There is a fake demigod in the East Palace

When the prince delivered a speech on New Year's Eve in the Zichen Palace, it snowed heavily.Rong Zheng's voice, accompanied by snowflakes, resounded on the reunion dinner table of thousands of households.

After the live broadcast ended, Rong Zheng declined Gongqing's invitation and went directly to Yingbo Station.

Yingbo Terrace is Rong Zheng's residence in the Li Palace, and Ye Zhaoling also settled here.The small courtyard is surrounded by green water on three sides, and the backyard is shaded by green bamboos. The bathing pool in the forest introduces underground natural hot spring water.When the summer sun is fine, the sparkling water reflects in it, and it looks like a dreamy East China Sea Dragon Palace from a distance.

Rong Zheng gave the palace people a holiday tonight, leaving only a few local staff from their hometowns on duty.Yingbo Terrace was very quiet, there was no one around the dining table, and the carefully prepared New Year's Eve dinner on the table was clearly untouched.

In the living room, only one person, Le, was left to look after the small silver pot on the charcoal stove. Rong Zheng took off his frosty and snow-covered coat and handed it to the attendant beside him, asking Le Zhi, "What about him?"

Rong Zheng didn't mention his name, Le Zhifu knew in his heart who His Highness wanted to ask.She put down the tea spoon in her hand, and said to Rong Zheng: "Master Hou went to the Plum Garden to enjoy the flowers."

Rong Zheng nodded, expressing that he understood, and did not express anything else.In previous years, Rong Zheng lived alone on New Year's Eve, and he had no obsession with reunion or not.

At this time, the water in the silver pot boiled, and the steam made the lid of the pot squeak, Rong Zheng asked Le Zhi, "What are you doing?"

Le Zhi hurriedly filled the pot with water, and replied, "I'm taking care of Lord Hou's white camellia. Before leaving, Lord Hou said that we need to add water every 10 minutes."

Rong Zheng has an impression of this tea cake. I don't know where Ye Zhaoling got it. It is said that it has been stored for more than 100 years.Ye Zhaoling attached great importance to it, and even the water for making tea was taken from the plum blossoms by himself early this morning.

Thinking of Ye Zhao's precious and precious appearance, Rong Zheng also became a little interested in this tea.He turned around and sat down on the sofa, and told Le Zhidao: "Give me a taste before he comes back."

It's a pity that Rong Zheng still didn't drink the hot tea in the end. Not long after he sat down, he was urged into the study by the video conference, and he didn't even bother to eat dinner.

In this happy family day, the topic of this meeting is very unpleasant.Recently, due to various reasons, countries A, J, G and other countries have jointly raised the export tax on industrial spare parts and restricted exports.As a big manufacturing country, this move will have a major impact on domestic aerospace manufacturing, integrated circuits, precision molds, auto parts and other industries.

Several enterprises under Rong Zheng's management also suffered greatly. To ensure production, they had to pay a higher price for these spare parts. As a result, domestic products lost their competitiveness in the market.

A meeting lasted for most of the night, and the final conclusion was that they could only obediently pay and stretch their necks to be slaughtered.Because the ultra-precision polishing technology required for the production of important spare parts is firmly in the hands of the above three countries, domestic companies do not have this manufacturing capacity and can only rely on imports.

If you can't master the ultra-precision polishing technology, your life will always be in the hands of others. It's not easy to be controlled by others. It's not that Da Shengchao didn't think about developing this technology independently, but whenever a breakthrough is made in research, there will always be All kinds of accidents happened, so that the research of this project ended in failure.

The staff in the video were arguing, and Rong Zheng's temples began to ache. He closed the computer silently, turned and left the study.

The clock on the wall passed 11:30, and Ye Zhaoling hadn't come back yet.It was snowing heavily outside the window, and the bluestone path in the yard had been buried in thick snow.

The charcoal fire on the stove was extinguished at some point, and Le Zhi stood at the window looking around.Standing by the door, Rong Zheng asked her, "Did he bring an umbrella when he went out?"

Lezhi turned around and said, "No."

Rong Zheng put on his coat, picked up the umbrella he just brought back not long ago, and said, "I'm going out for a walk."

Several attendants who were about to get off work heard the words and quickly gathered around: "Your Highness, let us go with you."

"It's okay, let me go for a walk alone. It's getting late, you all go back." With that said, Rong Zheng pushed open the door, and walked into the snow with an umbrella.

When he was outside, Rong Zheng realized that the snow was not falling as hard as he could see from the house.But he had already gone out anyway, so he didn't think about it any more, and continued walking forward with an umbrella.

A thick layer of ice formed on the surface of the lake, and warm yellow palace lanterns lit up on the shore.Not far away, a few people from an unknown palace walked across the embankment carrying food boxes. When they saw Rong Zheng, they stopped and bowed in salute.

Rong Zheng waved at them and continued walking forward.As soon as he stepped onto the Yuanfei Bridge, he saw two people walking towards him.

It was Ye Zhaoling and Princess Anyang Rong Rong who came here.The two held an umbrella together, talking and laughing as they walked in the snow. Rong Rong's long hair fell on Ye Zhaoling's shoulders, and Ye Zhaoling's scarf was still hanging around Rong Rong's neck.

Ye Zhaoling saw Rong Zheng first, and greeted, "Your Highness, why are you here?"

"Come for a walk." Rong Zheng stopped and stopped moving forward, waiting for the two people not far away to approach him.

The moment he saw Rong Zheng, the rare smile on Rong Rong's face disappeared, and he instantly returned to his usual appearance of not getting close to strangers.If Ye Zhaoling hadn't been present, the two cousins ​​would probably have regarded each other as a mass of air.

