Chapter 260 The Emperor Passes Away!

In the Prime Minister's Mansion, inside the Buddhist temple.

Rong Jianxue was wearing a plain loose robe and kneeling upright and reverently on the cushion in the Buddhist temple, with his hands clasped together, worshiping the gods and Buddhas in front of him.

He was not wearing any Buddhist beads.

He just lowered his eyes and recited scriptures in a low voice.

His robe was clean and tidy, without a single wrinkle.

But if you look closely at his back, you can see spots of red lotus on the man's clean robe.

——He punished himself with a lash and was badly injured.

He lowered his eyes and closed them, looking pious and pure.

In the sea of ​​suffering, Buddhist scriptures are everywhere, and countless gods and Buddhas have either kind eyes or angry eyes.

He chanted devoutly, with Buddha statues everywhere, and it was as if he had passed through countless seas of mind and reached the deepest part.

Buddhism says that the highest level of asking Buddha is to ask one's heart.

So he walked and walked, and walked a long, long way, and reached his border.

The deepest part of the heart.

Unlike those gods and Buddhas with angry eyes but compassionate and kind heart, the woman was dressed in a long gauze dress, clean and holy.

She sat high on the lotus platform.

However, she was not sitting upright in meditation. Instead, she was leaning on a lotus platform, half of her body was leaning out, and she was smiling at him with her head tilted.

She asked him: Are you willing to give anything for her safety?

He looked at her seriously for a long while, then replied with a clear and honest "yes".

The surrounding Buddha statues suddenly disappeared into the distance.

The scenery in front of me quickly receded, disappeared, and vanished.

Only the woman on the high platform jumped off the lotus and walked towards him step by step.

With every step, a lotus blossomed from the bottom of her feet. She stepped on the lotus and came to his side with a smile.

The scenery in the sea of ​​​​mind quickly faded away, and the Buddhist temple in front of me gradually became clear.

But the only thing that remained unchanged was that she still tilted her head to look at him, and the smile on her face in the sea of ​​suffering overlapped with the one in front of him.

Pei Jingxu's face was still flushed from hearing the news. She had run to the Buddhist temple to see him.

When he opened his eyes, Pei Jingxu's smile met his eyebrows.

On the lotus platform, his "heart" and the woman in front of him said to him together: "Since that's the case, please, sir, guard me for the rest of my life."

Her eyes flickered, and the wind blew through the man's robe and black hair, and also blew up her temples and dress.

The woman in front of him overlaps with the Buddha statue behind him, and he is her only believer.

The man's throat rolled and his long eyelashes trembled.

He heard himself speak, opened his mouth, and said only one sentence.

"OK."

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The emperor did not survive that winter.

That day, the lights in the palace were as bright as day. The emperor lay on his sickbed, calling only Rong Jianxue's name.

Rong Jianxue finally came to see him for the last time.

Inside the emperor's bedroom, the lights were bright and shadows of people were everywhere.

Outside the bedroom, countless imperial doctors and palace maids knelt on the ground, trembling with fear.

Because Pei Jingxu was pregnant, Rong Jianxue refused to let her come, and only asked Pei Huaifeng to disguise himself as a servant and guard outside the bedroom.

The emperor dismissed all the eunuchs and left only Rong Jianxue to serve him by the bed.

I don’t know what the two of them talked about that night.

In the end, Rong Jianxue walked out of the bedroom, wearing a black and gold robe, with hair dyed like ink and a face as beautiful as jade.

In one hand, he held a sword representing the presence of His Majesty, and in the other hand, he held a shining imperial edict.

"Your Majesty, has passed away."

The man spoke in a deep voice, and all was silent.

The next second, a breeze blew through the bedroom, extinguishing the eternal lamp inside.

In an instant, the imperial physicians and ministers who were kneeling on the ground were filled with grief and cried out in grief.

"Long live the emperor—"

In the corner, Pei Huaifeng looked at the scene in front of him, his expression flickering and his eyes complicated.

After returning to the Prime Minister's Mansion, it is said that Pei Huaifeng ran into Pei Jingxu's yard, hugged Pei Jingxu, and burst into tears.

