Royal daughter-in-law

Chapter 686
On the morning of the day when the decree was proclaimed, it was drizzling, Xiahou Shiting entered the palace to receive the decree calmly, took off the regency uniform, handed over the seal of power, and said a few words about his father's early prosperity through the curtain, then turned and left the palace calmly.

As soon as this major event was over, Emperor Ning Xi's last burden was unloaded, and he couldn't hold on any longer, his illness was like the torrential rain that hit in the season, he couldn't control it, and the sudden turn was as follows.

The imperial physicians in the palace surrounded the imperial couch all day long, and the six female doctors at Ziguang Pavilion naturally couldn't stop. Heart, endlessly.

This day, it happened that Yun Wanqin and Ting Xian were on duty at night, decocting medicine in the herbal kitchen.

There was a heavy rain in the ladle outside the Ziguang Pavilion, and it was falling more ferociously than usual.One of them was shaking the fan, and the other was watching the fire, not daring to be distracted.

In the middle of the night, Qin Chai came to the medicinal food room and took the boiled medicine to the Hall of Mental Cultivation. The two of them finally had a temporary rest. Beside the stove, they heard hurried steps coming in.

Not long after going to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Qin Chai's anxious voice sounded in the courtyard: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the funeral is over!"

Yun Wanqin and Ting Xian were startled and hurried out.

Looking out from the courtyard of Ziguang Pavilion, the lights all over the palace lit up one after another.

Several other nurses and nurses in Ziguang Pavilion came out, lying in the rain, wailing at the top of their voices like mourning.

What should come is finally here.

The collapse of the emperor, the sunset of the sun and the sinking of the stars, the world mourns.

Empress Dowager Jia was in pain, accompanied by Ma Shi, the close attendant, and Zhu Shun, the eunuch of the Palace of Compassion, and ordered from behind the curtain to follow the imperial decree of Daxing, keep everything simple, and not waste people's power and national wealth.

It is said that it is not allowed to do it arbitrarily, after all, it is the emperor's death, and it is still regulated according to the ominous etiquette of the Xiahou royal family.

On the 25th, the coffin of Zigong will be held in the main hall of Qiande Palace, and it will be offered to the masters of each palace and the royal clan for crying sacrifices.

After the death of Emperor Ningxi, the princes were supposed to be the first to enter the palace to express their condolences, but the crown prince issued the first edict to supervise the country after the regent. The married woman, a few underage princes living in the palace, and some of the clan officials who were allowed outside the palace entered the palace to express their condolences. Most of the princes were forbidden to enter the palace.

This decree separates the inside and outside of the palace, those inside the palace cannot get out, and those outside the palace cannot enter.

When the old and the new are changing, the prince or the next new emperor prevents other clan members from entering the palace in order to prevent people with ulterior motives from making trouble, and does not provide a loophole for others to take advantage of. Although this approach is extreme, it is also possible. Therefore, Although this prohibition was obviously selfish, and the courtiers couldn't say anything, and none of them could bear the crime of chaos in the government. After a few officials quarreled, no one objected.

The princes and grandchildren couldn't go in to cry outside the palace, so they could only curse in private.

The Empress Dowager Jia knew that the prince had his own schemes, but she did not expect him to be so unkind, so she sent Zhu Shun to the East Palace to say a few words, but the prince thought that this is an extraordinary period, and if someone makes trouble, he can't afford to push and push him. After talking a few times, Queen Mother Jia had to let him operate.

On the day of Zigong's funeral, the sky was gloomy. Although it didn't rain like in the past, it was covered with dark clouds and rain was about to come.

After that day in the Cuiming Palace, she didn't see the third master for almost a month. Yun Wanqin thought that she would be released from the palace after the funeral, but she didn't know how long she would have to wait for the edict to come down.

If according to the intention of the prince's edict, waiting for Emperor Ningxi to be buried in the mausoleum, the political situation will be stable, and the new emperor will be stable, maybe a year or so will not be enough.

Do I have to spend endless time in the palace?
Early in the morning, she went to Qiande Palace with Qinchai, Tingxian, several medical maids from Ziguang Pavilion, and other attendants from the Palace of Mental Cultivation.

The personal attendants of the emperor will accompany the prince today to escort the Emperor Daxing's Zi Palace out of Zhengyangmen. They are no exception, and they will kneel in the crowd outside the Qiande Palace, waiting for the coffin to be raised.

Outside the Qiande Palace, a group of important officials allowed to enter the palace wore linen and filial piety, knelt in twos and threes on both sides of the gate to see off the late emperor, with a long and narrow woven blanket spread in the middle.

The crown prince was wearing filial piety and stood in the palace, Yao Fushou and Nian Gonggong were by his side.

The prince didn't stand up until the servant came to report that the time had come.

At this moment, the copper ring gate in front creaked and slowly opened. Accompanied by the sound of footsteps, a yellow gate official hurried in and knelt down panting.

"The funeral palace is in front, how can you be in such a panic!" Yao Fushou reprimanded him with a flick of his whisk.

"The eldest prince, the second prince, the third prince, the eighth prince, the twelfth prince, the thirteenth prince and others have already entered the palace, saying that they are going to see the late emperor off today!"

Yun Wanqin straightened her body and looked towards the door.

The prince raised his lips imperceptibly, and stood at the entrance of the hall with his hands behind his back: "Why, didn't the princes read that edict in detail?"

"It is precisely because I have read it in detail." Accompanied by a deep voice, there was a bang in the palace courtyard of Qiande Palace, and they were kicked away by two Kong Wu's powerful guards, shaking the quiet palace courtyard.

Someone has already stepped in, with a loud voice: "The crown prince has exempted us from mourning and filial piety. Don't you even let us see the father on his last journey? We would rather risk the crime of disrespect in the imperial edict than be accused by our ancestors." Unfilial!"

Xiahou Shiting walked in front, dressed in plain clothes, with a white scarf around his waist and raw hemp on his forehead, walking along the long blanket in the middle.

Yun Wanqin hadn't seen him for a month, her eyes were fixed, his outline was much thinner, which made his figure even taller, but his spirit was obviously much better, and he didn't know if the antidote was effective Because of this, it is always a sigh of relief.

King Yan stood by his hand and followed closely, and the other princes also followed behind.

Several personal attendants followed their masters.

"That's right, Prince, third brother is right, we would rather be punished on the spot for disobeying the imperial edict, than bear the crime of unfilial piety!" King Yan, who had always been the frontline death squad of Xiahou Shiting, was the first to yell.

With this yell, the other princes couldn't hold their breath, especially the younger twelfth prince Li Wang and the thirteenth prince Jing Wang, who were full of vigor. When they saw the Zi Palace in the palace, they even lifted their robes and knelt down. : "Father! We are here to worship you!"

Even the eldest prince and the second prince, who are the most honest and cowardly at ordinary times, who have never been well-known, followed suit: "We are all Prince Xuan, why can't we see the father? We have to be like the prince today, helping the father out of the palace." .”

A group of adult princes took off their crowns, removed their tassels, dressed in filial attire, forced their way into the Qiande Palace to perform filial piety, their aura could not be stopped, and it was even more difficult to stop them with emotion and reason.

The courtiers present held their breaths to watch the changes in the situation, and then glanced outside the Qiande Palace. It was so dark that they were all the personal guards of the princes. The masters entered the palace against the imperial edict, so why didn't they bring more guards to accompany them and cheer them on? Just looking at this scene, I'm afraid there are still many soldiers waiting outside the city.

(End of this chapter)