Chapter 954 Crying Spirit
The news that the queen died instantly shocked the entire capital.
Chu Xuanyu immediately put down his bowls and chopsticks, put on plain clothes, and hurried to the palace. Zhuo and Xia Zihan lost their appetites and finished the New Year's Eve dinner in a hurry. Even the New Year's Eve dinner, everyone was in no mood.
Xia Zihan ordered Chu Qing and others to make a few pairs of cotton mats overnight. Early the next morning, when Xia Zihan sent the cotton mats to Zhuo, he found that the festive red pairs originally posted on all the doors in the mansion were in place. Overnight, all were replaced by white pairs.
The red lanterns in the garden were also replaced by white lanterns overnight.
Mrs. Zhuo also changed into white clothes early in the morning and was about to go out. When she saw Xia Zihan coming, she told her, "Ayu, you take care of Xuan'er and Jie'er at home first. Mother, go to the palace to see if you can." If you want me to go to the palace to cry, my mother is telling the maid to call you.”
"I know, Mom, Chu Qing and the others made this overnight last night. Mom, tie it up first, just in case."
Xia Zihan handed the cotton mat in his hand to Zhuo.
Zhuo took the cotton mat and tied it directly to her knees in front of Xia Zihan without any courtesy.
Zhuo went out in a hurry.
Xia Zihan was at home with her two little buns and her second and third sons. Her heart had been tightened ever since Zhuo left.
After waiting all morning, it was not until lunch time that the little maid next to Zhuo came back to deliver a message, "Princess Princess, the princess has something to tell the princess, saying that the Queen Mother has issued an order to let all the women who are destined to enter the palace on the third day of the lunar month to mourn."
"I know, you go down first." Xia Zihan breathed a sigh of relief and sent the little maid away.
"Sister-in-law, is the queen really dead?" The third child twisted his body and jumped off the kang, "Sister-in-law, do the second child and I want to go and mourn?"
"You don't have to go, you're still young." Xia Zihan pulled his shoeless foot, "Put on your shoes and step on the ground, otherwise, I'll tell my mother and she will talk about you."
The third child is not afraid of Chu Xuanyu, nor is he afraid of Chu Jingqi. What he fears most is Zhuo's Nian Kung Fu. Xia Zihan always goes behind his family's back and uses this to threaten the third child, and the third child will surrender. It works every time.
The third child patted his chest and said happily, "That's good. I hate kneeling down for others."
On the morning of the second day of the lunar new year, Xia Zihan took two small buns and rode in a carriage belonging to the royal family to the Chu residence to pay New Year greetings.
Princess Qinghui was not at home and went to the palace.
Zeng sat on the bed, held her hand, and sighed with emotion, "How could a person who was fine before the Chinese New Year..."
"Grandma, you have a destiny, don't think too much." Xia Zihan comforted her, and then said, "The queen has done so many evil things again. If it weren't for the kindness and tolerance of the current emperor, I'm afraid the queen would have been killed by the emperor." She was kicked out of the palace. Now, she can still enjoy the glory of the queen and be buried in the imperial mausoleum. This is already a profound blessing. ”
Mrs. Zeng nodded repeatedly, "Isn't that right?" Then she asked about Chu Xuanyu and his wife, "Your parents haven't come back?"
"Well, dad stayed in the palace for two nights, and mother also stayed in the palace for one night. Mother sent someone over to say that the queen mother would keep her and the second princess as companions,"
The Queen Mother must have felt uncomfortable when the Queen died. After all, she was her daughter-in-law, and maybe Dr. Bai could save the Queen, but she and the Emperor did not send anyone to ask Dr. Bai to save her.
Calculated this way, the Queen's death can be regarded as being indirectly caused by the Queen Mother and the Emperor.
Xia Zihan stayed at the Chu family and had an early dinner before setting off back to Prince Anjun's Mansion.
As soon as he entered the house, Mrs. Zhuo came over and said, "Ayu, you are back."
Zhuo's eyes were red and swollen, and her voice was a bit hoarse. It seemed that she had been crying a lot in the palace these past two days.
Zhuo said, "The Queen Mother left Princess Mingzhu as her companion, and the second princess and I left the palace."
When she and Mrs. Zhuo arrived at the Little Flower Hall and dismissed all the servants, Mrs. Zhuo told her in a low voice, "What the Queen did was immoral, and it scared the Queen Mother." "What did the Queen do?" Everyone asked. Death, what else could scare the Queen Mother?
Xia Zihan couldn't guess it, so he simply didn't guess it.
Mrs. Zhuo curled her lips and said, "What else can happen? How do you think the queen died on New Year's Eve?"
"It's not suicide, right?" Xia Zihan's eyes widened and he said in shock.
Mrs. Zhuo nodded, "Not many people know about this, everyone is hiding it."
The queen of a country, in order to cause trouble for the emperor and the queen mother, actually chose New Year's Eve to hang herself while the palace was having New Year's Eve dinner.
If this spreads out, this royal family will immediately become a joke among the people.
"Because of this, the emperor was very angry and even refused to let the queen's family enter the palace to cry for the queen." Zhuo added.
Xia Zihan thought of the queen's cousin, the person who could have had the biggest bargaining chip to be named queen after the queen died of illness.
But now, the queen actually chose such a way to die. She knew that not only would the queen's cousin be impossible to be named queen in the future, but she might also be disliked by the emperor.
The queen's move killed two birds with one stone and was so clever that Xia Zihan had to give a thumbs up and praise the queen. Even before she died, she didn't forget to kill her cousin.
Early the next morning, after Mrs. Zhuo arranged the housework in the palace, she took Xia Zihan to the palace to cry.
They fell earlier and knelt in the front row. Kneeling next to them were Princess Mingzhu and Princess Qinghui. The second princess had not yet arrived.
After Xia Zihan knelt down, he quietly pulled Princess Qinghui and Princess Mingzhu, and secretly stuffed two pairs of cotton mats into their hands.
"I know your knees have hurt from kneeling these past two days, so I made this specially for you." Xia Zihan lowered his voice so that only three people could hear it.
Princess Qinghui's eyes lit up and she said hurriedly, "Chu Yu, it's better that you treat me well and think of me everywhere."
"It's good to know." Xia Zihan glared at her.
Princess Mingzhu also lowered her head and whispered her thanks, "Chu Yu, thank you."
Xia Zihan waved hurriedly and said sincerely, "You're welcome, we are friends, no need to say thank you."
"Well, I understand."
She recorded all her kindness to Chu Yu in a book, and would return it to Chu Yu one by one in the future when the opportunity comes.
Soon, married women came in one after another.
Xia Zihan and others stopped talking, and soon she saw a few familiar people, including several ladies from the Dou family, two ladies from the Liao family, and even Mr. Dou came.
Later, she learned that Dou Da's husband was a third-grade military general, and she was also a third-grade imperial concubine.
The second princess also came in soon. Xia Zihan secretly stuffed a pair of cotton cushions into the second princess. The second princess glanced at her with a smile in her eyes and quietly put them away.
"Princess Princess, let's go see the Queen Mother and let the juniors kneel here." The second princess said.
(End of chapter)