The cold wind howled through the cold palace, passing through the vacant temple like a ghost. In the Tongxin Hall, the lotus leaf just let out a cry and was frightened by the sound of 'bang' outside the hall.

Lotus Ye's mind was buzzing, and he was in a cold sweat, looking at the place where the door of the dark temple was, like looking at a flood beast.

Lingxi grabbed his lower abdomen tightly with his right hand, and after a few deep breaths, he said to the lotus leaf who was still trembling, "Lotus leaf, palm lamp." ”

"Niangniang......" lotus leaf choked.

"If you can't hide left and right, it's better to die clearly." Lingxi frowned, and his lower abdomen was already feeling a slight pain at this time, except for the fall.

This child in the womb is the biggest threat to Empress Zhu, how could Empress Zhu let her give birth to him?

Lingxi smiled bitterly in her heart, she had to admit what Granny Bai had said, it was too difficult to protect the child in her womb.

Lotus Ye has always listened to Lingxi's words, and seeing Lingxi's resolute attitude, he put down the scissors in his hand, groped for a fire fold from the side of the bed, and lit the candlestick.

After the dazzling firelight, the simple layout of the dormitory was slowly revealed, and after Lingxi and Lotus Ye adjusted to the light, they could see the panic and helplessness on each other's faces.

Lingxi took a deep breath and closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his eyes were no longer flustered. She took the handkerchief and wiped her face with lotus leaves, and comforted her softly, "Don't cry, just endure it and it's over." ”

Lotus Ye cried even more, from a low cry to a howling cry.

In the cry of the lotus leaf, Lingxi touched the clothes and dressed neatly, then wrapped the quilt around his body, sat on the bed and waited for the people outside to come in.

Lingxi suddenly found that she was not afraid in her heart. Left and right are just dead, and she hasn't died.

Lotus Ye stopped crying and dressed herself neatly, and then sat in front of Lingxi, staring at the direction of the temple door with red and swollen eyes.

But there was no sound outside the hall, and after the sound of 'bang', silence returned, and only the sound of the wind whistling remained.

Lingxi didn't believe that the people sent by Empress Zhu to harm her would be useless enough to be scared away by the lotus leaf's cry, so she hugged the lotus leaf and waited quietly.

The master and servant went from the window to the darkness until the red candle on the candlestick dried up their tears, and finally the flame flickered a few times and was extinguished.

At this time, the window was already slightly white, and there was natural light in the hall. Lingxi's already wooden brain was in a trance, and the occasional sobbing of the lotus leaf was unusually loud in the dimly lit dormitory.

The sun rises in the east and shines on the snow-covered cold palace, and a few small birds fly out of the abandoned garden of the cold palace and let out a chirp.

The atmosphere in the east side hall was dull, and it was not until the lotus leaf shook unconsciously that he realized that it was dawn......

Lotus Ye turned around and nudged the pale and godless Lingxi, and said in a dry voice, "Niangniang, it's dawn." ”

The spirit was agitated, and the head that was lying on his lap was raised. Looking at the snow white outside the window, Lingxi said to the lotus leaf, "Let's go, let's go out and have a look." ”

Lotus Ye nodded, and he moved his hands and feet on the ground first, and then helped Lingxi to stand up.

As soon as Lingxi stood up, he felt that his lower abdomen was falling down again, and there was a kind of pain in the wood.

Seeing that Lingxi's face turned from pale to pale, Lotus Ye said anxiously, "Niangniang, what's wrong?" ”

Lingxi trembled his hands slightly, holding the falling belly, trying to stabilize his mind, raised his head and said to Lotus Ye, "I'm fine, Lotus Leaf, let's go out and have a look first." ”

Lotus Ye took the heavy cloak and put it on Lingxi's thin shoulders, and helped Lingxi to walk out cautiously.

Pushing open the door of the temple that made people's hearts chill, the lotus leaf and the spirit rhino did not see the 'person' outside the hall who made them frightened all night, but only saw a piece of snow white that was dazzling by the early sun.

