The Way of the Consort

After the Shangyuan Festival, the palace and yamen began to resume "going to work". Ji Zhao heard that Zong Mi was once again used by His Majesty. It is said that it was the prince's intention. Now the government-run schools in the suburbs of Jinling are all managed by Zong Mi. Mi is in charge of supervising and supervising. This job is far away from the center of political power, but it is not easy, but it is related to reading. If it is done well, it is easy to get a good reputation and be respected by others.

All in all, this is a very good job for Zong Mi and even for Prince Zheng's residence.

Zong Mi went to the palace to thank him for this, and said a few words to Renzong. When Renzong said that the crown prince wanted to see him, Zong Mi was a little surprised.

He had never met Prince Zongzhen alone, the only time he had met was when he was looking for Ji Zhao in the mountains last time.

He was taken to the East Palace and saw Zong Zhen in the study.

Zong Zhen sat behind the desk and looked up at him, calmly.

"Meet Your Highness the Crown Prince." Zong Mi bowed first.

"Sit..." Zong Zhen pointed to the chair opposite, Zong Mi walked over, sat down politely, and then smiled at Zong Zhen.

"It's Ji Zhao who begged for you."

"..." Zong Mi was very surprised. He was very curious about the reason why Zong Zhen saw him, and even guessed what he was going to say. He didn't expect the prince to come up with such a sentence, very direct!

Zong Zhen clasped his hands and placed them on the table, looking at him calmly, and his voice was even calmer: "If Ji Zhao hadn't pleaded for you, I wouldn't use you. Zongyu is very good."

Zong Mi suddenly felt hot on his face, Zong Zhen was too good at slapping people in the face, but he still had nothing to say, let alone say anything.The reason why he didn't even struggle at the beginning and moved his family to Jinling was because he believed the rumored weakness and incompetence of the crown prince, and wanted to get a good fruit. Now that he knew there was a big discrepancy, he had long since regretted that he shouldn't have So easy to come by!

Having been in Jinling for so long, Zongyu has long been in Zongzheng Temple on business. Even when he was grounded a few years ago, Zongyu was able to enter and leave Prince Zheng’s Mansion for important matters. Zongmi’s heart has been uneasy for a long time, but he can only endure To pretend to be more indifferent.

He clenched his hands tightly in his sleeves.

Zong Zhen didn't care at all, Zong Yu was really useful, and he didn't mind supporting someone to fight against Zong Mi.

He called Zong Mi here to let Zong Mi know that all of this was because of Ji Zhao. Ji Zhao could not do good deeds. Those people didn't know about it. These people had to accept Ji Zhao's love.Another faint reason is that he was obsessed with the intimacy between Ji Zhao and Zong Mi in his previous life. Now, Ji Zhao has nothing to do with you Zong Mi!

Ji Zhao became closer to him.

"Zongyu has done a good job in Zongzheng Temple. His father often praised him, and even the uncles admired him quite a lot. From now on, the affairs of the school will be entrusted to you. You are Zongyu's elder brother, and even more so, King Zheng. Do better than Zongyu."

"I take orders..." Zong Mi got up, no matter how painful his face was from the beating, he had to get up and stand to suffer.

Zong Zhen had nothing to say to him, so he let him go after saying this.

It was also the first time for Zong Mi to come back to the East Palace. Before coming, he was somewhat looking forward to it. When he left, he felt a sense of relief. He felt humiliated, more hated, helpless and self-deprecating, but he could only cover it up with a faint smile.

After leaving the palace gate, he asked his attendant, "Where is Fifth Young Master?"

"Fifth Young Master seems to have gone to the Prince Consort's House today."

Ji Zhao's face floated in his mind, and Zong Mi's heart finally warmed up. He got on his horse and said, "Let's go and have a look too!"

He was not afraid that the crown prince would misunderstand him. Since the crown prince told him, he just wanted him to know that Ji Zhao was good. He went to thank Ji Zhao. There was nothing wrong with that, right?

When Zong Mi arrived, Ji Zhao was persuading Zong Yan: "I really don't like doing errands, I just like doing nothing. You will always marry a wife and have children in the future, why don't you find an errand to do?"

Zongyan lacked interest: "Even if I want to do it, someone must let me do it. Do you think the crown prince will agree?"

