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

The person who came was Princess Yangxin. Not long ago, she had just married Cao Shou, Marquis of Pingyang. Now she should be called "Princess Pingyang".Now, this newlywed woman is a little bit worried because her younger sister is about to go to the Huns to get married.

Cao Shou used to be Xia Anran's companion, Mrs. Jia had a good relationship with Wang Meiren, and little prince Liu Sheng had a good relationship with the three princesses.So seeing that it was his younger brother Liu Sheng who came today, Princess Yangxin waved to him and asked him to talk with him.

Xia Anran would not refuse, he asked people to go back to the hall to prepare the rabbit that was going to be brought to Princess Nangong, and he went into the palace where Princess Yangxin had not been removed.

Although the princess is already married, it is clear that her natal family still left her a pre-marriage palace.

Princess Yangxin pulled her younger brother to sit down, and the two looked at each other for a while.It was because Xia Anran didn't know why her elder sister stopped him suddenly, while Princess Yangxin had completely personal reasons.

Seeing her younger brother's cautious appearance, she shook her head with a smile, asked someone to pour some syrup for him, and then shunned the palace servants.She herself was playing with the lacquer bowl, quietly looking at her younger brother who was drinking water.

The young girl is at the most romantic age in her life. She is from a wealthy family and is the eldest daughter.Wang Meiren and Liu Qi are both good-looking, Princess Yangxin has completely inherited the advantages of her parents, and now all the luxurious palace clothes have become her decorations, and she does not dare to overwhelm the host in the slightest.

She smiled, and the whole space seemed to brighten up a lot. Princess Yangxin said: "Actually, I don't know why I stopped brother, but I just wanted to do it all of a sudden. Brother, don't blame sister for being willful."

"No." The little king shook his head to indicate that it was okay, he reached out and grabbed a tea from Yang Xin's side and stuffed it into his mouth.Yangxin here is shortbread, it should use milk, full of milk fragrance.

"Brother is just hungry, come and eat with sister."

Seeing that he likes it, Yang Xin also gave the shortbread in front of her to her younger brother, then she waved the palace man away, asked with her chin in her hand, "What did Nangong say to you?"

"It's nothing..." Xia Anran recalled, and said, "I talked about something after the marriage..."

Yang Xin was silent when he heard the words, until Xia Anran ate the second pancake before slowly saying: "Actually, I should have gone."

The young man paused the hand holding the pancake, and the crumbs immediately fell down. He lowered his head and didn't answer.Princess Yangxin doesn't need anyone else to answer the conversation at this time, she just wants to find a window to vent.

Xia Anran quietly acted as a listener, listening to the eldest sister slowly confide her mental journey these days.

From the time last year when the Xiongnu came to propose to her and before she married Cao Shou, Princess Yangxin had been in panic.

Although internally it was confirmed that Nangong was married, but externally it was not made clear, so Yang Xin was actually a little afraid that he would be carried up to replace him.

Although she knew in her heart that this possibility was very slim, she already had a marriage contract, she was still the eldest daughter of Emperor Jing, and the other party was the heir of the hero who founded the country, and she was also a marquis, but she was afraid of this just in case.

If Nangong was seriously ill at this time, or if his face was ruined as his sister said, then she would definitely take the lead.

Whether my sister has such an idea, she doesn't know.But comparing her heart with her heart, Yang Xin felt that if it was her, she would definitely try her best not to get married.

Marry a man who is so many years older than her, and even after his death, they may have to marry their "son", and after the son dies, they have to marry their "grandson".How does this make her, the eldest daughter of the emperor, bear it?Such a person has no dignity at all, he is just a reproductive machine among men.

Not only that, but there is also a completely strange country, where everyone will be her "enemy", where she will be alone and helpless.

She is no longer the princess of the big man, but a gift from the big man for marriage, which is absolutely unbearable for her.So she made every effort to advance the ceremony between him and Cao Shou, just to guard against her sister.

But... to her surprise, her younger sister didn't touch anything in it. After the first few days of depression, she began to grow at a flying speed.

Nangong even began to take the initiative to learn the language of the Huns, trained riding and archery in the Han Palace, specially asked the father to send someone who knew the customs of the Huns, and asked her to cook the dishes of the Huns for her.

Nangong forced himself to drink such fishy milk.

Amei's all kinds of things show her despicableness.She is the eldest princess, although her parents are frugal, but the expensive jewelry in her makeup box is always better than that of her younger sisters, even Queen Mother Dou often rewards her.

But at this time, she handed over all the pressure to her younger sister who was inferior to her in everything, and even speculated on her with sinister intentions.

In the end, all that was reflected in the mirror was her own selfish and ugly face.

