Later, I became the prince of the group

Emperor Chengxing's eyes and ears are all over the capital. He already knew that his eldest son opened a toy store outside. He also ordered a set of flower chess boards in someone else's name. He just wanted to see how these things recruited so many. People like it, so when he saw what the three of them were playing, he recognized it at a glance.

Before Emperor Chengxing could speak, Chu Yan realized that something was wrong with the surrounding atmosphere, and raised his head: "..."

He coughed twice in embarrassment: "Father..."

Before he finished speaking, he realized that Emperor Chengxing's Liu Qi and the sixth prince jumped up at the same time, and hid behind Chu Yan without even thinking about it. The posture seemed to have bumped into a scourge, and by the time he realized that it was His Majesty late.

Fortunately, Emperor Chengxing was in a good mood, and he didn't care about these two people. He glanced at Liu Qi, who hadn't met a few times, and was still in the mood to joke: "The sixth prince is just young and surprised. , Liu Qi, why do you hide from me when you see me?"

Liu Qi laughed dryly: "I didn't realize it was you just now, isn't it...I used to make mistakes at home, my father would chase me with a stick and beat me, I'm used to hiding."

There was suppressed laughter all around, someone looked for Liu Hou's figure, but couldn't find it, and then remembered that he had gone into the forest to compete with General Hussars.

Fortunately, Liu Hou was not here, otherwise he would not have been pissed off?

Emperor Chengxing also found it funny, and couldn't help teasing him: "Then tell me, what mistake did you make?"

Liu Qi said honestly, "I shouldn't play flower cards."

"Then tell me again, how should you be punished for knowingly committing a crime?"

Liu Qi's eyes widened, and he pushed the blame without hesitation: "You are wronged, father, this is a game played by the prince, and I am at most an accomplice."

His voice was long and drawn out, lazily, with some unserious tone, and he sounded like a spoiled child when he called "Father Emperor".

Emperor Chengxing was almost amused by this living treasure, looked at Chu Yan who was hesitant to speak but stopped talking, and said to Liu Qi: "I still want to hold you accountable as an accomplice first, you are from the military general's family anyway, why not?" If you can sit here for a long time, I will punish you to hunt a prey and come back before this evening without relying on anyone's assistance."

With a bitter face, Liu Qi turned his eyes to Chu Yan for help, and accidentally... bumped into Chu Yan applauding involuntarily.

The two stared at each other, and Chu Yan withdrew his hand nonchalantly, pretending nothing had happened.

Emperor Chengxing looked at Chu Yan: "I am punishing your concubine, do you want to intercede for him?"

Hearing this tone, it was Zhu Yan's protection of his shortcomings in Zhu Sheng's matter before he teased him.

But Chu Yan said righteously: "Father the emperor punishes Liu Qi, it is the father punishing the son, it is just and right, and the minister has no reason to intercede for him."

Liu Qi: "..."

revenge!It must be revenge for pushing the pot just now!

Emperor Chengxing laughed and said, "This is what you said as a 'natural'. It just so happens that you, the principal offender, can't be punished less than the accomplice. For the next ten days, you should hand over one prey every day."

Chu Yan: "..."

Liu Qi was not polite: "Hahahaha!"

The husband and wife were both arrested, and the flower cards they brought could only be cheaper than a bunch of younger brothers who had nothing to do, and each reluctantly got on the horse.

People who were a little further away also noticed the movement here, and after inquiring about what had happened, they all thought it was a joke and waited for them to return empty-handed.

The two rode leisurely into the woods, and Liu Qi rode the horse side by side with Chu Yan: "Let's discuss, you can help me fight one."

Chu Yan ruthlessly refused: "Father said, no assistance is allowed."

Liu Qi leaned forward dejectedly, lying crookedly on the horse's back, Chu Yan glanced at him, only felt that this posture was dangerous, and his tone could not help but be a bit serious: "Sit down."

Liu Qi just ignored him, pulled the reins very recklessly, and planned to part ways with His Highness King An, who couldn't help him, and said that the plan was pretty good: "Let's separate, and don't grab the prey with the other."

"I won't fight with you." Chu Yan stared at Liu Qi whose feet had left the pedals, and finished speaking word by word, and while the horse was approaching, he reached out and grabbed him directly to his own horse.

The horse was slightly frightened and spun around on the spot, but quickly calmed down under Chu Yan's grip on the reins.

On the contrary, Liu Qi was taken aback, and uncomfortably tugged at the collar that was being pulled: "What are you doing!"

Chu Yan broke his legs and straddled the horse's back silently. The touch on his legs made Liu Qi stiff, and he always felt very strange. He muttered: "I ride a horse very well, I won't fall off."

