When the funeral bells rang, the sun had already set. Everyone inside and outside the palace, hearing the sounds of mourning, silently removed their brightly colored decorations and changed into plain clothes.
Sheng Wei, who was going to get married this year, will have to postpone it until three years later.
When Xu Wen heard the death knell, she staggered and, feigning composure, asked Fang's mother, "How many beats is that? Did you hear it clearly?"
Mother Fang looked at Xu Wen worriedly and said, "Twenty-seven."
As soon as he finished speaking, Sheng Huairen came to the main courtyard and said to Xu Wen, "Hurry up and change into palace clothes and follow me into the palace immediately."
Xu Wen asked in a trembling voice: "What, what happened?"
Sheng Huairen, who had sat down, replied, "Your Majesty and the Empress have gone."
Your Majesty and the Empress? How could the Empress be like this?
Xu Wen's eyes blurred as she asked, "The Empress has gone? Why has she gone?"
Sheng Huairen looked up at Xu Wen and said, "Some people say that the emperor has passed away, and the queen was too sad, so she died with him."
She suddenly collapsed on Mother Fang's body. Mother Fang looked at Xu Wen's tears, and said distressedly, "Miss, you have to hold on. If you can't hold on, what will happen to the princess who is waiting for you?"
Sheng Huairen said unhappily, "What nonsense are you talking about, my servant? It's not our turn to handle the affairs of the royal family. The princess summoned you to the palace, perhaps she has something to tell you. You should get ready quickly and don't delay any longer."
For the first time, Xu Wen looked at Sheng Huairen coldly and said word by word, "Get out!"
Sheng Huairen put down the teacup heavily, stood up and scolded: "Madam!"
In the end, Sheng Huairen was forced to retreat by Xu Wen's expression. Before leaving, he shouted loudly, "Hurry up!"
After Sheng Huairen left, Xu Wen hugged Fang Mama and cried bitterly. A quarter of an hour later, she washed her face and changed into her palace clothes.
Xu Wen, with slightly swollen and red eyes, got into the carriage and asked Sheng Huairen to ride towards the palace. After Sheng Shu and Sheng Wei heard the news, they came to the main courtyard to look for Xu Wen. After talking for a while, they returned to the study.
Everyone in the mansion was called to the study, and Sheng Shu assigned them one by one. Watching Sheng Shu arrange the personnel in an orderly manner, Sheng Wei thought to himself that his mother, who came from a marquis's mansion, was different.
At the Marquis of Xiangyang's mansion, the Marquis of Xiangyang came to his wife's courtyard and brought four guards with him, preparing to stay there all night. It had taken so much effort to finally have a child again after all these years, so he needed to be protected in every possible way.
Soon, Meng Yi Niang's people came to the courtyard to ask for an audience, saying that Meng Yi Niang had a headache and asked Xiangyang Hou to come over. Xiangyang Hou was not going to come over at this time, and directly told the messenger: "There will be no Meng Yi Niang in the future. Let her move to the courtyard of the common room."
He thought to himself, "She's just a lowly woman. She doesn't even consider the time of day, yet she still wants a man to have fun with her. Now that the emperor has passed away, all of these marquises appointed by the previous emperor must keep their tails between their legs."
In the Ningyuan Marquis's residence, Bai, who was pregnant, had already had her room cordoned off. Still worried, she asked Xiangyun to dress up as herself, while she hid in a secret room that had been prepared in the side room.
Gu Tingyu, who was almost five years old, had not been seen by Bai Shi since she found out she was pregnant. Just as Bai Shi had hidden herself, the servant beside Gu Tingyu rushed into Jiaxi Hall, crying.
Before the woman sitting on the chair turned around, the servant rushed up, knocked her to the ground, and punched her in the stomach several times.
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