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Sitting on the chariot, Li Beichen felt dizzy and his eyes always watered.

The pain in my left hand was excruciating, and it felt sharp and clear.

Thinking about the fact that my mother was poisoned yesterday, she was screaming loudly until this morning, which showed how much pain her whole body was feeling.He felt sad in his heart, and he hated Li Beiwang's cruelty even more.

Holding in his hand the signed letter addressed to him found in Prince Wei's study room, Li Beichen looked at it and did not open it for a long time.

It seems that Li Beiwang is ready for everything, including failure.

After walking for a while, Li Beichen opened the envelope and found three thin pages inside.

"Brother Emperor:
By the time you read this letter, I will be dead by your hands.The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit, I admit defeat.The Queen Mother is in great pain now, right?As filial as you are, I will be as anxious as you are.

This is the suffering my mother-in-law has experienced.Not only that, the Queen Mother specially arranged for the guards to rape her, which also attracted her father to catch her on the spot.In anger, the father secretly fed the mother's body to the dogs.

Although I was only two years old at the time, I remember all this clearly and will never forget it.

You are a very competent brother, but there is a blood feud between us, so we can only pay with blood.

The last thing I want to ask the imperial brother for is to spare Jin Shi's life for Rui Bin's sake.Everything is done by me alone, and it doesn’t matter if I break my bones or throw away my ashes.

Jin Shi didn’t know anything about it.If I were given a brocade poem to die, please bury us two together. We can be buried wherever we want, as long as we can be buried in the same cave.

Li Beiwang's last masterpiece"

Li Beichen read it three times with a sad expression.

He knows all this.He also remembers it clearly.

Although he never mentioned it in front of anyone.

He remembered that evening, when the sun was setting.

The mother and concubine heard that the little palace maid had come to report in advance, and the Holy Driver came towards their Xining Palace. She immediately went into the house and changed into nice clothes. She put on the magnolia flower hairpin newly gifted by her father and stood at the door looking forward to it.

As a result, after his mother-in-law took him to greet his father in the courtyard and saluted him, the father-in-law just asked a few questions and then followed Li Beiwang's mother-in-law Ye Changzai, holding Li Beiwang's hand, who had just learned to walk, and chatting and joking. Entering the west side hall with a smile.

That day, he stood under the sunset, beside his mother and concubine, and watched his father lovingly hold his brother's hand, disappearing from the end of his sight, and walked into Ye Changzai's house amidst laughter and laughter.

The sunset was so red that day, making people's shadows very long and thin.

It turns out that the father also loves the child, talks and laughs with the child, holds the child's hand, and lets the child jump forward together with the child's mother and concubine.He will also look at a woman tenderly and talk to her warmly.

Although he also felt that Ye Changzai, with his crooked eyebrows, was really gentle.It seems that she has never lost her temper, she always smiles slightly, and her voice is always gentle and soft, unlike her mother-in-law who always likes to say hurtful words without meaning.

However, seeing her snatch away his father, he felt very uncomfortable.

He thought that the scene that day also deeply hurt the mother-in-law, because the mother-in-law's palms were cold and her body was shaking. She held him and cried all night, and she was depressed for a long time afterwards.

Now that I think about it, the scene under the sunset that day is still vivid in my mind, and the heartache and helplessness are still in my heart.

He knew that it was his mother-in-law who poisoned Ye Changzai later. That day he heard Ye Changzai scream in pain after drinking the medicine.It was just that he was deliberately locked into the house when he was young, and he had no idea that what would follow would be so tragic.

So what if you just know?

Without his mother-in-law's fight and his decisive and ruthless behavior, he would not be where he is today.

If you want to blame, you can only blame yourself. Being emotional, caring about the reputation of brothers and brothers, caring about brotherly feelings, not taking the first step to get rid of Li Beiwang and protecting the mother.

Li Beichen felt a sharp pain in his heart, silently put the letter back into the envelope and hid it in his sleeve pocket.I closed my eyes, my heart filled with sadness.

He fully thought that Jiang Yuebai's elixir would work miracles again, and didn't the two court judges say that there had been significant improvement this morning?Why did he die suddenly?

And why did the person who came to report the news say that Mr. Han was in Cining Palace so early in the morning? He was the first to discover that the Queen Mother had passed away.

With his head full of questions, Li Beichen walked into Cining Palace.

When he saw the Queen Mother with a rosy complexion, a faint smile, and a calm and solemn expression on the bed, Li Beichen wondered if all this was an illusion, and a glimmer of hope arose in his heart.

The Queen Mother looked the same as usual, as if she was tired and taking a nap, without any sign of pain.

They must have made a mistake.

