Zhao Mo and the crown prince sat silently opposite each other, and there was silence in the room. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After a long while, Zhao Mo raised his head and smiled bitterly: "What is my uncle talking about? I am telling the truth, what can I prove to you?"

The prince sighed softly: "For no reason, how could you change your mind? There must be a reason, right? Since you are unwilling...... Well, I don't want to force you. I remember that when you were chatting with me earlier, you mentioned that although your father wanted you to stay in Jiangnan, you hoped to follow Yongjiahou back to Beijing, and you also worried about how to deal with your father's scolding when you returned to Beijing in the future. Isn't it strange that you didn't want to stay, and that you suddenly said something like this to me today?"

Zhao Mo looked embarrassed, hesitated and said, "Don't hide it from my uncle, in fact, I ...... When I was in Qinzhuang, I met my steward for the tea business. They brought me a message from my father from the capital. Probably because I had been with my uncle and grandfather for the past few months, and I didn't mention the matter of buying property in Jiangnan, my father was a little impatient, so he asked my grandfather to beat my servants and ask them if they didn't plan for me. Previously...... As I mentioned to you, most of the people I use now are my mother's companions from her mother's house, or her old servants in the Liao Palace. My grandfather sent people to give me a message, but they did not dare to disobey, so they urged me to ......"

Speaking of this, he paused and smiled bitterly again: "Actually, it's nothing. The capital is not a good place in the first place, and if it weren't for the protection of my uncle and grandfather's family, I wouldn't have been able to stay in the capital for a long time. It's not bad to stay in Gangnam, at least here, no one can't get along with me. I can also go out generously and no one cares what I like. ”

The prince's eyebrows stretched slightly: "I see, it's strange that you will suddenly change your mind." You are not my own nephew, but your father has gone too far. He has only one son under his knees, so why did he force you to come here in order to be jealous of the royal family? You are obviously a smart and filial child, but he does not know how to cherish his blessings. There are still people in this world who want this blessing but can't ask for it, and if he acts like this, all the blessings will be lost by him, and there will be no good results in the future. ”

Zhao Mo suddenly looked up at the prince, but the prince showed a faint smile on his face: "You don't have to pay attention to your father's thoughts, he doesn't dare to say these things to outsiders, he can only mention them in private, if he really makes trouble in the Zongren Mansion, he will not take advantage of it." You just have to go back to Beijing with Yongjiahou, and you will have your own fate in the future. Your father doesn't care about you, and you don't have to worry about him. ”

Zhao Mo opened his mouth, but he stopped talking.

The prince said again: "Today, Huang Yan came over, he spoke a little mean, you must be unhappy to hear it, right? He worked as a guard in front of the emperor for many years, and only released to do military duties a few years ago, but the guard's habits did not change, and he always had to ask a few words first when he saw people, as if everyone in the world had bad intentions. He is a son of the Huang family, and the Huang family is the queen's mother's family, so he always favors the prince of the East Palace in his heart. I won't say what your father has been planning in the capital for more than a year, but you also know it. He doesn't like your father, so he gets angry with you, but he doesn't really hate you. ”

Zhao Mo had already guessed this, but when he moved into the prince's residence, it may have added to Huang Jincheng's vigilance and disgust for him. On the way south, Huang Jincheng obviously didn't care much about him. He and Qin Jian got off the boat together, met Huang Jincheng by chance, and greeted each other politely. If he hadn't been close to the prince, Huang Jincheng might have been polite.

It's not a good idea. Zhao Mo could only smile obediently and said: "Lord Huang may be in a bad mood? He is alone in a foreign official, and his family members have not followed him to take office, so he can only spend the New Year alone, I heard that there are unconscious clansmen and relatives who are embarrassed with him, he is upset, and it is not strange that he will attack a trivial matter." However, he is also a big official in Jinling, and I only hope that he will not ignore Li Yanchao's affairs because he dislikes me. Although that person is only a county magistrate, he is an official. Outsiders don't know the identity of my clan, if he comes to the door to harass me under the pretext of the government's investigation of the case, my uncle and grandfather are far away, and the only one who can be counted on is Lord Huang. I am a humble person, and I will suffer a loss, in case it affects my uncle, but how can I be happy?"

He asked tentatively again, "Why don't I move back to the Confucius Temple?"

The prince smiled: "Nonsense. I specially begged Yongjiahou to take you over to accompany me for the New Year. Now that the New Year has not yet arrived, you have moved away first, how will you spend this year? Where will I have the face to see Yongjiahou in the future? Besides, you said that you moved away because you didn't want to affect me, but I still have a few guards here who are good at it, and there is a yellow man who can protect me. If you move back to the Confucius Temple, Yongjiahou is now in the countryside outside the city, and there are only some male and female servants in the house, Li Yanchao really comes to the door, how can they resist it? You don't want to affect me, aren't you afraid of affecting Yongjiahou?"

Zhao Mo was stunned, he didn't expect the prince to block him with his words, and he was speechless for a while.

