Rebirth: Traveling To Ancient Times As A Companion Reading Chapter 51

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It snowed again the day after we came back.

Joey sat by the window, lying on the edge of the window, looking at the snowflakes falling like cotton wool outside the window, and couldn’t help but sigh: “This weather is really strange.”

The weather was obviously very good when we returned from Qilu Lake two days ago, but it snowed twice so heavily in just two days.

Stretching out his hand to catch a snowflake, Joey looked down at the snowflakes melting on his hand. Thinking of Qiao Yunlan and Lou Mengli who were still on the road, he couldn’t help but feel a little worried, so he turned his head and asked the man in the wheelchair reading: “How long will it take for my mother and the others to come back? Why haven’t they arrived in the capital after so long?”

Lou Ling poured a cup of tea for Joey, “The letter I came back from yesterday said that I have probably arrived at Qiweipo now. I will probably arrive at the outskirts of the city tomorrow morning.”

Joey nodded and didn’t ask any more questions. He took a book from Lou Ling’s lap and started reading while holding his head.

Lou Ling was not annoyed, and just looked at Joey quietly, and from time to time he would put hot tea in Joey’s cup.

There was such peace and quiet between the two of them.

Until Minghuan walked in, interrupting this rare period of silence.

“Sir.”

Before Joey even raised his head from the book, Lou Ling was already looking at the person who suddenly broke in coldly.

Minghuan felt Lou Ling’s cold and impatient eyes and knelt down instantly, “I’m sorry.”

“Why are you scaring her?” Joey tapped Lou Ling with his book, straightened up and looked at Ming Huan, who was bowing his head on the ground, “Why did you come here suddenly? Is there something wrong?”

“The Prince of Zhenbei is here to visit. He said he wants to meet the young master.”

“Jiang Xu?” Joey wondered, “What is he doing here at this time?”

Lou Ling didn’t even raise his eyes, “It doesn’t matter what he does, just tell him to get out.”

Joey: “Don’t…it’s snowing so heavily. He must have come here because he had something to do. Let him come in first.”

Lou Ling looked at Joey and said nothing.

Joey pretended not to see Lou Ling’s eyes and said directly to Minghuan: “Go and bring the Prince of Zhenbei here.”

“Yes.”

After receiving the order, Minghuan stood up and immediately rushed out the door, as if he didn’t want to stay in the house for a moment.

But less than a moment after Minghuan left, Minghua came in again.

The same posture as Minghuan just now, he also knelt down as soon as he came in, for fear of doing something wrong.

Joey looked at Minghua in front of him and thought it was strange. People were coming in one after another today, as if they had made an appointment.

“What’s the matter with you?”

Minghua lowered his head and said, “Sir, the Qiao family sent someone to ask you to come to the Qiao family.”

“The Qiao family?” Joey never expected that the Qiao family would take the initiative to invite him over. He was very surprised, “Why did the Qiao family want me to come over?”

Minghua shook his head, “I don’t know, but the person from the Qiao family said it was Qiao Shangshu who wanted to see you. In addition, my wife is going back to Beijing soon. I can’t let you stay in Prince Lin’s Mansion forever, so I sent someone to invite you back.”

“Want to see me? And then invite me back at this time?” Joey felt that the Qiao family was simply inexplicable. When he first came to the capital, when he was injured, why didn’t the Qiao family come to him? Why did they choose this time to come to him?

Joey refused without even thinking.

But before Joey could speak, Lou Ling said coldly: “Let them go.”

“Yes.” Minghua didn’t hesitate and immediately turned around and left.

Ming Huan had the same attitude as when he left just now, as if he wished he could never come in again.

Looking at Minghua’s hurried back, and remembering Minghuan’s appearance when he left just now, Joey felt helpless and turned to Lou Ling and said, “Don’t keep a cold face all day, otherwise everyone will be scared when they see you.”

At this time, Lou Ling lost any of the indifference he had towards outsiders just now. He lowered his head in silence and casually played with Joey’s hand on his leg. He seemed to be a little depressed.

“What’s wrong with you?” Joey said helplessly.

Lou Ling said nothing.

Joey saw something. He had a headache. He took his hand out of Lou Ling’s, reached out and lifted Lou Ling’s chin, looked into his eyes, and said very seriously: “Don’t feel sad and inferior because of your legs. That’s not your problem.”

Lou Ling was stunned for a moment, but quickly came to her senses. Following Joey’s words, she said in a low voice, “I’m sorry.”

Lou Ling didn’t show any abnormality due to his leg injury before, so Joey didn’t take it to heart, but now it seems that this is not the case.

