Funing Hall

Zhao Shiqi really couldn't move anymore.

Since entering the palace in his life, he has lived a life of gold and jade.When I was in Hangzhou, my life was no worse than that in the palace, and the garden in the house was bigger than that of Princess Zhao Zongning's mansion.

After kneeling in the snow for ten hours, his clothes were already soaked in snow water, and even turned to ice, and his legs were even covered by thick snow.Hearing that Zhao Cong told him to go in, he was overjoyed and wanted to get up immediately, but he couldn't stand up at all.Rantao distressedly ordered two strong eunuchs to step forward to lift him up, only then did Zhao Shiqi realize that his legs were completely numb.

He smiled bitterly.

This time, he really didn't intend to play tricks, he really wanted to ask Zhao Cong to forgive him.

But now he has to be supported by the eunuch to stand up, and even if he stands up, he cannot move.He is now tall and not too light, two tall and strong eunuchs could only lift him up and send him to the inner room.

Zhao Cong was originally restless, but when he heard the sound, he immediately looked out.

Seeing that Zhao Shiqi was carried in by someone, and there was still a lot of snow on his body, he was lying on the bed, so he immediately sat up straight.But he thought again, he couldn't do this, and he forced himself to sit back again, continuing to keep a cold face.

Lu Yuan moved a low couch to the bed, and the eunuchs put Zhao Shiqi on the couch.Zhao Shiqi sat up propped up and looked up at Zhao Cong.

Zhao Cong deliberately avoided his sight.

The light that lit up in Zhao Shiqi's eyes suddenly went out again.

It happened that Rantao and others were not staring at him, so he suddenly knelt down on the bed again.But his legs were no longer feeling. He grabbed the edge of the bed with both hands and dragged himself down with his upper body. With a "plop", he knelt down on the bed.

Zhao Cong's heart skipped a beat, and when he turned around to look, his forehead couldn't help but hurt a little, he said angrily, "What are you doing!" Because of his poor health, his voice was very low, but he was very angry.

Ran Tao came back to his senses, and immediately said: "Maidservant, please help Xiao Lang to get up!"

Zhao Shiqi didn't want to, he clasped the bed with his hands, looked at Zhao Cong persistently, and said, "I was wrong."

Zhao Cong was in great pain, and he wanted to beg Zhao Shiqi not to look at him like this again, and not to say such things again.He really didn't want to be soft-hearted to Zhao Shiqi anymore.

But Zhao Shiqi looked up at him with really pitiful eyes.

Zhao Cong's aching and firm heart was once again shaken by his gaze.

The two of them were like this, and no one else dared to speak or take action.

Zhao Cong was silent for a long time, then said helplessly, "Get up first."

"I won't go." Zhao Shiqi said again.

The voice was very pitiful, Zhao Cong laughed mockingly: "I was not the one who let you go back then."

Rantao and others bowed their heads one after another, not daring to listen to His Majesty's words.

"I was really wrong."

Zhao Cong sighed: "Rantao, change his clothes, bring him hot water, and some warm, soft food."

"Yes!"

Rantao brought in the eunuch and hot water to wash his body and change his clothes, but Zhao Shiqi still held onto the side of the bed, refusing to move.

Zhao Cong said angrily, "Change your clothes first!"

Only then did Zhao Shiqi let go of his hand, but he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief. Being able to talk to him like this meant there was a turning point, right?

He couldn't move his body, and it wasn't easy to move, so he changed his clothes by the bed.Zhao Shiqi has frequently had those absurd dreams in the past few years, and he felt a little embarrassed to change his clothes naked in front of Zhao Cong.With his back to Zhao Cong, he lowered his head and let the little eunuchs change it for him.

Zhao Cong glanced inadvertently, and then became a little dazed.

Since seeing Zhao Shiqi goodbye, he has been so anxious that he hasn't had time to take a closer look at Zhao Shiqi five years later.Only now did he realize that the child had really grown up.Zhao Shiqi's shoulders are so broad, and his back is so thick.He was fascinated by the sight.

Until Zhao Shiqi changed his clothes and turned to look at him.

Back in the palace, the clothes that Rantao brought were naturally not black, but red, with intricate golden patterns embroidered on them.Rantao was afraid that he would be cold, so he specially put a blanket on his knees, the blanket was also bright red, very festive.

Zhao Shiqi hadn't touched such a color for five years, and he felt a little uncomfortable.Especially when he turned his head and saw Zhao Cong who was staring at him in a daze, he was also in a daze.

I don't know if five years really existed?

