It was almost August, and it was supposed to be a crisp autumn weather, but a north wind suddenly blew. The cold wind was blowing, and overnight, all the flowers in the palace were defeated.

Before you can change into autumn clothes, you have to find a padded jacket to protect you from the cold as early as possible. The charcoal fire in the palace has not yet been prepared, and it cannot be supplied for a while, and many people have to freeze.

Zhu Lu held her hands all the way, came to Meng Xilan, and instructed the palace maid to move the burning stove into the inner hall.

The room was cold, and finally warm.

Meng Xilan dressed up, and before getting up, she raised her hand to straighten the phoenix bead crown on her head.

Zhu Lu saw that the master was dressed in a costume and had exquisite makeup, and was slightly stunned for a moment, "Niangniang, what do you want to ......?"

Meng Xilan slowly walked to the brazier, stretched out her hands, and warmed up on the brazier.

"I'm going to see the prince today."

Zhu Lu was stunned again when she heard this, and said puzzledly: "Niangniang, the prince is imprisoned now, and you can't see him." ”

Meng Xilan smiled meaningfully: "The general will come today, if I ask him, he will definitely answer." ”

Chu Jingchuan has been inspecting and arming for three days. He said he would be back in three days.

The biggest difference between Chu Jingchuan and Zhou Youchen is that he has never deceived him, and he will definitely do what he promised her.

He said three days, and it must be three days.

"Zhulu, try to prepare some wine and food, don't be too exquisite, just delicious."

Zhu Lu nodded when she heard this. "Niangniang, the slave maid heard that the emperor has arrived in Huaizhou City. He's coming......"

When she spoke of this, she was troubled.

Meng Xilan's eyebrows moved slightly, as if she was smiling: "We can't afford to wait, we can only ask for more blessings." ”

She knew he would come back, but he came too late.

At a moment in the afternoon, Chu Jingchuan really arrived.

After three days of not seeing him, he lost a lot of weight, his cheeks were slightly sunken, and the line that lined his chin was more distinct.

When Meng Xilan saw him coming, she immediately sent back the bamboo dew and the treasure bead.

Chu Jingchuan was wearing armor, majestic, and his eyes were a little shiny, shining, revealing a chilling murderous aura.

Meng Xilan took the initiative to step forward and came to him, ten fingers slender, caressing his frowning eyebrows. "You're frowning again......"

Chu Jingchuan said: "This gust of north wind is blowing, and it is also blowing murderous aura. ”

Meng Xilan's heart sank when she heard this, and she silently leaned on his shoulder.

Chu Jingchuan's strong arms tightly wrapped around her waist and brought her into his arms. His breath was all in her ear: "If I kill him, will you hate me?" ”

He? Zhou Youchen?

If he died, she would have hated him, but she wouldn't have been the one who hated him the most in the world.

Seeing that she didn't answer, Chu Jingchuan lowered his eyebrows and asked, "I will cut him off with my own hands." ”

Meng Xilan's shoulders trembled slightly.

Chu Jingchuan noticed her this, hooked his lips and smiled bitterly.

Meng Xilan took a deep breath, reached out and hugged him, hugged him tighter, and said in a deep voice: "As long as you don't hurt the prince, I won't hate you." You know me, the prince is the person I care about the most. ”

Chu Jingchuan's eyes rolled, smelling the fragrance in her hair, her rough fingers unconsciously rubbed Meng Xilan's earlobe, and said slowly: "I want you to accompany me tonight." ”

They have been together for a long time, Chu Jingchuan has hurt her and tortured her, but he has never really turned her into his own woman, they just behave intimately, and even share the same bed, but they don't move each other at all.

As soon as the knot between the two people was incomprehensible, he was unwilling to force her.

He hurt her, she hurt him, enough of it.

Meng Xilan raised her face, kissed him shallowly, and obeyed him with her own actions.

Chu Jingchuan wanted to touch her hair, only to find that she was dressed very grandly today.

He took a step back and looked at her silently.

"What do you mean by that?"

She has her own reasons for everything she does, and there must be a reason for dressing up like this.

Meng Xilan raised her head and said, "I want to go and see the crown prince." ”

As soon as these words came out, Chu Jingchuan's eyes dimmed instantly.

He looked at her deeply again and only asked, "Why?" ”

Meng Xilan thought for a while before she said: "Mother and son are connected, I haven't seen Changsheng for two months, I think about him in my heart, I just want to see him." ”

Chu Jingchuan was still silent.

Meng Xilan gently held his hand, and rubbed the back of his rough hand with her fingertips: "I am already a mother, how can you make me not want him." ”

Chu Jingchuan's eyes are as deep as the sea: "I think of my heart, this is also human nature." ”

"Shizukawa, let me meet the prince, okay?"

"You're dressed up like this just to see him."

