Chapter 696 No Need to Meet
Shen Chuliu looked at the man's back through the glass window.
The emperor is handsome and has a good figure.
He was wearing a crimson purple casual robe, and his straight body was gradually walking away.
Shen Chuliu lay back down again.
She hugged the pillow he had used in her arms, buried herself in the quilt, and cried silently.
On the fourth day after the emperor and the crown prince left the imperial city, Shen Chuliu got up early and was dressing when she suddenly stumbled and her vision went dark.
"Call Doctor Zhao and don't tell anyone." Shen Chuliu said only this and then passed out.
When I woke up again, it was already past noon.
The people who were picking plums all had red eyes.
Shen Chuliu looked at Doctor Zhao on the side.
"Empress..." Doctor Zhao just called out.
"I know my own body condition very well. I can't hold on any longer." Shen Chuliu smiled.
Zhemei and the others were frightened by this sentence, and the room was silent for a moment.
"Before, I was worried about Yan'er, but now I don't have to worry anymore." Shen Chuliu smiled and said, "The Queen Mother arranged everything and let go very quickly, and I am the same."
"Master, how old are you, Master!" Zhemei knelt down and walked over a few steps.
"Everyone will die one day, and I would like to die at this time." Shen Chuliu smiled.
"Doctor Zhao, can I still hold on until the emperor returns?"
Doctor Zhao said nothing.
"That's because we can't. It doesn't matter. We have to hold on for a while. It doesn't matter if we don't see each other. We're so old now." Shen Chuliu said with a smile.
"Your Majesty..." Imperial Physician Zhao was also upset: "How about asking all the imperial physicians to come and take a look? I am not very knowledgeable and you are young after all. Is there anything you can do?"
"I don't want that. I know that this is what happened to me, and I just want to leave quietly. I know your medical skills. I have been in the palace for twenty-one years. From the beginning to the end, you have been serving me." Shen Chuliu smiled.
"There's no need to make such a fuss. You just need to prescribe some medicine for me to make me more energetic. It will be fine if I die without looking ugly." Shen Chuliu said.
In the end, Doctor Zhao just responded silently with a “yes” and left.
"Okay, now only you three know about it, so don't say anything. If you still recognize me as your master, then listen to my arrangements." Shen Chuliu looked at Zhemei, Xinlv and Suihong.
The three of them could only agree yes.
They were slaves, how dare they not listen? "Do you know what I thought when I saw the lanterns all over the yard? People always want to be independent. Yan'er is the same. In the future, when he has children and concubines, even if he remembers to decorate these for me every year, I'm afraid it's just a habit. Not intentional. Of course, I don't blame him. I just think it's okay for me to leave now."
"The emperor now loves me the most, and even more than just loves me. My son has become the crown prince and married a wife. I have no regrets."
She had lived in this palace for twenty-one years and actually had no aversion or hatred towards it.
Even though I have suffered and shed blood here, I don't hate this place that much.
Her closest bloodline is also here.
Qi Yixiu is also very good.
No matter what he had done, no matter what he was like, he was good to her.
It was not the emperor's fault that she did not have a lifelong partner.
She could have stayed away from the palace. What did this have to do with Qi Yixiu? She never resented others because of her own extravagant wishes.
In an era when taking concubines was legal, even if you didn't enter the palace, could you really be together for the rest of your life?
Moreover, would they be happy if they were together for the rest of their lives? That was all fantasy, but she had truly owned everything in the palace over the past twenty years.
Looking back on the past, it’s not painful.
People have to stop no matter how long they walk, so it doesn’t matter if they stop now.
Imperial Concubine Jing was still recuperating from her illness and asked the Empress for leave, rarely coming out.
However, when the weather is good, she will still take a walk in the Imperial Garden and Luming Lake.
I just won’t go to pay my respects.
Concubine Hui took the Thirteenth Prince to live in Chonghua Palace. The Thirteenth Prince was also very sensible and was close to her.
Since Concubine Hui was busy, she naturally didn't spend as much time with Shen Chuliu as before.
Shen Chuliu thought this was a good idea.
When she was strolling in the Imperial Garden, no one was allowed to disturb her.
Quietly.
The Crown Princess would occasionally come to pay her respects, and Shen Chuliu would tell her everything he could, but as for how much she understood, it was up to her.
It was March, and the birthday came on the first day, but it didn't pass.
I have already told the Queen that my health is not good this year, so let's forget about it.
Instead, the emperor who was far away in the south sent back gifts.
Shen Chuliu accepted it with a smile.
But after her birthday, she began to sleep more and more, and medicine was of no help.
Zhemei privately asked Doctor Zhao, "What exactly happened? Let me know too!"
"Alas, the queen is exhausted. It shouldn't have been that bad, but last year, first the prince got married, then the queen mother passed away, so she was busy all the time. Especially after the queen mother passed away, the queen refused to slack off for a whole month, kneeling and worshiping morning and night. The queen is too strong-willed and insisted. Another year has passed..."
"I knew a few years ago that the queen's body needed three to five years of rest before it could recover. But with a poison like that, even if it recovers, it will never return to its previous state. Now that the best time for recuperation has passed, how can it be of any use..."
"Is there...no other way?" Zhemei burst into tears.
"Don't cry. The queen knows everything. She...she doesn't ask for those things anymore." Doctor Zhao said.
"Don't cry, the Queen doesn't want to see you like this." Doctor Zhao sighed.
Zhemei shook her head and squatted in the corner crying for a long time.
On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Shen Chuliu woke up and said, "Tell the emperor and the prince that I can't do it anymore."
The comb in Zhemei's hand fell to the ground immediately.
"Why are you so surprised? Go ahead." Shen Chuliu smiled.
Everyone knelt down, as Yuanxiao was the one who delivered the message.
In the end, Imperial Concubine Jing was unwilling to invite too many people from the Imperial Medical Bureau, and only the chief physician and deputy chief physician, as well as Imperial Physician Zhao, came.
The Queen came in person.
"No medicine works." The imperial physician shook his head.
The Queen frowned: "How could this happen?"
"It's not just now. I checked your pulse in early spring last year. At that time, because of the New Year, your Majesty was overworked and fainted for three to five days. Your Majesty was extremely weak at that time. The poison was really harmful to your body, and your organs were seriously damaged. Last year was a year of many things. You were not feeling well before the New Year, but you didn't want anyone to know. You only asked me to prepare ginseng soup, and she got through the New Year. You are a very weak person, how could you stand such an endurance."
Ginseng soup is just a way to force people to cheer up.
The Queen said after a while: "Tell the Emperor to return to the capital. Since the Imperial Concubine does not want anyone to disturb her, then... no one is allowed to come to see her."
"yes."
The Queen sighed: "She is the one with a clear mind. I guess if I didn't say it, she doesn't want to see anyone from the Shen family or the Pei family?"
Zhemei shed tears and said, "The master said that everyone has their own destiny, so there is no need to meet."
(End of this chapter)
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