Don’t Show the Son

In a few days it will be New Year's Eve, and the matter of Wen Changbo's death of his son will soon be overwhelmed by the celebration of the New Year, and no one will mention it.

It snowed all night in Wangdu yesterday, and until the next morning, the snowflakes were still fluttering.

When getting up in the morning, the common people sweep the snow in front of the door into piles, and the children build snowmen on the side of the road. Occasionally, there is a snowball fight, and the snowball is accidentally thrown to a passerby, and a group of children scream strangely and disperse.

In the School of Altered Arts, the students had been on vacation a few days earlier, and only the students who lived in the capital occasionally came to the academy.

In Tianziyuan, Zhao Lingyin and Princess Minghe had been waiting for Lin Xiuxiao for half an hour.

Princess Minghe said: "Is he not going to come today?"

Zhao Lingyin shook her head and said, "I don't know, he didn't say anything yesterday."

Lin Xiu has always been very punctual. I don't know if she forgot today, but she didn't come to the Academy of Different Arts to practice with them.

In the Martial Arts Academy, on the school grounds, Xue Ning'er was wearing a snow-white jacket and kept rubbing her hands, her little face was already flushed from the cold, but she still didn't meet the person she wanted to see.

Changchun Palace.

The imperial concubine leaned against the palace gate with her spiritual pet in her arms, her eyes looked in the direction of the palace gate from time to time, and her eyes gradually became lost. He murmured: "It's already this hour, he probably won't come again today..."

outside the city.

Somewhere at the foot of the mountain, a mound of earth rose.

In front of the mound, there is also a wooden tablet, which says "the tomb of Chen Yu, the daughter of the people".

The heavy snow was still falling one after another, and a layer of snow soon fell on Lin Xiu's head and shoulders.

Chen Yu's hometown is in the south of the Yangtze River, and he was sold outside by his parents when he was a child. Apart from the old procuress of the brothel, he has no relatives or friends in the capital.

According to the practice of the Clearance Department, unclaimed corpses are usually thrown to mass graves and buried hastily. If there is money on the corpse, the kind-hearted arrester will buy them a straw mat. Just dig a hole and bury it.

The old bustard of Pinfang Pavilion had a bit of conscience, and took her body from the Cleaning Department and buried her here.

Not far from her grave, there is a crooked stream, and further away is Yunshan Mountain. It is winter now, and the sky and the earth are all white. But when the ice and snow melt in spring, it will be a beautiful landscape. screen.

When the old king's father and daughter died, Lin Xiu didn't have any deep feelings except sympathy and injustice.

But Chen Yu's death touched Lin Xiu a lot.

Even if they only met three times, without her, there would be no Lin Xiu now.

She has the grace to save Lin Xiu's life.

That's why Lin Xiuhui personally took action against Zheng Jian in the Department of Cleaning Up Officials.

He really couldn't help the murderer who didn't beat her to death.

Her wish was just to be an ordinary person, but they didn't even give her such a chance.

Lin Xiu stayed in front of this new grave for a long time, carefully cleared the weeds in a radius of three feet, and put a bunch of freshly picked plum blossoms on the grave before leaving with the old beggar and the salesman.

Not long after the three of them left, a new row of footprints suddenly appeared on the snowy ground, extending from behind a tree by the stream to the front of the grave.

On the plum branch that Lin Xiu placed in front of the grave, a plum blossom fell from the branch and floated to the top of the tombstone.

...

School of different arts.

Princess Minghe looked at Lin Xiu with a frown, and said dissatisfied: "What are you doing, and you didn't say anything if you didn't come, causing us to wait for you here for so long."

Lin Xiu apologized, "I'm sorry, I have something to do temporarily, we can start now."

In the past, he would practice double cultivation with Princess Minghe in the morning, but now it was afternoon, even after the usual time to go to the Changchun Palace, the imperial concubine and the little guy were probably waiting for him.

After double cultivation with Princess Minghe, after walking out of her yard, Zhao Lingyin asked Lin Xiu, "What happened?"

Lin Xiu asked, "What's the matter?"

Zhao Lingyin said: "Your face is full of things."

Lin Xiu almost forgot that Lingyin had the same power of observation as a spy. Princess Minghe couldn't tell that he had something on his mind, but she couldn't hide it from Lingyin.

Lin Xiu asked: "Do you still remember the Haitang girl we met yesterday?"

Zhao Lingyin glanced at him and said, "Of course I remember, you went to take care of her tofu shop?"

Lin Xiu shook her head and said, "She's dead."

Zhao Lingyin was stunned for a moment, then said in disbelief: "How is this possible, we saw her yesterday!"

Lin Xiudao: "Not long after we met her..."

After briefly talking to Zhao Lingyin about what happened yesterday, Zhao Lingyin clenched her fists and said, "Well done, such a person should be killed!"

Lin Xiudao: "Yes, that girl is really a chivalrous woman. Some people cannot be punished by the law, so she will accept them."

Zhao Lingyin showed guilt on his face, and said to Lin Xiu: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that yesterday..."

Lin Xiu patted her on the head gently, and said, "If you know your mistakes, you can correct them. There is nothing better than being kind."

