The three of them walked up the steps and arrived at the upper platform after a while.

On the side of the platform, there is an inconspicuous room. After approaching, you can see some light in the room.

The dusk in the suburbs of Beijing came quickly. One moment the sun had not yet set, but the next moment there was a layer of darkness between the sky and the earth. The light in the room leaked through the half-opened doors and windows, which was the only light source in the cemetery.Ji Qingzhou couldn't help thinking, the second prince must have survived the countless nights in the past by guarding the light alone?

"My lord, should I go and give the second prince a shout first?" Dong Dong was following behind the three of them, but seeing Li Zhan stop at this moment, he quickly stepped forward and asked. "No need." Li Zhan glanced at Ji Qingzhou sideways, let go of Ji Qingzhou's hand with some reluctance, and said, "Let's go in together." Ji Qingzhou nodded when he heard this, and followed Li Zhan and the little emperor into the house.

The door was ajar, and opened with a slight push.

There is a table facing the door, with some wine and dishes on it.

However, the dishes on the table were already cold, and it could be seen that they were not freshly prepared.

"I'm counting the time. If you came here on horseback, you should have arrived two hours earlier." A cold man's voice sounded from the room, and the man came out from the back room, and was startled when he saw the little emperor and Ji Qingzhou beside Li Zhan , and then suddenly said: "No wonder it was delayed until this hour..."

He counted the time at the speed of Li Zhan riding a horse, but because Ji Qingzhou and the little emperor came together in a carriage, the speed would naturally be much slower.

"Second brother." Li Zhan looked at the other party and called out.

"Second Emperor!" The little emperor trotted a few steps towards the man, he was a little timid at first, but when he saw the man smiling at him, he rushed forward and hugged him.Needless to say, this person must be the second prince.

Ji Qingzhou was a little surprised, he didn't expect that after going through such a thing, he could be so innocent when facing the little emperor.

But he thought about it again, except that he didn't say anything, even Ji Qinglan didn't show an unfriendly attitude when he saw the little emperor.

After all, in the final analysis, this matter had nothing to do with the little emperor.

"Young master of the Ji family, if I remember correctly, your name is Qingzhou..." The second prince reached out and rubbed the little emperor's head, then turned his gaze to Ji Qingzhou.

Ji Qingzhou saluted him, and only then did he have time to look at him.

This second prince is a little older than Li Zhan, but his appearance is not so obvious. His eyebrows and eyes are somewhat similar to Li Zhan, but his temperament is more rough. Good looking.

It's just... probably because he had been in the cemetery for a long time, the second prince had a sick look on his body, and his complexion looked a little pale.

His acquired frailty does not match his innate rough and heroic temperament, which makes people feel emotional after seeing it.

"Sit down, I've got someone to prepare food and drinks in advance, I miscalculated the time and it's a bit cold. But there are so many people today, it's rare to be lively, but it can make up for some shortcomings." The second prince greeted Li Zhan and Ji Qingzhou to sit down, He pulled a low stool for the little emperor and let the little emperor sit beside Ji Qingzhou.

"When you sent someone to tell me, I'll count the days and know what's going on today so I can have a clue." The second prince poured wine for Li Zhan and Ji Qingzhou, and said, "I think... I won't go back, You will definitely come to see me today, I really guessed it."

After he finished speaking, he looked at Ji Qingzhou and said, "I just didn't expect that the young master of the Ji family would come here too."

"Second brother..." Li Zhan saw that he picked up the wine glass, so he touched Ji Qingzhou's wine glass with his other hand, and said, "He is unwell and cannot drink."

The second prince looked at Ji Qingzhou when he heard the words, and said: "It's rare for me to meet the young master of the Ji family. It's a pity that I can't even drink a glass of wine."

Hearing the words, Ji Qingzhou didn't want to disappoint him, so she hurriedly said: "It's okay, I can drink a little less with the second prince."

Li Zhan frowned and said, "If you want to drink, there will be opportunities in the future, but not today."

After finishing speaking, he took Ji Qingzhou's wine glass, and said to the second prince: "Second brother wants to drink, so I will accompany you today."

Hearing this, the second prince looked around Ji Qingzhou and Li Zhan, and finally smiled and said: "Okay, then Qingzhou will take care of your majesty, and my third brother and I have a good drink tonight."

