After the rebirth, I was picked up by the prince

In the end, Qi Zizhen agreed to eat with Song Yaoxu, and every time Song Yaoxu came to his room with a food box at meal time.

In order to replenish his body, his breakfast was replaced by the medicinal diet suggested by the imperial physician, and his lunch and dinner were light and nutritious. From time to time, Song Yaoxu would prepare some pastries for him to nourish the soup.

In just ten days, although Qi Zizhen still didn't look like he had grown much flesh, his energy was better than before.

In addition, Song Yaoxu also used Qi Zizhen's growing body as an excuse to let him sleep for a longer period of time in the morning, and every time he waited until the morning and evening before going to wake him up personally with a medicinal meal.

Over time, Qi Zizhen got used to getting up later in the morning.

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On the ninth day of April in the 23rd year of Hongchu, Qi Zizhen, who was still asleep, was carried out of bed by Song Yaoxu as usual.

Qi Zizhen, who was half asleep and half awake, yawned, sat on the edge of the bed and rubbed his eyes with one hand, his hair was disheveled, looked out the dark window, and asked blankly, "Is it time?"

In the haze, his voice was a little soft and ignorant when he first woke up, and he was obedient and lovely in the warm yellow candlelight flickering faintly.

Song Yaoxu, who brought him the clothes, heard the words and rubbed his head with a smile: "Yinshi, I will take you to the National Master Tower today, so it's early."

Qi Zizhen was still at a loss when he heard it, his eyes were wet, soaked in a layer of mist, and then asked: "Isn't Your Highness going to court early?"

Now Song Yaoxu confirmed that he hadn't woken up yet, so he smiled helplessly, and while driving him to the table to comb his hair, he continued: "Today is the rest day, I said yesterday that I will take you today." out."

Qi Zizhen nodded indiscriminately, and sat there in a daze, as if he hadn't woken up, probably because he didn't understand the meaning of Song Yaoxu's words.

It wasn't until Song Yaoxu combed his messy hair for him that his sanity finally gradually returned. When washing his face, he belatedly asked, "Are we going to the National Master Pagoda today?"

Since Song Yaoxu came to the court to listen to the government, Emperor Hongchu also assigned him a lot of affairs, and he was always so busy that Qi Zizhen seldom invited him to the National Teacher Tower.

Song Yaoxu was sitting at the side drinking tea, when he heard the words, he responded gently: "Well, I have already told the teacher in advance."

Qi Zizhen nodded again, and after washing, he took his clothes and went to the inner room to change.

Today's set of clothes was selected by Song Yaoxu yesterday. It is a dark red background pigmented with white flower and bird patterns, a pair of plain black trousers, and a pair of black boots with fine gold borders. The dark red, platinum, and gold bird-pattern hairband with the ponytail is matched, which looks like a young man in fresh clothes and angry horse.

Speaking of which, it seems that this set of clothes was tailor-made for him by Song Yaoxu not long ago.

Qi Zizhen sighed with emotion at the fit of the clothes, while buttoning up the belt with gold patterns on a black background, and then tied the last small purse with dark red flower and bird patterns. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of the pattern on the purse which seemed to be the word "Jin".

He didn't pay much attention, and set off with Song Yaoxu after getting dressed.

The door of Xiu Mu Ri's Palace opened late, and it was only the beginning of Yin, Song Yaoxu and Qi Zizhen continued to sneak out through the secret passage.

It's not yet dawn, I don't know if it's because Song Yaoxu didn't take the lantern to avoid attracting people's attention, and he took Qi Zizhen's hand all the way with the excuse of Lu Hei.

Qi Zizhen was almost walking side by side with Song Yaoxu, his cold palms were gently wrapped in dry warmth.

He lowered his eyes slightly to look at their hands holding each other, after all, he was not willing to let go, and followed him obediently and quietly.

The early morning in late spring and early summer is not yet hot, and the cool breeze blows off a few bamboo leaves, which flutter and cover the soil, and they are inadvertently stepped on with a few slight crisp sounds.

Qi Zizhen and Song Yaoxu were already very familiar with the path leading to the National Teacher Tower, and soon they bypassed the small bamboo forest and went to the shore of Chengming Lake.

The sky at Yinshi was still pitch-black at night, faintly flickering with fragments of light, like a few plain white dots, falling on the water of Chengming Lake, split by several rippling ripples.

Quiet and peaceful, quite a bit of quietness and tranquility.

The two stopped and watched for a while.

During this period, Qi Zizhen inadvertently turned his head to look at Song Yaoxu beside him, but saw that the other party was also looking at him, smiling softly.

A few strands of cold white moonlight scattered in the dark lakeside, faintly sprinkled on Song Yaoxu's side, and it seemed to reflect a lingering softness in a trance.

Qi Zizhen met his focused gaze, and finally came back to his senses after a while. In the darkness, his ears blushed belatedly, and he lowered his head and said softly, "Let's go."

Song Yaoxu responded with a nasal voice, and led him to continue walking.

If it was dawn at this moment, or if Qi Zizhen raised his head to take a closer look, he would actually find that Song Yaoxu's ears were also quietly stained a little blush in the night.

The two of them kept silent tacitly along the way until they arrived at the gate of the National Master Tower and saw the guards before they finally adjusted their emotions.

The guard glanced at the two of them holding hands, this time knowingly didn't say much, and opened the door for them with a smile.

Only then did Qi Zizhen and Song Yaoxu let go of their hands, and after thanking each other, they walked into the National Teacher Tower together.As a result, as soon as Qi Zizhen walked in, he saw a white shadow flashing in front of him, and then a fluffy little dumpling nestled in his arms confidently.

Ling Ning rubbed her head against Qi Zizhen's chest, and called softly like a baby: "Meow~"

Qi Zizhen rubbed its head, and when he looked up, he saw Ning Qingwei standing at the top of the stairs.

