Ji Yunxi glanced at him meaningfully, skipped the topic, and frowned slightly: "The prince and the seventh brother are leaving the capital, I have never received any news."
Ji Yunxi arranged a lot of people in Shangjing, but she didn't know about it until the prince was seriously injured tonight.
Even if this matter was carried out in secret, the prince clearly went to Cangshan to pray for blessings. But even Ji Yunxi never knew about the prince going to Cangshan to pray.
Hearing her mention this matter, Wu Weian turned slightly serious.
It was late at night, and the courtyard was silent, with the occasional sound of insects chirping.
The wind blows, the trees are shadowed, and all sounds are silent.
Darkness cast a ghastly veil on the trees that were alive during the day.
Wu Weian looked at that and said, "I haven't received it either."
"However." He turned his tone and turned his head to look at Ji Yunxi, "I cut off most of the communication with Shangjing."
Ji Yunxi: "?"
The two walked side by side toward the bedroom, neither walking fast.
Wu Weian: "As soon as we leave, the sage will definitely conduct a major investigation on the capital city. I can't wait to dig out our eyeliners and solve them one by one. Therefore, I ordered before leaving and cut off most of the contact. After all, it is like the matter of the prince. We have received news that the crown prince has also left Beijing, so it is not very useful to know."
Of course, the most important thing is that Wu Weian is not necessarily a prince.
He took all the people who were important to him with him.
Those who could not be taken away, such as his father and second younger brother, he had also instructed in advance to let them be careful while he was away from Beijing, and they should not go to other places except the home and Liubu.
If he can't even think of a way to refuse, he has no choice but to go, and if something really happens, Wu Weian can't control it.
His father was his elder, and although his second brother was a few years younger than him, he was already at the age of starting a family and starting a business.
No one can protect anyone for a lifetime, everyone must have the ability to protect themselves.
Without the ability to protect themselves, an accident will happen sooner or later, and Wu Weian will at most avenge them afterwards.
Ji Yunxi sighed and understood what Wu Weian meant: "I'm just a little worried about Big Brother."
Wu Weian chuckled: "Madam is worried about big brother, it is better to worry about me."
In his opinion, Ji Mingxi is the least to worry about.
This man has always been the best at how to protect himself.
And now, the younger brothers and sisters of the Ji family are not in Shangjing, nor is the prince, Ji Mingxi doesn't have to worry too much, I am afraid that life will be more brisk.
*
Shangjing.
Ji Mingxi was sitting in front of the case and was concentrating on writing.
Outside, officials from the Ministry of Personnel came and went leisurely, chatting and amusing.
The university scholar who was friends with Ji Mingxi came in with a worried look on his face.
He closed the door and sighed when he saw Ji Mingxi: "Alas."
Ji Mingxi was still writing without looking up.
The great scholar walked over and said, "The Ministry of Personnel has been very busy recently? But I see that everyone is relaxed outside, so why is it just you—"
But when he got close, he saw the Buddhist scriptures Ji Mingxi was copying, and the great scholar was speechless.
"Oh, that's why you are so calm, Brother Mingxi." The high school scholar sighed again, "Everyone has been worried recently, and even the empress is sick."
"It's now from spring to summer, the weather is getting hotter, and it's normal to catch wind and cold." Ji Mingxi finished copying a Buddhist scripture, put down the brush, carefully picked up the piece of paper, and put it on the table by the window to dry.
Ji Mingxi followed Ji Mingxi's eyes and said, "Brother Mingxi! I haven't heard from the prince for several days now. How many people have been sent by the empress to investigate, but there is no news yet."
Ji Mingxi said with relief: "No news is the best news."
Bachelor: "Ming Shuang is also here, brother Ming Xi, are you really not worried?"
Hearing this, Ji Mingxi flicked the hem of his clothes, sat down in front of the desk again, and grinded for himself: "Ming has come to love and traveled abroad. He has many strong people and a lot of connections. Thinking about his ability, there should be nothing out of it. event."
The scholar spread his hands evenly and shook it vigorously: "What if?"
"If that's the case, as an older brother, there's nothing I can do for him." Ji Mingxi picked up the brush again and looked at the scholar, "Now, do you know what our best method is?"
