The King of Qi was afraid that the Queen would cause trouble in the court after he left, so he asked the Queen to be buried together, but unexpectedly spared the Queen's accomplice, Qi Yao.
When Qi Yao heard that his mother was about to be buried, he shouted loudly and crawled to the side of King Qi with tears streaming down his face: "Father, father, please go around your mother. Father, please wake up!"
King Qi, who had stopped breathing, could no longer hear anyone's shouts and lay on the bed indifferently, with a very peaceful expression on his face.
The old eunuch waved, and two guards immediately came out and pulled Qi Yao away. Qi Yao cried so hard that he had no ability to resist.
The queen seemed to have fallen apart. She lay limply on the ground, looking at the deceased King Qi with dull eyes. She suddenly burst into laughter, and tears of laughter flowed out. When she had laughed enough, she looked at Qi Yao with great compassion:
"Yao'er, the queen has gone."
In order to prevent sibling killings, the King of Qi asked Qi Yao to keep watch after passing the throne to Qi Xuan. From then on, Qi Xuan could not touch Qi Yao, and Qi Yao could not do anything to Qi Xuan. It was the best of both worlds.
But the queen must be eliminated. King Qi probably had such a plan for a long time, so he deliberately ordered others to wait until he died before taking out the imperial edict.
A cup of dove wine was served to seal off the future and the past, and the remaining concubines and concubines were given white silk ribbons.
The harem was filled with cries and screams, and it was extremely tragic.
The queen sneered, picked up the poisonous wine without hesitation, and drank it down in one gulp.
Qi Yao cried like crazy: "Mother...Mother..."
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Two days later, the state of Qi was in great mourning.
When the coffin was delivered, I followed him. When King Qi's coffin was delivered, Qi Xuan ordered everyone to step aside and squatted inside alone, not knowing what to do.
Everyone was waiting anxiously. Qin Tianjian was worried that he would miss the auspicious time to seal the soul, so he wandered around anxiously outside.
After Qi Xuan came out, Qin Tianjian immediately ordered people to seal the imperial mausoleum.
No one noticed Qi Xuan's red eyes or the tears that were hastily wiped but not dried.
At night, Qi Xuan kept vigil.
I asked for leave from Xia Yan and came over to spend some time with him.
Qi Xuan knelt upright in front of the memorial tablet, motionless.
After a while, he finally said: "Will you look down on me?"
"Why?"
Qi Xuan stood up from the ground and suddenly changed his attitude and looked at the coffin on the table: "When my father died, I didn't shed a single tear, but the moment he left, I cried more sadly than anyone else.
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I sighed leisurely and said with relief: "You are always strong in front of others, but sad behind your back. Although you don't say it, I know you."
Qi Xuan suddenly looked back at me.
"Do you still remember? At that time, I didn't know that you were the prince of Qi. Every night you stood on the wall of the palace and looked in the direction of Qi. When I asked you, you didn't say anything. You just cried silently."
After I finished speaking, Qi Xuan burst into tears again.
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During the period of mourning, Qi could not be leaderless, so it accelerated the enthronement ceremony.
On the day Qi Xuan ascended the throne, I didn't go because I had exchanged with Xia Yan. But in order to witness this moment, I climbed up to Langyue Pavilion and stood at the highest point of Qi State and looked down at Qi Xuan from the Hall of Supreme Harmony to the
On the way to the temple, officials bowed to him one by one.
Qi Xuan was wearing a dragon robe with high spirits, stepped past the prostrate man with his feet, and finally disappeared from my sight.
