I became the leopard cub of the paranoid emperor

Seeing that Luo Bai hadn't let go of the washbasin, Shuangxi shouted in a low voice: "Let go." After speaking, she stretched out her foot and stepped on Luo Bai's instep, rubbing it slowly and hard, but looked at Chu Yuzhao, afraid that he would Turn around at this point.

The back of Luo Bai's feet hurt from being stepped on, hissing hissingly, he could only say: "Okay, okay, don't step on it, I'll let you go."

Shuangxi was afraid that if he let go, he would lose his strength, so he quickly relaxed his strength, thinking that this person didn't take the opportunity to bully him, so he let go slowly, and said: "Then hold it carefully, I will let it go. "

With the water basin completely returned to his hand, Shuangxi's heart finally fell to the ground. At the same time, he glanced triumphantly at the person next to him, raised his chin, and was about to walk towards the window with a victorious gesture.

Unexpectedly, Luo Bai suddenly grabbed the handkerchief beside the washbasin, dipped it in the water, twisted it again, and walked towards the emperor by the window faster than him.

"Come on, wash your face." Luo Bai walked to Chu Yuzhao's side, unfolded the veil and was about to press it on his face, but Chu Yuzhao raised his hand to block it, took the veil again, and began to wipe his face.

"How's the water temperature? Is it suitable?" Luo Bai tilted his head and stared at him.

The veil was not wrung out, and two drops of water hung on Chu Yuzhao's brows, making his brows harder and deeper, which made Luo Bai very happy to see it.

Chu Yuzhao didn't want to make a sound at first, but from the corner of his eye he could see the boy's eyes filled with anticipation, so he finally answered, "That's right."

Although it is a word without emotional ups and downs, Luo Bai is also very happy, he said with a smile: "The veil I twisted must be good."

Shuangxi, who was still standing at the door with a basin in his hand, was so angry that his teeth were on the verge of being crushed.

So what if you grab the water basin?so what?The opportunity to show his face in front of His Majesty was still taken away by this guy.

Insidious, this man is too insidious.

Really pissed off.

After Chu Yuzhao wiped his face, he sat down in front of the desk, Luo Bai took the handkerchief and returned it to Shuangxi, and Shuangxi snatched it away, and walked away angrily with the basin in his hand.

The chief eunuch on duty brought in a bowl of soup, then quietly retreated and closed the palace door.Chu Yuzhao sat on the chair, and signaled Luo Bai with his chin to drink the bowl of soup in front of him.

"What is this?" Luo Bai obediently picked up the bowl, a smell of medicine poured into his nostrils, and he stopped his movements again.

Chu Yuzhao began to review the memorial, and casually replied: "Anshen Tang."

Luo Bai leaned closer and smelled it, his face wrinkled tightly: "This is not soup, it's medicine, bitter medicine."

Chu Yuzhao didn't know if he heard it or not, and started to review the memorial with only a vermilion pen in his hand.

Luo Bai took two steps towards him, and explained earnestly: "This is really not soup, it's medicine, and it smells so bitter. The pearl tofu soup that Aunt Yuan Fu made me drink, stewed jade bamboo shoot soup in casserole, and pearl fish slice soup are all delicious. It's delicious, but it doesn't smell like it, it's similar to the medicine my mother drank."

After listening to it, Chu Yuzhao said noncommittally: "It sounds like the food is pretty good."

"I, I tell you—"

"Drink it up." Chu Yuzhao interrupted him lightly.

Luo Bai stared at him blankly, with an incredulous expression on his face, his lips moved a little, but finally he didn't dare to make a sound, and only looked at the soup in his hand with a sad face.

Chu Yuzhao threw the memorial back on the table, raised his eyelids and looked at him: "Didn't you just say that you were scared? This is the soup for you to calm your nerves. Drink it all, and don't leave a drop."

"I'm not really that scared."

"Ok?"

"Really, I'm actually not afraid. I don't need to scare and calm my nerves."

Chu Yuzhao raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows: "Since you are not afraid, then go back to Yuqing Palace."

"Oh, wait, I felt it carefully again, maybe I'm still a little scared." Luo Bai pretended to press his chest: "Bang bang, bang bang, bang bang."

Seeing that Chu Yuzhao lowered his eyes and did not speak, Luo Bai was afraid of being driven back to Yuqing Palace, so he stopped dawdling and took the bowl to his mouth.

The soup exudes a strong smell of medicine, and I can imagine what it tastes like before I tasted it. Luo Bai held the bowl in one hand, pinched his nose with the other, and took a shallow sip.

"Ah!" He swallowed and sighed exaggeratedly.

