The Way of the Consort

In hindsight, it really was an exceptionally peaceful and ordinary day.

Ji Zhao is still living on the mountain, Liu Rui is still living in his yard, and Zong Zhen is busy with government affairs in the city. It is said that Princess Fuchen and Ji Chongjin have something new, and maybe they will have a wedding wine next year.

Ji Zhao has nothing to do, even if he misses Zong Zhen, he still has to act in front of Liu Rui, and Ji Zhao feels that it is not safe, so he will not allow Zong Zhen to come to the mountain again.What should I do if I miss the Crown Prince so much?He went down the mountain, Zong Zhen went out of the city, and the two met in the carriage.

Not to mention, the small space is exciting and sweet, and it really feels like a date.

On this day, Wang Xi plucked up his courage and decided to go to Zhuangzi on the mountain to find Ji Zhao.

She has already made up her mind that she will personally confirm to brother Zhao whether this matter is true. If it is true, she will ask her father and grandfather to come forward for this matter. If her father and grandfather are unwilling to help, she will go to Jinling government office to knock Dengwen Drum!She wants everyone in the world to know the prince's ugliness!

There is no such reason in the world, brother Zhao cannot be insulted by others!

Of course, if this matter is false, that would be the best.

Her personal maid and baby brother also knew about this matter, but no one else knew about it. The three of them went to the mountain together.

Sitting in the carriage, she was still a little apprehensive.

She is not the kind of person with a very strong temper. It is the first time for her to do such a thing. She is even afraid that if she asks, it will hurt Brother Zhao.But if you don't ask, if the matter is true, it will really hurt Brother Zhao!

She straightened her chest and sat upright in the carriage.

Halfway through the journey, the nanny who was driving the car suddenly stopped and said to her, "Girl! Look, that's the car of Mr. Sanlang of the Ji family!"

Wang Xi hurriedly opened the curtain to look out, it was really Ji Zhao's carriage!

In the entire Jinling City, there is only such a gorgeous and unique carriage!

Wang Xi immediately urged the nurse brother to drive the car to the side of Ji Zhao's carriage. She helped the maid's hand to get out of the car, and Ji Zhao's attendant who was watching by the side also knew her. When they saw her, they came to salute: "Miss Wang!"

Wang Xi asked: "But your husband is here?"

"Our lord is admiring the scenery." These attendants are all from Yangzhou, and they all know what happened to Wang Xi and Ji Zhao.

Wang Xi walked in immediately: "I'll go talk to him!"

The attendant reached out to stop her: "No, Miss Wang! His Royal Highness is also here!"

Wang Xi's mind went blank. Hearing that the crown prince was here, she wanted to go in even more. She insisted on breaking in, but the attendants didn't dare to stop her. The guards outside the forest heard the movement and came over to see that it was Miss Wang Xi. .

A few days ago, His Royal Highness also ordered to be gentle with this girl. The guard thought about it, then took her there, stopped at a place, and said: "Miss, wait a moment, I will go in and report."

"Alright..." Wang Xi was already burning with anxiety.

The guard went in to report, and Wang Xi tiptoed to look inside.

In fact, here is a forest, with many persimmon trees growing, and they have begun to bear fruit. She looked at it for a long time, but saw nothing but persimmons, and the more she looked, the more anxious she became.

Fortunately, the guard came out soon, and he said: "Miss Wang, please, our Highness and Mr. Sanlang invite you in."

Wang Xi hurried in.

Her hands were tucked into her sleeves, anxiously clenched into fists, loosened, clenched into fists again, and then let go...

Until she saw Ji Zhao, Ji Zhao stretched out his hand to push away the leaves, walked out from behind a few persimmon trees, saw her, and smiled a little embarrassedly, "You came to the mountain to find me?"

"Yes, yes!" Wang Xi stood there in a daze.

Ji Zhao was not sure what to say, scratched his head, Wang Xi looked out of the corner of his eye, but he didn't see the prince.

Ji Zhao had no choice but to find something to say: "The scenery here is very beautiful, and there are deer in the forest."

"Oh……"

Ji Zhao couldn't find anything to say, so after thinking about it, he asked her, "What do you want me to do?"

"I, I..." Wang Xi clenched his fists, and was about to ask about that matter when a persimmon fell from the persimmon tree, which happened to land on Ji Zhao's head.

"Ouch!"

The persimmon was quite big, heavy, and quite painful, so Ji Zhao hurriedly jumped aside.

