Chapter 226: Miss Zhao wants to change her master (two chapters in one)
Xiao Zhen nodded, his eyes firm: "Yes, I will go."
In the previous life, the people did not receive relief, so they went to the Fifth Prince to ask for an explanation. The Fifth Prince's men called in the army to quell the riot. In that catastrophe, the majority of the casualties were ordinary people who survived the flood.
They were not swallowed by the flood, but died at the hands of these people.
But these people were sent by the imperial court to provide disaster relief. How ridiculous and ironic.
He had been there in his previous life, but he was a step too late. When he arrived, all he saw were corpses all over the ground.
The fifth prince was celebrating the victory in suppressing the riot.
Zhao Shiqing didn’t know anything about her past life, but Xiao Zhen at this moment made her feel sad.
Yes, she didn't have this feeling even when she first saw him at Wisteria Villa.
At that time, although Xiao Zhen looked three parts human and seven parts ghost, and was in a very miserable state, his broken body exuded a cold murderous aura.
Xiao Zhen now has long since put away his sharp edge, like a sword hidden in a box. But in Zhao Shiqing's opinion, Xiao Zhen is becoming more and more down-to-earth. Just like at this moment, she can actually feel his sadness.
She suddenly wanted to touch his head like she did to Zhao Tingluo.
She thought so and did it.
She stood on tiptoe and reached out to touch Xiao Zhen's head. Xiao Zhen was startled. The next moment, a warm little hand had landed on his head, and then he was faced with a bright smiling face.
The smile was a little proud, a little naughty, but mostly warm.
"Dear, don't be sad. You also said that many things are different from what we dreamed about. We should get ahead of the dream and take precautions."
Xiao Zhen's heart moved, she was talking about "we".
Before he could savor the words, he heard the most beautiful words in the world: "I'll go with you."
As if afraid that he hadn't heard clearly, Zhao Shiqing said loudly: "I'll go with you. Me! And! You!"
Xiao Zhen......
Zhao Shiqing: "Are you happy?"
Xiao Zhen: "No, it's very dangerous there."
Zhao Shiqing: "I just want to ask you if you are happy?"
Xiao Zhen: "If you are not happy, you can't go."
Zhao Shiqing stretched out her hand and pressed hard, and Xiao Zhen involuntarily bent down slightly, so that he and Zhao Shiqing were looking at each other at eye level.
Zhao Shiqing laughed: "You said you were unhappy, but your eyes are smiling, Xiao Zhen, you are smiling!"
Xiao Zhen tried hard not to laugh, and still insisted: "You can't go."
Zhao Shiqing rolled her eyes and released her hand from Xiao Zhen's head: "If you don't want to go, then don't go. Who cares?"
Xiao Zhen breathed a sigh of relief. She belonged to a prosperous and beautiful family, and he hoped that she would never see such a scene of widespread misery in her life.
But Zhao Shiqing was complaining in his heart, the reason I’m not going is that I don’t want you to know that I’m going, hehe!
Looking at the cunning that flashed across the little girl's eyes, Xiao Zhen knew that he had been too relieved too early.
However, the little girl said she wanted to go with him. She knew it was very dangerous there, but she still wanted to go with him because she had him in her heart!
"I, I...I will explain things to your grandfather. Actually, we only acknowledged each other verbally back then. There was no contract. I will return the token he gave me later."
Zhao Shiqing blinked, and then blinked again: "What token did my grandfather give you?"
Xiao Zhen didn't expect that what interested her was the token: "It's a token from Wanjinhao. With that token, you can withdraw money from Wanjinhao."
Zhao Shiqing......
"Grandpa is such a jerk. You were just a child back then. How could he corrupt your young mind with such a vulgar thing? Give me that vulgar thing and I'll return it to him for you."
Zhao Shiqing spoke righteously and passionately.
Xiao Zhen: Your abacus beads are about to fall on my face.
He took out the sign from his pocket and said, "Here you go."
Zhao Shiqing was excited and took the sign. It turned out that this was the legendary Wanjinhao withdrawal sign. It was the first time she saw it.
The little girl smiled with her eyes curved, and Xiao Zhen also smiled. God was kind to him, not only giving him the chance to be reborn, but also letting him meet such a lovely girl. She was the treasure that God had blessed the world with, and even more so his treasure, a treasure that he wanted to protect with his life.
When Zhen Wuduo came back, Zhao Shiqing showed off the sign: "Grandpa, do you still recognize this sign?"
