The Way of the Consort

birthday? !

It was only then that Ji Zhao remembered that it seemed that it was indeed his birthday at this time, and it was also his birthday in his previous life.It's just that there are many things these days, and his body is not feeling well, so he has long forgotten.

Zong Zhen held his hand instead, and said softly: "Look quickly..."

Ji Zhaocai hastened to look at the rabbit again, and even took a step forward, "Slow down..." Zong Zhen held his hand even tighter, for fear that he would fall. Ji Zhao had already forgotten the unhappiness just now, and excitedly Looking at the suspended rabbit, asked him: "How did this work?!"

Zong Zhen had a smile in his eyes, but he didn't say anything, Ji Zhao guessed by himself: "Is it fireworks?!"

He smiled happily, and looked back at Zongzhen: "It must be!"

"Like it……"

He nodded vigorously: "I like it!" He turned his head again and continued to look at the rabbit, "I like it so much! Brother! I really like it!"

He didn't notice that he called "Brother" again, his eyes were fixed on the rabbit down the mountain, his eyes were brightly lit by the fireworks, Zong Zhen stepped forward and stood side by side with him, Ji Zhao looked at the fireworks, and he looked at Ji Zhao.

If a rabbit is gone, it will be replaced immediately. Ji Zhao counted, and at the end, there were seventeen rabbits in total.

Ji Zhao looked back at him excitedly again: "What a coincidence! There are seventeen little rabbits in total! I am 17 years old this year!"

"It's a coincidence..."

"It's so beautiful!" After Ji Zhao finished speaking, he looked down the mountain again. The light of the last little rabbit gradually weakened and was about to disappear. He said sadly, "It's almost gone..."

Zong Zhen reached out to his eyes, covered his eyes, and pulled him back a few steps: "Then don't look..."

"Why?" Ji Zhao slapped his hands away, walked back to the original place, looked down at the little rabbit completely gone, and said, "Even if it's gone, I still want to see it! There's a beginning and an end!"

The darkness returned to the hillside, and Ji Zhao was still excited, but he also realized that there were so many coincidences and why there were so many fireworks just at this time. He looked sideways at Zong Zhen and asked, "It's you who came from Jinling?" Did you bring it?"

"Yes……"

"It's that kind of short fireworks!"

"Yes, there will be higher flying ones in the future."

Is there anything else to watch in the future?

This kind of fireworks is rare!

Ji Zhao wanted to ask him "why", why did he treat him so well, what kind of person Zong Zhen really was, did he want to treat him well, or use him, and kill him?Ji Zhao became more and more elusive about him, but—even if he didn't come here to save him, he still remembered his birthday, which he himself had forgotten, and brought so many fireworks from thousands of miles away, specially showing them to him.

He thought, at least at this moment, His Royal Highness is really treating him well.

Ji Zhao squeezed his hand, Zong Zhen looked down at him, and Ji Zhao smiled at him: "Thank you! I really like it!"

Zong Zhen said softly: "As long as you like it..."

"Can you invite the little buddies who set off the fireworks to come up too? I want to thank them too! They have worked hard!"

Zong Zhen didn't think it was necessary, but Ji Zhao asked, he nodded and ordered Cheng Shen to go down and call for someone.

A line of guards came up, and Ji Zhao thanked them one by one, which made Zong Zhen a little bit appreciative. After thanking him, Ji Zhao said, "When I get back to Jinling, I have a gift for you!"

The guards laughed and said "don't dare".

Once Ji Zhao was happy, he forgot all the previous bad things. Tonight Zong Zhen seemed to be no longer His Royal Highness, but the brother who would set off fireworks for him and accompany him to eat duck blood vermicelli soup. Zhao Yi went up and asked directly: "Then do you have any gifts?! It's my birthday!"

Zong Zhen's eyes were stained with a smile, and he nodded: "Yes..."

"Really!" Ji Zhao stepped forward and asked, "What is it?!"

Zong Zhen said slowly: "After coming out, I have asked someone to put it under your pillow."

Ji Zhao's eyes lit up, he pulled Zong Zhen back and ran away: "Then hurry back! I want to go back and see the presents!"

Zong Zhen lowered his eyes, looked at the hand tightly held by Ji Zhao, and followed him like a drink of sweet rain.

The two of them ran away, and Chenxing Yinming behind them all breathed a sigh of relief. They have witnessed what happened these days. They may have different perceptions, but they also watched how the two broke up. After the breakup, The two masters, in fact, are not doing very well. This time, such a thing happened again. They don't know whether the relationship between the two can return to the past, as long as it doesn't get worse.

The people around them can see it most clearly, and in their previous relationship, the two of them were also the happiest.

