The sunset falls into the Mi River, the sky is suddenly dark, the mountains and rivers are eclipsed, like the end of winter.
He stepped on the saddle, tightened the reins, swooped down from the hillside, and ran towards the capital. The endless mountain peaks and the endless river water quickly retreated in his peripheral vision.
The moon set, the sun rose, dawn, and evening were all non-stop. It took Xiao Yu less than six days to travel nearly 3,000 miles from Mihe to the capital.
Empress Chunyi died on the fifteenth day of August. The city was filled with white plains, and the city cheered silently. It seemed that no one would truly mourn for the Su family daughter.
After entering the palace, Xiao Yu went straight to the Qianqing Palace.
According to the funeral ceremony of the concubine of Dazhou, after the death of the queen, the Zigong will be parked in the Qianqing Palace for half a month, but because the emperor is not in the palace, it will be parked for a longer time.
At the gate of Qianqing, several feasts were laid, and the alchemy was hung.
The maid of the eunuch knelt on the ground wearing Zhe Su, Xiao Yu strode in, the three concubines in the harem bowed and bowed, "Chen and concubine welcome your majesty to return to the court."
Xiao Yu looked at Zigong with a yellow tent in front of him, and said calmly, "Go out."
The three concubines looked at each other, bowed and stepped back.
Eunuch Sheng glanced at the emperor's chapped lips, hurriedly brought a cup of tea over, and said, "Your Majesty, let's drink some water first."
"Open the coffin."
Eunuch Sheng was stunned for a moment, before he said: "Your Majesty, the empress's Zigong has been nailed, and the coffin is opened at this time, I am afraid..."
Xiao Yu's voice was full of forbearance and brutality, "I said that I will open the coffin."
Eunuch Sheng closed his eyes, bowed and said, "The servant will go and call someone here."
The thick coffin lid was removed again, and there was silence in the hall. Xiao Yu walked over step by step, almost stubbornly wanting to see her one last time.
With just one glance, you can know what it is like to have a liver and intestines in this world.
She lay on top of the golden jewels, her eyes closed silently, no worries, no sadness or joy between her eyes.
He reached in tremblingly and touched her cold fingertips.
Hold lightly again.
His blood was still hot, but he could no longer cover her.
The emperor swayed slightly, and Eunuch Sheng said behind him: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager invites you to come over and say that there is something important to discuss with Your Majesty..."
Xiao Yu turned his head, "I know."
Eunuch Sheng whispered: "Your Majesty, close the coffin?"
Xiao Yu said: "Close it."
Cining Palace.
The empress dowager was dressed in suede and her eyes were a little red. When she saw him coming, she said softly, "Sanlang, sit down."
Xiao Yu's long eyelashes drooped slightly, and said in a cold voice, "Greet your mother."
The Empress Dowager handed him the document that Silijian punished the palace servants, "Aijia thought that the Queen was too distressed to give birth, but the maid of Kunning Palace, Fuying, pointed out that Xu Hualan, Shangyi of the Shangyi Bureau, was suspected of harming her. Aijia followed the investigation and found that Xu Hualan's younger brother was actually a soldier under Su Jingbei's hands. The Kunning Palace was heavily guarded, and not even a fly could enter, but Xu Hualan actually took a bloody handkerchief and read With blood debts and blood to stimulate the queen, I don't know why the queen keeps her by her side..."
The queen mother continued: "Xu Shangyi's murder of the queen is unforgivable, and should be sentenced to Ling Chi's death, but Aijia thought that His Majesty might inquire in person, so she left her for the time being."
That's what it means to let you check.
Empress Dowager Chu looked at Xiao Yu's cold eyes and sighed: "Sanlang, after all, it's because the Ai family didn't take good care of her."
Xiao Yu's Adam's apple moved, and he said again: "Kunning Palace's maid Fuying, eunuch Shenggui, where are they?"
The Empress Dowager Chu said, "Those in Kunning Palace are loyal to the Lord. Xu Shangyi pleaded guilty on the front foot, and left with the Lord on the back foot."
There was a long silence in the hall.
"Is there anything else the Queen Mother has to do?"
Xiao Yu looked at Empress Dowager Chu's eyes, closed the booklet, placed it on the table, and Eunuch Zhang bowed and brought tea.
When the Empress Dowager Chu heard his name, her eyebrows moved slightly, "There is another matter in the Aijia family, which is related to the queen's funeral."
Xiao Yu knew the remarks of the court and said directly: "She is my wife, and she should be added to the imperial mausoleum."
The Empress Dowager Chu silently took out a note and handed it to Xiao Yu, "This is what A Ling wrote when the baby was moving, the emperor can take a look."
A beautiful small hand -
The criminal minister, the Su Clan, requested that he be buried in the forest, not to enter the imperial mausoleum.
Xiao Yu held the note, the knuckles were faintly white, and the light in his eyes became darker and darker: "Since she has entered the royal jade, the crime of the Su family has nothing to do with her. What does the queen mother think?"
