The Way of the Consort

"Hey..." Seeing that he didn't speak, Ji Zhao was very dissatisfied, and poked him with his finger.

Zong Zhencai looked at him again, and raised the corner of his mouth: "I like it very much..."

Ji Zhao smiled, and immediately said: "Not only do they look cute, but they also taste delicious, no worse than the rabbits you gave me! You count them, and there are 21 of them. I learned from you. You are 21 years old, right? you--"

Ji Zhao murmured, but Zong Zhen smelled a faint smell of alcohol and interrupted him: "Have you been drinking?"

"Well, yes, the taste is very good! I will hold a birthday party for you tomorrow! We will drink this wine tomorrow! By the way——" Ji Zhao got up again, walked to the round table to bring the pot of wine, "I just tasted it , would you like to have some too? It’s sweet and delicious, not astringent at all, it’s good for sleeping, it’s a sleep aid.”

Zong Zhen looked at the jug with a light in his eyes.

He received it, but before he could take a look at it, Ji Zhao urged him, "You'd better pick a piggy bun and try it first!"

"Piggy buns?"

"Well! I named it for you!" Seeing that he didn't take it, Ji Zhao took one out of it and put it in his palm, "Try it quickly!"

Zong Zhen didn't dislike it either. He took it in his hand, opened his mouth and bit it, and the sweet and sandy red bean paste flowed out. Ji Zhao smiled: "This is red bean paste! Is it delicious?"

"It's very delicious..." As if to verify this sentence, Zong Zhen took another bite, and then took another bite. In front of Ji Zhao, he slowly and seriously ate the whole piggy bun.

Ji Zhao smiled reassuringly, which means that he really likes it!

But Zongzhen said again: "For your birthday, I seem to have given you three gifts, the bunny's pastries, fireworks, and Xiaoyaozi's personal letter."

"..." Ji Zhao's smile froze on his face, "How could you be like this..."

There was a smile in Zongzhen's eyes, and Ji Zhao realized that Zongzhen was joking with him, he breathed a sigh of relief, and raised his chin again: "Then I'll give you three as well! The piggy buns are the same! The second one—" He turned his head to look, picked up the jug of wine, and handed it to Zong Zhen, "Hey, this is the second one!"

"This wine, don't count—"

"What?" Ji Zhao raised his eyebrows.

Zong Zhen shook his head: "I didn't say anything."

"Hey..." Ji Zhao stuffed the jug into Zong Zhen's arms, "I'm thinking about what to give for the third one..."

While Ji Zhao was thinking hard, someone knocked on the door, followed by Bao Qing's voice: "Your Highness, Mr. Chen is here."

"Ah——" Ji Zhao got up, "Come here so late, is there something important?" Ji Zhao turned around and climbed onto the bed, and put down the curtain, "You tell him to come in! Don't say I'm here!"

Ji Zhao was dressed in middle clothes, it was really inappropriate to see Chen Keye, after all Chen Keye was not his subordinate.

Zong Zhen put on a cloak and asked Chen Keye to come in. Chen Keye came in quietly, and said in a low voice, "Your Highness, just tonight, Princess Qingyang really went to kill Yuan Zhi's outer room, and she did it herself."

"Oh……"

Zong Zhen responded flatly, but Ji Zhao's eyes widened when he heard it. Unexpectedly, Chen Keye continued: "Your Highness, guess what happened next?"

"how?"

Chen Keye's tone was indifferent, but he couldn't suppress the schadenfreude: "As you expected, when Princess Qingyang arrived, the outer room was already dead, and it was Liu Cang who sent someone to do it. Princess, now, the person is killed by Princess Qingyang, hehe, there has already been a commotion there, and when the subordinates left, the palace had already sent people there."

Ji Zhao took a breath, Chen Keye glanced towards the bed unconsciously, and Zong Zhen stepped forward to block his sight.

Chen Keye hurriedly lowered his head respectfully, and said again: "While the two sides are confronting each other outside, my subordinates went down to see the wound on the unattended outer room, which is different from what we saw before."

"Got it..." Zong Zhen's voice was not disappointed.

