I was the heir in ancient times

That night, the second prince, Gu Chihou, filled his stomach with some stomach-warming porridge before going to the palace. Gu Chihou was tall and mighty, sitting on a stool was like a hill compared to his wife and brother-in-law.

When eating, there is no rule in the family not to keep silent. He eats quickly, and after one or two bites, he is wiped clean like a wild boar.

After eating, Gu Chihou likes to exchange feelings with his son Runze.

The kid, Runze, was dressed up in a very rich and dignified way by his wife. Seeing his father, he didn't feel afraid or shrink back at all. Gu Chihou picked up his little son and sat on his lap. This behavior always reminded him of his elder brother and his father hugging their child a long time ago. The way he looked was like a subtle inheritance, and now he is also a father, able to hold his own child.

A eunuch from outside came to urge him, Gu Chihou happened to be only half full after eating, and was about to enter the palace together with Runze in his arms, who knew he was about to leave, but was stopped by his wife Liao Xueniang's hesitant expression, The husband and wife went to the hidden cubicle to talk, leaving the little nephew and Liao Bijun who hadn't gone out to cause trouble recently staring at each other with nothing to say.

In the cubicle, Liao Xueniang faltered, and she didn't know how to organize her words. She had been thinking about it for several days. Today, she felt that she should only speak to her husband, lest her husband hear it from other people's mouths. .

"Chihou, there's something I think you should know." Liao Xueniang said half-truthfully, her eyelashes drooping, "You also know that my younger brother has no sense, and he got mixed up with your seventh brother in the yard some time ago." Cowpox, as my older sister, I was just worried, so I called a female Taoist priest to do things, to keep them safe, and to pray for your son and me. But for some reason, it spread all over the capital, and now everyone is looking for it. The way the Taoist priest did it, and he said that if he didn’t look for her, he would have no way to defend against smallpox... I don’t know if this is true or not, I’m afraid it will delay the important matter of Seventh Brother... What do you think should be done?"

Gu Chihou was dressed in simple and casual clothes, and he was not at all suspicious of his wife's words. After hearing this, although he frowned, he still comforted him and said, "I know this. I said why are the lieutenants and soldiers so active in vaccinating the people? I still have some doubts, there is such a case, Xueniang, you are also kind, don't be afraid, I will enter the palace in a while and talk to my father and younger brothers directly."

Liao Xueniang immediately patted her chest, but her eyes were still a little apprehensive. She couldn't find Ma Liugu now, and she only hoped that Ma Liugu would not reveal her real purpose of doing things. If you give her ten heads to do the ritual, no one can keep her. Although when Ma Liugu was asked to perform the ritual, she didn't reveal who the evil is, but only put a few objects given by the evil, but now Liao Xueniang Thinking back, I felt that I was so reckless because my head was squeezed by the door.

Her husband is the second prince of the Shu Kingdom no matter what. The elder brother seems unable to inherit the throne at all, and the seventh younger brother has no influence in the court. Whether it is succession or seniority, it is her husband Gu Chihou who will inherit the throne. Tong, there is no doubt about it, and she will eventually take the position of the mother of the world, why should she care about a little seventh brother?

Liao Xueniang really regretted it, but she was also glad that the matter had not been exposed now.

When sending her husband out, Liao Xueniang and her younger brother Liao Bijun stood at the door and watched them off. When the carriage entering the palace disappeared at the corner of the street in the evening, Liao Xueniang was relieved and put her hand on the back of her younger brother Liao Bijun's, showing a temporary smile: "Bi Jun, don't you have a good relationship with His Highness the Crown Prince? Why haven't you gone out with His Highness the Crown Prince recently?"

Probably all people who have done something wrong, when they want to make up for and cover up something, will do this and do some abnormal things.

Liao Bijun smiled and put the fan in the nape of his collar, pouted at his sister in aggrieved manner, and said, "Who knows? I can't touch anywhere these days, but my brother, I want to see His Highness. His Highness is too busy to leave the palace." Yeah, where can I meet you?"

"Oh, that's true." Liao Xueniang sighed, "Who told you not to live up to it? Let you study hard, and when you are old, your father will find you a relationship, and you will be a petty official in Jinling. In the next year, you will be able to be my father's right-hand man. Fortunately, you only know how to drill into the fireworks and willow alley..."

