The Way of the Consort

As vivid as Ji Zhao's seal is the mole of tears under the man's eyes.

Zongzhen frowned, and looked at the painting carefully. From the collar to the hairpin on the bun, he had to admit that the person in the painting was indeed him, exactly who he was that day The dress, eyebrows and eyes are also quite similar when they leave the palace.

To be honest, this painting can be seen to be drawn hastily, the brushwork is relatively immature, and it is not very delicate and exquisite, but it has all the charm it should have.

Zong Zhen looked at it for a long time, raised his head, and asked, "Where did Yin Ming take people?"

"It seems to be going to Huizhou..."

"Why go to Huizhou?"

Bao Qing and Cheng Shen all knelt on the ground, they were afraid that His Highness would be angry, and His Highness just didn't ask, so they didn't say anything.At this time, the two of them had no choice but to confess the nonsense they had made up about him being a Huizhou businessman.

Even Zong Zhen, who had died once, was also full of disbelief, not because of the nonsense, but because Ji Zhao took his portrait, did he send someone to Huizhou to look for him?

What is Ji Zhao thinking?

Does Ji Zhao know that the person in the painting is Zong Zhen, the prince?

If Ji Zhao really didn't know, why did he go to Huizhou to find such a stranger?What is the intention?

Zong Zhen didn't want to admit it, but he had to admit that he was fooled by Ji Zhao.

Is his realm really inferior to Ji Zhao?Why Ji Zhao couldn't understand so far.

Bao Qing trembled and said again: "Your Highness, Your Highness, the little one still has something to say."

"Say..." Zong Zhen's voice was cold.

"Well, in the Marquis Mansion that day, there was actually another matter... the jade pendant you wore that day was dragged away by the son-in-law..."

"... "

Bao Qing dared to look up at their highness, but he couldn't understand their expression, so he could only continue: "The son-in-law also pulled the jade pendant on his body, and hung it around your waist, saying, saying—— —”

"What are you talking about, what are you talking about!"

"The son-in-law said that this is a "token" and told you to find him in the Marquis' mansion in the future!He will be responsible!The son-in-law returned 1000 taels of silver! "

Zong Zhen's face, which had been calm these days, finally raised his two eyebrows, and raised his voice: "1000 taels of silver?!"

"The son-in-law gave the medicinal materials...you are guilty!" Bao Qing and Cheng Shen knelt down on the ground together.

"Where is the silver?"

"The little one is temporarily kept in his own room..." Baoqing was about to cry, but he was too scared to move.

1000 taels of silver?

send who?He is worth 1000 taels? !

Zongzhen remembered again that day when he was pressed by Ji Zhao and coughed non-stop in anger, and Ji Zhao called "brother" loudly.

Zong Zhen was extremely angry, and said coldly, "Go get that 1000 taels of silver!"

Bao Qing went down to get the silver, while Cheng Shen continued to tremble.

Zong Zhen was not in a good mood: "Get out of here too, and bring me the Laoshizi jade pendant! Bring the medicinal materials too!"

Cheng Shen also rolled away.

Just after the room was quiet for a while, another eunuch rolled in from outside and huddled together: "His Royal Highness, Your Royal Highness, the son-in-law is here."

"Who?"

"The son-in-law... the son-in-law entered the palace to ask to see His Majesty, and His Majesty asked the high official Xiang Sheng to bring you here, and said that no matter what matters, His Highness will decide."

Zong Zhen calmed down for a while, then got up and walked outside.

Ji Zhao's complexion was not very good-looking, even in the East Palace, he didn't have the five points of anxiety that he had last time.

He was full of worry right now.

Originally, today was a happy day, I bought so many favorite books, but when it was time for dinner, the person who followed Yin Ming came back suddenly, all in a mess.After careful questioning, after they left the city, they took a boat to catch up with those people on the way, so they hurried on the way, but on the way they collided with an official ship carrying salt, and Yin Ming and the other three They all fell into the water and disappeared.

The other party was ordered by an official to transport salt to the salt warehouse in a hurry, so arrogant that he ran away.

He spoke lightly and searched for half an hour but didn't find anyone. He didn't dare to delay, so he hurried back to report the news.

