Zhao Kingdom, Renshou Palace.
Empress Dowager Zhuang's appetite is not very good these days. Eunuch Qin always asks the imperial kitchen to cook food for her in a different way, and she can't eat a few bites.
Eunuch Qin secretly delivered a letter to Bishui Hutong, but the Queen Mother Zhuang stopped him.
Empress Dowager Zhuang glared at him.
Eunuch Qin sighed, knowing that she didn't want to let the younger generation see her sickness, but he was distressed.
"The queen mother, your majesty has come down." Outside the bedroom, the palace maid reported.
Seeing that Empress Dowager Zhuang was ill, Eunuch Qin said in a low voice, "Does the servant go back to His Majesty and say you are resting?"
Empress Dowager Zhuang looked at the crescent moon hanging in the night sky, pressed down her brows and said tiredly, "He's here at this hour, he must be on business."
"Yes."
Eunuch Qin went to invite His Majesty in.
The emperor stepped into the room, looked at Empress Dowager Zhuang who was sitting on the official hat chair, and asked worriedly, "Is the Empress Mother better?"
This son is stupid, and his concern for the queen mother is not fake.
Empress Dowager Zhuang rarely rolled her eyes and said calmly, "Ai's family is all right, it's all your fussing every day. Come on, it's so late, what's the matter with Ai's family?"
The emperor sat down beside his mother and said helplessly: "To tell the truth, my son does have something to discuss with his mother."
"What about the establishment of the reserve?" Empress Dowager Zhuang asked sharply.
The prince has been abolished for two years, and the voice of the establishment of the reserve in the court is getting louder.
The emperor acquiesced.
Empress Dowager Zhuang looked at him: "What is your plan in your heart?"
The emperor said: "My son thinks that King Rui is worthy of a great responsibility." Speaking of this, he paused and said, "However, Xiaoqi has restrained a lot in the past two years."
Empress Dowager Zhuang looked at the boundless night: "Little seventy-eight, almost nineteen, A-Heng has already been admitted to the top spot at his age."
"Yes." The emperor sighed, "The son is hesitating between King Rui and Xiao Qi, and he wants to hear his mother's opinion."
Empress Dowager Zhuang said indifferently: "Aijia has nothing to say. You are the emperor, and whoever you stand is the country of your Qin family."
"Queen Mother!" The emperor didn't like that she was so clearly separated from himself, making it seem like she was not part of the family.
Empress Dowager Zhuang snorted: "What? Aijia has worked hard for the Zhao Kingdom's royal family all his life, and he won't let people clean for two days?"
The emperor frowned: "What did the mother say? You are going to live a hundred years!"
"It's alright, alright, Aijia can't get used to that." Empress Dowager Zhuang waved her hand and opened the candied fruit jar on the table, which contained Jiaojiao's new candied fruit, three a day, she had saved for five days .
She took out a candied fruit, stared at it and said, "Aijia just asks you, if Prince Rui succeeds, will Xiao Qi be convinced?"
"This..." The emperor hesitated.
Empress Dowager Zhuang continued: "If he refuses to accept it and rebels, can King Rui hold it?"
A look of despair flashed across the emperor's face: "It must be unbearable."
It is true that Prince Rui has Duke Luo's mansion behind him, but behind Qin Chuyu is the entire Marquis of Xuanping mansion. Princess Xinyang and Xiao Ji have eased their relationship and will also help him.
He also worshipped his brother Xuanyuan Xi, and the youngest son of the Minister of War, Xu Porridge.
The emperor of Xiao Heng's connections has not been counted.
Another very important point is that Xiao Qi is the direct descendant of the Central Palace.
The answer is self-evident.
This position is not to say that if you don't want to fight, you don't want to fight. Even if Xiao Qi doesn't covet the throne, how can Queen Xiao be reconciled? How can a minister who wants to follow the dragon's power be willing to give up
Empress Dowager Zhuang said earnestly: "Being an emperor, you don't have to be the smartest one, but it must be the most suitable and the most stable one."
Only by letting Qin Chuyu ascend the throne, the rest of the princes dare not dare to take the throne. After all, no one has the confidence to succeed in rebelling in the hands of Xiao Ji.
Empress Dowager Zhuang glanced at him and said, "Besides, Xiaoqi is not as bad as you think. Don't underestimate him."
The bear child who grew up with Qingkong, not two brushes have been broken.