"What?" asked the Grand Master.
"Copy the Buddhist scriptures and pray for them." Ji Ming said happily.
Bachelor: "..."
*
The prince woke up three days later.
After waking up, the prince was a little unhappy when he learned that all his attendants had been wiped out.
But the most chilling thing for the prince is that the person behind this is his father.
The man in black who shot the last arrow at him had those eyes that the prince was very familiar with.
On the way Ji Mingshuang carried him and fled all the way to Liangzhou, the crown prince thought back and forth for a long time, and finally remembered these familiar eyes, which he had seen by chance beside his father.
That's the dark guard who protects the safety of the father.
Usually in Shangjing, when he encounters problems and doubts in his heart, the prince loves to go to Ji Mingxi.
As long as you talk to Ji Mingxi, the other party will explain a few words, and the prince will be much better.
But now in Liangzhou, although there is no Ji Mingxi beside the prince, there are three Ji family children.
The prince and Ji Mingxi were the same year, more than six years older than these younger siblings. He doesn't have much interaction with the younger siblings of the Ji family, but for Ji Mingxi's sake, he has always regarded these people as his younger siblings.
I can't talk to Ji Mingxi, but it's not bad to talk to Ji Mingxi's younger brothers and sisters.
Yunxi was smart since he was a child, and the prince knew it.
But he was not the first to look for her. After all, there is a difference between men and women. He has a prince concubine, and she also has a husband-in-law. In addition, his mother has often asked him to marry her since he was a child, so the prince has been avoiding taboos all these years.
For fear of getting too close, the mother thought that there was an opportunity, so she did some inappropriate things.
The prince knew the temperament of the Ji family, if his mother did that, the relationship between him and the Ji family would be really estranged.
It just so happened that Ji Mingshuang came to visit.
The prince sat up from the bed.
Ji Ming Shuangxu gave a hand: "His Royal Highness is still not fully injured, please be careful."
The prince sat in front of the bed and waved his hand: "Gu Wu Han, Gu Zheng wants to find you."
"What's the matter, Your Highness?" Ji Mingshuang asked.
The prince looked respectful and somewhat restrained, Ji Mingshuang was full of emotions for a while and didn't know where to start.
On the way to escape, the prince and Ji Mingshuang mostly stared at each other silently.
The prince first greeted tentatively, "Thanks to you, Mingshuang, for this journey. If it weren't for you, Gu would no longer be in this world."
Ji Mingshuang said politely: "His Royal Highness is wrong, protecting the prince is originally a low-ranking official."
The prince paused and said again: "That said, if something happens to you, I don't know how to explain to your eldest brother."
Ji Mingshuang smiled: "If the eldest brother is here, he will definitely risk his life to save His Highness."
Prince: "You fought with those people, what did you see?"
Ji Mingshuang: "These people are strong in martial arts and cooperate with each other tacitly. They should be carefully raised by someone."
And to be able to raise such a team of people, that person's identity is definitely not ordinary.
And come straight to the prince, I am afraid it has something to do with the throne.
However, Ji Mingshuang didn't say anything.
Ji Mingshuang has been wandering around in the rivers and lakes these years, and there are indeed many friends, but Ji Mingshuang will not be too close to people.
In the end, the prince said nothing and let Ji Mingshuang step back.
He and Ji Mingshuang couldn't chat.
The prince is a restless person.
Unlike in the Prince's Mansion, in the backyard of the Liangzhou Mansion, no one paid any attention to him.
He is very relaxed.
For the first few days, the prince was recovering from his injuries, so it was only inconvenient to travel.
A few days later, after his injuries were almost completely healed, the prince couldn't stay any longer, so he took the initiative to walk out of the side room.
As soon as he left the side room, he met a servant who was sweeping the floor under the corridor.
The prince stood for a while, watching the servant sweep the floor, and was surprised when he saw it.
This little guy swept the floor very neatly and neatly.
This made the prince feel very good. He walked over and asked, "What's your name?"
The servant raised his head, glanced at him, and gave him a salute: "Xuezhu."
Prince: "How old is this year?"
