The Way of the Consort

Zong Zhen didn't take the matter of the little widow to heart, and he never asked about it later, let alone asking people to investigate the matter again.

Not too many people heard the word "son-in-law" that day, and this matter did not arouse any discussion on the surface.

On the contrary, Zong Zhen once ordered to keep an eye on it, don't let the wind leak, if Fu Chen hears it, he will be sad.

From what he could see, Fu Chen in this life still didn't like Ji Zhao, but he was much softer than in his previous life. In his previous life, Fu Chen had indeed done something wrong, which really hurt Ji Zhao's face as a man and as a son-in-law.

Whether you like it or not, if you know your son-in-law is messing around outside, who can be happy?

Ji Zhao didn't know yet that he had become a fool with the prince.

Of course, he didn't take the matter of the little widow to heart. It's human nature, neither relative nor reason, at most a few words of emotion, at most.He wrote a reply letter to Zongyan, put the interesting objects and books he found in a box, packed them up, and asked people to send them to Zongyan.

Zongyan is the son of the prince's mansion, he is the son-in-law, and he goes to the official post, and there will be someone to help them deliver the letter, fast and safe.

In fact, the letter arrived in Zongzhen's hands not long after it left the Hou's residence.

Zongzhen read the letter first. After all, Ji Zhao used to be a person in a modern civilized society, and his personality was relatively sincere. After finally making a friend, he used extremely enthusiastic words. There are many words like "missing you" and "missing you" throughout the text. words.

Zong Zhen sneered "hehe".

After reading all the nonsense, he felt very unhappy. He even suspected that Ji Zhao was writing acrostic poems, but he searched carefully, but couldn't find even a single useful sentence.On the last page of the letter, Ji Zhao also mentioned a certain "guard", saying that he knew that he liked spells, so he specially found a book for him, and told him to read it carefully, and come back to Jinling next year to play fortune-telling together!

Zong Zhen laughed again "hehe".

He opened the box that had been smashed and locked, and the box was full of small gadgets, all of which were exquisite, and one could tell that he had put his full heart into it.He reached the bottom of the box, touched the book of spells for Zong Mi, took it out without looking at it, and put it by his hand.

He cut the paper himself, ground the ink, and wrote the letter.

When writing, his right hand paused.

He looked at Ji Zhao's handwriting on the paper.

Ji Zhao's words changed.

Ji Zhao never used Guange style to write before, and Ji Zhao, who had been drinking, told him in a low voice that things written in Guange style were the least of his liking.

However, this letter is written in Guange style, which is not very well written.

Zong Zhen watched it for a while before starting to transcribe with almost the same font.

Ji Zhao has changed too much, he needs to be more careful.

Write a good letter, seal it as usual, and ask someone to come in.

He didn't put in the spell book for Zong Mi, yes, he did it on purpose.

Anyway, no one suspects him, it's up to Zong Mi to see how he reacts.None of his cousins ​​are simple.

Thinking of Zong Mi, he got up, walked to the window, and looked at the mortuary tank in the yard.

The sky is getting colder, and the water is covered with thin ice. After a while, Zong Mi's father, the current King Zheng, his uncle Wang, will die.

Didn't Ji Zhao think that Zong Mi would come to play fortune-telling with him next year, so he asked Zong Mi to play with Ji Zhao.

Jinling City is only so big, Ji Zhao has no errands, doesn't need to go to court, doesn't have too many friends to meet, and doesn't need to earn money, and doesn't want to go to the academy, so he can only stay at home and read Xiaoyaozi's books.

Ji Chongyuan was flustered and anxious, why didn't Ji Zhao respond at all!

For several days, there was no movement from Ji Zhao's place, and he never dared to go to Xiao Mo'er's place again.Until Xiao Mo'er's birthday was about to pass, and he wrote him a sad poem with a fragrant handkerchief, and he missed him so much that Ji Chongyuan couldn't help it.

