The Way of the Consort

Cheng Shen looked at Fanta who was carrying two baskets, wondering: "Why are you here?"

Fanda said helplessly: "Mr. Cheng, it was the son-in-law who ordered the little one to come into the palace to deliver things."

Cheng Shen looked at the two baskets in his hand again and asked, "What are they?"

"It's ginkgo fruit and freshly picked autumn pears from the mansion."

Without even thinking about it, Cheng Shen said, "Your Highness never eats out, so take it."

"Uh, you have to tell His Highness? The son-in-law personally—"

Before Fanta finished speaking, His Highness the Crown Prince coughed again, and Cheng Shen hurried in, saying, "You have received the reward yourself, go back quickly!"

Cheng Shen hurried into the inner room, only to see the dense water vapor behind the screen, he asked anxiously, "Is Your Highness okay? Doctor Luo will be here soon!"

Zongzhen rode a horse for an hour in the afternoon, and took a lot of cool wind. At first, he didn't feel anything. He was wearing a thick fur cape, and he didn't feel uncomfortable. He rode quite vigorously. He came back to take a bath. After being choked by the heat, he started to cough, and he couldn't stop coughing.

Bao Qing surrounded him anxiously with a few young eunuchs, anxiously said: "Your Highness, let's rest from tomorrow! It's cold, how can we blow the cold wind outside all day long?!"

Zong Zhen leaned against the wooden barrel, coughing silently, his face flushed.

The more uncomfortable it is, the more you have to practice.If you don't practice, you will die, it is better to practice to death.

He drank a few sips of warm water with Bao Qing's hand, and asked, "Who is here?"

Cheng Shen reported: "It's Fanta, he was ordered by his son-in-law to come into the palace to deliver some food to His Highness."

Zongzhen raised his head and drank a cup of warm water without asking, and said directly: "Throw it away..."

After that, he slid down again, dipped into the hot water, closed his eyes and said nothing, just coughed intermittently.

Cheng Shen thought to himself, he knew it was so.

Before Cheng Shen had time to throw away his things, Doctor Luo came first. After taking a pulse check, Zongzhen was tired of hearing those words since he was a child. Doctor Luo advised him to keep a low limit, and even wanted to dismiss him. The thought of getting out and about.

Zong Zhen coughed and waved him to go out.

Doctor Luo walked out of the screen helplessly, Aunt Zhang and Cheng Shen stopped him for interrogation, they heard that His Highness was unwilling to rest, and would have to stand in the cold wind to practice arrows tomorrow, they were also very helpless.

Aunt Zhang had no choice but to say: "Let's prescribe the medicine first!"

Cheng Shen asked: "Is there any other food that can relieve cough? It is because medicine is always poisonous. Our Highness can't just drink medicine, but His Highness doesn't like loquat cream. I don't think it's helpful to eat it before."

Doctor Luo nodded: "Let's boil some autumn pear water for Your Highness, and then put some lilies and ginkgo in it, at least to neutralize it, the pears are too cold."

Cheng Shen was at a loss for words, but Aunt Zhang frowned: "Oh, Your Highness never uses sweet things. He is not in good health, so he can't use cold things. We really don't have autumn pears in our palace. Cheng Shen, go to Yanfu Hall Ask the side dining room, see if there is any, if not, send someone out to buy it quickly——Cheng Shen, what do you look like?"

"Uh, actually, there are some in our palace..."

"what?"

After Cheng Shen explained the reason, Aunt Zhang was dissatisfied: "What time is it! It doesn't matter who sent it! Where is it? I decide this matter! I will go through it myself!"

Cheng Shen had no choice but to watch Aunt Zhang go to cook Qiu Lishui. He asked, but Fanta hadn't left yet, so he asked some questions before letting Fanta go.

Zong Zhen came out of the bath, wrapped tightly in fox fur, first drank a bowl of medicine, and the bitterness entered his heart and lungs, but he still frowned and drank the medicine in one gulp.

Aunt Zhang handed over a small white-glazed bowl again: "Your Highness, drink another bowl of sweet autumn pear water."

Zongzhen really doesn't like sweets, but right now his mouth is very bitter, smelling the sweetness of Qiuli, he took the small bowl, picked it with a spoon, drank Qiuli water in a few sips, and ate it A few ginkgo fruits made my throat feel much more comfortable.

