this king; that king

"Jason, come with me to the market today to buy something, I want to try these shoes!" Jin excitedly praised the new shoes that his second brother gave him to Jason.

"Yeah, those shoes look good!" Jason said.

"It's precious! I didn't want to wear such an expensive thing, but it's rare for me to go shopping with you!" Jin smiled, and was about to reach out to pull Jason, but stopped suddenly, he couldn't let him go. People in the market thought they were lovers.

"Then where do you want to go today?" Jason was dressed more casually, only an ordinary shirt and trousers.

"I've never been to Nanmen Market, let's go there!" It seems that Jin has planned it long ago.

"Let's go then." Jason put his hand on Jin's shoulder.

The Nanmen Market is crowded with people, and the people wrapped in various headscarves and the cooks in gray dresses are particularly eye-catching in the crowd. The wheels of rickshaws on the muddy road beside them raise a puff of sand smoke, and the peddlers hold their hair and wear tattered gold tassels. Frying the yellow croaker with the fragrance of thyme in the three-cornered hat, Jin and Jason passed through the gap between the woman in the long skirt and the man waving green onions, and suddenly turned around and reached out and snapped his fingers near Jason's ear.

"Can't hear you!" Jason laughed, the crowd around him was too noisy.

"What did you say?" Jin asked aloud.

"I said I couldn't hear what you were saying!" Jason replied loudly.

"You're blind!" Jin smiled and slapped Jason on the shoulder.Jason smiled wryly and patted Jin on the head: "Go, go, you're deaf."

"I want to eat that!" Jin asked, pointing to the pancake stand.

The crispy and sweet pancakes are piled up one by one on the shiny iron plate. When someone pays for it, the boss will take two and squeeze the light and fresh mayonnaise and the bright and gorgeous tomato meat sauce into the middle as a pancake. Filling material, twisted up a handful of green onions and sprinkled it on, and the man took it away.

"Okay." Jason agreed casually, he got up late this morning, because he was in a hurry to meet Jin, and he was hungry.

Jin took the money and went happily, and came back with a double-layer pancake after a while.Jin first sniffed the smell, sighed that it was delicious, then suddenly frowned, staring at the outer circle of the pancake: "Ah, it's burnt here, I don't want to eat it...it's better to throw it away."

"Hey, don't waste it, I'll eat it." Jason took the past and bit off it in two or three bites, "Can you buy another one?"

Seeing Jin's sly smile, Jason suddenly realized something: "Did you know that I couldn't get up this morning?"

"Of course, you've never been early for a date! You must not have eaten." Jin turned her head and continued to stroll proudly.

After a while, the two reached the center of the market, and the spiers of the castle disappeared behind the houses.Jason began to look at his pocket watch frequently, keenly noticed it, and asked him what happened.

"Ah... I have something to do in the house, you wait for me here, I'll be back soon." Jason seemed a little absent-minded.

"Then I'll wait for you here," Jin sat on the bench beside the flowers, and waved to Jason with a smile, "Go and come back!"

Jason nodded and hurriedly disappeared into the crowd.

5 minutes.

10 minutes.

Two 10 minutes.

half an hour.

Jason hasn't come back yet, so I'm in a hurry, but he can't leave the South Gate Market, he doesn't know the way, and what if Jason can't find him when he comes back?

There must be something delaying, I thought so, and made up my mind.

But what if Jason came back a long time ago, but was blocked by the crowd and thought he was not there, so what if he went back first?What if he actually had an accident and couldn't come?This kind of thought began to gradually fill Jin's head, he began to panic, stood up abruptly, looked at the crowd in the market, and sat down again.

Not Jason, not Jason, not Jason!

"Sorry!" Jin, who has always been afraid of talking to strangers, stopped a passing aunt, "Excuse me, have you seen a young man who is about this tall... in a shirt?"

"No..." Auntie shook her head and left, bowing to her, "Thank you!"

Jin asked twenty or thirty people in a row, bowing made his back hurt, the sun gradually rose, and the number of people passing by gradually decreased. , What happened to Jason?

Jin didn't care about lunch at all, he began to lower his head and shed tears in extreme fatigue and tension, he must find Jason, but in the end he fell asleep on the hot bench because of dizziness.

"So it's here...! Get up!" Jin heard someone call him.