"I'm not as good as Amei." Yang Xin said lazily, "If I were like Amei, I would definitely try my best to disturb this matter. Even if I don't marry for the rest of my life, I won't go to the Xiongnu."

"Even if I go, I will try my best to come back, and I will definitely not try my best...to adapt."

Xia Anran raised her eyes to look at her, and saw that this young girl did not have the joy of a newlywed woman at all, her brows were full of fatigue oppressed by this pressure and guilt.After sizing up the girl carefully for a moment, he softened his eyebrows and advised, "Sister, instead of staring at the past, it's better to focus on the future..."

His voice was soft, but full of temptation, "Sister, do you want to come and help Second Sister with me?"

For her younger brother's invitation, Yang Xin did not directly agree. After pondering for a while, she still said that she would think about it first, and Xia Anran thoughtfully left the space for the princess.

Xia Anran is not very sure about Yang Xin's decision, because she does not need to be involved in this series of events.

As the eldest daughter of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, although Princess Yangxin has not been named the eldest princess, it will be a matter of time.

The eldest princess is equivalent to a lieutenant, whether it is political status or feudal treatment. Although they cannot go to court, they still have the right to interfere in politics.

Different from relatives, to the emperor, they are their own people and can be trusted, and their unique female perspective can see the situation differently from the male-dominated court.

For example, Liu Piao, the first and only eldest princess of the Western Han Dynasty, her opinions are often adopted by Emperor Jing.

Xia Anran wanted to win over Yang Xin because of her appeal and political capital.From the few words of Princess Nangong, he already knew the position of this princess after entering Hungary.

Although I don't know if it was the father's intention or Princess Nangong's own idea, she obviously entered the grassland with a purpose, and this purpose is obviously not light.

It was okay when Emperor Jing was alive, and he must have known about this daughter Jingdi.But if the emperor is changed, even if Liu Zhi remembers the Nangong sister who was forced to get married, and he still remembers his great ambition to get her sister back, as an emperor, he always has a thousand last resorts.

If Nangong could really become a thorn in the court of the Huns, would the Han Empire be willing to bring her back?At that time, Princess Nangong was afraid that she was no longer a poor princess who was forced to marry by the Han Empire, but a symbol of a precious message.

By then, will Liu Zhi, whose memory of his sister has faded, be able to keep his original intentions?Xia Anran didn't intend to gamble on the hearts of the people, he wanted to pull the alliance as much as possible, an alliance that could speak for the little princess at that time.

Princess Yangxin is a natural ally.As the future eldest princess and the older sister of Nangong and Liu Zhi, she naturally has her unique influence.

And before they get to that step, they have to work together to promote one thing-the smooth trade between Han and Hungary.

Emperor Han Jing first opened the Han-Hungarian mutual market, but this part of the trade subjects still let the Huns come to the border of the Han people. Although for the Han people, this is safer, after all, the grassland is too mysterious for the Han people.

This is also the first step for them to get in touch with the Huns merchants. Part of the information can be obtained through such exchanges, but this part of the information is limited.

Some messages can only be understood by personal contact.

For example, even if the book tells you that there will be quicksand in the desert, what quicksand looks like, and how to react when you encounter quicksand, the person who meets it for the first time will never realize that it is quicksand, let alone react immediately How to operate and how to get out of this dangerous situation.

"Therefore, if you want to understand the life and customs of the Huns, you must go to their lives." Xia Anran said to his younger brother, "It is not a long-term solution for the Huns to come to the border for trade, and we still have to find ways to facilitate it." Han Chinese caravans can enter the grassland."

"Even under surveillance by the Huns."

Liu Zhi was sucking the sugar-coated twist, nodding his head repeatedly. The texture of the twist was hard, especially after the syrup on the outside was very hard. Xiao Douding's millet teeth couldn't bite at once, so he had to suck it soft before eating.

But even with such troubles, he still walked on the road with twists in his mouth.

"Dansu," the child said vaguely, "is it possible that the Xiongnu caravan came to inquire about us?"

"Hmm. So will you be afraid?" Liu She raised her brows high, her round eyes widened, and she also clenched her fists when she heard this, and immediately put on my super fierce posture.

He said fiercely, "I'm not afraid, isn't it a spy? Come one to kill one, come two to kill one pair, I want to see if my knife sharpens faster or their spies are born faster." many."

Xiao Douding's way of dealing with problems is very simple and rough, but it fits his personality very well.

As the saying goes, one force will drop ten meetings.Sometimes as long as the power is strong enough, any moves or conspiracies are meaningless in front of you.

...Although she thought so, Xia Anran still added the book "Sun Tzu's Art of War" to Liu Xiaozhu's study list in her heart.

