I became the leopard cub of the paranoid emperor

Accompanied by Chu Yu, Luo Bai left the palace without any questioning, got into the carriage parked at the gate of the palace, and drove towards the other side of the long street.

Although he had already been out of the palace twice, Luo Bai still found it very novel when he heard the noisy voices, so he raised the curtain of the car and looked out.

"Wang Feng, where are we going?" He asked.

Regular clothes were prepared on the carriage, and Chu Yu began to take off the court clothes on his body to change clothes, and the changed court clothes were thrown aside in balls.Hearing Luo Bai's question, he tied his belt and asked, "Where do you want to go?"

How could Luo Bai know where to go to play? After thinking for a long time, he asked: "Is there a rabbit hole near here? Let's dig out rabbits."

Chu Yu had already fastened his belt and was sitting on the seat changing his shoes. Hearing this, he laughed out loud and said, "Can you really figure it out? Digging down a rabbit hole? Tell you, there are so many things to do in this capital city. Cricket fighting and cockfighting in Lijiajiao, shopping arena in Lijiajiao, famous actors in Wang Yuanzi singing, you can’t even play. You are lucky today, and you met this king, and this king will take you, a country bumpkin, to learn more.”

"Okay, gain insight, I like to gain insight." Luo Bai said happily.

The carriage stopped in front of a pavilion with a rather luxurious signboard, Chu Yu straightened his robes, and got out of the carriage first, Luo Bai hurriedly followed.

The two walked in front, followed by two young servants. Although the knower at the door never knew the exact identity of Chu Tong, he often saw him. Dui smiled and greeted them, leading the way for the two of them.

As soon as he stepped through the gate, Luo Bai heard a loud cry, as if the roof was about to be torn down.After walking through the passage, a hall appeared in front of them. There was a high platform in the center, and two people were fighting inside.

"There are people fighting over there." He told Chu Yu.

"That's not a fight, it's a competition, a ring fight, you know?"

"Oh, I know competition."

The hall was full of people, everyone shouted at the two on the ring, some even stood up, the air was full of excitement and fanaticism.

Luo Bai had never seen such a scene before, and he couldn't take his eyes off it, and remembered what those people in the village said, that Huazi in the city loves to abduct people in crowded places, and for fear of losing Chu Tong, he stretched out his hand and pulled his sleeves with.

Chu Yu clicked his tongue, and whispered to him: "Don't bother me, it seems that you have never seen the market. This king is here, what are you afraid of?"

Hearing what he said, Luo Bai let go of his hand, and said in a low voice: "Then you should pay more attention to me, and don't let me be abducted by Huazi."

Chu Yu was surprised and said: "What are you doing abducting? People are abducting children and daughters-in-law, abducting you back to eat rice?" But after he finished speaking, he looked Luo Bai up and down again, and touched his chin meaningfully: "But It’s not certain, maybe I will abduct you and sell you to someone for nothing.”

Luo Bai became even more nervous when he heard this: "Forget it, I'd better go out, I'll wait for you outside." After speaking, he was about to go outside.

Seeing that he took it seriously, Chu Yu hurriedly pulled people back and coaxed: "I'm just kidding you, I'm just making a joke. There are only serious customers here, and Huazi can't get in."

Just as he was talking, a woman with most of her breasts exposed came up to her with a coquettish smile: "My lord, I'm looking forward to you, and my servant is waiting to serve you tea."

There was a coquettish smile on Chu Yu's face, but his mouth was unforgiving: "You want to serve me? Wash off the two catties of powder on your face first, and let me see the real face."

The woman was very annoyed, but she didn't dare to attack, she just snorted coquettishly, then turned and left.

The Zhike who led the way turned around and asked, "Guest, is it still the box on the second floor?"

Chu Yu unfolded the folding fan in his hand, fanned and said, "The old place."

Luo Bai followed Chu Yu to the box on the second floor, and sat down on both sides of a table, and the waiter also hurriedly brought tea, melons and fruits.

There is only a row of fences in front of this box, and it is facing the high platform in the center of the house, with a very good view.The two fighting on the stage had already decided the winner, one was carried off the stage, the other clasped his hands amidst thunderous cheers, and some cheering guests threw some silver ingots onto the stage.

Chu Yu tapped the winner with his folding fan, and introduced to Luo Bai: "He is called Yang Bao, because of his fierce and fast punching style, he is known as Yang Baozi, he has a high winning rate, and he has been the champion here for several months. "

Luo Bai seemed to understand, but when he heard the word leopard clearly, he couldn't help staring at the person on the stage a few more times.