Ji Zhao was dumbfounded, Chen Xing's eyes turned red and he burst into tears. The crying woke Ji Zhao up, and Ji Zhao felt uncomfortable.Because of the memory of his original body and the relationship with him these days, his heart towards Yin Ming is also true.

He has been with him for so many years, and he just disappeared like a brother, so how can he feel relieved?

He immediately decided to take someone to find Yin Ming himself, otherwise how could he be worthy of Wei's mother!I'm also sorry for the old ancestor who was worn by him.

However, he is a son-in-law, and without the emperor's order, he cannot leave Jinling at all.At this time, he didn't care about others, he entered the palace to ask for an audience without changing his dress, and was then taken to the East Palace.

He was still standing in the same hall as last time.

A little eunuch served him tea and asked him to sit down, but he was anxious and didn't sit down.

Two more young eunuchs came over to close the bead curtain, half a quarter of an hour later, footsteps were heard behind the bead curtain, he immediately raised his head and took a step forward.

He knew that it was the crown prince who was coming, and the candle was flickering. He vaguely saw the figure, and hurriedly bowed first: "Ji Zhao has seen His Royal Highness the crown prince!"

Without waiting for a reaction from inside, he explained the purpose of his visit: "I want to see you more deeply, and I have disturbed Your Highness, please forgive me! It is really Ji Zhao who has urgent matters to ask for His Highness's grace!" He couldn't even wait for a moment, and he didn't give it at all While speaking, Zong Zhen hurriedly said, "My long follower, went out of the city for me to do errands, something happened on the water, collided with a salt boat, and he disappeared! I want to go out of the city to find him!"

The candlelight was dim, and Zong Zhen couldn't see Ji Zhao's face clearly, he could only hear the urgency in his voice.

"Your Highness..." He still didn't respond, and Ji Zhao was anxious.

Zong Zhen said coldly: "The son-in-law is not allowed to leave Beijing without a reason."

Ji Zhao was stunned. He thought that the crown prince would not talk to him, so he called an eunuch to answer him. Unexpectedly, the crown prince actually spoke.

Prince, is Zong Zhen's voice really like this?

Ji Zhao was stunned for a moment, and the cold wind blew in outside, making the candles shake even more violently. Ji Zhao came back to his senses, and hurriedly said, "Your Highness! Ji Zhao knows that he shouldn't go out of Beijing casually! It's just that the person is my brother-in-law." , grew up with me, he, I... The place where he had an accident is very close to Jinling, and the waterway is only half a day away. I will not go far away. I will find my brother and come back immediately! Really! Your Highness, please tell me I'll go! Okay!"

Zong Zhen frowned, what tone is this?Isn't this nonsense?Is he the master who can be messed around?

Ji Zhao was so anxious that he was about to cry, and Yin Ming would be even more dangerous if he was a step too late. He raised his face, looked at the unclear figure inside, and begged, "Your Highness, you can send someone to go with me, I am serious. Don't go to other places, find someone, and come back immediately whether it is dead or alive!"

Such Ji Zhao was too strange.

Zong Zhen got up, took a few steps forward, and walked behind the bead curtain, and was very close to Ji Zhao through the bead curtain.

He looked at Ji Zhao's face carefully, and it was indeed Ji Zhao, and he would not admit his mistake even if he died.

It's just that the face that is so familiar that it is engraved in the blood is full of strange expressions.

Ji Zhao whispered, "Your Highness, please..."

Ji Zhao wrinkled his nose slightly, pursed his mouth, and "looked" at him pitifully.

"Your Highness..." After Ji Zhao called out, he was blown into place by the wind and sneezed a few times.

Zong Zhen took a few steps back in disgust, turned around, walked back to his seat and sat down, looked at Ji Zhao's inexplicably pitiful figure outside the bead curtain, and pointed to Cheng Shen: "You go with him..."

"Yes!" Cheng Shen and the others didn't find it strange, after all, His Highness was such a kind person before, so this idea is nothing small.Besides...the matter of Yin Ming is also related to them, it should be.

Cheng Shen walked out of the bead curtain, and said with a smile, "My son-in-law, I'll let you go!"

Only then did Ji Zhao realize that the prince actually agreed!

