Zui Gu🔞 ( mtl)

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　　The funeral bell rang eight times, one after another.

　　Everyone in the harem was awakened by the sound of the funeral bell with bad news. When Yan Zhaozhao heard the funeral bell, her head was dizzy and she thought she was in a deep dream, but the constant noise outside the palace told her again and again that this was not a dream. The Queen Mother

　　really passed away.

　　She quickly lifted the quilt and got off the bed. Biluo happened to push open the door of the inner palace and hurried towards her. Yan Zhaozhao hurriedly sat in front of the dressing table and asked Biluo to dress her. She was wearing a plain white dress with only a few plain phoenix hairpins on her head. She called the guards and rushed to Shoukang Palace.

　　When Yan Zhaozhao arrived at Shoukang Palace, people were already kneeling outside the palace, and everyone's face was full of sorrow, all mourning for the Queen Mother who had just passed away. She turned her eyes away and walked into the inner palace quickly. She heard a burst of sobbing from inside, and the most tragic one was Aunt Yumin.

　　She knelt on the ground, lying on the bed, calling out to the Queen Mother. Yan Zhaozhao stepped forward and saw the Queen Mother's extremely pale face. Strangely, her cheeks were slightly red, and her lips were abnormally purple-red. She looked as if she had been poisoned, not a natural death.

　　Yan Zhaozhao was horrified. She had just come to ask the Queen Mother about Yan Zhiman yesterday, and the Queen Mother died that night. The two must be related. If not, the person behind the scenes would have had plenty of opportunities to kill the Queen Mother when she was crazy, but she waited until today when she asked about the glowing insects and died.

　　Could it be that...the so-called glowing insects can really hear what they say during the day?

　　It's simply...unbelievable.

　　Seeing Yan Zhaozhao standing there in a daze, and considering her patient care for the Queen Mother these days, Yumin thought she was too sad, so she called her softly. "Empress..."

　　Yan Zhaozhao suddenly came to her senses after hearing this shout, and asked calmly: "What happened, why did my mother..."

　　Yumin was about to answer, but suddenly a loud chant came from outside the palace, "Your Majesty, Concubine Chun is here——"

　　Hearing that Yan Zhiman also came with the emperor, Yan Zhaozhao's brows trembled for a moment. Not to mention that only the emperor and the empress are qualified to enter the inner palace, just based on the matter of the glowing insects, she is the biggest suspect, but at this moment, she can still step into the inner palace as if nothing happened, she is really not an ordinary person.

　　Everyone bowed to the emperor, and the emperor nodded his head with an unexpected look on his face to indicate that they didn't need to bow, and then sat on the soft couch on the side, without any intention of going forward to pay homage to the empress dowager's remains. Yan Zhiman stood obediently behind the emperor, her face a little pale, not knowing whether it was because she was unwell due to the wind or because she had done something wrong.

　　"Where is the imperial physician? My mother was in good health, why did she suddenly pass away!" The emperor rested one hand on the table and the other hand on his knee, his tone was a little impatient, as if the death of the empress dowager was not worth mentioning to him, even though the person who passed away was his biological mother.

　　Hearing the emperor's question, the imperial physician who was kneeling beside him hurriedly stepped forward and said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, the empress dowager...she, she..." The imperial physician hesitated while speaking, his eyes kept glancing, as if he didn't dare to say the next words.