burial alive
I cannot remember the reign title of the present sage, nor can I count how many years the Xin Dynasty has existed.
I only remember this year, minus the nine months I spent in the womb, and I was exactly twenty-two years old.
That day happened to be the Lesser Cold, which was also my birthday.
The cockcrows and noon arrives.
I climbed up Mount Daishan with A Xiang and Yuan Xiao.
The sky is filled with white snow, light and graceful, layer upon layer of comfort.
I think this must be God's reward to the three of us, master and servant.
On the way up the mountain, at first, Ah Xiang complained endlessly, then she cried intermittently, and after that, the complaints stopped and she didn't have the strength to cry.
After spending half my life, I finally reached Mount Daishan.
Having embraced the smallness of all the mountains and enjoyed the coldness of the heights, Ah Xiang walked on the clouds and refused to come down the mountain.
Yuan Xiao yelled at the top of his voice, "It's getting late. It's dark and we can't see the mountain road clearly. We're going to fall to our death."
When Ah Xiang heard that someone was going to fall to his death, he stopped saying goodbye and stuck a wooden stick into the snow and started to go down the mountain.
On the way down the mountain, a new story also happened.
We met Eunuch Zhu who was beside the saint.
The thin snow turned into black water, wet and slippery.
Eunuch Zhu was in a panic and stumbled many times in a hurry. I thought he was going to break all his bones into pieces and throw them piece by piece on Mount Dai.
When doing errands for the emperor, one cannot help but be nervous and hurried. To say that I was panicked is an understatement.
The powerful eunuchs around the emperor came to Mount Tai on a snowy day, so there must be some important royal affairs.
I moved sideways to avoid the mountain road, nodded and lowered my brows, pretending not to see this noble man.
Ah Xiang stopped panting, tried her best to hold her breath, and also moved sideways to make way for the way up the mountain.
I looked down and pretended not to notice the noble person.
Unexpectedly, Eunuch Zhu recognized me.
Eunuch Zhu blocked my way while wiping the sweat from his forehead.
He mumbled a lot, but I couldn't hear clearly, so I could only shake my head. He slapped his forehead and slapped himself, his hands still working, and he took out three imperial edicts from his back.
I knelt on the ground, bowed to Mount Dai, and kowtowed to Chang'an.
I knelt, and A Xiang and Yuan Xiao also knelt.
Eunuch Zhu also knelt, and the senior officials and generals behind him also knelt.
They are all kneeling to obey the saint's will.
Those three imperial edicts all ordered me to return to Chang'an as soon as possible.
Summon by imperial decree, summon by dispatch, summon urgently.
The fewer the words, the more urgent the summons.
Eunuch Zhu looked at Ah Xiang and said a few words, looking very anxious.
Ah Xiang whispered in my right ear, repeating what Eunuch Zhu had said: "Your Majesty is seriously ill, terminally ill, and there is no hope of recovery."
The saint is seriously ill and will soon pass away.
All the people in the world must submit.
All the male and female members of the Li family went to the palace to keep vigil and express their grief.
Although my surname is not Li, I am nominally the adopted daughter of Empress Dowager Feng.
I knelt and saw off the Li family's emperor, queen dowager, prince, princess, and princess all in mourning clothes.
I will also kneel down to send off the body of the "late emperor".
We went down Mount Dai.
The saint is in a hurry to die, but I am not in a hurry to return to Chang'an.
However, Eunuch Zhu is your Majesty's eyes and ears. In front of him, even if I am disrespectful in my heart, I dare not show the slightest impatience.
The official road is unobstructed and the post station is empty.
Along the way, the traffic was smooth and the vehicles were moving fast.
The Saint has been in poor health since last year. This year, I have also climbed three of the Five Great Mountains in the world.
The saint is able to endure and is not dead yet!
After going through wind and rain, Ah Xiang, Yuan Xiao and I bid farewell to Yanzhou and returned to Chang'an City - Taiji Palace.
