Lihoumen

Chapter 27 Jing Zhao's Kindness

Several people were talking around the fawn when they heard a sharp deer cry from not far away. They looked in the direction of the sound and saw a female deer with white patterns on her head standing not far away, looking at the bound fawn. When the fawn saw the female deer, it called out "Yo Yo" and struggled even harder.

Seeing this, Jing Zhao slapped his forehead and said to Shen Han, "Cousin, this fawn must be the cub of the doe. I thought so. When I saw the doe just now, it seemed like it wanted to be discovered by me on purpose. Humph! It tried every means to lead us into the trap just now, probably to save its cub."

Before Shen Han could answer, Zhou Ning, who was standing by and didn't know anything, asked in surprise: "What happened? Were you guys trapped just now?"

Jing Zhao smiled and said, "That's right. If it weren't for my cousin Shen's cleverness, I wouldn't be able to stand here peacefully at this moment. I'm afraid I would have turned into a ball of flesh and blood to face my Li family ancestors."

Jing Zhao was young after all, and he forgot about the danger just now in a short while. However, Zhou Ning was so shocked that his voice changed when he heard this.

"It's so dangerous!" He said with a sullen face, accusing Jing Zhao: "A Zhao, you don't know the seriousness of the matter. If you make any mistakes, how can we explain to the emperor's uncle? Yun Tang and I will probably die and still be blamed."

After being scolded by Zhou Ning with a straight face, the smile on Jing Zhao's face disappeared immediately. He glanced at Shen Han beside him, then hung his head and muttered, "It was indeed my rashness."

Zhou Ning continued to insist, "You are not only reckless, you are simply... Hey! You are the apple of the eye of the emperor's uncle. I brought you out to play today. If you really have an accident, won't the whole Zhou family be implicated?"

Zhou Ning became angrier and angrier, so he threw his sleeves in anger and said, "Humph! From now on, I will never go hunting with you again."

After hearing this, Jing Zhao quickly apologized, "Cousin, I was wrong."

He apologized while pulling Zhou Ning's sleeve. Seeing that Zhou Ning still refused to forgive him, Jing Zhao murmured in defense, "Cousin, what you said is too serious. Father is not such an unreasonable person. Even if I did something wrong, it was my own fault. He will not blame cousin for it, let alone implicate the Zhou family."

Zhou Ning said angrily, "You are such a naive child. You are a prince, so you naturally have no scruples. But we are not like that. I won't dare to bring you out again in the future."

He emphasized the word "naive" very clearly, and when he said this, he subconsciously glanced at Shen Han beside him.

Seeing that Zhou Ning was really angry, Jing Zhao was so anxious that he started to cry. He said angrily, "Just because something went wrong, my cousin wants to break up with me. You are too disloyal."

When Zhou Ning was about to explain, Shen Han came over to comfort Jing Zhao, saying, "Your cousin Zhou was just angry for a moment, so he said something he didn't want to say." Then he turned to Zhou Ning and said, "Forget it. It's normal for young people to be unstable for a while. We were like this when we were young, too. Nothing went wrong. Don't be so persistent."

After hearing what Shen Han said, Zhou Ning's expression finally eased. He turned to Jing Zhao and snorted coldly: "If you do this again in the future, we will really not take you out."

"It won't happen again! It won't happen again!"

Seeing that Zhou Ning had finally calmed down, Jing Zhao immediately put on a bright smile on his face again. Turning his head, he saw that the white-headed doe was still staring at the fawn and calling non-stop not far away. Jing Zhao swiftly drew out the dagger from his waist.

Seeing this, Zhou Ning said slowly: "Although you almost got into danger because of them, if you kill the little beast now, the horse's back will inevitably be stained with blood when you carry it back. I think it is better to kill it when we return to the camp." Jing Zhao heard this, but insisted on walking up to the deer with a dagger in hand. Just when everyone thought that the deer was about to die, Jing Zhao did not take the deer's life, but used a dagger to cut the rope tied to its hooves.

The little deer, freed from its restraints, stood up immediately. Subconsciously, it wanted to escape, but when it saw the men and horses surrounding it, it was too frightened to run. It just stared with its watery eyes, watching in fear and trepidation.

Jing Zhao leaned over to take a look at the wound on the deer, then took out the golden wound medicine from her waist that she always carried with her when hunting. She poured the medicine powder into the palm of her hand and then carefully sprinkled it on the wound of the deer.

The frightened deer suddenly felt Jing Zhao's kindness, stared at Jing Zhao stupidly for a long while, and then made a pleading cry "Yo Yo".

"Go, follow your mother home."

Finally, Jing Zhao raised his hand and patted the deer's back, signaling the guards to move away. When the guards with swords and knives dispersed, the deer did not hesitate, spread out its four hooves, and ran towards the mother deer.

The mother deer called out a few times to Jing Zhao, with endless gratitude in her eyes, and then disappeared into the depths of the forest with her fawn.

Seeing this, Zhou Ning sneered at Jing Zhao and said, "I thought you were full of hatred and wanted to kill them, but I didn't expect you to do the opposite."

Jing Zhaofu sheathed the dagger in his hand, then put it back on his waist and replied, "I hurt the fawn, so the doe wanted to hurt me. I was the one who had the evil intention in the first place, so why should I bear hatred for it?"

Zhou Ning sighed, "Ah! He is a child after all. He has good thoughts towards a beast."

Shen Han raised his hand to brush off the grass leaves scattered on Jing Zhao's shoulders. With a smile in his eyes, he said to Zhou Ning with a curved mouth: "I think Ah Zhao has grown up, even better than us adults."

"Can you become strong by being soft-hearted? If so, how can you and I lead troops to fight?" Zhou Ning retorted unconvinced.

Shen Han said: "These are two different things."

Seeing this, Jing Zhao immediately agreed with Shen Han and said, "Grandmaster always taught us that 'a gentleman should be kind and benevolent.' Cousin Shen is praising my kindness." As he said this, he smiled at Shen Han with curved eyebrows and said, "Cousin, am I right?"

Without waiting for Shen Han to reply, Zhou Ning snorted coldly: "Forget it, you two are always in the same group."

As he spoke, he spread his hands and said to Jing Zhao, "We've been out all day and we have nothing. We agreed to have a barbecue and a drink today. Haha, now you've let the meat go, how are we going to drink?"

Jing Zhao smiled and said, "That's not difficult. I'll invite you two cousins ​​to go to Yanyue Tower for a drink. There are many new Hu girls there. When they dance, they are more charming than the dancers in our Central Plains. Let's go and drink and enjoy the dance today. Isn't it wonderful?"

(End of this chapter)