However, the third prince was sleeping with the prince in the prince's mansion at this time, and they secretly summoned a few singers last night, drank and talked all night, and simply threw the appointment with Su Jin out of the clouds.

"Prince, you have to get up and prepare for the morning court." The prince's attendant walked in anxiously, and he didn't bother to hide his nose and isolate the pungent smell of wine that filled the house.

"Let the third emperor brother go, I won't go." The prince had not yet woken up, turned over, muttered, and fell asleep again.

"Don't call him, report the illness." The third prince struggled to sit up, glanced at the drunken prince, and said with a cold smile. The attendant looked at the third prince very entangledly, and said slowly: "This month is less than halfway, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has said that he is sick three times, isn't it not good......?"

"You really like to worry about it, the prince brother is not going, have you seen your father making trouble for him?" The third prince smiled sarcastically, sat up with his hands, raised his eyebrows and said, "The center of gravity of the entire court has always revolved around King Chen, which of the other people is not a foil?" ”

It turned out that there were words to accompany the prince, but now it has become the prince to accompany King Chen to the court, which is also ironic.

"Besides, when the prince goes to the court, he is either like a puppet and is willing to be a foil, or he makes some marginal words to become a laughing stock." The third prince glanced contemptuously at the sleeping prince on the ground, and said, "If you go one less time, you can have one less chance to lose your spare time." ”

The attendant squire moved his mouth, but he had no way to refute it with half a word, so he could only salute it: "I know it, and I will do it here." Then he left the palace dejectedly.

The third prince slowly leaned down, stretched out his hand and slapped the prince's fat face twice in disgust, in exchange for a vague voice: "Beauty, I still want to drink!" ”

"A person like you is not worthy of the position of the crown prince at all." The third prince lowered his voice, gritted his teeth, and then stood up with a gloomy face.

Obviously, he and the crown prince are brothers of the same father and mother, why doesn't he even have the power to participate in the struggle for the prince? The old emperor didn't look down on his son at all, and every time the queen saw him, all she told was how to assist the prince in his success, without thinking about him personally.

In the foreseeable future, if Xiao Mochen really takes the throne, he has always been willing to be the prince's staff, and there will definitely be no good fruit to eat; Even if the crown prince successfully ascends the throne, with such an extremely mediocre and moody brother, his career will not go on.

In the complicated palace infighting, no one has a united front with him, and he can only break out through hard work and ruthlessness!

The third prince raised his head slightly, strode to the door of the wide open room, and looked at the brilliant rising sun that erupted from the thin air, and a faint smile rose at the corner of his mouth.

Suddenly, as if he realized something, the third prince frowned, rubbed his temples, and sighed.

"There's one more thing I completely forgot about ......"

Above the court, the civil and military officials applied to kneel solemnly under His Royal Highness, holding the jade token in their hands, bowing their heads to their ears without saying a word.

The routine report and lecture had ended, and the old emperor half-squinted his eyes, looking at Xiao Mochen with a calm expression on his Royal Highness, and muttered in his heart.

The old emperor originally thought that Xiao Mochen would take the opportunity of the previous dynasty to ask him to order a thorough investigation of the case in the Chen Palace, or directly submit an application to send Su Wan to the Zongren Mansion.

However, Xiao Mochen didn't say a word during the whole process, as if nothing had happened.

After all, Fu Yanran pretended to be pregnant, and if this matter was openly punctured in the court, it should also damage the face of the emperor's family. The old emperor pondered again and again, and finally spoke: "There is a book to start playing, and there is no book to retreat." ”

Who knows, as soon as the old emperor's voice fell, Xiao Mochen stepped forward and said, "Father, the son has a plan to play." ”

The old emperor was a little surprised, but at the same time he was interested, and a smile of expectation appeared on his face, and said, "But it's okay. ”

"Next month is the royal family ancestor worship ceremony, this grand ceremony once every ten years, very grand, the son Mao recommended himself, want to serve as the general director of the festival." Xiao Mochen lowered his head slightly, neither humble nor arrogant.

As soon as these words came out, the whole court was very surprised. Although the ancestor worship ceremony is huge, the general secretary of the festival is a thankless errand, and he needs to stay in the ancestral hall a month in advance to eat fast and recite the Buddha, and obey the unified living of the temple.

