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In the autumn of the 24th year of Apocalypse, Emperor Jingwen ordered Dali Temple Minister Qi Luo to re-examine the rebellion case of General Mei Shaobang and his family, and sent a file to Dali Temple.

The retrial of General Mei’s treason case was the first to be constrained by Zheng Boke, the Duke of Rongchang who handed over the papers. It was full, and Zheng Boke was also temporarily detained in the Criminal Department.

Since the day when Zheng Boke was taken into custody, Liu Zhi sent people to Rongchang Duke's Mansion to invite Zheng Zhongjin to have a gathering every day. The person who sent him was Li Ziyu, but every time he went, he was rejected every time.

Liu Zhi sighed and came to the door in person.

The gate of the Rongchang Mansion was closed tightly, and the guard at the gate saluted respectfully: "Good luck, my lord, my master said that there are no visitors in the Rongchang Mansion."

After the young man finished speaking, seeing that Liu Zhi had no intention of leaving, he bowed and said it again.

Liu Zhi tilted his head slightly, and Li Ziyu knew his master's intentions. With a wave of his hand, a group of guards rushed up behind him and restrained the guard boy. While the guard was struggling and shouting, the guards of Rongchang Duke's Mansion rushed over, but they all rushed forward. The guards brought by Liu Zhi took him down, and the guards opened half of the door. Liu Zhi raised his foot and walked in, not caring at all that his forced intrusion was really against the rules.

"Is His Royal Highness Prince Yong here to arrest someone?" A cold voice came, and Zheng Zhongjin, wearing a black robe with sleeves, came slowly from the back of the courtyard.

Liu Zhi saw the person he saw, so he stopped rushing in, waved the guards to retreat behind him, and looked at Zheng Zhongjin: "Zhongjin should know that this king didn't mean it."

"What does the lord mean?" Zheng Zhongjin sneered: "It is the father of the lower official who did not interrogate any evidence in the prison, so he wanted to come to the lower official to find clues? Your lord, even if you want to arrest someone, you have to get him." The documents from Dali Temple come, otherwise, the next official will go to the imperial court to visit you and break into a private house."

"Zhongjin..." Liu Zhi sighed helplessly, "It's because you didn't see me, and I have something to tell you..." But before he finished speaking, he saw Zheng Zhongjin walking up and down with him from a distance. Young and old, in a blue gown, with a thin figure and a small dimple lying under the corner of his lips.

"Zhongjin doesn't want to see me for nothing, but I have a lively chat with Mr. Zhao." Liu Zhi's expression gradually cooled down, and the grievance and anxiety in the corners of his eyes disappeared in an instant: "I don't know what to talk about? Talking about being with me How about listening to it?"

"The lower official pays homage to His Royal Highness, Prince Yong," Zhao Ji approached and saluted according to the rules. Zhao Ji made a one-and-a-half salute without kowtowing. My lord is just talking about ordinary and trivial things, not enough to speak for the prince."

Liu Zhi raised his eyelids slightly: "Is Mr. Zhao not familiar with etiquette? After seeing the prince, he can only salute? Could it be that the Minister of Rites has not taught Mr. Zhao well?"

Zhao Jixing's face froze, and then he slowly clenched the hand that was hanging by his side, revealing his unwillingness.

Zhao Jixing was the son of the Minister of Rites when he was born, and was well-known in the capital when he was young. He entered the palace at the age of 12 to accompany the prince, and at the age of 17, he was handpicked by the emperor for the imperial examination. He can't be the three princes and nine ministers, but he should be a courtier who can seriously participate in the government, but he doesn't want to be suppressed by Liu Zhi, and he has been a history book editor in the Imperial Academy for ten years.

ten years!He, Zhao Jixing, is arrogant, full of ambition, and how many decades of his life have he been allowed to squander? !

He really hated Liu Zhi.

But he also knows how the Hanlin Academy got there for ten years.

When he was young, he went to the palace to study with him, and both he and Liu Zhi had one person in mind at the same time, the son of Rongchang Duke's mansion, Zheng Zhongjin.

