After being mistaken for a fellow by Long Aotian

"This……"

Cold sweat soaked Zhou Cai's shirt.Zhou Xun stared at him coldly.

If you want to elaborate on this matter, Zhou Xun can say a lot more.For example, Zhou Cai treats him and his servants equally when it comes to giving gifts, and another example is the Zhou family's many suppressions and harsh treatment of him...

But he found it boring.

All he wanted to do was remove Zhou Cai's hypocritical mask, so he said these words.Now that the goal has been achieved, why does he need to be a babbling country traveler, unfolding his joys and sorrows in broad daylight, and then let others chew them?

Complaining was never his purpose.The purpose of complaining should never be complaining itself.

Zhou Cai stayed for a long time, but couldn't answer a word.In the end, he said awkwardly: "Or, maybe I remember wrong..."

Zhou Xun's mouth, when did it become so powerful!

The fingers under Zhou Caikuan's robe were clenched into the palm of his hand, leaving deep bloodstains.In his memory, Zhou Xun has always been silent and seldom speaks—seldom speaks, seldom complains, and seldom complains.

——Who would have thought that the moment he opened his mouth, it would be fatal!

——Sure enough, a dog that doesn’t bite doesn’t bark!

"Forget it, you don't need to look for it." The emperor said, "There are more things in the palace than in the Zhou family. I will take you to the library in a while, and you can look inside to see if there is anything you want."

His first "you" was to Zhou Cai, and after finishing this sentence, the second "you" was to Zhou Xun.

He couldn't tell whether he saw Zhou Cai's true face under the veil of hypocrisy, or he just felt that it was troublesome to spend so much on a book—or he expressed his "whatever he wants" to Zhou Xun.However, no matter what the possibility is, Zhou Cai can feel the strong difference between him and Zhou Xun.

Now that the matter has come to this point, it is useless to let him talk about the lotus.The more you say it, the more wrong it is.Zhou Cai had no choice but to falter and haw a few words, and finally said: "I...resign."

The prime minister was still standing by the door. When he saw Zhou Cai leaving in embarrassment, his eyes turned to the young man in aqua-colored clothes.

The young man was about the age of the crown, tall and handsome, with thick eyebrows, but with a cold and solemn meaning that did not match his age.The evening light wrapped his robe, blurring his face, he looked at him, thinking of an old friend in a trance.

"Little scholar," the girl said to him with a smile, "be careful walking in the future."If the person you bump into has a bad temper, you will suffer. '

'Little scholar.The road is long and long, and I will search up and down.There is still a long way to go in life, don't be sad. '

……

"Prime Minister Lu," Master Gu said cautiously behind him, "The others are gone, shall we go too?"

He withdrew his thoughts from the dripping rain and replied "yes".

"The road is long and long, and I will search up and down."

The girl's crisp voice was still in his ears.

Prime Minister Lu smiled.

If he had a child, he would probably be called... Lelouch.

The emperor and Zhou Xun went back along the small path paved with small stones.On both sides, there are flowers in late spring and early summer, and the evening breeze.

Zhou Xun knew that the emperor had witnessed everything today.

He witnessed his entanglement with the prince, witnessed his aggression when he unmasked his brother's mask, he saw all his sharpness... and all his unbearable.

What will he think?

Perhaps anyone else would think that his reaction was too indecent and inelegant.The Jing Dynasty advocated Confucianism, and always advocated self-denial and ritual, and advocated that a gentleman should be like a jade.Since you are a gentleman, you should put "harmony" on the surface. No matter how much discord there is, even if you feel sick in your heart, you must never expose it on the surface.

Even if you are the victim yourself.

—— Victims should not be sharp.

But Zhou Xun never learned to be tactful, let alone in front of Zhou Cai and the fifth prince.He would rather fight with others openly than against others.If not, he would not be standing here, but would only become a "loved concubine" in the palace.

"Don't you want to ask me something?" Zhou Xun said suddenly.

"Ask... What are you asking?" The emperor was stunned.

He looked like he was just wandering off.

Zhou Xun: ...

Emperor: "Oh, what do you want for dinner? Let the kitchen make it for you."

Zhou Xun: ...

Emperor: "Want to eat braised elbow?"

Zhou Xun: ...

Emperor: "Hey, I think."

Zhou Xun: ...

The emperor touched his nose and said, "Then...are you allergic to alcohol?"

When passing the imperial study, Zhou Xun saw that the road was covered with peaches.

The peaches fell heavily on the tips, round and big, like happy smiling faces in the twilight.The emperor said: "These peaches are out-of-season peaches specially eaten by the royal family, and they are raised in the fire room—the so-called greenhouse."

As he spoke, he picked a peach with his hand, with a happy expression:

"Look at this, how big it is! How round! I specially taught Xiao Lizi how to pick a good one and hang it up. It's round and big. If you want to eat it, you can pick it..."

emperor:……

He found that the peach was hung very high, just a little short of his hand.

The emperor chose to maintain the dignity of the real dragon emperor between standing on tiptoe and jumping.He quickly withdrew his hand and coughed: "Ask someone to pick one off, so you don't have to do it yourself."

Zhou Xun: ...

