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The Imperial Palace is far on the slanting fields of the northern plains; deep is the grace of life and death, yet it can't be reached at home.
Where do the clouds and rain return to today? The orioles fly up to the wild pear blossoms.
"Zheng Mingzhu... I remember, she belonged to the bedchamber bureau, and was a palace lantern officer for the former Consort of the Guangling Heir, around seven or eight months ago, they said that she was caught stealing something from the palace. No matter how she was beaten, she wouldn't confess and ended up taking her own life by running into a wall.
Matters after death? I heard she had a son, but being related to a traitor, he couldn't be included in the family registers and would have to be confined within the One Hundred Grandsons Institution for his whole life, unable to leave. With no kin or relations outside, what affairs could she have after death? Probably just wrapped in a mat and buried somewhere among the palace servants,"