He knows the strictness of etiquette, law and ethics, which cannot be easily touched, not to mention that he is still the son of the Minister of Rites, and he always abides by it and endures it when he first understands his mind.It's just that occasionally I can't hide the liking in my eyes, and I get close to Zheng Zhongjin. The two of them have a heart to serve the country and cherish each other. Liu Zhi, whom he liked in his heart, became jealous.

In the imperial palace, everyone knows that Liu Zhi is like a mad concubine Zhen.

as at this moment.

No matter how unwilling Zhao Jixing was, she also lifted her hem, knelt down on the ground, bowed her head and bowed: "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to Prince Yong."

Zheng Zhongjin's eyes darkened, Zhao Jixing made a gesture to kneel the moment his knees touched the ground.

"If you kneel down today," Liu Zhi said with hatred in his heart, "Tomorrow, this king will let Rongchang Gong die in Dali Temple."

Zheng Zhongjin raised his head, his eyes wide open, and the anger inside made Liu Zhi feel a pain in his heart.

"I wanted to talk to you here, but I saw someone I don't want to see, and I lost my interest." Liu Zhi seemed a little crazy in his eyes: "If Zhongjin wants to save your father, then even though I come, If you don't want to save me, I have nothing to say." After saying that, he turned around with a flick of his sleeves.

Zheng Zhongjin looked at Liu Zhi's figure that quickly disappeared outside the door, and raised his heels without hesitation, but someone grabbed his arm, and it turned out that Zhao Jixing, who was kneeling on the ground, stopped him with a voice: "Zhongjin, Prince Yong is doing something. Unpredictable, even if you go, you may not be able to rescue Lord Rongchang, why not go to the East Palace with me, beg His Highness the Crown Prince, maybe we can discuss some solutions..."

Zheng Zhongjin frowned slightly, gently opened Zhao Jixing's hand, and said in a deep voice, "Ji Xing, I have my own measure."

Liu Zhi did not go far, he sat in the carriage and waited for him, and when Zheng Zhongjin got into the carriage, Liu Zhi ordered Li Zihe to go back to the mansion.

The luxurious carriage is running fast on Chang'an Street, and the kung fu of a stick of incense has already arrived at Prince Yong's Mansion. The majestic stone lions at the gate of the mansion are facing each other. The repairs are more and more perfect, the pillars, flowers and plants are all exquisite, and if you look closely, it can be compared to a palace in the imperial palace.

Liu Zhi got off the carriage, without saying a word, he walked quickly through the palace, followed by Zheng Zhongjin.

They came under a newly transplanted big tree in the back garden. Liu Zhi touched the thick trunk behind him, then turned his head and asked Zheng Zhongjin, "Does Zhongjin still remember this ** tree?"

Zheng Zhongjin hadn't approached it before, but he saw it at a glance, but he was angry in his heart, and naturally he didn't want to follow Liu Zhi: "Your official saw many such thick and strong trees, so I don't remember them."

"Zhongjin means, you have forgotten it a long time ago, haven't you?" Liu Zhi looked straight into his eyes: "But I always remembered that, for this reason, I begged my father to transplant it on the second day after returning to Beijing. It took me half a year to work here before I survived."

Zheng Zhongjin was silent. He felt that Liu Zhi seemed a little different today. People always said that Prince Yong was a madman, but he understood that this person looked like a madman. In fact, his heart was clear and indifferent. Apart from being obsessed with himself, he didn't care about anything. But today However, Zheng Zhongjin felt that his eyes were extremely fragile.

"On the first day you entered the palace, when you saw me, I climbed up the tree and got stuck in the branches. I have been on the top for more than an hour, already hungry and tired, I remember, you raised your head, gently coaxed me, told me not to be afraid, jump down, you followed me below, once I fell, I fell into the In your arms, you broke your arms because of this, and tied the board for a long time." Liu Zhi stopped looking at Zheng Zhongjin, turned around, touched the He** tree, and said a word, as if going back to the years in his memory: "Then It was you who were so painful that you were about to cry, your face was covered with cold sweat, but you only remembered to ask me carefully if I was fine, at that time, you had never met me."

