Su Yinyue secretly thought that the queen had a strong psychological quality, as she was not angered to death by her words that she would dig up the eldest prince's grave.

It seems that I have no choice but to send the Queen off personally.

"It is my honor to be buried with the Queen."

Su Yinyue approached slowly, "I will sleep on the same bed with the queen now, just to get used to the coffin life in advance."

Her answer surprised the queen, "Are you not afraid of death?"

Su Yinyue asked back: "Is the Queen afraid?"

After saying that, she walked up to Sunxi and grabbed the clothes on his shoulders.

Just before he pulled the man aside, the sound of eunuchs singing a salute was heard outside the hall.

"The royal concubine has arrived."

The Queen was annoyed that Concubine Zhao had come at an inopportune time, and frowned, saying, "Let her stay outside."

Shunxi received the order and turned around to go out.

After a moment, his exclamation was heard from outside, "My Lady Concubine, you can't go in!"

Concubine Zhao appeared behind the curtain, "The Queen wants my daughter-in-law to be buried alive with her. Would it be wrong for me not to go in?"

She held Ruyi's hand and walked gracefully before the queen, performing a perfunctory kneeling salute.

After paying his respects, he stood up without caring whether the Queen told him to stand up or not.

"Since ancient times, there has been no precedent for a princess to be buried alive with the queen. If the queen insists on doing so, I will go and ask the emperor for permission."

The queen's face turned pale and she was so angry she didn't know how to vent it.

In the past few days, the emperor only came to Renming Palace once.

She sent someone to Funing Palace, and got the following answer: The Emperor was very busy trying to clear the Queen's reputation as an evil spirit, and he had no time to come to Renming Palace.

She sent more people, and even used the burial of the concubine's tomb to shut her up.

The queen understood that the emperor was angry with her.

When she felt lonely, she could only comfort herself by thinking that the emperor did not pursue her crime of regicide because of their old friendship.

But deep down, I still feel aggrieved.

Concubine Zhao was now standing in front of her, saying that she was going to ask the Emperor for instructions.

Without even having to meet the emperor in person, the queen could imagine how he would respond. He would definitely scold her for being petty and not living up to the demeanor of a queen mother.

The queen forced a gentle smile and said, "I was just joking with Princess Yu, why should you take it seriously, Your Majesty?"

Concubine Zhao replied calmly, "I just saw Princess Lingzhen outside the palace. If the Queen has no other instructions, I will take Princess Yu back to Changxin Palace."

"I still have something to say to Princess Yu, so please go back first."

The queen felt herself getting colder and colder, and she had a premonition that she would not live to see this winter.

Concubine Zhao did not move. "I wonder what the Queen wants to say to me, her daughter-in-law? I am older, so if I can listen, I can help you make a decision."

The Queen said coldly, "I don't want you to be here. Are you trying to ignore my order?"

A queen who has lost the emperor's heart is still a queen, so she still has to put in enough effort to appear superior.

"I don't dare."

Turning around, Concubine Zhao raised her voice, "Yin Yue, mother is waiting for you outside Renming Palace."

When passing by Jindie, he asked Ruyi to send the injured palace maid to the Imperial Hospital for treatment.

After her actions, there were only three palace maids left serving in Renming Palace.

Concubine Zhao was guarding outside the palace. The Queen knew that forcing Su Yinyue would not work, so she tried to play the emotional card.

"Yin Yue, I have my reasons for being so mean to you, please don't bear a grudge against me..."

Su Yinyue raised her eyebrows and watched coldly as the queen did something weird.

The Queen did not continue to explain her difficulties, but instead asked an irrelevant question, "Yin Yue, do you think the Emperor loves me?"

Su Yinyue was thinking about how to kill the queen without leaving any trace, so she did not answer.

The queen asked again, "Princess Yu, do you think the emperor loves me?"

Seeing that she was not satisfied without an answer, Su Yinyue said perfunctorily, "Love."

The queen laughed twice, and her vibrating chest felt a dense stabbing pain. "I thought you were smart, but you were fooled by his superficial efforts."

"If he really loves me, how could he not remember that I like to eat pomegranates? Why does he send lychees to Renming Palace every summer?"

The Queen lay on her back on the soft pillow, looking at the peony embroidery on the ceiling of the tent, and her voice was so soft that it seemed as if she was talking to herself.

"It's obvious that he just wanted to satisfy his own appetite, but those blind courtiers and fools said that I was extravagant..."

"I don't want to see any exotic flowers or plants, but he keeps asking his subordinates to send them to me..."

"I didn't want to go to the Wonderland either, but he insisted on building it so that I could relax..."

Every time Emperor Mingde talked to himself in front of her, the Queen felt suffocated.

In her early years, the queen was energetic and expressed her own ideas.

But the next day, construction of Qizhen Garden started anyway.

"After a long time, I have also seen it. All the imperial edicts that violate the rules can be offset by the banner of his deep love for me."

After realizing this, the queen simply gave up and stopped interfering in palace affairs.

Let her be a lazy woman, she has enough blame to bear, she doesn't care about having one more.

Two lines of tears slid down from her eyes, soaking the soft pillow.

Once the topic started, the queen couldn't stop.

"Didn't the emperor subdue Sun Shou in advance during Sun Jun's coup? My reputation as a demon has spread so wildly, doesn't the emperor know about it? How dare Sun Shou spread it without the emperor's permission?"

"He did it on purpose! He thinks I'm too old and brought shame to him on the Thousand Autumn Festival, so he wants to force me to death and find a new queen!"

Shunxi was frightened by the Queen's words and her face turned pale. "Your Majesty, please don't say such things carelessly."

Su Yinyue took the opportunity to take a step forward and hold the queen's hand, "Eunuch Shunxi, the queen's words and actions are confusing. I'm afraid she has hysteria. Go and get the imperial physician."

Shunxi was worried that she would harm the queen, so she was reluctant to leave and spoke tactfully.

"Princess Yu, a palace maid has gone to the small kitchen to boil the medicine. It should be almost done by now. I will feed you the medicine and then go get the imperial physician."

The queen mistook Su Yinyue's action as being soft-hearted and decided to keep trying.

"Shunxi, you can go. I have someone to serve you here."

Shunxi walked out the door, looking back every few steps.

The queen held Su Yinyue's hand back and forced a smile that was six parts genuine and four parts fake.

"Yin Yue, now that things have come to this, I will not hide it from you. That jade cat is the only thing that the eldest prince left for me."

"It doesn't matter if the emperor doesn't love me. I have Qian'er. Qian'er will treat me sincerely. He will grow up well, win honor for me, and become my new support."

"But Qian'er was murdered when he was five years old..."

At this point, the queen's tears fell like beads from a broken string, wetting a large area of ​​the soft pillow.

The remaining two palace maids were infected by her heartfelt sadness and could not help but lower their heads to wipe their tears.

Su Yinyue softened her voice, "Mother, please stop being sad. The eldest prince would be sad if he saw this in heaven."

"My daughter-in-law will help you lie down and rest."

As she spoke, she lifted up the queen's back, pulled out two soft pillows, and handed them to the two palace maids, "Take them and put them on the couch."

Her tone and movements were so natural that the palace servants did not become suspicious.

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