I was the heir in ancient times

"Hey! Who are you?! Hold your claws!" Gu Xiaoqi was so frightened that the hairs all over his body almost flew up. He ran over with small steps, grabbed the little eunuch's sleeve and said, "Don't touch them!"

"Goose!" General Bai was even more imposing, he opened his mouth and bit the little eunuch's arm!

The little eunuch immediately sat down on the ground and yelled, but he seemed to see the appearance of the person clearly through the moonlight, and quickly knelt on the ground humbly, trembling and begging for mercy: "Your Highness, please forgive me."

Gu Xiaoqi didn't have time to talk to him, so he squatted down nervously and continued to look at his potato seedlings, only to see that the potato seedlings were growing so fast that they really didn't need to be taken care of. easy.

"Get up and tell me, what are you squatting here for? Where did you come from? What's your name?" Gu Xiaoqi asked a lot of questions as if he was interrogating his household registration, and the bully goose who was like a thug stared at him. Looking at the little eunuch, he yelled again very appropriately.

The little eunuch trembled again, his thin shoulders couldn't support the loose uniform on his body, his whole body seemed to be buried in the soil, and he said in a trembling voice: "If you go back to your highness, the villain is the one who tends flowers and plants in the flower hall. Guixi, because I accidentally heard His Highness’s words in the flower hall before, I was curious, and couldn’t help but wanted to see these potatoes, I didn’t know that I disturbed His Highness, the little ones should be damned! The little ones should be damned!”

While speaking in a crying voice, the little eunuch slapped himself in the face hard, the sound was loud, it didn't seem like a fake.

Gu Xiaoqi had never seen someone who was so cruel to him, he quickly waved his hands and said, "Hey, don't, I'm fine, don't hit me! Stop hitting me!"

The little eunuch didn't listen, and directly knocked out one of his own teeth, bleeding from the corner of his mouth, still kowtowing to Gu Xiaoqi, and said: "I beg your highness to spare the little one, I dare not."

Gu Xiaoqi wanted to cry but had no tears: I still want to beg you to forgive me!

Gu Xiaoqi was frightened half to death, squatting beside the little eunuch, quickly took out a clean handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped the corner of the little eunuch's mouth, with an apology all over his face: "I'll forgive you, forgive you, don't beat me I just want to know why you are here."

"Since you've made it clear, I won't pursue it. Why are you exaggerating? You actually knocked out all your teeth. Mother said that you can only return your teeth once. What do you do if you don't look good in the future?"

After Gu Xiaoqi finished speaking, he comforted him: "Well, do you want some medicine?" There is no medicine in his room, but he can ask Sixth Brother for help, "My Sixth Brother is good at medicine, and his master is the world-famous genius doctor in Yunlu Well, if it's him, it will definitely make your wound heal."

The little eunuch Guixi only refused, and cried softly, "Your Highness, let Guixi go alone. If the other Highness sees it, Guixi will definitely die!"

Children Gu Baozhen think this is too exaggerated, what's so scary about their family?

"How come? My brothers are all very good people, and you haven't done anything bad."

The little eunuch hesitated to speak, raised his head, showing a strangely handsome face, but the dark circles under his eyes were extremely serious, as if he hadn't had a good night's sleep for many years, and tentatively said: "The other highnesses are naturally the best in the world to you. I am a good man, but my life is cheap. If other His Highnesses know that I have sneaked into the South Third Institute in the middle of the night, it is not a matter of the rules. If it is light, it will be beaten with a board, and if it is serious, it will be killed. Please take pity on me, Your Highness... I I really just wanted to see the potato, you said he could eat it and it would be useful, that’s why I came here, I have no bad intentions.”

Gu Xiaoqi couldn't argue with the third brother, his third brother was indeed a bit of a murderous villain, and the fourth brother was so deep and unpredictable, the fifth brother followed the third brother all day long without a proper form, and he had already joined forces with the third brother, The sixth brother studies poisonous weeds all day long, and has a distorted and withdrawn personality. Not to mention the eldest brother and the second brother, they are generals who go to battle to kill the enemy. Sure enough, he looks kinder, as if he is the only one...

"Okay, you're right, then you...you go back now?" Gu Xiaoqi asked him.