Ji Qingzhou hurriedly agreed upon hearing the words.

For most of the night that followed, Ji Qingzhou accompanied the little emperor to take charge of eating, while distractedly listening to the second prince and Li Zhan chatting about the past.

I don't know who made the food in this cemetery, but the taste is very ordinary. The little emperor and Ji Qingzhou didn't eat too much.

They spend most of their time listening to the two chatting...

"The cook is in the guard camp, and his skills are not good..." The second prince said: "But he is kind, and he has never treated me harshly for a long time. If it were a mean one, I would lose a lot of weight now. "

Li Zhan looked at the other party and said, "Where is the doctor? I heard that you have not been well."

"It's not bad, not bad." The second prince said: "I drank the medicine you asked someone to give me a few times, and then it was too bitter, so I watered the pine tree at the door, and then the tree died of the medicine... the guard When they found out, they were very frightened and said that there should be no dead trees in this cemetery, so they hurriedly found a new one and replaced it, fearing that they would die, they even dug up the soil and replaced it with a new one, hahahaha”

He made himself laugh as he spoke, and the little emperor laughed when he saw him laugh.

Only Ji Qingzhou and Li Zhan felt very emotional in their hearts, and some couldn't laugh.

It is conceivable that at that time the second prince probably had no will to live anymore, so he didn't care whether the disease could be cured or not.

"Cong'er has grown up, it seems that your third uncle is not starving you." The second prince stretched out his hand and pinched the little emperor's face.

The little emperor said to him: "After the second uncle returns to the capital, let the third uncle take care of you, so we won't be hungry."

"Hahaha, your Third Emperor Uncle has a lot of people to support, so it's tiring for him to be careful." After speaking, the Second Prince glanced at Ji Qingzhou intentionally or unintentionally, his expression was somewhat teasing, but not malicious.Ji Qingzhou has a guilty conscience and always feels that the other party seems to have seen something.

That night, the two chatted for nearly an hour.

Later, both Ji Qingzhou and the little emperor couldn't bear to sit at the table and take a nap, so Li Zhan asked them to go to sleep in the back room first.

It was cold in the mountains, Ji Qingzhou slept with the little emperor, and woke up once in the middle of the night.

Later, in a daze, he felt the warmth around him, and immediately smelled a little alcohol in his nose.

"Go to sleep, it's still early before dawn." Li Zhan whispered in Ji Qingzhou's ear, and hugged him from behind.

His movements of hugging people were so natural that Ji Qingzhou didn't feel anything strange in a daze, and he didn't even wake up completely.

Ji Qingzhou was half asleep and half awake, only to feel warmth coming from behind him. He was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes, and couldn't tell if he was dreaming, so he let the other party hug him like that, and fell asleep again in a daze.

When he woke up in the morning, Ji Qingzhou felt that his lower abdomen was very warm. He was stunned for a while before realizing that someone had stuck his hand there through his clothes.

He subconsciously wanted to take the other party's hand away, only to realize that the other party was hugging him from behind in an extremely firm posture, with one arm around his chest and the other on his slightly raised belly. As if afraid that he would run away.

"Are you awake?" The man's deep voice rang in his ears, and because he was too close, all his warm breath sprayed on Ji Qingzhou's ears.

Ji Qingzhou was originally a little awkward because of the close distance between the two, but now his ears were suddenly stained with red, and the red spread along the ears to his neck and cheeks.

The man behind him paused for a moment on the young man's skin stained with thin powder, and explained: "I'm afraid that Cong'er will not sleep well and kick you in the stomach."

"Yeah." Ji Qingzhou replied, not sure if he believed it or not.

Li Zhan reluctantly let him go. At this moment, the little emperor on the other side of the bed turned over and said in a daze, "I sleep very honestly, so I don't know how to kick people..."

Li Zhan: ...

Ji Qingzhou: ...

The cemetery was also a little cold early in the morning. Li Zhan was afraid that Ji Qingzhou would catch a cold, so he insisted on putting his robe on him.

Ji Qingzhou was very guilty, for fear that the second prince would notice and refused to wear it.

Li Zhan was unwilling to force him, and finally had to "order" Ji Qingzhou and the little emperor to stay in the house and not let them go out until after breakfast.

"Do you want to take a stroll in the cemetery? It's rare to come?" The second prince asked Chao Ji Qingzhou and the little emperor after breakfast.

