The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

This time when going to Beijing, Xia Anran had to bring too many things, so he said hello to the brothers around him, saying that he would not go to Beijing with them, otherwise it would cause too much damage to the road.After all, after leaving Zhongshan, it is an ordinary rammed earth road.August and September are the tails of the rainy season. No matter how solid the soil layer is, it can’t stop the water from soaking and heavy objects passing over it. There will definitely be marks.

Xia Anran's brothers all waved their hands to express that they don't want to go with you. This time, even his own brother didn't stand by his side.

The other brothers don't know what's going on, but Zhao Wang's reason is very simple, his wife is pregnant, so I'm sorry, my brother should not stay with her all the time, otherwise, if a child who is as noisy as him is born, he is afraid I can't control my hands.

This is very annoying.

Xia Anran immediately fought back——Your brother and I are born from the same root. It is impossible for you to see a son who looks completely different from my younger brother and me. You can only hope that he looks more like a sister-in-law, but like a sister-in-law is also Very good, my sister-in-law is much prettier than you, hehehe.

Zhao Wang received the letter and wanted to beat someone, but unfortunately his younger brother had passed Zhao Guo early, and he could only release his anger all the way to Chang'an.

He looked at the smiling daughter-in-law and couldn't say anything. Could it be that the daughter-in-law is not good-looking and looks like me?So the angry His Royal Highness Zhao Wang could only run to the study, and took out all the case analysis questions of the talent selection test that he was going to write to his younger brother and stepped on them a few times.

At that time, I will send the topic that smells like his feet, and then write a letter to laugh at him in a few days, hahaha-it can be said to be the essence of the spiritual victory method.

The reason why Liu Pengzu didn't throw the things into the fire and set them on fire was entirely because he was still waiting for the examination papers from Zhongshan Kingdom to come to the rescue.

This time, the central government suddenly asked for someone from the vassal state. Unlike the Zhongshan State, the Zhao State was a grass-roots team that had just been established. Before Liu Pengzu came to the vassal state, the Zhao State already had a complete set of management institutions.Of course, after he intervened, he carried out a small reform, and the effect was not bad, so he didn't move any more.

Moreover, Liu Pengzu is not as boring as Zhongshan State, who likes to cultivate professional talents. He just uses doctrine, and generalists are most welcome, so when Emperor Jing was poaching a group of people, he was suddenly blinded.

People, manpower is not enough...

Moreover, at this time, the disadvantage of Zhao State compared to Zhongshan State is also highlighted, that is, talents are held in the hands of noble families.

Zhao Wang is not a good-tempered person either, but he can't insist on this matter. He can't put a knife on someone's neck to force them to hand over their talents, right?So he asked his brother to borrow a set of test papers.

Zhao Guo also came to try to choose a talent.

The previous selection of talents was very effective. Zhao Wang succeeded in digging out a lot of talents who were hidden among the people but were buried because no one recommended them.Therefore, while he packed some talents to Chang'an, he kept some of them for himself.Among the recommended talents, he is almost useless to be recommended by the tyrants under his rule.

It's not that he deliberately cares about the tyrants, but that when the two sides stand together, the quality of the talents recommended by the tyrants is far inferior to the ones he selected.

The facts are in front of him, he can't abandon the good and go for the bad, right?

Once the feudal empire has followed the road of accepting talents through the imperial examination for hundreds of years, it is impossible for the superiors to abandon it, and King Zhao is no exception.King Zhao, who has tasted the benefits, will naturally not go back to the original path and let Xungui strangle the throat of talents.

He plans to hold a talent selection test next year, but Zhao Guo will definitely not be able to prepare a complete examination paper production and examination team for a while.

Fortunately, he has a younger brother who is more capable in a certain way.

Unwilling to roll out?He asked his younger brother to borrow the past questions from the Zhongshan Kingdom. He took a few questions from the papers every year, put them together, and made some changes. Wouldn’t it be another set of real questions?Just for this point, King Zhao's tolerance for his younger brother raised a whole new threshold, at least on the surface, he could tolerate some things.

I can't stand it until the time comes.

Xia Anran didn't know that his elder brother slandered him so much, he felt that he was completely passive in fighting back, especially innocent.

The car drove all the way to Chang'an. This time, the road was calm and there was no accident. As usual, they stopped in the suburbs outside Chang'an city. Afterwards, Xia Anran sent someone to send documents to Chang'an to apply for entering the city.

Then he pulled the team over and waited patiently.Unexpectedly, before Da Honglu from Chang'an arrived, there was a train of horses that was about to enter the city from outside and would pass by them. The leader was slightly taken aback when he saw the flying national flag, and then got off his horse and walked towards Xia Anran's carriage go.

