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

"This is not for food!" Lu An wanted to bend over and pick up the little boy who was lying on his back with two small claws around Zhao Zheng's calf. As soon as his limbs softened and his calf kicked, it "flowed" from his hand like a ball of paste.

"Yiying~" Xiao Zai Zai, who maintained his posture with a patter, let out a very happy cry, obviously very proud of being able to escape.

Lu An was silent for a while, stretched out both hands to push the cub's two front paws away bit by bit, and then lifted it up by its creaking nest. His heart was like iron, and he ignored the cub the whole time Dissatisfied grunts.

Zhao Zheng glanced at his elder brother who held the black and white cub in his arms with his buttocks behind him, and immediately knew, "Is this brother's pet?"

"No." Lu An denied it coldly, "It's one of the gifts for you."

Zhao Zheng frowned. He looked up and down the cub waving black fur paws, and then looked at its exaggeratedly big eyes... Wait, something seems wrong!

He got a little closer and looked at the cub carefully, and then said with some surprise: "The eyes of this little beast are not big, it just looks big."

As soon as he said these words, both Lu An and the cub were taken aback, and then the cub, whose pride had been hit, immediately let out a dissatisfied "woo woo" and waved his short arms desperately in the direction of Zhao Zheng.

Lu An coughed dryly, and seeing his younger brother's embarrassed expression, he immediately said, "This is a kind of bear unique to Bashu..."

Bear! ?

Zhao Zheng's expression immediately became excited, but when he lowered his head and looked at the cub with black eyes and big eyes at first glance, he still showed a doubtful expression.It's not that he underestimated this thing, but looking at this cub with a particularly strange color scheme, it really doesn't look like a strong and ferocious bear cub.

Especially now that it has adapted to this movement after being held in Lu An's arms for a while, and even tried to lift it up to chew!

——It doesn't seem very smart, this meaning immediately appeared on the face of the Prince of Qin.

Lu An rubbed the belly of the bear boy who was suspected for the second time, and by the way, pressed down its raised little feet and said to Zhao Zheng, "Zheng'er, look at its teeth."

"It's still deciduous teeth, but you can already see the canine teeth of a beast." His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Qin hesitated for a while, and reached out to break the cub's mouth.

The Qin people were very good at controlling beasts in the earliest days. Their specialty was raising horses, but their skills in watching other animals did not fall behind. Although Zhao Zheng was the prince of Qin, he still learned the ancestral skills.

He frowned and carefully looked at the rice teeth of the bear cubs, then stretched out his hand to grab their paws and looked at them one by one. After a moment of silence, he looked up at Lu An, and asked very politely: "Brother, this is your road!" bought?"

"No!" Lu An immediately understood what he meant, and felt helpless. Could it be that in his brother's heart, he is a person who will be deceived by other people's false advertisements?He felt that he had always been quite smart.

"I picked it up on the road. I thought you would like Zheng'er, so I brought it here."

...But this seems to be even less convincing!

Lu An, who immediately reacted, coughed and added: "The locals call it a bamboo bear, but I like to call it a panda, and there are also people who call them iron-eating beasts. It is said that there was one of them in the Yellow Emperor's army of beasts. He once rode it to fight against the Yellow Emperor."

Chi You's mount...

Zhao Zheng's expression suddenly shifted. He carefully sized up the little boy kicking in his brother's arms, coughed dryly, and hinted that if it was really that powerful, he could still accept it.

Seeing his younger brother agreeing, Lu An immediately stuffed the cub, which looked soft but was actually very heavy, into his arms.Zhao Zheng took it by surprise, but he immediately changed the position of the cub skillfully so that his back was facing outward and his four paws were facing him.

The four-legged posture immediately made the panda cub feel much more comfortable. It snorted a few times and looked at Lu An with eyes that looked very big but were actually very small. Its small expression was full of hatred for iron and steel. Then he leaned against Zhao Zheng's chest and yawned big, closing his eyes.

This docile attitude immediately pleased Zhao Zheng, and he touched Xiong Zai's forehead with one free hand, "Brother, what do you feed him on weekdays? Is lamb and beef okay?"

Lu An was taken aback, "Uh... no, it eats bamboo. It's okay to feed some meat occasionally, but if you eat too much, you'll get diarrhea if you can't digest it." As he spoke, Lu An pointed to the one at the top of the Shu County Product Exhibition. A sign with a picture of a panda eating bamboo is painted on it.

