After wearing the book, Ben Gong lay down all the way to win

Chapter 453 Weird Smile

However, due to the special nature of the empress dowager, the emperor originally planned to hold a grand funeral for his grandmother in accordance with the specifications of the empress dowager's collapse.

But as soon as this idea was put forward, it was opposed by the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty.

They all said that the national funeral can only be held if the emperor and empress die. The empress dowager is a concubine of Xianzong, not the empress of the imperial palace, let alone the birth mother of Xiaozong. etiquette.

There was too much opposition, and with the empress dowager watching from the sidelines, the emperor had no choice but to lower the standard and not hold a national funeral, but stopped for 27 days like the empress dowager died.

In the harem, except for the Empress Dowager and Minghui Empress Ting Lan, two women who had no relationship with the Empress Dowager, all of them wore mourning clothes for 27 days, and the emperor even wore mourning clothes for her for 27 days.

At the same time, the emperor won the consent of the queen mother, and decreed that the emperor's concubine should be crowned as the emperor's noble concubine.

However, no matter how much it is sealed off, no matter how grandly it is held to hold a funeral, it is just a prestige project for the living, and the dead cannot enjoy it.

Linglong didn't have any feelings for the empress or concubine. To her, whether the empress or concubine would die or not be pursued was meaningless at all.

That night, Linglong was still wearing mourning attire, leading a group of concubines to cry in front of the imperial concubine's coffin.

She inadvertently took a glimpse, only to find that Concubine Rou, who was wearing plain clothes, was looking up at the spirit card of the Empress Dowager, with a subtle, cold, poisonous and charming smile on the corner of her mouth.

Linglong's eyes were in a trance, she couldn't see clearly, it seemed like a hallucination.

She thought to herself, Concubine Rou has always kept aloof from the world, lived like a transparent person, always had a gentle and gentle appearance, how could she smile so weirdly?
It must be that the paper money incense here was burned too much, and it was so smoked, so I had hallucinations.

Thinking of this, she rubbed her eyes with the Tianxiang silk, and looked at Concubine Rou again, she had already returned to her usual appearance, her face was pale, like a dark cloud blooming in the middle of the night.

But for some reason, Linglong remembered that when Concubine Rou first entered the mansion, she was so soft and charming, with low eyebrows and graceful, she was deeply loved by the prince Jin Mingxuan at that time, smiling like a blooming pearl camellia in the crowd.

Time flies, and more than ten years have passed in a hurry, but she never expected such a smile to appear on her face again.

The difference is that the smile was bright and sunny at the beginning, but this time it feels a little gloomy.

After a day of guarding with concubines, my knees were numb from kneeling.

When Linglong returned to the palace, Nanny Rong asked Bao Wenxian to prepare herbs for relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, and boiled it into hot soup for soaking.

Mother Rong chatted with Linglong, and said, "Your Majesty, just now the imperial physician has ordered the imperial doctor to dispense the medicine, and told the maidservant that on the way he came from the imperial hospital to dispense the medicine, he overheard a few old mothers mentioning that they were responsible for the imperial medicine. When the concubine was burialing, she smelled a fragrance from the body of the empress dowager."

——Small mortuary is to scrub the body of the deceased and put on a new shroud. The corresponding big mortuary is to put treasures on the deceased and seal the coffin.

Linglong said casually: "The empress and concubine pay homage to Buddha all the year round, and the incense is constantly lingering around her. Naturally, her body is tainted with the fragrance. What's so strange about it?"

Grandma Rong said: "This servant also thought so at the beginning, but Imperial Physician Bao said that the fragrance is not ordinary sandalwood, but a sweet and strange fragrance, which is very similar to the fragrance he saw in ancient books many years ago. poisonous incense from Tianzhu."

(End of this chapter)