Meng Xilan nodded vigorously: "I did this to reassure him." I am still his mother, and I am still the lord of these six houses. ”

"And what are you going to say to him?"

"I'm going to make him a smart guy." Meng Xilan spit out this sentence lightly.

The meaning behind her words is to make it possible

Chu Jingchuan looked at her deeply, pondered for a moment, and sighed almost inaudibly, "Okay, you go." ”

Meng Xilan secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart when she heard this, she took the initiative to raise her face, kissed his lips, and thanked him in the most gentle way.

……

A north wind blew away the green leaves and flowers on the branches. In the palace, it was full of desolation, and the wind blew quietly through the hall, only blowing the dusty luxury of the room into the corner.

Changsheng was disheveled, barefoot, and only wore a pale cyan robe, chic and thin.

Shen Dan felt sorry for him and froze himself, so he only asked Xiao Chunzi to put two braziers in the hall.

Changsheng paced back and forth in the hall, and Shen Dan took his shoes and knelt on the ground and begged him to put them on.

Seeing her crying, Changsheng just shook his head: "I'm just a pair of bare feet, so it's worth your tears?" ”

Shen Dan lowered his head: "The slave is worried that His Highness is cold. ”

"I'm fine, this north wind came at the right time."

The north wind was cold, cold to the bone, enough to make his whole person sober up.

Shen Dan raised his eyes and looked at him in a daze.

His Royal Highness was originally a handsome and proud person, but now he is only lonely.

Changsheng stood at the door of the dormitory, looking up at the gray sky, and there was a deep dark shadow under his eyes.

Suddenly, Xiao Chunzi staggered in and almost fell: "Your Highness, the queen...... The Queen Mother is here! ”

What the?!

As soon as these words came out, Changsheng was stunned on the spot, pursed his lips, and glared at Xiao Haruko, not knowing whether what he said was true or not.

"...... Your Highness, Niangniang is really here. ”

While speaking, Meng Xilan was dressed in a costume and held Zhu Lu's hand and came to Changsheng.

Changsheng froze in place, opening his mouth, but unable to speak.

For two whole months, Meng Xilan has been thinking about her child every day, and even every time she breathes, she is thinking about her child.

"Immortal ......," Meng Xilan opened his mouth to call him.

The young man in front of him, thin and thin, with a flowing long shirt, looks chic, but in fact he is decadent.

Meng Xilan's eyes were slightly condensed, and her heart sank.

"Immortal ......," Meng Xilan called him again.

The surging qi and blood in his heart made Changsheng's mind dizzy.

The appearance of the queen mother, it seems that everything is as usual, as if nothing has happened in the palace.

Changsheng walked down the steps slowly, and his feet were like a thousand pounds.

Seeing him like this, Meng Xilan couldn't help but sigh and shake her head.

"Changsheng, come here."

She stretched out her hands, wanting to hug him properly.

No matter how dangerous the environment is, the only thing she wants to do now is to embrace her own children well.

Changsheng was still walking slowly, but then he seemed to react and threw himself into her arms.

He has obviously grown up, half a head taller than Meng Xilan. But in front of his mother, he is still a child, and he will always be a child.

The smell of fat powder on Meng Xilan's body is the most familiar to Changsheng.

"The queen mother, it's not good to be a son...... What can't be done by the sons. ”

Changsheng's tone was full of self-blame, guilt, helplessness, and anger.

Meng Xilan gently patted him on the back and comforted him, "It's not your fault. It's okay, it's okay. ”

Changsheng knelt slowly, his knees on the cold stone slab, he buried his head in his mother's arms, his heart was full of thoughts for a while, tangled, like a fish in his throat, making him speechless.

Shen Dan, who was a few steps away, had long been unable to cry.

In the past two months, she has been more afraid than anyone else, but she doesn't dare to be afraid, because she has to listen to Niangniang's instructions and take care of His Royal Highness the Prince.

Shen Dan was crying, and Xiao Chunzi was also crying, sobbing and choking, and it was not the same.

Meng Xilan took a deep breath and only said, "Changsheng, get up, the ground is cold." ”

Chang Xian didn't move, just hugged his mother, like a frightened and panicked child.

"Changsheng, you stand up and be upright. If the queen mother has something important to say to you...... It's all their people here, let's not let them see the jokes. ”

Time was limited, and besides, the walls had ears, so she had to hurry.

Changsheng knew the severity, stood up with his head bowed, and let the queen mother enter the hall to speak.

Mother and son sat opposite each other, Zhulu and Xiaochunzi stood outside the door, and outside the hall, it was Wei Feng's subordinates.

Their every move, word and deed is under their surveillance.

Chu Jingchuan's affection for her is one thing, but his ambition for power is another.

Control the prince, this is Chu Jingchuan's best trump card, you can attack when you advance, and you can defend when you retreat.

"Queen Mother, Chu Jingchuan, he ......" Changsheng was about to ask, but saw Meng Xilan slowly shaking his head at him.