The fiery red sunset reflected the market that was about to close. The owner of the pancake seller and the rickshaw driver were chatting, and sat up in a daze. When he saw a figure in a white shirt in front of him, he hugged it desperately and said happily: "You come back Alright! Are you all right?"

"What are you talking about, Your Highness, it's obvious that you have something to do!"

I would like to look up, it is none other than the light bulb.

"Fortunately, Your Majesty didn't take much care of your business today, otherwise you would have been arrested and beaten up! The Second Highness secretly sent a small team to the city to look for you, and I didn't know you were in the market." The light bulb put Jin helped him up and patted the ashes off his body.

"...Jason, is Jason back?" Jin asked.

"He...?" Bulb replied indifferently, "I just passed by his house, and he received some of his friends inside. He hangs out with them every morning, Your Highness is really, wait a few minutes for him If you don't come back, you should go!"

"I...it's fine, as long as he's fine." Jin still had that gentle smile like a bauhinia flower, but the light bulb saw the despair in his eyes that was hard to hide.

That night the moonlight was as clean as a clear spring, the room was not lit, and I was wearing a long khaki nightgown, sitting on a fragrant and soft bed covered with red rose petals, hugging the quilt and looking at the brightly lit window from a distance. City.

Jin's tears fell on the quilt little by little, his weak hands could hardly cover his crying lips, but he did it, he pinched his nose and blocked his breathing to avoid choking.

The light bulb was watching at the door. He wanted to push the door open several times to comfort him, but somehow he held back. It is time for a 15-year-old boy to learn to be strong, but Jin has never looked mature at all. He was afraid that if he went on like this, he would do something stupid.

The next day, Jin got up and dressed as before, no different from before, he let the light bulb send himself out of the palace two hours earlier than usual, but he didn't ask Jason to go out.

Bulb didn't know what Jin wanted to do, so he followed behind his master secretly.

Jin, as usual, arrived at the Bania mansion, but refused to go in, hid by the door, and listened carefully.

"Jason, will you marry me?" A clear male voice came.

"Of course, the wedding is set for next month!" It was Jason's voice.

"Then when are you going to tell everyone?"

"I will make an announcement this afternoon. I want the whole city to know that I, Jason Barnia, will marry the most beautiful person in the world. Please invite them to hold a banquet here in January!"

The light bulb saw that Jin was trembling, and it became more and more violent.Bulb understands, Jin wants to know for whom Jason is late every day, and for whom is he entertaining guests, the anxiety in Jin's heart, which has always been fragile and sensitive, is expanding every day, but today he is here to shatter his fantasy!

Seeing the door of the mansion open, there was a sound of kissing from inside, Jin hurriedly hid in the corner, and saw a tall and beautiful young man with soft hair, fair skin and firm skin coming out of the door, his faint smile was like a hundred flowers blooming, warming the sun in early spring.

At this time, I heard the butler inside the door ask Jason: "Master, what about the other boy?"

"Ah, Jin? Don't worry about him. He said he came from an official family. I'm just interested in his money. Look at his face, who would be moved by the truth!" Jason replied.

Jin kept pinching the back of her hand, gritted her teeth, took deep breaths, and recited silently for another 30 seconds before knocking on the door of Bania's mansion.

Jason opened the door, saw that it was Jin, and showed a surprised smile, but somehow Jin felt that his smile was full of embarrassment.

"Yo, I'm coming! Surprise!" Jin still greeted him like that.

"Ah... Jin, it's so early!"

"I want to see you!" Jin smiled, "Didn't you say you like me!"

Jason paused: "Yes!"

"Hey, will I marry you?" Jin suddenly lowered her head and asked.

"Huh?..." Jason was at a loss, and said slowly, "Ah, about this matter, I...we don't know enough..."

"I lied to you!" Jin was very disappointed, but patted Jason on the shoulder generously, "How could I take it seriously."

Jason also laughed, as if he was relieved, so Jin spent the whole morning in the Bania Mansion that day, laughing, eating and drinking as usual, and when it was time to go back at noon, Jin stepped out of the gate and turned back to Jason with a smile Said: "From now on, I will retreat at home according to my father's order, and I may not come to you for a while."

"Ah...that's right!" Jason seemed to be trying his best to pretend to be sorry, "I'll write to you every three to five days."