He peeked at Chu Yuzhao from above the rim of the bowl, and found that he was not staring at him, so he only moistened the skin of his lips with each mouthful, but swallowed and sighed one after another, and the movement became louder and louder.

Although Chu Yuzhao was pinching the center of his brows, his brows became tighter and tighter, and the veins on his forehead were also faintly throbbing.

"what--"

"If you make any noise again, get out of this room immediately."

Luo Bai fell silent, and only sipped the soup lightly.

Chu Yuzhao said coldly again: "I'll count to three, if you haven't finished your drink, go out too."

Luo Bai was startled, he didn't dare to dawdle any longer, and before Chu Yuzhao could say a word, he began to gulp down his mouth.

Chu Yuzhao raised his eyelids, looked ahead indifferently, and counted without any emotion: "One——"

"I'm done drinking."

Chu Yuzhao paused, then turned to look at Luo Bai: "Have you finished drinking?"

"Drink, finish it." Luo Bai opened his mouth and panted, but there was a smile on his face, and there was a circle of brown medicine juice around his lips.

"Look, I drank it all in one gulp." He showed the empty bowl to Chu Yuzhao proudly and proudly, "Am I good? You just counted one, hiccup."

Hearing the loud hiccup, Chu Yuzhao tilted his head back slightly, stretched out his fingers and tapped his mouth in the air: "Wipe your mouth clean."

Seeing that Luo Bai was about to lift up his sleeves, he warned again: "If you dare to use your sleeves, get out immediately."

"No, no, no, I don't need sleeves." Luo Bai put down his hands cleanly, but stuck out his tongue and licked it around his lips.

After the little pink tongue licked it around, the concoction on the lips smeared, and the area was wider, just like growing a beard.

Chu Yuzhao took two deep breaths, couldn't bear it anymore, took out a simple handkerchief from his sleeve, and threw it into his arms: "Wipe it off!"

"No, I can lick it clean, I often lick it like this, it's very convenient..."

Under Chu Yuzhao's gaze, Luo Bai's voice became smaller and smaller, and he finally picked up the handkerchief and said, "Okay, I'll just wipe it with the handkerchief."

Chu Yuzhao didn't want to look at him anymore, picked up the ink pen and continued to review the memorial, but after reading the two notebooks, he found that the people next to him hadn't moved at all.

He looked sideways, and found that Luo Bai put the veil on his face, raised his head, and stood still in this strange posture.

"What are you doing now?"

"This veil smells so good, it's from my brother's body..." The veil heaved deeply, it was Luo Bai taking a deep breath.

Chu Yuzhao seemed to want to get angry, but he held back and only squeezed the vermilion pen in his hand tightly: "Take off the veil."

Although Luo Bai still wanted to smell it, he could hear something wrong in Chu Yuzhao's tone, so he quickly took off the veil from his face and handed it out: "Thank you brother."

"No more." Chu Yuzhao didn't even look at the veil.

"I don't want it anymore?" Luo Bai looked at the handkerchief over and over again: "What should I do if I don't want it anymore?"

"Throw it away."

"Throw it away, what a pity..." Luo Bai muttered puzzledly: "Why do you have to throw away the good handkerchief?"

Chu Yuzhao threw the vermilion pen on the desk in frustration, and called to the palace door: "Come here."

The door of the palace opened in response, and the eunuch standing outside came in: "Your Majesty."

"Prepare hot water, I want to take a bath."

Although the eunuch wondered why the emperor took a bath so early tonight, he still replied respectfully: "Yes."

Chu Yuzhao lay in the steaming hot soup pool, with his arms on the edge of the pool, letting the hot water spread over his strong chest, and closed his eyes in a relaxed manner.

He never let the palace servants serve him when he took a bath, and there was no one else in the bathroom, and his ears, which had been noisy all night by Luo Bai, finally calmed down.

Chu Yuzhao took a bath, Luo Bai had nothing to do, and after returning to the bedroom, he began to wander around with nothing to do.After looking at the cloisonné enamel double-crane incense burner for a while, I marveled at the ancient and clumsy Panlong Hanzhu, stared at the golden lotus plate, and waited for the water to drip.

The water leaked every moment, and the crystal drops hung precariously in the dragon's mouth. Luo Bai's eyes were blurred, and the drop still refused to drip. Finally, he gave up and began to look at other dragons. thing.

When he walked to the bedside, he found a pen holder on the bedside table, but there was no pen in it, only the peacock feather he gave to Chu Yuzhao was inserted.

Looking at the peacock feather, Luo Bai felt elated for a while, and then leaned forward to look at it for a while before walking away.

