beggar prince

Xiao Heng could no longer go to court. He didn't know any news. He didn't know the battle with the Huns, and he didn't know if the victims had enough to eat.

Xiao Heng can no longer have fun with those playmates.His Luxi gamecock was locked in a chicken cage, shut outside the temple gate, and froze to death in the heavy snow.

His cuju and polo are all locked in the cabinet, and he is not allowed to touch them.He also couldn't see the princess, sister and son-in-law, and he was the only one living in the palace of depression.

Although the cost of food and clothing remained the same, he lost all his freedom. The imperial guards were guarding the door of the bedroom, and he was not allowed to go out, even if he wanted to walk in the courtyard.

He lay on the kang in the bedroom to keep warm all day long, and passed the time by relying on the sachet containing Zhao Yuanjian's hair and learning something.

He can't drink alcohol or smoke pipes. During the days of confinement, he learned to draw some simple landscape paintings, and learned to play the pipa and flute.

He didn't learn well, he only learned to draw trees, twisted pine trees.This is Zhao Yuanjian's favorite painting.Under several green pines in Xiao Heng's works, there is a boulder with two people standing on it, drinking wine facing each other.

The timbre of the shengxiao was clear and melodious, but it made Xiao Heng sobbing and bleak when he played it; the crispness of the big and small pearls of the pipa falling on the jade plate was dull and weak when he played it, just like playing cotton.

He felt that this was tormenting his ears, but there was no other way to relieve the boredom.

He had no choice but to ask Eunuch Liu to invite singers who came to sing Kunqu opera to sing Peony Pavilion.He asked the singer to write down the lyrics and read them every day.

He also learned tea ceremony and brewing.He grinds several kinds of tea into tea foam, mixes it with mountain spring water, and skims off the tea foam with a tea spoon to make Long Tuan Sheng Snow Tea.

He personally brewed Tianmendong wine and Luofuchun wine. He asked the eunuch to fill them with rosewood wine jars and buried them in the snow. Zhao Yuanjian came back to drink with him later.

He felt that he had always been vulgar, and had never been so elegant, and he thought that Zhao Yuanjian would definitely like himself like this when he saw him.

He hid Zizhi Tongjian under the pavilion of the dragon bed, and only dug it out when Eunuch Liu was away. Zhao Yuanjian asked him to read it, and he dared not let the Queen Mother know.

Xiao Heng stayed in the bedroom for several days in a row, he was so dizzy from the charcoal fire under the fire pit.Although he asked the little maid to open the window to breathe, he was still stuffy and his body was stiff.

This day, he felt irritable and unbearable.In his boredom, his thoughts were racing.He misses his foster mother and foster father.He thought how wonderful it would be if he were their parent and son, how wonderful it would be to be an ordinary person without his father, queen mother and Zhao Shengqi.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he felt, he felt like a wild animal trapped in a cage.He turned around in the bedroom, the more he turned, the more annoyed he became.Annoyed to the point of losing control, he looked at his hands, wanting to do something.

A little maid opened the door curtain and walked in. She was holding a tray with some small dishes in it.She put the dishes on the arhat table, bowed her knees, and stood aside to serve Xiao Heng.

Xiao Heng picked up the chopsticks and threw them on the ground, and he picked up the dishes and threw them on the ground.The ground was a mess.

The little maid hurriedly knelt on the ground, took a peek at the emperor, and then cleaned up the broken plates and vegetable dregs.

Xiao Heng grabbed the pipa and threw it on the carpet, kicked over the dragon and phoenix screen, tore to pieces the bamboo curtain of Concubine Xiang, and smashed the emerald and jade pendants into several pieces.

Xiao Heng growled, blushing: "Get out! Get out!"

The maid was terrified, shrank her body and walked out the door.Eunuch Liu persuaded: "Long Live Lord, you should eat something, you haven't eaten for two days."

"You dog, is it itchy again? Do you want to be beaten?"

Eunuch Liu is not afraid of Xiao Heng now, he said: "Long Live Lord, I'm just offering my opinion."

