Yan Zhao's wife, supported by the maid, ran out and grabbed Yan Qingzheng's arm, begging: "Qing'er, aren't you a cultivator? Please save her! Please save Shuang'er, I beg you!"
Fourth Aunt, please save Shuang'er!"
She knelt down and looked up at Yan Qing, who was crying and begging.
Yan Qing hurriedly helped her up and cried bitterly: "Fourth Aunt, I'm sorry, I couldn't save Sixth Sister... I... I watched her die in front of me, but I couldn't do anything. I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for Sixth Sister
ah!"
Yan Qingzheng finally broke down and cried. After hearing the news, Yan Xi came to see such a scene, and his heart skipped a beat.
"Yan Zhao, this is... where is the Crown Princess?" He pulled his brother up and asked.
"Third brother!" Yan Zhao's face was full of tears. When he saw Yan Xi, he seemed to have found his backbone, "Third brother, Qing'er said Shuang'er was dead... She said she couldn't save Shuang'er... Third brother, please save Shuang'er.
Can you do that! Third brother! Can you let Shuang'er come back to life?"
Yan Xi's eyes were red, but she managed to hold herself steady, and scolded: "Stand still, I'll go in and check the situation!"
He ignored Yan Zhao, shook him off and walked inside. He looked at his daughter on the steps. Yan Qing's slowly shaking head made his heart sink to the bottom.
The Yan family has many children, but Yan Qingzheng and Yan Shuangyu were born on the same day, and their fates have brought trouble to them, so the entire Yan family loves them a little more.
Yan Xi was also very sad.
"Is there no other way?" he asked his daughter.
Yan Qingzheng shook his head again, feeling that his head weighed a thousand pounds.
The emperor was with the prince all the time. The doctor said that the prince was fine, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Where is the Crown Princess..." he asked hesitantly.
Hongwen lowered his body: "Master Yan and the Crown Princess's parents, and... Miss Yan Qi are all here."
"Huh?" The emperor immediately turned around, "Who are you talking about?"
Hong Wen thought about the fact that none of the previous emperors responded, so he asked when Miss Yan Qi was mentioned. He should be asking her.
"Miss Yan Qi is here."
"That girl is back? When did it happen?" Yan Xi didn't say anything during the meeting yesterday.
"It seems like I just came back yesterday."
The emperor took a deep breath: "You said this girl just came back and she encountered something like this...Does she have any thoughts about the royal family?"
Hong Wen was so frightened that he almost lost his grip on the fly whisk. This was the first time that the emperor explicitly mentioned his concerns about Yan Qing's destiny...
"Let me go and have a look." The emperor just accidentally exposed his heart, sighed and walked out with his heart in mind.
The princess's courtyard was already filled with gloom and gloom. Yan Zhao and his wife cried hard, blaming themselves for not stopping their daughter from marrying the prince...
Yan Xi caught a glimpse of the emperor approaching, sighed and whispered a few words into Yan Zhao's ear. Yan Zhao stopped crying and persuaded his wife, "Let Shuang'er go with peace of mind."
The fourth lady cried with eyes as peach-like and was out of breath, but she had no choice but to stand up and take one last look at her daughter.
The water thrown by the married daughter...
Yan Shuangyu's funeral was naturally organized by the royal family.
The emperor comforted Yan Zhao and his wife for a few words, but seeing that they were really not in a good state, he left.
Yan Xi opened his mouth, but said nothing. He knew what the emperor expected, and he naturally believed that at this time, Yan Zhao and his wife should show their loyalty, because the princess died to save the prince, and they should stand aside at this time.
Weeping deeply, she told the emperor that if she died for the prince, Yan Shuangyu would be considered a worthy death, and she would be loyal to the country...
This is what the emperor expected to hear, not that Yan Shuangyu should not be allowed to enter the palace to marry the prince!
Yan Xi knew it, but he didn't remind his brother.
Yan Zhao is not an official of the imperial court, so why should he act so selfless? Yan Zhao's family has always attached great importance to feelings. He would shed tears even if he raised a little bird and died. He was already in pain after losing his daughter, who was only in her early twenties and was as old as a flower.
What else is there to do?
Yan Zhao and his wife went in to stay by their daughter's side, and the prince also woke up.
"I'm going to see Shuang'er." He said with dull eyes.
The eunuch beside him reminded: "There is someone watching over the Crown Princess, so Your Highness should not go there. After all, it is unlucky."
When the prince heard this, his eyes widened suddenly. He tried his best to push himself up and sit up. He picked up the medicine bowl lying beside him and threw it at the eunuch. The eunuch didn't dare to hide. His head was bruised and bleeding, so he quickly kowtowed on the ground.
beg for mercy.
The prince gasped and took several deep breaths, and then said: "The prince died to save me..." As he said that, tears welled up in his eyes, and he felt sad when he thought of everything he had done since he and Yan Shuangyu got to know each other.
Choking with sobs, he said: "I...I..."
He was so grief-stricken that he could not speak. His heart felt like a huge stone pressing down on him, and he could hardly breathe.
He wanted to say that he was the unlucky person...
The imperial doctor on duty hurriedly came up to clear the air for him. He stood up and felt that he had regained some strength. He shook off everyone's support and walked out resolutely.
Yan Xi was also called away by the emperor. Only Yan Qingzheng was still standing under the eaves, looking up at the sky and not knowing what he was thinking.
