Zhao Gao took a closer look with the faint light outside and found that Zhao Zheng was holding a flint in his hand. He was about to light a fire just now. He turned to look at him when he heard a noise. However, his reaction was really loud and awkward. With a slight cough, he walked over and took the flint from Zhao Zheng's hand to light a fire.
When he was taking the flint, the palm of Zhao Zheng's left hand was scratched by his fingertips, which gave rise to a string of numb feeling, which went straight along his arm to his heart. Zhao Zheng was awakened by the sudden strangeness. Only then did she realize that the tone of her question was a bit bad, and the cold look in her eyes instantly faded away, and she turned into a dishonest look again.
When the candlelight was lit, the previous dullness in the room was gone, and the two of them returned to their original appearance, as if nothing had happened. Zhao Gao even thought that the deep light that appeared in Zhao Zheng's eyes just now was just an illusion caused by seeing in dim light.
"Your Majesty, are you hungry?" Zhao Gao asked softly. After a pause, he added, "I'm going to see if the evening meal is ready."
Zhao Zheng took the first step and said, "If you and I have nothing to do, let's just go together."
As the two of them strode out, their robes were blown up by the breeze, leaving only the candlelight in the room extinguished.
During the meal, for some reason, Mother Zhao's topic suddenly turned to someone's life-long event: "I heard that many descendants of the family are busy raising their daughters, waiting for the king's filial piety to be over in the coming year to marry off their daughters. Well, I don’t know whose daughter is so lucky.”
As the person responsible for this matter, Zhao Zheng looked as usual after hearing this: "Oh, there is another matter." After he finished speaking, he looked at the kid beside him who wanted to scoop up a bean, but his hand happened to be shorter, and he leaned against the pottery bowl. The wooden spoon on the table didn't even touch the edge. She sat back and couldn't help but roll up her sleeves at leisure, and reached out to scoop a spoonful for her.
Little Ahan chuckled, knowing that he liked the thinly sliced soy beef in front of him, so he quickly picked up a few slices for him with clean chopsticks, and looked at him as if he was taking credit, which reminded him of something. His expression was rare and gentle. He looked at Zhao Gao, then turned around and raised his hand to give her a shudder.
After hearing his mother's words, Zhao Gao subconsciously looked at Zhao Zheng and happened to catch the interaction between the two of them. I wonder what he was thinking about afterwards. He smiled so softly and sat with his daughter, just like a father and daughter. Although Zhao Gao couldn't laugh or cry in his heart, he pretended not to see it and answered his mother's words: "Why is my mother also interested in this matter?"
Little Ahan was happy and said on behalf of her eldest mother: "The aunts and sisters outside are all curious. Father, you are the king's teacher. You must know who the king likes, right?"
Zhao Zheng looked at Zhao Gao with burning eyes and smiled very maliciously. Zhao Gao glanced at him and said matter-of-factly: "That is the king's private matter. How could my father know about it?"
Mother Zhao suddenly shook her head and said with some pity: "To say that this king is also an infatuated child, who in Qin country doesn't know that he has a deep love for the queen. It's a pity that the queen was so beautiful that she died at a young age. This Go, the king has not accepted a wife so far. I heard that when the Queen Mother Xia passes away this time, she will have to wait for another year... It is really a shame to wait for the women of the family who admire him. "
When his mother suddenly mentioned the matter of the Queen and Queen Mother Xia, Zhao Gao was afraid of arousing Zhao Zheng's troubles, so he coughed dryly and looked at him unnaturally. Fortunately, Zhao Zheng looked normal and was eating thinly sliced beef from Little Ahan in his bowl.
Heaving a sigh of relief, Zhao Gao turned around and looked at his mother. He opened his mouth and was about to say something to change the subject, but Zhao Zheng beat him to it.
In a daze, he felt that Zhao Zheng looked at him with deep meaning.
Zhao Zheng smiled and comforted Zhao's mother and said: "Agu, I don't know. Marriage in the royal family is never done by one's will, let alone the king. To say that the king and the queen may not really have the feelings mentioned in the rumors, it's just that there are rumors It is rumored that this is really the case. In order to avoid some trouble, he just goes along with the flow."