After all, when he was going to the academy with Ji Chongjin, he sneaked out to meet his little lover.

Let's not talk about how Xiao Mo'er cried and shed tears when she saw him. He was so coaxed by Xiao Mo'er that he drank an unknown amount of wine. He can drink very well at such a young age.Even if he is drunk, he still has consciousness, knows that he can't stay out overnight, and he has to go home obediently, otherwise he will be beaten by his mother again, and he will not be able to come out until next year.

He shook his body to say goodbye, Laixi quickly jumped over to help him, and Xiao Mo'er watched him off with tears in his eyes.

Ji Chongyuan was about to cry, and he didn't know when he came back, but when he was about to leave Moli Lane, he heard someone whispering at the bottom of the wall at the entrance of the alley——

"really?"

"Can I coax you? They heard it with their own ears, the little lady called "son-in-law" repeatedly! "

Ji Chongyuan woke up immediately, moved over lightly, and leaned against the wall to continue listening to the two of them.

After listening for a while, he understood!

Ji Zhao was ambiguous with the little widow outside!

The two people's words became more and more muddled, about the son-in-law and the little widow spending the spring night together in the village in the suburbs, and some people saw them rolling around in the reeds.

Ji Chongyuan's blood boiled when he heard it, and the two of them got into the car and left while talking.

Ji Chongyuan looked up triumphantly: "Let's go too!"

On the way home, he hummed: "What kind of gentleman do I think Ji Zhao is! Why don't you mess with little widows outside!"

"No wonder he didn't dare to report to you!" Laixi also became confident.

"Hmph!" Ji Chongyuan was even more proud.

Laixi asked again in a low voice: "Master, should we keep this matter a secret?"

Ji Chongyuan thought for a while, but he didn't have any other ideas. He just thought it was fair between him and Ji Zhao. Both of them had braids, and no one was worse than the other.But Ji Zhao didn't know for the time being that he already knew about it.

He felt that it should be kept secret, otherwise Ji Zhao would hate him and tell his mother about him.

Besides, they are a family, it would be bad if everyone knew that Ji Zhao was raising a widow outside.

But he had to let Ji Zhao know that he already knew about it!

He called Laixi to put his ear on, and murmured, Laixi raised his head again and again with bright eyes, flattering him non-stop: "Young master is very right! Exactly! It's wonderful!"

A few days later, it is the winter solstice.

In this era, during the winter solstice, the palace will hold a court meeting, and in important years, the Liang Kingdom in the north will send envoys.Logically speaking, although Ji Zhao has no errands, he is a son-in-law and has a marquis on his body. He should have entered the palace to attend the court meeting, but he really didn't want to go. Standing at the front of the line and suffering for hours, isn't that suffering?

Fortunately, before the winter solstice, there was news from the palace that the son-in-law was exempted from entering the palace.

Ji Zhao was overjoyed, but Princess Fuchen was afraid that Ji Zhao would think too much, so she came here to explain, because she was afraid of the cold this year and didn't plan to enter the palace, so her father considered telling him not to enter the palace, too. Totally overthinking.

Fu Chen left the Hou's mansion, feeling a bit surprised in his heart, is the son-in-law in this life better at disguising?Could it be that because she stopped working on the son-in-law, the son-in-law would no longer become ruthless and fight for the throne?The son-in-law was also overly happy about not being able to enter the palace to participate in the court meeting.

If so, what will she do?Brother Huang is not in good health.

Fuchen got into the carriage and was still thinking about it. She knew a few days ago that her brother had been practicing archery and riding horses these days, and he would show up at this grand court meeting. Appear before officials.It was the elder brother who asked someone to bring a letter to her. She and the son-in-law didn't need to enter the palace, it was cold, so there was no need to hurry, and the son-in-law didn't have to stand in the hall to blow the cool breeze.

