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

The protein content of sorghum leaves is very high. As grasses, their protein is no less than that of legumes.Of course, it was specially bred sweet sorghum, but Xia Anran felt that it came from the same source, so it shouldn't be much different, even if it was a little worse, it would be fine, let's deal with the winter and spring first, the most important thing is to get enough first.

And its biggest advantage is that sorghum has strong renewable power. If it is not for harvesting sorghum millet, one crop after another is cut off. After cutting, it is quickly chopped with stems and leaves and sealed for silage. Sweet, ruminant-like animals love it.

So when the spring begins, there will be one more crop that Zhongshan needs to grow.

——This is all forced by more and more beasts in Zhongshan.

Liu Xiaozhu lost the sorghum field for making sugar, and only the sorghum field for the livestock was left. Don't mention how sad he was!But having said that, Xia Anran didn't really wronged his younger brother, he specially spent a lot of money to buy sweet syrup for his younger brother.

Perhaps as the saying goes, what you can't get is the best. Now when it comes to sugar, Liu Xiaozhu is still full of resentment.

Promise!

Xia Anran was angry and funny, he went over to ask Liu Fa for some unwelcome brown sugar, and then went out to find a chef to make snacks for his brother.

Why not join the discussion?

Of course it was because as an insider, he had already confirmed the order with King Changsha in the first place!Don't look at those brothers who bid more aggressively than him one by one, they will all have to be behind him at that time.

The treacherous little king quietly left holding the candy. Liu Zhi looked around and noticed Liu Fei, the fifth son of the emperor, who did not participate in the discussion.

The Jiangdu King, who was the only tough guy among the little princes, drank by himself, and sneered at the way these brothers would beat their brains out for a little candy.

At this moment, he felt a source of heat rubbing against him, it was the emperor's tenth son Liu Zhi.

What?

He raised his eyebrows, and didn't want to pay attention to it, but Liu Zhi blinked his big eyes and looked at him so firmly, Liu Fei couldn't stand it.

As an existence at the top of a country, and a general (self-appointed) with evil spirits, Liu Fei has not met such a person who dares to look directly at him for a long time.

"What are you doing? Little Milkman." He said sarcastically.

Unexpectedly, Liu Zhi blinked his starry eyes and looked at him seriously, "Fifth Brother, Ninth Brother said that you are the most powerful fighter among us, right?"

Liu Fei, who was tickled by a sentence, immediately straightened his back calmly, and changed his boring posture of propping his cheeks to a more masculine posture of sitting with his head held high. He turned his head slightly, and glanced at his younger brother from the corner of his eyes. "nature."

"Then..." Liu She continued to shoot star gaze waves at his elder brother, "Then brother, can you do me a favor?"

"Speak." Liu Fei paused, then added, "It depends."

Liu Zhi nodded his head, leaned over, and said in a whispered tone: "Brother, can you and Xi'er send troops to the Huns together?"

oh? !This is possible!

Liu Fei coughed dryly, and nodded with extreme restraint, "This is what I want. Sooner or later, this king will gallop on the grasslands. As for you wanting to go to the battlefield...you need to practice more."

He paused, but still asked curiously: "Why are you thinking of sending troops to the grassland at such a young age?"

"Because..." Liu Zhi clenched his small fists, explained his ambitions to another brother, and tried to attract people to join the group, "I will snatch my sister back when the time comes! I will also snatch the Xiongnu princess back! Nine My elder brother said that my elder brother is very powerful, so can my elder brother help you?"

Liu Fei was stunned for a moment, then he snorted and laughed.He stretched out his hand with thick joints from martial arts, pressed it on the younger brother's head, and rubbed it hard twice.

Liu Zhi was staggered by his elder brother's rubbing, and in the end he was patted on the back by his elder brother a few times.

Liu Fei looked at his younger brother like a little milk dog who could not resist, soft and soft, and suddenly felt it was fun, so he squeezed it a few more times, "You are young, you think a lot, this is not to be with you Ninth brother learns, no matter how long-sighted it is, how can a sister want to snatch it..."

Before he finished speaking, he paused. The young brother would have such a wish, naturally because of their sister who was about to be sent to marry.

He immediately fell silent.

After a long time, he lowered his eyes and felt the same powerlessness as when he heard the news.

Thousands of words, only turned into a sigh, "In the final analysis, we are still useless..."

"Brother, it's okay! That's because we are still young," Liu She patted his elder brother on the shoulder, and said confidently, "Because we were too young to help Father at that time, it will be fine when we grow up." La!"

The two brothers didn't know that there was a man standing behind the two, on the outside of the corridor, who was their old father.

