After the rebirth, I was picked up by the prince

The common people around the sacrificial altar saw the dragon robe on his body and hurriedly knelt down to salute.

"Grassmen see Your Majesty, Long live Your Majesty, Long live, Long live—"

Song Yaoxu said "free from rituals and flat life", and then signaled that they don't need to thank them, so as not to disturb the sacrifice process.

The people looked at each other, and finally stood up quietly, watching the development of the situation while listening to the ethereal music Qi Zizhen was playing.

They had heard about the battle between Guanwang Songping and Shunhe Emperor Song Yaoxu for a long time, and when they caught up with the fresh and hot gossip, even their most respected priest had to stand aside on weekdays.

Qi Zizhen didn't care if anyone still remembered that he was still performing sacrifices, so he honestly played on the sidelines.

Only Song Ping's expression changed from astonishment to anger at this time, but he quickly returned to calm, as if he still wanted to pretend to be unintentional with his superb acting skills.

Song Yaoxu didn't intend to do what he wanted, and took him into custody directly on the grounds that he slandered the national teacher and interrupted the sacrifice, and even mobilized the Imperial Forest Army privately.

Although the Yulin army brought by Song Ping accepted his benefits, they still turned around without hesitation under the order of the emperor, which was a betrayal, and put Song Ping into the prison.

Sacrifice still needs to be carried out as usual, and the farce of the court cannot be staged in front of the people.

Song Yaoxu didn't do anything else after temporarily escorting the man into the sky prison, and quietly stood aside, as if he wanted to watch this sacrifice together.

The curiosity of the people could not be satisfied, and soon they turned their attention back to the sacrificial ceremony.

Then of course not long after the sacrifice was over, the people in the capital heard that the new emperor ordered the guards to raid Guanwang Mansion and found a second secret dungeon in Guanwang Mansion.

And in the dungeon, a witch drew a strange formation, and near the formation was the corpse of Qi Yuan who disappeared a few months ago.

In the end, Song Ping was accused of lying about the disaster, attempting to slander and murder the national teacher, playing witchcraft, and having an affair with a foreign witch, etc., and was put in the sky prison, awaiting execution.

Before the people had time to digest the news, Yu Feiang, the new Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, made another announcement on the second day, claiming that finding out the whereabouts of the stolen money from the previous snow disaster pointed to the military farm underground in the wild forest in the northwest of the capital, and the military farm was Song Ping all.

Song Yaoxu immediately sent people to search, and it was found that a large number of private soldiers were placed in the underground military farm, with excellent weapons and abundant food and grass, which was obviously planned for a long time.

In addition, they also arrested Sun Wushun, the commander of the Southwest General who was trying to sneak into the capital, at the gate of the city. After his confession, it was confirmed that Song Ping had private relations with generals of other countries and interfered in the internal affairs of other countries.

Song Ping, who had already committed a capital crime, chose to implicate the nine clans on the grounds of attempting to seek power and usurp the throne, and was asked to be executed the next day.

After that, Song Yaoxu also spent more than two months thoroughly investigating all relevant officials related to the snow disaster, the Enke incident, and the false report of the disaster a while ago, and cleaned up a large number of people belonging to Song Ping's forces.

A total of nearly a hundred officials were punished and beheaded.

In order to maintain the order of the court, Song Yaoxu also specially opened an Enke to select talents and talents, not only value the conduct of officials, but also the ability of officials, and re-elected a group of better officials.

In addition, Song Yaoxu also took advantage of finally being free to arrange all the concubines in the late emperor's harem to another palace according to the usual practice, and promoted their status from the original concubines to concubines and concubines.

Moreover, he also ignored the officials' memorials for accepting his concubine several times, and remained in the harem vacantly.

By the time Song Yaoxu had completely stabilized the court and the harem, the time had unknowingly passed to August.

After the sacrifice in April, Qi Zizhen gradually shed the disguise of being sick and weak, returned to court, and assisted Song Yaoxu to settle the chaotic court together.

And Xu Xiaoqi's Gu poison was completely released in May, and he returned to the National Teacher Tower to continue his daily life as a young tower master.

Everything finally continued to develop in the direction they most hoped for.

The fourteenth day of August in the first year of Shunhe, the day before the 24th birthday of Emperor Shunhe.

In order to express his gratification that the court has finally restored stability, and to celebrate both the Mid-Autumn Festival and the birthday, Emperor Shunhe decided to hold a banquet on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival for all the people in the capital.At the same time, it is ordered to lighten the tax and pay less, and rest with the people, so that the people of the whole country can develop better.

