A happy event in a fertile field: the black-bellied husband is as beautiful as a flower

Chapter 935 The Woman in the High Palace Wall
She reached out and took a piece of lip red paper, put it between her lips and licked it, adding a touch of vermilion to her lips.She said: "The concubine also treated each other with love and enthusiasm, and the concubine also wanted to be happy, just because the daughter of the Xie family did not deserve that kind of thing in the eyes of the emperor."

She slowly said: "The concubine cannot give birth to the emperor's offspring. The concubine has devoted herself to her duties as the queen of the Great Yin for decades. The concubine has no complaints or hatred. The only thing the concubine has is this phoenix robe and head This phoenix crown on the top, the concubine will wear it until his face grows old, that's all."

She raised her eyes and looked at the emperor in the bronze mirror, a tear overflowed from her eye socket.

But she still smiled gently and dignifiedly: "Even this last bit of decency, the emperor wants to take it away from my concubine. Apart from being the daughter of the Xie family, how can I be sorry for the emperor?"

The emperor pursed his lips and said, "So you poisoned my prince to death? Because he is about to become my prince, and he is about to recognize someone else as his mother. Are you afraid that you won't be able to be a queen mother in the future?"

The queen said: "The concubine said she hadn't done it, so it would be good for the emperor to trust the concubine even once."

The emperor said: "You knew early in the morning that I have a prince outside the palace, and you have been arranging plans without anyone noticing, seeing that the situation is out of your control, you quickly get rid of it, and now you want me to believe you ?”

The emperor was not as angry as he imagined in front of her. The two have been married for many years, and they have long been in a stagnant pool.

The emperor said again: "Originally you were the direct empress of the great Yin, but in the future it will be logical to be the empress dowager of the great Yin. You have no heirs in your life, and I am ashamed of you. I have no intention of depriving you of your decency, nor will I make you so miserable. "

The Queen's eyes widened.Another line of tears fell silently.

The emperor said: "That is a smart child. Even if he recognizes his mother and has no blood relationship, he should know how to balance it. He needs the Xu family to be true, but he can't let the Xu family dominate. In the future, he will become the second Xie Jia." He closed his eyes, hiding the deep sorrow in his eyes, and took a long breath, "Queen, you made a bad move."

The queen laughed and cried, and said, "Why don't you believe me? I haven't done it."

Its daybreak.

The sun rises from the east.

The first ray of light broke through the sky, dispelling all the darkness and haze.

The emperor came out of the queen's bedroom, stood on the high steps, and squinted at the magnificent sunrise in the distance.

The vigorous sunlight coated his dragon robe with a layer of brilliance, but the person wearing the dragon robe became old overnight.

Eunuch Huang entered the bedroom with the tray, and said to the graceful queen, "Your Majesty, please choose."

The queen looked up slowly, and saw the white silk and a porcelain vase on the tray.

While beckoning Eunuch Huang to come over, she said with a faint smile, "I'm sorry."

In the end she chose a bottle of medicine in the tray.

The palace people inside and outside the palace were all choked up and weeping in a low voice.

The queen uncorked the bottle, raised her head and poured the medicine into her mouth.

***
Meng Meizhao made an agreement with Yin Rong last night, and went to the palace early this morning.She sat with Concubine Xu for a while yesterday. After entering the palace, she symbolically interceded for Concubine Xu, and at the same time, she also cleared up her relationship.

After all, when she went to pay her respects to Concubine Xu, there were other palace people watching. She had never touched anything related to the new prince from the beginning to the end.

It's just that she had just left the gate of the Prince's Mansion when she heard the sound of the death knell coming from the direction of the palace.

The thick and distant bell sounded again and again, echoing over the entire palace city.

Meng Mei couldn't help but stop and look up, a little dazed.

The prince died yesterday, why did the death knell ring today?What's more, according to the etiquette system, the death knell should not be tolled when the prince dies.

Meng Mei listened carefully to the final ringing of the death knell, her expression changed involuntarily, and she hurried back to the residence.

***
When the bell rang, Meng Yan opened the door and stood under the eaves with Yin Heng and listened quietly.

When the bell ended, the two looked at each other.

Queen's death knell?
If it were normal, this would be unbelievable at all.

How is it possible, the queen is in good health, and she has never heard of any illness, and she was fine two days ago.

But yesterday the new prince who was about to recognize his ancestor and return to his clan died inexplicably, and today it is the queen's turn. I am afraid that only those in the palace know the inside story.

There must be some connection between these two things.

Meng Yan and Yin Heng had no intention of being involved in the royal family's dispute over the crown prince. Now both of them are focusing on preparing for the child's affairs. These things happened at this time, but to a certain extent, they can distract the emperor's attention.

It's just that the only thing Meng Yan didn't expect was that it came too soon.

If you want to convict a country later, you have to be extremely cautious.If the death of the new prince was really related to the empress, the emperor finally chose to end it in this way, either because no definite evidence was found, or because she really couldn't tolerate her anymore.

She always felt that the queen was a smart person and shouldn't have ended so quickly.

***
As the death knell knocked, loud mourning announcements came from the palace gate: "The queen died of illness—"

The people in the palace did not expect it, and there was another panic in the harem.

Concubine Xu also heard the bell and the funeral news while she was in the cold palace.

She was still immersed in the despair of being thrown into the cold palace last night, how could she know that there was another turning point this morning.There was only one night between the death of the prince and the death of the queen, and anyone with a discerning eye could guess the relationship between them.

Concubine Xu couldn't help laughing, but the laughter was mixed with endless sadness.

All these years, she and the queen have never been in conflict with each other.But this incident also made her see clearly how cold-blooded and ruthless the emperor's family is.

They are all women in the high walls of the harem.

Overnight, they fell from the supreme dignity into the mud, and it was only a word from the superior, which determined their lives.

At this time, the queen mother was chanting scriptures and knocking on wooden fish in her Buddhist hall.

The sound of the death bell rang outside the door of the Buddhist hall, which made Mammy startled.

Not long after, the eunuch came to report in a hurry: "The queen mother, the queen mother... has gone."

The wooden fish's voice stopped abruptly.The Buddhist beads in the Empress Dowager's hand snapped.

The round beads crashed and rolled all over the ground.

Finally the Queen Mother closed her eyes and sighed, "The Ai family heard it."

When the palace announced that the queen died of illness, the emperor ordered the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to bury the queen in accordance with the etiquette system.In addition, the Xie family was not affected, because the emperor checked everyone afterwards, but could not find the necessary connection between the poison on the chopsticks and the queen.

The emperor knew the empress well, and knew that this woman's way of doing things had always been impeccable, and he would definitely not leave evidence of crimes to harm her Xie family.So he just wanted to convict Xie's family, but there was no conclusive evidence for a while.

(End of this chapter)