But I have to admit that Xue Shang is also very considerate of King Liang.Years ago, the ministers and workers came up with an idea, saying that except King Yan and King Yue, who could not be moved temporarily, all other kings should be summoned to the capital, and each of them should be given a house to live in. From then on, they were not allowed to return to the fief. The imperial court no longer grants external seals, and when it is necessary to lead troops to fight, they send generals to the central court.Xue Shang must have listened to this proposal, and in a blink of an eye he came up with a "General's Mansion", not only to seize the military power of the kings, but also to reduce the number of local troops, while not forgetting to find a way out for King Liang.

Liang Wang had just been exposed as the emperor's eldest grandson's clan identity, and the soles of his feet were a little wobbly. He only occupied the seat of a king with a different surname under the identity of Zhonglie, but he didn't have enough actual credit, and it was not very convincing.If Xue Shang's proposal is followed, even if King Liang loses his clan status and military power in Liangzhou, he should be able to gain a strong foothold in the capital court in the future.

I had nothing to refute, so I could only obey him.Mr. Xue achieved his goal, and he left with a smile on his face. At the end, he even reached out to ask for the letter in my hand.

I glared over, "I didn't punish you for your crime, do you really think you are innocent?"

He hehe smiled and left.

After being nagged by Xue Shang, he didn't take a nap.

Thinking about King Liang running back like this, he probably couldn't receive the letter I sent to Beiguan explaining his life experience with "extensive quotations".When Meng Yi came back from the battlefield and saw that he was expelled from the imperial status, he wondered if there would be any misunderstanding.

After approving the papers in the afternoon, several Tai Chi veterans from the Ministry of Officials came to ask what grade should be approved for the General's Mansion. I thought, if you really want King Liang to handle this matter, it doesn't matter what the grade is, as there are still kings on the left and right. With his status under control, he was not afraid that he would not be able to suppress the local snakes in Bazhou, but that his high grade would easily arouse the envy of the big tigers in Kyoto, so he ordered them to follow the example of Hongdu Mansion.

It was not until Xu time that I had to eat at leisure.In the past few days, the snow stopped, stopped and fell again, and a row of ice edges formed under the eaves.Tang Gao came in with a food box and said that the Empress Dowager took a rest because of the cold, and sent some floating yuanzi so that I don't have to go there again.I was so hungry that my eyes were full of stars, and I ate half of it before I remembered that today is the Lantern Festival. When I looked up, I saw the cold weather outside the small window and the bright moon hanging high.

There must be lights and festoons in the city, and it will be very lively. I yearn for it, but I can't go there.Wrapped in a cloak, I stood at the door for a while, and then went back to the house to review papers.The red silver bone charcoal is burning in the large indoor smoker, and the hot air mixed with the sweet fragrance of ambergris blows on the face, making one drowsy.

Hearing the sound of the door in a daze, a man came in to cut the lanterns. This man was wearing a green gauze palace gown, with a white unicorn pattern embroidered with gold thread strokes on the sleeves.I opened my eyes to take a closer look, but suddenly someone blindfolded me from behind.

"Who is he?" The person behind asked coldly.

I suddenly broke out in a cold sweat: "You... why are you here?"

"Don't you miss me?" He smiled slightly, stroking the corner of my mouth with his fingers.

He seemed to have just built a snowman outside, and there was no warmth in his hands, so cold that I shivered: "I..."

"Hush—" he whispered, "It's okay. Don't look at him, look at me..."

With force in his hand, he forced me to turn back.

The lanterns exploded, the cold wind whistled through the corridor, and the ice edges under the eaves shattered to the ground.

"I dug out my heart for you." He was dressed in a black armor and red robe, his face was expressionless, black blood dripped from a hollow hole in his heart, "Fourteen, what about you?"

"I... will dig out my heart for you too." I pulled out my heart, pulled out a warm heart, and wanted to hold it into the hole in his heart.

Suddenly, the eyes went dark, all the candles were extinguished, and the big smoker gave off a little red light, reflecting the young man in front of him in a unicorn-patterned palace gown...

"Who is he?" His voice sounded behind him again.

I was startled, the heart in my hand shook off, and fell on the silk carpet at my feet, "plop", "plop", beating by itself, and a small puddle of purple-black blood slowly oozes out.

The Liang Wang in front of him smiled shyly and bent over to pick it up—the Liang Wang behind him suddenly drew his long sword and stabbed at him: "He Fang Xiaoxiao!"

