The Way of the Consort

After Ji Zhao left the palace, he was very busy. He first asked someone to go to the Qin Mansion to ask Qin Wenming to come to his mansion so that he could tell Qin Wen about this, and then sent someone to the Yin Mansion tomorrow or the day after. He also wanted to meet with his grandfather to talk about what the prince wanted to do, and then asked someone to go to the mountain to see how the grandmother and princesses were doing, and escort them back.

He returned to the mansion in a very good mood, and asked Yin Ming to arrange for the little eunuch who came back with him, and then asked Yin Ming to send someone to buy pears in the south. Master Liu has made a few special dim sums, and I will send them to the palace for the crown prince."

"Okay..." Yin Ming responded, and was not in a hurry to leave, fearing that he still had something to explain.

Ji Zhao thought for a while, and it seemed that there was nothing left, so he told Yin Ming to leave.

Walking halfway, he remembered that there were several loquat trees in his mansion. Although the season for eating loquats had passed, there were not many fruits on the trees. Picking some loquat leaves for His Royal Highness to boil water for drinking would be a good idea. It can relieve the cough, just about to order it, the porter came to report that He Qiniang came to see him.

Ji Zhao guessed that she was here to deliver the account book again, and said indifferently, "Tell her to put down her things and return."

The concierge responded, went out for a while and then came back, why not: "Mr. Lang, she said she has something important to ask of you, and the little one said that you won't see her, so she won't leave."

Ji Zhao frowned, he felt a little annoyed, but Wei's mother hadn't come back yet, he didn't want to see He Qiniang at all, he was never happy to meet unfamiliar people, but He Qiniang had some relationship with him, at a young age, It's not easy for people, Ji Zhao said helplessly: "Okay, you tell her to come in." He then said to Chen Xing, "Go and ask her what's the matter."

Chen Xing responded, turned and went out.

Ji Zhao cleaned his face, washed his hands, and changed his clothes. He only wore one layer of clothes, and lay down on the couch. There was an iceberg and a wind wheel beside the couch. The cool breeze brought him, and he felt alive again.

Coke cut a plate of watermelon splashed in the well water for him, and Ji Zhao got up, fed the rabbit with one hand, and fed himself with the watermelon on a small gold fork with the other.

Halfway through the feeding, when Chen Xing came back, Ji Zhao asked casually without raising his head, "Is it over? What's the matter?"

"Barely it's a thing."

"Tell me..."

It turned out that because of the previous troubles, He Qiniang was somewhat famous in Beijing, but later she hid in a small clothing store in Shuangquan Lane, and few people saw her.Now, the business of that shop is getting better and better. He Qiniang really knows how to do business. In view of the remote location of the shop, she specially set up a route of "Deep Wine Fragrance Alley". She specializes in high-end business and serves the Ladies of the city.

This business was really done by her, and He Qiniang's reputation gradually became popular.

It's fine if it's an ordinary little widow, but He Qiniang is an extremely beautiful little widow who can do business, and she is only sixteen or seventeen years old. Soon some people with malicious intentions will stare at her and want to take her home. concubine.

Chen Xing said helplessly: "It is said that people come to the door every day to snatch her back."

"Is it so popular?"

Chen Xing nodded, and said again: "He Qiniang wants you to help her find some guards. She doesn't know anyone in Jinling City, so she doesn't dare to hire guards at will. She is afraid that she will be tricked. I listen to her voice, yes I want to scare those people away with your name, I want to borrow a guard from you."

Ji Zhao can understand that such a favor is of course to be helped, he said: "Then you go to the Escort to help her hire a few guards, as for my name, forget it, I don't want to have anything to do with her , don’t let anyone know who you are.”

"I understand..." After Chen Xing finished speaking, he went out to get busy.

When He Qiniang got the response, she thanked her and said goodbye. After getting into her mule cart, she gritted her teeth bitterly and clenched one hand into a fist and punched it into the other.It is said that he is also a talented person who is famous all over the world, but don't all talented people love fragrance and cherish jade?When those men saw her, which one was not dazed?

Why is Ji Zhao different from those people?He likes Princess Fuchen so much?

If you can't borrow Ji Zhao's name, how can you disturb Ji Zhao and the princess?

After leaving the alley of Pingyang Hou's Mansion, the street was full of bustling traffic, He Qiniang thought about it for a while, and said to the driver: "Let's go to Taiyuan College, I want to buy some snacks from Fuzhizhai opposite."

The coachman agreed and drove the car to Taiyuan Academy.

After eating the watermelon, the sun was gradually setting outside, so Ji Zhao took people to the backyard to pick loquat leaves.