He caressed his wrist, just now when he was arguing with the prince, the prince grabbed his wrist.Today, there is a little bruising on it.

The emperor glanced at him secretly, seeing Zhou Xun looking over, he immediately pretended nothing happened.

The two went back to the Hall of Mental Cultivation for dinner.Taking advantage of Zhou Xun's absence, the emperor said to Xiao Li, "Come here."

Little Lizi ran over in a hurry.

Emperor: "Go find a book."

Little Li: "What book?"

Emperor: "What book..."

He scratched his head and looked in the direction of the side hall, feeling a little dazed.

Emperor: "Do you have... math books?"

Little Li: "Huh?"

Emperor: "Books related to mathematics."

Xiao Lizi took the order to retreat.The emperor sat on the table, thinking about Zhou Xun's hands, thinking about the text he had recited, and his heart was at a loss.

After a long time, he suddenly shook his head violently.

"No, no, no...I can't...!!"

Zhou Xun:?

He came back from the side hall after changing his clothes, and when he arrived at the dining room, he saw the emperor shaking his head and kept saying "I can't do it".

Zhou Xun:?

His thoughts fluctuated between "what's the emperor's convulsion again?" and "I accidentally broke some palace secret".Then, he saw the emperor finally hugged his head, and shouted to the sky: "I really can't do it——!"

Zhou Xun:? ?

emperor:? ?

The two looked at each other, and the scene was extremely embarrassing for a while, even Xiao Lizi, who had just explained about finding the book and walked back into the hall, was also very embarrassed.

Emperor: "Here, sir, you walk so softly..."

Zhou Xun: ...

He silently swallowed the question of "what's wrong" and sat at the table to eat.The emperor then turned to Xiao Lizi who was also stunned, showing a sinister expression of "you will die if you dare to speak."

Little Lizi: ...

He silently gave himself a "sealed" expression.

emperor:……

He ate his dinner with the grief and indignation that he had been misunderstood again.Zhou Xun was thinking about what happened in the afternoon, but he also felt a little overwhelmed.While eating, the emperor secretly watched his reaction, and he was a little bit clueless.

The dinner was used up like this.After dinner, Zhou Xun returned to the side hall.

He felt a little depressed, and wanted to go to sleep, but when he walked to the bed, he saw a book on the table.

A... thread-bound book?

A copy of "Nine Chapters on Arithmetic"?

Zhou Xun: ...

He distinctly remembered that it wasn't here before he left in the afternoon.

Thinking of the emperor calling Xiao Lizi before the meal, he trembled and accidentally tore a page of paper.

Zhou Xun sat down, opened the nine chapters on arithmetic, and read page by page.Finally, he turned the page back to the one where he had torn a small slit, and stared blankly at the slit.

It's actually a very small crack, you can't see it unless you look carefully.But when Zhou Xun looked at it, he couldn't help feeling distressed.He ran his fingers over it again and again, as if trying to smooth out the little seam.

He didn't know what he was thinking.

He didn't know until much later that this is what everyone can't help doing with the things they hold dear.

There was a rustling sound outside the door.Zhou Xun carefully closed the book and walked over to open the door.

"Ouch!"

The emperor covered his nose and fell headlong.

"...What are you doing here?" Zhou Xun looked at the emperor and said inexplicably.

The emperor got up and patted the ashes on his body indifferently: "Go, go out and drink."

"drink wine?"

"Yeah," the emperor smiled, and grabbed his shoulders, "It's late at night, I just want to go out to drink and eat some skewers!"

Zhou Xun didn't like to drink, but followed him inexplicably.

The emperor took him to a stone table in the imperial garden.The stone table is in the gazebo, beside the pavilion is the lotus pond in early summer.There are still layers of lotus leaves in the lotus pond, and some lotus buds that have exposed their sharp corners and hide their small faces.

Zhou Xun knew that in more than ten days, all the lotus flowers here would be in bloom.At that time, the lake will be more beautiful when it is full of lotus flowers.

Two people sit down.There are several bottles of wine and glasses on the table.Zhou Xun took a few sips from his cup, but was speechless.

The emperor also took a few sips.The appearance of him drinking heavily made Zhou Xun look sideways for a moment.

Then he heard the emperor take a sip: "...Damn, I accidentally mistook it for beer."

……beer?

The emperor said: "Snow Flower, bravely travel to the end of the world."

Zhou Xun:?

The emperor once again showed a dark and cool expression like "funny.jpg".

He patted his thigh: "It's no fun to just drink, little Li, let's order something to eat."

Appetizers are nothing more than a few sets of exquisite small dishes, and scholars all pay attention to elegance.So when several plates of barbecue meat skewers were put on the table, Zhou Xun looked at the emperor suspiciously.

Zhou Xun: "This is..."

Emperor: "I didn't invent this. I won't take the credit for inventing delicious food. I will leave it to other villagers."

The emperor said to him again: "Aren't you full tonight? Come, come, come, let's have a bunch of them as an extra meal."

Zhou Xun looked at the greasy meat skewers, he didn't like to eat them.However, under the eager eyes of the emperor, he took a bite out of nowhere.

The fat and fat melted on the tip of his tongue, bringing the taste of fireworks in the world.