This kind of position is generally held by the most unfavored prince in the royal family, and there has never been a precedent for a high-ranking prince to take the initiative to ask for help, and for a while, everyone is not sure how Xiao Mochen thinks about it.

"It is not easy for King Chen to have this filial piety." The old emperor looked at this unpredictable son with a complicated expression, and said slowly: "But ......"

"Father, through my recent studies, I have realized that there have been many turmoils in the empire during the past ten years, and disasters are unavoidable." Xiao Mochen raised his head and continued with a firm voice: "The empire was able to turn evil into good fortune, all thanks to the wise leadership of my father and the blessing of the ancestors and ancestors, and this protection must be taken very seriously. ”

The prime minister is the prince's staff, and when he heard that Xiao Mochen had asked for such an idle position, he hurriedly got up and echoed: "His Royal Highness King Chen really has both ability and political integrity, unparalleled in the world, and it is really a blessing for all the people, may Your Majesty promise King Chen's filial piety!" ”

The civil and military officials know how to see the wind and steer the rudder, and when they saw that King Chen took the initiative to ask for his life, the prime minister echoed it, and hurriedly knelt down to second the request.

The old emperor was difficult to ride a tiger for a while, thought hard for a long time, and finally nodded in agreement, and said: "Then I will approve King Chen's request, and I will specially appoint you as the chief secretary of the festival." ”

"Thank you for your father's success." Xiao Mochen bowed his head and thanked him, then stood up calmly, and said, "Erchen will immediately set off to wait in the ancestral hall of the clan on the outskirts of the city, and he will not return to the imperial city in the next month." If my father has something important to discuss, please ask Hongyan to pass on the book. ”

After that, Xiao Mochen gave another salute, and then calmly and dashingly turned around and left the hall.

The civil and military officials in the main hall looked at each other, and they were very puzzled, why did King Chen leave the imperial city desperately as if he was fleeing? Why would he rather go to such a cold and secluded place and live a life of pure heart and few desires for a month?

Only the old emperor on the Nine Heavens Throne knew why, his precious son did this, just to escape from his backyard! And he is still trying his best not to cure Su Wan's sin!

The old emperor clenched his fists tightly, the green tendons on his forehead jumped one after another, and the yin owl in his eyes could not be dissipated, but after all, he could only sigh helplessly.

In King Chen's mansion, Su Wan and Yi were lying on the wide bed, looking up at the veil hanging from the top of the bed, and her face was faintly painful because of the tears that had been shed all night.

"Princess, why don't you lie down without covering the quilt, you will catch a cold!"

Suddenly, Su Wan heard Qing Wan's anxious voice from the side, and she looked sideways in disbelief, Qing Wan was really standing beside her bed.

"Princess, the prince has ordered your house arrest to be lifted, and has announced that he will no longer pursue everything that happened before." Qing Wan saw Su Wan's surprise and said hesitantly: "However, the prince has also left the imperial city and will not come back for a month." ”

"What are you?" Su Wan's heart suddenly had mixed feelings, she turned over and sat up from the bed, looked at Qing Wan uncertainly, and said, "Xiao Mochen is not going to punish me?" Did he find out that Fu Yanran was fake pregnant? ”

"That's not welcome..."Qing Yun hesitated for a moment, and said slowly: "Since the trouble last night, the prince has not gone to visit the side concubine, and he went directly to the royal ancestral hall after the morning court this morning, and only asked the deputy general Gu Zeyang to help him deliver the news back to the house." ”

"The Imperial Ancestral Hall?" Su Wan slowly got out of bed with Qing Wan's support, frowned and asked, "Why did he go to that kind of place?" ”

"Next month is the imperial family's annual annual ancestor worship ceremony, and the prince asked the emperor for the position of the chief director of the festival in the early dynasty, so he has to perform his duties a month in advance." Qing Wan repeated the news he had just heard to Su Wan word for word.

The light in Su Wan's eyes dimmed, and she sat back on the bed and sighed leisurely. It seems that Xiao Mochen is going to escape from King Chen's Mansion again under the pretext of official business, does he really hate to face all this so much?

"Princess, are you alright?" Gu Zeyang happened to walk into Su Wan's room at this time, and when he saw that she looked lonely, he walked up and asked with a concerned face.