"What do you kid know?" Zhao's mother said kindly, and then added after a pause: "Agu, I think you are the oldest and it's time to start a family. If you have a family, you will naturally understand these things, and you won't say such childish things. That's what I said." Apparently Zhao's mother believed deeply in the deep love between the queen and the queen, and did not take Zhao Zheng's words to heart at all.
Zhao Zheng put down his chopsticks and cupped his hands with his hands, and said to Zhao's mother apologetically: "Auntie taught me a lesson. It's the younger generation who thinks too simply."
In Zhao Gao's opinion, his words were just to coax his mother. He could say this calmly, but Zhao Gao couldn't treat it as a failed joke to entertain the elderly.
Based on Zhao Gao's understanding of him, he was definitely not someone who would joke about such things. If it wasn't true, I would never mention it more, but now I not only mentioned it, but also mentioned it so calmly, and glanced here as if there was nothing there from time to time. It was obviously not a joke.
Moreover, just to comfort his mother, he could have changed the topic. You must know that it is not appropriate to deliberately say these things to comfort others against their will. He is the King of Qin, knows countless people, and is the best at observing words and emotions. How could he make such a low-level mistake in such a matter?
There is only one possibility that can be explained, whether it was said on purpose, or whether it was said to oneself on purpose.
What is he...
After sorting through all this quickly in his mind, Zhao Gao was completely confused.
Just when Zhao Gao was deep in thought, Zhao's mother suddenly remembered something, glanced at her son, and said to Zhao Zheng: "Don't imitate him. He doesn't know which family's girl he is looking at, but they are looking at him again." No, just delaying like this, the marriage has not been settled yet. You said, after all, he is also a Zhi Su Neishi in Jiuqing. He can't do whatever he likes, how..."
It was a matter of Zhao Gao's life. The more Zhao's mother talked about it, the more worried she became. She couldn't notice anything else.
This time she was determined to provoke Zhao Gao, so she simply said it all to Zhao Zheng: "You kid is so close to him, and he's not afraid of exposing his secrets in front of you." Short. Tell me, could it be that you have fallen in love with the eldest daughter of the Yushi family? Not to mention that the girl has a good family background, and I heard that she has a very beautiful life. Good matchmakers from various families have broken into the Yushi family. At the threshold, his father Feng Yushi and eldest father Feng Prime Minister did not let go." I'm afraid that I just want to marry the king and become the queen.
The more Mother Zhao talked, the more she felt sorry for her son, and finally she just lowered her head and muttered to herself. But those words still reached the ears of Zhao Zheng, and also reached the ears of Zhao Gao. Zhao Gao raised his head awkwardly and met Zhao Zheng's eyes.
The look in Zhao Zhengfeng's eyes was dark and unclear. He raised his eyebrows and looked at Zhao Gao and asked in a long voice: "Really? I didn't know you had someone you liked."
After saying this, without waiting for Zhao Gao's answer, he immediately looked at Zhao's mother and said, "This junior doesn't know that he still has such thoughts. How did Agu know that she was the eldest daughter of Feng Yushi's family?" Zhao Zheng put down his hand when he said this. There was a long chopstick in his hand, with his hands hanging down, as if he was listening to a good show, and he was just waiting for Zhao's mother to answer.
Mother Zhao shook her head helplessly: "Agu, if you think you are close, you should know something about him."
Zhao Zheng narrowed his eyes when he saw Zhao Gao, and then quickly distanced himself from Zhao's mother: "This junior really doesn't know."
"He, it was said that he had someone he liked in the past, but his status was too different. Agu thought, he is also an official in the imperial family now. Logically speaking, even if he wants to marry the daughter of the prime minister or the imperial family, he shouldn't. Problem, but people look down on him now. After thinking about it, she is the eldest daughter of Feng Yushi's family. I heard that her family brought her up according to the rules of entering the palace. Not to mention the queen, how can she be the wife of the king? Right?"
