After Being Kidnapped by the Crown Prince

Mingzhu’s courtesy offer was very perfunctory. Seeing that he didn’t mean to eat, he silently retracted his hand and put the pastry back on the plate intact, “Just forget it if you don’t eat it.”

Zhao Shi's finger tapped the edge of the table lightly and unconsciously said, "It was originally brought to you."

The sweet rice cakes were sent by his mother. They are sweet but not greasy, soft and sweet.

Mingzhu bowed her head and said thank you.

Zhao Zhi's fingers paused in the air, his thin lips pursed lightly, "You are kind."

Mingzhu didn't understand what he was upset about. She didn't seem to make trouble tonight, right. I thanked him politely, he was also cold with this face, and when he vomited out of his mouth, he was also cold.

The bitterness is deep, as if someone owes him.

Mingzhu often decides to remain silent at this time, so as not to make more mistakes and add fuel to the fire. She was a little tired, her head leaning against the wooden window, and yawning silently, sleepiness matters.

The carriage drove smoothly back to the Prince's House.

When Mingzhu returned to the room, she threw herself on the bed, buried her face in the pillow, and closed her eyes to go to sleep.

Biying helped her remove her headwear, fetched water and wiped her face, "Girl, you go to bed, I'm afraid you will fall out of bed in the middle of the night."

The girl Mingzhu has a dreamy physique and often has nightmares.

Mingzhu was so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes. She rolled in with the quilt in her arms, answered vaguely, and then she was silent again.

Biying shook her head and laughed. She put two long pillows on the side of the bed to block it, and then tiptoeed out the candle on the candlestick, walked out gently, and closed the door.

A strong wind blew in the night, and the flower tree in the yard, with delicate branches protruding from its branches, was blown off by the wind.

Biying picked up all the branches on the ground, held them in her arms, and planned to use them in the kitchen as firewood.

Looking up again, she saw the man standing in the night, and she bowed her head in salute, "Your Highness."

Zhao Shi made a silent gesture to her, and motioned her to leave with his cold eyes.

Zhao Shi gently opened the door, and a faint beam of moonlight penetrated the gap between the doors and windows and shone into the room.

The person sleeping fast with the quilt on the bed did not know when she rolled from the corner of the bed to the edge of the bed. Fortunately, there were two pillows blocking her, and she did not roll out of the bed.

Half of her face was stuck on the pillow, and she slept soundly, her face was peach blossom, white in color, and she was ignorant when she was drunk. Her eyelashes are long and dense, her cherry mouth is slightly open, and her breathing is very cute.

A few strands of disobedient hair stuck to her cheek, Zhao Shi stretched out his hand to tidy up her hair, he sat on the bed for a long time, lowered his head and looked at her peacefully as she fell asleep.

It's been a long time since I counted it down to take a good look at her. I still care about it, but I have to pretend to be nonchalant.

His fingertips touched her cheek lightly, as tender as she could pinch water.

I don't know how long it took, the sky outside the window gradually brightened, and the sunlight that was raised in the early morning passed through the window mullions and shone into the room one by one.

Zhao Shi returned to the palace before dawn. I haven't slept all night, my brain is still a little painful. He drank two cups of tea and refreshed him, except that his face turned pale, he couldn't see anything wrong.

Biying went to wake Mingzhu early in the morning. She didn't know when His Royal Highness left last night, so she didn't say anything.

Mingzhu is very sleepy these days, as if she couldn't sleep enough anyway, she couldn't sleep enough until the sky was dark with her head on the pillow.

After getting up and getting dressed, she squinted and yawned again and again.

Biying helped her comb her hair bun, and smiled: "The old people say that the spring is sleepy and the autumn is lacking. Why is the girl so sleepy in summer?"

"Maybe it was too tired last night."

I fluttered in the water, and my arms and calves were still sore.

Biying put a white jade hairpin on her hair bun to make her soft and tender, "Do you think it looks good?"

Mingzhu didn't apply anything on her face, and she couldn't see any blemishes. She had a clean face, and her complexion was very well maintained, with redness in the white, tender and supple.

She nodded: "It looks good."

The continuous summer is getting hotter day by day. Mingzhu ate a bowl of ice glutinous rice **** to relieve her heat.

