in2ebook Chapter 627: The Foolish Woman Who Fakes Her Death for a Man (34)
Chapter 627: The Foolish Woman Who Fakes Her Death for a Man (34)
Chapter 627: The Foolish Woman Who Fakes Her Death for a Man (Thirty-Four)
The queen waited for a long time until his hand fell and she was sure that he was dead, then the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.
He glanced at Yao Fugui, who understood and took out an imperial edict from his arms, shook the emperor's hand and returned the jade seal, then stood aside silently.
In fact, Li Xiangyu is the crown prince, so there is no need to do this, but his situation is different from others, and the queen must make sure that everything is foolproof.
The Queen waited for Yao Fugui to stop before she shouted anxiously.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, what's wrong with you? Quickly call the imperial physician!"
The imperial physician had been waiting outside the hall for a long time. He came over to investigate and then knelt down to kowtow.
"Empress, the Emperor has passed away!"
"what?"
Prince Chengping and others who had hurried to the palace gate were all frozen in place.
Yao Fugui cried out with tears in his eyes, "The Emperor has passed away..."
Everyone inside and outside the hall knelt down.
Shuangshuang and Li Xiangyu were holding their two children, waiting outside the Qinzheng Hall for the emperor to summon them, when they suddenly heard Yao Fugui shouting.
"The Emperor has passed away..."
I breathed a sigh of relief, finally the dust has settled.
Li Xiangyu asked in surprise, "Sister Shuangshuang, what does it mean that the emperor has passed away?"
Shuangshuang looked at him, sighed, and quickly took the linen mourning clothes Cuilan handed over and changed him into them.
She quickly changed her own clothes. Cuilan and the two children's nanny had already changed them.
He pulled Li Xiangyu to kneel outside the Qinzheng Hall, waiting to be summoned.
"Jiabing means the emperor is gone."
Shuangshuang deliberately made it simpler so that he wouldn't misunderstanding it.
Then she glanced at Xile and said, "The emperor is very old. I may not be able to take care of the prince. You must pay more attention."
When the emperor passed away, the ministers' first concern was not his funeral, but the heir to the throne.
The Queen said sadly to everyone, "When the Emperor was conscious, I wonder if he had a premonition, but he insisted on writing the edict of succession."
The ministers who were specially called by the emperor to come looked at each other, but did not raise any questions.
Yao Fugui took out a bright yellow imperial edict from his sleeve pocket and handed it to the Li family patriarch, Prince Chengping, with both hands.
Prince Chengping opened it, took a look, nodded, and gave it to the left and right prime ministers beside him.
The Left Prime Minister was very sure, "This is indeed the emperor's handwriting!"
Prince Chengping nodded, "Since we have the Emperor's will, Yao Fugui, announce it!"
Yao Fugui came to the outside of Qinzheng with the imperial edict in both hands and shouted loudly.
"The Imperial Decree..."
"The Emperor, by the Mandate of Heaven, declares that Crown Prince Li Xiangyu is kind and virtuous..."
After the imperial edict was read, the ministers all complained in their hearts.
I don't know what the emperor is thinking. Letting the crown prince succeed to the throne is just giving the queen and the harem an opportunity to interfere in politics. Isn't he afraid that she will change the throne to her family?
However, no matter what they think, there are still many ministers who support Li Xiangyu.
Prince Taiping was the first to pay his respects to the Crown Prince.
"Your Highness, the Crown Prince, the country cannot be without a ruler for a day. I invite you to succeed me!"
The others also bowed, "We sincerely ask the Crown Prince to take the throne!"
Li Xiangyu looked at the Queen and Shuangshuang, and suddenly remembered the story Shuangshuang had told him before about the new emperor's succession to the throne. She said that according to the rules, he had to refuse two or three times.
Although he didn't know why there were so many rules, it didn't stop him from listening to Shuangshuang, so he declined directly.
"I just want to keep vigil for my father."
Prince Taiping didn't expect that the prince would know how to refuse.
He straightened his clothes and asked again. It was not until the third time that Li Xiangyu saw the admiration in his eyes that he accepted it.
Li Xiangyu succeeded to the throne in front of the coffin, and the empress dowager ruled the country from behind the curtain.
After the matter was settled, the queen showed mercy and allowed the commoner Li Xiang, who was under house arrest, to come out and kneel in honor of the emperor.
Li Xiang knelt before the emperor's spirit tablet, crying heart-wrenchingly.
I cry for my father who loves me so much, but I also cry for my own unknown and confusing future.
He knew that given the Queen Mother's hatred for their family, no good end would be waiting for him.
Therefore, after the emperor entered the imperial mausoleum, he simply knelt down and begged the empress dowager to allow him to guard the imperial mausoleum.
The Queen Mother rejected it and kept it in the former Third Prince's mansion.
How could the Queen Mother allow such an ambitious person to become a major source of worry for her in the future?
The first imperial decree issued by Li Xiangyu after he ascended the throne was to appoint Shuangshuang as queen and his son as crown prince and acting regent.
Therefore, such a strange scene appeared in the court: a little baby was sleeping soundly lying on the dragon throne.
The Queen Mother was sitting faintly behind the curtain of the dragon throne, and the grandmother and granddaughter complemented each other perfectly.
As the emperor, Li Xiangyu lived a carefree life with Shuangshuang in the harem.
From time to time, he would return to the former eldest prince's mansion and live the life of an ordinary citizen.
When the Crown Prince was three years old, a palace maid came to report, "Commoner Li Xiangze is gone."
The Queen Mother sent a trusted person to check it out personally. After confirming that it was Li Xiangyu himself, she ordered people to find a hilltop and bury him randomly.
A pedantic imperial censor once said in the court, "Empress Dowager, Li Xiangze is the late emperor's son after all.
Even if I am demoted to a commoner, I still hope to be buried with the splendour and splendor accorded to a prince."
The left and right prime ministers and other ministers all looked at this young man as if he were a fool.
Anyone who has been in the court for a long time knows the grudge between the Empress Dowager and the imperial concubine's lineage.
It was a grand funeral. In fact, when Li Xiangyu first ascended the throne, they speculated how long Li Xiangze could live.
As expected, the empress dowager directly rejected the censor's words.
The reasons are ready-made: those who kill their brothers and fathers are disloyal, unfilial, unkind and unjust.
How could he be worthy of being buried in the Li family's ancestral tomb under the name of the royal heir?
After Li Xiangze's matter came to an end, the Queen Mother came to Fengxian store.
I stood in silence for a long time before the late emperor's spirit tablet.
"You asked me to let your son go, so I will do what I said.
As for why your son came to see you at such a young age, it really has nothing to do with me.
I just returned to him the secret medicine they gave to my Yu'er.
So remember, if you want to find someone to settle a score, you should go find the culprit, but make sure you don't find the wrong person."
On this day, the caravan from Beiyun Kingdom returned.
Shuangshuang had originally organized such a team to travel between the capital of Daqing and the capital of Beiyun.
I just wanted to send Changning some medicinal herbs and some food to ensure Changning's quality of life in Beiyun Kingdom.
Unexpectedly, it gradually grew into a caravan that is now famous in both countries.
They brought good news that Princess Changning, now the Queen of Beiyun Kingdom, was pregnant.
When the Queen Mother heard this, she was both happy and worried.