"Actually......" Chi Zhong had been holding a sentence for a long time, and finally couldn't help it at this moment, but he opened his mouth and hesitated again. Seeing the second prince's curious gaze, he continued with some difficulty: "Weichen has a question that I have always wanted to ask His Highness. ”

"It doesn't hurt to be straight." The second prince nodded.

Chi Zhong knew that he was not good at words, so before he spoke, he silently considered the wording, and then asked: "Wei Chen is puzzled, there are two divine doctors in the Imperial Medical Bureau, Yan and Ye, and Doctor Ye is the imperial doctor personally ordered by His Royal Highness, and Imperial Doctor Ye also comes every day to diagnose His Royal Highness's pulse and use medicine, but why has His Royal Highness's body not improved?" ”

"Speaking of which, I owe Imperial Doctor Ye, and he has never left Kyoto for several years in order to treat me." There was a ray of gloom in the eyes of the second prince, and then he said: "This disease that has been pestering me and can't get rid of it, in fact, it can't be strictly called a disease, it should be called a 'deficiency disease'!" ”

When Chi Chong heard this, his eyebrows moved, but he didn't speak.

"I heard someone say that when my mother was pregnant with me until the seventh month, she was a little insane. In order to protect the fetus, the doctors of the Taiyi Bureau will prescribe some concentrating medicine for her every day, and in this case, I was able to survive, but I was born a month earlier than ordinary children, and I am already very lucky. When the second prince said this, he shook his head and muttered: "As a royal family, the people should be responsible for the people, but as I grow up year by year, I know more and more that I can't do anything. ”

"Your Highness." Chi Zhong couldn't help but speak: "Weichen is stupid and poor, and many times he will only be a pillar with a pestle next to you, but Weichen wants to do something for His Highness, I just wish you good health as usual." Weichen is serving beside His Royal Highness, and I would like to follow your instructions. Powder Potency. ”

As soon as Chi Chong's words were finished, he was about to bow deeply, but he was held up by the second prince.

"I live in the palace, I'm afraid that's all I can do in this life, what kind of instructions can I give to break my bones." The second prince said, looked at Chi Zhong and smiled slightly, and said, "If you can not always be so restrained in the future, you can chat with me from time to time." ”

Chi Zhong could tell that he was mentioning the incident he had just said again. After hesitating for a moment, he said: "Weichen is stupid, I'm afraid that when chatting with His Highness, he can only be a listener. ”

"Bosom friends are friends!" A bright light appeared in the second prince's smiling eyes, "Xiao Chong, no, you are older than me, I should call you Ah Chong." There are many rules in the palace, but when I call you Ah Chong. It's the time when you are no longer a 'micro-minister' and I am no longer a 'Your Highness'. ”

"Your Royal Highness, Weichen ......" the second prince said that made Chi Zhong unprepared. But when his tongue was knotted, the smiling second prince suddenly frowned, but it was because a dull feeling suddenly rose in his chest, and the strong cough made him unbearable. Covering his mouth and coughing heavily.

After hesitating for a moment, he reached out to the back of the second prince, patted it gently, and at the same time silently breathed inside, a gentle energy came out of the dantian, swam through the heart meridian, passed to the palm, and then gently plunged into the second prince's spine.

The second prince's cough gradually subsided, and he took a deep breath. Whispered, "Thank you." ”

Chi Zhong withdrew his hand. With some concern, he said, "Let's go back." ”

"I'd like to stay here a little longer." The second prince shook his head slightly.

After thinking about it for a while, Chi Chong glanced at a few rooms in the annex that were a little more simple than the bedrooms of His Second Highness, and said, "That...... Don't stay outside. ”

"It's fine." The second prince tightened the cloak on his shoulders. He glanced at the apricot tree in the corner of the wall again, and then walked towards the house in the garden. Halfway through, he said again: "This small courtyard has been ownerless for a long time, I'm afraid it's very cold inside, Ah Chong, you can help me get some charcoal!" ”

"Yes." Chi Zhong arched his hand and said, "I'll be back soon." As if admonishing, he added, and Chi Zhong strode away.

The second prince smiled at the corner of his mouth, and then turned around and walked into the main house of the small courtyard. The structure of this annex is not very ornate, except for the way the stone is stacked is rigorous and solemn, there are not many other aesthetic decorations, and the general pattern is expressed by lines, in fact, it is very close to a small farmhouse.

Because the owner of the annex has passed away for many years, the courtyard, which has little value for tourism, is even quieter. It's no wonder that the two were arrogant just now, their identities were low and small in a huge palace, but in this small courtyard where there were only about ten palace maids responsible for cleaning and repairing, those two were the leaders of the first courtyard, and when they saw that there were palace maids in their courtyard, they didn't come up to flatter, and even if they were polite, they were offended!

