The young man named Luo Huaizhou sat down and poured a cup of tea by himself. After taking a sip, he took a breath and immediately complained: "You don't know that you were dragged and talked about by your mother in the palace just now. He said he wanted me to meet this young lady and that rich girl, but I managed to escape with great difficulty."
Luo Huaizhou talked dully, and the more he talked, the more upset he became, and he began to speak arrogantly, "Sometimes I really envy you. You are free and comfortable alone."
Su Jingqian was startled for a moment, then returned to his usual lazy attitude in the blink of an eye. He smiled slightly and said, "It is also a blessing to have someone to restrain and care about you. I have no father or mother, so I naturally have to live my life well." Be more relaxed."
As soon as Luo Huaizhou finished speaking, regret spread from the bottom of his heart. He looked at Su Jingqian with a guilty look on his face, "Jingqian, I didn't mean that..."
"It's okay." There was not a single ripple in Su Jingqian's lazy tone. He smiled nonchalantly, as if he was already used to it and didn't take it seriously at all.
Luo Huaizhou sat up and said to Su Jingqian seriously: "Jingqian, we have known each other for nearly six years. You are my best friend, and I can be considered half of your family. You and I, From now on, I will accompany you for the next six years, the next six years, the next six years, the next..."
"Stop." Su Jingqian raised his eyebrows and looked at him with a look of disgust on his face, his eyes full of teasing, "Luo Huaizhou, if you are so disgusting, you should say it to those rich ladies of yours."
"..." Luo Huaizhou seemed to have been hit hard by Su Jingqian, and his whole body suddenly shrank. He did not notice the slight movement in Su Jingqian's eyes.
"Jing Qian, if you were a woman, I would never get tired of saying these disgusting words to you every day." After a while, Luo Huaizhou regained his energy, looked at Su Jingqian with a smile, and threw a flirtatious smile. He looked at Su Jingqian, intending to retaliate against Su Jingqian's teasing and disgust him a little more, but he didn't know that Su Jingqian didn't look at him at all. He was drinking tea with a tea cup and said only four words lightly. .
"No need to."
"No, this is your reaction? Hey, Mr. Su, have you heard the rumors outside?" Luo Huaizhou smiled mischievously, leaned forward and said in his ear, "They said that we are divorced. ...Um..." Su Jingqian covered his mouth before he could say these three words.
"Shut up." The veins on Su Jingqian's forehead beat uncontrollably, and he squeezed out these two words through his teeth in a deep voice.
Luo Huaizhou looked at Su Jingqian's somewhat darkened face and felt very happy. It seemed that the success had disgusted him.
Su Jingqian suddenly let go of his hand and wiped Luo Huaizhou's clothes again and again with disgust. After wiping for a long time, someone brought him a basin of water. After washing carefully, his face returned to normal.
While he wiped the water stains on his hands with a handkerchief, he said: "Luo Huaizhou, I really think your mother is right. It's time to find a woman to take good care of you."
"When have you ever seen me fall in love with a girl from a certain family? What's more, the ladies from famous families that I'm being asked to meet now are all extremely weak. How can I lead such a woman to travel in the world in the future? Isn't this a drag?" Luo Huaizhou had a headache when he thought of those soft, weak and talkative women.
"Still dreaming about your Jianghu dream?" Su Jingqian threw the handkerchief aside and said with a smile, "The dignified Prince Nanling Guolu has been doing nothing all day, and his mind is full of unrealistic things."
"Hey, it's not like you don't know that since I was a child, my ambition has been in the world, not in the court." Luo Huaizhou raised a clear and handsome face, full of pride.
Su Jingqian glanced at him indifferently, a little too lazy to pay attention to him. He was about to ask someone to bring him more tea when Luo Huaizhou suddenly grabbed his sleeve and said with a sad face: "Jingqian, how can you do this this time?" You have to help me!”
He subconsciously looked at the sleeve that Luo Huaizhou was tugging at. There were obviously a few wrinkles there. He frowned in displeasure and said, "Let go. Let's talk."