Aunt Zhang was very happy, and asked with a smile, "Your Highness, would you like another bowl?"

Zong Zhen nodded, Aunt Zhang handed over another bowl, and Cheng Shen shrank back.

Zong Zhen glanced at him, drank another bowl, put down the bowl, and asked, "Finally, what happened on the way you accompanied Ji Zhao out of the city."

Cheng Shen shrank back, only because of Qiuli and Baiguo's affairs, he didn't expect to be misunderstood by their Highness, the son-in-law didn't do anything bad.

He hastened to tell about the incidents on the road one by one, especially the incident that the son-in-law helped others.

Zong Zhen laughed when he heard this, it didn't sound like a sneer, Cheng Shen looked at Bao Qing in surprise, Bao Qing shook his head quietly, he didn't know why His Highness laughed.

Zong Zhen laughed because he found that Ji Zhao like this made him feel familiar again.

That's what Ji Zhao was like. The reason why he fell in love with Ji Zhao as his son-in-law was because he jumped off the carriage.A few months later, Ji Zhao saved someone again, and this person really liked saving people.

Zongzhen doesn't think Ji Zhao is a good person, even Ji Zhao has too many dark sides, insidious and cunning.

People's hearts are always complicated, and Zong Zhen has to admit that there is a place of pure kindness in Ji Zhao's more complicated heart, even if it's just a small piece.

Doesn't today's move prove this?

Even if it was just acting for him, Ji Zhao still acted.

Zong Zhen even asked with great interest: "This time, he didn't get out of the car? Didn't he carry anyone down?"

"Uh——" Cheng Shen said boldly, "Your Highness, that's a little widow, she doesn't seem to be easy to hug..."

"..." Zong Zhen realized that he was talking crazy. There was still a bowl of autumn pear water on the table. Zong Zhen took it up and drank it all, and told them all to go down. He continued to read the memorial.

Cheng Shen and Bao Qing were talking head to head outside.

"So, those are sent by the son-in-law?"

"Yes! If His Highness knows, what should we do?"

"Only, I can only try not to let His Highness know..."

Zong Zhen really felt that the pear water was very good. He approved the memorial for a while, and his throat started to feel uncomfortable again. He was about to call for someone, but when he looked up, everyone was kicked out by him. He got up and came out when he heard The two eunuchs turned their backs to him and muttered.

He turned cold: "I know..."

"..." Cheng Shen and Bao Qing were so frightened that they quickly turned around and knelt down.

"That's right, Ji Zhao sent people to the palace to send those autumn pears and ginkgo fruit?"

"Yes……"

Zongzhen was silent for a long while, and then asked angrily, "What did you say when you delivered the things?"

"His Royal Highness, Fanta said that the ginkgo and pears were all picked and picked by the consort himself, even the leaves and fabrics for the padding were also picked by the concubine himself, and the best-looking ones were picked by the concubine himself, without the slightest pretense of using other people's hands! You I didn't see it, those two baskets are beautifully placed!"

Zong Zhen let out a cold "hum", turned around and went in.

Cheng Shen followed in and asked, "Does Your Highness have anything to say?"

Zong Zhen was even more angry: "Send some more pear water in."

"Yes yes yes!" Cheng Shen turned to leave.

"Stop..." Zong Zhen stopped him again, and Cheng Shen turned to look at him: "Your Highness..."

Zong Zhen frowned, and said reluctantly: "Bring me those two baskets."

"..." Cheng Shen was stunned, and Bao Qing was also stunned, then quickly blinked at Cheng Shen, "Yes!" Cheng Shen responded with a loud voice, and ran out happily.

When Fan Da returned to the Hou's Mansion, in order not to make the son-in-law feel sad, he must have made things better.

It is very strange to say that the four brothers were obviously sent to be a follower, but they all unknowingly started to move towards the son-in-law.Who made the son-in-law so thoughtless, kind and good-looking?It's also good for them servants.

As expected, Ji Zhao was very happy. For a period of time in the future, he would take care of all the autumn pears and ginkgo fruits in the East Palace. It was not until autumn passed that the pear trees were empty and there were no more ginkgo fruits in the ginkgo leaves all over the ground. deliver.

So Ji Zhao began to worry again, what should I give next?

The effect of gift giving this time is not bad.

Once, Fu Chen went to the palace to see his father and elder brother. In the East Palace, the two brothers and sisters were sitting and talking.