In the shade under the eaves, there is a small table and a recliner. Mingzhu leaned on her chair and read a book every day to relieve boredom and pass the time.

Zhao Shi sent someone to pick her up into the palace, but they didn't say anything, only that His Highness invited her over.

Mingzhu couldn't guess what Zhao Shi wanted to do once, so she got into the carriage that entered the palace.

She was sent directly to Zhao Shi's palace. She lived for two days last time, and now she is no stranger.

She was so bored that she had nothing to do, so she took a pair of scissors from his table and began to trim the flowers in the yard.

When Zhao Shi came back, she was bending over to work in front of the flowerpot, and she regretted it after calling people over.

Mingzhu looked up and saw him, and put the scissors and the freshly cut flowers in the basket, "Your Highness."

Zhao Shi took what was in her hand, "Don't touch the scissors, it's too dangerous."

Mingzhu was quite speechless. She accidentally fell into the water last night, and he suspected that she was going to dive and kill herself. Now she was holding a pair of scissors, and he was so worried.

Could it be that she is a person who likes to find short-sightedness in his heart?

Mingzhu said twice, and she asked, "Is there anything important if you called me over?"

Zhao Shi raised his eyes and looked at her deeply, "Are you not sweet rice cakes?"

"what?"

Zhao Shi took her by the hand, and walked out, and said to her: "That's the cake my mother made. She happened to make something else today, and I will take you there to taste it."

Mingzhu was flattered, she hung her head and looked at her reflection on the ground. After a second hum, she didn't know what to say.

She had never met Zhao Shi's mother, nor did she know what his parents were.

She is actually reluctant to meet his elders, her identity is not appropriate, and she will feel uncomfortable when being looked at with degrading eyes.

Mingzhu followed him along a winding road, and through a long corridor, and stopped outside a secluded courtyard.

Song Luan heard the story of the maid, and couldn't wait to walk out of the small kitchen and saw the girl next to her son. She smiled, "Sit down."

Mingzhu stiffly sat in the empty seat beside Zhao Shi, Song Luan brought two plates of glutinous rice cakes that were still hot, staring at Mingzhu without blinking, she asked, "Is this girl Ming?"

She thought this was Mingru who had made a marriage contract with Zhao Shi, so she didn't think about it elsewhere.

Mingzhu is not nodding, nor is she shaking her head. She was embarrassed and fidgeted.

Zhao Shi paused with his finger, took a sip of tea, and nodded without changing his face: "Yeah. It's her."

Song Luan thought she looked good-faced, cute and charming. She liked it at first glance.

She intimately took the little girl's hand, "I have always wanted to see you, but unfortunately I have no chance."

Mingzhu felt that her hands were warm and comfortable. She looked at the gentle woman in front of her, and her heart was calm, but it was a pity that her mouth was stupid and she couldn't speak nice words.

Song Luan saw that she was afraid of life, and smiled, "How is he treating you? If he bullies you in the future, you can come and tell me."

"His Royal Highness is very good to me." Mingzhu said without emotion.

Only after seeing her for the first time, Mingzhu didn't have the guts to speak to her and tell her that Zhao Shi had done something about robbing people's girls.

Song Luan was overjoyed, "Well, I'm relieved."

A husband and wife must love each other to live happily. If you are reluctant, you can only look at each other for the rest of your life.

Song Luan put the jade bracelet on his wrist into Mingzhu's hand, "I will meet you, and this jade bracelet will be a meeting ceremony."

Mingzhu didn't dare to accept it, but she couldn't refuse. Finally bite the bullet and accepted it.

Song Luan was so happy that he dug out the wine he had brewed for three years from under the peach blossom tree, "Don't let your father know, I won't give him a drink."

Zhao Shi was helpless, "Okay."

Zhao Shi couldn't drink the wine and didn't touch it, but he was very generous to let Mingzhu taste a cup, just taste the taste in moderation, not greedy for the cup.

In the end, Song Luan got drunk with the tincture he had drunk, and yelled to go to the roof to sing. After being stopped by someone, she stared at Mingzhu again, squeezed her tender little face, and couldn't put it down.

"You will also move to the palace to live with me in the future? How about?" Song Luan asked her with bright eyes.