If Lin Xiu dared to do this kind of action to her at any other time, what Zhao Lingyin would have given her in return would have been a neat shoulder throw, but today, Zhao Lingyin endured it.

She had been living in the well before, and it was Lin Xiu who allowed her to see the whole picture of the world.

Forgive him this time.

When she came out of the School of Different Arts, Lin Xiu did not go to the Martial Arts Academy to practice.

You don't need to practice martial arts, but the imperial concubine must watch it.

Of course, this time, he didn't go empty-handed.

He brought a pot of wintersweet to the imperial concubine, which was carefully selected at the flower and bird market in Dongcheng. There are many flowers planted in the small garden of Changchun Palace, which shows that the imperial concubine is a flower lover.

But in winter, all the flowers in the garden withered. Lin Xiu noticed this when she went to Changchun Palace last time.

She is bored in the palace on weekdays, teasing the birds and raising flowers can also cultivate her mood.

In fact, Lin Xiu has seen so many concubines in the palace, and the imperial concubine should be the loneliest one among all the concubines.

Lin Xiu also thought about the reason.

Among the concubines in the harem, except for the newcomer who just entered the palace, everyone else has heirs. When Lin Xiu was making ice in the harem, those little princes and princesses made trouble for him. Lin Xiu was almost annoyed to death. Can't say can't scold.

At that time, his favorite places to go were the Changchun Palace of the Imperial Concubine and the Qianqiu Palace of the Concubine Shu.

The palace of the empress and concubine Xian is too depressing, and the palace of other concubines is too noisy, only the imperial concubine and concubine Shu are quiet.

Of course, being noisy isn't all bad.

With children by my side, arguing and making noise, at least I won't feel lonely.

Although Concubine Shu has no children around her, Li Baizhang often visits her in Qianqiu Palace, and the dog emperor also often goes to Qianqiu Palace. Of course, she will not be lonely.

The imperial concubine is different. Although she is one of the most favored concubines in the harem, she has no children and only has a spiritual pet to accompany her.

Otherwise, Lin Xiu can send her off, but the child can't do anything.

No, he has abilities, but the Emperor Dog would not be willing.

So Lin Xiu could only go to see her by herself.

In the Changchun Palace, the imperial concubine carefully repaired the flower branches and said: "I thought you would not come today."

Lin Xiu stood beside her and said, "Some things were delayed in the morning, my lord, forgive me."

The imperial concubine gave him a white look, and said: "There is nothing to blame for this. If you have something to do, just take care of your own affairs. The girl is very good these days, and you don't need to take a look at it every day. It's good to come once every ten and a half months."

Lin Xiu smiled slightly, but did not speak.

What's so good about a little thing? Although it is much smarter than other animals, it is equivalent to a five- or six-year-old human girl. It has no heart and lungs. You just need to feed it, play with it, and talk to it. , it is no trouble.

On the contrary, it was the imperial concubine herself who needed Lin Xiu's attention.

Seeing that Lin Xiu hadn't spoken for a long time, the imperial concubine began to feel nervous.

He wouldn't listen to her, and really only come once in ten and a half months from now on, right?

The imperial concubine is very regretful now, why did she say that sentence just now?

What if Lin Xiu really doesn't come anymore?

Her mind was in a mess, and her hands were also in a mess. She almost cut off a flower branch that shouldn't be pruned, but she still pretended to be indifferent: "It's not ten days and a half months, at most five days, no, three days... , or two more days, I am worried that my daughter is not used to it, and you can tell that my daughter likes you very much..."

Lin Xiu smiled and said, "Then I'd better come once every two days, after all, the empress's spiritual pet is important."

Lin Xiu didn't stay in Changchun Palace for long today, the reason is that the empress dowager's mother came to Changchun Palace and asked the imperial concubine to come over. No one here dares to mess with it.

Not long after, in the Longevity Palace.

The Empress Dowager looked at the imperial concubine who came in from the outside, a smile appeared on her wrinkled face, and she said, "Here comes the niece, come to the emperor's grandmother quickly..."

The noble concubine walked up to the empress dowager, held her hand, and said shyly, "It's been so many years, and the imperial grandmother still calls people by their baby names..."

The Empress Dowager patted her hand and said with a kind smile, "Even if it has been many years, you are still the daughter of the imperial grandmother."

...

After leaving the palace, Lin Xiu saw that it was still early, so she walked towards the Qing officials.

After walking a few steps, he suddenly frowned and looked backward.

There was no one there except old beggars and peddlers.

Lin Xiu turned her head, and after walking a dozen steps, that feeling reappeared.

He turned around again, and there was still nothing behind him.

The old beggar looked at him and asked, "What's the matter?"

Lin Xiu thought for a while and said, "Why do I feel like someone is following me?"

The old beggar glanced at him and said, "Someone is following you, will the two of us not notice that you are questioning our profession?"

Lin Xiu shook his head. Behind him was the imperial palace, and there was indeed no one in the middle, because he had to be on guard against the prince's assassination every day, which made him a little paranoid.

Not long after the three of them left, there was a faint sound from somewhere in the void behind them.

"You're not low alert, you actually sensed me..."

Let’s post the only saved manuscript, to make up for everyone’s wounded hearts. The last chapter is the topic of the first volume, and there will be no similar plots in the future.