Seeing Gu Zeyang, Su Wan raised a bitter smile, shook his head and said, "Whether it is good or bad no longer means anything to me." ”

Although that smile is extremely beautiful, it carries a loneliness and melancholy that cannot be ignored, as if it is the cold moonlight in the cold night of early autumn, which makes people feel sad at first glance

Gu Zeyang looked at Su Wan steadily, with mixed feelings in his heart, and then slowly asked, "Princess, why didn't you understand the past with the prince last night?" Didn't you expect him to regain his memory? ”

Last night, Gu Zeyang took a lot of effort to finally convince Xiao Mochen, who was undecided, to go to Su Wan to ask for an explanation, but he didn't expect that it was she who was the first to retreat this time.

These two people always go one step further and the other one takes a step back. Between advance and retreat, neither of them has been able to get the answers they want.

"I was really, really trying to get him back to his memory." Su Wan smiled helplessly, straightened the messy hair behind his ears, and said: "However, I only recently understood one thing, Xiao Mochen, who has lost the memory of those seven years, is already another person, with a completely different personality and attitude, I can't force him to do anything." ”

"Princess, it's unfair for you to treat the prince like this." Gu Zeyang knelt on one knee, kept his eyes level with Su Wan, and said with a serious face: "The current prince is equal to the mind of a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy, of course he is not mature enough to deal with the thorny problems at hand, but if the real prince comes back, these problems will all be solved." ”

Su Wan was stunned for a moment, looking at Gu Zeyang speechless. Indeed, she has always forgotten that Xiao Mochen at this moment is equivalent to a hairy man who is the first prince, and the house is full of wives and concubines, and it is a court struggle, so how can he deal with it?

"And, through my current understanding of the prince, I dare that the most important link in the prince's lost memory is you." Gu Zeyang said solemnly: "It was you who made the prince's originally cold and distant heart have warmth, and it was you who made him change from an invincible blue-faced ghost king to a flesh-and-blood man in the world." ”

"That sounds like he's weakened." Su Wan smiled, but tears fell down, and said, "You know what? Xiao Mochen and I let me treat it as if he was dead at the moment he saved me, so that I could agree to reconcile with him. ”

"On the contrary, the real prince was only asleep at the moment when he gave his life to save you, and he desperately needs you to wake him up." Gu Zeyang pointed to the part of Su Wan's heart and said, "Only your love and concern are the only keys to unlocking his sleeping curse, you can't bear to let the real prince sleep in the boundless darkness forever and not get everything he deserves, right?" ”

Su Wan's expression was stunned, and tears flowed even more irrepressibly. To this day, she often thinks of the day in the Jinluan Palace, Xiao Mochen remembers every word of her words clearly.

Xiao Mochen would rather exchange her life for her safety, but this idea is really wrong. Now, Su Wan is equivalent to losing Xiao Mochen, but her life has become full of gloom and it is difficult to find happiness.

"Princess, Gu Gongzi is right, you need to cross the hurdle in your heart." Qing Wan also knelt down very emotionally, held Su Wan's hand tightly, and said, "Even if the prince has amnesia, he can't bear to punish you too much, doesn't this just prove that his subconscious is still protecting you?" ”

Su Wan raised his hand and wiped the tears on his face, and said with a smile: "You two, you are stronger and braver than me, do you still expect me to pack up my things and chase him to the ancestral hall to find him?" ”

Gu Zeyang saw that Su Wan finally smiled, and he smiled with relief, shook his head and said, "Even if the princess wants to go this time, I'm afraid she won't be able to go." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Qing Wan was a little surprised, and asked with her mouth half open. She was originally happy to finally get through Su Wan, but she didn't expect to encounter another obstacle.

"According to the rules of the ancestors, the chief priest of the festival must stay in the ancestral hall for a month and live the same hard life as the monks." Gu Zeyang got up slowly and said helplessly: "During this period, no female dependents are allowed to visit, otherwise it will be a violation of the rules and precepts." ”

"My Qingyun, why did you show such a nerve-wracking look again." Su Wan couldn't help laughing when she saw Qing Wan's frowning brows, reached out and pinched her face, and said, "I promise you, when Xiao Mochen returns, I will definitely continue to work hard to remind him of everything, okay?" ”

"Hmm!" Qing Wan nodded heavily, with a heartfelt smile on his face, and said, "As long as the princess can be happy, it will be my greatest happiness!" ”

"By the way, Qingyun, this is something that Gu Wu sent you from the border pass." Gu Zeyang patted his head, took out a delicate box from between his sleeves, and said slowly