Ji Qingzhou was shocked when he heard the words, and secretly thought that this is your royal cemetery, not a tourist attraction, so you can still stroll around?

But the second prince didn't seem to have any taboos. Seeing that Ji Qingzhou didn't answer, he asked the little emperor: "Does Cong'er want to go? There are squirrels in the pine forest behind, and the second emperor will take you to see them?"

The little emperor was a little confused about the situation, so he had to subconsciously look at Li Zhan with some questioning eyes.In the past, the little emperor also visited the imperial mausoleum, but it was only on a specific day, and there were many people following him. He had to wear a heavy dress and perform various ceremonies throughout the whole process, which didn't feel very good.

This time, it was the first time he came to the imperial mausoleum in this way.

Without the accompanying ceremony officer around, the imperial mausoleum is much cleaner, and it doesn't look as solemn as before.

"Go if you want." Li Zhan said.

Ji Qingzhou was a little surprised when he heard the words. He didn't expect Li Zhan to agree, but he thought about it, the second prince didn't look like a careless person. Most of what he said about walking around was going to the woods behind the cemetery. It's not enough to really lead people to mess around in the tomb.

The little emperor was very curious about things he had never seen before. When he came to the cemetery, he was very curious about what the garden looked like. Unfortunately, every time he came, he had to behave himself, and the places he had been to were very limited.Today, the second emperor's uncle said that he would take him to have a look behind him, so he was naturally very willing.

"Second Emperor, will I be buried here after I die?" When everyone was walking towards the back of the garden, the little emperor asked the second prince.

The second prince thought for a while, and said: "You are still young, and you still have many years to think about this problem."

The little emperor nodded, and was immediately at a loss.

In the past, Li Zhan would take him to Fengxian Pavilion to worship every month. If he wanted to say anything to his father, he would say it to the memorial tablet in Fengxian Pavilion.Now he was a little confused for a while, since the person was buried in the imperial tomb, why did he appear in the memorial tablet of Fengxian Pavilion?

"Third brother, what do you think?" The second prince suddenly asked Li Zhan, "A hundred years from now, do you want to be buried here?"

Li Zhan pondered for a moment, then said, "When a person dies like a lamp goes out, what difference does it make where they are buried?"

The second prince was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and said, "Death...is it really like a lamp going out?"

"Second brother..." Li Zhan looked at him and frowned, the second prince smiled hurriedly, waved his hands and said, "Blame me, I shouldn't have said such bad things."

Several people walked along a path to the pine forest behind the garden.

The second prince kept talking to several people along the way, and seemed to be in a good mood.

Ji Qingzhou was still a little worried about him, but he seemed to have let go of his words, and there was no sickness on his body, but he looked more energetic than last night.Ji Qingzhou secretly thought that the case was finally settled, and it must be time for the second prince to come out.

He knew that although Li Zhan looked deserted, deep down he actually cared about family affection.

Whether it is for the little emperor or the second prince, Li Zhan has paid a lot of affection...

If the second prince can follow them back to the capital smoothly, Li Zhan must be very happy.

"Look, Cong'er, there's a squirrel in the tree." The second prince said suddenly.

Hearing this, the little emperor followed his gaze and saw a squirrel holding a pine cone in the tree.

"Look, Zhouzhou..." The little emperor ran over quickly and said to Ji Qingzhou.

Standing beside Ji Qingzhou, Li Zhan saw the little emperor rushing towards him, subconsciously stretched out his hand to block Ji Qingzhou, preventing the little emperor from bumping into Ji Qingzhou's stomach.

His movements were so natural that even the little emperor didn't see the clue, but the second prince's eyes darkened, and his gaze stayed on Ji Qingzhou's belly for a moment.

"Second Emperor Uncle, what is the squirrel holding?" the little emperor asked.

"That's a pine cone." The second prince said.

"Is it delicious?" the little emperor asked.

"Do you want to try it?" The second prince asked.

The little emperor nodded, looked up at Ji Qingzhou and said, "Zhouzhou, come with me to pick some pine cones."

Ji Qingzhou couldn't help laughing when he heard the words. He was about to agree, but Li Zhan said, "I'll accompany Cong Er to pick it."