When he went around the screen at the corner of the hall, he saw an iron chain hanging on the ground, one end of which was welded into the wall.He suddenly remembered that when his elder brother was tortured by the little villain last time, he tied himself with this iron chain.

Luo Bai squatted down, picked up the end hanging on the ground and looked carefully, only to see that there were traces of a darker color than the surroundings in the wrist ring that was shining with cold light, like blood stains.

For some unknown reason, he put the iron ring on his wrist, closed it with a click, raised his wrist, and looked at the light.

"Put that thing down." A cold voice sounded from behind.

Luo Bai turned his head abruptly and saw Chu Yuzhao standing behind him.He had just finished taking a bath, and he was wearing a black silk nightgown, with waterfall-like long hair hanging down his shoulders, making his chiseled face handsome and pale.

At this time, his eyes were fixed on the iron chain in Luo Bai's hand, and there was a bit of hostility in his long and narrow phoenix eyes, and he was obviously on the verge of an outbreak.

Luo Bai had already trained his keen reflexes from his mother, and immediately went to untie the iron chain in his hand, but the more anxious he became, the more he couldn't untie it, and he tugged randomly, making the iron chain rattle.

During this period, he observed Chu Yuzhao's reaction with his eyes. If his expression began to ease, it meant that he was basically fine. If it remained the same, he would continue to speak soft words, but if it became more severe, he would be ready to run away, begging for mercy Needless to say, because if you run slowly, you will be beaten.

While looking at Chu Yuzhao, Luo Bai broke off the iron ring on his hand, and said skillfully: "I was wrong, I don't touch things randomly, mother—brother, don't be angry, I was wrong..."

Chu Yuzhao looked at him with lowered eyes, without saying a word, and his expression did not show any change.Luo Bai's heart became more and more uncertain, and the voice of begging for mercy became smaller and smaller, and finally there was no voice.

Chu Yuzhao took two steps closer, and suddenly stretched out his hand, Luo Bai retracted his neck reflexively, blinking his eyes quickly.But that hand landed on his wrist, and lightly pressed a certain part of the iron ring. After a click, the iron ring fell off his wrist and fell to the ground with a bang.

Luo Bai raised his head and did not speak. After looking at each other for a while, Chu Yuzhao reached out to the back of his neck, lifted him up from the ground, and walked towards the entrance of the hall like a chicken.

Luo Bai knew that he was going to throw himself out, although he was reluctant, but now he didn't dare to say that he wanted to stay, he just resisted passively, let him lift the back of his neck, with both hands hanging down on his chest, The feet didn't cooperate and moved accordingly, dragging all the way on the ground.

Chu Yuzhao dragged him out of the palace door, let go, and retreated back to close the door with a bang.

Several of the personal servants of Qiande Palace who had been searched had already returned, and with the help of Qiande Palace, they asked Shuangxi to go back to the imperial tea room.Shuangxi passed by from the other end of the passage, just in time to see this scene, and was immediately elated.

Should!Let you grab the job, let you rush to get in front of His Majesty.

Shuangxi didn't look too much, and walked out behind a eunuch, but couldn't help asking: "This father-in-law, what will happen if the servant offends His Majesty?"

The eunuch glanced at him: "Why do you ask these questions?"

Shuangxi was shocked, realized that he had asked the wrong question, and quickly said: "I have no rules. I was too excited when I saw His Majesty, so I lost my sense of propriety when I spoke. Please pretend that you didn't hear me."

But the eunuch waved his hand indifferently: "It's okay to tell you, Your Majesty is benevolent, even if we servants do something wrong sometimes, as long as it is not a serious offense, Your Majesty will not punish you."

Shuangxi occasionally heard the private conversations of the imperial teahouse eunuchs, such as hearing that a certain young eunuch was beaten to death by His Majesty again, and a new nursery rhyme was circulated in the market, which sang about the harsh and cruel methods of the emperor.

Shuangxi didn't believe this, otherwise she wouldn't have set herself the goal of becoming an imperial eunuch, but she was still a little disappointed to hear that His Majesty wouldn't punish her as long as there were no serious offenses.

"Can't you just beat him with a board? It's fine to kneel for two hours."

The eldest lady listened to the disappointment in his tone, stopped and hissed: "Hey, let me tell you, you little father-in-law really want us servants to be punished so much?"

"Ah, no, no, father-in-law, don't get me wrong, I just said that casually, worrying for the father-in-law." Shuangxi immediately apologized.

The chief eunuch snorted dissatisfiedly, and continued to walk forward. Shuangxi stopped talking indiscriminately.

Luo Bai was thrown out of the house by Chu Yuzhao and shut the door.If other people were treated like this by the emperor, they would have been terrified, but apart from a little frustration and depression, he was not frightened, nor did he have the feeling of hurting his self-esteem.