On the night of August [-]th, the common people and officials in the capital began to work for the birthday banquet of Emperor Shunhe and the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet.

Only Qi Zizhen stood at the door of the Wei Mansion, looking up at the starry night sky.

In August, the weather in Beijing has begun to turn cold.

He closed the thin cloak in front of him, and decided to go to the palace anyway.

Everyone is preparing for tomorrow, but only Qi Zizhen knows that today is Song Yaoxu's real birthday.

He skillfully went around to the secret passage, entered the palace from the secret passage, and went straight to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

But when he first arrived, he learned from Cui Liang that Song Yaoxu was temporarily called away by the Queen Mother.

Song Yaoxu's biological mother died of dystocia when she gave birth to Song Shi. After Song Yaoxu settled the former emperor's concubines, he named Concubine Yuegui, who raised Song Shi, as the empress dowager.

Cui Liang glanced at Qi Zizhen after reporting to Song Yaoxu, and couldn't hold back and added: "The Empress Dowager Yue specially asked Her Majesty to come over, probably... also to talk about the concubine's appointment."

For such a long time, Cui Liang also more or less discovered that there was something wrong with the relationship between Qi Zizhen and Song Yaoxu.

He watched Song Yaoxu grow up, and he would be happy if the two of them were consensual, but there was still a common sense between them.

He also wasn't sure about Qi Zizhen's opinion on this matter.

However, Qi Zizhen's expression didn't change much after listening, he just nodded to thank him as usual, and was going to wait for Song Yaoxu to come back in the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Cui Liang didn't say much, and turned to let him go.

Candles and incense are still lit in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and the light orchid scent wafts around.

Qi Zizhen took a breath, and wanted to go to the inner room to wait for someone, but accidentally found a jar of wine on the table in the outer room.

Song Yaoxu can't drink, but this matter can't be exposed, so whenever there is a birthday party, he will prepare a jar of wine in advance, replace the wine in it with water, and pretend that he can drink.

The altar of wine hadn't been opened yet, so it must have been called out by the Queen Mother before it could be replaced.

Anyway, the left and right are to be divided by someone, so it is better to cheapen him first.

Qi Zizhen hadn't touched alcohol for more than a year. Although he was still in poor health, it was not yet the worst winter day, and it was not a big problem to have a drink or two once in a while.

He brought a clean porcelain cup from the table, filled it up after opening it, and found a volume of books on the bookshelf, and drank while reading, and waited for Song Yaoxu to come back by the way.

But he waited for a long time, even after drinking two glasses of wine, he still didn't wait.

It can't be that you don't come back, right?

Qi Zizhen reckoned that he was being pestered by Song Shi to play together, so he delayed the time, after thinking about it, he got up and went to the inner room to wait.

After all, there was such a good jar of wine in the outer room, he couldn't guarantee that he would drink it all by accident.

He stood up and went to the inner room, and sat directly on the softest bed, leaning on the bed post, and passed the time by distracting his mind.

But I don't know if it's because he just drank two small glasses of wine, Qi Zizhen felt a little sleepy before his mind wandered for a long time, and after yawning, he unconsciously fell asleep in this position.

When Song Yaoxu came back, he immediately saw Qi Zizhen who seemed to be sleeping peacefully sitting beside the bed.

He remembered seeing the jar of unsealed wine in the outer room just now, and there was a little more helplessness in his eyes, and he stepped forward lightly, trying to help him lie down.

However, when Song Yaoxu just touched him, he saw his eyelashes trembling slightly, and after a while he slowly opened his eyes, still ignorant.

"...Your Highness?"

He blinked, as if he couldn't tell whether it was a dream or reality for a while.

Immediately afterwards, he felt a familiar gentle touch on his head: "It's me. Did you drink secretly just now?"

The smiling voice didn't sound like a reproach, but more like a casual question, but it brought Qi Zizhen's thoughts back to reality.

He became more sober, and replied confidently and confidently: "I didn't drink it secretly, I drank it openly."

Song Yaoxu was amused by his serious nonsense, patted his head, sat down beside him, and asked with a smile, "Why did you come to me all of a sudden?"

"Celebrate your birthday with you." Qi Zizhen also had a slight smile in his eyes, "Of course, birthdays should be celebrated to be truly interesting."

Song Yaoxu put on a look of disbelief, and joked: "So Zizhen came to celebrate my birthday with me, just to occupy my bed and sleep?"

Hearing this, Qi Zizhen defended a little dissatisfied: "That's because you came back too slowly."

Song Yaoxu gave a low laugh, raised his hand and rubbed his head, and simply admitted his mistake: "Well, I was wrong."