That's why he was so afraid of Zhao Cong, as long as he was by Zhao Cong's side, he couldn't find himself.Even the imprint of time seems to disappear out of thin air.

Zhao Cong stared blankly at his face.

During the few years when he thought Zhao Shiqi died, he blamed himself countless times. If he had returned from the Daqing Palace earlier, or if he had taken a boat to recover it himself, would Little Eleven not have died?He even dreamed of Little Eleven countless times, and every time he stretched out his hand, Little Eleven disappeared, and then he woke up.

He didn't expect to see Xiao Shiyi again in this life.

After growing up, Little Eleven looks even better than he imagined.

It wasn't until the imperial doctor came in that Zhao Cong came back to his senses, and said softly, "Look at his legs."

Doctor Bai didn't know the situation, he just listened to His Majesty's words, stepped forward to investigate, looked carefully for a long time, and said: "Your Majesty, Mr. Xiao Lang is very strong, and his legs are fine, but these It’s not easy to walk on a day. Get warm, take a bath every day, and massage the acupoints on your legs.”

Zhao Cong nodded: "Since that's the case, let's cook some ginger soup first, there is the cotton candy from the Southland, put more—" As he spoke, Zhao Cong couldn't help being stunned, he still remembered Xiao Shiyi Like to eat sweet things.

It has been many years now, I am afraid it has been changed long ago.

What's more, how did he know that the little eleven back then was just a person Zhao Shiqi played for him?

Maybe everything Zhao Shishi showed at that time was fake.

He sighed, and said softly: "Take him down to soak in the body." After soaking, before talking about those bad things, the body is the most important thing.

Zhao Shiqi was unwilling to leave, and he still held on to the bed tightly with his hands outstretched.Zhao Cong is also angry, really don't want his legs? !He stared at Zhao Shiqi, and Zhao Shiqi also looked at him.Zhao Shiqi's gaze was particularly straightforward, Zhao Cong lowered his head when he was seen, and said helplessly: "Everyone go out, I will talk to him."

"Yes." Everyone agreed, turned around and went out one by one.

Zhao Cong first looked at his legs, then raised his head and said, "You don't want your legs?"

"It's all right, Your Majesty, don't worry." In my previous life, I spent three or two days in the snow during wars.It will be better if you rest for a day or two.

do not worry? !I can't even stand up on my knees, why not worry? !

Zhao Cong was angry in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face, and asked again: "Is it uncomfortable to kneel?"

Zhao Shiqi shook his head.

"Why?"

"I was wrong, I should kneel."

"What's the use of talking about it?" Zhao Cong mocked, "It's just trying to soften my heart."

"I do not have."

"No?" Zhao Cong's gaze became sharp, "Why were you in the back garden? Did you really get drunk by your brothers? Did you really get bullied by Sun Xiaoyu?"

Zhao Shiqi was silent for a moment, and then said: "I am not valued at home, and my mother is also bullied—"

Zhao Cong interrupted unceremoniously: "So you pretend to be pitiful?!" Don't be ridiculous, he has seen this kind of trick in many film and television dramas in his previous life, and he himself said it in class, use this to coax He is so ridiculous!

"I can only pretend to be useless and stupid. When I was six years old, when I went back to school for the first time, Zhao Shiting spilled ink on me and stained my new clothes. It was the clothes my mother had saved for me for several years. I did. When I got home, my mother cried and said she was 'sorry about me'. After that, I never went to school. When I was not in school, I could only draw pictures in front of the window, drawing those birds— —" Zhao Shiqi murmured, he was talking about his previous life experience, he could only say this in order to fulfill the biggest lie, but when he said this, he couldn't help but fell into it, "I have painted for many years Those birds like me, they come here every day, especially the nest of swallows, they come every spring. But Zhao Shiting led someone to strangle them. No one is good to me except my mother. My mother is often called The side concubine in the mansion is bullying her, I want to help her, but I'm just a 'fool', I can't help. I hate each of them, and I want revenge."

Zhao Shiqi paused, he was about to start lying again, but he had to.

He said: "When I was 11 years old, as a bastard, I had a rare chance to enter the palace. I thought, my chance has come, I don't want to go back to the mansion to be bullied, I want to stand out, I want to find the biggest backer, I--"

"You found me." Zhao Cong said.

Zhao Shiqi nodded.

"Should I believe your words?" Zhao Cong smiled wryly, but he really felt sorry for Zhao Shiqi's childhood experience, "Where is auspiciousness?"

"After I entered the palace, I saw that he was a new eunuch, and threatened him to do things for me." He thought for a while, and then said, "Auspiciousness has also been threatened by me..."

