Alliance of the Heavens and Ming Dynasty

Chapter 556 On the Dying
Completely ignoring the palace rules and etiquette, he stumbled into the leopard room, and Liu Jin dragged his neck and wailed:

"Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager is dying!"

Bad news, big bad news!
Zhu Houzhao's eyes turned dizzy for a while, and he almost fainted. He glared at Liu Jin fiercely: "What's wrong with the Queen Mother?"

There was only one empress dowager in the Taiwu Dynasty, and that was his mother, Empress Dowager Zhang. Hearing that something happened to Empress Dowager Zhang, how could he remain calm.

It is true that there is a rift between mother and son, but Queen Mother Zhang is his mother after all.

Guru
Looking up at Zhu Houzhao with red eyes, Liu Jin swallowed hard, and said cautiously: "Dongchang received the latest news that the Queen Mother's lifespan will be exhausted, and I'm afraid time is running out."

As soon as the words fell, Zhu Houzhao had disappeared in place.

Hongzhi Dynasty, Queen's Palace
Empress Dowager Zhang was lying on the sickbed weakly, her life like a candle in the wind, which might go out at any time.

Like Li Yu, Empress Dowager Zhang's cultivation talent is not high. Even with the baptism of luck, it is still difficult to climb the realm of immortality. In the end, she still used countless resources to pile up the real realm of the cave.

Empress Dowager Zhang ate a lot of the elixir to increase her practice and life-extending pills, and her body developed serious drug resistance. At this time, even with the flat peaches from the Queen Mother and the ginseng fruit from Zhenyuanzi, it would be difficult to save her life.

On the side of the sick bed, Emperor Hongzhi seemed to have aged hundreds of years overnight, with a little gray hair on his head.

Before Da Ming embarked on the extraordinary road, it was Empress Dowager Zhang who sent him away, and when Daming embarked on the extraordinary road, it was him who sent Empress Dowager Zhang away. Only he and Empress Dowager Zhang understood the pain.

Obviously the husband and wife are deeply in love, but they cannot escape the separation of yin and yang. Fate always loves to play tricks on others.

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The space was distorted for a while, like water waves, Zhu Houzhao's figure appeared, and rushed to the sick bed.

Looking at the empress dowager Zhang who was so angry, Zhu Houzhao felt a sharp pain in his heart for some reason.

He can be ruthless to anyone, but he is still a human being, and as a human being, there is an inseparable concern.

The true essence is condensed into silk thread, which is wrapped around Queen Mother Zhang's wrist, transforming the aura of heaven and earth into vitality, and enters Queen Mother Zhang's body through the silk thread of true essence to continue her life.

However, Empress Dowager Zhang's body functions have aged to the extreme, and the surging vitality entering the body is like a mud cow entering the sea, which has no effect at all.

Putting a hand on Zhu Houzhao's shoulder to stop him from instilling vitality, Emperor Hongzhi said bitterly:

"It's useless, her lifespan is exhausted, and no one can bring it back."

According to Zhu Houzhao's silent zhenyuan silk thread, there is no way to save Queen Mother Zhang, but he can't do it.

The Taishang Laojun's Nine Turns Resurrection Pill, Xiwangmu's Immortality Medicine, and the Book of Life and Death that can reverse the law of life and death are all too far away.

As if sensing Zhu Houzhao's arrival, Empress Dowager Zhang opened her eyes with her last breath, looking at her son who made her both proud and helpless, and said in a weak voice, "Zhaoer."

He wanted to reach out to touch Aiko's face, but he was so powerless that even a single movement felt like a weight on his shoulders.

Zhu Houzhao held Queen Mother Zhang's hand tightly. He didn't cry or speak.

His mother was about to die, but the son was helpless. For the first time in his life, he tasted bitterness.

The mother and son met each other's eyes, and all the rifts that had arisen in the past disappeared at this moment.

When life comes to an end, everything is an illusion.

Empress Dowager Zhang pointed to the direction outside the palace with difficulty. She still had a son who hadn't come.

