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

Of course, Liu Zhi didn't get any snacks.Because the palace was messed up by the brothers, in order to avoid the news, the brothers had to whitewash the peace and reorganize the room. After the arrangement was over, no one was interested in talking, and they left in a hurry.

Until he lay down on the bed at night, Liu Zhi was not in high spirits.

As a vassal king, he naturally has his own house where he stays.But he was too young, and Xia Anran brought him by his side so no one would say anything, so Liu Xiaozhu slept with Xia Anran just like in Zhongshan Country.

Of course, sleep under the quilt.

Babies who sleep differently have no human rights.

The younger brother's obviously depressed mood can naturally be captured by the elder brother. The little king untied the younger brother's horn braids so that he could bury him in the soft goose feather pillow and sleep peacefully.

Seeing Xiao Douding's buttocks pouted and his whole body exuding an unhappy atmosphere, he asked patiently, "Why is he so unhappy? Didn't he be fine this morning?"

Xiao Douding arched the quilt like a caterpillar, and after repeated questioning by his brother, he said sullenly: "My brothers don't want to take pigs to sweep the grassland..."

"They said they were going by themselves, without a pig."

"They also said that the pig's legs are too short and the arms are too thin, so it would be a burden to carry it," Liu Xiaozhu turned over with an angry expression on his face, "How can they say that the pig is a burden! The pig will grow up soon of!"

Xia Anran looked at his younger brother's angry little face, and felt very happy. He stuffed Xiao Douding's waving little paws back into the bed, and coaxed: "Yes, yes, our pigs grow up very fast, and they will soon grow up." I can mount a horse and take a bow to walk through Yang with a hundred steps."

"A hundred steps is not enough! The goal of the pig is two hundred steps!" Xiao Douding's eyes shone brightly in the dark night, like stars, but they flickered because of the light.

"Okay! You drink more milk and exercise more. Follow the booklet the general gave you to exercise, and you will be able to walk [-] steps in no time."

The little king coaxed him, and Xiao Douding expressed his satisfaction with the answer.

He retreated a little later and gave the space to his elder brother. Xia Anran got into the bed and asked someone to turn off the lights, and the room quickly fell into darkness.

In the silence, Xia Anran saw Liu Xiaozhu turned over and looked at him fixedly, "Brother,"

"Ok?"

The child stammered, "Brother, do you think it's really okay?"

Xia Anran squinted his eyes and yawned a little. He reached out and hugged his younger brother in his arms, and patted his back to put the child to sleep.

The children began to think wildly, most of them were empty, and they should assign more homework.

Although he was thinking about terrible thoughts in his mind, his mouth was extremely gentle, "Swish has always worked the hardest, so brother thinks that Swist will definitely be able to do it."

After receiving the affirmation, Liu She was silent for a long time, so silent that Xia Anran thought the child had fallen asleep and was about to put the child back on his pillow, only then did he hear Liu She's low reply.

At the same time, Xia Anran felt Liu Xiaozhu's two hands circled over and hugged his back, that's not to mention, Xiao Douding also stretched out his short legs, pulling his whole body on his body .

Xia Anran slapped his back for a while, and hesitated for a long time between patience and pushing away, thinking that his younger brother might have suffered trauma today, so he gave up and continued to slap him on the back regularly.

When the atmosphere was dizzy, Liu She closed his eyes.

The brightest stars fell into the warm universe.

He sighed silently.

After a long time, in the dark night.

The child's voice suddenly rang out, "Brother, I didn't eat twist."

"Eat it tomorrow. Eating sweets at night is bad for your teeth."

"Hmm...but I didn't eat mahua today!"

"No."

"..."

"..."

"Brother, you are a big liar!"

"Liu Xiaozhu! Do you want to be spanked? Go to bed and stop making trouble!"

Liu Zhi, who was violently suppressed, used his cerebellum to push the bad brother's shoulder again and again, until his impatient brother finally got violent and slapped the little meaty buttocks several times before he stopped.

