worthless [rebirth]

Not long after Jiang Chi was left in anger by Chen Ling, Xiao Tao came to deliver dinner.As usual, it is a bowl of soft and glutinous millet porridge and a few light and refreshing side dishes.

"After sleeping all day, Your Highness must be hungry." Xiaotao said with a smile. She knew that Jiang Chi had been with Chen Ling all day, and thought that Chen Ling would finally give in to Jiang Chi, and the relationship between the two would improve. .

Chen Ling pulled the clothes around the collar tighter to cover the new marks left on his body last night, sat up and leaned against the quilt carried by Xiao Tao, and said, "I'm a little hungry, the porridge you made is delicious, It makes people panic to miss a meal." Then he took the bowl handed by Xiaotao, and seriously ate the porridge with downcast eyes.

"..." Xiaotao was stunned for a moment, then looked at Chen Ling who was drinking porridge, laughed "poof", and said, "Is Your Highness praising me?"

"It's just the truth." Chen Ling said flatly, tasting the aroma of porridge.

Xiaotao said: "Your Highness used to cook all the meals, and His Highness hasn't praised me yet."

"Oh?" Chen Ling was stunned for a moment, looked up at Xiao Tao's innocent appearance, and smiled.He returned the empty bowl to Xiaotao, and said, "Didn't I praise you before? I forgot."

Xiaotao took the bowl, frowned and thought about it, and said, "Your Highness, I feel that you are not the same as before these few days."

Jiang Chi also said that he had changed, but Chen Ling didn't feel that he was different from before.Maybe it's because he has a 19-year-old body and a 22-year-old heart. He has experienced a lot, and he is always a bit more vicissitudes and sophistication than an ignorant and childish boy.

Counting it, the current self is actually about the same age as Jiang Chi.

"Your Highness talked a lot more than the past few days, and his temper has improved a lot." Xiaotao said: "A few days ago, you didn't say you praised the delicious porridge made by the servants, didn't they all shout for a hunger strike? Once, even I overturned the hot porridge in the hand of the servant."

Chen Ling is a person who holds grudges but doesn't remember good ones. In the past three years, he only remembered how Jiang Chi tortured him, but he forgot how Xiaotao took care of him in the first place.Naturally, he didn't remember that he had angered Xiaotao because of his temper with Jiang Chi and scalded her.

In the past, he was ignorant. Although he was a prince, he didn't know how to take care of the overall situation. He only wanted to leave Jiang Guo and take revenge on Jiang Chi, but he forgot to protect himself and the people around him from harm.Thinking that the only person who was willing to help him, the one who treated her best was Xiaotao, and even Xiaotao was beaten to death by Jiang Chi for helping him escape, Chen Ling felt uncomfortable.

"I'm sorry...Xiaotao." Chen Ling apologized, "In the future, you have to take good care of yourself and protect yourself, you know?"

"?" Xiaotao didn't understand why Chen Ling apologized, and asked her to protect herself. She thought it was because of Chen Ling's burn last time, so she smiled and said, "The last time the burn was gone for a long time. And Xiaotao is you Your servant, who will bully me except you?"

Chen Ling shook his head with a wry smile, without explaining anything.

There are some things he can't say, and Xiaotao won't believe him.

After dinner, the sky had completely darkened. Xiaotao was worried that Chen Ling would still be unable to sleep as in the past few days, so she asked him if he wanted to continue lighting the soothing incense.

Chen Ling slept for almost a day and a night, and now she doesn't feel much sleepiness.

"Look at me! I forgot that Your Highness just woke up." Xiao Tao slapped her forehead and said, thinking that Jiang Chi stayed with Chen Ling day after day, her face turned red.Fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls are just beginning to understand sex, so they inevitably think too much.

Seeing Xiao Tao blushing unconsciously, Chen Ling immediately guessed what she was thinking, so he coughed lightly in embarrassment.

"That..." Xiaotao felt embarrassed, her mind turned quickly, she found another topic, and said with a smile: "Since Your Highness is not sleepy, I will find you some books to read. I was cleaning the study the other day and saw something There are a lot of playbooks left by the former empress."

"Playbook?" Chen Ling grew up in the palace since he was a child. He only heard that some folk artist wrote a certain kind of article called "Playbook". It contained mostly fabricated and interesting stories, but he had never seen it with his own eyes. However, when Jing Xiaotao said it, she couldn't help being interested, and said, "Go and get some."

"Hey!" Xiao Tao responded happily, and ran to get a stack of about five or six books for Chen Ling, put them on the low table beside the bed, and said, "Your Highness, take your time."

