For the emperor

Cang Jinglan's birthday was approaching the winter solstice, and when the ceremonial department had just finished the coming-of-age ceremony of the two princes and was still busy with the Wanji Festival, it happened to be in time for Master Ningyuan to be escorted to the capital.

The Wuji Continent respects ghosts and gods very much, but in Cang Tiansu's usual cognition, Cang Jinglan has always taken an attitude of contempt and avoidance of the theory of gods and ghosts, but he doesn't understand why he is making such a big splash to bring a living Buddha like Ningyuan into the capital. What are you thinking about.

Cang Jinglan really used a big battle this time, not only dispatching Duan Yu to lead thousands of regular troops to Dabei Temple, but also led all his wives and children to wait at the city gate together with civil and military officials when they arrived. .

Cang Tiansu stood at the closest place to Cang Jinglan, only a few feet away, silently lowered his head and stared at the movement of the shadow on the ground, and saw the shadow in front of him move from a trance, from the analysis of the movement, it should be turning his head Come.

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...Looking back?

Cang Tiansu raised his eyelids, and met the sight of God Jinglan.

The eyes of the two collided, and Emperor Jing's heart jumped violently. Unexpectedly, he looked over suddenly, moved the corners of his lips a little awkwardly, made a half-formed smile, and quickly turned his head away.

Cang Tiansu's heart sank. Standing behind him were hundreds of officials, big and small. Cang Jingdi's actions are becoming more and more open now. If someone sees something, Cang Jinglan is shameless. He still wants to face.

No, no, maybe he wanted to be seen too.Cang Tiansu twitched the corner of his lips mockingly, he naturally wouldn't believe that Cang Jinglan was really in love with Huachun in 18 years (...), and discovered some special charisma in him that he hadn't discovered before.

On the contrary, Cang Tiansu thought about it for several days, summed up his nominal father's behavior, and attributed it to Cang Jinglan's new method of torturing him - and it was an exceptionally effective method.

When Cang Tiansu thought about it now, it was like swallowing a hundred flies alive, and his stomach was extremely nauseated.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Cang Jinglan sneezed three times in a row. Although no one dared to jump out and accuse the emperor of ruining the solemn and solemn atmosphere of welcoming the eminent monk, he rubbed his nose and still felt a little bit embarrassed—in view of There is a certain person standing behind him.

In order to hide his gaffe, Cang Jinglan turned his head, his eyes swept gently along Cang Tiansu's face, and then looked at the sons lined up one by one, pointing at the mighty army that had appeared at the end of his vision, He laughed and said, "Today, I'm going to make a pair to test you. If I become the leader, I will reward you a lot."

As the eldest son of the emperor and the only prince with a title, Cang Tiansu came out with his eyes half downcast, respecting him on behalf of the brothers.

The two stood closer, the smile on the corners of Cang Jinglan's lips paused, and he calmed down, looking forward as if nothing had happened, and saw cavalry walking in the outermost periphery of the army, the cold wind blowing in winter, and the horses neighing , the ponytail fluttered, pondered for a moment, and said: "The wind blows a thousand lines of the ponytail."

After he finished speaking, he casually glanced at the expressions of the princes, and pointed casually: "Third brother, you come first."

With Xiaosi's inner response, Emperor Jing knew not only Cang Tiansu's military career in the past four years, but also a general idea. He knew that he had put a lot of effort into writing and composing.

Of course, Emperor Cang Jing was confident that Cang Tiansu would be able to answer the question right away, but if he had time to think about it, he could improve the answer, not to mention that the difference could only be seen if there was a comparison. Emperor Cang Jing was also aware of Cang Tianrui's level.

Cang Tianrui came out of the crowd, purposely taking a step longer than Cang Tiansu had just taken, standing in front of all the brothers, and said without hesitation: "Return to father, my son's second couplet is: Rain hits a piece of wool felt."

Emperor Jing didn't show any emotion on his face, looked at the sky and said: "Second brother, are you okay?"

"The rain falls on the lotus plate with ten thousand pearls." Cang Tianci didn't move his heels, and directly said the second couplet while standing on the spot. He did intend to avoid it. He knew that many courtiers were secretly sizing and comparing at this time, so he deliberately showed weakness to show Mind.

"... Tiansu?" Cang Jinglan continued to ask.

Cang Tiansu's heart shuddered when he was deliberately distinguished from the previous "Second" and "Third". He could feel the changes in the eyes of the courtiers and brothers around him for a moment, and sighed helplessly in his heart. Fang Lang said: " The sun shines on the dragon scales and ten thousand points of gold."

Cang Jinglan's eyes flickered, and he blurted out: "Okay, what a 'Sunshine Dragon Scale Ten Thousand Spots of Gold'! This sentence is gorgeous in rhetoric, with a broad artistic conception, and it has the atmosphere of a prosperous age."

"I don't dare to be praised by my father." Cang Tiansu calmly glanced at Emperor Cangjing's clothes at this time, and explained, "It's my son who saw the scorching sun reflected on the golden silk peacock feather robe that my father is wearing today, shining brightly. Hui, the prosperous age of Mingjun will last for thousands of years, and only then can this sentence be obtained."

Without a trace, Cang Tian turned the turmoil among the three most promising princes into a small flattery, and resolved the strange emotions in his eyes after listening to him.

Although he knew that he had other plans, Cang Jinglan still enjoyed it very much, and the soreness in his heart was slightly relieved, because he smiled and said: "Even so, this couplet is still very good."

Emperor Cang Jing paused for a while, and looked at him with deep meaning: "I have already said before that I will reward the leader heavily. Since your second line is born from my robe, I will reward it to you."