Liu Qi has long been curious about the behavior of his sons gathering for a small meeting, and the prince who was sent out never returned. Came here in person.

How could he have heard the words of his sons as soon as he entered the pavilion.

Every word of the sons was homogenized into sharp knives and pierced into his heart. All kinds of emotions were intertwined, and it was complicated and unspeakable for a while.

The emperor only felt a blockage in his chest, and the itching in his throat surged up, but he suppressed the desire to cough.If he made a sound now, he would definitely startle the sons in the room, but in the end he just covered his mouth and quietly backed away.

The servant Chuntuo immediately helped Emperor Jing go to a secluded place, and poured cold water from the kettle, "Your Majesty, the water is cold, drink it slowly."

Liu Qi took a small sip of water, and when he saw that Chuntuo was about to send someone to fetch hot water from the stove, he waved his hand to stop him, "Don't go, they will come over as soon as you leave, trouble."

"Yes, Your Majesty, this water is too cold, it's not good for your health, don't drink too much, why don't we go back to the palace first?" Chun Tuo took the water bottle that was handed back by Emperor Jing, his eyes filled with worry.

The emperor slowed down a bit, and sighed after a while, "Go back first."

"Hey, Your Majesty, be careful, the ground is still cold and slippery." The servant hurriedly helped him up, and he carefully led the way for the emperor, but he heard a call after he had walked two steps, "President Zhongchang?"

Several people followed the prestige, and saw that the ninth son of the emperor was walking towards this place carrying a food box, and seeing that it was indeed Chuntuo, and seeing Liu Qi supported by Chuntuo, the little king immediately stepped forward, "Royal father."

The young boy put down the food box and bowed to the emperor, "My son has seen the father, the father will be happy forever, and live forever."

"Get up, what are you holding?" Liu Qi glanced at the lacquered wood food box in his younger son's hand, and after the cough was suppressed, he was in the mood to say a few words.

Xia Anran immediately opened the box, and there were several small lacquer bowls stacked inside, "Sixth brother brought a lot of candy, so I made some snacks with this, Father, try it?"

"That's it." Liu Qi laughed, "As a father, I have to try it."

He picked up a twist and stuffed it into his mouth. The brown sugar was mellow and sweet with a bit of burnt aroma as soon as he entered his mouth. He raised his eyebrows and bit it open in two or three bites. It's covered in syrup.

This practice is strange.

The twist tastes salty, the sugar liquid is sweet, and the taste is layered in this mouthful, and finally the mouth is full of fragrance, which makes people want to eat it even after eating it.

"The taste is really good. I didn't expect my son to have this skill." Liu Qi praised.

"Where does my son have such skills? The chef did it. I just offered an opinion." The little king pursed his lips and smiled, and then took out another pot-bellied water jug ​​from the lacquer box.

This thing should be scooping water with a spoon, but there is no spoon here, so Xia Anran can only find a way to pour it out, but the opening of the current pot is too big and there is no small mouth for drainage, it is really difficult to pour it out.

Chuntuo saw the little king rushing forward to take it clumsily. He moved steadily and completed this difficult movement in three or two strokes.Xia Anran thanked her, then handed the water to Liu Qi, "Father, drink water."

Liu Qi reached out to take it, oh, hot water.He took a sip and felt that the discomfort in his chest and abdomen had subsided a lot, and the tea also had a special sweet taste. He raised his eyebrows, "Is there water chestnuts in it?"

"Yes." Xia Anran nodded, "I like sweets, water chestnuts are sweet and fragrant after being boiled, he likes to drink it very much."

Of course, in addition to the water chestnuts, sugar is also sprinkled. Now this season, the only water chestnuts he brought to Chang’an are naturally dried. Although the fructose and aromatic substances will be further concentrated during the air-drying process, the sugar will still be lost, so the dry goods are naturally incomparable. Sweet fresh fruit...

In order to trick Xiao Douding, who loves sweets but doesn't like vegetarians, Xia Anran sprinkled sugar into it, turning it into a sweet fruit tea.

"En." Liu Qi nodded, and didn't ask where the water chestnuts came from this season. He just reached out and asked Chun Tuo to pour another cup, and while drinking, he beckoned the little king to sit down too.

It's freezing cold, chatting here?

Xia Anran looked at the scene of wearing wind everywhere, and then at Liu Qi who was dressed a little thinly. After thinking about it, he persuaded: "Father, it's windy here, so it's better not to stay too long. Seeing There is a heated kang in the building, why not go inside and eat something? Brothers have brought a lot of snacks this time, and they taste very good."

