Chapter 556 On his deathbed

Totally ignoring the palace rules and etiquette, Liu Jin stumbled into the leopard room. Liu Jin pulled his neck and wailed:

"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother is dying!"

Bad news, terrible news!

Zhu Houzhao's eyes were spinning for a while, and he almost fainted. He glared at Liu Jin fiercely: "What's wrong, Queen Mother?"

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

It is true that mother and son have dissatisfaction with each other, but Queen Mother Zhang is his mother after all.

Guru

Looking up at Zhu Houzhao, whose eyes were red, Liu Jin swallowed hard and said cautiously: "Dongchang has received the latest news that the Queen Mother is about to expire, and I am afraid that there is not much time left."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Houzhao disappeared from where he was.

Hongzhi Dynasty, Queen's Palace

Empress Dowager Zhang was lying on the hospital bed with weak breath. Her life was like a candle in the wind, which might be extinguished at any time.

Like Li Yu, Empress Dowager Zhang's cultivation talent is not very high. Even if she has the baptism of luck, it is difficult to climb the realm of immortality. In the end, she has to use countless resources to reach the true realm of stopping cave.

Empress Dowager Zhang took a lot of elixirs to increase spiritual practice and elixirs to prolong life, and her body became seriously resistant to the drugs. At this time, even the Queen Mother's flat peach and Zhen Yuanzi's ginseng fruit could not save Empress Dowager Zhang's life.

Beside the sick bed, Emperor Hongzhi seemed to have aged hundreds of years overnight, with a few more gray hairs on his head.

Before Ming Dynasty embarked on the extraordinary road, it was Empress Dowager Zhang who sent him away. When Ming Dynasty embarked on the extraordinary road, it was he who sent Empress Dowager Zhang away. Only he and Empress Dowager Zhang understood the pain involved.

The couple obviously loves each other deeply, but they can't escape the separation between yin and yang. Fate always likes to play tricks on others.

Buzz~

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

Looking at the angry Queen Mother Zhang, Zhu Houzhao's heart suddenly felt a sharp pain for some reason.

He can be merciless to anyone, but he is still a human being, and he has a care that is difficult to let go of.

The true essence was condensed into silk threads and wrapped around the wrists of Queen Mother Zhang, transforming the aura of heaven and earth into vitality. It was fed into Queen Mother Zhang's body through the true essence threads, extending her life.

However, Queen Mother Zhang's body functions have aged to the extreme, and the surging vitality entering her body is like a mud cow entering the sea, with no effect at all.

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

"It's useless. Her life is over and no one can save her."

Zhu Houzhao silently used the true essence thread to save Empress Dowager Zhang, but there was no way he could do it.

Taishang Laojun's Nine Turns of Resurrection Pill, Queen Mother of the West's Immortal Medicine, and the Book of Life and Death that can reverse the laws of life and death are all too far away.

As if sensing the arrival of Zhu Houzhao, Empress Dowager Zhang took her last breath, opened her eyes, looked at the son who made her both proud and helpless, and said in a weak voice: "Zhao'er."

I wanted to reach out and touch my son's face, but I was so weak that even a single move felt like I was bearing a huge weight.

Zhu Houzhao held Queen Mother Zhang's hand tightly. He did not cry or speak.

The mother is about to die, but the son is helpless. He tastes bitterness for the first time in his life.

Mother and son looked at each other, and all the rifts that had arisen in the past disappeared at this moment.

When life comes to an end, everything is empty.

Empress Dowager Zhang pointed in the direction outside the palace with difficulty. She still had a son who was not here.

She was about to die. All she longed for was to see her son and have her son's face forever in her mind.

Zhu Houzhao moved his soul and took a picture of Prince An, who was imprisoned in the palace.

Years of imprisonment almost drove King An crazy. His hair was disheveled, his clothes were ragged, and he did not look like a royal nobleman.

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

He just stretched out his hand and imprisoned him for thousands of years. This cheap brother of his was so cruel and cruel.

When he learned that Queen Mother Zhang was going to die soon, King An burst into tears and burst into tears. He was extremely sad.

"Mother"

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

Empress Dowager Zhang was also his mother. It was only natural for a son to cry for his mother. Without the protection of Empress Dowager Zhang, if he touched Zhu Houzhao's taboo in the future, it would not be as simple as being imprisoned.

"Don't cry, don't cry"

Relying on the ray of true energy passed by Zhu Houzhao, she reluctantly sat up and looked at her little son who kept crying. Queen Mother Zhang protected him one last time:

"In the future, you must behave yourself and don't embarrass your brother."

She had watched Zhu Houzhao grow up all the way, and she was very clear about Zhu Houzhao's nature and methods. She knew that King An could not defeat Zhu Houzhao, so when she was dying, she had to tell King An to stay safe.

Only by staying safe can King An survive. If King An still persists in his evil intentions, the consequences are hard to say. He may not die, but it will be more painful than death.

"My son, please obey your mother's teachings!"

Did Prince An take Empress Dowager Zhang's advice to heart? Empress Dowager Zhang didn't know. She had already given the instructions that needed to be given, so let's just leave the matter to fate.

When her eyes fell on Zhu Houzhao, Queen Mother Zhang's eyes were blurred and changing. Looking back on the past, scenes from the past came to mind.

I don’t know when it started, but this son became more and more alienated from her. I don’t know when it started, and the rift between mother and son became deeper and deeper.

Thousands of years have passed, and her memory has long been blurred. However, when she was dying, the thing she worried about the most was Zhu Houzhao.

Caressing Zhu Houzhao's face tremblingly, Queen Mother Zhang suddenly smiled, smiling so kindly:

"If there is an afterlife, I hope Zhao'er that you will not be an emperor anymore. The road of being an emperor is too difficult. It would be better to be an ordinary young man."

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

One of them was used by him thousands of years ago and sacrificed for his dominance; and the other was his mother, Queen Mother Zhang.

"My mother knows that you have endless ambitions, but sometimes it's a relief to let others go as well as yourself."

Empress Dowager Zhang did not warn Zhu Houzhao about anything, because Zhu Houzhao did not 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 never been truly happy for a single day. He fought with his ministers, intrigued with the emperors of various dynasties, and was burdened with the calculations of several powerful men.

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

Perhaps Zhu Houzhao had foreseen his own fate, but he was the emperor, the proud and domineering Emperor Taiwu of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Houzhao. Even if the road ahead was difficult, he must persist.

"My son remembers it!"

Zhu Houzhao's face was gloomy. He also wanted to live a more relaxed life, but the situation did not allow it!

Life is never something you can choose arbitrarily, whatever you want.

There is a saying in the Buddha's words: Ever since we have crossed the path of life and death, Nirvana has always been empty.

But he couldn't even get a chance to be reborn in Nirvana and start over again.
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