Shen Yuexi turned his head to stare at the stall making wontons, a pot was placed on a charcoal brazier, the pot was boiling water, steaming, the wontons were already wrapped, the boss put the wontons into the pot, and stirred them with a spoon from time to time.

The streets are cold on winter nights, and the wonton stalls give people a warm taste.

It is a wonton with vegetarian filling. It is rare to have green vegetables in winter, so the wontons are made from dried vegetables dried in the autumn and mixed with lard, which is very fragrant, especially on the cold streets on winter nights, so a bowl of wontons is appropriate.

Shen Yuexi put one hand on the edge of the bowl to warm up, and drank the hot soup with a spoon in the other, with a satisfied smile on her face.

"Is it delicious?" Zhao Zheng turned his head and asked her.

Shen Yuexi nodded. Having experienced hunger on the way to escape, Shen Yuexi felt that all the food was worthy of praise.

Zhao Zheng likes such a Shen Yuexi, not squeamish, not pretentious, frank and cute. This personality is probably also related to the fact that she has experienced ten years of ups and downs in the frontier.

The people of the frontier have a very hard character.

"It's been a few years since this stall, but it's rare that the taste of wontons hasn't changed." Zhao Zheng said and looked at the stall owner, the stall owner was still the original stall owner, but he hadn't been here for many years, and the stall owner didn't seem to recognize him.

After eating, Zhao Zheng got up and motioned for Xiao Luzi to go to the checkout.

The stall owner walked over at this time and said respectfully to Zhao Zheng: "Seventh Prince, these bowls of wontons are small for you, and the little ones haven't seen you for some years." ”

Zhao Zheng smiled, "You still recognize me." ”

"I was helped by the Seventh Prince back then, and the little ones didn't dare to forget." The stall owner said sincerely.

As soon as the stall owner said this, Zhao Zheng remembered that he wanted to eat wontons, but he didn't meet him for a few nights, and when he inquired, he knew that the stall owner's child was very seriously ill, and he was raising money to treat the child.

Zhao Zheng sent someone to send a hundred taels of silver. This one hundred taels of silver is nothing to Zhao Zheng, but it is life-saving silver to the stall owner.

"You haven't come to the small stall since then, the small one has been waiting for you for years." The stall owner's face was full of gratitude.

"Thank you." Zhao Zheng did not refuse the stall owner's kindness, "How is the child now?" ”

"Okay, okay, Lord Xie Qi is worried, speaking of which, you saved his life." The stall owner hurriedly replied.

"So how old is he, and what is he doing now?" Because of his origins, Zhao Zheng asked a few more questions.

"Back to the Seventh Prince, the dog is already 17 years old, and he has been a junior apprentice in the medicine shop, and he doesn't expect to have a big career, and he will be content if he can have food and clothing and a safe little one."

"Well, very good, selling medicinal herbs is a good livelihood." Zhao Zheng replied, and left with a thousand thanks from the stall owner.

"Seventh Master, you are really a bodhisattva." After walking a few steps, Shen Yuexi said softly.

"It's just a bump in time." Zhao Zheng didn't feel that he had done anything extraordinary, and accepting the stall owner's kindness was just to reassure the stall owner.

To give others the opportunity to repay, otherwise others will be uneasy for a lifetime, this is Zhao Zheng's way of life.

Doing good deeds without keeping them in your heart is the great good. Shen Yuexi thought like this in her heart, but she never said this sentence, she knew that Zhao Zheng didn't need such empty words.

In the Qinglou where I went tonight, I still didn't see Chen Lingxiu's shadow.

However, I saw Pang Shicong again.

Even Shen Yuexi could see that this Pang Shicong had been tracking her and Zhao Qiye's whereabouts, and she could see that this Pang Shicong had ill intentions towards her early on, but she didn't expect to be so attentive, and after following her for three nights in a row, Shen Yuexi guessed that if she went to the market in the future, she might run into him.

It's kind of interesting. Shen Yuexi's eyes flashed with a sly light.

Pang Shicong invited Zhao Zheng to have a few drinks together. Zhao Zheng thought about it and didn't excuse himself.

Shen Yuexi was also happy to follow aside, it was boring to go home anyway. This Pang Shicong is very interesting.

They sat down in the private room of the green building, and instructed the old bustard to prepare good wine and food, and sat opposite each other.

Shen Yuexi sat beside Zhao Zheng and caught Pang Shicong's gaze when he looked over, not avoiding or being timid.

"This little henchman has a drink, too?" Pang Shicong picked up the wine and wanted to pour a glass for Shen Yuexi.

"She doesn't drink." Zhao Zheng stopped.

Pang Shicong smiled, not reluctantly, picked up the wine and said to Zhao Zhengdao, "This cup, I'll do it first as a respect." ”

Zhao Zheng also drank all the wine in the cup as a sign of respect.

Pang Shicong was very happy, although he was frivolous and lustful, he didn't have any scheming, and when he saw that Zhao was drinking happily and gave himself face, he also had some meaning of being a confidant.

"People in the capital say that it is really difficult to see the Seventh Prince, because the Seventh Prince, you have been hidden in the mansion all the year round, why are you these days?" Pang Shicong asked bluntly.

"Xu has been hidden for too long, so let's come out to breathe." Zhao Zheng said in a joking tone.

"Naturally, Lord Seven, you don't want to be a monk, what's the fun of being bored in the mansion all day long, not to mention that there is such a handsome little follower by your side, of course you have to bring it out to see the world." Pang Shicong's eyes turned to Shen Yuexi's face again.

