I became the leopard cub of the paranoid emperor

After dinner, Chu Yuzhao would read the booklet according to his old habit, and after the booklet was approved, he would draw on a piece of rice paper that was spread out.

Luo Bai also followed, and stood beside him. He knew that he could not make a sound at this time, because if there was any movement, Chu Yuzhao might drive him away, so he held his breath and stood there concentrating.

When Chu Yuzhao was painting, his expression was focused and calm, his thick eyelashes drooped, and his side face was clearly outlined by the candlelight. Luo Bai looked at the painting for a while, and then at him for a while.

"Did Master teach you how to draw these few days?" Chu Yuzhao asked without raising his head while painting the distant mountains.

Luo Bai said, "I have taught you."

"Then how do you draw?"

Luo Bai pondered for a while, then replied: "I can't play the qin as well as I do."

"Have you learned how to play the piano?" Chu Yuzhao gave him a sideways look.

Luo Bai scratched the back of his hand, and said, "I know a little bit, Master has taught me for a long time."

Chu Yuzhao seemed to be in a good mood tonight, and raised his chin to the piano under the window: "Go and play a song for me."

"Ah, you want to hear me play the piano?" Luo Bai asked in surprise.

Chu Yuzhao's pen paused, and suddenly regretted his proposal, he hesitated and did not answer.

But Luo Bai had already walked to the side of the piano, lifted the hem of his clothes and sat down gracefully, Chu Yuzhao couldn't say anything more.

Luo Bai caressed the strings with both hands, raised his hands and raised his feet, which seemed to be the case, which made Chu Yuzhao feel more at ease.

zheng...

He stirred a string and made a sound, then turned his head to look at Chu Yuzhao, showing a slightly nervous and shy smile, with a small dimple on his cheek.

Chu Yuzhao nodded lightly, indicating that he could start, and thought to himself that no matter how well he plays, he still has to praise him one or two sentences.

Careless, after all, careless.

After hearing Luo Bai playing a series of piano sounds, Chu Yuzhao only had this sentence in his mind.

The entire Qiande Palace resounded with a sharp and disorderly piano sound, like a file, it slammed through everyone's eardrums, and then poured it straight into the brain, stirring repeatedly, stirring the brain into a ball paste.

Luo Bai passionately flicked his hands on the strings, his body leaned forward and backward, and he closed his eyes slightly, as if he was immersed in his playing.

It was only then that Chu Yuzhao realized that he didn't learn how to play the piano from his master at all, but only learned the movements and expressions of playing the piano.

He reached out his hand several times to interrupt Luo Bai, but seeing his intoxicated appearance, he finally made no sound, and would stop when he played a short section.

But he guessed wrong again this time.

"The sound of the rooster crowing is foggy, and it's difficult to lift a flower handkerchief... I'm Elvis Presley... woo woo woo... Elvis Presley washes... Xiangxiang woo woo..."

Luo Bai began to sing while playing, and his voice was so emotional that it was hard for him to control himself.

Without hesitation, Chu Yuzhao walked out of the house. As soon as he went out, he saw Eunuch Cheng rushing up to meet him, and a few little eunuchs with pained faces were looking out from farther away.

"Your Majesty, are you going to stroll in the garden?" Eunuch Cheng asked thoughtfully.

"Go shopping." Chu Yuzhao strode out, and Eunuch Cheng quickly followed.

When Chu Yuzhao came back from the garden, Luo Bai had already bathed, and was half leaning on the head of his bed, with a tight face, holding that white nest in his arms.

Chu Yuzhao glanced at him, didn't say anything, just took the pajamas from the servant and went to take a bath.But when he came out of the bathroom, Luo Bai actually kept his original movements.

Chu Yuzhao ignored him, handed the veil for wiping his hair to the waiter, and after he closed the door, he also got into his own bed, leaning on the head of the bed to read a book.After quietly flipping through several pages, he said without raising his eyelids, "Okay, okay, I heard you playing the piano and singing, it's very good."

"Really?" Luo Bai asked suspiciously, "Then why did you leave?"

Chu Yuzhao turned another page: "Let's leave if I have something to do temporarily."

Luo Bai finally showed a smile on his face, and stroked Bai Wowo with his hand: "If you like, I can often play it for you."

