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According to the Yin-Yang calendar, this year's twelfth lunar month is a short month, there is no 30th day, and the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month is the last day.

The Queen Mother was the sister of Duke Cheng'en. She died on the last day of the year, and Duke Cheng'en was very sad.

Even if he died on New Year's Day, or delayed it for another day, he wouldn't be so sad.

According to folk belief, dying before the New Year means a miserable life. One will not be able to have a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner, and will not be happy in the next life, after all, he will die of "starvation".

Officials from the Ministry of Rites began to carry out a series of funeral procedures according to etiquette.

Duke Cheng'en and his wife entered the palace crying. He had already thought of how to tactfully accuse the emperor of being unfilial and use the funeral as an excuse to gain some benefits for the Wei family.

However, His Majesty summoned all officials to pay their respects, and the bed that the Queen Mother slept on was carried to the funeral hall, with flowers and trees placed around it.

Before the Imperial Observatory selected an auspicious day for the empress dowager to be buried in the coffin, the empress dowager would lie on the bed and be viewed by everyone.

The Empress Dowager's remains were open, separated only by a gauze curtain, so all officials and family members could clearly see her remains.

The empress dowager had a chubby face, but after putting on makeup and rouge and powder, she looked elegant and regal, not as if she was suffering at all.

If a person who has suffered a stroke and is bedridden can develop like this, it is impossible for his children to be unfilial.

Even the Queen Mother's own daughter, Princess Xiyan, could not say anything bad about her.

Emperor Hui's expression remained as serious and solemn as ever, and he performed the memorial service according to ritual regulations.

The New Year could not be celebrated, so all the colorful silk lanterns in the palace were removed and replaced with white lanterns.

The palace banquet on New Year's Eve was cancelled. The families of ministers, especially the wives of nobles, accompanied the ladies in the harem to keep vigil for the empress dowager.

Gu Shaoyu and Xie Zhaozhao were both in the palace and rested in a side hall at night.

In the evening, the imperial kitchen sent some snacks to the officials' families. Gu Shaoyu took this opportunity to go to the side hall to find Xie Zhaozhao.

Before he entered the palace, the eunuch Xiu Ning (Hua Zisheng's godson) on duty came running over and said, "Madam, Lord Gu wants to see you for something."

Xie Zhaozhao was supported by Yuanyuanmanman and walked out of the side hall. Gu Shaoyu tied a large cloak on her and whispered, "Come with me."

The two held hands and looked very affectionate.

Gu Shaoyu held her hand under his sleeves, tightening and loosening it to give her hints.

The two of them agreed that if they had to, they would pinch each other three times in a row. It was an emergency and there was no need to ask, just cooperate with the other party.

The Queen sent Jin Ge to keep an eye on the officials' wives. When she saw Xie Zhaozhao go out, she sent a palace maid to keep an eye on them.

I saw Gu Shaoyu and his wife hiding in the hall opposite to rest.

There was only one door for entering and exiting the palace, and the little palace maid was watching quietly not far away.

He found that the two of them had gone in and had not come out, and no outsiders had gone in, so he watched the door in the hall opposite with peace of mind.

In the hall, Gu Shaoyu said to Yuan Yuanmanman, "You two stay at the door. Madam is too tired. Take a rest for a while. Don't let anyone come in and disturb her."

The two men agreed and stood guard at the door.

Gu Shaoyu took her hand and walked into the inner room. He pulled something on the cabinet and the door opened, revealing a secret room inside.

The two men entered the dark room and the door closed behind them. There were luminous pearls embedded inside. The dark room was not big, and it was a parallel passage for two people. After walking a short distance, they came to another door, and Gu Shaoyu knocked gently on the door.

The door opened from the outside, revealing Emperor Hui's face.

We have arrived at Emperor Hui’s bedroom.

After seeing the two people come out, he closed the door again. From the outside, it looked like just a wall, nothing unusual.

Xie Zhaozhao had long since trained herself to remain calm and accept nothing unusual, so she followed Gu Shaoyu and paid her respects to Emperor Hui.

"Thank you, little girl." Emperor Hui still called her by the name she had been raised by in the palace as a child. "Last year, Jingchen told me that you had trained all the refugees stranded at the city gate into palace soldiers. Are those palace soldiers in the capital now?"

