Brother Donggong

"Your Highness, let her live in peace, I don't want her...I don't want anyone..."

I thought about going back to the west building to ask Cucumber to go home, but Wen Zhan was a little bit reluctant.

He tugged at my collar and made me look at him.

"Chengyi, I know you hate me, you wish you could spend the rest of your life without looking at me to do what you want!

I also know that you hate what I do, you think I'm too ruthless and don't leave room for others, I also know that as long as I take a half step back or pretend to ignore some things, you will be very happy!

But I can't do that, you know?

You only need to take a tenth of your kindness to others and look at me, and you will understand that I can't do that, because you will take an inch!You'll pity her, you'll care for her, and then you'll...you'll love her...'

I won't……

Wen Zhan's voice became hoarse, but his grip on my collar became tighter and tighter!

"Chengyi, I don't understand, I really don't understand, is the relationship with a woman so important? Why can't the relationship between us for more than ten years not compare to a night of physical pleasure?"

"because……"

My neck was tightened, and it was difficult to speak. Wen Zhan let go, and I said softly, "Because, you are my younger brother."

Hearing that, like a fire being doused by a bucket of ice water, he let go and pushed me aside.

"I'm not your younger brother! It turned out that I thought you were unworthy,... Later, it was..."

As he spoke, he tore off the dragon robe on his body and pointed to the bare chest on the left.

"I don't want to treat you as a brother here..."

Wen Zhan and I returned to the West Building after three sticks of incense.

On the water mirror stage, the radiance was shining brightly, and the famous actor of Yongjing used his oil-painted face to sing the legendary stories of emperors, generals, ministers, gifted scholars and beauties who will never change.

Some rare fruits were served during the dinner.

Cucumber accidentally broke a plate when cutting Loulan honeydew melon, because this plate was too expensive, so Cucumber quickly picked up the broken pieces of porcelain, saying that they could find someone to glue them with gold sand, and it would be better than before. The plates are more expensive and better looking.

I looked at these pieces of broken porcelain, the texture was like ancient jade, the glaze was smooth and clear, and the handwriting of Xue Zhen, a famous scholar in the former dynasty, painted the faint mist and rain of distant mountains.

Such a porcelain plate, even if it is completely repaired with gold, even if it is more expensive than before, what is the use?It is no longer the same object, the nobleness of the Yuma Jintang has wiped out the previous Lingxiu, leaving only the expensive cracks and dazzling golden sand.

The broken porcelain plates, glued together with gold, were also broken.

I told Cucumber not to worry about these things, and told him to pack up quickly, and the two of us went back to the palace.When he went outside to get my hat, I saw Lu Zhi at the corner of the West Building.

When I thought about it, Lvzhi is now the youngest of the great eunuchs in charge of the chief eunuch.

In the future, even if he can't be the chief inspector of ceremonies, there is definitely nothing wrong with being the chief Bingbi.This person is young, he is quieter than Liu Congrong, more meticulous than Cucumber, he is a character, and now he is in charge of the Royal Pharmacy, I think he can say a few words.

I pulled his sleeve and looked at him first. It seemed that he was not busy, so I wanted to go around for a while before talking.

"Lvzhi, how's your year going?"

"Thanks to the lord, this year is going well. The day before yesterday, when the servant girl played cards with Empress Cui, she even rewarded the servant girl with ten taels of silver."

I,"……"

I was almost speechless and asked God!

What kind of shit luck did my mother have?Recently, the official luck is prosperous.It's a new year's day, and everyone else stays at home playing cards and drinking, but my mother is the only one who continues to receive imperial edicts and has been promoted several levels in a row!

From 'Cui Meiren' over 'Tairen, Jieyu, Caiyi, nobleman, noble lady' to the rank of concubine!

This is simply much better than my uncle who has been around for more than ten years and is still a seventh-rank sesame official!

Lv Zhi said again, "It is said that there is no congratulations to the prince yet."

This is also true, the mother is more expensive than the son, and the son is more expensive than the mother. It is better to be the son of a concubine than the son of a beauty.

I said, "Congratulations, congratulations."

As I said that, I pulled his sleeve, pulled him aside, and then asked carefully, "Lu Zhi, I want to ask you something, don't make it public."

Lu looked at me straight, "What the lord has told the slaves, the slaves must try their best to say."

Me, "Don't be so serious, I saw the concubine Chu today, and I always feel that her complexion is not very good, and her speech is a little trance, it's not just pretending."

Lu looked at me straight, shook his head seriously, and said, "No."

"Oh." I said, "You also know that the concubine's status is a bit special. She is in the East Palace. I'm afraid that she will pretend to be sick and get in the way of the prince's affairs. Since she is really sick, your imperial pharmacy must cook a portion of her." Medicinal juice, Lvzhi, do you know the prescription given to her by Tai Hospital?"

