It was snowing heavily in the capital, and the weather was suddenly cold. Before the white snow on the road had been swept away in the morning, new snowflakes covered the road layer by layer.

The north wind howled, rushing in through the broken window, the curtains were scraped, and the chill was everywhere, and was expelled by the warmth in the quilt, Xia Chengqi shivered all over, the cold and pain grinded his teeth in his blood Sucking, the internal organs were burning fiercely, but it was extremely cold. He looked down at the bruises on his body and smiled helplessly.

Close your eyes, your knuckles are dancing on the gray brocade quilt.

He learned from the system that the current body is the son of the crown prince. The crown prince is not the son of the prince. He was not favored by the emperor when he was young. He was demoted to the northwest for many years. The only son stayed in the palace. Naturally, the grandson didn't love him either, so he was left in the cold palace to fend for himself.

But a child who is only five or six years old has no shelter in the cold palace. He is a son of a dragon and a grandson of a dragon. His appearance is somewhat charming, so he is even more disdainful and jealous of the servants in the palace. Pass?

In the past few years, there were people in the palace respecting him, but in the next few years, the people in the palace thought that the crown prince was abolished. How could the insignificant little emperor and grandson still take good care of him?After five years of hard work in the cold palace, the emperor's grandson was finally covered in bruises, and after being pushed into the water, he passed away without any regrets.

Xia Chengqi looked at the room inch by inch, vases, calligraphy and painting, needlework, and imprinted everything in his heart, this is where he started again.

"You have been lying in bed for three days, do you still want to hang on?"

The ear-piercing voice pierced his ears, Xia Chengqi withdrew the corners of his mouth, and looked coldly at the person who walked in.

Mother Wang was scratched by the cold knife, and her back felt cold, the flesh on her face began to agitate, and she said in a high voice, "What are you staring at me, why don't you get up quickly, I think you are hardworking, so I let you sleep on the bed. After raising it for three days, I don’t want you to learn to be lazy and play tricks, get up, get up.”

After finishing speaking, he lifted Xia Chengqi out of bed.

Xia Chengqi withdrew his gaze, let Wang Momo pull himself out, his whole body trembling in unison, his head drooping and he did not dare to lift up.

Wang Momo was really pleased with this appearance, she let go of his right hand and sneered: "I have already put the clothes by the washing pool, and today you can wash all the clothes that have fallen in the past few days. "

Xia Chengqi hurriedly put on his clothes, obediently followed his father-in-law through the long palace road, and entered a courtyard in the northwest corner.

As soon as I entered the door, I smelled an indescribable stench. Looking along the wind direction, I saw the corner next to the well facing Xiao Shangao's clothes, and black and shiny insects were climbing and playing in groups. , occasionally leaving a few round and dark spots.

Looking at the pile of clothes, Wang Momo raised her bushy eyebrows and stretched out her fat palms to push Xia Chengqi forward: "Hurry up, these clothes have been piled up for a few days, but luckily they are just the rough linen clothes of the palace people. You dare to delay the clothes of the masters like this, it's still not enough to eat a meal."

Xia Chengqi nodded in agreement, poured the clothes into the tub, put soap powder on it, and went to the well to fetch water.

This water wheel is quite heavy and difficult to turn. This body has not yet healed, and his physical strength is weak. Xia Chengqi bent his hands to cover the log. Using his wrists skillfully, the water roll turned quickly, and a bucket of water was safely hoisted in a short while. .

He exerted a little force with his hands, and was about to lift the bucket down, but his palms began to tingle.

"Are you making up your mind to be lazy today?" Nanny Wang has been staring carefully, seeing Xia Chengqi standing by the well without moving, poking her finger on Xia Chengqi's forehead, "How dare you pretend to be in front of me?" Sick child."

Xia Chengqi's white jade round forehead immediately left a few bright red crescents, his face turned cold immediately, and his eyes were fixed on Wang Momo.

Feeling cold for a while, Nanny Wang involuntarily took a few steps back, and suddenly reacted, she became angry from embarrassment, pointed at Xia Chengqi with trembling eyes and screamed: "It's the wrong way today, you still dare to stare at me."

