The Way of the Consort

The guard's surname is Du, and he said that their husband is worried about the son-in-law, so he specially asked him to come and accompany the son-in-law on this journey, just call him Master Du.

Actually, Ji Zhao didn't need it. He had a high status, and when he went out, there were quite a few guards. There were guards from the Yin family, and some guards that were sent to him by the palace when he became the prince's son-in-law. Not to mention that even the princess gave him a few guards this time. With so many people protecting him, he didn't have the slightest worry about his safety.

He was even more worried about the elder brother of the Huizhou merchant, but Master Du refused to leave, so he had to keep Master Du.

After daybreak they went on, and they would go on.

Except for leg pain and butt pain after sitting in the car for a long time, other things are fine. Ji Zhao has hardly been out of the house in his previous life, and he knows very little about the outside world. He can only learn about it from the Internet and TV.

The scenery at this time was completely different from the previous life, but it was enough to dazzle Ji Zhao.

They were going south. In February, the sky started to get warmer, and the south was even warmer. Ji Zhao saw with his own eyes that the trees along the way were getting greener, and the wild flowers in the grass were getting more and more. Master Du He was amazing and knew everything. When they passed by the field, Master Du gave him a few bushes of wild flowers and told him that the beautiful purple wild flowers were called "zi vetch".

There were pods, he picked them and put them in his mouth, and he could still whistle!

He was the one who attracted jade, and those gentlemen, some of them were farmers from their hometown, participated in it one after another. When they were resting, they helped the son-in-law find wild flowers. Wild flowers of all colors were found, blue, white, pink, yellow. There are green, purple, red, etc., and they all have names.

Ji Zhao not only read it by himself, he also pressed the flowers and plants into the paper and sent it to his Huizhou merchant brother.

He secretly asked Master Du: "What's your husband's name?"

Master Du wondered: "It's hard for me to say."

Ji Zhao sighed, "I can understand. He's still angry with me and doesn't want to tell me." He shook his hand, "Forget it, I'll ask him later!"

After shaking his hands, he continued to write letters.

After writing the letter, they rested and continued on the road.

Along the way, Ji Zhao would write letters to Zongzhen when he was free, telling what he saw along the way, seeing beautiful scenery, interesting people and things, and there must be someone to share. Ji Zhao thought that Huishang brother was his best friend. To share with.

He lived in the posthouse all the way, and he could still receive the letter when he sent it back. He just sent it directly to the posthouse. If the person had already left, he would send it directly to the next posthouse.

So every time he arrived at a new posthouse, the first thing Ji Zhao did was to ask the postman if he had a letter from him.

However, halfway through the journey, more than half a month has passed, and he has not received a letter from Huishang's brother, Ji Zhao is somewhat disappointed.

When they left Jinling No. 18, they entered Jiangling Mansion.

His grandfather was recovering from illness in Jiangling Mansion at this time, when he was thirty miles away from the city gate, he ran into someone who came to pick him up.Before the car stopped, he heard someone shouting excitedly outside: "Uncle! Uncle! I'll pick you up!"

The sound was getting closer, accompanied by the sound of horseshoes.

Chen Xing said with bright eyes: "Lang Jun! It's our Da Lang who is here!"

This is about Ji Zhao's nephew, Yin Yu, who is the eldest grandson of Ji Zhao's uncle. Ji Zhao's mother, Yin Ying, was born when Mrs. Yin was 36 years old. At that time, the eldest uncle's son was already five or six years old.

When it was Ji Zhao's turn to be born, it was natural to play with these grandchildren. Yin Yu was the closest in age to him. The two grew up together in the old lady's yard. These two uncles and nephews really look alike.

Yin Yu rushed to the carriage, got off the horse, and stepped forward to lift the curtain of the carriage.

Perhaps it was because of the natural blood relationship, even if Ji Zhao came later, when he saw Yin Yu's handsome face full of hearty smiles, Ji Zhao immediately smiled from the bottom of his heart.