Another big man with muscular muscles came up on the field, and after clasping his fists to the surroundings, a gong sounded, and the second round began.

The waiter came in with a tray, and Chu Yu took out a stack of banknotes from his pocket, took out one and put it on the tray: "I'll bet on Yang Baozi this time."

"Okay, the honored guest of Weifengfang No. 100 will add 100 taels to Yang Baozi." The waiter shouted at the people below, and the staff all echoed in unison: "Yang Baozi thanked the honored guest of Weifengfang No. [-] for [-] taels."

The waiter brought the tray in front of Luo Bai again: "May I ask who this young master is betting on?"

Luo Bai didn't know what betting meant at all, but imitated Chu Yu and said: "This time I bet on Yang Baozi."

The waiter waited for him to throw bets into the tray, but Luo Bai ignored it after saying this, and turned to look at the stage.

Seeing the waiter standing there in a daze, Chu Tong put a bank note into the tray: "This is his bet."

"Okay, the honored guest of Prestige Room No. 100 will give Yang Baozi [-] taels of Yang Baozi."

"Yang Baozi, Xie Weifeng Room No. 100 VIP, [-] taels."

The two on the stage fought again, and the atmosphere in the arena reached its peak again. Chu Yu stood up to encourage Yang Baozi, and after shouting for a while, he turned his head and saw Luo Bai still sitting reservedly, and couldn't help but said: "You still sit down?" What are you doing? Why don't you encourage Yang Baozi? You made a bet."

Luo Bai put his hands on his knees and blinked innocently at him.

"What I put on the tray just now is silver, one hundred for you and one hundred for me. If Yang Baozi loses the fight, the silver will belong to someone else. Do you understand?"

Luo Bai groaned: "You put the silver just now, and there is one hundred of mine in it. If Yang Baozi loses the fight, the silver will be gone?"

"Smart." Chu Yu gave him a thumbs up.

Luo Bai's whole body trembled.

He knew that silver was a good thing. Every time my mother took silver to the county seat, she would bring rice noodles, oil, salt, and a piece of delicious meat pie or candy when she came back.

"Can you buy meatloaf with 100 taels of silver?"

"can."

"Where's the sugar man outside?"

Chu Yu said: "100 taels of silver can buy up all the sugar figurines and meat pies in the entire capital."

Luo Bai fell silent, quietly staring at the melon seed plate on the table in front of him, Chu Yu wanted to say more, when he got up suddenly, put his hands around his mouth, the veins on his forehead bulged, and shouted hoarsely towards the stage : "Yang Baozi, hit him! Hit him!"

For the next time, Luo Bai kept jumping his feet to cheer Yang Baozi on the stage. He rolled up his sleeves, his face was flushed red, and beads of sweat ooze from his forehead.

Yang Baozi also lived up to his expectations, and he played very well in the next two games, beating the opponent so hard that he couldn't get up.Chu Yu sat at the table with a smile, and raised a finger to Luo Bai: "You have already won this amount."

"How much is this?"

"1000 taels."

Luo Bai looked at him blankly, and asked again: "How much is 1000 taels?"

Chu Yu said: "You can buy all the sugar figurines and meat pies in the capital, every day, for more than half a year."

1000 taels of silver is too much!

Luo Bai was so excited that he ran around the small box twice, wishing he could turn into a leopard immediately and run wildly to find a mountain.

Unexpectedly, Yang Baozi lost again and again in the next few games, and lost all the money they won, including the principal.

Chu Yu was fine, he didn't care about the money at first, he just came here for fun, but after Luo Bai knew that his sugar figurines and meat pies for more than half a year were gone, he sat there in a daze, with a lifeless expression on his face. Lovely.

"If you lose, you lose. It's no big deal. Next time we go to fight crickets, we have a better chance of winning." Chu Tong comforted him.

The next challenger hadn't played yet, and the guests in the hall also sat down and started chatting and drinking tea.As they talked and talked, they gradually began to talk about the affairs of the court, which passed into the ears of Luo Bai upstairs.

"The distant nephew of my neighbor's family entered the palace since he was a child, and he was the one who served him. Yesterday when his old lady went out, she was crying. When people around asked, they said it was a letter from the palace. The youngest son in the palace Suddenly the sudden illness disappeared, and the body was not even handed over to the family, it is said that it was thrown into a mass grave."

