The Way of the Consort

Chapter 107

"Dust star!" Ji Zhao shouted again.

Chen Xing came in quickly, this time he opened the curtain directly, and looked at Ji Zhao worriedly: "What's wrong with you, sir, why are you still not sleeping? Are you feeling unwell? Do you want to ask Doctor Bai to come and see?"

Ji Zhao shook his head. He hugged the quilt, his eyes full of anticipation: "Is the palace gate closed now?"

Chen Xing was stunned for a moment, nodded and said: "Look at what time it is, the third watch has passed, and the gate of the palace has been closed long ago."

Ji Zhao let out a sigh of frustration: "Then I can't go to the palace to find him... I can't sleep, I want to find him."

"I can't..." Chen Xing knew who he was talking about as soon as he heard it, and after thinking about it, he said tactfully, "Even if the palace gate is open, it's not easy for you to enter the palace to find His Highness at such a late hour... ..."

"Why..." Ji Zhao felt aggrieved.

"That's the East Palace. No one can stay in the palace without a reason, and His Highness can't stay outside the palace without a reason."

The hope that Ji Zhao had ignited was quickly extinguished.

He fell straight back and said stiffly, "I see..."

Chen Xing was full of reluctance, but he couldn't help it. He was still a little weird. Is His Royal Highness so good at helping sleep?Leaving His Highness the Crown Prince, their lord, who usually sleeps so easily, can't fall asleep now?He bent down, helped Ji Zhao rearrange the quilt, and advised, "Close your eyes, count in your heart, and you will fall asleep soon."

Ji Zhao opened his eyes and did not speak.

"If you want His Royal Highness—"

Ji Zhao interrupted him: "Who misses him..."

"Yes, yes, anyway, if you have something important to tell His Highness the Crown Prince, how about I wake you up early tomorrow morning before you enter the palace?"

Ji Zhao's eyes lit up: "Okay!"

Chen Xing couldn't laugh or cry: "Then you go to sleep..."

"You have to remember, you must call me earlier!"

"Don't worry!"

Chen Xing helped him pull up the tent again, maybe he had some expectations anyway, even though he didn't sleep well, Ji Zhao counted the stars, and finally fell asleep in a daze, but he would wake up after a while, and when he woke up, he would ask What time was it? At the beginning of Yinshi, he got up from the bed energetically and resolutely refused to sleep again.

He also plausibly said: "Although I don't know when the palace gates will open, the court officials must have opened at that time when they entered the palace at the end of Yinshi! We set off from home at the end of Yinshi!"

"..." Chen Xing couldn't help it, and he didn't want to eat breakfast, so he persuaded him to drink some honey water. Ji Zhao went to pick out the clothes by himself, carefully selected a suit, and hung on his waist the clothes that he used to be an Huizhou merchant. The jade pendant snatched from Zong Zhen's body lasted until the end of Yin Shi, and they went to the palace.

It was already November at this time, and the morning dawn was late, and it was still pitch black outside, with stars in the sky.

When they rushed to the gate of the palace, the guards guarding the gate were dumbfounded when they saw the horse-drawn carriage. What time is it, the prince-in-law has come!But the son-in-law is not someone else, His Majesty once personally issued an order that the son-in-law can enter the palace gate without notification, and the two little eunuchs guarding the gate directly led him in.

The little eunuch could not go anywhere, and when he reached the range of the East Palace, he handed Ji Zhao over to the eunuchs of the East Palace.

The eunuchs of the East Palace respectfully led Ji Zhao inside. Ji Zhao was in a good mood, so he rewarded the little golden pot first.

The little eunuchs were overjoyed and joked, "My son-in-law, I'm afraid His Highness hasn't woken up yet because you came so early. You have to wait a while."

Ji Zhao smiled and didn't care: "I'll just wait..." He looked at the two little eunuchs again, "I've never seen you before..."

The three of them were talking, but they walked quickly. When they reached the gate of the East Palace, the eastern sky turned white.

