Opposite the entrance hall

Later, Ji Si still left early, but unlike before, he left today with reason and evidence.

His Majesty asked him and Qi Ran to tidy up. He was worried that the journey would be far away and he didn't know how long it would take, so he specially granted them two days off to arrange their private affairs. When the day after tomorrow dawned, they had to take the paperwork and decree and set off. To Xiangzhou.

He is different from Qi Ran who has a family standing here, and a family who needs to be accompanied by a good life. There is an empty quarter mansion, and there is not even a person in the mansion who makes friends with each other. Take a bite of yourself, don't say good-bye, thank God for not letting them catch the horse's feet.

Therefore, there is nothing to worry about wherever I go, but I still enjoy myself happily. After all, I have free time off. If I don’t, I will become a fool.

After coming out of the yamen of the household department, Ji Si avoided the crowd and chose a small path, and then wandered to the road of Yong'an Wangfu. In the past few days, he inquired about some news with the head of the household department. of.

The master just said that after the death of the young prince Li Si, there were no people in the Yong'an Palace. Those servants who were housekeepers didn't know whether they were dismissed or died. In short, they were all slaves. It's a fate, and no one has the leisure time to worry about it.

When listening to his words, Ji Si couldn't see any emotion on his face, but he was already unhappy in his heart. He missed Uncle Friends and his family, but he didn't know where to get news about them, so he could only visit Yong'an Palace every now and then. , even if there is no news, it is comfortable to just take a stroll.

He ate a bowl of tofu curd syrup nearby, and the person who sold the syrup was an old woman. Seeing his dignified appearance in official uniform, he thought it was someone from Qingtian who gave twice as much as others, Ji Si was a little panicked , Thank you again and again.

Seeing Ji Si's modest and polite behavior, the old lady opened her mouth, "Your Excellency, you have worked hard."

Ji Si was a little embarrassed, so he had to force a smile, "It's not hard, serve the people."

As soon as this remark came out, the old lady was even more excited, boasting that he was the only one in the sky and nothing on the earth, and she didn't forget to say later, "If the officials in Dajin are like your lord, there will be fewer corrupt officials like Ji Si." , That's good, the tax was increased at the beginning of the year, and now the food grown is not enough for one's own food, and more than half of it has to be taken out, and life is not easy now."

Hearing this, Ji Si lowered his head and stirred the sugar water in the bowl with a spoon, without saying a word, and waited until the bowl was full before getting up to leave.

He had a lot of thoughts in his mind, his steps were slow, and he was not walking fast. When he arrived at Ji's mansion, the sky was already full of red clouds, and he looked quite beautiful, but Ji Si hadn't had time to take a look at the beautiful scenery. , was interrupted by Zhao Quan who hurried up.

"My lord is finally back."

"En." Ji Si replied coldly.

"It's really bad if your lord doesn't come back." Zhao Quan looked nervous.

Hearing what he said, Ji Si understood that something was wrong, and asked in a low voice, "But someone is looking for me?"

Zhao Quan looked around, leaned close to Ji Si, and said in a hoarse voice, "Someone is coming from above, and they have been waiting in the side hall for a long time."

Ji Si understood immediately, and ordered softly: "Have someone guard the door."

"Yes."

He pursed his lips and walked towards the side hall. There were a few attendants in regular clothes standing at the door. Seeing him coming, he nodded in salute, and opened the door as a gesture of invitation.

The attitudes of the two people on the left and right were extremely tough. He raised his head and glanced around, and saw Li Hongyang was facing the door through the crack of the opened door, his whole body shrouded in the sun, and he was sipping a cup of tea in his hand. Stuck in the dark, unable to see clearly, Ji Sili straightened his sleeves and raised his legs to step over the threshold and walked in. Then the door closed with a bang behind him, separating the inside and the outside into two worlds.

He tilted his head slightly, looked at the closed door, there was no light in the room, the red glow of the sunset outside came in, whether the whole room was filled with this warm afterglow, Ji Si's eyeballs rolled around quickly, and he began to count for a while Why are you arguing with Li Hongyang?

After standing there for a long time, there was no sound from the room, only the sound of teacups falling on the table after a while, followed by Li Hongyang's casual voice, "Have you stood enough?"

Ji Si frowned, and quickly greeted him, knelt down on the ground and kowtowed, "See Your Highness."

As soon as the words fell, Ji Si felt a pain in his chest. Before he could react, he was kicked to the ground by Li Hongyang. He grew up learning riding and archery since he was a child, and he is three points stronger than ordinary adult men.

With this kick, Ji Si gasped, sweating profusely in pain, unable to straighten up, a smell of fishy sweetness gushed out of his mouth, and he almost spat it out, but was forced back by himself.

