222 Ding Wang Fanwai
It was still dark, and the master and servant of the Jiang family were still awake, but the quiet fragrance of osmanthus drifted to the window with the wind and flew into the window.
Cheng Jian was awakened by the familiar and unfamiliar fragrance of osmanthus.
He doesn't love fragrance, and everyone in the palace servants who serve him knows that there is a sudden increase in fragrance. Could it be that someone is poisoning?
Cheng Jian suddenly opened his eyes, but what caught his eyes was not the spacious and deserted bedroom, but a small bed for him, with a plain white gauze tent.
So quiet, but not the silence of the palace, because there is no faint fragrance of osmanthus flowers in the palace.
Cheng Jian's eyes moved from the top of the bed to the gauze tent. For some reason, he always felt that he had seen this scene somewhere, before he had become the emperor, before he had become the crown prince, before he had returned to the capital...
A ridiculous thought flashed through my mind, and Cheng Jian's eyes were fixed on the gauze tent.
He couldn't believe it.
But I hope it is true.
He raised his hand tremblingly and found that his hands were not old yet, but still as fair and powerful as he was young. Cheng Jian's eyes were sore. When he slowly picked up the gauze tent, he saw an eight-year-old girl sleeping on the narrow couch under the south window facing him. Her appearance was hazy in the dim light, so Cheng Jian quickly put down the gauze tent.
He still couldn't believe it.
He was old and almost couldn't breathe a few days ago. The imperial physicians didn't say anything, but Cheng Jian knew that he was about to lose his life, so was this a dream before he died? Did God know that he was going to die and knew what he wanted most in his life, so he gave him a chance to dream about what he wanted most?
Cheng Jin didn't want to deceive himself. He would rather die early and go to her for the next life than have such a dream.
Close his eyes, Cheng Jian lay motionless, waiting for dawn, and waiting for the palace people to serve him.
I don’t know how long it took, but he heard something gradually in the yard. After a while, the people on the couch there also got up.
Where is she going?
Cheng Jian couldn't help but turn over. Through the gauze tent, he saw the petite figure walking towards the bed and arrived in a blink of an eye. He couldn't tell why, Cheng Jian closed his eyes.
Ningzhu rubbed her eyes and picked up the gauze tent. Seeing that the elder brother inside was lying motionless, not getting up early as before, she was a little scared. The cold-faced brother told her to take good care of the injured elder brother last night. Could it be...
Ningzhu thought that when her father went there not long ago, she didn't move like the eldest brother, and tears fell down and gently pushed him, "Big Brother..."
She cried...
Cheng Jian immediately opened his eyes.
Ningzhu's tears broke, and the two of them looked at the small eyes. Seeing the man quietly making things worse, Ningzhu wiped his eyes and asked him strangely, "Why can't the big brother wake up?" He woke up earlier than her before.
The little girl's voice was sweet and her eyes were misty. She was so close that she stood in front of him. Cheng Jian suddenly lost his backbone.
Even if it is a dream, he is willing to go back to the present and see her again.
"Why did you cry?" Cheng Jian slowly sat up with his arms. Because he was not used to this young body, he accidentally pulled the wound. Cheng Jian took a breath, and the unbearable pain clearly told him that this was definitely not a dream.
"Big brother, slow down." Ningzhu leaned over to help him, saying, "Big brother doesn't move, I thought you..."
"I thought I was dead?" Cheng Jian pinched her white and tender little face and smiled: "How could I die of this little injury? You underestimate me too much."
Ningzhu smiled embarrassedly.
Cheng Jianai saw her laughing, pointed to his chest and said, "I hurt so much, please help me."
August in Hangzhou is not cold yet. He sleeps with his shirtlessness and a circle of gauze wraps his chest.
Ningzhu just heard him inhaling, without any doubt, lowered her head and blew him.
Cheng Jian looked at the little girl in front of him with eyes fixed on her eyes, and it felt like she had grown a flower, but now she was not even a flower bud, and she was more like a small bud, green and pity-worthy.
"Where is your brother-in-law...whether of that cold-faced brother?" Touching Xiao Nengya's head, Cheng Jian asked in confusion. It took too long, and he couldn't remember when it was now. At most, based on Ningzhu's white clothes, he judged that Jiang Jizhou had passed away.
"He has gone to the county government office," Ningzhu looked at him in confusion, "I just left yesterday, did the eldest brother forget?"
Cheng Jian immediately remembered that Cheng Yu was going to kill the dog official, and they would also take a boat north in a few days.
"Go and wash your face. After washing, let the kitchen bring food quickly. I'm hungry." Cheng Jian pinched Ningzhu's little face again. The little girl was only eight years old. He couldn't do anything anymore. He couldn't do anything by himself. He was afraid that he would scare her, so he could only pinch her face and play with it.
Ningzhu was unhappy and pinched him, so she pouted and ran away.
Cheng Jian smiled at her back as she left in anger, looked down at the wound, and decided to recover the wound first.
On the day he left Wutong County, Cheng Jian met Gu Heng again. He looked at the man on the horse coldly, as if he was looking at a dead person. In his previous life, he and Cheng Yu underestimated Gu Heng's ability. This time he would not give Gu Heng a chance to go to Beijing. There are so many people who have to go to Beijing to take the exam every year. There are always a few people who died of sick bandits on the way. One more Gu Heng would not cause any storm. In this way, his cousin Meng Xianxian could also find a good husband.
When boarding the boat and taking the waterway, everything was as usual. Two months later, the boat arrived at the Tianjin Wharf. Cheng Yu sent the sisters all the way to Cheng Yu's small house here.