Joey could clearly sense that something was wrong with Lou Ling after he came back. For example, in the past, no matter how bad Lou Ling’s temper was, he would not show off to his servants for no reason.

Worried that Lou Ling would be troubled by this matter, Joey patiently comforted him: “That’s just the diagnosis of the imperial physician. Dayong is so big, why can’t he find a doctor with better medical skills than the imperial physician. Believe me, your leg will be fine.”

Lou Ling looked at Joey quietly. The worry and concern in the latter’s eyes were undisguised, as if he was waiting for his answer.

After a long time, Lou Ling finally responded, “Yeah.”

After carefully observing Lou Ling’s reaction and making sure that he really listened, Joey breathed a sigh of relief. It was okay.

“Ayi, let me tell you…” Jiang Xu walked in excitedly, but he froze in place before he could finish his words.

The reason was none other than that he saw Joey’s hand still on Lou Ling’s face.

This was nothing at first, but the relationship between Joey and Lou Ling was already a little unusual in Jiang Xu’s eyes, so the first time he saw this scene, he began to wonder if he shouldn’t be here today.

Joey, who heard Jiang Xu’s voice, had already turned his head. He took back his hand and saw Jiang Xu who was frozen in place. He couldn’t help but frown. He looked sideways at Jiang Xu who was still standing at the door and said, “You came to me just to stand at the door like a statue?”

“No…” Jiang Xu came to his senses and walked in a few steps, “I just wanted to see if you two have something to say? I’m afraid I’ll disturb you.”

Joey glanced sideways at Jiang Xu and said, “You are afraid of disturbing me now, so why didn’t you have this awareness before?”

Jiang Xu chuckled, “Isn’t it because my sister has told me so many times that I understand?”

“Ahem!” Lou Ling coughed from the side, interrupting the conversation between the two of them. He seemed to have asked casually, “What are you doing here?”

Only then did Joey react and said, “Yeah, it’s snowing so heavily. If you don’t stay at home and stay well, what are you doing here?”

Jiang Xu: “Isn’t this my father who has gone to the palace to see the emperor? I’m just stopping by to have some fun at the Prince’s Mansion. My father will take me back with him when he returns later.”

“Into the palace?” Joey was a little surprised, “Isn’t the emperor still in bed to recuperate after he comes back?”

“What? Don’t you know?” Jiang Xu saw Joey’s surprised look on his face, and he was even more surprised. “Not long after the emperor returned to the palace last night, he was injured again.”

“Again?” Joey couldn’t believe it, “What does ‘again’ mean?”

Jiang Xu was even more confused, “Don’t Prince Lin’s Mansion know about this?”

Joey tilted his head and looked at Lou Ling. The latter shook his head and said calmly: “My father stayed in the palace last night and did not come back.”

“…”

Joey turned back and was silent for a while before asking, “Is he also an assassin this time?”

Jiang Xu shook his head.

Joey: “No? Who in the palace would have the courage to do this?”

Jiang Xu also didn’t know how to answer. He was silent for a while before answering: “It’s the prince.”

“Prince?!” Joey exclaimed.

Seeing that Joey was so frightened that he almost fell from his seat, Lou Ling stretched out his hand to support Joey.

“I’m fine.” Joey swallowed hard and asked again in disbelief: “Is it really the prince?”

Jiang Xu didn’t think there was anything strange about this. He shrugged with an indifferent expression and said, “It’s not like you don’t know the relationship between the Queen and the Crown Prince and the Fang family. It doesn’t seem strange that the Queen and the Crown Prince would do such a thing after Fang Qingzhou’s death.”

By the way, Fang Qingzhou.

Joey’s mood suddenly faded, and he didn’t know if Fang Qingzhou’s body had been found.

Lou Ling noticed something was wrong with Joey right away. He reached out and handed the Tangbaozi in his hand to Joey.

Joey looked at Yubozi who was handed it to him and was stunned.

“It’s cold.” Lou Ling said.

Joey didn’t say anything and took Yu Pozi over.

Jiang Xu didn’t notice Joey’s emotions. He just looked at the two people’s movements and sighed, “You two have a really good relationship.”

Joey looked down at the Tangbaozi in his hand with a calm expression and said nothing.

“Eh…” After his mind wandered for a moment, Jiang Xu turned the topic back to himself, regardless of whether Joey answered him or not, “But the Queen is really pitiful. In just six months, her mother’s family was gone, and the body of her only remaining nephew could not be found. Now her son has done such a stupid thing again. It’s really…”

Joey: “You know these things?”

