Xie An was summoned away in a hurry by the chamberlain from the palace on the tenth day of his holiday, the fifth and last day of July, without even having time to change his clothes.
It seems like something urgent happened in the palace.
For five days in a row, Xie An didn't come back.
Zhu Yan and the other three stared with big eyes. The whole city was under martial law outside, and the gates were closed tightly. They had no idea what was going on, and they only felt a little uneasy in their hearts.
Could it be that the emperor died? Someone rebelled? This posture is really terrifying.
Zhu Yan has a dagger in her sleeve at all times these days, and she also asks Su Qin to sleep with her.
When she was a child, she had no sense of security about this era. She was good at the six arts of a gentleman. She was good at riding and shooting, and she was also good at boxing and kicking.
If something really happens, she will try her best to kill a few people first, and then kill herself if she can't. She has never experienced the feeling of killing someone.
Finally, after another three days of nervousness, Xie An came back early in the morning with an unshaven beard, and went to bed as soon as he came back.
Miss Li and Mrs. Wei who were waiting for Xie An fell down with fever after not sleeping well for several nights, so Zhu Yan was waiting on Xie An.
Miss Li didn't sleep well and caught a cold at night, so Wei Xiaoniang fell ill from pure fright.
After Xie An woke up, he wanted to take a shower. The kitchen had already prepared hot water, and Zhu Yan was waiting for him.
In the ear room, the mist was hazy. Zhu Yan used a cotton and linen towel to rub Xie An's back. Zhu Yan wanted to cry. When did she become a bathing lady.
Seeing that Zhu Yan was not very skilled in bathing, Xie An was a little impatient, so he took the towel away and laid it on the wall of the tub with his eyes closed and reverie.
Zhu Yan closed her eyes and took a deep breath, saying in her heart, don’t look at anything inappropriate.
"The emperor's grandson is gone."
Zhu Yan took a deep breath and almost didn't spit it out. Although she didn't care about government affairs, who in the capital didn't know that Emperor Qi'an had a single inheritance for three generations. Emperor Qi'an only had a prince, and the prince only had a son. He only had Miao Miao, but his wealth was precious.
Xie An's grandfather, Prince Xie Xiaocheng of Hejian County, and Emperor Qi'an's biological father were cousins. Xie An called Emperor Qi'an uncle. The prince was three years older than Xie An, so they grew up together.
Xie An has been accompanying the prince in the East Palace these days. Xie An is very sad. He often plays with the child.
Xie An just wanted to find someone to talk to, so he left Zhu Yan behind.
Zhu Yan was silent. This kind of thing is the most difficult to comfort. For example, if someone's relative dies, you try to persuade them not to be sad. It's so feeble and careless.
"I know that the Marquis is not happy at the moment, and I also understand that it is unrealistic to advise the Marquis not to be sad. I just think that the deceased is gone and the living are like this. Your Highness the Prince may still need the Marquis. No matter what, the Marquis must cheer up." Zhu Yan didn't know what to say. What if you don't cheer up? You are still the emperor's bodyguard and can't miss work, otherwise it's not a bad idea to have a good time and get drunk.
Xie An immediately covered his face with a veil and said in a low voice, "Go out and wait."
Zhu Yan bowed and left. Xie An covered the veil for a while and then took it off, with the corners of his eyes turning red.
Xie An stood up and called in.
Zhu Yan turned around and went in, her ears turned red instantly, the beautiful man came out of the bath, I couldn't help but I couldn't help it, I was heartbroken as to what she was thinking.
Although we had treated each other sincerely, it was also night, and there was no such visual impact as during the day.
Zhu Yan patiently helped Xie An get dressed. After her hair was half dry, Zhu Yan helped tie it up. After a few words of advice to stay at home, she hurriedly left.
Zhu Yan looked at Xie An's back and wanted to say, brother, if you go out with your hair undried, aren't you afraid of a stroke?
Alas, I'm afraid there may be some trouble in the court. There is a huge difference between a prince with a son and a prince without a son. The royal family is withering, although the prince is still young and still making babies.
