In the middle of November of the ninth year of Shenxuan, the first queen's birthday was approaching, and the crown prince Li Fuxian and the crown princess Wei Yuxiao went to the imperial temple to pray for the first queen.

At the end of the year, the cold winter is cold, the pilgrims who come and go in Huangze Temple are more and more, Li Fuxian and his party arrive at Huangze Temple, the sky is just dusk, the lights are on, but there are still many pilgrims in the temple.

They traveled lightly and did not make much fanfare when they arrived at Huangze Temple, so as not to affect other pilgrims.

Li Fuxian was led by the precept elder Wu Wei, who was over fifty years old, short in stature, and looked very kind and kind, and personally sent them to the meditation courtyard.

"Why don't you see the host?"

"Your Highness, the presiding officer is still in retreat, and he will only leave the customs the day after tomorrow. I hope Your Highness will wait one more day. ”

"No problem."

Li Fuxian nodded, indicating that he understood, and asked again: "Can the matter of praying for the birthday be arranged?" ”

"Your Highness, rest assured, everything is in accordance with the practice of previous years. From October 27, I prayed for the blessing of the former queen until the day of the festival. ”

"Prayer starts on October 27?"

A hint of surprise flashed in Li Fuxian's heart, from October 27 to November 27, it was exactly a month.

"Yes, Your Highness."

Wufu nodded, as if deliberately and unintentionally, and said: "From the second year after the journey, His Majesty ordered that from October 27 to November 27 every year, the temple will pray for blessings and chant sutras. It's now the tenth year. ”

"Ten years?"

Li Fuxian was a little stunned, since his mother died, no one dared to mention her name in the palace for ten years, as if she had become a taboo. Li Fuxian always thought that ...... Li Yaoshen must have resented her. But I didn't expect it...... But why did Li Yaoshen do this? Now no one can tell Li Fuxian the answer, what the truth is, he can only check it himself.

"So, has my father ever been here?"

This "father" call is a bit complicated, and there are still many things they don't know.

"Not really."

Wufu shook his head, although people pray and chant scriptures every year, Li Yaoshen has never been here.

"Thank you, Elder, for telling me about this."

Li Fuxian was silent for a while before he said slowly.

"Your Highness is gracious."

With a vain smile, he recited Amitabha Buddha to Li Fuxian, and said, "The hour is not early, His Royal Highness and Niangniang are tired all the way, please rest early." The old man didn't bother the two nobles. ”

"Please."

Li Fuxian didn't keep anyone, and let people send him out.

He pushed open the window and looked at the sky outside, which was already completely dark, not knowing what he was thinking.

The cold wind howled outside the window, and the low temperature seeped into the room along the wide open window, and after a while, the originally warm Zen room was almost as cold as the outside, and even more so, like an ice cave.

"Your Highness."

I don't know how long Li Fuxian stood at the window, and when he came back to his senses, his hands and feet were frozen.

He looked sideways and saw that it was Bai Rou who was waiting beside Wei Yuxiao.

"What?"

"The mother has woken up, and she sent a slave to look for you."

"Hmm."

Li flicked his head and stepped out of the meditation room and into the next room.

Rue was already waiting for her to freshen up.

"Why don't you sleep a little longer?"

Li Fuxian walked over and naturally took the hair comb from Ruxiang's hand and combed her hair himself.

"It's been a day of sleep, and I don't want to sleep."

After a day in a carriage, even the most comfortable carriage can be a little tiring. What's more, Wei Yuxiao's situation is a little special, so he is even more affected. At the moment, she still looked a little tired on her face.

"Thank you for your hard work."

"It's hard work for you."

Li Fuxian combed her long hair as she spoke, also because she was about to go to bed at night, just tidy up.

Wei Yuxiao turned around and held his hand, frowned, and said, "Why are your hands so cold?" ”

As she spoke, she held his other hand, her hand was warm and delicate, and the subtle warmth reached the bottom of his heart.

"I'm fine, probably just spent a while outside the house."

Li Fuxian didn't want her to worry, so he held her hand instead, his internal force moved slightly, and his palm quickly warmed up.

"Uh-huh."

Wei Yuxiao nodded, a smile reappeared on his face, and led Li Fuxian to the side room.

"Just now, the little master gave me the things to pray for tomorrow, and I let them all be put there."

When it came to praying for tomorrow, Li Fuxian seemed a little absent-minded, and Wei Yuxiao was keen-minded and immediately noticed his abnormality.

"What's wrong?"

Li Fuxian didn't speak, but suddenly hugged her, exuding a sad aura all over his body.

Wei Yuxiao was a little flustered, it was the first time she had seen Li Fuxian like this, which made her worry and distressed.

"What's wrong, but what's wrong?"

She reached out to hug Li Fuxian's waist back, and could only express her concern in this most clumsy and intimate way.

Li Fuxian lowered his head and leaned against her head, feeling Wei Yuxiao's concern, and the depressed mood in his heart dissipated a lot unconsciously.

"He has long been worshipping the Queen Mother here."

After a slow pause, Li Fuxian said in a dumb voice.

In just one sentence, a lot of information was revealed to Wei Yuxiao.

"Ten years ago, the queen mother passed away suddenly."

Li Fuxian let go of Wei Yuxiao, his mood had calmed down a lot, and he led Wei Yuxiao to the side and sat down. For the first time, he mentioned to Wei Yuxiao those old things buried in his heart.