Seeing a soldier trying to stop him, the man clasped his fists calmly and said, "Please inform Your Highness Liu Sheng, I am Wei Qihou."

The soldier clasped his fists in return, but after a while, the door of the carriage was opened, Xia Anran poked his head out, and was surprised when he saw Dou Ying, "Wei Qihou? We haven't seen each other for a long time, so hurry up and get in the carriage."

Dou Ying didn't refuse, rather...Xia Anran's invitation was exactly what he wanted.

Wei Qihou, who was well versed in both literature and martial arts, got into the carriage, closed the door, and bowed to the little king, "Your Highness, I have committed a crime."

"The minister is not strict in teaching the children, and the child's mind is not right, which offended His Highness. The minister has committed a serious crime."

Xia Anran was taken aback for a moment, he withdrew his hand from offering tea, and put it in front of his abdomen, and adjusted his posture to a more serious sitting.He raised his eyelids and looked at Dou Ying, who was too gifted for a moment, and then calmly said after a while: "How did Ah Wan tell you?"

Dou Ying froze, and after a long while, he gritted his teeth and said: "Zi Yan said that he is very happy when he sees His Highness, His Highness is clever and quick-witted, and he is as angry as a rainbow, but his position is humble and his fortune is short, so he dare not approach..."

Xia Anran didn't want to listen to what was said later, it looked like she wanted to beat the mandarin duck... Ah no, it was made up by Dou Ying of the mandarin mandarin.

Dou Wan looked gentle and dignified, but in fact he was a thorough actionist. Xia Anran bet that the entanglement in this person's heart did not exceed three days, and guessed that in the second half of the three days, he was thinking about how to overcome the difficulties between them .

This person hid his thoughts too deeply, Xia Anran didn't even know when this person's heart was moved.He thought about how long, anyway, he only knew that he had been boiled in sweet honey water for a long time. If it wasn't for the time when the emperor wanted to marry these princes, this person would not have explained it. Woolen cloth.

Dou Wan came to Chang'an to report on his work, and also to receive a reward.

Such a capable general, who was the creator of a rare victory in the Han-Hungarian War in recent years, Emperor Jing will definitely not embarrass him, and he will certainly be happy to pick up a new Dou family son - a Dou family with two sons. Officials, or those with similar powers and similar fields, the resources of the Dou family must be dispersed, and they can only choose one of the two.

And most people will choose Dou Wan because he is young.

Youth represents the future and hope, it represents the next 50 years that it can support the Dou family, and of course it also represents better control.In this way, Emperor Jing could easily divide the power of the Dou family into two halves.

So if Xia Anran's expectations are correct, Dou Wan should have returned to Yuyang.And now that Dou Ying came to him suddenly, it might be that Dou Wan confessed to him before leaving.

The fact is exactly the same. After being called out, Dou Ying raised her eyes and looked at the little Highness whom she had not seen for a long time, and sighed in her heart.Back then when he took Dou Wan to Zhongshan Country, he never imagined that the situation would be in this direction.

Dou Ying is Dou Wan's follow-in-law, and he was chosen carefully to support the Dou family and inherit the flames of the Dou family. Take the next position in the army.All kinds of actions prove that he is no longer suitable as a flame.

In order to pass on the fire, one must choose a low-key person. Of course, the exposure of a big lala like Dou Wan in front of the emperor is not counted.

Now that Dou Wan's rebellious move, although it is not necessary to fight for the Dou family, but Dou Ying, who has disrupted all plans, is really curious why Dou Wan suddenly behaves like this. According to his personality, Dou Wan should not be this kind of obsessed People who are interested in fame and wealth and like swords and swords.So after the great victory in Yuyang, I wrote to ask about the situation.

Dou Wan didn't say much, and only replied to his inquiry that he had a goal he wanted to pursue.

Dou Wan also came from this age, of course he knows what goals he can pursue at such a young age.Man Erlang went to the stove with all his heart, either for making meritorious deeds or for his ambition.

Regardless of the former, Dou Wanke never said the latter.

Dou Ying couldn't pry Congzi's mouth open, but she could always catch some clues from others.Dou Wan is not alone in Zhongshan, and there are many servants around him. These people will not report to him when they have nothing to do, but they will not help to hide it when he sends someone to ask.

No matter how calm Dou Wan's personality is, he is still just a child with yellow hair, especially in the early stage when his mood swings are relatively large, so he naturally showed signs of it.Dou Ying thinks carefully and checks one by one. Didn't she find the most extraordinary person after checking it?