The emperor pondered for a while: "My son understands."
After the emperor left, Empress Dowager Zhuang was not willing to eat the candied fruit after all, and put it back in the jar.
Eunuch Qin stepped forward and poured her a glass of warm water. Seeing her absent-minded look, he couldn't help but ask, "The matter of Li Chu has been resolved, do you have any other things in mind?"
Unexpectedly, Empress Dowager Zhuang gave him a deep look and said abruptly, "You are old."
Eunuch Qin was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "The old slave is not a monster, how can he not be old?"
Empress Dowager Zhuang pursed her lips and wanted to say that she was getting old too.
She swallowed this and asked, "You and Aijia entered the palace in the same year, right?"
Eunuch Qin said with a smile: "Yes, it's just that the old slave was not lucky enough to serve you in the first few years."
Empress Dowager Zhuang sighed: "You confiscated a goddamn son or something? If Ai's family is gone, you can't really give you the old age and the death of your little bastard."
Eunuch Qin suddenly choked up: "Why do you keep talking nonsense these days?"
I'm just a lowly eunuch, not worth your mind.
Empress Dowager Zhuang has never been a mournful woman. She is very calm: "How long has Xiaoshun been in Youzhou? Should he go back to Beijing?"
Eunuch Qin wiped his tears and said, "Count the days, it's time to return."
Empress Dowager Zhuang wanted to say something, but she stopped.
…
Gu Xiaoshun went to Youzhou a few years ago. He became a relative three years ago. His wife was the daughter of a scholarly family selected by his aunt for him. He lives in the capital and his ancestral home is in Youzhou. The first thing to do is to accompany his wife back to his hometown to worship his ancestors. Second, he was commissioned by the Ministry of Industry to go to Youzhou to build an imperial garden together.
He took his wife to Qingquan Village.
He had cut ties with the Gu family long ago, so naturally he didn't go to visit them, but to go to the graves of his third uncle and third aunt.
However, as soon as he entered the village, he met his own mother Liu.
Liu was fetching water at the entrance of the village. She was much older, and she had a lot of gray hair in her forties. There was a dirty little girl squatting beside her.
The little girl randomly picked up something on the ground and put it in her mouth. When she found it, she immediately hit the little girl's hand: "Send everything in your mouth! It won't kill you!"
The little girl didn't know whether it was in pain or fright, and she started crying!
"Crying other than eating! What else can you do!" Liu Shi cursed for a few words, the little girl cried more and more fiercely, and Liu Shi was so angry that he beat her several times.
Gu Xiaoshun couldn't help but remember that when he was a child, he also spent it under Liu's beatings and scoldings.
And because he is naughty and stubborn, Liu's attack is particularly heavy.
If the child is disobedient and beats a few times, he will not hold a grudge against Liu for this.
He felt cold towards Liu Shi because Liu Shi never had his son in his heart.
Liu Shi only values Gu Ershun who is smarter than him and will please others.
"Xianggong, what's the matter?" asked his wife Chen Yun.
"Nothing, let's go." Gu Xiaoshun helped his wife out of the carriage.
Liu Shi saw him at a glance.
"Yeah! Is that Xiao Shun?" Aunt Zhao, who had just come over with a pot of clothes, saw and recognized him. Aunt Zhao was surprised, "Oh my God! I almost didn't recognize him!"
Gu Xiaoshun has changed a lot.
When he left the village, he was just a thirteen or fourteen-year-old gangster who couldn't even walk properly, but now he is dressed in a brocade robe, with clear eyebrows, handsome and suave, and at first glance he looks like a son of an aristocratic family.
The woman wearing a veil beside him was luxurious and elegant, with a dignified manner, and she looked like the daughter of a big family.
The villagers gathered around.
Liu shi looked at Gu Xiaoshun blankly, the bucket in his hand fell into the well with a click.
She couldn't believe her eyes.
This, this man who is more noble than the county magistrate is really her son of a bum
"Cough, cough, cough!" The accompanying guards were sent by the prefect who insisted on sending. I fear that Master Gu will encounter unexpected events on the road, so be careful to protect the safety of the couple.
He cleared his throat and said politely to the villagers: "Don't crowd, everyone, Master Gu is back to bury his family's grave, and he also asked the villagers to make it easier and make way."
"What do you call him?" Mrs Liu came over and asked.
