Chu Ci waited outside for a long time, but no one inside called out. Chu Ci couldn't guess what she was thinking. I wonder if she would be angry, angry about what she had just done to her.

After hesitating for a long time, he sighed and pushed the door open. The person was already asleep inside, and the water was no longer warm.

Chu Ci sighed helplessly and hugged her out.

In fact, the Ninth Princess woke up the moment he entered the door. She felt a little embarrassed when she had the incident just now, so she pretended not to wake up. Anyway, that's not the case during this period, she was drowsy.

Chu Ci couldn't help but curl her lips and smiled, put her on the couch aside, took a clean towel and wrinkled her hair a little, and he whispered: "Are you better?" The person on the couch didn't say anything, but his eyes were still closed, but his eyelashes that trembled like butterflies' wings betrayed her. Besides, the two of them had been together for so long, and he could guess what her eyes and expressions meant.

The wet clothes wrapped around her shriveled body and soaked a large area of ​​his clothes.

Chu Ci was afraid that she would catch a cold, so he continued to ask, "Dingcheng wants me to change your clothes?"

The Ninth Princess frowned first, then opened her eyes, but subconsciously avoided his eyes, and said calmly: "... It turns out that she has already gotten up, I fell asleep accidentally just now. Fortunately, you carried me out. I have some strength now, so I can change my clothes first, why don't you... go out first?"

Chu Ci's eyes were patrolling her inch by inch, and after a while he responded, "Okay. I'll come in to help you wipe your hair."

"No, no, I'll wipe my hair myself...why would you buy me a maid?"

Chu Ci walked out and replied, "You have seen it along the way. Even the secret guards have died so many times, let alone the maid. Isn't this harming others?"

"……Yeah."

The Ninth Princess looked at his back and felt scared: The emperor has grown up, so scary!

After a while, Chu Ci pushed open the door and came in again, with a pair of bright scissors in her hand. She had already put on her clothes. She had lost half of her hair during this period and did not drip again. The room was completely wiped by the mist of hot water.

When the Ninth Princess saw him coming in, her heart trembled, let alone the scissors he was holding in his hand.

"Don't you cut it?" The Ninth Princess spoke weakly, noticing his clothes soaked by her.

"What do you think?" Chu Ci asked without answering, stood behind her, straightened her hair with his hands, and his slender white fingers shuttled between the somewhat wet hair. A month or two ago, the hair was black, shiny and smooth, like the best silk, or like a waterfall, but now the color is dull and a little dry.

Even with such bad hair, she must have cherished it and couldn't bear to cut it. She is my parents' body and hair. In Rongguo, she rarely cuts her hair. Even men are rare, let alone women.

The Ninth Princess felt his fingers wandering through her hair, and her fingertips were warm. She asked melancholy: "Am I ugly now?" After a pause, she said, "Don't lie to me, I've heard them talking several times."

Chu Ci looked at her head and complained in his heart: You are always the most beautiful in my heart. "I will punish those who say this tonight, and it is nonsense," Chu Ci spoke without thinking, "The hair will be cut to get better, and it will grow in the future."

The Ninth Princess was still a little worried and said worriedly: "Then don't cut it too short. It's not easy to keep it for such a long time, I've kept it since I was a child."

"Otherwise, I will cut it with you, how short yours will last, how long mine will stay?"

The Ninth Princess thought for a while and said lightly: "Forget it, I'm ugly now, it's not that I'm looking at it. I'll just behave if I don't look in the mirror. But you're ugly, it's dirty my eyes. After all, you can't see it yourself, but I'm facing you every day to avoid feeling disgusted." Although Chu Ci is good-looking, she really can't imagine cutting her hair short.

Chu Ci smiled and cut off a strand of her hair with a serious expression, then cut off another strand... until all the hair behind him was as neat as it was, spread on her shoulders.

Black hair all over the ground.

The Ninth Princess suddenly felt her head lighter, and she shook her left and right, not daring to open her eyes.

After a moment, he spoke out: "If Wenzhu knew that you cut my hair short, would she fight with you?"

"I am the prince. If she dares to show any signs, she is afraid that before she finishes her thoughts, she will be scattered all over by Zhao De with her eyes."

"I'm a princess too! No worse than you!"

"Yes. No one in this world can be more noble than us. If we all live like this, then aren't the others living in hell?"

The Ninth Princess nodded invisibly: "You can tell the truth."

...

Originally, the journey to the Chu Imperial City in January was delayed by them and walked for more than a month. Fortunately, when they arrived at the territory of Chu, there were no people to assassinate.

The imperial city of Chu is called Shengjing. The temperature here is suitable and the beautiful scenery makes the people coming from Rongguo a little happy.

Finally arrived-

Chu Ci settled the Ninth Princess and did not dare to take her to the Chu Palace. He only brought a few guards with strong tokens into the palace. The palace gate was strictly guarded, so it was not so easy to enter the palace. There were also some twists and turns. After all, they did not have a visit to the emperor and had to meet the emperor of a country. How could it be easy?

Chu Ci did not plan to see him in one go. This time he came here just to attract the attention of those who were interested. The people below investigated that the eunuchs around the King of Chu would leave the palace every day and never change.

If he can't find and see anyone, he will meet the saint as the prince of Rong when necessary.

In any case, he had to use the power of the King of Chu to cure Dingcheng's illness.

No matter how they threatened, Ren's miracle doctor just refused to give him an antidote, so why didn't he worry?

The palace gate suddenly became quiet. Sure enough, it was said that the eunuch who was highly valued by the King of Chu left the palace to do business and happened to meet them.

Seeing that the palace gate was crowded and waiting a little impatient, the guard saw that the eunuch's sedan chair was coming by the King of Chu, and quickly waved the person away and left a road.