Chu Yuzhao's expression remained unchanged, and his eyes continued to stare at the pages of the book: "I will trouble you later when I want to hear it."

"Don't bother, don't bother." Luo Bai kicked his feet down, got into the quilt, and rolled over twice in his arms.

Only then did Chu Yuzhao raise his eyes, glanced at the tumbling quilt on the bed beside his feet, and silently breathed a sigh of relief.

It was getting late, he put away the books, blew out the candle on the bedside table, lay down in the dark, and said, "Don't move, sleep peacefully."

"En." Sure enough, Luo Bai didn't roll over anymore, lying motionless under the quilt, but after a while, he raised his head again to look at Chu Yuzhao on the other bed at the other end of his feet.

Through the thin bed curtain, he saw Chu Yuzhao lying on his front with his hands folded on his chest, the moonlight came in from the window, making his long closed eyelashes clearly visible.

"Brother, aren't you tired from lying upright like this?" Luo Bai asked suddenly after looking at it for a while.

Chu Yuzhao was still lying still, as if he had fallen asleep.

Luo Bai felt that he was bored, so he lay down again, staring at the bed curtain above his head, and asked to himself, "You're going to turn on the lamp when you sleep these two days, is it dark?"

He never thought that Chu Yuzhao would answer, but after a moment of silence, a deep voice sounded in the dark night: "Have a habit."

Luo Bai sat up abruptly, and asked excitedly, "Brother, are you still asleep?"

"So what?" Chu Yuzhao's voice was somewhat relaxed and lazy.

Yes, so what if my brother is not asleep?Anyway, he wouldn't play with him, and he wouldn't be allowed to talk.

"It's okay, go to sleep, go to bed." Luo Bai didn't give Chu Yuzhao a chance to scold him, and got into bed obediently.

After the room was completely quiet, only Luo Bai's steady and regular snoring sounded, Chu Yuzhao opened his eyes, and gently pressed his lower abdomen with one hand.

Ever since Luo Bai moved into this house to eat and live with him, the pain that had tormented him for several years has not recurred, and while he was relieved, he was also deeply confused.

All the well-known doctors in Dayin territory have given him a diagnosis and treatment, but it didn't work at all.On the contrary, after meeting Luo Bai and Xiao Bai, both of them could control his pain.

Luo Bai's rhythmic snoring sounded in the room, purring like a cat.This sound does not affect Chu Yuzhao's sleep, but it makes him feel calm in a strange way.

He didn't think about it any more, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

A few days later, the royal family's annual autumn hunt arrived.

The royal hunting ground is more than 20 miles outside the capital, and it is surrounded by several hills. Every year at this time, the emperor will lead the royal children and the sons of high officials to go to the hunting ground to hunt together.

Luo Bai didn't know anything about it beforehand, but that morning when the light was slightly bright, he was shaken awake from his dream, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Yuan Fu's smiling face.

"Aunt Yuan Fu, why are you here? Where's brother?" He rubbed his eyes and asked inarticulately.

Yuan Fu shook off the crescent white riding outfit in his hands, and said, "Your Majesty got up early, and you should get up quickly, and you're going to go to the hunting ground later."

"Hunting ground? What is that place? Is it fun? Is it hunting? Where are you going to hunt? Is brother going? Are you going?" Luo Bai asked repeatedly.

"If His Majesty is going, I won't go. If Eunuch Cheng wants to follow His Majesty, I will stay and guard Qiande Palace. Don't let people take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble."

While explaining to him, Yuan Fu pulled him up and put on his riding clothes. After putting it on, he pulled Luo Bai around and said with a smile, "Young master is just good-looking, and he is much better-looking than the number one young master, Chen Yumei. gone."

"Well, I'm so pretty."

Luo Bai didn't have much intention to take a selfie in the mirror today, he just twisted formally, and couldn't wait to run outside, and was caught by Yuan Fu after washing and then released from Qiande Palace.

Several carriages had already parked in the square, and the Imperial Forest Army was lined up neatly, but no figure of Chu Yuzhao was seen.

Luo Bai stood on the steps looking around, and was spotted by Hong Si who was patrolling, and quickly called him into one of the empty carriages.

"Brother Hong, where's your Majesty?" Luo Bai poked his head out to ask after getting into the carriage.

"Your Majesty is talking to some young masters, and will come later."

