The Way of the Consort

To be honest, Ji Zhao didn't understand what this sentence meant at first.

He never avoids Chen Xing and Yin Ming when he writes letters, and of course they don't read Ji Zhao's letters, but when he writes, it is Chen Xing who grinds the ink and cuts the paper for him, and they will more or less catch sight of them. After a few glances, Ji Zhao sometimes wrote funny things, and he insisted on reading them.

So Chen Xing said, "You didn't call me 'brother' last time you wrote a letter! "

Ji Zhao looked back at him: "Is it because of this?"

"It should be!"

Ji Zhao thought about it, then smiled happily.At that time, he was told not to call him "brother", but now he stopped calling him, and asked him himself!Ji Zhao triumphantly pulled a piece of paper, buried his head in writing, and Chen Xing watched from the side, thinking with disdain in his heart that there were so many things wrong with that Huizhou merchant!Really treat yourself as a dish!It's just that their lord has a good temper, he never writes back letters, and writes to him!

Ji Zhao urged him: "Sharpen the ink!"

What to write, such waste ink, Chen Xing hurriedly grinds the ink, glances at it, good guy, a piece of paper is densely covered with "brother".

Before Ji Zhao's "brother" finished writing, Yin Yu rode up to his car window and told him, "Uncle, we have entered the border of Guizhou!"

Ji Zhao raised the curtain of the car and looked down. On the side of the road was a stone tablet engraved with "Guangnan Road, Guizhou Boundary". Looking outside, all he could see were mountains. The mountains in the distance were lush and green, hidden in the thick fog , like a fairyland, Yin Yu smiled: "The scenery is really good! After you finish your errands, let's play for a few days before returning!"

"As long as I can spare time!" Ji Zhao wanted to spend a few more days in such a beautiful place.

While talking, Yin Ming also came over, he said: "Lang Jun, I am with Mr. Zhou, and a few guards will go ahead first."

Ji Zhao nodded, that's what he should be. When he left, the news of King Zheng's death had not been made public yet, so he came here in private. Everyone in Beijing should know about it by now, and they should have sent special officials over. King Zheng passed away. The prince didn't know that they were coming, so he should go to Prince Zheng's mansion, otherwise he would not even have a guide when he entered the city.

Yin Ming, Master Zhou, the doctor of the Ministry of Rites, and several guards rode away on fast horses, and the rest of them continued on their way. Ji Zhao just finished writing his letter and delivered it before the sun set.

When Ji Zhao left Jinling on the tenth day, Jingli had already announced the death of Prince Zheng who fell from his horse. To the common people, the death of a prince in a fief is nothing. It doesn't matter, at most every household in the city hangs white for seven days, and many people who happen to have weddings during this period want to complain in private.

The DPRK and China did not have any special reaction to this matter on the surface.

After the death of King Qin Jun on Zizhou Road, it is true that the fief was taken back, but His Majesty directly sent the country's uncle's family there. Even now, even the officials headed by the two prime ministers, Wen and Yu, still miss Guizhou In that fiefdom, I can't wait to receive all the power from the central government, and no one dares to talk about the Prince Zheng's residence.

First of all, there are many sons in King Zheng's family, and some of them are heirs to the throne.

Secondly, although King Zheng didn't make much achievements in his reign, the Guangnan area has been safe and sound for many years, and he can't get rid of the pigtails if he wants to.

In the end, King Zheng fell from his horse and died. When the news was announced at the court meeting, His Majesty shed a few more tears. These people who have been dealing with His Majesty for many years and lived only by thinking about His Majesty's thoughts, they dare not have more If you try your best, just like the King of Qin last time, the others will benefit in the end, and the bamboo basket will be empty.

The court quickly discussed the regulations, and also selected the people who went to Guizhou this time, the clan members of Zongzheng Temple, the minister of the Ministry of Rites and the people from the Liushang Bureau, and several high-ranking officials in front of His Majesty. Dangdi also set off to Guizhou.

In their past, they mainly dealt with canonization-related matters, and they still had to have the airs they should have, and they walked slower than Ji Zhao and the others.

Ji Zhao and the others were almost at the city of Guizhou, and they were only halfway there.

The Prince Zheng's Mansion in Guizhou City is very quiet at this time. If no one is sent from the capital, they will not be able to attend the funeral. Kneeling in the mourning hall at regular intervals.

During the day, Zong Mi and his sons knelt together, and at night, several adult brothers took turns to guard the spirit.