"Go to sleep, I'm going to see Sister Nangong tomorrow, do you want Sister to see you dozing off in front of her, yawning all day long?"

Liu Zhi shivered quietly, thinking of the fierce fighting power of his sisters, he finally pursed his lips unwillingly pinching his brother's clothes and fell asleep.

Yilan Palace is the place where Liu Zhi was born and grew up, and it is also the place he is most familiar with, but the moment he stepped into it, he felt a little strange.

Wearing formal attire, Liu Zhi withdrew his eyes from looking at the layout of the palace. When he looked at his mother and sister who were greeted with surprise from afar, he quickly stepped forward and bowed, "I have seen my mother and my sister."

"My son!" Wang Zhi came in two steps at a time. She supported the shoulders of her half-bowed son with both hands, and her passionate and longing eyes slid past her son, and she moved him up and down in a very short time. After reading it thoroughly, she finally forced herself to shift her eyes to King Zhongshan who came together. After the two greeted each other, her brows were full of relief and joy, "Thank you, Your Highness, for teaching him, and he has changed a lot. "

Xia Anran exchanged pleasantries with her for a while, and then asked to see Princess Nangong. This was not beyond Wang Zhi's expectation, and she immediately sent someone to guide the little king.

The little king thoughtfully reserved the space for the mother and son who had been separated for nearly a year, and he followed people to the side hall of Yilan Hall. The vegetation here is lush, although it looks a bit sparse because of the undyed spring, but It can be clearly seen that the owner of the palace is favored.

Xia Anran was led all the way by the maids, and then saw a girl in light yellow embroidered plum dress looking at him, her eyes met, the girl pursed her lips and smiled, like the most beautiful portrait of a lady.

Xia Anran slowly sat down in front of her, "Sister..."

"If you apologize, I won't need it." The exquisite lady's picture suddenly became lively, the girl's eyebrows were raised, and her eyes were smiling. "As soon as I see your expression, my sister will know what you are going to say."

She covered her mouth and laughed, "You brothers are all the same, and many of you have been acting like this before you."

Xia Anran was embarrassed when he was pointed out, he squeezed his fingertips, a little at a loss, he, did his sister have this personality?It seems not!

But any child in the middle is easy to be ignored, and Princess Nangong is no exception.

Of the three princesses of the big man, the eldest princess is strong, the third princess is mischievous, and the second princess has always been extremely quiet, so quiet that Xia Anran couldn't recall the face of this princess for a while after receiving the news.

But in his memory, she was always gentle and soft, and now she has a bit of a crisp and even sharp look... It really made him a little at a loss.

Princess Nangong held the pot and poured a glass of water for her younger brother, and she herself held the teacup and sighed, "Do you think sister has changed a lot?"

Xia Anran glanced at the complete set of porcelain used by the princess, and then turned back to Princess Nangong, holding the cup obediently and nodding, the girl sighed slightly, "The queen mother gave me a lot of books... After reading a lot, I feel a little bit stunned." .”

She didn't say much, seeing her younger brother sipping water along the rim of the cup, he looked like a small animal licking water, extremely cute, she couldn't help but reached out and touched his little head, seeing the little boy stare immediately Looking at her with rounded eyes, I feel more like her.

The girl withdrew her hand and smiled brightly, "I know what you are going to say, don't worry, sister will take care of herself."

Xia Anran sighed silently, he hesitated for a while, and took out a box from his sleeve, "Sister, this is for you."

"What is it?" Princess Nangong took it, and when she opened it, she found that it smelled like medicine, she raised her eyebrows immediately, her younger brother's face was a little red, but he said seriously, "This is what I asked domestic medical craftsmen to prepare for it." The avoid soup that came out."

The girl's eyes widened in astonishment, she looked at her brother with flushed cheeks and said, "Drink this, sister can...can..."

