Hidden in the court

"Yes and no?"

"Yes, um... and no."

Ji Mingshang answered awkwardly, but such a "truth" obviously could not convince the little girl.

At this time, a group of women poked their heads out of the door and asked, "Hey, what's going on?"

"Ouch, shhh~"

……

Seeing the ladies climbing over the wall, Ji Mingshang smiled bitterly and leaned close to Rowling's ear.

"If you hate him, you might as well consider me~"

At this moment, Luo Lin's mind flashed back to how good Ji Mingshang had been to her in the past three years, and then her brain went offline. She hummed in a daze.

Seeing her like this, Ji Mingshang also took half a step back.

Breathing fresh air made Rowling's brain clearer, and she hurriedly jumped into the carriage.

Ji Mingshang smiled smugly. This kind of brainless plot that appeared in romance novels might seem childish to other people, but it was just right for dealing with Rowling.

He came to the side of the carriage and lifted the curtain.

"I'll pick you up tomorrow morning and go out of town..."

Qingan City

"Boss, why don't you tie up that woman and use her as a hostage? Then he won't come."

"Shut up, I don't even dare to do this"

As he spoke, the tall and strong man stared at Zhao Yao and Tan Yuewan with increasingly interesting eyes, and the corners of his mouth curled up wildly.

"My dear brother, you have come to this day..."

As if sensing the strange gaze behind him, Zhao Yao turned around and glanced.

He took out his purse and turned to Tan Yuewan and said, "Go buy ten pounds of meat and have someone chop it into stuffing."

"Huh? What do you want this for?"

"Don't ask any more questions. Go quickly. I'll wait for you."

Tan Yuewan opened her purse. Although there were only copper coins in it, it was a lot.

"Ten pounds of meat, why are you giving me so much?"

"The rest is yours."

"Thank you, boss. Hehehe."

After watching her skipping away with the purse in her hand, Zhao Yao also walked into the alley.

……

"You dog, just speak your mind."

"Haha, brother, I'm here to pick you up."

Hearing his brother's joke, the strong man didn't get angry and replied with a smile.

"I'm not going back." Zhao Yao's tone became noticeably colder.

Hearing this, the strong man's face turned cold: "You are great, you are noble, if you don't go back, who will guard this northern border? Tell me, my prince."

"The emperor is still alive and well, why are you starting to think about me? Besides, don't you still have me? My great general."

Zhao Yao looked indifferent, but Xihe Huchen was obviously choked.

"You're talking nonsense. I can control jackals, tigers and leopards. I can control those snakes, scorpions and toads. Come back. Don't worry. Those who oppose you have been dealt with by my father and me."

Zhao Yao still shook his head calmly.

This also completely infuriated Xihe Huchen, who grabbed him by the collar and stared with his eyes wide open.

Zhao Yao did not resist and let him bring it up.

After a while, Xihe Huchen finally couldn't hold back any longer, "What do you want in exchange for going back?"

"I can manage the North, but I will only manage it for seven days, and he must stay with his mother for seven days. Tell him that if he cannot let go of his dignity as an emperor, he should continue to be his emperor."

Seeing that he compromised, Xihe Huchen no longer made things difficult for him, "Okay, let's go back together in a few days."

"I will go back by myself after the Lantern Festival."

"Okay, as long as you are willing to go back." Xihe Huchen was not afraid that he would go back on his word.

After all, when my brother lies to you, he will look you in the eye and pretend to be more real than the truth. On the contrary, his casual words can be believed.

Xihe Huchen walked past Zhao Yao and said half-jokingly:

"Also, that girl is quite interesting. I didn't expect you to like her."

That's right. Look at the wives that the emperor arranged for his son. They were all daughters of certain families and ladies from noble families. When they met their own brother, how could they be husband and wife? The maids were serving the master.

There is nothing wrong with it. The key is that these women took advantage of the absence of the real boss and acted like a typical bully.

"Go away~"

"Okay, brother."