Liu Qi glanced at him and said with a smile: "How do you know that the things your brother brought are good?"

Of course, it’s because I’ve already gotten some food. Last night, he ate his fill by eating specialties from all over the world!

Xia Anran looked innocent.

Seeing his appearance, Liu Qi smiled and shook his head.

He stretched out his finger and tapped his son in the void, "Do you know that your elder brothers often come to tell me about you?

What?His brothers are the kind of villains who do one thing in front of the other?On the surface, we are friends who make money together, but we are secretly suing him behind the scenes?

Such behavior must be severely condemned!

Xia Anran immediately widened her eyes, with an expression of disbelief, and went over to ask his old father seriously who was speaking ill of him behind his back.

It was the first time Liu Qi met someone who knew that he had been sued, and didn't want to immediately reflect and admit his mistake, but wanted to trouble the person who sued him, so he couldn't laugh or cry.

He didn't even know which prince he had offended, his son must have lived a bit too confusedly!

In response to his son's repeated questioning, the old father snorted, replied "I can't tell you this, you can think for yourself", and sent him away.

Xia Anran calculated in his mind who might report to him, and then thought about what he had done recently, and after he had probably figured it out, he said that his son had made up his mind, that his son has been very good recently, Nothing wrong with it.

If someone files a complaint, it must be black!

No matter how well-bred Liu Qi was, at this moment he couldn't help but feel self-doubt—was Liu Sheng of this character before he became a fan?It doesn't seem to be the case, he remembered that his son was quite normal.

So... During the time when the son was released, he was taught crookedly.

Sure enough, it's still too early for the brat to be released?

Xia Anran took a peek at Emperor Jing's calm expression, trying to judge his mood from it.

But Liu Qi's face-saving skills are too good, relying on the little king to only practice the basic expression reading skills, it's really hard to judge for a while.

On the contrary, Liu Qi was confused by his son's behavior of watching him from the corner of his eyes. He reached out and tapped his son's forehead, and said with a smile: "If you have anything to say, you are my ninth son, not my ninth daughter. What for?"

"Hmm..." Xia Anran pinched the palm of her hand, hesitated a little, and asked Liu Qi a question he hadn't expected, "Will you go back with your son this time?"

Liu Qi was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, he tilted his head slightly, his gaze swept across his son's face, and asked without answering, "Why, can't bear it?"

Xia Anran nodded. Raising a child like Liu Xiaozhu will definitely develop feelings. After all, a smart little Douding who can be cute and stupid is really cute and easy to raise, and he accumulates affection points every day.

His lips moved, and he muttered in a low voice: "After all, he is a son who has been brought up with great difficulty. If we want to part at once, we will really be reluctant to part with him."

Liu Qi raised his eyebrows high, and looked at his son with a funny expression on his face, "Are you raising your brother as a son?"

Xia Anran, who accidentally slipped the tongue, immediately blinked her small eyes and put on an innocent look.

Seeing this silly gesture made Liu Qi angry and funny, he waved his hand, his eyebrows lightened, "Then I can't raise him for you anymore, you have only raised him for a year and you will treat him as your son, in another two years it will be like this I'm afraid that I will really call you father."

Hearing this, Xia Anran lowered her eyes, her little tail drooped, her expression extremely disappointed.

Seeing that he really looked like a kind old father who had lost his son, Liu Qi couldn't help snorting. He patted his son on the head, "It's time for you to learn. It will be too late if you don't learn."

The little king was slightly taken aback, and when he raised his eyes, he met the old father's calm eyes.

Liu Qi's hand has not been removed from his son's head, and he followed his movements to touch the little boy's hair crown. Liu Qi saw his son's pupils shrunk suddenly, and understood that he knew what he meant.

The little princes in the Western Han Dynasty were raised on a semi-free basis. Many of them could barely read some characters when they arrived in the feudal clan. There was basically no compulsory learning task.

Now there are basically no professional classes for little princes.

Liu Zhi is only five years old this year, and he is only seven years old. What can a five-year-old child learn, how can it be too late?

There is only one answer - the science of governing the country, the way of building a state.

This is a homework that can never be learned in a lifetime, and there is no right to fail the exam.

No, it's also possible that he was thinking too much. Maybe the old father is planning to start focusing on basic education again?

Liu Qi slowly withdrew his hand, and the man's thin and pale hand with bulging veins was hidden under his sleeve again.

Seeing his son trying to keep calm but actually shaken, Liu Qi smiled softly and said, "I like taking care of children so much... why don't you take Eleven and Twelve back?"

The father's words shook the little boy's spirit back.

