female concubine

On April 29, the [-]th year of Qianyuan, bad news came from the East Palace. Before that, almost all the skilled internal physicians and imperial doctors of the Hanlin Medical Academy were transferred away. Grief and mourning.

——Funning Hall——

"At Sishi, Her Royal Highness, the Crown Princess, suddenly suffered from heavy bleeding. By the third quarter of this time, she was too weak to give birth again. Her Highness, the Crown Princess, ordered the doctor and the sitting lady..." The servant buried his head on the ground, crying and saying: "The emperor's grandson, the Crown Prince, has been saved. Your Royal Highness passed away at the seven quarters of the same hour."

Those who heard the news immediately rolled their eyes and fell to the ground, "Officials!"

Xiao Youqing hurriedly dragged him to support him, "Is Doctor Sun back?"

"After the death of His Highness the Crown Prince, His Highness the Crown Prince also... Imperial Physician Sun inspected His Highness the Crown Prince in the East Palace."

"Change to a doctor." Xiao Youqing took off his robe and put it on the ground, helped the emperor to lie down slowly and shouted: "Let Sun Hongda enter the palace immediately."

"Yes."

"Everyone go out, if I hear any news about His Majesty's fainting, you can go to the torture hall and kill yourself."

The audience members crossed hands with the master attendant and Dian Zhi, bowed and walked backwards.

Xiao Youqing sat on the cold ground with the emperor resting his legs on his pillow, and immediately stretched out his hand to catch the emperor's pulse, and his brows sank deeper and deeper as the pulse took longer.

The imperial physician who was seeing the crown prince was replaced by an internal doctor, and Sun Hongda rushed to the forbidden center on horseback with a medicine box.

Xiao Youqing tried his best to make the emperor lie flat, leaned down and whispered in his ear, "Qian, open your eyes and have a look, have you forgotten what you promised? 29 years, one year away, how come you If you can break your promise, how can you bear it?"

Two quarters of an hour later, Sun Hongda rushed into the inner court with the medicine box. When he arrived at the Funing Hall, he saw the emperor lying flat in the main hall. Xiao Youqing got up from the ground, "Physician Sun, quickly take a look at the official house."

"Your Highness, don't worry." Sun Hongda quickly put down the medicine box, knelt down beside the emperor and stretched out his hand to open the emperor's eyelids. He immediately got his pulse again, and took out the needle bag after a while.

Xiao Youqing personally brought a candle, "Is it important, Your Majesty?"

Sun Hongda just shook his head silently.

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At this time, in the East Palace, the cry of the child was accompanied by the howling of the crowd. Princess Qin, her eldest daughter, and Princess Le'an knelt down on the bed and cried.

"Mother, you promised to take the word for Chen'er at Chen'er's Jiji ceremony, mother..."

Until the last moment, the person on the bed held the elder sister's hand and begged her to protect his two underage children.

The servant walked out of the palace gate and sang loudly in the court: "His Royal Highness, the Crown Princess, is dead."

Zhao Chen pulled Princess Le'an into his arms, and Princess Le'an immediately burst into tears: "Auntie, Chen'er has no mother."

The moment he heard the death of the crown princess, the crown prince fainted and fell to the ground, and the East Palace was in chaos. The prince Zhan Shi and Shao Zhan Shi of Zhan Shifu ordered the guards of the East Palace to seal the gate of the palace to prevent the news from spreading. Send people to Da Nei to report the funeral, and deal with chores in the East Palace, waiting for approval.

The palace servants and servants who had been favored by the Crown Princess before her death knelt down in the court and wept unceasingly, and the wailing immediately filled the entire Eastern Palace.

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At night, the emperor woke up from the couch and ordered all the imperial physicians to inquire about the reason.

"Last year, I visited the doctor with the Crown Princess, and it was diagnosed that His Highness was pregnant. But at that time, His Highness's body... If you want to forcibly preserve the pregnancy, it is very likely that your life will be in danger, but Your Highness is determined. Her Highness said that now the court The situation is unstable, His Majesty is worried about the issue of heirs, His Highness the Crown Prince was alienated by His Majesty, and His Highness the Crown Princess asked the minister to conceal it, and the minister is guilty..." The green robe knelt down and trembled.

