Chapter 28: The Separation of Yin and Yang

  The joyful atmosphere in the palace has not completely dissipated, but is only covered by a thick layer of sadness.

  The attendants on both sides knelt down respectfully on the ground.

  In fact, they don't have to kneel down to their own, and since they haven't passed through the 'gate' yet, they can't be considered as the crown princess.

  Maybe everyone sympathizes with her anyway.

  Qing Sang thought so, and felt even more desolate.

  Still in her wedding dress, the vibrant colors only accentuated the bride's sorrow.

  Walking through the spacious and somewhat deserted outer hall, following the eunuch who led the way, they entered the inner chamber, where a man's voice could be heard shouting: "If you can't save him, none of you will live."

  Pushing open the door and walking through the front hall, he entered the inner chamber. Behind the pearl curtain, a bright yellow figure was pacing back and forth, while a bright red figure sat on the edge of the bed sobbing.

  It should be Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress.

  Qing Sang hastily knelt down and kowtowed.

  The emperor ordered her to rise and let her in.

  The eunuch lifted the curtain and Qing Sang walked in with her head down.

  "Go and take a look." The emperor said in a low voice.

  Qing Sang walked step by step towards the bed, walking very slowly, feeling that each step was as heavy as a thousand pounds.

  The big red "xi" character and red curtains in the house indicate that today was originally a good day.

  The prince's face had no human color, white as paper, but his lips showed a dark purple color, seemingly poisoned very deeply.

  Qing Sang knelt forward at the bedside, holding one of Tang Hao's hands in both of his. His hand was cold as ice, without a hint of warmth.

  Tong Hao, who had been keeping his eyes tightly closed, slightly opened them and looked at Qing Sang, who was wearing a red shirt. With great effort, he moved the hand that Qing Sang was holding onto her face.

  The chill in his hand seeped into her skin, and chilled her heart.

  Tang Hao's lips lightly opened, saying something, Qing Sang leaned forward, putting her ear close to Tang Hao's lips, and finally heard him say: "You're really beautiful today..."

  Tears fell, but her face wore a smile. Qing Sang felt the hand stroking her face move, using his thumb to wipe away the tears on her cheeks.

  Tang Hao's lips, which had already turned black, slowly curled up, revealing a faint smile. Suddenly, Tang Hao's eyes began to lose focus, and his icy hand slowly slipped out of Qing Sang's grasp.

  Three imperial physicians who were kneeling on one side rushed forward to check, and in just a short while, Tong Hao stopped breathing.

  The queen rushed forward, shaking her slender body, and cried out in a sobbing voice: "Hao'er, Hao'er..."

  The imperial physicians trembled all over, kneeling on the ground with a crying tone, shouting: "Your Majesty, the Empress must prioritize your body, the Crown Prince is dead."

  The Emperor kicked them to the ground with one foot and shouted loudly: "A bunch of useless people, what's the point of keeping you, execute them! Take them out and execute them!"

  The imperial physicians cried and knelt down on the ground begging for mercy.

  "The Crown Prince was benevolent and elegant before his death, how can the Emperor bear to be so cruel after his death?" The sound of Qing Sang's voice was not loud, but this sentence struck heavily on the Emperor's heart. His attention shifted to his son who had already stopped breathing, and he walked over to the bedside.

  Sitting on the edge of the bed, stroking his son's face, he couldn't help but shed old tears, sobbing uncontrollably.

  The royal family's affection is slightly thinner than that of ordinary families. The emperor only occasionally takes a look at his children and never raises them himself, so the emotions are naturally not deep. Qing Sang has always thought so, and under the influence of some TV dramas in her previous life, she feels even more so. Today, seeing the emperor like this, she suddenly felt that the relationship between parents and children is natural, and it's always a sad thing for people with white hair to send away those with black hair.

  The queen wept silently and suddenly fainted. The palace maids attending her were frantic, rushing forward to support her.

  The emperor saw that the three imperial physicians were still sprawled on the ground like sieves, and furiously shouted: "You several people quickly go take a look at the empress!"

  Perhaps due to excessive fright, after the emperor's words fell, no one came forward.

  The green mulberry tree standing beside the imperial physician saw that they were all frightened out of their wits and hadn't even heard the emperor call them, so with good intentions she shifted a few steps closer to the imperial physician who was closest to her and gently kicked him with her foot.

  He suddenly came to, lifted his head and saw the Emperor staring at him with wide eyes, then saw the Empress lying in the palace maid's arms. After a moment of surprise, he suddenly realized what was happening and rushed over to give the Empress an injection. Slowly but surely, the Empress began to come around.

  Qing Sang let out a breath of relief, this imperial physician was quite clever. Otherwise, these three people would have been in big trouble again.

  As expected, the Emperor saw the Empress wake up and slightly relieved his anger. He said to the imperial physician, "Chu Lianyu, since you saved the Empress, I will spare your life. The other two of you, each receive 50 lashes and be expelled from the Imperial Hospital."

  Someone immediately came forward and dragged away the imperial physician.

  The imperial physician named Chu Lianyu hastily knelt down to thank him.

  The emperor excused his courtesy and ordered the palace eunuchs to send the empress back to the palace, telling Zhu Lianyu to carefully examine her.

  Chu Lianyu obtained the imperial edict and hastily retreated with the empress and the people around her. After retreating behind the curtain, Chu Lianyu turned his head and looked at Qing Sang with a heart full of gratitude, but unfortunately, Qing Sang was completely immersed in grief at this time and did not look over here.