The prince smiled again and said, "Don't worry, I will send a letter to the governor's yamen, so that the Shangyuan County yamen can share it and don't make trouble." You can just stay with me for the New Year. I have already instructed them to make the things for the Chinese New Year's Eve sacrifice, don't you still want to sacrifice to your mother? I have ordered people to go to Cheng'en Temple to donate incense oil money and let them read the Seven Days for your mother. If you want to go to the temple to worship during the New Year, everything is ready-made, and if you want to stay there for a while, there is also a clean ashram to prepare. What do you think?"

Zhao Mo was even more surprised, and at the same time a little panicked: "Uncle, you have thought too thoughtfully, I ...... I don't know how to thank you. ”

The prince smiled slightly: "Thank you, I can't write two Zhao characters with you, and I am a family." You just have to treat me as your own uncle, and don't talk to me. ”

Zhao Mo agreed with a smile on his face, but he felt even more apprehensive in his heart. He really didn't dare to guess what the prince was doing so well to him.

In a few days, the New Year arrived.

Zhao Mo accompanied the prince to sacrifice the ancestor and Taizong of this dynasty, and even the first emperor was also sacrificed. It stands to reason that the king of Liyang is the brother of the first emperor and does not need to worship him, but the prince still sacrificed without scruples, and almost made it clear that he was not from the palace of Liyang. Zhao Mo could only turn a blind eye with a naïve and innocent child, happily accompanying the prince to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is also the rule in the palace, and the dishes in the palace are only greatly reduced. The evidence is obviously to this extent, and Zhao Mo also understands that the prince actually doesn't want to play tricks with him anymore, and wants to force him to admit the facts. But Zhao Mo didn't want to break the veil, he felt that the status quo was very good, everyone got along happily, why bother to tell the truth?

He also felt sad in his heart. The life he has been with the prince these days has made him feel like he has relived the happy times of his childhood. At that time, his father Zhao Shuo still loved him very much, and at the same time he was dignified, and his mother was still alive and doted on him, the only son. Although the family of three will encounter difficulties from time to time with the King of Liao, the step-concubine of the King of Liao and the two sons they gave birth to, the three of them support each other and love each other, and no matter how difficult the life is, they still feel very happy.

However, all this has come to naught. The mother died early, and the father turned his face and didn't recognize anyone, and he was also a fake affection for his son, as if the happiness of their family of three was just an illusion.

The crown prince is the same age as his father, and he seems to be dressing more and more like him - it is about a year or so that his father Zhao Shuo has been imitating the prince intentionally or unintentionally. When Zhao Mo faced the prince, he always felt as if he was seeing his father. It was a feeling that made him nostalgic and frightened. He didn't know if he should hope that this time would last longer, or that he could say goodbye to the prince as soon as possible. It's really hard to talk to outsiders.

However, the New Year has arrived, and he probably doesn't have to endure this taste for too long, right?

In the New Year, the city of Jinling was full of festivities, and that atmosphere also infected the prince and others who had little contact with the outside world. The prince thought that he was going back to Beijing at the beginning of spring, and he didn't know if he would have the opportunity to go back to Jinling in this life. So he called Zhao Mo, and then brought the two imperial doctors Tang and Shen, as well as a few guards, and went out shopping together.

Zhao Mo once reminded him that if he was on the same road with Imperial Doctor Tang, he would be in trouble if he met someone from Li Yanchao.

The prince smiled: "It's okay, let's not go with Lao Tang, let him have fun by himself." With Lao Shen and us together, it's enough. ”

Zhao Mo only knew that Li Yanchao was eyeing Imperial Doctor Tang, and it was indeed much safer to act like this, so he didn't say anything more. When everyone went out, they left Imperial Doctor Tang with a wry smile on their faces and the guard who had been a coachman for him, and left on their own.

They went to visit the busiest street market in the Confucius Temple area. If it weren't for the scruples of going to Li Yanchao, who had an unknown purpose in the Yali of Shangyuan County, maybe he would have to go to the urban area under the jurisdiction of Shangyuan County. However, after all, the prince has always been frail, and the weather is quite cold, and after walking around the whole street, it is almost the same. Imperial Doctor Shen persuaded him repeatedly, and the prince relented, declaring that everyone could go home.

At this time, the accompanying guards carried a lot of things in their hands, and even Zhao Mo carried two or three packs of dim sum in his hands. This time they went out, and they could be said to have returned with a full load.

When the prince went all the way back, the smile on his face never disappeared. He also said to Zhao Mo: "Shopping is really interesting." In the past, when I walked around the town, it was just a few shops, and the more I shopped, the more I got tired. The city of Jinling is 100 times more prosperous than the town, and this is 100 times more interesting. In the future, when the weather is good, I should still go out and walk more. "If you're worried about meeting people, it's a big deal to pay attention.

Zhao Mo chuckled silently, and when the prince was not paying attention, he specially turned his head to look at the faces of the followers. When they meet such a master, they probably have a headache too, right?

Just as Zhao Mo turned around, he found that there seemed to be a familiar figure behind them, and the smile on his face couldn't help but stiffen, and he quickly turned around with a solemn expression.

He must have been right......, right? It seems that it was the person I saw in the infirmary that day who claimed to be the official of Shangyuan County? Could it be that the person had been following them all along?!