"You deserve to be punished for your serious crime!" The emperor got up from the couch and pointed at the imperial physician, furious, "If you knew the truth and failed to report the concubine Donggong died of dystocia, even ten heads of yours are not enough to chop off."

The second daughter of Princess Qin was close to the palace since she was a child, and grew up under the emperor's knees, and this marriage was bestowed by herself. The emperor stepped back and sat down, and immediately covered his hideous face with his hands.

"Your Majesty." The imperial physician was too frightened to raise his head.

On April 29th of the [-]th year of Qianyuan, the crown prince died in the East Palace. In a rage, the emperor ordered the Imperial City Secretary to imprison all the sitting women, palace servants and obstetricians who had delivered the crown princess during the day.

On April 29th in the [-]th year of Qianyuan, the emissary of the mountain mausoleum, which was originally ordered to build the imperial mausoleum, rebuilt the mausoleum of the crown prince and concubine according to the exercise, and ordered Sitianjian to choose the site of the mausoleum, and its seat was temporarily placed in the Queen's Temple.

After learning that the imperial physician was imprisoned, Princess Le'an rushed into the palace from the East Palace and knelt down in front of the emperor to intercede.

"The mother knew that Weng Weng would be angry if something happened to her, so the mother told her grandson a month ago. The mother said that she used her status as the crown prince to persecute them, and the mother was willing to do it. The mother also said that uncle would not If you doubt your son again, in the heart of His Royal Highness, the father will always be the father, and the mother does not want to see the killing again, please Weng Weng," Princess Le'an cried and knelt down and said: "Let those imperial doctors go, they are just following orders Innocent people."

Hearing this, the emperor was heartbroken, so he ordered the release of all the imprisoned doctors and palace servants, and issued an edict to posthumously posthumously crown the crown princess Zhao as the crown prince Xiaoyi, and set up a mourning hall in the East Palace to hold the funeral with empress rites.

The officials of the East Palace took the clothes worn by the crown princess during her lifetime and climbed to the top of the highest hall in the East Palace, and held a soul-calling ceremony in the northwest corner, "Zhao Xi, the soul is back; Zhao Xi, the soul is back: Zhao Xi, The soul is back." After calling for three times in vain, the officials threw Zhui Zhai into the courtyard, and Yousi held the suitcase to pick up the clothes, and then sent him to the inner room to cover the body of the Crown Princess, and the East Palace began to decorate In the mourning hall, lay a memorial ceremony.

On April 29, the [-]th year of Qianyuan, the Crown Princess passed away, and the imperial court issued an obituary. All civil and military officials and local state officials received the news and went to the East Palace to pay their respects in a very short period of time.

Officials reporting funerals in various streets in Tokyo City rushed to tell each other wearing waistbands. The emperor ordered the Ministry of Rites to preside over the funeral ceremony in the East Palace, and built a mourning hall in the East Palace to set up a temporary house. Inscriptions and seal cutting books made by the court.

After waking up, the Crown Prince Ru rolled down from the couch and got up, with disheveled hair, and ran westward all the way. He didn't even wear shoes and clothes, and he didn't even look at the child who had just come into the world. He bumped into several palace people on the way and didn't look back. .

The upper and lower members of the Eastern Palace and Yousi were preparing for the small coffin to prepare for the bath and meals. The crown prince broke into the room alone despite everyone's obstruction, and walked to the silent couch step by step, raising his hand and trembling his pale lips , Immediately there was a plop, he fell to his knees and wept bitterly, his life-drained body became cold and without a trace of warmth, and now he even began to become a little stiff.

"Except for mother, there is no one in this world who treats me as sincerely as you do. Those who approach me, flatter me, and please me all have their own plans," the crown prince curled up in front of the couch with a hideous face, dying He was clutching the quilt, the veins on his arms and forehead were swollen and purple, all the sorrow brought about by misfortune and pain gathered at this moment, making him feel suffocated.

The Taichang Temple and the Ministry of Rituals sent female officials to deliver the newly made Crown Princess clothes into the room. The Crown Prince turned around in horror, "What are you going to do?"

