Before winter arrived, everything finally came to an eyebrow.

However, when returning to Beijing, it was a big problem to welcome Chu Nian, before the queen was buried, Chu Nian was summoned by the emperor, and in the imperial study, the brazier was obviously burning, but it was cold and lonely.

The emperor sat on the cold couch, his eyes were blank, and the tea cup in his hand that had been sitting for an unknown amount of time had already been cold.

Chu Nian walked in slowly, her face was inexplicably stiff, and she knelt on the ground, "See the emperor." ”

The emperor's eyes gradually regained focus, and he waved his hand, "Get up." ”

Chu Nian got up slowly, staring at his toes, and then listened to the emperor above: "Give a seat." ”

Hearing the sound, Chu Niancai paced and sat down on the other side of the square table beside the emperor, on which was a portrait, on which was a woman, a woman with a golden hairpin and a red dress, standing barefoot in a peach blossom forest, smiling like a flower.

Chu Nian lowered his eyes slightly, opened his mouth, but the words were held in his throat.

The emperor on the side stretched out his hand to pick up the portrait on the side, his eyes looked at the woman's handsome face, and after a while, he sighed: "How is it, have you thought about how to deal with those people tomorrow?" ”

Chu Nian's half-lowered eyes flickered slightly, "I'm tired of the emperor's worries, and the courtiers are ready to go back." ”

The emperor pondered for a while, "In the past few days, Ming Xiu has blamed you for the queen's affairs?" ”

Chu Nian didn't speak, and his subordinates couldn't help but clench a little.

The emperor saw this scene in his eyes, and sighed helplessly again: "I know your mind, I don't blame you for knowing the queen's affairs, it has always been my stupidity that has harmed the queen, I know ......"

"Father." Ming Xiu's voice sounded from outside the door, and when he entered the study, he glanced at Chu Nian coldly, and then withdrew his gaze: "Father, the body of the queen mother ......"

The emperor glanced at him coyly: "You don't have to worry about this matter, what you have to worry about is the business of the previous dynasty, and this kind of thing is handed over to me, I want to fulfill your mother's long-cherished wish and ...... her."

He stopped, turned his eyes to look at Chu Nian, and there was a touch of kindness in his eyes: "One of your mother's long-cherished wishes is that you marry Nian'er well." ”

Ming Xiu's brows furrowed slightly: "But ......"

"Ming Xiu," the emperor turned his eyes to look at Ming Xiu, "you are a child who is as sensible as your mother, don't follow my old path." ”

The emperor lowered his head with a sad face, as if he was more than ten years old for a moment, he reached out and gently stroked the portrait of the empress, and after a while, he opened his mouth and said in a dumb voice: "If it weren't for me being too stupid, if I had been a little more sober and firm, why had things come to this point?" ”

"If I had rebelled against your imperial grandmother's control earlier, how could your queen mother ......?"

Ming Xiu frowned, "Father, you're tired. ”

The emperor glanced up at Ming Xiu, then at Chu Nian, and at the end, he sighed again: "That's it, I can't take care of your young people's affairs, but you must remember not to follow my old path again, you remember, Nian'er does not owe you." ”

Ming Xiu half-hung down a handsome face, and there was no expression in the shadows.

"Yes, Erchen knows."

The emperor put down the portrait, turned his gaze into the distance, and his eyes gradually drifted: "I am tired, you should retreat first, and then it will be the world of your young people, if you need anything, you will ask me again." ”

Chu Nian got up and bowed to Emperor Yingying, his face was still stiff, his eyes were faintly red, and Ming Xiu's eyes flashed slightly, and the two of them said goodbye to the emperor and went out of the imperial study together.

At the door of the imperial study, the prince was waiting for a fair life, and he looked at the prince and the unequaled county lord coming out together, showing a little regret.

"Your Highness, the county lord, the old slave sent you out of the palace."

Ming Xiu's face turned cold, he waved his hand and said, "No need, just send the Wushuang County Lord away alone." ”

Seeing this, the prince had no choice but to sigh silently, stood in place and watched the two leave, muttering faintly: "Alas, the world is impermanent, poor emperor...... Alas! ”

……

Stepping on the night, the two walked a long way, but they were relatively silent, until the two of them crossed the soldiers guarding the door with expressionless faces, and Chu Nian felt that his subordinates were suddenly held by a warm hand.

She opened her mouth, but her voice was blocked in her arms by Ming Xiu.

The lotus fragrance accompanied by a deep voice fell into her ears: "Nian'er, I'm sorry for making you wronged." ”

Chu Nian struggled, but found that this embrace was extremely powerful, so he indulged in it with peace of mind: "No need to be sad, you and I have already said it, haven't we?" ”

Ming Xiu buried his head in Chu Nian's neck, and his voice gradually became a little worried: "We are so estranged, can we really fool the dark eyes?" ”

"It's okay," the night breeze was slightly cool, she simply nestled the whole person into this embrace, and under the half-lowered eyes was a slightly flickering gaze, with a bit of bitter hatred: "Since Dark Rin wants to see you and me break up, I will wait for his next plan, so I can know what his purpose is." ”

Ming Xiu frowned, didn't speak, but tightened a little in his arms: "Father ...... today"

"I know, the emperor doesn't mean to blame me, but I have to see the emperor today......" Chu Nian pursed his red lips: "Your Highness still accompanies the emperor a lot, and now that the queen is gone, the emperor will definitely be very lonely." ”

Ming Xiu shook his head and didn't speak, and after a while, he sighed in a low voice: "What my father needs now is not companionship, what my father needs now, I can't come back, I can only bring the real murderer who killed my mother to justice, and my father will be willing." ”

"Since you can't be happy, then let the hatred ferment, my father has been dull all his life, and now, he doesn't want to see his mother under Jiuquan."

