The snow is long, covering every ugly thing in the world. The cold wind howled, vowing to uncover it all.

His Royal Highness Xuanyuan, several ministers knelt in the snow, waiting for the message of the chief manager Huang Yuan. The door of the temple was closed, and they seemed to have waited for a long time, and there were small snowflakes falling between their shoulders and eyebrows.

"Mother." Yan looked back at the ministers who were about to freeze into snowmen, and turned his head a little unbearably, "Why is Manager Huang still delayed, if he doesn't come out again, these old adults are afraid that they won't be able to survive." ”

"They can't stand it, so naturally they will come over with a new group of people." Like them, Du Yunjin was also locked outside the palace gate, but unlike them, Du Yunjin stayed under the eaves with a small stove.

In the early 20th year of Jingchu, it has been three years since she first arrived in Gyeonggi to become the crown princess. There have been too many changes during this time, such as the unstable status of the crown prince Xiao Yu has entered the cabinet last year to learn to deal with political affairs, and for example, King Qing has taken over several other ministries in addition to the Ministry of War, and for example, King Yu has also won the crown this year, and it is rumored that Xiao Feng intends to let him enter the Ministry of War for training.

This situation is just a three-legged situation, one foot is strong and two feet are slightly weaker, although the battle is quite fierce underneath, but it is still calm on the surface. But a few days ago, Xiao Feng's occasional wind chill completely broke this apparent calm.

Xu is old, and he should have been a little cold, but he will be sick and recuperate for six days. For an emperor who was rarely absent from the court, six days was enough to shock the courtiers. The imperial hospital went in and out, everyone looked panicked, because Xiao Feng's illness had not been cured for a long time, and several imperial doctors had been beheaded by the queen Xiao Chen and Concubine Qing respectively.

The whole palace is praying for Xiao Feng's illness and eating vegetarian collectively, all kinds of methods have been exhausted, but Xiao Feng is getting worse day by day, and there is no improvement. Seeing this, Xiao Chen's family had no choice but to summon Xiao Yu into the Xuanyuan Hall to serve the sick, which was the reason why Du Yunjin appeared here at this time. Xiao Yu entered at the mouth of the queen, but Du Yunjin was not among them, so he could only wait outside the palace, but he happened to see such a good show.

Looking at the central government, except for the military department secretly expressing its support for Xiao Yu, the other five departments have become Xiao Yuli's own palace. Most of the ministers kneeling in the snow now are the squires and others in these five ministries, and they don't need to think about it to be sure who will be the one who instructed them to appear.

Xiao Chen and Concubine Qing have been at odds since they came, and now Xiao Feng is seriously ill in bed, even if Concubine Qing is favored, she can't compete with Xiao Chen, the queen of the main palace. Xiao Chen took the opportunity to establish his authority in the harem, and blocked the mother and son of Concubine Qing outside the Xuanyuan Hall in the name of Xiao Feng's need to recuperate. Concubine Qing has been up and down in the palace for so many years, so she naturally saw her plan thoroughly, and immediately asked King Qing to arrange for the ministers to constantly ask for a meeting, so as to coerce Xiao Chen to give up power. Xiao Chen has been suppressed by Concubine Qing for so many years, and finally has the opportunity to raise his eyebrows, when he even announced that the crown prince Xiao Yu was summoned into the palace to serve his father. In this way, the ministers had nothing to say, but Concubine Qing was not willing to give up, so the ministers stayed here to make a final effort.

"Sister-in-law?"

A familiar voice came, it was not Xiao Shaokang, but the sworn enemy Xiao Yuli. Du Yunjin saw him dressed in plain clothes, and under the personal service behind him, he walked slowly towards the door of the hall.

She and him are clearly enemies, since the one that came out of Huifeng Lou three years ago. Afterwards, Xiao Yuli did not take the opportunity to retaliate against her or Xiao Yu, but swallowed all the matter, and never even mentioned it. However, every time he saw Du Yunjin, there was always an indescribable deep meaning in his eyes.

This kind of gaze followed him like a shadow, making Du Yunjin's back chill.

"Seventh brother, why are you here?" In the past three years, Du Yunjin's superficial kung fu has become better and better, although he still occasionally shows his ignorance back then, but it is still good, and even when Qing Ruofeng returned to Beijing on behalf of Du Bocheng a few years ago, he praised a few words.

"The eldest brothers are all here to serve the sick, how can we not come as sons?" Xiao Yuli saluted Du Yunjin in a regular manner, and his eyebrows were indifferent.

What he wanted, Du Yunjin knew very well, but Concubine Qing was afraid that Xiao Feng had only one son in front of Xiao Feng's bed, so she specially asked her son to take advantage of this loophole and go to Xiao Feng's hospital bed to take a closer look.

"Indeed, he who is the son of man ought to come and serve the sick. But this disease is really a bit dangerous today, and I am afraid that it will not be completely improved in three or two days, so you should also take care of your body, and come back to replace your eldest brother in a few days, okay? ”

After some rhetoric, it doesn't leak, just don't let Xiao Yuli enter this door.

"What the eldest sister-in-law said has some truth, but now that my father is seriously ill, there are still many affairs in the court that are urgent for my father to make up his mind. The eldest brother is the crown prince, the appointed prince, and he should also be loyal to the country in addition to filial piety. ”

Xiao Yuli didn't care about Du Yunjin's refusal, he was determined to enter the gate of Xuanyuan Hall today. Everyone knows that if there is something bad in the present, whoever is in front of his bed may get some convenient benefits, such as amending the will, and so on. This is an opportunity for him, and he doesn't know what his father thinks, he doesn't like his eldest brother Xiao Yu, but he refuses to abolish his eldest brother's position as the crown prince. If his father didn't love him so much, maybe he wouldn't have been able to breed so many ideas. His father's doting on him made him sure that the position was his, but he was temporarily sat by Xiao Yu, and he always had to return it to himself. But he waited and waited, and after waiting for many years, he got a king of Qing, and Xiao Yu was still the prince.

"King Qing is right when he thinks so." In the face of Xiao Yuli's refusal to back down, Du Yunjin did not fight to the end as he thought, but turned around and retreated to the side, tossing by him.

Soon, he knew what Du Yunjin's intention was in doing this. Today's Xuanyuan Hall is not the Xuanyuan Hall of the past, and it is no longer a place where he can enter and exit when he wants. The palace guards dressed in armor held the long sword at their waists, and guarded the door of the hall with a stern face, not seeing the little attendant who usually guards the door.

"Is Grandpa Huang here?" Xiao Yuli asked patiently at the door of the hall.

After a long time, the sound of Suosuo's clothes rubbing came from the hall. After a while, Huang Yuan poked his head out of the crack in the door and asked, "I don't know what Prince Qing is looking for a villain?" ”

"I'm tired of Huang Gonggong helping Xiao Wang pass a word, Xiao Wang has not seen his father for many days and misses it very much, and he wants to see his father at this moment."

The expression on Huang Yuan's face did not change, and he did not enter the hall again, but replied directly: "Lord Qing, Your Majesty took the decoction and slept just now, I am afraid that it is not appropriate to be alarmed at this moment." Why don't you ask Prince Qing to go back to the house first, and after His Majesty wakes up, the villain will tell His Majesty about Prince Qing's filial piety. ”