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Willow catkins floated and floated across the solemn and cold palace. It seemed that this flying catkins floated over countless days and nights, from the capital with warm spring to Yizhou with rustling autumn wind, and on the reeds like snow.

"Girl, Mr. Liu asked me to send you peach cake."

Fu Tao held the food box in one hand and grabbed the rabbit who was kicking his legs in the other.

"He also sent a rabbit and said he would keep it for you to play with."

Xiaoman was focusing on the account book, and waved his hand without looking back when he heard this.

"You can help me get a gift, I won't go."

Fu Tao sighed and said, "Miss, don't you really think about Mr. Liu?"

Others are pretty good, and they don’t have the sourness and decay of those Confucian scholars.

It has been so long since, and it is said that the emperor is going to start choosing a concubine, why can’t the only girls let go?”

Xiaoman paused for a moment, looked back at her, and said in confusion: "But I can't let go of this matter. Whether I let it go or not, I don't like Mr. Liu.

Others are good, but to me, they are just good people. Why should I consider him?"

Fu Tao choked, as if he knew what he said was wrong, and explained to her: "I didn't mean that... I just was afraid that you would be sad, after all, the emperor..."

"I know."

She closed the account book in her hand, looked at the begonia with low buds outside the window, and slightly closed her eyebrows.

"I'm not sad."

After Fu Tao left, Xiaoman sat in front of the window and looked at the begonia swaying by the wind.

It has been a year since I left the capital, and many things have changed.

Not many people knew that she had faked her death because her identity was really embarrassing and she didn't want to involve the past anymore. So Lian Jiang Ruoruo waited until the matter was stable before telling her that this was also due to Jiang Si's understanding of Ruoruo.

She thought that if Han Shi knew about this, she would probably be so angry that she rushed back to the capital from the border, so she asked Zhou Gongyu to write a letter with Han Shi to comfort him.

In addition, Shi Xueqing also knew about this.

She returned to Yizhou again. Mrs. Jiang cried very sadly when she learned about her death. When she saw her coming back, she no longer scolded her for pretending to die. As long as she lived safely and healthy, she would be fine.

The only ones who came to Yizhou with her were Bai Yan and Fu Tao.

Bai Yan was seriously injured and almost lost one arm. After coming to Yizhou, she has been recuperating. Although her arms were well maintained, she was destined to not be able to practice martial arts again. She was not very sad about this matter. She also comforted Xiaoman and said, "I have been practicing martial arts since I was a child just to survive. Now that I can live a stable life, I guess there is no need to kill people with swords. It is not a bad thing for me. I hope the Crown Princess will not take it to heart."

Bai Yan likes to follow Xiaoman, calm and comfortable, while Fu Tao simply wants to change the place.

Because she was sold as a prostitute in the capital, she was afraid of being recognized by the man she met in brothels in the past, and she was unwilling to come to the door to lift her wounds in the future, so she begged Xiaoman to take her away with her.

Xiaoman is in Yizhou, and these two people have always been taking care of him.

She had never had any correspondence with Zhou Gongyu again, and she didn't know if Zhou Gongyu would put eyeliners around her. Maybe there would be, or maybe he had a new love as rumored.

But at least, as he promised, he would not bother her again as long as he was on the throne for one day.

Xiaoman also knew that the mountains and rivers were vast, and if he hadn't deliberately wanted to see them, he wouldn't have encountered each other by chance again.

Zhou Gongyu was born to be connected to the palace. Power is what accompanied him throughout his life and had already been integrated into his bones and blood. How to give way to a small woman?

Yizhou and the capital are too far apart, and even letters will take a long time to deliver them. For other things, we can only listen to folk rumors.

Especially in the teahouse, she relies on listening to 70% nonsense and can’t be taken seriously. She still has to worry about it. After a while, she deliberately stopped listening to the news from Beijing.

What will happen in the future depends entirely on fate.

Shi Xueqing told her that Jiang Hengzhi had resigned from his official position and went to Lijing Academy to teach students.

Perhaps because he was once the prime minister and he had real talents and knowledge, the academy also had some of the children of the official families who rushed to him.

The disadvantage is that the academy also has things like bullying people by placing high and bullying people together.

Xiaoman was also distressed when he heard this, but he couldn't give any good suggestions. After all, she was in Yizhou and did not understand the situation of the academy. She was forced by Mrs. Jiang to learn how to manage the business every day, and she had endless things to learn.

It also costs money to travel around the world. She has to earn enough money before traveling.

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In a short period of time, there were so many changes that made people unable to react.

Many people say that the emperor is crazy.

He seemed to have torn off a layer of mask, becoming less humble and patient, and would get angry without any mercy in the court, and would also ridicule the ministers who made him dissatisfied.

Compared to Zhou Gongyu, who was gentle and easy to talk to in the past, the current emperor has a bad personality.

Especially I can't hear some people say that the deceased Crown Princess is bad. If it is said, it will be demoted to the throne at a low level and will be sent to prison at a serious level.

If it were the past, who would have believed that this was something Zhou Gongyu did?

Zhou Dingheng heard people complaining that Zhou Gongyu had a bad temper. When he went to discuss with him, he just said calmly: "I have wanted to do this for a long time."