"He's like a different person, he's become mediocre, he's become incompetent. Oh, I didn't care if I lived or died. ”

This he, naturally, refers to Li Yaoshen. Wei Yuxiao pursed his lips and didn't say anything, but clenched his hand.

She still remembered the first time they met, but a year or two after the death of the first queen, Li Fuxian changed from a prince who was held in the palm of his hand to a poor worm who could be stepped on by anyone.

Especially Zhao Ruxue, Li Guichen, mother and son, who were in the limelight at that time, as well as the three princes at that time, were all people who stepped on him.

The palace is a place where people eat people and don't spit out bones, all of them are human spirits, they are used to holding high and stepping on low, whoever is favored, they will be to whom, and vice versa, once they fall out of favor, there will be countless people who fall into the well.

Just listening to a few of his understatements, Wei Yuxiao couldn't help but feel distressed, not to mention Li Fuxian, who had experienced all this at that time. He was just a little prince with no power, and how many grievances he had suffered in this palace, Wei Yuxiao didn't know, and he didn't dare to think about it.

"And then I went to the northwest, and it wasn't until this year that he suddenly summoned me back to the capital with an edict."

A trace of sadness flashed in Li Fuxian's eyes, "In the past ten years, I only saw him sitting on the imperial throne from a distance when I left Beijing. Even, I almost forgot what he looked like. ”

"I always thought that he hated his mother. Even ......"

Also resentful...... He.

Otherwise, how could he have been ignored for ten years, how could he have been allowed to fall from the top of the clouds into the mud, how could he ......

"At that time, he summoned me back to Beijing, and I thought he was going to target me again."

Li Fuxian smiled bitterly: "But nothing, just ignore me as before, and let Li Guichen play those tricks." ”

Without Wei Yuxiao knowing, in fact, Li Fuxian had secretly made a lot of moves with Li Guichen, but Li Guichen didn't take advantage of it once. How can the delicate flowers growing in the greenhouse compare with the green pines growing in the storm and mud, Li Guichen's frustration has become inevitable.

"I thought he was paving the way for Li Guichen and wanted to use me as a whetstone. However, I seem to be wrong. ”

Now it seems that Li Guichen and Zhao Ruxue are his whetstones.

Li Yaoshen has worked hard for so many years, and he has worked hard to cultivate him into what he is today.

The unreasonable situations he had encountered before were now completely reasonable, he always knew that someone was secretly helping him, he always thought it was the former connections of the Zhenguo Mansion, but he didn't expect it...... It turned out to be Li Yaoshen.

Li Yaoshen has always protected him from places he doesn't know, but he only protects him from death, but gives him the power to fight back.

This empire needs a strong emperor, an emperor who can drive the enemy from the outside and innovate from within. And Li Fuxian is the most satisfactory and suitable candidate cultivated by Li Yaoshen.

Wei Yuxiao was silent, countless thoughts flashed through her heart, Li Mingche's figure flashed in her mind, and those people of the Wang family also appeared in her heart one by one.

"Zhenzhen."

Li Fuxian didn't seem to notice her silence, and continued: "And I found out some things, related to the events of the year, and also related to the Wang family. ”

"What?"

Wei Yuxiao's wandering thoughts suddenly came back to her senses, Li Fuxian looked at her eyes, and said seriously: "I found out, what happened to the Wang family back then, perhaps, you didn't know everything at the beginning. ”

"Yes...... What the? ”

Wei Yuxiao's hands trembled a little, she was suddenly a little scared, perhaps, it was not the news she wanted to know. However, she wanted to know what happened back then.

"Li Mingche, he may not be dead."

Li Fuxian said in a condensed voice, staring at Wei Yuxiao's eyes tightly, and said word by word: "There is also the Wang family...... They are not innocent. ”

Wei Yuxiao seemed to be stunned, and couldn't come back to his senses for a while.

"This ...... It can't be ......"

"Zhen Zhen, too much truth has been concealed from the events of that year. There are truths that you need to find out for yourself. ”

And now, those things that were hidden are finally gradually showing clues.

"I'll look it up."

After a long time, Wei Yuxiao slowly said this. Now, she is actually aware of something unusual.

"Good. Let's look it up. ”

There will always be a day when the truth will be revealed, and he will never allow anyone to use Wei Yuxiao again!

The next day, after Li Fuxian and Wei Yuxiao bathed and meditated, they went to the Buddha hall dedicated to the first queen.

This Buddha hall is located in a secluded location, and ordinary pilgrims are not allowed to enter. There are very few people who know what kind of Buddha hall this is, and those who know it don't dare to spread it out, so for more than ten years, the news here has not been leaked out for half a minute.

The chanting was naturally presided over by the monks, and Li Fuxian and Wei Yuxiao only needed to come every day to offer incense and worship, and then personally copy a few scriptures when they had the heart.

It took more than an hour to go down the process.

Wei Yuxiao is pregnant with Lin'er, and she really can't stay for long. So I took the Buddhist scriptures and came back to the meditation room to copy them.

Seven days later, Wei Yuxiao had already copied a Buddhist scripture.

It was already the 20th of November, and they should return to the capital in two days.

Wei Yuxiao has not had a smile on her face these days, and Li Fuxian is really worried, it snowed last night, but the plum blossoms in the back mountain are blooming well, and stepping on the snow to find plum blossoms may make her happier, Li Fuxian regretted telling her those things so early.

"I heard that the plum blossoms in the back mountain are blooming, do you want to go and see it?"

"Okay."