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Chapter 19: Being Rejected

"What are you thinking?" Qin Ce asked.

"I think who wrote the words on this?" Zhang Jiu woke up from the nightmare of rescuing the lost boy, saw the words on the tombstone and replied casually, such immature handwriting should not have been written by Qin Ce.

"I wrote it." Qin Ce looked at the words on the tombstone and said unnaturally. At that time, he insisted on completing the tombstone by himself. At that time, he was young and his handwriting was not very good. Written up, the only thing I remember is that the mood at that time was full of resentment.

"Nurse Guo will be very pleased." Through those words, Zhang Jiu seemed to be able to see a picture of a stubborn young man holding a tombstone and carving strokes one stroke at a time, which is very sad.

"The writing is not very good, Guo Nanny may find it disgusting"

"No, as long as it's written by you, Mother Guo will be very happy," Zhang Jiu said seriously.

Qin Ce laughed and rubbed Zhang Jiu's hair, but he didn't want the dirt left on his hands when weeding just now fell on Zhang Jiu's head, so he withdrew his hand in embarrassment. Qin Ce chose not to tell Zhang Jiu about it. thing.

Qin Ce's pure smile without impurities once again made Zhang Jiu lose his mind, thinking that even the sunset that was praised by the ancients as infinitely beautiful could not compare to Qin Ce's smile at this time.

sunset?Zhang Jiu suddenly looked up at the sky, the last ray of brilliance of the sun had disappeared on the horizon, and the sky was already dark.

A gust of cold wind blew across Zhang Jiu's face and he sneezed a few times before he realized that he had been in this gloomy cemetery for a day, and once he relaxed, he would still have a desolate feeling of hunger and cold.

"Are you okay?" Qin Ce was both worried and moved. He was worried about whether the thin Zhang Jiu would get sick if he stayed in the cold wind for a day. What was moved was that the thin Zhang Jiu actually endured the cold wind and stayed with him for a day.

"It's okay." Zhang Jiu rubbed his sore nose and sneezed again, "Let's go back."

"Okay." Qin Ce nodded, and walked back with Zhang Jiu, still not letting go of his hand.And Zhang Jiu didn't resist and let Qin Ce lead him away.

Compared with when he came, Zhang Jiu was cold, hungry and tired at this time, his legs seemed to be filled with lead, and the speed was naturally slower than when he came.

When Zhang Jiu saw the tightly closed city gate, Zhang Jiu became extremely resentful in an instant, staring at the city gate intently as if trying to make a hole in the city gate.

But the facts tell Zhang Jiu that he saw without blinking that tomorrow morning, the city gate will not move a single inch and there will be no hole, so he can only pin his hopes on Qin Ce, who is more reliable by his side, "Your Highness, can you do anything?" Into the city?"

Seeing Zhang Jiu's hopeful eyes, Qin Ce couldn't bear to let him down, but he had no choice. "Once the city gate is closed, it will not be opened until tomorrow morning"

"Then you are the prince after all, don't you have a token or something to open the door?" Zhang Jiu refused to give up. In the TV series, the princes and imperial envoys all have some kind of imperial gold medal, which can command anyone with it. Very majestic, will Qin Ce also have a piece?

"Where did you come up with such a strange thing? How could there be such a thing?" Qin Ce looked at him amusedly, "But if the emperor orders to open the city gate, it is also possible."

"Then let your father make an order," Zhang Jiu said immediately.

"Then I must be able to go to the city to meet Emperor Father before he can make an order."

"It's unforgivable for you to say what you say if it's not feasible, and it's unforgivable to give people hope and let people down," Zhang Jiu accused. He now misses modern mobile phones very much, and everything can be settled with a phone call. Why is it so troublesome now.

"It was my mistake." Qin Ce admitted his mistake obediently. Even if he had to wait outside the city all night, Qin Ce was very happy, so that he could spend the night alone with Zhang Jiu. What made him even more happy was that Zhang Jiu Jiu didn't change anything after he revealed his identity, and still treated him as usual.

