Phoenix dwelling in Yanzhou

25

Don't come haggard for a long time, others look strange.

Only the mirror in the box still holds self-knowledge.

A haggard face was reflected in the bright bronze mirror.

Er Mian Chuochuo didn't have much strength left, and could barely sit in front of the makeup mirror with the support of others.

The fiery red clothes on her body formed a strong contrast with her pale face.

I especially remember that when Er Mian Chuo Chuo met Shu Yao many years ago, he was wearing the same clothes, exactly the same color, and exactly the same patterns.

"This way... Ah Yao can recognize me..." Er Mian Chuochuo, who was no longer young, murmured to herself in the mirror.

Behind him was the sound of suppressed crying.

"I have gray hair..." Looking at the frost-stained sideburns in the mirror with her eyes that gradually faded, "A Yao... will she despise me..."

The increasingly weak voice made Roya and Leya couldn't help crying while covering their mouths.

Jing Sheng was behind Empress Dowager Ermian, combing her hair in a bun. Hearing these words, tears rolled down her face.

She could clearly feel that her mother was dying.

"No way!" Jing Sheng tried her best to keep her voice steady, "The queen mother is very beautiful, mother will definitely recognize you at a glance."

Empress Dowager Ermian smiled, but the smile was so pale and powerless. "Jingsheng... don't cry, you should be happy for me..."

"The day Ah Yao died...I didn't want to live anymore...I wanted to follow her, but at that time, I heard you crying..."

"You were so young back then, you were my child and Ah Yao..."

"I'm a loser, I can't protect her... I can't protect you anymore..."

After Shu Yao died, even though she was alive, she was still dead.

"A Yao..."

Empress Dowager Ermian murmured her lover's name wantonly to herself, and she held the pair of jade pendants in her hand.

It was their token of love.

She is going to take this pair of jade pendants to find her beloved girl...

In the quiet palace room, there was a long and lingering singing sound. In the song, there was a woman's purest love.

Er Mian Chuochuo softly sang that Beidi's love song, that... the song she always wanted to sing to Shu Yao.

My dear girl,

You are the bright moon,

You are the brilliant galaxy,

You are the sun that never sets on the grassland,

……

The singing is getting lighter and lighter.

On that spring night, the Queen Mother, who had been in power for many years in Beidi, never woke up again holding a pair of jade pendants singing in harmony with the phoenix.

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On a quiet night, at the palace gate to the west of Beidi Royal Court, an unremarkable carriage left the palace in the dark.

The queen mother passed away, but there was no immediate funeral. Ermian Saihan guarded the queen mother's palace, and arranged for Jingsheng and Su Qian to leave the palace while keeping the funeral secret.

Those who left together included Jingsheng's maidservant Wu Lanluo, the Queen Mother's two confidantes Le Ya and Luo Ya, and more than 300 dead soldiers.

When leaving the royal court, Ermian Saihan also handed Jingsheng a stack of bank notes, which was a huge sum of nearly one million taels.

These are the possessions of Empress Dowager Er Mian, and they are the "dowry" she prepared for Jing Sheng.

"This is the escape route your mother left for you, don't let other people know." That's what Ermian Saihan said to Jing Sheng at that time.

Ermian Saihan didn't say clearly that the "other person" was referring to Su Qian.

He also told Jingsheng one thing, before the Empress Dowager Ermian wanted to marry Jingsheng back to Ermian's family, and chose Ao Encha.At first, Ermian Saihan disagreed. After all, no father is willing to destroy his son's lifelong marriage.

But his younger sister, Er Mian Chuochuo, who had been stubborn all her life, knelt down in front of him and begged him to protect Jing Sheng for the rest of her life, because she was running out of time, and the only thing she couldn't let go of was this daughter.

Jing Sheng couldn't imagine how her empress mother begged others on her knees for her sake.

In the carriage, Jing Sheng cried in Su Qian's arms.

Su Qian didn't persuade her, but hugged her and accompanied her, letting her vent to the fullest.

"Ah Qian, I don't have a queen mother anymore..." Looking at the palace that was getting further and further away, Jing Sheng held Su Qian's clothes tightly and cried.

"I have no home."

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Beidi is finally over!