The two hurriedly knelt down to salute, while Zhou Xu was still hiding behind the rockery. He wanted to see how the prince would deal with it.
"Get up." The prince said, the tone of the voice was born noble.
This nobility made Zhou Zonghan feel that there was a difference between himself and him. What Qi Lan just said, "There is no high or low", suddenly became meaningless, because people have high and low, just like himself and the domineering prince in front of him. , You can tell the noble and humble at a glance.
Zhou Zonghan and Qi Lan stood up, the crown prince looked at them and said, "I saw you two at the banquet just now, but as the elder brother of today's birthday star, do you look like an elder brother?"
"His Royal Highness, I..."
"It's useless to justify. Since Gu heard it, he had to punish him." The prince turned his head to look at the dozen or so guards following him, and said to one of them, "Bai Song, slap your mouth twenty times."
"yes."
"His Royal Highness..."
"Papa papa..."
The crisp and bright voice is especially obvious in this dark night. Zhou Xu is secretly happy behind the rockery. He doesn't need to do anything, the prince has already done it for him, which really suits Zhou Xu's wishes.
After the slap was over, the prince remained motionless, but Zhou Zonghan wanted to kneel down to thank him, and Qi Lan beside him was frightened by the scene. Thinking of her as a modern woman, she had never seen such a noble figure as the prince, and she did not expect that in ancient times, It turned out that it was really the king who wanted the minister to die and the minister had to die.
There was blood on the corner of his mouth, and his face was red and swollen. After Zhou Zonghan got up, the prince said to him indifferently: "You can't do this in the future, go down."
Zhou Zonghan dragged Qi Lan and ran away as usual, only the prince was left here, he turned his head and winked at the guards and maids, and the group of people retreated ten meters away in a blink of an eye.
Zhou Xu had seen enough of the show, and turned around to leave, but he only turned halfway when he heard a cold and alienated voice: "I vent my anger on you alone, won't you show up and say thank you?"
Speechless, Zhou Xu had no choice but to come out from behind the rockery. The azure blue shirt couldn't be seen clearly in the dark night, except that the gold thread embroidered on it occasionally reflected a certain amount of light. His already gorgeous eyebrows and eyes looked even more gorgeous.
Bowing, Zhou Xu said, "Thank you, Your Royal Highness."
"Just that?"
Zhou Xu looked up, with a faint smile, but he began to think about it in his heart. The prince was obviously not interested in him at all, but he had to look at what kind of interest it was.
"What does the prince want?"
"This piece of nostalgia, send it to the orphan." After finishing speaking, the crown prince had already pulled off Zhou Xu's waist pendant. The waist pendant was a white jade nostalgia, very gentle, and the original owner had carried it since birth. Although it was not priceless, But it means a lot to the original owner.
"His Royal Highness's behavior can be regarded as robbery, but I haven't agreed yet."
"I'll just give you a piece back."
After finishing speaking, the prince took off his double dragon opera pearl waist pendant, "How about changing one thing for another?"
Zhou Xu didn't answer, he looked at the alienated prince leisurely, and asked, "What's the meaning of your pendant? My pendant grew up with me. If your pendant has no meaning, even if it is priceless , I don't want it either."
A dim light shone on the prince's face from the side, making his facial features look more delicate, and the tall nose bridge slowly approached Zhou Xu's cheek, and he said softly: "The queen's gift, I want to give it to you alone. Sweetheart, what does this mean?"
"The meaning is good. May I ask His Royal Highness, where does this love come from? It seems that we just met today."
After a few seconds of silence, the prince's voice suddenly became extremely quiet, and he replied: "It's love at first sight, can you believe it?"
Zhou Xu took a step back, grabbed his nostalgia back casually, and smiled slightly, Zhou Xu said: "I believe, but if I want to accept His Highness's Double Dragon Playing Pearl, then I have to wait for His Highness to make decisions about my marriage."
After finishing speaking, he turned around and Zhou Xu left, leaving the prince standing alone in the shadows, his expression unclear.
The prince is nineteen this year, the emperor and the empress are choosing concubines for him these days, and just now the granddaughter of Prime Minister Qi is also a candidate that the empress favors, but Prime Minister Qi is unwilling to stand in line so early, after all, the second prince and the third prince are in the court His status is no lower than that of the prince, so he would rather choose General Zhou than a certain prince.
The expression on his face was one of indifference and alienation. The prince walked back slowly, but no one could understand what was in his mind.
Back in his yard, Zhou Xu asked Cuiyun to prepare the bathtub. He wanted to wash off the smell of alcohol, and at the same time, he had to think about the next step. After all, the crown prince's olive branch had already been sent out, and he hadn't decided whether to accept it or not. The prince's heart, because the prince will naturally have a concubine when he becomes the emperor, and he is not willing to compete with a group of women for favor.
The warm liquid spread over his shoulders. Zhou Xu felt that he should really take care of the original owner's body. In this state, even if he was not killed by Zhou Zonghan, he would not live to be 40 years old. The blood is too weak, and the hematopoietic function seems to be It's a bit of a hindrance, but the matter of raising the body has to be done slowly, now he has to cure Zhou Yang's dumb disease first.
Zhou Xu was sure that the crown prince would never give up so soon, so he only needed to use it a little, and then the two medicines would be available.
Spring in the capital is always very short. The day before yesterday, I was still wearing thick clothes and jackets, but in the blink of an eye, I changed into light clothes. The original owner preferred blue, and Zhou Xu inherited it. He wore blue clothes all day long, and looked like a fairy. In the past few months, his complexion has improved a lot, after all, he himself is the best doctor.
