The emperor died one day in the middle of May.
In the middle of the night, no one noticed and fell asleep like this.
That day the little eunuch kept watch at night, during which time he lit a lamp and watched for a few times, but thought that the emperor was in a deep sleep and didn't notice it, so he retreated outside to watch.
There was no movement inside for a long time until the morning, and the eunuch felt that something was wrong, and then went to call someone softly, but there was no response from inside.
The chief eunuch felt a thump in his heart, and quickly opened the curtain with shaking hands, then carefully stretched out his hand to detect the breath of the Holy Majesty, only to find that the Emperor had already lost his breath.
The emperor passed away, and the capital was under martial law.
The bell of the city tower rang twenty-seven times that day.
A sign of national mourning.
Everyone in Beijing immediately hung a piece of white silk on the door, canceled weddings and other happy events, changed into plain clothes, and observed the national funeral.
After mourning, the major temples and temples in the city ring the bells one after another to express their condolences.
After the funeral, it was the crown prince's enthronement ceremony.
A country cannot be without a king for a day. Although the crown prince is in great grief, the enthronement must not be delayed.
Under the management of the Ministry of Rites, a date was quickly selected, and the ancestral temple was sacrificed, followed by enthronement as emperor.
Change the yuan and change the number.
The new emperor succeeds to the throne, grants amnesty to the world, reduces taxes and exempts taxes, and increases Enke.
The whole world celebrates.
There are more and more signs of peace in the world.
Although Li Chengze is still low-key, everyone can see that he is indeed the emperor's confidant.
From the emperor's several summons, anyone with a brain can see it.
I thought that this person's future is not bad, just wait until next year when the museum is disbanded, he will definitely be used by the emperor and continue to stay in Beijing.
Even so, everyone is happy to have a good relationship with him. After all, we will be officials in the court in the future, and it is better to have one more friend than one more enemy.
So Li Cheng stayed in the Hanlin Academy very satisfied. All the scholars there were well-educated and could explain all kinds of problems very well. Li Cheng benefited a lot and became more comfortable in his studies. The mood became more and more calm.
Since ancient times, a wife is more expensive than her husband.
Li Cheng was valued by the new emperor and became a celebrity in the imperial court, and Gu Qingci's status naturally rose accordingly.
It is not the same as before.
How embarrassing the people who made fun of her at the beginning are now.
People who married poor and settled down can turn over completely.
How many people feel uncomfortable thinking about it!
However, he can only think about it, and when he meets her, he has to talk to her in a friendly manner.
There was only one stupid person, whether he was instigated by others or something, he actually provoked Gu Qingci at Princess Kangtai's birthday party.
His words were full of disdain, and he said maliciously: "What's there to be proud of, my husband is just a Jinshi who has not been awarded an official, and he might be a small official in the future. It's worth talking about, scoff! "
Did Gu Qingci hear those words later
How can she bear the idleness, and she put her hips on her hips and satirized back: "You are so noble, the father must be a first-rank official! We people are not worthy to play with you, and we are not worthy to stand with you, so, Also please move this 'noble' lady and move somewhere else, don't let the people here dirty your noble status!"
As soon as Gu Qingci finished speaking, many people couldn't help laughing.
It was the first time for that girl to hear such a poisonous mouth, and she didn't react for a while, her face flushed with anger, she pointed at Gu Qingci, "You! You..." For a long time, she couldn't even utter a complete sentence.
Where is she the daughter of a first-rank official, her father is only a fourth-rank official.
Originally, it was nothing, but Miss Zhang was jealous since she was a child, and Gu Qingci was filled with sourness when she heard someone say a few words, thinking that the person she married was just a Jinshi, so what is there to be proud of? So I can't talk more than my brain to provoke others.
I can only blame this guy who has just been transferred from other places. He is not very clear about the situation in Beijing and China. He has no information and no brains.
Unexpectedly, knowing that Gu Qingci is a hard stubble, he suffered a disadvantage.
Now I feel angry and ashamed.
Seeing many little girls covering the corners of their mouths with handkerchiefs as if they were laughing at him, he felt even more ashamed.
The garden couldn't stay any longer, so it could only stomp its feet and lead the maid to go out quickly.
In the eyes of others, it is a desperate escape.
Only then did Gu Qingci feel relieved, and went to play with Princess Kangtai.
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The lady who was left by Gu Qingci was surnamed Zhang, she was scolded and left the garden, feeling depressed, she just walked forward with her sleeves flung.
Until the servant girl reminded her, she said: "Miss, if you go further ahead, you will be in the outer courtyard. There are outsiders over there. Let's go back."
Although Ms. Zhang was angry, she didn't make fun of her reputation.
With a sullen face, the servant girl scolded and vented her anger, then turned around.
However, she never expected that when she was passing by the lake, a masked man in black suddenly flew out from the rockery.
The moment Miss Zhang and the servant girl behind her were too frightened to make a loud noise, they knocked them out!
Then the two of them were thrown into the lake and stared at for several minutes, until they saw the person sinking, the black-clothed man went to the rockery to take off his black clothes, dressed as an ordinary boy, and left just like that.
It wasn't until noon that things got serious.
That girl Zhang came here with her mother, but Mrs. Zhang was talking to the wives in the room and didn't look at her daughter.
She didn't see her daughter until the banquet was about to start. Mrs. Zhang was in a hurry and immediately called her servants to inquire, but no one knew where the lady had gone.
It was only later heard that Miss Zhang and Gu Qingci quarreled and took the maid out of the garden angrily.