Ji Zhao was a little unhappy, but he still explained to his good friend: "The crown prince is really not what you imagined. Look, your second brother just took a good job this time? If you want to do a job, I will Go and tell the prince for you!"

"Speaking of this matter, we all feel strange, it's not about my brother this time, is it the prince you asked for?"

Before Ji Zhao could say anything, Zong Mi came to the door. Zong Yan confirmed his thoughts, looked at Ji Zhao with emotion, and then patted him on the shoulder: "Thank you! From now on, I will never give up!"

"Hahaha!" Ji Zhao was amused by him, and also greeted Zong Mi, asking him to have dinner with him.

Ji Zhao is in a very good mood recently, everyone is smiling, the smile is sweeter than honey, Zong Mi sees it in his eyes, and feels that the face and heart beaten by the prince are slowly recovering.

He thought, Ji Zhao is really a rare person with a pure mind.

In fact, why hasn't he used Ji Zhao?According to the original plan, after coming to Jinling, the crown prince would be dull and weak. If he wanted to replace the crown prince, Ji Zhao, as the son-in-law, would be a very important target.

It's a pity that everything has long been off track.

Ji Zhao was still willing to help them in Prince Zheng's Mansion.

Back then, when they first came to Prince Zheng's mansion, even Minister Wen's servants dared to show them face, and it was Ji Zhao who helped them.

How could there be someone like Ji Zhao in the world?

Zong Mi raised his head and drank the wine in the glass, and heard that Ji Zhao and Zong Yan were discussing whether to go to see Qin Wen, and Chun Wei was two months away, and they went to give condolences, Zong Mi was full of irritability and injustice , it is not fair to such a person to be possessed by Princess Fuchen.

Zong Mi was drunk and was carried away by the guards.

In the evening, Ji Zhao sat on the couch, lying on the low table, and wrote a letter to Xiaoyaozi, expressing his admiration for idols, and also asked him some questions in the travel notes, writing very engrossed, as he wrote, He thought of the fact that he liked Zongzhen, and he wanted to share it with others, why don't he just tell Xiaoyaozi?

Anyway, everyone is just "pen pals" and doesn't know anyone. Xiaoyaozi is open-minded, so I think he can give him a lot of advice.

He was hesitating, hesitating dazedly, until—

"What are you thinking..."

"Ah!" Ji Zhao was so frightened that he threw away the pen, and immediately looked up, and saw Zong Zhen sitting beside him!He frightened, "When did you come here! Why is there no sound at all!" While speaking, he quickly pulled something to cover the letters, obviously he hadn't written yet, and he was still very guilty!

Zong Zhen saw it in his eyes and wondered what Ji Zhao was writing, so he was afraid of it.

He usually writes letters, posts, or travel notes to others, such as Qin Wen and Zong Yan. He has seen them all, and Ji Zhao has always allowed him to read them generously.

He asked calmly, "What are you writing about?"

"A letter to Xiaoyaozi!" Ji Zhao quickly hid the letter paper and asked him with a smile, "Why are you here so late!"

"I'm a little worried about you. I heard that Zong Mi was drunk with you."

Ji Zhao raised his eyebrows: "Didn't you say you won't watch me!"

"There is no surveillance. I asked someone to ask out of concern."

"That's not surveillance..." Ji Zhao muttered, but he was in a good mood, and soon laughed again, "Then have you eaten dinner yet?"

Zong Zhen shook his head, and Ji Zhao asked again: "What do you want to eat? Let Xiao Quanzi make it, and let's eat together! You don't even know that Zong Mi was so drunk, I just tried to persuade the two brothers to stop drinking, and they didn't have any food." how to eat."

Zongzhen frowned displeasedly: "If you don't eat well, I'll continue to restrain their feet, and you don't want to make friends anymore."

"..." Ji Zhao put on a pitiful look, "Don't dare next time!"

Zong Zhen snorted secretly, and Ji Zhao rubbed his face on his shoulder before he rubbed Ji Zhao's head, which meant he was no longer angry.Ji Zhao cheered up again, and asked again: "What to eat!"

Zong Zhen also showed a smile in his eyes, and asked him, "Would you like to eat duck blood vermicelli soup?"

"what!"

