The Way of the Consort

On the day of hunting, before departure, Chen Keye, who had been squatting for two nights and one day, came to report that the person hiding in that room was Princess Qingyang.

After all, this place is Xiguo's territory, no matter how cautious the other party is, there will always be a little bit of trepidation, and he will eventually show his flaws.

And Chen Keye, who followed Zong Zhen to Liangguo, happened to have seen Princess Qingyang and her two personal maids.

Chen Keye cupped his hands: "For the time being, I don't know why they came here."

Zong Zhen knew, or rather, he could guess.

He and Liu Cang did have some contacts in the dark. Since the last trip to Liangguo, they have not communicated or left any evidence. They are in charge of sending letters by a few ordinary mutes, and they all use lip language or sign language.

Of course, they are not friends, they just have a common enemy and cooperate temporarily.

State secrets, neither of them would tell each other. Liu Cang had told him about Princess Qingyang being married to a certain tribal county king.

If he guessed right, Princess Qingyang escaped marriage and fled to Jinling?

Zongzhen raised his eyebrows, which is interesting. Liu Rui also came to Jinling, presumably he also knew that Princess Qingyang was here?Pei Rong can deliver the letter.

Chen Keye said again: "As for King Zheng, what Princess Yehui Qingyang said, I don't know yet, and my subordinates are incompetent."

"It's not your fault, you can't stick it on the door to listen?"

"The subordinates are worried about King Zheng."

Zong Zhen smiled, and said lightly: "He is nothing to be afraid of, especially after today."

Chen Keye was a little puzzled, Zong Zhen said again: "What did Pei Rong say?"

"This is a man! He didn't say anything, only admitted that he is a descendant of the Lu family, and said that he wanted to see the princess again before he died."

Zong Zhen nodded, expressing that he knew it, and he didn't force it. He already knew everything he should know.

He got up and went out.

The hunting place is located on the east side of the outskirts of Jinling, also known as Dongshan, which occupies a large area. Even if there are more than 200 people including the master, guards, eunuchs, etc., it is not too much to enter the mountain.

In particular, Zongzhen ordered everyone to shoot and hunt separately, and gather after a few hours to see who has the most prey, and even took out a famous painting from the previous dynasty as a prize. It looks big.

Hearing that it was such a hunting method, Zong Mi breathed a sigh of relief. He rode horses with a cousin who had a good relationship and went deep.

Zong Mi chatted and laughed with his cousin all the way, and shot a few rabbits and a deer, which yielded a lot of harvest. As they walked further in, there were more trees and it was closer to the cliff, Zong Mi suggested that they should go back.The cousin laughed and said, "I heard that there are fierce tigers in the depths of the forest. Why, second brother, don't you want to go and see them?"

Before Zong Mi could speak, he said, "Men can't be so bloodless!"

Zong Mi had no choice but to accompany him, and as soon as the two of them reached the depths, they saw a shadow passing through, "It's a fox!" The cousin exclaimed in a low voice, took an arrow from the quiver, and ran after the fox. Mi followed his direction and ran for about half a kilometer when another deer ran by the side of the road. Zong Mi immediately took the arrow, aimed and was about to shoot it, but his hand froze.

In his line of sight, behind the deer, an arrow suddenly protruded from among the thick leaves, aiming at the deer, or him!

Zong Mi was covered in cold sweat suddenly. He grabbed the rein and turned around and wanted to run, but he heard a voice piercing the air in his ear, "Ah!" Zong Mi's left leg was shot by the arrow, and he fell off the horse. Pulling out the dagger to cut off the arrow first, he struggled to stand up, and wanted to get off his horse and leave.

There was another whoosh, and another arrow shot into his right leg.

He was careful and careful, but he still placed an order!

Zong Mi still wanted to get up, but there was the sound of slow footsteps behind him, and Zong Mi's forehead was covered with sweat from the pain. He looked back and saw Zong Zhen walking slowly.

He didn't expect it to be Zong Zhen!It was Zong Zhen who came here in person!