Zong Mi stood up with the hand of the personal eunuch, almost unable to stand, was supported by the eunuch out of the mourning hall, back to his yard, he had just drank a saliva when his personal guard walked in, Zong Mi put down the tea Zhan glanced at him, and the guard said softly, "My lord, everything has been properly arranged."

"arrive?"

"Yes, we're here, we've passed the border of Guizhou."

Zong Mi smiled, looking warm and moist, picked up the teacup and drank water again.

After dark, seeing that the distance from Guizhou City was not too far, everyone discussed to continue on the road at night, and go directly to the city after dawn, instead of resting in the post house.

Under the moonlight, the sound of horseshoes was extremely crisp, and Ji Zhao leaned on Chen Xing, already asleep.

Their convoy consisted of guards in the front line, then Ji Zhao's carriage, then several adults' carriages, and finally there were guards as the base. Now there was Yin Yu, who sometimes rode with the front guards, and sometimes Talk to Ji Zhao beside the car.

At this moment, Ji Zhao fell asleep. He was talking and laughing with the guards, and he felt at ease with the night breeze blowing.

The moonlight was clear and the moonlit night was quiet, so when there was another sound of horseshoes ahead, it was very obvious. As soon as the sound was heard, it was clear that there were many people coming. Yin Yu and the others immediately frowned, and the guards clasped their hands. Li's sword, staring into the distance, and quietly ordered the convoy to stop.

Master Du only took care of Ji Zhao along the way. He first sat on the shaft of Ji Zhao's carriage and stayed with the coachman. Later, he directly became Ji Zhao's coachman and drove horses for Ji Zhao.

Seeing this posture, his eyes also narrowed, looking at the dark night ahead.

Ji Zhao woke up in a daze, held Chen Xing's hand and asked, "What's wrong? Are you here?"

At this time, the sound of horseshoes was approaching, and sure enough there were quite a few people. Most of the forward guards had left, they stepped forward to stop them, and asked, "Who is here?"

The other party also came out with a leader, who rode on the horse and cupped his hands: "You guys are from Beijing? We are the guards of Prince Zheng's Mansion, and we are ordered to come here to pick up the adults in Beijing!"

These guards are all from the Princess Mansion and the former palace, they are not simple people, they took a closer look and found that the clothes of Prince Zheng's Mansion are indeed authentic, they asked again: "Do you have a waist card?"

"Yes!" The leader quickly took out a badge from his waist and threw it over.

The guard here took it in his hand and looked at it. There was nothing unusual, and there was even the other party's name on it. Several people looked at each other, and then someone went to report to the son-in-law.

When Ji Zhao heard that it was people from Prince Zheng's residence, Ji Zhao was a little confused, so he couldn't help asking: "If it's from Prince Zheng's residence, why didn't you come back with Yin Ming and the others?"

The eyes of the guards flickered, they only cared about enjoying the scenery while watching the consort all the way, and the only way to be a consort was to enjoy the scenery.

The guard couldn't help but became more relaxed when he spoke, and said softly: "That's right, son-in-law, this is probably a game, but what the other party has in mind, I don't know yet."

"..." Ji Zhao didn't expect to encounter such a thing, he asked, "Then what should we do?"

Yin Yu also came over, thought for a moment, and said: "Uncle, they don't know that we have found out that something is wrong, and this is the only way to enter the city. Instead of confronting each other head-on now, let's go with them and see what they are going to do." What?"

Ji Zhao nodded: "Let's do it like this! There are so many of us, why are we afraid that they won't succeed?"

Before the guards could speak, Master Du said quietly, "I'm afraid there are more than that many of them."

This Master Du came here since he was a coachman, and also accompanied Ji Zhao to pinch wild flowers. Everyone heard that he was just a guard of Huizhou merchants, and no one took him seriously. It is different.

Master Du continued: "Not everyone can get the guard uniforms of Prince Zheng's Mansion. Since they can get them, the badges are also real, which shows that they have a close relationship with Prince Zheng's Mansion. The son-in-law's trip was strictly hidden. It is impossible for them to get the news now, and they probably thought that they were just ordinary officials from the Ministry of Rites. This is obviously to use these Beijing officials to achieve some of their own goals."

Before the guard could speak, Ji Zhao immediately asked, "What purpose?"

Master Du said: "I'm afraid it's because several sons-in-law in Zheng Wang's mansion are suing each other to get angry. Of course, they don't know that it's the son-in-law. Even if they know that it's the son-in-law, they probably will do the same."