Maybe he just lost his temper suddenly, but he must have recovered later.

He plopped down on his knees in front of the bed, grabbed the Queen Mother's hand, and shouted urgently: "Mother! My son is here to pay you respects."

Everyone around him had already knelt down when the emperor arrived. At this time, they all lowered their heads and did not dare to express their anger, let alone make a sound.

Seeing no answer for a long time, Li Beichen held the Queen Mother's hand tightly and shook it: "Mother, please wake up. My son is here."

Then the sobbing started coming from around me. "Why cry?"

Li Beichen stared at the Queen Mother's cheek and said angrily.The cold air in his hands rushed up, irritating him.

The sound of sobs immediately muted the entire room and disappeared in an instant.

Suddenly a cold voice sounded.

"Your Majesty, please express your condolences. The Queen Mother has indeed passed away. The Queen Mother was very peaceful when she left. Just now, the maid put makeup on the Queen Mother, so she looked lifelike."

It was Han Ziqian who spoke.

Li Beichen turned his head and looked at Judge Fang and Judge Zuo, "This is impossible. This morning the imperial doctor also said that the Queen Mother has improved significantly. You two, how is the Queen Mother's condition?"

The two court judges were lying on the ground with their foreheads on the ground, not daring to speak, and their whole bodies were shaking like chaff.

"If you tell me, how is the Queen Mother's condition?"

There is still silence behind him.

"Already mute? Jiang Yu?" the emperor asked again.

As the envoy of the hospital, Jiang Yu had no choice but to reply aloud, "Back to the Emperor, the Queen Mother has passed away. Your Majesty, please express your condolences."

After saying this, he bowed deeply and fell to the ground.There is no resurrection from the dead, and someone has to break the bad news.

Li Beichen stared blankly at the Queen Mother who was half lying on the bed, and tightly squeezed the Queen Mother's cold-as-iron hand.

I whispered in my heart, "Mother, you seemed to be walking away so peacefully. Why didn't you wait for me?"

I had to accept the reality that the Queen Mother had passed away.

But he didn't get to see the Queen Mother for the last time.

I was not able to come in to see my mother last night. I hurried to the morning court in the morning and did not come to pay my respects to my mother.

He thought that everything was still too late. He thought that after the Queen Mother took the elixir, nothing would happen again, and it was just a matter of taking care of things slowly.If he knew that the Queen Mother was leaving so quickly, he would definitely not go to the morning court today.

I will definitely stay by my mother's side and accompany my mother through the final journey.

He felt regretful about missing out on all this. He recalled that the little eunuch who announced the funeral said that the last person accompanying the Queen Mother was Han Ziqian. He controlled his emotions and whispered: "You all go out. Mr. Han stays."

Everyone retreated, but Jiang Yu hesitated to speak. Finally, he was the last one to leave and mustered up the courage to say, "The Emperor's hand cannot be delayed any longer."

"I know."

Li Beichen stood up and glanced at Jiang Yu, "We'll talk about it after Rui Jieyu arrives."

Looking down at Han Ziqian who was kneeling on the ground, he asked sternly, "Young Master Han, but the Queen Mother summoned you to the palace?"

"Back to the emperor, yes."

"Who took you into the palace?"

"It was General Mao who sent Lu Kunming on horseback to pick me up at my home with a handwritten letter from the imperial physician."

"Why did the Queen Mother summon you alone and what secret conversation did she have with you?"

"The Queen Mother and the minister are both students of Mr. Du, the master of Go. The Queen Mother knows that her time is running out and misses her master. She wants to learn about his life story from me, so she summons the minister to the palace. She also wants to summon the minister to play a game of chess one last time." Han Ziqian compiled calmly.

The person has passed away, and there is no evidence that he is dead.It doesn’t matter whether it’s true or not.

The important thing is to save the face of the dead and the living, and life must go on.Especially the deceased is the Queen Mother and the living is the Emperor.

Li Beichen slowly sat down on the chair and turned the jade ring on his thumb, "How did the Queen Mother leave? You should know what the crime of deceiving the emperor is."

If the cold poison attacks, it will definitely be painful, and the appearance before death will definitely be ferocious and painful. It is definitely not so calm and calm, as if he fell asleep in a dream.

He didn't believe every word Han Ziqian said.I knew in my heart that the inside story was definitely not that simple.

It would be of no use to delve deeper into why the Queen Mother and her husband were alone in a room so early in the morning and before her death.

It's better to believe this bullshit lie about teacher-sect friendship.

But Li Beichen wanted to know how his mother left, and whether there was any explanation before she left, so that he could complete it for her.

This will also make him feel more at ease.