Fengming Chen Palace

Chapter 274
Most of the gold in the harem is ingots, and rarely broken.

In addition to the gold ingot, the masters of the palaces held more or less golden melon seeds, but they were very small, only the size of a melon seed kernel.

The gold in Su Qingning's hand is not big and round in shape, which is not found in the palace.

That's why Su Qingning thought that the Empress Dowager's suicide by swallowing gold was premeditated.

No matter what, she is dead now, and she is the queen mother. According to the regulations, there are too many things to deal with.

Thinking of this, Su Qingning couldn't help but feel a little headache.

However, headaches are headaches, what should be done is still to be done, after all, she is in charge of the current harem.

"Go to Yongchun Palace and invite Lu Zhaoyi." Before the emperor handed over the harem to Su Qingning, she made a special agreement with the emperor to ask Lu Zhaoyi to help and assist the sixth palace, and the emperor agreed.

Right now, if such a big event is going to be done in the harem, it is natural to ask her to help. Although Lu Zhaoyi hates the queen mother deeply, she is dead, and no matter how deep the hatred is, it is time to dissipate.

Of course, this is just her idea. How to decide depends on Lu Zhaoyi. Whether she will come or not, she has no idea.

"Your Majesty, is everything done according to the regulations?" Su Qingning asked him, looking at the Emperor beside him.

"People are dead, so let's follow the rules." Sighing, Emperor Chen stretched out his hand and closed the Queen Mother's open eyes.

"Send someone out of the palace and invite Princess Mingyu into the palace." Princess Mingyu is the Empress Dowager's biological daughter, and the Empress Dowager even talked about her before she died.

But the mother and daughter have different views, so when the queen mother was alive, Princess Mingyu seldom came to the palace to see her.

Su Qingning responded, and sent someone to invite Princess Mingyu outside the palace. Thinking of the palace people kneeling outside, she spoke again, "Your Majesty, these palace people..."

The palace people kneeling outside were all serving the Empress Dowager during this time. Looking at the Empress Dowager's appearance, one could tell that they were serving the Empress Dowager well.

Today is hot, the queen mother can only lie down or sit, and it is easy to get rashes or bed sores on her body.

But because of the meticulous care of the palace people, the Queen Mother did not have those problems.

"Those palace people, leave it to Zhou Chengren. There are some things that should not be said."

The emperor didn't want those people's lives, and he didn't plan to use them to bury the queen mother.

It's just that if the way of death of the Queen Mother is spread, there will definitely be a lot of troubles. In this case, let Zhou Chengren gather them together, give them a warning, and then send them to other places.

When the emperor said so, Su Qingning nodded, she glanced at the queen mother, and then called the palace servants to come in to wash and change the queen mother.

Although a person died, she couldn't just be encoffined like this, and she was the Empress Dowager, so naturally she had to be more careful.

Among the folks, some elderly people will prepare shrouds for themselves in advance, and the same is true for the royal family.

The queen mother's age, if placed in modern times, is still very young, but in ancient times, she was not young.

Shangyifang had already prepared her shroud, and put it in Dianzhongsheng. Su Qingning ordered the palace staff to go to Dianzhongsheng to fetch the Empress Dowager's shroud.

When the palace servants came back, Lu Zhaoyi also rushed over, perhaps because she knew that the Queen Mother was gone, so she changed into elegant clothes.

"Your Majesty, leave the matter here to my concubine and Lu Zhaoyi. You go back to Chengqian Palace to change your clothes."

It is inconvenient for the emperor to come here because the palace people have to wash and change clothes for the empress dowager. Besides, the clothes on his body are brightly colored, so it is not suitable for him to be here.

The clothes on Su Qingning's body also needed to be changed, but it was inconvenient for her to leave at this moment, so she sent someone back to Yuxiu Palace to get them for her.

She said so, Emperor Chen nodded, and after explaining a few words, he left.

"I didn't expect that the queen mother would end her life in this way." The palace people gathered around to wash and change the queen mother. Lu Zhaoyi stood beside Su Qingning with a complicated expression.

"Yeah, I didn't expect that either. I thought you wouldn't come." Although he sent someone to look for Lu Zhaoyi, Su Qingning didn't know what to do.

"I didn't want to come, but I thought she was dead, so it's okay to come and have a look, even if it's for you, I should come."

The Empress Dowager's funeral is very cumbersome. If Su Qingning is the only one to do it, it will be very hard.

"Thank you, Sister Lu." After hearing her finish, Su Qingning took her hand and thanked her.

"Mother's Empress..." The two were talking when a woman's voice came from the entrance of the hall, and they both turned their heads at the same time, only to see Princess Mingyu standing at the entrance of the hall in a daze, her eyes were red.

"Princess Mingyu is here." Su Qingning whispered, and continued to look at her. Princess Mingyu walked in from outside the hall, and walked towards the queen mother step by step.

The palace people have almost packed up and put on their clothes. They have put in a lot of effort to dress the Empress Dowager.

The Queen Mother had been dead for a while, and her body was stiff. It was very difficult to put on clothes, and the body could not be damaged.

Seeing Princess Mingyu coming, the palace servants stepped aside, Princess Mingyu came to the Empress Dowager's side, stretched out her hand to touch the Empress Dowager's cold hand, and burst into tears.

Su Qingning and Lu Zhaoyi looked at each other, but didn't go forward. At this time, it's better to leave some time for Princess Mingyu.

"Master." The voice came again from the entrance of the hall, Su Qingning turned her head and saw Hongxiu holding the clothes in her hands.

Su Qingning spoke to Lu Zhaoyi and walked out of the hall.

"Let's go over there." Out of the main hall, Su Qingning looked around and said to Hongxiu, and the two walked towards the side hall.

After entering the side hall, Su Qingning asked Hongxiu to help her change her clothes.

Hongxiu found a palace maid, gave him warm water, asked Su Qingning to wash off the makeup on her face, and helped her re-style her hair, and simply put on a pearl hairpin.

"The empress dowager is gone. I'm afraid I have a lot of things to do. I will leave the affairs in Yuxiu Palace to Nanny Chen. Let Nanny Chen keep an eye on the two wet nurses."

The wet nurses are new here, and no one understands them yet, so Su Qingning is naturally worried.

Listening to Su Qingning's instructions, Hongxiu kept nodding her head, and after she had finished speaking, she took the things she had replaced and returned to Yuxiu Palace.

Su Qingning returned to the main hall, Lu Zhaoyi sized her up and helped her tidy up her temple hair.

"Looking at Princess Mingyu's appearance, I feel a little sore in my heart. If the Chu family didn't commit suicide, I wouldn't be in this situation."

"If the Queen Mother hadn't been greedy, she wouldn't have died in this way."

For the Queen Mother's death, Lu Zhaoyi did not sympathize, she just sighed a little, and felt that life like this was really not worth it.

Princess Mingyu was here, and Lu Zhaoyi's voice was very low. After hearing her finish, Su Qingning couldn't help but sigh.

Perhaps, what other people think is worthless is worthwhile in the eyes of the Chu family and the Queen Mother, and it is inevitable that people have different ideas.

(End of this chapter)