Lingxi and Lotus Leaf both breathed a sigh of relief and put their hearts back in their stomachs.

Lotus Ye turned around and smiled at Lingxi, and said, "Niangniang, it seems that there was a false alarm last night." You go to sleep for a while, and the slave will make you porridge. ”

Lingxi shook his head, fastened his cloak tightly, took a breath of fresh air, and said to Lotus Ye, "Let's go to Granny Bai." ”

Lotus Ye swept her gaze towards Lingxi's stomach, and her heart tightened. Then he pursed his chapped lips and nodded, closed the door of the hall, and helped Lingxi to walk outside the Tongxin Hall.

When the two of them walked to the snow at the well, Lingxi stopped.

Lingxi looked at the few big footprints on the snow that did not belong to the lotus leaf, and a cool air rose on his back, "Lotus leaf, it wasn't a false alarm last night, someone really came......"

Lotus Yeben regained a hint of ruddyness, and his face turned pale again, "Niangniang, what can I do about this?" ”

"Cold salad!" Lingxi straightened his spine and held the lotus leaf's hand and said, "Since the queen doesn't dare to attack me so blatantly, then she must have her concerns." Whatever her concerns are, the results are good for us, so let's be cautious. ”

Lotus Ye nodded yes, and helped Lingxi to walk in the direction of Pinxiu Pavilion.

The morning air was cold, and it was sucked into the chest, which was frozen and wooden. Lingxi rarely did not walk in a hurry as before, but held the hand of the lotus leaf and walked slowly and cautiously.

Lingxi was afraid, she was afraid that she would go in a hurry, and the child in her belly who had been falling would be gone.

When the lotus leaf held Lingxi's hand and walked to Pinxiu Pavilion, the sun was already hanging high.

Granny Bai was on crutches and digging something in the snowdrift in the courtyard of Pinxiu Pavilion. Lingxi shook the hand of the lotus leaf lightly, and the lotus leaf immediately let go of the hand of the lingxi, and stepped forward to help with understanding.

After a while, Lotus Leaf helped Granny Bai pull out a cloth bag from the snowdrift, which contained dried vegetables that had cooled in autumn.

Granny Bai asked Lotus Ye to send those dried vegetables to Pinxiu Pavilion, leaned over, looked up at Lingxi, and her eyes were fierce, "What are you doing again?" ”

Lingxi moved in front of Granny Bai, handed her wrist to Granny Bai, and begged, "Help me." ”

Granny Bai's unsteady figure paused, and after raising her eyes and looking Lingxi up and down a few times, she said, "Come in." ”

On December 26 of the seventh year of Yong'an, Concubine Rou, who was confined to the Hehuan Palace, was seriously ill.

On December 27 of the seventh year of Yong'an, the second prince who learned that Concubine Rou was seriously ill knelt in front of Emperor Yong'an to plead for his mother, and begged Emperor Yong'an to allow him to enter the palace to visit his mother.

Emperor Yong'an looked at the second prince kneeling on the ground and was silent for a long time, until the small silver pendant on the incense bell fell down and made a crisp sound, and then said to the second prince kneeling on the ground, "Although Concubine Rou has been, she is your mother after all." She is sick in the deep palace, it is normal for you to visit, how can your father not allow it? ”

Although Emperor Yong'an was accurate, the second prince who was kneeling on the ground broke out in a cold sweat because of Emperor Yong'an's momentary hesitation.

In the afternoon of the same day, the second prince Li Lingfeng entered the Hehuan Hall under the leadership of the palace people.

When the second prince arrived, Concubine Rou was sitting on the low kang in the inner hall eating tea. He wears a dark pink embroidered cherry blossom jacket on the upper body, and a purple embroidered pear blossom skirt on the lower body. He wore a set of jewelry made of Dongzhu and a step shake.

Although this Dongzhu step shake only has three tassels, it is not inferior to the sapphire five tassel step shake.