"My brother will never go again." Liao Bijun said.

Liao Xueniang glared at her younger brother reproachfully: "I don't know you yet? If I don't go now, it will only be a day or two. After a day or two, I don't know how many times I will be seduced by a girl with a sharp face and fox eyes." Throw in hundreds of taels and hundreds of taels of silver!"

Mr. Liao shook his head seriously: "I really don't want to go, I always find it very boring. The people in the building are just vulgar fans."

"Hey, you're still a vulgar fan, how old are you? Have you seen someone who is as beautiful as a fairy? You suddenly realized?" Liao Xueniang was amused by her younger brother, and she poked lightly with her finger coated with Impatiens flower juice I hit my brother on the head.

Mr. Liao was poked so that he pretended to be staggering, and said: "I can't say it's epiphany, but I'm always thinking about it. I think that whether it's skin or soul, it's first-class and first-class, which makes people happy. Compared with it, other people are more worldly." Dirty, less indescribably clean."

"Let's put it that way, your sister and I are also filthy?"

"Where is it, brother, I am the dirtiest."

"Oh, glib."

Here, the siblings of the Second Prince's Mansion were talking and went back to the lobby to continue eating. On the other side, the Second Prince Gu Chihou led his nine-year-old son in a carriage specially used for the Palace, crushing the blue-gray stone bricks of the capital, all the way into the palace.

In the evening, the Forbidden City was brightly lit, and the sky was covered by dark clouds, which made the candlelight in the capital even more dazzling. Wang Shizi Runze, a child lying on the window of the carriage, stared at the forbidding palace gate and the solemn guards with his big dark eyes, and suddenly sat down. Returning to the seat, he asked his father solemnly: "Father, is the Seventh Uncle Xiaoyan coming soon?"

Gu Chihou grinned and said, "That's natural, why do you ask?"

"It's just that my mother takes me to pay my respects to the imperial grandmother on weekdays. If the fourth aunt and Chi Yi are there, the eldest aunt and Zhi Tong are also there, and the fifth aunt is also there, it feels strange and quiet. Everyone greets the emperor in a regular manner, and Say something ordinary, and finally go back home without any fun, and feel that there is something missing." Kid Runze said like a little adult.

The second prince, Gu Chihou, laughed loudly, patted his son's back with his palm, and said, "What do you know less at such a young age?"

"Why don't you know? I also know that Fifth Uncle and Fourth Uncle met on the road occasionally. When they went to greet the imperial grandmother together, the atmosphere was more dignified than when Mother and the others went. Only Seventh Uncle is there, and everyone is together. Smiling and talking, even Chi Yi, who is usually fierce and aggressive in the school, would choke his throat when seeing Uncle Qi, not to mention it's fun."

"Although mother said that Chi Yi was taught by the fourth uncle to be like that, and she was pretending, but the son looked at it and didn't think it was an act. Chi Yi is a shrewd kid. He really likes to be with the seventh uncle. Play."

"What about you?" Gu Chihou didn't go home for many years, and he thought he would be estranged from his son, but the blood relationship made him and his son very close when they met. Naturally, he didn't think carefully about what he said, and said what he wanted to say.

There was some disappointment in Run Ze's voice: "I don't know, I haven't played with Uncle Seven, but I think I will like it too."

"Okay! As expected of my son, Gu Chihou!" Gu Chihou touched the child's head with his palm. Although he looked big and three thick, he was also thoughtful, and said, "Your father and I haven't played with your seventh uncle a few times, but you have to I know, your seventh uncle is quite a bit younger than your father, you are nine years old, he is only sixteen, father was not able to play with Xiao Qi before, if you want to play with your seventh uncle instead of your father Bar."

"Although you are still young, if you have a dispute with Uncle Seven, you have to let Uncle Seven be yours. He is not in good health. I have to remind him again and again to drink hot soup in winter, keep warm, and eat less spicy food, otherwise, if he catches a cold, your Seventh Uncle’s throat will be like a cat’s, and he can’t even breathe when he’s blocked.”