He saw a copy of Zi Zhi Tong Jian next to Xiao Heng's pillow. He walked over and put the book away.The Empress Dowager did not ask Xiao Heng to read this kind of book, which was full of history and governance strategies of various dynasties.

Xiao Heng felt a headache and couldn't take it anymore. He put on a fur robe and walked out of the palace to breathe fresh air.Unexpectedly, the four imperial guards hurried over to stop him.

Xiao Heng: "Who dares to stop me?"

The imperial guards didn't answer, and became rude to Xiao Heng, pushing and shoving him, wanting him to enter the bedroom.Xiao Heng got angry and insisted on rushing out, as violent as a beast, two guards pointed red-tasseled guns at Xiao Heng, forcing him to go back to the house.

Xiao Heng was so angry that he went back to the bedroom, took the treasured sword, rushed out the door and drew out the sword.

He got into a fight with the four imperial guards.

He hadn't started killing for a long time, and all his anger was vented on this knife. He was more vicious than ever, completely out of control.

Seeing him like this, the guards wanted to run away.But it was too late, they realized that Xiao Heng was like a jackal, standing in front of and behind them, playing with them.

Xiao Heng insisted on killing the four imperial guards today, they were forced to retreat by him.

However, Xiao Heng tried his best. He hacked half of the guards and wounded the four guards so badly that the ground was covered with thick meat and bone scum.

Xiao Heng stepped on the guards' chests and stabbed them to death.

The sweet blood spurted out, staining the snow red, with hot steam and bubbles.

The blood on the knife dripped to the ground along the tip of the knife, gradually forming blood flowers, which condensed into plum blossoms in the snow.

Seeing the emperor's knife and the corpse on the ground, the two Qingxue eunuchs trembled with fright and felt sick.Enduring the churning in their stomachs, they knelt on the ground, not daring to look up at the miserable condition of the imperial guards.

Xiao Heng's sword was covered with blood-red icicles, and he said, "Come here, and burn these four pigs!"

The eunuchs restrained the fear and nausea in their hearts, stepped forward, trembling hands, and carried away the dead body on the ground.

The other imperial guards were so frightened that they knelt on the ground.Xiao Heng raised his whip and slapped the guards hard, cracking a few times, tearing their faces apart, revealing their flesh.

The imperial guard endured the pain and knelt on the ground, feeling cold and afraid, and shivered from being whipped by Xiao Heng.

Xiao Heng scolded: "I am the emperor, what are you, you are just watchdogs! Stop me again, and I will kill you all!"

The imperial guards were terrified. After all, Xiao Heng is the emperor, so he might not be able to assume power in the future.

They kowtowed like smashing garlic, they shouted: "The emperor forgives our sins, we deserve to die."

Xiao Heng was puzzled, he took the blood-stained whip and continued to whip, the crisp sound of the whip made the little squirrels in the yard go into their holes, and the two Qingxue eunuchs hid in the corridor.

Xiao Heng was tired from cramping, so he threw down the whip, and he asked a few imperial guards to continue to slap their mouths.The sound of slapping faces continued for a long time.

Xiao Heng turned around and walked up the path, wandering around the imperial garden of Yuxiu Palace, he walked on the path for an hour and finished it.

Xiao Heng frowned and sighed unceasingly. He didn't mind the confinement of the queen mother, he was just worried about Zhao Yuanjian.The darkness of politics is like a dark abyss that can swallow up anything good.

If Zhao Yuanjian fails, he will be punished with the most severe punishment—cutting to death.He was afraid that Zhao Yuan would not be able to defeat his mother, who was too powerful and cunning.He regretted agreeing to Zhao Yuanjian to compete with the Queen Mother for imperial power.

The pavilions are still the same, but the scenery is different. Inside the mottled red walls, the roofs of several palaces are covered by snow, and the glazed tiles cannot be seen.The ten mythical beasts on the raised cornices are also half hidden in the snow.

