Meng Yu responded very gently: "The filial piety of the four princes can be learned from heaven and earth."

When Li Chengbian saw Meng Yu, his eyes unconsciously moved away, and he felt that something was wrong, so he politely replied: "Miss Meng praised it falsely."

Meng Yu smiled slightly, and Qingyu took off the cloak on her body for her and flicked the snow stains on it.

Shen Mu stood silently behind Li Chongzhao, and when he arrived in front of the main hall, he consciously retreated to the side and stood with the eunuchs of the inner court.

Li Chengbian took the warm pot from the hand of the servant and handed it to Li Chongzhao and Meng Yu: "Warm your hands."

Meng Yu signaled, Qingyu took it on her behalf, and her slender fingers lined the carnelian pot more and more white. Meng Yu said in a low voice: "Thank you to the fourth prince."

Li Chengbian smiled slightly.

Li Chongzhao returned the thermos to him: "You have been sick since you were a child, and although you are better now, it is better not to freeze on this snowy day." After saying that, he was afraid that he would excuse himself and said, "Your second brother has been a person who is not afraid of the cold since he was a child. ”

Li Chengbian took the kettle, but laughed loudly: "When the second brother said this, I remembered some things in my childhood, when it was snowing heavily, my second brother and I, as well as the fifth brother and the sixth brother, deceived my father to learn calligraphy, but secretly went to the garden to have a snowball fight." He rolled his eyes and sighed slightly, "It's just that time flies, but it's not the same as before." ”

Li Chongzhao said coldly: "People always have to move forward."

Li Chengyan's brows relaxed: "The second brother is right, people, always have to move forward." A person can't always indulge in the past and can't earn it. ”

Li Chongzhao looked at him sideways, but he still looked light.

Li Chongzhao remembered what the queen had said to him.

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At that time, there were many princes in the palace, and he was the most loved by the emperor, and Li Chengbian was always bullied by other princes at a young age because he was not favored. He had the best time with Li Chengbian, and the queen dismissed his subordinates, touched his hair seriously, and said to him: "Chongzhao, you have to remember that at the feet of the Son of Heaven, you don't really say it. The fourth child looks unfavored on the surface, but who can know your father's thoughts? You must know that the biological mother of the fourth child is the person your father loves the most. If you are good friends with him, your mother will not blame you, but if you have a good relationship, you will have endless troubles in the future. ”

He later learned that Li Chengbian's mother was a palace maid, a folk woman, and his father had an unpleasant quarrel with the queen mother for her, so he forced the courtiers to elevate her to the throne. It's a pity that she died of weakness shortly after giving birth to Li Chengbian.

Li Chongzhao didn't know what kind of past his father had with that woman. He only remembered that every time his father came to visit him in his mother's palace, the two of them were obviously husband and wife, but they always talked about family and country matters.

Her mother was noble for a while, but she did not love her husband. Her life is only for her mother and her only son, and his father does not love his mother, there are thousands of favored concubines in this palace, but he can't keep the person he loves the most.

How sad, how ridiculous.

Everyone understands it, but they don't say it.

Maybe he's the only one still struggling.

Just like Li Chengbian in front of him, when his power became bigger, he didn't know at all. Under the queen's defenses, he was still able to get the support of some courtiers silently.

Except for his status as a son-in-law, he has no extra chips.

But in fact, he is not confused, maybe there is still a person behind Li Chengbian's power who is silently supporting. If it is his father, the only son of heaven in Kyushu, His Majesty the people of tens of millions...... If it's he's helping his son......

Li Chongzhao thought of the queen who was sick in bed, and he suddenly wanted to ask his mother, did he already know this result, so what has she been struggling to support for more than 20 years......

And what about himself? What is he struggling with?

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The elderly manager Su in brocade clothes trotted out of the inner hall, and was a little surprised to see Li Chongzhao and Meng Yu, but he hid it well. He just bent down and saluted: "Two masters, Your Majesty is waiting in the inner hall."

Li Chongzhao said to Li Chengyan: "You go first."

Li Chengbian did not shirk and nodded.

Manager Su silently followed Li Chengbian, changed into shoes that warmed his feet, and carefully sorted out his court clothes.

Meng Yu saw this scene in her eyes, she looked up at Li Chongzhao, his lips were tightly closed, he could see it clearly, but he didn't say a word.

She said casually: "It is said that the old people in the palace are the most poisonous eyes, and in the harem, these people often see the most clearly."

Qingyu looked at her master puzzled.

Li Chongzhao smiled: "Even you can see it?"

Meng Yuxing's eyes narrowed: "It's not that I have the heart to see it, but someone is willing to let others see it."

Li Chongzhao was stunned for a moment, and then said with a wry smile: "Father is so anxious......

Meng Yu said coldly: "The prince knows that General Wu Qing of Pingxing Pass secretly repaired a book three days ago. However, one night, the four princes begged the emperor for marriage, and it was the daughter of General Wu's family who begged. Today, the four princes entered the palace, presumably for this matter. ”

Li Chongzhao muttered, "General Wu Qing, isn't it the queen's cousin?"

Meng Yu smiled faintly: "The majesty of the Son of Heaven is to take the life of his family, does he dare to say a word?"

Li Chongzhao looked at the soles of his feet and said for a long time: "The situation has been so bad......

Meng Yu stepped forward, gently grasped his hand, and said softly: "What the prince said that day, Meng Yu didn't dare to forget for a moment. It's just that now, the Meng family can't retreat if they want to. Now there is only marriage, and the two surnames have to be married, and those old ministers may still stand by the prince and the queen. She looked at Li Chongzhao's misty eyes and continued, "I shouldn't have said this to the prince, but now I have to say it. Does the prince know why the mother of the fourth prince died?"

Li Chongzhao was silent and withdrew his hand.

Meng Yu continued: "The prince knows better than me, and His Majesty doesn't know what the queen mother did at the beginning."

She looked at the flying snow: "Lord Wang, this world is so big, there is no place for you to retreat."

That sentence was as calm as water, but it was like a stone hitting his heart, and that heart was constantly dripping with blood.

As she said, he had no place to retreat.

His mother's life hung by a thread, and the lives of thousands of relatives and mothers behind him were like lonely boats in a storm, swaying.

Just then, I heard a voice from the inner room.

He came back to his senses.

Meng Yu glanced at him lightly and smiled.

Then, she said to Qingyu, "Let's go home."

Qingyu looked at her inexplicably: "Miss came in the snow, didn't she come to meet Your Majesty with the prince?"

Meng Yu looked at Li Chongzhao, met the other party's gaze, and said with a smile: "No matter what choice the prince makes, the courtiers have no regrets."