As soon as the voice finished speaking, a few people came down the steps. As soon as Luo Bai glanced over, he stuck to the person in the middle and stopped moving.

Chu Yuzhao was wearing a black riding outfit today, with leather boots showing his slender legs, and a long cloak sweeping the floor, looking extraordinarily heroic and tall.

Luo Bai felt that he was particularly good-looking today. Although he usually looks good when he is wearing a long robe, he looks different today, so he leaned out his upper body from the carriage window, yelled at the direction without hesitation, and waved his hands.

"Brother, brother, come and sit in the carriage, come here."

Luo Bai's voice caught the attention of those people, including Chu Yuzhao, and they all looked over.After Luo Bai met Chu Yuzhao's gaze, he showed a joyful smile, and waved again: "Come on, come on."

Chu Yuzhao didn't react when he saw him, he just looked away and continued walking while talking with those people.

Lostly, Luo Bai retreated back into the carriage, with his head down, he used his fingers to pick the tiger skin pad under his body, making a whirring noise there.

The curtain of the car was lifted suddenly, and he immediately looked up in surprise, but the person who came was not Chu Yuzhao, but a guard who had seen both sides.

The guard held a four-story mahogany food box in his hand, handed it to Luo Bai and said, "My lord, this is given to you by His Majesty."

"Ah?" Luo Bai was stunned, and quickly reached out to take it.

The guard handed over the other hand again, holding two objects that Luo Bai had never seen before.

Luo Bai picked up the two objects and asked, "What is this?"

"Nine chains and Luban lock."

"Did His Majesty ask you to give it to me?" Luo Bai asked.

The imperial guard nodded and said, "Yes, His Majesty told you to relieve boredom on the way."

After the imperial guards got out of the carriage, the team started to march, left the capital through the long street, and headed all the way to the hunting ground in the southeast.

Luo Bai lifted the lid of the food box, and a few hot osmanthus cakes were lying inside. He didn't rush to eat, but took off the wooden lattice and put them on the table one by one.

The second layer is also snacks, the third layer is candied fruit, and the fourth layer contains some melon seeds and almonds.Luo Bai's eyes rolled over these snacks, and he picked up a candied date with his fingers and fed it into his mouth, the sweet fragrance immediately overflowed the tip of his tongue.

He swallowed the candied fruit, picked up a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake with his chopsticks, and fed it into his mouth, chewing carefully, with a smile on his face, and the disappointment that Chu Yuzhao ignored him just now was swept away.

It took more than half a day to travel from the capital to the hunting ground. He picked up the Jiulianhuan and Lubansuo sent by Chu Yuzhao to study, but he wanted to break his head, but he couldn't figure out what it was, so he finally threw it in disgust. Aside, lying on the carriage window and looking ahead.

There was a group of people riding horses in front of the convoy, and Chu Yuzhao's figure occasionally appeared. He rode tall and straight on the horse, and he was particularly eye-catching among the crowd.

As soon as Luo Bai saw him, he would make an ah, straighten up with glowing eyes, but when the figure returned to a place where the team couldn't see, he sighed again.

At noon, the team finally arrived at the hunting ground. As soon as Luo Bai got off the carriage, he looked around for Chu Yuzhao.

"Master Luo." A male voice came from beside him.

Luo Bai turned his head to look, and saw that the person speaking was a young strange man in riding clothes, with a warm smile on his face, looking at him.

The man walked a few steps closer, stopped in front of Luo Bai, bowed a little awkwardly and said, "Master Luo, you don't know the way? I can take you there."

Luo Bai didn't know him, but felt that he looked gentle and familiar. When he was recalling, he introduced himself: "My name is Xin Zhiqu, and I met Mr. Luo once by the lotus pond in the imperial garden."

"My name is Luo Bai." Seeing that he spoke very gently, Luo Bai returned the salute and asked, "Did I see you by the lotus pond? Why don't I remember?"

Xin Zhiqu didn't think it was disobedient, and said with a smile: "I used to watch lotus and drink tea with King Lu at the side of the lotus pond. Mr. Luo passed by there. It's normal if I don't remember."

Luo Bai tilted his head and recalled, finally remembered this incident, and asked again: "I remember you, sitting in the pavilion with that person."

"Yes, Mr. Luo really has a good memory." Xin Zhiqu didn't know if it was hot or something, his face turned slightly red.