Rong Rong came in front of Rong Zheng, and greeted him calmly: "Prince Jin'an."

"How did you two meet?" Rong Zheng looked at the two of them calmly, wondering if it was because of the reflection of the snow that Ye Zhaoling's face was extraordinarily pale tonight, and even his lips were bloodless.

Rong Rong's expression was slightly restrained, and he explained in a cold tone: "Just passing by the plum garden, I saw that Lord Hou didn't bring an umbrella, so I'll take a ride along the way."

Rong Zheng also had no expression on his face, and said politely: "Princess Lao, don't worry."

The two cousins ​​are very emotional, and every expression on their faces vividly interprets the four characters "two look at each other and hate each other".Ye Zhaoling listened to it for a while, and finally couldn't take it anymore, and interrupted: "Then you can continue walking, don't disturb me, princess, this way please——"

With that said, Ye Zhaoling was about to lead the princess around Rong Zheng and continue walking forward.

"Stop." Rong Zheng subconsciously took a step sideways, blocking Ye Zhaoling's way: "Where else are we going at this late, I still haven't come here."

Ye Zhaoling was confused by Rong Zheng. He and Rong Zheng have been married for so long, and they have always done their own things and never interfered with each other.

Rong Rong quickly glanced at Rong Zheng's expression, it was rare for him to be considerate.She turned to Ye Zhaoling and said, "It's too late today, I'll go to Yingbo Terrace for tea another day. I'll return the scarf to you then."

After the two watched Princess Anyang leave, Rong Zheng turned and left without saying a word, leaving Ye Zhaoling alone in the snow.Ye Zhaoling didn't know what kind of monster the prince was doing at night, so he held his breath and quickened his pace to catch up.

"What happened tonight?" Ye Zhaoling quickly rushed into Rong Zheng's umbrella, patted the snowflakes that fell on his shoulders, and asked casually, "Are you angry with those old guys under your command?"

Rong Zheng didn't speak, and walked forward on his own, his expression was normal, and he couldn't see any clues.Ye Zhaoling was not a patient person either. After he put his hot face on his cold butt, he was too lazy to get used to the prince's temper and stopped talking.

Maybe it's because it's too cold, people always subconsciously get close to the heat source.The two walked back shoulder to shoulder in silence, Rong Zheng's footprints had already been covered by heavy snow when he came, leaving two rows of new footprints in the white snow.

As I walked, the snow stopped at some point, and a few stars appeared in the clouds.Twelve o'clock rang in the bell tower in the distance, and the new year came.

Just like that, another year passed.For a person like Ye Zhaoling, who has one year to go, it seems that there is nothing to celebrate in the New Year.

He raised his head and looked up in the direction of the bell, only to see patches of Kongming lanterns rising from the sky, flying over the carved walls, green tiles and vermilion eaves of the majestic space, and flying into the boundless night sky.

"Rong Zheng." Ye Zhaoling pulled Rong Zheng's sleeves, and pointed towards the sky: "Look."

It was neither the polite and distant "His Royal Highness", nor the teasing "Prince", this "Rong Zheng" successfully pleased the Prince.The expression on Rong Zheng's face relaxed slightly, and he raised his head to look in the direction Ye Zhaoling pointed.

More and more hole lanterns rise into the sky, and tens of thousands of light spots are connected into one piece, creating a spectacular scene.

The atmosphere finally eased a little, and no one said anything to break it. The two stood in the snow and watched quietly for a while.

Ye Zhaoling put his hands in his sleeves, looked at the rising Kongming lanterns, and said, "I heard that this is for wishing."

Rong Zheng said abruptly, "I have no wish."

Ye Zhaoling smiled and said, "Me neither."

Rong Zheng withdrew his gaze, stretched out his hand to grab Ye Zhaoling's waist, and said, "Then let's go."

Yingbo Terrace is no better than the East Palace, there is only one set of master bedroom in the small courtyard.What's more, when they are away from home, the newlyweds live in two separate rooms, which is another topic of discussion in the eyes of others.

When Rong Zheng came out of the shower, Ye Zhaoling was already lying on the bed without seeing anything, only one bedside lamp was on in the bedroom, and it started snowing outside the window again.

Rong Zheng wiped his hair with a towel, walked to the bed, touched Ye Zhaoling with his knee, and said, "Sleep on the sofa."

"Why?" Ye Zhaoling wrapped the quilt tightly and turned over: "Everyone is equal in the 21st century."

Rong Zheng paused for wiping his hair, and asked, "Aren't you going?"

"Forgive me." Ye Zhaoling turned her back to Rong Zheng, and said nonchalantly: "Anyway, I have kissed and hugged, and it is not a big deal to sleep on a bed for a few nights."

Rong Zheng was choked up by Ye Zhaoling's stupid words, and he felt panic for some reason.Under such complex emotions, Rong Zheng threw down the half-wet towel and entered the bathroom again.

When Rong Zheng came out after drying his hair, Ye Zhaoling had already closed his eyes and fell asleep.Tonight, Ye Zhaoling seemed to be particularly afraid of the cold, the room was warmly heated, and a goose down quilt he had brought out from nowhere covered his body like a hill.

Rong Zheng sat down on the edge of the bed slowly, turned up the temperature of the heater, and turned off the only light.After doing this, he lifted the quilt and lay down beside Ye Zhaoling.

It was a novel experience for Rong Zheng to hear the sound of steady breathing.

He turned over and lay with his back to Ye Zhaoling.Rong Zheng is not used to sleeping with others, so tonight will definitely be a sleepless night.

The fire in the fireplace was fading, and Rong Zheng stared at the large expanse of falling snow outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, and unconsciously fell asleep.