"Ouch!" Yin Yu's mouth was very poor, "It's different when our uncle is married, look at this face, he is finally prettier than me!"

Ji Zhao smiled and said, "I'm prettier than you!"

Yin Yu laughed "haha", not angry at all, Chen Xing and others who were familiar with these two styles laughed together.

Ji Zhao patted his side: "Come up and sit together!"

"Okay!" Yin Yu gracefully threw back the whip to the servant behind him, climbed into the carriage neatly, and the team continued on its way.

The palace didn't know that Ji Zhao had a high fever and almost died before getting married. Mother Wei didn't dare to hide it from the Yin family.

After recuperating in the past few months, his health has improved a lot. Knowing that Ji Zhao will pass through Jiangling, the whole family is very happy.

Wei's mother had told them earlier that after the marriage, Mr. Lang's temperament changed somewhat, and the family members could understand it. Before Yin Yu came, the family members told him not to show surprise.

Yin Yu still treats him as his uncle, what has become of him?

When he first saw him, apart from smiling a little more silly than before, he didn't think his uncle had changed much, he had become more lively, isn't it good?

On the way back to the city, I heard the two of them chatting in the carriage.

At that time, the old man Yin fell ill really suddenly, thinking that since he would live there for a few months, the Yin family simply bought a house in Jiangling City, made some repairs, and moved in directly, and now the whole family lives here.

After Ji Zhao arrived, he followed Yin Yu in to meet his family.

Compared to Ji's family, Yin's family is actually Ji Zhao's real family, the place where Ji Zhao grew up.

Ji Zhao was still a little apprehensive, afraid of being found out to be a fake. When he got to the main room in the backyard, he saw the maids all over the yard looking at him excitedly or wiping away tears. He walked into the room before he could look up. With a glance, "My darling!" With a long sigh, Ji Zhao heard the cry before he could blink his eyes.

He hurriedly looked up, and saw an old lady with white hair crying and walking towards him, he quickly took a few steps forward and reached out to help her.

"My darling..." The old lady hugged Ji Zhao directly and began to cry bitterly.

I saw that the room was full of beautifully dressed women, of all ages, they all looked at him crying, their eyes full of reluctance and longing, Ji Zhao was taken, his eyes were red very quickly, and he cried, Ji Zhao Zhaohui hugged the old lady, sniffled and said, "Grandmother, don't cry..."

"Be good, be good! It's my grandmother's fault! It's my grandmother's useless!" The old lady felt very strange to the old man, she shouldn't have listened to the old man of the Ji family, and sent her brother Zhao to Jinling. I can't take it back!

She suspected that this was a conspiracy of the Ji family!There is no good thing in the Ji family!

However, these words could not be said face to face, the old lady began to feel pain again, holding Ji Zhao and crying even more sadly.

Later, it was Yin Yu who came up to persuade him, saying that the uncle had a hard time riding in the car, why should you let him wash his face and change his clothes? Obediently, go and change your clothes, take a rest, come over and have dinner directly!"

Yin Yu accompanied Ji Zhao back to his yard. Ji Zhao cried a little hard just now, and his face was numb from crying.

Only then did Yin Yu put away his hippie smile and said, "Oh, great-grandmother talks about you every day, uncle, you don't know, since the decree of the marriage came down, great-grandmother hasn't spoken to great-grandfather for several months now!"

"Huh?" Ji Zhao looked at him puzzled.

Yin Yu said helplessly: "Great-grandmother blamed great-grandfather for letting you go to Jinling, and great-grandfather blamed himself." Then, he saw that the people following were behind, and whispered in Ji Zhao's ear, "I Once I secretly saw my great-grandfather crying too."

"... "

So far, the Yin family, including the new grandchildren, still has only Yin Ying as the only seedling. As the only seedling of the only seedling, Ji Zhao has always been the most favored person in the Yin family. I knew from a young age that I must protect my uncle!

