After the rebirth, I was picked up by the prince

In another room, Qi Zishan and Ning Qingwei sat face to face at a table of eight immortals.

Ning Qingwei took a sip of tea, and after a while he asked unhurriedly, "You said that your brother had an accident before, what was it?"

Qi Zishan tugged at the hem of his clothes, looking nervous, his expression changed after hearing Ning Qingwei's questioning, he hesitated for a long time and was speechless.

Ning Qingwei didn't urge him, he held the tea cup and played with it carefully, but there seemed to be a trace of coldness hidden in the pair of black eyes under the mask.

Qi Zishan bit his lip and struggled for a long time, the corners of his clothes were crinkled by him, finally he gritted his teeth and answered desperately: "Yes...it was one time on the eve of the Yuan Dynasty, a time of poisoning..."

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"Snapped--"

The snow fell from the dead branches, and the broken snow splashed onto a pair of cloth shoes, staining the originally black cloth surface with white spots.

Qi Zizhen looked down at the falling snow, and he seemed to be able to vaguely see the bright red that had been swallowed up by the snow for twenty days.

That was the New Year's Eve when he was reborn and came in through the book.

Because of drinking the poisoned ginseng soup sent by Qi Zishan, the original body vomited blood and died on the way back to the room on New Year's Eve. He entered this body just before the original body completely disappeared.

Perhaps because of the brief coexistence between the two souls at that time, Qi Zizhen always felt a little empathy for the original body's childhood memories.

Recently, he has been reborn a lot, and there are still many memories of the original body's childhood in his mind.

He stared at the pile of melting and falling snow on the ground, and turned away after a while.

After he woke up again on New Year's Eve, the first person he saw was Qi Zishan who cried and apologized that he didn't know the poison in the soup, and kept saying that he was at fault first, no matter how he punished him.

In his previous life, he was soft-hearted, but in the end he only thought that his good brother had no intentions, and in the end he let it go, and instead pushed himself into a deeper abyss.

"Crack, click."

The sound of stepping on the snow was subtle and crisp, leaving a series of slow marks on the snow-covered path.

For some reason, ever since he met the prince, he felt a little bit more bored in his heart, and he couldn't help but think of what Qi Zishan did in his previous life.

He didn't know what he was upset about, but when he thought of the prince's overly gentle appearance, he would think of the spring he hated the most.

The ice and snow melted and everything revived, and everything that was alive was like endless hope, gently infiltrating everything, but he was excluded and pushed into deeper despair.

Whether it was in the original present life or in the past life after wearing the book, all his misfortunes started to break through the ground, grow in the spring, and finally wound around him like thorns.

The more you struggle, the more bloody you will be.

Qi Zizhen let out a breath of cold air, and hurried back to his room.

Because he took out the brazier before going out, there was no warmth in the simple room, and the cold wind penetrated into every corner of the room along the open windows.

This is exactly what Qi Zizhen meant.

After returning to the room, regardless of the chill, he took off his cloak and hung it on the plain coat hanger on the side of the desk, turned around and opened the piano case, and caressed the stone piano placed on the desk.

The coldness of the stone, like frost, condensed on Qi Zizhen's fingertips, and also soothed his ups and downs.

"Ding."

The bandaged fingertips landed on the keys, jumping and hitting the first note, followed by the second, third...

Numerous notes are practiced into a string of cold piano sounds, which are leisurely immersed in the cold wind, engulfing all disturbing thoughts, scattered and melted like fluttering catkins.

Qi Zizhen calmed down little by little with the sound of the piano, until the bandages on his fingertips were once again soaked in bright red.

"Ding--"

With the last crisp sound, Qi Zizhen put one hand on the Shiqin to relieve the sudden dizziness.

He silently looked at the dried blood on the Shiqin, turned around and found a clean cloth and wiped it stubbornly until the keys were as clean as new before finally stopping.

There was a fleeting gleam in Qi Zizhen's eyes, and the originally messy thoughts were obviously smoothed away.

After two lifetimes, only Shi Qin has been his most loyal friend all along.He began to learn Shiqin from his childhood in the present world, and he has been learning Shiqin for more than [-] years.

Before he passed through the book, he happened to be practicing Shiqin. When he came to this world, he opened his eyes and found that there was an identical Shiqin in the original body's room. By default, this Shiqin was brought along with him from this world.

In this helpless and strange world, Shi Qin gave him the greatest comfort.The heavy piano keys are like a stone wall in his heart, enclosing a pure and clean little world that belongs to him alone.

In this small world, he only needs to be himself, expressing his inner prayer.No one can come in or get out.

After calming down, he closed the piano case again, guessing that it was still early, put on his cloak and hood, and prepared to go out for a walk again.

After transmigrating books in his previous life, he has always been the eldest son of the Prime Minister's Mansion who doesn't like to go out. After becoming the companion of Prince Guan, he doesn't have much free time, and rarely wanders around the capital.

Although he doesn't like crowded and lively places nowadays, walking around when he has nothing to do is also his usual way of relaxing in this world.

According to the timeline, he will be summoned into the palace tomorrow and the next day, and it will not be easy to hang out anymore.

"Big, big boy."