Dad, you just don’t understand my brother after all. Unlike me, I even know which corner of the table my brother used the banknotes to pad.

……

Returning to the original place, Zhao Yao felt that he did not have any unusual feelings towards her. Everything was normal, right?

"Boss, the things are ready."

Suddenly, Tan Yuewan appeared from nowhere.

"go home."

"Ah, what are you going back for now?"

Zhao Yao just replied, "Cook."

After returning, Zhao Yao carried ten kilograms of meat into the kitchen.

"Boss, do you need any help?"

"Rest."

After working for an entire afternoon, Zhao Yao walked out of the kitchen.

"Boss, are you done with your work? What delicious food have you made?"

She had been staying outside and had been tempted by the aroma for a while.

But then Zhao Yao brought out two baskets of sesame cakes from the kitchen.

"Boss, are you planning to sell sesame cakes? They are not easy to sell. How can ordinary people afford meat sesame cakes? Why can't you sell them?"

"Not for sale."

"If you don't sell it, you can keep it to feed the pigs."

Zhao Yao glanced at her unhappily, picked up a pancake as big as her face, and put it directly into her mouth.

"you're right."

Zhao Yao took out a few sesame cakes and put the rest in a basket.

"Send these to the old tree outside the city."

"No, it's time to get off work! You ordered me around as soon as you came out of the kitchen."

Zhao Yao looked at the sun who was busy going home and asked with a smile: "How much?"

"One tael, how about that? Isn't it a good deal?"

"I have no money." Zhao Yao said with a wry smile, "and I have to go back tomorrow."

"what?"

Before she could finish her surprise, Zhao Yao spoke again: "I'll use this jade to pay off my debt, okay?"

As he spoke, he took out a piece of jade, which was the one Zhang Banxian had given him.

However, at this time he engraved a word on the jade token.

"Yao? Tsk, you are quite narcissistic."

Zhao Yao shook his head, "One word is worth a thousand gold."

"Is this true? It's so valuable!" She said this, but she still put the thing away obediently.

"Under the big tree outside the city, right? Don't worry, boss."

"Stop, from now on, I'm not your boss anymore."

Tan Yuewan turned her head and said, "Okay, brother."

This one sentence almost choked Zhao Yao to death. He never expected that besides that bastard Ji Mingshang, there was someone else who could do this.

I could only helplessly utter: "Go quickly and come back quickly."

Little did she know that just this word "brother" made Zhao Yao feel inexplicably familiar.

Tan Yuewan hurried and finally returned before the city gate closed.

Watching her counting money in her hands,

"If you like money so much, why don't you go back? As long as you go home, you can spend money freely, right?"

When Tan Yuewan heard her ask this, she knew that her identity had long been exposed, so she simply stopped pretending.

"If I have money, I can live the life I want. Going back? I won't go back. Why would I go back? To be supported for two years and then be 'sold'?"

He looked at himself in the mirror and then said to himself, "But maybe someone like me can get a good price."

As he spoke, tears welled up in his eyes.

Zhao Yao frowned, "Listen, no parents in the world would think this way, let alone they really have the ability to support you for the rest of your life. You must have misunderstood. Your parents at home should be worried if you run away. You should go back and have a good talk with your parents."

Unexpectedly, she stopped crying and asked, "Do you still know?"

"Is that your brother under the big tree outside the city? He told me that you and your father had a quarrel and you haven't been home for three years. He asked me to persuade you."

Zhao Yao's mouth trembled when he learned the truth. He thought to himself, you are such a good Xihe Huchen, I will definitely give you more training when I go back.

At this moment, Xihe Huchen couldn't help but sneeze, thinking back to the woman who delivered the pancakes in the afternoon. Looking at her, it seemed that she would cry for a long time if she was punched.

“It looks like it, but it doesn’t feel like it.”

……

"You are really smart." Zhao Yao praised suddenly.

"Of course not. A blockhead like you won't listen. It would be better if you could just say it yourself."

Zhao Yao smiled bitterly, "Okay, I admit it."