Chapter 15

chapter xv. madness

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Two people in the outside play a day, back to the royal residence day has been dark, and has passed the dinner time. The West Court because of the residence is female, the key to fall much earlier than the East Court. Mu Han Zhang will be exempted from a few concubines tonight, so as not to delay the West Court side of the key.

A bucket full of hot water was prepared behind the screen, and the water was spiced with spices imported from Fenpang and sprinkled with a layer of fresh peach blossom petals.

Mu Hanzhang watched Jing Shao undress and prepare to take a bath, so he picked up a book and sat down on the Luohan bed to wait for him to finish washing himself, but was grabbed by Jing Shao, "Junqing, you dropped me on the floor today, my butt is still hurting at this moment."

"Chen ......" remembering today's events, Mu Hanzhang's face reddened again, had apologized to him in the afternoon, how come this person is still unforgiving.

"An apology has to be sincere," Jing Shao grabbed the person's hand and dragged it behind the screen, "I have injuries on my body, so help me bathe."

Mu Hanzhang stared at him with wide eyes, the first time I heard that hurting the buttocks made it inconvenient to take a bath, "I ...... I won't ......"

"It's fine, I'll help you wash too." Jing Shao beautifully stripped off her clothes and took the lead in jumping into the bucket of water, looking at the Princess who was still frozen in place and not moving, she patted the barrel, "Come in quickly, or else you'll be punished for helping me apply medicine in a while."

Paint the medicine? Mu Hanyang bit his lower lip, in bed to him that place to apply medicine, or in the bath tub in the naked relative, two relative comparison, it seems that which is quite dangerous, but applying medicine if he can wear clothes ......

"Jun Qing?" Jing Shao looked amusedly at his own princess as she bit her lower lip in agonizing thought, only to find it adorable and very cute.

"Then ......臣还是帮王爷擦药吧." After saying that, he ran out without looking back.

"Pfft~" Jing Shao laughed out loud as he plopped down on the side of the tub.

When Mu Hanzhang also finished his bath and changed into fresh silk clothes and came out from behind the screen, he saw a certain prince wearing only an undershirt and no petticoat, lying on his bare butt on the bed and reading a book on military affairs with great interest.

"The king ...... king ......" Mu Hanzhang's face immediately reddened, how this person is so ......

"Jun Qing!" Jing Shao saw that his own princess had finished her bath and came out, so he busily dropped the military book in his hands and obediently handed over a small bottle.

Mu Hanzhang couldn't, only had to climb inside the bed, poured some medicine in the palm of his hand. Looking at the perfect curve in front of him, there is a little bit of bruise on both sides, the rest of the muscle is well-proportioned, at first glance it is full of explosive power, and then look down, the two long and slender legs straight and together, the streamlined muscles make these legs look full of the beauty of danger and power.

The slippery medicinal juice slipped from between his fingers, dripping onto that round and inviting place, Mu Hanzhang then came back to his senses, peeked at Jing Shao, realized that the man wasn't looking at him, exhaled softly, and attached the palm that had the medicine poured onto it.

When that warm and soft hand caressed himself, Jing Shao regretted it, the touch was so wonderful that his body quickly reacted to his own Wangfei's kneading, and he couldn't help but secretly cry out, now that Jun Qing hadn't yet dispelled the fear of the cave, how could he solve the fire that this had caused?

"It's applied." Mu Hanzhang climbed out of bed and put the medicine bottle away, also letting her somewhat heated body cool down.

"Uh-huh." Jing Shao answered sullenly, still lying still.

"Your Highness, sleep." Seeing that he didn't move, Mu Hanzhang could only crawl inside the bed again and cover him with the quilt.

"Well, I have medicine behind me, so I'll sleep on my back tonight." Jing Shao buried his face in the pillow and made a fool of himself by sleeping on his back all night.

The next day, Jing Shao went out early to go to the second prince's mansion to discuss yesterday's ploy with Jun Qing with his brother, and Duo Fu, according to the Wangfei's instructions, carried the accounts of the past years to the small study.

"Your Highness, this is the accounts of the last three years, do you really want to read them all?" Yunzhu swallowed as she looked at the foot-high ledger.

"Uh-huh." Mu Hanyang Zhang just faintly responded, dividing the account book into three parts by year, starting from the earliest year.

"The books of accounts are for Mr. Accounts to read, why do you need to bother?" Yunzhu was a bit puzzled, if the crown princess wanted to learn how to manage the household, just go and ask the multiple chief stewards, or see how the side lady does it.

Mu Hanzhang glanced at the frowning little scribe and smiled without saying anything. The account book contains a lot of useful things, the house's food, clothing, human relations, subordinate mobilization, all can be seen in the account book. In fact, the governance of the country is also so, look at the account books of the Ministry of Revenue, you can know whether the monarch is mediocre, whether the dynasty is prosperous.

"I heard that Mrs. Side was taking inventory of the storehouse yesterday, and spent the morning inside with a few subordinates." Yunzhu took advantage of Mu Huanzhang's tiredness of watching and drinking tea to whisper to him about the news he had poked around.

