"Here, drink more!" Xia Jingchen held up the medicine to feed Zhou Ranzhuo.
"General, if I say that I just accidentally touched you, would you believe it..."
"I don't believe it." Xia Jingchen's spoon filled with medicine moved closer to Zhou Ranzhuo.
Zhou Ranzhuo looked at the bitter medicine and swallowed, "General, there is no need to poison me to death for this matter..."
"It's not poisonous!" Xia Jingchen poured the medicine directly into Zhou Ranzhuo's mouth, "I'll poison you to death and give you relief! I just want to kill you!" Xia Jingchen gritted his teeth.
"How...how to play..."
"ah?"
At this moment, he was like a domineering general feeding his "little sweetheart" who was huddled in bed.
"There's something wrong with you...this general was tainted by you..." Xia Jingchen turned around awkwardly, what the hell? What is going on in Zhou Ranzhuo's mind every day?
"Anyway, just wait for me!" Xia Jingchen glared at Zhou Ranzhuo, reluctantly poured the medicine into Zhou Ranzhuo, turned around and left angrily.
After Xia Jingchen had completely disappeared, Gu Yun ducked in, closed the door tightly, and hurriedly rushed to Zhou Ranzhuo's side.
"Your Majesty, you are finally awake!" Gu Yun said with joy on his face, "The general has been guarding you day and night these days, and I can't even come in!"
In fact, Zhou Ranzhuo no longer wanted to hear what Gu Yun said. From the first sentence Gu Yun said, Zhou Ranzhuo rolled his eyes at him and turned away, not wanting to hear it anymore.
"What's wrong, Your Majesty?" Gu Yun was suddenly confused and tugged on Zhou Ranzhuo's clothes.
"Call me cousin." Zhou Ranzhuo's face was filled with "arrogance".
Gu Yun burst out laughing and patted Zhou Ran, "That's it! Okay, okay, cousin~"
"That's pretty much it..." Zhou Ran pouted and finally calmed down a bit, "It was really cold the past two days. You are the king and I am the minister..."
"Oh, okay, brother!" Gu Yun interrupted with a smile and leaned next to Zhou Ranzhuo, "When did you become so childish? You have always been like this since you entered Prince Xia's Mansion." Gu Yun leaned against Zhou Ranzhuo.
On the body.
"Start from...you call me cousin, start from the fact that I have someone who really cares about me..."
After two inexplicable words, Gu Yun looked at Zhou Ranzhuo, and the warm sun hit him. Gu Yun suddenly felt that Zhou Ranzhuo, who had never been normal in normal times, was inexplicably sad today.
"Why, after more than ten years, cousin is still not used to it?" Gu Yun said softly.
Zhou Ranzhuo sighed, "If I hadn't met Jing Yan, if I hadn't met you, if I had never seen the sun, maybe... I could endure the darkness..." Zhou Ranzhuo looked at the scenery outside the window, looking very tired.
There was silence in the room for a while.
But this kind of conversation was too boring for two overly optimistic people! It didn't take long for them to realize that this atmosphere was wrong.
"Why are we bringing this up? It's not our style!"
"Cousin, you mentioned this..."
Zhou Ranzhuo disliked himself and was awkward for a while.
"Okay, let's get down to business. Did you just say that the general will guard me day and night?"
"Um."
"But... I actually kissed Yan'er... and he saw it, and he didn't stab me to death on the spot?"
Gu Yun chuckled lightly and shook his head, "Cousin, are you in a daze? The princess was attacked on the street, and the whole capital knew about it. Later, the fact that you and the prince joined forces to save the princess couldn't be hidden.
Come on, you are the savior of the princess in everyone's mind. If the general comes to trouble you now, he will personally ruin the reputation of Prince Xia's family for being kind! You can't even imagine this..."
"That makes sense." Zhou Ranzhuo nodded, then suddenly thought that something could happen again, and asked hurriedly, "What did the news say?"
"Let's just say that you exchanged blood with the princess and risked your life to save the princess." Gu Yun thought for a while and said.
"Nothing to say about your beloved?"
"No.
"Publish this matter." Zhou Ranzhuo smiled at Gu Yun, "Find someone to fan the flames. This is an opportunity for us."
"Oh, right!" Gu Yunyi clapped his hands, "Okay, I'll go and publicize it to the servants first, and then find an opportunity to spread it outside the house."
"Pay attention to safety and don't let anyone find out that we are causing trouble." Zhou Ranzhuo lay back on the couch.
With this love, your career can't be left behind, right?
Gu Yun ran out, and after a while, the flattering guests really wanted to break down the door of the palace. He thought he could still rest, but in the end, a huge group of people gathered in the small courtyard, making Zhou Ranzhuo noisy.
Unable to rest, and afraid of being labeled arrogant, Zhou Ranzhuo could only open the door to meet the guests and respond to each one: "I'm fine." It wasn't until dusk that people dispersed.
Xia Jingyan's side was also noisy all day long. It was evening, so Xia Jingxuan dismissed all the guests, warned the maid in the pavilion several times, and then left uneasily, turning back three times, and then Xia Jingyan rested.
Lu Chaoya left the pavilion for the last time to take care of the maids. When she came back, she saw Xia Jingyan looking at his wounds.
"Master, it's late at night, go to sleep." Lu Chaoya was about to put out the candle, but Xia Jingyan quickly interrupted.
"Wait a moment, Chao Ya, come here."
Lu Chaoya sat next to Xia Jingyan, "What's wrong?"
"Is the palace locked today?" Xia Jingyan's expression was rare and serious.
"Many people have been visiting the palace recently, and the prince has ordered that the locks will not be locked for these days." Lu Chaoya responded, not understanding what Xia Jingyan wanted to do.
