The struggle of the reborn prince

In the afternoon, Zhao Tun took a bath and changed his clothes, changed into plain clothes, and moved into the Taoist temple, where he planned to fast for three days and pray for the emperor.Now people often say, "If you don't want people to forget you, don't forget him." If the emperor wants to remember that there is a son hundreds of miles away, he must find a way to make the emperor remember himself. He let himself go back to Beijing when he was happy, he didn't want to stay in this country for the rest of his life.

Although the Taoist temple has been cleaned long ago, no one has lived in it for a while, and it looks extremely cold and less popular.In the hall, Zhao Tun placed three plates of snacks and three plates of fruit on the altar table, lit two red candles as thick as his arms in front of the statue of Emperor Zhenwu, took Jianxi and lit the incense handed over on the candles, "pious" Kneeling on the futon and praying twice, and inserting it in the incense burner in front of the altar, even if the ceremony is completed, the matter of coming down to replace the incense candles is the matter of the two little Huangmen who came together.

The living room of the temple master is in the east side hall. The scale of the Taoist temple is not large. It is said that the hall is just a suite. The outer room is the place where Qingyun entertains guests and reads. Exiting the map, there is a soft couch on the floor, which looks like a small Japanese tatami mat. On the long low table, there are pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and there is an incense burner with sandalwood burning inside, exuding a faint fragrance, which makes people feel refreshed. A shake.

"All the things here are used by the old guy Qingyun?" Zhao Tang took off his shoes and sat on the soft couch, half-lying lazily and said. The smoke coaxes the warmth into the room, but it doesn't feel cold.

"Second Lord, yes!" Jian Xi made a cup of tea for Zhao Tun as the charcoal stove was burning water, and said, "Qing Yun was so frightened that he ran away without taking anything except his clothes! "

"You didn't even bring any silver?"

"Damn it, after searching for a long time, I didn't even look at a single coin. I think I took them all away..." Jianxi couldn't help but swear, but he quickly came to his senses, looked up at the prince's playful smiling face, and hurriedly Explained: "Second Master, I really didn't hide it secretly this time, he did take all the money away!"

"Okay, look at your scare, I just said casually, he is only living in the mansion, and he also needs to make alchemy, and there is not much left for the little money we give him!" Zhao Tun kicked Jianxi with his foot. Say it all at once.

"Second Master, you scared the little one into sweat!" Jian Xi said with a long breath, ever since Zhao Tun exposed his corruption, he was always afraid of making trouble with him, and now that his position was hard-won, he I don't want to be sweeping the floor and emptying the toilet.

"Hee hee, I really like the way you swear at the street, this is how you look like a man!" Zhao Tang scratched Jian Xi's armpit with his foot and said.

"Second Master, don't make fun of me..." Jian Xi said with a sad face. He entered the palace since he was a child and has no sexual desires. He is most afraid of being mentioned by others.

"Jianxi, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it!" Zhao Tang regretted it after finishing speaking, he knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, didn't he say that he was mean in front of a dwarf.

Jian Xi was taken aback when he heard that, they are slaves just to make their master happy, not to mention making fun of him, even if he kills him, no one will apologize to him, "Second Master..." His eyes were red He, who has always been eloquent, didn't know what to say, but he was happy in his heart, which showed that the prince regarded him as a human being, not a dispensable slave who could only be ordered around.

"Jianxi, how do you write the congratulatory form to the emperor?" Zhao Tang sat up straight, picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea and said.

"Second Master, aren't you embarrassing me? I don't know a whole lot of words, how can I write a congratulatory form!" Jian Xi said with a face uglier than a dead father.

"Then what should I do? I can't write, and you can't write either!" Zhao Tong tapped his fingers and said in a low voice, "That gentleman should be able to write, but **** he ran away, we can't just look for it. Write it personally, that would appear to be disrespectful to the emperor!" He was so embarrassed, it would be better to let him hang himself if he wrote the congratulatory form in classical Chinese, of course, he would not hang himself if he couldn't write it, Zhao Tang was thinking about how he had done it since elementary school. I don't seem to have learned this thing in college. I really hate the books when I use them. I don't want to copy a single article from my memory.

Jian Xi lightly refilled the water for the prince, and retreated to the side. If he hadn't seen the fingers of the prince moving, he would have thought that the prince was asleep now. Jian Xi had seen Huang Jingchen think about the problem like this, I just don't understand why a child would put on such a deep look.

"Yes!" Zhao Tang straightened up suddenly and said, "Jianxi prepares pen and ink, Second Master, I want to start writing a congratulatory form!" Hearing Wang Ye's order, Jianxi hurriedly summoned a small yellow door to pick up things from the warehouse, and gave them to the emperor. The paper used to write the memorial is all specially made, but Qingyun doesn't have it at all.

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It was already dark, and more than a dozen lanterns had been lit in the yard. Jianxi let out a breath in his hand and rubbed his ears. The prince wrote the congratulatory form all afternoon, and he hadn't eaten dinner yet, so he was not allowed to go in and disturb him. , I was afraid of being summoned by the prince, so I didn't dare to go far, so I could only suffer the cold here!

"Jianxi, come in!" The prince's voice finally came from the room, and Jianxi quickly picked up the food box and entered the room.

"Finally finished writing, writing this is more tiring than squatting!" Zhao Tang stood up, stretched long, and complained unceasingly.

