Chapter 758: Something Happened

I only remember that when he was young, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager often called him Xuan Ye.

In the past few decades, the queen mother has always called the emperor, and she has not called him that way for many years.

The queen mother held Kangxi's hand tightly, and said in an elder tone: "Not only the Ai family, but also the empress dowager back then, is also proud of teaching a grandson like you in this life. The leader of the Qing Dynasty must not doubt himself!"

Kangxi gritted his back teeth, and replied in a taught way: "Understood, mother, son, keep it in mind!"

"Well..." The queen mother took the initiative to let go of Kangxi's hand, and said weakly: "I have talked to you so much, Aijia is a little tired..."

"Emperor Niang, rest well, my son will come to see you someday." Kangxi said so, but he didn't stand up on his knees.

When the servants saw him, they thought his legs and feet were swollen and inconvenient, so they came forward to help him.

But Kangxi raised his hand to stop him.

He knelt beside the bed for a while, forced back the pain in his heart, and then stood up by himself.

Looking up, the confusion and frustration in his eyes disappeared.

Instead, it was cold and sharp, which made people dare not take a second look.

He dragged his swollen legs, hands behind his back, and left the Palace of Mercy and Benevolence inconveniently.

And when he left, he was separated from the queen mother.

It was night, and the servants wanted to feed the queen mother medicine, but they never knew that they could never wake her up again.

In the Xinghuachun pavilion in Yuanmingyuan, Ruoyin was lying in fourth master's arms to keep warm, sleeping comfortably.

I heard bells ringing outside, and each sound was louder than the other.

It seems...it came from the Forbidden City.

In a daze, Ruoyin's eyelashes trembled.

The bells of the Forbidden City are usually used to tell the time, and there will not be such a big movement.

But today, the bell is dozens of times louder than usual.

Just like the air defense siren I heard before, it has been hovering over the capital.

With an ominous forecast, it struck people's hearts.

But soon, the bell stopped and everything became quiet again.

But Ruoyin became a little uneasy, she saved the clothes in front of the man, "Master, is there something wrong, why is the bell ringing so much today, but it rings a few times and then stops ringing."

He has always been a light sleeper, and if she is awake, he must have woken up a long time ago.

"Well, something happened." When he said this, Fourth Master had already sat up, "Master just counted, and the bell in the palace rang eight times. It should be something happened to the Empress Dowager."

"Queen?" Ruoyin sat up suddenly.

Although she and the Queen Mother did not have a very close relationship.

After all, her old man lives in the palace, and she lives outside the palace.

But all these years, the queen mother is a sensible person in her eyes.

She lived a thorough life and was easy-going, and helped her out several times.

In recent days, when she heard that the Queen Mother was ill, she also went to see her twice.

The fifth princess and the fifth master took care of them very carefully, so she just sat down and came back.

"Oh, then hurry up and take a look at the palace, it's cold...I'll ask my servant to find you a thicker cloak." She got out of bed after saying that.

Fourth master saw a little sadness in the woman's eyes, and it didn't look like she was pretending.

It made his heart feel a lot heavier.

Immediately afterwards, Ruoyin waited on fourth master to put on the brocade robe and black cloak, and personally escorted him to the door.

"Go back to the house and have a good rest, it's cold outside." The man patted her on the shoulder and left with his servant.

When we arrived at the Forbidden City, white lanterns were hung everywhere as Si Ye had guessed.

In the Palace of Mercy, a large number of people kneeled were from the royal family.

Fourth Master found a seat at the back and knelt down as well.

Kangxi knelt in front of the Empress Dowager's bed, unable to get up for a long time.

Both hands were still tightly holding the queen mother's cold hand, and his eyes were full of nostalgia and gratitude.

The past is vivid in his memory, since he was beaten for three months, this aunt has been taking care of him.

And the elders closest to him, from the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang to Lagu Su Ma, left him one by one.

Now...the queen mother is gone too.

He lost his last close elder.

For the next few days, Kangxi stayed in the Palace of Mercy and did not return to his bedroom.

Some relatives of the emperor also knelt in mourning at the Ciren Palace, and Ruoyin was naturally among them.

Until seven days later, Kangxi offered a drink at the Palace of Mercy, preparing to bury the Empress Dowager in the imperial mausoleum.

But before the sacrificial oration started, Kangxi was overwhelmed with grief.

This majestic emperor, who used to scold the officials and elder brother bloody, knelt on the steps and wept bitterly at this moment.

In the end, he almost choked up and finished reading the sacrificial oration.

Even after the recitation, the mighty emperor was still sobbing.

A group of elder brothers and officials naturally wailed along with them.

After noon, the relatives of the emperor buried the queen mother in the imperial mausoleum together.

In order to show their filial piety and thank the Empress Dowager for her kindness in raising them, the fifth master and the fifth princess stayed in the imperial mausoleum to watch the funeral, and it took them twenty days to return.

Fourth master and a group of relatives of the emperor dragged their exhausted bodies back to their respective mansions.

Yuanmingyuan, Ruoyin knew that fourth master and the others would come back early in the morning.

At this time, she was leading the people from the backyard to welcome them at the main gate of the Old Summer Palace.

She glanced at the few in the backyard, one by one, they were much more sensible than in previous years.

I knew that I couldn't get eyelets at this time, I had to wear plain clothes, and I didn't have a few decent jewelry on my head.

It's just that on the surface, a lot of effort has been put into it, but it's not eye-catching.

Not to mention Ruoyin, as a Fujin, she had to lead by example.

He only wore an apricot-colored flag dress and a taupe-colored cloak.

With a jade hairpin pinned to his head, there is no other headgear.

Everyone stood in the cold wind for a long time, but fourth master was still missing.

Li Shi complained a little: "Fu Jin, your people got it right, don't remember the wrong date."

Ruoyin cast a sideways glance at Li Shi, "There can be no mistake, the eunuch next to Master came to report early in the morning."

"Oh." Mrs. Li responded indifferently.

Fourth master has not come to the palace for so many days, they can't even find out any news, they only know that the queen mother has gone.

Fujin's treatment was different. Hearing that Fourth Master often sent Xiao Dezi to Xinghuachun Pavilion to report on things, just thinking about it made her teeth itch with jealousy.

Just when everyone was shivering from the cold, it was snowing heavily.

For a while, the servants quickly put up umbrellas to cover the snow for the masters.

Ruoyin held Tang Pozi in his arms, stretched his neck and looked towards the end of the avenue.

After about a cup of tea, the sound of horseshoes was getting closer.

Then, I saw a group of people rushing here at the end.

The leader was fourth master who hadn't come back for several days.

Heavy snow was flying in the sky, and he was riding on horseback, but his body was tall and slender.

The man was wearing a dark sable hat, with one arm tied stiffly and the other wielding a whip.

The black cloak on his body set off a stormy sea in the air.