"I can't." After a moment of silence, the girl gently raised her plain hand, and pushed the wooden box back in front of the little king. Meeting her brother's astonished eyes, she smiled very comfortably, "I am the princess who married, this, I Can't have it."

She raised her head slightly, her eyes were as clear as a trickling stream, "Sheng'er, sister knows what you want to say, but you have to remember that you are the prince of the Han family, and I am also the princess of the Han family."

"You have your responsibilities, and I have mine."

He knew what this princess meant. The anti-child medicine that Xia Anran gave her was actually just a medicine that artificially caused coldness in the palace and made it difficult to conceive.Another effect of this drug is that it can cause irregular menstruation, and it is needless to say what this means for women.

However, Princess Nangong refused.

She knew very well that if she wanted to gain a firm foothold in the grassland, she must have a child with the blood of Da Shanyu.

When she was studying, she learned that the Huns were used to plundering, plundering assets, and plundering women.The captured woman has no freedom before giving birth to a child. Only after giving birth can the shackles be loosened. Of course, Princess Nangong is a big Han princess who is married to her, so the treatment is naturally different.

But the same goal by different routes, according to the thinking inertia of the Huns, if she does not have children, she will definitely not be trusted by the Huns. Even if it is the Da Yan family, her operable range will be extremely low.

Although the Xiongnu is a completely patriarchal society, women also have a considerable status. After all, the men go hunting and grazing for many years, and everything in the family is run by women. Even the Da Yan family can intervene when there is an accident in Shanyu. to the alternation of kingship.

Therefore, if Princess Nangong wants to secure the position of Da Yan, she must give birth to the Xiongnu Shanyu's child.

Xia Anran's lips moved, but she couldn't say what she wanted to say. Giving birth to a child of someone she didn't like, and even using her own flesh and blood as the cornerstone of her life, for a woman... Isn't it too cruel?

Princess Nangong was just smiling slightly, and had no intention of explaining to her younger brother.

There are some things that women can understand, but men can't.

When the brothers met with each other, her palace was stepped on one by one by the brothers. Almost every brother had a guilty look, and when they saw her, they hesitated, as if they wanted to comfort but didn't know. How to comfort her.

No matter one or two, all of them are like this, it just makes her angry and funny at the same time.

If you want her to say it, you really don't have to.

Princess Nangong has learned a lot and done a lot in the past six months. The more she knows, the more she sees the world.After thinking too much, she gradually put away her blaming. The queen mother was right, instead of always obsessing over the idea of ​​"Why me", she should focus on the future and think about how to live in the future.

She can cry and marry to the grassland, and then become a delicate flower that is not acclimatized to wither there, or she can become a tough cattail, linking the Xiongnu and the big man.

What's more...she also has her mission.

The girl's thin white fingers gently caressed the teacup. If it weren't for the fleshy pink on the fingertips, it would be impossible to tell which is whiter, her hand or the porcelain cup.

Xia Anran's gaze landed on her fingers, and then she lingered on the porcelain cup for a while, before suddenly asking, "Does sister like rabbits?"

This change of topic caught Princess Nangong a little off guard. She blinked her eyes and was a little confused, "Rabbit?"

Xia Anran thought she hadn't seen it before, so she explained, "It's the white one with long ears and furry..."

"I know," Nangong interrupted him when he saw his younger brother gesticulate, "I haven't raised it before, and I can't say whether I like it or not...it's okay. Why, Brother wants to give me a rabbit?"

To her surprise, the little boy nodded seriously, "Sister, rabbits like to eat grass."

Nangong tilted his head slightly, motioning for him to continue.

Xia Anran hesitated for a while, pressed her conscience, and continued, "As long as there are enough rabbits, the pasture will definitely degenerate."

"Degeneration?" Princess Nangong tasted the new term, her brows gradually frowned, and she heard her younger brother continue to say, "Rabbits are very capable of giving birth. They can even conceive two babies successively. As long as there are two rabbits, one male and one female, they can give birth in a year." Hundreds, and in the absence of natural enemies, it only takes two or three years to expand to thousands."

