Thousands of Miles

"stop!"

Xi Meng heard it was his master's voice, and quickly withdrew his sword, Wan Yanwang was a foreigner, and didn't pay much attention to Zhao Ji, so he slashed at Xi Meng, wanting to decide the victory with him.

"Hoo--" A knife cut a foot-long deep bloodstain on Ximeng's left arm, but Ximeng acted as if he didn't feel it, and knelt down to greet his master according to the usual etiquette.

Wanyan saw that Ximeng had been cut, and quickly put away the knife.

"Why... you!" Zhao Ji looked at Xi Meng like this, feeling distressed and angry.How can there be such an honest child, if he is asked to stop, he will not even block the knife. If the knife hits the vital point, wouldn't his life be lost?

"Your Majesty is rude." Xi Meng kowtowed to Zhao Ji again, "Your Majesty, please come down."

"You dare to wield knives and swords in the palace and fight foreign envoys, you are so audacious!" Concubine Qiao was usually jealous of Ximeng, so she finally caught an opportunity and cursed, "According to the palace rules, people like you……"

Zhao Ji turned his head and glanced at Concubine Qiao, motioning her to shut up.

Concubine Qiao quickly swallowed back all the words she hadn't finished cursing.

"What happened?" Zhao Ji asked.

"Your Majesty, the matter is like this." Wan Yanwang complained first, pointing at Xi Meng and said, "This little... brat and my king met four years ago, when I went to the brothel to whore his sister. He is here today to fight and avenge his sister!"

"It turns out that's the case, he's really daring." Concubine Qiao echoed, "His sister is just a lowly woman in a brothel, and she was originally a prostitute..."

Seeing that Ximeng secretly clenched his fists, Zhao Ji feared that he could not hold back his anger and cause trouble, and it would be even more difficult to end, so he turned around and slapped Concubine Qiao severely, saying, "Shut up! Are you allowed to speak? Get off!"

"His Majesty……"

"roll!"

Concubine Qiao pursed her lips, turned around and left despondently.

Zhao Ji pointed to Ximeng and said, "Ximeng, go and have a meeting with your envoy, this matter will be over."

Ximeng didn't move.

"You!" Fighting foreign envoys in the palace could have cost him his life, and he lost his temper because of him turning a big thing into a small thing?Zhao Ji frowned, and urged, "Go!"

Xi Meng remained silent.

"You're presumptuous!" He yelled twice and didn't listen. Zhao Ji had never met anyone who dared to be so disobedient, let alone in front of a foreigner, he really lost his majesty, pointing at Xi Mengdao, "Come on! Drag him down... lock him up!"

Such a "bad" behavior, even lightly saying "lock it up" and it's over, without any substantive punishment, Wan Yanwang was very dissatisfied with Zhao Ji's handling in his heart, but the other party saved himself some face, I didn't dare to pursue it further, it would be embarrassing if I revealed something about myself.

As soon as Zhao Ji finished talking about "locking up" Ximeng, he regretted it in his heart.He had already been wronged and injured, yet he still treated him like this?

However, since I said it, I have to lock him up for a while, otherwise I will appear to be too capricious.Zhao Ji pinched his fingers and calculated, there are still three hours until Youshi, after three hours he will be released to have dinner with him, and then he will comfort his wounded little heart.

There were still three hours left, and the waiting was really long, so Zhao Ji called his most trusted minister Cai Taishi to the garden, and together with him tasted tea and discussed painting at the Yanshan Pavilion.

"Does Your Majesty know the real reason why Ximeng fought with the envoy of the Kingdom of Jin?" Cai Qiu shook his head and said, "The Jin man is really nothing..."

"Oh?" Zhao Ji asked, "How do you say that?"

"Ximeng didn't do anything to him. It was he who tried to do something wrong, which forced Ximeng to fight him." Cai Qiu sighed, "Ximeng is such a good child, how could it be possible that because of four years ago? What trivial matters to fight with him?"

"So that's how it is." Zhao Ji sneered, "I wonder how Ximeng, who is usually so quiet and alone, would meet swords and swords with foreign envoys. What a wicked person to sue first!"

"Your Majesty, do you see?"

"Go and deport that person tomorrow." Zhao Ji slapped the table and said, "No! Go now! It's really unbearable!"

"Your Majesty, you have to think twice about this." Cai Qiu said, "Our Great Song Dynasty and Jin Kingdom are friendly states, so don't destroy the peaceful and friendly exchanges because of this matter."

"The envoy of the Kingdom of Jin was already arrogant and rude, but now he is so aggressive and lawless. What is it like to tolerate it any longer? I will now..."

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! It's not good!" Before Zhao Ji finished speaking, Eunuch Zhang rushed into the Banquet Pavilion, "His Royal Highness King Kang injured the envoy of the Kingdom of Jin."

Zhao Ji was secretly delighted, and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Because of the conflict between him and Lin Ximeng. His Royal Highness King Kang said that the envoy of the Kingdom of Jin had falsely accused a good man, so he shot and wounded him."

"Well, good fight!" Zhao Ji smiled, "Pass the decree to reward King Kang heavily. That envoy from the Kingdom of Jin, ignore him!"

"Uh... yes..."

"Your Majesty... this..." Cai Qiu curled his lips helplessly. As an emperor, it was too capricious to do so, but Zhao Ji was really such a person.He doesn't care how to be the emperor, he cares how to treat the people he likes well.

"Grand Master Cai, let's continue talking. Where did we talk just now?" Now he finally let out a breath of anger, and Zhao Ji felt extraordinarily at ease.

"Speaking of Ximeng..."

