Feng Zhirong raised a smile and said: "It's not strange that there are many people, besides, the prince and I are also called each other 'you' and 'I' when we are studying, since we have given such a convenience, then the beginning and end of the greetings still have to be in place." ”

King Qinghe stretched out his hand and nodded her forehead and said, "You little girl, you always have a stomach full of truth to speak." ”

"That's also the magnanimity of the prince, give me a chance to speak." Although this period of time is not long, Feng Zhirong can already joke with King Qinghe: "To be honest, I can't be so unruly at home!" ”

"You also know that you don't conform to the rules." King Qinghe smiled and said, "If there are no rules like this at home, what will your elders say?" ”

Feng Zhirong thought about it, couldn't say it for a while, and said: "This is not certain, but usually my grandfather only needs to look at me, I don't dare to be presumptuous, if my mother sees that I have no rules, I am afraid that I will be scolded for half an hour, maybe I will open the ancestral hall and kneel for half a day." ”

King Qinghe's face was full of curiosity: "What about the father?" ”

Feng Zhirong said with a smile: "My father is always busy in the court, and he rarely has time to take care of me. Although Feng Zhirong's father Feng Zhengdao is very serious and rarely has a smile on his face, he is indeed very indulgent to Feng Zhirong, the only pearl in his palm, even if Feng Zhirong has done a little too much, at most he only recites a few words, not as strict as Zhou Youshao.

I saw King Qinghe nod and said, "Speaking of which, I have also met your father a few times, and he is an extremely cautious and strict person, but I didn't expect him to have a tolerant side. "Although King Qinghe is not a prince, because of the current emperor's orders, he has also studied according to the homework arranged by Zhan Shifu, so he naturally knows Feng Zhengdao.

"Maybe it's because I'm my father's only daughter!" Feng Zhirong paused for a while, and then said: "Don't talk about this, why did the prince come so early today, not afraid of being seen?" "Feng Zhirong has known for a long time these days that in addition to the palace maids in Anxiu Palace who are clearly the queen's eyeliner, the reason why King Jing and King Qinghe can come and go freely is mainly because they always pick the young ladies to come when they are in class.

The rules of Anxiu Palace are very strict, even the ladies who live in the same courtyard can't always run to each other's rooms to hang out, let alone the ladies who live in different courtyards If they want to chat and meet, they only have that break time in the afternoon.

And those such as Ge Yuening, who has been sick recently, or Jiang Han, who is about to expire his lockdown, can only stay in his room obediently, with palace maids guarding the door and not being able to enter and exit at will, coupled with the fixed schedule of everyone, this makes King Jing and King Qinghe always be able to swagger and come to this Anxiu Palace without hesitation.

I saw King Qinghe looking at Feng Zhirong, and a little doubt appeared on his face: "It's because you're late." ”

Feng Zhirong was stunned for a moment, then looked at the sundial on the side, frowned and said, "Maybe I've been in the garden for a long time today." ”

King Qinghe had known about Feng Zhirong's work these days, so he also asked, "Did you make a gain today?" ”

Feng Zhirong sighed, shook her head and said, "No, I heard something that wasn't very happy." ”

King Qinghe raised an eyebrow and motioned for her to continue. And Feng Zhirong said: "It's not good for us to stand here, let's go inside first!" I'll talk to you later. As he spoke, he naturally replaced the title of the prince of King Qinghe with "you" - this was requested by King Qinghe himself, saying that since the two were both "students" and "learned languages" from each other, there should be no distinction between respect and inferiority. And this King Qinghe himself has no arrogance, and he is not angry and arrogant like King Jing, so Feng Zhirong naturally changed his title from the same level.

King Qinghe nodded, and walked into the small study of Qiangong Courtyard with Feng Zhirong, which was the one that King Jing ordered someone to renovate a few days ago.

Feng Zhirong picked out a book and put it on the table as usual, and took the initiative to take out the four treasures of the study and began to grind the ink: "I thought that I had temporarily kept a distance from Zhao Mingyun and Yang Ruai these days, and today I found an opportunity to continue talking to them, but I was captured by Tang Ranyan......"

"You're talking about the guy who makes you feel troublesome too?"

Feng Zhirong nodded helplessly, and the ink strip in her hand continued to rotate evenly. "Tang Ranyan pulled me and said that I would ask someone to help her tell her fortune, but she didn't expect that the fortune teller was Liu Yangxin, the daughter of the master of Qintianjian Liu, and listened to it for a while."

King Qinghe heard the name of Master Liu, so he said: "Master Liu, his name is Liu Dunfu, and together with his wife Gui, he is a good fortune teller, and he also has dealings with Xun Jian Zheng Xun Mian's family. King Qinghe occasionally heard Feng Zhirong mention the names of the hundred officials and courtiers, so he would make a brief introduction for her, which was to let her know more about the outside world.

