Chapter 215 It’s not getting better.
“Are you feeling better?” Qi Yixiu supported her.
Concubine Yi shook her head gently: "I can't get better."
"I was confused during the day and had the wrong idea. Now I understand everything. The emperor changed my medicine just to make me feel more comfortable in my last days. I appreciate it."
Qi Yixiu tightened his grip but did not explain.
"I have served Your Majesty for many years, and have done both right and wrong. Your Majesty, please forgive all my mistakes for the sake of my current condition." Concubine Yi was talking about the forced pregnancy.
She knew that Qi Yixiu had naturally thought of it as well.
"My beloved concubine has always been very good." Qi Yixiu said.
"That's good. At this point, I don't ask for anything else. I just hope that the emperor will occasionally pass by my palace in the future. When he thinks of me, he can do me some good. After all, I have been favored by the emperor for many years. There is always such a person."
Qi Yixiu remained silent.
"I am really in a bad condition now. I don't ask for anything else, but I just ask that Your Majesty stay with me tonight, okay?" Concubine Yi looked at him pleadingly: "In the future, I will not have the opportunity to sleep with you."
Qi Yixiu sighed: "Okay."
He didn't bother to tell her any lies.
Concubine Yi smiled and said, "Then I'll ask someone to bring some supper. Your Majesty and I will have some?"
Qi Yixiu simply let her do whatever she wanted today.
Concubine Yi sat next to Qi Yixiu, holding one of his hands, saying nothing more, and gradually fell asleep.
In the morning, just like in the past, she got up and tidied Qi Yixiu's clothes.
Then she told him about the painted fan: "I asked them what they wanted. The painted fan said that she wanted to serve you. I agreed. The wealth and splendor in this palace is always dazzling."
She said this without any emotion, as if she was talking to a dead object.
Qi Yixiu understood what she was not saying.
Concubine Yi is disgusted with the painted fan, so let her struggle in the harem.
Although Qi Yixiu was not happy with this, he still agreed.
When Concubine Yi saw Qi Yixiu off, she bowed very low and said, "Your Majesty, I respectfully send you off."
Qi Yixiu didn't stop, nor did he look back.
Concubine Yi said silently in her heart, "I am bidding farewell to the Emperor."
I have kept you in my heart for so many years, and that is enough. I do not want to see you in the next life. In this life, I will say goodbye to you.
Concubine Yi called Su Baolin to Changle Palace.
"I don't want to talk about the past. You are a smart person. You know it all. I haven't done you any favors, but I haven't done you any harm either. Now I only ask one thing of you. Ask the two girls, Chenxiang and Fuxiang, to serve you."
Su Baolin stood up and said, "Yes, I will listen to you, Your Majesty."
"I still have some things here, and I won't take any that should be shared. Don't be disgusted. I have nothing else to give you, so I'll just give you all the silver." Concubine Yi smiled and said, "Actually, I don't know why, there's nothing left for me to entrust."
Su Baolin stood up and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty. I am so ashamed to accept this."
"I started my journey to the harem with high ambitions. But over the years, I don't know what I have gained. You are smarter than me, and I believe you will not be like this in the future." Concubine Yi shook her head: "Until today, I can only tell you the truth."
"Your Majesty, you are too heartless." Su Baolin sighed. She thought, how could you not be hurt if you showed your true heart from the beginning? If not, you wouldn't be unable to hold on now.
Concubine Yi smiled softly: "Come drink tea with me."
Su Baolin agreed.
So the two of them just drank tea without saying or doing anything.
Until someone from Taiji Palace came with an oral order, the painted fan became a changing of clothes.
Huashan's real surname is Sun, and he is the only one who changes clothes in the palace.
Su Baolin then laughed: "Why bother?"
"You and I know that this is bitter, but there are always people who think it is sweet. Since she wants it, give it to her." Concubine Yi looked at Sun Gengyi who was happy outside with a cold smile in her eyes.
Su Baolin continued to drink tea.
Before leaving, Su Baolin bowed to Concubine Yi but did not say a word.
Everyone in the palace was looking at Sun Gengyi with a frown, and they all thought that Concubine Yi was crazy. How could he still be addicted to sending palace maids away?
The next day, Sun Gengyi went to Fengzao Palace to pay his respects happily.
Whether people were ridiculing Concubine Yi or her, they all found it a bit boring.
She sat at the very end, wearing a weird pink dress.
The jewelry on her head was given by Concubine Yi.
Concubine Yi settled the people around her and seemed to have no worries and didn't want to see anyone.
Sun Gengyi, who had become Gengyi, was also missing.
Sun Gengyi no longer cared about her master; she was only thinking about serving her in bed.
But the emperor kept flipping through the cards for new concubines in the harem, but Sun Gengyi had nothing to do with it.
Sun Gengyi didn't know that when Qi Yixiu passed on the oral instructions, he told Chu Si: "No need to make green head cards, just follow the rules of palace maids. No need to arrange accommodation."
On the fourth day of the first lunar month, she agreed, thinking to herself, what's the point of this? I'm the emperor's concubine, but I can't sleep with him. It's better to leave the palace.
At the end of March, Concubine Yi passed away on a sunny day.
She couldn't bear it any longer, and perhaps because she had nothing on her mind, she let go even faster.
Without any ties, nothing matters anymore.
She didn't even ask for grace for her family.
After Qi Yixiu dismissed the court, he still wanted to go see Concubine Yi.
After reviewing a few memorials, news came that Concubine Yi had passed away.
Qi Yixiu paused, and the red color from the cinnabar pen fell on the folding paper.
He put down his pen and said, "Pass on my words. Concubine Yi will be posthumously named a noble concubine. Her body will be kept in Changle Palace. Instruct the Ministry of Internal Affairs to follow the funeral rites for a noble concubine and bury her properly in the concubine's mausoleum."
I was busy responding on the fourth day of the New Year.
Soon, the Ministry of Internal Affairs took action.
Concubine Yi passed away peacefully. In fact, she never called the imperial physician again after that day.
When she was dying, there was nothing special about her, she just recalled many past events.
Then at the end of spring, he let go gently.
When the news spread, the harem looked at her with awe.
No one expected it to happen so soon.
The Queen sent word and began to arrange Concubine Yi's funeral.
At dusk, the concubines came to Changle Palace to pay their respects.
Concubine Yi had no children, so Chenxiang and Fuxiang wore mourning clothes to prevent her from leaving in such a miserable state.
Among them, Sun Gengyi was very embarrassed.
She couldn't perform the ceremony, because she was nominally a concubine. But she couldn't not perform the ceremony, after all, she was still in Changle Palace and still belonged to Concubine Yi.
She could only change into plain clothes in front of the coffin, but it was not easy for her to kneel down.
Everyone looked at her as if she were a fool.
But she didn't know that days like this were just the beginning.
Shen Chuliu changed into plain clothes and came to burn incense for Concubine Yi.
She sighed softly while offering incense. A person as charming as Concubine Yi really shouldn't waste time in the palace like this.
But which of the beautiful ladies in the harem is not like this? To be able to give birth to a child and live to old age in peace is a blessing.
She thought, Concubine Yi, please don’t be the emperor’s concubine in your next life.
In fact, Concubine Yi is still simple.
(End of this chapter)
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