His soul of pain was almost gone, but he still remembered that there was a living ancestor sitting in front of him, he gritted his teeth and forced himself up, continued to kneel on the ground and said in a panicked tone: "Your Highness, calm down, Your Highness, I don't know what this official did!" Why did His Highness make such a big fuss, even if His Highness offends the subordinate officials, let the subordinate officials know what the crime is!"

"Ji Si," Li Hongyang said in a fierce tone, "I thought you were an idiot, but I don't know that you are smarter than anyone else, and you are as obedient as a dog who can't bark. Today, I was bitten by you. How could my Highness not know you?" So much patience!"

Ji Si lowered his head, when he saw Li Hongyang's cannibalistic eyes when he ordered Qi Ran's name in front of the hall, he knew that this man had no idea what to do, maybe he was going to be furious.

But both in public and in private, he had to name Qi Ran, and it was expected that he would be so cruel, but he never thought that this man was so powerful, and he was sweating profusely from the pain.

This has to be done enough, Ji Si looks cowardly and fearful of death, and trembles when speaking, "Your Highness is wronged! Even if you give me ten guts, I won't dare to go against Your Highness. What kind of a bitch is this? The raised animals went to His Majesty and said bad things about the lower official, if there is a way to find him, the lower official will confront him face to face."

Li Hongyang sneered, bent over to Ji Si, gritted his teeth and said, "You are pretending to be confused, you are doing things for His Majesty, you really don't know if you are a prince? It's just because you still have sense in your heart." Get rid of you, don't be shameless, who brought you from Zhangzhou to Lin'an, who made you look like a human from a dog, and who you are today because of, you still remember, can you Climb to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Finance, and the crown prince will make you fall back again, do you want to try?"

"His Royal Highness has engraved Ji Si's great kindness and great virtue on his heart for a day and dare not forget it. His Highness has really wronged you. Your loyalty to you can be learned from the sun and the moon, and the world can show it. You must be loyal and half-hearted." Two hearts!" Ji Si said very sincerely.

"Oh," Li Hongyang said with a sneer at the corner of his mouth, "According to what you said, what you did in court today was to show your loyalty, and it was actually His Highness who wronged you?"

"I don't dare," Ji Si lowered his body even lower, "The lower official thinks that someone must provoke him, the purpose is to create a gap between His Highness and the lower official, so as to benefit from the fisherman. All the official actions are for His Highness, if there is a false statement, Ji Sitian will surely die from being struck by lightning."

Originally, Master Ji was already dying, so he was not lying.

He thought so in his heart.

"Then why don't you talk to the Crown Prince about the method of loyalty?" Li Hongyang withdrew his body, leaned back on the chair, folded his legs, put his right elbow on the handle of the chair, tilted his head and supported his face with his hands , raised an eyebrow and asked a question.

He kicked Ji Si's chest so badly, his limbs kneeling on the ground began to tremble uncontrollably, the thin sweat on his forehead slipped down his thin face, and twirled around his chin , dripping wobbly again, wetting the stone slabs on the ground with circular marks.

At this time, he lowered his head, bit his lower lip tightly, and uttered with pain, "Xiangzhou is a big trouble. Your Majesty not only needs to find the way, but also needs someone who can clear the way. Your Majesty guesses The reason why I ordered Xiaguan to go to Xiangzhou instead of other ministers is because compared with other ministers, Xiaguan has no family behind him, so it is easier to handle."

He changed his posture, raised his body slightly, took a breath and continued: "So if the officer accidentally hits the people of King Liang and King Rui, he will be causing trouble for himself and His Highness. Going to Xiangzhou this time is probably just to guard against the other party's shady hands. If you can't do the right thing, you will inevitably be punished when you return to Beijing, and you will get a bad name for your majesty, but if you order our own people , in His Majesty's eyes, that is collusion, and perhaps he still thinks that His Majesty employs nepotism and forms a clique for personal gain, which may offend His Majesty."

Li Hongyang's posture did not change, his eyes stayed on Ji Si's head for a long while before he said leisurely, "Even if it is true what you said, what do you mean by Qi Ziheng? Could it be that you two have some personal relationship in private? According to Zhao Quan, the two of you walked away recently. It's pretty close."

Hearing this, Ji Si raised his head to look at the person in front of him, and shouted out his grievances, "Your Highness, this is really a pot that fell from the sky, and it just hit the lower official's head impartially. The lower official and Qi Ziheng are nothing more than hypocrisy. Looking at the Qi family behind him, although the Qi family is no longer the Qi family it used to be, even if it loses power, it is still a model of the family. It's another ally."

