Crossing the East Palace

When Tang Luojin was woken up from her sleep, she knew that tonight she was going to sleep with her two younger sisters who had just passed away.

Of course, I still have to accompany them alone in their mourning hall.

Sure enough, when he stepped into the side hall, the gold ingot was still burning, and the queen was limp on the maid behind her.

"This is the last night of their stay here, I can't let them go alone like this." The queen seemed to be so tired that she was about to faint, and said intermittently, "Even if I, even if I fell ill here, Lie down on this cold ground for a night, and I absolutely can't let my Duanyang and Duanhui stay here!"

Liu Pan stepped forward to support the queen, touched the queen's arm, and said in surprise: "Your highness! Your highness! Why are your hands so hot?" Then he touched the queen's forehead and said in pain, "Your highness's forehead is also like this. It's hot, I'm afraid I have a fever, how can I stay here overnight?"

The queen said: "So what? Ben Gong's daughter is leaving, how can Ben Gong not accompany them?"

As she spoke, she pushed away the person who was supporting her, stood up, and walked towards the coffin: "Open the coffin, and let me see my daughter."

The Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager, and Emperor Tianyuan who were willing to look after Gu Tangluojin were not there, so naturally everyone wanted to hear what the Empress said.

The two maids stepped forward without hesitation and opened the coffin, revealing the tiny bodies of the sixth and seventh princesses.

It's not that the two maids have never seen dead people before, but when they saw the two such small children in the coffin, with their snow-white faces, small hands, and small feet, they shuddered at the same time.

The queen glanced at the two with a sullen face, then reached out to beckon Tang Luojin.

"Xiao Qi, come and see your sixth and seventh sisters."

Tang Luojin didn't move.

Hong Xing, who had just been subdued by the queen, took a step forward, regardless of other things, and hugged Tang Luojin directly.

Tang Luojin let Hong Xing hold her with a blank face, and only one hand wrapped around Hong Xing reached directly behind Hong Xing's head, pulling her hair vigorously!

"Ah!" Hong Xing let out a short exclamation. Seeing the queen looking at her, she quickly put Tang Luojin beside the queen, knelt down and said, "Damn the servant girl! The servant girl was caught in the hair by the little highness, so she will be in front of the empress." Disgrace."

Tang Luojin said directly: "She hurt me, she should be punished."

The queen didn't care about a court lady, and she didn't think how Tang Luojin would severely punish the people around her, so she didn't care much, "Oh? Then Xiaoqi said, how should I punish?"

"One hundred slaps." Tang Luojin pointed at Gui Gui, "Slap her, remember, only slap her on the right side." After a pause, he added, "No medicine is allowed after the slap."

Fugui was startled, and looked at the queen, who waved her hand indifferently, so she had no choice but to pull Hongxing over and started to slap her.

A master is a master, even if Tang Luojin is a false son, he is still a real prince, and the only one among the princes who has been crowned king, Fu Gui asked himself how he dared not really force King Zhao, but this Hong Xing dared to hug King Zhao forcibly, No wonder there will be such an end.

Besides, Hong Xing is a person who betrays the master, and the empress would not trust her particularly.

After thinking about it, Fugui found a small rectangular piece of wood and began to hit Hongxing's face.

——Slaps in the palace are never slapped with human hands.

The queen didn't care that Tang Luojin dealt with a servant she didn't like, she just took Tang Luojin and let Tang Luojin look at the two small bodies in the coffin, and took Tang Luojin's hand to caress the two. people.

"Look, do they look like your brother? Although they haven't met you, they like you very much in their hearts. The queen mother is sick, can Xiaoqi spend the night with the two younger sisters instead of the mother?"

Just listening to the meaning is the meaning of discussion.But Tang Luojin, who heard the Queen's tone with his own ears, knew that the Queen was not discussing with him at all, but had made up her mind to keep him here for one night.

With two small corpses in open coffins.

Tang Luojin knew that the empress had made up her mind to scare him, and it would be best if she could scare him into a fool. After a moment of silence, she said, "I would like to obey my mother's wishes."

But the queen touched his head and said: "Silly boy, what do you mean by obeying your mother? It is clear that you feel sorry for her mother's serious illness and still want to guard her younger sister, so you took the initiative to share her worries. Forget it, you can accompany her right now." Follow my little six and little... seven."

After finishing speaking, the queen saw that Fu Gui hadn't finished beating, she waved her hand and said, "Help me to the main hall to fight again."

Then all the palace people in the hall were taken away, and with a "squeak" sound, the gate was closed tightly.

The queen was helped out. Seeing this, Ze Lan and He Liu rushed forward to pay their respects, and wanted to ask King Zhao how he was doing.

The queen waved her hand and said: "I am seriously ill. King Zhao is very filial. Please personally invite Ying to guard Duanyang and Princess Duanhui for this palace. Don't wait any longer. Come to pick up King Zhao tomorrow morning."

He Liu was anxious to say something, Ze Lan pulled her, and said calmly: "Since His Royal Highness is extremely filial, servants and maidservants have nothing to say. However, His Highness is too young, and the mourning hall is cold, so I wonder if there are any palace servants in it? No, this servant wants to send His Highness some thick clothes and stay with His Highness."

The queen paused and continued walking.

Fu Gui poked Hong Xing, Hong Xing had to take a slow step, tilted her face, and reprimanded: "Bold! His Royal Highness Zhao Wang is the only son of the Queen Mother! How can the Empress not feel sorry for His Highness? The inside has been prepared early, so you can rest assured Forget it! It's just..." Her cheeks hurt, she took a breath, and said again, "It's just that the queen has ordered, and His Highness volunteered to invite Ying. If you don't have a summons, you are not allowed to go in! Do you remember?"

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Side hall.