The queen never cared about him again, or she had no chance.

After spending half a year alone in the palace, the queen suddenly felt boring and bored for the rest of her life drank. She stood on the high palace wall and blew the cold wind for a long time. After supporting the palace maids, she jumped down from the high wall.

That day, Zhou Gongyu returned from outside the palace and brought her beautiful clothes and head, hoping to make her happy, and happened to see this scene.

When the queen jumped down, her wide robe was raised by the wind, like a bird spreading its wings.

She jumped off the palace wall and died in the end, but she died outside the palace, not staying in this cage that had trapped her for the rest of her life.

Zhou Gongyu took off her outer robe and covered her body.

After returning to the palace, he saw no one and said nothing, and bipolar and madness were brewing in silence.

He yelled as if his emotions had collapsed, and he wanted to leave. He wanted to go out and jumped off the city wall.

Everything was added to him, and he wanted to collapse, but at that time, he saw the letter on the desk again.

It was written by Xiaoman to Shi Xueqing.

"Ba County is about to enter summer and the flowers bloom the most, but it's a pity that there are no wisteria."

Zhou Gongyu calmed down instantly and no longer had any random thoughts.

He often felt that the road ahead was dark, and no matter how he walked, he would be cold and silent. But when he thought of Xiaoman, he felt that everything was not that bad. It seemed that he could see a little light in the darkness and a little warmth in the cold winter.

The only person in the palace who could tie him was no longer there. In the years ahead, he just wanted to change his life.

The frost and snow in the capital arrived as promised. When the prosperous but desolate palace was once again covered, a fire broke out in the East Palace, which had long been uninhabited, burning the wisteria coiled in the corridor into coke. The fire spread to the palace. The fire illuminated the night and the thick smoke rose until the dawn of the next day, and the fire was finally extinguished.

Because the East Palace had no master who needed to serve, the palace servants who put out the fire thought that they had only damaged some property.

When they learned that Zhou Gongyu was here to commemorate the Crown Princess, it was too late.

After the emperor passed away, everyone realized that everything was so natural.

The emperor had no son, and King Pingnan took over the throne as the crown prince, and the court had been cleared long ago. The Xu family, which should have been the biggest obstacle, was defeated. Zhou Dingheng was also in charge of the court for a long time. Even if he took office immediately, there would be no sudden chaos because of the incident.

Zhou Gongyu paved the way for Zhou Dingheng and had already arranged his affairs after him.

Apart from shocking the world, this incident did not cause any trouble. He left quietly and peacefully, and even a slight wave was not set off.

Zhou Dingheng handled all the funerals. When everything happened, when Zhou Dingheng went to Jiang Susi to complain, Zhou Gongyu sat in the pavilion playing chess and drinking tea with Jiang Susi, with a leisurely style, which made people who were busy recently angry.

He strode away with displeasure on his face and asked, "The emperor is so comfortable. Everyone is crying that you die young. A few days ago, there were many young ladies who were trying to go to the mourning hall to burn incense, and one of them fainted when he was sad."

Zhou Gongyu raised his eyebrows, his tone was quite cool, and he said indifferently: "Is that true?"

Jiang Susi looked up at him and asked, "What do you want to arrange for him?"

Zhou Gongyu's eyes fell on the chessboard, and his fingers unconsciously tapped the edge of the table, as if he had remembered something. After a brief silence, he replied: "Go early so that I won't be there, and there will be more messy people around her."

Jiang Susi lowered her head and chuckled, without saying anything.

Some time ago, someone arranged by Yizhou came back to pass a message saying that there was a young master Liu who was very happy and not only was he upright, but he also liked Mrs. Jiang. Zhou Gongyu turned black on the spot. If it weren't for Jiang Susi's persuasion, with Zhou Gongyu's temperament, he would probably have arranged some "accident" for this young master without knowing it.

Zhou Dingheng frowned and said, "I haven't asked you, does Xiaoman know about this?"

"In order not to leak the news, I haven't told her yet."

Zhou Dingheng felt outrageous when he heard this, and was so shocked that he raised his tone: "Ah?"

Zhou Gongyu glanced at him lightly.

"She will naturally know when I arrive in Yizhou."

"When Xiaoman heard that you had passed away, he would definitely be sad. You were willing to tell her?"

I'm a little reluctant.

He did want to tell Xiaoman in advance at first, but she did not ask about his news during her correspondence with Shi Xueqing and Jiang Ruoruo. Even if it was just a few words, it seemed that she was determined to break it with him.

He couldn't do it as cruel as Xiaoman, so he wrote to her through Shi Xueqing's tone, and would read every letter she wrote repeatedly, hoping to see her ask. Even if it was some unresolved folk rumors, as long as you could see clues related to him, but there was no.

Zhou Gongyu actually felt a little complaining, and that was why he concealed the matter and went to Yizhou to see her in person.

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When the news of the emperor's death reached the county magistrate's mansion, Xiaoman was watering the flowers in the yard. Mrs. Jiang looked sad and looked at her for a long time with a desire to speak.

Xiaoman stood up and looked at her, and had already made the worst plan in his mind.
To be continued...