"I know." Mu Hanzhang touched Yunzhu's head and rewarded him with a handful of the pine nut candies he bought yesterday. At this time of the year, the inventory of the treasury must not match the accounts with the actuals.

"Wangfei's monthly silver for March was not allocated by the account office at all, yesterday I went to collect the rice paper and almost didn't get it." Yunzhu ate a pine nut candy, talking about this matter is a bit indignant, fortunately the princess is a man, with the king living in the East Garden, and the East Garden of all the expenses are counted in the king's sub-case. If it were a woman who married in, wouldn't she even have nothing to eat!

Mu Hanzhang heard the words, just remembered, their hands also really no cash silver, if there is something urgent will not be good to do.

Accounts for a moment and a half can not finish, Mu Hanyang lunch and rest a nap, before returning to the study.

"Your Highness, you're back!" When he exited the bedroom, he met Jing Shao who walked in quickly and almost bumped into him.

Jing Shao looked straight at him, his eyes a little red and not looking quite right. After seeing who was in front of him, he reached out and grabbed him by the wrist, turning around and heading out again.

"Your Highness ......唔...... "Mu Hanzhang was pulled by him and stumbled, almost falling, stumbling as he pulled him to the front yard.

The subordinates came over to see what was going on, whispering about whether or not the princess had annoyed the king.

Without a word, Jing Shao pulled Mu Hanzhang and rolled onto his horse, clamping down on his horse's stomach, Little Black hissed and rushed out like an arrow.

The steed galloped on the official road outside the capital, and in a trance he seemed to have returned to that snowy day when he was fleeing before he was reborn. These warm and restful days had made him temporarily fade into oblivion, what kind of mood he had reopened his eyes with.

Mu Hanzhang, who was crouching behind him, sensed the violent rage in his heart and slowly hugged his waist tighter. Feeling the strength in his waist, Jing Shao stretched out a hand to hold those two overlapping hands, all the way into the capital's suburbs of the courtyard, ignoring the courtyard of the guards who exclaimed, driving a small black all the way to the martial arts stage. Tap footsteps leaped onto the wooden platform, drew a long spear, did not look at the stage is who, caught people on the fight.

"Your Highness!" Ren Feng who was demonstrating the moves to his subordinates on the stage was startled and subconsciously raised his hand to catch the move, when he saw that it was Jing Shao, he panicked and retreated three steps back, unexpectedly Jing Shao rushed directly over, Ren Feng turned around and drew out a baguette and managed to block the club that came splitting from his head.

Jing Shao fought as if he was fighting for his life on the battlefield, and in no time, he threw Ren Feng, who was afraid of hurting him, off the stage. Without an opponent, he continued to dance his spear on the stage. The silver-colored spear was like a swimming dragon, cutting out a silver residual shadow in the air.

Mu Hanzhang frowned as he looked at the people going crazy on the stage, and in a low voice instructed Ren Feng to take the others and leave the area for the time being.

The sun slid down from the mountain, and the sky, which had been somewhat overcast, began to drizzle thinly. Xiao Hei had already been taken to the stables, and the people around the stage had all dispersed, Mu Hanzhang looked at the person on the stage who was still dancing with a silver spear and slowly walked up.

"Your Highness, it's getting dark." Mu Hanzhang stood on the stage and said calmly with a voice that did not rise and fall.

“嗖嗖嗖~”破空之声没有任何停滞,雨珠被枪头的红缨出,旋转着四散开去。

Mu Hanzhang clenched his fists, turned around, drew a broadsword, and flung it over, "Jing Shao, calm down!"

"Clang!" A sound, the sound of the gun head colliding with the steel blade, roused Jing Shao's sanity, the movement of the dancing gun paused for a moment, Jing Shao looked up at him, "ah~" hissed up to the sky, and leapt up high, the silver gun splitting on top of the wooden stake, splitting it into four pieces.

The silver spear fell to the ground, and gurgling blood dripped down Jing Shao's fingers, mixing with the pattering rain and quickly turning a light red color.

Mu Hanzhang ran over and cupped his right hand, the tiger's mouth was cracked and blood blisters were rubbed on his palm, he took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and pressed the wound that kept bubbling blood. Jing Shao tilted his head back to look at the sky, rainwater falling in his eyes and sliding down his cheeks.

"Junqing ...... they killed the mother ...... my mother ......" Jing Shao said softly, his voice was not loud, not loud, not loud. Like a murmur, Mu Huanzhang is heard clearly.

Exhausted Jing Shao slipped and fell to the ground, Mu Hanzhang squatted down and slowly took him into his arms, "Shao ...... what happened?"

"Junqing ...... Junqing ......" Jing Shao buried his face in his shoulder, today his brother listened to his ploy, gratified to find that his younger brother had finally grown up, he told him some things that he had not previously told him things that he hadn't told him before, and among them, it included the real cause of Empress Yuan's death.