The slave family is not a disaster

Chapter 457
"The empress dowager has passed away. Your majesty, you have to take care of your dragon body." Eunuch Zhu burst into tears. He served the emperors of two dynasties, and he has seen the current emperor since he was a child, so he has deep feelings for him. Now that the emperor has lost his mother, he is also very sad for him.

"Mother, my son is not filial. I didn't accompany you at the last moment. My son deserves to die." The emperor blamed himself, knelt down and cried.

"Your majesty, I can't blame you for this. No one expected that the empress dowager left so suddenly. I'm so sorry." Eunuch Zhu comforted.

"Quickly, ask the coroner to see if the queen mother is injured, is it related to the assassin just now?" The emperor suddenly thought of the key to these two things.

So, in the middle of the night, the coroner was summoned again, and the result was very unexpected. The Empress Dowager did not have any injuries, she really just died of illness.

The empress dowager passed away, the emperor was so sad that he fainted on the ground. Eunuch Zhu was confused and informed Ye Anran.

"What? The emperor fainted?" Ye Anran asked worriedly.

"Yes, empress, you are the largest in the harem now, and you are in charge of the seal. This matter needs to be resolved by you personally. Now that the empress dowager has passed away, the emperor is seriously ill, and the harem is in chaos." Eunuch Zhu said anxiously.

"Don't panic, leave this matter to me." Then Ye Anran changed into a white tulle skirt, dressed in linen and mourning, and came to Tianxuan Palace.

"Madam Su, find someone to change into the court clothes for the queen mother, put on makeup, and bury her in the coffin tomorrow morning. In addition, ask the people in the imperial study to draw up an imperial decree. Tomorrow, the queen mother will be announced to the world about the death of the queen mother. This matter is concealed." If you can't go down, it's better to solve it as soon as possible." Ye Anran said slowly.

"Yes, ma'am, I will obey your orders." Madam Su followed the orders.

Ye Anran only took care of the rules, except that he couldn't stamp the emperor's jade seal without authorization, everything else was fine.

Afterwards, Ye Anran came to the Golden Dragon Palace, and took care of the fainting emperor with his clothes on.

early morning
The emperor opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was Ye Anran, more precisely, it was Ye Anran who was sitting beside him, sleeping soundly.

"An Ran, why are you... here?" The emperor's voice was very hoarse.

A word awakened Ye Anran, and she immediately got up and held the emperor's hand tightly and said: "Your majesty, you can count on it, you scared the concubine to death."

"I'm fine... come, help me to go to Tianxuan Palace. The matter with the empress has not been settled yet." The emperor seemed to have accepted the fact that the empress had passed away after calming down.

"No need, your majesty is too tired, you should take a good rest, the concubine has already taken care of the affairs over there, after a while, the empress dowager can be buried, and now you only need to prepare the imperial decree Just add a jade seal on it and tell the world." Ye Anran said slowly.

"You... did all of this?" Hearing of the trivial matters, Ye Anran had already dealt with them, and the emperor had some doubts.

"What's the matter? Did the concubine do something wrong? It was because the situation was urgent at that time, so the concubine made her own decision and asked the emperor to punish me." Maybe it was because I intervened in these matters privately and angered the emperor, so Ye Anran was a little worried and knelt down to plead guilty.

The emperor slowly pulled Ye Anran up, and said gently: "No, get up quickly, I didn't blame you, I was just surprised that you handled things so well, you didn't sleep much this night, did you? I'm making things difficult for you, An Ran."

"No, the concubine is not in trouble, as long as she can share the worries of the emperor, the concubine is happy." Ye Anran was a little moved.

"Okay, come on, help me up, let's go to court." The emperor said slowly.

Ye Anran was taken aback for a moment, and then said with some melancholy: "Your Majesty, the court is a place to discuss state affairs. The courtiers and concubines are women, so don't go there, so as not to cause trouble for the emperor, and let the courtiers seize the talk."

"It's okay, I said you can do what you want, let's go." The emperor seemed to have made up his mind.

So, in the early court, the emperor read the posthumous photo of the empress dowager with the support of Ye Anran with a heavy heart.

All the ministers immediately knelt down and shouted in unison: "Please mourn, Your Majesty."

"Get up, all of you. After a while, when the time comes, the queen mother will be buried in the imperial mausoleum. Before that, I want to tell you one thing." The emperor's words seemed to have some overtones.

The officials were puzzled, but they didn't dare to ask more questions, they just waited for the emperor's next words.

"My mother has been seriously ill for the past two months, and I have been by her side all the time. I know that she likes to listen to Qin Fengliu's piano, so I cast down the imperial list and searched for Qin Fengliu from all over the country. And I promised at that time that anyone who can find Qin Fengliu will definitely The one who found Qin Fengliu is—she, my Concubine Ran." The emperor suddenly pointed at Ye Anran, in fact, it should be Ye Anran who found Tian Fengliu. Yinzi, but these are the empress dowager's private affairs, and the emperor cannot announce them to all the ministers, so he just mentioned them directly without pestering them too much.

Suddenly there was an uproar...

The officials discussed one after another, some said that the concubine was lucky, and some said that it was all predestined by heaven.

However, Ye Anran was very calm, and just bowed profusely: "The emperor congratulates me, and being able to fulfill the last wish of the empress dowager is what a concubine, a daughter-in-law, should do."

"Anran, you are not joking, today I will fulfill my promise at that time and give you a reward. What do you want?" The emperor asked Ye Anran in front of all civil and military officials.

Ye Anran was taken aback, then smiled embarrassedly: "I don't want anything, the emperor doesn't need to be too polite, it really doesn't matter."

"I knew you would say that, so...the gift was prepared last night." The emperor said seriously.

"En? Ready, what is it? Why don't the concubine know?" Ye Anran was a little surprised, and the officials were also at a loss, not knowing what the emperor was going to do?
"Eunuch Zhu, bring it and read it." The emperor looked at Eunuch Zhu at the side and ordered.

"Yes." Immediately, Eunuch Zhu opened the imperial decree in his hand, looked around, and slowly read: "By God, the emperor ordered that Concubine Ye Anran find Qin Fengliu and fulfill her last wish for the empress dowager before she died. Contributors are indisputable. Previously, Empress Shen was thrown into limbo for poisoning the prince and framing the imperial concubine. The crime is unforgivable. A golden crown of nine phoenixes, a phoenix seal, moved to Jiuhua Palace, and given the title of Empress Ruimin, bestowed upon me." After Zhu Gonggong finished reading the imperial decree, the entire court was surprisingly quiet.

Ye Anran froze on the spot, maybe all this happened too suddenly, so it seemed a little unreal.

"An Ran, what are you still doing? Don't thank you?" the emperor reminded.

"Concubine... Thank you Lord Long En." Ye Anran was completely unconscious until he knelt down and stood up.

"Your majesty, the matter of conferring the empress...?" Prime Minister Ning seemed to have something to say.

"The overall situation is settled, Ai Qing still congratulates your empress?" The emperor seemed unable to listen to other words, and looked at Prime Minister Ning half-threateningly.

In fact, the emperor's heart is very simple, he has long wanted to push Anran to the queen's throne, but because of the lack of an excuse, Ye Anran has found Qin Fengliu for the queen mother, so naturally he has made a great contribution, and being the queen is a matter of course .

"My ministers congratulate the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager has a thousand years and a thousand years." Although the officials still had some dissatisfaction, they did not dare to make mistakes because the Empress Dowager had just passed away.

"Everyone's family... is flat." Ye Anran said with a slight smile.

(End of this chapter)