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In the middle of winter, the wind shook the branches of the sycamore trees.

Because today is the first day of the new year, everyone came to greet the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother is physically inconvenient, and she is old and quiet, so she specially instructed everyone in the palace to come to her on the fifteenth day of the first month to greet her, and there is no need to settle the province every morning and dusk, and they are troublesome to each other.

Because of the cold weather, everyone was dressed very tightly, either a red gorilla felt or a red feather satin, which looked so gorgeous, only Wei Yining was a jade-colored cloak.

No one dared to slack off to greet the Queen Mother, so they came early, and even Xu Zhixi, who was usually arrogant and rude, waited respectfully outside.

At this time, the queen mother was still taking medicine in the room, and only occasionally one or two palace maids went in and out, because there was a screen of twelve fans of Shoushan stone, so she couldn't see the situation inside.

Everyone held their breath outside, and they all stood still, and after a long time, they inevitably felt restrained.

At this moment, the glittering gold cotton curtain was lifted, and the prince came in.

Everyone else paid it back, but Xu Zhixi's eyes lit up.

The crown prince studied in the East Palace every day, and often had to help the emperor deal with some twists and turns, so Xu Zhixi hadn't seen him for a long time.

Everyone then greeted the prince one after another, and the prince Yinzheng was the most modest and gentle person, and immediately returned the salute. looked at Wei Yining and smiled kindly, and gave a salute alone.

Everyone didn't understand what they meant, but Wei Yining did, presumably because he had helped Sheng Mubing before.

Sheng Lian is the prince's teacher, and I heard that the prince has always felt guilty about Sheng Lian's affairs, but he is too often unable to be independent, so he will be grateful to those who helped Sheng Lian's family.

So he smiled and returned the salute.

Xu Zhixi looked at it from the side, and his eyes were on fire, eager to break Wei Yining's body into pieces.

In her opinion, there must be something unspeakable between Wei Yining and the crown prince, otherwise how could there be such a tacit understanding?

If she was still suspicious of Sun Mingming's words before, then today this matter made her very sure that it would be difficult to change it.

Wei Yining had her back to her, so she didn't see Xu Zhixi's expression, but Wei Lanqi saw it on the side and couldn't help sneering in her heart.

The third prince also came, he was seventeen or eighteen years old when he grew his body, and now his stature seems to have grown a lot taller than when Wei Yining and others first entered the palace, and he is already taller than the prince.

Sun Mingming lowered her head slightly, she desperately restrained, for fear that others would see what was between her and the third prince.

But my heart is like the peach blossom wind blowing in March, blooming one by one.

The three princes looked peaceful, and when they greeted everyone, they stood quietly aside.

Then the Queen Mother took the medicine and ordered everyone to go in.

Everyone rushed in, asked the queen mother for peace, sat for a while and then left, but the prince and the princesses of Fanghua Yinghua stayed behind to accompany the queen mother to have breakfast.

The third prince was a little lonely, and the queen mother didn't seem to like him very much.

It's just that this low mood didn't last long before he dispelled it, and he told himself that as long as his final goal was achieved, it was enough, and the rest didn't have to be taken to heart at all.

Today, Concubine Zeng Li asked Wei Yining to go to Mayuan to ride a horse together, and the county lord of Duanmin did not come together to catch up with the small day.

Wei Yining thought that the Queen Mother's bedroom was very close, so she came here directly, and arrived a little earlier than before, and Concubine Zeng Li had not yet come.

The eunuch in charge of the horses in Ma Yuan came to ask for peace, and Wei Yining told them to go separately, and he walked around at will.

"Miss Wei is riding again, it's such a cold day, I'm really interested." A feminine voice sounded, and Wei Yining didn't need to look back to know who it was.

Ding Neijian was wearing a sea dragon robe, applying a white compress to his face, and his dark blue pupils looked at Wei Yining.

"Father-in-law Ding is also coming to ride a horse?" Wei Yining glanced at the riding boots worn by Ding Neijian and replied indifferently.

Ding Neijian noticed Wei Yining's eyes, smiled self-deprecatingly, and said, "I just went out of the palace on errands, and I just returned the horse." ”

"Father-in-law Ding is hard." Wei Yining bowed his head slightly and said politely.

"Miss Wei, there is something I don't know if I should ask or not." Seeing that Concubine Zeng Li was almost there, Ding Neijian still had no intention of leaving.

Wei Yining was also interested when he saw him like this, and he didn't know why he was suddenly curious about himself, so he said: "Gonggong Ding has something to ask, so there is no need to worry. ”

"I saw that since the girl entered the palace, she has been wearing plain clothes." Ding Neijian said slowly: "Shouldn't you still be serving filial piety to your parents?" ”

After speaking, he stared at Wei Yining's face, wanting to see how she reacted.

Wei Yining listened to his words, and immediately understood in his heart that Ding Neijian was testing himself.

It stands to reason that Wei Yining's father is a sinner, and his mother and his father are one, and they can be regarded as sinners, but now that Wei Yining has entered the palace again, he naturally can't keep filial piety for the two of them.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that Wei Yining is dressed plainly, and he clearly has the intention of keeping filial piety.

"Father-in-law Ding, I don't know if your parents are here?" Wei Yining did not answer the rhetorical question.

"They are all dead." Ding Neijian did not evade, and still said with a smile.

"Then the father-in-law can mourn for him?" Wei Yining asked again.

"This ...... Because I am a minister to my master, I serve only seven days of mourning. Ding Neijian replied.

"After my parents died, I mourned for them for 100 days in the family temple," Wei Yining said slowly: "After that, I returned to the Zhiyong Mansion, but Father-in-law Ding also knew that as a child, even if he couldn't serve the mourning for three years for some reason, he would always miss it in his heart." ”

"Why didn't Gonggong Ding come here in front of the concubine?" The big palace maid beside Concubine Zeng Li walked up to her and asked, "Niangniang asked Miss Wei to go over and choose a horse." ”

Only then did Supervisor Ding leave with a smile.

Back at Tianxi Palace, Concubine Xu just watched the four princes have breakfast.

Ding Neijian walked over and whispered something in Xu Guifei's ear, and Xu Guifei listened and asked, "That really said that?" ”

"It's true, the minions don't dare to lie." Ding replied.

"I really didn't expect this Wei Yining to make a lot of enemies." Xu Guifei sneered, took out a small gemstone hairpin from her head and fiddled with it repeatedly in her hand: "That's it, anyway, I don't like her anyway, so let's tell them to mess around first!" We can't do it yet. ”

"What Niangniang said is that you use a cow slaughtering knife to kill chickens." Ding Nei said.

"But don't take it too lightly, you watch it diligently, you know that the girl doesn't have any city government, beware of Wei Yining's reversal, but she was calculated." Xu Guifei was still a little worried after all.

"Minions understand." Ding Neijian remembered today's conversation with Wei Yining, that girl really did not leak anything when she spoke and did things, and it was not comparable to Xu Zhixi.