Zong Zhen said that there was something for him to put under the pillow, but in fact, there was a new surprise as soon as he got into the carriage.

Get in the car again, the car is no longer dark!There were two lamps hanging on the inner wall of the carriage. Ji Zhao took a closer look and found that they were still rabbit lamps!Different from last time, it is more beautiful and cute!

"Wow!" Ji Zhao rushed over immediately, looked carefully, and then asked Zong Zhen, "Is this also a gift?"

"It doesn't count, I made it for you to play with."

"I like it too!" Ji Zhao reached for the lamp, wanting to take one down to play with, when he heard Zong Zhen say behind him: "Your dark night is always bright, so don't be afraid."

Ji Zhao paused his hand, and suddenly understood what he meant.

Indeed, he is particularly afraid of the dark recently, because of He Qiniang's incident, as long as he closes his eyes, as long as there is no one around, he will immediately think of He Qiniang's death.

He hugged the rabbit lamp, looked back at Zong Zhen, his eyes were bright: "I see..."

Zong Zhen reached out to touch his head, and ordered to go.

On the way back, Zong Zhen took out another food box from nowhere.

Ji Zhao couldn't help feeling emotional again: "Doraemon is back in the rivers and lakes!"

Zong Zhen knew it was a good word, pulled the corners of his lips, put the food box between the two of them, and said softly, "Open it and have a look..."

"Hmm—" Ji Zhao guessed, "It can't be a cake, right? Oh, you don't know what a cake is, and you don't have this at this time, so I'll take a look!" Ji Zhao quickly lifted the lid, "Wow —” He exclaimed again.

There are rows of little white rabbits, some lying down, some standing, some lying down, some with eyes closed, and some eating vegetable leaves, they all look different anyway.Ji Zhao sighed in admiration: "This is too cute, what are these, can they be eaten? Is it also seventeen, one, two, three..."

After he finished counting, there were indeed seventeen. He looked up at Zong Zhen, who said, "Try it..."

"They're so cute I can't bear to eat them..."

Zong Zhen said: "After eating, there are more, they can still cook."

Ji Zhao rolled his eyes, thinking that there was a strange little eunuch coming this time, and he asked, "Is that the strange little eunuch who did it?"

"It's him, he's from the dining room of the Eastern Palace."

Looking at him, Ji Zhao was at a loss for words. It was fine to bring fireworks all the way, and even brought someone over to make him bunny cakes. The ingredients for this kind of cakes were hard to find, and the ingredients must have been brought from Jinling.

"Try it..." Zong Zhen said again.

Ji Zhao gritted his teeth, reached out and carefully touched the little rabbit eating vegetable leaves. It was soft and cool, and it felt very good to the touch. You could tell the taste from the touch. Although he was a bit reluctant to eat it, he was really curious. In the end, he closed his eyes and threw the little rabbit into his mouth.

The taste was wonderful, no matter how cute the bunny was, Ji Zhao couldn't hold back, and threw several more into his mouth.

He ate it and didn't forget about Zongzhen, so he picked up one and gave it to Zongzhen, saying that he was used to it: "Brother eats too——"

Looking up and seeing Zong Zhen's quiet eyes, he smiled awkwardly: "It's hard to change a habit...it's Your Highness..."

He wanted to withdraw his hand in embarrassment, but Zongzhen grabbed his wrist, he raised his eyes puzzled, Zongzhen took his hand, brought the rabbit pastry in his hand to his mouth, opened his mouth to eat it, and swallowed it slowly .

Until Zongzhen finished eating, and his hands were not loosened, the two still looked at each other.

The wheel of the car rolled over small rocks, and when it hit the top, Ji Zhao came back to his senses, withdrew his hand forcefully, and ran to the side holding the food box, sitting far away from Zongzhen. During this journey, Ji Zhao never said a word, He lowered his head and stuffed all the remaining bunnies into his mouth.

The carriage stopped, Cheng Shen said: "Your Highness, son-in-law, we have arrived at the post house."

Ji Zhao picked up the food box and got up, rushed out of the carriage, supported Yin Ming's hand and got off immediately, and was about to run when Zong Zhen said behind him: "This is for the son-in-law..."

Did he turn around and look again, Zong Zhen was holding the two rabbit lamps in his hands and was handing them to Bao Qing.

Baoqing took it and ran over to him.

He glanced at Zong Zhen, who was standing on the carriage, looking at him very calmly.

Ji Zhao felt a little annoyed in his heart, always felt that he was being tricked again, he was jumping here, but that person was still as calm as before.He snatched the lamp from Bao Qing's hand, walked away without saying goodbye to Zong Zhen, but Yin Ming thanked Zong Zhen on his behalf: "Thank you, Your Highness!"