Xia Anran looked at her father speechlessly, with a small expression full of helplessness, he rejected this plausible suggestion without hesitation.

He would be bald if he raised one cub, and he would raise two...and he just gave back Meiren Wang's cub, and took away the baby of Wang Meiren's sister, because he thought he didn't have enough braids, and Wang Meiren was not good at revenge. .

Liu Qi chuckled, seeing that his son's expression had been sorted out, he put down the lacquer cup, and while straightening out the slightly messy sleeves due to repeated movements, he casually said: "People on the grassland like your things very much. , you did a good job at this."

Xia Anran's eyes lit up when he heard this, did his father successfully insert his hands into the grassland?Liu Qi naturally wouldn't answer his son's question.After successfully whetting his son's appetite, he fell silent again.

Xia Anran hesitated for a while, feeling really curious in her heart, she slowly moved to her father's side and clenched her fists.

Isn't it just to knock the old father on the back?

Liu Xiaoshe can use this, so of course he can use it!

Caught off guard by the knock, Liu Qi couldn't laugh or cry. He repeatedly waved his hands to signal Chun Tuo to pull him away. Seeing his son's aggrieved expression, he felt uncomfortable.

He stood up and was about to criticize, but he just took a breath of cold air and choked.

Almost at the same time, he felt his son's banging sound coming from behind him, as well as Chuntuo's exclamation and dissuasion.

Liu Qi thought in his heart that this brat's hands were too strong, no one would give him comfort these days by slapping him.But don't say it, maybe the brat's slapping method is really useful, this time Liu Qi only coughed a few times and then stopped.

After standing up straight again, Liu Qi met his son's worried eyes.Such blatant worry is really rare, since the youngest sons left Beijing, he has rarely seen such emotions.Liu Qi's heart softened, and he stood up straight with the strength of Chuntuo and Xia Anran's support. He patted his son's shoulder, "Go in, it's getting dark, I guess I'll have to wait for you."

Xia Anran pursed her lips, knowing that she had missed the best time to ask questions, some things could be said in certain atmospheres, but some could not, and now is not the right time to ask further questions.

If you miss it, just miss it, he will always know what he should know, and Xia Anran has a great heart about it.Afterwards, he just asked lightly how Zhongshan Country's production would be arranged in the next few years, and when he got Liu Qi's reply that it was not necessary to produce, he felt certain in his heart.

Seeing that Liu Qi was about to leave, the little prince hurriedly leaned over to send him off. At this moment, the emperor who turned his back and walked forward suddenly stopped, "Sheng'er."

"My son is here."

"If you have time... let's go and see your sister Nangong." Liu Qi turned his back to him, and his tone was extremely calm.

Xia Anran couldn't know the emperor's mood from his words, so he could only agree softly.

The emperor continued: "My children are the ones you see through...Liu Sheng, I want to ask you again, your wish...can you change it?"

This is where the corridor from the kitchen to the hall is located, and it is not time for meals at this time, I don't know if the attendants are hiding away or were waved back by the emperor first, there are no outsiders here at this time, only Liu's father and son and Chuntuo People stand in the cold wind.

Xia Anran hadn't started to make a bow yet, and she was frozen in mid-air like an ice sculpture.Chuntuo looks at his nose with his eyes, and his heart with his nose, just like a stone statue, without any sense of existence.

The cold wind blew past and rolled up a piece of broken snow. It seemed that there were only father and son left in the world.

Liu Qi didn't get an answer and didn't urge him, let alone look back, he just stood there quietly, wanting to give his son a space to think clearly.

This question is of great importance, and it involves not only Liu Sheng alone, so what he wants to get is the answer after his son has thought it through and understood it thoroughly.

The sound of the cool wind brought the answers of his nine sons, along with the emotion of not knowing whether to say luck or regret.

The nine sons of the emperor, Zhongshan King Liu Sheng's answer is still the same as before.

He is only willing to be a minister who assists the emperor.

Liu Qi sighed silently. After receiving this answer, he walked forward slowly without saying a word or pausing. His posture was so natural that one couldn't help wondering whether the emperor had heard his answer clearly.

Xia Anran straightened up slowly, watching the thin back that was drifting away.At this time, the cold wind was blowing, and Liu Qi's robe was rolled up and flying. From the angle of the little king, he could clearly see his father's body that was so thin that it almost had no flesh.

Liu Qi's health is not good. When he was young, he knew martial arts and was also good at riding and shooting. However, state affairs and family affairs were laborious. He wanted to stabilize the court and balance the court, so he almost couldn't sleep peacefully every day.

