Min Ruoying rushed into the Yongshou Palace where the Empress Dowager lived like a wind. At this moment, the Yongshou Palace was already in chaos.

"What's wrong with the Queen Mother?" Seeing the Queen Mother Ruoying's face twitching, Min Ruoying's face twitched, and she looked at the queen and the imperial concubine with a fierce look on her face, "When I left, Queen Mother was still fine!"

The queen swallowed with difficulty: "The queen mother asked someone to look at you and wanted to call you back earlier, but she heard those things. When she came back, she reported to her mother, and the queen spitted a few mouthfuls of blood, and she was out of control."

"You are confused!" Min Ruoying was furious. The Queen Mother was in poor health. Min Ruoying never let anyone talk about the affairs of the foreign court in front of the Queen Mother. He rarely returned to the harem. When he came back occasionally, he naturally reported good news but not bad news. Therefore, the Queen Mother always thought that although the Great Chu was a little difficult, it was not more dangerous than that in the early years. Unexpectedly, when he finally heard the news outside today, he realized that the Great Chu was almost at the last moment. In his anger, she was already exhausted and could not hold on immediately.

"Ma Yizheng, what are you doing where you are still staying? Why don't you come here to treat your mother?" Min Ruoying turned around suddenly, and roared at the imperial physician who was kneeling aside.

Ma Yi was looking up, crying and whispering: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother has run out of oil and has suddenly been greatly stimulated, and it is no longer a medicine stone to save."

Min Ruoying suddenly fell silent. Ma Yizheng's medical skills were the best in Chu. Even if he was not as good as Shu Chang of the Ming Dynasty, he would not have much difference. His words were tantamount to the final conclusion for the Empress Dowager.

Looking back at the empress dowager on the bed, Min Ruoying felt sad and shed tears.

"Can the Queen Mother wake up?" he asked in a low voice.

"Your Majesty, I can let the Empress Dowager wake up for a while, but next..." Ma Yizheng lowered his head.

"Go, go and let the queen wake up, even if it's only a moment." Min Ruoying waved her hand.

"Yes!" Ma Yi was getting up, took his medicine box from the table on one side, walked to the edge of the bed, took out the needle capsule from it, carefully picked up one among the rows of shiny silver needles, and looked back at Min Ruoying again.

Min Ruoying nodded, saw the others in Yongshou Palace, and shouted: "Everyone, go out."

Only Min Ruoying and Ma Yizheng were left in the hall. When Min Ruoying walked to the edge of the bed, Min Ruoying sat down, "Go on!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Ma Yizheng took a deep breath, carefully inserted the silver needle in his hand into the Empress Dowager's Baihui acupoint, and gently twisted it.

When a silver needle was in most of the time, the empress dowager's body shook slightly, and accompanied by a long sigh, the empress dowager's eyes slowly turned a few times under her tightly closed eyelids, and slowly opened.

Ma Yijing loosened his fingers that twisted the silver needle and took a few steps back. "Your Majesty, when the silver needle is completely faded, it's time."

"You go!" Min Ruoying's eyes did not leave the Empress Dowager's face.

Ma Yizhi retreated gently.

"Mother, are you awake?" Min Ruoying said softly, holding the Queen Mother's cold and thin hand.

The Empress Dowager looked at Min Ruoying and said nothing, but tears flowed down her eyes.

"Ying'er, I'm going to see your father!"

"Mother, you just fainted for a moment. Medical Ma said it's okay, just sleep for a while." Min Ruoyingqiang said with a smile.

"Don't you know your own body?" The Queen Mother sighed: "I know that it's time for me, Ying'er, Da Chu, have you really reached this point? How should I tell him when I see your father?"

"Mother, don't worry, your son will handle it well, Da Chu will definitely get better. The difficulties in front of you are only temporary." Min Ruoying said reluctantly.

"Don't lie to me. The six counties in the east are gone, the four counties in the south are gone, and there are also Anyang, Xinning and Quanzhou are gone." The empress dowager sighed quietly: "Although my mother never asks about political affairs, she also knows that half of the Great Chu is gone."

Seeing the silver needle wandering out slowly but firmly, every minute that means the moment when the mother and son get together is missing, Min Ruoying strongly said: "Don't worry, mother, my son has just discussed countermeasures with the ministers outside. The officials and merchants are willing to donate money and materials. The young and strong people join the army enthusiastically. Soon, the son can organize a large army to fight against these rebels and will definitely recover the lost land. The son will use the blood of these rebels to comfort the father's spirit in heaven."

The queen mother burst into tears, "You and Xi'er are brothers and sisters, but now they want brothers to kill each other. No one can win. My mother will lose one. Even if she reaches the bottom of the nine fountains, she will be unable to rest in peace!"

"Mother, my sister is now the Queen of the Ming Dynasty, and she is no longer the Princess of the Great Chu." Min Ruoying gritted her teeth.