Since Pei Huaifeng grew up, Pei Jingxu has never heard Pei Huaifeng cry so wantonly and recklessly again.

A flash of emotion passed through her eyes. Pei Jingxu patted Pei Huaifeng's back gently, leaned on his shoulder, and shed silent tears.

"Sister, you will be my only relative from now on..."

Pei Huaifeng was not sure whether the emperor's death could be considered revenge for their Pei family.

He was so tired and just wanted to have a good sleep in Pei Jingxu's arms.

Just like when he was a child, whenever he couldn't do something, he would just lie on his sister's lap, take a nap, shed a few tears, and he would forget about it.

Hearing Pei Huaifeng say this, Pei Jingxu smiled and said, "Sister will always be with Xiaofeng."

"But there is one thing Xiaofeng said that is not right."

Pei Jingxu's voice was gentle and soft: "Xiaofeng, from now on, we will have another relative."

The wedding didn’t make it to March.

Rong Jianxue knew that Pei Jingxu loved beauty. After three months, her belly would be visible and she would not look good in her wedding dress, so she would definitely be sad.

Anyway, now that he has succeeded the new emperor, it would be a good thing to put the queen's title on the agenda earlier.

Therefore, Rong Jianxue gave the auspicious day for his ascension to the throne calculated by the Imperial Astronomical Observatory to Pei Jingxu as their wedding date.

——His ascension to the throne is not important, her beauty is what matters.

It was just because Rong Jianxue was worried that she would be pregnant and would have to hold a long and complicated wedding ceremony, so he took the process written by the ritual officer, which was longer than his life, and cut out most of it.

Pei Jingxu did not interfere in the entire wedding ceremony.

At most, Hongyao would bring her a variety of wedding dresses and let her choose the one that looked good.

Hongyao brought her news from the palace, saying that because of her status, the court had some opinions about the wedding being held too hastily.

However, those opinions could not cause any waves in front of Rong Jianxue. At most, the censors would mention them a few times when submitting memorials, asking the emperor to think twice.

There is a city in the north that is famous for its mineral resources. It is said that on the day that His Majesty announced his marriage to Pei, the underground dragons in the city moved a few times, revealing three gold mines!

For a time, the miraculous "miracle" was spread to the capital. It was said that the imperial master of the Imperial Astronomical Observatory personally calculated the fate of the future queen, which was a blessing for the country and a destiny that would enrich the country and the people.

As soon as these words were spoken, the voices of dissatisfaction in the court disappeared without a trace. There were even a few old ministers who believed in the Imperial Observatory and wrote a joint letter requesting His Majesty to get married and crown the queen as soon as possible to stabilize the harem.

When Pei Jingxu heard this, he laughed so hard that tears streamed down his face.

When she saw Rong Jianxue coming to the bedroom again, she told him this story with a smile, raised an eyebrow and asked him, "Your Majesty, I didn't know that I was destined by heaven, blessed by heaven, and my country is prosperous and my people are safe!"

Rong Jianxue also smiled at her and said, "I had people survey the gold mine. It's very suitable for quelling those rumors."

Pei Jingxu couldn't help but smile when he heard this: "It's just a small matter, you don't have to worry about it."

No matter what, she was still a second-married woman, so it was inevitable that the court officials had some complaints.

A queen has actually been married to someone else, not to mention that her ex-husband is... His Majesty's younger brother.

Rong Jianxue frowned disapprovingly and seriously corrected him, "You didn't marry me so that you can suffer these grievances and listen to these gossips."

If he can't even handle such a small matter, then he doesn't deserve to be a good husband.

"Your Majesty, if you act like this, others will say you are incompetent and unjust."

Rong Jianxue put his arm around her waist, lowered his eyes to look at her slender waist, and frowned slightly: "How come you're already a month pregnant and still so thin?"

Pei Jingxu was at a loss for words: "What can you expect in a month, Rong Jianxue? Aren't you being too impatient?"

Rong Jianxue pursed her lips slightly, her eyes dimming as she looked at her, her voice low and hoarse: "The imperial physician said that we can't have sex for the first few months."