"Then do it according to His Majesty's will." Empress Dowager Chu looked at the bloody Daozi who was pulled out of his palm by the reins, and said, "Empress mother knows that you feel uncomfortable, but you are the emperor, and you should cherish your own body even for the sake of the people of the world. ."
After a long silence, Xiao Yu said: "The Queen has passed away, I can only trouble the Queen Mother to take care of these six palaces. As for the First Prince..."
Xiao Yu turned his head to look at Gong Gong and said, "Send it to Shou'an Palace."
Empress Dowager Chu's eyes froze, Eunuch Zhang hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the eldest prince has been sleeping soundly in the empress dowager's arms recently. He never cried or made trouble. He must not be delivered..."
"Who gave your dog guts!"
Xiao Yu raised his hand and threw the case in front of him to the ground with a few "bangs", the cup smashed to the ground, so scared that Eunuch Zhang shrank his shoulders, knelt directly on the ground, and touched the ground with his forehead, "This servant made a blunder, it's a servant, damn it. ."
The Empress Dowager Chu held the Buddha beads in her hands, her heart was like a mirror, the emperor's fire was coming towards her at all.
She turned her head to Zhang Gong and said, "I've lost my honor in front of the royal family, go get thirty boards."
Eunuch Zhang kowtowed again and again: "This servant should die."
The emperor left the Cining Palace and went to the Sili Jian.
The emperor who had just returned from the battlefield was full of anger, and the eunuch in charge was frightened by the new emperor, so he hurriedly arraigned Xu Hualan, and reported the details of the trial according to the facts, without daring to hide it at all.
That night, Xu Shangyi was sentenced to lingering, and the imperial hospital was dismissed from office as normal, and countless eunuchs and maids were punished.
The wrath of the emperor's thunder spread throughout the harem.
The next night, Eunuch Zhang dragged the blood-seeing body back to the Queen Mother to serve.
The Empress Dowager Chu gave him a sideways look, "If you go down 30 boards, can you still stand?"
Zhang Gonggong knelt down on his horse and said, "Thank you, the servant, for your mercy."
Empress Dowager Chu snorted softly: "Get up."
Zhang Gonggong rubbed the shoulders of the Empress Dowager Chu for a while, and sighed: "Your Majesty, this time, I'm afraid I have a grudge against the Empress Dowager..."
"He has ulterior motives for the Aijia family." Empress Dowager Chu said: "But if the Aijia family does not stand by and does nothing, it really saves the Su family. In the future, when Ai enters the palace, I am afraid that she will always be crushed by her, the daughter of a criminal minister. 60,000 lives, she didn't deserve to die."
Zhang Gong said: "The eldest prince..."
"Young husband and wife, parting from life and death, there is no way to feel uncomfortable." The Empress Dowager Chu waved her hand and said, "He has a cold temperament, and he will be hurt and cherished. Let him go for a while."
—
On the day of Su Ling's burial, the autumn color was thick, and all the hibiscus in the garden were blooming.
At that time, a beam of light shone from the blue-gray sky, and eighty school captains and civilian husbands carried their yurts and moved the Zigong to the funeral palace outside Xihuamen.
The funeral ceremony was extraordinarily solemn. (1)
The emperor dressed in plain clothes, read sacrificial texts and wine, and personally sent Empress Chunyi to the imperial mausoleum. For five hours, his eyes never even turned red. Baiguan bowed his head and sighed, and suddenly understood what the emperor's sympathy was.
Twenty-seven eminent monks chanted and prayed for her.
Xiao Yu's expression did not change, and he said silently:
Ah Ling, forgive me for being selfish. I don't want to be alone. It's always against your wishes.
Since ancient times, husband and wife were born and died in the same cave.
You take one step first, and after a hundred years, I will personally apologize to you on Huangquan Road.
As night fell, the emperor drove back to the palace.
Eunuch Sheng came over, smiled hard, and said, "The eldest prince has opened his eyes today, and the servant looked at him several times. The born Yuxue is very cute, very similar to His Majesty and Empress, can His Majesty go to Shou'an Palace? "
Xiao Yu said lightly: "It will be three days later."
Eunuch Sheng put away his smile and sank his shoulders.
Xiao Yu took the horn lamp from Eunuch Sheng's hand and turned to go to her Kunning Palace.
No one could have imagined that the resolute and resolute man who scolded Fang Qiu on the frontier, when he stepped into the Kunning Palace, looked at the empty inner hall, knelt down in a loss of strength, and instantly collapsed.
The blood in the whole body stopped flowing, and the bone-piercing chill spread to the limbs and bones.
He slowly bowed his back, all the wounds on his body seemed to hurt, his chest kept tightening, and he could hardly breathe.
Three days after he stopped going to court, he sat in the Kunning Palace, holding a golden flower inlaid with a red pearl and swaying, without a drop of water entering, not saying a word.
He was so frightened that Eunuch Sheng knelt on the ground and begged him to cherish the dragon body, "Your Majesty, if the Empress is still here, I definitely don't want to see you like this."
The emperor let out a low "ho", the tears in his eyes fell straight on the placket, fainting.
His voice was very deep, as if he was muttering to himself, "Zhen, there is no home anymore."
"There is no wife anymore."