Last year, he repeatedly experienced sending his daughter to the Xiongnu for marriage, creating the only "first infamy" among the emperors who married a prince's daughter to a barbarian. In autumn, he experienced a white-haired man sending black hair.

After repeated blows, Liu Qi's physical condition took a turn for the worse.

However, at this time when the vassal kings entered the court, even if he pretended to be healthy, he had to pretend to be healthy and energetic. Therefore, he had to drink the medicine of tiger and wolf.

The tiger and wolf medicine naturally has huge side effects, and the bitter taste is just one of them, and it is already the slightest one. Therefore, the emperor likes sweet now, and the sweet twist made by his son is very popular with him. I ate a few more just now. root.

But now, the sweetness is gone, and the bitterness is surging again.

Liu Qi's expression didn't change, he was very patient, as long as he didn't want to, others would never be able to see what was going on in his mind.

Even Chuntuo couldn't.

Chun Tuo really didn't understand why King Zhongshan would say such a thing, His Majesty's meaning was already very clear.

Chun Tuo didn't even doubt that as long as King Zhongshan was willing, His Majesty would immediately call him to Beijing to train him nearby. Even if he didn't go to Beijing, as long as the emperor ordered, passing the throne to a vassal was not a big deal.

The only resistance force is King Liang, but His Majesty is in power now, and the military power has been taken back. If you really show the achievements of King Zhongshan over the years, you might not be able to compete with King Liang.

King Liang's biggest advantage is the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion.

And all the things King Zhongshan did were of merit to the country and benefited the people's livelihood, so it's hard to say who is more dominant.

But King Zhongshan refused.

Chun Tuo has been serving His Majesty personally these days, so of course he can somewhat guess what His Majesty is thinking.

His Majesty is dissatisfied with the crown prince, not only because the crown prince has a difficult mother's family, but also because the crown prince has a weak personality, can be worthy of guarding the country, but cannot open up borders.

There is nothing wrong with Liu Rong.

He is benevolent and filial, kind, able to be filial to his elders at the top, friendly and loving to his younger siblings at the bottom, and also eager to learn.

As an elder brother, this is enough, but as an emperor, mediocrity is his biggest fault.

Especially when his enemy is King Liang.

One of the reasons why the old queen mother of Changxin Palace wanted King Liang to ascend the throne was that Liu Rong had a weak temperament and needed to be tempered.And even Chun Tuo had no doubt that if King Liang came to the throne, Liu Rong would not be able to walk back and forth under his uncle a few times.

The sapling of Liu Rong was too weak, and no matter how hard Emperor Jing tried his best, it was impossible to remove all the branches for Liu Rong, so he could only choose to give up.

Why did Liu Qi choose to start training Liu Che?

Xia Anran didn't know this, and neither did Chuntuo.

But Chun Tuo speculated that it might be because His Majesty heard the chatter of the young Highnesses just now, that His Highness Liu Zhi had the great ambition of riding a horse on the grassland at a young age, and his heart was touched.

Although young people don't know what it's like to be afraid, it's enough to raise eyebrows at His Royal Highness Liu Zhi's age.

Although Chuntuo kept guessing in his mind, he did not lose face at all. He followed Emperor Jing silently, and followed him slowly into the carriage returning to the palace.

Xia Anran held the basket and looked at his father's back from a distance, until he disappeared completely before turning his head back with some melancholy. As soon as he turned his head, he saw Liu Zhi who was hiding in the corner with his head tilted, and was immediately taken aback.

It was also because he was so focused that he didn't even notice Xiao Douding walking over.

Xia Anran waved at her younger brother, then took her younger brother's somewhat cold paws, rubbed them together to warm them up, "When did you come here?"

Liu Zhi pursed his lips, and followed his elder brother step by step towards the living room, "It started when my father asked my elder brother to visit Nangong sister."

Xia Anran nodded, "Brother will come to invite Wei Young tomorrow, and then he will enter the palace with brother. You haven't seen Wang Niangniang for a long time, right?"

Liu Zhi responded obediently.

The two returned to the banquet hall, but as soon as they entered, they found that the brothers had already fought together, and they were fighting each other with fists.

Looking at this scene, Xia Anran inexplicably thought of the scene of two rookies, Han Yan and Zhang Qian, rolling around on the floor and pecking at each other nearly a year ago.

——Are you also only three or four years old?

When the younger brother can't help but slander.

The author has something to say:

Brothers (Snitch)

Brothers (secret revenge)

Uncles (clearly hold grudges)

Uncles (tattling)

Xia Miao (with arms akimbo): I don’t care, I’ve never done anything, it’s his fault if someone says something bad about me!

Liu Qi:? !