Chapter 156:

Emperor Jing Kang, who was lying on the sick couch, said weakly with trembling lips: "A Heng, is A Heng here?"
Xiao Heng's hands under his sleeves were clenched into fists, and he stood stiffly, looking at the dying old man on the couch, he didn't know how to speak for a while.
That is the current Jiulong Supreme, sitting in the world. When he saw him for the first time, he was still in the prime of life. He could pick him up, look at him with loving, apologetic eyes, and gently touch his hair. , Ask him what his name is.
Now, the man who was able to lift him with one hand was lying on the sickbed. His gray eyes burst into light after seeing him, and his lips were trembling and muttered: "Aheng...Aheng ,You're back?"
After speaking, he was about to struggle to get up.
The next to him quickly stepped forward to help.
Xiao Heng bowed his head, stepped over, and knelt on the ground with a puff: "Erchen...Erchen visits his father."
Gu Suier heard that Xiao Heng's cold voice was choked with trembling.
In Zhucheng before, he said that the past is over. He wants to have a good talk with his father.
I thought that from now on, the father and son would get along with each other in harmony.
She led Ah Chen and A Wan, and followed Xiao Heng to kneel behind him.
When Emperor Jingkang saw his son, he was very excited, coughing and panting. Xiao Heng saw him and quickly got up, went to support Emperor Jingkang, and together with Eunuch Hu, helped Emperor Jingkang with water.
Gu Suier didn't care about kneeling and stepped forward to help Emperor Jing Kang cover the quilt.
After beating his back in a hurry, Emperor Jing Kang drank two sips of water, and he looked better.
His slightly muddy eyes were filled with tears, and he looked at Xiao Heng: "A Heng, you are finally back, I can actually see you before I leave! A Heng"
Even though Xiao Heng's temper was cold, his eyes were red at this time: "Father, Erchen... It's Erchen who was wrong."
In the past many years, Emperor Jing Kang pampered him almost everywhere, but he rarely gave him a good face.
There is hatred and resentment in my heart.
Now that those resentments and grievances have long since passed away, he still has no time to make up for the indifference of the past.
When Emperor Jingkang heard the words, he smiled weakly: "A Heng, come over, sit down..."
He saw Ah Chen and A Wan next to him.
Ah Chen hurriedly stepped forward and shouted crisply: "Grandpa Emperor!"
With relief and love in his eyes, Emperor Jingkang reached out his hand and touched Ah Chen's head: "They've grown up so big."
I touched Ah Chen's head and saw A Wan next to him: "It's A Wan, this one is good-looking, good-looking, with one son and one daughter, I can finally rest assured, from now on you--"
Having said this, Emperor Jing Kang coughed violently: "Aheng...I have something to say to you...I..."
At this time, Eunuch Hu quickly handed water to help beat the back, but the next to Gu Suier winked and reminded in a low voice: "The emperor and the fifth highness have something to say, the concubine Ru Avoid the little princess."
Looking at their father and son like this, Gu Suier felt uncomfortable, and her eyes were full of dampness. Now that the Wang said that, she knew that if they wanted their father and son to speak well, she had to take Achen Awan out.
Who knew Ah Chen was left behind.
Gu Suier was stunned, but couldn't ask anything. She lowered her head and led Awan's hand out.
Outside the sleeping hall, the empress, the princes and concubines, and Princess Zhaoyang are all there.
The eyes of these people fell on her.
First, the prince princess stepped forward and greeted: "Sui'er, you are back."
The second prince concubine's eyes fell on Awan she was holding: "This is Awan? She looks really good."
The three princes grinned reluctantly at her, without speaking.
Gu Suier and everyone nodded, and then went over and bowed down to the Empress Empress.
The Queen Empress nodded slightly and said nothing.
Gu Suier saw that her eyelids were swollen and listless.
After Gu Suier got up, she led Awan to stand silently.
The atmosphere outside the sleeping hall was dignified and dull, everyone bowed their heads and said nothing, even Princess Zhaoyang, who had always been lively, sat there blankly, subconsciously grabbing a tassel in his hand.
I don't know how long I waited, but when my mouth was dry, finally the door of the sleeping hall opened and Eunuch Hu came out of it.
All the people were tense at this moment, and everyone stared at Eunuch Hu, as if they wanted to detect the emperor inside.
Eunuch Hu only looked at Gu Suier, and said respectfully: "Concubine Ru, the emperor ordered you to come in."
When he said that, the gazes that other people looked at Gu Suier were a little special, as if it meant probing.
After all, the emperor is going to do it, and the seat of the prince has not been determined. Who will inherit the throne is still up in the air. Nowadays, there are not only the queen, the prince and concubines, but also the minister of the Chinese military. It.
Everyone is waiting for that sentence.
