The Way of the Consort

"Having a nightmare again?" Zong Zhen asked.

Ji Zhao shook his head: "I just can't sleep..." After thinking for a while, he said, "I can't sleep alone."

Zong Zhen didn't think too much, and then nodded: "From then on, you will sleep with me."

Ji Zhao just waited for this sentence, and laughed when he heard it, Zong Zhen was funny, just about to call him up, Ji Zhao stepped on the bed directly, jumped hard, and jumped onto the bed, so frightened that Zong Zhen quickly hugged his waist , asked: "Is there any injury?"

"No!" Ji Zhao laughed, "It's fun!"

"Is this fun? What if you don't jump up, or if you jump up and step on it, what should you do?" Zong Zhen was very serious.

Ji Zhao looked down at him and smiled: "Isn't His Royal Highness the Crown Prince catching me?"

"..." Zong Zhen had nothing to say.

Ji Zhao pushed his hand away, stepped over Zongzhen's legs, consciously went to the innermost part of the bed, lay down and covered himself with the quilt, turned around and smiled at Zongzhen: "Look at you! I'm asleep!"

Zong Zhen helped him tuck the quilt tighter. Ji Zhao saw the ink dots on his sleeves and asked him, "What are you looking at? Why are your sleeves full of ink?"

"Look at the collection of Liangguo's residence newspapers from the past few years."

"Oh..." Ji Zhao is not interested in these things, but he is also very curious, "Will the two countries still fight in the future?"

After all, in this book, after the ancestor Ji Zhao became emperor, they were unified, and there must be wars if they want to be unified.

"If the two countries continue like this, it should not be possible within ten years. After the last war between the two countries, both of them suffered heavy losses. Liang Guo's civil governance is not good, and our martial arts are average. The war at this time will only make the two countries worse."

Ji Zhao smiled: "You are the prince, why did you say that we are average?"

"This is also the truth, we still have a long way to go." Zong Zhen also smiled, and patted him on the shoulder, "Go to sleep..."

"Um……"

In fact, Ji Zhao didn't want to fall asleep so quickly, Zong Zhen picked up the book and pen and continued to read. His Royal Highness looked so good-looking, and he wanted to take a few more glances, but it didn't take long for his double eyelids to twitch. Closed, there was a continuous breathing sound beside Zong Zhen.

Zong Zhen watched carefully, and suddenly felt the warmth around him. He looked down, and the sleeping Ji Zhao rolled beside him again.

There was a smile in Zongzhen's eyes, and he directly fished Ji Zhao into his quilt, covered it tightly, and then continued to watch.

The next day, the second prince Liu Cang really came, and he brought a person with him, who also looked like a son of an aristocratic family. According to him, he was a companion since childhood.

Liu Cang came here on behalf of Princess Qingyang. He apologized and said: "Qingyang has been favored since he was a child, and he is really spoiled by us. I am also very busy when my father's birthday is approaching. I have neglected this point. I'm sorry for disturbing the son-in-law's rest."

Ji Zhao waved his hand: "Where is that, Princess Qingyang is straightforward, I won't have other ideas, second prince, don't be so polite, even if the princess comes back, she will go out to play with my guards, and the people around me will be appreciated by the princess, I will I'm very happy. But I'm also a little worried, afraid of damaging the princess's reputation, and I can't stop it."

It depends on how you say this, as soon as Liu Cang heard this, he knew that this son-in-law was a careless person.

In fact, he already knew that Qing Yang was going to Hanxi Pavilion almost every day, and he was trying to find a reason to stir up this matter, but the news leaked from the son-in-law first, and he was worried that the son-in-law did it on purpose. Seeing him for a while, he felt relieved, he took advantage of the situation and said: "Qing Yang has already engaged, and will be descending soon, son-in-law don't worry."

When Ji Zhao heard it, he showed surprise, and quickly put it away, smiled awkwardly at Liu Cang, and pointed to the teacup: "The second prince drinks tea, drinks tea."

Liu Cang drank the tea as he said, and pretended not to care and asked, "Did the son-in-law have any bad words to say?"

Ji Zhao was even more embarrassed. Liu Cang put down the teacup, looked at him, and said sincerely, "Your son-in-law can tell me directly if you have something to say, and I hit it off right away."

Coax the ghosts, Ji Zhao thought, but he still followed Zongzhen's training, faltering and saying: "The second prince, the fiancé of Princess Qingyang, didn't he raise a concubine outside? How can he marry the princess..."

Liu Cang was shocked in his heart, he only dared to show two or three points on his face, and exaggeratedly asked: "My son-in-law, you can't say this casually, where did you hear it?"

