Oh My General Episode 23 Recap
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The Empress Dowager went to Qingyuan Palace to visit Concubine Chen and agreed with her to bury a secret forever. Concubine Chen agreed to the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager stood up and gave Concubine Chen a very solemn kowtow before preparing to leave. Outside Qingyuan Palace, the Emperor and Ye Zhao happened to be riding their horses there. Ye Zhao suggested going to Qingyuan Palace to ask for a drink of water.
The Emperor thought for a moment and, feeling a little tired, agreed. The group entered Qingyuan Palace, but encountered the Empress Dowager, who had just come out, at the entrance. The Empress Dowager felt a little uneasy seeing the Emperor come to Qingyuan Palace, but thinking of the guarantee that Concubine Chen had just given her, she felt that nothing would happen and did not stop the Emperor and the others.
After the Emperor and the others entered the hall and sat down, Jiang Luhai asked Ziyan, the maid beside Concubine Chen, to quickly help Concubine Chen out. Ziyan saluted and went into the inner room to inform Concubine Chen. When Concubine Chen heard that the Emperor had come, she immediately braced herself and stood up to meet the Emperor.
The Emperor didn't feel anything special when he saw Concubine Chen, but greeted her with a few polite words as if she were an ordinary concubine, and then prepared to leave. However, Concubine Chen kept staring at the Emperor, with tears in her eyes. As the Emperor was about to leave, she cried out the Emperor's name with all her might.
Even then, the Emperor didn't think much of it, only feeling that Concubine Chen was a bit too excited, so he turned his head to comfort her with a few words and left without any attachment. After the horse race, Ye Zhao returned to the Junwang Manor and called Zhao Yujin over.
Zhao Yujin knew that Ye Zhao had still taken the Emperor to see Concubine Chen and was very angry, feeling that Ye Zhao did not care about the lives of so many people in the Zhao and Ye families at all. Ye Zhao only said that she would take responsibility for her own actions and handed Zhao Yujin an envelope, telling Zhao Yujin to open it when he got back.
After Zhao Yujin returned to his study, he opened the envelope and found a divorce agreement inside. Moreover, the divorce agreement was written without any literary skill. Zhao Yujin just smiled when he saw it, thinking that Ye Zhao was uncultured. At night, the Emperor was fast asleep, with Consort Zhang attending to him.
The Emperor dreamed of Concubine Chen, who had a sorrowful expression and said that she was leaving and could no longer do anything for the Emperor, also saying that she was the Emperor's birth mother. The Emperor woke up from his dream in shock, and Consort Zhang also woke up. Seeing that the Emperor had a nightmare, she comforted and persuaded him for a while, helping the Emperor to lie down again.
The next morning, the Emperor got up to attend the early court, and Consort Zhang was helping the Emperor to change clothes. Jiang Luhai came in and said that Concubine Chen had passed away last night. The Emperor's heart skipped a beat. Thinking of last night's dream, he asked when she had passed away. Jiang Luhai said it was at midnight last night.
The Emperor thought that he had dreamed of Concubine Chen at the same time, and was speechless for a moment. Seeing the Emperor's momentary loss of focus, Consort Zhang instructed Jiang Luhai to ask the Empress Dowager for her opinion on how Concubine Chen's funeral should be held. Jiang Luhai retreated after hearing this. In the Empress Dowager's palace, the Empress Dowager was getting dressed when she received the news of Concubine Chen's death.
She was originally dissatisfied with why Concubine Chen had passed away at midnight last night but the palace staff only reported it today, but then she thought that Concubine Chen was just an ordinary concubine, so she did not punish the palace staff. At this time, Prince Qi entered the palace to request an audience, and the Empress Dowager went to see Prince Qi.
Prince Qi's request for an audience this time was to ask how Concubine Chen's funeral should be held. The Empress Dowager only said that Concubine Chen was just an ordinary concubine, so she should be buried according to the etiquette for ordinary concubines. However, Prince Qi disagreed, saying that precisely because she was Concubine Chen, she definitely could not be buried with the etiquette for ordinary concubines.
Seeing Prince Qi's stubbornness, the Empress Dowager agreed to bury Concubine Chen with the etiquette for a first-rank concubine and also entrusted Prince Qi with the task of arranging it. Prince Qi received the Empress Dowager's permission and retreated contentedly. After Prince Qi left, the Empress Dowager fainted. The palace staff discovered this and quickly summoned the imperial physician to see her. The imperial physician only said that the Empress Dowager needed to recuperate well.
However, the Empress Dowager did not listen to the advice. As the weather turned cold, she was still walking in the garden, looking at the autumn scenery in the garden, and said that she was afraid that she would not be able to wait until winter. The palace staff were all around the Empress Dowager, comforting her, but the Empress Dowager's own heart was already dead. Not long after, the Empress Dowager passed away.
The Empress Dowager's death was definitely a grand funeral. The entire palace was in mourning for the Empress Dowager. The Emperor did not eat anything for several days, and Consort Zhang's persuasion was useless. At this time, Yang Taifei, who had served the late Emperor, came, as if she had something to say to the Emperor. The Emperor asked the palace staff and Consort Zhang to leave first, and he listened to what Yang Taifei wanted to say.
Yang Taifei told the Emperor about an event that happened thirty-five years ago. Thirty-five years ago, Concubine Chen was just a maid beside the Empress Dowager. On a stormy night, the late Emperor came to the Empress Dowager's palace to spend the night and inadvertently took a fancy to the maid beside the Empress Dowager, so he slept with her. Afterwards, Concubine Chen became pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy.
However, one night, the Empress Dowager had someone use a "civet cat for a prince" trick and replaced the child. Concubine Chen was never the same again and also lost favor. At this point, the Emperor realized that his birth mother was not the Empress Dowager, but Concubine Chen. Thinking of the only time he had met Concubine Chen in his life and that night's dream, the Emperor felt a deep sense of sorrow.
He immediately ordered people to prepare to go to Concubine Chen's mausoleum. When Concubine Chen was being buried, Prince Qi insisted that she be buried in the clothing of an Empress. When the Emperor saw Concubine Chen's remains, he knelt deeply before Concubine Chen, acknowledging this mother whom he had not seen for many years. He also adopted Ziyan, the maid beside Concubine Chen, as his adopted daughter, to guard the tomb for Concubine Chen on his behalf, enjoying a lifetime of emoluments.
