Chapter 491: Emperor died

After the Lantern Festival, the weather gradually warmed.
The people in the capital have also started a busy new year.
Just after the Lantern Festival, the emperor first made an decree to give the concubine Sun to death.
Later, he summoned the head of the Sun family to appease.
The content of the conversation is nothing more than, "I trust you and trust your grandson family. The Sun family's affairs have nothing to do with your grandson family. You can rest assured and continue to shine for the great Zhou Dynasty."
With the comfort of the emperor, the elders of the Sun family burst into tears.
Since the palace change last year, the Sun family has held a heart from top to bottom.
Although they have nothing to do with the East Palace, and the Chu Palace. But it is difficult to guarantee whether His Majesty will anger them.
When the emperor gave the concubine Sun to death, the worry of the Sun family reached the highest point.
Such as today's son's comfort, completely dispelled their worries.
The head of the Sun clan cried to show his loyalty.
The emperor comforted the Sun family because the Sun family was still useful, and King Ning did not plan to kill the Sun family to sacrifice the flag after he became the throne.
If he comforted his head, and if King Ming Erning killed the Sun family as soon as he took the throne, how could his face be a magnificent emperor.
The father and son had long discussed how to treat these courtiers.
Who should be killed and who should be demoted, King Ning has a list in his mind.
He has discussed with the emperor, and the emperor is now fixing the list of King Ning to clear the obstacles for King Ning to become the emperor in the future.
King Ning often joked with the emperor, "The emperor has a deep love for his son! Let King Yan see our father's filial piety and ask him to reflect deeply."
"roll!"
The emperor was so heartbroken that King Ning dared to make fun of him, becoming more and more presumptuous.
King Ning took the opportunity to roll, and went to the court to fight wit and courage with the courtiers.
The emperor finally made a decree of burial, and Jiang Shuyi was buried.
Since the palace change, Jiang Shuyi has been in panic all day long.
Especially when rumors spread that the child she and Concubine Li De was pregnant with was not of the emperor's blood, she was almost frightened to death.
She has done meritorious service, but it is not enough to let the emperor let her go.
These days, she has been in fear.
Until the decree came down, Jiang Shuyi fell to the ground, her face pale.
It's over, it's over, everything is over.
"Zhou Miao, what should this palace do?"
"Do you want to live?"
"Of course. Who can live and die?" Jiang Shuyi's voice trembled.
Zhou Miao squatted down and stared at Jiang Shuyi, "Have you ever thought about what will happen after you survive? You must be anonymous, and you will never meet with your maiden family, let alone recognize each other. You can't even stay in the capital. After all, no one who has seen you in the capital? less."
Jiang Shuyi clutched Zhou Miao's sleeve, "As long as I can survive, I can bear all this."
Zhou Miao laughed, "Do you still remember the noble person I told you? The noble person is very satisfied with your performance in recent months, and saving your Majesty is a great achievement. The noble person does not want to see you disappear. Yu died, so I am willing to help you die out of the palace."
Jiang Shuyi covered her lips, her eyes widened, obviously startled.
After a while, she came back to her senses, "This noble man really has such a great ability to help me die out of the palace?"
Zhou Miao nodded affirmatively.
"Who is this nobleman, is it possible to be King Ning?"
Zhou Miao shook his head, "Don't guess the identity of the nobleman."
Since Jiang Shuyi gave birth to the ghost child and fell out of favor, everything he did afterwards, including taking refuge in Concubine Xue, Zhou Miao arranged for Jiang Shuyi to do as ordered by the nobleman.
Jiang Shuyi turned to Concubine Xue Gui. This move seemed inconspicuous, but unexpectedly it played a key role.
If it weren't for Jiang Shuyi's failure, the emperor would have died as early as the day of the palace change.
A small chess piece actually played a role in determining the overall situation at a critical moment. It can be seen that people playing chess not only think far enough, but also deep enough.
Jiang Shuyi had many speculations about the nobleman in Zhou Miao's mouth, but they were all denied by Zhou Miao.
Jiang Shuyi asked briskly: "Can I trust you? Can I trust the noble man in your mouth? Isn't this noble man trying to take the opportunity to kill me?"