While waiting outside the Yongle Palace, I saw the King of Yue.
Your Majesty has no son, so the throne will be passed on to the younger brother after the elder brother dies.
King Yue was the sixth son of the late emperor and the third son of the empress dowager.
The throne of the Li Dynasty actually fell into his hands.
I saw the King of Yue, and the King of Yue also saw me.
He looked at me and I saluted from a distance.
Among the late emperor's sons, the King of Yue was indifferent to worldly affairs and had the gentlest temperament.
Among all the young masters in Prince Qing's mansion, only Li Liu has never called me a bastard in front of me.
Maybe he also cursed me in private, but in the end, he didn't hit me in the face.
He gives me some face, and I respect him back.
Perhaps the current sage is about to die, so Eunuch Zhu ignored the King of Yue and was eager to lead me into the Yongle Palace.
Eunuch Dong, who was beside the empress dowager, took a few steps forward and blocked the palace door.
The people around the emperor and the people around the empress dowager were arguing loudly, so loud that even I, who am half deaf, could hear it all.
Some say that the saint is about to die, while others say that the saint will die immediately upon seeing me.
I didn't want to listen, and I was afraid that I would hear something I shouldn't hear and die in vain, so I turned my back and covered my ears.
I don’t know how long it was before someone patted my back. I turned around and it was Princess Leyang.
The eldest princess, Leyang, was the legitimate princess born to the Empress Dowager.
The princess took me into the palace.
Eunuch Zhu and Eunuch Dong stopped arguing.
Inside the Yongle Palace, a room full of concubines, princesses, and princesses knelt...
I looked around quietly and saw that most of them were wiping away tears.
The Li family members cried like this.
The saint is finally dying!
I never showed my emotions. The Empress Dowager was above me, feeding the Emperor medicine with tears in her eyes. I didn't dare show any joy on my face.
Kneeling beside Princess Anyang, I felt a chill all over my body. The princess rushed over to me. Princess Huayang whispered to me in my right ear, her voice so thin and soft that I could only hear it intermittently. "Your Majesty has issued a decree that all concubines without children must be buried alive with the emperor. When the King of Yue ascends the throne, the Empress Dowager will remain the Empress Dowager. Then, Princess Cui of the King of Yue will be the new Empress. How can there be two Empresses in the harem? Empress Yang must also be buried alive..."
Concubine Feng and Concubine Xue have enjoyed Your Majesty's favor for many years and are Your Majesty's beloved.
They deserve to be buried alive.
Empress Yang was only twelve years old and had been neglected for most of her life. Even if I had a heart of stone, I couldn't help but be moved.
The sage is neither a sage nor a human being, but a foolish ruler.
Your Majesty has no princes or princesses, and no one in the harem with any rank or status can survive.
No wonder Empress Yang, Imperial Concubine Feng, Concubine Xue, Concubine Zheng, Han Chongrong, Concubine Wu, Concubine Zhang, and Lady Wang cried more sadly than each other.
Before I could think about it, Le Yang called out to His Majesty, and the Saint opened his eyes.
Eunuch Zhu was also talking. Judging from his expression, he seemed to be making a complaint, but I didn't know who he was complaining about. I just hoped that every word he said had nothing to do with me.
I can't ask or hear about what's going on above.
I lowered my head, turning the Buddhist beads in my hand, counting the days of mourning, the beads my master gave me.
There are still two mountains left of the Five Great Mountains that I have not climbed.
After the mourning period is over, I will set out to climb the mountain.
I was thinking about my own things when Princess Le Yang took my hand. I didn't want to follow her. The princess led me to the Empress Dowager. I bowed and didn't dare to look around.
The Empress Dowager handed the medicine to me, and I fed it all to the Saint without even looking away.
After feeding the medicine, I will leave.
His Majesty drank the medicine, then held my wrist, refusing to let me go. He whispered in my ear, "Why... don't you cry for me?"