Geng Ze was dissatisfied and called out, "Our master took His Majesty's token into the palace to face the holy, how can you not let him in!"

When the eunuch heard this, he snorted coldly: It’s just that everyone dares to take things to find His Majesty, how can he be majestic? The bold and unruly people make trouble at the palace gate, and they are tired of living!

He didn't need to worry about this kind of thing at all. He had already walked past it, but he suddenly lifted the curtain to see what this troublemaker looked like. When he suddenly saw Chu Ci's handsome cheek, he was stunned at first: This man is so familiar.

Then he looked at it again, but he didn't remember it for a moment. It was not because of his poor memory. After all, Chu Ci always stood behind people and was not conspicuous.

He caught a glimpse of what was in Chu Ci's hand and his heart was thrilled: Isn't this the thing that their king belonged to before?

The matter is so serious that I dare not report it. When the eunuch returned to the palace and said this to the King of Chu, the King of Chu panicked, stood up and went out of the palace to find him.

Chu Ci did not leave, and sat in a restaurant on the street across the palace gate to drink tea. He saw a group of soldiers below walking by. In the middle was the King of Chu sitting on a carriage. He was wearing purple clothes and robe, with a jade-like face. He looked around, and the people around him cheered him enthusiastically.

Chu Cixin jumped violently, he stood up, walked slowly to the railing, and looked down at the emperor below.

Is this his own father?

Chu Ci felt more intimate when he saw him than when he saw Emperor Rong. He didn't understand whether this was the so-called blood relationship.

What is blood ties? Chu Ci doesn’t understand. In the book, some say that father’s love is like a mountain, extremely heavy; some say that father is strict and love is love, which is to bear countless responsibilities; some say that father is the pillar of the family, sheltering children from the wind and rain...

He has no such thing.

Blood is thicker than water, and it cannot fundamentally change the relationship between the two of them.

Why did Chu Ci come to Chu State not to find this stranger who has little affection, nor to recognize his ancestors, but to really feel that he can't stay in Rong Palace.

He was worried that when Emperor Rong came back to his senses, he would confirm his identity. Even if the Wang family was as powerful as a mountain, when Emperor Rong confirmed everything, the Wang family would not be able to protect him. At that time, the mountain would eventually be flattened and the Wang family would collapse like a building...

He had to leave temporarily and Emperor Rong could not fulfill his identity for the time being, so he would not treat him or the Wang family, or even doubt whether other people had ulterior motives and had distracted from the relationship between their father and son.

In short, the key point is whether it can be confirmed, how is it not confirmed?

So, this is why Wang Zhenfei asked him to leave.

He came through thousands of mountains and rivers, and he saw these eyes that were not very similar to him, but the expression inside was exactly the same as his, surprisingly similar.

Chu Ci couldn't help but feel a little emotional, and he felt that there were arrangements in his fate, such as why this had not happened before, perhaps, he would have hope and would not come to Chu State. Or, if the Ninth Emperor Sister was not poisoned, he could go to any country, nor would he come to Chu State in a hurry.

The King of Chu raised his head at the gesture of the people around him and saw a thin boy standing on the second floor of the restaurant, looking down at him quietly.

The boy was as tall as a pine figure, his eyes were as deep as the sea, and his blue clothes floated out of the dust. He looked down at him quietly, his eyes were distant and desolate.

The King of Chu choked up in slightest uncertainty, without confirmation, this was the child she gave birth to, the child she had suffered.

What about her? Has she come?

The King of Chu looked around and could not find the figure in his memory. He turned over and dismounted, and with the support of the guards, he went to the restaurant. The boiling restaurant suddenly became quiet, and then he was driven out by all the guards in the palace.

Chu Ci was in a little conflicted mood, as if the thing you had been expecting was finally done, and suddenly he lost the goal of striving again.

He was silent for a while until the man came up.

He did not have the pressure of Emperor Rong, nor did he have the suspicion that Emperor Rong always hangs, and only the loneliness that has accumulated over the years this year.

The two looked at each other carefully for a while, and the King of Chu also saw the ring in his hand. It was given to Chu Yu before he left. She was pregnant at that time?

His child?

The King of Chu dared not think about how difficult it would be for a woman to be pregnant without marriage.

Chu Ci waited for him to speak. He waited for a while, but the man said nothing, just looked at him quietly.

The father-in-law who was still standing by smiled and said, "Have your highness ever used a meal? I have someone ask me to order food, so you can try this hometown dish." It was natural, as if he was from Chu.

It’s like a wanderer who has been home for many years.

Chu Ci nodded slightly, which was considered as a default.

The father-in-law cried with joy, ran down with a gust of wind to arrange, and there were only two people left in the entire hall on the second floor.

The King of Chu felt that he should always say something, but he didn't know where to start. His previous identity was too embarrassing, and he was afraid that the other party would think that he had ulterior motives if he asked.

The father-in-law came up, but the two still didn't say anything. After a while, the dishes also came up, but they still didn't say anything.

My father-in-law stepped back again, feeling a little anxious: What should we do if these two people don’t speak?!

After a while, the King of Chu said, "Eat quickly, it's hard to get on the road, and it will get cold and hurt your stomach later."

Chu Ci couldn't help but smile, never thinking that the first episode was actually this.

Damage to the stomach? Who told him, Zhao De?

He picked up the chopsticks and started eating.

This meal is inexplicably fragrant.

After the meal, the King of Chu asked, "Where are you living now?"

Chu Ci put down his bowls and chopsticks and wiped the corner of his lower lip: "A yard on the west side of the city." This yard was purchased by the secret guards who entered the city first.
To be continued...