This number made Princess Nangong's eyes widen, but she still couldn't understand what her brother meant. The most important thing was "there are rabbits on the grassland..."

"It's different." The little king shook his head and said, "Rabbits on the grassland don't dig holes."

Although they are all rabbits, domestic rabbits are domesticated from cave-dwelling rabbits, and the three caves of the cunning rabbit are talking about them, but in fact, the hares that are hopping on the prairie now are deserted. They even give birth in the open air, at most Just dig a small shallow pit and hide half of your body in it, which is better than nothing to block it.

When encountering danger, wild pictures usually run to the nearest bushes. Compared with domestic rabbits, they can be described as long-distance running champions, and they also have a mid-way steering function. Even excellent predators on the grassland sometimes encounter wild rabbits. To Ma claw.

The first reaction of domestic rabbits is to find their own burrows. Their running has a clear direction, and they are sprinters.

At the same time, as a link in the ecological chain, the food of grassland hares is mainly grass leaves and shrub fruits, which do little harm to the grassland ecology, and they have even been in the position of contributing to feeding grassland carnivorous animals for a long time

Rabbits are not.

They once had a feat of nearly paralyzing Australia's livestock industry with more than a dozen domestic rabbits.

This is because the rabbits have digging holes in their living habits.

They will keep cutting off the root system of pasture in the process of digging holes, and the much stronger fertility of domestic rabbits than wild rabbits will make their numbers grow rapidly.

Meanwhile, fast-growing rabbits will quickly clear the surrounding pasture.Rabbits are extremely greedy for food intake, which is also their need for reproduction. In order to raise enough cubs in the shortest possible time, domestic rabbits eat almost day and night.

Uninterrupted feeding, uninterrupted breeding, digging a hole in the ground to increase soil erosion, all these behaviors have led to the degradation of Australia's pastures.

Moreover, rabbits are very edible. The grass eaten by 10 rabbits is equivalent to that of a sheep, but the value of their output is far less than that of sheep.It will not be easy to curb the growth of this animal population.

Because for honest prairie animals, they would never have imagined that their enemies would hide in holes. Of course, there are burrowing animals on the prairie, but generally these animals don’t run fast.

And rabbits that can run and dig are definitely hell-level existences, at least when the rabbits first entered the grassland.

In addition, for ungulates in the grassland, the potholes all over the ground can also increase the difficulty of their travel.

All this can be done with only a few rabbits.

Although the effect is very slow, and even in the early stage, it needs to be artificially raised and protected, but with Xia Anran's understanding of rabbits, animals that are often flooded even in modern China... it won't take long for them to become wild animals on the grassland. big bully.

What's more, even if these rabbits go to the grassland and still become the bottom of the ecological chain, it doesn't matter.Rabbits are an excellent source of food. What they feed are beasts such as prairie wolves and foxes, as well as birds of prey such as eagles, eagles, and owls. The increase in the number of rabbits will soon lead to an increase in the number of these beasts.

Of course, the increase in the number of grassland beasts can also bring certain troubles to nomads.

No matter how bad it is, even if these things don't produce any effect in the end, it doesn't matter even if it is to add a little food to my sister.As the saying goes, there are no birds like fawns, and no animals like rabbits. Although nomads raise a lot of livestock, in fact their food is mainly dairy products. Unless it is a major festival, they rarely eat meat. My sister must not be used to this. .

Rabbits are easy to feed and delicious. If there is a need for large-scale migration, it’s okay. Just pick a few fat ones and stuff them in the cage and take them away. Anyway, they grow fast.

The younger brother opened his mouth and said, the dizzy Princess Nangong barely grasped the point, but anyway, she just needs to raise rabbits, eat rabbits, and release rabbits, right?Don't worry about anything else, it's not difficult.

