It has passed since noon came out of her father's study, Lin Qingzhi knows that her father has drawn a clear line with the crown prince and queen from now on, and how difficult it will be to walk the court road in the future.

Although there are many forces in the court, under the obstacles of the Wang family's relatives all over the court and the locality, it is conceivable how difficult it is to support a powerless other prince to succeed to the throne. And this heavy responsibility can only fall on my second prince Xiao Mufeng, who is cold and silent. What's more, the prince has already pulled the right minister Feng Dao into the camp, Feng Dao has always been at odds with Lin Chengde for a long time, and I am afraid that he will be even more trapped in the future.

Since the current Shengshang ascended the throne, he changed to the official system of only one prime minister in the previous dynasty, and the emperor set up two sides to contain each other, in case someone followed his actions back then and coveted the throne. After that, the fate of the Lin family will be even more uncertain, and Lin Qingzhi can't help but feel related when she thinks of these.

The sky was clear, and the clear blue sky was sprinkled with bright sunlight, shining on the thick snow, which was dazzlingly white. The snow on the roof is irradiated by the sunlight and drip the crystal clear water along the eaves of the glazed tile house, and the goose-yellow soft hair handed over by the melting moon is draped, and the tip of the nose is filled with a touch of plum blossoms.

There is a plum blossom forest planted in front of the door of Lin's father's study, it is planted by Princess Hechang in that year, the late water of the other horn is her favorite variety during her lifetime, the variety is extremely rare, because it often opens with petals that are not completely circumferential, the edge of the petals is often concave, it is called lame, take its homonym for the other horn, the flowering period is late, the flower color is red, and the broken petals flow and get the name of "late water". The floral fragrance is elegant, the character is excellent and more precious because of its rarity, and it is only for royal enjoyment. It was still Mother Lin who specially ordered someone to transplant it from the Shanglin Garden in the palace, for fear that the gardeners would break the branches and plant them by themselves, and at that time, Father Lin laughed at her if she was born in an ordinary family, she was very talented as a gardener.

At that time, Lin Qingzhi and her brother snuggled up to their mother and played around, but they didn't realize that more than ten years had passed, and if their mother was still seeing the plum blossoms in full bloom in the garden, she would be very happy and have a sense of accomplishment. The fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold, and this year's winter snow is extraordinarily much, so the plum blossoms are also blooming densely flowered, and a piece of rose red blooms in the snow-white silver world from a distance, and the rich fragrance spreads out, like a telephone girl as cute and lovable.

Let Rongyue cut a few and take them back to insert them, and turn around and walk towards Accord.

Back to the Accord, Rongyue put a few plum blossoms in a light green amphora vase placed on the long table near the window, the charcoal stove burned, the heat accompanied by the fragrance faintly blended into the air, and after lunch, I felt that my mind was extremely sleepy.

"Miss has been worrying about His Royal Highness King Ning and the crown prince's proposal for the past two days, so it's freezing outside, so it's better to rest for a while." Rong Yue said warmly while cleaning up the dishes.

The faint aroma entered his nose and he slept very deeply, and when he woke up, he saw a azure figure in front of the bed looking at Lin Qingzhi, and when he woke up, the sky outside the window was as dark as ink.

"What time is it? It's getting dark. Lin Qingzhi rubbed her eyes and saw that it was Xiao Mufeng, and her eyes couldn't help but light up.

"It's time, seeing that you slept deeply, I didn't let Rongyue wake you up, and brought you your favorite Li Dingji's peach cake, get up and taste it?" Xiao Mufeng took out a paper bag, opened it, took out a piece and handed it to Lin Qingzhi.

"Have you seen your father?" Lin Qingzhi took the tea handed by Xiao Mufeng while eating.

"Lin Cha asked me to come over the house, I thought there must be something important, so I came over immediately." Xiao Mufeng's face flickered in the candlelight, and there was a hint of tiredness in his eyes.

"Father should have told you, you haven't come back from Songzhou a few days ago, the prince came to see his father, in order to win over the intention to marry me as a concubine, I refused to agree, so my father thought that I had made a marriage with the son of the Murong family when I was a child, and now, the emperor is seriously ill, the situation in the court is tense, and the queen's party has moved, so please come here for this matter." Lin Qingzhi said with a faint gaze.

"So many things have happened during my absence, why didn't you tell me about this when we met yesterday, I can also share it with you." Xiao Mufeng's eyes were full of care and distress.

"What can I do, it will only increase your troubles, and besides, I have already thought of a way to deal with it, this matter is not difficult, you are now entangled in all kinds of things, and I am also worried that you have always been kind-hearted, and you will be used by people with ulterior motives." Lin Qingzhi looked at the peach crisp in her hand and said quietly.

