The Prince of Rebirth

Six years.

Looking up at this childhood friend, Xia Jin couldn't help but lament that these six years have really carved indelible marks on the growth trajectory of the two of them.

At that time, the friendship still exists, but the position of the enemy and ourselves is so clear.

"Cheng Mingke is nearby? Why are you still so reckless? With your current status, you came to visit late at night. If you are caught by the people of the palace, you will still be alive."

Xia Jin soaked in the hot spring without moving, still maintaining the previous posture, leaning against the stone by the pool and talking to He Zheng, only her back was a little stiff due to tension.Xia Jin knew Cheng Ming's ability early on. It is not unusual for him to break through the defenses of the village and bring He Zheng here. It's just that He Zheng has a special status. If he is really discovered, not only will his life be in danger, Even Xia Jin and Xia's family will lose King Dingyuan's trust.

Xia Jin was anxious over there, but He Zheng just listened and said nothing.The water vapor above the pool was steaming, and Xia Jin's long hair was unraveled, half immersed in the water and half exposed in the water vapor, all of which were dyed a layer of black.Fog filled the pool, blurring his eyes, but it made the black hair more eye-catching.

"I want to take a hot spring too."

Xia Jin: ...

Damn it, you're guarding an emperor's father instead of hugging his thighs and running to King Dingyuan's Zhuangzi to soak in the hot springs. You must be showing off your head!

"He Zheng, there are priorities. Hurry up and find Cheng Ming to take you back. Don't delay here any longer. Anyone near this pond can come. If someone from Zhuangzi bumps into you, how can you get out!"

He Zheng glanced at Xia Jin and then again, then stretched out his paw and said seriously:

"But my hands are numb from the cold, and my feet are also numb from the cold. It's a waste of time to come here and suffer all these crimes. Why don't you invite someone to soak in the hot spring to warm you up?"

"Your brain is frozen, you don't hide in the bed and sleep in the middle of the night, but you are born in this wilderness looking for cold, don't let me go back!"

In order not to be noticed, Xia Jin deliberately lowered her voice, but she could still hear the unconcealed anger in his tone. Even if he didn't know how to look at people's faces, he would be a little bit scrupulous, so he didn't take off his clothes. Go straight down, just walked to the edge of the pool where Xia Jin was leaning on and sat with bent legs... on Xia Jin's change of clothes

"Asshole, are you sitting on my clothes to ask me to go back naked later!"

He Zheng lowered his head to look at Xia Jin's clothes, stretched out his hands and pulled them to make sure that he didn't get a little bit of dirt before raising his head and continuing to look at Xia Jin with peace of mind.

Xia Jin: (‵o′)convex

He will be worried that if this guy is caught, he will be out of his mind. Damn, this kind of disaster is definitely to die early so as not to harm the common people.

"Let's talk about it, what do you mean by coming here to find me? You don't come all the way just for this hot spring pool, just to see me by the way."

Xia Jin looked at He Zheng, but He Zheng didn't speak. In fact, he really came to see Xia Jin, but because his hands and feet were frozen, he turned around and came to the hot spring pool to wash his hands and feet to get rid of the cold. That being said - it was really a coincidence to meet Xia Jin.

"It doesn't really matter, but I saw you in the palace yesterday and wanted to verify it. Today, seeing your appearance on the street, you clearly recognize me. Why do you still hide from side to side as if you don't know me?" ?”

"I only know He Zheng, the youngest son of the prime minister's mansion, so I dare not make friends with His Royal Highness the Second Prince. Even if you don't care about it, now that my whole family's life is in the hands of the Lin family, how dare you not care about the benefits."

He Zheng lowered his eyes and remained silent. The entanglement between the Xia family and the royal family and the Lin family is not only a matter of loyalty, right or wrong, the Xia family is a victim in the struggle for imperial power, and now the victim is struggling to survive in the cracks. After coming down, it is understandable to plan some unspeakable means for the family's livelihood, after all, it was the imperial court that first abandoned the Xia family.

"You and I met once. Although I have royal blood, I will not alienate you because of this. In the future, when outsiders are present, I should avoid it and have to avoid it, but after all, there is a classmate. Although you are not It's welcome, but I'm not going to have a quarrel with you over such a trivial matter."

Xia Jin: ...Who is it that people don't like to see?

"You have different identities now. There is no chance to see you inside and outside the palace. What's more, I am limited in movement and can't get out of this village. If we meet again later, it will be when the two sides fight to the death. Then you can still see each other." Missing the past friendship?"

After all, the atmosphere around here is a bit stagnant. In such a position, neither of them can tell whether there will be a day when swords will face each other in the future. At that time, it is no longer controlled by personal wishes, and it depends on the nature of the two.

He Zheng was sitting by the side of the pool, and because his position was much higher than Xia Jin's, he could just see the top of Xia Jin's jet-black hair. The braids were spread out without any restraint, and the ink-like silk hair slanted into the water. The blackness spread out, but it also gave a hint of coolness to the pool water.He Zheng suddenly felt that his body was sticky and uncomfortable after staying in the steaming water for a long time. He thought that the water would be cooler, so he accidentally tore off the buttons of his clothes two or three times, took off and went down into the pool. .

"You don't want to die, you dare to come down! Lin Hang will come over in a while, if you are caught, what to do, put on your clothes and go, immediately, immediately!"

Xia Jin was anxious to push He Zheng with her hands, but she raised her body and turned her head to look at the exit. After confirming that there was no one there, she relaxed a little, and then concentrated her firepower to pull He Zheng out.

"Get up, what are you crazy about, such a life-threatening event can also be used for fun!"