"Consort?" Cheng Shen urged again.

Ji Zhao came back to his senses, and there was a big and sincere smile towards the bead curtain: "Thank you, Your Highness! Thank you! Thank you!"

Zong Zhen paused with his hands on his knees, and opened his mouth slightly, as if to say something, but Ji Zhao turned away excitedly.The figure disappeared in the hall soon, and he ran fast, Zong Zhen snorted coldly, and asked Bao Qing: "Is Yin Ming still alive?"

"The little one just asked clearly. When Cheng Shen and the others went, they did take advantage of the collision of the boat to get the painting. Yin Ming and the others were all fine. After falling into the water, two people could swim, two No, they came back after watching Yin Ming save people and bring them to the shore."

"understood……"

Zong Zhen got up and walked to the sleeping hall.

On the desk, the painting was still spread out, Zong Zhen looked at it again, slowly rolled it up with his own hands, tied it with blue silk, and put it on the bookshelf casually.

What's the need for him to think about Ji Zhao's thoughts?

In this life, Ji Zhao must live according to the way he bestowed.

Whether Ji Zhao is a conspiracy or a conspiracy, there is only one result - death.

Just watching Ji Zhao being pitiful or hypocritical in front of him, isn't it interesting?

The gate of the city was closed, and Cheng Shen had the token of the Eastern Palace on him. The guards opened the gate for them and sent them out of Jinling City respectfully.

Ji Zhao still didn't know how to ride a horse, so he had to ride a carriage, only now did he realize that he was in the way.The carriage, of course, was not as fast as riding a horse. Cheng Shen was very considerate, and asked a few guards from the Eastern Palace to go to the water first, and comforted him: "Don't worry, son-in-law, those brothers are sure to be fine!"

No matter how anxious Ji Zhao was, there was nothing he could do, and he couldn't fly.

Fortunately, after dawn, they met the guards of the East Palace who came back with Yin Ming and others more than 50 miles outside the city.Ji Zhao and Chen Xing immediately jumped out of the carriage, and Chen Xing cried loudly, rushed up, and jumped directly onto Yin Ming: "You scared us to death, woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Please, Prince, we can come out to find you!"

Yin Ming was stunned, hugged Chen Xing tightly, and looked at Ji Zhao, his eyes were also a little red.

Ji Zhao stood where he was, trying to restrain himself from crying.He is very easily influenced by others, and when others cry, he wants to cry too.

Yin Ming put down Chen Xing, brought the other three people to him, bowed to him, choked up and said, "We didn't finish the errand, but we made you worried!"

None of them expected that Mr. Lang would come to find them in person, and even entered the palace at night to beg the prince to take the sign and leave the city.

Ji Zhao helped him up: "It's fine!"

Yin Ming is not a person who can talk, his lips trembled several times, and finally he nodded vigorously, "Yeah!"

Cheng Shen laughed at the side and said, "Okay, it's a great thing that the elder brothers are all fine, and the son-in-law can go back to the city with peace of mind, and His Highness will be happy to know."

"Thank you so much, Your Highness the Crown Prince!" Ji Zhao said sincerely.

Ji Zhao and Chen Xing got into the carriage again, Yin Ming and the others refused to get into the carriage, and rode with Cheng Shen and the others. Two guards went back to the city first, so as to tell His Royal Highness the matter.

The rest of them hurried on their way unhurriedly, much slower than when they left the city, and they could still enjoy the scenery along the way.

Cheng Shen asked casually, "I don't know where you were going? Why did you bump into the official ship?"

"We are going to Huizhou under the orders of your lord." Yin Ming scratched his head, "Yesterday, the wind was strong, and the salt boat had a heavy draft, but our boat was lighter. .”

"So that's it. Is going to Huizhou to buy ink for the son-in-law? Our Highness has a lot of good ink."

"No, no, our lord has a friend who is not feeling well. He is worried, so he sent us to take a look." Yin Ming couldn't go into too much detail, but he couldn't say nothing.

Cheng Shen stopped asking, but was extremely surprised.

He made up a random excuse to make the son-in-law so...

After returning, if His Highness knew the truth, Cheng Shen's face would turn bitter and he would not ask any further questions if he would reward him with a reward.

