Chapter 180

Liu originally still struggling, but when dragged into the Rong clan ancestral shrine, smelled the smell of incense that connects the worlds of yin and yang, was lit by a candle in front of the spirit, tied to a bench, only to realize that they are dead today.

The fourth girl does not care what regicide first mother, enjoined wife, she is bent on her death.

Rong Xiangmian condescending, coldly looking at her: “Nine lives, I will let you die nine times.”

After that, someone spread a white cloth on Liu’s face, and then a stream of water poured down through the white cloth.

At first, Liu could barely breathe, then another layer was added to the white cloth, and again the water flowed, she gradually felt her mouth and nose were completely sealed by the thick and damp cloth, and not a single breath of fresh air could enter, and the feeling of suffocation overwhelmed her like a mountain.

She tried to shake her head in an attempt to get rid of this sense of suffocation, but her body was bound, it was a futile struggle.

Time passed by, just as her heart burst, her consciousness blurred, and she was on the verge of death, the white cloth was suddenly lifted, and Liu vigorously sucked her nose, and let out an unpleasant moan like sawing wood in her throat.

Her face was already green, her eyes were bloodshot, the tendons on her forehead were bursting, and the bench was wet.

“Once.” Rong Xiangmian indifferently recorded the number and had Liu pushed to the brink of death again, waited long enough, and then pulled back.

Waiting for her to wake up a little, Xiangmian said, “By the way, I forgot to tell you, after you die, we will report to the Emperor and remove your title of enjoinment, and father will also repudiate you, and won’t allow you to be buried in the Rong family’s ancestral tomb, you can only be buried in the Liu family’s grave. That said, the Liu family has been stripped of the title of defeat, would have relied on you to receive the day, they should not spend money to give you a big funeral, perhaps even your body will not be transported back to the ancestral tomb. I don’t know if they are willing to spend money to buy you a piece of land in the Western Hills. If not, I guess we can only leave you in a mass grave. You have killed so many people for this glory, wealth, and ennobled wife, and you have really lived your whole life in vain at the end.”

With these words, she managed to make Liu’s agonized anger go beyond measure, her bloodshot eyes releasing a vicious light as she stared at her dead in the face. Naihe Rong Xiangmian did not even give a look, the whole face of the ancestral hall full of tablets, her vicious gaze only reached a cold and determined slender back.

Liu suddenly recalled the winter of the 12th year of Longzhi, Rong Xiangmian scurried out from the bushes outside Yonghua Palace, pulling her with one hand, sending her out with one side, saying that she had something important to tell her mother and father.

At that time, she raised her hand to shake off that cold little hand, reprimanded: “How many times have I told you, before the Lantern Festival passes through the bright road, not allowed to show your face in the palace, quickly go back!”

Rong Xiangmian still want to defend anything, Liu simply do not look, busy with the relationship, help two companion readers into the palace of the Sister to explain, “Sister do not blame, this girl and her mother as unruly, Sister in the future just teach is, do not have to worry about the other.”

Before she finished speaking, she saw Rong Xiangmian stopping her steps, and her frail figure quickly drowned in the dark alleyway in the direction of Yongfu Palace.

At that time, what exactly did she have to say that mattered?

Liu did not have the opportunity to ask.

Just like this dead and alive eight times, the sky is already dark, outside came in a person, loudly said: “the eldest princess residence to the letter, said that the Xiangzhi girl was already difficult to labor, a moment to hear that the lady died violently, the pain is unbearable, suddenly blood avalanches, mother and child are dead.”

Hearing this news, Liu, who had already given up on seeking survival, dripped hot tears and stared at Xiangqi dead in the face, using the last bit of her remaining strength to whimper and curse her.

“Curse me? You killed so many people and you are not afraid of retribution, what am I afraid of?” Rong Xiangmian coldly said, “For the last time.”

Although Zhou Xian Yang’s men did everything for her, when Liu fell off the bench like a dead fish, Xiangmian was still shocked to realize that she was in a cold sweat.

She looked at the tablets of her ancestors and her mother and knelt down to kowtow, “My daughter has avenged my mother.”

Zhou Xian Yang waited outside the ancestral hall until it was dark, and when the crown princess came out, she immediately went forward to support her, “Xiangmian, it’s all in the past.”

Rong Xiangmian stumbled on her feet, her eyes were lifeless, and she hugged him helplessly, “I have avenged my mother ……”

“Yes! She must be so relieved!” He gently held her hair, only to feel his heart ache.