Zhen Wuduo wanted to take it over to look at it, but Zhao Shiqing refused, so he had no choice but to hold it in his own hand and show it to him. What if he took it for himself?
But Zhen Wuduo recognized it at a glance. It was the Wanjinhao brand.
Although he has many godsons, only a few of them can give out such brands. Otherwise, if he lets them withdraw money at will, as much as they want, they can empty mountains of gold and silver. He adopts godsons for fun, not to let them destitute his family.
This is the capital, who else could have let the little girl get the badge?
That useless kid just handed over the badge now?
"Humph, you stole this from him, my precious granddaughter. Grandpa will give you whatever you want. If you want the moon in the sky, Grandpa will never pick the stars for you. If you want the Wanjinhao brand, Grandpa will give it to you too. There's no need to steal. Stealing is a bad habit. Even Loach has changed. You should change too. Be good and let's return this broken brand."
Zhao Shiqing raised her delicate chin: "If you don't want to return it, then don't return it."
"Give it back to him. He is your elder after all. Let's not steal his things. Be good." Zhen Wuduo advised earnestly.
Zhao Shiqing: "This is the token of your godparents. He gave it to me. Your godparents are no longer valid."
Zhen Wuduo......
"If it doesn't count, then it doesn't count. If he doesn't count as my son, then he's just a stranger. I want him to be my grandson-in-law, no way!"
Zhao Shiqing put the sign in his arms and put his hands on his hips: "Why not?"
Zhen Wuduo: "Why do you say that? What is his current status? Young Master Zhen, Noble Zhen? He's not even my son anymore, so how can he still be called Zhen? Xiao? Xiao Zhen died a long time ago, so he's an illegal resident now. An illegal resident, not worthy of my granddaughter! Don't worry, not only will I not agree, but your brother, your sister, and your master will all disagree!"
As soon as the words fell, Murong Linlang's voice rang out from behind Zhao Shiqing: "What is it that I won't agree to?"
Zhao Shiqing shrank her neck. She dared to argue with her grandfather because he would not beat or scold her, but her master would not do that. His master would punish her!
"Master, look at the sun today! It's really round, isn't it?"
Murong Linlang ignored her and looked at Zhen Wuduo fiercely. Zhen Wuduo didn't want to hide it from the little girl: "She has fallen for that guy who wears a fake face all day and dares not show his real face to others."
Murong Linlang was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized who the old man was talking about.
Xiao Yueyue’s brother!
No, absolutely not.
Although she didn't know what had happened to the two brothers, she knew there was something wrong when a good person wore a fake face all day long.
Her little apprentice has everything she wants and can find any man she wants. Besides, why would she need to look for a man? It would be much better for her to stay single like she does!
"I don't agree either! I think you're just bored. Let's go and get to work!"
A quarter of an hour later, Zhao Shiqing was staring blankly at a large basket of mung bean sprouts. Her master punished her by making her pick the sprouts...
So cruel!
Zhao Shiqing was picking bean sprouts and singing all the songs she had heard since she was a child. Xiao Yao and Dapang were lying beside her, looking at her bored. Zhao Shiqing thought and thought, but she couldn't remember any animals that could pick bean sprouts. Cats couldn't, dogs couldn't, birds couldn't, monkeys might be able to, but there were no animals here. So was this the reason why her master punished her to pick bean sprouts?
Woo woo woo, I want to change my master.
A few days passed in a blink of an eye, and Xiao Zhen was getting a little restless. There had been no news since Zhao Shiqing left that day, and she hadn't gone to Su's Tea House either. In the past, every few days, even if Zhao Shiqing didn't come to Ruyi Fang, she would go to Su's Tea House to sit and have some snacks, but these past few days, not only did she not come, but no one around her came either.
Xiao Zhen felt a little confused. This feeling surprised him. In his two lives combined, he was already in his sixties. He shouldn't have this kind of panic that only young people have.
Perhaps it is the instinctive reaction of a young body.
Or maybe, after spending so much time with Little Sun, he also became more energetic.
Yes, that lovely little girl is his sun, illuminating his life.
Xiao Zhen stood up and walked out of Ruyi Fang. He wanted to go to Tianjing Hutong, even if he had to face the old man.
He changed his clothes and even his face. He did not have the grandeur of Master Zhen, nor the elegant and noble Xiao Zhen. At this moment, he was just an ordinary scholar.
He neither rode a horse nor took a carriage, but instead stopped a sedan chair and got in.