Aunt Zhang brought Qiu Lishui, Fu Chen glanced at it, then covered his mouth and smiled.

Zong Zhen looked up at her, and Fu Chen joked: "Nowadays in Jinling City, everyone knows that the son-in-law and elder brother are very good."

Isn’t it great? Everyone knows that the son-in-law delivers food to the East Palace every three days, and His Highness the Crown Prince coughs all the time when it’s cold. Everyone in Jinling City knows about this. However, it is said that recently, Thanks to the autumn pears and ginkgo fruits in the son-in-law's mansion, His Highness's cough has been relieved.

In fact, Zong Zhen still had a bad cough, so he could only say that drinking some pear water would make his throat more comfortable.

However, this is what people say, and even His Majesty rewarded a lot of things to the Hou Mansion for this.

Zong Zhen doesn't care.

Ji Zhao loves to give it away, he will not be easily deceived by these few pears today, and he will not let Ji Zhao go in the future.

If Ji Zhao thought he could bribe him with this, he would be willing to see Ji Zhao become so arrogant.

He didn't say much, he took a glass of pear water and handed it to Fu Chen: "Then you have a taste..."

Fuchen laughed out loud, and sure enough, he tasted half a cup. In fact, no matter how delicious the autumn pear water is, it can be so delicious. Fuchen didn't have a cough, but she still boasted: "After all, it's the pears from the son-in-law's mansion. Very drunk."

Zong Zhen then asked her: "What do you think of the son-in-law?"

"I think the son-in-law is very good!"

"Then why, it's been more than a month since we got married, yet Fu Chen hasn't stayed overnight with his son-in-law?"

As soon as these words came out, Zong Zhen regretted it. He forgot that it was already a new life.In his previous life, seeing that the relationship between the two was not good, he was worried about it and often persuaded his younger sister in private.

Fu Chen's smile froze as expected, Zong Zhen wanted to make amends, Fu Chen had already smiled and said: "Brother, don't worry about me, the son-in-law is really good and treats me well, I just, I just can't get used to it, that's all for a long time Some will be fine."

Zong Zhen looked at her smile and blamed himself.

They have been looking for Pei Rong for more than a month, but there is still no trace of Pei Rong.

Fu Chen said again: "The son-in-law treats me really well. He sends people to give me things almost every day. They are all very interesting gadgets. The son-in-law takes me very seriously."

Zong Zhen knew that for more than a month, Ji Zhao often mixed with Zong Mi and Zong Yan brothers, and often went to corners.Not only to Fuchen, but also to the palace three or two times, all of which are strange and weird things, such as half-used ink sticks, which are said to be ancient relics from the previous dynasty, and a black ink stick wrapped in beeswax. Worm, Ji Zhao said that it was called "amber".

Zong Zhenquan called Bao Qing and they threw it away.

Fortunately, brothers Zong Mi and Zong Yan had brains and did not dare to lead Ji Zhao to the place of fireworks, otherwise he would have done all three of them immediately.

It's also a pity, if he can really take it, wouldn't he have a reason to deal with the three of them right away?

Zong Zhen slowed down his voice: "If you're not used to it, then take your time, don't rush."

"En!" Fu Chen smiled like a flower, and Zong Zhen followed suit.

After Fu Chen left, Zong Zhen called someone in and asked, "Is Ji Zhao going out with the same family today?"

"Not today, but I heard that the son-in-law has sent someone to clean up the village outside the city. In a few days, he may invite the fifth son to stay in the village for a few days."

Zong Zhen nodded, and brought the teacup, the tea lid kept foaming off.

The reason why he kept the Zongyan and didn't ask him to return to the fief was because he wanted to see what the Zongyan brothers would do.Seeing that they really hooked up with Ji Zhaosi, he wanted to know what kind of tricks they were going to get out of.

Now that he can see it, he probably has become a close friend.

It's good to be a close friend, and he still needs Ji Zhao, a "close friend", to do some things.

After thinking about it, Zong Zhen put down the teacup and ordered: "Tomorrow, the fifth son will be announced to enter the palace."

After hanging around for so long, it's time to go back to the fief.

He practiced archery, horseback riding, and martial arts against the cool wind these days, and he practiced to the point of death, but he played it coolly.

Ji Zhao still wants to take his "friend" to the mountains to play and dream.