Smoky Wang Momo's head was blowing, and the maid who was quietly washing at the side also stopped, looked at Xia Chengqi timidly, and exchanged glances with her companion from time to time, did this person eat the guts of a leopard today?

Xia Chengqi snorted coldly, and took a step forward. Madam Wang hurriedly backed away, shouting in panic, "What are you going to do!"

In an instant, the birds perched on the tree were startled.

Mama Wang was strong in the outside world, Xia Chengqi smiled coldly, she was small but strong, grabbed the little finger of her left hand, and said: "Now that I am sick, Mama should wash this clothes by herself."

This temperament is too different from the original owner, but it is really not what he wants to make him kneel and humble in this cold palace all day long.

Wang Momo is a paper tiger, seeing Xia Chengqi dared to attack her, she tried her best to break free, she stepped back a few meters and said: "Okay you, I just thought you were sick and gave you a three-pointed face, you You still dare to push your nose on your face, you have clearly recovered from your illness, and you still dare not to work, if the manager knows, he will not let you off lightly."

Xia Chengqi stood where he was, squinting his eyes and said: "Mama, I am the emperor's grandson, and now I am ill and need to do rough work, washing clothes for servants?"

Hearing this, Wang Momo's calf softened and her eyes rolled wildly. Why did this person straighten up after falling into the water, as if he was a different person?

Although the prince was demoted to the northwest, the emperor did not abolish the name of the prince. It is absurd to spread the word that the grandson of the dignified family is doing rough work of washing.

But this is clearly something that has been subtle and subtle over the years. Everyone knows it well.

After thinking about it, the affairs of the harem are firmly in the hands of the empress. Who dares to disobey the empress's order and spread the news without authorization? Anyway, talkative, what kind of waves can a little helpless emperor and grandson make.

What's more, the Empress Empress once told me...

Thinking in her heart, she puffed up her chest and said with a sneer, "Your Highness, washing clothes is the empress's order. If you are dissatisfied, you can go to the manager or the empress after you finish washing the clothes."

Turning the subject, he said bitterly: "But now, let's wash this pile of clothes first."

Xia Chengqi turned his head to one side, grabbed the soap powder and sprinkled it on her face suddenly. The soap powder got into her eyes, and the eyeballs were burning hot. With an "ouch", she rushed to the side of the well and hung up tremblingly. The bucket was hurriedly cleaned, the white powder on the face melted in the water, the black eyebrows were limp and bent into insects, and the whole face was instantly dyed.

Seeing this, the surrounding maidservants shrugged their shoulders, covered their faces and smiled, snickering sounded into Wang Momo's ears, a puff of white smoke spewed out from their nostrils, and rushed towards Xia Chengqi angrily.

Xia Chengqi dodges and grabs her hair with her backhand. Nanny Wang screams and swings her arms to hit Xia Chengqi. , I just felt a sharp pain in my leg, and the whole person fell to the ground, and the tailbone cracked.

"Good boy." Nanny Wang yelled bitterly, saw the washboard in the basin, and suddenly took it to beat Xia Chengqi's feet, Xia Chengqi jumped up and barely escaped.

"Ah!" There was another scream. It turned out that Xia Chengqi stepped on the washboard with both feet, and her fingers were purple and bleeding.

Xia Chengqi snorted coldly, got off the washboard, and pressed her into the laundry tub with one hand, the cockroaches and spiders that drowned in the water stuck to her messy hair.

"How dare you treat me like this, the empress will not let you go." Wang Momo demanded sharply.

Xia Chengqi grabbed her fingers that were struggling indiscriminately, and with only one force, she screamed again and again. Wang Momo had lost her voice and howled, she just begged for mercy in a low voice: "Your Majesty, if there are too many, please spare the servant, the servant should be beaten, and the servant should be beaten." beat."

Seeing that Xia Chengqi just twisted her arm tightly and did not let go, Wang Mama knew that today's catastrophe was inevitable, she quickly counted out all the things she had bullied Xia Chengqi in the past like beans, and knocked her forehead in the basin.