The guards didn't know her, and just thought she was an ordinary countryman, and explained patiently: "Master Gu! Master Gu is a popular man in the court! This time, he came to Youzhou to build a mansion by order!"
The court... decreed...
Liu Shi almost fainted.
Knowing that Gu Xiaoshun was so promising, she shouldn't have sold him for twenty-two!
Should sell two hundred taels... No, two thousand taels!
No, what is she selling
He became an official, and she was the mother of the official master!
That's right, she is the mother of the official master...
She raised her eyebrows...
"Stinky boy, you still know how to come back! When you go to the capital, you don't care about me and your father! Your conscience was eaten by a dog!"
As she said that, she rushed towards Gu Xiaoshun.
But Gu Xiaoshun is no longer the youngest son who was submissive to her back then, she personally cut off their mother-son relationship!
Gu Xiaoshun stepped back.
She fluttered.
The guards didn't know whether what Liu said was true or not, but Master Gu's attitude was true to him, and he immediately stopped in front of Liu.
Not long after, Gu Changlu also arrived after hearing the news.
When he saw Gu Xiaoshun today, he was so shocked that he was speechless.
The little gangster that the Gu family despised the most, transformed into a big celebrity in the court.
He tried to talk to Gu Xiaoshun, but was also stopped by the accompanying guards.
"Daughter-in-law! Daughter-in-law! I'm your father-in-law!" Seeing that Gu Xiaoshun refused to recognize him as a father, he hurriedly asked Chen Yun for help.
Women are soft-hearted, as long as she opens her mouth to plead for her, Xiaoshun will definitely listen!
Chen Yun didn't look back at all.
The Gu family has not had a good time these years. The old man Gu passed away, leaving a mess, and the long and second rooms were separated.
Gu Dashun's road to the imperial examination was not smooth. When the news of Xiao Liulang's high school champion came back to the village, his mentality collapsed. After that, he failed the examination every time, and his family owed a large amount of foreign debt for his examination.
Later, although he found a daughter of a rice merchant to be his wife, his father-in-law's family did not want to pay him when he saw that he could not pass the test.
He had no choice but to become a deceived teacher in the town. He was arrogant and impatient with his students. After being dismissed several times, there was no private school to invite him.
The second room had the dream of letting Gu Ershun take the scientific examination, and smashed all the 20 and 20 yuan in exchange for selling Gu Xiaoshun on Gu Ershun, but it was all lost.
"Xiao Shun! We are your father and mother! You can't treat us like this! Is there any justice!"
"You are not afraid that we will sue us in the yamen! A charge of unfilial piety... I see if you can still be an official!"
"Do you have Wang Fa? He is my son! My own son!"
Gu Xiaoshun just pretended not to hear.
The villagers know the bottom line. Who does not know about the second house selling Xiaoshun? How can there be a child who has been sold and come back to give him the end of his life
It's so shameless!
Gu Xiaoshun didn't stay in the village much, and took his wife to sweep the graves of the third uncle and aunt, put incense, and kowtowed on behalf of Gu Jiao, Xiao Heng, and Jing Kong.
In fact, Gu Jiao's house has always been dedicated to the tablets of the third room of the Gu family. Every year on the anniversary of the death, Qingming, and New Year's Day, they will worship.
…
Gu Xiaoshun returned to Beijing in April.
When approaching the capital, Chen Yun suddenly fainted, and Gu Xiaoshun hurriedly sent someone to the capital to deliver the news.
Gu Changqing happened to be in Bishui Hutong: "I'll take you there."
Gu Jiao: "Okay."
The two went to the post station outside the south gate of the capital together, Gu Jiao gave Chen Yun a pulse, then she smiled and said to Gu Xiaoshun: "Xiaoyun is very happy, the carriage is too stuffy and heatstroke, so she will rest for a while. It's okay."
Gu Xiaoshun was dumbfounded: "I, I, I... I'm going to be a father?"
Married for three years, this is their first child.
The joy in his heart is indescribable.
When Chen Yun woke up and found out that she was finally pregnant, she was so excited that she almost cried.
She had been married for three years and had no children. She didn't know how desperate she was. Although no one in the family urged her, she always hoped that she could have a child for her husband.
The group got into the carriage.
Gu Changqing rode the horse and walked on the side of the carriage by himself, silently guarding his sister in the carriage, as well as himself and his sister's family.
It was an unremarkable afternoon, and even the late spring weather was the same as always.
It was destined to be an ordinary day.
