Chapter 694 Concubine Hui
If the Queen Mother is gone, it would be inappropriate to promote the concubines.
"What do you mean? What will the emperor think of her after hearing this?" Shen Chuliu said again.
"It's not easy for us to say. The Queen Mother has mentioned it. She's probably thinking about it too," said the Queen.
Sure enough, in the afternoon, the Queen Mother brought it up herself.
Just ask the Queen to tell the Emperor.
In fact, there is no need to tell him. The emperor has to come every day, and of course the prince has to come as well.
After hearing this, Qi Yixiu immediately issued an edict, raising Yao Chongyuan's position directly to the second-rank concubine.
And bestowed the title: Hui.
At the same time, the seventh princess and the thirteenth prince were adopted by Concubine Hui.
This was beyond everyone's expectation. Yao Chongyuan had been coming here frequently during this period, so it was destined that the Thirteenth Prince would give her the child.
But the emperor still remembers the Seventh Princess, which is really hard to describe.
If Shen Chuliu were to say, it was the emperor's tenderness.
As a result, Concubine Hui became a person with a high position in the palace and had both sons and daughters.
I thank the emperor for his grace. I am very grateful.
The place for her to live was Chonghua Palace, which was not far from Shen Chuliu's Yufu Palace.
But moving and stuff like that will all be next year's thing.
The Queen Mother’s illness is the top priority right now.
After the Queen Mother had settled this matter, she only thought about the Ninth Prince.
A few days after the heavy snow, the snow melted, but the weather was still unusually cold.
The Queen Mother summoned the Li family in and gave them a lot of instructions.
When the Li family members left, they all had red eyes.
The second prince's wife was summoned in.
Li Qiushui was now feeling very uncomfortable because of her pregnancy. When she met the Queen Mother Li, she spoke with a strong spirit.
"Is my great-aunt all right?"
"I can't get better, as long as you are all well." Empress Dowager Li smiled and patted her side: "Come sit here with me."
Li Qiushui went over and said, "Grandma, don't say that. It will get better."
"You are such a smart kid, how could you fool me? I am already over seventy years old. I have everything I need and I am not afraid of death." Queen Mother Li smiled and said, "I have met my family, including your parents. They are all fine. After I die, at least for the next ten or twenty years, the Li family will not change much. It depends on them how they will be in the future. If they can't get far relying on you and me, then they will be like that in the future."
"Yes." Li Qiu Shui wiped her tears.
"You are a smart child, but I have to give you a piece of advice. You are married into the royal family. Unless you are willing to live in a temple for the rest of your life, you have no choice but to move on."
Even though the Dayi Dynasty allowed divorce, it did not include divorces within the royal family.
"Yes, great aunt." Li Qiu Shui said.
"They are both stupid, but there are advantages to it. Stupid people are easy to control, aren't they? You gave birth to a child, so you can naturally control the backyard. Even if you want to control him, it's not difficult. You don't have to be so unfamiliar with him. Look at Concubine Jing's sister. She was able to flatter the old Prince for so many years, despite the mess in the Prince's Mansion. You are better than her, right? The second brother is stupid, but at least he is a young and handsome man, isn't he?"
Li Qiushui blushed a little: "Yes, great aunt, I understand what you mean."
"Women, those who have never been to the palace all think it is such a wonderful place. Only when you have lived here for a lifetime will you know what kind of place it is. I can still die of old age, I am already a winner. But why do I feel so uncomfortable after winning?"
Queen Mother Li sighed, shook her head and smiled: "People are like this. Only when you reach the end of your life can you understand life. But even if you understand life, it's useless. If you teach the younger generation again, how many words can the younger generation listen to? In the end, you still have to stumble and fall on your own. I just hope that you are all well. It's good to be well."
Li Qiu Shui is smart, but no matter how smart a person is, he or she needs to experience a lot of things before becoming smarter.
After meeting Li Qiu Shui, Empress Dowager Li simply asked someone to move some of her things to An Ning Palace.
She only asked Nanny Hua to go there in person and told her: "Study hard and listen to your sixth brother."
Then he refused to see the Ninth Prince.
After doing this, she seemed to have nothing to worry about anymore, and she let her body get worse day by day.
Qi Yixiu's time with the Queen Mother became longer, but the Queen Mother's health became weaker.
After all, I can’t wait until the New Year.
From November 14 onwards, the Empress Dowager stopped eating and seldom spoke.
Occasionally when I wake up, I am already a little confused.
It took a while to figure out who was there.
However, it is not easy to tell the difference.
The emperor has not left here these days and has been accompanying her day and night.
The concubines were waiting outside.
On the fifteenth day, Empress Dowager Li completely lost her ability to recognize people.
Starting from the night of the 16th, my condition became worse and worse, and I couldn't even drink the ginseng soup.
At dawn, the imperial physician tactfully suggested that it was time to dress the Empress Dowager.
It's not good to put it on just before you die.
Qi Yixiu had no choice but to let go and asked the Queen and others to come in and dress up the Queen Mother.
The Empress Dowager had to wear auspicious attire, so there were more than ten layers of attire inside and outside. By the time she was done getting dressed, it was already daybreak.
Empress Dowager Li did not have a last glimmer of life; she was just a sleeper, and died quietly.
Qi Yixiu knelt there, and there was crying in Ci'an Palace.
In An Ning Palace, upon hearing the news of the Queen Mother's passing, the Ninth Prince cried silently.
Empress Dowager Li was the emperor's biological mother, so her funeral was naturally grand.
The whole palace was in mourning, and even the court had to wear white.
The emperor did not attend court for seven days, and respectfully sent the empress dowager to the previous emperor's mausoleum in the palace.
The Empress Dowager was a queen who was given a new title, so naturally she should be buried with the late emperor.
The empress, concubines, and princes' wives all had to kowtow every morning and evening.
In the Eastern Palace, Crown Princess Ye and Consort Cui are both qualified.
Cui entered the Eastern Palace in September.
A whole month passed by without me knowing how.
Fortunately, the queen and the imperial concubine jointly managed the harem, so no trouble arose.
The empress dowager was finally sent out of the palace, and it was already halfway through the twelfth lunar month.
Even though the Queen Mother is gone, the years cannot pass.
The Crown Prince and the two princes all got married this year. Even though the celebrations had to be simple due to the departure of the Empress Dowager, they still had to be celebrated.
The Queen has been burning the candle at both ends in the past few months and can no longer bear it.
But you can’t fall down during the New Year.
Unfortunately, the second princess couldn't come in at this time. She had a difficult birth and spent the entire month in confinement.
Therefore, the newly appointed Crown Princess Ye has almost become the pillar of the family this year.
The queen is really capable. She directly gives all the power to the imperial concubine.
Shen Chuliu retorted even more quickly, "My body is really not able to do it."
Then the queen called Ye over.
Okay, since your mother-in-law is not enough, you come here.
Anyway, it is legitimate for the Crown Princess to be in charge.
So... the queen directly skipped over the several concubines and relied on the Ye family.
The emperor, who hadn't laughed for a long time, laughed at this incident.
The Queen always does things with justification.
Isn't it true? The Queen is not feeling well, so she asks the Crown Princess to do the hard work. Isn't this just like a mother-in-law being tired and asking her daughter-in-law to take care of things?
I don't believe anything on April Fools' Day.
(End of this chapter)
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