The snow in the abandoned pond, the neck of the lotus swaying in the cold wind.The broken branches and leaves of peonies in the dilapidated garden were also covered with snow. The flowers withered and the plants and trees were withered. Covered by the thick snow, there was a sense of melancholy and bleakness.

In the garden, there are only plum blossoms and pine trees standing proudly in the wind.The centuries-old pines are verdant and tall, refusing to bend their backs in the midwinter heavy snow, just like the green pines in Xiao Heng's works.

The red plums, white plums and silver branches in the garden are blooming delicately and exuberantly by Ling Han alone. Clusters of delicate petals are covered with snowflakes, emitting bursts of delicate fragrance.

Xiao Heng looked up at the plum blossoms, and recited a poem written by Zhao Yuanjian when he was young: "In the middle of winter, the frost and the trees disappear, and the peonies are all gone. The plum blossoms are full of frost and snow, and the independent branches are beautiful."

He memorized every poem Zhao Yuanjian wrote. Xiao Heng picked off a plum blossom, threw it on the snow, and drifted away with the wind.

Xiao Heng walked on the Baiyu Hanshi corridor in the palace, stepped on the thick snow, looked at the snow and plum blossoms flying all over the sky, and remembered how the two of them met in the snow when they were young, and couldn't help smiling.

When Eunuch Liu came back from the Queen Mother, he saw Xiao Heng walking in the courtyard, and he said bluntly, "Please go back to the house, Your Majesty!"

Furious, Xiao Heng kicked him into the snow and kicked him hard in the heart. Eunuch Liu clutched his heart and yelled.

Xiao Heng raised his whip and whipped him: "Dog, you dare to talk to me like that! I am still the emperor, not a prisoner, you are just a eunuch, a running dog of the Queen Mother. Don't think that I don't know that you are the queen mother's spy. I will kill you!"

Xiao Heng whipped Eunuch Liu until the skin on his head and face was torn, and he rolled in the snow in pain.He knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "Long live lord, an eunuch like me has no other choice. I'm just a dog. I beg the emperor to forgive me."

Seeing Eunuch Liu's old face crying with tears, Xiao Heng withdrew his whip. He knew the difficulty of being a servant, and he would never forget the crimes he suffered in the Qin Mansion.

Xiao Heng: "Get lost!"

Eunuch Liu really rolled dozens of laps in the snow lying on his old face, and rolled into the house.

Liu Min laughed at the sight at the gate of the palace, and she said, "It's so funny, let's have a snowball fight, Your Majesty."

Just as Xiao Heng wanted to relieve his boredom, he squatted on the ground and grabbed a snowball. He and Liu Min threw snowballs at each other and started fighting.

Liu Min hit him on the nose, and Xiao Heng immediately bled from his nose.He laughed loudly, grabbed a snowball and threw it at Liu Min's forehead, knocking Liu Min to the ground.

Liu Min wore a thick cotton robe and crawled in the snow for a long time before getting up, which was very funny.

Liu Min threw a snowball at Xiao Heng, hitting Xiao Heng's mouth, Xiao Heng dodged suddenly and dodged.The snowball hit the head of the little eunuch behind Xiao Heng, smashing out a bag for him.

They pointed at the little eunuch and laughed for a long time.

The snowball shuttled over the Yuxiu Palace like a shooting star, and the snowflakes flew randomly.The eunuch who was sweeping snow in the courtyard hid aside, watching the emperor and Liu Min chasing and playing and laughing.

Liu Min couldn't stop chopping off her feet from the cold, stuffed her hands into her sleeves, and shivered from the cold: "The emperor is so cruel, he still asked me to guard the palace gate in such a cold day."

Xiao Heng: "Go into my bedroom and stay with that little maid, but don't come near me."

Liu Min happily followed him into the bedroom. Seeing that the maids and eunuchs were all busy, she whispered, "Qi He is much better than the emperor, at least he didn't break his sleeves. Alas, I don't know how he is fighting with the Huns."

"Ghost girl, I will give you a marriage in the future, I will make you a first-class wife, and I will confer a title on your father."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"