"I begged you to accompany me to study with me, kneeling outside my father's study. I often think that I am lucky to have met you." Liu Zhi said gently when talking about the past: "It is very nice for you to be my companion. Be serious and careful, everyone praises you, everyone likes you, I don’t like others to look at you more, you are obviously mine, as long as I know how good you are, it’s enough, why do they always hang around you, always I want to get close to you, but you treat other people just like me, what's more, you and that Zhao Jixing can't wait to stick together all the time..."

"Your Highness, this official does not belong to anyone, it is a person, not an object," Zheng Zhongjin interrupted Liu Zhi.

"You're always like this... so you can't listen to me?!" Liu Zhi also got a little angry: "I have devoted my heart to you for so many years, you are blind and deaf, you can't see or hear Really? Then what do you want me to do for you to understand?"

Zheng Zhongjin sneered, and said: "My lord, your sincerity has been given to the wrong person. This official is not your lord's good man. My lord is a dragon and a phoenix. What kind of person can't you find? Why waste effort on this official? It's really not worth it?"

"I'm not wrong," Liu Zhi turned his head and stared at him fiercely: "Anyone can say that I'm wrong, that I'm crazy, but you can't, Zheng Zhongjin, you pretend to be confused when you pretend to be clear, and you say I'm crazy. Wrong, you said you are not worth it? Then who can be worth it, I only know that in this world, only you are willing to die for me. "

Hearing this, Zheng Zhongjin's heart warmed up, but he spoke indifferently: "My lord said that the matter of being punished and beaten for the lord was long gone. Why should the lord care about it? When the concubine Zhen was wronged and implicated the lord, he was dismissed from office." As His Highness's companion, I should protect His Highness well."

"Hehehe," Liu Zhi covered his face and sneered, "You are born proud and never admit that you have me in your heart. I won't force you, but why do you push me further and further away? I thought that what happened to the Mei family ten years ago It makes you feel even a little guilty, but that's not the case, Zheng Zhongjin, why are you being so cruel to me?"

"Ten years ago, my father wrote the memorandum to the Mei family, but he didn't mention the matter of treason. The Northern Territory was in turmoil back then, and the Mei family did not hand over military power for a long time. The Holy Majesty had no choice but to instruct my father to conspire with him to persecute General Mei. But I never expected that in the end, the entire Mei family would be ransacked and beheaded." Zheng Zhongjin tilted his head, unwilling to see Liu Zhi's infatuated and painful appearance: "I know that there is blood and deep hatred between you and me. The general case, but I also know the details, I can't prevent the Mei family from being wiped out, and I can't let the military power disappear in the hands of General Mei...My lord, we are no longer the children who didn't understand the world."

"Really?" Liu Zhi raised his eyes, the corners of his eyes were slightly red, as if he was drunk, but they were not drinking, probably because the shadows of the trees were scorching, and the light and shadows were bewildering. In his arms, Zheng Zhongjin was afraid that he would fall, so he didn't move until his shoulders were lightly pressed against, the hand beside Zheng Zhongjin moved slightly, after all, he didn't raise his hand to hold him in his arms as he did when he was a teenager.

"You have grown up, but I can't come out, Zhongjin..." Liu Zhi closed his eyes gently, and whispered Zheng Zhongjin's name: "You always question my sincerity, today, I will prove that I am with you." Look, it's good."

Zheng Zhongjin almost subconsciously wanted to push away the fiery body in his arms. When he wanted to reach out, he was shocked to find that his body had been hugged tightly by him. His arms were so hard that he seemed to be crushing himself, maybe Liu Zhi was hot and clean. Zheng Zhongjin's mind was burned like a piece of hot iron on his forehead, Zheng Zhongjin lowered his head slightly, and the same fiery thin lips touched him lightly.

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