But his information was a step behind, he thought that his kid was moved by his heart and fled away with low self-esteem, and it was said that the relationship between the two of them was extremely weird before leaving, and Dou Ying, who had a big brain, panicked when he thought about it.

Maybe my brat recommended himself as a pillow, but was rejected, and then ran away in shame and anger.

Then he was afraid that he would make a mistake, so he asked Dou Wan implicitly after he entered Beijing.When he asked Dou Wan, he would naturally not deny it. After making a final decision in his heart, seeing Dou Wan's haggard (due to the long journey) and sad (I will miss it with His Royal Highness on the return trip, I don't know how to see you next time), Dou Ying realized. Immediately wished to beat Congzi up.

Beating is not allowed, Dou Wan has to go back, and there is a time limit just like when he came, Dou Ying can only punish him to copy the "Tao Te Ching" fifty times after returning to the barracks, not missing a single word.

Dou Wan complied obediently, but even though his attitude was docile, it still couldn't relieve Dou Ying's annoyance.It's all right if you say that your boy is masculine, whoever you like is not good, but Zhongshan Wang.

What is the identity of King Zhongshan?The officials outside don't know, but those who are close to the emperor know that this is one of the most proud sons on the cusp of today.

Haven't you seen Zhou Yafu, now seeing His Majesty showing off his son, he can keep silent and listen with his eyes closed?They were all honed out.If His Majesty knew that his servant coaxed people to go this way, it is hard to guarantee what His Majesty, who was once favored by the former emperor's male, would think.

Fortunately, the two haven't made it yet, otherwise their Dou family might be put on little shoes.

Dou Ying apologized for his concubine's harassment of His Highness, and at the end Xia Anran vaguely heard something was wrong, and after a few more probing sentences, he probably understood the crux of the matter, and his expression suddenly became subtle.

The little king is not so stupid, he will go and knock the spring-loaded cabinet door back at this time.

This place is in the suburbs of Beijing, so how do you know if the partition wall has ears? It's fine if Dou Ying finds out about it. If it gets into the ears of the old man, the situation will be complicated.

So he expressed his deep friendship with Dou Wan since they were young, and at the same time expressed that he didn't care about Dou Wan's thoughts, and he didn't deny his relationship with Dou Wan, but in Dou Ying's ears, he was His Highness Because of their childhood friendship and not to blame, the atmosphere between the two was very good for a while.

After fooling away Dou Ying, Xia Anran squeezed her fingertips, but her ears were a little red. She never expected that it was Dou Wan who came out of the closet first, but now he is a little passive.

Xia Anran thought about the situation at home and was a little depressed, and it was a bit difficult for him to come out of the closet.In fact, he was [-]% sure that Liu Qi would not have a big reaction to him staying with Dou Wan. After all, there were only a handful of straight men who passed down the gene of facial control in the Han Dynasty.

But if he said that he would not marry or have children...the problem would be very serious, and he also had his own mother, and his own brother...I am afraid these few people would not easily raise their hands.No matter what, he had to find a way to try, it would be too irresponsible for Dou Wan to follow him without a name.

So when Da Honglu came to pick him up in person, what he saw was His Royal Highness King Zhongshan with a solemn expression and a majestic momentum.

Da Honglu was at a loss, but the reception ceremony was unavoidably more solemn.

Liu Che was very happy with his brother's arrival, but as the crown prince, he was not allowed to go out of the city to greet him, so he could only stay in subdued clothes in King Zhongshan's mansion and wait for his brother to come.

He entered quietly without disturbing anyone, just waiting to surprise his brother.

Unexpectedly, the surprise was not given first, but a shock was given instead.

Xia Anran hadn't seen his younger brother for four years. When he just entered the mansion and saw a small cannonball shot towards him, his first reaction was to dodge. Fortunately, he moved quickly. When he heard the small cannonball While running and shouting "Brother", he took that step back and caught the small cannonball firmly.

Although Liu Cheshi is only eight years old, he eats well and has good genes to grow taller. In terms of appearance alone, he looks like a teenager in his teens, which is completely different from the little meat dumpling in the past.

Xia Anran hugged him really hard, he silently put down his younger brother and gestured at the height of the two of them in shock, it was almost to his chest... The elder brother was shocked.

But he quickly comforted himself, this is normal, Liu Xiaozhu's height record in history is quite astonishing, but his body is similar, they are all brothers, and there is a golden jade clothes to testify!

Liu Che didn't know that his elder brother cared so much about his height, the young boy smiled brightly, but his smile faded a little after a while, followed by Chen Jiao.