I pretended to be deaf and dumb and didn't hear anything.
The deaf man keeps silent, and the emperor will have his own wrath.
The saint gave me poisoned wine and asked me to be buried with him.
I don't want to die, and I don't want to be buried alive with my dead son.
Shaking off His Majesty's hand, I prostrated myself at the Empress Dowager's feet, tugging at her clothes, "Mother, Mother..."
The Empress Dowager looked at me, crying and angry. "Li'er, you should plead with the Emperor. You're angry with the Emperor and my son is dead. The Emperor has a short life, and you have a long life. He won't be at peace in death if you live on. If you go down to accompany him, he'll have a companion. The Emperor only loves you. I can no longer care about your quarrel on the road to the underworld..."
"Mother, mother, don't you want Li'er anymore?" I cried to my adoptive mother.
"You were the first to give up the Queen Mother and the Emperor!"
The Empress Dowager's tears fell on my palm, and I let go of it in shock.
The Queen Mother still loves the Emperor the most.
The emperor is dying, and the empress dowager is going crazy...
I don’t know whether the emperor liked Feng Rusu or Xue Yinmei the most.
I know exactly which woman the emperor hates the most.
The person he hates the most is me.
He is also the person I hate the most.
He was about to die, but he still refused to let me go.
The emperor spat out blood and called out to his mother, "Eunuch Zhu, please put the poisoned wine in front of me."
Three imperial edicts urgently summoned me back to Chang'an to be buried with the emperor.
What belongs to me cannot be escaped even if I die.
Huayang Anyang knelt down and cried, begging for mercy to His Majesty on my behalf.
Leyang was crying and Huaiyang was laughing.
The poisoned wine is in my hand, and the emperor won't let me live. Since I'm going to die, I have to disgust the current emperor.
I stood up, drank a mouthful of the poisoned wine, looked at the sage and smiled, "Your Majesty, I have loved you since childhood. I know your Majesty deeply despises my humble origins. I only regret that I am shameless and disabled, and that I have not been favored by your Majesty. If there is an afterlife, I wish to be your slave and maid, always by your side, serving you, whether in life or death... It is my blessing to be buried with your Majesty..."
The saint killed his own brother, forced his stepmother to death, and killed his own sister, let alone me.
I couldn't hear, so my voice was naturally louder than that of an ordinary person. Everyone looked at me. I didn't want to implicate Huayang and Anyang anymore, so I drank the poisoned wine in an instant.
It’s better to die, it’s better to die, after death I will no longer be a slave of the Li family.
I waited for the poison to take effect, and the saint looked at me and asked, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Tell me earlier, what to say?
The poisonous wine took effect immediately and I fell into Huayang and Anyang's arms.
I'm going to die! The palace was in chaos. Empress Yang burst into tears. Concubine Feng knelt at the Empress Dowager's feet and kowtowed for mercy. Concubine Wu suddenly banged her head against the pillar. Talented Lady Zhang and Lady Wang got up and fled.
Concubine Xue Shu stood up, pointed at the sage and cursed, "You dog emperor, I've been so good to you, and yet, before I die, you're still only thinking about her?"
Concubine Xue was held down by the palace servants, and I also fell into the hands of my mortal enemy.
Ah Xiang, Yuan Xiao is still waiting for me to leave the palace and go home.
I still have a lot to say to Huayang and Anyang, but I'm already here, so I can only go to the underworld and talk to my mother and Zhaoyang...
The King of Yue appeared before me, but in just a moment, he was driven out of the palace by the tyrant.
I didn't want to die in the arms of a tyrant, but unfortunately, I didn't have the strength to escape. The tyrant held my hand and spoke in my ear, saying that he would treat me well in the next life.
The tyrant's tears fell into my eyes and he kissed me.
The tyrant is also crazy.
I closed my eyes, hating myself so much that I wanted to die immediately, not wanting to stay in this world anymore.
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