It was an ordinary blue cloth sedan that could be seen everywhere on the street, just like him.
Passing by a candy shop, he asked the sedan bearer to wait for a moment and he got out of the sedan and went into the shop. The shop was newly opened and there were not many customers, but the candies inside were very unique and uncommon.
However, Xiao Zhen quickly noticed the unusualness of this shop, because he had only seen those uncommon candies in the palace.
Even the kitchen in the princess's mansion couldn't make it.
Princess Jiayi likes to eat snacks. When Xiao Zhen was young, he saw her eating these candies, but he didn't see them anymore later. However, he didn't pay much attention to it and couldn't remember when he stopped seeing the princess eating these.
This shop is most likely run by someone in the palace.
Xiao Zhen decided to have someone investigate this shop thoroughly.
He bought some of every kind of candy in the shop. As the sedan chair couldn't hold all the candies, he had to stop another sedan chair and put all the candies in it.
All girls like to eat snacks, and of course she likes to eat them too, and she is the one who likes to eat them the most, because he has seen Zhao Shiqing take out snacks from her purse countless times.
There are so many candies, she will like them.
What else does the little girl like besides candy?
Xiao Zhen thought of the puppet show, and the little girl's eyes sparkled when she saw the puppets.
At the moment, I didn’t know where to go to buy a puppet troupe.
Oh, and there are puppet troupes, right? I'll ask someone about it later. If there is one, I'll buy one and send it to Tianjing Hutong. The little girl can watch it whenever she wants.
Xiao Zhen felt a little regretful. Why didn't he think of it before? Otherwise, he could have brought the opera troupe with him today. The little girl would definitely jump for joy.
Thinking of those bright eyes, Xiao Zhen felt warm in his eyes.
Some people are like this. Whenever they think of her, it's like standing in the sun, and everything around them becomes bright.
Xiao Zhen got into the sedan chair with a smile. At this time, in the second-floor window of the candy shop, Princess Huixin was staring at the two sedan chairs that were gradually moving away, in a daze.
That back figure looked very much like a person, a person who had died long ago.
Xiao Zhen!
How is that possible? Xiao Zhen is already dead, and she still went to pay her condolences.
She heard from people in the palace that Xiao Zhen died a tragic death and was bitten by wild beasts in the mountains before his body was found.
During those days, she would hide in her quilt and cry almost every night. She didn't dare let anyone know that she was sad for Xiao Zhen, and even her crying was suppressed.
She thought that she would only be able to see Xiao Zhen again in the underworld, but that person and that figure just now were clearly Xiao Zhen.
Unfortunately, she didn't see the man's face or the clothes he was wearing. She had never seen Xiao Zhen wearing clothes like that before.
Xiao Zhen liked to wear arrow sleeves; the bright colors made his face look even fairer and more handsome. He also liked to wear calfskin boots, which made him look cocky with every step he took. He also liked to carry a horse whip inlaid with gold thread...
As she thought about it, two lines of tears welled up in her eyes. Princess Huixin stared out the window blankly. The two sedan chairs had long disappeared, just like the deceased Xiao Zhen.
The people of the capital had long forgotten him, that young man who was as bright as a star. Even his mother, Princess Jiayi, who doted on him, had a little daughter. As for her dead son, she must have forgotten him too.
Only she, only she still remembered him. When they were young, they studied together in the palace. Children were ignorant and expressed their joy, anger, sorrow and happiness. She and Huiming were often excluded by others. Once, they were bullied by the Qingchuan County Lady who was the study companion of Princess Jiale.
At that time, others would just stand aside and watch the fun, but Xiao Zhen would stand up. He was brave and afraid of no one, and would not back down when facing the prince.
Every time that happened, she would hide behind him and look at his back with admiration.
That glance lasted for a full ten years.
And the figure she was secretly looking at also changed from a little man to a tall and straight young man.
She thought this was her own little secret, but unexpectedly, it was discovered by the Qingchuan County Lord. The Qingchuan County Lord told it in public. Since then, Xiao Zhen has never appeared in her sight again.
She no longer had the right to peek.
Later, she heard the news of Xiao Zhen's death.
That person, I will never see him again.
Princess Huixin cried silently for a while, and suddenly a dangerous idea came to her mind. She wanted to find the person just now, and she wanted to see that person's face.
Only when she sees that man's face will she give up completely.
Because there will never be a second Xiao Zhen in this world. Even if their backs are the same, their faces will not be the same.
She wants to find that person and give up!
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