Chu Yan handed the rein to him, put his arms around him, turned his head, and put his lips close to his ear: "It's because I'm not good at riding, Mr. Liu, my life is in your hands, you should be safe ,do you know?"

The air flow sprayed on the sensitive ears, and it was even more terrible. Liu Qi was stiff for a long time before he recovered, and rubbed his itchy and crispy ears desperately.

Chu Yan chuckled and stepped back a little.

The two walked aimlessly in the woods for a while, and when they reached a hanging spring, Chu Yan suddenly called to stop.

This place is slightly open and the scenery is very good. There are jagged rocks beside the spring, where you can sit and rest.

Chu Yan found a place that wasn't damp, and laid out the things in the bag one by one. Liu Qi couldn't help being surprised: "Why did you bring all the canvases?"

"You haven't learned archery, and you can't hunt anything. Why don't you draw a landscape, so that when you go back to work, Father won't blame you."

Liu Qi looked at the paintbrush, feeling really itchy, he stepped forward, carefully looked at the top of the hanging spring, and outlined the outline of the mountain with a few strokes.

Liu Qi's landscape paintings can only be regarded as quite satisfactory, with form but no spirit. He is naturally suitable for painting those fine things, and he can restore all appearances.

While painting, there was a sudden movement in the opposite forest, Liu Qi glanced at it out of the corner of his eye, and caught a glimpse of a small sika deer.

Xiaolu hid behind the stone, showing half of his head, looking at Liu Qi curiously and fearlessly.

Liu Qi couldn't help touching the hunting gear beside him, and turned his head to look, wondering where Chu Yan had gone.

He may not be able to shoot the deer by himself, so he gave up after thinking about it, continued to draw the pen, raised his eyes again, and drew those eyes out of nowhere, and then quickly outlined the outline of a deer.

He is meticulous enough to detail the body proportions of the young deer and the location of the spots.

The little deer probably sensed that he was not hostile, so he boldly went to the spring to drink water, and was going back to the forest at the end. He seemed to be a little curious, and turned his head to stare at Liu Qi for a while.

When the third deer finished drawing, it suddenly seemed to be frightened by something, and ran away, but before it got into the woods, an arrow roared and pierced its body.

Liu Qi stood up suddenly and looked at the person coming.

Cen walked past him without squinting, the horse jumped high, directly stepped over the narrow spring, and took down the prey, he turned his head and glanced at Liu Qi triumphantly.

The corner of Liu Qi's mouth twitched: "You killed my deer."

Cen Shuang was surprised: "Your deer? If I remember correctly, the prey should belong to whoever shoots it. Did you shoot it?" He glanced at the canvas on the stone and sneered in his heart, "An The princess is in a leisurely mood, and she came here to paint in the hunting ground, and I will take the dead deer away so as not to spoil the beautiful scenery."

Even if Liu Qi was angry in his heart, it was impossible for him to really grab the prey from him.

After Cen Shuang left, it took him a long time to calm down before he sat down again and finished his painting.

He was careful and meticulous when painting, but he didn't even want to look at it after painting.

Chu Yan had already returned lightly while he was painting, his trousers and sleeves were rolled up, each revealing a section of wet underwear, he took off his coat and spread it on the wide stone below him, Dust is isolated.

Liu Qi looked down and saw a dead fish with arrows stuck in the basket of prey under the stone.

Liu Qi was startled: "Are you going to catch fish?"

Chu Yan said calmly: "There is a deep pond downstream with fish in it."

Liu Qi realized something, and looked at Chu Yan in disbelief: "This is... your... prey?"

Chu Yan: "Yes."

"Hmm" what a ghost!

Liu Qi covered his heart, and tried hard to digest the fact that His Royal Highness Wang An really wanted to hand in a small fish the size of a palm as prey.

After a while, I thought to myself: There is no most embarrassing, only more embarrassing, come on, who gets more ridicule!

But I felt faintly unwilling in my heart.

It's okay for him to be ignorant, but Chu Yan is so powerful, and he can hunt a lot of prey, but he can't show it off, so he can only hide his strength and bide his time aggrieved.

Occasionally showing a little bit of real talent and hard work, others also think it is good luck. When he went to the camp in the suburbs of Beijing to practice, he could not let ordinary soldiers see him when he was really serious. When they went to Tao Lefang, people had to associate "King An" with "Bronze Smell". Even the rescue of the princess was believed to be the credit of Commander Zhou.

No one believed that he possessed a quick-remembering mind and a rapidly improving martial arts.

Seeing Liu Qi lost his mind with aggrieved face, Chu Yan roughly guessed what he was thinking, he pulled Liu Qi up, touched the back of his neck: "It's still early, let's bask in the sun?"

Liu Qi felt that the back of his neck was crispy and itchy, but there was a sense of comfort. He said "um", followed Chu Yan's strength to climb up the stone, lay on his side on Chu Yan's lap, and muttered, "It's so warm." , I'll sleep for a while..."