It is reasonable, and besides, the court meeting is not very important to her, she is only worried about the thoughts of the son-in-law.

The carriage shook slightly, she stared at the curtain in front of the carriage in a daze, she was different, her brother and the son-in-law were different.

What will happen to them in this life.

After the winter solstice, there were gradually many rumors about His Royal Highness in Beijing. During the court meeting, the officials saw the prince for the first time.

The prince, who hadn't shown his face for more than ten years, suddenly appeared at the court meeting, and there were too many things that could be reflected.For example, because His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is in poor health and there is no master in the harem, I don’t know how many people are planning to send another daughter into the palace to give birth to a little prince, and I don’t know how many clans are waiting for His Majesty’s adoptive son to become the next emperor.

For another example, the seat of the crown princess is no longer just a crown princess, and I don't know how many people will fight for it.

These are the thoughts of people with shallow eyelids. Those who think more, the prince is equivalent to a half-lord, and has a great influence on the structure of the court.

Now that the court is in power, the government is almost in the hands of several prime ministers, who knows what the prince is thinking?

The prince will share the same idea as His Majesty?Will the crown prince take their power?

Who doesn't love rights?

It can be said that until the new year, this capital will not rest, each family has something to discuss, and each has its own plans.

Ji Zhao didn't know at all that these had nothing to do with him. He was only responsible for pleasing the prince and living a happy life.

The people from Zhuangzi came to bring him freshly picked Chinese cabbage and told him that it was snowing on the mountain and all the plum blossoms in Zhuangzi were in bloom.

Jinling City, located in the south, rarely snows, and only the mountains on the Zhuangzi side actually snow a few times.

When Ji Zhao heard this, his mind became active again.

If you haven't been there, it's fine. If you have been to Zhuangzi, who can stay in the city.

However, if you want to go out to play, the leader inside must nod.

Ji Zhao was depressed, he didn't want to enter the palace, and he had no reason to enter the palace.What's more, can the leader agree to enter the palace?

Also on this day, another person came to visit with a post. The other party said that he was from the Zhang family, and his name was Zhang Wubai.

Ji Zhao didn't know this person, but it was Chen Xing who reminded him: "Mr. Lang, this is probably the late empress's natal family!"

Only then did Ji Zhao remember that the family leader's uncle was surnamed Zhang, the empress had a very good relationship with him, and he only had one pair of children, so he hurriedly asked someone to invite this Zhang Wubai in.

Zhang Wubai looks about 40 years old, with a beard, looks very friendly, speaks softly, and smiles all over his face. Ji Zhao is not very good at knowing people's hearts, so he thinks he is quite good.

The Zhang family has three houses in total. The empress is the eldest daughter. The empress has a good relationship with the Zhang family. Your majesty is not wary of the Zhang family. Not a small official, the transfer envoy of Zizhou Road, the transfer envoy is similar to the governor of modern society.

The other two households of the Zhang family lived with the eldest household, both in Zizhou.

Zhang Wubai is a member of Sanfang, and he is Zhang Yifei's entrance officer in Zizhou.Jin Zou Guan is responsible for reporting important matters in the area of ​​Zizhou to the emperor in Jingzhong on a regular basis.It's just that now, in a small number of places, foreign officials are serving as officials, and most of them have been directly served by Beijing officials in Jinling.

Zhang Wubai is in charge of returning to the capital for this grand meeting, and he will return to Zizhou tomorrow, so he is here to pay a visit to the son-in-law.

Ji Zhao can understand very well, he is considered the nephew and son-in-law of this family, and he must come to have a look.

The Zhang family is also a family favored by His Majesty, and the leader's uncle, so he naturally responded enthusiastically.He felt that he and Zhang Wubai had a very happy conversation, and before leaving, Zhang Wubai took out a small box from his sleeve and gave it to him, and said with a smile: "It's a small thing, I hope the son-in-law will not dislike it."

