This year's winter is particularly long, and the atmosphere of the New Year has also been depressed by the fact that the thieves forced the palace to be forced to do so.

Not long after, the news spread that the Crown Princess died at the hands of a rebel.

This white snow has not stopped for a long time, and the desolate land covers the mountains and rivers, as if seeing off the departing people.

When it comes to the princess who died early, people mostly sigh.

When passing by Jiang Mansion, you must sigh for Jiang Hengzhi with quite sympathy.

If it were the past, who would have thought that this glorious prime minister would have fallen to such a difficult situation today. On New Year's Eve, his children died one after another, leaving only him with a white-haired man to send a black-haired man.

After Jiang Hengzhi saw Jiang Chi's body, he sat in front of Cheng Tinglan's grave for a night.

Until the morning of the next day, the servant was so cold that he wanted to pull him up. The old minister, who was nearly 50 years old, sat in front of his deceased wife's grave and suddenly burst into tears, choking and losing his voice.

After returning to the palace in a daze, Zhou Gongyu seemed to be dazzled by the bright snow light, and always felt that everything around him was so illusory.

He stepped on the air and almost rolled down from the long steps. Fortunately, he was supported by A Si and shouted, so that he could wake up.

Zhou Gongyu held A Si's arm and turned around to look at the road he had walked. It was a long palace road that could not be seen at first sight.

"Asi, does this place look like a cage?"

"Your Highness, the Empress is still waiting for you, don't be overwhelmed..." Seeing his expression, A Si couldn't help but feel nervous.

Zhou Gongyu's face was pale, he pursed his lips and said nothing. He let go of A Si's hand and walked alone to the cold and solemn palace. In the heavy snow, he felt a little sad.

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Shortly after the death of the princess, the emperor abdicated and threw a bunch of messes to the prince. He went to Huaishan Temple to become a monk and pray for the deceased Concubine Hui. This time, even the queen did not stop him again.

After ascending the throne, the young prince used thunder to pull out the old sects in the court and the buried stings, which almost caused the consequences of hurting the enemy by 1,000 and 800.

At first, some people were puzzled, but they thought that the Crown Princess died of a rebel, and they felt it was not that strange.

The harem was vacant and there was no one. At first, a court official persuaded the new emperor to add a concubine. Without saying a word, he demoted the court official who said this to two levels.

As soon as this incident happened, everyone was in an uproar. The imperial envoy wrote a thousand-character memorial to criticize the matter. Zhou Gongyu took the memorial to the court and said calmly: "There are too many words, I don't want to read it."

After saying that, he threw the memorial to the envoy and asked him to copy it ten times by himself. If he could not finish it, he would not be allowed to go home.

Compared with his humble and gentle past, his behavior seems to have been taken over.

Zhou Gongyu's silly style is naturally angering, but they have to admit that Zhou Gongyu has never had any trouble in political affairs.

And for the rest of the matter, he seemed to be unable to listen to others' comments.

Once a court official pointed at Zhou Gongyu's private affairs, he was either demoted or punished for copying memorials. The latter was particularly humiliating. After a while, the old ministers who used to like to meddle in other people's business rarely bothered him because of trivial matters.

As the only female official in the court, Li Yu worked in the Ministry of Personnel for a long time and his abilities were gradually recognized, but women must be blocked from their actions. Soon after, Li Jing Academy moved out of their original position, and the emperor issued an order to allow the establishment of a female school.

In addition to serving in the Ministry of Personnel, Li Yu also became a master in the academy.

When the emperor issued an order, the people below were dissatisfied. Thinking of Zhou Gongyu's current style of doing whatever he wants, he could only hesitate and dare not speak out. He could only complain to King Pingnan, hoping that Zhou Gongyu could listen.

Perhaps because he refused to admit the death of the Crown Princess, the funeral was not handled extensively, just like the Crown Princess did not die.

In fact, for many people, this princess has never left any deep impression on her. It is like a heavy snow in the capital. The snow melts and leaves nothing behind. It is just occasionally mentioned and is a little emotional.

After Ningyu recovered from a serious illness, he went to see Zhou Gongyu.

Walking far towards the East Palace, the maid next to her asked her: "Aren't the princess looking for His Majesty?"

Then she suddenly remembered that the emperor's brother had ascended the throne.

The newly moved emperor's bedroom is full of exquisiteness and luxury, but there are many fewer flowers and plants than the Eastern Palace, solemn and cold.

When Ningyu walked in, she thought of Xiaoman immediately.

She thought that people like the emperor's sister-in-law would make that place warm no matter how deserted they are.

But such a woman died alone in the snow and ice, and there were very few people who remember her.

Ningyu saw Zhou Gongyu fiddling with a grape vine in front of the window and spoke in confusion: "What are you doing with your brother?"

Zhou Gongyu turned around and saw her, nodded slightly, smiled at her, and said, "Your princess always wanted to plant grapes in the East Palace before, but unfortunately she didn't grow it several times. The remaining vine was planted here by me, but I didn't expect it to grow well."

After hearing him mention Xiaoman, Ningyu was silent for a moment and said softly: "Brother, don't be sad..."

She found that it didn't matter if there were fewer people in Xiaoman. At least Zhou Gongyu would engrave her in his heart and would never forget her.

Zhou Gongyu did not respond. The figure standing in front of the window was covered with hazy light. The eyes that were hanging their eyes at the vines were also scattered with light spots, which seemed quiet and soft, not as gloomy as she thought.

Ningyu saw his side face and trembled slightly, and hesitated: "Brother, if you miss your sister-in-law, I can learn from your sister-in-law to talk to you. Some people once said that I am very similar to your sister-in-law. If this is the case, you will feel better in your heart..."

Zhou Gongyu paused with Ye Zi's hand and said to Ningyu: "Ningyu, you actually don't look like him."

Only those who don’t know you will say that you are similar to another person.

In my eyes, Xiaoman is different from everyone."

Ningyu felt cold in her heart and looked at him in a daze.

Zhou Gongyu's tone was not harsh, but she felt inexplicably sad when she heard it.

"But she is as weak as you, afraid of heat and cold.

Later, I got a serious illness and the old illness was also removed.

I hope you can also get better as well as her, and you can go to more places, meet more people, and meet the men you like in the future.

Concubine Hui loves you, which has made you only have a few people around you since childhood. Now that you have grown up, you should get to know more people. If you fall in love with a prince or noble family in the future, even if you tell your third prince, he will definitely consider it for you."

Ningyu was silent for a moment and asked, "Why didn't you tell me about you, brother?"

Zhou Gongyu was stunned for a moment and smiled: "He is better at seeing people than me."

Ningyu thought that Zhou Gongyu obviously didn't want to care about her, so she stopped saying more.

When she saw a dead branch on the desk, she couldn't help but feel strange: "Why is this branch still there?"

Zhou Gongyu glanced at him, but had no intention of covering up, and said frankly: "It was your royal sister-in-law who gave me a love interest on the Flower Festival."

"Don't the emperor's sister-in-law?"
Chapter completed!