The number of palace maids in the courtyard is limited, and the two leaders have just been frightened away by the reprimand of the second prince who came to the courtyard, and after he walked into the house, he couldn't see anyone.

The furnishings in the house have not changed for several years, and they are cleaned every day. The second prince walked through the main hall and came to a side room.

The room was made of planks about two feet above the floor, a step above the usual wooden floor, but not exactly the height of the bed. The second prince clearly remembered the meaning of this pattern, this strange room was designed by the long-deceased mistress of the annex, it may not look very beautiful, but in winter, when the foldable planks are lifted and the long trough is filled with large hot stones, the room will suddenly become warm as spring.

In the past, when he was a four-year-old child, he came here to escape the cold. Staying in the spacious and often windy Huayang Palace, holding a purple gold hand warmer to keep warm, but not staying in this room where all four walls seem to spread heat to the middle.

The second prince, who was sitting on the wooden plank on his knees, thought about some of the past, and a smile just appeared on his face, but he was quickly dissipated by the coldness of the plank under his legs. He glanced at the fire pit in the middle of the wooden plank ground and there was no charcoal ash at all, sighed, and thought to himself: Things are not people, and there will never be a chance to eat the roasted sweet potato that Aunt Ye suddenly took out of the charcoal ash of the fire pit when he stayed here.

After sitting in the room for a while, there was a sudden sound of small footsteps outside the room, and then a small palace maid who looked to be eleven or twelve years old walked in with a hand stove covered with a layer of silky fur. She saw the second prince sitting on the wooden floor, under his delicate eyebrows, his eyes twitched, and before she could salute and speak, she saw the second prince beckoning to her.

Seeing this, the little palace maid directly skipped the courtesy of seeing the king, and approached him without hesitation and sat down. No one knew about this particular way of communication between her and him.

When she sat down beside her, the second prince took the hand stove with hot charcoal burning inside she handed her, but the next step was to put the hand stove aside, and then naturally held the little palace maid's hands, sighed close to her mouth, rubbed them, and then said warmly: "Xiaoyi's hands are always so soft and warm, holding these hands, I feel a lot warmer." ”

Two red clouds quickly rose on the cheeks of the palace maid he called 'Xiaoyi', and her heart hesitated to withdraw her hand.

The servants in the palace are eunuchs except for the palace maids, and the possibility of actual combat between men and women is not high, but the frequency of private rumors is somewhat abundant. This second highness with a very poor physique makes her feel that her heart beats unevenly every time she sees her, so the palace maid Xiaoyi, who is still in a state of ignorance and slight ignorance in the relationship between men and women, often asks herself if she is in love with this noble second highness. But at the same time, she kept warning herself that she couldn't have this kind of non-trivial thinking, and His Royal Highness was just accustomed to being generous to every servant in Huayang Palace.

Thinking of those admonishments she had given herself, the palace maid Xiaoyi finally made up her mind, withdrew her hands from the palms of His Second Highness's hands that were not at an abnormal temperature, and quickly picked up the hand stove resting on the wooden board on the side and put it in the hands of His Second Highness.

Seeing this, the second prince did not hold back Xiaoyi's hands that made him feel warm, held the stove, rubbed the silky fur on the surface of the stove, the softness in his eyes gradually dissipated, his eyes became dark, and he said two words lightly: "How?" ”

The palace maid Xiaoyi felt the change in the feelings of the second highness, although it was very light, but she still stood up and walked away two steps, and then faced him Yifu, and said: "After Concubine De left the other garden just now, the palace maid who was guarding outside told her about the princess's highness falling into the water, and the maid listened to the content of the palace maid's words, it seems that this news was passed on by the emperor himself." ”

The second prince wondered: "I remember that when the imperial sister's maidservant sent a letter to Huayang Palace, it was still early, why didn't my father pass on the letter until now...... What about the concubine? ”

"I don't know the details of this." Xiaoyi didn't seem very restrained when he replied to this, at least he was much more generous than Chi Zheng. After thinking about it for a while, she said: "At noon, the maid saw the head of the 'Taihe Palace' with dozens of eunuchs during the meal, and they were very busy. ”

"Taihe Hall is a place to contact the nobles of overseas neighboring countries, but if someone with such status visits, it must be the first to arrive. I'm afraid it's not a good thing that the guests came so suddenly this time, otherwise my father wouldn't have paid so much attention to it. The second prince analyzed it softly, and then he changed the topic a little abruptly, and said: "It seems that the father and the mother are going to visit the imperial sister together, and the mother has been gone for a while, and I am almost about to leave." ”

He said so, but he still sat on the elevated wooden floor.

Xiao Yi looked at such a second highness, and finally couldn't help but say: "Your Highness, the servant has a doubt in his heart......." (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation