Born short-lived

Zhou Zirong was taken aback for a moment, and let out a sigh of relief.

Sure enough, I still can't hide from this little ancestor...

He smiled dryly, and finally confirmed with some embarrassment under Dong Sheng's gaze, "You...know?"

Dong Sheng nodded.

In fact, Dong Sheng was really worried for a while at first, but when he saw the man standing in front of him with all his beard and feathers, he didn't think too much about it.But just now Zhou Zirong's evasive attitude caused some waves in his heart, which made him feel a little restless for no reason.

Zhou Zirong's eyebrows twitched, seeing his expression broken, he hurriedly put his usual smile all over his face, and while helping Dong Sheng to walk towards the table, he explained in a evasive way: "It's nothing It’s just a few remnant Panyang soldiers who don’t have long-sightedness, they are not convinced, and they insist on making trouble, and they have all been resolved.”

Dong Sheng's complexion was still not particularly good, and he vented annoyedly: "Then there's no need to hide such things from me."

The coach of Donghai was assassinated, but Yinfeng didn't write him a letter, he must have been fooled by Zhou Zirong.Dong Sheng is younger than Zhou Zirong, Zhou Zirong often fooled him when he helped his husband take care of him when he was a child, so Dong Sheng knows better than anyone how good Zhou Zirong's three-inch tongue can fool people.

"Then are you injured?"

Zhou Zirong quickly opened his eyes and said nonsense: "What's the matter, they can't hurt me."

Dong Sheng can't let people take off their clothes and check it carefully, and Zhou Zirong's skills are really good, so he really believed it after hearing it.

It's just that I still wanted to scold him a few words to express my dissatisfaction, but when I saw those eyes that were so gentle that they almost overflowed, I swallowed the words back when I reached my mouth.Dong Sheng has always had no temper towards Zhou Zirong. Even if there are 1 dissatisfaction in his stomach, what he said was nothing more than a mild complaint: "I think you still treat me like a child."

Zhou Zirong had no choice but to coax, "How dare I."

But Dong Sheng, a person who has not yet been crowned, is not considered a very big adult at all, so when he said these words, it would inevitably seem a bit unreasonable.

After Dong Sheng finished speaking, he seemed to realize that he was a little ridiculous, his ears felt hot, and he sat down with a dark face without saying a word and poured Zhou Zirong a cup of tea.

Zhou Zirong was also savvy, he didn't dismantle his stage, took a sip from the cup obediently, and took the opportunity to change the subject: "This tea is good, old rock tea, right?"

Only then did Dong Sheng chuckle in a muffled voice: "You know what to do."

He scooped some clear water from the pottery bottle on the side and poured it into the silver pot. While lifting the silver pot to the small stove to boil, he said, "This is a new tea from Yunnan and Fujian, with a thousand-year-old tree and a hundred-year-old tea. A rare find."

When Zhou Zirong heard him mentioning Yunnan and Fujian, he paused slightly, put down the porcelain cup in his hand and said with a smile: "During your absence in the Central Plains, southern Xinjiang, Yunnan and Fujian have slowly recovered, and the main business roads have been opened. , Now we need to build a few auxiliary roads, Luo Geng used to write to me all the time to ask me how his brother is doing, if he doesn’t obey, he will be sent to southern Xinjiang to help him reclaim wasteland.”

Dong Sheng was happy again when he heard it, he laughed twice, shook his head and said, "If you want to reclaim wasteland, send him to northern Xinjiang, that's called wasteland, chickens don't lay eggs, birds don't shit, pour a ladle of water The ground is gone in a blink of an eye, and not even a single grain of rice can be planted in the wilderness for thousands of miles."

He was joking, and he didn't care about it, but when he looked up inadvertently, he suddenly saw Zhou Zirong's sinking expression and the distress overflowing in his eyes.

Dong Sheng was slightly taken aback, swallowed his saliva, suddenly forgot what to say next, so he took a sip from his teacup as a cover-up.

He lowered his eyes, and heard Zhou Zirong sigh softly, and said in a deep voice: "Anyway, you should take a good rest during this time, you have lost so much weight, let the cooks in the East Palace make it up for you."

Dong Sheng was so upset that he let out a random "hmm", followed by another burst of silence.

A thought flashed through his mind - he thought that there are people in this world who care more about himself than himself.

After waiting for a long time, Dong Sheng cleared his mind again, pretended nothing happened, and continued the previous words: "I have already prepared some tea, I will find a convenient day later, and I will visit the high priest."

Zhou Zirong knew that it was inconvenient for him to have too much contact with Dong Sheng in front of people at this time, let alone going to the Jiang Clan's compound, so he didn't say much, he just said: "Okay, then if you need anything, you can find someone to bring it to me. talk."