I woke up with a start.I found myself lying on my side on the warm couch in front of the desk, with a few booklets pressed against my chest, and my heart was pounding.The iron horse in front of the eaves "jingling, dingling", and the crisp sound came into the room.Xu Changan was beside me, bent over and asked me in his ear: "Your Majesty, His Highness King Liang is about to seal the coffin, would you like to take a look?"

I suppressed the fear in my heart and sat up: "You...you step down for me."

Xu Chang'an retreated nono, just at this time, King Liang came in face to face with Xu Chang'an in a black cloak: "What kind of coffin should be sealed? Fourteenth, in order to rush back, three horses ran away and died, and the snow outside Changhe Pass was buried. half waist..."

He talked and laughed loudly, strode to my side, sat down next to me, and stretched out his hand to wrap around my waist from behind: "Let me make a gesture for you, here, come here..."

I had goosebumps all over my body, my hair stood on end, and I held his hand tremblingly: "Mao Lang, are you a ghost?"

He smiled brightly under the shadow of the lights in the room: "My body is warm, if you don't believe me, touch it."

I raised my hand to touch his face, it was indeed warm, and I breathed a sigh of relief: "Great, I had a dream just now..."

"I dreamed of a little ghost pretending to be me?" He held my hand, slightly bent the corners of his eyes, and looked at me with a smile, "A ghost wearing human skin has only a layer of human energy, but the inside is still ghostly, do you want to... "

He lay down slowly, with strength in his arms, he pulled me onto him, and pressed the back of my head with one hand, making my lips and teeth close to his.

He squinted his eyes slightly, the frost on his eyelashes hadn't melted, and there was a snowy look between his brows.

My heart moved, I smashed his teeth, and poked my tongue in... He smiled deeper, and while entangled with me, he unbuttoned their clothes.I stretched out my hand to grope, and suddenly I saw a hideous scar on his chest, and my heart shivered: "When did this injury happen?"

He chuckled in my ear: "You pierced it yourself, don't you remember?"

I felt cold all over my body, and when I looked down, I saw a dark red scar on his heart that was more than an inch long...

"Fourteen," he looked at me quietly, with a flash of panic in his eyes, "I... scared you, I just want to come back and see you..."

There was a pain in my heart, my mouth and nose seemed to be strangled, I couldn't breathe, I stretched out my hand anxiously to hold him: "Don't go!"

But suddenly it was empty.

"His Majesty?"

I was sweating profusely, and I opened my eyes with sweat, and in front of me was the good king again.This time without saying a word, I pulled him into my arms and held him tightly. If he wanted to speak, I would bite his mouth. If he wanted to break free, I would tear off half of his robe: "You Damn, stop for me!"

He trembled from my yelling and didn't move.I reached out and touched his chest... After touching it for a long time, my hand was smooth.

"Your Majesty..." He panted slightly, "Wake up..."

……

I froze, pushed him away, and sat up.

The lights in the room were bright, the snow outside was falling silently, and a stack of papers on the desk was knocked down by me.King Liang propped his palm on the ground, fell to sit on the edge of the table, raised his eyes faintly...

It’s over.

I wiped my face: "Mao Lang, listen to my explanation..."

He gathered his robe, sat upright with his knees bent, and shook his lips: "Your Majesty has misunderstood the person. It's my nephew who shouldn't... shouldn't have come in at will..."

"You are not my nephew!" I blurted out in a hurry.

His eyes darkened, and he looked deeply at me.

"No," I said hastily, "No, I'm not your uncle!"

"What does His Majesty want to say?" He asked coldly.

I rolled my eyes and passed out.

When I woke up again, it was broad daylight.Candy cakes open the window for ventilation, and candied fruit brings clothes and crowns.I looked at the top of the tent and slowly came back to my senses. Ten thousand alpacas ran past in my heart: "King Liang came back last night?"

Candied repeatedly said happily: "Yes, Your Majesty, you fell asleep in the West Pavilion, and it was His Royal Highness Liang who sent you back. His Highness said that he has no other place to live when he returns to Beijing, and he will bother His Majesty these two days." In the West Pavilion, after a few days to buy a house in the city, there is no need to 'violate etiquette'."

As I wiped my face, ten thousand alpacas slammed on the brakes and turned around and wobbled back and forth.

Candied put the robe on me, and said crisply: "Your Majesty, look, what is Your Majesty talking about?"

I rubbed my forehead: "Where is he now?"

Tang Gao held her boots and stepped forward: "I went to the Daming Hall. Your Majesty slept soundly today, and the servant called you several times. You shouldn't, it's past court time now."