After hearing this, Zhao Zheng nodded, lowered his eyes and echoed, "Auntie makes sense." After speaking, he looked at Zhao Gao calmly. In just a short moment, their eyes met several times, but it was difficult to see each other's emotions.
After a while, Zhao's mother turned to look at Zhao Gao and said earnestly: "My son, if that girl really marries into the palace this time and becomes the king's wife, you should stop thinking about her and find another one. Although my mother said I won’t force you, it’s not an option for you to continue like this. My mother feels uncomfortable seeing you so worried about her.”
After the meal, everyone dispersed. Little Ahan stayed to help the maid clean up the dishes. When he saw a few drops of soup spilled on the table where his father had been sitting, and a few grains of rice dropped where Mr. Zhao had been sitting, he couldn't help but sigh. She rubbed her hair and made a strange "huh" sound. This was something that had never happened to her since she could remember.
Zhao Gao helped his mother back to her room. When he returned to the study, he saw Zhao Zhengzheng occupying his desk and reading something. Hearing him come in, he pointed to the other two bamboo slips on the desk without raising his head and said, "You have been looking at that too lately. Is it something that Korean gentlemen are not allowed to do?”
"Well, I got two volumes from my brother a few days ago. I took them out and looked at them carefully during the past two days. I still haven't finished reading them, and I'm thinking of other chapters. It's a pity that my brother didn't finish them, so I had to Just a moment." Zhao Gao sat down from the side and said leisurely.
Zhao Zheng put the scroll back in his hand, looked up at Zhao Gao and asked, "What are the two scrolls you are reading?"
"'Unspeakable' and 'Lonely Furious'." After saying that, Zhao Zheng smiled proudly, and Zhao Gao asked again: "Is there anything else, Your Majesty?"
Zhao Zheng curled up his lips and said: "There is more volume of "Speaking of Difficulties" than you, but I have finished reading it. It is inconvenient to send someone to pick it up so late. I still remember what I wrote. You can read other books for a while, and I will give it to you silently. You are.”
"Okay." Although Zhao Zheng only asked Zhao Gao to read for a while, he still had to have a begging attitude when asking for help. Zhao Gao still conscientiously helped Zhao Zheng to study his ink before reading.
When he was studying ink, Zhao Zheng lowered his head to write and could vaguely see his movements from the corner of his eye. Listening to the "buzzing" sound caused by the friction between the ink stick and the inkstone, Zhao Zheng felt unusually warm one moment, but suddenly remembered something the next moment, and asked in a confused manner: "Teacher, do you really like her?"
Zhao Gao's hand stopped for a moment while the "buzzing" sound suddenly stopped, and the study fell into a terrible silence. After a long time, he asked indifferently: "Do you like her?"
The tone of this answer was supposed to be a question, but because Zhao Gao was thinking about something in his mind and asked a little carelessly, it turned into an ambiguous feeling for Zhao Zheng, causing his eyes to flicker, and the next moment he became confused. He said: "That's all, it's nothing. This is enough ink. Teacher, please read for a while."
The reason why he was so calm wasn't because Zhao Zheng really didn't care, but if Zhao Gao really wanted to have a wife, he had absolutely nothing to stop him. Although he felt depressed and panicked, luckily he had been mentally prepared for this before and Zhao Gao didn't notice it at all.
Not long after, Zhao Zheng had finished most of it. When it was time to change to the next volume, Zhao Gao happened to have finished reading what he was holding, so he handed him the first one to look at first.
After Zhao Zheng finished all the silence, Zhao Gao also finished reading the front part. He was about to look at the back part, but Zhao Zheng lazily held him back. The next moment, he leaned over and lay facelessly on his shoulder. He yawned and said drowsily: "You can read the rest tomorrow. Today, the students took great pains to write to the teacher in silence for so long, and the teacher must have something to show for it."
Zhao Gao couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this. His emotions were waiting here and he turned around and asked him: "What does the king want?"
"Teacher, how about giving me a bed?"
