10. Chapter IX
Jiang Ling had a long strange dream, in which she saw two men, one was Zhou Chengzhi and the other was Zhou Chengwen. It's not the two teenagers now, but the two brothers who have grown up.
Zhou Chengwen held a sword and pressed towards her step by step. She fled in a panic and into a claustrophobic cul-de-sac, eventually with no way out.
Seeing that the sword was about to be stabbed down, Zhou Chengzhi suddenly fell from the sky and slashed Zhou Chengwen to death with a volley. Jiang Ling watched her cousin fall in a pool of blood, just like she had seen when she fell from the city tower in the previous life.
After Zhou Chengzhi killed his brother, he dropped the blood-stained sword and turned around and forced her over. Her white clothes were stained with a little red, and her handsome face had a cold expression. But after trapping her in the corner, he smiled exaggeratedly and put his hands on her faceβkneading it vigorously.
Her beautiful face was kneaded into various shapes by her. He was eating and laughing all the time, as if he was doing something interesting. Until Jiang Ling in his dream, he felt that his face was about to become unconscious. Zhou Chengzhi kindly stopped, then smiled, closed his beautiful eyes, pursed the beautiful lips, and leaned towards her.
Call!
Jiang Ling woke up from his dream and sat up suddenly. It was already dawn outside the window, and there was the sound of people walking.
She touched her face, as if she really had a strange feeling, and touched her lips again, as if she was inexplicably hot.
She breathed a sigh of relief, this night's dream was really indescribably magical. The first half is okay, after all, I met my cousin today, and thinking of his death and his ending is a reflection of reality, but what is the second half.
She actually dreamed that Zhou Chengzhi rubbed her face as an adult and came up to kiss him. She hasn't forgotten that Zhou Chengzhi, who was an adult in the previous life, had nothing to do with her, and was arrogant and cold-faced, how could she behave like that.
This...... It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous!
"Miss, are you awake?" The maid pushed the door open from the outside.
Jiang Ling nodded and got off the bed: "Daddy, what about them?" β
Caihe said: "The old lady is ready to leave for the ancestral hall, saying that the young lady doesn't have to go with her today, so let Caihe not wake you up too early and let you sleep more." β
Jiang Ling asked again: "What about the third prince?" Did he get up? β
"I don't know about this, but there doesn't seem to be any movement over there in Jing Yayuan."
Jiang Ling nodded: "Then I'll wash up and take a look, you ask the housekeeper to prepare some early, let's bring it over, don't slack off others." β
Jiang Ling and Caihe arrived at Jingya Garden, where Chaiyun was practicing martial arts. Seeing people coming in, he hurriedly greeted him and saluted: "Miss Ling'er." β
Jiang Ling had a pretty face and asked with a grin: "Brother Chasing Yun, has Brother Chengzhi gotten up?" β
Chasing Yun said: "Your Highness has been tired of traveling these days, and I slept a long night last night, and I haven't woken up yet." β
Jiang Ling nodded: "Then I won't bother him, just wait for him here." "That's it, and asked as if he remembered something, "Brother Chaiyun has been by His Royal Highness the Third Prince's side, presumably he hasn't had breakfast yet, otherwise let Caihe take you to have some dinner first." β
"This ......" Chasing Yun hesitated.
Jiang Ling said with a smile: "Our Jiang Mansion is very safe, there are no idle people, you can go with confidence." β
"yes!" The door creaked open from the inside, and Zhou Chengzhi walked out sleepily, "Chasing the clouds, you will go to breakfast with Miss Caihe, I don't need you to do anything here for the time being." β
The master gave an order, and Chasing Yun naturally obeyed the order and said goodbye.
Zhou Chengzhi walked over with a smile and sat down opposite Jiang Ling: "Ling'er, why did you come over so early?" β
Jiang Ling laughed and pointed to the sun hanging in the air: "It's not early, it's because Brother Chengzhi is too late to get up." As he spoke, he noticed the cyan color under his eyes and wondered, "Is Brother Chengzhi sleeping badly?" β
Zhou Chengzhi shook his head: "It's good." β
"Really?" Jiang Ling looked at his face with some disbelieving.
Zhou Chengzhi laughed, and glanced at the food box on the table to change the topic: "Is this for me?" β
Jiang Ling said: "Well, I'm afraid that Brother Chengzhi will be hungry, so I brought some snacks first." β
The corners of Zhou Chengzhi's mouth hooked up a happy smile: "Sister Ling'er is really understanding. β
Jiang Ling looked at the smile on the corner of his mouth and couldn't help but think of last night's dream. When Zhou Chengzhi β‘β‘ her face, he smiled more happily than now. She involuntarily touched her face.
Zhou Chengzhi took out a piece of snack, noticed her small movements, raised his eyebrows and asked, "What's wrong?" β
Jiang Ling pursed his lips and said half-truthfully: "Last night I dreamed that a bad guy rubbed my face, and I always felt numb when I woke up this morning. β
Zhou Chengzhi's expression stiffened slightly, and he suddenly smiled again, pinched her chin with one free hand, and pretended to look left and right: "It seems that there is no problem." β
With that, the other hand puts the snack into his mouth.
Her lips are pale with a thin layer of pink, and her eating movements are very elegant, and her lips are open, and she is actually a little moving and beautiful. Jiang Ling was stunned, remembering the scene at the end of last night's dream, when Zhou Chengzhi, who had grown up, pouted his lips and leaned towards him.
She suddenly sneered.
Zhou Chengzhi withdrew the hand placed on her small chin and looked at her in confusion.
Jiang Ling hurriedly suppressed a smile and asked, "Brother Chengzhi, where do you want to go today?" β
Zhou Chengzhi asked: "Have the queen and Uncle Jiang already gone to the ancestral hall?" β
Jiang Ling nodded: "Now I am the only one left as the master of the Jiang Mansion." β
Zhou Cheng knew: "Then don't go out for the time being today, just go shopping in Jiangfu." β
Jiang Ling felt strange: "I heard my aunt say that Brother Chengzhi wanted to see the scenery of Yangzhou, so he came here." But you didn't go out yesterday, and you didn't leave the house today. Isn't that a waste of time? β
Zhou Chengzhi smiled and said: "Ling'er doesn't know, the reason why I came to Yangzhou is because I have just recovered from a serious illness and don't want to be bored in the palace anymore." But after more than a month of boating by water, my body is now a little uncomfortable, so I don't want to go out too tired for the time being. β
"Is that so?" Jiang Ling opened his big innocent eyes, "Then Brother Chengzhi should have a good rest." Wait until you have completely recovered your body before you can go to play, and we are not in a hurry for this day or two. β
Zhou Chengzhi smiled: "That's right. β
Fool, he didn't come for Yangzhou scenery, he came for you fool.
Jiang Ling thought that since both of them were in the mansion, why didn't she take this opportunity to see if this prince was born with a violent temperament, or if he actually had a soft and kind side in his heart.
She rolled her eyes, remembering that there was an injured rabbit in Meishan in the back garden of her home, and her third brother Jiang Yu kept shouting to catch it and roast it and eat it, but the rabbit was elusive and never let Jiang Sangongzi succeed.
Jiang Ling smiled and said: "There is a plum mountain in the back garden of our house, although it is not the plum blossom season, but there are a lot of azaleas on the mountain. Do you want to go and see it? β
"Okay, I have lived in the north of the capital for a long time, and I have seen a lot of plum blossoms, but I really haven't seen many cuckoos."