Xiaotao put down her hands and left. Chen Ling looked curiously at the books of different thicknesses on the low table. The cover was made of ordinary materials. At first glance, it looked like straw paper made by folks. I really didn't know what the contents would be.

Chen Ling picked up the top book, "Forgive me, fall in love with me." Chen Ling read the words on the cover, and raised his eyebrows involuntarily.What kind of name is it? It's too straightforward. Chen Ling has already guessed what is written in the book before reading the content.

However, he still opened the book, which told about a rich businessman who made his fortune by selling illicit salt in the south of the Yangtze River. He fell in love with an impartial imperial envoy. They can't be together, but the young master stalks him with his super thick skin, and one day he impresses the imperial envoy. Just as the two of them are about to confirm their relationship, the structural censor finds out that the young master's father is the one he wants to capture this time. People... After repeated misunderstandings and grievances, the censor resigned from office and his son lived in seclusion in the mountains.

Although the story was a bit bloody, but the writing style of the story was very good, and the plot was full of ups and downs. Chen Ling actually read the book with great interest while complaining about the bloody plot.

An hour had passed by now, and it was time to go to bed, but he wasn't sleepy yet, so he picked through the pile of books again, wanting to read an interesting one.The titles of the books were all similar, as straightforward as "forgive me, fall in love with me", but it was the last book without a name that successfully caught Chen Ling's attention.

"This is..." Chen Ling picked up the book with interest, leaned lazily on the quilt, and opened the first page, "Ah!" After seeing the contents of the book, Chen Ling couldn't hold back He cried out and threw the book far away.

There is not a single word in the book, it is all pictures, there is a man, two men, and a group of men's nudes!This is not a drama book, but a erotic book that specifically describes the sex positions of Long Yang!

With a quick glance just now, Chen Ling saw the above poses. Although he and Jiang Chi had used them before, it was the first time that he was exposed so straightforwardly. His cheeks were as red as a monkey's butt.I complained in my heart that Xiaotao didn't even look at what books they were, and just brought them all for him.

Then the door opened.

Chen Ling was complaining about Xiaotao in his heart, thinking that it was Xiaotao who came in, so he couldn't help but say a few words to her.

"Xiaotao, all you gave me is..." Just as he opened his mouth, he turned his head and suppressed the words abruptly.

It wasn't Xiaotao who came in, but Jiang Chi!

"!" Jiang Chi's eyes collided inadvertently, and Chen Ling suddenly felt guilty.He thought that Jiang Chi would not come back these two days after he left angrily, but he didn't expect that the other party would go and come back, and he was followed by a little eunuch holding a stack of papers in his arms, it seemed that Jiang Chi was going to review the memorial here .

"..." Jiang Chi just glanced at Chen Ling lightly, but didn't stop his eyes on him. He waved to the little eunuch behind him, and said, "Put these notebooks on the desk over there."

"Yes, Your Majesty." The little eunuch put a stack of folders on the desk, bowed his head and left.

Chen Ling watched Jiang Chi walk from the door to the desk, watched him slowly sit on the chair, watched him pick up a memorial to review...I always felt that something was wrong with Jiang Chi, wasn't he angry?Didn't they just argue during the day?

"..." Realizing that a gaze had been falling on him, Jiang Chi shifted his gaze from the memorial to Chen Ling, and asked lightly, "Why aren't you sleeping?"

Jiang Chi's voice sounded a little deep, but it didn't look like he was angry.

With a shrinking gaze, Chen Ling quickly turned his head to avoid Jiang Chi's gaze, and said softly, "I...I slept too much during the day...well, I'm not sleepy yet."

Chen Ling felt a little guilty. The picture book he threw far away on the bed was like a dynamite bag that would explode at any moment. Chen Ling wasn't sure what Jiang Chi would think of himself if he knew he was looking at that thing.Chen Ling was sitting on pins and needles on the bed, almost sweating from anxiety, but he couldn't reach the book, so he could only hope that Jiang Chi would leave quickly.

Jiang Chi obviously had no intention of leaving. After saying a word, he stopped talking to Chen Ling and carefully reviewed the memorial.

Seeing that Jiang Chi couldn't leave for a while, Chen Ling had no choice but to wait for him to leave. He picked up an opera book at hand, flipped through it absently, and sneaked a glance at Jiang Chi from time to time to see if he had finished approving his memorial.

Although he was seriously reviewing the memorial, Jiang Chi still devoted some energy to Chen Ling.

From Jiang Chi's angle, he could just see the position of the bed from the corner of his eye. Chen Ling was only wearing an off-white jacket with the neckline half open casually. He was leaning against the bed, his long black hair not tied up. , with a hint of laziness in the mess, the look of holding a book looks serious and cute.