She was about to die, all she longed for was to see her son, and to have his son's appearance in her mind forever.

With a movement of Zhu Houzhao's soul, he captured King An, who was imprisoned in the palace by him.

Years of confinement almost drove An Wang crazy, with disheveled hair, ragged clothes, and no appearance that a royal noble should have.

The first time he saw Zhu Houzhao, King An subconsciously hid behind Emperor Hongzhi, his eyes full of fear and resentment.

He was imprisoned for thousands of years just by stretching out his hand. This cheap brother of his is too ruthless, too ruthless.

When he learned that Empress Dowager Zhang was going to die soon, King An burst into tears and burst into tears, feeling extremely sad.

"Mother Queen"

Wang An burst into tears, as if the sky had fallen, and he didn't know whether his crying was true or false, or both.

Empress Dowager Zhang is also his mother, and it is only natural for a son to cry for his old mother, but without the protection of Empress Dowager Zhang, if he touches Zhu Houzhao's taboo in the future, it will not be as simple as being banned.

"Don't cry, don't cry"

Relying on Zhu Houzhao's ray of true energy, she barely sat up, looked at her crying son, and Queen Mother Zhang protected him one last time:
"In the future, you must keep things in order and keep yourself safe. Don't make things difficult for your brother."

She has watched Zhu Houzhao grow up all the way, and she knows Zhu Houzhao's nature and methods too well, and knows that Wang An can't beat Zhu Houzhao, so she is dying, and she has to ask An Wang to keep his own place.

King An can live only if he keeps his own law and order. If King An is still ruthless, the consequences are hard to say. He may not die, but it will be more uncomfortable than death.

"The son and minister would like to follow the mother's teaching!"

Whether Wang An took Queen Mother Zhang's advice to heart, Queen Mother Zhang didn't know, but what should be said has been done, and the future is left to fate.

When her eyes fell on Zhu Houzhao, Empress Dowager Zhang's eyes blurred and changed. Looking back at the past, scenes of the past came to mind.

I don't know when, this son became more and more alienated from her, and I don't know when, the rift between mother and son is getting deeper and deeper
Thousands of years have passed, and her memory has long been blurred, and she can't remember clearly. However, when she was dying, what worried her most was Zhu Houzhao.

Tremblingly stroking Zhu Houzhao's face, Empress Dowager Zhang suddenly smiled, so kindly:
"If there is an afterlife, my mother hopes that you will stop being an emperor, Zhao'er. The emperor's road is too hard, and it's better to be an ordinary young man."

Zhu Houzhao hesitated to speak, but he had no face to speak. He thought he was worthy of anyone in his life, but he was ashamed of the two women.

One, let him use it thousands of years ago, and sacrificed for his dominance; and the other is his mother, Queen Mother Zhang.

"My mother knows that you have infinite ambitions, but sometimes letting go of others and letting go of yourself is a kind of relief."

Empress Dowager Zhang didn't warn Zhu Houzhao about anything, because Zhu Houzhao didn't need others to teach him how to do things. Empress Dowager Zhang just hoped that Zhu Houzhao could live an easier life.

Ever since he ascended to that position, Zhu Houzhao has not been really happy for a day, fighting with his officials, intriguing with the emperors of various dynasties, and carrying the calculations of several powerful people on his body.

Empress Dowager Zhang could tell that Zhu Houzhao was very tired from life.

Perhaps Zhu Houzhao had foreseen his end, but he was the emperor, the proud and domineering Emperor Taiwu of Ming Dynasty Zhu Houzhao, even though the road ahead was difficult, he had to persevere.

"Son remember!"

Zhu Houzhao's face was gloomy, he also wanted to live a more relaxed life, but the situation didn't allow it!
In life, you can never choose what you want.

There is a saying in the Buddha's words: Since stepping on the path of life and death, Nirvana has been empty.

But he couldn't even have the chance to be born again from Nirvana.

(End of this chapter)