Chapter 528 The Princess Who Was Widowed Early (21)

The Empress Dowager did not survive this winter month and fell asleep forever in the deep snowy night.

On the same day, Concubine Shu was seriously ill and bedridden. Shi

Yi went to Chunhui Palace to visit her. She smiled and told her not to get close to her. She was not sick, she just didn't want to live anymore, she just took the medicine.

"Why bother?"

She looked at her old friend standing not far away and looking at her with a heartbroken look, and smiled rarely, "For so many years, only you understand me."

"Your good days are still ahead, why bother to abuse your body." Shi Yi felt sorry for her abusing her body, but he also knew that she was stubborn and no one could stop her from going on.

It turned out that she had guessed everything she did. Concubine Shu smiled faintly, "It's true that you are not my good sister in vain. It's just that I am not as good as you. I can't compare to your free and easy style. Maybe you are not free and easy enough." Otherwise, she would not have delayed giving Lan Yu a status.

She looked stunned. "You know, I was naive for a long time, thinking I had met my true love, but I didn't know I was just a pawn of others. He wanted me dead, did you know that he actually wanted me dead? If I hadn't been rescued by chance, I would have really fulfilled his wish."

Shi Yi knew that she was talking about the Fifth Prince, and was still organizing her words when she saw her expression suddenly become fierce. "I hate him so much, I hate him to the bone, I wish he would live a life worse than death every day. Of course, he is already desperate because he can no longer ascend the throne. But I still hate him. He destroyed everything of mine, everything I longed for. I have nothing but the title of Consort Shu, and I can only choose to give up on myself."

"There is nothing in this world that is worth giving up your life for. Men, wealth, status, none of them are worth doing so for you. Think about your family, think about your parents and brothers..."

Shi Yi tried to wake her up, but she became even crazier, "I can't do it, I can't do anything. I only know that there is no meaning in living. Shi Yi, do you know that I am starting to have hallucinations."

She stared at Shi Yi blankly and laughed softly, "I am almost driven crazy by the harem. Really, I will go crazy if I don't die. Now every night when I close my eyes, I will see a bloody child floating to my side and crying to me, saying, I am so lonely, come and accompany me."

"You are just sick." Shi Yi tried to get closer to her, but she stopped him.

"Don't come over, I am an ominous person."

"You are not." Shi Yi had just taken a step, and Concubine Shu had already taken out the knife under the pillow and pressed it against her throat, "If you come over, I will die in front of you."

"Relax." Shi Yi took two steps back to calm her emotions.

"Do you want to know how the Empress Dowager died?" Concubine Shu's eyes suddenly showed a gleam of light, "It must be hard for you to imagine."

Everyone in the harem thought that the Empress Dowager had done something to offend the gods, which led to the punishment from the gods, but only she understood that this was her revenge on the Empress Dowager.

Who would want to serve an annoying old thing? It happened that she had a craftsman who knew the Lu Ban book. The craftsman said that as long as a little more things were placed in the old thing's hall, it would attract thunder.

Being struck to death by thunder, it was exciting to think about it. It was just a pity that the thunder did not kill the old thing, but it collapsed the side hall. Fortunately, the old thing was timid and was frightened to death after a short while.

"You need to rest." While she was immersed in her fantasy, Shi Yi signaled the maid beside her to knock her out. The maid kept crying and shaking her head. It was not that she didn't want to, but Concubine Shu was too scary. She howled all night that someone was going to catch her and take her underground.

Concubine Shu finally "rested". She was so immersed in her own emotions that she was so excited that she was intoxicated. The imperial physician prescribed several tranquilizers for her. Shi Yi watched her drink them before leaving the palace. But the news that Concubine Shu was possessed by ghosts had spread in the harem.

Emperor Rui held a grand funeral for the deceased empress dowager.

On the day of the funeral, he led all his children to keep vigil for the empress dowager. In the middle of the night, heavy snow fell, and many weak people fainted. Emperor Rui simply asked all the princes and princesses to return to their own palaces, leaving only the eldest princess and the crown prince.

Gu Changfeng, dressed in white mourning, knelt on the left side of Emperor Rui. He lowered his eyes to hide the indifference in his eyes. He had no feelings for the empress dowager lying in the coffin, and it was really difficult for him to cry. Fortunately, Emperor Rui did not let him cry.

Shi Yi knelt on the right side of Emperor Rui, with tears symbolically flowing on his face. Although the Empress Dowager was ruthless, she still showed kindness to her granddaughter on the surface. It was only right to cry for the dead.

"Do you two know why I want to keep you here?" Emperor Rui added white spiritual notes to the basin. The spiritual notes were about the size of a wrist and were made into thin round shapes with a hollow center to help the dead souls.

Gu Changfeng shook his head and said respectfully, "I don't know."

He knew that Emperor Rui liked his obedient appearance, so he usually consulted the other party before doing things.

"What about you?" Emperor Rui glanced at the eldest princess on his right. She was the most transparent and intelligent child among all the princes and princesses. She should understand his thoughts.

Shi Yi lowered his head and added some spiritual notes to the basin, saying sadly, "When the royal grandmother was alive, she loved her daughter the most, so my father left his daughter to keep vigil for her."

Emperor Rui smiled. His daughter never told him the truth. However, he didn't care. Because he didn't want to keep the two of them, but he suddenly felt like telling them a story, so he kept them.

"When I was born, my mother was already one of the four concubines, the virtuous concubine. However, my mother was not favored. There were many concubines in the harem of the previous emperor, some of whom were beautiful, some were noble, some were gentle and thoughtful, but all of them had scheming means. My mother had to work very hard to have me and gave birth to me safely."

"When I grew up a little, my mother told me to beware of Empress Rou, who had the gentlest smile in the harem. I was young at that time and didn't understand that she was sweet-mouthed but had a sharp heart, and that she looked sweet on the outside but was cruel on the inside. But after all, it was my mother who warned me in person, so I naturally stayed away from Empress Rou. Even when she gave me my favorite cakes, I would run away and not take them."

"I don't know how scared Empress Rou was to the concubines at that time. I only know that when I was a child, I envied her very much. Because my father was always with her, it seemed that the concubines in the harem were just decorations."

(End of this chapter)