When Eunuch Hou came in, he saw the emperor carefully putting Concubine Zhen down.
Eunuch Hou stood aside holding his breath, lowering his head and pretending that he saw nothing.
Before the Emperor left, he instructed Eunuch Hou: "Find someone to tidy up Concubine Zhen's body, let Huan'er and Gan'er come to see Concubine Zhen for the last time, and then find a good feng shui site in private to bury Concubine Zhen properly.
Don’t let anyone insult her.”
Of course, Eunuch Hou responded respectfully: "I obey your order!"
When the emperor heard the eunuch's response, he turned back and looked at Xie Zixin, who was lying quietly on the ground. He replied in his heart, "I have granted your request and will give you a chance. You will not meet me in your next life."
After that, the emperor left without looking back, as he still had a lot of things to do!
The Emperor, besides kneeling before the Emperor, also has to review urgent memorials from the court. Many important matters cannot be delayed.
Sometimes the emperor even wanted to move the memorial in front of his father's coffin and kneel down to read it.
The emperor's grief and diligence were seen by the ministers. In their hearts, the emperor at this time was an extremely wise monarch.
They are the kind of people who are both filial and hardworking, except for a few smart ones.
For example, Marquis Cheng'en who found out the specific situation, the Queen Mother who understood her son, and the clever Queen Duan Jianing.
The queen has been feeling even weaker these days. In fact, the damage she suffered when she blocked the blow for the emperor that year has long been recovered.
She has been sick for many years and looks rather frail. It was Queen Duan Jianing who deliberately made her suffer.
But this time, the matter of the retired emperor really frightened Duan Jianing.
The Queen actually guessed it based on the Queen Mother's white hair. After all, in the Queen's mind, the Queen Mother was also a relatively rational woman.
To be disrespectful, Empress Duan Jianing suspected that the Queen Mother was the same as her and that it was impossible for her to truly love the emperor.
Since there is not much true love, there is no such thing as the emperor dying unexpectedly and the empress dowager's hair turning white overnight.
Obviously, there was something here that would make the Queen Mother tremble with fear. When the Queen was alone, she repeatedly pondered this matter, and the more she pondered, the more frightened she became.
The Emperor is very kind to the Emperor, the Emperor...
Queen Duan Jianing had some guesses in her mind and couldn't help but feel a little worried!
Plus, Concubine Zhen was sentenced to death! Although she should be very happy that her mortal enemy died.
But the queen once again saw the emperor's ruthlessness. Concubine Zhen and Xie Zixin had almost given all their dowry for the emperor's great cause, not to mention Concubine Zhen's predictions.
Because of these things, the queen's already thin body looked even thinner.
The concubines and royal wives who knelt daily in front of the coffin feared the Empress would faint before the Emperor's coffin one day. They didn't want to kneel for forty-nine days straight to bury the Emperor and then kneel for the Empress.
Although Duan Jianing also had her own inner distress, she hid it well. Even the people closest to her and trusted her didn't notice anything was wrong with her.
I just thought that the queen couldn't bear the pain of kneeling before the emperor.
In fact, not only these people were worried, even the emperor was quite worried.
That day, after all the gentlemen and the ladies had knelt before the spirit ceremony and left the palace, the emperor took the initiative to find the empress, who was still arranging things, in one of the side halls of the Wenwu Palace.
The emperor did not send anyone to inform others. He just sat casually at the door of the side hall, watching the queen arrange everything that needed to be arranged in advance for tomorrow's kneeling ceremony.
The emperor did not go in to disturb her, but just watched the queen arrange things quietly.
The emperor felt a very strange feeling when he saw how Queen Duan Jianing managed all these matters in an orderly manner despite her frail body.
The queen has been in poor health in recent years. Since she gave birth to the eldest prince Li Chengyan, she has not conceived any children.
But no matter how sick the queen was, she had never delayed his work over the years.
After the Queen finished giving her instructions, everyone saw the Emperor sitting on the ground.
Everyone saluted quickly, not daring to look around.
The emperor looked at these people who did not move their hands to salute, and was very disgusted with their lack of judgment: "Step back!"
Everyone retreated quickly and orderly. Everyone knew that the emperor was in a bad mood after the death of the retired emperor, so everyone worked with full concentration every day.
I was afraid that if I didn't do it well and the emperor found out, my entire family would be wiped out.
After everyone had left, the Queen saw that the Emperor was still sitting at the door, looking at the dark outside.
Empress Duan Jianing walked over calmly and was about to reach out to help the emperor up: "Your Majesty, I will help you in."
The queen tried to help but failed, and looked at the emperor in confusion.
The emperor patted the seat beside him, took off his cloak, and put it underneath him:
"Ning'er, sit with me for a while!"
Although Empress Duan Jianing didn't know what the emperor was planning, she was already on high alert.
At this time, Queen Duan Jianing was thinking, the emperor is so considerate, maybe he has some private matter that he wants her to handle!
The Queen not only thought about the private matters that the Emperor might need her to do, but also thought of several countermeasures.
The queen followed the emperor's hand and sat next to him, quietly accompanying him as she looked out at the palace which was already shrouded in darkness.
The Emperor remained silent, and the Empress would not speak either, fearing that if she spoke, trouble would come her way.
The Queen was just wondering what the Emperor wanted to talk to her about when she heard him ask, "Ning'er has been with me for many years, right?"
The Queen didn't know what the Emperor was up to, but she still carefully replied, "It's been many years, and Yan'er has grown into a half-grown boy."
When the queen replied this, her eyes were looking at the sky outside the palace.
From the emperor's perspective, it seemed as if the queen was recalling their experiences over the years.
For a moment, the emperor felt better.
Only after becoming the emperor did Li Jingchen understand what it meant to be truly alone. He had no way of sharing all the troubles in his heart with anyone else.
There are people he trusts, but there is no one he trusts completely.
"Thank you for your hard work over the years, Queen!"
At this moment, the emperor really felt that the queen had worked hard to follow him all these years, and he also felt that the deceased Concubine Zhen had worked hard to follow him all these years.
When Zhenfei was alive, the emperor felt that she was like a fishbone stuck in his throat, which he could neither spit out nor swallow.
But this time, since Concubine Zhen was really dead, the Emperor could remember her many good things. He also felt that he had been a little harsh on Concubine Zhen at that time.
The dead Xie Zixin: Get lost!
"These are all my duties, and I am very happy to be able to help His Majesty manage these matters." The Queen's eyes lit up when she spoke of this. Anyone who saw her could tell that she was a woman who deeply loved her husband.
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