"know."

"Can you tell me, what kind of medicine are they? Are there any medicines that make the condition worse?"

"No. The concubine was taken by Lin Ruoqian, the imperial physician of the imperial hospital, and the medicine was also prescribed by Lin imperial physician. They are all medicines for calming the mind."

"Oh."

I don't believe in Wen Zhan, but I believe in Lin Ruoqian.

If there is one of those bastards in Tai Hospital who can act with conscience, there is only one Lin Ruoqian.He takes "doctors' parents' heart" as his dogma, ignores the stereotypes and bad habits of the Tai Hospital, and does things only according to the principles of nature and people's hearts, and he doesn't want to be high-ranking officials and rich salary.So since Lu Zhi said so, I believe they didn't do anything to make that poor woman Du Minghe more miserable.

Lu Zhi said, "My lord, since you want to know about the concubine's condition, why don't you ask His Royal Highness directly?"

I, "..., it's not good to bother Your Highness with such a trivial matter."

Lu looked at me, then looked around, and seeing no one, he said, "Actually, the prince misunderstood His Highness. The concubine's illness is entirely her own fault.

The concubine is Du Gelao's granddaughter, so there is no doubt that her status is precious.But since marrying into the royal family, there are naturally royal rules.Her mistake was that she shouldn't have secretly given the prince such a vicious aphrodisiac as green moth in the hope of gaining His Royal Highness's favor.

This medicine is extremely vicious, even a man with a strong body would have ejaculated and die, not to mention that the prince was seriously injured at that time, and the injury was even more dangerous because of the lustful nature of the green moth medicine. "

I was startled, and quickly asked, "When did this happen?"

Luzhi said, "It was about the night of the first day of the first lunar month. Fortunately, Imperial Physician Lin gave medicine to the frostbitten people in the western suburbs and did not go back to his hometown for the New Year. Otherwise, it is unknown how much the prince's condition can be saved when he leaves Yongjing."

"After His Royal Highness woke up, he just dealt with the people around the concubine Chu. They instigated the concubine Chu, which was already a big taboo in the palace. His highness killed them in public with the intention of killing the concubine Chu. The concubine Chu might be shocked. If you are afraid, you will become insane."

Lu Zhi added another sentence, "It's safe to say that it's safe in the small palace, with the protection of Marquis Pei, and everything is safe. But during the first month, His Highness has to go back to Da Nei again, otherwise, the celebrations and sacrifices in the past few days, princes and ministers They are all there, they have a lot of chatter, if they don't see His Highness, they might say some nonsense to drive apart the father and son of the Tian family."

I don't even know what to say.

"My lord... my lord?"

what?

As soon as I raised my head, Lu looked at me and smiled, "My lord, Eunuch Huang is here, and the supervisor of ceremonies still has a memorial to be printed, so the servants will leave first."

I smiled, "You go, you are business, don't delay."

Cucumber took my hat and added a scarf, which was a furry fox.

I thought for a while and said, "Go over there and see, is the prince still watching a play at the water mirror?"

Cucumber said, "Not here. His Highness left early in the morning. The servants saw that his face was a little pale, and he might not be in good health, so he went back first. The emperor, and the ladies of all palaces have all gone back. Now all the people watching the show are some The princes who came to Yongjing from other places, the emperor is not here, they eat deliciously and play happily. Let us go back too, prince."

I tugged at him, "Accompany me to the East Palace first, and I'll talk to the prince before leaving."

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I went to the East Palace to see Liu Congrong, and he said that the crown prince hadn't come back, and that the crown prince had been at His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince's side, supervising the homework of the zither.I left the cucumber in the East Palace, and went to Concubine Zhen to look for the prince by myself.

Fortunately, Imperial Concubine Zhen was not there, she went to the Queen's side to have tea and chat, Wei Jin, Yuezheng's big companion, saw me coming, and quickly led me into Yuezheng's study.As soon as we raised the cotton curtain, we heard the sound of Yuezheng reading. When I came in, I saw Wen Zhan sitting behind the long book table, holding a cinnabar pen in his hand, correcting articles for Yuezheng.

As soon as Yuezheng saw me coming in, he threw the book in his hand happily, climbed down from the seat, and then ran towards me with his hands clasped, shouting happily while running, "Brother Yi, Yi Brother, why are you here? Did you come to see me?"

I picked him up and jumped the zither, and kissed him several times on the cheek.

At this time, Wen Zhan didn't speak, he just quietly put down his pen, stood up from the desk, and said to Wei Jin, "Pour me a cup of ginseng tea, I'll go to the back to read, wait for Yuezheng to calm down, and let him Come find me."