She could clearly feel what happened to the prince. At least the prince had true feelings, which made her feel better. Otherwise, she would have felt that Yan Shuangyu's sacrifice was not worth it.
She clenched her fists tightly, barely controlling her urge to destroy something.
The prince's true feelings helped her regain her composure.
She remembered the look Yan Shuangyu gave her before she died... She knew that it was Sixth Sister begging her not to resent the prince but to protect him, because the prince was someone she could and was willing to risk her life to protect.
!
Yan Qingzheng didn't understand the virtues and abilities of the prince, but she understood Yan Shuangyu's feelings.
She herself could die for Rong Che!
So she finally gave Yan Shuangyu a nod of affirmation and let her go with peace of mind.
The prince saw Yan Qingzheng. He stood at the foot of the steps in front of her and looked up at her. Yan Qingzheng also looked at him with a complicated expression.
The prince shed tears again. Yan Qing slowly closed her eyes and let the prince walk by her before shedding two lines of clear tears.
When the prince saw Yan Zhao and his wife, he asked all the servants in the house to go out, closed the door tightly, and knelt down in front of them.
"Shuang'er died for me," he didn't call himself his wife, and at this moment he just wanted to apologize to his beloved wife's parents, "I didn't protect her well, I... really deserve to die!"
Yan Zhao sat on the footrest indifferently, glanced at the prince, and shook his head: "Prince, please get up quickly. My husband and I are not worthy of the prince's gift. Shuang'er's choice was made willingly. Even though we parents are grieving, we cannot express our anger.
For others... Besides, we ourselves are also to blame, why... why don't we persist..."
He cried as he spoke and always regretted that he had not firmly opposed his daughter marrying the prince!
The fourth lady had originally held back her tears, but upon hearing this she burst into tears again.
After all, Yan Zhao was more sensible than his wife. He reluctantly stood up and helped her up, saying softly: "Let's go out and give the prince some time to get along with Shuang'er. After all, he is Shuang'er's husband..."
To put it bluntly, Shuang'er is already a member of the royal family.
The prince looked at Yan Zhao gratefully. After they went out, he walked to the bed and sat down. Yan Shuangyu, whose body had been arranged, looked as if he was asleep.
"Shuang'er, why are you so stupid!" he said.
I can only say this sentence in a thousand words, and the rest is just tears streaming down my front.
Yan Qingzheng has been guarding the palace. Anyone who slights Yan Shuangyu in the slightest will be punished by her. This is the first time in many years that she has been so irritable.
For some unknown reason, the emperor hid the news that Yan Qing was coming back and was in the palace from Rong Che. He kept the news so tight that until Qiqi passed, he didn't even know that Yan Qing was back. He even went to the palace to express his condolences.
When I was there, I didn't even know that Yan Qing was just across the wall.
Yan Qingzheng knew that Rong Che was coming, but she really didn't want to see him at the moment.
Presumably the emperor, Haoyan and his family all thought so, and they were all protecting the two of them.
Yan Qing's perception of the royal family can be said to be at its worst at this time. When he meets Rong Che again, who can guarantee what she will say...
The emperor doesn't want Rong Che to be hurt or stimulated anymore.
If it had been like this, Yan Qingzheng's sadness would slowly fade away, and her life and her mood would be restored to peace, but things in the world could never be as they wished.
Just after Qiqi, the courtiers had already mentioned that they would choose another crown princess, and the crown prince was furious!
He knew that as a prince, he could not be depressed because of a woman, so he suppressed his grief in his heart and went to court.
But do the courtiers think that they are cold-blooded animals? The prince who was their childhood sweetheart and their beloved couple died less than a hundred days ago, so they let him remarry?
When he asked this question, some courtiers thought that he was worried about his own image, so they said: "Your Highness, there is no need to worry. We are not asking you to marry the new princess now. Even if you start to choose from now on, it will take three months at the earliest.
"
"That's less than a year!" said the prince.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince, you are the Crown Prince, you don't have to keep filial piety for the Crown Princess!"
The prince felt filled with resentment. He took a deep breath and was about to refuse when the emperor suddenly spoke: "Okay, we will discuss this later."
The emperor felt that the prince was not wrong in this matter, and neither were the courtiers. He did not want the two sides to conflict, so he could only put it down for now and look for an opportunity to talk to the prince privately.
When Yan Xi returned home after going to court and discussed the matter with his family, everyone was silent. Everyone understood the truth, but it was not easy to accept it emotionally, but this was the fact. Yan Xi said this because he wanted to make his family feel mentally prepared.
, this matter cannot be delayed for too long.
Back in her small courtyard, Yan Xi asked Yan Qing if the practitioner's birthday was coming. Yan Qing slowly shook his head and said with confusion, "Qing'er doesn't know whether I should do this or not."
Yan Xi raised his eyebrows, not quite understanding: "What does this mean?"
"Father, my daughter suddenly thought that all this is just our guess or conjecture. Once confirmed, it is just as we guessed, and it will definitely eliminate the emperor's suspicion. But what if it is not the case? The emperor was just suspicion at first. What if
It has been confirmed that my destiny has nothing to do with the immortal roots. We have shot ourselves in the foot! By then, not to mention the emperor, none of the civil and military officials will let it go!"
After hearing this, Yan Xi thought it made sense. It was entirely possible!
"Then what if we find the Imperial Master privately?"
Yan Qingzheng sneered: "Even if the imperial master promised not to tell the emperor, would father dare to believe him?"
He choked on his words, he believed no one but the Imperial Master.