Jiang Xu: “Absolutely. The main reason is that my sister likes to travel around. She has learned all about many things that others don’t know in just half a month.”

Joey looked up, “Oh?”

Lou Ling seemed interested in looking at Joey. He was a little unhappy and frowned, but still said nothing.

Jiang Xu got excited when he talked about this. He looked excited and said, “I’m telling you…”

He hadn’t even finished half of his sentence when suddenly several cat meows came from outside the house.

“Meow.”

Stinky Joey, you didn’t even tell me when you came back, you are so incompetent as a master!

Before Joey could react, Black Pa had already jumped on him.

Joey subconsciously hugged the black handkerchief and handed Tang Pozi to Lou Ling beside him.

Returning to the familiar embrace again, Hei Pa was so comfortable that he didn’t know what the world was. He stretched out and turned his head in a circle. As a result, he happened to meet Shang Ling’s eyes looking down at it.

“Meow! Meow…meow?”

When Hei Pa saw Lou Ling, he was wary at first and grinned. But when he saw Lou Ling sitting in a wheelchair, the wariness on his face instantly turned into confusion.

Heipa tilted his head, as if he didn’t understand why Lou Ling was sitting in a wheelchair. He turned around and wanted to ask Joey.

“Meow…uh!”

Joey immediately covered Heipa’s mouth and smoothed its hair with his other hand. He whispered a few words in Heipa’s ear, “Don’t mess around. Be good. I’ll feed you dried fish later.”

“Meow.”

Black Pa flicked his tail and lay back proudly.

Jiang Xu watched the whole process from the side. He was very surprised, “Ayi, you are such a special cat. Where did you catch it?” As he said this, he wanted to reach out and touch it.

But before his hand could get closer, Hei Pa bared his teeth at him with a fierce look on his face.

“Eh… Okay… If you don’t want to touch it, then you won’t touch it. Why are you so fierce…” Jiang Xu snorted and retracted his hand sarcastically.

Joey reluctantly explained: “It has a bad personality and doesn’t like others touching it.”

“Understandable…” Jiang Xu thought it was nothing. He just looked at Joey holding the cat and didn’t know what he was thinking. “I also want to get one, but for me, a dog might be better. Oh! I almost forgot!”

Jiang Xu suddenly remembered, “My sister asked me to bring her a rabbit back when I go out. I haven’t picked it out yet.”

“Stop talking, I’ll come and play with you next time.” Jiang Xu hurriedly waved to Joey and left in a hurry.

Lou Ling and Joey were the only two people left in the room.

Joey held the black handkerchief in his arms, touching the black handkerchief constantly with his hands, looking at the stove in front of him in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.

“Fang Qingzhou’s matter has nothing to do with you.”

Lou Ling handed Joey a peeled orange and comforted him.

Joey shook his head, “No. I was wondering why everything happened so coincidentally? And it happened at the same time at the same time.”

The emperor was assassinated, the imperial concubine died, the prince became disabled, the prince killed his father… these are happening one after another. Each one taken individually is a major event that shocks the world. Why do they all happen to meet together by such a coincidence?

If it were before, Joey might not have paid too much attention to these things, but with so many things happening together, even if Joey was a fool, he should have known something was wrong.

If it’s just Fang Qingzhou who wants revenge, what about Lou Ling?There is no hatred between Lou Ling and Fang Qingzhou, so why would anyone want to kill Lou Ling?

“Lou Ling.” Joey lowered his eyes, looked at Lou Ling, and began to ask what he had been deliberately avoiding to ignore, “Who was the person who assassinated you at Qilu Lake a few days ago?”

Lou Ling paused while ordering tea, raised her eyes and looked at Joey.

The two looked at each other, and neither of them said a word.

Joey just waited quietly, waiting for Lou Ling to say what he said.If it was before, he might not have this confidence, but now, Joey knew that Lou Ling would definitely tell him.

Lou Ling sat up straight, put down the things in his hands, and opened his mouth to say something.

But before a word was uttered, a burst of movement from the door attracted their attention.

“The Crown Prince! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!”

The man seemed to be in a hurry, almost rolling in and running in. He didn’t even care if he knocked over the candlestick in the room.

“What’s wrong?”

Joey looked at the man, a little confused.

“Your Highness! Princess… Princess, she…”

Joey felt something was wrong, so he continued to ask: “What? What did you say happened to the princess?”

“The princess’s carriage fell off the cliff while driving around the mountain!”

“Bang!” The teapot fell to the ground and made a sound.

Joey stood up immediately, looking at the intruder in disbelief.

“What did you say?!”

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