He turned over and sat on the ground. Knowing that there was nowhere to escape, he watched Zongzhen getting closer and closer. He sneered: "His Royal Highness is going to kill me? If you kill me, there is no way to talk to the clan and His Majesty." Confess!"

Zong Zhen walked up to him and looked down at him.

Zong Mi also knew that either you or I would die between the two of them, and Zong Zhen must have known it too, but he didn't expect this day to come so soon!Zong Mi sneered again: "If I die, my guards will immediately expose the fact that Ji Zhao and Wang Xi are childhood sweethearts!"

Zong Zhen's black eyes became deeper, it doesn't matter what you say about him.

But the most in his life he hated people talking about Ji Zhao, hated others using Ji Zhao!

Zong Zhen looked at him, and said in a flat voice, "You know, I hate people making trouble with him the most."

"The prince will kill me! It's a knife!"

Zong Zhen suddenly smiled: "Who said I want to kill you?"

"Then you—ah—" Zong Mi howled in pain.

Zong Zhen stepped on his leg, grinding on the place where he was hit by the arrow. Zong Mi wanted to resist and save himself. The people behind Zong Zhen went up and held down his upper body. All the arrows stepped into his flesh, Zong Mi's lips were so painful that his lips were white, and his whole body was trembling.

Zongzhen bent down to look at him, looked at him, and said softly: "I really envy my position? I really want to be a prince, I really want to be an emperor?"

Zong Mi's lips were trembling.

Zong Zhen reached out and took a hammer from the guard, Zong Mi trembled and shook his head.

Zong Zhen smiled at him: "It's fine if you just covet the throne. But you—"

"I hate it the most in my life, and I only hate someone coveting Ji Zhao."

Zong Zhen knocked it down with a hammer, Zong Mi was so painful that he could no longer scream, Zong Zhen hit the hammer again, Zong Mi was so painful that he passed out completely.

Zong Zhen then threw the hammer and stood up slowly.

The guard asked: "Your Highness, how will he deal with it?"

Zong Zhen said: "Princess Qingyang has some behaviors, I still quite agree with them, for example, how she killed Yuan Zhi at the beginning, the hunting ground is really good. Pull the arrow from his leg, find a hard-to-find place, and shoot him Throw it in."

"Yes!" The guards carried Zong Mi, led his horse and walked directly inside.

Zong Zhen turned around and ordered again: "After half an hour, notify everyone that Zhengjun Wang Zongmi is missing, try your best to find him."

"Yes!"

It was only then that Chen Keye understood the meaning of their Highness's phrase "he is not to be feared, especially after today".

His Highness never thought of killing Zong Mi either!

With his legs ruined, Zong Mi would never be able to ascend the throne in his life. To put it bluntly, if something happened to His Highness, His Majesty would not choose a cripple as his heir!

Zong Mi's heart is so high, this life is completely over!

The most ruthless thing is to destroy people's thoughts!

But they are not Zong Mi, they just feel refreshed!

On the same day, the imperial army was dispatched, and they began to "search" for Prince Zheng all over the mountains and plains. They searched for five days.

Ji Zhao on the mountain didn't know anything about it. He was very keen to talk to Liu Rui these days, mainly to talk to each other. Many times, he wanted to go down the mountain to have a look, but he felt that his brain could not last long, and he planned to tell Zong Zhen what he already knew.

It was only then that he realized why Zong Zhen hadn't come to the mountain yet. After asking, he found out about Zong Mi's disappearance.

He didn't care much, he planned to go back to the city to find Zong Zhen.

Zong Zhen was lost in thought while looking at a letter on the table.

Cheng Shen and Bao Qing were very curious, what happened to this letter?His Highness has been staring at it for more than half an hour!You know, except for the son-in-law, oh no!Except for Pingyang Hou's letter, no one's letter can make His Highness daze!

The letter came from Guizhou, from Wang Shouliang, Wang Xi's father.

The matter of choosing Wang Xi as the crown princess was the matter of Zong Zhen telling Wang Shouliang before Wang Shouliang went to Guizhou to become the magistrate. Now the matter of Zhou Liangdi and Miss Qin has been resolved. A few days ago, Zong Mi hadn’t When those rumors were released, he had already written to Wang Shouliang personally about the matter, and said that he would make Wang Shouliang the Guangnan Road transfer envoy.