"Then what are we going to do?"

Master Du said again: "The son-in-law followed. If they really have someone in ambush, you just need to tell us your identity. No matter how courageous they are, they will not dare to use the identity of the son-in-law to accomplish anything."

After hearing this, Ji Zhao thought it made sense, and looked at the guard, who nodded, "Master Du is indeed quite reasonable, but the son-in-law's status is precious, I think we should stay where we are and wait for Yin Ming and the others to come back—"

Ji Zhao interrupted him: "Don't wait! I want to see what they want to do! Could it be that they really dare to hurt me?!"

Encountering this kind of thing, Ji Zhao was a little bit scared, but more excited. He didn't believe that there were so many masters around him, what could these people do to him!

The son-in-law made such a request, and there was only such a road in front of him, and the guards could only follow orders in the end, and they were confident enough not to take these people seriously, so the group continued to move forward behind those "guards of Prince Zheng's Mansion" OK.

Ji Zhao couldn't sleep anymore, his eyes sparkled with excitement, he even took out a short knife from the cabinet, held it in his hand and kept gesticulating, Dust and Star made him laugh, Yin Yu was worried about him, so he stood by the car protect him.

Master Du's eyes, like those wild wolves at night, glowed secretly, looking around from time to time.

In Prince Zheng's mansion, Zong Mi was sitting by the window, without lighting the lamp, leaning his hand on the edge of the window, tapping his fingers from time to time, counting the time in his heart from time to time, the night was really too quiet.

Therefore, when a figure suddenly appeared outside his window, even he couldn't help being stunned for a moment.

He was just about to get up when a cold light flashed, and a sword was already across his neck.

Zong Mi immediately looked up, the man was masked, Zong Mi couldn't help but sneered and said, "Could it be that the guards who avoided me came to my room just to kill me?"

The other party smiled and said: "Of course not, I'm not the prince. The prince can take such a big effort to do something like this, even the capital officials dare to use it to frame the fourth son of the family, but I don't like to work hard, and I don't have a prince." That skill."

When Zong Mi heard this, his voice became colder: "Then what do you love?"

"I..." He said with a faint smile, "I don't like anything, I just like to watch the excitement, so I come to see the excitement of Shizi tonight."

"This chivalrous man didn't come here to kill me, so why not speak up!"

"I feel that Shizi's production should have been perfect, but it has gone awry."

"Which ring?"

"My son, think about it, that Dr. Xiao in Guo's mansion will really disappear for no reason?"

Zong Mi's eyes suddenly became cold: "Who the hell are you?!"

"It's just a person who likes to watch the excitement. That's the end of the conversation, my son, see you later." After finishing speaking, the man put away his sword, his figure was light, and he turned around to leave, as if he really just came here to talk nonsense, saying Just leave.

After walking a few steps, he stepped back again, squinting his eyes, and told Zong Mi with a smile, "By the way, Prince, guess who is the person Jinling sent to help with the funeral?"

"who is it?!"

"Consort Ji Zhao..." He smiled at Zong Mi again, jumped onto the roof and disappeared soon after.

Zong Mi stood up abruptly, holding on to the edge of the window for a moment, then he came back to his senses and shouted loudly: "Come on!"

Ji Zhao and the others walked quietly on the mountain road. After walking for a long time, nothing happened. Ji Zhao even felt a little bored and was about to fall asleep again. Waking up from the shock, Chen Xing immediately stretched out his hands to protect him behind him, and the grass on both sides of the road also heard the sound of "swishling", Ji Zhao was refreshed, and was about to lift the curtain to take a look, but Yin Yu firmly pressed him Hold on, and said with a suppressed voice: "Uncle, don't come out!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard hurried footsteps. Before Ji Zhao could blink his eyes, he heard the sound of weapons coming one after another, and someone shouted: "Give it to me! It's our turn in Guizhou!" Don’t let the dog officials in Beijing take care of them! Leave them all here!”

Ji Zhao couldn't help asking Master Du outside the car: "Master Du! Master Du! How's it going!"

Master Du's voice was very calm: "Don't worry about it, son-in-law, it's fine for now."

Ji Zhao also calmed down instantly.

He couldn't see the situation outside, he could only hear the sound of fighting outside the car, and asked again: "Master Du, are the adults in the back all right?"

Master Du replied: "Don't worry, son-in-law, the guards will protect the adults, and their target this time is you, your carriage is the most conspicuous."