Liu Che looked at Chen Jiaojiao warily, it was this person!A cunning woman who wants to rob her brother!

Chen Jiao didn't know Liu Che's hostility and fantasies towards her, she just came to say hello and share things.Unlike the vassal king, Chen Jiao will naturally go back to her home when she arrives in Chang'an, and she also wants to finalize the route arrangement with her cousin. Who would have thought that when she came here, what she saw was sticking to her brother's body like paste? Prince.

Chen Jiao: "Oh..."

Liu Che felt that all the fur from his hair to the root of his tail exploded. Just as he was about to fight back, he saw a big white goose waddling in from outside.

The big goose didn't avoid Chen Jiao blocking the way, it pushed the little girl two steps away with a flick of its big wings, and then kept going in a straight line, very domineering and unreasonable.

And just this one action was enough to make Liu Che's favorability for this goose suddenly increase, but at the same time he was also a little wary of this goose.As a Douding who raised ducks himself, Liu Che knew very well how domineering this kind of bird is, and the temper of the duck is not very good, but it can be regarded as weak and docile in front of the geese.

But he didn't panic at all, because it was a lot of ducks!

It was he (?) who raised Duoduo since he was a child!Liu Che has sufficient confidence in whether Duoduo can still remember himself after so many years of absence.

Xia Anran did not have this confidence. In order to protect her younger brother's young heart, Xia Anran quickly hugged Duoduo, and then introduced herself to both parties.

Duoduo blinked his eyes and tilted his head to observe Liu Che, as if he wanted to find information about this person from his memory.Liu Che interrupted Xia Anran's introduction very confidently, saying: "Brother, Duoduo definitely remembers me, I even hugged it! We haven't seen each other for more than four years."

You still know it's been four years, Xia Anran looked at her confident younger brother speechlessly.Duo Duo Goose itself is only five years old, and Liu Che is eight years old. Four years have already occupied more than half of the lives of these two little animals.

But Duoduo was very proud of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. He stroked Liu Che's hair with his black mouth. Although he tore off a few strands by the way, Liu Che, who was still tied up and had loose hair, said he didn't care at all.

He proactively asked to hug his obsessed "ugly duckling", but Xia Anran politely refused when he went inside the house.So Chen Jiao, who couldn't find a chance to say goodbye, was inexplicably watching the two brothers rush into the house under the feet of the wind. She hesitated for a while, but still followed.

Liu Che hugged Duoduo's long neck, and his opinion of Chen Jiao's following in with his goose bumps also faded a lot.After all, judging from Duoduo's attitude, he doesn't like Chen Jiao at all, hmph, from this point of view, Chen Jiaojiao is the loser.

Chen Jiao didn't know what His Royal Highness was thinking, she looked at Liu Che hesitantly, and then at Xia Anran, her attitude of asking for opinions was very obvious.

Xia Anran thought for a while, and said to Liu Che: "Che'er, your sister is in trouble now."

"Huh?" Liu Che frowned. He looked up at the serious Chen Jiao, and then at the equally serious elder brother. He realized something from this businesslike atmosphere, so he blinked and said in a friendly manner, "Is there anything Cheer can do to help?"

So Xia Anran told Liu Che about the matter between Chen Jiao and Zhang Tang, and entrusted her capable younger brother to help Chen Jiao fulfill her wish after he left Beijing.

The little king, who didn't know that he had been ordered to stay as a child laborer, was very worried about the direction of the pair of mandarin ducks.Although Zhang Tang and Chen Jiao were already prepared, it would be nice if there was an extra insurance policy.

Liu Che's lips moved, and then he swallowed the words he was going to say. He tilted his head as if thinking, and then replied, "Yes, Che'er will help."

Chen Jiao was taken aback for a moment, she looked at Liu Che with a little bit of complicated meaning in her eyes, without much hesitation, she leaned down and bowed down, "Thank you, Your Highness the Crown Prince."

Her submissiveness made Liu Che somewhat at a loss.In his limited knowledge of Chen Jiao, this sister has always looked domineering.But looking at it now... Liu Che pursed his lips, he leaned forward to support Chen Jiao, and said: "Sister Jiao, you don't need to be polite, you and I are siblings, we should watch over and help each other."

...But you didn't have such an attitude before. Seeing me is like seeing a class enemy.

Chen Jiao slandered, of course she would not be so stupid as to speak out at this time, and after thanking Liu Che, she confirmed with Xia Anran again what she said after returning home, and then left.

Liu Che waited until he was sure that Chen Jiao had left completely, and then he went to Xia Anran's side and said, "Brother, is Zhang Tang the one who went to court this time? How does this person behave?"

