CH 127

Chapter 127

(46.3)

Song Huaiqing closed the folding fan he had in his hand and asked with a smile, “The crown prince won’t blame me for intervening, right?”

Zhao Zhi looked at the lake without saying a word.

Song Huaiqing looked like he did not have any other intention, as if the only reason he had intervened and saved the person was really because he could not stand to see someone in danger.

“You are not someone who usually intervenes.”

“A person life was at stake, I couldn’t bear to see the person you treasure die in front of me, no matter how cruel and unscrupulous I am.”

Zhao Zhi looked at him with a strange gaze, he knew that Song Huaiqing might not have that kind of inclination towards Ming Zhu, but the image of him holding Ming Zhu in his arms, getting her out of the water, had really pierced his eyes.

Song Huaiqing patted his shoulder, “I have countless beautiful concubines at home, you should not get jealous for everything.”

When Song Huaiqing was finished saying these words, he used the late hour as an excuse to go back to his residence.

Zhao Zhi knew that he had done that to save a person, but his heart was still aching. He rubbed his eyebrows, forcing himself to forget the scene he saw.

When he went back to the guest room, Ming Zhu had already changed her clothes, her hair that was dripping with water earlier was now half dry. She looked as beautiful and clean as a hibiscus fresh out of water.

Zhao Zhi beckoned to her, “Let’s go back.”

Ming Zhu slowly walked up to him. He held her hand firmly as he led her out. The man asked her in a warm voice while he walked: “You don’t know how to swim?”

Ming Zhu shook her head, “No.”

She fell into a pond when she was a child and had a high fever for three days, which almost ruined her brain. Her mother never allowed her to go near any place with deep waters after that.

Zhao Zhi remembered that she liked to play on the lakeside, he had heard the servants say the other day that she had even gone to the lake in the backyard to row a boat, she was really bold.

Zhao Zhi clutched tightly her hand and walked out of the cabin.

The carriage had been waiting at the pier all evening, the coachman thought that the crown prince and miss Ming Zhu were going to spend the night on the pleasure boat. In a moment of drowsiness, he saw the two people coming his way and he hurriedly patted his face to wake himself up.

Ming Zhu did not have any bad intention as she curiously asked, “Your Highness, you’re not going back to the palace tonight?”

Zhao Zhi’s face was cold, “You want me to go back there?”

Ming Zhu could not answer, she could not say out loud, “I hope you can stay inside the palace forever.”

Zhao Zhi did not count on hearing anything pleasant from her. He held her by the waist and put her to the carriage.

A soft and gentle voice entered his ears from behind him.

“Gongzi, I’m sorry to disturb you.”

Zhao Zhi turned around in silence and looked at the young lady who was looking at him with a red face, not far away.

Gu Shuyi was smiling shyly. As the corners of her mouth curved up, they revealed two light dimples. She mustered up the courage to take two more steps forward, “My last name is Gu.”

The moonlight was shining on her snow-white face, illuminating her face in such a way that she looked even softer.

Standing under the moonlight, she slightly pursed the corners of her mouth, showing him a genuine smile, “My name is Gu Shuyi, if there is a chance for us to meet again in the future, I wonder if you will then tell me your name.”

Although this kind of behavior was not polite, Gu Shuyi had rarely seen such a pleasing-to-her-eyes man and she wanted to grasp the opportunity.

Zhao Zhi still was not listening carefully to what she was saying. What he was thinking in his mind was the same…. They were very similar.

Her demeanor when she smiled was similar, her body measurements and her posture also was alike, and her intonation when she spoke was also similar.

The only thing that was not similar was their birth.

The only family that was surnamed Gu was the family of Gu Xuelin, the high minister of the ministry of appointments. By all accounts, she appeared to be Gu Xuelin’s granddaughter.

Zhao Zhi did not answer her directly. Before getting on the carriage, he ordered his guards to escort her and her maid back.

When Ming Zhu, who was sitting in the carriage, looked at this scene, she had no special feeling in her heart. This beautiful lady, she was not able to conceal her feelings in the slightest, one could tell with one glance that she was in love with him.

The words she used were refined and she spoke gently and softly, she also looked very talented and learned. Since she dared to reveal her name, her family background definitely could not be bad. Zhao Zhi should probably be very satisfied with every aspect of her, these two were quite a good match.

When Zhao Zhi lifted the curtain of the carriage and saw her, as absentmindedly as always, eating pastries, his anger was triggered yet again.

Ming Zhu almost choked on the last bite of sweet rice cake she was eating.

Zhao Zhi, without saying a word, handed a cup of tea to her. Ming Zhu drank two mouthfuls of tea, before feeling alive again.

She took a side glance at his gloomy complexion and kindly pushed her beloved pastry in front of him, “Are you hungry? This is delicious.”

The look in Zhao Zhi’s eyes as he looked at her was as deep as the sea. The corners of his mouth twitched, and in the bottom of his heart, he found it funny, she actually had the nerve to take the pastries he had brought to try and please him?