“No ……” Rong Xiangmian desperately shook his head, “She can’t see, she can’t see at all. She is already dead, how to take revenge, all meaningless, she can not see …… I can not do anything for her ……”

Said Rong Xiang Gu in his arms and let out a loud cry. Rong Xiang Gu and Gu Frost were on the sidelines, also unable to hold back their tears.

Revenge and consolation for the dead, that was just for the living to feel better in their hearts, the dead had ultimately lost everything and could never make up for it.

Zhou Xian Yang waited for Xiangmian to dry up her tears before picking her up and instructing Rong Xiang Gu: “The other accomplices, big brother helped dispose of them.”

After saying this, he walked outside. At this time, Xiao Nan came up and said, “News from the Elder Princess’ residence, Rong Xiang Zhi gave birth to a daughter.”

“Uh-huh.” Zhou Xian Yang said nothing.

Xiao Bei scratched his head at the back, “Then should we go and tell her the news of her mother’s violent death or not?”

“No need,” Xiao Nan understood what they meant, “The news of the British Duke’s wife’s sudden death from an acute illness will soon be sent by the Rong family to all the public houses and marquis’ doors, and they will send people to offer their condolences. The Rapunzel’s residence will naturally receive it as well, and that Rong Xiangzhi will naturally know about it. On the day she gave birth to a child, her mother died, so she naturally has to cry.”

“Oh ……,” Xiao Bei understood, “It seems that the Wangfei still left the Rong family with decency.”

After Liu’s death, Rong Xiangyang fell ill.

Zhou Xian Yang also put off all business, except for the days when she went to the palace to ask for peace, and stayed with her every step of the way.

When she got better, the Empress Dowager became increasingly ill.

Zhou Xianyang and Rong Xiangmei were actually prepared for the fact that the Empress Dowager’s condition was indeed not good this year, and although they were saddened by the fact that life and death are natural, there was no need to be obsessive.

Since this day, the two have to enter the palace every day in front of the Empress Dowager’s bed to serve.

The old man’s heart knows, one day screened off the crowd, quietly pulled Yu Wang and Wangfei’s hand, said: “good boy, difficult for your filial piety, day to day into the palace to guard the wife. In the future, be good, try not to make father angry, if you really want to make him angry and fall into trouble, let the Sister go and read this secret decree, to ensure you a lifetime of peace and glory.”

The Sister held a scroll of the Empress Dowager’s decree in her hands, and Zhou Xian Yang realized: the Empress Dowager had always known about him, and knew what he was going to do.

Yes, the person who accompanied her the most when she was a child, besides her mother, was her Imperial Grandmother, who never knew his heart.

“Imperial grandmother, you know that my mother was wrongly accused, and you also know that the Yu family was wrongly accused, right?”

The Empress Dowager sighed and coughed as she heard this, and Rong Xiangshi tugged on his sleeve, telling him not to ask.

Zhou Xian Yang was silent and bowed heavily to thank the Empress Dowager for her care.

Some time later, on an unusual night, the Empress Dowager passed away peacefully in her sleep.

The funeral ceremony lasted forty-nine days, and the Emperor held a three-day and three-night wake for the Empress Dowager, and also stopped the court for three days.

The consorts, sons and princesses followed.

Zhou Xian Yang and Rong Xiangmian were dressed in mourning clothes, kneeling in the hall, both had already done a long time of mental preparation, at the moment for life and death are a bit numb, just silently weeping.

On the contrary, Mr. and Mrs. Li, they cried for three days, sometimes howling while crying, and fainted a few times.

Even the ministers who came to the funeral commented that the benevolence and filial piety of the couple was touching the heavens and the earth.

During one of the breaks, King Qi couldn’t help but spit out, “Before Royal Grandmother was alive, Third Brother and Third Sister-in-Law never did anything to show their filial piety, and now that the person is no longer alive, they are crying so genuinely.”

King Yun knocked him on the head and told him to be careful with his words, but that’s what he thought in his heart. Outside the ministers do not know, he is a prince of the natural clear, the Empress Dowager princely death before this period of time are the fourth brother and fourth sister-in-law in the Ci Ning Palace to serve.

“What happens after death, that is all done for the living.” In the end, King Yun was a straightforward person and couldn’t help but also say, “I say that Fourth Brother and Fourth Sister-in-law are just truthful people who can’t put on a show and suffer losses.”

Regardless of whether it is true or not, the Li Wang couple’s set of operations did cause the dynasty to praise.