Zhou Miao lifted Jiang Shuyi's chin, "Your mission has been completed, and the honored person is very satisfied with your performance, so I am willing to help you.
If the nobleman wants to kill you, he can leave you alone. Your Majesty’s decree of burial is still warm, and those who really kill you are gearing up.
Of course, if you don’t believe in me or the nobleman, I won’t force you. I will leave now and watch your burial from a distance. "
"No, don't go. I didn't say I don't believe you. I'm just curious about the identity of the nobleman."
Zhou Miao smiled softly, "Curiosity killed the cat. If you want to survive, be less curiosity. If you know the identity of the nobleman, the nobleman can only kill you if he doesn't kill you."
Jiang Shuyi shivered all over, "Okay, I don't ask about the identity of the nobleman. How can you help me escape from the palace?"
Zhou Miao said: "Your Majesty called you to be buried, but it doesn't mean that you should die immediately. You wait patiently until the day your Majesty passes away.
There is a fake death medicine here, take advantage of your majesty's death, before the death of your palace, hurry up to take this medicine, you can be suicide.
Your Majesty will stop for 21 days, but you will be sent to the underground palace the next day you die.
At that time someone will help you steal the sky and change the day, bring you out of the underground palace and wake you up, and then someone will send you out of the capital. "
"It's that simple? I just need to take this medicine at a critical moment?" Jiang Shuyi couldn't believe it.
Zhou Miao nodded, "Of course, the simpler you are here, the better, so as not to arouse suspicion. The real trouble is to change the day, which is a terrible thing. But you don't have to worry about these, someone will arrange everything."
Jiang Shuyi suddenly asked, "Am I worthy of the precious person taking such a big risk to help me?"
"What do you mean?"
Jiang Shuyi shook her head, "I'm already a useless person, so I can't take a big risk to help me."
Zhou Miao raised an eyebrow and smiled, "It's good if you know it. So you have to cherish this opportunity. The nobles don't want to chill the hearts of meritorious officials. Even if they take some risks, they are happy to help you."
Jiang Shuyi opened her mouth, "Can't you really tell me who the nobleman is?"
Zhou Miao shook his head, "No. If you insist on asking, then plan to cancel this, and no one will help you escape."
Jiang Shuyi shook her head repeatedly, "I won't ask any more, I won't ask anymore. With my family, I will tell them to leave the capital and return to their hometown as soon as possible. In the future, I will ask Grandpa Zhou to take care of one or two, so as to leave them a way to survive."
Zhou Miao said softly: "As long as your mother's family stays safe and doesn't cause trouble, naturally no one will trouble them. If they return to their hometown and refuse to be safe, don't blame someone for wanting their lives."
"I know, I will tell them to divide the costs honestly, don't cause trouble, let alone talk nonsense."
"That's great."
Zhou Miao put the porcelain bottle into Jiang Shuyi's hands, "Remember, you should take the medicine immediately when you hear the bell ringing. You must take this medicine before the palace visitor arrives."
Jiang Shuyi held the porcelain bottle tightly, nodding her head, "I know."
A few days later, Jiang Shuyi began to arrange funerals.
She met her natal family and told them to leave Beijing and return to their hometown, and also left some belongings for her family.
After that, she collected all the gold and silver, and Zhou Miao helped her take it out of the palace and hid it in a house in the city.
Just waiting for her to escape, the gold and silver will be the guarantee for the rest of her life.
The nerves tightened day by day, Jiang Shuyi couldn't help but think of Gu Jiu.
She also thought about asking Gu Jiu for help, but Gu Jiu would definitely not interfere with life and death.
She could only suppress a little thought in her heart, and suppress them all.
Before the first month passed, the emperor finally finished the last journey of his life.
In the 38th year of Kaiyao, the twenty-eighth lunar month, afternoon, the emperor!
The death knell rang, and the whole city heard it.
The official ordered the wife to change into mourning clothes and enter the palace immediately.
The people also put on plain clothes.
Restaurants, tea houses and brothels, all recreational occasions are closed.
Only those that involve people's livelihood, such as grain and oil shops, can operate as usual.
King Ning accompanies the emperor to finish the last journey, looking sad.
The other princes all knelt on the ground.