"... "

Ji Zhao listened for a while, but no one spoke, only the sound of more intense fighting, and he asked again: "Master Du, are you okay, why don't you hide in the car too?!"

Master Du only smiled "hehe". He watched those people huddled together, hating himself for protecting the son-in-law, even if he couldn't go up and beat him twice, Ji Zhao asked him again inside: "Master Du, is anyone injured? Didn't you say Just say that I am a son-in-law? Then say it quickly!"

"Don't worry, son-in-law, these people are just trying to set up a trap, and they dare not be serious. Let them fight for a while, and they will always come up with something."

"Where's my brother Citron?! Why can't I hear his voice?!"

Master Du took a glance, and Yin Yu had already killed him to the end.

Yin Yu also practiced martial arts since he was a child, and this was the first time he fought in a serious manner, but he found that the other party didn't fight him sincerely, but just pretended. Hit back, straight back to the end.

Being so passive, Yin Yu insisted on forcing him to fight with him, and only picked the opponent's fate to swing the sword.

The other party was forced to retreat behind Ji Zhao's carriage, guessing that this was the biggest official who came this time, thinking that he had done almost the same, he roared: "Dog officer! Don't think that our prince is gone, we The son can be bullied by others! Ah—”

He shouted, raised the sword in his hand and slashed directly at Ji Zhao's carriage. Master Du was in front of the carriage, and when he heard the man shouting angrily, he had already got up quickly, turned to the back of the carriage, and raised his foot with a swinging leg.

In front of the car, another person flew over, shouting similar words, "Revenge for our heir!" and so on. Taking advantage of no one, he raised his sword and stabbed at the car door, but pretended to only Pierce into the tip of the sword.

Chen Xing was so frightened that he hadn't reacted yet, Ji Zhao had already pulled him to the side to avoid the sharp sword, then he raised the short knife in his hand, without opening the door, he stabbed at the door.

In the end, he was stabbed blindly by him...

The other party let out a muffled groan in pain, Yin Yu and Master Du all backed away in fright, and when they saw the person nailed to the door, they were also stunned.Ji Zhao pulled out the knife excitedly, kicked the door open, saw the man fell on the ground, he crawled out, and said happily: "I put him down?!" He jumped out of the car, and I want to give the other party a few knives.

"Dog officer—" In the distance, another figure flew towards him. Yin Yu grabbed Ji Zhao and put him on the cart. Master Du quickly went up to him, but he suddenly turned around and stabbed Ji Zhao's horse. There was a long neigh when the son raised his head.

Yin Ming and the others didn't know why, but they also came back at this time. Yin Ming flew back directly and joined forces with Yin Yu to restrain the horse. The carriage was also turning around, and Ji Zhao was almost dizzy.

Master Du restrained the man, swung his sword and cut off the reins, and the carriage was barely stable.

There were golden stars in front of Ji Zhao's eyes, and the dusty stars were no better than him. The two of them were lying in the car, gasping for breath.

Master Du was about to get into the carriage to see him, when there was another sound of hoofbeats in front of him, this time the sound of hoofbeats was much more urgent.Yin Ming pulled out the knife on the horse, stood in front of the carriage with Master Du, turned around to look, Yin Yu climbed into the carriage, stretched out his hand to help Ji Zhao, and asked worriedly, "Uncle, are you alright?"

Ji Zhao waved his hand weakly, pointing at Chen Xing, motioning to help him up too.

The people at the front were still fighting, "Stop!" It wasn't until there was such a roar in the distance that the "Guards of Prince Zheng's Mansion" who were fighting with the guards gradually stopped, and Ji Zhao's guards all ran back, Guard around Ji Zhao's carriage.

Seeing this, the group of people who were dressed as servants of Prince Zheng's Mansion scattered in all directions, turning around and wanting to run, Ji Zhao's people rushed up one after another, although they also ran away a lot, [-]% of them were left behind.

Ji Zhao fell into Yin Yu's arms with his eyes closed. He was fine, but he was motion sick, and when he heard the sound of fighting again, he became even more dizzy, but he didn't dare to speak, fearing that he would vomit if he opened his mouth.

The sound of horseshoes was getting closer and closer. Ji Zhao closed his eyes and felt so uncomfortable that he didn't know anything. He only heard the head of the guard seem to be talking to the other party. Then he walked through the wall, went to the carriage, and told him: "My son-in-law, the son of Prince Zheng. coming!"