The sky was no longer in the sun, so Ji Zhao rolled up his sleeves and tiptoed to pick it himself. He thought it was quite fun. After all, there were too few entertainments in ancient times, so picking leaves was indeed fun. The higher the leaves grow, the more sun they shine. The better it grew, he asked someone to bring a chair, step on it to pick it up, and refused to allow anyone to help.

Coke and the others leaned on the chairs, they were frightened, and they didn't dare to persuade the son-in-law to be angry.

After finally picking a full basket, Ji Zhao was about to jump down when his arm was pulled by a branch, "Ah!" Ji Zhao cried out in pain, and immediately lowered his head to look, a long bloodstain was directly drawn on his arm by the branch. He was extremely fair-skinned in both his lifetimes, and he was always a flower in a greenhouse. In his previous life, he often underwent surgery and injections, so let alone the needle holes and scars all over his body.

The body in this life is really a piece of flawless white jade. She grew up with dignity and dignity since she was a child. Except for the callus on the right hand that often writes, there is not even a trace of marks on her body.

Coke and the others were all terrified, the son-in-law was so white, suddenly there was such a red streak, the blood kept flowing out, it was very scary, they immediately called the doctor Bai from the mansion, and quickly helped Ji Zhao down, went back house to go.

It hurt a little when I first pulled it, but after that, Ji Zhao thought it was okay. He never felt any pain back then, and he smiled and comforted everyone: "It's okay..."

While smiling, Chen Xing came back. Seeing him like this, tears came down, and hurriedly urged Ji Zhao to go back to the house. Ji Zhao did not forget to explain: "Hurry up and wash the leaves!"

Chen Xing was sad: "Lang Jun, you have never suffered such a crime since you were a child, why do you do this for the prince! Let them go with these leaves!"

"Oh, he treated me pretty well today. He even gave me a cook. It doesn't matter if I pick some leaves for him. This is called going back and forth, a gentleman's style."

"Lang Jun!" Chen Xing stomped.

"Okay, okay, I'll go back now, don't be angry, don't be angry, it doesn't hurt, how are the guards hired..."

A group of people went to the front yard. Doctor Bai came over and helped him clean the wound. Looking carefully, the cut was really long, and blood still leaked out from time to time. Doctor Bai said seriously: "Mr. water, otherwise scars will be left."

"It's okay to leave a scar—" Ji Zhao didn't finish his sentence, and was stared at by Chen Xing again. He smiled, "I spoiled you so much!"

Chen Xing ignored him and discussed with Doctor Bai how to get rid of the scar.

Doctor Bai went to make the medicine, but Chen Xing still looked unhappy. When Yin Ming came back, he saw the wound on his arm, and he also had a frowning face. Ji Zhao wanted to distract them, so he said, "Why don't you call the mansion?" Is the embroiderer coming to make clothes for me?"

Chen Xing barely pulled himself together, the embroiderers in the mansion made clothes for him since he was a child, they brought them from Yangzhou, and they came over soon, holding a lot of fabrics for him to see.

Ji Zhao had never cared about these things before. Mother Wei helped him take care of the clothes. He found it very interesting to see so many cloths, all of which were light colors that he liked. He was watching with great interest when suddenly With a heart move, he asked, "Is there any snow-blue cloth?"

The embroiderer laughed and said: "Mr. Lang rarely wears clothes of this color. There are not many in our house, but there are a few horses. The servant girl will bring them to Mr. Lang to have a look at. Choose what you like, and let's go buy more." Come back some time."

"Yeah!"

Chen Xing went to help bring a few pieces of fabric, the snow blue color is actually purple, but it is a cooler purple, the embroiderer brought several kinds of purple for him to choose.

Ji Zhao tried hard to find the one with the closest color to Huishang's elder brother, and was happy to see that Coke came in with a basket of loquat leaves, and said with a smile, "My son-in-law, the leaves are all washed."

Chen Xing glared at him, but he pretended he didn't see it, and handed the basket to the son-in-law.

Ji Zhao put down the fabric again, and asked him to come forward and pick out a few pieces to see that they were all clean. He nodded in satisfaction, and asked the kitchen if the snacks were ready before continuing to pick out fabrics.

He couldn't find a color similar to his elder brother's dress, so he asked Chen Xing: "You have good eyesight, you can help me to see if it is true that the purple that elder brother wore that day is not there?"

Chen Xing also looked carefully, and there really wasn't any, these purples were all warmer in tone.

The embroiderer said: "The servant girl will go to the cloth shop, and ask them to bring all kinds of purple cloth tomorrow morning."

Ji Zhao was a little disappointed: "Okay..."

The embroiderer said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I will choose the fabric tomorrow, and our sisters will work together to make a suit for you in the evening!"

Ji Zhaocai smiled again: "Okay!"