Guixi pinched her sleeves in a panic, probably seeing that His Highness is really easy to talk, so he kowtowed again and said: "Go back to Your Highness, I heard that each of the Highnesses in the South Three Institute still lacks four personal assistants." Eunuch, the little one, the little one wants to follow His Highness."

Gu Xiaoqi felt strange this time, always felt that the eunuch in front of him had a story to tell.

"Why?" the little guy asked, his 'why' was not mixed with any conspiracy theory at all, just simply asked 'why'.

The little eunuch smiled wryly, and said pitifully, "Now the palace is looking for people everywhere. I heard that His Highness the Third Highness and the Fifth Highness are searching for servants of this young age, but those people don't care whether they are male or female. Whether it was the guards or the eunuchs in the former court, none of them came back. I am afraid that it will be our conservatory tomorrow. I... small... scared, so I thought of the little highness, thinking that the little highness is kind and loving. Flowers and plants, I am good at serving flowers and plants, maybe I can help a little."

After hearing this, Gu Xiaoqi didn't know where to start his analysis. The little eunuch meant that the third brother and the fifth brother were looking for the former emperor who was hiding behind his back recently?

Was the former emperor only fourteen or fifteen years old?so small?

But I heard that the former emperor got married many years ago, and there is also a queen? ?In ancient times, it was too early to marry and have children!

Oh, lastly, what does Guixi mean to say that all the palace people of this age died because they were afraid of missing out or not finding the former emperor?Third brother and fifth brother killed?

What happened in the three days since he left Nansan Institute!

"To tell you the truth, I have been waiting for your highness for several days, and I come to take care of these potatoes every day." The little eunuch also said, "Actually, when your highness and Mr. Bo went to the flower hall to look for potatoes that day, it was the little one who was there. Caretaker of the flower hall, you and Mr. Bo also took the little one's lantern, so the little one heard what you said."

Gu Xiaoqi was still immersed in the shock of 'my third brother and fifth brother can't be this scary'.

Hearing the little eunuch's explanation, I didn't know how to comfort the little eunuch. Seeing that he was crying pitifully and his mouth was full of blood, he said, "My third brother and the others... are looking for someone. You are an eunuch, so you should be fine." , How about this, you come into the room with me first, take care of your mouth and teeth, and then talk about other things."

The little eunuch was terrified and cried, "If your highness doesn't accept me, I won't be able to come tomorrow!"

"how is this possible?"

"From tomorrow, there will be new guards in the four quarters of the South Third Institute, and the eunuchs and maids in the four quarters will also send more people. As long as the young ones leave here today, they will be taken away. The young ones are afraid, the young ones don't want to die, and the young ones have been killed since childhood. I was sent to the palace just for one bite of food, please beg your little highness to show mercy!"

What the little eunuch Guixi said was tearful and trembling all over, Gu Baozhen couldn't take it anymore, couldn't stand it anymore, so he could only agree, "Okay, don't cry, anyhow, you are a manly man, weeping all day long."

The little eunuch Guixi looked at His Highness sadly with eyes buried in his sleeves and tears, and said with a wry smile: "The little one is not a man, he has long since ceased to be."

"Hey, no matter what, you get up, let's go into the house and look at your teeth first, by the way, pick up your teeth and throw them on the roof." Gu Xiaoqi pointed to the nearest roof, "Well, after throwing it up, it might grow back."

The little eunuch hunched over, holding his bloody teeth in his hands, looked at the short seventh Highness beside him, then obediently waved and threw his hands, the teeth drew an arc in the quiet night sky of the capital, and finally landed in the south. There were crisp sounds on the three blue glazed tiles.

Then Gu Xiaoqi quietly led the little eunuch, who was half taller than her, back to her room.

Let the little eunuch sit on the stool, then went to the treasure box to find the ointment that the old lady gave him as a spare, this medicine can be used both internally and externally, first poured a glass of water for the little eunuch who refused to sit down, and told him to rinse his mouth , and then applied ointment to the little eunuch's mouth and swollen face.

While smearing, Gu Xiaoqi asked the little eunuch: "I'm going to the fourth brother's place in a while, will you go with me, or rest here? By the way, if you want to rest here, remember me Opposite the room is Mr. Bo, he is a light sleeper, don't disturb him."