Changsheng paused, looked directly into the eyes of the queen mother, and waited quietly.

"Don't ask me if I'm okay, and don't worry about whether I'm okay. If I can appear in front of you safe and sound today, it means that I am fine. ”

Meng Xilan's tone was firm and unflustered.

Changsheng's eyes flashed, and he had already guessed seven or eight points in his heart, why the queen mother was fine.

"Queen Mother, Chu Jingchuan deserves to die!" He deliberately kept his voice low, not wanting the people in the courtyard to hear.

Meng Xilan covered his mouth, and her expression turned fierce: "Changsheng, you are not a child anymore, it is useless to talk too much." You have to remember that every word and word that our mother and son say here today cannot be hidden from anyone. ”

Those guards were all people who had been practicing martial arts for many years, and they could even hear the sound of the blade of the sword cutting through the bamboo leaves, and it was not difficult for them to eavesdrop on the whispers.

Changsheng's face changed, and the dark shadow at the bottom of his eyes deepened.

"The general has no intention of hurting you, the position he wants is the regent."

Meng Xilan said this, as if she was giving him a reassurance.

"Mother, what do you want your son to do? Do you want your son to be Chu Jingchuan's puppet? ”

When he said this, he almost gritted his teeth, and his bright red eyes almost bleed.

"Changsheng, do you and I still have a choice?" Meng Xilan said in a cold tone: "Bear the burden of humiliation and put the overall situation first, you have read these truths more than once in the book, don't you understand?" You have to keep the country of Beiyan for the Zhou royal family, and Chu Jingchuan is the only person who can help you keep this country. ”

"What about Father?"

Meng Xilan said: "Your father did not return to Beijing on time, and he has put us in danger. How long do you think I can hold on, and how long can the Meng family last? She grabbed Changsheng's hand tightly and secretly exerted herself: "The moment your father attacks in, it will be the time when our lives are hanging by a thread." Immortal, the queen mother can only do her best to keep you, you don't want to disappoint the queen mother. ”

Do your best...... How is she going to give it her all? Do you want her to sacrifice everything she has?

Knowing that a son is better than a mother, Meng Xilan knew what he was thinking just by looking into his eyes.

Because the way he looked at her suddenly changed, and his eyes were full of helplessness, sadness, and doubt.

"What? Do you think the queen mother is dirty? ”

Changsheng immediately shook his head: "No, he forced you to do this." ”

No matter what the queen mother does, she is for him, for him, the unsuccessful prince.

Meng Xilan interrupted him: "No, he didn't force me, everything was done voluntarily by me." ”

Changsheng was shocked when he heard this. "Queen Mother's ......"

Meng Xilan cupped his face: "This battle is inevitable. The queen doesn't care who wins and who loses, the queen only cares about you, do you understand? ”

"Queen Mother, I don't want you to do this to yourself."

Meng Xilan curled her lips when she heard this, full of bitterness. "Now, we can't even save our lives, what does the queen mother do with this chaste false name? Changsheng, you remember, the place where you and I are today is all in vain, and it is just nothing. If we don't have the right in our hands, then we have nothing. ”

Changsheng's body trembled, his fists clenched, and he had nothing to say for a while.

The queen mother is right, before he was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, high and carefree, but now, he lives a cold life like a prisoner.

"The queen mother fought hard to give birth to you back then. You are mine, and no one in this world can hurt you. ”

Meng Xilan muttered, followed by a kiss on his forehead.

"Queen Mother, what do you want your sons to do?"

Meng Xilan took a deep breath and said, "I want you to be ruthless, I want you to do whatever it takes to protect yourself." ”

Changsheng looked at her with a shudder, his face twisted in pain, apparently unwilling.

Meng Xilan's eyes were deep, forcing him to nod in agreement. "Time is running out, the queen mother doesn't know when she will be able to come to see you again, you have to give me a word, let me feel at ease."

Changsheng still refused to nod.

"Only if you live, can the queen mother have a chance to live, and dozens of people up and down the Meng family can have a chance to live. Your maternal grandfather, your uncle, your cousin...... Do you really want them to bury us with us? ”

She asked him to understand a truth, in his position, only by protecting himself can he protect the people he cares about the most.

Changsheng firmly pressed his head with both hands, stared at the ground tightly, sighed deeply, and nodded: "Okay, Erchen promises you, Erchen will do whatever it takes to save his life, Erchen will obey Chu Jingchuan's words, and he will do whatever he wants Erchen to do...... Even if he betrayed his father, his sons didn't care. ”

The words came out of his mouth like a knife cutting the ground, heavy and blunt.

Meng Xilan closed her eyes, hugged his stiff body, hugged him tightly in her arms, and stroked his back: "The queen mother believes in you, and you also have to believe in the queen mother." For now, this dilemma will soon be over. ”