Mingzhu hasn't spoken yet.

Song Luan pointed at Zhao Shi again and said to her, "If you don't like him in the future, you can use his money to raise a few more small white faces that look pleasing to your eyes."

Mingzhu swallowed, thinking it was really a good idea.

Song Luan said drunkly: "Although Xiao Bai Lian eats soft food, he will make you happy. They will depend on your face to do things."

Mingzhu thought of the rows of men she saw in Chunxiang Lou with the princess last time, as if that was indeed the case. Good-looking, but also make people happy.

As long as you have money, you can buy everything.

She finally knew who the princess looked like, she turned out to be like her mother. They are all such free and easy wonderful people.

Zhao Shi asked his mother to fall asleep while holding Mingzhu's hand tightly and walked out. He said, "Don't take my mother's words to heart."

Mingzhu thought of the appearance of his tantrum last time. She is now more and more familiar with her ability to violate yang and yin, and said perfunctorily: "No."

Zhao Shi today wore a dark robe with a collar and a wide black belt with a tiger pattern around his waist. He raised his eyebrows and said lightly: "My mother raises ten and eight faces outside, and my father doesn't know anything."

Open one eye and close one eye and pretend that you don't know anything, and at most kill one or two of them to vent their anger.

After a pause, Zhao Shi continued with her surprised gaze: "But if you dare to do such a thing, don't want your legs."

"Oh."

When she is rich, she must be looking for it, and she has to choose the looks she likes and let them take turns to coax herself.

She has been frightened by him a lot, and now she is not so afraid of him.

Zhao Shi didn't know if she had listened, "I have other things to do."

Mingzhu said: "Okay."

She couldn't find a trace of reluctance on her face, and she was too perfunctory to accept his adversity.

She doesn't care if he gets married or if he is entangled with other women.

A stone should also be hot, why she is still so hard-hearted.

Zhao Shi twitched the corner of his mouth, "I'll let someone take you back."

…

Biying thought that after this day, the frozen relationship between the prince and the Mingzhu girl finally broke the ice, and it should be considered reconciled.

When Mingzhu came back from the palace, she counted her small vault again. Most of it was the money the princess lent her last time, which was several thousand taels of silver.

She also wanted to cheat some money from Zhao Shi's pocket. If she couldn't spend a penny from him, she would be really unwilling.

Mingzhu was sitting by the window thinking about excuses for asking for money, and she couldn't think of any good excuses for a while.

Zhao Shi didn't say anything, but he was still guarding against her running away with money.

At night, the room was not as hot as during the day, and Biying pulled the ice cubes by the bed.

Listening to the noisy cicadas, Mingzhu is getting closer and closer to October.

Mingzhu suddenly stopped Biying and asked her, "My sister gets married, should I take the gift money?"

Biying looked at her sincere eyes and realized that the girl was not joking.

Biying's eyes went dark, "Girl, don't take this matter to your Highness."

Mingzhu was confused, "I didn't want to **** him off."

Biying felt that she didn't look like she was pretending, so she quickly said to her, "You don't need to be polite."

Mingzhu thinks so too. She is a concubine giving money as gifts to her side concubine. This behavior looks too much like a provocation after being jealous.

But her original intention was only to use this ground to ask Zhao Shi for some money.

"But I'm short of money now."

"What do you want to buy? The slave and maid will help you buy it."

"It's different for you to spend money for me and myself." Mingzhu is not happy if she doesn't get Zhao Shi's money, and she is not incapable of making money.

But Zhao Shi bullied her for so long. How could she not make some money before she patted her **** and left?

She has to think of a way to cheat more. The number was so large that he would vomit blood when he remembered.

However, Zhao Shi was more cunning than a fox by nature, and it was too difficult to cheat some money from him.

Biying looked at her frowning, "What is the girl worried about?"

She shook her head weakly: "Nothing."

In late July, people who are hot during the day don't want to go out at all. The scorching sun shone on, especially dazzling.

With the scorching sun hanging over my head, walking around in the shade in a thin shirt, I soon sweated.

Mingzhu goes to the backyard lake twice every evening, staring at the lotus she planted before.