Two days ago, he was uncomfortable sitting in the carriage on the road, and he didn't want to come out to ride a horse and be a monkey for others to see, so he slept on Chu Yan's lap most of the time.

As soon as Chu Yan stopped, Liu Qi groped to reach out his hand, grabbed his hand, and gave it to the back of his neck.

Chu Yan thought it was funny—Young Master Liu is not a cat, he has to be scratched.

Liu Qi was so comfortable being touched, she couldn't help rubbing against his body: "Your Highness..."

Chu Yan froze slightly, and moved his body calmly, letting Liu Qi only lean on his own leg, who would have thought that Liu Qi would rub up against him: "How long will this be?"

"Wait a little longer." Chu Yan pushed him away, "Wait until...they finish fighting..."

The emperor's mind is to train Chu Rui, so that Chu Yan can be a free king in peace.This is not because Emperor Chengxing felt that Chu Yan was not qualified, but because he was afraid that the two brothers would fight and it would be too difficult for Chu Rui to give in. If they really did, there would be a day when brothers would kill each other, Chengxing The emperor put a lot of thought into Chu Rui, and the palms and backs of his hands were full of flesh, so he might as well wronged this eldest prince who seemed to have no ambitions.

After all, it was Chu Yan who said it himself. It is enough for him to eat and wear warm clothes. Isn't this just suitable for being a king of idleness?

Chu Yan has his own set of calculations in his heart. If he can really live in peace, he doesn't mind being a king of idleness, but the key is that he doesn't trust Chu Rui.

Chu Rui's ears are soft, even if he is believed to be a brother who doesn't have that kind of thought now, what about in the future?If one day he really ascended the throne, and others whispered a few words in his ear, would he really have no suspicion at all?

Chu Yan is unwilling to put the future in the hands of others, not to mention...to be an idle king, those mean gossips will not be appeased, he doesn't care, but he also hopes that one day outsiders will not dare to criticize his Young Master Liu.

He looked down at Liu Qi, and couldn't help whispering: "You are always wronged after following me."

Liu Qi snorted, "I'm wronged right now."

Chu Yan looked at the little fish in the basket and felt guilty for a while.

Liu Qi propped himself up: "What did you push me for, you let me sleep on it."

Chu Yan: "..." It turned out to be a grievance.

Chu Yan couldn't help it, wrapped his arms around his armpit to lift him up a bit, leaned down, and kissed the corner of his eye.

How can there be such a cute little son, who doesn't hide what he likes, does what he wants to do clearly, acts like a baby with confidence, in this dynasty where everyone abides by the rules and hides his thoughts, he is simply too lively up.

"Don't move around, just lean on it like this." Chu Yan's voice was a little hoarse.

Liu Qi said "oh", he felt that this posture was more comfortable than before, so he closed his eyes obediently.

After basking in the sun for half an hour, when Liu Qi woke up from a short nap, Chu Yan's right arm, which supported half of his body, almost lost consciousness.

His Royal Highness Wang An didn't show it, and pretended to be nothing. After moving his right arm a little, he got on the horse and held the rein with his left hand calmly.

When the two returned, a lot of people had already gathered in the vast open space under the viewing platform, the prey was piled up, and the smell of blood was intertwined in the air.

The second, third, and fourth sons all gained a lot of money, and they were among the best among their peers. Emperor Chengxing was very happy, seeing Chu Yan came back, he smiled and asked him: "Boss, Liu Qi, where is the prey that you two were asked to hunt? "

The guards stepped forward to greet them, and helped to take off the basket, and looked at it: "..."

Seeing their strange expressions, Emperor Chengxing couldn't help being curious: "What? Didn't you catch them?"

Because the princes of each family counted their prey and reported it in front of Emperor Chengxing and the ministers, many people gathered in this area, and even some people from the female family members followed the queen to join in the fun.

At this moment, all eyes are on King An and his wife, Liu Qi secretly thought: Anyway, my reputation has always been bad, so it doesn't matter, if anyone says Chu Yan is not good, I will scold him back!

Of course, except His Majesty and Empress Dowager...

But with these two present, no one would dare to say anything.

The guard said with some embarrassment: "The princess seems to have hunted nothing."

There was a low chuckle, and the queen glanced back, and those voices disappeared immediately.

Emperor Chengxing was not annoyed, and said: "Liu Qi, if you didn't hunt anything, then I will punish you for something else."

Liu Qi looked at the burden of the painting, drooping his head.

Originally, the painting could be used as a gift, but now the second half of the painting... was destroyed by him.

Chu Yan also saw the whole picture of the painting, and knew that the painting was not suitable for giving away, so he didn't mention it.

