What favor are you fighting for?The empress's harem has won a lot of business

The warmth of early spring has not yet arrived, and a cold spring is coming.

The budding peach blossoms are knocked down one after another, and the new shoots are also frozen. This kind of snow is called peach blossom snow.

There are rumors among the people that there will be peach blossom snow this year, and the weather will be smooth until next year, which is a good omen.

There was a dead silence in the palace.

The imperial garden, which should have been lively, was empty, only the birds chirping on the branches.

Occasionally, palace maids and eunuchs walked by on the palace road, but they also hurriedly walked with their heads down, and no one was watching the beautiful spring.

These palace people travel to and from the palace roads, and the destination or departure point is nothing more than the Longevity Palace and the Imperial Hospital.

Contrary to the silence and desolation outside, the Longevity Palace was overcrowded.

The inner hall is the imperial physician, the empress and the empress dowager's personal maid Fangrui, and the outer hall is the masters and empresses of the harem, and the princesses and princesses of the clan.

Standing in the courtyard were the imperial physicians waiting to be called, the servants of the imperial dining room waiting to deliver meals, and the palace servants of the imperial pharmacy who were boiling medicine and boiling water.

All the palaces are tense to one person, who is the empress dowager.

The red sandalwood carved phoenix bed in the inner hall, the Empress Dowager is already dying, with less air inflow and more outflow.

The king and queen who were in charge of the first palace back then have also become emaciated and dying.

She held her daughter's hand desperately, making a gurgling sound in her throat, her eyes bulged fiercely, and her skinny hands kept exerting force.

"Zhi'er... Be good..."

Xie Jingzhi was sobbing long ago, and the two children beside her also cried loudly.

"Look at your little grandson, they are all wearing clothes made by you, Buerguer, come and kowtow to grandma!"

The two little dolls, who are not yet one year old, don't know much about the world, they just feel that their mother is sad, and they are also sad. This is probably the mother-child connection.

The Queen Mother looked at Wang Xiangjun without saying anything, and turned her gaze directly to Lin Ximeng.

She seemed to want to say something, but she couldn't say anything in the end, the voice in her throat was getting louder and louder, like a bellows.

"Physician, Physician"

Xie Chenyu hurriedly called Qiu Yuanjuan over.

Qiu Yuanpan hurried over with a medicine box, took out a three-inch long and extremely thin ox hair silver needle, and injected it in the Empress Dowager's center, Hukou, Yongquan and other places.

The shining silver needle slowly penetrated, and everyone held their breath and waited for the miracle to happen.

Unfortunately not.

The life of the empress dowager, the legitimate daughter of the Wang family, and a well-deserved lady of the family has come to an end.

"Mother!"

"Mother!"

Xie Jingzhi cried hoarsely, her body went limp and collapsed, the two children had already been taken away, and she was quickly sent to the side for treatment.

The rest of the people knelt down in order according to their positions, and everyone was crying.

Wang Xiangjun sobbed and lowered her head, but she was strange in her mind. She always felt that when the queen mother just died, her last gaze fell on herself, as if she was worried, and as if she had something to say.

Wang Xiangjun couldn't help being sarcastic.

If you don't say something early, if you delay until now, you can't say it if you want to say it, which means it's still not important.

Thinking about the past few years, the empress dowager, as a real aunt, really didn't have much affection and devotion to her.

Apart from the Wang family, what she thought about was her precious daughter, and she never said a word for herself in the emperor.

She knew that marrying into the royal family was not in line with her aunt's wishes, but she was already married, so she couldn't give herself more help.

For a day or two, only that Lin Ximeng was in his mind, and looking back at himself was like looking at the air.

The more I think about it, the more I can't cry.

Wang Xiangjun simply wiped away his tears and started howling.

Concubine Qing was also elated, a woman whom no one had mentioned since the death of the late emperor.

She was looking at the shoes beside the Empress Dowager's bed, and the viciousness in her eyes almost came out.

"I know you died a miserable death, and you still have a lot of unfulfilled wishes, but Queen Mother, you are wise and confused all your life"

'How can you forget that I am also a mother, how can I not know who killed my child? '

Xie Chenqi was established as the prince not long after he was born, and he was poisoned at the New Year's Eve banquet, almost lost his life and became disabled.

So what if it was pushed to the third prince at that time?

Even if you did it flawlessly and point all the evidence to the third prince, I still know that it was you who did it.

The third prince was wronged.

Concubine Qing's eyes were red and swollen from crying. Everyone thought she was crying for the Queen Mother, but she was actually crying for herself and her son.

Every time I kowtow, I am thinking in my heart.

"I can't fight you when you are alive, but now that you are dead, I am not afraid at all. My son will grow up safely, and your daughter will..."

Xie Chenyu knelt down deeply, with his head lowered, and the corners of his lips curved slightly.

"My mother, my mother, although I don't know how my biological mother died, I know that it will never have nothing to do with you"

"It's enough to treat you these years, in the future..."

Lin Ximeng was really crying, the tears flowed out, she was so happy and excited.

Once the Queen Mother dies, many situations will change.

At least the Wang family's dominance in the court has completely become a thing of the past, and the emperor will no longer be in a dilemma.

And the queen no longer has a backer, and her life in the palace is a bit easier.

-

At the beginning of February in the second year of Fuxi, the queen mother died, and the emperor mourned greatly. He stopped the court for three days, and the whole country was mourned.

Although the queen mother is not the emperor's biological mother, she has the grace of nurturing.

Xie Chenyu immediately decreed that the empress dowager's funeral should be held according to the highest standards. The Shang Palace Bureau, Rites Supervisor, and Rites Department received the imperial edict at the same time, and even the household department and the treasury had to be on standby to prevent insufficient money.

When the news came out, people all over the world talked about it.

A small number of people say it is too extravagant.

Most of them still praised it, saying that it is not a matter of course for the empress dowager to attend the funeral. In the previous dynasty, there was an emperor whose filial piety was well known in the world, and he once declared that he would support the empress dowager with the wealth of the world.

And the queen mother really lived comfortably until she was 86 years old, and was said to be a good story in the world.

"Our emperor is already very restrained"

"I heard that the emperor lived very frugally in private. My brother-in-law and third aunt's eighth son worked as a cook in the imperial dining room. They said that the emperor's meal only cost 120 dishes. You must know that the meal of our late emperor did not have [-] dishes... ..."

The eloquence was so eloquent that he was interrupted by the person next to him, and he quickly stuck out his tongue and stopped talking.

In short, in the eyes of the world, Xie Chenyu is already a role model of filial piety.

-

The funeral was solemnly held in the palace.

The empress dowager passed away and had a great funeral for one month, and she could only be buried after 81 or [-] days of lingering.

During the month of the funeral, the emperor and queen knelt for two hours a day, and other princes, concubines, princes and princesses, who could move, had to kneel for four hours.

Courtiers are all outsiders, so they don't have to wear hemp and filial piety, they just go to the palace to offer incense and condolence.

a month.

The queen knelt beside the emperor, and the two stood side by side, but they didn't look at each other directly, and they didn't even talk much.

Only a few sentences a day.

"Emperor Wanan"

"Free of courtesy"

"Is the emperor available for lunch?"

"Does the emperor want to rest?" and so on.

Every time Xie Chenyu only responded lightly, without even answering a question.

Wang Xiangjun's heart, which was not already hot, became even colder, and in the end he simply didn't ask any questions.