"...The one in Miyagi, that's... the people who waited on him, not many of them left their corpses..."

As soon as a drunken guest finished speaking, the person beside him hurriedly handed him the teacup: "You're drinking too much, and you're talking nonsense, sober up, wake up."

The man pushed the teacup, stood up unsteadily and said: "I'm not talking nonsense, who doesn't know that the emperor is cruel by nature, and kills people at every turn—"

Before he finished speaking, he felt the heat on the top of his head, and water flowed down his face, and when he reached out to touch it, a few tea leaves were still stained on his face.

"Fuck, who the hell is pouring tea upstairs?"

Everyone looked up to the second floor, and saw a handsome young man standing behind the railing. He was dressed in luxurious clothes, but his face was full of anger, and he was holding a teapot with the lid uncovered in his hand.

Luo Bai threw the empty teapot at the drunk man downstairs: "I'll tell you to talk nonsense, I'll smash you to death, you bastard."

The drunk man was quickly pulled away by the people beside him, and the teapot fell to pieces on the ground. Seeing that it missed, Luo Bai grabbed the melon seed dish and apple pears on the table and smashed them.The drunk dodged left and right, swearing, and wanted to go upstairs with a few cronies.

How could the servants accompanying Chu Yu let them go upstairs?He was stuck at the stairs, fighting with the few people who came up.

Seeing that the drunk man was also among them, Luo Bai rolled up his sleeves and was about to rush in, but was dragged by Chu Yu, and said in a low voice: "Ancestor, I brought you out secretly, if you fight here, I will How will you deal with it then? You don't have to do it, just leave it to your subordinates to deal with it."

The servants accompanying Chu Yu were all skilled, and quickly pushed those people to the ground.The drunk was still swearing, his mouth was not clean, and the servant stuffed his mouth with a dirty rag.

"Let's go, let's not stay here." Chu Yu pushed Luo Bai downstairs, "Don't worry, my subordinates will take care of them."

When Luo Bai passed the drunk man, Chu Tong didn't pay attention, and let him stretch out his foot and kicked fiercely, which made the drunk man roll twice on the ground.

After going out to the street, Chu Yu brushed off his sleeves, frowned and said, "What a disappointment, let's go to another place to play. If it was early, we could go to see crickets or go to the theater, but it's getting late now, I Take you to Huifeng Tower to eat his specialties."

Luo Bai was no longer excited, and said listlessly: "I don't want to eat, I want to go home."

"Go home?" Chu Yu didn't react at first, and then asked tentatively: "You mean to go back to the palace?"

Luo Bai said: "Yes, returning to the palace is going home."

Chu Yu looked at his profile, and after a moment of silence, said: "Let's go, I'll take you home."

It was dusk, the two sat side by side, Luo Bai lost interest in looking out the car window, and asked in a dull tone: "Wang Feng, why do they speak ill of His Majesty?"

Chu Tong sighed: "There is a thick wall between the palace and the outside, if there is any word spread, it must have changed several times, don't take it seriously."

Luo Bai looked at him, and said seriously: "I didn't take it seriously, I know that His Majesty is the best person in the world. But the lies they said, others will take it seriously."

Chu Yu said helplessly: "Those people can't stop their mouths. If you block one, there will be another. Just don't take it to your heart when you hear it."

Luo Bai lowered his head sullenly, played with his fingers, and said after a while: "No, I'm very angry, those words insisted on drilling into my heart. In the future, if I hear one, I will block the other. Whoever wants to speak ill of His Majesty , I scratched his mouth."

"All right, all right, you're amazing." Chu Yu smiled and shook his head.

At the gate of the palace, Chu Yu watched Luo Bai enter the palace gate, then turned around and got into the carriage.Luo Bai walked forward along the palace wall, feeling boredly with his hands for a small stone lion that would be located some distance away.

When he arrived at the gate of Qiande Palace, the guards would no longer stop him, allowing him to walk dejectedly towards the apse.

"Oh, Mr. Luo, I heard that you left the palace this afternoon?" Eunuch Cheng greeted him with a smile.

Luo Bai nodded: "Well, I'm out of the palace to play." After looking around, he asked: "Where is Your Majesty?"

"Your Majesty is busy." Eunuch Cheng changed the topic: "Have you had dinner yet?"

"No, I don't really want to eat."

Chenggong said: "It's okay not to have dinner. Your Majesty will be worried if he knows. If you have a poor appetite, how about some lotus leaf porridge and side dishes?"