He Zheng just soaked in the hot spring with his eyes closed, and had no intention of talking to Xia Jin at all.His hands and feet were numb from the cold, and it was inevitable that he would feel numb and itchy when he touched the hot soup, but after he got used to it, he felt comfortable all over his body, and his fingers became more flexible. A strand of hair was caught.

He Zheng suddenly woke up from his sluggish state, and nothing showed on his face, he just wrapped his long hair around his fingers a few times calmly under the cover of the pool water.The hair is extremely soft, and because of Xia Jin's movements, the water flow caused the hair to float away lightly. Occasionally, a few strands passed through the palm of the hand, but it made people itch to the apex.

"Are you blushing?"

Xia Jin couldn't move He Zheng, but saw his slightly flushed handsome face through the steam, and immediately thought that it was because He Zheng woke up and realized how unreliable it was to go to the hot spring on the site of King Dingyuan Spectrum, is to immediately seize the opportunity to start teaching people.

"Knowing that blushing proves that you are still saved, get up quickly, put on your clothes and go back to the palace, as a prince, you come to these places in the middle of the night, what a shame, beware of the emperor hitting you, go, go, go now! "

If He Zheng stays here for another minute, Xia Jin's heart will hang on for another minute, but there is nothing he can do if he doesn't care about it, so he can only look at He Zheng with hatred and say:

"Damn it."

He Zheng didn't understand what Xia Jin said, but only cared about the slight strangeness in his heart, and his whole body became more and more lazy. He just stretched his limbs like Xia Jin did before, leaning lazily on the stone and squinting his eyes half-closed. But it is so beautiful.

As early as when He Zheng was still looking at the previous face, Xia Jin saw that he had a pair of good eyes, which added a lot of color to that horrific face. The star-like eyes are much more brilliant.Naturally, the prince's appearance is not bad, and He Zheng's mother, Concubine Hui, is a first-class beauty. It is reasonable for He Zheng to have a good appearance, but Xia Jin is too impressed with his past horrible appearance, so As for facing this face, it is far more impactful than others.

Xia Jin shook her head, and suddenly felt a little dizzy looking at He Zheng's face, thinking that her mind was starting to lose consciousness after soaking in the hot spring for a long time, Xia Jin no longer bothered with He Zheng, straightened up and was about to step on the Go to the bank to wipe the water off your body with the towel.Due to the violent fluctuation of the water surface, He Zheng woke up from his vague consciousness. Through the mist, he saw a scene that he had never seen in his life.

"Look at Mao, if you look at me again, I will send someone to catch the thief, mother, you have been worrying about it for so long, you don't care about it, and I don't bother to care about it. If you want to die, you will die. I won't serve you anymore!"

After wiping off the water droplets on her body, Xia Jin put on the clothes that had been crushed by He Zheng, and the anger in her heart became even hotter. Seeing He Zheng staring at her like a normal person, she couldn't get angry at all. Come on, at the moment, I can't help but kick He Zheng's handsome face, directly kicking him into the hot spring pool.

"Wait for the Lin family to catch you!"

After saying that, he didn't even put on his shoes and went out with his shoes. Anyway, he had to wash them again when he went back.

**

A few days later, after taking a bath at night, Xia Jin was already a little sleepy. She didn't care about waiting for her hair to dry before going to bed. It just so happened that Mrs. Zhang came into the room with a box at this moment. Seeing him like this, she naturally reached out to stop him.Xia Jin didn't want Zhang to be worried and had to wait for her hair to dry before going to bed, but this long hair hadn't been cut since she was one year old, so she couldn't do anything for a while.

Seeing her son yawning again and again, Mrs. Zhang couldn't help laughing, but she couldn't let him go to sleep like this. She just took a towel to wipe Xia Jin's hair, and said while wiping:

"I've told you since I was a child that if you don't dry your hair and go to sleep when you grow old, you will have a bad head. If you don't care about it when you are young, you will suffer when you are old."

"Mother, my child remembers...heh—tch"

"What are you busy with these days, why are you so sleepy?"

"Preparing for that day."

At this point, Mrs. Zhang stopped moving her hands, but continued to gently wipe Xia Jin's hair for a while.

"Mother has finally figured it out. My son is so talented, it won't be a problem if he is stuck here for the rest of his life."

Xia Jin was about to argue, but Mrs. Zhang stretched out her hand first and brought the square box that was brought into the house to Xia Jin.

"I'm afraid it will be difficult to come back after leaving Beijing this time. Mother has already transferred all the property of the dowry shop in Beijing. Just keep these bank notes, they should be useful in the future."

"mother!"

"Take it!"

Mrs. Zhang pushed the box into Xia Jin's arms in a rare and forceful manner, and then picked up a towel to wipe his hair, and said while wiping:

"My mother's things are always left to you. What's the point of letting you hold them earlier, and there will be no need for urgent needs in the future."

Xia Jin tightly squeezed the box in her hand, suddenly her eyes felt hot.This box should contain all of Zhang's belongings, but now he has given it to him without any hesitation, leaving no room for himself, really...

"Mother."

Xia Jin called out in a normal tone, but it made people feel shocked.

"A child will always take good care of his mother."

Mrs. Zhang nodded and smiled, her eyes were a little wet, but she didn't have time to wipe them off, she just carefully wiped her son's hair.

"Why is my son's hair so short?"

"what?"

Xia Jin didn't quite understand, so Zhang directly put that lock of hair and the other one in front of him, which seemed to be a little shorter than the other one.

**

"Your Highness, what is this?"

Seeing He Zheng putting a bundle of tied black hair into the kit bag, Cheng Ming really felt strange, so he couldn't help asking.

He Zheng glanced at Cheng Ming, as if to say how could there be such a stupid person around him.

"hair."

Cheng Ming: ...