Consort he can't

Gu Chen wandered the streets like a ghost for a day.

When I went back, I happened to meet people going out in groups of three or five, and then I remembered that today is the nineteenth—Sixi said that Li Jingzhao would give the people in the mansion a day off on the twentieth of every month. A bodyguard is usually unmanned.

Gu Chen tightened his clenched hands, feeling even more in his heart that Li Jingzhao was not like the kind of person Sisi said could be for his own self-interest and ignore the common people.

It happened that the coincidence was so suspicious.

The courtyard was so dark that no one could be seen at all.

Li Jingzhao always rested early this day.

He felt relieved - if he and Li Jingzhao met now, he really didn't know how to fight back.

He was thinking this way, but when he entered, he saw Li Jingzhao standing alone in the yard with a lantern, his figure tall and straight like a small pine tree.

I'm really afraid of what's coming.

Gu Chen frowned, and strode over, "What is Your Highness doing here?"

He turned his head to see Gu Chen, and raised his tone: "Wait for you——"

"wait for me?"

Li Jingzhao also took two steps forward, stopped in front of Gu Chen, and raised the lantern in his hand: "See if you were frightened by what I said before, and you don't plan to come back—"

Gu Chen smiled wryly when he heard the words, "Your Highness is joking."

"Am I joking? It's so late and you haven't seen anything yet. Those who don't know think you've lost yourself—" Li Jingzhao raised the lantern slightly with a smile still on his face.

……

The light from the lantern was vaguely reflected on his face, and Gu Chen's words stuck in his throat, as if he had swallowed a small stone alive.

It was rare for Li Jingzhao to speak so peacefully.

Gu Chen was seen as losing his temper, so he could only slow down his tone, "Your Highness, let's go into the room, I'll blow the air by myself, it was a bit hot after drinking, and I want to blow some wind."

"I don't smell at all," Li Jingzhao squinted his eyes and hissed before putting down the lantern, "What kind of wine did you drink?"

Gu Chen: "..."

You talk too much, can't you drink fake wine?

Li Jingzhao sneered: "It's too careless to tell a lie."

Both of them were wearing only one piece of unlined clothing in the night breeze at the door, and the lantern placed aside gave off a dim yellow light, covering their sides, and the atmosphere became a little charming for no reason.

"Why, my son-in-law is not happy?"

Li Jingzhao suddenly approached, and Gu Chen was taken aback, "You, you, what are you doing?"

"Look what's bothering you."

He originally wanted to say that it was nothing but his overthinking, but when he met Li Jingzhao's eyes, he blurted out the words stuck in his tongue: "Your Highness, if you find something, the truth may be different from what you think... ...or rather, it's different from what most people think...what would you do?"

Li Jingzhao narrowed his eyes, "You..."

Gu Chen's teeth were clenched tightly, and he didn't dare to make a sound.

Li Jingzhao stared at him for a long time before turning away.

"Born less than a hundred years old, I often worry about a thousand years old..."

Li Jingzhao read a poem slowly, but Gu Chen didn't answer.

After a while, Li Jingzhao reached out and tapped the center of Gu Chen's eyebrows, pointing out, "Some things are over when they are over. I advise you not to pursue the truth."

Gu Chen paused, then turned his head and smiled, "Your Highness said it, I was just thinking... Now that His Highness treats me better, it is also because of the blessing of Mr. Shen Xuan and Mr. Shen. I look a little like him. The princess treats me favorably, if after two years, the humble boss is crooked, what should I do? You know, how can people not be worried..."

He tilted his head, and when he said this, his tone was very relaxed, and the last sentence still had the feeling of a folk ditty libretto.

But Li Jingzhao looked at him, the smile on his face faded.

"You look somewhat similar to him, but I never said that's why I treat you so favorably—" Li Jingzhao sat on the stone bench and looked up at him, "On the contrary, having this face is not necessarily What a good thing, if you have nothing to recommend yourself, I am afraid that the place you are staying now is not the princess mansion..."

"Where will that be?"

Li Jingzhao glanced at him, and answered irrelevantly, "After all, if I see a face similar to his, I will think that person deserves to die."

Gu Chen clenched his fists violently.

He looked at Li Jingzhao, "Why is that?"

"Why? Hahaha, why—" He seemed to have heard something funny, and suddenly bent down.

Gu Chen frowned, "Where did I say something wrong, did it make His Highness laugh?"

When he looked up again, there was no smile on his face: "You shouldn't ask me, where is Shen Xuan now? Is the epidemic a play I directed and suppressed?"

Gu Chen took a step back: "You are still sending people to follow me!"

Li Jingzhao looked at the place where he was standing just now, with a playful face on his face: "So what about following you? After entering the princess mansion, I have the final say on what to do, so you can say no?"

"But you clearly—"

Gu Chen spoke halfway, raised his hand halfway and put it down slumpedly.

But he clearly said that he would no longer send people to follow him.

He was on the carriage back to the palace before.

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Li Jingzhao said that he really treats him differently, he will think of his old friend and feel that he is not bad, he can be trusted, and he will not send people to follow him, stare at him, and give him a certain amount of freedom.

After Si Tianjian's work is done, he will give him Jiuxia snails, and he will never break his promise.

But now...

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But now that it has been involved, let's ask clearly.

So Gu Chen looked at him, "So does the epidemic four years ago have anything to do with you?"

Li Jingzhao looked at him as if he was looking at a fool: "I'm going to cure the epidemic, how can this have nothing to do with me? Are you out of your mind?"

Gu Chen: "..."

Gu Chen was filled with indignation and was almost chilled by Li Jingzhao's words.

Gu Chen took a deep breath: "What about before? Did you send someone to Ningyuan before the epidemic!"

Li Jingzhao looked calmly: "So?"

"So it's you!"

Did you... cause that epidemic...

"So what if it's me?" Li Jingzhao looked straight into his eyes, "If you ask me, don't you already know it's me?"

"I'm not—I..."

Gu Chen stopped.

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Under such circumstances, any speech will appear like sophistry.

Li Jingzhao did not deny that he sent people to Ningyuan before the epidemic, but he avoided answering about the epidemic.

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Gu Chen put his hand on the lantern on the side, calmed down and said: "Your Highness, at that time... you didn't participate in political affairs, so you might not know... After the Gu family was accused of treason, my parents were exiled in Ningyuan. It's the worst result, but there is life anyway, but I didn't expect that in just one year, my parents..."

Li Jingzhao didn't move.

"Your Highness doesn't know," he paused, "Because of treason charges, I couldn't attend the funeral, so I could only do it quietly. At that time, I prayed for His Highness, thinking that although my humble parents didn't survive the epidemic, But His Highness has saved more people, so they must be safe..." Gu Chen laughed at himself, "Now that I think about it, I'm really stupid..."

Li Jingzhao bit the soft flesh in his cheek tightly, but with the same expression as usual, he looked at him.

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……

Gu Chen can't wait to grab Li Jingzhao by the collar and fight, it's better than two people being relatively silent here.

Unexpectedly, Li Jingzhao stood up suddenly: "Do you want to know where Shen Xuan is?"

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Gu Chen raised his head, but saw Li Jingzhao flung down these words lightly and walked out.

The author says:

Xiao Li doesn't speak human language——