"As for the matter of you serving as my eunuch, this should be very simple. I will tell the chief eunuch tomorrow, and it should be enough. Oh, maybe I have to talk to the third brother first." It should only be said, after all This is an eunuch, if those remnants of the previous dynasty really hid the stupid emperor in the palace, it would be impossible to eunuch the emperor, right?And the Guixi in front of him doesn't look like a fool at all, so it shouldn't matter if he stays... right?

"Also... I want to ask, what do you mean...they never came back again?" Could it really be what he thought?

Guixi is very thin, with a cowardly demeanor and a frowning face, if he is not so skinny, Gu Xiaoqi thinks he should be a very handsome boy.

——Well, young father-in-law.

"Who knows, everyone is saying that he is dead, that the former emperor is still hiding in the palace, that's why they are looking for it like this...but none of you have ever seen it, they just heard that the former emperor was fat, but It is rare to go to court, and basically the queen mother of the previous dynasty listens to politics behind the curtain."

Gu Xiaoqi paused for a moment with the hand that was rubbing the medicine for the little eunuch, his big eyes were as clean as a warm candle: "That's it... Then Guixi, the previous dynasty is gone, have you ever thought about leaving the palace?" What about China? It was so chaotic at the time, why didn’t everyone escape?”

Guixi lowered her eyes and said in a hoarse voice: "There are wars everywhere, and you don't have the skills to go out. You can't afford food, and you can't marry a wife. If you stay in the palace, you may still have a way to survive, and you can still have food."

"Then Guixi, don't you miss your family?"

The little eunuch shook his head, with a calm expression, he really didn't think the same thing at all: "I entered the palace at a very young age, and I don't have any family members in my memory. I only remember the old eunuch who taught me how to do things, that father-in-law... said that the people outside are struggling Yes, the war has not stopped for many years, countless people have died, good land has been taken by bandits, rivers have been monopolized by bandits and government officials, a country is not a country, the people are not the people, and the emperor has no ability, and he can only be worthy of the world when he dies..."

Gu Xiaoqi: What did I just ask?What did Guixi say so much? ?

Gu Xiaoqi no longer remembered what he asked, but after hearing Guixi's words, he felt that Guixi was very sad, so he asked, "Do you also think that the former emperor died?"

The little eunuch nodded: "If the new dynasty can give the people a bite to eat and make the world peaceful, then it is better to die."

Gu Xiaoqi: "Then the former emperor couldn't make decisions at all? It feels like you dislike him very much, but the bad things are done by others, he is a fool."

The little eunuch was silent for a moment, then said: "It's just annoying, he's a fool."

Gu Xiaoqi put down the ointment in his hand at this moment, and said, "Okay, do you want to come with me? Or rest on the outer couch by my side tonight?"

The little eunuch Guixi blinked, and said: "The little one is following His Highness the Seventh Highness."

"Then you're probably going to watch the night in the porch with my fourth brother's eunuch."

Gu Xiaoqi was still thinking about the young man's injury, thinking that he should take a rest, but as soon as the words fell, the little eunuch stood up and said: "Young one is very good at night watch, your Highness, don't worry."

Gu Xiaoqi really couldn't do anything this time, thinking that Guixi might be too scared, so she had to follow her closely all the time to be at ease, so she didn't say anything more, pulled the big white goose and set off again , to the fourth brother's courtyard.

The fourth brother and the third brother lived in the same house, and originally reserved a room for the second brother, but the second brother did not come for a long time, only running around outside and rarely coming back.

He led Guixi across the second house, and walked to the door of the first house, at the door, an old eunuch who happened to be patrolling the door saluted him.

Gu Xiaoqi waved his hand, he didn't need the old eunuch to lead the way, so he and Guixi walked through the open space and hallway of the first entrance, to the second entrance courtyard, glanced at the room of the third brother, and then went straight to the door of the fourth brother's room Outside, before he knocked on the door, he heard the eunuch guarding the porch bend down and say to him: "Your Highness, you are here. The Fourth Highness has asked me several times. If you haven't arrived, the Fourth Highness will go over." I'm looking for you."