Unexpectedly, a voice came in from the side: "Your Majesty, I met the princess when I was hunting just now, and saw him making a painting. The scenery there is really pleasant, and the princess might be immersed in the painting, so I didn't know it just now. Where are you, delaying the hunt."

At first glance, Cen Shuang's words sounded a bit like an excuse for Liu Qi, but they actually had bad intentions.Although he didn't see what Liu Qi painted, but just now he asked insincerely, this Liu Qi had never learned painting before, maybe he just painted blindly, and he must be not good at it.

If he draws well, His Majesty may appreciate him a little bit, but if he doesn't draw well, then in His Majesty's eyes, it means that Liu Qi is not doing his job properly and deliberately shirking his parents' hunting mission. It's just that he didn't pay attention to what the emperor said.

While secretly waiting to see Liu Qi make a fool of himself, Cen Shuang suddenly felt a cold and sharp gaze locked on him with undisguised hostility.

For a moment, Cen Shuang didn't want to look for the source of that line of sight, afraid of meeting that line of sight, but that line of sight didn't stay for long, so short that it almost made people think it was an illusion.

Emperor Chengxing asked curiously: "Oh? Liu Qi, can you still draw?"

Chu Yan was about to answer the conversation for him, but Liu Qi spoke first: "I'll be a little bit, my son searched for a long time in the woods, found the prey but couldn't shoot it, and felt that he was really not that kind of material, so he had to sit down and draw. "

Half of the arrows in his barrel were missing, and this was Chu Yan's bad idea—to put on a show.

After Liu Qi finished speaking, he walked up the steps and presented the painting, then turned his head and winked at Chu Yan, signaling that he could do it himself.

With so many people watching, he didn't want to rely on Chu Yan to get out of the siege, what a shame!

After finishing the painting, Emperor Chengxing asked blankly, "You painted the same deer?"

Liu Qi nodded: "Yes."

The onlookers couldn't see the painting, so it can be seen that Emperor Chengxing's reaction was indifferent, so they guessed that the painting might not be good, and felt a feeling of "it is so".

Liu asked Good Morning and Wang Yibu came back on horseback. He knew that his son had no special skills, so he couldn't help sweating for him. It didn't matter if the emperor didn't like him.

Emperor Chengxing said: "Then tell me, what kind of story is this?"

"It's not really a story. I was painting landscapes, but it suddenly appeared. It looked weird and clever, and it wasn't afraid of people, so I drew it in. Later, it went to the lake to drink water, and it had to leave after drinking. I was reluctant to part with me when I was there, looked at me for a long time, and I drew them one by one. I thought that if it didn’t go away, I would try to catch it and raise it for a few days..."

Emperor Chengxing had a smile on his face: "And then?"

Liu Qi's face darkened all of a sudden, and he looked back at Cen Shuang angrily: "Then Mr. Cen shot it, it died!"

He was so angry that Emperor Chengxing finally couldn't help laughing. He spread the painting and looked at it a few more times, which made the queen come over curiously.

This painting is surprisingly beautiful. On the right side of the painting is the hanging spring and the flowing water. The lines are simple. Only a deer with plum blossoms is painted with meticulous brush and ink. The sun shines on the deer. Even though there is only black and white on the paper, it seems to have color.

As Liu Qi said, he drew every posture of the deer, as if explaining a story.

On the left side of the canvas, there is sudden wind and rain, lightning and thunder, and the tone of the entire forest is darkened, with more black and gray than white, which is in stark contrast to Qingming's right side.

Under the forest is a deer corpse, Liu Qi used a lot of black to render the blood.

During the hunt, such a painting is indeed inconvenient to take out, as if to condemn the hunter.But Liu Qi preemptively said that he liked this fawn very much and wanted to catch it back to raise, but he was killed, so he was sad and angry, which made Emperor Chengxing feel that he had some childish temperament after all.

It's not childish, it's funny.

What's more, as long as it doesn't care about the meaning, this painting is really wonderful.If you only talk about the landscape on the right side, it is not brilliant, and if you only talk about the left side, it is too gloomy, but the two are intertwined and collide with each other, which makes people's eyes bright and their hearts shocked, which is enough to see the whimsy of the composition. Wonderful idea.

The emperor was happy, he waved his hand, and coaxed Young Master Liu: "It's just a fawn, ask Chu Yan to catch one for you tomorrow."

Unexpectedly, after he finished speaking, Liu Qi became even more depressed, and looked at Chu Yan's basket worriedly: "Chu Yan...forget it...Your Highness, he can only catch such small fish."

As he said that, he also gestured with his hands to see how small it was.

Chu Yan: "..."

The husband and wife are originally birds in the same forest, flying separately in front of the emperor and empress.

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This chapter is fat enough~~