Suddenly, however, the curtain of the carriage was lifted.
Gu Changqing turned to look at her sister who lifted the curtain, and asked, "Is something wrong?"
Gu Jiao looked at him in the sun and smiled, "Brother."
Gu Changqing was hit directly in his heart, and the ray of sunshine in the afternoon directly shone into his heart.
…
On the other hand, this year's Enke also passed the exam.
When Zhuang Yuheng was exiled together, he was actually deprived of his fame, but the emperor did not say that he would not be allowed to take the examination again, but he never appeared in the examination room.
It was because of this that Empress Dowager Zhuang realized that he was unwilling to return to the capital.
But just this year, he came to the Gongyuan in the capital, and won the leader in the three-month palace test in one fell swoop.
He became the first Sandingjia in the history of Zhao Kingdom to walk through the main gate of the palace twice and ride horses and parade through the streets.
He went to Renshou Palace, knelt on the ground, kowtowed heavily to Empress Dowager Zhuang, lowered his eyes, and burst into tears: "Auntie..."
Empress Dowager Zhuang looked at Zhuang Yuheng, who was already in his thirties, and beckoned to him to come forward.
Zhuang Yuheng held back his choked sobbing and walked up on his knees.
Empress Dowager Zhuang squeezed the handkerchief and thumped his shoulder with a fist.
She thumped again and again, her eyes were red and her throat was sore: "You just came back... You just came back... "
…
In May, Xiao Heng handled a vile bribery case involving most of the Hanlin Academy.
Although the water is clear, there will be no fish, but everything has to be done in moderation, and it is an extremely terrifying thing to involve more than half of the officials of the Hanlin Academy.
When the results of all the investigations came out, Xiao Heng never expected that the master behind the scenes would be the current bachelor of the Hanlin Academy.
in the cell.
The bachelor of Hanlin Academy confessed to his crime.
He took bribes, manipulated the examinations of Shuji Shi, entered the Hanlin with low-scoring jinshi, and falsified his qualifications and achievements in order to be ranked in the Sixth Division.
In the interrogation room, Xiao Heng, who was wearing a purple official robe, sat on a chair and looked at the Hanlin Academy student opposite with a complicated expression: "Why?"
Ning Zhiyuan smiled bitterly: "Liu Lang, not everyone is born in the cloud, I don't know how much pains it takes to climb up step by step. I'm not afraid of suffering, but sometimes, suffering is useless. I know, you want to say that you have come to this day on your own. I admit that, no matter how the world misunderstands you, I always believe that you rely on your own talent. But Rooku, I don't have the talent like you."
"I had ambitions that didn't match my talents."
"I... didn't keep my heart."
Xiao Heng walked out of the prison of the Ministry of Punishment lightly.
Many years ago, in a duty room in the Hanlin Academy, Ning Zhiyuan patted his shoulder and said with ambition: "Don't look at me from a cold background, no background or connections, but I occasionally have dreams, just thinking In case I will climb up one day... I don't need to climb too high, the fifth-rank Hanlin bachelor is my dream in this life!"
He clenched his fists, as if to force the contempt he had received along the way out of his bones: "I'm thinking, when I have that day, when I am in charge of the Hanlin Academy, I will never let anyone rely on money or nepotism. , Never let others circle, never let others obey, never let others make trouble!"
A thunder flashed, the sky seemed to be opened, and heavy rain poured down.
He stared fixedly at the boundless heavy rain, a trace of confusion passed through his eyes.
After a long while, his eyes became firm again.
He opened his umbrella and walked resolutely into the rain.
…
Empress Dowager Zhuang's body has been up and down this year, good and bad.
She couldn't eat the candied fruit and small milk dates that Gu Jiao and Lao Jijiu made for her.
All of a sudden, I accumulated a lot of them.
Xuanyuan Xi sat on the head of her bed and said softly, "Auntie, you can eat candied fruit, whatever you want, I won't tell Jiaojiao."
Empress Dowager Zhuang smiled: "Where's my little grandson's daughter-in-law?"
Xuanyuan Xi's ears turned slightly red.
Empress Dowager Zhuang snorted: "Have the same virtue as your brother-in-law! Don't imitate him! It took so many years of marriage to eat it in your mouth!"
Xuanyuan Xi thought to himself, I will not.
…
In August, Gu Jiao picked up Xue Ningxiang and Gouwa from the countryside.