The eunuch who received him at the entrance of the East Palace immediately saluted when he saw him coming: "I have seen the son-in-law!"

"Get up quickly..." Ji Zhao walked in directly, as if he was at home, "Where is your Highness, are you awake? When did you sleep last night?"

The little eunuch hurried to catch up: "If you want to go back to the son-in-law, what time did your highness sleep last night? The younger ones are not waiting in the bedroom, so I don't know. But your highness woke up very early this morning, and you are not in the palace at this time—"

"Ah? Then where did he go?" Ji Zhao stopped and asked unhappy.

The little eunuch immediately said: "His Royal Highness has gone to the shooting range!"

Ji Zhao thought for a while, then turned and left: "Then I'll go too..."

Ji Zhao didn't sleep almost all night, His Highness the Crown Prince was really no better than him, and His Highness the Crown Prince was even worse.He lay down on the bed an hour earlier than Ji Zhao, and spent a whole night of insomnia, keeping his eyes open and looking at the top of the bed.

Coincidentally, when Ji Zhao got up, Zong Zhen also got up, washed up briefly, used some things, and then he went to the shooting range. When Ji Zhao was walking to the shooting range, he stood there, the arrow It shot "whoosh".

The shooting range is empty, and the cold wind blows head-on. It hurts the face and makes the leaves flutter. The eunuchs and guards accompanied by Bao Qing, Cheng Shen and others all shrink their necks and follow behind. It is not cold—or, It can be said that they were frozen, but they were not frozen by the cold wind, but by the layer of cold air on their highness.

It was the first time for Ji Zhao to come to the shooting range. In other words, he had never been anywhere in this palace except Yanfu Hall and the main hall of the East Palace, as well as the place where he watched the fireworks last time.Along the way to the shooting range with the little eunuch, he found everything new. Logically speaking, it is not easy to set up a shooting range in the palace, which requires a lot of land.

However, there is not a single concubine in the current emperor, and the palace is too empty, so he simply enclosed a piece of land and pushed those dilapidated palaces to build a shooting range, otherwise, it would cost a lot of money every year just for maintenance.

The closer he was to the shooting range, the more empty the surrounding area became. Ji Zhao only felt that it was getting colder and colder, so he wrapped his cloak tighter.

In the quiet wind, he suddenly heard the sound of breaking through the air. He was refreshed and rushed forward, ahead of the little eunuch. After walking for a while, he saw Zong Zhen vaguely behind a few tall trees!

On such a cold day, Zong Zhen didn't even put on a cloak, he was dressed up, his back was straight, and he shot arrows "swish".

At this time, the sky was getting whiter again, and Ji Zhaoneng could see him clearly. Ji Zhao couldn't help but stop, and stood in place about ten steps away, watching Zongzhen shoot arrows.

Looking around, he just had one thought, His Royal Highness, take a good look at it!

He took a few more steps forward, supported the tall tree beside him, poked out his eyes to look at Zong Zhen, and praised him in his heart, isn't this the legendary ape's back and wasp's waist?Very seductive!His eyes sized up the person not far away presumptuously, until Zong Zhen felt something was wrong, as if someone was sizing him up secretly, so he turned around quickly.

Ji Zhao was guilty of being a thief, and immediately hid behind the tree in fright, not daring to look at it again.

The guards reacted and shouted: "Who is it!"

Zong Zhen was the most straightforward, turned around directly, aimed at the tree with an arrow, and the group of guards had already rushed here, and the trembling little eunuch finally came back to his senses, knelt down and shouted: "Your Highness, take the son-in-law with you!" come over!"

"..." Zong Zhen put down his bow and arrow, and the guards also stopped in place.

Ji Zhao couldn't hide, so he poked out his eyes again, and happened to meet Zong Zhen's eyes. He laughed "hehe", and then grabbed the tree and refused to go forward.

Zong Zhen frowned. After all, he handed the bow and arrow to Cheng Shen, while he walked towards Ji Zhao.