"She's the king's woman, you should have seen it early in the morning, right?" Zhao Zheng looked at Shen Yuexi, and then at Pang Shicong.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Zheng revealed the mystery to himself, Pang Shicong was a little embarrassed, he smiled: "Forgive me for being clumsy, I didn't even see it." ”

He could only say that he didn't see it, otherwise he knew that it was Zhao Qiye's woman, and he still coveted it all day and night, not only did he not seem to pay attention to it, but he was also offensive to Zhao Qiye.

Zhao Zheng didn't debunk it either, and changed the topic, "This winter is the coldest year, is Pang Gongzi still used to it?" ”

Pang Shicong tilted his head indifferently, "Although I am from southern Yunnan, I grew up in the capital since I was a child and am used to it. ”

Then, Pang Shicong wanted to ask where Shen Yuexi was from, was he afraid of the cold? But because of Zhao Qiye's presence, he had to hold back these words.

"I heard that the king of southern Yunnan matched the daughter of a famous local rich family for Pang Gongzi in southern Yunnan, and he will send him to the capital to marry Pang Gongzi next year, and this king is here to congratulate him first."

Hearing Zhao Zheng mention his marriage, Pang Shicong was quite helpless, "What is there to congratulate, I haven't even seen that woman's appearance, what if it's a dominatrix?" ”

Pang Shicong said what he said in his heart, he has always been worried about this matter, but he can't go against the will of the king of southern Yunnan, he can still take concubines, he can go to the flower building, if this young grandmother can't be his heart, he can put her in the house cold, as a decoration.

"The vision of the king of southern Yunnan will naturally not be bad." Zhao Zheng said. What he said was also from his heart, how could he find an ugly woman to be his daughter-in-law for his grandson with the status of the king of southern Yunnan?

"I hope so." Pang Shicong said indifferently, then raised his glass and drank it all.

Pang Shicong is good at drinking, it is said that a thousand cups are not drunk, and he is quite famous among the children of the capital.

"Pang Gongzi is really good at drinking, I can see it today." Zhao Zheng praised it.

Zhao Zheng's kindness made Pang Shicong a little surprised, he had only heard that Zhao Qiye was cold by nature. Today, I found that Zhao Qiye was not as unapproachable as the legend, so he drank more and more happily.

It's okay left and right, so Zhao Zheng accompanied him to drink.

Zhao Zheng's alcohol consumption is not weak, when he was young, he drank and rode horses with some children of the family who were very close, he had been at Pang Shicong's age, and knew what it looked like at this age, so he knew how to get along with Pang Shicong.

The two chatted and drank each other, and an hour passed, Zhao Zheng was about to leave, firstly, he and Pang Shicong really had nothing to talk about, and secondly, Shen Yuexi had been silent on the side, he was afraid that she would feel bored.

Pang Shicong didn't keep it, but said that he had the opportunity to drink again, so he said goodbye to Zhao Zheng and Shen Yuexi.

This time, Shen Yuexi did not look back. Pang Shicong couldn't help but be a little stunned when he saw her figure.

"This Pang Gongzi is quite talkative." Out of the door of the Qinglou, Shen Yuexi said.

"He's just a little playful, but he doesn't have any bad intentions." Zhao Zheng's impression of Pang Shicong is not bad.

"The king of southern Yunnan has the right, and the marriage for Pang Shicong is a rich family, isn't the emperor worried?" Shen Yuexi said again.

Zhao Zheng didn't expect Shen Yuexi to think so deeply.

"Why do you ask?" Zhao Zheng asked rhetorically.

"The king of southern Yunnan guards the border, he is high and powerful, and he has the wealth of powerful soldiers, isn't the emperor afraid that he will rebel?" Shen Yuexi replied.

"The king of southern Yunnan is a veteran of the three dynasties, and he would have rebelled long ago if he wanted to, so why wait until his twilight years." Zhao Zheng thought about it and replied. He didn't think the king of southern Yunnan would rebel.

"That's too." Shen Yuexi smiled, and then changed the subject, "If you still don't find Chen Lingxiu tomorrow, I'm afraid I'll have to think of a way." ”

"Don't worry if you can't find it, things in the world pay attention to a fateful word, and you will meet it when you should meet it." Zhao Zhengdao.

Shen Yuexi nodded.

The next day, Zhao Zheng and Shen Yuexi did not find Chen Lingxiu as usual. All valid leads are temporarily broken.

They didn't meet Pang Shicong again.

After a drink with Zhao Zheng last night, Pang Shicong felt that Zhao Zheng was at ease with him, and he was not embarrassed to covet his woman anymore.

Although there are some regrets, but in life, who has no regrets. Pang Shicong rarely persuaded himself.

It's also a shame that Pang Shicong didn't follow Zhao Zheng, and the emperor already knew about him and Zhao Qiye drinking in the Qinglou, which made the emperor very unhappy.

One is the grandson of the king of the border domain, and the other is the prince in the capital.

The emperor was a little irritable. He gave instructions and asked the spies to follow Zhao Zheng and Pang Shicong closely to see if they still had any contact in private.

Without. It's normal to have several days of secret reporting.

Zhao Zheng and Pang Shicong drank together, and the emperor felt jealous, and this sudden lack of contact also made the emperor a little unhappy, and he asked Sun Delu in the Qinzheng Palace: "Why do Lao Qi and Pang Shicong drink together?" ”

"Hasn't Pang Shicong been lingering in the fireworks land of the capital, maybe he met the Seventh Prince by chance, and it is common for him to have a drink together." Sun Delu didn't want the emperor to worry about it every day, so he persuaded softly.