After Chen Keye finished speaking, he left. As soon as he reached the door, he heard a sound, as if he heard another person's voice?His footsteps paused, but he still strode away.

Ji Zhao got out of the tent, and hurriedly asked, "The outer room just died like this? Then, what will happen? The knife edge, what is it?"

Zongzhen told him the truth about Qin Fa's assassination, and Ji Zhao took another breath. He didn't know about this before, and he said, "No wonder you look at that knife all day long. Now let's explain, brother and sister He Qiniang Not from the second prince?"

"It just looks like..."

Ji Zhao started to have a headache again, he was really afraid of thinking about these conspiracies.

Zong Zhen reached out his hand to explore Tan Ji Zhao's palm. It was covered with sweat. He picked up the jug and sat back beside Ji Zhao: "Your body is cold, drink some wine."

Ji Zhao doesn't think that drinking can keep him warm, but he does feel a little cold. He is really not such a timid person, but the world today is too different from the past, and he still can't face these murders calmly. Still feel cold.He took the jug from Zongzhen without asking for a glass, and drank a few sips from the mouth of the jug. After drinking, he smiled: "Sweet, delicious."

He pushed Zong Zhen: "You should try it too..."

Zong Zhen remembered that Ji Zhao's capacity for alcohol was not good, and in his previous life he would drink only one glass, but in this life, when Zong Yan and Qin Wen went to his house for dinner last time, he was also too weak to drink.

Zong Zhen didn't know what kind of mood he was in, he didn't drink, but urged Ji Zhao to drink.

This is delicious wine, and Ji Zhao didn't think too much about it, at worst, he just fell asleep when he got drunk!Anyway, the gift was sent out!

He raised his head and drank half a pot again. Zong Zhen looked at him carefully, but he was not drunk, but his eyes were a little bit wandering, and he muttered: "This is obviously the second gift for you, why did I drink it all?" ...You told me to drink it, and you are not allowed to renege on it afterwards!"

Zong Zhen got up, walked to the window, looked at the moon in the sky, and turned to look at Ji Zhao who was sitting by the bed with his head bowed and muttering.

He walked back again: "Then change the second gift."

"Huh?" Ji Zhao looked up at him, a little dizzy, "What?"

"Look at the moon with me..."

Ji Zhao thought for a while, then nodded, "Okay!"

In the end, Ji Zhao didn't expect that they went directly to the roof to watch the moon!

After Zongzhen finished talking about going to see the moon, he took clothes to wrap Ji Zhao up, and put on the clothes himself. He took Ji Zhao's hand and went out, but he walked to a big banyan tree in the corner, which was full of branches and leaves. Cover the small half of the roof.

Ji Zhao wasn't drunk, but he wasn't quite sober either. He asked in a daze, "Are you looking at the moon here?"

"No..." Zong Zhen pointed to the roof, "Let's go there and see."

"Ah?" Ji Zhao looked up and said stupidly, "It's so tall..."

"You dared to climb the wall before."

"Yes, I climbed over the wall! There is nothing to be afraid of! Let's go! Let's go to the roof to watch the moon!"

Ji Zhao said he was going to leave, Zong Zhen dragged him back, took his hand to the tree trunk, and supported Ji Zhao, "Come on, climb up." Ji Zhao really climbed up in a daze, because someone He was still supported behind him, and he had a little climbing experience, so he really climbed up.

He looked down, and Zong Zhen climbed up after him.

After climbing up, Zong Zhen followed the extended tree trunk and jumped onto the roof beside him. At that moment, Ji Zhao's heart was so high that he was afraid that he would fall. After Zong Zhen jumped on the roof, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Zong Zhen turned around and stretched out his hands towards him: "Come on, jump towards me."

Ji Zhao looked at him, then looked down again, it was very high, and the effect of the wine was getting stronger, he asked bluntly, "What if I fall?"

Zong Zhen just said very calmly: "I won't fall..."

"Really……"

"real……"

"Oh..." Ji Zhao looked at the ground again, didn't think much, and stood up directly on the branch, but because his feet were not stable, his body tilted, and he immediately stretched out his hands to hug the trunk, and he was a little scared when he turned to the side Zong Zhen laughed, "It won't fall!"