"To Loquat Lane?"

"Ah!"

"Aren't you going?" Zong Zhen made a gesture to get up, and Ji Zhao put his arms around his waist: "Go, go!" However, he looked up at Zong Zhen again, "Isn't that too late?"

Zong Zhen pinched his nose: "I won't go back to the palace tonight, I'll stay here with you."

Ji Zhao was stunned, and rubbed Zong Zhen's face vigorously on his waist, he was so happy!

Zongzhen later asked clearly that it was a letter to Xiaoyaozi. When he returned to the palace the next day, he also took the letter away. When he returned to the palace, he finished his work and went back to the East Palace. He opened the letter and read it. There's nothing special about it, could it be that Ji Zhao didn't continue writing because he came?

Ji Zhao really lived a happy life like a fairy, until Zhang Yifei suddenly came to the door.

The last time Zhang Wubai came to the door, he frightened Ji Zhao very much. This time, after hearing Yin Ming say that it was Zhang Yifei, he asked back very uncertainly, "Is it really Zhang Yifei?"

"Yes, it is His Highness's uncle Zhang Yifei."

Ji Zhao had a headache, he had avoided the world so much, why would someone come to see him, but the empress's elder brother came to the door, he couldn't see him, not only couldn't see him, but he had to warmly greet him outside the courtyard.

After all, this is also Zong Zhen's uncle!

Ji Zhao didn't expect that Zhang Yifei looked a bit like Zong Zhen!

The saying that a nephew looks like an uncle is true. Princess Fuchen looks like the emperor, but Zongzhen doesn't. Ji Zhao guessed that Zongzhen looks like the late empress.

Zhang Yifei is not like Zhang Wuming, he looks easy to get along with, but what he said directly made Ji Zhao feel cold all over.

What he meant was that the eldest lady in his family, called Yun Niang, was of marriageable age, and she and His Highness the Crown Prince were first cousins, there was no other match!Knowing that he, Ji Zhao, has a good relationship with His Highness the Crown Prince, he wanted to entrust him with a personal favor, and ask him to go to His Highness the Crown Prince and have a good word, and see if they can make Yunniang the Crown Prince.

Zhang Yifei also said: "We are all a family, Yunniang is very good-natured, and I will get along with the princess and the son-in-law very well in the future!"

On the one hand, Ji Zhao felt that Zhang Yifei was crazy and stupid, on the other hand, his body gradually stiffened.

He was always subconsciously avoiding the matter of the princess, but there were still people who took this matter and threw it in his face. In fact, everyone now knew that Zong Zhen was about to get married.

After Zhang Yifei left, Ji Zhao didn't allow anyone to come in, and he stayed in the house for a long time before calling anyone in.

He planned to go to the princess mansion, this matter must be known, but he couldn't talk about this topic with Zong Zhen, let the princess talk to Zong Zhen, it was their uncle's own idea.

Seeing Ji Zhao's face, Princess Fuchen was surprised: "What's wrong with you, you look so ugly?"

Ji Zhao forced a smile: "I have something to tell you."

"You said..." Princess Fuchen dragged him into the back room, asked someone to pour hot tea for him, and sat beside him.

Ji Zhao conveyed Zhang Yifei's words to her, with a gloomy look on his face: "I can't tell the prince about this, please tell the princess to tell the prince."

"..." Princess Fuchen felt like a drum was beating in her heart.

In fact, she has been restless these days. When she was living in the palace years ago, Aunt Zhang couldn't stand her torments. She wanted to tell her who the concubine her brother liked.

The crown princess is the seventh lady of the Wang family, Wang Xi.

Princess Fuchen is not very familiar with this name. Logically speaking, she has two lifetimes of memories, so she shouldn't forget this girl, especially Aunt Zhang said that this girl is exceptionally good. Since she is so good, she shouldn't have know!

She pondered for several days, and finally remembered that she had heard of Wang Xi in her previous life!

The reason why she finally remembered that day was because Ji Zhao came to look for her that day and wanted to go back to Yangzhou. Naturally, she refused, and she didn't want to see Ji Zhao. Ji Zhao even begged her that day!She still ignores it!On the next day, when she was eating, drinking and having fun with a group of young ladies, someone mentioned that Wang Xi, a girl from the Wang family in Yangzhou, had hanged herself at home!