The Empress Dowager grabbed Min Ruoying's hand and was heartbroken: "If I had known this, I really shouldn't have supported you back then. If Cheng'er was sitting in your current position, let me not say anything else. With Cheng'er's heart, you and Xi'er could at least be with me at this time. Instead of dying early now, the other two turned against each other, either you died or I died."

"Mother..."

"Ying'er, have you really never regretted it deep in your heart? I still remember how close the brother and sister were when you were young?"

Min Ruoying took a deep breath, watching the silver needle move out faster and faster, but she still hardened her heart: "Mother, the son may not have governed the country well and did not fulfill his original wish, but his son will never regret what he did. The ancients described as a minister who could not eat nine cauldrons in his life, but cooked nine cauldrons when he died. For his son, if he could not unify the world and establish a great cause for the eternal period, he would rather destroy the country than die than regret."

The Empress Dowager looked at Min Ruoying in a daze, but the disappointment in her eyes became stronger and stronger.

"Ying'er, after I die, I will go to your father's tomb. Remember to block my mouth. I don't want to tell him what Chu is like now. Let's tell him yourself later."

After uttering the last sentence, the queen mother's eyes gradually faded away. With a tingling sound, the silver needle on the queen mother's Baihui acupoint finally completely faded out and fell on the bed gang.

"My mother, queen!" Min Ruoying knelt down with a loud bang. The empress dowager was holding his hand tightly, but slowly losing strength until she finally dispersed.

"Xi'er, Xi'er!"

Finally, he spit out a few words, and the queen mother finally closed her eyes and passed away.

Min Ruoying looked at the queen mother lying on the bed in a daze. After a while, she couldn't help but cry.

Outside Yongshou Palace, Min Ruoying's crying came from the hall. The queen, imperial concubine, Ma Xiangdong, and other important officials of the court knelt down on the cold ground, and the sound of howling was endless.

After a long time, the closed door of Yongshou Hall opened wide. Min Ruoying, with red eyes, walked out slowly, stood on the steps, and told the horse to the east: "The Chief Auxiliary, I will tell the world that the Empress Dowager will go on a great journey, and the whole country will mourn. Everything will follow the rules!"

Ma Xiangdong knelt on the ground, looked at Min Ruoying with his head raised, but he did not move or speak.

"Hmm?" Min Ruoying glared at the other party, "Didn't you hear what I said?"

"Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager's great ceremony is sad, and I am also heartbroken. But now, it is really not appropriate to announce this news to the world. I also ask Your Majesty to order the news of the Empress Dowager's great ceremony. The Queen Mother's funeral needs to be temporarily adjourned. At least, it must be timely wait until the Chu State overcomes the current difficulties and everything will be better."

Lian Bo walked a few steps and knelt with Ma Xiangdong: "Your Majesty, the chief minister makes sense. At the moment, the Great Chu is in danger, so it is really not appropriate to add anything else."

"Your Majesty, I will follow my advice!" Jia Zhengdao also knelt in front.

Min Ruoying looked up at the sky, and a trace of dawn appeared slightly in the sky. He sighed and turned around and walked into the hall again. Outside the hall, the empress, the imperial concubine, Ma Xiangdong and other ministers bowed their heads and followed closely.

When it was dawn, Lei Wei returned to his yard exhausted and told his servants to burn a basin of hot water as soon as possible. He wanted to take a good bath and let the warm water rinse away the fatigue.

Soaked in a half-person-high wooden barrel, Lei Wei half-squinted his eyes. Behind him, a man slowly scooped hot water from the hot water bucket on one side and slowly dripped it off his head.

"The Empress Dowager is on the way." Lei Wei seemed to be talking to himself." However, the court was not ready to promulgate the world to hold a funeral for the Empress Dowager."

No one answered him, and the servant behind him still slowly scooped up hot water to water it for Lei Guard.

"The court is preparing to use the Minister of War Jia Zhengdao to go to Xuzhou to replace the Western Army General Guan Hongyu, and the Deputy Commander of the Fire Phoenix Army Wen Fuyi to Xuzhou to replace Suqian. The price is to enfeoff Guan Hongyu and Suqian as the waiter. If the two do not obey the order, the accompanying masters will wait for an opportunity to assassinate the two generals in front of the tent, so the two of them are carrying two different imperial edicts."

Lei Wei Xu said everything that happened in the palace last night in every detail, then he leaned his head against the edge of the bucket and a slight snoring sounded. This time, he really fell asleep.

The man quietly lifted the bucket and exited the room.

An hour later, when Lei Wei was dressed neatly and left his yard with great energy, the previous servant also left the door with a basket.

Today is the third day of the Chinese New Year. After dawn, Shangjing City, who had been silent for a night, finally recovered a little bit of anger. One after another, the pale and thin people walked out of the closed doors. Although it was still the Chinese New Year, they still had to go out to find something to do in exchange for the food for the day of today. Everything that happened in the palace was out of reach for these ordinary people. What they thought was to find food for the day of today, even if it was just a little bit, they could make them spend today.
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