Funeral hall

Outside was still quite cold, I was glad that I was wearing several layers of clothes on me, otherwise I would freeze.

My aunt's palace was quite distance away from funeral hall, but we had to walk.

No palaquins inside imperial palace for anyone during funeral rites. Even emperor had to walk.

Ah, my feet are surely going to bleed later.

During our procession, we have joined with more consorts from different palaces.

Huifen pointed out a few important ones.

Zhaorong Zhu and Xiuyi Lin.

Well, it's not like they were important for real, otherwise they would have been scheduled to go to funeral hall in previous five days.

Alas, there were too many concubines in old emperor's harem.

He also gifted out titles like candies.

There could only be one empress and four consorts, but anything below that it was basically a free real estate.

Anyone who bore him a child was given title of jieyu. And children died quite easily in harem. It was amazing that so many survived in the end.

Eighteen sons and fifteen daughters.

That's a lot.

You can imagine then how many concubines there is.

We came to big hall where emperor's coffin was on display.

It was quite extravagant. Even in death, everyone should know who's resting in peace there.

Some of imperial children were there. Well, only the young ones.

They just needed to light a joss stick and bow, and they would be excused afterwards. So they were already finished, and their nannies were bringing them away.

Huifen showed me Chongyuan Yan's son. He looked like a small dumpling. How funny.

I don't see the point of showing me all that, in two days, half of those people would be leaving palace.

And who knows what will happen with me. I can't predict my future.

Maids and eunuchs showed us the way and we obediently lined up to offer our last farewells to our husband. Geh.

My head already started to hurt from all that incense smoke.

Afterwards we had to knell and pray to his safe passage to heavenly palace.

After all, emperor is son of heaven, a dragon, and he didn't actually die, but he left his mortal shell and soared back to the sky.

Haha, ridiculous. I almost choked when I heard that.

My aunt was burning paper money and the rest had to quietly pray behind her.

I started to cry, and I wasn't the only one.

Smoke irritated my eyes. My aunt was crying particularly hard.

I doubt anyone is actually crying because of old emperor. They are crying for their miserable fate. Most of them here today are unfavoured ones and they can already imagine how terrible their future days will be. Especially ones without powerful family or any children.

I'm kinda glad that my aunt already found me a best possible buyer.

Even though she is a scheming snake, and I'm not really sure will emperor actually accept that transaction.

Ah, I want to faint and fall asleep forever.

Just why I had to transmigrate?