On the long deserted street, the wheels of the carriage rolled in, and under the whirlpool hung two dim lanterns of the dead wind, which kept shaking as the carriage moved forward. The delicate frame made of ebony is polished and shiny, showing a simple and beautiful luster in the dim light.

There was a stove in the car, warm, and a faint ambergris fragrance was baked by this warmth more and more rich and long. The heavy red curtain of the Tuanfu car blocked the biting cold wind outside. Zhu Yi sat in a precious prince's costume, he pinched the bridge of his nose tiredly, and his fan-like eyelashes couldn't cover his dark blue eye sockets.

This time, the Queen Mother was in a coma for a full day and a night, and even Zhu Xian announced the suspension of the court meeting and devoted herself to serving in Cining Palace. Naturally, he didn't dare to slack off, counting today, he had been in Cining Palace for three days.

Zhu Xian couldn't help but be furious when he saw the Queen Mother's withered appearance, scolded the entire Tai Hospital, and claimed that if the Queen Mother did not get better, he would be buried with the entire Tai Hospital. It has made the people of the Tai Hospital panic now, and those Tai Doctors are all as sad as if their old lady is dying.

Zhu Yi has been accompanying the Queen Mother in a daze, and he doesn't sympathize with these old foxes who can't cure their illnesses at all. He only sighed silently in his heart, the only person in this world who is unconditionally good to him, can't he really keep it?

Grabbing the emaciated fingers of the Queen Mother, he vaguely remembered the past events before his father's death. It was such a cold winter. He was still young, and he only saw the queen mother and the palace maids and eunuchs around him all looking sad. And Su Ri's father, who doted on him the most, lay on the large dragon bed in the dormitory all day long, and no longer got up to play with him.

One day. He took advantage of the fact that his mother was tired of taking care of his father, so he temporarily rested in the side hall, while the eunuchs and palace maids were waiting outside. Sneaked into the dormitory and climbed onto his father's dragon bed.

He finally climbed into bed, but looked at the person on the bed dumbfounded. Because he really couldn't believe that the withered man lying in front of him was his father, who was still strong and cheerful even though he was over fifty years old, and liked to take him on horseback and shoot arrows the most.

He timidly reached out and touched the man's face, although his father was seriously ill, he was quickly awakened by his small action. The originally gloomy eyes lit up immediately after seeing him, and he called in a low voice: "Yi'er." What are you doing here? ”

Only then did he be convinced that this man who was so withered that he was really his father. Immediately, his mouth flattened, and without warning he began to cry. It caught his father off guard. He was already terminally ill, so naturally he didn't have the strength to hug him and coax him, so he had to gasp and say helplessly: "Yi'er, why are you crying!" ”

He sobbed. Frightened whispered: "Father, don't die." Yi'er doesn't want his father to die. ”

I remember that at that time, my father smiled bitterly and lamented: "It turns out that even Yi'er knows that my father is going to die." He was so frightened, sad, and confused that he didn't know what to do except sob.

After a long time, he was tired of crying, so he shrunk into the quilt at his father's feet and fell asleep in a daze, until he was woken up by the sound of talking.

It was his elder brother Zhu Xian, who was much older, who had just married the young lady of the Guo family as the crown princess. It's time to be in high spirits. Zhu Xian was wearing a bright yellow prince's costume, and there was a circle of newly emerged cyan stubble on his thin lips. He was followed by an old lady with low eyebrows. The Imperial Physician held a steaming potion as black as ink in his hand.

Although he and Zhu Xian are brothers, because of the age difference, the two are not as intimate as Guo Chengsi and Zhu Fei. And he doesn't know if it's an illusion, he always feels that although this brother is full of smiles every time he talks to him, he just feels that this smile does not reach the dark and deep eyes.

Especially every time his father personally taught him to ride a horse and shoot arrows, or held him on his lap and fed him with his own hands. He could feel the coldness in his brother's eyes, like poisoned ice slag, which could almost freeze his bones. But he could only hold these words in his heart, and he didn't dare to mention them to anyone, including his father and queen mother, who loved him the most.

So after he was woken up by Zhu Xian, not only did he not make a sound, but he also quietly shrank his head into the quilt. Fortunately, in addition to the heavy bedding, there was a fine curtain between the two. So Zhu Xian and the old lady doctor didn't notice that little Zhu Yi was hiding at the end of the bed.