After a day of heavy rain, the sky outside the Cining Palace, the double ring rainbow dazzling appear, the scene is extremely beautiful and shocking. Chintian Supervisor reported that: this is auspicious, is the Empress Dowager sensed the filial piety of the Emperor and the royal grandchildren, so as to say goodbye, at ease to go to the ultimate happiness.

The emperor was very satisfied with the news and praised King Li in public.

On the fourth day, the emperor went to court as usual, the funeral rituals were handed over to the Li Wang couple to supervise the whole operation.

Seeing that Marquis Yongan’s house is safe and sound, the emperor has the intention to reuse King Li, not long before the chastisement of King Qing’s heart is uneasy again. What’s more, he was rewarded by the emperor caning, is not long after the Marquis of Yongan into the palace, West Lin door broken and Jiangzhou flooding is related to the two sons of the Zhang family, must be Zhang Huai behind the hand.

The King of Qing has managed to earn such a good situation, how can he lose all his efforts. During a wake, he took the initiative to come to Zhou Xian Yang and said, “King Li insulted the Yuhuang family like that, and the fourth sibling suffered so much, but now that he cried a few times, he’s fine, and I’m not even happy for you.”

Zhou Xian Yang replied in a nonchalant manner, “Second brother, father’s birthday banquet, third brother made amends in public, the princess drank wine, and this matter is over. There’s no need for a family of flesh and blood to hold onto the past.”

“Hmph, you are good natured. I’m just afraid he doesn’t have a heart like yours!”

King Li was indeed not a peaceful person.

On this day, the princes were at the wake, and the people from the Ministry of Rites suddenly went to the imperial court to complain, saying that King Qing was lazy and idle at the wake, and that all the other princes and princesses were kneeling for a full hour, and that only King Qing repeatedly went out for breaks in the middle.

King Qing learned of this matter, naturally know who is the ghost, in front of the spirit of the King and Li argued: “the king was caned, the body is not feeling well, kneeling on so many days, it is not easy, the Empress Dowager is the most charitable, how would you mind. You just make a scene to the imperial court, I’m not afraid!”

King Li smiled coldly: “This king was ordered to supervise the funeral ritual system, anyone who behaves improperly, should be pointed out, as for the punishment or not, all depends on the father’s ruling.”

Seeing that King Li was aiming the spearhead at himself, King Qing decided to advance his plan.

So the storyteller of the tea house tile house outside the palace began to tell a new section of the book, saying that in a certain year of a certain month of a certain dynasty, a woman of humble status, by chance encounter with the emperor, gave birth to the emperor’s son.

Nay status disparity, no name, no identity, has been raised outside the palace.

The woman was counting on this one son to be able to do well, hoping that one day the mother will be able to get the son, get rich and honorable.

Unfortunately, the little prince in the fetus is not enough, born less than a year on the death. That woman in order to retain the status of the emperor’s mother, they asked someone to buy a boy about the same age, pretending to be the heir.

The fake son grew to ten years old before being taken back to the palace, favored by the emperor and queen.

Although this story was not named, many details were exactly the same as King Li’s life.

Gradually, this story spread more and more widely in the capital. Even the nobles in the capital heard about it.

Just during the funeral ceremony of the Empress Dowager, no one dared to mention this matter in the court. King Li was even pretending to have a clear conscience, and focused on the affairs of the Empress Dowager.

But it is the Criminal Justice Department to fulfill their duties, the folk rumors reported to the emperor.

The emperor heard, ordered Xiao Gong immediately go to secretly investigate, and also sent a decree to call King Qing to Chongzheng Hall.

These days, although the emperor went to court as usual, but still have to come to Ci Ning Palace every day to guard the spirit, energy is not like before, meaning to Qing Wang from the side to help one or two.

King Qing saw his father this is intended to give himself the opportunity to practice, immediately played a hundred and twenty thousand spirit, just want to make up for the faults, show a qualified Crown Prince style.

Because of his battle after the punishment of the injury is not yet well, long kneeling body can not stand, later, to Chongzheng Hall to go more and more time, the wake of the time is gradually shorter.

Forty-nine days later, the royal relatives together to send funeral to the mausoleum.

After the Empress Dowager Zi Gong moved into the underground palace, paper burial objects, accompanied by a group of monks chanting the sound of prayers, burned for an hour.

When the emperor led the crowd to pay tribute, Duan Fei held a stack of scriptures over and said, “Your Majesty, this is the imperial tomb guards just handed up, said Yu heard the death of the empress dowager, these days stabbed the blood grinding, silent writing out of the scriptures, I hope to be able to burn the empress dowager in front of the tomb, to thank the empress dowager’s kindness of the year’s care.”