The female officer stepped forward and knelt down and said, "Your Highness, it's time for Your Highness the Crown Princess to be encoffined."

Then a group of officials forcibly took the crown prince out of the room. All the female officials and palace people entered and began to clean up the remains of the crown princess. Dozens of monks and Taoist priests outside the room also began to chant sutras.

The female official offered the jade on the plate, and Princess Qin put the jade into the mouth of the Crown Princess with trembling hands, and then took three sets of clothes.

On April [-]th, there was a small burial, and there were ministers who brought in the clothes, and Princess Qin still wore the clothes for Crown Princess Xiaoyi.

Early in the morning, several fast horses galloped into the capital, and the horsemen wore headbands and drove all the way from the inner capital to the East Palace. The exhausted horses collapsed in front of the gate of the East Palace covered with white silk. Two steps to the mourning hall and almost fell down, the deputy general behind him helped him to the body of the crown princess in the inner courtyard, his weather-beaten face was instantly taken over by pain, and only the guilt and self-blame for the young girl remained in his heart, "Daddy I've only been walking for a while...how can you leave daddy and go first."

"Father." The eldest daughter Zhao Chen supported her father with tears streaming down her face.

There was no time to cry before the clothes were made, and all the officials of the imperial court went to the East Palace to express their condolences. The crying in the East Palace never stopped from morning till night. And murder ceremony.

Until the funeral on April [-]th, the relatives in the five clothes of the Crown Princess Xiaoyi changed into mourning clothes. The eldest son was supposed to carry the body of the Crown Princess into the coffin, but the Crown Princess Xiaoyi only had two underage children.

"Tarzan, I..."

Zhao Luting, who was always gentle, suddenly picked up Qi Shuan who was on the Crown Prince's body with red eyes, and said viciously: "If it wasn't for you, how could my son die!" He immediately threw him away from the bed.

"General Zhao, the crown prince concubine is the official wife of the crown prince. Does the general not even understand the manners of a monarch and his ministers now?" the official of the Eastern Palace who was in mourning said dissatisfied.

"No," the crown prince turned around, "it's none of your business here, step back."

"Your Highness..."

"Go back."

Zhao Luting turned around and picked up the body of the Crown Princess, turned around and gently put it into the coffin, and the officials carried the coffin into the mourning hall to stop the coffin, and when the coffin came out, the palace people in mourning clothes knelt down one after another.

After the burial, the mourning and crying can only be done in the morning or evening, and the crying of children can often be heard in the side hall. The new crown prince and concubine are mourning, and the children are taken care of by the nurse and the palace servant Zhang.

Princess Qin cried and fainted several times beside the coffin, and the medical officers staying in the East Palace came in and out, and placed Princess Qin in the wing of the West Court in order not to disturb the undead, who presided over the funeral.

"Shang Shu Zuo Pu shot Wang Wenfu, and Hanlin scholar Cao Peiru came to express their condolences."

The two put on mourning clothes and went to the mourning hall. The official in charge of the funeral called out: "Bye!"

Wang Wenfu and Cao Peiru knelt on the ground, struck each other with their hands, shook their bodies and cried, and immediately bowed their heads.

"rise."

The two people kneeling straight looked extremely mournful, and when the officials saw them get up, they called again, "Kneel."

After kneeling down three times, Wang Wenfu helped his wife up, and together they went to the mourning hall to condolences to the relatives of Concubine Donggong.

Later, Liu Miaoyi, a member of the Privy Council, came to express her condolences, and they all performed the most solemn vibration ceremony in the funeral ceremony.

Liu Miaoyi wiped her tearful eyes and saw the crown prince's face was pale, and she knelt by her side and kept repeating the movements of her hands, so she walked up to the crown prince, bowed and cupped her hands, and said, "His Royal Highness, please put the overall situation first, and express condolences. "

"Sir, do you know," the crown prince knelt before the coffin in mourning clothes, his eyes were empty, and he kept burning paper money, "There will never be anyone in this world who cares about me like her. I finally..." Tears slid down the side of her face into the basin, "I have no heart."