Although through the curtain, he could still vaguely see Zhu Xian's every move. Seeing that Zhu Xian's face still had the kind of shallow smile that scared him, he said softly: "Father, it's time to take medicine." ”

The father agreed in a daze, and Zhu Xian respectfully turned around and went to the imperial doctor's hand to take the medicine. Zhu Yi also retracted his head in disinterest, wanting to continue sleeping. Unexpectedly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw Zhu Xian at the moment when he was serving the medicine, a pill rolled out of his palm, and fell into the hot medicine juice silently.

The old lady who served the medicine clearly looked at it, but did not speak. Zhu Xian still had a decent smile on the corner of his mouth, picked up the silver spoon on the side and slowly stirred the medicinal juice in the bowl, until the pill was completely melted, and then brought it to his unsuspecting father and fed him one bite at a time.

Zhu Yi didn't know what this scene he saw in a hurry meant, he was even afraid that Zhu Xian would see him, and hurriedly hid his entire body in the futon.

The father knew that he had been afraid of his brother since he was a child, especially this time he sneaked in without the palace maid and eunuch, and he was also afraid that he would be blamed by Zhu Xian, so he just drank the medicine quietly, but did not mention the existence of a fourth person in the palace at this moment.

The father drank the medicine, and under the pretext that he still had rest, he sent Zhu Xian out, so that Zhu Yi, who was sweating profusely in the quilt, could escape smoothly.

Later, Zhu Yi wanted to visit his father in the old way, but he never succeeded. Every time, he was either discovered by the queen mother, or persuaded by the palace maids and eunuchs. Until a month later, his father died suddenly.

After learning the news, he was simply blindfolded. He never thought of his father, who could eat three bowls of rice in one meal and pull a hundred catties of bows on horseback. actually lost his life because of a small wind chill. But he had no other way to express his anger, his insecurity, and his sorrow than to cry.

Subsequently. Zhu Xianming became the emperor and became the queen mother. Like him, he couldn't accept the sudden death of his father and the queen mother, in the first few years, she always nagged in front of him, why his father obviously had the most intelligent doctor, the most cherished medicinal materials, but was killed by a small wind and cold.

Later it was a long time. The Queen Mother also accepted the reality and stopped nagging. But he has grown up and become sensible. The scene he accidentally saw in his father's bedroom took root in his mind, and it came out like a stinger from time to time to provoke his nerves. He was always in a trance, thinking about what was the pill that had quietly slipped into his father's decoction?

It's a pity that he was still young at that time, had no power in his hands, and his wings were thin. Even if you have doubts in your heart, you can't do anything. Until adulthood. At the insistence of the Queen Mother, after being crowned Prince Rui and opening another mansion, he secretly launched an investigation.

His only clue was the old lady doctor back then, but unfortunately the old lady doctor returned to his hometown shortly after his father's death and disappeared. He once personally went to the hometown of the imperial doctor, which was in the beautiful and prosperous Jiangnan, and he had a hundred excuses to take this trip.

It's a pity that when he arrived in Jiangnan. I tried every possible way to find the old lady's hometown, only to learn that the old lady doctor had already died. He didn't find anything on this trip to Jiangnan. also made Zhu Xian, who had treated him well after ascending the throne, suspicious.

Since then, he has been hovering on the edge of power, and in order to make Zhu Xian feel at ease, he does not hesitate to destroy his reputation. He only eats, drinks and has fun every day, and lingers in Fengyue places all day long, without showing the slightest sign of wanting to tainish his power, which made Zhu Xian relax his surveillance of him slightly.

But such a day of grievances made him faintly residing in an active volcano with an undercurrent tumbling under his seemingly stable appearance, and he didn't know when it would completely erupt.

Zhu Xian has been guarding the Queen Mother for a few days, and those past events are like poisonous beetail needles, which keep popping up and piercing his heart one by one, making him almost numb in pain.

At this time, Liu Yuanju hurried back from Liangzhou, his golden needle crossing point is a must, originally three months ago was stationed in Liangzhou King Liang invited to treat the disease. As soon as the Queen Mother fell here, she was picked up by Zhu Xian's holy decree.

As soon as Liu Yuan's sentence came back, he immediately woke up the Queen Mother with a golden needle, and Zhu Xian and Zhu Yi were overjoyed. After the Queen Mother woke up, she saw Zhu Yi, who was waiting by the bedside, with red eyes and sunken eye sockets, obviously extremely tired.