When the younger brother grows up, he will care about his older sister!Xia Anran patted Liu Che's little head very relieved, "Very smart, good at both Law and Law, responsible and... good at management."

Liu Che instinctively disliked these four characters, but was quickly appeased by his elder brother, "Couriers have various personalities, and Archer must get used to this. As a top leader, he is good at putting courtiers with various personalities in their suitable positions." It is also a test."

Hearing this, Liu Che nodded obediently, and after a while he arched his shoulders like his elder brother, "Brother, I want to sleep with you today."

Xia Anran was taken aback for a moment, and thought for a while, "But at Father's place..."

"Before leaving the palace, I told my father!" Liu Che held my elder brother's hand, blinked and said, "I have a lot of things that I want to talk to my elder brother."

Since the father agreed, it doesn't matter, Xia Anran also has a lot of things that he wants to talk to his brother.Xia Anran immediately sent someone to Weiyang Palace to deliver a message, and then asked someone to prepare bath soup.

Sleeping together and so on. After a long journey, many facilities along the way are inconvenient. Xia Anran has been wanting to take a bath for a long time.As the residence of the vassal king, it is naturally impossible to introduce hot springs to a place that only welcomes a group of guests every three or four years. Moreover, it is located in the center of Chang'an City, and there is no hot spring itself.

Although there is also a bath, but it takes a long time to fill the bath, and Xia Anran, who is not feeling well, is too lazy to wait any longer, so someone brings a bathtub.The bathtub is filled with hot water, and it is quite comfortable to soak in it for a while.

Of course Liu Che didn't have as strong a desire to take a bath as his elder brother, but Liu Xiaozhu who wanted to take a bath with his elder brother also came to join in the fun.After Xia Anran refused to share a bathtub with her grown-up brother, the two brothers looked at each other with a bathtub.

It was only September at this time, and it was still in the weather of autumn tigers raging, Xia Anran didn't worry that the water would get cold, so she asked all the waiters to go down so that the two brothers could talk about themselves.Although they haven't seen each other for several years, but because the letters have never stopped, and both of them have excellent memory, there is no strange feeling when they meet each other.

Xia Anran lay on the edge of the bathtub and looked at her younger brother who had grown up a lot, and said with a sigh: "Che'er, you have grown up a lot."

Liu Che was naturally very proud, and he really wanted to say, brother, you have grown up a lot... However, he always felt that his brother hadn't changed much since they separated.Out of intuition, Liu Che decided to swallow this sentence.

Absolutely——Brother must not know, he thought.

Liu Che spit out two bubbles, and then said: "Che'er has been exercising hard, and it has been non-stop."

Xia Anran recalled his exercise status in the past few years and sighed, "Brother is gone. I have been busy with government affairs for the past few years... I can only exercise once a week."

Sure enough... Liu Che smacked his lips, thinking that what his father said was indeed right.Before Liu Qi had teased his elder brother vaguely because he knew too much and didn't grow taller. He used to think that his father was bad, but now that he thinks about it... no matter how busy he is, he can't stop exercising in the future!The little prince squeezed his fist.

Xia Anran, who had no idea what her younger brother was thinking, squinted her eyes and enjoyed the warm water, and then began to ask her younger brother what was going on in the capital, especially about her "Nymphae".Regarding the question of his elder brother, Liu Che said very frankly: "Many people cried, and my mother and sister also cried."

The response was so enthusiastic, "Then did they say that Yingtai and Liang Shanbo are pitiful?"

Liu Che turned over, "Say it, everyone said that the person who wrote this play is too hateful, my sister is still asking who wrote it, and then we have to make the other party look good."

The sister Liu Che is talking about here is the married Princess Yangxin and Princess Longli. Princess Longli has a submissive personality, but Princess Yangxin as the elder sister is...much more domineering.

Xia Anran wouldn't admit it, he didn't write this in the first place, he was just a porter of the legendary story.

The poor little king didn't know that his mother had exposed him, and wanted to cover his waistcoat. After a while, he heard the young boy's voice say with a smile: "I'm afraid this man will become the king of the whole capital." A woman's enemy is gone, and it's hard to find a daughter-in-law."

Xia Anran was clever when she heard the words, and immediately sat up and looked at her younger brother with a very serious expression.

Seeing him like this, Liu Che frowned.How smart he is, his brother's reaction is obviously wrong, and what happened to Chen Jiao just now gave him inspiration...

Liu Che sat up straight, "Brother, do you have someone you like too?"

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Xia Miao: Huh, go away

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