Ji Zhao was still hiding behind the tree. He walked around behind the tree and asked somewhat indifferently, "What are you doing here? What time is it?"

When Ji Zhao saw his face, he was unconsciously happy, and didn't notice that his tone was wrong, and even looked up at him greedily, with aggrieved tone: "I couldn't sleep last night, did you sleep well? "

It's okay if you don't ask, but when you ask, Zong Zhen feels his scalp go numb. How can he admit that he didn't fall asleep? The position inside, the hand still wants to embrace people unknowingly, it's too scary and too weird.

So Zong Zhen said coldly: "I slept well..."

"..." Ji Zhao was dissatisfied, and curled his lips, "You are too heartless, I haven't slept all night! Before dawn, I came to the palace to find you—"

Before he finished speaking, Zongzhen said again: "If you can't sleep, you can find a doctor. What's the use of looking for me."

Ji Zhao was slightly surprised, only then did he realize that Zong Zhen's attitude didn't seem right?

Seeing Ji Zhao's face, Zong Zhen felt a little regretful, but he couldn't regret it, so he simply turned around and went to the East Palace, and said lightly, "Let's go..."

"..." Ji Zhao felt that nothing was right, but he didn't think too much at this time. He followed Zong Zhen and started to feel wronged again, "I was very uncomfortable last night. Do you know how uncomfortable it is to not be able to sleep! Hanging the rabbit lamp on the bed, even so, I still can't sleep, I count the stars later, I still..."

Ji Zhao kept mumbling, and Zong Zhen became even more irritable.

It wasn't Ji Zhao who was upset, it was himself who was upset. Because of Ji Zhao's nagging, he could feel the joy rising unconsciously from the bottom of his heart. This discovery made him extremely upset, and he walked faster. .

Anyway, Ji Zhao’s voice was full of grievances: “I couldn’t sleep last night, I was so hungry, I think the food made by Xiao Quanzi is the best! Xiao Quanzi is fat and cute, I am If you like talking to him, you'll be fine, if you can keep eating what Xiaoquanzi cooks, I won't be able to!"

Hearing this, Zong Zhen almost opened his mouth and told him to take Xiao Quanzi away.The moment he opened his mouth, he sensed something was wrong, clenched his fists, and did not say anything.But he had to admit very sadly that he might not be able to hold on for too long, and he might turn around to coax Ji Zhao before he stepped into the door of the East Palace.

He let out a sigh of relief, and walked faster, at least to the East Palace, isn't it...

Yesterday, Ji Zhao talked so happily with Fu Chen, smiled so sweetly with that girl from the Wang family, and even gave him presents, but turned a blind eye to him as if he was not there.After entering the palace, he only joked with Fu Chen, and didn't even care about food.Zongzhen felt that the reason why Ji Zhao treated him like that before was because he was the only one he could rely on in a foreign country.

Look, once he arrived in Jinling, he really forgot all about him, who is he?Ji Zhaoke still remember?

He is a tool.

Speaking of Xiao Quanzi, Ji Zhao said again: "You ask Xiao Quanzi to cook for me. I will stay with you today and eat three meals a day! After breakfast, I want to catch up on sleep." , what does your bedroom look like—”

Zong Zhen couldn't help but stop, and turned to look at him: "So you came here so early to eat Xiao Quanzi's breakfast?"

Ji Zhao nodded: "Yes—"

Disappointment welled up in Zong Zhen's heart, he walked faster before he finished speaking.

Ji Zhao stood there, thinking blankly, he hasn't finished talking yet, he really wants to eat Xiaoquanzi's breakfast, but he wants to eat with Zongzhen even more!After eating, he still wanted to catch up on sleep. For some reason, after seeing Zong Zhen, he started to feel sleepy...

Ji Zhao chased after him, took out a beautiful stone from his purse, and handed it to Zong Zhen: "Here you are!"