Before leaving the door, Qi Zizhen bumped into the boy who just happened to come over at this time.

The young servant looked timid, and asked tremblingly: "The eldest son is, but is he going out again?"

Qi Zizhen glanced at a piece of clothing in his hand, didn't pay much attention to it, and said indifferently: "Well, you don't have to follow this time."

After the words fell, the servant seemed to be relieved, and he forced a smile to respond: "Okay, okay."

Qi Zizhen ignored him and walked out of the courtyard.

After a heavy snowfall yesterday, the weather is fine today, and the sun is a little warmer near noon, sprinkled in the streets and alleys, smudged with the lingering flavor of the year in the capital.

Walking into the alley, I met a private school on the road. After the lively and festive Lantern Festival, school-age children also returned to the private school, swaying their youthful spirit with the sound of reading aloud.

Turn around and walk back to the bustling street. There are people coming and going in the teahouses and inns, and there are also a lot of visitors from various shops. You can see the prosperity and stability of the capital in the chatting and laughing.

Since the prosperous era created by the first emperor, the people in Daling lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the capital was even more prosperous and safe.

But Qi Zizhen knew that this was only on the surface.

The current emperor is the youngest son of the late emperor, originally he didn't intend to take the throne and just wanted to be a happy prince, but who knew that the prince at that time was short-lived, and he passed away when the first emperor was seriously ill, so the former emperor passed on the throne to the present.

Today, he has always been carefree and lazy, and after he ascended the throne, he became even weaker and incompetent. Political affairs drifted with the tide, which side listened more to which side, which was handled in a mess.

In a few days, when the enemy countries on the border started to fight, it would be the day when the Great Ling Dynasty weakened.

And Guan Wang is the emperor's elder brother who has coveted the throne for a long time.The crown prince Song Yaoxu's indecisive temperament was brought out by Guan Wang, and it can be said that he has a clear intention of treason.

In his previous life, Qi Zizhen had no contact with the government, but was used by the Prince Guan to do some preparations to usurp the throne.

With a heavy life in this life, Qi Zizhen doesn't intend to do anything to change his fate, he just wants to follow his plot dutifully.

Anyway, he doesn't even care about his own life, so why worry about these turmoil repeatedly?

The lofty ambition of protecting the common people and stabilizing a place has long been buried in the last heavy snow in the previous life.

Qi Zizhen watched the people coming to chat and laugh in the teahouse and inn in the shadow of the alley, and finally closed his eyes, pulled his hood, turned and walked away.

In such a big capital city, there is always a place for him to stay.

He continued to wander aimlessly, and unknowingly reached the shore of Chengming Lake.From the shore, it is obvious that the ice surface in the center of the lake is broken, which is where he fell into the water in the morning.

Fragmented ice has a tendency to reconnect, but only slowly.Some people also stopped by the shore, seeming to be curious about why the center of the lake suddenly opened, but in the end they didn't investigate further, and lived their own lives peacefully.

Qi Zizhen blew the cold wind by the lake for a while, covered his lips and coughed a few times, and was going to go back to the Prime Minister's Mansion after walking around a few more times.

As soon as he turned around, he met a surprised look.

"Zizhen?"

The person who came was Song Yaoxu, the crown prince that Qi Zizhen didn't want to see the most.

Song Yaoxu had already changed back to his pure white cloak, followed by a guard.After seeing Qi Zizhen, he was surprised at first, then frowned slightly: "Why don't you take a good rest in the room?"

Qi Zizhen ignored his question and saluted respectfully: "Caomin has seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Xu felt his alienation, Song Yaoxu paused for a moment, then eased his tone and changed the subject: "Don't be too polite. Next time, don't walk on the ice again. If I didn't happen to pass by, you know what will happen next as a result of?"

Qi Zizhen let out a "hmm" and said nothing.What stands out is "I know I dare".

Reminiscent of the piano sound he heard yesterday and what happened to Qi Zizhen in his previous life, Song Yaoxu remained silent for a moment, not knowing what to say, and there was a little more pity in his expression.

Qi Zizhen didn't care what he thought, lowered his eyelashes, and said coldly: "If His Royal Highness is fine, Caomin will leave first."

Before Song Yaoxu could reply after speaking, he raised his foot directly, making a gesture to leave.

He just took a step, and he stopped because of the dizziness that hit him again.

Song Yaoxu noticed the stagnation of his movements, and his original helplessness was covered by worry.

"What's the matter, but what's wrong with your body?"

Qi Zizhen calmed down on the spot, and after the dizziness passed, he still maintained a repulsive look, and replied: "Don't worry about your Highness, the grassroots will leave."

After speaking, he didn't wait for Song Yaoxu to respond, he quickened his pace and strode away without looking back.

After walking around the corner to a small dark corner and making sure that Song Yaoxu didn't follow, he stopped, propped one hand on the cold wall, and frowned tightly.

Under the cover of the wide hood, no one could notice that there was an abnormal flush on his face at this moment, and his lips were so pale that it seemed that he would fall to the ground in the next moment.

He stayed in the dark corner and bit his lips to endure, suppressing a low cough from time to time.

I don't know how long it took before he finally stood up reluctantly and walked slowly back to the Prime Minister's Mansion step by step.