"I know that I will...will help my fourth brother well. No matter what difficulties and obstacles there are in the future, I will...accompany my fourth brother to spend them together." Hong Zhou choked up several times before saying this.
Finally, as for Hongluo, he was already crying so hard that he took Yinzhen's arm and begged: "Hongluo... Hongluo is the same as the fifth brother. Your Majesty... Your Majesty, please don't leave, okay? Hongluo can't bear to leave you."
.”
Listening to Hongrong's words, Yinzhen chuckled and said: "Silly boy, it's not up to me whether you want to leave or not. I... I want to hear you call me Huang Ama again. Are you willing to call me?"
"Huang Ama! Huang Ama!" Hongluo kept shouting, as if he wanted to finish all the shouts in his life, and cried: "Don't go, don't leave Hongluo, Hongluo really
I can’t bear to leave Emperor Ama.”
Yunli tried hard to endure the soreness on the tip of his nose, went over to pull Hongruo up and said, "Don't be like this, don't make the emperor... uneasy."
Hong Ruo fell into his arms and cried bitterly, making the atmosphere in Yangxin Hall even more depressing than before. Yinzhen glanced at everyone again, and finally focused on Ling Ruo, stretched out his hand towards her and said: "Your Majesty, please let me be nice again."
Look at you, I... really want to... look at you like this for the rest of my life."
It was becoming more and more difficult for Yinzhen to speak, and his eyes gradually became distracted. Ling Ruo tried his best to push back the tears in his eyes, and said warmly: "I am here, and I will always be with the emperor. The emperor can always see you."
Come to my concubine."
"You promised me, you can't..." Yinzhen tried his best to say these words, Ling Ruo nodded and said: "I remember, I have not forgotten, you can't go back on your word, right? I can't, don't worry.
No, no."
Yinzhen was no longer able to nod, but he still held on and said: "When you are at the end of your life, I will bring you the flowers of the other side to pick you up. That time, we crossed the flowers of the other side and started again; it will be the same in the next life, I
I want to be your husband and wife for life after life, but I promise you that in the next life, you will not be born in a royal family, and there will no longer be three wives and four concubines. I... only want you."
"I know." Ling Ruo couldn't help nodding, and said with tears: "In all my life, I will only be allowed to be the emperor."
Yinzhen struggled to open his eyes. The fire of his life had burned to the end, but he refused to extinguish it. He...he really wanted to take another look at the woman beside him, the one who he would never doubt and fall in love with.
woman!
Ling Ruo squeezed his hand hard and said: "If your Majesty is tired, just close your eyes and rest for a while. I will always be by your side and never leave you."
Yinzhen was really tired. Under Ling Ruo's words, he slowly closed his eyes. The moment his eyelids closed, his thin breathing stopped suddenly.
A generation of emperors completed his legendary life on this day.
When he ascended the throne at the age of forty-five, the government was in ruins, the treasury was empty, and he was surrounded by foreign powers. Under the seemingly strong appearance, there were many internal and external troubles. He sacrificed his own life and tried his best to achieve the goal in just thirteen years.
With careful consideration and iron-blooded methods, the Qing Dynasty was brought back from the edge of decline, internal worries were eliminated, and foreign troubles were eliminated; the Qing Dynasty, which had been a country for a hundred years, regained its vitality.
In this life, in order to be worthy of the Qing Dynasty and to be worthy of Kangxi's entrustment, he lived really tiredly. He could not sleep more than three hours a day. When the state affairs were heavy, he could only sleep for two hours. If not for this, even if the incident involving Shu Mulu happened,
After all, his body won't collapse so quickly, and now he can finally have a good rest.
"Your Majesty!" "Emperor Ama!" At this moment, there was a cry of sorrow in the Yangxin Palace. Both the Hongli brothers and Zhang Tingyu and others were all crying bitterly.
Only Ling Ruo was unusually calm and didn't shed a single tear. He just stroked Yinzhen's face over and over again, as if he really just fell asleep and would open his eyes again when dawn came.
Ling Ruo murmured: "Your Majesty, I'm sorry, I've deceived you. I really don't have the courage to go on alone, and I'm even less worried about you leaving alone. We can't live at the same time, I only hope that we can die in the same hole."
After saying this, she took out the dagger she had carried with her these days from her sleeve. It was given to her by Yinzhen for self-defense when she was defeated and fled.