Zhao Shi didn't see any figure for several days, and the people around her were anxious, only she was not anxious.

Biying didn't dare to say something in front of her. His Royal Highness obviously didn't attach much importance to the Pearl girl before. To make it clear, he just didn't like it that much.

Mingzhu herself felt that Zhao Shi was a lot colder towards her than before. She thought about it, men are mostly people who love the new and hate the old, and his interest in her may have worn off over time.

No matter how beautiful the face is, it will get tired after a long time.

Thinking of this incident, Mingzhu could also smile lightly, as if she was on the sidelines.

Biying's only comfort is that the Pearl girl can still be silly about her affairs every day, and there are not so many hours to mourn the spring and the autumn.

In the past, she felt that it was not a good thing for the Pearl girl to be heartless, but now it seems that being heartless is also a good thing, at least not sad.

…

Zhao Shi had just finished investigating a fraud case during this period, and finally had a long time to come out. He wanted to go home, but was called out for tea by an acquaintance.

He said he was drinking tea, but he was actually going to the teahouse to see the scholars and scholars discerning the past and the present.

Some people can cite scriptures and argue rationally and methodically. Some of them just seem to be splattering, all talking about untenable and irritating fallacies.

Zhao Shi is not very interested in listening to the debate. He hates people who talk a lot.

But he couldn't help his friend, so he followed him to the teahouse and listened.

On the second floor are all private rooms. Gu Wenxuan saw the prince and was startled, "His Royal Highness is also here."

Zhao Shidan said: "Just listen to it."

It is a pity that both sides of the debate in the teahouse today are not very good. The two sides didn't seem to be arguing, but there was a posture of spitting at each other in the back, which was insulting to gentleness.

"Diligence to make up for one's clumsiness is a joke. You are born with a natural talent, and your brain is inherently stupid. No matter how hard you work, it is a waste of learning."

"Your Excellency's words are too absolute. I'm not talented enough, didn't I also pass the exam?"

"That's not good for your class of candidates. It's a fluke for you to be a talent. Moreover, you can only be a talent in this life."

When the other party heard this, he was angry, "Go back, don't curse me!"

"To be honest, why is it a curse!?"

The two tore.

"Are you smart? You are not even a talented student!"

"I'll show it to you next year."

"Ha, I really laughed off my big teeth."

The debate turned into a farce. Zhao Shi looked at them coldly on the second floor, twitching the corners of his mouth slightly, and couldn't tell if it was a mockery. "It's really interesting."

Everyone present felt embarrassed and told the prince to see this embarrassing scene.

Gu Wenxuan suddenly asked: "His Royal Highness thinks that reading talent is more important or hard work?"

Zhao Shi said: "Genius."

There is a saying in this straw bag that is really right. If a person's brain is stupid and has no talent in this aspect, it is useless to read twelve hours a day without sleeping.

After he finished speaking, he smiled again, and suddenly remembered Mingzhu.

She doesn't have any talent, doesn't he still force her to read and practice calligraphy every day?

Gu Wenxuan nodded: "It's true."

Zhao Shi was too lazy to waste time to continue listening. As soon as he left, the others followed out of the restaurant.

Coincidentally, just as Gu Shuyi came down from the mountain, the carriage lost control and ran into the stone lion in front of the restaurant. Fortunately, neither the horse nor the man was in serious trouble.

She jumped out of the car and saw her brother when she looked up. She ran over with a smile, "Second brother!"

When Gu Wenxuan saw the little girl at home, a smile appeared on his cold face, "Where have you been again?"

Gu Shuyi pursed his lips and smiled, "Go to the mountains to pick some camellia."

After she said that, she noticed the man next to her brother, her innocent eyes, which suddenly widened a bit. Isn't this the man she had met on the cruise ship?

With all eyes in sight, Gu Shuyi wouldn't be offensive. Blessed the body and bowed.

When Zhao Shi met Gu Wenxuan, he knew she was his sister.

Gu Shuyi's white face was slightly hot, and a little annoyed in her heart. If she had known that she would meet him when going out, she should dress more beautifully. She wore a lake-blue skirt today, with light-colored tassels wrapped around her waist, and her waist was slender, showing a bit of tenderness.