Xuezhu: "Fourteen."
The prince nodded: "But the Wu family has children?"
Xuezhu frowned.
What is home birth
But he didn't really want to talk to the prince, he wanted to sweep the floor quietly, so he nodded.
Xuezhu thought to himself, can this prince leave now
However, the prince asked again: "How is the Wu family treating the servants? What do you eat three meals a day on weekdays? Do you have moon silver?"
Snow Bamboo: "..."
He opened his mouth, grabbed the speed and swept the ground, hurriedly took the broom and said hello and left in a hurry.
It was as if there were evil dogs chasing him behind him.
It has been a long time since I chatted with anyone, and the prince who had been at leisure for a long time: "..."
The prince subconsciously touched his wound and walked forward again.
I happened to see Ji Mingyan squatting on the ground with a woman in her thirties, looking at the grass.
The prince walked over quickly, but he was injured and couldn't squat down, so he could only half-bend, followed for a while, but didn't see anything: "What are you doing?"
The two below raised their heads in unison.
Ji Mingyan has never been a well-behaved person, and has no self-consciousness to salute: "Your Highness, are you healed?"
The prince smiled: "Yes, it's almost there."
The poisonous lady swept the prince's wound with her eyes and said, "Since Xuezhu can embroider, the wound has become better and better."
The prince paused: "Xuezhu? But that sweeper?"
Poisonous Lady: "Hmm."
The prince was shocked: "It was him who bandaged the wound of Gu Tu's arrow that day?"
Poisonous Lady: "Yes."
Ji Mingyan: "Your Highness! Originally I wanted to wrap you up myself, but Mingshuang wouldn't let me!"
The prince remembered that he and Ji Mingxi went to Faen Temple to pray for blessings.
When he was climbing the mountain, Ji Mingxi accidentally fell, and his arm was cut and bleeding.
As a result, on the second day after returning home, the prince saw that Ji Mingxi's arm injury not only did not heal, but became more serious.
He asked Mingxi, and the other party said that his sixth brother had bandaged him by himself.
The prince covered his wounds and looked at the two carefully.
He found that the two were watching the ants move.
Forget it, he and Ji Mingyan probably won't be able to chat together.
In the end, the prince went to Ji Yunxi.
*
Wu Weian set up two swings in the forest behind their bedroom.
This afternoon, the sun is slightly drunk.
Ji Yunxi had lunch, took a few steps outside, sat on the swing with a book and basked in the sun,
The prince approached and stopped three steps away from Ji Yunxi.
Seeing the person coming, Ji Yunxi wanted to stand up and salute, but the prince pressed his hand: "There is no need to salute here, how you get along with Mingxi at home is how you get along with Gu."
Ji Yunxi smiled slightly: "Thank you, Your Highness."
The prince looked around and sat down carefully on the swing beside him. When he sat down, he looked at the sunlight projected from the woods and said with emotion, "If only Mingxi was in Liangzhou."
Ji Yunxi closed the book and said thoughtfully, "What troubles your Highness?"
The prince was quite moved for a while.
Ji Yunxi looked at the crown prince and smiled slightly: "If your Highness doesn't mind, you can tell me about me as the eldest brother."
The position of the prince is not easy to do, and the prince has been under a lot of pressure these years.
Therefore, the prince always loves to find her eldest brother. The eldest brother is very Buddhist and has always been very open to the world. The prince can always get some comfort and strength from the eldest brother.
Prince: "The Ji brothers and sisters, you and Mingxi are more similar in temperament."
Thinking of her eldest brother, Ji Yunxi's expression softened a lot. She shook her head gently: "No, Your Highness. The eldest brother has a much better temperament than me. He is the most open-minded person I have ever met."
The prince nodded with deep sympathy: "If he was here, Gu told him what happened in these days, and I don't know what he would say to Gu."
Ji Yunxi thought for a while, then smiled and shook her head.
The prince took a long breath: "On that day, Guzhen thought that Gu was going to die in Huangquan."
Ji Yunxi listened quietly without interrupting.
The prince said again: "Yunxi knows, who was the one who shot Gu Yi's arrow that day?"
