The weather is cold at the end of November. After a snowfall, everything in the palace is completely white, which creates a unique mood.
Yun Zishu, wrapped in a snow-white fur-edged red cloak, took Leng Yue and Leng Shuang to the East Palace.
Yun Chen was imprisoned here for nearly two months. He yelled at the beginning to make trouble, but no one paid attention to him. There were three layers of forbidden troops guarding outside the East Palace, and his hysterical behavior could not reach Yun Zishu's ears at all.
Go inside.
After nearly two months, I finally saw Yun Zishu again. Yun Chen felt as if he had just been released from prison and finally met his relatives. The previous hostility seemed to have completely disappeared - of course, it may also be because he was worried about her.
Yelling angrily would make Yun Zishu angry, so she didn't dare to lose her temper.
In short, apart from the haggard and decadent look on his face, his attitude was as good as meeting a long-lost relative, and he was so enthusiastic that he was almost flattering: "Jiu Mei, please let me out, I really can't stand this cold and lonely life.
The way, it’s too quiet, there’s no freedom at all, please, Jiumei——”
"Want to be free?" Yun Zishu raised her eyebrows and smiled lightly.
Yun Chen nodded repeatedly: "I promise never to go against you again. You are the Queen of Dongyou now. I should give you face. I shouldn't yell at you in front of the ministers, and I shouldn't be in Dongyou Palace."
You should not be rude to someone who does something shameless, let alone call Emperor Dongyou by his first name... Jiumei, I have been reflecting on myself these days, and I deeply realize that I was wrong. It was so wrong. You
Can you please let me out? We are all a family, and the same blood bleeds in our bodies. You must not bear to see me having such a difficult time——"
"I have nothing to bear." Yun Zishu walked to the side and sat down on a chair with a leisurely expression. "It's easy to go out, but you have to agree to one condition."
Yun Chen couldn't wait to ask: "What are the conditions?"
"Write a letter for me back to Dongyou."
write a letter?
Yun Chen was confused: "What letter should I write? Can't you just let me take the envoy back with me?"
"Of course not." Yun Zishu raised her lips with a mocking smile, "You have gone back, how can I be sure that you will be obedient?"
Yun Chen's expression changed: "I will definitely be obedient -"
"Write a letter back and say that King Jing went to the battlefield with Dongyou's army and conquered the western border with the general Wang, in order to marry Dongyou's most beautiful princess."
Yun Chen was startled: "You...what did you say?"
Yun Zishu narrowed her eyes and gently stroked the soft white edges of her sleeves with her long white fingers: "I guess you heard clearly."
Yun Chen frowned: "Why?"
"There's no reason, just do it."
Yun Chen frowned and couldn't help but think deeply about Yun Zishu's intention. King Jing went to conquer Western Xinjiang?
But when did King Jing go to the battlefield when he was under house arrest in the palace? Moreover, he did not ask to marry the most beautiful princess of Dongyou.
Yun Chen turned around without saying a word and walked to sit opposite Yun Zishu, as if he was wondering if Yun Zishu had any conspiracy, and at the same time, he was also thinking deeply about whether writing this letter would bring him trouble.
However, Yun Zishu didn't give him a chance to consider it at all: "If you write it, Prince Jing will lose trust in your father's heart, and he will no longer affect your position as crown prince."
Yun Chen raised his eyes and looked at her: "Do you want my father to kill King Jing with his own hands?"
Yun Zishu laughed: "Why do you have such an idea?"
King Jing didn't even have a chance to go back to Dayong. Even if his father wanted to kill him, he couldn't do it. Besides, the effect of writing this letter back to Dayong would not be what Yun Chen expected.
"Isn't it?" Yun Chen's face looked a little unsightly, but with the lessons learned from the past, he obviously did not dare to scold Yun Zishu coldly, "You just want the father to kill King Jing with his own hands. In this case, I
This crown prince position will indeed not be affected, but without Prince Jing around, it will be easier for you to deal with me——"
"Yun Chen." Yun Zishu interrupted him unhurriedly, "Don't be too self-righteous."
"What's the meaning?"
"If King Jing really returns to Dayong alive, won't you deal with him?" Yun Zishu raised her eyebrows, "You now know that my father's favorite prince is him. As long as he returns alive, you, the prince, will be able to hold your position at any time.
No guarantee.”
Yun Chen's face turned pale and he sat stiffly in his chair, unable to say a word.
"If you write this letter back, I will let you go free. If you don't want to, you can stay here forever." Yun Zishu stood up and said, "Whenever you decide, you will give me an answer."
After saying that, he started to leave.
"Jiu Mei," Yun Chen called to her urgently, for fear of being locked up for another two months, "I'll write."
Yun Zishu turned around: "Seriously?"
"really."
"Come here." Yun Zishu ordered, "I will serve you with pen and ink."
The palace servants walked in, and there were pens, inks, paper and inkstones waiting for them. Yun Chen sat in front of the case, thinking about how to write.
Yun Zishu repeated to him what she wanted to write, sentence by sentence: "How do I say it, how do you write it."
Yun Chen was still hesitant before he started writing. Yun Zishu didn't let anyone else write it, but only let him write it. Obviously, he wanted his father to believe that the letter was from his hand. When the father knew the truth, he would punish the person out of anger.
It will be him, not someone else.
With his current status, if his father wanted to kill him, he wouldn't even have anyone to protect him.
Thinking of this, Yun Chen raised his head and looked at Yun Zishu: "Nine sisters."
Yun Zishu looked at him calmly.
"You know that if you write this letter back, your father may believe it in a short time, but sooner or later you will still know the truth. In this way..." An uneasy look appeared on Yun Chen's face, "Father will not let me go.
, can you guarantee my safety?"
"Promise you are safe?" Yun Zishu said calmly, "You have never guaranteed my safety before."
Yun Chen's face turned red: "But..."
"I can only guarantee that nothing will happen to you within half a year." Yun Zishu said calmly, "I don't know if you will be settled if you write, but if you don't write, I guarantee that you will always be under house arrest here and never
There may be a chance to get out."
Yun Chen thought that being under house arrest here would be better than being settled by his father...
"But the Dongyou royal family doesn't raise idle people. If you lose your use value, you may soon be given a glass of poisonous wine and your body will be dragged to the wilderness to be fed to wolves, and the wolves will chew you until no bones are left."
Yun Chen's expression changed, and he subconsciously wanted to scold her for being evil-hearted. However, when the words came to his lips, he shuddered violently when he saw Yun Zishu's relaxed and calm look, and swallowed the words that came to his lips.
He knew that being quick to talk now would only make him uncomfortable. Yun Zishu would not suffer any loss regardless of pain or itch.
So he gave up struggling and negotiating with her, and resigned to his fate and started writing the letter. After he finished writing and let it dry, the palace attendant took it to Yun Zishu and checked it word for word, then nodded and said: "Don't forget the signature below."
Yun Chen quickly added his signature and stamped the seal he carried with him.