Even though she was crying so bitterly, she swore to God that if she dared to bully His Highness again, she would fall into the [-]th level of hell after death, and Xia Chengqi would not be able to move a finger away.

In the memory of the original owner who accepted, this Nanny Wang was the first villain whom the original owner hated to the bone. It was commonplace to ridicule and curse at every turn, and it was not uncommon to see clothes washed all day and night in the cold winter. When he got it, he was looted by this villain.

At first, the servant girl saw that her mother Yasha Wang Nanny was in such a mess in Xia Chengqi's hands, and her heart was full. After a while, she saw that Xia Chengqi was still holding on to Wang Nanny tightly, and then she realized that something was wrong. The accident caused me trouble, so I quickly sent a seven or eight-year-old maidservant to sneak away along the corner to report the letter.

Xia Chengqi was just when he was heartily repaying his past hatred, but suddenly he heard someone shout: "What are you doing!"

Hearing this, Xia Chengqi turned his head to look, and couldn't help shrinking his eyes, Mr. Chen!

Shu Chang's bones and blood boiled instantly, and Xia Chengqi felt a little uncomfortable from the burning. He slowly let go of Grandma Wang, Xia Chengqi stood up, straightened his clothes, shook his head and said with a smile, "Why is Mr. Chen here?"

The little maid was planning to invite the guards over, but when she saw Mr. Chen approaching, she hurriedly invited him.

Mr. Chen was furious at first, but when he saw the little girl rushing up without winking, and was about to explode, he heard that it was the Leng Gong who was making a scene in the Huanyi courtyard, so he immediately brought someone over with suspicion.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Xia Chengqi rolled up his sleeves and pressed the fat-headed Nanny Wang into the basin. He felt unbelievable for a moment, and immediately stopped drinking. Seeing that the latter withdrew his hand nonchalantly, he became panicked. This emperor usually shrinks back. Shy and timid, why is he so uncharacteristically calm today.

Could it be that he thought he was frightened by the sunset that day, so he caught me?

Manager Chen smiled, took a few steps forward, pretended to be respectful, raised his head and said, "Your Highness, what's the matter? What did Madam Wang do to make you so angry?"

Hearing this, Xia Chengqi raised his eyebrows and looked him up and down, so startled that Mr. Chen couldn't help but trembled and asked: "Mother Wang has worked hard in the palace for many years, it is because Mother Wang made a small mistake, Your Highness Even if you want to deal with Wang Momo, you shouldn't treat her like this."

At this time, Wang Momo also regained her breath, brushed away the hair covering her face, got up in one breath, threw herself in front of Mr. Chen, and cried out: "Mr. I am willing to die, the servant did not commit any fault, but His Highness somehow disliked the servant, so he put the servant upside down in the washtub, hit the head of the servant hard, and the servant is still dizzy now."

"Wang Momo, get up quickly, and speak up if you have something to say." Manager Chen took a few steps back, carefully avoiding the water stains on Wang Momo's sleeves, and couldn't help comforting him.

Seeing Mr. Chen's comfort, Wang Momo responded, got up from the ground, wiped off the dirty water on her face with her sleeves, and cried to Xia Chengqi: "Your Highness, this servant has been serving His Highness carefully all these years. If it’s not right, you can just say it straight, the servant’s body is not as good as before, and I can’t stand your tossing like this.”

During the words, Xia Chengqi suddenly became a savage and domineering villain who bullied the hard-working old slaves. It seemed that if Xia Chengqi didn't say something today, he would not only feel sorry for Wang Momo, but also chill the hearts of the entire harem.

Xia Chengqi sneered and said: "It's only natural for a master to teach his slaves a lesson. Why don't you, a slave, not only listen to the teachings with humility, but also keep complaining about the master. Could it be that you want to bully the young master because of your old age?"

"How dare you slave." Wang Momo hurriedly defended, with tears streaming down her face, and howled at Mr. Chen: "Master, how dare your slave do such a thing like lightning strikes? Just look at your Highness's words, don't you mean that your slave will die Are you forced on the road?" As he spoke, he wanted to think about it, and slammed his head against the wall.