"Your Majesty wants to use it?"

"Yes, I need it urgently."

"How many people does your majesty want?"

"Don't you have 400 soldiers? Can you transfer them all over?"

Emperor Hui said, "Wei's spies are everywhere. I cannot mobilize them for fear of alerting them. The other people's soldiers are involved in many cases, so your soldiers are the most suitable."

It seems that Emperor Hui had already set his sights on her palace soldiers.

Maybe my father knows too.

These old foxes!

"I originally sent them to retrieve the New Year's gifts for Your Majesty. The ships and people were already in Yecheng. I immediately sent someone to ask them to hurry back."

The ship that went out to sea in September returned, and Princess Roudan’s two ships docked at Li Yunmu’s Nanhai City Pier.

All the cargo was unloaded in Nanhai City, and the guard sent by Princess Roudan was killed by the people on the ship in Xiandou.

Oh, the helmsmen and captains on the ship were not trained at the helmsman base, but were sailors trained by Dong Qin in Baiyue City.

Li Yunmu followed Xie Zhaozhao's request, filled three ships, and went inland along the Grand Canal to Kyoto.

These goods were distributed to Emperor Hui.

He has investments, and she also needs to curry favor with him.

Her palace soldiers already numbered more than 400, so it was easy to transfer 400 of them.

Now the soldiers promised to Your Majesty are indeed all in Yejiancheng. They are the soldiers escorting the goods and the soldiers receiving the goods in Yejiancheng.

When Emperor Hui heard that people were building a city in Ye, he said excitedly: "God is helping me! Girl, hurry up and tell them to stay in Ye Jiangang..."

Xie Zhaozhao listened quietly to His Majesty's plan.

There must be something important going on if they urgently need to mobilize 400 soldiers. It's impossible that they are just being treated to a banquet for nothing!

Emperor Hui asked Gu Shaoyu and Xie Zhaozhao to sit down, and he explained the plan in one breath.

Xie Zhaozhao showed no emotion on his face, but he felt a chill in his heart.

If His Majesty's plan is not carried out carefully, she and Gu Shaoyu will be doomed.

Because His Majesty asked her to dig up the remains of a nobleman who had died during the previous emperor's reign from the imperial mausoleum in Yejian City, bring them to the palace, and replace the remains of the empress dowager with them when sealing the coffin.

The replacement corpse was the confidant of Huidi's biological mother. When Huidi was a child, this noble lady treated him particularly well.

Emperor Hui wanted to place the remains of Concubine Tai in place of Queen Dowager Wei and bury her with his biological parents in the tomb of the previous emperor.

As for the remains of Queen Mother Wei, they will definitely not go to a good place. You know, your Majesty's biological mother was the original empress of the late emperor.

His mother died suddenly, and then Queen Dowager Wei took the throne.

It's easy to tell that his mother was killed by the Wei family.

The Queen Mother Wei had a biological son at the beginning. She used all kinds of means at that time and almost killed Emperor Hui, who was still the crown prince. It was not until the Queen Mother Wei's biological son died that she had no choice but to support Emperor Hui to ascend the throne.

It would be a miracle if Emperor Hui allowed the Queen Mother of Wei to be buried together with the late emperor.

Your Majesty, the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Observatory have decided that the Empress Dowager's remains will be kept for a month, and the Imperial Observatory will select an auspicious day to send them to the imperial mausoleum for burial.

Emperor Hui hoped that Xie Zhaozhao's palace soldiers could bring the Empress Dowager's remains to the palace before the Empress Dowager was placed in the coffin.

"Girl, before the late emperor died, he repeatedly told me that he did not want to be buried with the Queen Mother Wei after his death. I cannot be unfilial and must fulfill the late emperor's last wish."

Emperor Hui said, "Girl, Jingchen is the person I trust the most. I watched you grow up too. I only trust you."

Emperor Hui gave her a huge task: to dig up the grave and replace the empress dowager's body.

She looked at Gu Shaoyu, who held her hand and said apologetically, "Zhao Zhao, I'm sorry..."

We have no choice!

Xie Zhaozhao understood that from the moment they entered the secret passage, they had no way out.