Are you still not telling the truth?Jin smiled wryly in his heart, and when he turned his head, his expression was as cold as ice. He turned his head to look at the tree where the rabbit was hiding, and his tone was calmer than ever: "Bulb, don't hide, take me back."

The silver-haired youth sighed, nodded, hugged Jin and jumped into the passage.

That's where everything ends and everything else begins.

The next day, perhaps by chance, the king of the Northern Kingdom died suddenly, and Jin's marriage plan was frozen.

On the third day after Jin decided not to see Jason again, the second prince drank tea with Jin in the gazebo in the garden.Suddenly, the second prince began to cough violently, and the teacup that fell from his trembling hands was stained with blood.

The second prince just fell in front of Jin's eyes, and the imperial doctor was busy all day long.

I would like to take on the responsibility of all the maids in the palace. I personally pour water for the second prince who is hard to talk to him, change the towel, comb my hair, light up the incense, sleep for three or four hours a day at most, and the dark circles are crawling. Bloodshots gradually emerged from Shangjin's eye sockets, and the clothes that had been soaked in sweat all day were almost soaked again just after changing.

As long as I take care of myself since I was a child, I will be fine as my second brother who has done so much for me.

On the fourth night, the second prince was finally able to sit up, and Jin was ecstatic, lying on the second prince's body and chatting with him carefully.

"Second brother, why don't you want to be king?"

"Then why don't you want to be king?" the second prince asked back.

"I...it's not my turn to do those important national affairs. I just need to live a good life and be like an ordinary person. Is it like this?" Jin looked at the dancing candle light in a trance.

"As for me, I don't want to deal with these things." The second prince's smile is always so warm, "I just want to see you live like an ordinary person."

Seeing Jin finally smiled, the second prince sideways pulled him into his arms: "You are more important to me than the whole world."

"I know." Jin let out a satisfied sigh of relief in the familiar temperature and smell of the second prince.

Seeing that the second prince was much better, he finally decided to go back to his room and have a good sleep. He yawned and waved goodnight to the second prince.

That's the last good night.

That night, Jin was awakened from his sleep again, and the death knell of the castle rang extremely piercingly. The light bulb told him that the second prince suddenly fell ill in the middle of the night and died of vomiting blood.

Jin kept feeling that something was tearing down the tower in his heart layer by layer, and just now, the tower collapsed, leaving him crying furiously beside the broken wall.

And when he came back from the funeral, he happened to hear his elder brother outside the door asking someone to get rid of the drugs.

Jin sat obsessively all night in front of the mirror, the room was brightly lit, but there were thunderstorms outside, the night sky was as black as ink in a thousand-foot pool, and the sound of raindrops beating the windows was like the applause he received when he was young Generally, at this moment is full of merciless irony.

He numbly scratched his increasingly uglier face, lowered his head on the dressing table and sighed long, then raised his eyes indifferently.

"Bulb, you go out. Without my order, no one is allowed to come in for three days, not even those who deliver food or water."

Jin locked the door, and the light bulb heard the sound of the curtain being pulled shut.

For the next three days, there were occasional sounds of broken porcelain in the hallway, as well as hysterical screams and long wailing that became hoarse every second.

On the fourth morning, Jin, who hadn't eaten, drank or slept for three days, slowly opened the door under the worried eyes of the light bulb.

The short black hair is sandwiched with eye-catching white, and a comb just fell to the ground from the messy hair, making a dull and heavy sound.The pale and gray skin was barely visible, and the red and swollen eyes in the deep black eye sockets lifted their eyes tiredly and sadly, their eyes were like blood-stained swords, fierce and sad.The sound of heavy breathing was very clear. The crumpled black nightgown had several holes, and the tail was covered with dirty dust. The feet under the nightgown moved to the door step by step.Jin's right hand, which was holding the door, was covered with scratches, and a cloth belt was tied to the hanging left hand, and blood was dripping from the incision that was not completely covered.

The room was in a mess, there were fragments of all the paintings on the floor, blood was everywhere, and there was a golden basin placed in the most conspicuous place, the warm water in it was mixed with bloody blood and fragments of the mirror.

Just like an evil ghost in hell, Jin raised his head little by little, took a deep breath, pressed his throat with a half-mute, still soft but already murky voice, and spoke viciously:

"Bulb, I... want to be king!..."

Jin immediately rolled his eyes and passed out in the arms stretched out by the rabbit in time.