There is a home in the depths of the white clouds

Chapter 256

Empress Dowager Ciyi's funeral was held with great vigor, but Empress Dowager Zhou had something to do with her. She also wanted to be buried in Yuling with Emperor Yingzong, just like Empress Dowager Qian.

However, before Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, only heirs could be buried together with the emperor. Before Emperor Yingzong died, he also issued a will, only willing to be buried with Empress Qian.

In the Ming system, only the descendants of the emperor can be granted the posthumous posthumous title of the emperor and set off the Taimiao.

In this way, it also shows the difference between the concubine and the concubine.

The Empress Dowager Zhou didn't want to be alone, she cried and asked Emperor Xianzong to figure it out!

Emperor Xianzong's head has also grown, and the queen mother is his own mother. Now that there is no mother-in-law, he is just such a mother, but the ancestral system cannot be violated, so that Emperor Xianzong has been devastated recently.

Every day, he was tortuous and lenient, telling his own mother the facts and reasoning, and talking dryly, so that Empress Dowager Qian was able to be buried with the late emperor, and the Ministry of Rites began to arrange the burial.

But the Empress Dowager Zhou fell ill at this time. When she thought that she would be alone after she left, just like now, she felt wronged.

She has become a queen mother, and she can't do whatever she wants. What's the point of her being alive?Isn't it the same when you're dead?

The imperial doctor who diagnosed the pulse was taken aback. Does the Queen Mother really want to die?

So deep is the relationship with the Empress Dowager of the Palace of Compassion?

Emperor Xianzong was also frightened.Kneeling in front of the bed and holding the Queen Mother Zhou's hand, she said pitifully, "Queen Mother, the emperor has lost his father and aunt. Doesn't the queen mother also want the emperor?"

After hearing this, the Empress Dowager Zhou burst into grief and wept uncontrollably: "Your aunt ascended to heaven with your father and emperor, leaving us mother and father orphans and widowed mother..."

Emperor Xianzong didn't expect that his mother's knot was like this, but he couldn't watch his own mother seek death?It's too worrying, everyone around him has been asked by him, especially Zhou's father and son, it's rare to get close to the emperor, but what can the Zhou family do?Such a title of Marquis of Qingfeng was rewarded by the emperor for the sake of the empress dowager. If Zhou Ying hadn't done a lot of things in line with the emperor's wishes in the past six months, the father and son might not have been able to see the emperor's gold medal. face it.The Empress Dowager was secretly sad in the palace, unable to eat or sleep, and Emperor Xianzong was very anxious. In the end, the Empress Wang suggested to invite the Empress Dowager's family to come and see, maybe it would be better?Wan Zhen'er also said: "Perhaps the Empress Dowager will feel better after seeing her natal family?"

"Then Xuan Qingfeng Hou and his son will enter the palace!" Emperor Xianzong said: "Let them have a good chat with the Queen Mother."

The father and son of the Zhou family went to the palace to meet the Queen Mother, just to ease the Queen Mother's heart, but they couldn't do anything else, but Zhou Ying could still talk, and he told the Queen Mother that he was outside with a few children from the Xungui family. A restaurant opened to promote the emperor's new crops.

"It's the corn and potatoes that Ai's family ate?" The Queen Mother Zhou was distracted.

"Isn't it!" Zhou Ying now has a serious job to do, and the whole person has matured a lot: "Because it is for the public to promote, the price I set is not high, and the common people can eat it, and I heard that it is the Queen Mother Favorite food, many people buy it back to honor the elderly! The tomato tastes sweet and sour, and it is very appetizing when paired with fried eggs!"

"Yes!" Empress Dowager Zhou smiled when she thought of the smell: "The red, yellow and yellow ones look fresh.

The brighter the mushroom, the more poisonous it is, so that in people's diet, except for green, other vegetarian dishes are very dull in color.

"There are also potatoes, and the stewed pork ribs are very delicious." Zhou Ying rolled her eyes: "Why don't you let them bring in some, and my nephew and father will accompany you to use some!"

Zhou Shou and Zhou Yu also nodded and said, "Yes, sister, we are all hungry."

Only then did the Empress Dowager ask someone to set the meal, and Zhou Ying personally ordered: "Make some light dishes, use less meat oil, and use vegetable oil or soybean oil for cooking.

"Yes, my lord!" The serving eunuch hurriedly went to the small kitchen to order.