He didn't seem to see me at all.

Because I went to the palace to watch a play today, I didn't have a small gift for Yuezheng on me, so I took off the small pouch on my waist. There were two golden plum blossoms in it, and I gave it to Yuezheng as a lottery.I asked Wei Jin to bring Yuezheng some snacks and lotus cake to eat, and then brought up the ginseng tea that Wei Jin was going to send to the small library in the back.

"You can have some snacks with His Royal Highness, I'll just send this up."

Then, I took the ginseng tea and walked back up the spiral staircase.

Wen Zhan didn't read the book.

He just sat quietly in front of the desk on the second floor. His hearing is very good, and he will know when I go up the spiral staircase.

Seeing me in the small library, he asked, "Where's the zither?"

I put the ginseng tea down and said, "Have some snacks down there. I have to do my homework today on the [-]th day. It's poor."

Wen Zhan, "Who made him a prince? This is his duty."

I know he doesn't want to talk to me, so he is impatient with every word, after all, we just quarreled.In fact, I came to apologize, but I don't know how to start such a tactful apology.

Wen Zhan suddenly asked me, "What are you doing here?"

"Huh? What?"

"You came to look for Yuezheng, but I also avoided it. What are you doing here? Does Wei Jin dare to be lazy and ask you to bring me ginseng tea?"

"No." I waved my hand, "I'm not here to look for Yuezheng, I'm here to look for you. Just now, Cucumber and I went to the East Palace to look for you, but when we saw Liu Congrong, he said you came here, so I'm coming."

"It's rare. I'm flattered that you're not here to see your sweetheart, but for me."

If his tone hadn't been so sarcastic, I'd have believed what he said.

I was speechless for a while.

After a while, he couldn't seem to stand me standing here, and he asked me, "What are you doing here?"

"I..." I didn't know where to start, "I... I asked Lvzhi about the princess concubine and your injury. I went back to the palace on New Year's Eve, and you came out on the first day of the new year. You should have told me about that kind of thing..."

"Why don't you know that I was poisoned so seriously?!! Don't use your ignorance as an excuse!! You are so thoughtful that you even have to check three generations of family ancestors even after eating a bun. The crown prince was assassinated and raped. Poison, why don't you know these things?"

You... aren't you making excuses...

I don't have the power to control the spies, and I'm not a god, why should I know everything?

"Besides, even if I tell you, will you believe it?" Wen Zhan raised his eyebrows slightly, squinted at me, and said sarcastically, "You won't believe me at all, you will think it's my sophistry!"

"I do not know……"

"You will! You didn't even ask me in the lotus pond just now, you already thought that I made Du Minghe look like that. I know what you are thinking, you think that everyone in the world is innocent and unfortunate , are all excusable, only I am the villain who is calculating and playing tricks on everyone."

I said something, and he blocked me.

I thought to myself, maybe today is really not the time to speak calmly.

I should come back another day.

"Remember to drink the ginseng tea, I'm leaving first..."

So I turned around and wanted to leave, but he came over and grabbed my wrist, gritted his teeth and said, "Stop!"

I stopped, right in front of him.

He asked, "Where are you going?"

All I can say is, "Don't be angry. I'll go back first, and come back when your anger subsides."

He looked at me very seriously, and then said softly, "Would you just hide when you meet me? Where is your usual eloquence?"

His fingers brushed my hair behind my ears, and then fell down again, once and for all, gently rubbing my earlobes.This is my habit when I was a child. I like to rub my earlobe very much. It is warm, crispy and very comfortable.My ears are so soft that even the ribbons of a golden crown can't stop them. They all said that such ears are born with soft ears, easy to listen to people's provocations, and have no assertiveness. It seems that such a statement is quite accurate.

It's no wonder that people in the Dazheng Dynasty were keen on fortune-telling, drawing lots and gossip.

I looked up at Wen Zhan.

The only thing about him is that in ordinary people, he is the age of Jin Shidong when he was young in Wuling, riding a silver saddle and white horse in the spring breeze, riding the fallen flowers everywhere, laughing into the orchid's wine shop, so reckless and reckless.

He is still a teenager.

So young, almost brutally young, for the weight of the burden he was about to face.

"Actually... I'm very glad that you can come. You actually know that you have wronged me, and you come to me on your own initiative. The last time you did this seems to be many years ago..."

He just rubbed my ears lightly one after another. When my ears were red and hot, he suddenly came over and whispered in my ear, "Chengyi, we are reconciled." Bar."

what?

I thought about it, then nodded.

"Ok."

I only heard him sigh softly, and he was a little sentimental.