Before Ji Qingzhou could answer, Li Zhan took the little emperor's hand and walked towards the pine forest.

"Uncle Huang, let's go inside, it's big inside." The little emperor said.

Hearing this, Li Zhan followed him and walked a few more steps into the woods, keeping at a distance where he could see Ji Qingzhou when he turned his head.

The second prince stood by and looked at the backs of the two with a smile on his face.

"I remember seeing you twice when I went to the Taifu's residence..." The second prince suddenly said, "Your brother is familiar with me, but you don't like to deal with us."

Ji Qingzhou looked at the second prince when he heard the words, and was a little puzzled for a while, wondering why he would talk about this topic.

"Qinghuai's temperament is just like your father's. He is generous and gentle. In my father's words, he is broad-minded and can accommodate all rivers." The second prince said: "Everyone who is close to your brother in the court, there is no one who doesn't like him."

Ji Qingzhou listened quietly on the sidelines without answering.

Because he didn't know Ji Qinghuai well, he was afraid that it would be inappropriate to talk too much.

"In the past, I always wondered, as the son of the Taifu, why are you so different from Qinghuai's temperament?" The second prince said: "Although I didn't know you very well at that time, I always felt that you were a bit withdrawn, and you were almost There is no shadow of Taifu at all."

Ji Qingzhou frowned, and said, "What's the meaning of His Highness's words?"

"No other meaning, just want to say that seeing you last night, I think you have changed." The second prince said.

Ji Qingzhou was startled, and couldn't help but feel a sudden shock.

Even Li Zhan didn't say this to him. Could it be that the second prince's eyes are so poisonous that he can recognize that he is different from before in just one glance?

"It's strange to say, but now you are more like a child of the Ji family. When I saw you last night, I felt that you were somewhat similar to your brother. There was warmth in your eyes, and you were not as lonely and kind as before. It's unreasonable." The second prince said, "I think maybe it's the Ji family's misfortune...that made you grow up, right?"

Ji Qingzhou breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words, and said, "Probably so."

"This is very good." The second prince said: "The third brother is cold-tempered, but he has a cold face and a warm heart. There should be someone who understands his heart by his side."

"Second Highness..." Ji Qingzhou said in a daze, but he didn't know what to say.

However, the other party had already seen his intentions, and hurriedly said: "You don't have to hide it anymore with me. I was a little puzzled when the third younger brother didn't let you drink yesterday. It wasn't until His Majesty ran towards you just now that I Seeing him reaching out to protect you, he suddenly realized."

As the second prince spoke, he set his eyes on Ji Qingzhou's lower abdomen.

Ji Qingzhou:!

This person's eyes are too poisonous, right?

"Is it the third brother's child?" The second prince asked.

Ji Qingzhou didn't expect that the other party would point it out directly, and he was a little at a loss immediately, but at this moment the other party had already asked the question, and Li Zhan was not around, so he couldn't even find anyone to ask for help.

"Yeah." Ji Qingzhou responded with embarrassment on his face.

Since the other party saw it, he didn't need to hide it anymore.

"You don't have to be nervous. The reason why I can guess it is because I know the third brother too well." The second prince said.

Ji Qingzhou nodded, thinking that it's no wonder Li Zhan said that his second brother has a straightforward temperament, and now it seems that he is really...

"What's his plan?" The second prince asked, "For your children."

"The prince said..." Ji Qingzhou thought for a while, and said, "Let him follow my surname Ji."

The second prince was startled, then nodded with a smile, and said, "That's good."

Ji Qingzhou looked at him and wondered to himself that the second prince was also taboo about Li Zhan having a child, otherwise why would he say yes as soon as he heard that his surname was Ji?

"Don't misunderstand." The second prince probably saw Ji Qingzhou's thoughts, or was simply afraid of the other party's misunderstanding, and explained: "I know the third brother, and I know that he has never been interested in the throne, so naturally he will not be like those courtiers. Concerned about whether he has any heirs."

Ji Qingzhou asked: "What does the Second Highness mean by this?"

"Third brother will say this to you, I think it is because you have planned your future." The second prince smiled and said: "I am happy for him."

When the second prince said this, there was an undisguised smile in his eyes.

Ji Qingzhou knew that the other party's words came from the heart. In fact, since the meeting until now, although the second prince has been secretly observing Ji Qingzhou, Ji Qingzhou did not find any malice in the other party's eyes. It's curiosity and concern.