Runze likes to listen to the stories of his parents when they were young. This is actually the same as Gu Chihou. In the army, besides reading family letters from his wife, what he loves most is his third brother telling him about family affairs. When Xiao Qi was six years old, it seemed that he had also participated in Xiao Qi's entire suffering and lovely childhood.

"Then Uncle Qi is well now?" the kid from Runzi listened intently.

Gu Chihou shook his head: "No, just keep warm in winter. Your seventh uncle had a blocked throat when he was a child, but he couldn't cough or spit out phlegm, and his nose was also blocked. You often need your third and fourth uncles to smooth it out." scrape the throat with a broken wooden stick, suck out the phlegm, and now drink the anti-wind and cold medicine prescribed by the imperial physician, and hold on to the hand warmer every day in winter."

When Kid Runze heard this, he just smiled. He didn't know what he was laughing at, but he was very happy with his father: "Father, in the future, will you let Uncle Qi go to the fief or stay in the capital?"

Gu Chihou was taken aback for a moment, lowered his voice, and said, "I can't decide this matter." Then he asked, "Why do you say that?"

Little Runze felt that he had said something wrong, but he was not afraid of his father, he said generously: "I just heard from my mother that I hope that my father will not treat Qi Shu as a son like Fourth Uncle, and want Qi Shu to move to the fiefdom. "

After hearing this, Gu Chihou calmed down in his black pupils, paused, and said to his son earnestly, "I can't say these words anymore."

"The son knows, the son only told his father this time."

"Father also told you directly that if your mother says similar things again in the future, you should tell her that father will always be just a soldier who knows nothing and doesn't understand, and that he will go to the frontier to guard the country for the Gu family. If it is not necessary, I will never return to Beijing, understand?"

Kid Runze blinked, and vaguely understood what his father meant. After a moment of silence, he said, "Then who will live in the capital?"

Gu Chihou stretched out his hand and slapped his son on the back of the head, this time it was not as light as the previous few times: "You little child, why do you care so much? It is enough to be your prince, listen to your grandpa Just woke up, your grandpa always has his reasons for doing things, you just need to be obedient and do it, and don't worry about anything else, just like your father and me."

Runze was beaten by his father so much that he almost fell to the ground. Before he could say anything to his father, he could no longer ride in a carriage. After getting out of the carriage, he took a sedan chair. Ning Gong went.

Coincidentally, on the road, I bumped into a few other sedan chairs, Run Ze opened the curtains, and I could see Chi Yi of my fourth uncle's family sitting idle like a dog with her head on the window, like a dying man on a guillotine, I don't know what uncle Qi likes about this stuff, do you like how funny this stuff is?

The sedan chairs stopped outside the gate of Kunning Palace one after another, and the people who came down from the sedan chairs were all the richest and noblest people in the world.

It's just that when the richest people in the world come to Kunning Palace, they also have to put away their domineering side leaks and fierce spirits. They either come to eat with snacks, or bring gifts to please the old man. For example, Gu Chihou brought his son to liven up the atmosphere, and the whole Kunning Palace suddenly seemed to be very lively. There were all men who came and went, but these men didn’t communicate much with each other, and they could nod their heads as a gesture of politeness. It's over.

Children Runze walked among this group of relatives who seemed indifferent and impersonal like other meritorious nobles. After crossing two thresholds, they finally arrived at the main hall of Kunning Palace. The hall was filled with warm light. The dining room It was full of delicious delicacies, and there were people sitting in every position in the lobby, from the host's grandmother and grandfather, to cousin Zhitong, third uncle, etc., except that Guang Guang was sitting there quietly. , Just like a beautiful Seventh Uncle in a painting.

"Oh, Runze, hurry up and let the imperial grandmother take a look. I haven't seen you for a few days, and I have grown taller!" The imperial grandmother suddenly called him over.

Runze immediately snuggled up to the emperor's grandmother in a sensible way. Although there was already a cousin Chi Yi lying beside the emperor's grandmother, Runze was sensible after all and would not show any bad feelings towards this cousin. The emperor's grandmother greeted him, and at the same time, she took the green dates given by the emperor's grandmother and gnawed on it, quietly and honestly like his father.

But Chi Yi looked around and said, "Grandmother, isn't Uncle Qi coming today?"