The persimmon was half-ripe, and when it hit Ji Zhao's head, it was half-cracked and rolled over his forehead before landing. Ji Zhao reached out to wipe his face, and Wang Xi quickly took out the handkerchief from his sleeve, wanting to hand it to him. Another figure flashed out quickly, Wang Xi looked up, it was that person!The person she had met at the gate of Ji Zhao's house!He is the prince? !

He went straight to Ji Zhao, and asked anxiously, "Where did you hit?"

As he said that, he took out his handkerchief, wiped Ji Zhao's face lightly, and asked, "Does it hurt?"

Ji Zhao felt embarrassed when he saw Wang Xi who was staring blankly, so he dodged a bit.

Wang Xi thought about that night, what that person said, those actions, and looking at the behavior of this person in front of her, what else did she not understand? !

The words on that note are true!

Wang Xi was full of despair, and then saw that hand rubbing brother Zhao's face, sticking so close, brother Zhao glanced at her from time to time in embarrassment, but dared not say a word.

Wang Xi's heart was about to burst, she didn't have to marry Ji Zhao.

But Ji Zhao shouldn't be like this!

"Cough cough cough—it's okay, I'm really fine!" Ji Zhao pushed Zong Zhen away forcefully, Zong Zhen looked back at Wang Xi, and asked bluntly, "Is Miss Wang okay?"

Wang Xi murmured: "No, no..."

"Then back off..." If Wang Xi hadn't come over, Ji Zhao wouldn't have been hit in the face by a persimmon standing here.

Ji Zhao smiled at Wang Xi. Did Wang Xi leave with the guards again? After walking a few steps, she looked back quietly, and saw that Ji Zhao was held in the arms of the prince!When Ji Zhao saw her looking over, his face was blushing, and he wanted to push Zongzhen, but Zongzhen held him tightly and held him tight, reaching out to touch his head, inch by inch, for fear of smashing the bag.

Wang Xi's mind became hot, and he suddenly turned around and rushed towards the two of them.

Wang Xi was so small, she rushed up too fast, neither the guards nor Ji Zhao recovered, when she rushed to the front, Zong Zhen was about to look back, when no one expected, Wang Xi pulled out a bag from his sleeve. With a short dagger, she stabbed Zong Zhen's back forcefully, crying and shouting: "You don't deserve it!"

She pulled out the dagger, and the guard rushed over. She cried and stabbed in again.

The strong bloody smell quickly permeated, Zong Zhen shook Ji Zhao in his arms, and both of them fell limply to the ground. Even so, his arms hugged Ji Zhao tightly, and Ji Zhao didn't knock him.

Ji Zhao slid to the ground and saw the red blood on the green grass. He hugged Zongzhen with trembling hands, buried his face in Zongzhen's neck, and shouted in despair, "Come on!"

Liu Rui had already left the villa, and he felt very proud when he thought of the excitement in the village.

He didn't expect that this Zong Mi really has two brushes!Fortunately, his leg was crippled by Prince Zongzhen, otherwise, how could such a person feel at ease and let him be a puppet?

Tell him to say, seeing the terrified looks of those imperial doctors, the prince may really be dying. Also, no one has been able to survive after being poisoned like that.

Liu Rui rushed to Princess Qingyang's place and proposed to take her to meet someone, but Princess Qingyang warned: "Who are you seeing?"

"You just go with me, how can I harm you?"

"I don't see you!" Princess Qingyang refused.

Liu Rui persuaded her with a smile at first, but when she refused to listen to her repeated persuasion, she simply said: "I might as well tell you! I know that Ji Xiaoliu is indeed Prince Zongzhen, and you are still dreaming of marrying him. I advise you You forgot about this a long time ago! Zong Zhen, he will die soon!"

"died?!"

Princess Qingyang asked in disbelief.

Having reached this point, Liu Rui proudly revealed Zong Mi's matter: "That Miss Wang is also an infatuated person, just like you, you women, tsk tsk, a word of love is really incredible——she Later, I went to that shop again, and that's how the knife used to assassinate Zongzhen came from today, it's very poisonous, Zongzhen will definitely die."

"What poison!"

Liu Rui smiled and said nothing, "It's a pity that Miss Wang's life is not good. You are different. You are my younger sister. I will let you be the queen of Xiguo."

Princess Qingyang almost collapsed, she said forcefully: "I don't want to be a queen! I just want to marry Zongzhen!"

But Liu Rui was still laughing: "Silly sister, everyone else is dead, how can you marry? From now on, Xiguo will be in the hands of our brothers and sisters, isn't that good?"

Princess Qingyang doesn't understand, this is obviously her elder brother, and her mother and concubine, they are her relatives, why do they use her repeatedly?She just wants to live the rest of her life according to her own will, why should such a simple wish be destroyed in Liu Rui's hands?

