wedding dress

Chapter 257 Spring Rain
Xiaodong changed her clothes and prepared to enter the palace, took off all her jewelry, and changed her shoes into a pair of plain ones.

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

So she still has the dignity she should have.

Hu took a handkerchief to her: "Princess, you should prepare this."

Although Xiaodong felt that everyone might not even bother to put in effort, he was prepared.If the time comes when everyone else is crying and she can't squeeze it out, it won't look very good.

She took the veil and tucked it up, and Mrs. Hu held an umbrella and sent her all the way to the door to get on the bus. Xiaodong said: "Maybe I will come back later, mother will take care of Ada first, don't delay eating and sleeping, and don't if the weather is bad." Go out, stay at home."

Mrs. Hu responded, and took two steps back, someone came to put away the footstool.

The carriage had just moved two steps forward before stopping again.

Xiaodong poked his head out and glanced out. Wang An was riding a horse, his hair and shoulders were already wet from the rain.The horse must have just been in a hurry, pawing the ground restlessly, snorting non-stop, and blowing out clouds of white gas.

"Father?"

Wang An has always been calm and steady, what's wrong?
"Go back and talk."

Xiaodong glanced back and forth, nodded and said, "Oh, good."

Is there another accident?

Xiaodong got out of the carriage again, went back to the mansion with Wang An, and went straight into the study.

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

Xiaodong was stunned for a moment: "What?"

"You don't want to enter the palace now, your brother and I will take care of the outside affairs." Wang An said solemnly: "If this matter is not handled properly, there will be another chaos in Beijing."

"The third prince...how did he die?"

King An didn't hide it from her, but he said it very tactfully: "When I was hunting in Li Palace, something happened."

Xiaodong was speechless for a long while.

The third prince...why did he die?

Obviously I saw him once on February [-]nd.

Although everyone is getting older and starting their own families, they are not as casual as when they met when they were young, but when they met that day, they still talked and laughed.

Since the queen passed away, the third prince seemed to have aged several years all of a sudden, matured rapidly, and had a short mustache, making him look like he was already thirty years old.

At that time, Xiaodong was still joking with his own man, saying that men are most afraid of being told that "there is no hair on the mouth, so you can't do things well". Qin Lie also said with a smile that he also considered growing a beard to scare others.

In fact, he was not yet thirty.

Not yet thirty.

In a place like the palace, it is easy for people to grow old.Teenagers speak old-fashionedly, as if they have seen through the vicissitudes of life.

The mansion got ready in a busy but unhurried manner.

Everyone in the mansion only knew that Empress Dowager Shengde had passed away, which was regarded as a national mourning.However, Empress Dowager Shengde's status is embarrassing, and what to do with this specification is still a question.Fuhai came to ask Xiaodong for instructions and discuss, but Xiaodong was a little absent-minded, and forgot what had already been discussed in a blink of an eye.Fu Hai saw it, but didn't ask any further questions.

The room was very quiet, and the footsteps of people who entered and exited unconsciously relaxed.Only Ah Da didn't realize it, holding a takraw ball wrapped with colorful ropes and having fun, running from one end of the room to the other, and from the other end to this end, rolling and crawling, stumbling.

Fortunately, Qin Lie came back soon. Before he entered the house, Ah Da had already heard familiar footsteps, and rushed towards the door screaming: "Daddy!"

Qin Lie lifted him up with a smile: "Oh, you fat boy, what did you steal again, it's sinking you more and more."

Ah Da foolishly repeated: "Eat stealthily, eat stealthily."

Xiaodong went up to meet him, and took Ada from his arms: "It's too early to come back today—let's change clothes first."

Qin Lie agreed, but didn't go to change clothes and wash his face first, but hugged Xiaodong and Auntie together.

He didn't say anything, but his chest was firm and strong, and Xiaodong could clearly hear his heartbeat.

One click, one click, very regular.

She has been restless heart, slowly calm down.

Xiaodong asked softly, "You know everything?"

Qin Lie responded: "Yes. Don't worry."

Ah Da was very happy, his father was on one side, and his mother on the other. He rubbed on the left and touched the right, feeling very happy.

Qin Lie put Ah Da on the kang, watched him crawl around with the ball, and said in a low voice: "During hunting, the third prince fell off his horse and was trampled by the startled horse. When he was sent back from the hunting ground to Li Palace, he died on the way .”

Xiaodong remained silent.

She didn't understand anything when she first arrived, 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 third prince.

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

Can't ask anything, can't say anything.

The key depends on the emperor's position.

The third prince is versatile in both civil and military affairs, calm and dignified, and is quite popular.It can be said that he is an almost perfect prince.

The emperor has gradually let him do things in recent years. Anyone who is not a fool can see that the emperor is cultivating successors.

There is no elder brother above, the third prince is both the elder and the concubine, and he is outstanding and knows how to make progress.In a few years, the emperor will get older, and his temperament will become more stable...

It all fell into place.

But there was an "accident".

Dinner was served, but almost everyone was unwilling to eat. Xiaodong sent someone to the front, and as soon as he saw Wang An coming back, he immediately reported back and forth. He had already visited three times in half an hour, and when he saw the fourth time, he finally reported back. , King An is back.

But Zhao Lu still has no news.

Ordinarily, Zhao Lu is currently working in the Ministry of War, not in the army, and has nothing to do with Li Gong, so this kind of matter will not implicate him.

But at this time, nothing can be said.

The turmoil in the capital that year was still fresh in Xiaodong's memory.

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

It seemed that a great chaos had been brewing in the dark for a long time, and the death of the third prince was the fuse that ignited the medicine package.

The capital...is it going to be chaotic again?

Who is behind it?

King An wouldn't discuss such matters with her, and Xiaodong couldn't come up with any ideas. She was waiting for King An to come back, just to make sure her father was safe.

Instead, Qin Lie called someone to come in and change his clothes, stretching out his sleeves while saying: "I'll go to the prince's place, if you come back late, you and your son can go to bed first and don't wait for me."

Xiaodong responded.

Originally... Originally, she wanted to tell Qin Lie today that they would move back to their own home as the weather warmed up in spring.The house does not live, has no popularity, and decays very quickly.Maybe live in the whole summer, and then move back to the palace when the autumn is cool, and spend the winter here - winter always makes people feel bleak, and she also hopes to be able to accompany her father.

But now these are irrelevant.

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It is said that the title of this chapter and the content of this chapter are really asymmetrical. .

(End of this chapter)