Chapter 194: Refusal
Oh, is it? ”
Zhao Shan'er was obviously dissatisfied, Zhongli at this time was like the two of them who she saw yesterday.
She didn't understand, is the person who can write "I wish people a long time, thousands of miles together" really such a layman who bends his waist for power?
Seeing the expression on Zhao Shan'er's face change from the previous excitement to the current tastelessness, Zhongli couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief gently.
It's okay, it's okay.
"By the way, I ate a kind of red fruit in the Fourth Brother's Mansion before, sweet and sour, I heard that it is a specialty of the border city. I originally thought that my father also had it here, but I later found out that it had been assigned a long time ago. Do you know what that is? ”
Zhao Shan'er's interest suddenly shifted.
Zhongli had always known what the other party was talking about, and he chuckled and shook his head.
"The princess has been in the palace for many years, maybe it is not clear. This thing is not a specialty of the border city. The capital is probably not nothing, but perhaps many people think that it is difficult to wait for the elegant hall, so it has never appeared in the palace. As for the things in the Four Princes' Mansion, it's just that Xiao Shizi liked this more when he went to the border city, so he would send some over every year. ”
Chen'er has been to the border city?
Zhao Shan'er's eyes widened in some surprise, how old is Chen'er now? Have you already been to a border town?
"The princess may not know, but there are some misunderstandings involved. It's a bit long, so I won't go into details! ”
Zhongli didn't tell the truth, because he didn't want to explain so much to the Seventh Princess, especially about the matter between himself and the Fourth Prince.
"Oh, it's just that I really want to go to the border city! It's just that my father will definitely not allow me to go! ”
She glanced at Zhongli with big watery eyes, pouting, and feeling a little unhappy in her heart.
Although she is the emperor's daughter, she can only travel to a huge palace and the entire capital.
Especially after meeting Zhongli, she was very curious about the place where a man like Zhongli was raised.
So, Zhao Shan'er took a few steps forward with a red face, reached out and tugged at the sleeve of Zhongli's clothes, and swayed back and forth.
"Then Zhongli, can you tell me about the border city? I don't think I'll ever be able to leave here in my life! ”
Zhongli is also a woman, so he can naturally feel the helplessness of women in this period.
Three from four virtues is no joke.
If there is no man by his side, most unmarried women can go to the only place where the temple is, right?
She sighed softly in her heart, picked up some good things in the border city and told Zhao Shan'er.
Especially what he said was interesting, Zhao Shan'er hadn't gone through too much, and her eyes were brilliant when she heard it, and she exclaimed.
Zhong Li was talking, and suddenly noticed that Zhao Shan'er's gaze slowly changed, she couldn't help but tighten her heart, coughed dryly, quickly accepted the description of her eyebrows just now, and hurriedly changed the topic.
"But every place has different habits. For example, the capital, where life is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, has the most opportunities to receive His Majesty's blessings, and the capital has been the center of all kinds of culture, economy and even everything from ancient times to the present. For example, if the people in the capital are fashionable to wear some kind of clothes this year, the border cities will definitely follow by this time next year, and so on. ”
Is that so?
Zhao Shan'er looked at Zhongli with a little confusion in her eyes, and there was a drum in her heart.
Zhongli didn't force it, but smiled and spoke.
"In fact, this time I was summoned by His Majesty, and the grass people are especially grateful. And I can also take this opportunity to come to the capital to have a look and broaden my horizons. In this way, I will be able to describe it to my younger siblings better when I go back. ”
Get back? He's going back?
Even if a person is standing in front of him, Zhao Shan'er feels reluctant when she hears this.
"Can't you just go back? You also said that the capital is very good, why don't you just be in the capital? My fourth brother likes you very much, and my father seems to think you are very good, as long as you study hard, you may be able to win a champion next year! ”
Female champion? That's a bully!
Zhong was helpless for a while, and now he has already risked cutting off his head, what will he do in the future?
He smiled heartily, shook his head at Zhao Shan'er, and told her the truth that "oranges are oranges in Huainan, and oranges in Huaibei are oranges".
"The grass people are used to living in the border city, and life in the capital may be a bit restrictive to me. Therefore, weeds are best suited to grow in the wilderness, not in this delicate and beautiful imperial garden. ”
Before they knew it, they had reached the Imperial Garden.
"But there's not just delicate flowers and trees in the Imperial Garden! If you don't believe me, come and see ......."
Zhao Shan'er was a little anxious, and she reached out to pull the sleeve of Zhongli's clothes, but Zhongli avoided it, and after she suddenly noticed it, her face was hot.
"Look at these, I asked my father-in-law who manages the imperial study, and they all said that these flowers are common varieties, and they can often be seen outside! And just asked if you have ever seen plum blossoms, there are a few red plums planted in the imperial garden and now they are blooming, Zhong Gongzi we can go and enjoy it, if Zhong Gongzi likes it, I can ask my father to let you take a pot! ”
Zhao Shan'er lowered her head slightly and said a little shyly, after all, it was the first time she invited a foreign man.
