"Mother, this is what I should do." Su Yun wanted to stand up to express her gratitude, but Concubine Duan held her down.

"You will love Sheng'er and treat him well, right?"

"I will."

"Do you remember everything I told you today?"

Su Yun nodded, "I remember everything."

Just remember it, then when you go back, you will talk about it at the same time. You will be mentally prepared and it will be easier to do things.

After returning to her seat, Concubine Duan coughed again.

Her palms were sticky, so she put them under the table, not daring to take them out again. The lunch was over. "In life, sometimes even fathers and sons have to be careful. My son, the road ahead is long. Your father doesn't love you as much as you think."

"Mother, you are drunk." Xiao Lusheng's heart tightened. He always felt uneasy about his mother's behavior.

Also, the emperor didn't love him as much as he imagined...

This is also what he has been thinking about recently.

When his mother said this, he still felt a little sad.

Concubine Duan looked at the couple, who kept looking back as they walked, and smiled as she waved her other hand, "Go, and be well."

Wait for the young couple to go away.

Nanny Gui came in, her eyes red, and she knelt down in front of Concubine Duan, "My Lady, I will go with you."

Concubine Duan was exhausted and frowned in unbearable abdominal pain. She covered her heart with her hands, and blood stained her gorgeous palace dress, leaving a few red spots.

"Why bother? He always hated me."

Last night, after the Pingxi Palace sent the woman into the palace, she got the news.

Recalling the previous quarrel between the emperor and his wife, the emperor said that unless she died, he would believe that she did not cry and beg A Mei to marry someone else...

"Only if I die will he believe that I am not greedy for the throne."

"I never asked Mei to marry someone else."

Tears slid down her face, and great pain attacked Concubine Duan's body. She spat out a mouthful of blood and said, "It's all my fault."

"It's all sin..."

Nanny Gui cried and hugged her master. After a few groans, she vomited blood. The master and servant looked at each other and wiped the blood from the corners of each other's mouths.

When Xiao Lusheng and Su Yun walked out of the palace gate, Shuying drove over in a carriage, and a group of crows flew overhead, making bursts of terrifying cries.

There are many winds in late autumn.

Gusts of cool wind blew, making people feel creepy.

Xiao Lusheng looked back at the imperial city, and Su Yun asked, "Husband, what's wrong?"

"No, I'm fine." I just felt a little inexplicably nervous.

The two of them got on the carriage. As soon as they returned to the Crown Prince's Mansion, a fast horse came to report, "Your Highness, the Queen of Qixiang Palace has passed away."

"What?" Xiao Lusheng felt his feet numb and dizzy, and he almost fell down.

Su Yun also felt dizzy. No wonder she was able to meet Concubine Duan so easily today. But how could she be dead?

Xiao Lusheng had already asked, "How could it be? He was fine when he came here."

The eunuch said anxiously: "Yes, it is a sudden illness."

What sudden illness? On the way back in the car, the couple talked about what Concubine Duan said today and the inexplicable lunch.

Now that I think about it, it was clear that my mother was saying her final farewell.

Xiao Lusheng didn't care about anything else and rode his horse straight to the imperial city. Su Yun hurriedly asked the eunuch, "Is mother really gone? Is there any hope for her?"

The eunuch had a sad face, and said, "My princess, no medicine can cure her. She has passed away."

She was unsteady on her feet, luckily Qingning supported her.

Su Yun came back to her senses and said to Jian Shun, "You, go and prepare two sets of mourning clothes." Hers, and also Xiao Lusheng who had just rushed back to the imperial city.

Jian Shun didn't dare to delay. Even if the Crown Princess didn't arrange it, he would hurry up and do it.

When Su Yun rushed to Qixiang Palace, white banners had already been hung and a mourning hall had been set up.

"Husband." Su Yun walked over in plain white mourning clothes. It was heartbreaking to see the man with red eyes, holding back tears and pain.

She handed over the mourning clothes and said, "Find a place to change into them."

Xiao Lusheng nodded, and the chief eunuch of Qixiang Palace took Xiao Lusheng away. Su Yun knelt in front of Concubine Duan's body instead of Xiao Lusheng.

Her face was all blue and purple, it was obvious that she was poisoned.

Su Yun had complicated emotions towards Concubine Duan. Perhaps because of her past life, her fear of Concubine Duan completely disappeared at this moment.

Instead, I felt sad.

I feel sad for Xiao Lusheng.

Who would have thought that Xiao Lusheng, a noble man, had a father and a mother who had been fighting for their entire lives...

At night, Xiao Lusheng insisted on keeping vigil.

No one would persuade him to take a rest.

Xiao Lusheng said to Su Yun: "At least on the first night, I will stay with my mother. She is actually very timid, and I am afraid she will be scared."

Su Yun was choking with sobs and unable to speak. She knelt down with him and said, "Then I will accompany you."

The two people knelt silently in front of the coffin.

In the distance, a bright yellow figure stopped for a long time. He stopped Xiu Yi from speaking, looked for a while, and then turned and left.

After walking away, the emperor suddenly stopped. Xiu Yi kept his distance and did not bump into him. Instead, he bowed and waited for the emperor to speak.

The moon had been covered by dark clouds for several days in a row, but this night the moon was very bright, illuminating the earth with its splendor.

The emperor rubbed his forehead and said, "Xiu Yi..."

"The slave is here."

"I..." The emperor sighed, looked up at the bright moon, and for a moment didn't know what to say.

I recalled how she had asked me countless times what I would have to do to get her to believe me.

He said he wouldn't believe it until she was dead.

Now that she was really dead, he would have thought he would feel relieved, but why did he feel like something was blocking his heart?

Was she really wronged?

The evening breeze was a little cold, as if it could cut the skin. The emperor stood there for a long time, feeling his eyes a little sore. Years of grudges came to an end in an instant. He didn't know whether his previous persistence was right or wrong.

Back in the imperial study, the emperor reviewed the memorials under a lamp.

It's still early.

When the palace maids from Minghua Palace came to invite him, the emperor frowned and asked Xiu Yi to send him away.

Later, Concubine Li, who had been named Concubine Li but the imperial decree had not yet been issued, came in person to ask for an audience.

"Let her go back to the palace. I will go to see her after I finish this." The emperor was very upset and even blamed Concubine Duan for dying when he was taking a new concubine.

Why not die earlier?

Do you have to choose this time?

Outside the imperial study, Juan Ling brought Cui Zhu to ask for a meeting, but was turned away. She handed the medicinal food on the tray to Cui Zhu, and the master and servant went back home.

Cuizhu couldn't speak, just frowned.

Juan Ling felt her own pulse and found it was obviously slippery. She was successfully pregnant with Xiao Zhiyue's child.

Last night, the emperor spent almost the entire night with her, and he had to recognize the child whether he wanted to or not.

On the contrary, Xiao Lusheng's biological mother, Concubine Duan, was really annoying. She had just gained favor, and the imperial edict to promote her to concubine had not yet been announced to the six palaces, but she died!

Isn't this adding to the chaos?

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