Zhao Cong was annoyed by him again, his lips were trembling, he didn't know what to say.

Even Geely was threatened and used by him!That idiot Geely is still hiding it from him!Let Jili and Jixiang be locked up together!

Zhao Shiqi felt a little guilty: "Ji Li is very loyal to His Majesty, but he just helped me hide the things I can talk about. I threatened him with a knife."

"You are so capable! Why do you have to enter the palace to please me?!" Zhao Cong was impatient.She was so scheming when she was only 11 years old!He has been guarding against this person's scheming all day long, and that person's scheming, but unexpectedly, ten of those people combined can't compare to this one in front of him!It's not because he was also a sick and weak emperor back then, so easy to bully!

"Concubine Xu didn't like our mother and son. At that time, she wanted to get rid of me, so I had no choice but to enter the palace."

"You are innocent. You left five years ago. In order to avenge you, I sent their mother and child far away. They were never allowed to return to Tokyo. I even removed the name of Concubine Xu from the genealogy! Really! It’s easy to think about it, this trick of borrowing a knife to kill people is really good.”

Zhao Shiqi looked up at him, his eyes sparkling.He didn't try to kill with a knife, but he was inexplicably happy that Zhao Cong did such a thing for him.

Zhao Cong was impatient, avoiding his sight, and did not want to ask him any more.Originally, he still had a lot of things he wanted to ask, such as the matter of wolfberry back then, but he didn't know how to ask.After all, this matter is also very complicated, and many people are involved in it, including himself.For example, he also wanted to ask about the notes that Ji Xiang sent out.But those notes were all about his daily life, which was passed on to Zhao Shiqi, but it was because Zhao Shiqi also missed him.If Zhao Shiqi had other thoughts, what's the use of seeing what he ate, what he wore, who he was happy for, and who he was angry with?

He didn't know whether to be angry or happy.After all, the first pass had been passed on for five years, and Xiao Wuxin had never received it, so he cut it off.

He sighed again, and remembered the time when Zhao Shishi went into the water to save him. Little Shishi really didn't want to kill him, did he?Should he really just come to the palace to ask for his protection?Little Eleven spoke rashly at that time, if he had any doubts, Little Eleven would have revealed his secrets.Xiao Shishi is so smart, he should be able to think of this.But Xiao Shiyi still spoke in order to vent his anger on him, and even went to the Baoci Hall to confront the Queen Mother Sun.

Besides, he also knew that no matter what doubts he had, Zhao Shiqi was so smart that he would always find a way to answer him.He couldn't tell whether it was true or false, how could he have picked up such a scourge back then?But if he had been more ruthless at the beginning, he would not have these troubles now.

He is really not an indecisive person, but when it comes to Xiao Shiyi's matter, he is always soft-hearted.

He sighed and asked again, "Where have you been these past few years?"

"Hangzhou."

Zhao Cong sneered: "Haizhou?"

"I will never lie to you again."

"If I don't ask, will you tell the truth?!"

"Your Majesty, I was wrong."

Zhao Cong got angry when he heard him call that, and asked coldly, "Why didn't you come back since you didn't die?"

"When I come back, I am subject to others. I can't live in the palace for a lifetime. I always have to go back to the Prince Wei's mansion."

Zhao Cong laughed angrily, and asked again: "Five years ago, were you forced to leave, or did you leave on your own initiative?"

Zhao Shiqi looked at him pitifully.

After all, Zhao Cong didn't let out a burst of anger. After all, he was extinguished, but he became even more angry.But how could such a pretty face stare at you so pitifully? !No matter whether it is good or bad, after all, it has been raised under his nose for nearly a year!

Zhao Cong asked angrily, "How is the leg? Does it hurt?"

Zhao Shiqi nodded: "It hurts."

"When the imperial doctor was here, why didn't you tell the truth?"

"I'm 16 years old."

Zhao Cong was laughed angrily by him: "When you pretended to be a fool in the past, I didn't see you wanting face!"

Zhao Cong's words were thorny, but Zhao Shiqi felt very comfortable in his heart, as long as Zhao Cong was willing to talk to him!You can scold him whatever you want!

"Now, why come back?"

"I was doing some business in Hangzhou, and a shopkeeper stole my silver and betrayed me. I will arrest him and bring him back."

Zhao Cong laughed angrily again, betrayal?He also knows the word betrayal?

"Who knows whether what you said is true or not. Why did you suddenly enter the palace?"