Although Nangong felt that what the younger brother said was a bit exaggerated, how could a few rabbits snatch the pasture of the sheep and break the horse's hooves, but since it was the younger brother's wish, she naturally would not refuse.

The two talked for a while, and Xia Anran also sent a whole box of vegetable seeds collected by herself, so that sister could try to sow seeds when the Xiongnu settled down.

They are all green leafy vegetables, which grow fast. My brother said frankly, "Eating more vegetables will not cause constipation. The diet of the Huns is too unhealthy..."

As a result, the younger brother who knew too much was violently suppressed by the elder sister. Princess Nangong just grabbed a persimmon cake and blocked the younger brother's mouth completely, leaving no gaps.

The little prince chewed on the persimmon cake twice, frowned, and actually took out a small jar from his sleeve pocket, sprinkled some white powder on it, and then stuffed it into his mouth.

Princess Nangong thought her younger brother was sprinkling salt on the persimmon cake, and she was shocked by this strange way of eating it.

The persimmon cake at this time is not the kind of persimmon cake obtained by air-drying persimmons, but a kind of persimmon cake obtained by peeling the skin and removing the stalks, mashing the persimmon meat and mixing it with flour, stuffing bean paste in the middle and frying it in oil. A popular snack in Chang'an City.

It tastes sweet and dense, oily and hot, and once launched, it immediately became popular in the streets and alleys.

However, today’s persimmon cakes are all stored persimmons, and the taste is a bit different from when it was fresh, but the aroma is chosen, but even so, eating it with salt is too...

The way Nangong looked at his younger brother was like a salty party suddenly appeared in a sweet party family, which was very complicated.So the little king sprinkled some white powder on her sister as well, to show her that he was still a sweet party through and through.

"This is...sugar?" Nangong took a sip and her eyes lit up. Compared with maltose and honey, sucrose has a unique sweetness, and she can feel the difference as soon as she eats it. She squinted her eyes and looked at it suspiciously. Looking at his younger brother, Xia Anran silently offered the sugar jar, "Sister, this is white sugar produced in Changsha."

"Yeah." Nangong sprinkled a lot of sugar on top of the persimmon cake, and his eyes narrowed as soon as he bit it down. Even if she was a princess, Emperor Jing loved her a lot because of guilt, but the sweet syrup and honey in winter The water is extremely rare, and the persimmon cake has a sweet taste of its own, but this taste can only be called sweet.

It is human instinct to chase high calories, and so is chasing sweetness.

Such pure sweetness put the girl in a good mood, but after a while, she immediately grasped the key point "is it from Changsha?"

The little king nodded, and Princess Nangong thought for a moment, then smiled and said, "Sheng'er, if you have something to say, just say it, there is no need to go around like this between you and me."

"It's not a detour," Xia Anran scratched her head, "It's just that I haven't fully figured it out...that is, I just thought of it..."

"So you want me to bring these sugars into the grassland, right?" Nangong said with a clear face, and her heart was clear. If Emperor Jing knew about this, then the younger brother King Zhongshan would not come to accompany him. He said that it is very likely that the father did not know about it, or it was completely the personal thoughts of King Zhongshan and King Changsha.

The girl tapped the table with her slender knuckles, and after a long time she said: "But, I heard that the grassland is cold, and it is difficult for bees to survive. Therefore, although there are many flowers in the north, there is very little honey. Although I have never heard that the Huns are fond of sweets, but……"

She paused, and said in a suspicious tone, "There should be everyone who likes sweets, right?"

Xia Anran paused, feeling that this question was difficult to answer... He coughed, "Changsha's output is not high this year, especially white sugar is the most expensive, sister, why don't you bring more brown sugar, don't be in a hurry, eat it for a while Whether it is used as a reward, sister looks like it."

Nangong agreed, and the two siblings fell into silence again. Xia Anran hesitated for a moment and then said, "Sister..."