Liu Rui is still trying to control her and become a queen?

Ha ha--

She smiled bitterly in her heart, which puppet emperor is she marrying again, maybe another old man?

In the eyes of the mother concubine and elder brother, what exactly is she?

She raised her foot and was about to go out, but Liu Rui grabbed her: "What are you going to do?"

Princess Qingyang shook off his hand expressionlessly: "I'm going to save Zongzhen. It's nothing more than a few kinds of poisons. I have the antidote."

"Are you crazy?!"

Princess Qingyang kept rushing forward without saying a word, but Liu Rui grabbed her, dragged her back, and angrily said: "You are really crazy!"

Princess Qingyang stood in the same place, lowered her eyes and did not speak, listening to Liu Rui scolding her. She had heard these words since she was a child, and she was tired of hearing them. Since she was a child, her mother and concubine told her that the sky and the earth are not as big as her brother being the emperor. .

Is being an emperor really that important? !

He is his emperor, she just wants to live according to her own will once!

Why?Why?

"Are you listening?! What purse?" Liu Rui tugged at her arm.

Princess Qingyang looked up at him, her eyes were indifferent, and she calmly looked at Liu Rui, her biological elder brother, who was opposite.

This time is her only way out, no matter what, she must seize the opportunity, she must take this way.

Whoever dares to block her will die.

"You just wait for me, you—uh—" Liu Rui was caught off guard, Qing Yang suddenly pulled down the belt around his waist, quickly tied Liu Rui's neck, and tightened it tightly.

"Snapped!"

Liu Rui slapped her backhand, and wanted to call someone in. The two of them were talking in the room, but they didn't keep anyone. Obviously, Liu Rui never thought that his sister would want to kill him. He didn't even have a weapon on him. nothing.After receiving this slap, Princess Qingyang gritted her teeth, and tightened her hands, steadfastly refusing to let go, even though Liu Rui turned her head and bit her hand hard, bleeding came from the bite.

Gradually, Liu Rui's body lost strength, and Princess Qingyang remained calm and tightened her belt tightly.

Until, Liu Rui's face turned blue, and Qing Yang stretched out his hand to check his breath.

Princess Qingyang let go of her hands and slumped on the ground. Liu Rui was already dead.

Looking at her biological brother's body that would never move again, Princess Qingyang smiled faintly after a moment of bewilderment.

She grabbed her way.

His Royal Highness was assassinated, such a major event had to be kept secret from the outside world. It stands to reason that Wang Xi's hand strength was limited, and he didn't hit a vital point when he stabbed. At most, he lost a lot of blood, and his life should not be in danger.

The bad thing is that Wang Xi's knife is poisonous.

Wang Xi was locked up early, asked where the knife came from, and immediately went to find the shopkeeper of the shop. The shopkeeper had already packed up and ran away. Zong Zhen's breath became weaker and weaker. Ji Zhaochu cried a lot at the beginning, but now he stopped crying.

He didn't care about anything, never closed his eyes, and stayed by Zong Zhen's bed all the time.

Zongzhen is like this, it is not easy to move to the palace, it is in the Zhuangzi on the mountain.

Emperor Renzong came out of the palace secretly, feeling extremely sad. When he saw Ji Zhao who seemed to be in a daze by the bed, he felt even sadder. He comforted Ji Zhao: "Good boy, brother Zhen has astronomical phenomena, and his mother will too." Bless him, he will be fine."

Ji Zhao remained silent and hardly blinked.

Renzong sighed, turned around and asked about pharmaceuticals, but he made several kinds, but there was no cure at all, but his life was hanging.

Day by day, Ji Zhao seldom ate, and he became thinner rapidly.

Chen Xing persuaded him: "If you don't eat, you will also fall down. When His Highness wakes up and sees you like this, how much will you blame yourself?"

Princess Fuchen nodded: "Yes, you should eat some at least, and treat it as eating for your brother."

Only then did Ji Zhao stuff some food into his stomach, and at most he ate one meal a day. Chen Xing and the others secretly put calming medicine into the food, so that Ji Zhao could sleep with his eyes closed for a while just by relying on this meal every day.

Nowadays, the power of Prime Minister in the court is not as good as before, and the power is gradually returning to the hands of His Majesty, or in the hands of Zongzhen. After all, Zongzhen is doing most of the things nowadays.

Zong Zhen didn't show up for many days, and many people were a little bit drumming in their hearts, and each had their own guesses, but they didn't dare to say it out.