"My lord, you've worked hard, are you hungry?" Jian Xi hurriedly added charcoal to the charcoal basin that was about to go out, took off the lampshade and replaced it with a candle.

"You seal the congratulatory form and send it away tomorrow morning!" Zhao Tang opened the food box, took a piece of snack and said, taking a bite.

"Yes, my lord, wash your hands before eating!" Jianxi put the memorial written by Zhao Tun into a small box, picked a piece of wax, melted it in the brazier, stuck it on the box, and stamped it while it was hot, to see that the lord had already eaten. Come on, say it quickly.

"It's not clean, I'm not sick after eating it, I'm starving!" Zhao Tang stuffed the snacks into his mouth and washed his hands in the basin of water and said.

While Zhao Tun was washing his hands, Jianxi had already cleaned up the low table and put the vegetables in the food box one by one, "Jianxi, aren't you a vegetarian? How come there are fish and meat!" He pointed to the food on the table and said .

"Second master, the chef who came back here is very skilled. He learned vegetarian food in Xiangguo Temple. This is fake steamed lamb, three delicacies and real chicken, yuan fish, and fake roasted duck, preserved rice slices of lamb, and fried rice. Fake mullet, rice with three fresh noodles, and a few small snacks, which sound like meat, but are actually vegetarian!" Jian Xi said, reporting the names of the dishes one by one.

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter whether it's meat or vegetarian, let's eat first!" Zhao Tang picked up a piece and put it in his mouth, "Jianxi, you didn't eat either!" He looked up and saw Jianxi swallowed hard, Realized he must not have eaten.

"Second Master, I'll eat after I serve you!" Jian Xi said with a smile.

"Sit down and eat together. I can't finish all the food by myself!" Zhao Tong said, pointing to his side.

"Second Master, I'm a servant, how dare I eat with my master, you eat first, I'm not hungry!" Jian Xi said in fear.

"Shit, there's no one else here, you've been busy for a long time, you must be hungry already!" Zhao Tang couldn't help but pull Jianxi to sit down and handed him a pair of chopsticks and said.

"Master!" Jian Xi called out, stood up abruptly and knelt down, tears streaming down her face when she raised her head.

"Jianxi, what are you doing, get up quickly!" Zhao Tun was taken aback, he didn't expect Jianxi to be like this, so he quickly put down his chopsticks and pulled him up, and sat down next to him, "Jianxi, I'm leaving the palace Since then, I have only been with me every day. On the day I met the assassin, although you were scared to death, you still stood in front of me. I regard you as my family and my brother!"

"Second Master, do you really regard me as a brother?"

"Of course, don't you think of me as a brother!"

"I have no relatives for a long time! The second master is willing to treat me as a relative, Jianxi..." Jianxi kowtowed to Zhao Tun again. His parents died early and he was alone. People eunuched him and sent him to the palace. He no longer had extravagant expectations for family affection. Zhao Tama's words deeply touched his heart that had been silent for a long time.

"Okay, if you cry again, the house will be flooded, and we don't need to eat!" Zhao Tang wiped his tears with his sleeve, pushed him a bowl of noodles and said jokingly.

Both of them were hungry, so they cleaned up all the food. Jianxi put away the dishes and made a cup of tea for Zhao Tun, "Second Lord, I heard two thunderclaps that day, and the assassin died. Is it really like that?" It’s like a god sent a thunder!” Jian Xi sat down next to Zhao Tun and asked, this question has been hidden in his heart for a long time.

"Hey, if only I had that ability, you've actually seen the thing that killed the assassin!" Zhao Tong said with a smile.

"I... I've seen it before, no!" Jian Xi thought for a while, but couldn't remember it, and shook his head blankly and said.

"That's it!" Zhao Tong said, taking out a revolver from his pocket and putting it on the low table.

"This?!" Jian Xi stretched out his hand to touch it, then quickly withdrew it, looking frightened.

"Don't be afraid, you helped me find someone to make these things, and you don't recognize them after they are installed together?"

"Oh, I said why does it look familiar? It turns out that this is what the second master asked me to make! But how can such a small thing be so powerful?" Jianxi looked carefully, but still didn't dare to touch it. He rubbed his head Said.

"Come on, try it out and you'll know!" Zhao Tun made a demonstration of holding a gun, handed the gun to Jianxi, helped him pull away the hammer, and asked him to point the muzzle of the gun at the copper incense burner under the portrait , signaling him to pull the trigger.

There was a crisp 'bang' sound, and a puff of smoke rose from the room, and he closed his eyes in fright, and the gun fell to the ground with a shake of his hand, and after a while, he opened his eyes, "Go and see! "Zhao Tang smiled and pointed to the incense burner that fell on the ground. Jianxi walked over to pick it up and looked at it. There was a transparent hole the size of a thumb on it.

"It's amazing, human bones are not as hard as this!" Jian Xihuang said as he stuck out his tongue while shaking the incense burner.

"Jianxi, this guy is a life-saving guy, and it's also a secret between the two of us. Without my permission, don't tell anyone, including Officer Huang!" Zhao Tong picked up the gun and said.

"Second Lord, don't worry, I will never reveal it to anyone!" Jian Xi nodded vigorously and said, secretly thinking that the prince trusts him so much, even if he kills himself, he will not tell the secret. He was only a child who made this weapon, but he didn't dare to ask.