He even dragged a little eunuch passing by in a hurry: "Sister, I was kicked out by His Majesty, what can you do to let me go back in?"

The little eunuch was so frightened that he waved his hands again and again, and hurried away with his head down.

The door was always closed, Luo Bai didn't knock on the door directly, but leaned against the door and listened to the movement inside for a while, then sat down on the floor against the wall.

In order to attract Chu Yuzhao's attention, he deliberately talked loudly to himself.

"Actually, it's not bad to sleep here. I think it should be quite comfortable to lie down."

"The shoelace is loose again, let me tie it."

There are also some inexplicable self-made ballads in the middle.

"Luo Bai hits the frog, the frog croaks, Luo Bai hits the iron pillar, and the iron pillar wows. I was wrong, help me, Luo Bai stop hitting."

……

Chu Yuzhao sat in front of the desk reviewing the memorial, pretending not to hear the movement outside, but Luo Bai's voice became louder and louder, and even began to knock on the door lightly: "Zhen, do you want to drink almond milk? We each have a bowl, You drink inside, I drink outside..."

Chu Yuzhao's face became more and more serious, and when Luo Bai started to snore loudly, he threw away the ink pen he was holding tightly in his hand, and was about to get up and call the guards to take him away.

He got up too fast, the hem of his clothes swept the lower shelf of the desk, and with a bang, a small wooden box was brought to the ground, and a piece of broken porcelain with white background and blue flowers fell out of the box.

Chu Yuzhao paused, staring at the piece of broken porcelain, slowly picked it up after a while, put it back into the wooden box, and put it under the desk.

Luo Bai was lying at the door, when suddenly the door next to him was opened, and bright lights poured out.

Chu Yuzhao stood at the door, holding the open door with both hands, looking down at him from a height.Because of the backlight, his face was hidden in the darkness, and only a tall silhouette could be seen.

Luo Bai was lying on the ground, his eyes squinted by the sudden light, but he smiled happily and said, "Are you here to pick me up?"

Chu Yuzhao maintained the posture of looking down and did not move, and asked after a while: "Are you just lying at the door like this?"

"Well, I'm just lying at the door with a shameless face." Luo Bai's eyes lit up, and he changed from a lying position to a sitting position.

He had annoyed his mother before, and when he went to try to please his mother, she would use this word, so he didn't feel that it had a derogatory connotation, but felt very kind.

What's more, if the word is exported, it means that the mother's attitude will change.

Sure enough, Chu Yuzhao didn't say anything to drive him away, and turned back to the house, but at the moment of turning around, a faint sigh floated from his mouth.

Luo Bai rolled his eyes, immediately got up and followed in.

He stood up quickly and entered the room, and walked to the desk in two steps in three steps: "I will grind the ink, I will grind the ink, this is my job."

Chu Yuzhao glanced at his clothes, remembered that he had rolled on the ground just now, and now it was late at night, and he was about to go to bed, so he called: "Come here."

After the waiter came in, he said, "Take him to take a bath."

"Yes." The servant responded respectfully, turned to Luo Bai and said, "Mr. Luo, this way please."

"Take a bath now, that's fine." Luo Bai walked towards the servant, "Let's go, let's go, I'll go take a bath."

Chu Yuzhao looked at the two ink marks on his left face, and couldn't help but add: "Wash your whole body clean."

The waiter seemed to be stunned for a moment, and immediately replied: "Yes."

Although there is a bathroom in the sleeping hall, it is for the emperor's exclusive use, and the servants would never dare to take Luo Bai there to take a bath.There is also a soup pool in Qiande Palace, which was built according to the palace system at the beginning, for the concubines to bathe when they were sleeping.It's just that now the emperor doesn't have a single concubine, so Tangchi is just sitting there idle.

Luo Bai's identity is quite special in this palace, he is neither a slave nor a master, so I don't know where to wash it properly.But this servant was very good at figuring out the holy meaning, thinking of what the emperor told him to wash his whole body just now, his heart shivered, and he felt that he finally understood something.

"Your Majesty, are you taking Mr. Luo to take a bath in Ningshuang Pond?" the servant asked tentatively.

"Ningshuang Pond?" Chu Yuzhao frowned, as if he was thinking about where the Ningshuang Pond was.

The servant introduced tactfully: "In the past, women would bathe in the Ningshuang Pool. There is a special waterway in that pool leading into the hot spring in the back mountain. After bathing, the skin is delicate and white. It comes with—"

"The Ningshuang Pool is the Ningshuang Pool, just wash people clean." Chu Yuzhao interrupted him.

"Yes."

The waiter said in his heart, it really is so.