In the afternoon, Zhao Tan bathed and changed clothes, changed into plain clothes, and moved into the Taoist temple, where he was ready to fast for three days and pray for the emperor. Now people often say, 'If you don't want people to forget you, you don't want to forget him', if you want the emperor to remember that there is a son a hundred miles away, you have to find a way to make the emperor remember himself, maybe he will let himself return to Beijing as soon as he is happy, he doesn't want to stay in this country for the rest of his life.

Although the Taoist temple has been cleaned for a long time, it has been uninhabited for a while, and it seems to be extremely cold and less popular. In the hall, Zhao Ta put three plates of dim sum and three plates of fruit on the offering table, lit two red candles with the thickness of his arm in front of the statue of Emperor Zhenwu, took the incense that Jianxi lit on the candle, and knelt on the futon and bowed twice, and inserted it in the incense burner in front of the offering table.

The living room of the master is in the east side of the hall, the scale of the Taoist temple is not large, it is said that the hall is just a suite, the outer room is the place where Qingyun entertains guests to read, the inner room sleeps, now it has become the temporary residence of Zhao Ta, the wall is hung with Lao Tzu riding a bull out of the customs map, the ground is covered with a soft couch, it looks like a small Japanese tatami mat, there is a pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the long low table, and the sandalwood is lit in the incense burner, exuding a faint fragrance, which makes people feel refreshed.

"The objects here are all used by this old guy Qingyun, right?" Zhao Ta took off his shoes and sat on the soft couch, lazily and half-lying and said, there are two braziers lit in the room, all of which are made of fine silver charcoal, and there is no smoke, which makes the room warm, but it is not cold.

"Second master, yes!" The charcoal stove on the low table was boiling water, and when he saw Xi, he made a cup of tea for Zhao Ta and said, "Qingyun, this guy was so frightened that he ran away without having time to bring anything except the clothes on his body!" ”

"Don't even have any money?"

"Damn, I've been looking for a long time, and I haven't looked at a copper plate, so I want to take it all away..." Seeing that Xi couldn't help but burst into a foul language, but he quickly reacted, looked up at the prince's playful smiling face, and quickly explained: "Second master, I really didn't hide it secretly this time, he did take all the silver away!" ”

"Okay, look at your scare, I just said casually, he is just a mess in the house, and he has to refine the pill, and we can't have much money left for him!" Zhao Ta kicked his foot and said with a sigh of joy.

"Second master, you scared the little one into sweating!" Seeing Xi sighed and said, since Zhao Ta exposed his corruption, he has been afraid of finding him back, and now his status is not easy to come by, he doesn't want to sweep the floor and empty the toilet.

"Hehe, I really like the way you scold the street, this is like a man!" Zhao Ta scratched his foot under Jianxi's armpit and said.

"Second master, don't make me happy..." Seeing Xi's face gloomy, he said that he had been in the palace since he was a child, and he had no cock, and he was most afraid of others mentioning this stubble.

"See, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to!" Zhao Ta regretted it after speaking, he knew that he had lost his words, didn't he say it in front of the dwarf.

Seeing that he was stunned when he heard this, they were all slaves to coax their masters to be happy, not to mention making fun of him, even if he killed him, no one would apologize to him, "Second master..." His eyes were red, and he didn't know what to say, but he was happy in his heart, which showed that the prince regarded him as a human being, not a dispensable slave who was only for driving.

"See, how do you write the congratulatory note to my father?" Zhao Ta sat up straight, picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea and said.

"Second master, aren't you embarrassed? I don't know a basket of words, how can I write a congratulatory sheet! Jianxi turned into a face that was uglier than his dead father and said.

"So what can I do, I can't write, and you can't write either!" Zhao Tan tapped his fingers on the dwarf and whispered, "That gentleman should be able to write, but fucking he ran away, we can't just find someone to write, that would be disrespectful to my father!" "He's really embarrassed, it's better to let him hang himself if he writes a congratulatory sheet in Chinese, of course he won't hang himself if he can't write it, Zhao Ta searched his stomach and thought that he didn't seem to have learned this thing from elementary school to college, it's really a book to use when he hates less, and he doesn't want to copy one from memory.

If it weren't for seeing the prince's fingers moving, he would have thought that the prince was asleep now, and when he saw Huang Jingchen thinking about the problem, he just didn't understand why a child would put on such a deep appearance. ,

"There it is!" Zhao Ta suddenly straightened up and said, "Seeing that Xi is preparing pen and ink, the second master is going to start writing a congratulatory sheet!" Hearing the prince's order, Jianxi hurriedly summoned a small yellow door to the treasury to get things, and the paper used to write the recital for the emperor was specially made, Qingyun didn't have it at all.

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It was already dark, and more than ten lanterns had been lit in the yard, and he sighed in his hand, rubbed his ears, and the prince wrote a congratulatory note for an afternoon, and he was not allowed to go in to disturb him, and he was afraid of being summoned by the prince, and he did not dare to go far, so he could only suffer from the cold here!

"See, come in!" Finally, the king's shout came from the house, and when he saw Xi, he hurriedly picked up the food box and entered the house.

"Finally finished writing, writing this panic is more tiring than squatting on a horse!" Zhao Ta stood up, stretched his waist, and complained incessantly.

