The sun was getting brighter, and Ruan Yuyi got up lazily. After washing herself, she went to have breakfast with her in her grandmother's house.
She changed into an aqua-colored dress with wide sleeves. The hem of the skirt was fluttering in the wind, bypassing the flower barrier and walking through the bamboo forest. It made her look like the fresh green on the branches, fresh and watery.
Fang sat down and looked at Mu Xiang's tablecloth and chopsticks in front of him, when he heard his brother suddenly say:
"The Queen Mother is dead."
This was really too sudden. Although she had been tricked by the Queen Mother a lot, she didn't feel happy in her heart. Her hand holding the chopsticks trembled, and she didn't know what she thought of. After a long time, she raised her head and asked, "When did it happen?"
"Just yesterday."
Rumor has it that when the Queen Mother went to bed the night before, she was fine. She slept until midnight when she suddenly got up and asked for a glass of water. She didn't light a lamp at that time, and she didn't care who was serving her. After quenching her thirst, she lay down again.
Once I fell into a dream, I never woke up again.
The new emperor was very sad. He gave his posthumous title of Zhui De and ordered him to be buried next to the previous emperor in a tomb. The death of the Queen Mother should have been mourned by the whole country, and a white sky was hanging over it. However, the new emperor replaced him with a new throne, and everything was left to be reborn.
The reason is to avoid it.
He also explained that the Queen Mother always loves the people, and if there is knowledge under the spring, she will definitely understand.
Ruan Yuyi absentmindedly took a spoonful of soup and put it into her mouth, but she couldn't taste it. As far as she knew, although the Queen Mother was older, her body and bones had always been strong, so she died just like that.
She didn't want to doubt him, but with his mentality and his quarrel with the Queen Mother, she wouldn't believe it if he said he wasn't involved.
She could probably guess why the Queen Mother suddenly disappeared at this point after the incident in Chang'an Palace.
There are not a few elderly people who die of old age in dreams in wealthy families, and because they left without illness, they are regarded as a great blessing. Therefore, neither the people nor the people working in Cining Palace have any
People become suspicious.
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Cining Palace.
The eldest princess's body was cold, and the queen mother followed her away. Even the reason was ready-made. It was said that the queen mother was suffering from depression and longing for her. It was easy and appropriate.
A female official stood in the palace, staring at several palace servants sweeping up and down the palace. Cining Palace has no owner. After this incident, it should be locked up and sealed.
One of the palace maids did not see the nun who used to serve the Queen Mother, and she became suspicious. She caught the female officer and asked, "Auntie, why don't you see nanny Zhang?"
The female officer looked around and laughed sadly, "Of course I'm serving the Queen Mother."
A thought suddenly flashed through the palace maid's mind, she shuddered, and her hand holding the fly whisk tightened. She made a swallowing motion, but she still couldn't help being curious, "Auntie means-"
"Didn't you realize that there are a few people missing from the palace?"
She once heard a well-informed colleague mention that those who rarely go there include palace maids, eunuchs, and even guards. They are like beards that have been uprooted. There are not many, but they are very mixed.
The whereabouts of these people are still unknown, but they all know human nature. They were all the eyes and ears of the third prince in the past, but they were hidden well, so they have only been able to find out one by one.
A cold feeling climbed up the spine of the palace maid, and she rubbed her arms, "Auntie, please don't scare me. I don't believe in these gods and ghosts." She was distracted.
The female officer looked calm, "Are you afraid? Then finish the work quickly so that you can leave quickly."
She was indeed a little creepy, and she agreed again and again, and her hands moved even faster.
The female officer's mind drifted slightly away, as if she were looking at something else through the celadon vase on the table.
In fact, since the death of Princess Zhaorong, the Queen Mother's mental state has become worse and worse. Sometimes she has eaten breakfast, then turns around and forgets about it, and orders someone to serve it again; or she clearly wants to get the acupuncture box.
When I walked to a few tables, I couldn't figure out what I was doing here.
One day before the Queen Mother passed away, she was basking in the sun in the courtyard. She saw a maid coming to bring tea from a distance, and she grabbed her hands.
He murmured, "Xue'er, where did you go to play again? Let the mother find it easy. Your Third Emperor Brother promised to come over later, why don't you stay too?"
The palace maid was completely confused. She couldn't move her hands, nor could she hold them. She looked at the nanny on the side for help.
This situation was obviously not the first time. The nanny bent down and whispered in the palace maid's ear, asking her to say whatever the Queen Mother asked her to do, and she would just respond.
It was just to make the Queen Mother happy, which was not difficult to do. The palace maid raised her lips in panic and nodded.
The Queen Mother smiled with satisfaction, took her hand and kept stroking it, as if she was caressing her most cherished treasure, "Isn't Qian'er clamoring to eat the Buddha's Hand Golden Scroll? Just send someone to the imperial kitchen to give instructions."
Only then did she suddenly realize that the Queen Mother regarded her as the eldest princess Zhaorong. The eldest princess's name seemed to have the word snow in it.
The maid's fingertips curled up, as if holding them behind her back, "Thank you...Mother."
"Good boy."
The Queen Mother's palm was even more delicate than hers, but the back of her hand was already crisscrossed with ravines.
Mammy turned her face away and wiped her tears quietly. She complained in her heart that at this time, she never saw the white painting by her side.
Sometimes the Queen Mother was awake and sometimes she was confused. She summoned the imperial doctors for several meetings, but even they were helpless. They tried everything including acupuncture and medicine, but her mother was still very distressed, so she simply didn't bother. It would be better to let the Queen Mother be confused, but there was no need.
Facing the fact that the eldest princess is gone.
Sometimes it's okay to catch someone from the palace, but if she goes back to the palace and recognizes the new emperor as the first third prince, the new emperor will not coax her to come, and will leave with a look on her face.
She was left dazed on the spot, weeping, and gradually regained consciousness through the tears.
The Queen Mother managed to live her life like this half-mad and half-awake. When she regained consciousness, she was thinking hard about how to overthrow the man from Chang'an Palace, as if she had returned to the time when she was still a Queen and fighting against all the concubines.
This seems to have become an obsession.
In the end, I'm afraid she herself didn't know how Concubine Jin earned her hatred like this.
The fact that the Queen Mother died drunkenly in her sleep may have relieved the people in the Cining Palace who were deeply troubled by it, but no one said it clearly.
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In the general's mansion.
After Ruan Yuyi heard the news about the Queen Mother, her heart was filled with a thought, and she was a little distracted in whatever she did.
Another two days passed with so many worries.
Night came again, and maybe she had been thinking too much during the day. She felt sleepy early, so she sent the people waiting in the room out, slowly undressed and took off her belt, and walked and faded away.
A few green fingers went around her back and pulled away the belt of her clothes. When she was about to take off her clothes, a pair of hands covered hers.
She was startled and her sleepiness was driven away. She turned around and broke away from the other party's arms.
Under the soft moonlight, she met a pair of eyes as calm as water, and she remained silent.
Jiang Huaiyang finally couldn't hold it back and said first, "Have you had enough fun, are you coming back?" His voice was unexpectedly hoarse, low, with a hint of discussion.