Jiang Heng followed Jie Gui away from the Peach Blossom Palace, Jie Gui walked in front, Jiang Heng asked, "Are your hands better?"
Jie Gui replied: "Thank you for your concern." Then he moved his arm: "You are very skilled in medicine. Sure enough, Luo Xuan's apprentice is well-deserved."
Jiang Heng glanced at the peach trees beside him. It was almost summer in the south, and at this moment, the north was ready for spring. The Peach Blossom Palace was just like its name, and the garden was full of peach blossoms.
"Your aunt is from Yue," Jie Gui said casually, "after marrying to the north, he was concerned about his motherland, so the late king bought a lot of peach blossoms from Yuedi and showed her every spring."
"Yeah." Jiang Heng stood in the garden. He also hadn't seen the peach blossoms in Yuedi for many years. Once, Xundong was the territory of the ancient Yue Kingdom, and the peach blossoms were red. And the peach blossoms of Haige are another kind, white.
Jie Gui said: "When I was as old as you, I was used to being lawless in the south. It was also the previous king who took me in, and since then I have worked for the juice family."
Jiang Heng looked sideways at Jie Gui and said, "So actually, you are loyal to my great-aunt."
Jie Gui said: "I am loyal to the royal family surnamed Ju, let's go."
Jiang Heng didn't know why, but now he felt that in the huge Lama Temple, besides Geng Shu, it was Jie Gui.
"I heard today that you made a lot of nonsense in the city?" After Jie Gui returned to Yongdu, he became a lot calmer. He had calmed down and his tone had changed.
"The idiom "Da Fang Jue Ci" is well used," Jiang Heng praised. "There seem to be quite a few people eavesdropping. Can you afford to send so many spies in Luoyan City?"
Jie Gui said: "Fen Lu? You think too beautifully, and let the common people expose each other is not the end? It's a matter of one sentence."
"Yes, yes," Jiang Heng said with genuine admiration, "disrespect."
Jiang Heng knew very well that Jie Gui was reminding him that there are ears on the wall, some words should not be said nonsense, and it is best not to look at them.
"Do you regret not coming?" Jie Gui said again.
Jiang Hengzheng thought about what he had said before, and then came back to his senses and said, "No, how could it be? Family reunion is a joy for the family. I am very happy."
Jie Gui: "Do you think your great-aunt likes you?"
"I like it." Jiang Heng replied.
"Do you really like it?" Jie Gui said casually, "Didn't you want to beat you because you stabbed her son?"
Jiang Heng smiled and said, "If you hate me, you probably won't see me today, right?"
Jiang Heng didn't know why, but he always felt that the Empress Dowager Jiang wanted to say a lot today, perhaps to protect him, so she didn't speak. That was the demeanor of his mother that he was most familiar with, and he could clearly feel that no matter how strict his mother was to him, she still loved him in her heart and cherished him as her life.
But she never said that she loved him. She concealed it for many years, for fear that once she showed her love, it would shake her determination and make her heart weak, which she could not bear.
Empress Dowager Jiang is also covering up, covering up her love for him.
"It's here." Jie Gui took Jiang Heng to the East Palace, and temporarily cleaned up a room. It was deserted, and the palace staff were hurriedly cleaning.
"I asked them to bring the meal, and you can eat here." Jie Gui said, "this is a good place, take care of yourself, little Taishi."
When Jie Gui left, he gave Jiang Heng another meaningful look.
In the Peach Blossom Hall, Empress Dowager Jiang did not let Geng Shu leave, and said, "Just use it here, everyone has been waiting for you for a whole day, we have already used it."
Geng Shu had to sit in front of the case, but he was thinking about Jiang Heng. The Queen Mother's move made him clearly feel that Jiang Heng was excluded - they were one family, and Jiang Heng was another person.
This made him very sad, and he wanted to get up several times and leave without saying a word, but Gu Nian thought that the Queen Mother and Princess Wuying had treated him well, Geng Shu still held back.
"We've heard about what happened in the south," Jue Ling said, "Then why is Ji Shuang so mad? Still want to kill you?"
Geng Shu was silent, opened the food box, and picked his chopsticks. Today is the vernal equinox, and peach noodles are prepared in the palace.
Prince Taki only stared at Geng Shu, aware of his dissatisfaction.
