On the night after the crowning ceremony was over, Li Ziting arrived at Wuchang Mansion, left all his entourage in another courtyard, disguised himself, and went to an alley where common people lived.
After finding the yard according to the address, he bent down, picked up a stone and threw it in.
His accuracy was very good, and he hit the window lattice of the room right now.
But although the lights were on in the room, there was no movement at all.
Li Ziting wrapped her fox fur cloak tightly around her body, leaned against the courtyard wall with her legs bent, and waited.
Now that it was already very cold, he breathed in the warm air and rubbed his hands, looking up at the night sky. This situation reminded him of his days in the capital.
When he was a child, he often went to Jiang's house and called Jiang Songyuan out to play by throwing stones.
This is a secret signal between two people.
But today, Li Ziting waited for a long time and no one came out.
Could it be that this kid has forgotten everything about his childhood?
Li Ziting bent down and picked up a few more pebbles, twirling them in his hands and throwing them into the yard, hitting the window lattice one by one.
This time there was finally movement in the house, and the door was opened from the inside.
Jiang Songyuan was wrapped in a long crimson coat, covering himself tightly from head to toe. Only a wooden hairpin was used to tie up his hair in a bun, which was so loose and awkward, and his face was even more worried. He looked sleepy, as if he had just been woken up.
"Don't throw it away, you will smash the doors and windows in my house."
Seeing his slovenly appearance, Li Ziting smiled and bent over in shame.
"You're going out with me like this?"
Jiang Songyuan was startled when he heard this, "Get out? Where are you going? If anything happens, just come in and say no!"
"Hey, I was already asleep, and you suddenly woke me up..."
"Why don't you sleep? Let's go for a walk. Let's go out for a drink." Li Ziting said, grabbing Jiang Songyuan's shoulders and dragging him toward the avenue outside.
"Are you crazy? I'm going out drinking with you like this? No!"
Jiang Songyuan said that he broke away from Li Ziting and ran back into the house. He quickly changed his clothes and combed his hair again.
After going back and forth for a while, the two finally arrived at a nearby restaurant.
Although it is very cold outside, the restaurant's business is still booming.
When the weather is cold and the ground is freezing, invite a few like-minded friends to a restaurant to drink a cup of warm wine and listen to a few songs, and you will feel as happy as gods.
Although the waiter in the restaurant did not know Li Ziting and Jiang Songyuan, he could tell that Li Ziting's dress was definitely not that of ordinary people.
The two of them were covering themselves up tightly and didn't want to show their faces.
So the waiter greeted him very enthusiastically, and without waiting for the two of them to speak, he directly invited the person to the private room on the second floor.
"You two gentlemen, please come in. This is the private room specially reserved by the shopkeeper today to wait for distinguished guests to come.
"You two closed the door, whether you were drinking or talking, you were very quiet.
"If anything happens, you two just call me little."
Seeing that the waiter was so knowledgeable, Li Ziting nodded with satisfaction, threw a piece of silver to him and said, "Give us two jars of good wine, and some of your chef's specialty dishes. Arrange it well, and the rest will be yours." !」
When the boy heard this, he thought to himself that he had indeed made a mistake.
He immediately smiled so hard that he couldn't see his teeth and said: "Thank you sir, I will prepare it for you right now."
After the guy got down, Li Ziting said, "What did you do to me just now? You made me freeze outside for a long time."
"How could I have thought you would come over?" Jiang Songyuan rolled his eyes and yawned, "I thought it was windy outside when I first heard it."
"You've been staying in Wuchang Mansion for so long, aren't you ready to go home for the New Year?"
"What's the difference between going back to celebrate the New Year and staying here to celebrate the New Year?" Jiang Songyuan smiled helplessly, "Besides, I've also had some fun here recently. I stayed with the children and didn't have to think about anything. On the contrary, my life A lot more relaxed."
"But you can't stay here forever." Li Ziting said solemnly, "Don't you plan to return to the capital?"
"You can stay as long as you can." Jiang Songyuan smiled and leaned back in his chair. "If there is anything good in the capital, I want to hang out there. Whoever wants to go can go. Anyway, I don't want to go back."
"Is it because of your father and your eldest brother?" Li Ziting asked, "It has been so many years and it still hasn't passed?"
Jiang Songyuan's eyes dimmed obviously when he heard this and he said nothing.
Just at this time, the waiter knocked on the door and came in to bring food and wine.
After the waiter left, Jiang Songyuan raised his hand to pour wine for both of them, raised his glass and said, "We haven't seen each other for a long time. Come on, let's not talk about those annoying things. Everything is in the wine." "
Li Ziting didn't want to let go of this topic, and continued: "It's not a problem if you keep hiding like this. There is no unsolvable knot between my biological father and my biological eldest brother. In fact, they also want to reconcile with you..."
Jiang Songyuan was annoyed by his question and frowned: "Are your father and the emperor still brothers? How is their relationship now?"
Li Ziting was choked by him and couldn't speak, but he wasn't annoyed at all. He just took a sip of wine silently. .
"Sorry!" Jiang Songyuan also felt that what he said was too much, and drank the wine in one gulp, "I didn't mean that."
After changing glasses and drinking a few glasses of wine, both of them felt warm and started talking more and more.
"It's so cold, why did you suddenly think of coming to Wuchang Mansion?" Jiang Songyuan asked knowingly, giving Li Ziting a chance to speak.
Li Ziting took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "Don't you know if you are staying in Wuchang Mansion? It was my cousin's crowning ceremony two days ago."
"So you only thought of coming to me for a drink after attending the crowning ceremony?"
"Of course not, haha, I'm not even among the invited guests.
"But after all, we are brothers. Now that I know the news, I naturally want to come over and send some blessings!
Jiang Songyuan didn't know whether the message was a blessing, but from Li Ziting's tone, it could be heard that he was quite dissatisfied with it.
Jiang Songyuan had almost finished eating, so he slowed down the frequency of picking up vegetables and took a sip from the wine cup from time to time.
"Why did you come to me? Tell me quickly. After that, I have to go back to bed. The children will come to read early tomorrow morning!"
Li Ziting sneered at the fact that he was a teacher. When he heard that the children came to study in the morning, he couldn't help but want to say a few words, but in the end he swallowed it down and finally got down to business and said, "I I heard that you saved Lady Tong’s life?”
Jiang Songyuan smiled when he heard this, raised his glass and said to him: "Just for this? It's worth taking such a big detour. Just say no."
Li Ziting felt a little embarrassed when he heard this. After all, the two of them had grown up together.
Jiang Songyuan said: "Indeed, I saved her once, but I didn't know her identity at the time.
"I was seriously injured afterwards, and she was the one who pulled me back from hell.
"So it's evened between the two of us, and neither one owes the other."
"How can this be even?" Li Ziting said anxiously, "Didn't you get seriously injured just to save her? Isn't it right for her to save you?"
"Both Prince Rui's Mansion and Lady Tong gave me many thanks. It has been a long time since the incident. I have no contact with them now." Jiang Songyuan said, "I'm sorry, I can't help you."
When Li Ziting heard this, his expression finally darkened completely.
"Are you unable to help, or do you not want to help?"
Jiang Songyuan stared into his eyes without flinching and said, "I don't want to get involved in what's going on between you. If you still care about your childhood feelings, don't force me!"
