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clang!
A loud bell rang.

One sound after another echoed continuously in the sky above the capital.

Ninety-nine and 81 bells sounded, signaling the death of Emperor Daqi.

The civil and military officials put on mourning clothes and entered the palace crying all the way.The people also knelt down and cried bitterly.

Everyone in the palace changed into filial piety and plain clothes as quickly as possible, replaced the red palace lanterns with white lanterns instead.White banners are hung everywhere.

The concubine's face was heavy, she held Yuan Min's hand, her voice was extremely low: "Min'er, you are pregnant, you must take care of your health, don't overwork yourself, and don't use your fetal gas in vain to hurt the baby in your womb."

Yuan Min has been pregnant for nearly five months, and her belly is swollen, as if she had a ball in her stomach.

With Yuan Min's body at this time, he couldn't sustain the kneeling spirit for 49 days.

"Show your face more in the past few days, after the first seven days, don't show your face." The princess ordered in a low voice: "There are so many people kneeling down, without you, it won't be eye-catching."

Yuan Min didn't try to be brave, and responded softly.

For more than a month, her belly has become bigger and bigger, but her cheeks have lost a lot of weight.

The fact that the grandson brought the beauty back to the East Palace still hurt her.As if nothing had happened during the day, how many times she secretly cried how sad and sad, only she knew.

After the death of the emperor, all officials and high-ranking officials and female relatives will enter the palace to kneel.Thanks to the secret preparations made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the mourning hall was erected in a hurry.

The Jiaofang Hall, which has been vacant for many years, also has a mourning hall.All the concubines kneel here.

Concubine Cao Gui and Concubine Tian Shu knelt at the front, followed by the Crown Princess and Grandson Concubine.There are also Qin Wangfei, Zhao Wangfei, Han Wangfei and others.

The young concubines cried to death.

Concubine Cao Gui, Concubine Tian Shu and their sons can rely on them.They are young and childless concubines, only to die in the palace of old age.

In the Cining Palace.

Empress Dowager Cao lay on the bed with her eyes closed, and faintly heard crying.Empress Dowager Cao panicked and opened her old and cloudy eyes with difficulty: "Who is crying? What happened?"

Two months ago, Empress Dowager Cao's hearing declined and she could hardly hear.

The palace servants in the Palace of Compassion and Ning received a strict order to hide the sad news of the emperor's death from the Empress Dowager Cao.Therefore, they did not change into mourning clothes.

When Empress Dowager Cao opened her mouth to ask, the palace people were terrified.One of them replied tremblingly: "Go back to the empress dowager, the palace is very peaceful, there is nothing wrong."

In order for Empress Dowager Cao to hear, the palace servants who answered had to get very close, and the volume was extremely high, almost screaming.

Empress Dowager Cao let out an oh, and after a while, asked again: "Why didn't anyone come to greet Ai's family?"

In the old days, Concubine Cao and the Concubine and Concubine would always come to pay their respects.

The palace man bit the bullet and replied loudly: "I will send someone to take a look, servant girl."

Finally perfunctory in the past.

Just cheated for three days.In the end, I still couldn't hide it.

Empress Dowager Cao felt anxious and insisted on going to the Hall of Supreme Harmony to "visit" Emperor Long'an, but no one could persuade her.

The palace people knelt on the ground.No one dared to help Empress Dowager Cao to the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and no one dared to tell the truth.

Empress Dowager Cao sat there for a long time, suddenly her whole body twitched, her eyes darkened, and she passed out.

When I opened my eyes again, it was already half a day later.

The prince in white mourning clothes knelt by the couch, his voice hoarse: "Grandmother, it was my grandson who was unfilial and hid the news of my father's death. Grandmother must hold on to mourning. My grandson has no father, so I can't No grandmother."

Empress Dowager Cao did not speak, and two lines of turbid old tears fell down.The trembling hands fumbled slowly, and soon reached the prince's hand.

The prince held Empress Dowager Cao's hand and burst into tears.

Empress Dowager Cao burst into tears.

The saddest thing in a woman's life is the loss of her father in her youth and her husband in her middle age and her son in her old age.Of these three things, she met one of them without fail.

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it's dark.

The female relatives of the kneeling spirit left the palace one after another and went back to the mansion.At five o'clock the next day, they will enter the palace separately.

The female relatives in the palace don't have such a good thing to leave the palace to rest, they have to stay in the mourning hall.

Concubine Tian Shu is also in her sixties.After kneeling for three days, my voice became hoarse from crying, and I felt weak all over.When the evening was approaching, it was over, and he passed out for a while, and was carried to the empty room of Jiaofang Hall to rest.

Concubine Cao Gui is a little stronger than Concubine Tian Shu, and she faints only after dark.

The concubine stayed up for three days and three nights, her complexion was ugly, she barely held on, and urged in a low voice: "Min'er, you go back to the East Palace first."

Yuan Min's stomach swelled and he felt a little uncomfortable, so he nodded in agreement.

The two palace men supported the master, walked out of the Jiaofang Hall slowly, and returned to the East Palace.

Just after returning to the dormitory, before lying down, a palace official came in a hurry, looking a little uneasy.

Yuan Min frowned slightly: "What happened?"

This palace man was sent by her to "serve" that beauty.

The beauty named Man'er was placed in a secluded small courtyard after being brought into the East Palace by the grandson.For more than a month, he has never shown his face in front of people.Taisun never went to see her either.Everyone in the East Palace almost forgot that there was such a beauty.

Yuan Min sent two palace servants to "serve" Man'er.If there is any abnormality in Man'er, report back immediately.

For more than a month, the palace people have reported back and forth twice.Man'er stays in the small yard all day, behaves honestly and never takes a step out of the yard.

This is the third time to look at the faces of the palace servants, it is obvious that something is wrong.

The palace man knelt down and reported in a low voice: "I want to report to the concubine grandson, after Miss Man entered the East Palace, she hasn't had her period."

Yuan Min's pupils trembled violently, and he subconsciously stretched out his hand to support the chair handle to stabilize his figure.

The palace man continued tremblingly: "Don't dare to hide it from the empress, Miss Man took the initiative to tell the maid about this matter. Miss Man also said, please send the imperial doctor to check her pulse. Quietly prescribe an abortion pill. As long as you are careful, no one will know."

Yuan Min's hand holding the handle tightened and loosened, loosened and tightened again.

Everyone in the palace is kneeling, and no one will pay attention to an unknown beauty in the East Palace.This way of dealing with it will eliminate future troubles forever.She is still a wise concubine in the eyes of everyone.

If she was more ruthless, she simply asked the imperial doctor to prescribe a strong medicine, so that the vine would completely hurt her body when she was born, and it would be difficult to conceive in the future, or she would die twice...

Cold sweat broke out on Yuan Min's forehead, and his eyes fluctuated.Suddenly, there was a throbbing pain in my stomach?
not good!

Yuan Min's face turned pale, and his breathing became short of breath.

The complexion of the palace servants around him changed, and he hurried over to support Yuan Min: "Your Majesty!"

Yuan Min clutched his stomach in pain, and lay down with the help of the palace servants.

There was an imperial physician on duty in the Eastern Palace, and the imperial physician hurried over to administer acupuncture for the concubine.Half an hour later, the throbbing pain in Yuan Min's stomach subsided, and his clothes were drenched with sweat.

Yuan Min called the palace servants over, and ordered in a low voice: "Don't tell anyone about my gassy fetus."

After a pause, he continued, "Bring Man'er to me."