princess Huyang is near the imperial mausoleum.
After the burial, it was already March in the warmth of spring.
…
Years ago, Gu Rui returned to the capital with the first batch of students from the Military Academy. Up and down the Hou Mansion, the Gu family was really lively.
It's just that the good times don't last long.
In March, flowers are in full bloom and colorful.
The old lady Wei fell ill.
The old lady Wei is one of the rare long-lived people. She is already in her eighties and has five generations under one roof.
The Gu family was shocked.
The old lady is the family's Dinghaishenzhen, if she has an emergency, it will be a disaster.
As a queen, Gu Jiu insisted on going to the Marquis Mansion to visit the old lady regardless of the traditional rules.
However, even Liu Zhao stopped her.
"Maybe you think it's nonsense, but the fact is that all the patients who have been visited by the empress and emperor basically don't live long. I'm worried that if you go to visit the old lady, you will blame yourself if something happens to the old lady. "
Gu Jiu was very sad, "Are you also against me visiting her old man?"
Liu Zhao hesitated for a moment, "Usually, the emperor and empress would only visit the patient when she was dying. It was similar to the case of Aunt Huyang, who went to see her for the last time on the day before her death."
Snapped!
Gu Jiu smashed the teacup on the table.
The palace people were silent like cicadas, not daring to breathe.
The empress rarely punishes the palace people, but she is majestic and natural, which always makes people fear from the bottom of their hearts.
Liu Zhao held Gu Jiu's hand tightly, "If you insist on taking risks, I will accompany you. Afterwards, I will bear the blame for you."
Gu Jiu shook her head, "Forget it, I won't go."
After all, the status of queen has too many restrictions.
In fact, she also knew in her heart that the old lady Wei's time had come, and she could no longer rely on human power to recover.
Birth, old age, sickness and death are natural laws, and no one can change them.
The old Hou Ye passed away, and the old lady Wei can still support it for nearly ten years, which has exhausted all her efforts.
The reason why she insisted on it was for the sake of the Hou Mansion and the family.
When Gu Rui's meritorious deeds are enough to support the Hou's mansion, the old lady Wei's heart will let go, and people will die after seeing it.
As the Ching Ming Festival approaches, the old lady Wei is on her deathbed.
Gu Jiu went out in a low-key manner and quietly came to the Hou Mansion.
Except for Mrs. Hou and Mrs. Gu Rui, no one else knew that she would come to the Mrs. Hou's mansion to see the old lady off for the last time.
So, when she appeared in front of everyone, everyone was taken aback.
Everyone was invited out of the bedroom, leaving space for the grandparents and grandchildren.
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It's time to finish!