Gu Yang put her two little grandchildren in her arms and said cheerfully: "Why don't you come? It was your seventh uncle who yelled at us for dinner today. He insisted that I bring all the big guys here. Tell me about your father. After they came back, we haven't had the reunion dinner yet, and secondly, we have important matters to discuss."

"What can he do? I think it's nothing more than a big talk in the morning. Now I can't afford it anymore. I want money. I pay daily wages. Unfortunately, he can figure it out. Even if he can do it, there is no money in the treasury now." So much money made him wasteful." Emperor Gu Shiyong drank tea while shaking the jade pendant on his waist, his demeanor was relaxed, and his tone was not as serious as the words themselves.

In the lobby, only two grandchildren were talking to the emperor and empress, and the rest of the men had no intention of opening their mouths, but after hearing Gu Shiyong's words, each of them seemed to have some small circles in their minds, waiting for the right one. The opportunity is released again.

Everyone drank tea and lowered their eyelids, only Gu Yang was a little laughing, and the rest of the atmosphere was stagnant, as if all the beasts in the forest were called to a meeting, the simple and honest brown bear was Gu Chihou, and the irritable monkey king was the third child Gu Wen, the cunning red fox is the fourth Gu Yue'an, the fifth Gu Yan'an squatting next to the Monkey King is a noisy vulture, and the sixth king cobra Gu Ping'an curled up in a corner, quietly watching.

Gu Yangshi, the big rabbit married to a lion, always feels that the house is covered with dark clouds just like the outside world. Fortunately, there is always sunshine and a sharp sword that breaks through the layers of dark clouds and shoots directly at all Gu family members. It is a familiar cry Before the person reached the door, the voice of her kitten Gu Xiaoqi came from behind the stone wall: "Mother, I'm sorry, I'm late! Brother, are they all here?"

In an instant, it was almost visible to the naked eye, the entire lobby cleared and the fog cleared, and all the icy and cold people came alive, and Chi Yi ran the fastest among them, rushing towards the late comer like a little meatball. Uncle, Gu Baozhen, who was wearing a cashmere jacket and a snow-white robe, was holding a delicate hand warmer in his hand. Seeing that it was his little nephew Chi Yi, he immediately crouched and hugged Chi Yi's little friend.

"Uncle Seven, you're late, Chi Yi waited until her chest was pressed against her back."

Gu Baozhen held the child's hand, his hand just came out of the hand warmer's rabbit fleece bag, it was warm and soft, Chi Yi loved it so much that he couldn't let go, and after stepping into the lobby with Gu Baozhen, he called to his father, "" Dad, let's eat!"

The Fourth Prince, who was on leave today and did not go to court, immediately curled his lips, looked at his mother and father, the two elders stood up, and then walked behind the two elders, facing Chi who was tired of Xiaoqi's side. Yi said, "There is no one standing."

Chi Yi grinned and hid behind Uncle Qi, and stuck out her tongue at Lao Tzu, Gu Xiaoqi took his fourth brother's hand and said, "Okay, fourth brother, why didn't you go to court today? It's a pity you didn't see it."

Gu Yu'an raised her eyelids and said, "I heard about it."

Gu Baozhen did not continue to talk to the fourth brother, but kicked the heel of the third brother who was walking in front with his toe, and said, "Third brother, today I will sit next to you."

Chi Yi immediately said obediently: "Then I will sit on the other side of my uncle."

Gu Xiaoqi smiled and refused: "I'm sorry, your father is sitting on my other side."

Kid Chi Yi paused, she had tasted what it was like to be let down at a young age, damn it, my heart hurts so much.

Unexpectedly, Runze, the kid from the Erbo's family, snorted a laugh when he passed by him, Chi Yi quickly cheered up, and quietly gestured with his fist, but fearing that the adults would see it, he hurriedly took it back .

The actions of the children were not taken seriously by Gu Baozhen and others, especially for today's reunion dinner, Gu Xiaoqi came here with a heavy responsibility, so he specially sat between the third brother and the fourth brother, talking to each other while eating. The old lady said why she came late, and by the way, she planned to lead the topic to her purpose of starting the dinner today without anyone noticing.