"You are indeed wrong. If it weren't for you, how could I run out of the city so tired and half dead, and now I can't go back. I can't eat if I have food, I can't sleep if I have a bed, and I have to stay in this cold night wind for one night. , Thinking about it makes me angry." The hunger in his stomach became more and more obvious, and his hands and feet were gradually getting colder. Zhang Jiu felt that this was the worst experience he had ever experienced.

"It's all because of me, it's my fault." Qin Ce apologized, Zhang Jiu was the first person who dared to blatantly accuse him since he could remember, and Qin Ce was not only not angry, but also felt very sweet, accepting the accusation willingly Admit your mistakes.

"Forget it, it's all like this, and saying nothing will help the matter." Zhang Jiu sighed, seeing Qin Ce's appearance of not fighting back, Zhang Jiu couldn't say anything, but he felt that he was a little self-willed. Qin Ce's status is that the prince is more expensive than him, and he didn't say anything at this stage, so what can he complain about? "Let's figure out how we want to spend the night"

"I'll go find some hay." Since he didn't bring anything with him, he didn't have any flint, so he couldn't make a fire, so he could only find some hay for the night.

"I'll accompany you" just came out of the cemetery, Zhang Jiu didn't feel like being alone at all.

There was no other hay outside the city gate, but Zhang Jiu’s mood changed from rain to cloudiness when he saw the large pile of hay he found. “Do you think many people were locked up outside the city gate like us?”

"Probably so," Qin Ce sat down beside Zhang Jiu and replied.

Hearing Qin Ce's answer, Zhang Jiu felt a little more balanced, "But they must not be as miserable as us, and they can't help but be turned away, and they are still hungry."

"I'm sorry for making you suffer." Qin Ce was reviewing himself once, and he felt that for Zhang Jiu, the rest might be acceptable, and the only thing that could not be satisfied was starvation.Qin Ce began to think about finding something to eat, but looked at the endless plains and gave up the idea.

"If you keep apologizing like this, I will feel embarrassed. Forget it, I am not a person who cares about every detail. This time, we are also in trouble together. It is difficult for you, the eldest son of Daqin, who may be the emperor in the future. How many people's dream is Tongdang, and I'm considered lucky." Zhang Jiu had fun in his bitterness.

"Really?" As one of the same afflictions, Qin Ce couldn't help but curl his lips. Maybe it was indeed lucky, but it was not Zhang Jiu's luck but his luck.

"Well, so even though I don't dare to ask you to be blessed and share in the future, you must treat me better, otherwise I will be like the people of the whole Daqin publicizing your scandal today, saying that you are an ungrateful person"

"I won't let you have this opportunity." Qin Ce moved closer to Zhang Jiu, "Since we are in trouble, of course we have to share the blessings, and I won't let you leave even if you don't want to."

"Cut, I won't, who would give up the good life of eating delicious food and drinking spicy food? You must not regret it then"

"I will not"

No matter how well he imagines a better life in the future, it can’t change the current situation of hunger and cold. Zhang Jiu sighed, “In this situation, I suddenly thought of a poem that can profoundly express our current situation. I don’t see the city before, and I don’t see the village behind. She, thinking about the emptiness in the belly, blowing the cold wind and crying."

Qin Ce smiled and said, "It is indeed able to express our current situation realistically. It is simply too appropriate. Brother Puhua is really talented."

"It's useless to be talented, and it can't change the fact that we are cold and hungry now"

"Why don't we draw cakes to satisfy our hunger?"

"No, that's idealism. I'm afraid you and I won't be full even if you're exhausted. Let's save some energy and walk tomorrow."

"Then let's go to sleep." Qin Ce proposed the best way to conserve energy.

"Well, you won't feel hungry if you fall asleep." Zhang Jiu agreed with this proposal.

Facts have proved that you will not feel hungry when you are asleep, but you will still feel cold. After falling asleep, Zhang Jiu kept huddling together to reduce the area exposed to the cold wind.

Qin Ce looked at Zhang Jiu who was shrunk into a ball and couldn't help smiling, and hugged him in his arms. He didn't think about the abnormality of two men hugging each other. Instead, he looked at Zhang Jiu's sleeping face with great satisfaction, and how I thought it was very beautiful, so I closed my eyes and went to sleep until I couldn't hold on anymore.