The snacks were also ready. Ji Zhao checked to make sure that the food box was beautiful and the basket containing the leaves was brand new. He ordered Coke to go to the palace to deliver to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and also told him not to tell the Crown Prince about his injury, so as not to The prince's psychopath thought too much, thinking that he was asking for credit and selling miserably.

He didn't bother to do such a thing.

Forget about Coke, I haven't sent anything to the palace for more than half a year, so I'm so excited for no reason!

Knowing that Coke came to deliver things, His Royal Highness was stunned for a moment, and indescribably excited in his heart, he said calmly: "Call him over, I will ask him personally."

"Yes!"

Coke didn't bother the little eunuch, he carried a basket in one hand and a food box in the other, and laughed when he came in. Just as he was about to put down his things to salute, Zong Zhen stretched out his hand: "No, what did you bring?"

"This basket is loquat leaves, and this is a box."

Baoqing went forward to pick up the food box, picked up the basket, and put it on the table in front of Zongzhen. Zongzhen was not in a hurry to look at the snacks, he picked up the leaves first, and listened to the cola and said, "The loquat leaves are all picked by the son-in-law. After returning from the palace, I rested until the sun went down and there was no sun in the yard. The son-in-law took some of us to pick them, but we were not allowed to help. The son-in-law also specially picked the leaves on the high branches. Sun, grow better, and boil water to drink later, Your Highness, your cough and stool will heal faster!"

Even though Zongzhen tried his best to restrain himself, there was a layer of joy on his face, and the other eunuchs waiting in the room were very happy.

Zong Zhen looked at the leaves one by one with a smile on his face, and asked, "How did he pick it so tall?"

"We moved the chair, and the son-in-law picked it up standing on the chair!"

Zong Zhen frowned: "That's so dangerous, why don't you persuade me?"

"You guys persuaded me, the son-in-law won't listen to us..."

"Forget it..." Zong Zhen knew that Ji Zhao didn't even listen to what he said, so how could he listen to them, "In the future, you have to persuade me, I don't need him to do these things himself."

"Yes, the little one knows."

Zongzhen's complexion improved a bit, and he asked again: "What did the son-in-law do after he went back?"

Coke happened to be about to talk about He Qiniang, so he immediately told the prince about it, and Zong Zhen frowned again: "Did the son-in-law see her?"

"I didn't see it. From a young age, the son-in-law annoyed her very much. However, she sold miserably later on, and the son-in-law felt sorry for her. After all, he asked Chen Xing to help her find a guard. After all, the son-in-law has a kind heart..." Coke said at the end One sentence was said nervously, for fear that the crown prince would scold him again.

Zong Zhen didn't scold him. From the current point of view, Ji Zhao should not have colluded with He Qiniang, otherwise there will always be clues. Chen Keye and the others have been looking for them these days, and they have found nothing, but He Qiniang has been looking for Ji Zhao all day long. Come together, try to look like you are very familiar with Ji Zhao.

In fact, Zong Zhen didn't quite understand what the use of Liang Guoxi Zuo's exerting force on a son-in-law was. After much deliberation, he probably still wanted to approach them through the son-in-law.

It was true that Ji Zhao was kind. Zong Zhen didn't reprimand Cole, and Cole breathed a sigh of relief, faintly feeling that His Royal Highness's attitude towards the son-in-law had changed a lot in the past so long.

Zong Zhen said: "You should watch this matter carefully in the future. He Qiniang is not an easy person. The four of you and Du Bo must work together to protect the son-in-law."

"Okay!" Coke was a little confused. Isn't their mission to monitor the son-in-law?When did it become protection...

Zong Zhen didn't explain this to him, but wanted to hear more about Ji Zhao, so he asked, "What else, what was he doing before you came out?"

"The son-in-law is picking out fabrics to make clothes. He wants the snow-blue clothes, which are the ones you wore a while ago... There is no one of the same color in the mansion. The son-in-law is a little unhappy. He will ask Bu Zhuang to come to the mansion to deliver cloth tomorrow." .”

Zongzhen's complexion became even more beautiful, and he asked Baoqing: "Who made the clothes that day? Where did they use the cloth?"

Baoqing thought about it carefully, and replied: "Your Highness, the clothes are made by Sister Yuanxin, the fabric is not ordinary silk, it is made in Jinling, it is not rare, but the color, Sister Yuanxin brought someone to use white cloth dyed, not outside."

"Go and ask to see if there are any in the palace."

"okay……"

Bao Qing went to look for Bu, Zong Zhen continued to play with the leaves, and then asked: "Has he had dinner yet?"

"Not yet, the son-in-law took the medicine, said it was bitter, and had a bad appetite—" Coke was so frightened that he covered his mouth with his hand, how did he say it!

Zong Zhen raised his eyes, looked at him coldly, and said word by word, "What medicine do you take..."