Gouwa is one and a half years younger than Qingkong. He is fourteen this year, and he is a handsome young man.
Empress Dowager Zhuang was lying on the soft phoenix bed, looking at the figure walking towards her in the light and shadow, and asked weakly, "Is it Xiangxiang?"
Xue Ningxiang threw herself on the ground, held her aunt's hand, and choked, "It's me, auntie, it's me..."
"Where's the dog?" Queen Mother Zhuang asked.
Gouwa was standing beside Xue Ningxiang, but her eyes were not working anymore.
Xue Ningxiang's heart was twisted like a knife, she pulled her son by the side: "Doll! Quickly kowtow to the Queen Mother!"
Gouwa knelt down and kowtowed three times to Empress Dowager Zhuang.
"What is the old kowtow doing? You've broken the child." Empress Dowager Zhuang took out a piece of hemp candy that she had kept from under the pillow and handed it to him, "Doll, eat it."
Dogs liked to eat hemp candy as a child.
Xue Ningxiang covered her mouth, crying uncontrollably.
…
Gu Jiao took the three little animals to live in the Renshou Palace.
"You don't make noise." Empress Dowager Zhuang would occasionally say to San Xiaozhi, "Uncle Qingkong, you were really noisy when you were young."
It's not that the three little dogs are not noisy, they are just very quiet in front of her.
Even Xiao Yan, a small speaker, wisely suppressed her own nature and power.
Xiao Heng, Xuanyuan Xi, Gu Xiaoshun, Gu Yan, and Gu Xiaobao also visited her in the palace every day, and Gu Changqing and Gu Chengfeng also came over from time to time.
It is worth mentioning that Gu Changqing and Yuan Baolin got a daughter, but Gu Changqing still thinks that he is fulfilling the agreement.
Yuan Baolin told him: "A woman must have a son by her side to spend the rest of her life in peace."
Gu Changqing, who was single-strand, then began to fulfill the agreement to give Yuan Baolin a son.
Gu Jiao was really surprised when she heard about this. She never expected that Gu Changqing's tendon would be so strong.
She asked Yuan Baolin, "What if you have a son? How can you coax him into bed?"
Yuan Baolin raised her chin and said, "Then I'll tell him that a son is too lonely, and if anything happens in the future, he won't have a brother to support him. You see, you have five brothers!"
Gu Jiao silently gave a thumbs up.
Empress Dowager Zhuang was greeted by a whole room of people, humming and chirping: "I come here all day long, don't you have to do business?"
The old sacrifice wine also came.
It's just that he always stayed there quietly and didn't say a word. Empress Dowager Zhuang couldn't see his eyes, so naturally he didn't know he had come.
In the twelfth lunar month, Empress Dowager Zhuang's memory deteriorated, and she often called the wrong person.
He would call out to Xiaoxuan for clearance, to Gu Xiaobao for Gu Yan, and to ask Gu Jiao, where did Xiaoshun go, did Liulang go to Fucheng to take the exam again
She listened to the snow outside the window and said, "It's cold, has Liu Lang brought enough clothes? The examination room in Youzhou is as cold as the capital."
"Enough." Gu Jiao said, "Don't worry, auntie. Xiaoshun has gone to the academy for class."
Auntie tugged at the silver note in her hand and touched Gu Jiao's hand: "You give it to him for me. He and Gu's family fell out and went to live in the academy. His stomach can't easily get enough to eat."
Gu Jiao accepted the bank note: "Okay, I'll wait for him in town. Do you want to eat candied fruit? You can eat as many as you want today... "
Empress Dowager Zhuang closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Gu Jiao lay down beside her quietly, opened her arms, and gently buried her head in her arms.
…
On New Year's Eve, Xuanyuan Xi ushered in his sixteenth birthday, and Xiao Heng also ushered in his thirteenth year.
Empress Dowager Zhuang was in good spirits, so she got up and killed six candied fruits in one go, which made Eunuch Qin happy.
Originally, the birthday banquet was to be held at Renshou Palace, but Empress Dowager Zhuang wanted to play the leaf card, so the family returned to Bishui Hutong.
Empress Dowager Zhuang, Aunt Liu, Aunt Zhou and Aunt Lu gathered at a table.
Since her aunt's eyesight has deteriorated, Gu Jiao has made leaf tiles into mahjong, which she can feel with her hands.
The old sacrificial wine stood behind her aunt, serving tea and serving tea, plus paying the private house money.