Gu Xiaoqi smiled, and said: "I see, I'll go in right away. By the way, this is the personal eunuch I found today. How about he guarding the night with you tonight?"

The old eunuch naturally had no choice but to nod.

After arranging Guixi's whereabouts, the little girl Gu Baozhen walked into the fourth brother's room slowly.

As soon as you enter it, you can see the interior of the same size and layout as your own room, but the screen used for partition is different from his room. The screen in my room is painted with flowers and birds. It is a stormy sea and a lonely boat.

Gu Xiaoqi walked around the screen and entered the inner room, and saw that the bedroom was small enough to accommodate only one bed, with dark green silk curtains hanging on the bed, and the fourth brother was sitting on the head of the bed, holding a volume of books on the bed Read quietly by candlelight.

"Fourth brother, I'm here." Gu Xiaoqi unconsciously lowered his voice, took off his little shoes, climbed onto fourth brother's bed, then lay on fourth brother's body, and said, "Can General Bai go to bed?"

Gu Yu'an then moved away the book, looked at Gu Xiaoqi with a pair of indifferent phoenix eyes, then sighed, stretched out his hand and grabbed General Bai's neck, and slipped the big white goose onto the bed.

"Yeah!" Gu Xiaoqi happily hugged General Bai and settled down in the fourth brother's bed, obediently plopped into the fourth brother's bed, then turned over on the bed again, propped his little head with his hands, and asked fourth brother, "fourth brother Brother, what are you looking at?"

At this time, the fourth child closed the book, blew out the candles, and lay down together, his voice was very soft, with a low voice that seemed to be changing: "I am reading "Chen Fu Nong Shu", which records the cultivation and planting of rice. .”

After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand and pressed Gu Xiaoqi onto the bed, lay down in a dignified manner, and by the way pulled the thin quilt over the little guy's belly, and said, "What are you talking about with Qi Lu outside?" Qi Lu is Gu Yuan's night watch eunuch.

Gu Xiaoqi sighed, hugged Fourth Brother's arm like a koala, and said, "I'll ask your eunuch to take care of mine."

These words were really cute, Gu Yu'an chuckled in the dark, and asked, "Where did you get the eunuch from? Where did you abduct it?"

But this time the little guy didn't reply immediately.

Gu Yu'an said coldly, "I want to listen to the truth."

How could Gu Xiaoqi dare to help Guixi cheat and cover it up now? He immediately explained everything about his encounter with Guixi and the things he promised him, and finally couldn't help but ask fourth brother: "Fourth brother, do you think what he said is true?"

Gu Yu'an: "Huh? What?"

Gu Xiaoqi's voice was crisp, hiding cowardly fear: "Third brother and the others, have they really...killed all the maids and eunuchs in the palace these few days?"

The fourth brother was silent, and then said, "What answer do you want to hear?"

Gu Xiaoqi immediately understood, shook his head, and said, "Forget it, I don't want to know."

Gu Yu'an gave a 'hmm' and said: "The things that everyone doesn't tell you, it means that you don't need to know, Xiaoqi. The most important thing for you now is the talk meeting at the end of the year and the winter solstice. Everything else has nothing to do with you."

"But...fourth brother, if you don't tell me more and more things in the future, will we still be like this in the future? Do you think talking to me is a waste of time? Then slowly, everyone Won't you play with me?"

Gu Xiaoqi felt sad: "Fourth brother, I want to know, I don't want to be left behind by you." This is different from when fourth brother told him that he was still young and he didn't have to worry about anything. As for the matter, whether the brothers are willing to take him or not is the choice of the brothers.

When everyone's environment and circle are getting farther and farther away, Gu Xiaoqi can't imagine what everyone and himself in the future will be like.

"Fourth brother... Second brother seems to be getting married soon."

"Fourth brother, Zhitong told me that the Liu family wants to marry the second young lady to the third brother."

"Fourth brother, are you about to start a family too?"

Gu Baozhen took a deep breath in the dark, and said aggrievedly: "Everyone seems to have changed a lot, it's not what I thought, I don't want the third brother to marry the second miss of the Liu family. I don’t want fourth brother to get married, I don’t want fifth brother and third brother to become unknown to me...fourth brother...I miss Daoliang City..."