On the way back to his house, Chen Xing told him: "Lang Jun, Baoqing told me that the cook in the East Palace tried for more than a month to make more than 200 kinds of bunnies for that box of pastries. Seven kinds! He also said, His Royal Highness originally ordered Firearms Workshop to make fireworks that look like rabbits in the sky! It's a pity that it is too difficult, and the experiment has failed so far. His Royal Highness is so angry that he can only—"

Ji Zhao was angry and interrupted him: "Are you his or mine!"

"I will not say anymore……"

"I didn't blame you!" Ji Zhao was annoyed, "I know he saved me, and he treated me very well, and celebrated my birthday, but, but... Anyway, you don't know many things... Don't talk about him !"

"I know, I won't say it again!"

"I'm not telling you to stop talking..."

"What is that?"

Bored and irritable, Ji Zhao walked into the house, washed his hands, took off his cloak, sat on the bed, and began to chase people away: "Don't talk, don't talk, I'm asleep, you go out!"

Chen Xing wanted to talk again, but seeing Ji Zhao's unhappy face, he didn't dare to say any more, so he had to go out first.

Ji Zhao lay down on the bed, rolled around, and suddenly thought of the pillow.

He immediately sat up again, quickly reached under the pillow, and found a letter.He wondered, could it be the apology letter written by Zong Zhen?It's too unbelievable... Ji Zhao thought for a moment, then quickly tore open the envelope, unfolded the letter paper, and after just one glance, he was dumbfounded.

It turned out to be a letter written by Xiaoyaozi to him!

He read a few more lines, and Xiaoyaozi wished him a happy birthday!

Ji Zhao was so excited that he wanted to get up and run a few laps, but because his body was still weak, he just lay back on the bed, rolled around several times with Xiaoyaozi's letter in his arms, and after rolling, got up and threw himself on the table , would like to write back immediately.

But there was a knock on the door, Chen Xing whispered: "Lang Jun, it is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Ji Zhao curled his lips: "Is there something wrong?"

Zong Zhen's voice sounded outside the door: "Go to bed early, and return to Jinling to discuss the reply letter. Xiaoyaozi has already gone out to travel. Even if you write now, he won't be able to receive it."

Ji Zhao wrinkled his nose. No matter what he did, it seemed that he was right under the eyes of the prince. Obviously, the prince didn't see anything!

"It's late at night, go to sleep." Zong Zhen urged again, and then said to Chen Xing, "Go in and turn off the lights."

Chen Xing really came in, and when he entered, Ji Zhao looked out dissatisfied, and Zong Zhen stood at the door and stared at him, as if he would not leave if he didn't want to, "Got it... "Ji Zhao reluctantly got up and moved towards the bed.

"Go to sleep..." Zong Zhen urged again.

Ji Zhao had no choice but to walk faster, and just as he was about to sit on the bed, he thought of something again, and immediately turned around and asked, "That's right! Since that person killed the man, then whoever blinded Wen Guiren's eyes was the one who killed him?" Who is it?! You must know!"

Zong Zhen looked at him for a moment, then said, "It's me..."

"!" Ji Zhao couldn't believe it, "Why?!"

"Because he saw you..."

"..." Ji Zhao didn't understand.

Zong Zhen nodded at him, turned around and left, Ji Zhao was supported by Chen Xing and lay on the bed, still thinking about that sentence, Chen Xing wanted to put down the tent for him, he asked: "Chen Xing, what did Zong Zhen say?" mean?"

"Huh?" Chen Xing was obviously busy laying the quilt just now, so he didn't pay attention to listen.

"never mind……"

"Lang Jun go to bed earlier, I'll watch outside, don't be afraid, I won't have any more nightmares tonight." Chen Xing put down all the tents, turned around to leave, Ji Zhao poked his head out of the tent, and called him : "Dust Star..."

"Ok?"

"Bring those two rabbit lamps and hang them on—" he looked at the two corners of Babu's bed, "hang them there..."

"okay……"

Chen Xing hung up the lamp as promised.

Ji Zhaoping was lying on the bed, subconsciously thinking of He Qiniang again, gripping the quilt with his hands unconsciously, still a little scared, he looked up and saw the rabbit lamp hanging on the bed hook, the strength in his hands gradually weakened, and his brain In the middle, He Qiniang's flying head and the pitch-black night are gradually replaced by gentle and lovely rabbits.

Drowsiness struck, and blood suddenly splashed on his face again, he gasped in fright, and stretched out his hand to touch his face, just as he was restless, thinking of the temperature in Zongzhen's palm, he looked at the two rabbit lamps again, his panting gradually calm.

He just stared at the rabbit lamp, looked at it, and finally fell asleep.

That night, he really didn't have any more nightmares.