"The prince has worked hard, are you hungry?" Jianxi hurriedly added charcoal to the charcoal basin that was about to be extinguished, took off the lampshade and replaced it with a candle and said.

"You seal the congratulatory watch and send it away early tomorrow morning!" Zhao Ta opened the food box, took a piece of dim sum and took a bite and said.

"Yes, Lord Wang, wash your hands first before eating!" Seeing that Xi put Zhao Ta's written recital fold into a small box, picked a piece of fire paint and melted it in the brazier and stuck it on the box, marked it while it was hot, and saw that the prince had already eaten it, and hurriedly said.

"It's not clean, it's not sick after eating, it's hungry!" Zhao Ta stuffed all the snacks into his mouth, washed his hands in the basin and said.

Zhao Ta washed his hands, and saw that Xi had already cleaned up the dwarf table and put the dishes in the food box one by one, "See Xi, aren't you a vegetarian?" How can there be fish and meat! He said, pointing to a few pieces of food.

"Second master, the chef who came back here has good skills, he has learned vegetarian food in Xiangguo Temple, this is a fake steamed sheep, three fresh chickens, yuan fish, and fake roasted duck for rice, rice and dried sheep, fried fake mullet, rice is three fresh noodles, and a few small snacks, it sounds like meat, in fact, they are all vegetarian!" Seeing the joy of reporting the name of the dish one by one, he said.

"No matter, whether it's meat or vegetarian, eat first and then talk about it!" Zhao Ta picked up a piece and put it in his mouth, "See, you didn't eat it!" He looked up and saw that he was swallowing hard, and realized that he must not have eaten.

"Second master, I'll wait for you to eat after serving!" Seeing that Xi smiled and said.

"Sit down and eat together, I can't finish so many meals alone!" Zhao Tan pointed to his side and said.

"Second master, I am a subordinate, how dare I eat with the master, you eat first, I'm not hungry!" Seeing joy said in fear.

"Shit, there's no one else here, you've been busy for a long time, you must be hungry!" Zhao Ta couldn't help but pull Jianxi to sit down, stuffed him with a pair of chopsticks and said.

"Master!" Seeing that Xi screamed, he got up and knelt down suddenly, and when he raised his head, he was already in tears.

"See you, what are you doing, hurry up!" Zhao Ta was startled, he didn't expect to see Xi like this, so he quickly put down his chopsticks and pulled him up, and sat down next to him, "Jianxi, since I left the palace, only you accompany me every day, the day I met the assassin, although you were scared to death, but you still stood in front of me, I treat you as a relative, as my brother!" ”

"Second master, do you really regard me as a brother?"

"Of course, don't you treat me as a brother!"

"I've lost my loved ones for a long time! The second master is willing to treat me as a relative, see you..." Seeing Xi kowtowed to Zhao Ta again, his parents died early and were lonely, and the only one was that his uncle was greedy for a few dollars, so he was castrated and sent to the palace.

"Okay, if you cry again, the house will be flooded, and we won't have to eat!" Zhao Ta wiped his tears with his sleeve, pushed him a bowl of noodles and said jokingly.

Both of them were hungry, so they swept away the food, saw that they had collected the dishes, and made a cup of tea for Zhao Ta, "Second master, I heard two explosions of thunder that day, and the assassin died, is it really like a god who made a thunderstorm!" Jianxi sat down next to Zhao Ta and asked, this question has been hidden in his heart for a long time.

"Hehe, if only I had that ability, you've actually seen the thing that killed the assassin!" Zhao Ta said with a smile.

"I... I've seen it, no! Jianxi thought about it, but he really couldn't think of it, so he shook his head blankly and said.

"This is it!" Zhao Ta took out the revolver from his arms and put it on the low table and said.

"This?!" Seeing that Xi reached out and touched it, he quickly retracted his hand, looking afraid.

"Don't be afraid, these things are all made by you for me to find someone, and I won't know each other when I install them together?"

"Oh, I said how to look familiar, it turns out that the second master asked me to do this! But how can such a small thing be so powerful? Jianxi looked at it carefully, but still didn't dare to touch it, and touched his head and said.

"Come on, you can try it and you'll know it!" Zhao Ta made a demonstration of holding a gun, handed the gun to Jianxi, helped him pull the hammer, asked him to point the muzzle of the gun at the copper incense burner under the portrait, and motioned him to pull the trigger.

There was a crisp sound of 'bang', a puff of smoke rose from the room, and he closed his eyes in fright, and the gun fell to the ground with a shake of his hand, and it took a while before he opened his eyes, "Go and see!" Zhao Ta smiled and pointed to the incense burner that fell on the ground, and when he saw Xi, he walked over to pick it up and looked at it, there was a transparent hole with the thickness of a thumb on it.

"It's amazing, and human bones are not so hard!" Seeing Xi shaking the incense burner, he stuck out his tongue and said.

"See you, this is a life-saving guy, and it's also a secret between the two of us, don't tell anyone without my permission, including Huang Daguan!" Zhao Ta picked up the gun and said.

"Second master, don't worry, I will never reveal it like anyone!" Seeing Xi, he nodded vigorously and said, secretly saying in his heart that the prince trusted himself so much, even if he killed himself, he would not tell the secret, but he was a little curious how the prince could think of making this kind of weapon, he was just a child, but he didn't dare to ask.