"My guard, didn't he go out with Princess Qingyang a few times? He also overheard the mention by the guards around the princess. Maybe my guard heard it wrong, or he was talking nonsense! The second prince, don't take it to heart!"

Liu Cang smiled wryly: "Perhaps the son-in-law doesn't know that Qing Yang's fiancé is my cousin."

"Ah—yes, I'm sorry..." Ji Zhao hurriedly apologized.

After going back and forth several times, Ji Zhao sent the second prince Liu Cang out of the house very "guiltily".

Liu Cang has married a wife, and has already left the palace to open the mansion. When he returns to the study in the mansion, he retreats from everyone and only stays with his companions to read.As soon as the door was closed, he cursed "trash" in a low voice, and his companion said helplessly: "I really didn't expect that Uncle Yuan would also raise him in the outer room, and he turned out to be Princess Qingyang and the fifth prince." I knew it in advance...it is really worthy of His Highness's sincerity in helping him."

"What do you think of Ji Zhao's scheming?"

"After all, he is a descendant of the Ji family. Yin Anzheng grew up alone. He has the aloofness and integrity of a scholar, but he can't really be a fool. Besides, his nephew is a smart man, and his guards are not simple.

I'm afraid the princess went out to people all day long. At first it was to test her out, but later she really fell in love with her. I'm afraid she was annoyed long ago, so she tried to tell you about it.

He will tell you this today, no matter what he thinks, it is still beneficial to you.Otherwise, the princess will definitely pick a good time to expose this matter and cancel the engagement. Now that we know about it, it will be easy to handle. "

"That's right..." Liu Cang nodded, then sneered again, "Eat my food and drink my food, the dog wants to run away when it grows up, there's no way."

"I'll make plans for this later, let's talk about Ji Zhao first." He turned to look at his companion, "You and I both know why Concubine De is favored. Back then, Emperor Father hadn't ascended the throne yet, and he was still a prince. Your father accompanied your father on a private trip to the Kingdom of Xi, met a woman by chance, and brought her back to the Kingdom of Liang. She was loved like a treasure, hidden in a golden house, and never let people see more. My mother and concubine were side concubines at the time. I have never seen her in the matter of the palace. It’s just that for some reason, this woman suddenly disappeared, I don’t know if it’s dead or alive, but it’s a pity that we were young and didn’t know anything.”

"Yes..." Companion nodded, "Your Highness, do you suspect that Ji Zhao is related to that woman?"

"It's unbelievable?" Liu Cang smiled, "We have never seen that woman with our own eyes, but we can guess that the father did not make a queen for her. If she is still there, there is no business for us. My first time When I saw Ji Zhao back, I felt familiar. My father is not good at painting, and only your father had seen her back then. The only portrait of her in my father's study was made by your father. When we were young, we two sneaked away. I've seen Father Huang's study before, do you think he resembles that woman?"

The companion thought about it carefully, frowned and said: "Like, it is a bit like it. However, Ji Zhao is from the Ji family, and his mother is Yin Anzheng's only daughter, married to Ji Muzhi, who died more than ten years ago. She has passed away, and this matter cannot be faked. Take ten thousand steps back, if this person is really Yin Anzheng's daughter, is not dead, and was brought back to Liangguo by our Majesty, can Yin Anzheng agree? He is the teacher of Emperor Xi, If you want to get your daughter back, Emperor Xi is probably very willing to tell us about it."

"Yeah, I'm afraid I'm overthinking it, but they are indeed very similar." Liu Cang also frowned, and sneered again, "Isn't Concubine De favored because she is that woman's maid? I knew about it back then. , almost all died. An old aunt was thrown into a mass grave. She took less poison and recovered her life. We found this person later and asked, that woman was pregnant back then. Listen to the old aunt It means that Liu Rui is the son of that woman."

"That's why our Majesty loves Liu Rui so much."

"That is, as long as Liu Rui is not such a waste, the crown prince may be established early, and it is not my turn to participate in politics at this time."

"These are just our guesses. After all, the Fifth Prince looks more like His Majesty, not even the slightest resemblance to Ji Zhao. I'm afraid I can't count on this matter, Your Highness."

Liu Cang smiled coldly: "The mother and son seem to be attached to me, but in fact they only want to use me to climb up, and then step me down the cliff. How can I let them do what they want? Does Ji Zhao have anything to do with that woman? , I don’t know, and I don’t care, but Ji Zhao is so similar to her. The greatest regret and concern of my father in this life is that woman. If my father sees Ji Zhao, hehe, I’m curious about the love that their mother and son get from others How long can it last?"

After Liu Cang left, Ji Zhao immediately walked around behind the screen, and asked Zong Zhen with a treasure: "How is it? Am I right? You have a very good posture?!"

Seeing his smiling face, Zong Zhen wanted to pinch Ji Zhao's face, and he did. He lightly pinched Ji Zhao's face.

Ji Zhao wrinkled his nose in dissatisfaction, and said, "It's very well said..." Ji Zhao stopped wrinkling his nose, smiled like a flower, and boasted: "I think so too!"

Zong Zhen let go of his face amusedly, put one hand on his shoulder, and rubbed his head with the other.

The two stood behind the screen, you looked at me, and I looked at you, smiling back and forth without feeling tired at all.

Until Cheng Shen came in: "Your Highness, son-in-law, uh—"

He looked around for people, and the two of them came out from behind the screen: "What's the matter?"

"Your Highness, Prince Consort, Princess Qingyang is here again..."

Ji Zhao raised his eyebrows: "She's here again? She dared to come just after Liu Cang came. She really doesn't take Liu Cang seriously. No see, tell her to come back!"

Cheng Shen said helplessly: "The little one said the same thing. She insisted that the second prince just came here and the second prince can see him. Why can't she see him?"

Ji Zhao still wanted to say, Zong Zhen pressed his hand: "Tell her to come in..."

Cheng Shen led the order to go out, Ji Zhao looked up at him angrily, "You want to see her?"

"It's better to see what she is going to do, and it will be convenient for her to act later."

Ji Zhao was angry again, and Zong Zhen said, "If you don't want to see me, go play next door, and I'll see you."

Ji Zhao was even angrier, Zong Zhen didn't understand anything at all!Although he also hated Princess Qingyang and really didn't want to see her, he was not angry at all because of this matter!But why on earth is he angry?Angry because Zongzhen wants to see Princess Qingyang?What's there to be angry about?He was at a loss again, angry and at a loss.

Zong Zhen put his hand on his shoulder, he came back to his senses, shook Zong Zhen's hand away, turned around and stood behind the screen, he wanted to hear why Princess Qingyang came here.

It turned out that Princess Qingyang was even more shameless than Ji Zhao imagined. Princess Qingyang came to ask Zongzhen if he would like to stay in Liangguo, and said that Zongzhen would be given a title, and that her father would not obstruct it. Zhao almost vomited.

His Royal Highness Tai Chi practiced first-rate, and Ji Zhao became angrier the more he heard it. As soon as Princess Qingyang left, he walked directly through the side door behind the screen and returned to his room.

Before Zong Zhen had time to coax him, Chen Keye also came back. He had just finished following Liu Cang and his party.

Zong Zhen looked around and felt that he was not enough...

He asked Xiao Quanzi to cook some delicious food for Ji Zhao, and first went back to the room with Chen Keye to discuss matters.

Ji Zhao didn't want to make piggy buns for Zong Zhen anymore, he continued to pull the purse on his waist angrily, Xiao Quanzi came to bring him food, and quietly showed him the piggy buns that had been made.

It was so cute, even cuter than what Ji Zhao had seen in the modern age in his previous life.

Ji Zhao suddenly stopped being angry. He picked up a piglet and put it in the palm of his hand. After looking at it several times, he took another piece and tasted it. It tasted very good.He thought for a while, and then asked: "I want to do some more flow in my heart, can I do it?"

"Your son-in-law mean stuffing? The kind that can flow out after one bite?"

"Yes Yes Yes!"

"What does the son-in-law want?"

"Salted egg yolk? Milk yolk?"

No one eats like this in this era, but Xiao Quanzi is worthy of being Xiao Quanzi, he thought for a while, then nodded: "Try it for the little one!" "Okay, okay!"If you do it well, I will learn how to do it from you! "

At night, Zong Zhen was still nestled in his room, not taking a step out.

Ji Zhao had eaten dinner by himself, and when it was time to go to bed, he climbed into bed after washing himself. Chen Xing came over and told him, "Mr. sleep in?"

"Who said I can't fall asleep!" Ji Zhao turned his back to the outside, impatiently, "Don't mention him to me again."

Chen Xing shrugged helplessly, not knowing why this was so awkward, so he had to put down the tent again.

The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and the more angry Ji Zhao couldn't sleep, he didn't know how many times he had turned over until the curtain was lifted again. He looked back and saw Zong Zhen standing by the bed.

He froze for a moment and asked, "Why did you come here?"

"It's not that it's okay, we will sleep together in the future, if you don't go, I have to come."

After Zong Zhen finished speaking, he smiled quietly at him.

Ji Zhao froze for a moment, and became even more angry in his heart, this time he was definitely angry with himself.

Why exactly, this annoying prince just smiled, but he didn't get angry anymore!