Zong Zhen exhaled, then reached out to him: "Come here, give me your hand."

Ji Zhao moved towards him, gave Zong Zhen his hand, and was pulled away forcefully. When he came back to his senses, he was in the arms of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!

Zongzhen carried him directly to the center of the roof, and Ji Zhao kept looking up at him on the way, only to feel that Zongzhen looked better the more he looked at him, and Ji Zhao felt that he was even more strange, but what was so strange about him?He thought and thought, but he couldn't think of it. He only had an idea in his heart, and he really wanted to keep watching like this.

Ji Zhao burrowed into Zongzhen's arms again, in a daze, he even thought, would Zongzhen think the same way.

Zong Zhen had already hugged him and sat down. For some reason, he never spoke to him after that, but kept hugging him.

Zong Zhen was really looking up at the moon, while Ji Zhao was only looking at him in his arms.

His birthday is also at the end of the month, and there is only a crescent moon in the sky. Gradually, the crescent moon turns into a pair of eyes. The person with those eyes smiled and told him, Your Highness, from now on, I will spend every birthday with you , We watched the moon together, drank together, and together... At that time, that person said a lot, and indeed spent many birthdays with him.

Until he was 33 years old, on his birthday, Ji Zhao stabbed him to death with a sword.

In fact, Zong Zhen didn't care about such things as birthdays. If Ji Zhao hadn't been messing around to celebrate his birthday these days, he would have even forgotten that he died on his own birthday in his previous life.

Before that, he would occasionally have nightmares, confused by Ji Zhao's behavior in his previous life, and being betrayed by his close relatives and friends. He thought this nightmare would accompany him for the rest of his life.

It didn't occur to him--

He knew that the Ji Zhao in his arms was already another Ji Zhao, and he had already had a different state of mind after going through all kinds of things, but he was still wary of this Ji Zhao, and even regarded them as the same person.

at this time--

He finally withdrew his gaze and looked down at Ji Zhao in his arms, who was also looking up at him.

What kind of look was that, he actually saw nostalgia from it, he suspected that he was wrong.

But Ji Zhao suddenly smiled at him, with crooked eyes, the same as Ji Zhao in his previous life, but also completely different, Zong Zhen was stunned, and then smiled.

Maybe it was because of drinking, Ji Zhao only felt that the world in front of him was hazy, and even Zong Zhen's smile became hazy.

In a daze, he heard Zong Zhen say, "Let me pick a word for you."

But it's your birthday, Ji Zhao thought in his heart, but he nodded happily: "Okay!"

The moonlight melted, and in the silent night, Ji Zhao seemed to be shining.

The world that was once stained red with blood finally became brighter, Zong Zhen thought, no one will cover it with red again this time.

Ji Zhao's smile is extremely cute, the curved corner of his mouth is his favorite, Zong Zhen couldn't help reaching out to touch the corner of his mouth, and said softly: "Let's call it Minghe..."

"Minghe?" Ji Zhao repeated, "Brightness and peace? Am I a messenger of light, a messenger of peace? An angel? Hahaha..." Ji Zhao repeated several times, "Minghe Minghe, Ji Minghe." Smiling at Zong Zhen, "It sounds nice..."

Zong Zhen nodded.

Ji Zhao said again: "Your Highness, they say that if you take the characters, you have grown up completely."

Zong Zhen nodded again.

Ji Zhao smiled and said, "I will always remember that it was His Highness who made me grow up!"

Zongzhen tilted his ears, why do you think this is weird?

But he couldn't allow him to think too much, Ji Zhao frowned, and said, "But, Your Highness, it's your birthday, and you gave me a gift, I'm very embarrassed."

Zong Zhen looked into his eyes and said in a deep voice, "Then give me another gift."

"Okay! What gift do you want?! As long as I can give it!" Ji Zhao patted his waist, which did not have a purse at all, "I have a lot of money! Buy whatever you want!" He didn't touch the purse, so he looked up. , confused, "Where's my money..."

Zong Zhen was amused by him and laughed.

Ji Zhao looked up at him again, and Zong Zhen knew that he was even more drunk again.

Zong Zhen bent down and whispered in his ear: "You call me 'brother'. "