Gu Baozhen was holding the bowl, and before the first chopsticks reached into any dish on the table, two pairs of chopsticks picked up stir-fried twice-cooked pork and put them in his bowl.

Gu Baozhen honestly ate both pieces of meat. After all, he doesn't plan to stand in line now. He doesn't stand in line with anyone, which means that no one can be offended. It's best to eat them all.

However, after eating, he was about to get straight to the point. The third and fourth brothers sitting on the left and right brought leeks and eggs and piled them in his bowl. He saw the bottom of the bowl being filled slowly, forming a hill Come on, I gave up the method of showing favor by eating vegetables in an instant, opened my mouth to speak, and then the third brother stuffed a chicken leg into his mouth.

"..." Gu Baozhen glared at Third Brother.

Gu Wen smiled lazily, as if bullying his younger brother is the happiest thing in the world.

It's just that Gu Baozhen and the third brother came back and forth, as if the barrier caused by the previous beating disappeared in an instant. Maybe there was no barrier in itself, but a certain high-ranking brother never knew how to apologize, so he could only apologize. It was expressed by bullying the younger brother, but Gu Baozhen just received it.

Everyone ate and drank, and when it was almost over, Gu Baozhen held a large bowl of chicken soup and said while drinking, "It's so cold now, I've already dug out the clothes I wore in winter, how about you, fourth brother?"

The fourth child nodded slightly, and said in a steady voice, "Get to the point."

"Originally, I planned to be a mute when I went to court today, but I couldn't hold back and caused trouble for the fourth brother. If you don't count how much movable silver and grain are still in the treasury, the fourth brother needs to use it for road construction."

"No." The fourth child said bluntly, "The emperor's granary cannot be moved. It is food for disaster relief in times of crisis. The silver in the treasury is allocated to the army for more than half of it every year. This year there is no extra silver to allocate to the workers. Of course, if you three Brother, they seized the booty and put it into the treasury, so there will be a surplus."

"Father said that the spoils are all rewarded by the army themselves, and the distribution is almost the same. Do you want me to find those soldiers and bring them back? It's a joke." Gu Wen didn't raise his eyes.

The meal was so warm just now, but now when we talk about business, the smoke of gunpowder begins to fill the air.

Gu Baozhen glanced at his father, and his father had no intention of helping him persuade the third and fourth brothers. Instead, he smiled at him with interest and asked him: "You are determined to build roads today, what can you say?"

Originally, it was a certainty that the fourth brother's cement road would be put on hold, but it hadn't been announced yet. Who knew that Gu Baozhen would help the fourth brother turn things around as soon as he came to court, and he would get permission for this construction again.

When Gu Baozhen heard his father's question, he stopped hiding it at all, and said directly: "The weather is so abnormally cold, I'm afraid there will be accidents, what if it will be this cold for ten or twenty years in the future, and it will be winter every year?" ?At that time, the river water will freeze, the channel that was finally dredged will be unusable, the north-south circulation will stagnate, the grain production will decrease, and there will be no timely rescue at the time of disaster relief. At that time, the cement road will be the transportation link of the whole country, so repairing the dam must be repaired Yes, road construction must also be repaired, and glass must also be popularized in the past two years. I hope I am wrong, but I can't take risks!"

"Little Qi, do you mean that it will be so cold in the next ten years?" Gu Wen, the third child, frowned and asked.

"It's just possible." Gu Baojin lowered his eyes.

"It's easy to handle. After the hard labor of clearing the rivers scattered in various places is cleared, they will be directly dragged to build roads. They don't need a penny, just give them some food. The food doesn't have to be good, as long as they don't starve to death." The third child was calm, not knowing Do you believe what the younger brother said, or just follow what Xiao Qi said, and suppress the fourth child by the way.

Gu Baozhen was overjoyed and said, "Then third brother, can the vaccination of the hard laborers be put on the agenda?"

The third child paused for a moment, as if he was thinking about how to say cruel things to his younger brother who was raised in the deep palace, but he quickly chose to say bluntly: "They are war criminals, and the life and death of war criminals is not your responsibility, Xiao Qi."

The author has something to say: The forest bully tea party officially started, the kitty Gu Qiqi jumped up against the table, and all the beasts trembled hahaha~