Until one day, a famous woman came to the gate of the palace and asked to see His Majesty.

The guard at the gate suspected that he had heard it wrong, and asked in confirmation, "You said, are you?"

"I am Princess Liang Guoqing, I have something important to tell your Majesty."

The guard didn't dare to delay, so he went in to report immediately, and soon Princess Qingyang was brought into Yanfu Hall.

Emperor Renzong looked at the woman sitting next to him and asked, "Do you have something to prove your identity?"

Princess Qingyang handed him a token unique to the royal family of Liang Kingdom. Emperor Renzong looked at it and saw nothing wrong, but he would not easily believe a little lady's words.

Princess Qing Yang was not in a hurry, and said first: "Qing Yang doesn't need His Majesty to believe me immediately. I heard that His Royal Highness was severely poisoned, so I came here specially. I have an antidote."

Emperor Renzong was about to ask why he, a princess of the Liang Kingdom, was in Jinling, but in case she said it directly, he frowned and said, "Why did you know about this? And why do you have the antidote?"

"I also know that the assassination of His Royal Highness is related to Zheng Wang Zongmi."

Renzong sat up straight, his eyes became sharper.

Princess Qingyang was blessed, and said loudly: "Qingyang dare not hide anything, the poison actually came from our country of Liang, and the reason Zheng Wang Zongmi had this medicine was from my brother."

The more Renzong listened, the more confused he became: "Your brother? The fifth prince? Why are your brothers and sisters in Jinling?"

"It's a long story..." Princess Qingyang smiled wryly, "My royal father married me to the prince of a tribal tribe on the border of Liangguo. , I ran away from marriage."

Renzong was dumbfounded when he heard it, and he didn't understand why the princess wanted to tell him these private matters.

Princess Qingyang said again: "I fled to Jinling. Brother, he was afraid that I would anger my father, so he came to Jinling and wanted to take me back. When our siblings were arguing, I didn't know where to reveal my secrets. I was discovered by King Zheng Zongmi of your country. He, Threatening our brothers and sisters——" Princess Qing Yang bowed her head, "He wants to kill His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and wants to use my brother and sister to force us to submit."

"and after?!"

"My elder brother is not willing. Zong Mi sent people to chase and kill the two of us. I escaped by chance. In order to protect me, my elder brother was taken by Zong Mi. I don't know where to go. I have nowhere to ask for help, so I have to ask His Majesty." Princess Qingyang Looking up, two lines of tears slowly slipped down, extremely pitiful.

Renzong was very shocked, this is an extremely important event, involving the relationship between the two countries!

A careless, I am afraid there will be a war!

Renzong hurriedly called Xiang Sheng over, gave some instructions in a low voice, Xiang Sheng withdrew, and asked again, "What about the antidote?"

"Don't dare to hide it from Your Majesty. Your Majesty also knows that my country's medical skills are very good. We princes and princesses have also read some medical books since we were young, and there are various medicines that are secret in the palace. King Zheng wants our poison, so we can go Kill the prince." Princess Qingyang sobbed, "How can I allow it?! It is precisely because our brothers and sisters are unwilling to hand over the antidote that this is the case... Blame me, blame me..."

"The antidote?!"

Princess Qingyang immediately took out a porcelain bottle from her sleeve pocket, and handed it forward: "Your Majesty, please take a look, you can ask the imperial doctor to examine it, it is indeed the antidote to the poison!"

Renzong immediately got it in his hand, and called people in again, ordering them to send the medicine to the imperial doctor first.

After examination by the imperial doctors, it was confirmed that this was indeed the antidote!

Everyone was about to cheer, and immediately fed His Highness some medicine. An hour later, Zong Zhen's pulse obviously improved, and everyone wept with joy. When everyone went out, Ji Zhaopu also cried on the bed.

In the next few days, Zong Zhen took the medicine every day, but he did feel much better, but he was still in a coma!

The medicine given by Princess Qingyang has reduced its effectiveness. If you want to wake up, you have to take the medicine for at least a month, and you need to take it for a year if you want to fully recover!

This is her biggest and only weight.

Of course, if you want to marry Zongzhen, you can't rely on this alone.

Princess Qingyang did the math, and it was time.

Sure enough, before she took the initiative to enter the palace, guards came to her residence and invited her to enter the palace.

The body of the fifth prince Liu Rui was found.

Renzong was so worried that his hair was about to fall out. The princes of neighboring countries died in their territory, and it was very likely that they were killed by their clan children. What should we do about this matter? !

The two countries can no longer go to war!

