C364 Whose death knell is this for?

Morong Gan entered the palace, and saw himself being brought to Phoenix Cry Palace, a glint flashed in his dark eyes, but there was no change on his face.

Liu Fu welcomed him at the door, with a solemn expression and a sorrowful look in his eyes. He made the proper bow, and his voice sounded somewhat hoarse, "Your highness, the emperor is waiting for you inside."

Morong Gan nodded and walked in.

In the large hall, a huge pillar stood silently as he walked. He didn't see anyone along the way, and the lights weren't very bright either. It was as if he was walking in the wilderness, and his heart was filled with a wave of sadness.

He knew that such a day would come, but he didn't expect it to happen so soon. The queen that was loved and respected by all the people in the world, the mother of all women, had silently left on such a quiet night. It was only a few days until the end of the year, but she couldn't wait any longer.

He pushed open the thick carved mahogany door. The light inside the room was still dim. The curtains hung down from the ceiling, tightly covering the carved bed.

The emperor sat on his feet, his face pale, his eyes hollow, his cheeks sunken, his chin a bluish black, his body so gaunt that he could hardly be considered human.

Morong Gan gently called out to him, "Royal Brother."

The emperor looked up mechanically, his murky eyes filled with water. He looked at Morong Gan as if he was a stranger, at a loss and helpless. Looking at him, after a long while, his throat made a gurgling sound.

Although he knew that it was the result, and had personally heard the Emperor say it, Morong Gan's heart still felt a sharp pain.

The Emperor shook his head. In the dim light, it was obvious that there were tears streaming down his face.

Morong Gan looked at him silently. No matter what the emperor had done, at this moment, his sorrow and sorrow had reached the bottom of his heart, the Queen had left, bringing his soul with her. He was no longer the son of heaven, he was just a disappointed man who had lost his beloved wife.

"When the empress was alive, she thought very highly of you. You can take care of her after she died, others won't be at ease."

"Yes, younger brother shall obey."

"Take the coffin back in three days. Let me accompany her again."

"..." "Alright."

"Stay in the palace for the next few days and handle the matters by yourself. There's no need to ask me."

"Yes."

The emperor waved his hand. "Go."

Morong Gan tilted his body and turned to leave. The door silently closed behind him and he turned to look. Within the narrow crack, the emperor stood up and walked unsteadily towards the large bed.

In this world, only death was unbeatable, even for emperors.

Morong Gan stood in the darkness and sighed, he suddenly made a decision. After the empress's funeral was over, he would bring Bai Qianfan back. No matter how dangerous the road ahead was, he wanted her to stay by his side, in his line of sight.

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There were still four days until the New Year. That morning, the citizens of Linan City suddenly heard a funeral bell in their dreams.

People ran out of the houses in panic and asked each other, "Who's dead? Who exactly died? "

Bai Qianfan sat in the horse carriage and was also shocked when she heard the knell of death coming from the nearby mountain. She looked at each other in dismay with Yue Gui.

Yue Guiyi stuck her head out and asked the carriage driver, "Big brother, who did this for?"

The carriage driver was puzzled as well. "The emperor is flourishing in the prime of his life, he shouldn't …"

To be able to make the temple ring the death knell, it must be either the emperor or the empress. Thinking about the empress's sickly body, Bai Qianfan's heart skipped a beat, and his face immediately changed.

She murmured, "It's the empress."

Yue Xiang's body trembled. The Queen had died...

"Stop the car." Bai Qianfan suddenly shouted, with tears in her eyes.

When the carriage driver saw her like this, he was very curious. "Miss, you …"

Bai Qianfan jumped off the carriage, and faced the direction of the Linan City, he kowtowed and raised her head.

Empress was a good person, she would always smile when she talked to him, always being kind and amiable. Knowing that she liked the fruit dew, he intentionally sent people to deliver it to her house.

She sobbed, bowing again and again. With bloodshot eyes, laurel stepped forward to pull her. "The journey is more important. We have yet to leave the borders of Vishnu."

Bai Qianfan crawled up and followed her into the horse carriage. She was still too sad, so she hugged Yue Guiyi's arm and continued to cry non-stop.

the handlebar asked, "Who's dead? Why is the girl crying so miserably? "

Yue Xiang said, "My sister is kind, to kill an ant would make her sad for a long time. But now that a big shot has died, she should not cry like that, quickly leave, I need to get some food from the next town."

The carriage driver shook his head and said with a sigh, "Even the most respected person in the world would die from old age and sickness. A calamity would eventually befall them."

It was still early in the morning, and the sky was a kind of greyish white. There was a light red glow floating in the sky, and on both sides of the forest, one could only hear the crisp sound of a horse's bells and the sound of a wheel rolling on the ground.

Bai Qianfan could not stop crying, the tears had almost soaked half of the bay leaf's sleeve. The bay leaf patted her back lightly and comforted her: "Don't cry anymore, people cannot be revived. The Queen's illness has dragged on for a long time, maybe it will be a relief to her if you go."

Bai Qianfan had been crying for the empress, but in the end, she was crying for herself.

She thought that it would eventually pass, and she would eventually forget. However, at this moment, she felt the pain of parting from her Linan City more and more, and she had never felt it so clearly before.

After making her decision, she had always been looking forward to her new life, thinking about the future, actively making preparations, planning everything she needed to escape. All these things took up her time and energy, and she had no chance to think about anything else, but this moment still came.

With this, she would never see him again. She would completely disappear from his life and become strangers with him from now on.

She loved Morong Gan, but she did not want to lose herself in such a way. She did not want to become the second Xiu Yuanshuang and live a lifeless life in such a heavy house.

One end was in her hand, and the other end was still attached to the Prince Chu Manor. As the carriage moved on, the line grew longer and thinner, and she knew that one day, this line would break off somewhere.

It was always like this when the nurse left, and it was always like this now. She lifted her sleeve to wipe her tears, then looked outside the window with a determined gaze.

A red sun gradually rose, dyeing the mountain forest red. The gloomy clouds dispersed, and ten thousand rays of golden light sprinkled onto the great earth.