Just as Zhou Xu thought, the prince did not let him go. At the end of May, the emperor organized a hunting competition. Each of the princes could bring a deputy, who could be a bodyguard or someone he chose himself. Zhou Xu.
On the day of hunting, Zhou Xu and the prince met at the hunting ground, bowed lightly, and Zhou Xu said, "His Royal Highness, long time no see."
The prince was wearing a light yellow shirt that showed his status, and the cloud pattern on it was faintly visible. His tone was still alienated and indifferent, and his expression was still expressionless. "Ordinary people see loneliness and want to bow down. You don't kneel down but just bow?"
Zhou Xu smiled slightly, "There's a word called being arrogant."
The prince was overjoyed, but he couldn't say anything on this occasion. He could only turn around a little stiffly and look at the other princes in the hunting ground. However, Zhou Xu knew that he was in a good mood. As for how he knew, several hundred When the world comes over, I still have a sixth sense.
The hunt went well, the prince got his wish and lost.
Zhou Xu followed behind him. He knew exactly what the prince meant. He was showing weakness. After all, the second prince and the third prince had too high status in the court. If you want the throne, you must first do one thing: survive.
After the game, Zhou Xu was invited by the prince to have a meal together, and he naturally did not refuse.
"Your nostalgia, remember to keep it for Gu." Prince Fanzhong said.
"I can give it to you today, but I want to exchange it for one thing, how about it?"
"What?"
"Iceberg snow lotus."
"Then what's the point of your nostalgia?"
"For five years, I will never marry a wife, how?"
"what for?"
"I will wait for His Royal Highness to come to the world, and I will give His Royal Highness time to think about whether he is willing to not set up a harem for me."
The prince still looked calm and alienated, and Zhou Xu didn't care, because he finally got the iceberg snow lotus.
As a treasure, Zhou Xu went home to the pharmacy in the mansion, and ordered everyone not to come in. Three days later, Zhou Xu made more than a dozen pills, and when he gave them to Zhou Yang, his legs and feet were limp.
Zhou Yang looked at his younger brother, touched his cheek distressedly, and gestured to ask Zhou Xu what's wrong.
Handing the pills to his brother, Zhou Xu whispered in his ear, "I made you a body-replenishing medicine, three times a day, one pill at a time, you must take it on time, I made it after I didn't sleep for three days. "
Zhou Yang shook his head helplessly, and nodded again. He still didn't take Zhou Xu's claim of being good at medicine seriously, but he was satisfied with Zhou Xu's hard work.
Knowing that his brother didn't trust him, and fearing that he wouldn't take it, Zhou Xu left Cuiyun behind, and repeatedly told him to watch Zhou Yang take the medicine carefully.
A week later, Zhou Yang was finally able to make a sound. Although he still needed to practice, Zhou Xu finally breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he found another deep-sea dragon silk, made it into porridge, and drank it for a few days, his voice would be completely healed.
At the same time, during this period of time, Zhou Zonghan and Qi Lan have been having a secret tryst. The two will meet each other at the Guanyin Temple outside the city on the first and fifteenth day of every month. Zhou Xu knew about this and he was waiting, because the original world Here, Qi Lan had an abortion once.
Just waiting like this, at the end of the year, Zhou Xu knew that it was almost time, and he had already heard the news that Qi Lan had started to quarrel with his family.
In fact, Qi Lan is much smarter at this time, she has learned to be patient and to accumulate knowledge, so Zhou Xu's so-called trouble is just that she told Prime Minister Qi that she would never get married so early.
Qi Lan's reason sounds heartwarming, but Zhou Xu knew that she was making excuses for herself, because Qi Lan was already pregnant at this time, and she needed to get rid of the child in her stomach first.
In this case, Zhou Xu just randomly found a group of people to spread rumors.
There are different versions of the rumors, but one thing is consistent, that is, Zhou Zonghan and the prime minister's granddaughter have a secret tryst every month, and it has been several months, and Qi Lan is even pregnant. It is because of this that Qi Lan is determined not to marry. Because she wanted to kill the child secretly, and then slowly persuade the family to allow her to marry the low-status bastard Zhou Zonghan.
Speaking of it, this is really not a rumor, it is a fact.
When Prime Minister Qi heard these remarks, his nose was almost crooked. He shook his hand, pointed at his granddaughter and asked, "Say, what's going on between you and that Zhou Zonghan of the Zhou family?"
Qi Lan didn't expect that the matter would be exposed, and it was useless to argue at this time, because her grandfather could call the doctor to check his pulse at any time, and she couldn't hide it if she wanted to, so she knelt down and told the story in tears.
Qi Cheng was so angry that he passed out, and when he woke up, he pushed his granddaughter, shook his sleeves and left.
The conversation was divided into two parts. At General Zhou's house, Zhou Xu smiled and said to his father: "What's the matter, let Zhou Zonghan marry Qi Lan, and I don't like that woman anyway."
"What nonsense, there is no elder brother who is not married, but the younger brother is married."
Zhou Xu was stunned. It seems that General Zhou knows that he has an eldest son named Zhou Yang. It's ridiculous. How much does this father care about face, and he can ignore his own flesh and blood all year round for the sake of face? For the sake of face, can you interrupt another son's marriage
"Father, you are wrong. You have to know that Qi Lan is the granddaughter of Prime Minister Qi, and Zhou Zonghan is just a bastard. After all, it is our Zhou family who earn the best money."