But such a thing cannot be disclosed in the slightest. If the people know that there is a possibility of war, the world will be in chaos, and his son is in a coma. He has no one to discuss with!

When Princess Qingyang entered the palace, he first told her about Liu Rui in a tactful manner, asking her to express his condolences, and said that he would get in touch with Liangguo immediately.

Princess Qingyang bowed her head and cried, and Renzong felt uncomfortable.

Princess Qingyang handed over another porcelain bottle: "Your Majesty, this is medicine, enough for His Royal Highness to take for another ten days."

Renzong received it in his hand and said: "In the future, when the prince recovers, he must thank you personally!"

Princess Qingyang cried even harder, and Renzong felt a little weird in his heart.

After this time, Renzong made a decision and immediately sent an envoy to Liangguo with his personal letter, hoping that Liangguo would not really fight for the sake of recuperating.

However, Zongzhen's condition did not improve. The newly delivered medicine this time had no effect after taking it, and Zongzhen was still unconscious.

Ji Zhao was very anxious, and when he asked the imperial doctor, they only said that the medicine was given by His Majesty, and they didn't know where it came from.

Ji Zhao couldn't do without, so he asked Princess Fuchen to help him enter the palace to ask, and Princess Fuchen went without saying a word.

On this day, Doctor Bai came to look for Ji Zhao.

Ji Zhao asked him what happened.

Doctor Bai also took out a porcelain bottle: "Mr. Lord, I took a look at the dirty clothes that His Highness took away that day, but they were somewhat similar to some poisonous weeds that I picked in Liangguo. The antidote made."

It's Liang Country again!

Ji Zhao was refreshed, and before he had time to ask any more questions, he immediately took the medicine from him and said, "Thank you very much, Uncle Bai!"

Doctor Bai shook his head: "Don't dare, I just hope that this medicine will be of some use."

Ji Zhao opened the bottle and smelled it. The medicine was tasteless. He asked, "May I take it?"

"Your body is precious, so don't try the medicine lightly. I have already tried this medicine." Doctor Bai poured out another medicine and threw it into his mouth.

Ji Zhao followed suit and immediately threw one into his mouth.

"I can't do it! Alas!" Doctor Bai watched him swallow the medicine.

"You can eat it, he can eat it, and I can eat it too."

Doctor Bai shook his head: "I'll make some decoction for you to drink. These antidotes are not good things after all."

"I'm sorry, Uncle Bai!"

Ji Zhao believed that Doctor Bai was better than those imperial doctors in the palace. After so many days, he was finally happier, and he went back with the medicine.It wasn't long after Zong Zhen took the medicine, Doctor Bai said that he had to wait until evening to take it, otherwise he might be restrained.

But when Princess Fuchen rushed to the palace, Princess Qingyang entered the palace again, and she came to deliver medicine again.

Renzong looked at her for a while, he was not stupid, thinking of what Princess Qingyang said, and thinking of his son saying that he had someone he liked, but he didn't want to tell him, and that his son had indeed been to Liangguo, he had an idea in his heart , Brother Zhen likes it, it can't be this princess, right? !

He looked at Princess Qingyang, and the more she looked, the more she looked like her.

Princess Qingyang handed him the medicine, and blamed herself: "After taking this medicine for half a month, Your Highness will be able to wake up."

Renzong was silent for a moment, and said, "I ask you something..."

"Excuse me..."

"Have you met the prince before?"

Princess Qingyang blushed immediately, and Emperor Renzong took a selfie on his thigh, as expected!

Princess Fuchen rushed to the palace, but before she had time to ask, she was stopped by Renzong and asked, "Father has something to discuss with you!"

"What's the matter?" Princess Fuchen wondered.

"Do you know that your brother has a lover?"

Princess Fuchen's heart thumped. At this moment, if the emperor knew about Ji Zhao and his brother, it would be good or bad. She thought about it quickly, and it seemed to be a good thing?At least while his elder brother was still sick and comatose, the emperor must also be reluctant to beat the mandarin ducks?

She then nodded: "I know..."

Renzong immediately said: "You brothers and sisters are indeed hiding from your father!"

"Father, what did you hear?"

"Haven't I heard of it? People have come to the door!"

"What?" Princess Fuchen gradually couldn't understand.

Renzong said: "Isn't it the Princess Qingyang of Liangguo, whom your brother met when he went to Liangguo, and it was because of their respective identities that they got here!"

"What?!" Princess Fuchen was shocked.

"It seems that you don't know either. The medicine Brother Zhen took recently was sent by this princess."

Princess Fuchen said seriously: "Father, please tell me the whole thing carefully!"