But Zhu Yan also read the history books of the Yin Dynasty. The previous emperor loved to take elixirs and rewarded them with elixirs to express his favor. Therefore, the dragon's sons and grandsons ate, and the concubines and ministers ate.
As one of the former emperor's favored sons and grandsons, the current emperor and prince have been criticized a lot.
Among the emperor's children who died frequently without any reason, the prince was saved and was adopted and raised as his legitimate son by the queen.
Moreover, this prince was created by Emperor Qi'an and his cousin. Marriage between close relatives would have many harms.
Zhu Yan felt that it was difficult for the prince to have a child.
Moreover, the great grandson of the emperor is gone. You must know that the grandson of the emperor is ten years old.
The first thing Zhu Yan thought of was a conspiracy theory. Could it be that someone has a grudge against the prince? Or have a grudge against the emperor?
In the palace, Emperor Qi'an naturally thought of something and asked someone to check. In just a few days, Emperor Qi'an's temples had turned white, as if he had aged more than ten years.
It is indeed a great tragedy in the world for a white-haired person to give a black-haired person a gift.
The prince, a virtuous prince praised by everyone, couldn't bear the blow and couldn't afford to fall ill in the East Palace. He actually suffered from heart disease. Xie An, his cousin and friend, had been comforting and caring for him in the East Palace these days.
Although there was a crown princess, she was only supporting the funeral of the emperor and grandson.
The prince's concubines did not dare to show their faces at this time, and they all shrank back.
So the matter of comforting the prince fell on Xie An.
This matter has been investigated for more than ten days. It is said that the traces left by the passing geese are traces. First, it was found on a talented person. You can think with your toes, how could a talented person dare to touch the emperor's grandson.
What Emperor Qi'an didn't expect was that the Queen was eventually traced.
In the Jin'an Palace, the emperor and empress stood and knelt one by one, and the chamberlains also knelt down with their heads on the ground. They were dragged out and beheaded for fear of angering the emperor. The atmosphere in the palace was extremely depressing.
"Queen, I want to ask you one last time, but you did it."
"Haven't the officials already figured it out? I have nothing to say, so I will let the officials handle it." The queen's face was calm, as if she was saying something very ordinary.
"You...how dare you? That's your grandson." Emperor Qian pointed at the queen with trembling fingers.
"My grandson, haha, that is Concubine Zhang Shu's grandson, what does it have to do with this concubine?" The queen smiled sarcastically.
"You are the queen." Emperor Qian took a deep breath and said weakly.
"Yes, I am the queen, but the officials have forgotten that I was also a mother. Why should I raise her son and grandson after Concubine Zhang Shu killed my child?" the queen thought. Reluctantly, he asked questions one by one.
Emperor Qi'an fell down on the throne, his chest heaving strongly, and he said in a hoarse voice for a long time, "You all know that I have executed Concubine Shu, and she and the child are innocent."
"What the official said, when Concubine Shu killed my child, she never thought that my Cheng'er was innocent." The queen sneered.
The queen also had a lovely son, also called A Niang, who ran around the yard and was very smart in reading, but later died.
"What else have you done? Where is the prince?" The emperor asked, holding the armrest tightly with his hand. The emperor felt that the queen would not let the prince go if she did this.
"I didn't do anything to the prince. I'm afraid the officials don't know. The prince has a heart problem and he probably doesn't have a few years to live." The queen calmly dropped the last bomb.
Emperor Qian suppressed the salty taste in his throat, took a few deep breaths, and waved his hand, "You can go back first."
After the queen got up and left, the emperor vomited out a mouthful of blood. Chen Changshi was shocked. Just as he was about to call the imperial doctor, Emperor Qi'an stopped him.
Emperor Qian glanced at the little yellow gatekeepers kneeling in the hall and sighed, "Pull them out."
A small yellow door in the hall lost its control on the spot. Chen Changshi sighed and asked someone to pull several small yellow doors out of the hall.