Wang Shouliang quickly wrote back to him, expressing that he was flattered and thanked His Royal Highness for his trust.

This is Zong Zhen's expected answer. Wang Shouliang is more concerned about his official career, and he is a very capable person, not Zhang Yifei's kind of incompetent person who always thinks about relying on women to enjoy himself.If Wang Xi could be the crown prince, Wang Shouliang would be willing. If he really couldn't do it, Wang Shouliang would be happier if he was given such compensation and the trust from the crown prince.

However, in the letter, Wang Shouliang mentioned another matter, which made his hair stand on end.

Wang Shouliang said that a few days ago, there was a market in a certain village in the suburbs of Guizhou, but there were wild boars. Fortunately, they were well prepared and all the wild boars were captured, and there were no casualties.And the reason why they were prepared is that when the son-in-law [unknown Heli at the time of writing] came to Guizhou, he had mentioned him, saying that there might be casualties in Guizhou due to wild boar attacks during the Flower Festival. For a long time, they have been on the alert.

The thing finally happened, Wang Shouliang was relieved on the one hand, said that he would be stricter in the future, and finally expressed to His Highness that it was thanks to the son-in-law.

Wang Shouliang's original intention should also be to say good things for Ji Zhao.

But Zong Zhen fell into an ice cellar.

In his previous life, it was true that wild boars suddenly sprang out of the forest in Guizhou, causing many casualties. It can be said that the biggest incident that happened in Guizhou since the founding of the country, he has always remembered it very clearly, and even remembered that it was the Huachao Festival in a certain year.

Wang Shouliang said in his letter that it was learned by divination by the son-in-law.

Impossible, Ji Zhao doesn't know how to divination at all!

Zongzhen didn't speak for a long time, seeing that it was getting dark, Cheng Shen, Baoqing and the others dared not say anything until a young eunuch sneaked in from outside and leaned into Baoqing's ear: "Consort, bah bah bah! The Marquis of Pingyang is here! !"

Baoqing's eyes lit up, and he was about to tell His Highness immediately, but he saw His Highness still bowed his head, motionless.

He thought, go and bring Pingyanghou in so as to surprise His Highness!

No matter how bad their highness is, it will be good to see Marquis Pingyang!

Holding a lantern, Baoqing sneaked out of the East Palace to meet Ji Zhao. When he saw Ji Zhao, he saluted, "You are here!"

"What's the matter? He's in a bad mood? Did he reprimand you again?" Ji Zhao asked with a smile.

"I don't know who wrote the letter, I'm afraid they said something bad, His Highness sat there without saying a word for almost an hour!"

Ji Zhao nodded: "It seems that you are indeed very angry!"

"Fortunately, you are here!"

Ji Zhao didn't speak anymore, and walked quickly. After entering the East Palace, everyone was relieved when they saw him coming. Ji Zhao thought, what kind of anger is this?

Ji Zhao walked through the veranda, strode into Zongzhen's study room, and saw Zongzhen sitting there with his head bowed at a glance.

Cheng Shen's eyes lit up, and when he was about to report, Ji Zhao pointed out his finger, "Shhh—"

Cheng Shen nodded repeatedly and called everyone out.

Ji Zhao approached Zongzhen on tiptoe, obviously his shadow was falling on the wall, but Zongzhen didn't notice him either!It's not like this when I'm angry again!Ji Zhao walked a few steps away from the desk, suddenly got up and jumped in front of Zongzhen, and said with a smile, "Big surprise!"

Zong Zhen was so frightened that he immediately looked up, and when he saw that it was Ji Zhao, he subconsciously turned the letter over in his hand.

Ji Zhao noticed this detail, and found that Zong Zhen was not happy to see him, so he immediately pursed his mouth: "Why are you like this, aren't you happy to see me? I've been in for a long time, and you didn't react at all. Didn't you say that as long as I appear, you will see me immediately."

Zong Zhen's mind was in a state of confusion, and Ji Zhao just came over unexpectedly.

