Outside the Yongjin Gate, Zhu Zhiling stood on the city wall and looked at the silver plate in the sky like water. This place was a dead end of the city wall, and sometimes she was tired of dealing with government affairs in the temple, so she would come here to stand here for a while and rest. The soldiers on duty will also retreat with great interest.

Emperor Wen, aunt, mother, Lu Xingyuan, Mu Yunyou, Mo Daqiu...... Everyone made her think hard, and every move was like walking on thin ice. In this game, everyone thinks of themselves as chess players and everyone else is a pawn. But in the end, there can only be one winner of the whole game, and even if it lasts until the end and loses, it is only a stepping stone for the winner to step to the top, no different from those remnants who were taken out of the board early.

I, Zhu Zhiling, will never be that stepping stone!

Suddenly, there was a feeling of warmth in his body, and the cyan cloak was gently draped over his shoulders. Zhao Wuyin's deep voice came from his ears: "I didn't look for you in the hall, guess you are about here." It's windy outside, so I don't put on one when I come out. Seeing that your eyes are so scary, and you are thinking about coming to the Yi Palace? ”

Zhu Zhiling smiled gently, and the battle intent in her eyes instantly dissipated.

It was only when she was with this man that she could feel completely relaxed. Leaning into his arms, every pore on his body is dilated.

"Immense...... I lean on you like this, is it heavy? ”

"Heavy", Zhao Wuyun stretched out his arms to hug his wife, and exhaled a white breath in the cold night, "What's heavy, you just lean on." ”

"Boundless ......"

The husband's words were like an iron, completely smoothing the princess's previous tightly knit brow. Zhao Wuyin never flattered his wife. She is a princess, but they are first and foremost husband and wife, and they must have the way of getting along with husband and wife.

Zhu Zhiling has been full of aura since the day she was born, she lacks nothing, and she is destined to become the Ninth Five-Year Honor, and all the flattery in the world has become natural under this reason.

When I was a child, I was studying with the children of the princes and nobles in the Taixue Academy. Everyone avoided her, flattered her, and did not dare to compete with her, and even the scholars praised her endlessly. The smiles on their faces all seemed so sincere, so natural.

Of course, all this is not difficult to do, because Zhu Zhiling is indeed very smart and very hardworking. In her eyes, she is the emperor, and she should be better than everyone, and she has never been in the habit of losing.

It wasn't until he was fourteen years old that a thin boy came into the Taixue Academy.

The young man's surname is Lin, and his name is Lin Wuyun. Zhu Zhiling saw that he always sat alone on weekdays and didn't speak, so he joked to him: "Lin Wuyun, this name ...... Do you have a lot of trees in your house? ”

"According to you, if my surname is Jin, then the family should be very rich?"

The first time Zhu Zhiling heard the people around her call herself "you", she couldn't help but widen her eyes. So self-righteous...... Is this kid very talented? However, the exams of the scholars and gentlemen of the Yufang Hall did not show how well he answered, at least not better than himself.

"At a young age, you have a temper," Zhu Zhiling snorted: "Are you very talented?" Today's lecture is better than me? ”

"Can't win." Lin Wuyun replied very dryly.

Zhu Zhiling was very proud, but Lin Wuyun's next sentence choked her to death.

"You learn to be rich and have five cars, what do you have to do with me?"

What does it have to do with you...... Zhu Zhiling never seemed to have thought about this issue. Isn't the thing in this world that I am better than you, and you are better than me? If you lose, you should obey me, worship me, and honor me. Everyone is so prostrated in front of me, how can you be an exception?

Lin Wuyun didn't care about her, in fact, he didn't care about anyone, he just read his own books.

"And what are you studying for?" Zhu Zhiling couldn't help it and asked him.

"I'm going to be a household secretary."

It's strange, to be a book, and a clear goal is the household department. This man has to love to deal with money. After chatting like this, the two gradually talked more. Lin Wuyun didn't try to please her with some soft words, and Zhu Zhiling also found that she didn't have to hold the princess's shelf anymore, and she was more comfortable with Lin Wuyun than talking to ordinary people.

Sometimes Zhu Zhiling would lean her back against Lin Wuyun's body, and then ask, is it heavy.

"Heavy!" Lin Wuyun will hold on hard, the thin and small body that has not yet grown is indeed very difficult, and Zhu Zhiling is already a girl's figure, a little taller than him.

Slowly, Zhu Zhiling learned that his father died early, and he was fostered in the home of his uncle Lin Qianmo, the prefect of Linzhou. In recent years, Lin Qianmo was transferred to the capital of Taiye State to serve as the secretary of Taichang Temple, and his family moved back, so that Lin Wuyun entered the Taixue Academy.

"So you don't have a father either." Zhu Zhiling felt pity, and he was pitiful for him and himself.

Before the age of five, she also had her father's beloved pearl, her mother was the princess of the prison country at that time, and her father was inseparable from her every day when she was busy with government affairs. 's father was the champion of the palace examination, and after she was born, he resigned from all official positions and only accompanied her in the palace. said that when the daughter is older, she doesn't need a father, and she will accompany her for a few more years when she is young, so don't leave regrets.

However, all happiness came to an abrupt end at the age of five.

"You're much better than me, I'm a widow." I don't know why, every time Lin Wuyun mentions his father, he always looks at Zhu Zhiling's eyes with a little hatred.

