Chapter 88 Liliangdi’s sudden death

As soon as her head turned, she quickly knelt down respectfully: "Thank you, the Queen, I am just a sweetheart in the backyard. Apart from reading some medical books and pharmacopeias, I just figure out how to embroider and choose materials, but I really don't know anything else."

The queen finally stopped asking.

After that, Lin Ximeng didn't dare to speak anymore, and carefully massaged the Queen's acupuncture points on her body, not daring to speak casually.

The queen didn't say anything during this period, she just looked thoughtful.

——

A few days later, the emperor's condition worsened.

There was a concubine who tried to escape with gold and silver, but when she was caught and brought back, she was beaten to death on the spot.

After a few lives were lost, the atmosphere in the palace became even more depressing. Even the maids and eunuchs did not dare to speak casually. Everyone was cautious in their words and actions, and kept their heads down and moved in a hurry.

But Lin Ximeng entered the palace again.

What I heard was not the death of the emperor, nor the news that his concubines were killed with a stick, but that Li Liangdi died of a sudden illness.

The queen had a headache all night.

The medicine and stone were useless, the imperial doctor was helpless, and Lin Ximeng was called over overnight.

She knelt on the bedside and saw with her own eyes that the queen was crying. She was crying in fear, her whole body was shaking, her limbs were trembling, and she was crying without being able to speak fully.

"Empress, why are you doing this? This is all your imagination. Where did you end up in that situation?"

"Just relax, you are the emperor's first wife and the aunt of His Highness the Crown Prince. There is no way His Highness the Crown Prince would reach out to you."

"And where is Mr. Wang? We, the Wang family, have been in the century-old family and are powerful. We will be fine."

Fangrui gave every word of advice.

The Queen shook her head: "You don't understand, you don't need to say more, I know what to do."

She cried and trembled for a while, then gradually regained her composure.

He turned to Lin Ximeng and asked again what Lao Liu was busy with.

Lin Ximeng's answer was still the same, drinking, eating, sleeping with women, or at worst wandering out of the palace, in short not doing a serious job.

"The last time His Highness went to court and went to the Yamen, he ordered Mr. Xu to die."

"His Highness said there is nothing going on these days, so naturally there is no need to go to court every day."

"Actually, I'm not very favored either. It's different from the Oiran girl in Little Lotus Lane. His Highness goes to visit from time to time. It's the same as in my heart."

Slightly jealous, with dissatisfaction from the youngest daughter's family.

The queen closed her eyes in disappointment and waved her hands: "Go down."

"yes"

At this time, Lin Ximeng never expected that these two summons would almost lead to death for herself.

First, he encountered a wave of assassinations when he returned home.

Three masked men in black chased her carriage and stabbed it with knives.

Fortunately, Lin Ximeng was too sleepy and slept on the carriage with a quilt and a pillow, thus escaping the disaster.

The second time, it was poison in the house.

Lin Ximeng discovered it when she was drinking soup. It was not a poinsettia or a red crane. It was a highly poisonous substance caused by the conflict between foods.

She suddenly broke into cold sweat on her back and warned Qingqing and Dagui.

"It wasn't done by people in the backyard, so there is no need to make it public."

Not to mention whether Zhao Liangdi and Song Liangdi had such brains, it was just that she had been poisoned since the last time, and the dining room had been cleaned by Xie Chenyu.

Those with problems have been cleared away long ago, and even Song Liangdi, who has been in charge for so long, has not been able to put her own people in.

The dining room is also impossible, so there are only two possibilities left.

One is that outsiders want her to die.

One is...Xie Chenyu, he wants to kill himself, and like Liliangdi, he is violently ill.

"Impossible, master, please don't think too much"

Qingqing was the first to deny it, her eyes were extremely firm, the kind of indisputable certainty that emanated from her bones.

"how do you know?"

Distraught, Lin Ximeng asked casually.

Qingqing looked to one side, panicked a little and then calmed down.

"I just don't think it's possible. Your Highness still has you in his heart, otherwise he wouldn't have named you your beloved. You have to know that..."

Qingqing stopped and lowered her head, muttering sorry.

"I didn't mean to make trouble about your family affairs."

Lin Ximeng looked away, just thinking in her mind.

"I also think it's unlikely to be His Highness."

If he wanted his life, he would have taken it long ago, why wait until now.

I didn't even die when I found out that I was the queen's spy, and it's probably even less likely now.

"Then it was done by outsiders. Who could it be?"

"I am a little sweetheart, where did my enemies come from?"

——

A good lady died in the East Palace.

Xie Chenke was symbolically depressed for a few days, and even went to the Queen's Jiaofang Palace to cry and complain.

"It's all my son who failed my mother's good intentions. Mother, please hit me. It's because I didn't treat her well. It's because I can't bear with her."

The queen gently helped him up.

"Don't talk nonsense. It's because she was unlucky. She managed to survive until you became the prince, but she got sick."

"Hurry up and find an eminent monk or mage to come over and remove bad luck."

"No, she is not unlucky"

Xie Chenke wiped away her tears: "She has been in poor health since she lost the child. It was because her son-in-law did not care about her in time that she became depressed and contracted a serious illness."

"Mother, I can't help her"

"Then comfort her family more and give her more money."

"I have already sent a thousand taels of silver notes and said that she has a younger brother. I will arrange errands for him and take good care of the family. This can also make up for my guilt."

"That's good. This person has passed away, so just go."

"By the way, how is your father's illness? Your mother has been feeling unwell these past few days and hasn't gone to see you. I'll help you."

"My son has found several famous doctors for my father, and he has changed a few more prescriptions. They are better than before, but..."

Expected.

The queen closed her eyes.

"He's been so ridiculous these years"

"There's nothing wrong here, Queen Mother. You can go down first."

Xie Chenke bowed and was about to leave, but the queen suddenly said something behind her back.

"I've thought about it clearly. What you said makes sense, so I'll do as you say."

What does it feel like to fully compromise? It's probably like wanting to change, but finding that there's no reason to change.

If not Xie Chenke, who should I choose?

Lao Liu is the closest to her, but Lao Liu is incompetent. If he were to become the emperor, the Great Sheng Dynasty would probably be even more chaotic.

Xie Chenke can at least do things so that he won't be unable to keep his country.

"Then the queen mother will have a good rest, and her son will be there for everything."

Xie Chenke left happily, completely different from the one who was crying and crying just now.

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East Palace backyard

Mrs. Yu watched helplessly as Li Liangdi was wrapped in white cloth and moved away.

There was not even a coffin from beginning to end, and all her maids were "buried".

I just moved house and my luggage has not been completely packed yet and it is about to be burned.

It was an order from Xie Chenke, saying that Li Liangdi had contracted a serious disease and could not be buried but had to be burned.

"Sick disease?"

Yu's is bitter.

The day before, Liliangdi was still alive and kicking to say hello to her, and she was also discussing how to visit Jiaofang Palace in a few days as winter was coming and the Queen was not in good health.

The next day, Liliangdi died suddenly of a severe illness. She lay there with bleeding from her mouth and nose, completely dead.

Yu and Liliangdi have little sisterly love, and it's hard to say that they are sad.

More is the sadness of dying lips and cold teeth.

The old man who has been with him for many years is like this, so how good can he be as a royal concubine?

He is indeed a ruthless person who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals.
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