Tang Luojin stood alone for a while, thinking about her feet, looked at the two poor people in the coffin, silently read the Tibetan scriptures to them seven times, and after a long silence, said: "In the next life, I will have a good pregnancy. No matter how bad it is, I have to be reincarnated in my previous world."

After all, he looked at the shadow of the hanging white cloth under the light of the candle, stood in the wind, and began to daze.

When the sky was about to light up and the candles were about to go out, Tang Luojin moved her stiff hands and feet, sneezed, stepped on the chair, took two candlesticks down, and threw them on the white cloth hanging in the room respectively— —

Then he came down quickly, moved the chair back to its original position, wiped it clean with his sleeve, and sat in the corner, looking as if he had fallen asleep.

——As the saying goes, an eye for an eye, since the queen wants to scare him, then he should scare the queen once.

Thinking of this, Tang Luojin was really a little confused.

"Water in the side hall!"

"Quickly put out the fire!"

"King Zhao is inside! King Zhao is inside!" Liu Pan and Ze Lan were worried after all, but Tang Luojin gave the order yesterday, and Ze Lan went back, leaving Liu Pan alone to guard.

Seeing the side hall on fire at this moment, Liu Pan rushed into the side hall, but she pushed the door to go in, but found that she couldn't push the door!

Liu Pan was drenched in sweat, and when she lowered her head, she realized that there was a small lock hanging on the door of the side hall, but the color of the lock was similar to that of the door of the side hall, so she couldn't find it for a while.

Liu Pan couldn't wait for others, looked around, and beckoned the little eunuch to knock the door open, and jumped in from a wide open window!

Tang Luojin wanted to continue pretending to be asleep, but Liu Pan let out a cry of surprise when she heard it, squinted her eyes, and saw that Liu Pan sprained her foot, she immediately stopped pretending to be asleep, ran to Liu Pan's side, and stretched out her arms: "Quick!"

Liu Pan didn't even have time to be surprised, so he hugged Tang Luojin. Seeing this, the little eunuch outside immediately ran over to hug Tang Luojin out, and ran outside.

Tang Luojin grabbed the little eunuch's hair, causing the little eunuch to stop in pain, then pointed at Liu Pan and said, "Save her!"

After a while, Liu Pan was rescued with some burns on his arm.

But there are many white cloths in the mourning hall, as well as coffins that are prone to fire... The entire side hall cannot be saved.

Tang Luojin stood outside the side hall with her hands behind her back, watching the fire without blinking.

When the queen heard the news, the fire was still burning.

But the fire was so intense that the palace people couldn't break in except to put out the fire.

Even if the fire is saved, everything else is fine, the bodies of the two princesses... I'm afraid they won't be able to see their original appearance for a long time.

The queen's whole body was trembling.

He fixed his eyes on Tang Luojin for a long time, and said in a serious tone: "You set the fire! You set the fire! If you didn't want to accompany your two younger sisters yesterday, you can say so! Why did you want to kill you in Keke?" After the two biological sisters, you even set fire to their bodies! How can you be a foolish and dull person like Kemei who doesn't know how to love brothers and sisters..."

Tang Luojin didn't wait for the queen to finish, and said in a puzzled tone: "The mother made a mistake. It wasn't the son who set the fire, but the palace man sent by the mother to take care of the son. Moreover, after the palace man came, The people outside locked the door of the side hall. The palace man was very kind at first, telling stories and singing songs to his son, and coaxing him to sleep. But when the son closed his eyes, the The palace man suddenly set fire to it, and then disappeared."

He Liu immediately responded: "The door was indeed locked, or it was locked with a lock similar in color to the palace door. The servants had to jump out of the window to rescue His Highness King Zhao. However, the rescued Queen Zhao, the fire has already reached the little princess, so the slaves..."

The queen was slightly surprised.Not for anything else, but for the door of the side hall...she didn't order anyone to lock it.

Tang Luojin looked at the queen with big black and white eyes: "Isn't that palace man sent by the queen mother? My son can see clearly that the palace man is seven or eight times similar to Aunt Yu who served his son in the past. , her surname is also Yu. She also said that the queen mother used to like to eat apricots the most, but later, for some reason, the color of the apricots changed, and she refused to even touch apricots."

The queen took three steps back in horror on the spot.

Tang Luojin continued: "Isn't it true that the queen mother sent her here? When she set the fire, she also said that the queen mother forced her to do so. Although she will be ugly after burning, she is also ugly like this. It's nothing." He tilted his head slightly, "But the queen mother knows that Aunt Yu is not ugly, so how could that palace maid who looks similar to Aunt Yu be ugly?"

The queen has already covered her heart.

Fu Gui, who had been to Fujian for a trip, couldn't help whispering in the Queen's ear: "Madam, Aunt Yu and Aunt Yu were burned to death."

The queen didn't come up in one breath, and passed out directly.

When the bodies of Duanyang and Princess Duanhui were found, they were completely changed.

The person who set the fire was not found. King Zhao was young and was locked up in the mourning hall for one night. It was just a minor illness. It was not easy if he was not frightened. .

Although the queen was at fault, she was already seriously ill at this time. The empress dowager should not be fined any more, so she only distributed the power of managing the harem to Concubine Xiang Gui and Concubine Jiang De.

Half a month later, Emperor Tianyuan accidentally favored the empress's 19-year-old concubine Ning Yue'er. The dragon's heart was overjoyed, and the next day, he conferred Xiu Yi, one of the nine concubines, with the title "Yue", and assisted with the concubine Xiang and Jiang De. six houses.

One month later, at the beginning of July in the tenth year of Tianyuan, Emperor Tianyuan officially announced in the court hall that his eldest son Zhaowang Tangluojin would be the crown prince. The Ministry of Rites will start preparing for the canonization ceremony immediately.