The Queen Mother was distressed and immediately ordered him to go back to his house to rest. Zhu Yi couldn't resist her, so he had to temporarily resign and leave the palace gate. Before leaving, the Queen Mother was still holding on to her sick body, and said with a weak smile: "The mourning family is still waiting to drink the tea from Prince Rui." ”

Only then did Zhu Yi remember that he had completely left behind the marriage these days, and he was always wary of Zhu Xian's marriage before, so he did not hesitate to damage his reputation, and he also had to find all kinds of excuses and push and prevaricate. But this time is different, he has full of expectations for this different Miss Liu, and he always feels that she will be his final salvation.

Thinking about his thoughts all the way, the frame finally stopped in front of Prince Rui's mansion. He stood up, and the guards who had been sitting silently in the corner of the carriage immediately draped a warm silver fox fur coat on his shoulders, and then respectfully opened the door curtain, and Zhu Yi strode out.

It was already dark outside, and only a few red lanterns hung under the eaves shrouded the gate of Prince Rui's mansion. The cold wind blew on the face like a knife, and the poplar branches on the side of the road danced wildly in the wind, and the dry branches made a "click" sound from time to time. The withered weeds on the side of the road, their heads hanging listlessly, shivering in the cold wind, making a rustling sound.

Zhu Yi pressed the silver fox fur on his shoulders and raised his legs to step up the white jade steps. Behind him, a woman's trembling and surprised call suddenly came: "Lord, Lord, Miss, wake up, Lord"

Zhu Yi turned around in surprise, and through the few guards behind him, he faintly saw two slender female figures, one white and one blue, snuggled under a big poplar tree. Zhu Yi's face sank, and after thinking about it, he finally strode over.

As expected, the woman in white was Ye Meisu, who had been entangled with him for a long time, and the woman in blue was her maid Ying'er. At this moment, Ye Meisu's face was flushed, her eyes were half-closed in a fog, her small mouth was slightly open by the frozen purple, and she kept panting rapidly, like a fish that was dehydrated and almost wanted to dry up. She sat down in the snow, her upper body leaning against Ying'er's arms, obviously a little delirious. Although Ying'er was also frozen, she still tried her best to hug Ye Meisu in her arms, trying to pass on the warmth on her body.

Zhu Yi looked at the two of them condescendingly, frowned tightly, and said puzzledly: "Ying'er, what are you doing here?" ”

When Ying'er saw him, it was like seeing the backbone of the main heart, and she was extremely excited. She raised her little face and said in a panic and eagerly: "Lord Wang, please save our young lady!" That Yin Niang secretly wants to send our young lady to the Taifu Siqing Mansion to be a child, that old man is almost sixty, enough to be our young lady's grandfather, and there are more than ten or twenty concubines in the house. Our young lady was unwilling, and fell out with Yinniang, and Yinniang kicked us out.

Lord Wang, you also know that our master and servant came alone, and there is not even a helper in this Chang'an City, which can really be said to be ineffective every day. The young lady didn't dare to go to the inn where the people came and went, and she thought about her love for the prince, so she came over. Please be kind and give us a place to stay! ”

When Zhu Yi heard this, his thick eyebrows couldn't help frowning deeply. No matter how much he is outside, this cold Prince Rui's Mansion is the last piece of pure land in his heart, and he has never received a woman inside, so today, Ye Meisu's master and servant will eat such a big closed door.

The little affection with Ye Meisu was not enough for him to break this taboo, but looking at Ye Meisu's burning red face, he couldn't help but think of those dusty pasts again, and remembered his father who died because of a cold. His originally cold heart couldn't help but soften, and he said indifferently: "Xingda, you go find a doctor, and you can bring their master and servant in!" With that, he flicked his sleeves and turned to leave.

Ying'er didn't understand that in the past, Prince Rui obviously spoiled his young lady in the sky and on the earth, so he almost didn't pick the stars in the sky to make her smile. Why, after only a few months, did he look at his young lady with such a cold look, like looking at a beggar lying on the side of the street, or a stranger who had nothing to do with him?

She looked at his back as he left mercilessly, and couldn't help but shiver quietly. After Zhu Yi's order, two guards immediately stepped forward, one picked up Ye Meisu, who was already delirious, and the other helped Ying'er, who was also frozen, and walked towards Prince Rui's mansion (to be continued......