Zhao Shi glanced at her, holding a bunch of camellia tied with vines in her arms, and the clear fragrance faintly passed into the tip of her nose.

Gu Wenxuan didn't know that His Royal Highness and his sister had met before. He turned his face and said, "His Royal Highness, this is the little girl in the family."

Zhao Zhi nodded slightly.

Gu Wenxuan said to his sister: "This is His Royal Highness."

Gu Shuyi was shocked, and he saw that his identity was unusual that night, and he didn't expect to be so prominent.

He turned out to be His Royal Highness?

Gu Shuyi saluted again, "His Royal Highness is well."

"Free gift."

Gu Shuyi hesitated for a long while, thinking about it or standing up and saying: "His Royal Highness, I was impolite that night."

Zhao Shi's gaze swept across her eyebrows, and she fell silent for a while.

Gu Wenxuan tugged at his sister's arm, "When did you meet your Highness?"

Gu Shuyi calmly explained to her second brother: "We met by chance on the night of the lake tour."

Gu Shuyi's small face looked a little rounded, and the sun shined whitely, beautiful and eye-catching, and there was a gentle and calm air in her whole body. Hearing her words, she knew that she was very educated, soft and thornless, but not excessive. Cowardice. The scholarly family, both talented and beautiful.

Every bit of her body should have been appreciated by Zhao Shi, and she looked like a pearl, but there was no special touch in his heart.

Seeing her, I can only think of two words, very similar.

Gu Wenxuan explained to her sister: "The book is willful, and I hope that the prince will not care about her."

Zhao Shiman carelessly said, "No."

Gu Shuyi gave out the bouquet of camellia in his hand, showing a sincere smile, "This bouquet was given to His Highness as a gift of apology, and I hope His Highness can accept it."

She laughed better than when she was not smiling, and her eyebrows became vivid and soft.

Zhao Shi didn't reach out his hand to take it, and looked away indifferently, "No need."

Gu Shuyi still smiled, and immediately found himself a step, "His Royal Highness is indeed a gentleman."

A gentleman does not take advantage of others.

When Zhao Zhi heard the word gentleman, he twitched the corner of his mouth and smiled lightly.

The sky is getting dark, and there is a hint of rain.

Zhao Shi returned to the mansion and first went to the study to write a few words for meditation.

After writing a few words, my heart still couldn't sink, and a mess became a mess.

With too much force in his hands, the brush scratched the rice paper, ruining the entire character.

Zhao Shi couldn't see what Gu Shuyi meant for him.

Doesn't he like Mingzhu? It's rare to see a person whose Shen Yun is so similar to her, and his family is better than her in everything.

Zhao Shi was expressionless and threw the destroyed character aside, annoyed and unwilling to think that he might really be a jewel in his life.

It really fell on her.

When Zhao Shi was in the study, Mingzhu was fishing in the lake with a fishing rod specially made by her messenger.

She also disliked the big sleeves getting in the way, and rolled her sleeves to her elbows. When no one cares about her for a while, she regains her nature and wants to do what she wants.

She can do everything except reading.

In less than half a day, there was no more fish in the bucket.

She was reluctant to leave when it was getting dark.

Biying persuaded her, and she acted like a baby, "Catch two more big ones."

Biying looked at the fish that could not finish eating, and sighed, "Girl, who did you learn this from?"

The corner of Mingzhu's mouth froze, and she whispered the name she dared not call in her dream, "Wei Chiyu."

She wanted to eat fish at that time, but she couldn't always eat it. Wei Chiyu didn't have any money to buy her big fish and meat, so he took her to the lake to go fishing.

Mingzhu deliberately forgot Wei Chiyu, so that he would not be sad. Thinking about it now, her eyes were red again, and she didn't care whether Biying would return her, wiped her eyes and said, "He is really a very nice person."

After hearing no sound for a long time, Mingzhu asked and turned around, "Biying, why are you ignoring..."

He stopped abruptly when he was half-talking, stuck in his throat.

Mingzhu looked at the man in front of him, there were obvious blood lines in his eye sockets, and his expression was as serious as ever.

She fell off the small stool.

Zhao Shi sighed, then stepped on his boots and walked a few steps forward, stretched out a hand to her, and asked, "Does my **** hurt?"