Ji Zhao didn't want to accept Zhang's gift at first, but when he heard that it was a small thing, he really believed it was a small thing and accepted it with a smile.

Until Zhang Wubai left, he opened the small box and was shocked.

Inside are dozens of bank notes, probably tens of thousands of taels of silver!That's fine, besides that, there is Zhang Yanjing's deed, Yanjing!That's a salt well!It's fine for them to open a private salt well in private, and they even gave him one!

Chen Xing and Yin Ming also opened their mouths wide.

It's not that he has no money, and it's not that he hasn't seen the world, so why give him such a gift!

He immediately disliked the Zhang family, and after much deliberation, he planned to enter the palace and hand it over to His Majesty directly, and His Majesty will decide.

Sending such a big gift is definitely not a simple uncle giving a niece, this is an illegal private salt well!The emperor treated the Zhang family preferentially, but it does not mean that he will be treated preferentially.He still wants to live a good life, and doesn't want to be dragged down inexplicably.

Thinking about it, Ji Zhao immediately got up and changed into the palace. Before leaving, he also put the purse with the jade pendant in his sleeve pocket.

As he expected, His Majesty didn't see him, and asked someone to lead him to the East Palace.

Still in the main hall, Ji Zhao didn’t sit down this time, he was nervous because he was afraid of being involved in the Zhang family, and also afraid that if they knew that the Zhang family was secretly opening a salt well, and he exposed the Zhang family’s evil deeds, the crown prince would still blame him. After all, it is the Zhang family!

There was a bit of anxiety on his face.

When Zong Zhen came over, Ji Zhao looked like this through the curtain. Although Zong Zhen's face was gloomy, he was actually surprised.

He knew that Zhang Wubai had gone to Ji Zhao's place, so what was Ji Zhao and Zhang Wubai doing?

He was not surprised that Zhang Wubai went to find Ji Zhao.

Who can believe it, his uncle's family colluded with Ji Zhao in the previous life, and the success of Ji Zhao's ascension to the throne was actually due to the Zhang family's credit, after all, even the emperor's uncle's family agreed.

According to Ji Zhao himself, it was because Ji Zhao promised them to marry Zhang's daughter as queen after ascending the throne.

In fact, before Ji Zhao killed him, he asked him mockingly, "Is everyone in the Zhang family sick?" Obviously he would not admit it, and maybe he would find a way to kill the Zhang family as well.

He agrees, the members of the Zhang family are indeed sick, wanting to be foreign relatives is crazy, and it is not enough to have a queen.

If he fails, replace him with another one.

Now it seems that Ji Zhao hooked up with the Zhang family at this time?

"What's the matter?" Zong Zhen sat down and spoke.

Ji Zhao came back to his senses, and when he saw him, he was so relieved that he even forgot to pay respects, and walked up to the curtain, pouring beans from the bamboo tube: "Today, Zhang Wubai, the third son of the Zhang family, went to my house to give My!"

As he spoke, he reluctantly handed over the small box.

Zong Zhen asked someone to go down to get it, thinking, what kind of medicine is sold in this gourd?

Ji Zhao was very dissatisfied and said, "I don't know what he thinks, but he gave me this! This is illegal and criminal, and I can't do it!"

Zong Zhen opened the box and saw the deed of the salt well inside, his eyes darkened.

He didn't expect that the Zhang family would be so courageous as to steal from the foundation of a country!In his previous life, he didn't know it at all!

Ji Zhao was still saying: "I was scared, so I immediately brought it up to see Your Majesty, and Your Majesty asked me to come to see Your Highness. I didn't touch anything in this box, and Zhang Wubai didn't say what he asked me to do. It took an hour to talk about the customs of Zizhou before leaving, and wished me a happy relationship with the princess for a hundred years, just like this, how can I have a good relationship for a hundred years! Isn't this asking me to die!"

Zong Zhen looked up at him, and suddenly asked, "Are you afraid of death?"