Drunk Bamboo

The few people met by chance at the palace gate.

"Is it allowed to run around in the palace?" Hua Qinfeng glared at Xiao Bingxin fiercely while carrying Xie Yuzhu on his back.

Xiao Bingxin hid behind Hua Qinming, looking pitiful and innocent.

Xie Yuzhu hummed softly on his back, turned her face and fell asleep again.

Hua Qinfeng's arrogance disappeared in an instant, and he turned around and looked at Xie Yuzhu with gentle eyes.

When did you fall asleep?

No wonder there was no sound.

Hua Qinming took a glance, bowed and said goodbye, then returned to the palace.

Before leaving, he and Xiao Bingxin looked at each other on purpose.

He turned around with a look of indifference.

As soon as Hua Qinming left, Xiao Bingxin stopped pretending. She also glared at Hua Qinfeng fiercely and got on the carriage.

At this moment, Hua Qinfeng had no time to pay attention to her.

Xie Yuzhu behind him is the most important.

The news from the banquet in the palace was passed back to the palace early, and when they returned home, everyone's faces were full of worry.

But when Hua Qinfeng carried the sleeping Xie Yuzhu out of the carriage, everyone felt relieved.

They kept a tacit understanding with each other and did not talk about matters in the palace.

When Xie Yuzhu woke up, it was already dark.

"Why did I fall asleep? Why didn't the prince wake me up?"

Hua Qinfeng was wiping his beloved halberd. When he saw her wake up, he put down the cloth and halberd in his hands and walked towards the bed.

"Go to sleep if you want. Why should I wake you up? You really can sleep. You should be energetic at night."

He helped Xie Yuzhu sit up and carefully checked her complexion. His energy and blood had returned, and he felt relieved.

Smiling, she said, "You must be hungry, right? Yunling happened to be going to heat up some food, and I thought you should be awake by now, so you can eat soon."

I held my head up and only remembered lying on his back, talking, and then I fell asleep unknowingly.

Xie Yuzhu asked: "Prince, how did I come back? No way..."

He looked at Hua Qinfeng with inexplicable panic.

Did he carry it all the way back?!

He deliberately kept it a secret and grinned: "What do you think? You look the same when you sleep as you do when you wake up."

She exclaimed, "The carriage is shaking, I should wake up, the prince is not really going to carry me all the way back to the palace like this, right?!"

Hua Qinfeng frowned, then suddenly realized, "Why didn't I think of that? I just kept looking at the stinky face of the fourth girl along the way."

Or you can just carry her back and come back.

Hua Qinfeng looked regretful.

"It's okay, it's okay." Xie Yuzhu breathed a sigh of relief.

Otherwise she will be too embarrassed to go out.

"What's wrong with me carrying you on my back? Aren't you sleeping well? It's better for the person who needs to be on the front than the person who needs to be on the back."

Hua Qinfeng muttered to himself, feeling that he had carefully protected her all the way, but unexpectedly he felt like he was being rejected and felt very aggrieved.

Xie Yuzhu was surprised again:

"Yes, why didn't I wake up? How did the prince do it?"

He didn't look unhappy at all.

Hua Qinfeng said reluctantly: "I carried you on my back on the road and held you in the car. I didn't do anything special. Maybe you were too tired and frightened, so it's normal for you to sleep deeply. Don't dwell on this issue."

Is that really the case?

He fell into a deep sleep because he was frightened and tired.

Xie Yuzhu raised his head, watched Hua Qinfeng turn around and go back to his seat, then picked up the cloth and halberd and began to wipe them carefully.

In fact, he is very serious about everything he does.

At night, Xie Yuzhu really couldn't sleep.

Close your eyes and open them again, turn over and over again.

I don’t know how many times I’ve gone back and forth, but I’m still full of energy.

"Your Highness, are you asleep?" he called softly.

I didn't expect a response.

Hua Qinfeng opened his eyes and said in a low voice: "You toss and turn, I can't fall asleep even if I want to."

"Sorry to bother you." Xie Yuzhu simply sat up and fumbled to put on her coat. "Then I'll go to the study. You go to sleep first. You have to attend court tomorrow morning."

In the darkness, Hua Qinfeng also sat up quickly.

"I'm not sleepy. I'll go to the study with you. I'll ask Chaoyang to take leave for me this afternoon. I'll take care of you these days and won't attend the morning court. Father has approved it."

After saying that, he got out of bed and lit a candle.

The room suddenly lit up.

Xie Yuzhu put on her shoes and said, "The palace is surrounded by secret guards. I know it is very safe. Your Majesty does not need to accompany me."

After lighting the candle, he came to her side, helped her to stand up, and was careful with her left foot.

His eyes twinkled, and he was not sleepy at all: "I want to read. Didn't you ask me to read more and study more? I want to read now!"

Xie Yuzhu's mind was full of questions.

Still, he replied, "Your Majesty, if you are not afraid of being bored, please come."

In the study, Xie Yuzhu was reading a medical book carefully. She thought that the original owner's medical knowledge of more than ten years should not be wasted.

Writing "The Book of Poisonous Weeds" is her main job, and studying medicine is her side job. It is always good to have many skills.

It may not be useful in the future.

What we are lacking is a proper master to provide practical learning so that we can integrate theoretical knowledge with clinical practice.

Hua Qinfeng was alone in the study, looking up and down, left and right, carefully inspecting it inside and out.

I came to the cabinet nearby, looked at the iron shelves and bottles and jars on it, and asked curiously:

"Xie Yuzhu, what are these tools for?"

"Extract something useful from the plants and make it into poison or antidote." He raised his eyes and glanced at her, then answered directly without hiding anything.

Anyway, Hua Qinfeng already knows it, so there is nothing to hide.

He nodded, didn't ask any more questions, and then looked around the bookshelf.

"Have you read all these medical books? Have you read all the books here?"

"Mostly. Is there any book you're looking for, Your Majesty? There are some rare and precious books in the box. If Your Majesty is interested, you can look through them at will."

He seemed to have lost interest in the book again and turned and walked towards the music stand.

"Xie Yuzhu, you've been playing this zither since you were a child, right?"

Xie Yuzhu's gaze shifted from the book to him.

"This is the zither my eldest sister gave me. I haven't played it yet. My eldest sister is the best at playing the zither and is nicknamed the 'Zitian Fairy'. So at home, no one else will play the zither in front of my eldest sister. If the prince likes it, you can play it for him."

"I don't like playing the piano." He walked away from the piano and looked at the chessboard again. "Do you like playing chess?"

"It's just so-so. It was given to me by my second sister." Xie Yuzhu asked again, "Does the prince like it?"

"I'm just average."

It seems that he has lost interest.

Putting down the book, Xie Yuzhu raised his head:

"Does your lord want to ask me something?"

The Huaqin wind is really strange tonight.

Someone who never stepped into the study room actually offered to come to the study room.

He came to the study but didn't read. Instead, he looked around and asked questions. What was his purpose?

He walked slowly and stood in front of Xie Yuzhu, his eyes focused:

"Xie Yuzhu, I feel like I don't know you at all. I want to spend more time with you and get to know you better. I don't want to be like others, who are surprised to see that you can write calligraphy and poetry. I want to know things about you that others don't know."