At dawn, before the sky brightened, the main entrance of the Imperial Palace was wide open.
Officials both civil and military braved the heavy snow to enter the palace gate, waiting outside the Hall of Peaceful Harmony.
At the third quarter of the hour of Si, the funeral procession officially set forth, going out of the palace gate in an awe-inspiring manner, following the main road leading outside the city towards the West Mountain Imperial Mausoleum in the outskirts of the city.
On both sides of the road along the way, the common people knelt and kowtowed, with solemn faces, quietly suppressing any sound.
The Crown Princess knelt on the imperial palanquin, wearing mourning clothes, her childish little face showing three parts impatience, four parts boredom, but not a trace of grief.
With the passing of the Imperial Grandmother, the future monarch of Fengqi Empire never shed a single tear throughout.