The tone is gentle, and it sounds more coaxing.

Qi Zizhen was very useful, he took the initiative to move closer to Song Yaoxu, and whispered: "Happy birthday, Your Highness."

Song Yaoxu responded, and asked with a smile, "Shouldn't Zizhen also prepare a gift?"

Qi Zizhen looked up at him, with a smile in his eyes: "The National Master Tower is so poor that I don't have any money to buy any gifts. I don't know if I give myself to His Highness, would His Highness want it?"

Xu didn't expect him to say that, Song Yaoxu raised his brows lightly: "But, isn't Zizhen already mine?"

"It's not the same." Qi Zizhen replied in a low voice, turned sideways and kissed Song Yaoxu's lips softly, and lowered his voice.

"It is truly and completely occupied by His Highness."

Song Yaoxu's heart trembled slightly when he was teased by his light words, and when he looked up at him again, the smile in his eyes became meaningful: "Zizhen, do you know what your words mean?"

Qi Zizhen also raised his eyes to meet his gaze, the purest seriousness in his clear black eyes: "I know."

As soon as the three simple words fell, he was once again surrounded by the most familiar smell and warmth, and a layer of softness gradually leaned behind him.

It was the bed where Song Yaoxu rested every night, and it was full of the smell that belonged to Song Yaoxu alone.

Qi Zizhen slowly closed his eyes, as if he had fallen into a dream.

He is like a flat boat floating in the lotus pond. When you remove the lotus in the pond, you can see the whole picture of the boat and the sparkling clear lake.

The gentle warm wind is blowing on both sides of the boat, and the only sound on the quiet lake is the soft sound of the warm wind blowing water and splashing against the boat.

The circling ripples spread on the lake, and then dissipated.

The corners of Qi Zizhen's eyes were red, and he was gradually indulging in extreme tenderness.

"Your Highness..."

A drop of warm and clear tears slipped down, and quietly disappeared with a soft call when the love was deep.

……

On the [-]th day of the eighth month, at the right time, the night wind carried a cool breeze, and slowly blew a corner of a plain black cloak.

"Have you really decided to leave?"

Wei Lingyin stood in front of a carriage with a serious expression.

Qi Zizhen closed his cloak and lowered his eyelashes: "Well, I made up my mind a month ago."

His voice was a little hoarse, Wei Lingyin only thought that he was still reluctant, and asked puzzledly: "The people you care about are all in the capital, why do you insist on leaving?"

When Qi Zizhen heard his question, he didn't answer immediately. He turned to look at the wall of the capital city behind them, and he spoke after a long while.

"The walls of the capital city are too high."

His voice was very soft, as if he would disappear into the endless night if he was not careful.

Wei Lingyin looked at him, and sighed after a while: "Since it's decided, I won't stop you either. Get in the car."

After speaking, he stepped onto the horse in front of the carriage.

Qi Zizhen took a last look at the city wall as if reluctantly, turned around resolutely, walked into the carriage, and gradually moved away from the capital with the clear movement of the horse's hooves.

Away from everything he was once most familiar with.

At chen shi, the sky was already bright.

In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Song Yaoxu, who was dressed in bright yellow uniform, sat opposite Ning Qingwei, who was still dressed in black, and there were two notes between them.

One of the notes was left by Qi Zizhen to Ning Qingwei, saying that the date of return was uncertain, so Xu Xiaoqi entrusted him to take care of him.

And the other one is for Song Yaoxu, with a string of words that Song Yaoxu can't understand written on it——

"Free."

Ning Qingwei has seen Qi Zizhen's daily life in the future world, so he naturally knows what this sentence means. He picked it up and looked at it for a few times, then said solemnly: "It doesn't cost money."

Song Yaoxu: "...?"

Facing Song Yaoxu's suspicious gaze, Ning Qingwei coughed lightly, and finally got serious: "I'm just kidding. This is Fanbang language, which means - freedom."

"Freedom..." Song Yaoxu repeated these two words lightly, with an unclear expression in his eyes.

After a while, he suddenly hooked his lips into a very kind smile: "Then I understand, thank you Ning Guoshi."

Seeing his appearance, Ning Qingwei thought about it and still didn't dare to ask him what he understood.

He understood anyway.

Understand that someone is estimated to suffer.

The author has something to say: Song Yaoxu: (laughs) It’s quite free to run away after teasing.

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I finally ended the story hahahahahahahahaha

The next chapter transitions directly to three years later ww

In fact, there are detailed scene descriptions in front to imply Zizhen's yearning for freedom, but it should not have been noticed hh