After he finished speaking, he carefully observed Li Hongyang's expression, and saw that he had already believed five points, and continued: "Everything I said is true, Your Highness, please don't listen to the villain's slander, Your Highness is grateful to you, I will die for His Royal Highness."

"Remember what you said today," Li Hongyang withdrew his hand, took a sip of the cold tea, and said slowly, "On weekdays, you do some shady things, so just turn a blind eye and close the other. It's up to you, if you let the prince know that you really have other thoughts, you should know what the end will be."

Ji Si bowed his head and remained silent.

Li Hongyang didn't have to listen to his answer, he said to himself: "In consideration of your loyalty, I specially brought you some good things."

Then he shouted sharply to the outside: "Bring it in."

The door opened with a creak, and a large piece of warm light hit Ji Si's back. He could hear the footsteps behind him without raising his head. Li Hongyang responded, and the next moment he saw the man beside him bent down and put a bowl of soup in front of him. .

This bowl of soup is clear and oily. There are a few pieces of meat on the bottom of the bowl. The meat is red and tender. It doesn't look like the usual poultry meat. There are a few red goji berries floating on the surface, as if it was just out of the pot and still steaming. .

He glanced sideways slightly, his nostrils were filled with the fishy smell of oil, but he didn't know what it meant, so he could only continue to hang his head and remain calm.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Li Hongyang get up, his clothes rubbed against each other making rustling noises.

Li Hongyang took a step and stood next to Ji Si, lowered his voice and said: "There is a dog in the prince's mansion, and he is very obedient on weekdays. If you ask him to call him, he dare not stop barking, and if you ask him to sit down, he dare not lie on his stomach. I don't know. Why was he coaxed away by a bone from an outsider, so he sent guards to find him back overnight, but it was meaningless to keep this dog with two hearts, so he let the kitchen stew thinking that everyone worked hard day and night, so he shared his share Eat it, stew it for a whole night, so you can taste it."

He patted Ji Si on the shoulder, straightened up and walked out the door with his hands behind his back.

Seeing this, Zhao Quan, who was guarding outside, hurried up to greet him, bowed and said, "Your Highness is coming back."

"Well, this Ji Si is becoming more and more incomprehensible to people nowadays. You should pay more attention to it on weekdays and let people follow him. If there is anything wrong, please remember to let people come to tell you as soon as possible."

"The slave remembers."

Li Hongyang turned his head slightly to look at the person behind him who still hadn't got up, and said, "Go and watch him and drink the soup."

"Yes."

After seeing the people walking away, Zhao Quancai turned around and quickly walked into the room, bent over and stood beside Ji Si, and said in a leisurely tone: "Your Highness is gone, I want you to drink this soup quickly. The taste changes when it cools."

Ji Si didn't move.

Zhao Quan began to urge again, "My lord, hurry up and drink it. This is a reward from His Highness. Is it possible that Your Excellency is dissatisfied with His Highness?"

Hearing this, Ji Si curled his lips into a smile, quickly picked up the bowl, and poured a bowl of boiling hot soup straight at Zhao Quan. Before the latter had time to react, he felt the burning pain on his right cheek and neck, and fell to the ground Howled.

"What are you?" Ji Si propped himself up on the floor, his face full of anger, "I am the master and you are the slave, when will it be your turn to talk here, if you let me know that you are gossiping behind your back, I will kill you." Pull out your tongue, break your roots, get out!"

Zhao Quan was in so much pain that he couldn't even open his eyes, and ran out scrambling.

Ji Si fell down and sat down, clutching his chest, leaning against the table, and took out two copper plates from his chest with trembling hands, looked at them and sighed.

The author has something to say:

small theater:

Ji Si: If I lie, let Ji Sitian strike me with lightning!

Master Yuan Ji who was being struck by the thunder at this time.

Ji Si: If I say half a lie, I will surely die.

At this time, Mr. Yuan Ji was dying.

Ji Si: I... woo woo woo

Lord Ji: [full face full of anger] Shut up!

ps: I saw a reader who said that I haven’t seen what Ji Si is going to do. Here I would like to defend him. Ji Si is different from the traditional rebirth article. He has no cheats and needs to fight monsters to upgrade step by step. He was reborn six years later, which means he didn't know what happened in these six years at all, and the inheritance of the memory of this body was also intermittent, and he didn't inherit all the memories of Mr. Ji as soon as he was alive.

And even though Mr. Ji is almost three years old, Ji Si is actually only eighteen, so the top priority is not to show off his edge, but to collect useful information and make sure before he dares to make a real move. Then there will be chaos.

Please believe that Ah Yan is definitely not a little white rabbit. He has his own calculations and calculations. He has the blood of a general in his bones and the arrogance of a literati. He is a beast!

As usual, rest tomorrow.