"I used to think that as long as I didn't get involved in political affairs, I could stay out of the matter, now it seems that I was born in the royal family can not avoid the power struggle, the eldest brother and the queen mother still can't tolerate me, yesterday I came back to the palace to see my father and the emperor after the eyeliner has been staring, and even the house already has their people, and now the father is still in them They dare not be too blatant, but I am afraid that they can't endure too much time, so this time I came to ask you to help keep a thing, this is what I ordered the secret guard in Songzhou to steal, it is their corruption and fraud private account book, Presumably it's what they've been looking for, it's not safe in my house, please Qingzhi you help me keep it. Xiao Mufeng took out a thread-bound account book from his arms, and the amount of silver taels recorded in it was tens of millions of taels, which was jaw-dropping.

"Okay, Brother Mu, you have to protect yourself, although you have the Shadow Guard for your use, but the queen still has to take more precautions."

"Don't worry, although your brother Mu is weak in manpower, he can't be slaughtered." Xiao Mufeng stretched out his hand and rubbed Lin Qingzhi's head, just like when he was a child, but this time Lin Qingzhi didn't open it.

"After Qingyunzhai saw this, I felt that it was quite exquisite, and it should be suitable for you to buy it, and I don't know if you like it or not." Xiao Mufeng took out a purple jade carved cloud pattern exquisite ruyi hairpin from his wide cloud sleeve and inserted it into Lin Qingzhi's green silk flying cloud bun, and his eyes were as gentle as spring water in spring.

Rong Yue on the side was covering her mouth and snickering, and after receiving Lin Qingzhi's eyes, she found a reason to push the door and walked out quickly, and Lin made a meaningful grimace at Lin Qingzhi before going out.

"When the matter in front of me is resolved, I will marry you back to be my princess as soon as possible, do you say?" Xiao Mufeng's eyes were full of smiles, and with his handsome face, it was even more like a jade tree in the wind, and Lin Qingzhi buried her head deeply under the candlelight, and her cheeks were like flying clouds.

"Marriage is a major event, but it is up to the parents to decide." Lin Qingzhi said the urn airway.

Xiao Mufeng knew that Lin Qingzhi's daughter's family was shy, so he only smiled silently.

After a while, Lin Qingji sent the little maid to invite Xiao Mufeng over for a drink, and Xiao Mufeng reluctantly got up and followed the little maid to Nanyuan.

Xiao Mufeng and Lin Qingji grew up together since childhood, among the many princes and grandsons, they are the most compatible, Xiao Mufeng has a cold face and a warm heart, and the surface is cold, in fact, he thinks about others everywhere, Lin Qingji has always been a chic and uninhibited noble son, Xiao Mufeng knows that he is actually very talented, but the Lin family has Lin Xiang's support, plus there are too many flattering people in the court today, and there are very few people who really want to reimburse the country for the well-being of the people.

After Xiao Mufeng left, Lin Qingzhi called Rongyue to prepare pen and ink. Rongyue was very puzzled when she saw that Lin Qingzhi wanted to copy the account book that Xiao Mufeng brought.

"His Royal Highness only said that he would let Miss help keep it, and he didn't say that he needed to back it up, so why did Miss still have to copy it?" Rongyue frowned and shook her head as she grinded the ink.

"A lot of things are prepared, and I also hope to be able to do my best to help Brother Mu, don't talk about it yet, polish the ink."

Lin Qingzhi took the usual wolf pen, twisted off a fine hair, and then diluted the ink ground from pine smoke ink, and copied the account book on the paper.

Outside the window, the night was dark, the cold wind was howling like a ghost crying wolf, and the messy shadows of the trees were cast on the window paper, as if they were demons with teeth and claws in the night.

Lin Qingzhi shook off her sour hand, took the hot towel handed by Rongyue to warm her hands, and walked straight to the brocade couch next to her and sat down.

"Melting the moon, the country is splendid, but it is also as heavy as a thousand gold, the court and the deep palace fight, there has never been a gunpowder blade, but it has always been cruel to kill people without spitting out bones. Born in the family of princes and nobles, accustomed to seeing the battle of deceit, in this life I wanted to only find a no-man's valley with my loved one, build a wooden hut, pave a bluestone path, and his morning bell and dusk drum, peace and quiet, now it seems that this idea is really too extravagant, but as long as Brother Mu is well, I will definitely follow no matter what. Lin Qingzhi stared at the tips of pearl embroidered shoes, unable to see the expression in her eyes, her long and thick eyelashes flickered like butterfly wings in the candlelight, Lin Qingzhi at this moment looked like a lonely little girl who was left out by her parents, the petite and slender back under the shadow of the lamp made people feel pity, if you didn't know, no one would have thought that such a delicate woman could stir the entire court and the whole world.

Approaching the end of the year, ordinary people have hung up red lanterns in their homes, buying New Year's goods, cutting window flowers and pasting Spring Festival couplets, so lively. Only the palace and the princes and ministers are not concerned about this, they are more concerned about who will sit on the supreme red gold throne in the court of Luoyang City next, and where their family will go in the future.