"Oh, Xin Zhiqu, I really don't know the way, can you take me to find Zhen? Thank you." Luo Bai blinked.

"Looking for... looking for me?" Xin Zhiqu stuttered blankly.

At this time, a guard trotted over and said to Luo Bai: "Young Master, Your Majesty ordered your subordinates to take you to the camp."

"Oh, okay." Luo Bai followed the guards and took two steps, then turned around and waved to Xin Zhiqu, "You don't need to bring it, thank you."

Xin Zhi watched Luo Bai's back, and waved his right hand slightly, until a hand was placed on his shoulder, and someone whispered in his ear: "It is said that Mr. Luo was raised by His Majesty, and his daily life and transportation are very important. in the same house."

Xin Zhiqu's body and expression froze, and he slowly put away his waving hands. Chu Yulu leaned into his ear and whispered: "But as long as Mr. Xin wants, this king can help you achieve your wish."

After speaking, he patted his shoulder meaningfully, let go, and walked forward with the whip in his hand: "Let's go, Zhiqu, go to the pasture over there."

Xin Zhiqu looked at the direction where Luo Bai disappeared, and then followed.

This is a pasture, which has become a temporary camp where tents have been set up.Luo Bai followed behind the guards and walked to the biggest tent in the middle.

When the guards raised the curtain, Luo Bai stepped in. There was no one else in the room, only Chu Yuzhao who was sitting on a tiger skin mat and wiping an ebony bow with a cloth.

"Brother." Luo Bai jumped up when he saw his mood, and sat down next to him.

Chu Yuzhao's slender fingers wiped back and forth on the bow, lowered his eyes and said: "We will be hunting later, so you just wander around, don't run around."

"What about you?" Luo Bai asked.

Chu Yuzhao said: "I want to participate in the hunting."

"Then I'm going to hunt too."

Chu Yuzhao only handed him the bow in his hand, took out an arrow from the quiver, pointed to the low stool in the corner of the tent and said: "You shoot that stool, and I will take you hunting."

This bow was so heavy that Luo Bai had to struggle to hold it in front of his chest with one hand. Following the example of the hunters in the village, he put the bow and arrow on the string, facing the stool several feet away.

He tried his best to fix the arrow body so that it would not slide up and down, and he pulled the tight string with all his strength, only to be able to pull it a little bit, his hand slipped, and there was a muffled thud, and the bow and arrow fell on the carpet a few steps away.

"I didn't pay attention, do it again, do it again." Luo Bai hurriedly picked up the arrow on the ground.

Chu Yuzhao didn't stop him, just leaned on the seat covered with tiger skin, and tapped the armrest leisurely with his slender fingers, watching him strenuously set up the bow and shoot arrows again and again, until finally his strength was exhausted, and the bowstring couldn't be pulled apart up.

Luo Bai looked at the bow and arrow in his hand, and then at Chu Yuzhao, his eyes were full of grievances.Chu Yuzhao squinted at the opened curtain and asked, "Can you ride a horse?"

Luo Bai opened his mouth, but didn't say anything.

"It's fine if you don't know how to archery, and you don't know how to ride a horse, so why do you follow?" Chu Yuzhao asked.

"I can run, I can run faster than a horse."

Luo Bai was telling the truth, if he turned into a leopard, he might not necessarily run slower than a horse.

Chu Yuzhao chuckled lightly, making his already excellent facial features look even more handsome, just when Luo Bai also smiled happily, he restrained his expression again, stretched out a finger to shake Luo Bai, and said coldly :"no."

Luo Bai showed his face full of pleading.

A long horn sounded outside, which meant that the hunt was about to start, and everyone left the tent to gather in the pasture.

Chu Yuzhao picked up the bow and walked out. When he reached the door, he said lazily, "Later, the guard will lead you a pony and go for a run in the nearby pasture. Be careful not to run too far."

Seeing that the pleading was fruitless, Luo Bai looked aside with a stern face, and did not respond.

Chu Yuzhao asked again: "What kind of skin do you want? I'll hunt one back for you."

Luo Bai replied angrily: "I want fish skin, you can get me a fish skin, as well as grasshopper skin, bee skin, ant skin, and dung beetle skin."

Chu Yuzhao ignored him, turned around and left the tent.