Ji Yunxi swayed the swing again and again: "I asked the seventh brother, and the seventh brother said that they were all men in black with their faces covered, and they didn't know their identities. But listening to His Highness's words, His Highness recognized that human identity?"
The prince nodded, and was a little dull for a while, he smiled bitterly: "I saw it in my father... there."
Ji Yunxi hummed and said nothing.
She was not surprised by this result.
When the conversation was opened, the prince said, "I know that the father and the emperor did not like me since he was a child. The mother and queen are strong, and the father and the emperor have always been afraid of the Li family. I know that. Over the years, the father and the emperor seem to be on the bright side. He respects me, but in private he favors the emperor's disciples, and I know it in my heart. But I never thought that he would actually... Didn't he say that tiger poison doesn't eat children?"
The prince smiled unnaturally.
He really didn't expect it.
He knew his father didn't like him.
He never thought that his father would kill him.
Why
Ji Yunxi's gaze fell far ahead.
There, a figure had been standing for a while.
Ji Yunxi looked at it for a moment, then hooked the corner of her lips.
Then, she withdrew her gaze, restrained her smile, looked at the prince and said, "Your Highness does not need to be obsessed with this."
The prince raised his head and laughed at himself: "Is the royal family ruthless?"
Ji Yunxi shook her head: "How the Holy One does it, that's the Holy One's business. I heard that the Crown Princess gave His Highness a son after the new year?"
Speaking of this, the prince's eyes became loving: "Yes, when he was alone in Beijing, the boy was just full moon."
Ji Yunxi: "His Royal Highness, you are now a father, what you should do is not to think about why the sage did this, but how to protect your wife and children. And you are still the prince, as far as the world is concerned, you are also them. My father, I shall protect all peoples."
The prince has always been encouraged by these things, and when he heard this, he instantly regained his former spirit.
He didn't stay any longer and hurried away.
Wu Weian ducked behind the tree, avoided the prince, and looked deeply at the other side's back.
Up to now, Wu Weian is still unforgettable about the scene just now.
This prince, sitting on the swing he made by himself, talking and laughing with his wife
That was the place he had reserved for himself!
At the back, Xuezhu was sweeping the floor, and he avoided seeing this.
*
After the prince left, Ji Yunxi leaned aside leisurely and opened the book again.
A slight sound was the sound of the soles of the feet landing on the grass.
Someone was standing behind her, just about to raise his hand and grab the swing.
Ji Yunxi warned coldly: "If you dare to shake it, you will sleep in the wing of the palace tonight, and don't come back."
Wu Weian: "..."
He was silent for a moment and withdrew his hand.
Wu Weian walked to the swing aside, stared at it for a long time, and suddenly said, "Xuezhu!"
Xuezhu appeared in front of him.
Wu Weian pointed to the swing: "Wipe it well, wipe it several times."
Xuezhu: "Oh."
He took out a rag from his arms and began to wipe the swing.
It was not until Xuezhu wiped it three times that Wu Weian sat down: "You and the prince have a good relationship?"
Ji Yunxi looked at the book and replied sentence by sentence, "General."
Wu Weian: "I think you had a good time talking just now."
Ji Yunxi glanced at him leisurely: "The prince's words are so restless, he should be suffocated these days."
Although he is outside, the crown prince has a distinguished status. But since he was a child, the prince often went to Ji's house to find Ji Mingxi, so Ji Yunxi knew the prince quite well.
This is why she is willing to support the prince's party.
This prince, since he was a child, he was born with a hard-working life.
That is, her big brother can bear it.
After all, no matter what the other party says, the big brother can seem to be listening very seriously, and can give feedback that sounds sincere in time.
But Ji Yunxi observed it several times, and the elder brother was actually distracted when he listened to it, and the replies were also all-purpose golden sentences that could not go wrong.
Wu Weian's long legs pushed lightly in front of him, and his swing, which was clearly one of Gao Ji Yunxi's swing, swayed.
While playing, he said casually, "Madam really knows the prince."
Ji Yunxi shrugged.
"Really?" Wu Weian swung up and down, his voice rising and falling, "Does the lady understand me?"
The swing next to it became more and more swaying.