Mrs. Zhang's face was ashen, but she didn't yell angrily because it was because the palace didn't dare to be presumptuous.
As the master, Wang Hao definitely couldn't ignore this matter, so she ordered her servants to follow several paths to find it.
Finally, the bodies of Miss Zhang and her maid were found in the lake.
Both were drowned.
This matter is serious.
No matter how bad Miss Zhang was, she was the daughter of a fourth-rank official family. She came to a banquet but died for no reason. This matter can't be good.
Mrs. Zhang fainted when she saw her daughter's body
After waking up, she was crying and shouting, madly wanting someone to pay for her life.
The concubine's complexion is also not good. It is impossible for anyone to celebrate a good thing for no reason but become like this now.
This is something she can't solve, so she can only report it to the officials and let the people from the criminal department investigate and deal with it.
The concubine first ordered someone to tell the prince about this, and then ordered today's guests not to leave for the time being, until the punishment department came.
In the event of death, the wives and wives are more or less able to hold on, even though their complexions are not good-looking. Many girls turned pale with fright, thinking that the person who talked to them in the garden died in the blink of an eye, and the corpse was fished out of the lake, it was really infiltrating.
Mrs. Zhang has been crying before the people from the Criminal Department come
Then suddenly, she turned her eyes to Gu Qingci.
Looking at Gu Qingci with resentment on his face, he said: "It's you! You killed my daughter! She just said a few things you don't like to hear, and you insult her. That's not enough. Did you push her away?" Into the water! You bitch! I'll fight you, I want you to pay for my daughter's life!"
After speaking, he rushed towards Gu Qingci, wanting to reach out and pinch her neck while beating her.
Fortunately, he was stopped by the maid.
But Gu Qingci was startled, and took several steps back.
In the end, because Madam Zhang just lost her daughter, Gu Qingci closed her eyes, endured it, and didn't care about others.
But he still said in a cold voice: "Mrs. Zhang speaks carefully."
Of course the concubine couldn't tolerate people's mischief, so she hurriedly stepped forward to appease her, and winked again, telling the servant girl to look at her.
After another incense stick of time, the officials from the Ministry of Criminal Justice finally came.
First of all, it must be asked to do an autopsy to examine the dead body.
But Mrs. Zhang screamed sharply when she saw this scene.
Pushing Wu Zuo away vigorously, saying that her daughter is dead, they still have good intentions to defile her daughter's innocence.
Never let anyone touch the dead body.
The princess's face collapsed.
Mrs. Zhang is so uncooperative, how can anyone investigate the case.
The two officials from the Ministry of Punishment also frowned.
However, because the other party is also the wife of an official, it is not easy to give orders directly.
Therefore, the two could only turn around and look at the prince, and said, "My lord, this..."
Mrs. Zhang can't force anyone to disagree, after all, she is her daughter.
The prince was also in a dilemma, so he had to call all the servants over and ask them to interrogate him, to see if they could find any clues.
The palace and the prince's husband and wife are one, and they must be responsible for what happened in the palace.
Therefore, I can only go forward and say: "My condolences to Mrs. Zhang, the most urgent thing is to find out what happened to Mrs. Zhang. Mrs. Zhang has been blocking me, so how can I get justice for my daughter? Do you want her to die unjustly? "
The concubine's words were not euphemistic at all, but in the face of Mrs. Zhang who had already collapsed, no euphemism was helpful. On the contrary, these two sentences made Mrs. Zhang cry loudly for a while, and then her expression relaxed.
Wu Zuo stepped forward to check, while the apprentice took a pen to record.
On the other side, the two officials questioned all the ladies who were in the garden at that time, and recorded their confessions.
As for the servants in the mansion, they were all interrogated.
Gu Qingci and the others did not leave the palace until they went down.
It was lively and lively when they came, but when they went back, everyone's face was dark and hesitant.
Yuzhu Yuchuan was worried that Gu Qingci had been frightened today, so she reported the matter to Li Chengze as soon as she returned, and then asked the kitchen to cook a soothing soup and feed it to the master.
Gu Qingci was depressed, hugging Li Chengze's waist and leaning against him, said: "She scolded me first, and I will reply. Her death has nothing to do with me."
"I know, of course it has nothing to do with you. Since the people from the Criminal Department are already investigating, don't worry, you won't be involved." Li Cheng comforted in a low voice.
Gu Qingci's face is still a little pale, not surprising, anyone who sees someone who was talking to you a moment ago and died a second later will be afraid and panic.
It is terrible to be able to keep your face and remain indifferent to your life.
Gu Qingci was listless, while Li Cheng comforted her for a while, and drank another bowl of tranquilizing medicine. After a while, tiredness hit her, and she gradually closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Just after covering her with the quilt, Nanny Zhang approached gently, and said in a low voice: "Eldest sister is awake, looking for someone, sir, go and have a look."
The eldest sister was eight months old, and she was very clever. She recognized her parents, and when she didn't see her for a while, she would sit on the kang, her big dark eyes rolling around, looking back and forth.
It looks so cute.
The maids all knew that she was looking for someone, so once they deliberately held back, they wanted to see the reaction of the elder sister.
Then I saw the elder sister babbling for a long time, blushing, and suddenly called out: "Father!"
But Nanny Zhang couldn't be more happy, the little lady can talk!
So he immediately carried her to see Li Chengze and Gu Qingci.
Sure enough, the little guy was happy to see his parents, and called out again.
It's just that he is still young and can barely call out his parents, so he won't say anything else.
It's just that, it still makes the two parents who are new parents very happy.
So at this moment Li Chengze went out when he heard that the elder sister was looking for someone.