He was both happy, apprehensive, and even flustered.

Under what circumstances would Ji Zhao know what is going to happen in the future in advance?

Rebirth...

Zong Zhen looked at Ji Zhao's smiling face, and his heart almost froze.

Ruo Ji Zhao was also reborn... The Ji Zhao in the previous life has been hidden until the last moment, Ruo Ji Zhao is the Ji Zhao in the previous life...

Zong Zhen didn't dare to think about it.

"What's wrong with you?" Ji Zhao pursed his mouth for a while, seeing that Zong Zhen didn't coax him, but looked at him in a daze, and his face became more and more strange, so he stopped arguing with him, stretched out his hand and waved in front of him. , "What's the matter? They said that you have been in a daze for more than an hour. What happened? Who wrote you the letter? What did you say?"

As he said that, Ji Zhao stretched out his hand, wanting to take the letter in his hand and read it.

There is no secret between him and Zong Zhen, they can watch everything together.

"do not--"

However, what he didn't expect was that Zong Zhen took the letter away from him after he got the letter.

Ji Zhao looked at him in surprise, but Zong Zhen dodged his eyes, put the letter in a book, got up and said, "Haven't you had dinner yet? Go and have dinner..."

Ji Zhao stood where he was, without moving. Zong Zhen had already left the table. Seeing that he hadn't moved, he didn't look back. He just stood with his back to him.

Regarding Ji Zhao, Zong Zhen always held it in his hand and was afraid of falling. Zong Zhen's behavior made Ji Zhao very wronged.

Ji Zhao felt wronged and said, "I won't eat..."

Zong Zhen was silent for a while, then said, "We still have to eat."

Ji Zhao sat back: "I won't eat! I'll just sit here!"

"..." Zong Zhen still didn't look back.

Ji Zhao became even more angry, and said angrily, "Go and eat by yourself! I'll just sit here! I'm not going anywhere!"

Zongzhen stood for a long time, and then said: "Then you go to the dormitory and read a book."

Ji Zhao was angry: "I can't stay in your study? Are you afraid that I will read your letter? Why can't I read your letter? Who wrote it for you!"

Zong Zhen didn't know what to say, his mind was really in chaos at this moment.

No one can completely get rid of the shadow of his previous life. He has worked so hard in this life to avoid repeating the tragedy of his previous life.

But if Ji Zhao is also reborn——

Zong Zhen smiled bitterly.

Later, Zong Zhen asked someone to bring the dinner directly to the study, and Ji Zhao was about to explode, what kind of broken letter!It's fine if you don't let him see it, but in order not to let him see it, you even have dinner in the study!

Ji Zhao almost left, but he was unwilling.

In the end, he didn't eat much. He got up and went to the dormitory angrily. He thought Zong Zhen would come to coax him and apologize to him.

Until the third watch, Zong Zhen was still in the study!

Ji Zhao lay on Zongzhen's bed, buried his face in the quilt, and silently shed tears in grievance.

Sitting in the study, Zong Zhen felt uncomfortable, he was still reading that letter, or rather, he only read the sentence mentioning Ji Zhao in the letter.

Looking at it, the little rabbit that had been used as a paperweight fell into his eyes, and he looked at the little rabbit in a daze again, thinking of the smile on Ji Zhao's face when he gave the rabbit to him.

It was completely different from Ji Zhao's smile in his previous life, and it was a smile that belonged only to him.

More Ji Zhao's smiling faces flashed in his mind.

His mind finally gradually regained clarity.

Actually, so what if Ji Zhao is reborn?He was also reborn. Compared with his previous life, he can be said to be a completely different person.

Regarding Pei Rong's incident last time, didn't he already make up his mind that no matter what happens in the future, he will be honest with each other?The misunderstandings were all made up of blind thinking. It was not easy for him and Ji Zhao, even if Ji Zhao was reborn, he recognized it!

Even if Ji Zhao is the Ji Zhao who killed him in his previous life, he still recognizes it!

He loves Ji Zhao.

Zong Zhen got up suddenly, picked up the letter, turned around and left the study, heading for his bedroom.