"I'm going to call Heng'er over here." Prince Taki said.
"No need." Geng Shu replied casually. He knew very well that Jiang Heng refused to recognize Juicong as his adoptive father. The Ju family treated him like this, and there was no problem with the etiquette. It was Jiang Heng who first stated that he did not want to become a family with them. people. Abandoning the identity of a prince, Jiang Heng is a distant cousin, relatives have the rules of relatives, and family members have the rules of family.
This estrangement is not only the estrangement between Jiang Heng and the Ju family, but also seems to be the estrangement between Geng Shu and Jiang Heng, which makes him more and more sad.
Prince Taki looked at Geng Shu with concern, turned to his side, lay slightly in front of him eating the table, and looked up at him with a smile in his eyes.
The Queen Mother Jiang said, "Miao'er."
Geng Shu picked out a few noodles, and after a few bites, he lost his appetite.
Empress Dowager Jiang said: "It's all predestined."
As she said that, she sighed and said, "When you live to my age, look away. What should come will come eventually. No one can escape, and what you owe will always be repaid."
Ju Ling said: "Mother!"
Geng Shu didn't understand what Empress Dowager Jiang meant. To be honest, the Ju family didn't owe the Geng family.
Prince Taki only felt ominous when he heard the words, so he interrupted and said, "I heard that Heng Er has read a lot of books."
Geng Shu: "Well, he only needs to read a book once, and he will never forget it."
Jue Ling said: "Impossible."
Geng Shu said: "You can test the school he is, I won't lie to you."
The Queen Mother Jiang was silent and thoughtful.
So the topic shifted to "Is there such a person in the world?" Prince Taki said, "I believe it, auntie, just because you haven't seen it, you can't think that there is no such person."
"Fairy Wood"
"Why haven't I seen it before?" Ju Ling said, "I just said that he doesn't look like him."
Prince Taki said: "There is a spring meeting in the East Palace, so why don't you call him? Dad said it himself, Heng'er is quite good. With him, many headaches can be solved. I have to find a time to be good. Ask him for advice."
Geng Shu said, "Ask him when he's empty. He's here for this. I'm done eating, so I'll leave first."
Prince Taki said, "Where are you going, brother? See Heng'er? I'll go too."
Geng Shu said goodbye to Empress Jiang and turned to leave.
Ju Ling was a little unconvinced, but she always believed what Ju Cong said.
"Brother Wang said that he is a good man for governing the country," Jue Ling said to Empress Dowager Jiang. "It's just that he is too young, so I don't think it's reliable."
Empress Dowager Jiang was always in a trance and did not answer.
Jiang Heng sneezed a few times at the residence, and the palace servants didn't clean up, they cleaned up the dust in the palace. When everyone was gone, he had eaten and lay down on the couch. The sky was drowsy, the days were short in the north, and the nights were long. After a while, there was a watch in the palace, and it was time to go to sleep.
Jiang Heng was also very tired on the way, so he simply took off his robe and lay down on the couch.
"Heng'er." Geng Shu came to the couch and whispered.
Jiang Heng was fast asleep, Geng Shu lowered his head and kissed his face, Yu Jue hung down from his neck and pressed against Jiang Heng's side face.
"Heng'er?" Geng Shu shook him again.
Jiang Heng woke up in a daze, Geng Shu hugged him, made him sit up, and said in a low voice, "I've packed everything, let's go now, I'll take the horse out at night, come here. ,wear clothes."
"Where to?" Jiang Heng asked blankly.
Geng Shu said, "If you don't live here anymore, I'll take you away. You can go wherever you want."
"Hey, don't make trouble." Jiang Heng was depressed when he was woken up, and said, "Go to sleep, I'm so sleepy."
Geng Shu whispered: "I'm sorry, Heng'er, I didn't know they would do this..."
Jiang Heng asked in confusion: "What's wrong? Brother!"
Geng Shu said, "I know you're uncomfortable..."
"It's not uncomfortable," Jiang Heng understood, and said, "How can I be so uncomfortable... Stop sleeping, go back to your room?"
Geng Shu still wanted to persevere, but Jiang Heng didn't want to pay attention to him and turned over.
Geng Shu sat alone and was stunned for a while. He was full of depression and had nowhere to vent. He was wronged by Jiang Heng. Life.