This is true, there is no such thing as a cold wind. I took off the clothes I was wearing and gave them to my son. Li Quan slandered in his heart that his actions were becoming more and more unreliable. Hold it up, ready to take Jingdi's clothes.

The displeasure in Cang Jinglan's eyes flashed away. For the first time, he felt that this old man who had always been knowledgeable and interesting was so blind. He didn't even look at Li Quan. On Cang Tiansu's shoulders, the corners of his lips curled up, and his voice was extremely low: "Only someone like you deserves to wear this suit."

I want to say more, a messenger general has come over, reporting that Master Ning Yuan has arrived at the gate of the city, Emperor Jing looked away, ordered the gate to be opened, and went down to greet him in person.

Master Ningyuan has always been known as a living Buddha among the people. This time he came to Beijing in his old age. Although his beard and hair are completely white, his face is full of wrinkles, and there is a string of Buddhist beads hanging on his wrist, he can still stand on his own. The senility of an ordinary old man.

Surrounded by the crowd, Emperor Cang Jing walked out of the city gate, looked at the vaguely familiar face, and rarely showed a bit of respect—although the respect was only superficial, please politely ask Master to move. Step into the palace.

Although the palace has always had a prohibition against receiving foreign men, but since Master Ning Yuan's reputation is mainly due to his age, there are no such concerns.

It was rare for the emperor to be so solemn. In order to show her hospitality, the empress ordered someone to move out of a palace, sweep it clean, burn incense and wait for the master.

But the emperor didn't give her such a face. He asked Master Ning Yuan what he meant, and built a Buddhist hall next to the Leng Palace in the south, specially for her to live in. He didn't say hello to the queen from the beginning to the end. He really didn't have any worries Twenty years of love between husband and wife.

Emperor Jing put on a gesture of eagerly wanting to chat with Ning Yuan alone, and quickly dismissed a large group of sons and courtiers behind him, and ran into the hut to have an in-depth conversation with Master Ning Yuan.

The old man had already left, and Cang Tianci looked at his elder brother, smiled lightly, and said, "Elder brother has a brilliant literary talent and outstanding talent, and my younger brother is ashamed of himself."

Cang Tiansu pulled the loose robe on his body, unbuttoned Cang Jinglan's fastening for him, put it in Liu Quan's hand, and said: "This is a gift from the emperor, please keep it, and don't damage it. " Then he turned his head to look at Cang Tianci, with a little indifference between his brows: "I can't afford such absurd praise, my second brother is too praised."

His mind was still stuck at the moment when he was teased by Cang Jinglan just now, he was unavoidably annoyed and angry, nodded to Cang Tianci, ignored others, and left.

Cang Tianrui was left out in the cold in front of Emperor Jing just now, and this time he came up unwilling to be lonely, and sneered in Cang Tianci's ear with a strong voice: "Did you see, second brother, are you willing to put your hot face on it, man But you won’t even give you a cold ass?”

Cang Tianci was quite disappointed at first, but now when he heard him say this, he frowned and reprimanded him: "What nonsense are you talking about, that's our elder brother, if I hear you disrespecting your elder brother like this again in the future, don't blame me for turning my face!"

Cang Tianrui spit on the ground, and scolded before Cang Tianci got angry again: "What's so great, what is he, there is a mother who is a prostitute, and she can't be clean, so you are the only Holding it in the palm of your hand like a baby, first it was the one surnamed Duan, and now it's with the father..."

Unable to say the following words, Cang Tianci slapped him hard with his backhand, his face turned yellow with anger, and he lifted up and pointed at Cang Tianrui with trembling fingers: "How dare you say such a thing?"

Cang Tianrui has lived to such a great age, the stars are holding the moon, gold and jade are precious, who dares to give him a finger, this is the first time he was beaten in his life, and he was slapped directly in front of civil and military officials A slap, how can I bear this tone, shame and anger at the same time, covering the right cheek and shouting: "Could I be wrong, looking at others is blind, he is just a..."

Before he finished speaking, he was slapped on the face again, this time on the left cheek, Cang Tianrui was startled and angry, and before he could continue to yell, he listened to Cang Tianci's categorical order: "Gag his mouth for me!" !"

The same son in name, Cang Tianci is five years older than Cang Tianrui, and has received many serious errands, and has many more people under him than Cang Tianrui.

Although the palace is not allowed to carry knives and guns, after all Cang Tianci's side has the upper hand. After a brief confrontation, several people brought by Cang Tianrui were pinned to the ground.

Although the sky gave the order to pout, the guards did not dare to take it seriously. One guard had already rushed up, but suddenly realized the stakes in it. Standing in the middle of the two princes.

Cang Tianrui didn't expect that his brother would really turn his back on him. He was stunned for a while, and his eyes suddenly turned red: "It's been like this since I was a child, and he has always been more important than me in your heart. Why, why?!"

Cang Tianci sighed sadly and helplessly, and signaled his subordinates to let go of Cang Tianrui's bodyguards, opened his lips, remained silent for a while, finally had nothing to say, left him, turned and left.

The most watched eldest son of the emperor threw away the clothes just given by the emperor and left. The sudden conflict between the remaining two princes naturally attracted the attention of many people. Although the two voices were not high-pitched, there was no specific reason for the conflict I heard it, but many people have heard the general idea of ​​what follows.

The friendly courtiers exchanged glances calmly, and each of them understood that this was obviously a love-hate emotional dispute between the three princes who were most likely to aspire to the throne.

The right minister is the current head of the Li family who is over half a century old, and he gestured to his own son Li Renqiang, indicating that he will go back home with him today.

Li Renqiang could figure out what his father was looking for with the soles of his feet, but he had no choice but to ignore him, so he reluctantly nodded his head, which was accepted.