"Okay, let's eat something." Luo Bai responded.

As a result, Luo Bai ate up two bowls of porridge, a few side dishes, and even a plate of scallion pastry.

Eunuch Cheng asked softly, "Young Master, do you want to add some more?"

Luo Bai hiccupped and said sullenly: "No, I don't have a good appetite today, so I don't want to eat."

After dinner, Luo Bai wanted to go back to Yuqing Palace before Chu Yuzhao came back.After he left Qiande Palace, he saw that the sky was completely dark, only a round of bright moonlight above his head.

He looked around to see if there was no one around, so he got into the nearby flower garden, and when he came out again, he turned into a little snow-white leopard.He trotted in the empty garden, the moon moved slowly with him, and the soft light like silver sand leaked down, making his congested heart feel a little better.

Although the palace people were cleaning all the time, there were also fallen leaves on the ground in autumn. When the four soft pads of the little leopard stepped on them, the veins of the leaves made a slight cracking sound.

At this moment, he heard movement from behind the flower bed next to him. It seemed that someone was struggling and whining in pain as his mouth was covered.

Curious, he walked around the flower bed.

A little far away, two strange eunuchs were dragging a man to the side. The man was dragged lying on his back on the ground, kicking his feet on the ground desperately, with a veil stuffed in his mouth.

Luo Bai didn't know what they were going to do, so he just stood there and didn't move, until the man was dragged to a well in front of him, he realized that the two eunuchs wanted to throw him down the well.

That man also knew his own fate, he struggled even harder, and when he turned his head to Luo Bai's side, Luo Bai saw his face clearly, it was very familiar, it was the eunuch who served me during the day .

Luo Bai remembered him because there was not enough food for meals during the day, so the eunuch sent word to the imperial dining room to add more food. Although the weather was not hot, he was sweating all over his face at that time.It was another eunuch who comforted him in a low voice, saying that it was all right, His Majesty would not be angry because of such a trivial matter, Luo Bai heard it at the time.

Acquaintances, this is it.

Seeing that the two eunuchs dragged Chuanshan eunuch to the mouth of the well, Luo Bai rushed out and grabbed the back of one of the eunuchs' hands with his claws.

With a swipe, the eunuch had a few bloody scars on the back of his hand, and he let go of his hand in pain.

"What is this? What is this?" Just as another eunuch asked in panic, Luo Bai jumped up and grabbed his face again with his claws.The eunuch saw Luo Bai's sharp claws clearly, afraid of being scratched, he quickly let go and took a few steps back.

The eunuch Chuanshan had already taken this opportunity to run away from the mouth of the well. Because his hands were tied, he rubbed his mouth against a sharp stone to remove the veil that blocked his mouth.Then he staggered towards the avenue and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Come on, someone is going to commit murder, come on."

Several figures came rushing from a distance, and the flames were also lit up. A murderous eunuch saw that the situation was not good, and shouted: "Escape from the palace, and meet in the future."

The other didn't say anything, and jumped out after him. After a few back and forth, the two disappeared into the dark night.

The eunuch Chuanshan in the distance had been rescued, and was excitedly gesturing what happened, Luo Bai didn't stay any longer, turned around and went into the forest in the dark.

He continued to move forward, and after running for a while, he arrived at the West Temple.

The west hall is a separate side hall. When Chu Yuzhao handed over the wooden pony to Bu Qingfeng a few days ago, he told him to come to the west hall to nourish his soul.

Luo Bai couldn't help taking a few more glances, and saw a tall and slender familiar figure standing in front of the palace gate, it was Chu Yuzhao whom he hadn't seen all this time.

Luo Bai's heart skipped a beat, he immediately stopped, turned around and ran over there.

After running for two steps, he remembered the bundle on his back, took it off and climbed up a tree to hide it.

Chu Yuzhao stood facing the lake, and the moonlight elongated his shadow, adding to his loneliness.When he heard the rustling of the leaves beside him, he turned his head and saw a little snow-white leopard slowly coming out from the forest.

"Xiaobai." He called out in a low voice.

With the sound of Xiaobai, Luo Bai's mood improved for no reason, he trotted to Chu Yuzhao, raised his head and yelled.

Meow...

This sound is whiny and milky, with a long tail, and it sounds like a baby.

Chu Yuzhao squatted down, rubbed Xiaobao's head with his big hands, and said softly in that mellow and deep bass: "Do you still know how to return to my side? Huh?"