At that time, she didn't take this matter seriously at all. She didn't know Wang Xi, but she knew that the Wang family was also a famous family.

After finally remembering who Wang Xi was, Princess Fuchen felt chills all over her body. She tried hard to recall the past, and gradually everything became a thread. In the past few days, she sent someone to Yangzhou to inquire.

Although Ji Zhao and Wang Ximing had nothing on their face, after all, they were from aristocratic families, men and women had different seats at the age of seven, but if they asked the waiters in the house, they could still find out that Ji Zhao and Wang Xi were childhood sweethearts!Even childhood sweethearts who were about to exchange Geng posts!The two grew up together since they were young, if it wasn't for her...Ji Zhao would probably have married Wang Xi by now!There should be a child too!

In the previous life, it was because Wang Xi hanged himself that Ji Zhao wanted to go back to Yangzhou, right?But she treated Ji Zhao like that. To be honest, before this incident, Ji Zhao had worked hard to repair the relationship between them, and he respected her. He even gave her a gift on her birthday.At this time, she realized belatedly that it seemed that from that day on, Ji Zhao had changed.

Princess Fuchen has suffered from insomnia for several nights.

Now she knows everything. In her previous life, because her father and elder brother intervened, the couple had to be separated, Wang Xi committed suicide, and she was neither human nor ghost. Even Ji Zhao became the throne later. Are you happy?

Princess Fuchen cried and laughed, and when she thought of Pei Rong again, she didn't know who was pitiful and whose fault it was.

They seem to be very pitiful, and they are all wrong, but they have never done anything really bad, and they are all just for the word "not reconciled".

Princess Fuchen guessed that her brother didn't know about this, otherwise it would be impossible for Wang Xi to be the princess.

But what is this called?

A pair of lovers who have been separated from others, one will be her son-in-law, and the other will be a prince and concubine for her brother?

Princess Fuchen couldn't imagine what would happen if Ji Zhao knew about it.

After all, they had the situation they are in now.

Seeing that Ji Zhao's expression was gloomy, she didn't know whether he knew what was going on or not, so she had to agree first. She, who had an unclear expression, sent Ji Zhao, who also had an unclear expression, out, and neither of them noticed anything wrong with each other.

Ji Zhao lay on the bed at night and couldn't sleep. He stared at the top of the bed with his eyes open. The more he wanted to escape, the more he had to face it. He thought he had to be brave!Didn't you already know that such a day would come?

Until Chen Xing came in and asked him softly: "Lang Jun, are you asleep?"

"no, what happened?"

Chen Xing walked to his bedside, hesitated for a while, and said softly: "Brother Yin Ming was on patrol, he heard the cry of a lark at the side door of our house."

Ji Zhao was puzzled: "What's wrong with this?"

"Have you forgotten, when you were still in Yangzhou, you gave it to Mrs. Wang Qi, when you were still in Yangzhou, and you gave it to Mrs. Wang Qi. If you need to find you, you can send someone to blow it at the side door of our house." That whistle."

"... "

Chen Xing asked distressedly: "Lang Jun, what do you think?"

Ji Zhao came back to his senses and asked him, "Does she often look for me like this? I can't remember."

Chen Xing shook his head: "I only used it once. That day, the kitten you gave her died. In the heavy rain, she came to you crying."

It can be seen that Wang Xi is not a girl who makes a big fuss, and she cherishes this whistle very much. She hardly uses it, and only comes to him when encountering something that she thinks is a big deal.

Ji Zhao has always felt that he has a certain responsibility for Wang Xi. He wants to replace his ancestor and take good care of the woman whom his ancestor loved so much that he couldn't be together and even died because of it.

Ji Zhao got up and opened the curtain: "Go with Yin Ming and see what's going on. Be careful, don't let anyone see you."

"Know!"

Chen Xing immediately went out to do it. Unexpectedly, a quarter of an hour later, he and Yin Ming brought back a man in a cloak and a hood.

Before Ji Zhao could ask, the man lifted the hood by himself, and Wang Xi almost threw himself in front of him with tears all over his face, desperately saying: "Brother Zhao, help me, I don't want to marry, you help me, woo woo woo ..."