Mr. Chen pretended to stop him, Xia Chengqi sneered, "If you have the ability to bump into him, don't bump into me."

He is the emperor's grandson. Although he lives and dies on his own, his honorable name is still there. If someone hadn't secretly instructed him, who would have treated a child so meanly more than ten years ago.

When Nanny Wang saw this, she wanted to cry again, but Manager Chen gave her a look, and the eunuchs behind her pulled her out one after another.

The Huanxi Pool was calm for a while.

"Director Chen, I don't know if I should say something or not."

Mr. Chen is a sensible person. Although the emperor doesn't like the crown prince, this grandson of the emperor is of the blood of the Tian family. Keeping a line of life so that we can meet each other in the future, and not offending others to death has always been Mr. Chen's principle of doing things.

"Please speak, Your Highness."

Xia Chengqi leaned closer to his ear, "Although my father is in the northwest now, how would you know that he has been in the northwest all his life? Tell me, don't you?"

Manager Chen agreed with a smile, "I understand."

"Then these clothes?"

"The slave will handle it himself."

"Thank you, Manager Chen."

"Your Majesty, go slowly.

Xia Chengqi stood with his hands behind his back, and walked out of the washing pool.

Back in his dilapidated palace, guarding a side of wet charcoal, he sighed.

In this kind of heavy snow weather, without charcoal to warm up, people may freeze to death at night.

Seeing a tree with a crooked neck in the courtyard, its branches covered with a thin layer of winter snow, Xia Chengqi thought for a moment, then walked outside, climbed up the tree with a crooked neck, and twisted off the tiny branches one by one. , and threw it on the ground.

Not long after, branches all over the ground were broken.

Xia Chengqi stood on the tree and looked down, it should be enough.

Carrying a pile of branches back to the inner hall, lit a fire, and burned it with a small brazier, which made it a little warmer.

Nanny Wang didn't know if she had learned that lesson or what, she hadn't made trouble for several days in a row, and Xia Chengqi himself was happy to be at leisure, except for a little eunuch who delivered meals every day, and even a single idler had never seen her before. .

A few days later, Xia Chengqi was still burning a fire in the hall to keep warm, and was mourning that the crooked neck tree in the courtyard has now become a bare neck tree, how will he live in the future, maybe he has to go outside the hall to find dead branches Can't fall leaves?

After hesitating, Xia Chengqi resolutely decided to pick up some branches to survive the cold.

The palace road twists and turns, Xia Chengqi managed to pick up some branches, but lost his way.

Seeing several palace people coming in front, they seemed to be menacing.

"Quick, catch him!"

Xia Chengqi looked at the few people and let them surround him.

"The emperor once ordered that His Highness is not allowed to step out of the harem. Your Highness will follow us to the empress to plead guilty!"

"Apologize?" I'm afraid I'll die if I go there.

"dream!"

Seeing that Xia Chengqi was so ignorant of good and evil, those few palace people didn't say much, they rushed forward and wanted to capture him, but Xia Chengqi fought alone, he was really not the opponent of those few people, and was captured on the ground in a few strokes.

Red walls and green tiles, a sedan chair slowly walks up the narrow square palace road, carried by eight young eunuchs in blue palace costumes, behind them are like clouds of servants, and the road is slippery in snowy weather, so they dare not get too far Make a big move, lest you startle the people in the Luanjia.

The palace people in front of the palace road saw Luan driving and avoided the side of the road. They all knelt down respectfully and did not dare to lift their heads. In the icy world, they knocked their heads into the white snow. They didn't get up until Luan passed and disappeared.

At the corner of the palace road, there were several sounds of struggling, and Mr. Lu, who was guarding Luanjia's side, quickly stepped forward, and whispered at the corner: "If you want to die, back down quickly, and disturb the prince, you guys Heads are enough to cut off!"

There was no sound for a while.

Luan drove past here, and a dignified voice came from inside, "What's going on?"

Eunuch Lu hurriedly stood beside Luanjia, "If you go back to the prince, I will teach a disobedient palace man, but did you bump into you?"