Zhongli looked at the place of the other party's fingers, and couldn't help but sigh softly in his heart, shaking his head helplessly.
Even the ordinary varieties that my father-in-law said were not something that ordinary people could see at will.
In the end, she still couldn't grasp what she meant.
However, the Royal Imperial Garden can be called an ordinary flower and plant, and it is not an ordinary ordinary, right?
It's just that Zhongli didn't refuse immediately, but said half-jokingly.
"A gentleman does not win the love of others! The plum blossoms in the imperial garden must be the emperor who likes them very much and will search for the entire apocalypse to find these plants, if the grass people like it, they will give it to me, then the emperor will be very sad. But if the grass people like it very much, but they don't want to win people's love, the grass people will miss it day and night, which will eventually lead to depression and illness, so for the sake of the grass people, but also for the emperor, forget it! ”
As he spoke, Zhongli smiled and shook his head gently.
Zhao Shan'er didn't understand what Zhong Li meant by this.
When he finished saying those words, Zhao Shan'er looked at him with obvious disappointment, she lowered her head and looked at her toes, always feeling that she had been sticking her hot face to the other party's cold ass.
Although Zhongli kept smiling and talking to himself, when he thought about it, every word seemed like a rejection of himself.
The maid behind her looked at the princess's sad appearance and stamped her feet in the back.
The meaning of his own princess is so obvious, why can't this Zhongli understand! The princess is blessed to be able to take a fancy to him, why is this person so shameless?
"Princess, I see that it is not early, I still have some things at home, so I will go back first, if the princess comes to Canggu City, I will treat the princess to the fullest!"
Zhong Li saw that Zhao Shan'er's eyes were red, and after saluting the princess, he nodded to the princess, and turned around to let the father-in-law next to him send him away.
The father-in-law glanced at Zhao Shan'er with some hesitation, this was a delay in waiting for the reply of the seventh princess, so he could only resign himself to leaving here with Zhongli.
Looking at Zhongli's distant figure, Zhao Shan'er was very sad.
When Zhongli said those words, she already knew Zhongli's thoughts, saying that he didn't want to be loved, he knew what he meant but rejected himself, but fortunately he didn't say it directly, and he didn't embarrass himself.
But even so, Zhao Shan'er still felt very uncomfortable.
For the first time, she had a crush on someone and was rejected, how could she, a princess, stand it?
It's just that the father-in-law who led the way just watched Zhongli reject the Seventh Princess from the side, worried that he would be implicated later, and then took Zhongli to a place, and then found a reason to leave in a hurry.
In this way, at least someone can ask for it later, and they can have a proof.
Zhongli came to this palace for the first time, and now in this palace compound where he was unfamiliar with his life, he naturally knew the terrible nature of this place, and he couldn't walk around, in case he walked into the palace of that concubine, or walked into the forbidden land, his own life would not be guaranteed.
Seeing a little eunuch in palace clothes hurriedly walking towards her, Zhongli hurriedly walked up and stopped her.
"Father-in-law, please wait."
As he spoke, he took out a few taels of silver from his sleeve and secretly stuffed them into the hands of his little father-in-law.
"I came to meet the saint on the order of the emperor, but I just got lost with my father-in-law who sent me away, and I don't know how to get out of the palace, so I ask my father-in-law to give me some advice."
This person was originally a sprinkler eunuch in the palace, and he didn't have oil and water at most when he worked every day, but now that someone sent him to the door, he naturally wouldn't refuse.
"Well, you go straight along here, you come across a rockery, then turn right, go through a doorway and walk to the crying who comes in from outside the palace, and then you know how to go."
After the father-in-law put the money away, he reached out and pointed out the direction for Zhongli.
Looking at the side of his father-in-law's finger, Zhongli turned back to his father-in-law and clenched his fist.
"Thank you, father-in-law, for bothering you."
But as soon as he walked out of the palace gate, he saw Zhao Yiyan coming in a hurry.
"Big brother? What are you doing here? Zhongli saw Zhao Yiyan galloping towards the palace gate with a dignified face.
Seeing Zhongli at the gate of the palace, Zhao Yiyan pulled off the reins of the horse and jumped off the horse.
"The emperor is looking for you?"
His eyes glanced over Zhongli's body and asked, but he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that Zhongli was unharmed.
Zhongli was moved and funny, even if the emperor wanted to cut himself, he always had to have an explanation, right?
However, he was still moved by Zhao Yiyan's care and maintenance of himself, so his attitude naturally became a little intimate when he spoke.
"Huh? That's right! Decreed yesterday. How would Big Brother know? But don't worry, I should be fine. ”
However, thinking of the seventh princess who had red eyes in the palace just now, Zhongli was also a little weak in what he said, after all, he hurt the emperor's favorite seventh princess, and it was not necessary if there was any punishment.
"What's the matter with you? Don't take it lightly, this emperor is not what you think he is. ”
It's just that what makes Zhongli strange is that Zhao Yiyan's attitude at this time is not so relaxed, but he is becoming more and more cautious.