Empress Dowager Zhuang raised her eyebrows and hummed: "I'm in a good mood today, let's make you lose less!"
The neighbors actually wanted to give her some water, but it turned out that she didn't need it at all. Even if the old lady is like this, she still hangs the entire Bishui Hutong.
Neighbors lost miserably.
Yao Shi made snacks in the kitchen, and Princess Xinyang went to learn crafts from her.
Gu Xiaobao and Xiao Yi, two older children, led a few little guys to set off firecrackers in the alley.
Xuanyuan Xi didn't go to join in the fun, he moved a chair and sat behind Empress Zhuang, his delicate chin resting lightly on her shoulder.
Empress Dowager Zhuang said with a look of disgust: "Why? Sticky?"
"That's right, sticky, go to the side of the children." Gu Yan came over and squeezed Xuanyuan Xi away, lying on his aunt's shoulder.
Empress Dowager Zhuang frowned: "You are twenty-seven! What are you talking about! Don't find a daughter-in-law! Xiaoshun's son can make soy sauce!"
Xiao Shunbao, who was still in his stomach: "...???"
Gu Yan stuck to her and said, "Then tell my mother, let me marry Yu Ya'er."
Empress Dowager Zhuang rolled her eyes, thinking that you are talking nonsense.
This kind of thing depends on fate, how can everyone be happy? At the beginning, she only asked him to survive, and he did it, and she had nothing to be dissatisfied with.
She pushed the card in front of her: "Draw it! Hu!"
…
In the afternoon, Empress Dowager Zhuang slept in her cabin for a while.
Xuanyuan Xi also lay up to accompany her aunt: "Did you really want to sleep with me when I was a child? You always took me to your house."
Empress Dowager Zhuang said coldly, "That's because I want a little great-grandson!"
Xuanyuan Xi said, "I don't care, you just like me."
Empress Dowager Zhuang: … Such a brazen person.
Xiao Ji, still mourning the shy little monk!
Xuanyuan Xi originally wanted to tease his aunt, but he didn't know that he really fell asleep. When he woke up, it was already dark, and he called his aunt beside him.
Auntie didn't respond, his face changed greatly with fright: "Auntie!"
Empress Dowager Zhuang said lightly: "What's the noise? Did you think the Ai family went?"
Xuanyuan Xi hurriedly said, "I didn't mean that!"
Empress Dowager Zhuang said lazily: "Don't worry, today is New Year's Eve, and Ai's family won't be leaving on New Year's Eve."
You and A-Heng's birthday won't be turned into Aijia's birthday, how sad would you be
On the first day of the first lunar month, Bishui Hu and his family entered the palace to give her New Year's greetings.
She took Gu Jiao's hand and asked Gu Jiao to take care of Eunuch Qin.
…
Empress Dowager Zhuang left on the third day of the first lunar month.
She has been in good spirits for the past few days, and her memory is no longer confused. Everyone thought she was getting better, but no one expected her to sleep and never wake up again.
She passed away in her sleep and walked peacefully.
She didn't leave any last words, but just listened to Eunuch Qin saying that she took out the poetry collection before leaving the cabinet the night before and looked at it.
Empress Dowager Zhuang has been in power for decades. People in the world only remember her aggressive and domineering methods, but they forget that she was once a gentle daughter with a flamboyant poetry.
She dedicated her life to Zhao Kingdom, and she has countless opportunities to leave the royal family completely and go out to live her own free life.
But she didn't.
It's for the sake of the country, and also for the children not to be ashamed of her.
The palace is a cage, imprisoning her for a lifetime.
When the empress dowager passed away, according to the ancestral system, she was to be buried in the imperial mausoleum, where she shared the coffin with the previous emperor.
Xiao Heng wrote a letter requesting that a separate mausoleum be built for Empress Dowager Zhuang.
Not in the name of Empress Dowager Zhuang, but in the name of Zhuang Jinse.
Imprisoned alive, she must be set free after death.
On the day the mausoleum was built, Gu Jiao, Xiao Heng, Jing Kong, Gu Yan, Gu Xiaoshun, Gu Xiaobao, Gu Changqing, and Zhuang Yuheng came to help her aunt.
The aunt left no children in the world.
But they are all aunt's children.
…
If there is an afterlife, may you never enter the royal family again.
Everyone's comments seem to be about the Godfather and the Little Medicine Box, so I'll try to write them.
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