  The eunuch Cheng, who was standing beside the Emperor, stepped forward to persuade him to leave, but saw that the Emperor was staring blankly at the Crown Prince's body and did not respond to his words. He didn't dare say it again and stood aside with a sullen expression.

  The eunuch Chen Chun, who was in charge of the Crown Prince's wardrobe, arrived at the Huafu to bring a change of clothes for the Crown Prince. The Emperor himself wanted to put on the new clothes, which caused Eunuch Cheng and other eunuchs to kneel down and kowtow frantically, trying to stop him, but this only made the Emperor extremely angry.

  Qingsang stepped forward and took over the clothes, kneeling down and saying: "Your Majesty, let me help the princess change instead?"

  The emperor finally calmed down and agreed.

  Qing Sang helped by Chun, changed the clothes for the Crown Prince.

  After everything was ready, Qing Sang ordered 'Spring' to come and fetch a pair of scissors.

  "Spring" came with a puzzled expression, and the emperor also looked at her in confusion.

  Qing Sang didn't explain, just ordered him to bring it over.

  Spring has arrived and taken its orders.

  Qingsang cut off a small bunch of Tonghao's hair, then pulled out her own hair and cut off a bunch. She tied the two strands of black silk together in a knot and placed them in the palm of the prince's hand.

  "You... are well, well, so my son will not be lonely either." The emperor understood Qing Sang's meaning. Although they had not exchanged vows, thus they finally became husband and wife.

  Then, a flurry of footsteps was heard outside, and the Seventh Prince Tong'er burst in, still wearing his festive attire. Upon hearing that his imperial brother had encountered trouble, he rushed over hastily.

  Unfortunately, I never got to see him one last time.

  Qing Sang, who was also in a festive attire, looked at him with a mixture of emotions in his heart, but the most painful news was still the death of his imperial brother.

  Among several brothers, he and the prince had the best relationship. Although there was a rift between them after the Qing Sang incident, they both accepted their fate without hurting each other's true feelings. Therefore, when Tong Hua died, Tong Er was also heartbroken.

  He was absent-minded at the banquet, responding to guests, and threw down his wine cup and rushed over, but still late.

  "Who did it?" he bellowed, his eyes fixed on Tong's pale corpse as he clenched his fists.

  "It's Zhang Foyi!" The emperor's voice was hoarse and low.

  Qing Sang heard this, her eyebrows deeply furrowed. She knew that Tong Hao had two imperial consorts, originally palace maids who served him, later promoted by the empress to be consorts. Logically, only stable and reliable people would be chosen for such a position, so why did Zhang Consort do such a thing?

  Thinking that today is the big wedding day, Qing Sang was really afraid. If this matter were to arise because of herself, she would truly be ashamed for the rest of her life.

  "Why?" Tong asked, having forgotten her identity due to grief and directly speaking to her father, the emperor.

  The Emperor said, "This wicked woman and the delivery boy outside the palace had an illicit relationship and even plotted to harm my son. Taking advantage of Haoying's big wedding, with many people coming and going, they notified her lover to sneak into the mansion, using a poisoned dagger to stab Haoying, causing him to die from severe poisoning." As he spoke, he couldn't help but shed tears. After a pause, he continued, "Although these two were also stabbed by Haoying with the same dagger and died from poisoning, it still doesn't alleviate my hatred. I must chop their corpses into minced meat and offer them as sacrifices to Haoying."

  Although Qing Sang was heartbroken, her mind was still clear. The emperor's words were indeed confusing. Zhang Fangyi had secretly escaped with someone, why did he want to kill the crown prince? This crime of harming the crown prince is a serious offense punishable by exterminating nine generations of his family.

  He looked at Tong'er, and saw that Tong'er also had a face full of confusion.

  Tang raised an eyebrow and questioned, "Brother Emperor's martial arts are exceptionally powerful, how could he be injured by just any ordinary person? Moreover, the Eastern Palace has many guards, yet they couldn't stop a single small servant?"

  The Emperor was somewhat displeased and said, "Zhang Gongyi and that person colluded with each other, taking advantage of your imperial brother's solitude and unpreparedness to succeed. My son's luck was poor, and they succeeded in their attempt. Those negligent 'attendant' guards will not be lightly pardoned by me either."

  Qing Sang felt that there was more to the story than what the Emperor had said, but since the Emperor had already indicated that he didn't want to talk about it anymore, no one dared to ask further.

  Tang? Naturally also guessed that Father Huang had something inconvenient to say here, so he didn't ask again and turned to mourn Tang Hao.

  Before long, all of the prince's brothers and sisters arrived except for Wang Tong who was still on his way.

  At this time, Qing Sang's name was not correct and his words were not smooth, but it was inconvenient to stay again. He looked far away at Tong Hao who had already gone to another world, with a heart full of sorrow, and silently left.

  Deep sorrow forever separated, who can understand my thoughts? From now on, yin and yang are isolated, never to meet again. The green mulberry tree weeps with tears streaming down, dragging its feet, dejectedly walking out of the palace gate, and falls into Snow's arms waiting outside the palace gate.

  (The elegant and sentimental prince's role is also liked by himself, many times he couldn't bear to part with this corner... but, the plot requires it, Gezi is also very distressed, in the end can only say, Gezi self-tortured a bit... sigh... fans of the prince who like me don't scold me, wuwu~~)