Feng Zhirong nodded, indicating that she had written down her name, and then continued: "I listened to them for a while, and I only planned to accompany and listen to them, but I didn't expect that the topic turned to me in the end. ”

Feng Zhirong stopped for a while, and the ink grinding in her hand also stopped. After a while, her big bright eyes looked at King Qinghe with some heaviness and asked, "Let me ask you, do you believe in fate?" ”

King Qinghe frowned and said, "I never thought about this problem. ”

Feng Zhirong's hand, which had been stopped, began to move again, this time she picked up the important things she encountered in the garden today and told King Qinghe, and said: "I don't know if I believe it or not, although I feel that the so-called fate is manipulated by my own choice, but I don't dare to fully agree with the concept of 'my fate is up to me', I'm not so confident." ”

King Qinghe bowed his head and said: "Maybe what you just said is very true, everyone's choices are intertwined and affect each other, which constitutes everyone's 'destiny'. ”

"But then Yang Xin's expression made me inexplicably concerned." Feng Zhirong didn't say anything about her intuition that had always been accurate—after all, intuition is such a thing, it's too mysterious. "I can't calm down until now. …… It's weird, I've never felt this way, have you? With a sad and even pitiful look in his extremely calm eyes, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't ask because of his stubbornness and stubbornness.

"You mean, you care about something inexplicably?"

Feng Zhirong nodded.

King Qinghe turned his gaze to Feng Zhirong's little hand that was grinding ink, and said thoughtfully: "...... Yes, there have been several times, but no matter how strong it is, it is not stronger than the first time. ”

Feng Zhirong wanted to speak, but seeing that King Qinghe seemed to be about to speak again, she closed her mouth and continued to grind the ink.

King Qinghe fell into his memories for a long time, and then he spoke: "That was thirteen years ago, I was only four years old, but I remember that day clearly......"

King Qinghe began to talk about the past—it was a story about the current Emperor Daye's ascension to the throne, which was related to the Qi Palace.

King Qi is the only brother of the current emperor who is still alive.

The current emperor showed his intelligent, lively and straightforward side as a child, and was even loved by his grandfather, Emperor Duanzheng Emperor Wei Gao, and after several of his brothers who had been expected to die before the age of crowning, Emperor Duanzheng quietly added a paragraph to his will that he would be made the crown prince in the future. Later, after Emperor Duanzheng collapsed and Emperor Tianyou ascended the throne, he was appointed as the crown prince according to his imperial edict.

At the time, he was not groomed as a future heir and had no excessive ambitions, so his straightforward style and lack of minions made him the primary target of his siblings' succession.

Someone co-opted him and tried to knock him down when he reached his last step; Someone fought against him everywhere from the beginning; Someone lurks in the shadows, trying to take him from the crown prince in one fell swoop. Of course, there are also people who see him as an upright and affinable person, and decide to help him secretly, and King Qi is one of them.

Among the dozen or so concubines in the emperor's harem, each concubine has a prosper, and it can be said that the prosperity of the heirs is a good thing for the emperor's family, but it is a bloody, ruthless and fiercely competitive battlefield for those who want to reach the top of the world in one fell swoop.

At that time, the current emperor was finally deposed of the crown prince because of the design and framing of his brothers, and was cut to a concubine, and then changed the "Wei Shuren" to "King Miao" after a courtier debate, and the original prince's mansion was naturally changed to "Miao Wangfu". -- The word "Miao" is chosen in a way that does not match the meaning of the name, and he wants to condemn him with this word, so that he will never have to rise again.

In order to prevent the abolished prince from plotting to rebel, the first emperor even listened to the words of his other sons, and let the brothers and sisters of the abolished prince lead the troops to guard around the palace of King Miao, which was called to avoid the rain and wind of King Miao from being harmed, but in fact, he was harsh on the use of the palace and had to shrink his clothes and diet, that is, to trap him alive and starve to death in the palace.

The wife of the abolished prince became the princess Miao after several ups and downs, and she fell ill due to the pressure of the surrounding environment, and finally left a pair of children to die. The first emperor was afraid that the world would talk about it, so he listened to the recommendation of the courtiers and asked him to marry his stepwife, who was from a humble background, that is, the current queen.

However, even so, the first emperor still supported the gentle whispers of the concubines of other princes at night and the discussion of courtiers and heirs during the day, and finally decided to convict King Miao of a trumped-up charge of treason, and decided to send King Miao directly into the prison of the Criminal Department beyond the Zongren Mansion......

At that time, the king of Qi, who was guarding in the north, rushed back to the capital, leaving 150,000 directly subordinate Tianqi troops outside and entering the capital alone, showing his attitude in the war for the first time in his life