After being dressed as cannon fodder, I feed tyrants by cooking skills

Chapter 53 Qi Yan ([-])

"Mother!"

Tears fell to the ground and burst into tears.

Worried about the safety of Empress Dowager, the young Qi Yan hurried all the way to the Leng Palace, and when he opened the dilapidated door, he saw Bai Shi's already cold and stiff body.As luck would have it, he was one step too late, and he didn't even see Bai's last face before his death.

Qi Yan laboriously removed Bai's body from the high place. The young man who is the proud son of heaven is calm and calm no matter what happens. Always straight.

At that moment, he limp and collapsed on the ground, hugged Bai Shi into his arms and wept bitterly.

"Be good, Yan'er, don't cry."

"Our Yan'er will protect the queen mother in the future."

The person in his arms closed his eyes tightly and died suddenly, but her voice and smile are still lingering in the boy's mind.His natal family collapsed overnight, and his mother followed suit.

I'm sorry, mother, it's because Yan'er failed to protect you well...

Tears blurred his vision, and he vaguely saw a pair of shabby black boots falling at the door.The old eunuch was crippled, and he handed Qi Yan a faded handkerchief while walking with a limp: "Your Highness, please mourn."

"If the empress has a spirit in the sky, she will definitely be sad to see you like this."

There was an accident in the East Palace, and the servants packed up their burdens and looked for another job before the imperial decree, for fear that the master's disaster would be implicated to them.A friend in adversity sees the truth, only the lame eunuch, the master and his apprentice, have been by Qi Yan's side forever.

He took the handkerchief with trembling hands, it's always better to give a helping hand than a icing on the cake.

"I'm no longer your Highness." His crown prince was abolished, and the people in the palace probably avoided mentioning him.His Majesty has many heirs, but he is nothing more than a discarded pawn.

Heh, being pulled down from the high altar and falling into the mud, the people who planned all this have succeeded in their plans, they should be very happy now.

"A slave is a slave. Once you are the master of the slave, you will be the master of the slave for the rest of your life." Even though you are no longer the noble prince, you are still the prince.

People can't be resurrected after death, so it's better to go to the ground as soon as possible.

"I also ask my father-in-law to find a good place for my mother to bury her. Qi Yan is here to thank my father-in-law." The proud young man has never begged others for the wind and rain, and now he is the first to take care of his mother's funeral He lowered his proud head once.

Once concubines in the harem are abolished, they are not allowed to be buried in the imperial mausoleum. Since the founding of the Dalu Dynasty, there has never been a precedent for an abolished empress. It is up to His Majesty to decide where to be buried.Right now it is at the cusp of the storm, His Majesty hates the Bai family, he will definitely ignore it, and leave it to his servants to drag the Bai family to a mass grave and have them buried hastily.

The dignified generation of queens ended up buried in the wilderness, Qi Yan said nothing to allow such a thing to happen.He stood up and saluted the old eunuch, begging the eunuch to help him with this matter.

"Your Highness is really annoying this old slave. Your Majesty is benevolent and generous, and she is very good to my slave. Even if Your Highness doesn't mention this matter, this old slave will do everything possible to bury her." He quickly knelt down, and the master told him He has to be indifferent to the salute, which is a crime of disrespect!
A carefully folded piece of paper was quietly placed on the dusty table, and the folds were evenly aligned, showing the care and earnestness of the writer.Qi Yan opened it, and it read, "My son kisses you".

She probably regards this piece of paper as a treasure, with every stroke flowing smoothly.There was no excess ink on the letter paper, and there were no traces of smudges.Qi Yan quickly read through the ten lines at a glance, and the four words "Mother's last handwriting" at the end of the signature were written vigorously, which made him startled.If one can guess what a person is thinking through the strength of writing, then there will be absolutely no nostalgia in Bai's heart at that time.

He put the last letter left by Mrs. Bai in his underwear, and ran back to the East Palace to push away the cleaning servants to pack something.When he returned to the cold palace, he was holding a box.

The box was opened, and there were some small things to amuse children inside, such as rattles, tiger shoes, and some wooden dolls...they were all small toys that his mother coaxed him to play with when he was a child.

"I also ask my father-in-law to bury these things with my mother."

The boy raised his eyes calmly, he has grown up, he no longer needs these things, let them bring the memories of the past to accompany his mother.

It is not an easy task for a lame old eunuch to sneak out of the palace with a body, but he is afraid that the matter will be revealed and people will find out that his head will be lost and even his mother's body will be ruined , there is no peace after death.

He would go through fire and water for the sake of the master, and it was nothing if he died, but there must be no mistakes in the important matter of the empress empress's body.

The old eunuch paced back and forth in the house, and finally decided that in the dead of night, the coachman, who used money to get lucky out of the palace waste, disguised himself and transported the empress out of the palace.

Qi Yan took out a gold bracelet from his sleeve, and the golden light reflected the dilapidated place brilliantly.It is engraved with dragon and phoenix patterns, which is obviously a relic of the late queen.

There is a pair of dragon and phoenix bracelets. Before Qi Yan entered the East Palace, the empress handed it to him in person, and told him with a smile: "When we Yan'er gets married to his wife and mother, we will wear it for her personally, with one hand and the other. Just. You two are like this pair of gold bracelets, you see each other every year."

The clever Qi Yan probably understood the meaning of the queen.Yes, seeing each other every year, this is her best wishes to them.

At this moment, he handed the bracelet to the old eunuch: "Elder-in-law's trip is dangerous, you don't need to go back to the palace after the matter is completed, you can find a house outside the palace to take care of yourselves."

The old eunuch recognized at a glance that it was the bottom of the empress's box, how dare he take it, knelt on the ground and kowtowed and said that he couldn't do it.Seeing this, Qi Yan had no choice but to give up and stuffed him with a bag full of silver.

Things went much smoother than expected. When passing through the palace gate, he fudged the guards and successfully drove out of the palace.The old eunuch took care of everything and buried the former queen on a hillside where mountains and rivers depended on each other.

What was buried in the soil was not only the sad second half of the empress's life, but also Qi Yan's warm childhood that could never go back.

The old eunuch told Qi Yan the specific location of the burial in a letter written by a flying pigeon.

The pitch-black memorial tablet was placed in the simple mourning hall, and the bright white candle was burning brightly, Qi Yan stared at it intently, the candlelight was soft and bright, as if his mother was silently watching him somewhere in the sky .

The little eunuch Lu'an stumbled into the hall: "Your Highness, the master is gone!"

(End of this chapter)