Zhu Zhiling didn't understand very well, she had learned the art of contemplation, so she could feel it, but the reason was unknown.

"I have always felt that my father was the most talented and upright man!" There was a hint of yearning in Lin Wuyun's eyes, and a hint of sadness. In fact, he hadn't even seen it, he could only hear from his mother.

Zhu Zhiling listened to him praise his father, and didn't want to refute him, just smiled sweetly and nodded.

He said the most, which is the most.

If he is pleased, I will be fine.

Six years later, Zhu Zhiling was just canonized as the princess of the prison country, and followed the Ming Emperor in everything. On the day of the imperial palace test, Zhu Zhiling also sat on the Yufang Palace, looking at dozens of people sitting in His Royal Highness, and Lin Wuyun was impressively listed.

Still so skinny...... Zhu Zhiling saw it from above and had compassion.

The imperial palace examination is the Ming Emperor personally graded the papers, and all the examination papers are hidden, unknown clans, and there is no favoritism. Zhu Zhiling sideways to serve tea to the mother queen, and saw Zhu Pi flying: "Words are not ornamental, there is a degree of strategy, and it can be used." Underneath it was a font she knew all too well.

Ten days later, the gold list was announced to the world, and the Ming Emperor gave the banquet Yu Flawed Hall as usual. Zhu Zhiling had heard that Lin Wuyun was listed as a Tanhua before, and she was happy in her heart, and she dressed up early and sat on the right side of the hall.

For the first time, she wore the Pisces gold silk crown given by her mother, wore a vermilion brocade robe, embroidered a picture of a white crane welcoming the pine Wanxia, and dotted her red lips and applied bead powder. And she only looked at His Highness Lin Wuyun.

At the beginning of the banquet, the old ministers headed by Peiguo Gong Lu Xingyuan congratulated the Ming Emperor on his talents, and then the Ming Emperor gave the three Jinshi hairpins and the four treasures of the study. Zhu Zhiling waited for the champion and the list to be thankful, and it was Lin Wuyun's turn, and he heard his father-in-law shouting:

"Give flowers, a first-class jinshi to explore flowers, and the forest is boundless."

Lin Wuyun walked unhurriedly to the foot of the Ming Emperor's steps, bowed to the ground solemnly, and said in a loud voice:

"Zhao Wuyan, the son of a criminal minister, greets Your Majesty!"

The crows are silent, and the falling needles can be heard.

The entire Yu Flaw Hall instantly seemed to freeze, and Zhu Zhiling could even feel that his blood was slowly coagulating, and he trembled so much that he couldn't even feel his breathing.

Zhao Wuyin? Son of a sinner? What are you suddenly trying to do?!

This is the Yufang Palace, before the imperial order of the mother emperor, are you crazy?

All the people in the hall had the same expressions as Zhu Zhiling, and their emotions of panic, confusion, and panic instantly turned into whispers lingering in the hall.

Emperor Zhu Yutang of the Ming Dynasty still maintained the majesty on the top of the clouds, and said slowly:

"Who are you-say-you-are?"

Perhaps this is an opportunity given by the mother to change her words, this is a golden list feast, and it is a ceremony for the whole country to celebrate, even the mother emperor does not hesitate to be merciful and pretend not to hear what she just said, so as not to spoil the atmosphere.

Just say it again, you are Lin Wuyun!

Zhu Zhiling's heart had already reached her throat, and the golden silk on the golden crown trembled.

"The criminal minister, the son of Zhao Yu, the former head of the household department, Zhao Wuyin, see Your Majesty!"

Articulate clearly, but there is no argument.

"Zhao... Yu, it turns out that you are his son. Emperor Ming slowly stood up, and when the ministers saw it, they all knelt down immediately.

Zhao Yu's old case was personally decided by the emperor, and it was re-mentioned today, even if he called the guilty minister, but the hatred in his tone could be heard clearly, this was to take the opportunity of the banquet to publicly shout grievances, and there was no need for the Ming Emperor to use the art of contemplation to figure out anything. And he obviously used Lin Wuyun's name to answer the palace test before, but now he has openly changed his surname, which is extremely rude and his crime is unforgivable.

At this time, Zhu Zhiling didn't need to look up to feel that the anger of the mother emperor was like a fierce beast stepping on clouds, spilling the majesty of the royal family around the dragon pillar of the main hall.

Zhu Zhiling looked at His Royal Highness Lin Wuyun, who was kneeling straight, with a tall and thin body, but there was no trace of fear, and his expression was calm.

Suddenly, she stopped trembling.

The pity for his fellow bereaved father over the years, the affection of his classmates for several years, and the ambiguous love like the clouds and mountains are like silk threads intertwined at this moment, forming a tenacious Luo Ying.

She calmly poured a glass of wine, walked around the kneeling crowd, walked up to him under the gaze of Emperor Ming, and slowly helped him up. She looked into his eyes, smiled, and said clearly:

"He, Tanhua Zhao Wuyan, the title of the gold list."

Then he offered the glass, turned and stood shoulder to shoulder with him, tears in his eyes joyful and determined. She calmly looked at her mother who was high above her in the distance, without a trace of hesitation.

In this life, I wish to be with you for a long time. This is a long time, and it should not be forgotten.

Zhu Zhiling's fate may have been sealed at that moment.