At this time, without seeing the emperor, Eunuch Hu casually said a word, a look in his eyes, can make people figure out what they don't know for no reason.
In the complicated eyes of everyone, Gu Suier bit the bullet and led Xiao Awan into the bedroom with Eunuch Hu.
When entering, the emperor was lying on the dragon couch, next to Xiao Heng and Ah Chen guarding.
Gu Suier went in and knelt down again: "The minister and daughter-in-law visit the emperor."
The emperor's slightly dull and muddy eyes swept to Gu Suier, looked at it, nodded hard, and said weakly, "Good... very good... very good..."
After saying this, he suddenly opened his eyes and looked straight ahead.
When everyone was startled, they hurried forward.
The emperor, whose eyes were no longer moving, was trembling with his hands, and put a roll of yellow shaft into Xiao Heng's hand: "Holy...Imperial decree..."
After saying these two words in anger, he seemed to choke, then his head tilted down.
Eunuch Hu hurriedly called the imperial physician, the imperial physician hurriedly came, his face changed a lot after a sniff, and then he touched the dragon veins.
After a while, he knelt down: "The emperor is dead."
This news spread from the Hu, and the already heavily guarded Dragoon sent an order, and the palace was under martial law inside and outside the palace, the gates were closed, and the generals of the city of Yanjing were waiting in battle.
After the hurrying herald rode out of the palace, the red palace door with ninety-nine large copper nails slowly closed.
After this, the death knell sounded.
The emperor died, and the death knell was ringing for a full 999 times.
The queen led her son-in-law, crying and knelt down in front of the emperor's dragon couch, sobbing.
The hundreds of civil and military officials guarding outside the dormitory shouted long live three times, kneeling down and mourning again and again.
The maid, who was walking under the red palace wall with a bucket, heard the death knell and knelt down after a moment.
The passers-by walking outside the palace gate with sleeves on, heard the death knell, stopped, and looked at the tall courtyard wall, whispering.
The emperor of the Jokhang Kingdom died.
People in the ordinary Yanjing city don't know what it means for an emperor to die. For them, life is still the same, and another emperor is still the emperor, and there is no need to care about who is the new emperor.
But at this time, Gu Suier stood outside the sleeping hall, but saw the most shocking scene in her life, which was enough to change everything in the rest of her life.
All the people are kneeling there, the queen, the prince, the concubine, the princess, the civil and military officials.
A group of people knelt there, but they were silent.
Eunuch Hu respectfully handed a volume of edicts with the auspicious clouds of Kowloon in bright yellow to the prime minister Sun Xiaozhong.
Sun Xiaozhong was full of solemn expression. After receiving the scroll, he first bowed respectfully, and then gently opened the scroll slowly and solemnly, reading it word by word.
The kneeling people held their breath and listened to the edict with almost all their strength.
This imperial decree is too important to those present.
"...The emperor's five sons Heng, who have a good character, both civil and military, are very good at bowing, and will be able to overcome the great rule. Today, the princes should work hard to unite and support the new king; Carefully assist and support Sheji."
"...Russian concubine Gu, dignified and virtuous, gentle and graceful, it is difficult and dangerous, to overcome the merits, to prosper, and it depends on approval, and can be registered as a queen."
The edict was read word by word by the prime minister, Sun Xiaozhong, and everyone below heard it. Some were shocked, some couldn't believe it, and some fell to the ground.
Gu Suier didn't quite understand those gorgeous words, but some of them did.
The fifth son Heng of the emperor naturally said Xiao Heng, which meant that he should be the emperor?
And I, Rufei Gu, which means I mean...I want to be a queen?
Gu Suier took Awan's hand and knelt there, staring blankly at the skirt of Princess Zhaoyang who was kneeling in front.
She didn't quite understand, how could she become a queen?
To be a queen...how to be a queen?
She would have thought that her life with Xiao Heng was superb, so good that her hearts were full of happiness and sweetness, and her pair of children also made her happy everywhere, and she had nothing to worry about in her life.
But suddenly, she was going to be a queen.
What do you want to be a queen?
Xiao Heng has to take many concubines in the harem from time to time?
And Ah Chen... Is Ah Chen going to be the prince in the future?
Many thoughts came to mind at this moment, and Gu Suier felt in a daze that her future life would be completely different from before.
She raised her head and secretly looked at Xiao Heng ahead.
Xiao Heng knelt there, his back straight.
He is now afraid that he is extremely sad, and finally sees his father, and wants to clear up his suspicion with his father, but never thinks that reunion is a goodbye.
It's just...in the future, he will become the emperor?
But when Gu Suier was at a loss, the prince next to him suddenly jumped up.
"Why! Why is Xiao Heng! I am the emperor's eldest son! Why didn't my father give me this position? Where am I not good? Father, why are you so unfair?!"
He roared hysterically, his forehead was exposed.