Xiao Dong changed his clothes and prepared to enter the palace, took off all his jewelry, and changed his shoes to a plain pair.

Although the Empress Dowager Shengde has long lost power, she is the Empress Dowager until her death.

So she still has the decency she deserves.

Hu Shi took a handkerchief and gave it to her: "County Lord, let's prepare this." ”

Although Xiao Dong thinks that everyone may not even bother to put in the effort, they are prepared. When everyone else cries, she can't squeeze it out, it's not very good-looking.

She took the handkerchief and folded it, Hu Shi held an umbrella and sent her all the way to the door to get in the car, Xiaodong instructed: "Maybe you have to come back later, mother will take care of Ah Da first, don't delay eating and sleeping, don't go out if the weather is bad, stay in the house." ”

Hu Shi responded, took two steps back, and someone came over to collect the footstool.

The carriage had barely taken two steps forward before it stopped again.

Xiao Dong glanced out, and King An was riding on a horse, his hair and shoulders already wet from the rain. The horse must have just run quickly, and its front hooves were restlessly scraping the ground, snorting incessantly, and spewing out clouds of white gas.

"Father?"

King An has always been calm and calm, what's wrong?

"I'll talk about it later."

Xiao Dong glanced back and forth, nodded and said, "Oh, okay." ”

Could it be that something else has changed?

Xiao Dong got out of the carriage again, returned to the house with King An, and entered the study.

King An turned around: "The third prince is dead. ”

Xiao Dong was stunned for a moment: "What? ”

"Don't enter the palace now, I'll take care of the outside affairs with your brother." King An's face was solemn: "If this matter is not well cooked, it will be another big mess in Beijing." ”

"The third prince he ...... How did he die? ”

King An didn't hide it from her, but said it very tactfully: "When I was hunting in the palace, there was an accident. ”

Xiao Dong was speechless for a long time.

The Three Princes...... Why did he die?

Obviously, I saw him once on the second day of February.

Although everyone is older and has their own families, it is not as casual as meeting as when they were children, but when they met that day, there were still talks and laughs.

Since the death of the empress, the third prince seems to have aged several years all of a sudden, matured rapidly, and grew a little short mustache, looking as if he was already thirty years old.

At that time, Xiao Dong was still joking with his own man, saying that men were most afraid of others saying "** on the lips, not doing things well", Qin Lie also smiled and said that he also considered growing a beard to deter others.

In fact, he is not yet thirty.

It's not even thirty.

In a place like the court, it's easy to grow old. Teenage children are also old-fashioned when they speak, as if they have seen through the vicissitudes of life.

The house was busy and unhurriedly prepared.

People up and down the house only know that the Empress Dowager Shengde died, which is considered a national mourning. But the Empress Dowager Shengde's status is embarrassing, and it is still questionable what to do with this specification. Fuhai came to Xiao Dong to ask for advice, Xiao Dong was a little absent-minded, and he forgot about the things he had discussed in a blink of an eye. Fuhai saw it, but didn't ask more.

The room was quiet, and the steps of people who came in and out were unconsciously lightened. Only Ah Da was unconscious, holding a rattan ball wrapped in a colored rope and having fun, running from one end of the house to another, and from that end to this end, rolling and climbing, stumbling.

Fortunately, Qin Lie came back soon, and before he entered the house, Ah Da had already heard the familiar footsteps, and rushed towards the door with a scream: "Daddy"

Qin Lie lifted him up with a smile: "Ouch, you fat boy, what are you stealing to eat again, it is getting heavier and heavier for you." ”

Ah Da repeated stupidly: "Steal food, steal food." ”

Xiao Dong greeted him and took Ah Da from his arms: "I have to come back early today - let's change my clothes first." ”

Qin Lie agreed, but did not go to change clothes and wash his face first, but hugged Xiao Dong and Aunt A together.

He didn't say anything, but his chest was solid and strong, and Xiao Dong could clearly hear his heartbeat.

One time, one time, very regular.

Her heart, which had been restless, slowly calmed down.

Xiao Dong asked softly, "You know everything?" ”

Qin Lie responded: "Hmm." Do not worry. ”

Ah Da Le, one side is the father, the other is the mother, he rubs the left and touches the right, and he is very happy.

Qin Lie put Ah Da on the kang, watched him grab the ball and crawl around, and whispered: "When I was hunting, the third prince fell off his horse and was trampled by the frightened horse. When he was sent back to the palace from the hunting ground, he lost his breath on the way. ”

Xiao Dong was silent.

When she first arrived, she didn't understand anything, and when she heard some "accidents", she thought it was a real accident.

But how can there be so many accidents in this world?

Especially the three princes.

This person has good martial arts and superb bow horses, why did he "fall off the horse", how could a good horse be shocked? What happened on the way back from the hunting ground to the palace?

You can't ask anything, you can't say anything.

The key depends on the emperor's statement.

The three princes are all-rounded in civil and military affairs, calm and square, and quite popular. It can be said that he is an almost perfect prince.

The emperor has gradually let him do things in recent years, as long as he is not a fool, he can see that the emperor is cultivating a successor.

There is no elder brother above, the third prince is both the eldest and the eldest son, and he is excellent and self-motivated. In a few years, the emperor got older, and his temperament became more stable......

Everything fell into place.

But there was an "accident".

Dinner was served, but almost everyone was unhappy, Xiao Dong sent someone to the front, as long as he saw King An coming back, he immediately went back and forth, and he went to see it three times in half an hour, and when he saw the fourth time, he finally reported that King An was back.

But Zhao Lu still has no news.

It is said that Zhao Lu is now working in the military department, not in the army, and has nothing to do with leaving the palace, this kind of thing will not affect him.

But at such times, nothing can be said for sure.

The turmoil in the capital back then, Xiao Dong still remembers it vividly.

The death of the third prince made Xiao Dong suddenly smell the danger approaching.

It seems that a great chaos has been brewing in the dark for a long time, and the death of the third prince is the lead that ignites the medicine bag.

Capital...... Is it going to be messy again?

Who's behind it?

King An would not discuss such a matter with her, and Xiao Dong couldn't come up with any ideas, she waited for King An to come back, just to make sure that her father was safe.

Qin Lie called someone in to change his clothes, and said while stretching his sleeves: "I'll go to the prince's place, if you come back late, you and your son will sleep first without waiting for me." ”

Xiao Dong responded.

Originally...... Originally, she wanted to tell Qin Lie today that the weather was warm in spring, and they moved back to their own homes. The house is not inhabited, it is unpopular, and it decays very quickly. Maybe she lived all summer, and then moved back to the palace when autumn was cool, and spent the winter here - winter always feels bleak, and she wants to be with her father.

But none of that matters anymore.

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In other words, the name of this chapter and the content of this chapter are really asymmetrical.

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