Jiang Chi still didn't know that his eyes had softened, he raised the corners of his lips and smiled to read the memorial again.

The story in this playbook was more exciting than the last one. At first, Chen Ling remembered to observe Jiang Chi, but later he got so absorbed in it that he didn't realize that Jiang Chi was watching him all the time.Until the end of the story, Chen Ling realized that it was a tragedy that tortured people to death, and his nose became sore and his eyes were red.

The protagonist's situation is somewhat similar to his, and that person is really dead, with no chance of resurrection.Chen Ling wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve. At some point, he was already crying.

Jiang Chi was looking at the memorial when he accidentally saw Chen Ling wiping tears from the corner of his eye. He frowned, put down the memorial in his hand, and said, "What's wrong?"

"Ah?" Chen Ling was still immersed in the story, and suddenly he was startled when he heard Jiang Chi's words, and then remembered that his original purpose was to find a way to get Jiang Chi to leave quickly.After calming down, Chen Ling said softly, "It's okay...I might be sleepy."

"Sleep when you're sleepy, you can read the book tomorrow." Jiang Chi said, as if explaining something, he said: "I still have a few books that I haven't finished reading."

"Why didn't the emperor go to the imperial study room to approve the memorial?" Chen Ling asked, pretending to pack up the books, and then spread the quilt.

Jiang Chi raised his eyes to look at Chen Ling, and immediately saw his guilt. Jiang Chi pretended to be careless and said, "Why, I'm here to disturb your rest?"

"No, no." Chen Ling denied, dragged his broken legs and quickly lay down on the bed, pulled the quilt over his head, only two eyes were exposed, and said: "Your... Your Majesty, because of Wu's affairs, this You must be busy for a few days, right?"

So hurry back to your room and sleep.

"Fortunately, there are already some clues." Jiang Chi answered Chen Ling's question seriously, but he was wondering where the other party made a mistake. Not only did he not show his face, but he also took the initiative to chat.

Are you interested?Chen Ling frowned. He remembered that the murderer who assassinated the special envoy of Wu State in his previous life was caught very early, but in the end he found out that the mastermind behind the scenes had been ignored by everyone.At first, the one caught was just a scapegoat, but the real murderer was Jiang Chi's cousin Huainan Wang Jiang Sheng.

Later, Jiang Sheng fled to Weiguo, and the troops of the Weiguo attacked Jiangguo. Although Jiangguo won in the end, he also lost tens of thousands of soldiers.

From the current point of view, Jiang Chi's eyebrows should be just the scapegoat.

"Has the emperor ever suspected King Huainan?" Chen Ling blurted out, "Maybe he knows much more about this case than the emperor."

"..." Jiang Chi slowly put down the memorial, and said slowly, "What did you say?"

"..." After Chen Ling finished speaking, he realized that he had said something wrong, and regretted it to death.Why is he talking too much to tell Jiang Chi to be on guard against Jiang Sheng in advance, so that the two of them, uncle and nephew, can kill each other!

"That..." Chen Ling couldn't think of an explanation, so he covered his head with a quilt and said, "I'm tired."

After all, it's a major national event, so Chen Ling probably won't just talk about it, he must know what to say, Jiang Chi is not willing to let it go, he got up and walked to the bed to lift Chen Ling's quilt, said: "You have nothing to explain Is it?"

"I guess." Chen Ling hugged the quilt tightly, vowing to defend her "innocence" to the death.

Jiang Chi narrowed his eyes, pinched Chen Ling's chin, and said in a cool voice, "Zi Ling, you're like this...I have no choice but to treat you as one of the assassins."

"Because..." Chen Ling tried his best to find an excuse.

"Because of what?" Jiang Chi waited patiently. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a picture album on the inside of the bed, and his eyes moved there.

Seeing that something was wrong, Chen Ling hurriedly lifted the quilt and covered the album.

Seeing that Chen Ling reacted so strongly, Jiang Chi let go of Chen Ling's chin, went to get the album, and said indifferently: "Zi Ling, do you know that there is a word called wanting to cover up, and another saying that there is no silver 300 taels here?" ?” As he spoke, he picked up the album, and the corners of his eyes twitched after seeing the contents clearly.

Chen Ling's face turned from white to blue, and then from blue to red, changing several times until his ears became hot, and he hurriedly lowered his head.

Jiang Chi threw away the album, gently raised Chen Ling's chin, and said with a playful smile, "Zi Ling, how many secrets do you have that I don't know?"

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