In the end, four dishes were served, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, stewed potatoes with pork ribs, stir-fried lettuce, tofu with shallots, and the simplest soup was melon and vegetable soup.

The staple food is cornmeal pancakes.

The dishes were of course delicious. With the company of her natal family, the Empress Dowager Zhou finally ate something, and Emperor Xianzong was very happy. During the period, Zhou Ying spoke wittily and finally made the Empress Dowager Zhou laugh.

After Emperor Xianzong knew about it, he even rewarded Zhou Ying with a lot of things.

But when the people left, the old lady was still depressed.

Wantong, as the envoy of Jinyiwei Township, Wan Zhener's younger brother, was also questioned by Emperor Xianzong, but he was not as witty, and he couldn't think of a good way. After he returned, this kind of trouble would naturally follow Wu There is something to say.

"Then bury it together!" Wu Youwei thought it was no big deal: "After all, they are all queen mothers. Besides, the distinction between concubine and concubine is not so strict in the royal family, is it? If the concubine is not allowed to succeed, how many emperors will have no successors?" ah?"

"Huh?" Wantong shook his head: "Ancestral regulations...

"In the future, the emperor will also be one of the ancestors." Wu Youwei said, "The queen mother is also one of the ancestors. At that time, the Taizu was also the ancestor who was later named."

Before the posthumous title, Lao Zhu's family was a pure poor peasant.

"Is this... feasible?" Wantong was a little shaken.

"It's ok, but I can't just watch the old empress feel sad." Wu Youwei said: "Furthermore, the two empress dowagers have a deep relationship, just like E Huang Nvying, buried together, they can also serve the late emperor and reunite with the late emperor.

He remembered that the Dingling Mausoleum of Emperor Shenzong Wanli was buried with two empresses, one on the left and the other on the right.

It proves that joint burials can be practiced in the Ming Dynasty.

His argument made Wantong Mosai suddenly realize: "That's right!"

If the first emperor is compared to a sage monarch, then the empress dowagers of the two palaces are Ehuang Nvying, who would dare to say otherwise?

That is to slander the late emperor!

There is a reason for the joint burial!

Moreover, the queen mother was so sad that she was bedridden, which is a fact for all to see.

This is good!

This kind of argument is tenable, and I am not afraid of opposition from courtiers.

The next day when Wantong entered the palace, he told Emperor Xianzong that Emperor Xianzong was having a headache because of his mother. After hearing this, he was really enlightened.

Discussing these words with the cabinet, Shang Ren felt that it was feasible: "After all, it is the empress dowager, besides, in the past, it was not that there were no emperors of all dynasties who were buried with more than two empresses.

He agreed, and the other three cabinet ministers also nodded. After all, this involves the prestige of the late emperor. The late emperor has already had some flaws due to the change of the civil castle, and it is possible to make up for it.

But they can't have the final say, they have to get the central committee to discuss the matter, and then get the consent of the clan. Emperor Xianzong is very popular in the clan now, because those good-bred clans have benefited from it. Words also give support.

So toss until July.

In July, the weather was hotter and hotter. Wu Youwei disliked the heat in the middle of Beijing and couldn't stand it, so he went back to Moling Villa. It was indeed cooler in the mountains than in the middle of Beijing.

Because Wantong had been busy for two months, his boss gave him a few days off, so he followed Wu Youwei to Moring Villa.

Wu Youwei's apricot grove was full of apricots, butler Lin Su asked people to pick a lot of them and sent them to each family, and even people from Wu's Village went back and forth to pick apricots and eat them back.

If you can't eat it, make it into candied fruit and keep it.

Wantong spent two leisurely days here before Fang Hongzhuo came to his door: "Master, hurry back to Beijing, something has happened."

"What's the matter?" Wantong had a rare two-day rest, so why did something happen?

"The four princes born by the concubine Bai...died at a young age." Fang Hongzhuo said: "The emperor is furious, you should go back and have a look, everyone is afraid that Concubine Bai will falsely accuse our empress."

Who does Concubine Bai hate the most?

It is none other than Wanfei Empress

The fourth princess passed away, and Concubine Bai would definitely make a big fuss, and now that Empress Dowager Ciyi has passed away, and the funeral is still going on, even if it turns out that she has nothing to do with Concubine Wan, her reputation will not be good.

