Those who come can still be chased [rebirth]

After Empress Zheng left, the silent crowd finally breathed a sigh of relief, discussed in low voices and dispersed.Gao Chun stood on the spot, looking down at the brocade box in his hand, wondering what he was thinking.

Liang Ji stood a few steps away, but kept looking at him.Rong Yan didn't want to go back and face him in silence again, so he simply walked towards Gao Chun: "His Royal Highness Ji Wang."

Gao Chun raised his head, turned back and handed the brocade box in his hand to the steward behind him, and turned to Rong Yan with a warm smile: "Why don't you go in?"

Rong Yan glanced at his hand inadvertently, then shook his head: "It's stuffy and noisy inside, so I want to ask His Highness if there is any place in the mansion that is convenient for me to relax."

"I was negligent!" Gao Chun looked around the yard, and called a young man over, "Take this young man to the small garden."

Rong Yan thanked Liang Ji with a smile, passed by Liang Ji, glanced at him without changing his face, and followed the young man towards the small garden.

Across the front yard is a small garden, far away from the hustle and bustle of the front yard, but also away from the inner house, it is indeed the most suitable place for Rong Yan at this moment.It's a pity that the season is not right, except for a few evergreen trees, everything is desolate.

There were many guests in Prince Ji's mansion today, and the servants in the mansion couldn't be idle for a moment, the servant hurried away after attracting Rong Yan, Rong Yan was bored all by himself, stepping on the deep and shallow snow, walking to the depths of the small garden.

Although the garden is not big, there are rockeries and pools. Rong Yan looked around while walking, and suddenly found a figure not far away.

Rong Yan approached lightly, only to realize that it was a half-grown boy squatting on the ground and turning the soil beside the pool.

"Shh!" The boy suddenly turned his head and made a stop gesture, and looked up and down, "This place is full of mud, I can't afford to pay for the stain on the young master's clothes."

Rong Yan looked at the boy's big and round eyes, walked a few steps closer, and took a look at him: "What are you doing?"

"Looking for medicinal ingredients." The young man continued to move his hands as he spoke, he just dug an extremely deep hole in the ground, "Ah, I found it!"

Rong Yan looked along and saw a slender earthworm hanging from the wooden stick that the young man raised, and he couldn't help but took two steps back: "You are..."

The young man glanced at him, and put the earthworm into the crock pot at hand: "Have you never seen an earth dragon? If it weren't for the medicine that must be used to cure Mr. Sun's illness, I wouldn't come here in this cold and snowy time." toss."

After being outside for too long, the boy's hands were already red with cold.

Rong Yan glanced at it, and handed over the sleeve stove that had been tucked in his sleeve: "Warm your hands."

The young man dropped the tools in his hand, wiped off the mud on his hands with the snow by the pool, took the sleeve stove, and nodded to Rongyan: "Thank you!"

"I can't see that you are a doctor at such a young age." Rong Yan took a closer look at the mud hole, and then squatted down next to the boy by the pool, "What's your name?"

"Yiren." The young man put the sleeve stove on his face, "I am a herb collector. The gentleman from the pharmacy was invited by King Ji to treat that Mr. Sun, and the medicine boy who was his attendant had something to do at home, so I agreed with him." I'm familiar with it, so I agreed to come and help."

Hearing the young man's name, Rong Yan's eyes flickered slightly: "Yiren...is a good name, so what's your last name?"

Yi Ren casually picked up a stone and threw it into the frozen pool: "I grew up in the mountains. I have no father or mother, so naturally I don't have a surname."

"Don't you have any sisters or brothers?" Rong Yan said, "At such a young age, someone will always be worried when you are outside alone."

Yi Ren paused for a moment before turning her head to look at Rong Yan: "Then what's your name?"

Rong Yan said softly: "Rong Yan."

"Your surname is Rong?" Yi Ren raised her eyebrows slightly, "No wonder."

"You know who I am?"

"Don't you also know who I am?" Yi Ren handed the sleeve stove back to Rong Yan, lowered his head to pick up the tool he had just dropped, and continued to dig the soil on the ground, "Qi Ke is quite capable, I even hid This is Ji Wang's mansion, he can still find me."

"He has already gone back, and entrusted me before leaving..." Rong Yan pursed his lips slightly, "If I meet you one day, I will take care of you for his sake. I didn't expect that Longcheng is so big, and I would really meet you." gone."

"For his sake?" Yi Ren snorted softly, "He raised his troops to rebel and forced your whole family to death, and made you change from a high prince to a hostage? When you met him, you didn't kill him with a sword." After leaving him, you promised to help him look after me?"

Rong Yan smiled softly: "My father killed your whole family, didn't you push me into the lotus pond just now, young master Qi Xu?"

"I don't have that name!" Yi Ren rolled her eyes and said while digging.

"My mother died early. Mrs. Qi didn't want to see me, so she excused my poor health and sent me to a Taoist priest in the mountains to raise me. My name is not listed in the genealogy." Yi Ren dug out another earthworm and stuffed it into her body. "So it has nothing to do with me if the Qi family is wiped out. Your father killed them, and the surviving Qi Ke will avenge them. It has nothing to do with me."

Speaking of this, Yi Ren glanced at Rong Yan: "Speaking of which, it's really strange that Qi Ke was so cold-blooded and didn't kill you."

"He not only didn't kill me, but he saved my life." Rong Yan didn't care whether Yi Ren wanted to hear it or not, and said to himself, "That day when the capital fell, I fled under the protection of my guards, and happened to meet him leading an army to the capital. Some of his soldiers used to be servants in the palace, so they recognized me at a glance, so naturally they refused to let me go. At that time, the crowd was furious, and they wished that one of them would come up and stab me with a sword to dispel the hatred in their hearts. In the end, Qi Ke stopped them and let me go saved my life."