This kind of love came surging, Ji Zhao blinked, his eyes couldn't bear so much love, tears came out of his eyes.

"Mother! My uncle! Don't cry, please!" Yin Yu circled around Ji Zhao anxiously.

In the evening, when the whole family had a welcome banquet together, they would inevitably cry again.

Everyone still has troubles that they can't tell. Outside, who dares to scold the emperor's family directly, can only swallow all the bitterness in their hearts.Bitter to bitter, seeing Ji Zhao who has been missing for a few months doesn't look as miserable as imagined, after all, it's a happy thing, after crying, the old lady just smiled, looking at Ji Zhao, she couldn't move. Opening my eyes, I just feel that I can look at myself obediently.

Ji Zhao saw all his relatives, including his grandfather and uncle. I don't know if it was prejudice, but anyway, he felt close at first glance.

Because of illness, the old man was a little thinner than he remembered. Ji Zhao asked a few words, the old man almost couldn't hold back, and wanted to cry on the spot. Fortunately, the old man is the old man, so he held back, but never let Ji Zhao go again. Ji Zhao sat beside her and gave the old lady a good break.

Ji Zhao came out this time because he had an errand, so he was staying here temporarily, and he would continue to leave tomorrow morning.

Fortunately, after finishing the work in Guizhou, if you come back, you can go back to Jinling with your family, so this temporary parting is not too strong.After dinner, everyone urged him to go back to his room to rest, and his grandfather sent him to the door with a kind face and a very soft voice, as if he was afraid of scaring him: "You can rest easy, and ask Brother Citron to accompany you tomorrow Guizhou, don't be afraid, ah."

Ji Zhao laughed as soon as he heard it: "Okay! This journey will never be boring again!"

Grandfather also smiled more gratified.

When he returned to the courtyard where he was temporarily staying, Wei's mother said with emotion: "The layout here is almost exactly the same as that of our Yangzhou family's Langjun's courtyard."

When Ji Zhao heard it, he was also very emotional, but it was like this in a temporary living place.

After spending such a short time together, he could feel the unreserved care and love of the whole family for him.

Thinking of this, Ji Zhao wanted to talk to his grandmother again. It was not easy for the old man. His daughter was gone, and he was the only grandson like Ji Zhao. Be filial, right?

The big deal is for him to catch up on sleep in the car tomorrow morning. Ji Zhao made up his mind and went to the main courtyard again. Of course the maids would not stop him, but he came so suddenly that he didn't have time to go in to report. Ji Zhao waved his hand indifferently and jumped softly. Going up the steps, just about to go in, I heard my grandmother's old voice saying sadly: "It's all my fault, why do you have to wait until their family returns to Yangzhou before getting engaged? I should have settled on the two children earlier!"

The eldest aunt who was talking with her sighed: "Who says no, the two children are childhood sweethearts, a match made in heaven, there is nothing better than this."

"What son-in-law, it sounds nice to say, it's not about trying to please the princess. Mama Wei said that the princess is good, I don't believe it! She is the king, we Brother Zhao, aren't we going to please her?" Tears began to form, "It is said that our Brother Zhao will not be able to go to the Princess Mansion several times in a month. How can we live like this? My Brother Zhao..."

Ugh……

Ji Zhao couldn't bear to go in again, so he turned his head and came out, and went to his grandfather's yard again, but no one stopped him, but just like his grandmother's place, he also heard "Brother Zhao" in the conversation, and the two old people were really worried about him. .

Ji Zhao didn't have a habit of listening to the corner, and didn't want to eavesdrop on the private conversation between his grandfather and uncles. When he turned his head and was about to leave, he heard his grandfather mention "Prince" again. He paused, then sneaked back, and carefully pressed his face against the wall. , Fortunately, they were talking about business, so Ben pushed back the others.

"Prince?" The eldest uncle hesitated, "Why does father think it is the prince? The prince has been weak since he was a child, and it has been more than [-] years since he was a prince. It's time to meet."