"Yes, speaking of Ximeng, what do you think of him?" Zhao Ji took a sip of tea and said softly, "By the way, isn't he too young?"

"Your Majesty, you are not young anymore. Sixteen years old is a good age." Cai Qiu said softly, "If he hadn't guarded himself like a jade for His Majesty today, he would have almost lost this beautiful jade that His Majesty carefully cared for. If Your Majesty really has the heart, or There are flowers that can be broken straight away, don't wait for no flowers to break branches."

"Oh?" Zhao Ji pondered, "But he is still very dull about emotional matters now, will he be too hasty?"

"Emotions are things that are slowly cultivated." Cai Qiu said, "It's been four years, how kind is His Majesty to him? Who wouldn't be grateful to His Majesty? He must have His Majesty in his heart, Your Majesty." You can rest assured."

"He has Zhen in his heart." Zhao Ji nodded, "But it's not that he has Fa. He has always called Zhen Master..."

"If you say you are his master, he will recognize you as his master. If you say you want him to do it..." Cai Qiu raised his eyebrows, "Isn't it the same reason? Why is he not willing? Is there any reason for not being willing?"

"That's the truth, yes." Zhao Ji nodded, "It's been four years, and I really can't bear it any longer."

"As long as you have a word from your Majesty, how about I come to prepare for you?" Cai Qiu smiled flatteringly.

"Okay! As long as you help me make it, you will definitely be rewarded!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

In the evening, Ninghe Hall

"Come on, this way, this way. This way, be careful of the steps."

Cai Qiu personally led the way attentively, and Xi Meng walked silently behind him.

Ximeng had studied painting in this hall for four years, but Ximeng never knew that there was such a hot spring in the back of Ninghe Hall.

The warm water vapor envelops the pool of water in front of me, rendering it both real and illusory.Surrounded by low-hanging veils, the scene outside the veil is looming, but it is not clear.Being in it is like walking in a fairyland.

Several servants stepped forward to take off Ximeng's coat, and were about to take off his underwear, Ximeng blushed, and quickly grabbed his belt and refused to let go.

"Hahaha, step back." Cai Qiu smiled from the side, "Lin Daizhao①he is not used to you touching him."

After hearing the words, several servants stepped aside, Ximeng turned his head to see that these people had no intention of leaving, so he had to slowly loosen Yuebai's underwear in front of them.

Behind the clothes that were slowly withdrawn, a piece of fair and firm skin was revealed, every inch was filled with even beauty and strength, and every cent of beauty and strength was just right.From a distance, it looks like a beautiful person in Yunshan Mountain, but when you look closely, it is rain beating flowers.The long black hair fell down her waist like a cloud of ink, which made her face look like a sculpture, and her eyebrows were picturesque.

Cai Qiu swallowed his saliva, thinking, no wonder Zhao Ji cares so much about this person.Sure enough, there is a man's body in this world, so beautiful that a man can't help wanting to possess it.

Ximeng walked towards the hot spring step by step with bare feet. The spring water was neither cold nor hot, and the temperature was very pleasant. There was steaming mist on the water surface, and there was a faint fragrance of flowers.

Several palace servants scooped up water and poured water on Ximeng's body, and several palacemen sprinkled him with flower petals. Ximeng sat by the pool and was manipulated by others, his heart was blank.

Why come to such a place all of a sudden?It is not so troublesome to see the master on weekdays, why do you have to go to such lengths to clean up when you see the master today?What is Master going to do?

Everything was unknown, Ximeng had his body scrubbed in a ignorant manner, then walked out of the bath, and was covered in a semi-transparent snow-white gauze.

Are you out of clothes?Xi Meng hesitated for a while, then turned to look at Cai Qiu.

"It's hot, so it's just right to wear it like this." Cai Qiu nodded.

Xi Meng bit her lip, and had no choice but to turn her head and follow the guidance of the palace servants, and walked towards the apse.

Cai Taishi didn't follow, Ximeng was surrounded by twelve palace maids in Qiluo clothes, and the colored glazed flower lanterns in their hands made the road ahead blurry and dreamy, like a palace in heaven.

Ximen didn't wear shoes, and didn't have to.All the way to the apse is covered with soft woolen carpets, embroidered with fine patterns in gold thread, shining brightly under the lights.

The golden light made people dizzy, Ximeng closed his eyes and calmed down, but instead of getting better, he felt even more groggy, as if he had lost all strength, and his feet went limp.

"Ximeng." A pair of strong hands supported the crumbling man, gently picked up Ximeng, and walked into the room.

The multicolored glazed light was cut off from an exquisitely carved wooden door, and there was only endless darkness in front of him. Ximeng put his arms around Master's neck to make sure that he was safe at the moment.

Zhao Ji hugged the person who was softened by the drug, and gently placed him on the soft couch.

"Master, where is this..."

"In our room." Zhao Ji bullied the person on the bed, couldn't help but kissed Xi Meng's soft cheek, and asked softly, "Do you want to be with Master?"

"Master...I'm so dizzy and have no strength...I'll talk about it tomorrow..." Xi Meng felt weak all over, stretched out his hand and grabbed Zhao Ji's lapel in his hand, "Master..."

"There is one thing that must be said today." Zhao Ji held Xi Meng's face and said seriously, "Xi Meng, Master likes you, and has always liked you."

"Master..." Ximeng was dazed, and after thinking for a long time, he didn't understand what Master meant by "like", so he nodded in a daze.

"Ximeng...Master hopes to be with you forever." Zhao Ji gently tore off Ximeng's thin clothes, and kissed lightly, "OK?"

"Um……"

"Ah...Master...it hurts...um..."

①Daizhao: The respectful title of craftsmen in the Song Dynasty.