Ning Qingwei met his gaze, nodded slightly as a compliment, and then said to them: "Breakfast is ready, let's go eat first."

After speaking, he walked upstairs first, followed by Song Yaoxu.

Qi Zizhen paused for a while.

In a daze, he seemed to remember that when he was still quarreling before, Song Yaoxu would also take him to the National Teacher Tower for breakfast at this time, but at that time he was still bent on death, and Song Yaoxu was still an overly gentle prince who didn't understand the government.

The distance between before and after was only one month, but he felt as if a long time had passed.

Qi Zizhen lowered his head and gently stroked Lingning's soft white hair, and finally went upstairs after a while.

Ning Qingwei had already put his breakfast on the small table on the top floor this time - both he and Song Yaoxu served a small portion of longevity noodles, dotted with finely chopped green onions, which looked very appetizing.

Perhaps because they had estimated the time of their arrival in advance, the temperature of the longevity noodles was just right, neither too hot nor too cold, and the warm noodles were eaten together with the noodle soup, which was very satisfying.

The only thing is that the portion is too small, and I am a little hungry.

Qi Zizhen looked up at Ning Qingwei who was drinking at the side, but Ning Qingwei said: "His Royal Highness will take you to the morning market later, save some stomach to eat at the morning market later."

"Morning market?" Qi Zizhen turned to look at Song Yaoxu with confusion in his eyes.

He originally thought that this time it should be the same as before, he just came to the National Master Tower for breakfast and then went back.

Song Yaoxu smiled slightly: "It's rare to catch up with the holiday, so let's go out for a stroll together and relax."

Hearing that Qi Zizhen didn't think about it any more, he nodded and stayed in the Guoshi Tower with Song Yaoxu until Maoshi, and then they set off for a stroll in the morning market together.

At [-] o'clock, the sky was bright, and many birds had already jumped to the branches and chirped for the morning.

The capital, which had been sleeping all night, was gradually recovering from the morning mist at this time, and various cries of sales had already begun to sound in the morning market.

Since Qi Zizhen said just now that he was not full, Song Yaoxu went to a breakfast shop and bought him a meat bun.For myself, I ordered a piece of scallion pancake, and sat in the stall to eat together.

The steaming meat buns are about the size of a palm, wrapped in oiled paper and soft, tender and juicy meat filling can be found in one bite.Qi Zizhen was satisfied, and finished the whole bun in a few mouthfuls, then stared at the pancake in Song Yaoxu's hand.

Sensing his gaze, Song Yaoxu gave him a portion with a chuckle: "Would you like to try it? It tastes good."

Qi Zizhen was also not polite to him, and after thanking him in a low voice, he finished off the small half of the pancake, and finally he was almost finished.

Song Yaoxu ate a little slower, finished eating half a while after Qi Zizhen, and took him to other small shops after paying the bill.

In addition to eating and drinking, the morning market also has all kinds of clothes and playthings, and the small stalls and shops have their own fun.

It is rare for Qi Zizhen to have this kind of opportunity to concentrate on shopping in the morning market. Although his expression is as indifferent as usual, there is obviously more curiosity and light in his eyes than usual, making him more lively.

Whenever his eyes stayed on a certain place for a little longer, Song Yaoxu would take him there to have a look. Many people thought it was the elder brother taking the younger brother out to play.

"This son, would you like to take a look at my playthings? These are also very suitable as gifts between brothers."

A woman with a kind face looked at the two people who were coming, and greeted them with a smile.

After Song Yaoxu briefly responded to the woman, he asked Qi Zizhen softly, "Is there anything Zizhen is interested in?"

Qi Zizhen didn't really have much interest in these things, he just came to have a look out of curiosity, and casually glanced at the booth.

Instead, Song Yaoxu accidentally saw a small porcelain rabbit tied by a red string, picked it up and asked, "What does Zizhen think of this?"

The porcelain bunny is less than half the size of a palm, and it is small, delicate and lifelike.

Qi Zizhen nodded: "Very delicate."

"Then I'll buy this as a gift for you." Song Yaoxu smiled gently, asked the price and paid for it directly.

The woman also specially took a paper bag to help pack it up, and smiled as she handed it back and continued, "This young man is really kind to my brother."

Hearing this, Song Yaoxu smiled lightly, didn't say much, and continued to stroll with Qi Zizhen.

After that, he successively bought a small bag of sugar, a sword ear, a small pouch and other miscellaneous things, and said that he bought them for Qi Zizhen.

Qi Zizhen held back all the way, and finally couldn't help asking softly in a relatively quiet place: "Why did Your Highness buy so many things for me today?"

In the past, even if they went out, they would just buy some food at random, and they rarely brought these things that they had to carry back to the palace all the time.

A question was raised, and Qi Zizhen continued to express another doubt this morning: "And since you are taking a rest today, why did you get up so early to go to the National Master Tower?"

Before, it was obvious that when he got up early, he would be forced to go back to sleep for a while, but today he was uncharacteristically, and Yin Shi picked him up.

Hearing his question, Song Yaoxu stopped and looked back at him, meeting the pure curiosity and doubts in his eyes, then smiled helplessly after a while, raised his head and rubbed his hair: "Zizhen, you forgot ?Today is your birthday, these are the birthday gifts I want to give you."

As he spoke, he shook what he was holding in one hand.

Only then did Qi Zizhen realize that Song Yaoxu seemed to have bought eighteen items, and since each item was small, they were all put in the same paper bag.

He froze in place, looking at Song Yaoxu's gentle and smiling figure under the warm morning sun, he didn't know how to react for a moment.

This is the first time since his mother passed away in this world, someone has celebrated his birthday for him.

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