"Okay." Dong Sheng nodded, and suddenly seemed to remember something, and sneered suddenly, "That old boy Jiang Kun might have done something while I was away, and I just happened to go to Jiang Kun Let's spy on the family."

"Well, our Zhou family and Mr. Li also have some former disciples in the court, plus a few former members of the East China Sea. Even if we are away for such a long time, the people in the cabinet will not be completely unaware of their intentions to make trouble." Zhou Zirong smiled, "It's time for me to walk around later."

"Speaking of..." Dong Sheng frowned slightly, "I remember that there are still a few of your family members who have not entered the official position, do you value it? Zhang Lunian died, and several of his close party members were dismissed from office. , the seat of Yushitai is still vacant.”

"Yes, there is." Zhou Zirong rubbed the rim of the cup, thinking for a while, "Are you planning to start now? Are you in a hurry?"

Right now, there is a lot of turmoil in the government and the public, and Dong Sheng alone has countless pairs of malicious eyes staring at him. If someone is placed at this juncture, I'm afraid it will cause trouble again.

"Not now," Dong Sheng himself understood that this is not the time yet, "I mean, do you have anyone who can be used? I'll think of a way after the limelight passes."

Jiang Kun is like a wolf and a tiger. If he is not on guard, he will be taken over by him sooner or later.

"Yes," Zhou Zirong nodded affirmatively, "There are about three available. If you are interested, I will bring you someday."

"Okay, then it's up to your time," Dong Sheng laughed, steaming steam came out of the mouth of the silver pot on the stove next to him, and he was about to lift the lid of the pot before Dong Sheng When Sheng made his move, Zhou Zirong had already used his cuffs as pads, quickly lifted the pot up and put it on the bamboo mat beside him.

The stove was still steaming white, Dong Sheng extinguished the fire, and waited for Zhou Zirong to refill himself with tea.

When Zhou Zirong was making tea, he still secretly raised his eyes and glanced at him, and saw that Dong Sheng seemed to be still thinking about something, sitting there motionless with his head nodded, and the black jade with dark light flowing between his eyebrows was contained in the dense water vapor.

Zhou Zirong has never put too harsh and flamboyant words on his lips, but every time he sees this person, he can't help but think in his heart: As long as I live for a day, I have to protect him for a day.

This sentence has been filtered out thousands of times from the heart to the mouth, and it just sounds like a lukewarm exhortation: "In short, be careful in everything, and I don't expect anything else, as long as nothing happens to you."

Dong Sheng's eyebrows trembled slightly, and he didn't know if he heard it, so he hummed in a deep voice.

After all, Dong Sheng came back honestly. Even if the empress had a lot of grievances, seeing this man obediently staying under her nose, after about half a month, the anger almost disappeared.

Dong Sheng saw that the queen saw that he was no longer disgusted with the desire to stuff himself back in his stomach, so he boldly asked for an order to meet the high priest. The queen was happy for him to make friends with the Jiang family, so she agreed without saying a word.

As long as Jiang Huaibi is not in the sacrificial hall, once he returns to the Jiang Clan compound, he will live a day and night - no matter the time, he can sleep when he wants, twelve hours a day, except for three meals, what's more, one I slept for nearly nine hours a day.Rarely when I was awake, I just idly drank tea and fiddled with those little texts, but I was idle.

When Jiang Huailan called her up and said that the prince had come, she cursed with dissatisfaction in her heart.But thinking that he couldn't refute others' face, he rubbed his sleepy eyes and got up, and asked his sister to help him tidy up, so that he could at least tidy up a human appearance.

Dong Sheng waited in the tea room for a long time, adding four doses of water in the teapot, only to see a white figure floating in the corridor.

"Keep Your Highness waiting for a long time." Jiang Huaibi walked in slowly from the door, Jiang Huailan followed beside her and supported her arm, still with that icy look.

Dong Sheng was just about to say that if you don't come to tea, the tea will be weak, but when he raised his eyes and bumped into Jiang Huaibi's paler face than before, he got stuck in his heart and swallowed back the joke.

Jiang Huaibi used to have a face that was so white that it was almost transparent, almost without blood. Half a year ago, she faintly felt that her body seemed to be getting worse and worse than before. See you again after this battle. Even with powder on his face, it was hard to hide the bruises under his eyes.

Dong Sheng kept his words in his mouth for a long time, but in the end he just forced a smile and greeted him: "High Priest, it's been a long time."

[The author has something to say: Thank you for your support all the time, and I will continue to work hard. 】