In a dark palace, Chen Changshi looked at a few lifeless little yellow gates that had fallen down, and thought to himself that he should give birth to a good child in his next life and stop serving the royal family.
Emperor Qi'an really wanted to ask the imperial doctor who often diagnosed the prince's Ping An pulse to ask about the prince's health, but he still didn't dare. Emperor Qi'an didn't want to hear and didn't dare to hear bad things.
He took a pill from the secret room of the royal cabinet and prayed for Emperor An to calm down a bit after taking it.
No matter what happens in the Tian family, the emperor must put the world first.
The emperor was already thinking about the person in the clan who could inherit the throne. After thinking about it, the emperor only had one figure in his mind.
Although he can adopt a child for the prince, if the prince's health is really as the queen said, chaos will inevitably arise when the emperor is young.
After the queen returned to Fengyi Palace, she looked at the two rows of palace people standing in the palace, bowed deeply, and then said, "I can't forgive you. If there is a next life, I will make it up to you."
"This slave is willing to die for your Majesty." Both rows of palace attendants knelt down.
The queen entered the palace and took out from under the pillow a small coat commonly worn by children aged five or six, which was then wetted little by little with tears.
After a long time, the queen looked at the maids beside her and said, "Everyone, please go out. I want to sit alone for a while."
Several palace maids held back their tears and left the palace.
In the palace, the queen walked to the dowry and looked at the gray temples in the bronze mirror. She felt a sense of pleasure in having a great revenge, and also felt an emptiness that could not be filled.
Pulling out the hidden compartment at the bottom of the dressing box, there were two pills inside. The queen chewed them like candy, wanting to taste the last moment of her life.
After swallowing the last sip of medicine, the queen lay on the table and became silent again. What the queen did not expect was that what she thought about at the last moment was not his child who died young, but the gentle-looking official in the bridal chamber.
Her grandfather was a high-ranking prime minister and loved to work in camps. His grandfather believed that the then King Pu could ascend to the throne, but she was just an unpopular daughter who was pushed out to pick up the slack and whose mother died young.
She remembered that she was scared during the wedding, and he asked her what she was afraid of.
She said she was afraid that she would not be a good wife or a princess.
But he said that he was also a king and a husband for the first time. They supported each other and always learned well.
It was not until later that he became the emperor and she became the queen. There were more and more people in the palace. Although she was not pregnant for a long time, he still gave her enough respect.
But his son was killed by his enemy, and the enemy buried him in the imperial mausoleum as a concubine. Does this mean that she had to carve out the heart of the enemy's son while she was alive, and then meet the enemy after her death?
If that's the case, then she won't go to the imperial mausoleum...
Everyone in the Queen's Palace committed suicide by taking poison. The Queen's death was discovered by the meal delivery person from the Royal Kitchen. The Imperial Kitchen just saw that Fengyi Palace was not coming to receive the meal, so it sent people to have a look, and was so frightened that the little yellow door was lost. Several souls.
In Jin'an Palace, Emperor Qi'an had just listened to the imperial doctor's report that he was indeed suffering from physical problems, and then heard that the queen had passed away. He just sat in front of the imperial cabinet in a daze for two quarters of an hour.
Emperor Qi'an walked to the window and didn't know what he was thinking. He finally said, "The queen has lost her virtue and has been demoted to the concubine. She will be buried in the palace mausoleum. She will be buried in ten days. All officials do not have to mourn. I will set off back to the capital in half a month."
Chen Hai felt sad, so he responded and went out to deliver the order. The officials were afraid that they would never come to this place again, and they were afraid that they would never be able to come.
Chen Hai understood the decision made by the officials at that time. Only by raising the prince with the queen would the prince be able to live. This was not an insult to the queen.
I thought that the queen had been devoted to the prince all these years and had put aside her past grudges. Unexpectedly, it was not too late for a gentleman to take revenge after ten years.
It's okay now, let's take it off.
Who would have thought that the always virtuous queen would not care about anything.