Then, Geng Shu slapped himself hard.
Jiang Heng was startled, and when he heard the loud slap, he suddenly woke up completely.
"What are you doing?!" Jiang Heng sat up suddenly.
Geng Shu looked at Jiang Heng with anger and unwillingness in his eyes.
Jiang Heng suddenly laughed and hugged him.
"It's okay," Jiang Heng said, "I really didn't take it to heart."
Jie Gui's voice suddenly sounded outside the room.
"His Royal Highness, in the middle of the night," Jie Gui said in his slow and rude tone again, "Is it an expert method?"
Jiang Heng suddenly noticed something was wrong and said loudly, "Master Jie, are you staying up late at night and eavesdropping? Don't you need to accompany your life?"
Jie Gui didn't answer, obviously he left, and Jiang Heng immediately realized that every move in Lama Temple was being monitored and monitored, so Geng Shu restrained a little.
"Don't do this," Jiang Heng said, "Brother, I like it here, I really like it."
Geng Shu looked at Jiang Heng and said, "I know this is not your truth."
"This is my truth." Jiang Heng said seriously, "Sleeping here, I don't know why, but I always feel that my father is by my side. Do you know who used to live in this room?"
"Who?" Geng Shu was confused.
"This is the East Palace," Jiang Heng said with a smile. "In the past, Prince Jue Lang lived in Ju Taki's room, and Dad lived here."
This surprised Geng Shu, he looked around. Jiang Heng was wearing a single coat, sitting on the couch, and said seriously: "If you think so, I am an assassin who stabbed the monarch of the Yong Kingdom. I almost stabbed him to death with a sword, and also caused the Yong Kingdom to lose the Yubi Pass. I am here today. When I get to the palace, the court and the opposition must be very dissatisfied with me. The Queen Mother is already magnanimous if she doesn't pursue this matter. You let her greet the person who almost killed her son. How will so many people in Yong Kingdom know about it?"
Geng Shu sighed and held Jiang Heng's hand.
Jiang Heng said again: "When I become an official and you regain the Yubi Pass, even if you make up for the previous losses, they will naturally treat me differently by then. You said that Princess Wuying and the Queen Mother treated me coldly. Instead, I felt that this was deliberately done for people to see.”
"It wasn't your intention to assassinate." Geng Shu said.
"It was my original intention to assassinate," Jiang Heng said with a smile, "to be open-minded and upright, what's there to shirk?"
Jiang Heng gestured to Geng Shu, that's what happened. Does he not know who Juicong is? of course I know. Doesn't he know that he is Geng Yuan's son? He also knew. Choose to assassinate Juicong, this is the original intention.
Geng Shu thought about it and accepted it.
"Then I will definitely retake the Yubi Pass as soon as possible," Geng Shu said, "I will go to my father and tell you to join the army."
Jiang Heng laughed, thinking that what you think is too simple, this is not something that can be solved by a war. But he didn't say anything to Geng Shu, he patted him and said, "Go to sleep, why didn't Prince Taki come?"
"He wanted to see you, so I told him not to come," Geng Shu said, "let you have a good rest."
"I like him quite a bit," Jiang Heng reiterated. "It's not easy to treat him better."
Prince Taki lost his mother since he was a child. Although Empress Dowager Jiang and Princess Wuying loved him in every possible way and compensated him, Jiang Heng knew very well that he was also lonely.
What Geng Shu hopes most from the bottom of his heart is that Jiang Heng can get along well with Prince Taki and be happy. But he always felt that this was unlikely. It was very likely that Jiang Heng and Crown Prince Taki would be jealous and grab him.
But when Jiang Heng said this, Geng Shu felt a little lost, as if he was not as important as he thought.
"Come on." Geng Shu whispered.
He was still a little worried and wanted to say something, but Jiang Heng put a finger on his lips.
"Go to sleep," Jiang Heng whispered, "I'm really sleepy, brother, let's talk about it tomorrow, I will always have only one you in my heart, you must be happy."
This is Jiang Heng's truth. When he came to Luoyan, it was for Geng Shu, otherwise he would not choose the juice house, which is why Geng Shu was uncomfortable.
Geng Shu nodded, touched his forehead, and kissed his face again, letting him fall asleep.