This was before going out this morning, and he was fine at home, so he rummaged through boxes and chests to find this stone. It was a purple stone with white cracks, very beautiful, very similar to his time. The nebula in the sky that can only be seen is his favorite thing.

Jinling has always been rich in Yuhua stones, but such beautiful ones are rare.

However, as soon as the stone was taken out, Zong Zhen immediately thought of the scene where Ji Zhao gave Wang Qiniang the stone again, and felt his blood surging. He stopped, looked at Ji Zhao, and said in a deep voice, "You have a lot of stones." .”

"Ah?" Ji Zhao didn't understand what he meant, and smiled, "Yeah, I really like collecting stones."

So he was just a random person collected by Ji Zhao?Anyway, he was kind to everyone, including the former He Qiniang.

Zong Zhen turned around and wanted to go again, Ji Zhao rushed to him, puzzled and said, "What's wrong with you? Is it hypoglycemia? It's because you didn't have breakfast, you—"

Zong Zhen said: "Why don't I ask Zhou Liangdi to make breakfast for you?"

"Ah?" Ji Zhao tilted his head.

"Don't you just like her like that? You say she has a gentle temperament, or I'll send someone to find that girl from the Qin family to make you some more snacks?"

No matter how thoughtless Ji Zhao was, he realized something was wrong at this moment.

After Zong Zhen finished speaking, he regretted it, and looked away, a little afraid to look at Ji Zhao.

Ji Zhaozai looked at him carefully, and seeing that he did not admit his mistake, his sleeve clenched into a fist, "Crazy!" Ji Zhao shouted, passed Zongzhen, and strode away.

Zong Zhen immediately turned around to look, stretched out his hand to pull it, stretched his fingers for a moment, and finally retracted it.

"Your Highness?" Bao Qing trembled, and finally approached cautiously, "Young one, please go and invite your son-in-law back..."

"Let him go..." Zong Zhen looked at the gate of the East Palace beside him, he had already reached the gate, why couldn't he bear it any longer?Zong Zhen looked at the direction in which Ji Zhao was leaving, and he could still see a little white in the distance, it was Ji Zhao's white-haired cloak.

He turned around and walked into the gate of the East Palace, that's fine.

He cannot allow any uncontrollable people, things or things to appear around him.

After all, the sky has already appeared, and the dream has long since woken up.

Yin Ming and Chen Xing never expected that within an hour, their husband came out of the palace again with a gloomy and cold face. It has been a long time since such a scene!

Both of them were startled, Ji Zhao lowered his head and climbed into the carriage, and then they came back to their senses, Chen Xing climbed up, and with a little light from outside, he found that the corners of his eyes were reddish, Chen Xing was stunned: "Why, what? Yes, Your Highness, he—"

Ji Zhao reacted violently: "Don't mention him! Don't mention him again! That's a madman! A madman!"

"..." Chen Xing was too scared to speak anymore.

"Crazy! What does he think of me! What are these two months of being together?! What did he think of me?! He is just crazy!" Ji Zhao was furious, and patted the car board, "Back Home!"

The coachman hurriedly drove the carriage home, and when he got home, he bumped into Du Bo bringing drinks and four sons to salute him.Seeing the five of them, Ji Zhao, who had finally calmed down, became angry again: "Get out of here immediately, go back to that psychopath, and don't let me see you again!"

After speaking, Ji Zhao left.

The five of them also paused in place, Yin Ming stepped forward and had no choice but to wave his hands: "Please..."

"... "

Before Yin Mingren could go out, Chen Xing and the two cooks from the East Palace came after him. The two of them looked at each other and knew that they were also returned...

Half an hour later, the group of seven returned goods stood in front of His Highness the Crown Prince. Du Bo was bold enough to truthfully feed back all the remarks of the son-in-law. When he said the word "psychopathy", his voice was sonorous and powerful, and everyone admired it. He is dead.

Zong Zhen took a deep breath, and calmly said: "Understood..."