"My lord, he..." Ji Qingzhou was also a little puzzled for a while, not knowing why the child's surname was Ji because he had planned for the future.

Although the window paper between him and Li Zhan is almost torn, the two have not formally communicated with each other, and naturally Ji Qingzhou will not know Li Zhan's plan.

But why did the Second Prince draw such a conclusion from this sentence?

When Ji Qingzhou was thinking, Li Zhan led the little emperor back.

The little emperor held a bunch of pine cones in his hand, and gave several to Ji Qingzhou as if offering treasures.

"Second emperor uncle, should we go back to the capital?" The little emperor asked the second prince.

Ji Qingzhou glanced at Li Zhan, knowing that Li Zhan probably asked him to ask this question.

Although they came here to pick up the second prince, Li Zhan has not mentioned it since last night.

Now that the wine has been drunk, the garden has been visited, and the pine cones have been picked, it is time to go back.

"Qingzhou..." The second prince did not answer the little emperor's words, but said to Ji Qingzhou: "You take your majesty to send the pine cones back, and take a rest first."

Ji Qingzhou glanced at Li Zhan, knowing that the other party should have something to say to Li Zhan, so he responded and led the little emperor back first.

Dong Dong originally brought his guards to follow, but when he saw this, half of them followed Ji Qingzhou and the little emperor.

When Ji Qingzhou and the little emperor walked away, Li Zhan asked, "You don't want to go back with me?"

"Third brother, let me take you to a place to have a look." The second prince suddenly said.

Li Zhan nodded and followed behind him.

The two walked through the pine forest, and saw a lonely grave from a distance. There was a monument erected on the lonely grave, but there was no inscription on it.

"At that time, Zhou Chuman's family was beheaded, and no one could restrain his bones. One of his subordinates was familiar with a guard of the imperial mausoleum, and secretly brought me a piece of light armor that he had worn before." The second prince said: "I I think he probably doesn't want to be buried in such a place, but I can't let it go...so I decided to secretly set up a clothes tomb for him here."

Li Zhan looked at the wordless stele and remained silent for a while.

The side of the tombstone was cleaned very clean, and the path they came here was not deliberately built, but stepped on by people walking too much. It can be seen that the second prince should often come here on weekdays.

He had always known that the second prince and Zhou Chu were on good terms, and if they hadn't had a close relationship, they wouldn't have been used as a reason to make up unwarranted charges.After the incident happened, Zhou Chu was executed by beheading. Li Zhan knew that the second prince had always felt guilty, even though it was not his fault.

"Second brother... people cannot be resurrected after death," Li Zhan said.

"Yeah, people can't be resurrected after death... People die like a lamp goes out..." The second prince smiled wryly, and said, "The only thing I couldn't let go of before was this matter. It was me who ruined his family and even made Mr. ...I originally thought that I would have to bear this grievance for the rest of my life, and I would have no face to see him and my husband until after I died."

Li Zhan said: "It's not your fault, we all tried our best... Commander Zhou has a spirit in the sky, and he will see it."

"Do you think he will really have a spirit in the sky?" The second prince asked suddenly.

Li Zhan was taken aback, not knowing how to answer for a while.

"Third brother, thank you... for allowing me to see him and my husband's innocence returned in my lifetime." The second prince said.

"The dead are already dead. I did this not only for them, but also for the living." Li Zhan said, "For you, for the members of the Ji family, and for those who were loyal to Zhou Chu in the Xifeng Camp Soldiers, also for the courtiers to see the truth with their own eyes... I don't want everyone to live in vain with their eyes closed."

The second prince nodded when he heard the words, with a bit of relief on his face.

"Cong'er is with you, I think he will be a good emperor in the future." The second prince said.

"He not only has me, but also you." Li Zhan said.

The second prince smiled wryly with his back turned to Li Zhan, and shook his head slightly.

"I think you should understand me... The only regret is that I can't wait until your child is born..." The second prince said, "But I believe he will be a good boy, just like Cong Er... ..." His voice was getting weaker and weaker, until it was almost inaudible at the end.

Looking at his back, Li Zhan suddenly realized something, and couldn't help but tighten his brows.

But before he could react, he saw the second prince curled up in front of Zhou Chu's tomb.

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