Hidden in the court

"Wait, why are you helping me like this?"

Zhao Yao was stunned for a moment when he was called, then he lowered his head and smiled: "Don't be afraid. Um... I have a friend who owes you money, and I am paying off her debt?"

That should be it, right? Zhao Yao thought to himself, while Tan Heng guessed who this friend was.

The two were silent and the atmosphere became awkward again.

Zhao Yao, who had just walked out of the door, heard another muffled sound.

"Boom-"

The door was kicked open again, and Ji Mingshang walked in with the medicine.

"The medicine is here! Is there anything else to watch?"

Zhao Yao glared at him, and Ji Mingshang immediately shrank his neck, shut up and went to boil the medicine.

The calm was not quite silent though. The firewood was crackling, the medicine jars were bubbling, and from time to time there was the crisp sound of porcelain colliding.

By the time the meal was served, Tan Heng was barely able to get out of bed by himself. While Zhao Yao turned back to support him, Ji Mingshang had already quietly climbed onto the table.

"Today's dish is so hard, no wonder it took so long. Miss Tan is lucky. Although Lao Zhao's cooking skills are not as good as those of the imperial chefs in the palace, they can be considered as the level of an ordinary chef."

As for assists, others may not know, but how could Ji Mingshang not know? He, Lao Zhao, had lived on his own for three years, and had practiced all kinds of skills. If the food he cooked was not delicious, he would starve himself to death first.

But now, Tan Heng found it novel. Perhaps it was because he usually ate light food, but now seeing these brightly colored dishes, he actually felt his long-lost appetite.

"Let's eat first!"

That's not right. He suddenly realized that Lao Zhao was eating slowly. When did he eat slowly before? There's a girl here, so he's pretending, right?

Ji Mingshang didn't care about that. He said it was "to prevent Miss Tan from being shy" and just picked up his chopsticks and took a bite of all the dishes. Then he used his traditional skills to pick up the dishes.

"Miss Tan, try this... I'll give you another bowl of fish soup..."

While he was full of enthusiasm, he couldn't help but stare at Zhao Yao's reaction.

That's not right. How can you still pretend to be so petty? I'm in such a state, aren't you jealous?

Until the third time, Ji Mingshang had braised pork on the tip of his chopsticks. Just when he was halfway through, he saw Zhao Yao's bowl stretched out. A pair of chopsticks quietly clamped the tip of Ji Mingshang's chopsticks and calmly pushed the braised pork into his own bowl.

Ji Mingshang calmly took back his chopsticks, twisted his arms twice under the table, and cursed in his heart: What a petty person, why would he make so much effort?

Tan Heng, who was concentrating on eating, suddenly had a strange idea in his mind, "Am I a part of their game?" Realizing what he was thinking, he shook his head and buried his head even lower.

If the other two knew what she was thinking, they would definitely say, "No, buddy, we are treating you to a meal, the dishes are already on the table, you think we are the meal?"

Ji Mingshang's face suddenly turned pale. Seeing her like this, she must have misunderstood something. As for what it was, Zhao Yao, who was a fool, didn't understand. How could he not know?

"Ahem... Miss Tan, don't get me wrong, Lao Zhao likes to eat braised pork..."

The other two people's eating movements froze slightly, and the atmosphere became awkward again.

"No, no, well, we are not gay..."

"cough--"

Tan Heng choked suddenly before he could even take a bite of rice. Ji Mingshang saw Zhao Yao's murderous look again.

"Well, I'm done. I'll go see if your medicine has taken effect..."

After saying that, he immediately slipped away, leaving this mess to Lao Zhao.

I don’t know how they finished the meal. Anyway, the two of them cooked a table full of dishes. Ji Mingshang took the initiative to wash the dishes and apologize after the meal...

Tan Heng was not a pretentious person to begin with. After he recovered, he gradually became familiar with them within a day.

As it was getting close to evening, Ji Mingshang was kicked out by Zhao Yao.

I stood at the door and thought for a long time. All three girls had left, and there was nothing good to return to in this home.

Well, let’s go to the Prime Minister’s Mansion again!

But just as he turned out of the alley, Ji Mingshang suddenly saw a strange scene.

He saw two little girls, about fourteen or fifteen years old, squatting on the street playing with rabbits. Then a horse-drawn carriage passed by in front of him, as fast as if it was in a hurry to go home to attend a funeral.

Ji Mingshang was afraid that the car would hit the child, so when he was about to stop it, he discovered that the driver was wearing black clothes and a mask.

In a blink of an eye, the carriage passed by, and only two rabbits were left there, fiddling with rotten vegetable leaves in their mouths.

It seemed that the two little guys didn't react either. They stopped moving their mouths, turned their heads, and stared at Ji Mingshang who was standing across the street with wide eyes.

"Shit! Kidnapping?"

Ji Mingshang, who reacted immediately, shouted: "Old Zhao, save him!"

Then he chased after him.

He shouted with all his might, and the sound was quite loud; Zhao Yao and Tan Heng, who were in the yard, also heard it.

"Oh no, something happened, I'll go check it out!"

"Okay, go quickly."

Zhao Yao nodded and jumped out from the beam in front of him in two steps.

Ji Mingshang's shout also woke up the neighbors around him. The window of a shop along the street opened and a woman stuck her head out.

"Whose kid is this? Do you still have any sense of public morality? The neighbors don't need to sleep!"

Just as she finished speaking, she vaguely heard a noise and a carriage was coming towards her at high speed. She was so scared that she immediately slammed the window.

This shout also made the people in the carriage nervous and they drove very fast.

With their abilities, it was a bit difficult to chase the cavalry, but it was still difficult to chase the carriage while taking a shortcut. It can only be said that the kidnapper was also unlucky.

Just as the carriage approached the city gate, Zhao Yao appeared in front of the carriage. Ji Mingshang howled again: "I am the Marquis of Jiangning, close the city gate and stop this carriage!"

The kidnapper who was driving saw Zhao Yao suddenly appear in front of him, heard the voice behind him, and watched the city gate slowly closing in front of him.

If it was normal, why would this happen? Why am I so unlucky today!

He became more and more anxious and couldn't help but feel angry.

"Never mind, just rush over. Want to stop me? I'll run you over!"

As soon as the thought came to his mind, he became bolder and more fearful. He tightened his grip, drove at full speed, intending to hit the man to death and run out of the door.

"boom--"

The wheel on one side couldn't withstand the force and broke first, causing the carriage to overturn and shatter into pieces all over the ground.

Ji Mingshang's eyelids were twitching. He was watching from behind and it seemed that Lao Zhao jumped up and hit the carriage with a stick. What kind of fighting power was this?

"If it's a human, I'll eat it..."

When I got closer and took a closer look, I saw that the two masked men in black and the two children in the carriage were all unharmed, but the two children must have been knocked unconscious, and the two kidnappers seemed to be frightened.

Ji Mingshang went up and slapped them twice to wake them up.

"Who are you? Have you ever committed a crime before? Where is your lair? Tell me!"

At this time, the guards at the city gate also came over. When the leader saw this situation, he coughed twice, perhaps because he was choked by the dust raised by the carriage.

"My Lord, let's hand the person over to the mansion... I heard that there have been many cases of missing persons in the capital recently, and the mansion is exhausted from investigating them."