Li Shizhong merged with the prince of the country, took the face of King Ning and the hundreds of civil and military officials, took out the edict, and announced it to the world.
King Ning cried loudly, crying like a two-hundred-jin child.
Concubine Xiao Shu fainted and was carried back to the Changchun Palace.
The courtiers persuaded the king to make changes.
While preparing for the funeral ceremony, the Ministry of Rites also prepared for the enthronement ceremony of King Ning.
The country must not be without a monarch for a day. Funerals must be done, and the enthronement ceremony must also be done.
The Ministry of Etiquette still borrows people from other yamen without touching the ground.
Li Shizhong bent down and said to King Ning, who was lying on the bedside: "The Ministry of Rites has chosen two days, one is for ascending the throne after three days, and the other is for ascending the throne after ten days. What does the prince want?"
King Ning wiped away his tears and asked, "Is it possible in three days?"
Li Shizhong whispered: "The time is in a hurry, I'm afraid there is something improper."
"Then ten days later." King Ning made up his mind.
"The minister follows the decree."
King Ning looked back at the Shangshu of the Household Department, "Father left his last words before he left, and the funeral needs to be carried out recklessly. The required expenses shall be borne by the Household Department."
The Ministry of Households still wrote and looked at the five senses into a group, "The Ministry of Households is empty, and for the time being, only 200,000 taels are available for emergency. Please also understand the difficulties of the Ministry of Households."
After finishing speaking, Hubu Shangshu looked at Shaofu Jialing.
Shaofu is so rich, why doesn't Shaofu pay?
Excessive!
The Shaofu family kept their eyes and nose and heart in mind, and never took the initiative to stand up and bear the funeral expenses.
King Ning said: "The father understands the difficulties of the household department, and the remaining funds are all borne by the Shaofu."
Hube Shangshu smiled, okay, okay! Of course, he didn't dare to laugh, he was just happy in his heart.
The Young Mansion Clan Ling bowed and took his orders, "The prince can rest assured that the Young Mansion is ready to support the expenses of the Ministry of Rites."
"That's great."
King Ning took the princes and grandchildren to observe filial piety, and when the Liangyi Hall was arranged, everyone moved to the Liangyi Hall to keep filial piety.
Gu Jiu knelt down in the mourning hall and cried with the women.
She is fortunate that Gu Shan has been married to the Zhuguo government.
Otherwise, it would have been wasted for two years.
Because when the emperor's filial piety period is over, the filial piety of Gu has also passed.
After the emperor passed away, officials’ family members were not allowed to marry within 100 days.
The people are not allowed to marry within 27 days.
Pei knelt in the front, and Gu Jiu was behind her on the left.
Pei wiped the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief, sobbing and sobbing, very sad.
Several princess princesses also cried extremely sad.
Only Princess Huyang was a little bit happy in his sadness.
Gu Jiu had to remind her to pass her spare handkerchief to the Huyang County lord, "My aunt wiped her eyes."
Princess Huyang nodded, picked up Gu Jiu's handkerchief and guessed it, tears falling down.
On this handkerchief, I don't know how much juice was prepared, which caused the eyes of Princess Huyang to hurt.
In a blink of an eye, Princess Huyang became the one who wept the most.
After crying, she couldn't help herself, so she grabbed Gu Jiu's hand and worked hard.
Gu Jiu grinned, wanting to be so strong in revenge.
Two hours later, everyone returned to the side hall to rest and ate in the tea corridor.
Food under the porch is the working meal in the palace. The taste is average, but it is warm. A little better than the palace banquet.
Gu Jiu discovered that the Imperial Dining Room might really have a strong resentment towards the Palace Banquet.
The palace banquet and dishes are not even comparable to eating down the corridor.
The food under the porch is hot at any rate, and the palace feast is always cold.
After eating the porch food, everyone finally recovered a little physical strength and spirit.
There is still half an hour of rest, everyone seizes the time to squint for a while.
Princess Huyang found Gu Jiu and whispered: "Your handkerchief is also a little fierce. Even now, I still want to cry."
Gu Jiu said, "I'm not afraid that my aunt won't be able to cry, so I specially prepared a powerful one."
"Humph! My father passed away, how could I not cry. This palace just needs time to brew emotions."