Gu Yu'an kept the matter of the little eunuch aside for the time being, and reached out to touch the little guy's face, and sure enough, he touched the cold tears again.

Gu Xiaoqi hurriedly covered her face under the quilt, and said angrily, "Fourth brother, don't talk to me, what I just said was all lies! I'm not such a stingy person! You can get married if you want, I didn't say anything just now!"

"Do you want me to pretend I didn't hear you?"

"Ah."

"Okay." After Gu Yu'an finished speaking, he didn't know how long it had been, and suddenly said, "Marriage is just a deal, and time will change everything, but Xiao Qi, you are my Xiao Qi, it will not change. .”

"……Oh."

A certain insecure child was about to fall asleep with the promise of the fourth brother, but he heard the fourth brother say: "Xiaoqi, don't ask the third brother what that little eunuch told you tomorrow."

"Huh? Good, but why?"

The fourth child said calmly: "They will be afraid that you will be like this, crying and saying that they have changed."

Gu Xiaoqi: "Oh, I see. What should Guixi do? Should I tell third brother to let him let Guixi go?"

Gu Yu'an: "No need, just let Guixi go to class with you tomorrow, they are not fools."

"Okay, go to bed, it's getting late."

"Tomorrow fourth brother will give you rock candy, have a good dream, Xiaoqi."

In such a deep and gentle voice, Gu Baozhen really had a good dream. In the dream, his father's country was prosperous and the people were peaceful. Later, a young nephew who grows up to be wild and cool, with a cigarette in his mouth, said that when he was young, thanks to his uncle's care, he will pay the bill for the little boy who ordered today.

The brothers were very vague in their dreams, but the eldest brother somehow went to participate in the [-]-meter trapeze competition and won the championship. The second brother led the alpaca to celebrate for the eldest brother. The third and fifth brothers ran to the aunt’s house to throw dog shit. Had plastic surgery, the operation was very successful, now is a national idol.

Upon waking up, Gu Xiaoqi scratched his head and laughed out loud: What is this mess?

But he was happy all morning, met his brothers and got everyone's rock candy, put it in his pocket unceremoniously, and ate it secretly during class.

It is said that Gu Baozhen should have learned the riding and archery class when he was ten years old, but now the teacher who taught Classics and History Ziji has been pissed off by him, and Mr. Bo has no time to replace the class, and the father does not want him to eat and sleep in the palace all day long. So he, Zhi Tong and Bo Yanliang were packed and thrown to the martial arts training ground, and handed over to Jiang Yuhui, the capable general under General Dongwu.

Gu Xiaoqi and Little Brother Bo stood on the martial arts training ground with rock candy in their mouths, admiring the vigorous and handsome postures of their brothers on the training ground and the beautiful muscle lines of Vice General Jiang. The former will always be weak because of poor physical strength. Shouting tired, it is logical to fish in troubled waters. The latter gets on the horse after chewing rock sugar every day, and practices riding and shooting with Vice General Jiang.

When Gu Xiaoqi gradually got his own concubine couch, daily snacks and mung bean soup in the martial arts training ground, and little brother Bo was able to shoot an arrow 50 meters away with a special bow and arrow and hit the bull's-eye, the weather was getting colder Come down, the winter solstice comes.

On the morning of the winter solstice, Gu Baozhen skipped class openly, and prepared to go out of the palace with brother Yanliang, holding the invitation card from the Liu family, and prepared to go to a big fight.

On the other side, in the dungeon, a man in his thirties with gray hair was neatly dressed and sat on the haystack, watching the jailer come to open the chains of the dungeon.

The jailer was a young guy with a knife on his waist, and he was more than respectful to the man: "Mr. Dong, come out, the carriage is ready outside."

The man named Mr. Dong opened his eyes, stood up from the haystack where he was sitting cross-legged, patted the dust on his body lightly, then walked out without looking sideways, step by step upward from the dark and damp place, step by step Into the sunlight, he knew that this was a battle of his life and death, and he wanted to win!Can only win!He doesn't care whether Xinchao wants to use him to suppress the family or to help a young child become famous.

He just wants to win!

To live!