"The Empress Dowager Sun gave the princess a marriage, and people outside said that you fainted from anger. I live in the Yuanjia teahouse, and the news is best there."

Zhao Cong glanced at him: "Yuanjia teahouse is also your property?"

Zhao Shiqi nodded uncomfortably, except for those private soldiers in Hangzhou and the biggest lie, he no longer has any secrets in front of Zhao Cong.

"I really underestimated you." Zhao Cong was even angrier.Fortunately, he was still worried about Zhao Shishi. He was rich, intelligent, and good-looking. He was afraid that countless young ladies would pounce on him, so why should he worry about it!He had a good life in Hangzhou, but he was dying in Kaifeng Mansion!The more he thought about it, the more bored he became. Zhao Cong is the emperor and has a temper. He pointed out, "Let's go!"

Zhao Shiqi was shocked: "Your Majesty said, I don't have to go anymore!"

"I didn't let you leave Kaifeng mansion, you go out of the palace! Impatient to see you!"

"I--"

"Let's go! You sixteen-year-old gentleman with a deep plan, you don't need to pretend to be pitiful in front of me."

When Zhao Cong said this, Zhao Shiqi really pretended to be pitiful, but Zhao Cong no longer looked at him.He lamented in his heart, and had no choice but to make a gesture of leaving. His legs had regained a little feeling, but he still staggered when he got up, and naturally fell down on the bed again.

"..." Zhao Cong immediately sat up nervously.

Zhao Shiqi looked back at him.

Zhao Cong leaned back weakly, and after a while, he said softly: "The imperial doctor said that you need to take a bath, so you go back to Funing Hall. In the side hall, your bed and your bedding are still there, and you can lie down after taking a bath. "Zhao Cong has no energy to scold him, "I ask Rantao to come in."

Zhao Shiqi shook his head: "I'm right here."

"Don't always pretend to be pitiful in front of me. You are so capable that I can't bear it."

"I am here to accompany His Majesty."

No matter how angry Zhao Cong was, he said "Your Majesty" in one mouthful, which is really very respectful.Who knows what he is thinking?But this is the most infuriating thing, knowing that he still has something to hide from himself, but he is reluctant to punish him again.After finally coming back, is it possible for him to kneel outside until he dies?Or, is it really comfortable to drive him out of Kaifeng Mansion?

Zhao Cong laughed at himself, then he himself would die first.

He was angry with himself, but pointed to the bed board: "I can't move, you come up by yourself, put your legs under the quilt, and be warmed by it."

Only then did Zhao Shiqi let out a sigh of relief.

At this moment, he had some strength, and quickly got on the bed with his arms propped up, and stretched his legs into the quilt.As soon as he felt the warmth of the quilt, a rare smile appeared on his face.It's not an overly bright smile because of killing people, but a soft smile that ripples out because of warmth.

Seeing him laughing like this, Zhao Cong couldn't help but soften his voice, and asked: "Now that you're back, you're 16 years old, have you ever thought about what you want to do? How can you always do business and make a career out of it?" .”

"Everything is at His Majesty's discretion."

Zhao Cong laughed angrily again, but now he is very obedient.

He and Zhao Shiqi talked too much back and forth, and he was very tired, and now he also felt that he was ridiculous.He was the one who vomited blood from the anger, and he was the one who scolded people out, and it was himself who was reluctant to call in at this moment.He was a little tired and fell asleep with his eyes closed.

He hadn't had a good night's sleep in too long.

In fact, he still couldn't fully believe Zhao Shiqi's words, did Jixiang really have such a superficial relationship with him?But Jixiang did not use goji berries to harm him back then, which has always puzzled him.Looking at it now, did Zhao Shiqi know about those goji berries back then?He knew it and stopped other people's plots?

Who knows, Zhao Cong laughed secretly in his heart, and laughed at himself.

He suddenly opened his eyes, just in time to catch Zhao Shiqi's swaying gaze, and said softly: "If you want to lie, you have to lie for a lifetime. If you want to hide it, you have to hide it forever."

"..." Zhao Shiqi couldn't help becoming nervous again.

After Zhao Cong finished speaking, he really closed his eyes and fell asleep.

For some reason, he, who hadn't had a good night's sleep for a long time, fell asleep very quickly this time.

Zhao Shiqi looked at his sleeping face, and said to himself, he will hide those things that should be hidden from him for the rest of his life.

I've come back and I don't regret it.

All along, the front that was still confused suddenly became clear.

Zhao Cong has always been gentle, and in the future, he is willing to be the knife in Zhao Cong's hand.

I am also willing to be the shield in front of him.