Cheng Jian had no reason to stay and returned to the capital with Cheng Yu. After returning to the mansion, he immediately sent out the two concubines and arranged the arrangements. As far as Cheng Yu was concerned, he also left the capital overnight. He arrived in Tianjin before Cheng Yu, and then deliberately took action later, asking Cheng Yu to catch him, the "thief".
"Second brother?" After a few times of handing over, the more we hit, the more familiar he became, Cheng Yu asked in disbelief.
"Had the pen?" Cheng Jian took off his cover and asked him suspiciously, "What are you here to do?"
Ningzhu is only eight years old. Cheng Yu thought he was coming for Hanzhu, and his face looked extremely ugly, "What are the second brother doing?"
Cheng Jian touched his nose, looked at the window over there and said, "I haven't seen you for a day. I miss that little girl very much, so I come and take a look. Where are you? Could it be that you still miss the big girl of the Jiang family?"
He was ill-behaved and turned around. Cheng Yu took a few deep breaths. Because his cousin died, he rushed to take Hanzhu to replace him. He didn't have time to go around with him. He briefly explained his purpose and finally said, "Second brother, A Xun is too young. I must take her over. I also ask my second brother to hide this for me."
Cheng Jian nodded, "What's our relationship? Of course I will help you. But the eldest girl went to the Hou's Mansion. How do you plan to settle Ningzhu?"
He agreed with great pleasure, and Cheng Yu became increasingly unable to figure out what this person was thinking, but he still said his plan first, "Let her live in the village, I will send someone to teach her to read and practice..."
"No, I won't agree. Why should her sister go to the Marquis' Mansion to be the eldest lady? Ningzhu has to live alone in the village?" Cheng Jian really wanted to kick Cheng Yu because of his anger. He said with confidence: "You are biased to the big ones, I am biased to the small ones. Let's take one of them to take Ningzhu back to my palace to live. What do you think?"
"No, her sister won't agree." Cheng Yu said without thinking. Ningzhu is also a beauty. Could it be that this person has the same idea as that dog official, and wants to raise Ningzhu as a ban.
Cheng Jian didn't know what his brothers thought of him, so he continued to reason with him. Seeing that he was entangled, Cheng Yu begged directly: "Second brother, their sisters are pitiful enough. You like beauty. Some of them in the capital are chosen for you, and there are all big and small ones. Why do you have to Ningzhu? Jiang Jizhou entrusted them to me to take care of him before he died. I swear to the sky..."
"You say it again?" Cheng Jian couldn't believe his ears.
Cheng Yu looked at him and repeated in a low voice. Before he finished speaking, Cheng Jian's fist swung over. Cheng Yu dodged in time. In a blink of an eye, the two cousins attacked again.
Chen Shuo was anxious and begged, holding his hands, "Don't beat me, two masters. I don't know how long the medicine can make the dog sleep. Let's do it quickly!"
Cheng Jian was too lazy to see Cheng Yu, so he withdrew and said, "If you don't let me take Ningzhu away today, don't even want to take her sister away. I will tell you that it's you today. Others dare to suspect that I have bad intentions towards a girl movie, so I took him off!"
He was filled with righteous indignation, and Cheng Yu also felt that he was not that unbearable. Thinking of Ningzhu liked him very much, he confirmed again: "What reason does the second brother plan to take her in?"
"I told her to change her surname to my mother. I met my distant cousin in Fujian. Seeing that her parents both died, I couldn't bear to be alone and took her back to the royal palace to be a cousin. Isn't it better than your bad idea?" Cheng Jian had already thought about it and said confidently, "As my cousin, she is completely worthy of dealing with Chu Qing's eldest daughter in terms of identity, and will not delay their sisters' getting along. When Ningzhu grows up in the future, I will support her and ensure that she will marry a good husband."
It is important to take it back to the royal palace first. If he marrys it himself in the future, Cheng Yu can do nothing.
Cheng Yu thought carefully and thought that this method was good, it was better than Ningzhu's own living in the village. The only thing he was worried about was that Hanzhu disagreed. He believed in King Ding's guarantee, and Hanzhu was afraid he didn't believe it.
"I'll go and say to her sister, you don't have to worry." Cheng Jian smiled and patted his brother's shoulder.
Cheng Yu looked at him and nodded barely. The two brothers went to see someone together.
He was forced to go to the dangerous Hou Mansion to replace others and ask his sister to separate. Hanzhu was very resentful to Cheng Yu and hugged his sister and cried into tears. Ningzhu also blamed Cheng Yu, but when Cheng Yu said coldly that she could either go to the royal palace with her elder brother to see her at any time, or she could live in the village for several months before she could see her sister once, Ningzhu instinctively turned to the former.
Cheng Jin promptly promised that he would treat Ningzhu as his own sister so that Hanzhu would not have to worry.
Cheng Yu and Hanzhu again guaranteed Cheng Jian's character.
I am a fisherman, and my sister has a choice again. What else can Hanzhu do? I even agreed to their arrangement even more.
After discussion, Cheng Jian and Cheng Yu took the two sisters back to the capital overnight. Cheng Yu went to the village in the suburbs of Zhou's family. Ning Zhu followed Cheng Jian because he was the eldest brother who had been together for more than two months. Ning Zhu only cried for a while when she parted with her sister, and was soon coaxed by Cheng Jian again.
It was dawn and the carriage drove directly into the Ding Prince's Mansion.
Cheng Jian carried his little girl out of the carriage, glanced around, and said with a smile: "A Ning, from now on, this will be your home."
Chapter completed!