"Your Majesty," Xu Chang'an urged outside, "the adults in front asked if they would be able to go to court today, His Royal Highness King Liang and the Qiang envoys are waiting in the hall."

I thought to myself: "I can't go, let's all go back. Let King Liang come to see me by himself."

Xu Changan resigned in response.I drank the porridge and ordered the candied fruit: "You guys go down too, there is no summons, and you don't have to come in if you hear anything."

Facing the dishes in front of me, I practiced:

"Mao Lang, I... I don't want to insult you, I just had a dream..."

"You may not believe me if I tell you about this dream. I dreamed that I killed you..."

"Oh no, I was confused for a moment, I regret it, I..."

……

After a long time, no one came.As soon as I pushed the door, Xu Chang'an ran towards me: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Liang has gone back to Shibotai first, His Highness..."

As soon as I heard it, I was anxious, and I started to go to Shibotai.

Does he not want to see me or what?

In three steps at a time, he rushed to the Dead Wave Terrace, pushed open the gate of the West Pavilion, but saw that there was no one inside, and the palace servant who was sweeping the snow in front of the gate was so frightened that he knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Liang just met Lord Xue, Master Wei went out of the palace together."

I turned my head and left, led the horse and took out the palace gate.

All the way on the rampage, the streets were full of people turning their backs on their backs and jumping like chickens and dogs, and several guards followed in a panic, trying their best to put a robe on me——I realized that I hadn’t changed my clothes, and I was ostentatiously walking through the market wearing the emperor’s black suit as a living target .

I hurriedly wrapped the guard's hooded robe tightly, slowed down, and leisurely rode across the bustling Suzaku Avenue.But at the foot of the imperial city, there are many nobles passing by, and many ministers who have just been released by me are wandering back home on horseback and sedan chairs.Some people looked at me sideways and whispered.I showed my eyes and said to the guard beside me: "Go and find out where King Liang has gone."

I felt a little regretful, seeing this stupid guard walking towards the sedan chair of Song Lang, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, whom I had just promoted.As soon as Song Lang saw that the guards were dressed, he poked his head out, saw me with his eyes, and was about to get off the sedan chair.I quickly winked at him: "Shh."

But this person has been a honest young man who couldn't read his boss's eyes since Wei Pei's Qingzhou fraud case. Went to West Market with Lord Hongdu and Lord Jingzhao."

... For a moment, my mind went blank, I was afraid that a cold arrow would fly in the air and penetrate my throat in the next second, and if I died at this time, I would be more wronged than Dou E.

But the expected backstabbing did not appear, the noise in the street gradually subsided, and several nearby cars stopped one after another—Zong Aiqing was very shrewd, if you knelt, I didn’t kneel, wouldn’t that make me look very blind energy?

So several senior officials in the court, red robes and purple pythons, knelt on the street, and the people who ate melons all over the street went in without knowing it—but the elders all knelt, and I didn’t kneel. If I offended someone, wouldn’t they want to ransack the house? Kill the door?

A miraculous scene happened.In my lifetime, I, the king of subjugation, was worshiped devoutly by the common people on the street...

I hurriedly escaped from the crowd, walked through several alleys, and headed towards the West Market.

Finally, in front of an inconspicuous gate house in the deep alley, I found the carriage of Hongdu Mansion.I was about to go in when suddenly, Wei Pei and Xue Shang came out side by side, Liang Wang was in the threshold, showing half of his clothes, and said: "My lords, go slowly, the matter of the 'General's Mansion' still needs to wait for Your Majesty." I will only dare to participate if I personally order it.”

Xue Shang said: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, His Majesty will not go to court today, probably because he got up late, so there may not be any deep meaning. Also, His Highness lives in this place, don't give me any money."

Wei Pei said calmly at the side: "I will collect Your Highness's money first for Lord Xue. Lord Xue, bribery and forming a clique is a serious crime. Let Your Majesty know that it will harm others and yourself."

……

Xue and Wei left in a chariot, and King Liang also walked inside.The wooden door was ajar, and I hid at the corner of the alley, hesitating whether to go in or not.Suddenly, a white light burst out from the crack of the door—a snow-white... tiger cub?Before he could see it clearly, another gray shadow sprang out, pressing down on the white fur ball like a hungry wolf.

"Father!" The gray figure, a four or five-year-old boy, was rolling in the snowdrift at the base of the wall, covering a grinning white-haired tiger cub with his hands and feet, and screaming towards the door, "I caught it!" Stop it! Come quickly!"

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