"Yes, yes, I misunderstood my aunt. Better to return the handkerchief to me."
"No." Huyang County refused, "I have used the handkerchief, but I haven't cleaned it. How can I just return it to you like this."
Gu Jiu said, "I don't mind."
Princess Huyang snorted, "My palace minds."
After a pause, she asked again: "How many similar handkerchiefs have you prepared?"
Gu Jiu took out the handkerchief from the sleeve of his shirt, "There are three left, can I ask for it?"
"Give me another one."
Gu Jiu happily gave Princess Huyang an extra handkerchief, and promised to smoke it, and tears would drop like money.
While there was still time, Gu Jiu went to visit Gu Mansion and the people of Hou Mansion.
Grandma Zhou, the young lady of the Hou Palace, had a big belly. She was about to give birth soon, and she had to go to the palace to cry, and it was miserable.
Gu Jiu was very worried, and calmly held Zhou's wrist to check her pulse, "Can you still hold it up?"
Grandma Zhou turned pale, "I can hold it, but I'm a little tired."
Gu Jiu said with his old wife Wei and Xiao Wei, "I'll go through today, and I will think of a way to save my sister-in-law from crying in the lobby. In this situation, she can't kneel for long."
The eldest wife, Wei Shi, thanked again and again. What she was most afraid of was that Zhou had three longs and two shorts, and would kill two lives in the end.
The old lady Wei thought more, "Will it be too difficult? If it is too difficult, we will find another way."
Gu Jiu loosened Zhou's wrist, overworked, and needed to stay in bed for two days and eat some good food.
She said: "I'll try it first, and if it doesn't work, I'll find another way."
"Xiao Jiu has worked hard."
"It's not hard."
Gu Jiu found Pei and Xiao Shu, and said that the young wife of the Hou Mansion Zhou was pregnant for eight months, crying for a long time, fearing to hurt her body.
God has a good life, it is better to avoid her rules, it is a blessing.
Concubine Xiao Shu said: "The Hou Mansion can be regarded as your maiden family. It would be appropriate for you to come forward for the Hou Mansion. Just crying for your Majesty, how can it be an exception because you are pregnant? You can't hold on for a few days."
"Niangniang knows something. The eldest grandson of the Hou Mansion has been childless for these years. The importance of Zhou's birth to the Hou Mansion is beyond doubt. I also ask the Niangniang to show favor and Rong Zhou's family to return to the mansion for a rest."
"What if my palace doesn't agree?" Xiao Shu asked sternly.
Gu Jiu looked up, "The granddaughter-in-law can only ask the prince to show his favor, and Rong Zhou will go back to the house to rest."
"You presumptuous!"
Gu Jiu lowered his head and smiled, and then he narrowed his smile, "Your Majesty's funeral for twenty-one days, are you sure you want to create a situation of one dead body and two lives, adding bad luck to the palace?"
Concubine Xiao Shu was furious.
She deliberately suppressed Gu Jiu, but Gu Jiu turned out to be bold enough to confront her.
Just without waiting for her to scold her, Pei said first: "The mother calmed down her anger. The Zhou family, the daughter-in-law also saw it, with a big belly and heavy body.
Niangniang was kind, and allowed her to return to the mansion to rest, and everyone in the Hou Mansion was grateful for the grace of Niangniang. Besides, the prince has not yet ascended the throne, our family should not make rumors of discord at this time. "
Concubine Xiao Shu frowned, staring sharply at Pei.
Pei made a few points for Gu Jiu.
Pei's is of course fighting for power with Concubine Xiao Shu.
When King Ning ascended the throne, Concubine Xiao Shu transformed into a queen mother.
Pei is the Queen of Weiyang Palace.
The queen and the queen mother naturally do not deal with them.
In the past, one lived in the harem and the other in the palace. It was rare for the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to meet each other. With the wolves around, they would naturally get along in harmony.
Nowadays, both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law live in the harem, and conflicts inevitably arise.
Pei thinks very clearly that to help Gu Jiu is to help himself.
After she lived in the harem, many things were inconvenient to show up, and Gu Jiu had to run errands for her.
Today, she tried a sledgehammer, broke with Concubine Xiao Shu, and established a tree of authority.
End of Volume Three