There were already many people who could not understand the emperor doting on Concubine Wan alone, why don't you take the opportunity to make trouble this time? ?

Wantong really couldn't sit still: "Concubine Bai who doesn't stop!"

"Quickly enter the palace and have a look!" Wu Youwei was astonished in his heart, the fourth princess really died young, and she didn't even have a name.

Count the days, this is the full moon, right?

Wantong hurried back to Beijing, and Wu Youwei played the cattail fan to enjoy the coolness in the midsummer night. The sky outside was pitch black, a gust of wind blew by, and the downpour of rain fell instantly, quenching the scorching heat in the air.

The thunder rolled and the lightning flashed across the sky. Wu Youwei sighed, although he knew that this was not Wanfei's trick, but in history, Emperor Xianzong did not have a son at this time.

Is this the rolling wheel of history?

Could it be that he really couldn't stop what was planned?

Or will it be more than a hundred years later, when the Qing soldiers enter the customs, will all the people be slaves?

Do not!

He is not convinced!

He has a hundred years to change this era.

Wu Youwei squinted his eyes, but he didn't believe it. He was able to come to this Daming against the sky, so couldn't he change it!

At the same time, in the palace, amidst lightning and thunder, Concubine Bai's mournful cry was heartbreaking.

The Empress Dowager Zhou had just recovered a little bit, but because of this bad news, she fell down again. They were all princesses in the first place, and there is no one left. How can a grandmother not fall ill?

And Concubine Bai was crying so badly that Emperor Xianzong didn't want to see her, and the queen mother was sick, so of course Emperor Xianzong was going to serve the sick in Qingning Palace.

Concubine Wan was afraid that Queen Mother Zhou's mood swings would be bad for her health, so she had to bring the two princesses here, hoping to have a good time with Queen Mother Zhou and make the old lady happy.

Seeing the eldest granddaughter and the younger granddaughter, the Queen Mother Zhou was really happy, but she was still not happy when she thought of the other little granddaughter she had lost. Look, he also said that the little sister looks like the emperor's father, and asked if the Queen Mother really looks like her?

Like, very similar. "The Queen Mother Zhou looked at her little granddaughter: "But it seems to be more like your imperial grandfather.

"Really?" When the Queen Mother Zhou said, Concubine Wan also thought of the appearance of the late emperor: "You say that, it seems to be true!"

"You have never seen the late emperor when he was young, Ai family, look, the little princess looks more like her grandfather than the emperor.

Empress Dowager Zhou touched her little granddaughter's little face: "I'm afraid it will be more similar when I grow up in the future."

Even Emperor Xianzong didn't expect that the youngest daughter was more like her father than herself.

The appearance of his father in his memory has long been blurred, and after he remembered things, his father seemed very... old. Maybe he had seen his father when he was young, but he was only a few years old at that time, and he didn't remember anything.

By the time he remembered, his father had also experienced the Civil Fortress Change and the Nangong years, so his appearance had changed.

The father and emperor when he was young, now he is also remembered by the mother, right?

"Like father?" Emperor Xianzong lay down in front of his little daughter and looked carefully: "But I look at it, and I still look more like me."

"You are like your father, so of course you think the little princess is like you." The Queen Mother Zhou said with a smile: "It's just that the little princess is a girl, and she will become softer when she grows up. Your father has clear water chestnuts. So handsome..."

Speaking of the first emperor, the Empress Dowager Zhou became energetic: "Back then, your father was not restrained in his words and smiles. When we little concubines saw him, it was like a mouse seeing a cat. It was Empress Dowager Qian who told us that the emperor was only a state matter. Too much is too busy, let us be happier when we see the emperor every day, and let the emperor feel better. Back then...

When talking about those years, the Empress Dowager Zhou had a lot to say, the eldest princess had never heard of it, and the imperial grandfather was a mysterious existence to her, so she pestered the Empress Dowager Zhou a lot.

Such a child made the Empress Dowager Zhou very happy. When Concubine Wan saw it, she brought the eldest princess to see the Empress Dowager every day, and sometimes she stayed with the Empress Dowager Zhou for a night.

With the eldest granddaughter to accompany her, after all, it made the Queen Mother of Zhou happy a lot.

But Concubine Bai quit!

Concubine Wan took all the good things, and she didn't have her own daughter

Who pitied her?The emperor ignored it, but Concubine Wan took her daughter to pay her respects to the queen mother every day, it was too dazzling...