The tree in the middle of the swings on both sides was shared, which made the swing on Ji Yunxi's side also sway.
She closed the book with a snap, stood up from the swing, looked at the person who seemed to be about to swing to the sky, but could easily keep it down, and said, "I remember, you don't like sour."
Wu Weian hummed: "I like sweets."
Ji Yunxi pulled the corners of her lips and snorted softly, "Really? But I think you can eat sour."
After speaking, she turned around and left.
Wu Weian on the swing: "??"
*
Wu Weian went home to swing for a while, and then went to the palace to run errands.
As a result, as soon as the person arrived, Dian Shi hurried forward: "Sir!"
Dian Shi pointed to reading the file and grabbed the person who Wen Zhaomo was asking: "This person said he was the prince! But is it true?"
After all, they were only small Liangzhou officials, and they had never met the prince before.
And there was no indication that the prince would come in Shangjing
Wu Weian raised his eyebrows slightly and hummed.
The prince also saw Wu Weian who came in, and he heard the words and waved to him.
Wu Weian stepped forward.
The prince asked: "In the area of Liangzhou, the rainy season is from April to June every year. Have you arranged all the affairs?"
Wu Weian nodded thoughtfully: "Go back to His Highness, it's almost done."
But the prince was still worried: "Have you seen the dam? Is the grain and grass in the granary ready?"
Wu Weian: "I have seen it, and it is ready."
The prince nodded: "That's good."
Wu Weian tapped on the table with his fingertips, and watched the prince read through the dossier carefully, looking for something to do for himself, suddenly smiled, and respectfully said, "His Royal Highness."
The prince raised his head: "What's the matter?"
Wu Weian: "His Royal Highness was recovering from injuries a few days ago, and it is inconvenient for the lower official to disturb him. But in fact, the lower official has just been transferred to Liangzhou, and I don't know how to deal with some matters. Dare to ask your highness, can you help the lower official?"
The prince frowned and said, "It's okay if you say it."
On that day, Wu Weian threw most of his work to the prince.
That night, Wu Weian went back to the backyard early to have dinner with his wife.
However, when he looked at the dishes on the table, he couldn't use chopsticks for a while.
Pickled fish.
Vinegar slipped cabbage.
Minced sour beans.
Sweet and sour pork ribs.
Each of the four dishes was steaming with sour gas.
Ji Yunxi looked at him with a smile, with a very concerned tone: "Why don't you eat?"
Wu Weian: "..."
Ji Yunxi picked up his chopsticks, and put a piece of vinegar and cabbage into his bowl: "You've been working hard lately, so eat more. When you're hungry at night, you're going to open fire, it won't be good."
Wu Weian: "..."
He lowered his eyes, put down his chopsticks, got up, and turned to leave.
Ji Yunxi said lightly, "Stop."
Wu Weian took three more steps, but finally stopped.
Ji Yunxi: "Come back."
Wu Weian sighed softly and returned to his position.
Ji Yunxi was too lazy to pay attention to him, and took the chopsticks to eat.
After a while, the poisonous lady came in with two dishes on the left and the right.
Braised pork. Sweet.
Wine-filled dumplings. Sweet.
Wu Weian glanced at Ji Yunxi with a smile, and picked up the chopsticks again.
In the end, he ate the whole bowl of rice, but left behind the piece of vinegared cabbage.
Ji Yunxi smiled, but said, "Master Wu, save food."
Wu Weian sighed softly.
Women really hold grudges.
He lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then reached out and picked up the piece of vinegary cabbage and put it in his mouth.
As soon as it was put in the mouth, Wu Weian's brows wrinkled: "It's sour."
Ji Yunxi raised her eyebrows, slightly surprised.
Unexpectedly, he actually ate it.
Ji Yunxi shook her head, put down her chopsticks and stood up.
Unexpectedly, her wrist was suddenly clasped.
Ji Yunxi didn't mind for a while, but was pulled down and fell onto Wu Weian's lap.
As soon as she raised her head, her lips fell.
Afterwards, Wu Weian subconsciously pressed his tongue against the tip of his tongue and drew a breath of cold air.
Vinegar cabbage is really sour.
When she bites, it really hurts.