His unspoken words were interrupted by Liu She who hurried in, Xiao Douding stepped steadily on his short legs and walked in from the outside, complaining as he walked, "Sister, why didn't you leave someone to serve you? She came in directly." .”

"Come in," Nangong replied, and then smiled when she saw Liu Zhi's expression, she turned her head slightly and said to Xia Anran, "Look, the expression on Liu Zhi's face is the same as yours just now."

Xia Anran turned her head to look when she heard the words, and saw clearly written on Liu Zhi's face - I'm not very happy but I can't say it.

Him, was his expression so straightforward just now?

I saw Liu Zhi stepping in two or three steps, saluting to Princess Nangong, and when he was called out, his expression was rather bitter and bitter, "Sister..."

"Okay, okay," the girl raised her finger, and vainly clicked on his last words. She shook her head half helplessly, half sighing, and then said to Xia Anran, "Sheng'er, while the palace gate is still open, You might as well bring a few of those rabbits first, so I can touch their tempers in advance."

"Since that's the case, I'll go and bring a few docile rabbits for my sister to play with." Xia Anran naturally knew that this was Nangong's euphemistic order to drive away guests. He stood up and bowed to the princess, and then confirmed with Liu Zhi what he wanted today. After returning to the building, I will take my leave first.

As soon as he walked out of the palace gate, before he was far away, his sensitive hearing caught Liu Xiaozhu's crying "Sister, it's useless to be a pig..." After that, there was Nangong's helpless and loving coaxing voice of persuasion.

The little king rolled up his sleeves, stood at the entrance of the hall and looked up at the gray sky. Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly heard a call.

The author has something to say:

There are two sayings about hares in China, one is a wild domestic rabbit, and the other is a hare. The text refers to a hare.

Chinese meat rabbits are not domesticated from wild rabbits.

How to tell... The simplest thing is that the one born with hair is a hare, and the one without hair is a rabbit.

Because a few hours after the birth of a wild rabbit, the little rabbit will be able to escape with its mother, while the hole rabbit has a stable development time.

It is the rabbit that kills Australian animal husbandry. The hare~~~~ Well, in fact, the hare is much easier to catch than the rabbit, and the reproductive rate of the hare is low. They have one to two litters a year, and there are two rabbits. Uterus.

This one is still breastfeeding, and that one is already developing in the stomach.

By the way, these rabbit plagues have actually happened in all countries, but Australia is the most obvious.Because Australia's ecology is too fragile.

If you travel to Australia, you will find that the entry inspection is very strict, especially for fruit and meat. Of course, this is the same everywhere, but if you go to a country with the mainland as the main body, it will be relatively less strict, and the islands are the strictest. It is because the ecology of the island is fragile.

The vast continent has some ecological self-healing ability, because the species themselves will migrate, as part of the ecological chain, as they come, their predators return.But islands are not good. Animals cannot cross the vast ocean, so all creatures can basically flourish after arriving on the island.

The reason why fruit is not allowed is that the fear is not the fruit itself, but the fruit fly eggs on the peel.

If you happen to bring a fruit fly species that is not available on the island into the island, and the fruit fly happens to hatch again, it will be a serious blow to the local agriculture.

In fact, China has also begun to pay attention to it in the past two years, because alien species have also caused great damage to China's native agriculture.

...So after proofreading this piece by Mr. Proofreader...

The proofreader said to me with a serious face - I didn't expect you to be such an author.

Author: innocent.jpg

Author: I'm not, I don't, this is Xia Miao's idea, it has nothing to do with me!

In fact, not everyone can use the method of raising rabbits, but Princess Nangong can do it.If border guards raise rabbits or something, I’m afraid they’ll screw themselves over first (cough)

But the life of rabbits on the northern prairie must not be as easy as Australia, because there are prairie wolves and prairie foxes.

Prairie Wolf & Prairie Fox: It feels like a takeaway is about to be delivered.