A corner of Luanjia was lifted up, and a slender and well-defined hand stretched out. Eunuch Lu quickly opened it for the people in Luanjia. The people in Luanjia were dressed in brocade robes and jade belts, with golden crowns and hair, handsome features and eyes like eagles. Indifference and ice overflowed, looking at the few palace servants kneeling on one side, he asked, "What mistake did you make?"

The few palace people were stunned for a moment, such nobles and grandchildren are located in the clouds, they are as humble as dust, and they have no thought of talking to them.

Eunuch Lu angrily reprimanded: "My lord is asking you!"

Only then did one of the palace servants regain his senses, pointing at Xia Chengqi who was beside him, "Go back... If you go back to the prince, this man left the harem without permission, and the servant is about to take him back."

"Oh? Who is he? Look up."

Xia Chengqi, who was kneeling on the ground, did not look up.

Eunuch Lu got angry, bowed his head and slapped the skinny child on the shoulder, "This is Prince Gu, it's a blessing that you have cultivated for several lifetimes for the prince to see you, you still don't look up!"

Xia Chengqi raised his head tremblingly, the corners of his mouth were black and blue, his face was pale and covered with dust, his eyebrows and eyelashes were written with the meaning of frost, and it seemed that he was too cold.

As soon as Eunuch Lu saw Xia Chengqi, he understood, and respectfully replied: "If you go back to the prince, this is the son of the crown prince."

"The son of the prince? You are the son of the prince, how can you allow you to bully me like this!" The conversation changed, and he said sternly: "Drag it, you will die!"

When the few palace people heard this, they hurriedly kowtowed to plead for mercy.

"come over."

Xia Chengqi knew that he was calling him, so he stood up and walked over. He was grabbed by someone, wrapped his hands warmly, and heard the noble prince say to him in a warm voice: "You are the son of the prince, you can Call me uncle."

Xia Chengqi didn't recognize him, so he called timidly, "Uncle Huang."

"Is it cold?"

Xia Chengqi didn't know why this uncle was so kind to him, as far as he could remember, he had never masked his face.

"Fortunately."

"Hands are frozen like this, so it's naturally cold." Gu Wang took a large cloak from Luan's car and tied it on him, "Be careful of catching a cold."

"Thank you, Uncle."

Xia Chengqi felt that he was a little strange, and held his hand tightly.

But the man's hand was so warm that he couldn't bear to let go.

Seeing this, Eunuch Lu didn't dare to say much. After a long time, Gu Wang let go of his hand and said to Xia Chengqi: "Okay, you go back first."

"Yes."

Putting down the corner of Luanjia, the palace people carried Luanjia and moved forward slowly.

Xia Chengqi watched the luan drive farther and farther, hugged the cloak around him tightly, turned and walked towards the harem.

The exquisite iron stove inside the Luanjia was burning with warm incense, which was warm and pleasant. The incomparably noble Prince Gu was lying on his side on a soft pillow, which was inlaid with gold threads and embroidered with dragons, phoenixes and auspicious clouds. Embroidered dragon and phoenix things on the pillow?

King Gu closed his eyes for a nap, put his palm on his face, and smiled slightly as if he could still feel something.

Luanjia stopped, and someone outside said respectfully: "Report to the lord, the Palace of Qinzheng has arrived."

Surrounded by a group of people, King Gu walked towards the yellow gate. A palace official saw him from afar and rushed forward to salute.

No one in this world knows that the emperor is neither far nor close to all the princes and grandchildren, but only this King Gu loves him very much. I rewarded King Gu alone.

King Gu straightened his clothes and robes, stepped over the high sill, entered the inner hall, and saluted the fallen emperor neatly.

"My minister has met the emperor, and the emperor will live forever."

The emperor is now graying at the temples, the emperor waved and called, "Come, play chess with me."

Gu Wangning frowned, raised his head, and said: "Then can the emperor bestow a favor on this humble minister, and if this humble minister wins, agree to one condition."

"Oh? Conditions?" The emperor laughed, "You never wanted what I gave you, but now you ask me for conditions? I'm curious, what conditions?"

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