Yi Ren frowned, as if she didn't quite believe it: "He has always been with the soldiers under his command, so why is he suddenly kind enough to save you?"

"That day, your elder brother Qi Dong disobeyed the imperial decree because of the long-term war and injured the people. He refused to send troops to attack Xu, angered my father and emperor, and was ordered to kill the whole family of Qi. Forehead, hurry back to the bedroom and restrain your feet to reflect."

Rong Yan stretched out his hand to grab a handful of snow, and the cold touch rescued him from the long memory of his previous life, "Although my mother's queen still failed to save the Qi family, Qi Ke is still grateful for her kindness, for the sake of my mother's sake." Come on, spare my life."

Yi Ren was stunned for a moment, then turned around for a while, and while digging the soil, she said nonchalantly, "Why are you telling me this? He saved your life, so should I believe his hypocrisy?"

"I don't have much contact with Qi Ke, but I can see that he is a good man with clear grievances and grievances. Your Qi family has suffered a catastrophe, and now only two of your brothers survive. His concern for you should not be hypocritical." Rong Yan stared at Looking at the young man in front of him, his tone was exceptionally patient, "Longcheng is calm and peaceful on the surface, but in fact Boyun is treacherous and full of dangers, especially since you don't know the severity and hid here in Prince Ji's Mansion. If you have had enough fun, you should go back as soon as possible."

Yi Ren touched the tip of her nose uncomfortably, leaving a mud mark: "You are not a few years older than me, why are you speaking in such a preaching tone?"

"I also have a younger brother who was born to a concubine. The royal family's blood relationship will only be weaker than that of your Qi family. I don't like him, and he doesn't want to get in touch with me. We hardly meet each other except at family banquets when we have to. I even I think that in a few years, as he grows older, under the instigation of others, he will probably go to war with me for the throne." Rong Yan lowered his head and looked at the pool in front of him, "Even if he is so annoying, I never thought Let him die."

"The rebel army invaded the imperial city, captured all the nobles in the palace, and killed them one by one in front of my father, in order to force my father to hang himself. He was right there at the time, watching him with his own eyes. My concubine's throat was sealed with a sword, and she couldn't help crying because she was too scared, and was cut off by the impatient rebels with a sword, and the blood soaked my father's dragon robe."

"He was only 11 at the time."

Yi Ren turned her head, and seemed to see faint red marks in Rong Yan's eyes in a trance, which disappeared soon after.

Rong Yan withdrew his gaze and smiled at him: "I've heard people say that General Qi Dong is brave and good at fighting, resolute and resolute, but he has a little superstitious belief in ghosts and gods. Before he goes out for an expedition, he has to go to the Taoist temple in the mountains to worship. God seeks victory. Only now did I understand that worshiping God is false, he was just worried that he would never come back, so he wanted to visit his younger brother before going out to fight."

"Qi Ke may not have any feelings for you before, but you just think that he wants your elder brother to feel at ease under the nine springs, so he is so persistent in wanting to take you back to his side."

Hearing Qi Dong's name, Yi Ren's eyes flickered slightly, and she unconsciously fiddled with the soil on the ground, not knowing what she was thinking.

After a long time, he said in a low voice: "You can tell Qi Ke that in a few months it will be the anniversary of my brother's death. At that time, I will naturally go back to worship him, but if he still wants to keep me at home and not let me go out , I'll still go."

"Okay." Rong Yan reached out and patted the boy's head familiarly, and passed the sleeve stove in his hand again, "Qi Ke left a few people in Longcheng to check on your news and secretly protect you, you You can go to them if you need them. Of course, if you don't want to use his people, you can go to me if you need anything during your stay in Longcheng."

Yi Ren thought for a while, took the sleeve stove unceremoniously, and nodded: "Okay."

He wanted to talk again, but suddenly turned his head and glanced at the rockery: "Who's there?"

The next moment, a girl's voice sounded briskly: "General Liang, why are you here?"

"See Princess Chengyang." Liang Ji appeared from behind the rockery, and glanced at Rong Yan, "The banquet is about to start, His Highness Ji Wang asked me to invite His Highness Xuan Wang back."

Rong Yan stood up straight, and looked at Liang Ji across half of the rockery, with a faint smile on his lips: "Just find a servant for such a trivial matter, why bother General Liang to go there himself? "

He walked a few steps forward, came to Liang Ji, saw Princess Gao Yuan of Chengyang a few steps away, nodded, and spoke softly, "Princess, we meet again!"

Gao Yuan obviously didn't expect him to be here, he was surprised at first, and then smiled: "You are here too!" He glanced behind Rong Yan, and whispered, "The queen mother is talking with the emperor over there." Brother talk, I ran out alone to get some air, is there anything fun over there?"

"Over there?" Rong Yan turned his head and glanced nonchalantly at Yiren, who was also focused on digging the soil, "It's all covered with snow, so it's not interesting. There is only a little medicine boy looking for Dilong, I haven't seen it before." No, so I went to look twice, who knows that half a day has passed, and he hasn't dug a few, and my legs are numb from squatting."

He narrowed his eyes slightly to look at Liang Ji, and continued: "Since General Liang said that the banquet is about to start, shall we go back?"

Liang Ji glanced at Yi Ren calmly: "Okay." After saying that, he turned his head to look at Gao Yuan who still wanted to go behind the rockery. You must be returning to the palace, princess..."

"Ah!" Gao Yuan exclaimed, and no longer had the heart to look at what was beside the lotus pond, "I have to go back!"