"Lord Wang, people are coming!" Qing Yue hugged his fists and said, "Let her come in now?"

Liu Xu stood in front of the window, looked at the snow outside, pressed the bridge of his nose, and said in silence: "Please let her in." ”

"Yes. ”

After a while, he saw Qing Yue enter with a black cloak, and the man took off the cloak stained with snow particles, revealing his true face.

The woman who is nearly forty years old is no longer young, and her face is already full of wrinkles, showing the traces of time. When she saw Liu Xu, her red eyes were red, she suddenly knelt on the ground, and said with a crying voice: "Slave, please say hello to the prince." ”

"Hurry up. Liu Xu took two steps forward and helped the woman up, "I haven't seen you for almost twenty years, Aunt Xing."

The woman's tears flowed down at once, and she asked tremblingly, "Does the prince still remember the slave?"

"Yes. Liu Xu smiled slightly, "I remember that at that time, Aunt Xing's manual work was very good, and she often made me some gadgets, and I was very happy every time." ”

"This is twenty years in a blink of an eye, the prince at that time was still a little little, but now he has grown into a big guy, if the concubine Niangniang sees the appearance of the prince now, she must be very happy in her heart!" Xing'er said with relief, "Although the slave is in the people, she has also heard a lot of things about the prince, and the slave is proud of the prince!"

"Sit down. Liu Xu said, "I invited Aunt Xing to come late at night, because I wanted to ask about something." ”

Xing'er sat down, sighed slightly, and said: "The slave knows what the prince wants to ask, the prince's life is smooth now, if everything goes well, he may be the future prince, the slave doesn't want some things to disturb your future and plans for the future, so I didn't look for you for the first time after coming to the capital." The slave maid found Lao Liu and told him everything, but he couldn't help but tell you. ”

"As a son of man, how can you let your mother die in vain? Liu Xu gritted his teeth and said, "Aunt Xing, what do you know, please tell this king everything! This king will definitely work hard to find out the truth, and let his mother's grievances be avenged! The future is important, but compared to his mother's affairs, what are other things!"

"No! the prince's future is more important than anything else!" Xing'er's eyes suddenly became sharp, and she held her wrist tightly, "That woman's lifelong plan is just to make her son the crown prince, and the prince must not let her succeed, and must obtain the position of the prince!"

"Is it really that woman's doing?" Liu Xu's brows furrowed.

"Hmph!" Xing'er sneered, raised her eyebrows, "Who else could it be besides her!"

She looked at Liu Xu and continued: "Twenty years have passed since the incident, even if there is any evidence left, it must have been destroyed and there is nothing left, the slave maid has been tracking down all these years, but her ability is limited, but she has only found out where the family of the suspected imperial doctor is located." However, the slave and maid spoke softly and persuaded many times, but the family was still suspicious and refused to tell what they knew. ”

Xing'er said, suddenly coughed violently, she took out a handkerchief to cover her mouth, and coughed up blood after a while, she smiled bitterly: "The slave maid is only afraid that there are not many days left, and I am really afraid that this secret will go underground with the slave maid, so I came to the capital to find the old man, I really don't want to involve the prince!"

Liu Xu got up, lifted his robe and knelt in front of Xing'er: "Aunt Xing, thank you for your dedication to your mother, twenty years, how many twenty years are there in your life?"

Xing'er was so shocked that she hurriedly got up and grabbed Liu Xu's arm: "Lord, I can't help it, you get up quickly, isn't this letting the slave and maid die? When she was in the palace, the slave and maid were seriously ill once, if it weren't for the concubine Niangniang to come to the rescue, the slave and maid would have been a white bone now." No matter how much the slave and maid do, they can't repay the mother's kindness to the slave!"

"This king should have taken Aunt Xing to the palace to support Aunt Xing, but at the moment, Aunt Xing's identity cannot be exposed, so as not to be discovered by the other party. But this king will find a good place for Aunt Xing to take care of her body!" Liu Xu got up and said.

Xing'er patted Liu Xu's shoulder and said with tears: "The little prince of the slave has grown up, he has really grown up!" You are right, there is no definite evidence at the moment, you must be careful when you track down the truth of the year, lest the other party jump off the wall in a hurry!"

"Don't worry!" Liu Xu said, "It's not early, let Qingyue send you back first, if Aunt Xing has something to find this king, just let someone report it." ”

"Yes. ”

Silence returned to the house, quiet to the point of loneliness.

Liu Xu was still standing in front of the window, looking at the snow outside, but his mind kept ringing about the appearance of the concubine before she died.

She drank the medicine that day, and she must have had to rest for a while in the past, but she called herself to the window, and her haggard face bloomed with a kind smile: "If the mother concubine can't accompany you, you have to take good care of yourself." ”

At that time, she seemed to have foreseen her fate: "I have never been afraid of death, death is only a relief for me." It's not that the mother doesn't want to accompany you, but the mother really doesn't have time, no time to watch you grow up. ”

He has always been precocious, although he is only five years old, but he can already understand the life and death in his mother's words, he threw himself into his mother's arms, howling and crying: "No! Mother doesn't want to die! Xu'er wants her mother! Xu'er wants her mother to accompany her!"

Hearing the cry, the maid outside carried him out and coaxed him, and after a while, someone exclaimed: "The concubine is dying!

He rushed into the room, his mother had run out of oil, her eyes were looking out of the window, and she muttered, "It's all this time, why hasn't he come yet?"

At that time, he thought that the person he was most worried about in his mother's mouth was his father, so he ran to the imperial study like crazy, begging his father to take a look at his mother.

His small body knelt in the snow, but the man in the room was not moved.

After a while, the door opened, and he thought that his father had changed his mind, but his father did not look at him, but strode away with joy on his face.

Later, he learned that on that day, the news of Concubine Yun's pregnancy came.

By the time he rushed back, the concubine was out of breath.

She just looked out the window in a daze, didn't wait for the person she wanted to see, and left with regret and disappointment.