The second prince stood in front of Concubine Rou, seeing that her makeup was neat and her face was ruddy, where was she seriously ill? If it is really sick, it can only be seen from her slightly frowning brows that Concubine Rou has a heart disease this time.

After retreating from all the palace people around him, a trace of anger flashed in the eyes of the second prince.

The second prince put his hand behind his back, stood in front of a white marble screen, and vented all the anger in his heart, "Mother, if you are sick, then you will announce that the imperial doctor will come to treat you well, why bother to send a message to me?" If you let me mess around with you like this, how will my father look at me? ”

"The mother concubine was anxious, and she made this decision out of desperation." Concubine Rou looked at the second prince and said softly, "The mother concubine is now grounded, if you want to see you generously, it will be impossible." It can only be if the mother concubine is sick, and your father will agree to let you come in to see the mother concubine. ”

The second prince gritted his teeth, sat on the carved round bench next to the low kang and said impatiently, "In the last few days, my son was only the queen and did things unsteadily, and I passed over and over again that King Ning went to Weiyang Palace to see him. Now that I see it, the mother concubine is more unstable than the queen. ”

"Enough!" Concubine Rou slammed the teacup on the mahogany carved table, and said with an angry face, "If the mother concubine didn't work hard for you, wouldn't she need to be so uneasy?" If you think that what the concubine thinks and does is wrong, then you will go out of the palace and never come in to see me again. ”

Concubine Rou suffered a big loss from Queen Zhu this time, and she was angry in her heart. The words of the second prince were like adding fuel to the fire, directly drawing Concubine Rou's anger from the bottom of her heart.

The second prince was afraid that Concubine Rou would be angry, so he hurriedly stepped forward to stroke Concubine Rou's back, and said to Concubine Rou in a softened tone, "Don't be angry, don't you be angry, isn't it possible for your son to be wrong?" Are you recruiting your son into the palace today for your father to crown the eldest prince as King Ning? ”

Concubine Rou exhaled deeply and sighed, "Since this incident, now the adult prince under your father's knees is you and King Ning." Now that King Ning's identity has been decided, aren't you the best choice for the crown prince? ”

"Isn't that a good thing?" Seeing that Concubine Rou was not angry, the second prince sat back on the round bench, raised his eyebrows and said, "The mother concubine has always hoped that I could be made the prince, isn't it just right now?" ”

"A good thing is a good thing...... Concubine Rou stood up and said slowly, "But the concubine always feels unsteady in her heart." Think about what kind of characters the queen and the eldest prince are, how could they easily give up the position of crown prince? The concubine always felt that this period was not as simple as it seemed," Concubine Rou turned to look at the second prince and said earnestly, "Feng'er, you must be careful in what you do, don't be willful." If you are unsure about anything, you can go to your abbot to discuss. ”

The second prince was puzzled, "Mother, my son doesn't understand, will the prince stand on our side?" ”

"What's not going to be?" Concubine Rou sat down again, picked up the teacup and said, "Back then, the Zhu family sent the mother concubine into the prince's mansion in order to give birth to a prince with the blood of the Zhu family. If you weren't ......" Concubine Rou paused, swallowed the words "can't have children," and continued, "I'm afraid that you would have been made a prince a long time ago." Now that the concubines in your house are pregnant, the prince will stand on our side. The mother thought selfishly, if it weren't for this, how could the prince go to the emperor to bring it up to rehabilitate the mother? How could the throne of King Ning of this great prince be so happy? ”

"But the son asked the abbot, and he said that his father didn't mean to rehabilitate you......" The second prince interjected.

"Whether it is or not, it is all good and harmless to you." Concubine Rou took a sip of tea, moistened her throat, and said patiently, "If the national ruler has an opinion on the emperor, it means that the entire Zhu family is standing behind you." If the emperor himself meant, it means that the emperor originally wanted you, but it was because of your previous rumors that you were not the prince. So what you have to do now is to win over the abbot and let him be your back......"

The second prince nodded, smiled and said, "My son understands." ”