He didn't ask any more, Yin Ming also heaved a sigh of relief, and rode his horse leisurely.

At this time, it was already daylight, no matter the official road or the small road, it was full of people and cars entering Beijing, the road was even a bit crowded, Yin Ming and Cheng Shen leaned their horses to the side of the road for fear of bumping into people.

Unexpectedly, there was a scream in front of them. They sat on the horse, sitting high, and watched carefully.

I saw a small figure suddenly jumped out of a plain carriage. The man was dressed in indigo blue and wore a curtain. He jumped off the carriage and ran into the woods beside the official road.More people jumped out of the carriage and ran after her into the woods. The road immediately became panicked. Pedestrians stopped one after another, and even an ox cart and a mule cart ran into it. Everyone stopped to watch the excitement.

Yin Ming and the others had to stop for a while, and Cheng Shen was very dissatisfied. He was polite to Yin Ming and the others because they were son-in-laws.What are other people in the eyes of the great eunuch of the East Palace?

He pointed impatiently at another young eunuch: "Go and see what's going on, what's wrong with the officialdom!"

The little eunuch immediately jumped off the horse and ran there, Yin Ming didn't ask any more questions, and stopped at the same place to wait.

Ji Zhao was lying in the carriage and fell asleep, when the carriage stopped suddenly, he woke up in a daze, and asked, "What's wrong..."

"Lang Jun, are you awake?" Chen Xing was dissatisfied, "Are you woken up, do you have a headache? I don't know what's going on up ahead, we can't move forward." Chen Xing said, stretching out his hand to him gently. Rubbing the temples.

Ji Zhao covered his mouth and yawned, only to hear the sound outside getting louder and louder, he opened the curtain and looked out, the little eunuch came back after asking, Ji Zhao quickly waved to him.

"What's the matter?" Ji Zhao asked.

The little eunuch climbed into the car and replied: "My son-in-law, it is said that the son of a family surnamed Liu who opened a silver house in Jinling City died. I went to Jinling City to wait to get married, and today I seem to be sending her into the city. The little daughter-in-law seemed unwilling to marry, so she just jumped out of the car and fled, and now she was arrested by their family again."

Ji Zhao frowned: "Everyone is dead, why do you want her to marry?"

Chen Xing said: "My lord, you don't know the sinister heart, why do you marry? The woman is probably for the man's betrothal gift. Since the family has a silver house, the betrothal gift must be very rich, but it's all about marrying a daughter. For the sake of my son's death, someone will worship him."

Ji Zhao felt very uncomfortable hearing it, so he opened the curtain again and looked outside again.

Seeing the small figure who was captured, she was tied with hemp rope, and everyone pointed at her.

The little eunuch said: "My son-in-law, if there is nothing wrong, the little one will go down? I'm afraid we can continue on this road."

"Hmm..." Ji Zhao nodded.

The little eunuch was about to jump down, "Wait..." Ji Zhao stopped him again.

"Consort?"

Ji Zhaodao: "You send someone there. Marriage or not is their private matter, and we have nothing to do with it, but it's too disrespectful to tie people up like this. If you untie people immediately, you're not a prisoner!"

The little eunuch didn't take it seriously, after all, he is a son-in-law, his status is precious, and he doesn't know the sufferings of the world, so what good is such a favor?Looking back, wouldn't the little lady still have to hold the memorial tablet and marry in the past, the world is much more pitiful than this little lady, can you manage it?

But he still reported the matter to Cheng Shen responsibly.

Cheng Shen's realm is higher than that of the little eunuch, he thinks that the son-in-law really deserves to be a pure and kind person.

For such a trivial matter, he immediately sent guards there. The guards stepped forward without revealing their identities. They were just intimidating and threatening. The other party knew that they were not easy to mess with. He bowed to the carriage repeatedly with a compensating smile, and immediately handed over the hemp rope to the carriage. solved.

Ji Zhao kept his eyes on the window sill and saw them untying the little lady with his own eyes.

The little lady was still wearing a curtain on her head, before being dragged into the car, she turned her head and seemed to look in his direction.

Ji Zhao really knew that his abilities were limited, and he had no choice but to do so. He put down the curtain, lay back and continued to sleep.