Si Xi saw Ling Ruo pull out the dagger with sharp eyes and hurriedly rushed over. Regardless of the offence, she held Ling Ruo's hand tightly and said, "My queen, you can't do anything stupid. You promised the emperor that you would live well. What's wrong with you?"
You can break your promise."
Hearing what Sixi said, Hongli was shocked. He quickly walked to Ling Ruo, grabbed the dagger, threw it aside, and said in a trembling voice: "Mother, what are you doing? Didn't you promise?"
Will Huang Ama live a good life? Just after Huang Ama left, are you going to break your promise?"
Ling Ruo's eyes were hollow and she said: "I have never thought of leaving the Emperor to live alone. Before, I only said that to reassure the Emperor. I must accompany the Emperor."
Hongli was trembling all over and choked with sobs: "Where are Chen and Jiarou? Do you want to abandon them like this?"
"You don't need me to worry about you anymore. As for Jiarou, I feel relieved to have you as my brother to take care of her. I have nothing to worry about anymore."
Hongli cried and said: "No, I won't agree. I will not allow you to do stupid things. If Huang Ama were alive, he would never allow it."
Ling Ruo shook his head and said: "It's a pity that your Emperor Ama is no longer here. As for you, you can stop me once or twice, but you can't stop me for a lifetime."
"I no longer have Emperor Amma, and I don't want to lose my mother again. Mother, I beg you, please don't be like this, okay?" Hongli held Ling Ruo's hand tightly and refused to let go, for fear that if it happened,
If you let him go, she will commit suicide again.
Ling Ruo didn't speak, but Hongli knew that she didn't listen to his words at all, and she still wanted to go with Huang Ama.
Sharing life and death, this is the promise E Niang made to Huang Ama. No one can make her give up. This... what should I do?
"It seems that the emperor really guessed it." With that said, Sixi stood up and left the Yangxin Hall. When he came back, he held a volume of imperial edict that no one knew about in his hand, and said solemnly: "Your Majesty
If there is an edict, please concubine Xi to accept it!"
Ling Ruo stared blankly at the imperial decree in his hand, and after a long time he said: "The emperor has a decree for me? Why is it in your hand?"
Si Xi did not answer her question, but repeated: "Concubine Xi please accept the order!"
After Ling Ruoyi knelt down according to the words, Sixi unfolded the imperial edict and said: "By the destiny of heaven, the emperor's edict says: The noble concubine Niu Hulu has been gentle and dignified for many years, and is actually the mother of the world. Si Age Hongli will be the emperor."
later, when
Respect her as the Queen Mother. However, if Niu Hulu commits suicide without authorization, her position will be revoked, her name will be removed from the jade certificate, her name will be removed from the history books, and she will never be buried in the imperial mausoleum. I admire this!" Si Xi gathered the imperial edict and handed it to the kneeling Zhengzheng.
Ling Ruo on the ground.
Ling Ruo did not reach out to pick it up, but looked up at Si Xi, "Why is there such an imperial edict? When did the emperor write it?"
Si Xi sighed and said: "On August 16, although the empress promised the emperor that she would not commit suicide, the emperor saw that the empress did not mean what she said, so after the empress left, he ordered his servants to fetch it
Paper and pen, write down this imperial edict, I hope the empress can take it more seriously and not do stupid things."
Hongli took the opportunity and said: "Mother, you have heard the emperor's decree. If you commit suicide again, not only will you not be buried with the emperor in the imperial mausoleum, but you will not be able to leave even a few words in the jade ultimatum or history books. No one will
I don’t know about you, let alone Huang Ama and you, the noble concubine.”
Ling Ruo didn't say anything, but just walked to Yinzhen's bed on her knees, holding back the tears that had not fallen. At this moment, they surged down, as if she wanted to shed all the tears in this life.
After a long time, the tears finally stopped, and she choked with sobs: "Since the emperor insists that I live, I will agree to it, but remember, when I die, you must bring the flowers of the other side to pick me up."
In the 13th year of Yongzheng's reign, on August 23, Emperor Yongzheng passed away in Yangxin Hall at the age of fifty-three. The emperor left a legacy and ordered that his fourth son, Prince Bao Hongli, would succeed him as emperor. The reign name was changed to Qianlong.
Next year is the first year of Qianlong!
[Author's digression]: Yinzhen's life is over, but Ling Ruo's life is still going on. What will happen to the Queen Mother, Emperor Qianlong, and now Xianyue's future successors? Please stay with Ling Ruo.