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Liu Ying is dead.

His face was paler than ever before, his body was staggering, and he almost fell down.The screams of the palace servants sounded one after another, and even the tiger guards below were a little at a loss.Worst of all, he had begun to vomit blood.

Whenever a person starts to vomit blood, it is probably a sign of terminal illness.

Empress Lu finally turned around, looked at Liu Ying for a while, and ordered: "Send Your Majesty back to the palace."

The tone was indifferent, as if Liu Ying's illness was nothing more than a trivial matter.

The palace attendants hurriedly helped Liu Ying back to the palace, and hurriedly went to invite the imperial physician.Before Yun Yao left, she took a special look back at Empress Lu, Empress Lu's expression was still calm, although there was some sadness, but it was not deep.

It is rumored that Empress Lu did not cry or mourn at Liu Ying's funeral, which seems to be true.

She saluted Empress Lu briefly, and followed Liu Ying back to the palace.As a queen, she should follow her back to the palace due to emotion and reason.

Empress Lu's deep but not very clear voice came from behind, as if she was giving a lecture to the tiger guards.

The palace servants supported Liu Ying, who was half unconscious, and the imperial doctor who hurried over, and they returned to the palace together.Liu Ying has been unconscious all this time, little Liu Gong, who has just learned to walk, leans on the side of Liu Ying's couch, biting her little finger, and looking at him curiously; the imperial physicians take turns to diagnose Liu Ying's pulse, the more they diagnose, the more they shake their heads: It is already terminally ill.

Little Liu Gong turned around, pointed at Liu Ying babbling, and said something that no one could understand.

A palace attendant came forward and carried Liu Gong away, no matter how his two short legs fluttered, he would not let go.

Liu Gong pursed his lips, almost crying.

Another palace attendant came forward, called the queen softly, and persuaded with some hesitation: "The queen should go and coax the prince. If the prince starts crying like this, His Majesty may not be able to live in peace."

As she spoke, she glanced at Liu Ying who was lying on the couch, not knowing whether she was alive or dead.

Yun Yao was dazed for a moment, and only then did she realize that little Liu Gong was looking at her, her two short legs kicking wildly.

The palace attendant persuaded him tactfully: "Since you 'conceived' the crown prince two years ago, the crown prince is your direct son. The queen should go to the side hall with the crown prince. The imperial physician has just said that your majesty needs to rest. .”

But she did not say that His Majesty's so-called "retreat" this time is close to dying.

Yun Yao was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly, stepped forward to pick up Xiao Liu Gong, and took him to the side hall.As soon as Liu Gong got into her hands, he started to make a fuss, wanting his father for a while, and for his grandmother for a while.

Liu Ying has raised him in the palace for the past few months, and he has cultivated the nature of father and son. Presumably, Liu Gong has noticed some signs by now.

This mess of mess...

Resigned to her fate, she hugged Liu Gong and coaxed him one after another.

Slowly, probably tired from crying, Liu Gong fell asleep in her arms.

The palace attendants carefully took the prince from her hand, and then left carefully.

Later that night, Lu Hou saw Liu Ying once, but left quickly.

On the second day, the imperial physicians officially announced that His Majesty was dying of illness and could only hang himself with ginseng soup.

On the third day, some people, both known and unknown, came to visit Liu Ying in the palace.This included Marquis Xuan Ping, Yun Yao thought for a moment, thinking that no matter what, he was Zhang Yan's only relative in the world, so she went up to say hello.

On the fourth day, Liu Ying's breathing was intermittent, and every time she woke up, she coughed up blood.

On the fifth day, Liu Ying miraculously returned to light. Not only did she discuss with Empress Lu for a long time, but she also forced her sick body to go to court for half a day.But after the next court, he started coughing up blood again.This time, no matter whether it was ginseng soup to suspend his life or prick it with silver needles, it didn't work.

But in the end, Liu Ying still did not survive this winter.

In autumn and August, the emperor died in Weiyang Palace.