Zhao Zheng looked back at him slowly, his expression filled with disbelief, "Bamboo...? Bears, bears eat bamboo? Don't they eat jackals, tigers and leopards?"

"..." Brother, your idea is very dangerous.

Because of the addition of a heavy bear cub, the two brothers naturally couldn't eat outside happily, so they decided to go to the Lu family's courtyard in the city.

Because he was too lazy to send someone to the compound to pick up things, Lu An directly purchased some Sichuan ingredients at the product festival. During the period, some people saw Zhao Zheng standing with a furry in his arms and glanced curiously.

The tourists who came to buy things thought that Zhao Zheng was a solicitor, and they all came forward to chat and ask about the situation in Shu County. Zhao Zheng's expression gradually turned bad, especially when he saw that someone wanted to reach out to touch his bear.

He just wanted to avoid it, when a young man said suddenly: "This bear is really black and white! I thought it was just that I didn't draw the colors?"

Um?What's the meaning?

Everyone followed the direction of his finger to look at the logo of the Product Festival. The bamboo bear on the top was indeed only painted with accent colors. Because of today's painting technology, everyone thought it was showing flickering colors, but they didn't expect it to be because it was really black. and white.

This discovery immediately attracted more and more people to watch. Just when Zhao Zheng's endurance reached its limit, he suddenly saw a red light flying across the sky, and a bird with dark red feathers and long tail feathers landed on the ground. on the wooden pole next to the sign.

It looked down at the crowd from above, and its burning color shone dazzlingly under the sun, covering up the limelight of the black and white bear painted on the wooden board.

The tourists immediately changed their focus practically, pointing at the bird one after another.

Lu An took the opportunity to pull Zhao Zheng away, because Zhao Zheng was a little depressed until he sat down.Now this bamboo bear is his. At first he was a little annoyed by others watching the fun, but when he saw these people, he immediately changed his eyes, and he became even more unhappy.

This kind of mood is probably similar to - I also think it is not very good-looking, but if you say it is not good-looking, then it will not work!

The bear I raise must be the most beautiful bear in the world!

I think it looks good, but if you think it is not good-looking, then there is something wrong with your aesthetics.

Zhao Zheng, with some bandit thoughts, looked at Xiong lying on his lap, half of his body folded down like a liquid, but sleeping soundly, and touched his chin.

Lu An didn't know what dangerous thoughts were going on in his younger brother's mind. Time was running out, so he made sausage fried rice and brought it out first. As soon as he came out and saw his younger brother scratching the cub's meat pad, his expression immediately turned kind .

He put the dinner plate in front of Zhao Zheng, "Put your stomach first, and we will cook something delicious tonight."

When Lu An's family was in Yewang City, the conditions were not good. It was normal for the family to eat at the same table. This habit did not change until they entered Xianyang, but usually when there were no outsiders, Lu An and Zhao Zheng were two people. They are used to eating at the same table.

However, when Lu An just served the bamboo shoot soup, he found a strange expression on Zhao Zheng's expression, "What's wrong?"

"Brother, Zheng'er doesn't want to eat bamboo today." Zhao Zheng pursed his lips, "Eating bamboo feels like this bamboo bear!"

...are you a child?Lu An squinted his eyes, he didn't say much, he just moved the bamboo shoot soup towards him.Zhao Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, but it was too early.

After taking a few mouthfuls of food, Lu An said, "By the way, Zheng'er, brother once heard a story in Shu County."

"Huh?" Zhao Zheng was immediately curious. He put down the bowls and chopsticks very much, and then heard Lu An say: "In the past, there was a country called Wu State in the territory of Chu State. The king of this country was named Shou Meng. He had four sons, but the youngest son Jizha is the wisest, so Shou dreamed of passing the throne to Jizha and conquering the world."

"But Jizha thought that if he inherited the throne, the patriarchal clan system would be completely chaotic and bring troubled times. So the old king of Wu asked his eldest son Zhufan to take over the country. After the death of the old king, Zhufan asked Jizha to be king. .”

Seeing Zhao Zheng frowning slightly, Lu An smiled and said, "So Ji Zha ran away."

"Escape..." Zhao Zheng was stunned, "Escape?"

"Yes, because he really didn't want and didn't dare to take the throne, but his reputation as a sage was so great that the people thought that being king would bring them a good life, so they all wanted him to be the king of Wu. So Jizha went away Putting aside his functions to work in the land shows that he is unwilling to take the throne."

