When Qiao Jia asked this question, Hua Ling's calm face flashed with a hint of cunning: "What are you like? Tell me."
Hua Ling thought that if she concealed her identity, she would be more cautious and would not say anything. If she did, it could only be prevarication. Unexpectedly, Qiao Jia directly told Hua Ling: "I came to school for my twin brother. My father
It is said that the emperor has decreed that all children in the minister's family who are capable of learning should be sent to school when they reach the age.
But my brother disappeared, and my father was very happy to tell me that he had deceived the emperor before, saying that he told the emperor that the family only had one son, and now that my brother was missing, he sent me to be a student disguised as a man."
This is an important clue.
"So... is the name 'Qiao Jia' yours or your brother's?"
"My real name is Qiao Jiaqie, it's written like this..." Qiao Jia took Hua Ling's hand and wrote the word "Jia".
Hua Ling felt the strokes of the characters and sneered: "This character also has a pronunciation of jiā, right? Different characters have the same pronunciation. Prime Minister Qiao is quite smart."
"Well, father is very smart." Qiao Jia seemed to think of Prime Minister Qiao, with a happy smile on his face.
"But you are not very smart, Qiao Jia." Hua Ling put his wrist on the wooden table in front of him and knocked on the table casually, "It is a serious crime to deceive the emperor. How can you so calmly hide Prime Minister Qiao's secret for so long?
Things have told me, could it be that you have forgotten my identity?"
Qiao Jia was stunned, and her flowery smile suddenly dropped, like a dog that knew its mistakes. He was suddenly at a loss and grabbed Hua Ling's hand and begged: "Your Highness the Crown Prince! Please don't tell the Emperor that my father has done all kinds of bad things."
Didn't do it, he..."
Before Qiao Jia finished speaking, Hua Ling pressed her finger on Qiao Jia's lips: "I won't do what you want for the time being. It's just that Prime Minister Qiao has deceived so many things. If he doesn't tell the truth to his father,
, I’m afraid the real Qiao Jia will be in trouble. Don’t you want to know why I disguise myself as a man? Let go of my hand, sit tight, and I’ll tell you slowly.”
Hua Ling thought in her mind: Prime Minister Qiao is considered one of the top officials in the court. It is impossible that he does not know his father's personality. If he lied about the number of family members in other times, it may be to help his wife and daughter, then Prime Minister Qiao is very likely to do so.
It was to do something ulterior. Qiao Jia's disappearance might not really be missing.
"The day before the start of the Imperial Academy, I encountered a man-made fire while playing with other princes. I suspected that someone was trying to harm the prince. I needed to ensure the safety of the other princes, so I directly announced that I was the prince. If you have anything, come to me. A woman must be the head of the family.
You will be looked at and discussed with disdain, so being a male is the best choice..." Hua Ling said.
Qiao Jia listened to Hua Ling's speech attentively: "No wonder there are extra rooms. I thought my father asked someone to leave them for me."
After Hua Ling finished speaking, Qiao Jia remembered that he didn't know any other title besides calling the person in front of him "Prince": "By the way, Your Highness, I haven't asked your name yet."
Hua Ling was stunned for a moment before she realized that she had forgotten to announce her home: "Hua Ling, wandering Ling."
"It's a beautiful name, but listen..." Qiao Jia seemed to have thought of something and swallowed back the words on his lips.
Hua Ling seemed to be able to read minds. She raised her eyebrows and said, "Father, the name is unlucky. Even you think this name is short-lived, right?"
Qiao Jia glanced at Hua Ling in fear and nodded slowly.
Hua Ling saw that he had just threatened Qiao Jia with his identity as the prince and that she was frightened by him. Should I say that she was still only an eight or nine-year-old child after all?
Maybe it was because of her age in her previous life that Hua Ling felt that the brain circuits of her friends around her were a little abnormal after she came here. But think about it, everyone is just a child, so maybe others still think she is abnormal.
In her previous life, she studied hard and finally passed the college entrance examination. However, due to a plane crash, she never even entered college. Hua Ling got angry when she thought about it, blaming that damn plane.