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Painful sorrow and joy filled the entire palace, and white flags were hung everywhere from Weiyang Palace to Jiaofang Hall.From the empress dowager to the empress to the prince, all of them had to cry in mourning in front of the coffin of His Majesty the Emperor Daxing.Anyone who doesn't cry will most likely be written down by the censor.

Yun Yao rubbed her eyes, thinking about her previous life and the sad things in her previous life, she also cried a little unconsciously.

The little Liu Gong knelt beside her, pursed his mouth, wanted to cry, but didn't know what happened.

He tugged at Yun Yao's sleeve, looked at her with wide eyes, pointed to the coffin above, and asked where his father had gone.

When the surrounding palace servants heard the words, they all turned their heads unbearably, sobbing softly.

Yun Yao sighed, and whispered: "There is your father. Father has already left, and will never come back from now on, do you understand?"

Liu Gong nodded ignorantly, then flattened his mouth, and cried out loudly.

She sighed and patted him on the back, and cried for a while, when she suddenly saw Empress Lu sitting beside her quietly, looking at the tall coffin in front of her, with a hint of sadness in her eyes, but more calm and scheming .

This is indeed a powerful woman, as cruel as Han Gaozu Liu Bang.

Thinking of this, Yun Yao unconsciously became worried for herself.

She was afraid of Empress Lu.

Inexplicably afraid.

I don't know if it's because of Zhang Yan's remaining emotions, or because of what I've seen and heard these days, or because of what the palace attendants have said about Empress Lu's actions: Han Xin, Madam Qi, Liu Fei, Liu Ying... ... made her feel a little scared.

A few days ago, Liu Ying advised her to stay in the palace and not to leave the palace at will. I think there is also a reason for Empress Lu.

Yun Yao was thinking about some things in a mess in her heart, and she became more and more sad.

On the surface, it was natural that the eye sockets became more and more red.

Empress Lu suddenly turned her head to the side, and glanced at Yun Yao, her eyes were quite sharp.

Yun Yao was startled, and subconsciously clenched her sleeves tightly.

Before she came to Weiyang Palace, she had made a divination for herself, and the divination showed that she might have some small disturbances in the future, but they were not serious.But even though the hexagrams showed no problem, Empress Lu's gaze just now made her feel a chill on her back.

Empress Lu's eyes stayed on her face for a moment, then she looked away again.

Now her target is the kings of the Liu family, not the little queen in front of her.Before Liu Ying died, Empress Lu had already arranged everything.No matter what she wants to do now, everything is ready and only owes Dongfeng.

And this east wind is precisely Empress Lu herself.

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Three days later, Prince Liu Gong ascended the throne, and the posthumous title of Emperor Daxing was "Hui".

Empress Zhang Yan is the empress dowager, and empress Lu Zhi is the empress dowager.

Because of the young age of the emperor, the empress dowager came to the court to proclaim the rule and was in charge of the power in the court.

The empress dowager moved to the North Palace, where she was surrounded by flowers and plants, and she never left the palace gate for half a step.

The calm on the surface means a storm that has been brewing for a long time.

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In a blink of an eye, autumn has passed, and winter is slowly approaching.

The funeral lasted for 49 days, and Emperor Hui was carried to the imperial mausoleum for burial, and the whole court was shrouded in a strange shadow.Although this kind of treacherous shadow never spread to the harem, Yun Yao also felt that dull atmosphere in the harem.

The little emperor ascended the throne, and the empress dowager came to the throne, so she, the empress dowager, could be kicked away.

Liu Gong has been taken to Empress Lu's Palace to raise her personally. From now on, this child has nothing to do with her.Even though nominally, he was born by "her" in ten months of pregnancy, everyone in the palace knew that the so-called ten months of pregnancy was just an agreement between Queen Lu and Queen Zhang two years ago.The child's biological mother is someone else.

Yun Yao actually wanted to find out that biological mother.Although she has been given to death.

But now that she is in the palace... well, if it is said that she had a better life when Emperor Hui was around, then now, she is completely left out in the palace and no one cares about her.

So what if he was born in a noble family, when the value was squeezed out, no one would ask any more.

So now, no matter what she wants to do, she is tied up and unable to move.

