It is said that suicide for love is just an old rumor, but when Su Wan and Jiang Yu witnessed it with their own eyes, the shock was still considerable.
From Jiang Yu's point of view, when the royal family is buried, you will not be asked whether you are willing or not. You must obey. This is why the concubines always try their best to compete for favor.
Leaving heirs is only a way to consolidate their status, but for the royal family, it is also a way to save their lives.
Hearing the news, Su Wan and Jiang Yu's hands clenched even tighter.
The two of them said almost in unison:
"We will all live a long life!"
Then, the two of them laughed in unison.
When the prince passed away, for a while, the entire Kyoto fell into an atmosphere of sadness. Even the people spontaneously gave up their colorful clothes and put on plain clothes, just to mourn the prince who cared for the people.
The Su Mansion and the Duke's Mansion all wore plain clothes and robes, with only plain silk flowers or elegant jewelry such as white jade on their heads.
In fact, this is all the arrangement and preference given to the prince by the Holy Emperor.
Moreover, this is something only a prince can do. If an emperor dies, adhering to the principle that a country cannot be without a king for a day, the mourning period will only be a few months, because the new emperor's accession to the throne is another great joy.
Just before Zhou Liangdi took the poison, she met Murong Rui.
She was wearing a white plain dress, her eyes were red and swollen, and her figure was almost shaky.
The prince was seriously ill during this period, so she barely drank any rice water and cried every day. After hearing the facts that made her conscience uneasy, she almost couldn't control herself.
Broken, sad, and hopeless.
Seeing Murong Rui again before she died was also for her family. She didn't want to let her family continue to be under his control before she died.
Murong Rui was not surprised at all that she came to him. Seeing that the decent and elegant beauty in the past had turned into such a haggard appearance, he did not feel sorry at all, let alone regret that it was because of himself that he was in such an irreparable situation.
"I'm here today to tell you that I will follow His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, but before that, you have to let my family go. You have already achieved your goal and killed your own royal brother, and you are still not satisfied. ?"
Murong Rui looked at her condescendingly, with some distance between them.
Murong Rui drank a lot of wine, his hair was disheveled, he smelled of alcohol, and he didn't have the demeanor that a Tianhuang nobleman should have.
"Haha, you and the Imperial Brother are really distracted, aren't you? You are quite capable of hurting him and saying you love him at the same time. Now that he is dead, who are you showing this despicable look to?" Murong Rui looked at her and smiled sinisterly.
Zhou Liangdi couldn't help but clenched her hands into fists. If she could, she would definitely kill this beast.
But she couldn't, because this beast was someone that His Highness the Crown Prince wanted to save even if he was about to die.
She was shaking with anger:
"Who is the despicable one? I think you are the most disgusting. Didn't you force me to do all this? I tell you Murong Rui, let my family go, and I will follow His Highness the Crown Prince quietly. If Otherwise, I will make your crimes public."
The first time Murong Rui was threatened was by a woman.
He sneered:
"Why do you think you are standing here and saying these things to me? It is as easy for me to crush you to death as an ant. I kill you and then create the illusion that you committed suicide. Now everyone is paying attention All the power is devoted to the funeral ceremony of my imperial brother, who do you think would care about whether your little Liangdi is dead or alive?"
Murong Rui was very arrogant, and he had the nerve to call him "Emperor Brother", which made Zhou Liangdi feel physically uncomfortable.
Nausea, wanting to vomit.
He was afraid that he had forgotten how he threatened him in the first place. Whenever she wanted to tell His Highness the Crown Prince, he would threaten him with his family.
Once, he even cut off one of his mother's fingers, which was still wearing an ancestral jade ring. The red mole on the finger belonged to her mother. How could she not know?
It was also from that time that she knew that Murong Rui would not be merciful to her family.
It is difficult to have both ends of the world. If you want to save your sweetheart, you have to give up your family. On the contrary, if you want to save your family, you have to give up your sweetheart.
She had tried her best to resist, but His Royal Highness still went...
"Do you think I am unprepared? Murong Rui, not everyone in the world is as kind as His Highness the Crown Prince. I have written a secret letter and handed it over to a safe person for safekeeping. If I cannot return to the East Palace today, , that letter will immediately appear in the hands of the Holy One. By then, your charge of murdering His Royal Highness will be true, and my death will be ironclad evidence. How should you deal with yourself in the future? How should the Queen deal with you? At worst, if the jar breaks, who is afraid of whom?"
Zhou Liangdi came here with the determination to die. No joke. If he didn't let his family go, she would definitely make this secret known to the public.
No one knew what else they talked about after that. They only knew that in the afternoon, news came that Zhou Liangdi had committed suicide.
As for the person who holds the secret, no one knows who it is.
Zhou Liangdi died in love, and she was admired by the Holy Emperor. She was buried according to the etiquette of a concubine, and was buried in the auxiliary tomb of the prince's mausoleum, accompanying the prince to sleep.
The location next to the prince's mausoleum is only reserved for the prince's concubine a hundred years later.
After that, the prince's funeral ceremony lasted for seven days. Su Wan and Jiang Yu followed the Duke and came to the East Palace to express their condolences as the first batch of mourners.
After kneeling for two whole hours, Su Wan's legs were numb.
After listening to Jiang Yu's story about the prince and his request to the Holy Father not to bury his concubines when he was dying, she admired the prince greatly.
Burial sacrifice is really disgusting. I still remember chatting with Murong Huai before. He said that if he became emperor, the first thing he would do is to abolish this stinking burial system.
Jiang Yu said last night that if the prince is in good health and has nothing to do with other princes, he will be the crown prince whom everyone expects.
Su Wan could understand the weight of this sentence, so even though the process of kneeling and worshiping was extremely hard, she never said a word of tiredness.
I just hope that the prince can live a long life in the next life.
When she stood up, Su Wan's knees went numb and she almost couldn't stand. Fortunately, Jiang Yu helped her.
Those who came to express their condolences were all sincere, and a few had ulterior motives.
I heard that the Xian Wang Murong Rui was also very sad because of the death of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. He couldn't accept it for a while, drank too much and suffered from stomach bleeding. He is still recuperating in the Xian Wang Mansion and refused to eat after waking up.
Everyone sighed that the prince and the wise king had a deep brotherly love.
In view of his poor health in the past few days, the emperor asked him not to appear in front of the spirit. He would come to deliver the spirit when he felt better.