But being able to travel through time is actually a good thing? I wonder if those people on the plane will also come here. What about Yu Qiuming? Forget it, it’s better not to think about it so much, it’s useless.
Qiao Jia noticed that Hua Ling seemed to be sad due to some kind of emotional fluctuation, and curiously looked at the other person's expression when he was absent-minded: "Hua Ling?... Scared!"
Qiao Jia was about to wake up the dazed Hua Ling when he was suddenly startled by the pull of the screen and the sound of footsteps. He turned around and saw Luo She, wearing only underpants, grabbing one side of the screen, as if he wanted to find Hua Ling.
Both sides were stunned, and then Luo She was stabbed between the eyebrows by an unused brush and fell to the ground. The one who threw the brush was Hua Ling: "Go get dressed, what are you doing in a daze? Are you acting like a hooligan!?"
Luo Shenian stood up staggeringly, quickly pulled up the screen, and went to get dressed.
Hua Ling walked over and picked up the brush that he had thrown out. When he picked it up, he found that the tip of the brush was cracked. Was it because of his own strength or because Luo She's head was strong?
"Did you just call my name?" Hua Ling put away the broken brush and turned to look at Qiao Jia.
Qiao Jia was still immersed in the shock of seeing a shirtless man of fourteen or fifteen years old. Hua Ling waved his hand in front of Qiao Jia's eyes before Qiao Jia's attention came back: "I, I
...Luo She..." Qiao Jia hesitated and hesitated, which made Hua Ling laugh: "It's okay, just get used to it. Since a woman is disguised as a man, she has to bear the risk of seeing and being seen."
Qiao Jia blushed and didn't know what to say.
"Why did you call me my name just now?" After a while, Hua Ling saw that Qiao Jia seemed to be calmer, so she repeated her question.
"It's just... I see that you seem to be thinking about something. It feels like you are thinking about sad things, so I just want to call your thoughts back." Qiao Jia pressed his cheek with his index finger.
"You can actually tell that I'm thinking about sad things?" Hua Ling looked at Qiao Jia in disbelief. Hua Ling knew that introverted and insecure people are better at observing people's words, but Qiao Jia seemed to have all these characteristics.
, which made Hua Ling feel more and more that there was something wrong with Prime Minister Qiao.
With the sound of the screen being opened, Hua Ling and Qiao Jia both looked at Luo She who had opened the screen. For a moment, Luo She looked at him and stood still: "His Royal Highness..."
"Is something wrong?" Hua Ling crossed her arms and looked at him.
Luo She took out a folded note from his pocket and handed it to Hua Ling. Hua Ling reached out to take it and opened the note:
Huxinting
Take Joe
:week
"This was thrown in from outside the wall when I was taking a bath. It was wrapped in a lotus leaf so it didn't get much water." Luo She scratched the back of his head, "I've already eaten the lotus leaf."
"Then let's go... ah?" Hua Ling, who was originally expressionless, looked at Luo She up and down in surprise when she heard Luo She said, "I ate the lotus leaf," "Are you not full for dinner?"
"No, just..."
"You have itchy teeth and want to eat?"
"Uh-huh!"
Hua Ling couldn't understand: Are you an animal and you still grind your teeth?
"Then did you swallow the lotus leaf?"
"Swallow it."
"Tsk..."
Hua Ling was speechless to his bodyguard in front of him, but looking at him like this, there should be nothing wrong with him. He had grown up and didn’t even know that there were people who ate lotus leaves directly. Isn’t it the same as making tea and decoction? Luo She
This kid used to be a scavenger, right? He ate whatever he caught.
There was no time to worry about Luo She's stomach and intestines. The "Zhou" written on the note must be Zhou Mo, and the Pavilion in the Heart of the Lake should refer to the pavilion on the small island in the center of the lake in the back garden of the Imperial Palace.
The pavilion is quite large, with three floors in total. Basically, the bottom floor of the pavilion is as big as the island in the center of the lake. The whole pavilion is a square pyramid with circular steps up and down in the center.
Although I don’t understand why the note says to take Qiao Jia with me, but since it’s written, I’ll bring it with me.
The three of them arrived at the third floor of Huxin Pavilion and saw Zhou Mo, Hua Shuo and an unknown man.