"That's just right. You don't have to climb over the wall. Please change my clothes while I go out." Xia Jingyan quickly got up from the couch and quickly put on a dark blue casual clothes.
Lu Chaoya was anxious. Her injuries were not healed yet. How could she dare to let Xia Jingyan out of the house? He quickly stopped her.
"Master, where are you going? It's dark and windy this month..." Lu Chaoya whispered, fearing that outsiders would hear.
"The arrow on the lampstand was obviously aimed at Ranzhuo. Ranzhuo has just become a retainer, who would target him? There must be something hidden. I'm not worried. I have to go to the prison to meet the assassins." Xia Jing
Yan was about to leave, but Lu Chaoya still dragged her, "Oh Chaoya! It's okay, my injury has healed!"
During the commotion, there was a knock on the door at the window. Xia Jingyan immediately became alert and pulled Lu Chaoya behind him.
"Who?" Xia Jingyan stared at the window and asked.
"Princess, I am your minister." Zhao Qichen's voice came in, and Xia Jingyan breathed a sigh of relief.
"Come in." Xia Jingyan stepped forward, opened the door, and pulled Zhao Qiechen into the house.
"General Zhao?!" Lu Chaoya was even more surprised. In her impression, Zhao Qichen knew etiquette best, and he would never have entered Xia Jingyan's boudoir unless the sky was falling.
"Princess, I have found out the situation in prison. Now that I am in prison, I will not let the prince know about it." Zhao Qichen ignored Lu Chaoya and spoke to Xia Jingyan eagerly.
Lu Chaoya's eyes widened and he had no idea what the two people in front of him were going to do. It must be something big.
"That's good." Xia Jingyan nodded, turned around and pulled Lu Chaoya to sit on the edge of the couch, and said seriously: "Chaoya, you pretend to be me and stay here. Don't let others find out.
Don’t worry, I have brother Qichen by my side, nothing will happen to me, I will come back as soon as I go.”
Lu Chaoya was still worried, but when he thought about it, this matter concerned Zhou Ranzhao. No matter how much he tried to persuade him, Xia Jingyan would not stop, so he had to let Xia Jingyan go. When Zhao Qichen and Xia Jingyan left the house, Lu Chaoya
He had to quickly turn off the lights and pretend to be asleep, so that the night watch maids did not become suspicious and left in a hurry.
Although the palace was not locked, the number of guards doubled, and Xia Jingyan still could not get out through the front door. Zhao Qichen had no choice but to help her sneak past the guards to the backyard, and take her over the wall to get out of the palace. What a coincidence, this scene was just right.
Seeed by Gu Yun, Gu Yun immediately went back to report the news to Zhou Ranzhuo.
"Yan'er and Zhao Qichen went out?!" Zhou Ranzhuo stood up immediately.
Gu Yun nodded.
"Let's go! Follow us and take a look." Zhou Ranzhuo immediately changed into night clothes, put on a black veil and went out with Gu Yun, following closely behind Zhao Qiechen and Xia Jingyan.
Zhao Qichen was worried that Xia Jingyan would catch a cold, so he prepared a carriage in advance for Xia Jingyan to take shelter from the wind. The carriage did not move very fast, so Zhou Ranzhuo and Gu Yun were able to keep up without getting lost and were not discovered along the way.
When they arrived at Yuan's Prison, Zhao Qichen helped Xia Jingyan get out of the car, and then Xia Jingyan saw the gloomy prison again.
The grounds in front of the prison were empty. It was a place where prisoners were allowed to knock stones on weekdays. There was no one there at night. Xia Jingyan put on his hat and covered his face with a long gauze. He followed Zhao Qichen and walked in this deserted place.
On the road, I felt inexplicable oppression.
"Who is this!" the jailer standing guard at the door yelled at Zhao Qiechen and Xia Jingyan.
"It's me." Zhao Qiechen raised his silver medal and waved it towards the jailer. The two young jailers quickly stepped aside, and the warden also hurriedly came out to greet them.
"General, please." The warden nodded and bowed, inviting Zhao Qichen to come in. He turned sideways and saw Xia Jingyan, and suddenly hesitated.
The warden didn't know Xia Jingyan, and only regarded her as a follower who followed Zhao Qichen. However, the royal family explicitly prohibited people below the third-grade official from entering the prison. Zhao Qichen could certainly enter, but this girl... the warden
I really wanted to stop him but I didn't dare to.
Noticing the look in the warden's eyes, Zhao Qiechen stretched out his hand to hold Xia Jingyan to his side and gave the warden a look.
"Oh! I understand..." the warden smiled apologetically, "General's wife..." and had no choice but to let the two of them in.
Zhou Ranzhuo, who was following behind, had a cold face from the beginning. When he saw Zhao Qichen hugging Xia Jingyan, he became furious. He shook Gu Yun vigorously and growled in Gu Yun's ear: "Wait, I'm going to
His hands were chopped off!" He was almost discovered, but luckily Zhao Qichen didn't see Zhou Ranzhuo when he turned back in front of the prison door for the last time.
"Let's go." Zhao Qiechen looked around and found nothing strange. He put his arms around Xia Jingyan and entered the prison door. Once inside, he quickly let go of Xia Jingyan, his face flushed.
The flattering "general's wife" just said by the warden really made Zhao Qiechen "trembled".
"Yan'er, it's an emergency, I...I didn't mean to..." Zhao Qichen kept explaining, his shy look really made Xia Jingyan laugh.
"Alright, brother Qiechen, Yan'er doesn't care, we should hurry up and interrogate the assassin." Xia Jingyan responded.
"Okay..." Zhao Qiechen pursed his lips and led Xia Jingyan to the prison.