He raised his hand to signal Zhao Zheng to listen, "So Zhu Fan ascended the throne, and when he was about to die decades later, he told his second brother: Father wants Xiao Si to be king, and we want to fulfill father's will, so I want to pass the throne to you, you to the third son, and the third son to the fourth son, and then the fourth son will be the king of Wu."

Zhao Zheng immediately frowned, with an indescribable expression on his face, but he resisted not speaking, and continued to listen to Lu An, "According to this plan, the throne was finally passed to the third child. When the third child wants to give the throne to the fourth However, Ji Zha still refused to accept it, so Liao, the third son's son, became the new king of Wu."

"The third son is king?" Zhao Zheng frowned upon hearing this, "Does the boss have no children?"

"Yes, the boss has the eldest son Ming Guang," Lu An smiled, "Zheng'er guessed right. Young Master Guang later became the worry of King Liao of Wu. He took every possible precaution against Young Master Guang, but in the end he was still sent by Young Master Guang." Someone assassinated, Zheng'er, do you know why?"

Zhao Zheng swallowed subconsciously, "Why, why?"

"Because Wang Liao loves fish, he loves fish very, very much, and everyone knows that he loves fish, so Young Master Guang invited a person who is very good at cooking fish to his mansion, and frequently held banquets to treat the chef's The reputation spread, and in the end Wu Wangliao couldn't stand the temptation and came to Prince Guang's mansion to eat fish..."

"Why is he going to eat at Young Master Guang's Mansion?" Zhao Zheng frowned upon hearing this, "Can't he bring the cook back?"

"The place where a cook can perform best must be the place he is most familiar with." Lu An said with a smile, "Zhenger, if you don't cook, you don't know that cooking methods will change under different environments, such as the climate of Shu County. Humidity and dryness in Xianyang, the same firewood in Shu County will heat up a little slower, these differences are very small, but the cumulative difference is quite large.”

"So real gourmets know very well that if you want to eat the most delicious food, you must go to the place that the other party is most familiar with. This is why King Liao of Wu must go to Gongzi Guang's house for dinner, and why Gongziguang knows him. The reason why I will definitely come.”

"However, King Liao of Wu also knew very well that Young Master Guang could not have no resentment towards him, and he was also worried that Young Master Guang would take the opportunity to assassinate him, so he sent troops to Young Master Guang's house during the banquet, and arranged all the warriors at the side of the seats, all wearing armor Zhi Rui arranged for his own people in the mansion of Young Master Guang, but he was still killed, does Zheng'er know how he was killed?"

"Poisoned?" Zhao Zheng could only think of this possibility.

"No!" Lu An smiled slightly, "Poisoning is not feasible, because Wu Wangliao will send people to test poison."

He pointed to the plate and revealed the answer, "Young Master Guang asked someone to beat a dagger, hid him in the fish maw, and then took out the dagger from the inside when the cook was serving the dishes, and assassinated Wu Wangliao at close range. Wu Wang was too late. He was prepared, so he was stabbed and died."

He raised his eyes slightly to look at Zhao Zheng with colorful expressions on his face, and said, "Zheng'er might as well think about it, what did Wu Wangliao do wrong?"

"From the king's point of view, it's not wrong for him to seize the throne of his cousin. It's not wrong for him to guard against Young Master Guang. It's not like he didn't think that Young Master Guang would assassinate him. His only fault is that he likes to eat fish."

"As a king, you must not let others know your true likes and dislikes, because your likes and dislikes are your weaknesses. Once your weaknesses are known, others can use them against you."

"Policy determines strategy."

"Young Master Guang's political strategy is to regain the throne and assassinate Wu Wangliao. His strategy is to use Wu Wangliao's hobbies to make a breakthrough."

"And because he needs to use fish, he chose his own house as the battlefield."

"Since Young Master Guang uses his mansion as the battlefield, his tactic is to assassinate King Liao Wu while offering fish, and this moment is also when King Liao Wu is most alert, and the risk of assassinating King Liao Wu at this time is also the greatest."

"So, he used a dagger that could be hidden in the belly of a fish as a weapon, and used a method that Wu Wangliao never thought of to assassinate him."

Lu An looked at his younger brother and smiled slightly, "The story is over, shall we have dinner?"

Zhao Zheng was silent for a while, he silently scooped himself a bowl of bamboo shoot soup, and then gulped it all down.