Luo Huaizhou immediately let go of his hand obediently and said with a smile on his face: "Isn't it the Mid-Autumn Festival in a few days? According to the usual practice, I was going to the palace to accompany my mother and brother, but today my mother ordered me to go to the palace with my mother and brother. The daughter of the Minister of Libu is going to the lake to admire the moon, you have to save me!"
Su Jingqian looked at him with a half-smile, "Save you? Why, can the daughter of the Minister of Civil Affairs still eat you?"
"Hehe, that's not the case." Luo Huaizhou laughed dryly and put on a resentful look, "You know I never like to get along with these coquettish women. Seeing their coquettish looks makes me go crazy. It’s uncomfortable, and it’s just me and her, it’s just too boring.”
He looked at Su Jingqian with twinkling eyes, looking forward to it, "Jingqian, can you come with me?"
"No." Su Jingqian refused without thinking.
Luo Huaizhou had long been accustomed to Su Jingqian's attitude, so he ignored his refusal and continued to persuade: "When I was weak as a gift, the emperor gave me the island in the middle of the lake. The scenery there is extremely beautiful. And there will be no one to disturb us. We can go boating to the island, put out sky lanterns there, and drink wine while admiring the moon. Wouldn’t it be nice to have such a beautiful scenery as our company on such a good time?”
"A sky lantern is placed on the island in the middle of the lake?" Su Jingqian raised his eyebrows, a ray of light flashed invisibly in his beautiful peach blossom eyes, his dark pupils turned quietly, and suddenly asked, "If I bring a friend, you You shouldn’t mind, right?”
"Of course I don't mind!" Luo Huaizhou's eyebrows raised, and his clear eyes were filled with joy. His handsome face instantly brightened up, and he looked full of energy, "So you agreed?" Suddenly something came to mind. , stared at him suspiciously for a moment, and then said, "Do you have any other friends besides me?"
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Both sides of the long street were lined with excited onlookers, and a group of officers and soldiers were seen pressing down a dozen people wearing handcuffs and leg irons as they walked through the street.
"Master Jiang has been an upright and honest official all his life and has loved the people. What has he done?"
"Oh, what can you do? There are serious floods in the east, and the court has distributed very little relief food and wages. Thousands of people have been displaced. But at this time, in order to please the favored concubine, His Majesty is carrying out large-scale construction and construction of some kind of star-picking tower. Mr. Jiang has repeatedly reported He asked your Majesty to thoroughly investigate the matter of the deduction of disaster relief food and wages, which angered Prime Minister Zuo, and finally ended up like this!"
"Alas! Loyal words are distasteful to ears, and traitors are in power!"
"Shh, keep your voice down, don't get into trouble."
Su Jingqian and Luo Huaizhou, who had just come out of Xuanji Tower, stood in a corner and heard the whispers of the people clearly.
Luo Huaizhou put away his usual cynicism, sighed sadly, and whispered to Su Jingqian: "I also advised the emperor about this matter, but the emperor turned a deaf ear to my words. He treated the daughter of Prime Minister Zuo Concubine Hua loves her very much and obeys Prime Minister Zuo's advice. Prime Minister Zuo has the final say on almost everything in the court."
Su Jingqian patted his shoulder and said comfortingly: "You are just an idle prince. Naturally, you cannot get involved in the affairs of the court. You don't have to blame yourself too much."
Luo Huaizhou's empty eyes drifted into the distance, feeling as if he had lost his way: "Although I was less than one year old during the civil war, I later heard many people say that before the emperor ascended the throne, he always put benevolence and filial piety first, but why has it changed now? in this way……"
Su Jingqian didn't know whether to laugh at him for being innocent or for being stupid. If he didn't pretend to be benevolent to the world before he ascended the throne, how could he stand out among the many princes and get the support of veterans like General Nie? Without the help of these veterans, how could we have fought to the end in the tragic civil war that year? Even if you can pretend to be benevolent and virtuous on the outside, you can't change your vicious, violent and cold heart.
Luo Huaizhou, you have really misjudged your imperial brother.