Chu Nian raised his eyes, and the pair of narrow eyes that were a little chilly, frowned without a trace: "Your Highness, you ......"

"Nian'er, needless to say, I'll leave these things to me in the future."

Chu Nian's face was stunned, "Tomorrow in the palace, I hope that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince does not need to say much, at least the name of filial piety, His Royal Highness must protect it." ”

"You're going to ......"

"It's not what His Highness thinks." Chu Nian slowly withdrew from the embrace that was glowing with a bit of lotus fragrance: "Your Highness only needs to be yourself tomorrow, don't worry about my business, I have my own clever plan." ”

There seems to be a thick bridge between the two, this bridge is fragile, as if it will break at any time, Chu Nian refused to step forward, Ming Xiu took a few steps forward, and she stopped at the other end of the bridge.

"That's it, then it's all up to you, but you have to remember that I don't want the name of 'Desperate Sanniang' to be implemented on your head in the future."

Ming Xiu turned his back and looked at Chu Nian with a little worry in his eyes: "Nian'er, Lonely, it's only you." ”

Chu Nian's eyebrows furrowed suddenly, and he saw Ming Xiu turn around: "Dark San is with you, if you need it, call him out, if it's late today, I'll go back to the palace first, otherwise I'm afraid that Dark Rin and the Queen Mother will be suspicious." ”

The two looked at each other, nodded to each other, and went their separate ways.

On the second day, the court was overcrowded, the emperor fell on the dragon chair, beside him was the queen mother, the queen mother's side, was Concubine Chen, and now she was afraid that people would not know that she was glad of the queen's death, wearing a golden crown, wearing a bright red, and a strong makeup Danko's nails, as if the emperor had not spoken, the phoenix seal was already hers.

The head of the hundred officials is Wang Zixuan, and the one standing opposite Wang Zixuan is the King of Huainan, and behind the King of Huainan is a group of princes, at this moment the princes are looking at Wang Zixuan and the civil and military officials behind him with hatred, as if a big war is about to break out.

Chu Nian stood in the center, beside her was Shen Dui who was sitting in a wheelchair, and behind Shen Dui was the daughter of an official family, and it was that day that she personally sent Shen Ruan back to the room, and after that, Shen Ruan was found tragically dead in the room.

Ming Xiu was late, his eyes swept over the people present, hurriedly walked to the front of the hall, leaned over and said, "Father, the son is late." ”

There was a whisper from below, and the emperor waved his hand to cut off the voices of those officials, "Sit down." ”

Ming Xiu paced towards the chair beside the emperor, and turned his gaze to sweep over Chu Nian and Shen Dui, a faint light in his eyes.

Chu Nian lowered his eyes, except for Shen Dui, there were countless eyes in this hall looking at him steadily, and a few eyes could be described as like a man's back, just like the gaze like a poisonous snake in the dark, and in the corner, Liu Qi's inquiring gaze ......

She glanced at Shen Du with a smile in her eyes: "Lord Shen is really affectionate, I heard that you divorced the Wang family for me?" ”

When he mentioned this, Shen Dui's face suddenly changed, and he glanced at Wang Zixuan, who had a bad face, and his face suddenly became a little gloomy.

"That's because I didn't know that you were such a ruthless poisonous woman, saying, so far, how much less have you done to kill people and set fires?"

Chu Nian rolled his eyes, his gaze no longer looked at Shen Duan, but there was a jumping smile on the corner of his mouth: "The most right thing I have done in my life is to kill your second mother." ”

"You-"

"Okay, shut up, Shen Dusk, don't you have a grievance to cry out?"

The queen mother at the head came out at the right time to "uphold justice", "If you have grievances, just say, at this moment, hundreds of civil and military officials are present, and the emperor is also present, and you are not afraid of who will protect whom." ”

Shen Duan snorted coldly at Chu Nian, turned his eyes to look at Wang Zixuan, his eyes darkened, he knew that until now, he would not have bothered to marry Chu Nian, but now it is good, he lost his wife and broke his army, retired the Wang family, and almost lost the ally of the Wang family, not to mention, Chu Nian killed Shen Ruan with his own hands, if he asked to marry Chu Nian again, I don't know how to be poked in his backbone by the civil and military officials.

"Qiqi Sheng, the unequaled county lord Chu Nian relied on his high status in the court, and once killed his sister Shen Ruan with his own hands."

Today, the emperor accepted his sad face, as if he didn't remember the death of the queen, he looked at Shen Dui in the audience with a blue face, quite a bit of business.

This is the result of a long conversation between his emperor and him all night yesterday, and he doesn't need to say a word for Chu Nian in Chu Nian's case today, everything is up to Chu Nian's own efforts.

He also wanted to see what kind of medicine these two children were selling in the gourd, not to mention, the woman that his queen once believed, he also wanted to see how much ability he had.

"Chu Nian, but what's the matter?"

Chu Nian glanced at Shen Duan with a smile, "Lord Shen didn't see it with his own eyes, why did he bite his courtiers?" ”

Shen Dui next to him snorted coldly: "Now that the human and material evidence is there, what else do you have to quibble?" ”

She glanced sideways at the nervous woman behind Shen Dui: "The human and physical evidence that Lord Shen said, but this lady?" If the courtiers are not mistaken, this lady is the second lady of the Lang Wang family? ”

Swept away by Chu Nian's cold gaze, the woman's hand shook, and she stepped forward and said, "Exactly." ”