Yun Yao accepted the reality with a wry smile, and lived peacefully in the palace.It snows heavily in winter, and you can occasionally see rare snow scenes in the Han Palace.Occasionally she would receive some inexplicable orders, but most of the time, it was just for self-entertainment.

In this situation, the only thing she can do is divination and divination again.

For Yunyao, divination has become her instinct/instinct, and it is as common as eating and drinking.

And with that piece of tortoise shell, her hexagrams were more accurate and "surprised" her even more.In ordinary hexagrams, she can get some "unexpected" answers.These unexpected answers have never appeared before.

For example, once, she used the tortoise shell to predict when she would see Gao Su.

In the chapped pattern of the tortoise shell and the rising fireworks, she saw a neat row of guards.The faces of those guards were very clear, and even the armor and nameplates on their bodies could be clearly seen.These guards are obviously the Huben Battalion.

She saw Gao Su standing in the Huben camp, with his head slightly lowered, looking a little tired.

And she herself was sitting on the high platform, overlooking the guards.

In other words, Gao Su will appear in Huben Camp in the future; and the first time she saw Gao Su was when she went to Huben Camp.

These pictorial scenes are much clearer than the hexagrams that were divined from the copper coins in the past.

Moreover, the chapped patterns on the tortoise shell, combined with the lingering smoke, also vaguely appeared the word "Banji".

Obviously, one day in the future, she will meet Gao Su smoothly, and it should be considered smooth.

Time passed day by day, and Yun Yao also lived in the North Palace day by day.

Except that the portrait shown in the tortoise shell became clearer day by day, nothing changed.

The whole long winter passed quickly, and then came the spring.Spring plowing is a matter of farming and mulberry. As the empress dowager, she is going to sacrifice with the empress dowager.As for why the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager were sacrificed instead of the young emperor, people with a discerning eye could already see it.

Empress Lu's ambitions don't stop there.Not only did she want to replace the emperor in handling government affairs, but she also wanted to replace him in the matter of offering sacrifices.

Obviously, in Empress Lu's eyes, she is the well-deserved emperor.

Yun Yao accompanied Empress Lu and silently completed the whole sacrifice.

She didn't speak from the beginning to the end, quietly playing a marionette.

After all, in the current Han court, a quiet marionette is the safest.

After the sacrifice, they were escorted back to the palace by the tiger guards.

Yun Yao noticed that there was still a vacant position in the Huben Guard, which was a bit eye-catching.It seemed that after that person disappeared last time, he never appeared again.After thinking about it, she called the maid beside her and told her to go to the Huben Guard to inquire.

If the one who disappeared was really the boy who had saved her in the past, she would actually feel very sorry.

The maid took the order and left, and soon brought back the news.According to the rest of the guards, that young man was the bravest in the Huben Guard.But since he was pierced by a sword in the chest last time, he never woke up again, and now he is still suffering, and he doesn't know when it will end.

Huben Zhonglang was kind-hearted, so he kept this position and never asked anyone to fill it.

Yun Yao couldn't help feeling a little apologetic when she heard this.

No matter what, that young man saved her (or Queen Zhang's) life, and now his life and death are uncertain, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to shirk this responsibility.Although the medicinal materials sent over a few days ago are effective, the boy's injury cannot be healed in a day, so he can only wait like this.

She pinched the cold tortoise shell, thought about it, and finally threw it into the brazier at her feet, and made a divination for him.

As soon as the hexagram came out, her breathing suddenly stagnated, and her heart felt like it was being squeezed, and it hurt dully.

In the curling smoke, she saw a pale young man lying upright on the couch.

The boy's hands hung down limply, some blood stains remained faintly on his chest, and his cheeks were deeply sunken.She would never mistake his appearance, that was Gao Su, Gao Su when he was young.Although his face was still a little immature, she would never mistake his appearance!

Slap, click.

The fine charcoal burst into slight sparks in the brazier, and the cold tortoise shell lay quietly in the firelight, and the mottled lines showed a word in the firelight: fierce.

Half fierce but not fierce, life hangs by a thread.

Her fingertips trembled slightly, and her complexion was a little pale.

How could it be, how could it be him!

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