The grandfather snorted coldly and said: "When your majesty was young, I taught him poetry for several years. After your majesty ascended the throne, I also stayed in the Imperial Academy for several years and often accompanied him in the palace. I dare not say what kind of temperament your majesty is. It's clear, but you can guess the score. Let me ask you, back then, the last heir of Prince Qin of Zizhou also died, what did your majesty do?"

"Your Majesty wanted to choose another heir, keep the lineage of the King of Qin, and keep them in the fief. It was Wen Xiang and Yu Xiang who joined forces and made trouble for more than a month. They dispelled His Majesty's idea and directly took back the fief."

Grandfather nodded: "That's right, those two old bastards made such a fuss because they wanted to send their disciples to Zizhou, but in the end, His Majesty sent the useless Zhang Yifei there with a stroke of genius. Those two old men vomited blood quite a bit. Your Majesty is extremely dedicated and too affectionate. If it were Your Majesty, he would never send an inexperienced son-in-law like Brother Zhao to Guizhou. Most of them would choose a few people from the clan. This is not His Majesty's style of doing things."

The uncle asked again: "Why does father think that the prince has bad intentions for our brother Zhao? It is said that even in the court meeting, the prince just showed his face and left, and he didn't come out during the New Year. "

"It's this side of him that arouses everyone's suspicions. He showed that side. Wen Zhichang and Yu Qin, two old guys, probably haven't had a good night's sleep. They thought he would make a move, and they thought of ways to prepare to take over the crown prince's hand. , but he didn't have an attack again. Just look at it, the prince is not easy to deal with, and the prince will not come out for at least half a year."

"Brother Zhao went to Guizhou this time..."

"Accidents are bound to happen in Guizhou! The death of King Zheng, I'm afraid there is something different! The Ji family bears such a name, His Majesty is benevolent and can tolerate him, but the prince can't tolerate people like this. I can't tolerate Wen Wen, Yu's family, and even King Zheng, hehe—" At this point, my grandfather stopped talking.

"Then we, Brother Zhao..."

"I can't take care of other things. Even if the whole family of the Ji family is killed by the prince, I don't care. The Ji family deserves it. I just take care of my brother Zhao." The grandfather seemed to be talking to Yin Yu, "Brother Citron, you listened to what I said to your grandfather just now. You have been studying with me since you were a child, and this time you are also going to see the world. If something is wrong, you must drag your uncle away from those bad things. Keep your mind far away, your uncle has always been soft-hearted, and it is said that he has a lot of contacts with the fifth son of Prince Zheng's residence in Beijing."

"Yes, Yu'er knows!" Yin Yu asked curiously again, "Great-grandfather, will the prince really harm my uncle? Didn't my uncle marry the princess, so he can be considered the prince's brother-in-law?"

"What is a son-in-law? In the past dynasties, there is no power at all. It is not a tool used by the royal family. These people who hold power can do anything for the sake of power!" Grandfather's words were full of disgust.

"Cheng'er understands!"

The uncle educated Yin Yu according to the trend: "Reading is for enlightenment, for learning, and for future generations. It is the most noble thing. We don't care about other people's families. Our family must not fall into that quagmire and be used by power."

Ji Zhao quietly left the study room, half-understood the affairs of the imperial court, and people couldn't fully recognize them, only understood the sentence that the crown prince wanted to kill him.

In fact, he always knew that the prince would kill him, and now he was even more sure that what he was wearing was the one that would be killed by the prince.

But he still couldn't help being at a loss. Judging from how he got along these days, although the prince is a pervert, he didn't really treat him well. If he wanted to go out to play, the prince would usually agree.He scolded the prince, but the prince didn't really do anything to him.

The prince is not a kind person, and occasionally he is a bit eccentric, but he is still easy to talk to.

Ji Zhao stopped beside a bamboo grove and looked up at Crescent Moon covered by bamboo leaves.

Has the prince really started to harm him?