A spy, when used well, is a double-edged sword.

Catch and kill is the simplest basic method, and my brother is really too simple.

There are five intermediaries, and two of them are counter-intuitive because of the indirect. As long as the spy is used well, it may not be a help.

But as Sun Tzu said, "You can't use it without wisdom, you can't use it without benevolence, and you can't get the truth without subtlety." It is a skill to use a spy well, and Xia Anran feels that he can't master it. But the younger brother can be cultivated from an early age.

The elder brother who secretly poked and decided to add homework to his younger brother was very kind on face, he asked his younger brother with great concern, "Hey, did you seem a little unhappy when you came back today?"

Liu Xiaozhu went to grab the twisted hand, and he was depressed by naked eyes. He even shrank his upright body, and asked, "Brother, is it possible that you can't go back to Zhongshan?"

He received a gentle caress from his elder brother, and the speculation in his heart came to fruition.

Liu Zhi sighed in a particularly young adult way. Instead of explaining to his elder brother how he guessed this point, he talked about another seemingly unrelated topic, "Sister Nangong told me three times before I left. Again, she doesn't blame me."

Xiao Douding's eyebrows were tightly knotted, he raised his fleshy little hand, and showed three fingers to Xia Anran.

This is actually nothing surprising, but Liu She just instinctively felt that something was wrong.

And what made him feel even more disturbed was that when he was talking to Princess Nangong, Grandma was always by their side.

Liu Zhi's intuition told him that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure it out for a while.

It doesn't matter if he can't figure it out, brother can help him figure it out.

In Liu Xiaozhu's heart, his elder brother must be the smartest person in the world, at least in some respects.But what he didn't expect was that when he told brother this, Xia Anran just tilted his head and looked at him suspiciously, not understanding what he was confused about.

Isn't it normal to repeat the emotional progression three times?

The little king, who had just been criticized for his Chinese performance not long ago, said very confidently at the moment.

Um?Is that so?

Liu She was stunned, but he had never heard this saying before!

In order to reassure his younger brother, Xia Anran showed his younger brother a series of Chinese interjections that were almost woo hoo, 噫 hee, and Jiefu on the spot. As a comparison, he used the prelude to the national anthem, three identical "" Get up", as the tone rises, the emotion also has a clear progression.

In contrast, the three bursts of interjections are a bit flat.

It seems to be the case!

Liu Zhi was a little dizzy when he heard this statement for the first time, but he still chose to believe brother.Then his good brother told him a cruel thing.

It's time for the good baby to go to bed, so Mahua can only eat one more.

Liu Xiaozhu looked at the twist box in shock, there were still many left in it!Why can only one eat such a delicious twist?Before, my elder brother clearly said that these were all for him to eat!

The bad brother justified this: Yes, you can eat all of them, but you can only eat one more today, and eat the rest later.

Liu Zhi thought about it for a while, and it seemed that his elder brother had never said that these were for him to eat today, and Xiao Douding, who was taken advantage of by someone speaking, was very upset.

He angrily bit off the twist, and began to regret why he had talked so much just now. If he hadn't said more, he might have eaten the third twist by now.

The ancients were sincere and did not deceive themselves, so they should keep their mouths shut.

As the instigator of Xiaodouding's anger, the little king rested his chin on the sidelines and watched his younger brother finish biting the mahua in two or three bites, and then ran to rinse his mouth.

He was just an ordinary person in his previous life, and he didn't have the skills of observing words and emotions and organizing and summarizing events accumulated through social experience.

But what he has more than Liu Che is that besides his trust in his younger brother's intuition, he also has an understanding of the subsequent situation.

Xia Anran will not ignore Liu Zhi's words because he is young, because he knows what a smart kid his younger brother is, and most smart kids are also sensitive. They have a strong ability to absorb information about the surrounding environment and the happening world, and can Quickly draw inferences.

Therefore, Liu Che showed doubts about this, probably because he caught those events that adults only thought were ordinary events.

Although she only met Princess Nangong once, Xia Anran personally felt that she was not someone who could repeat words stickily. The only possibility was that Princess Nangong wanted to let her brother remember this sentence.

I forgive you, it's not your fault.

Why did Princess Nangong want her younger brother to remember this sentence?

The marriage was not Liu Zhi's fault, so Princess Nangong's forgiveness was naturally not for this matter.

Considering that Wang Meiren was by her side the whole time...Xia Anran carried her younger brother who had finished grooming to the bed. The warm child had already forgotten the doubts just now. He believed in his brother's judgment, so he put aside the previous doubts, and now he has no intentions. Without a breath, I started to pick out books from the book box next to the bed and pick out tonight's bedtime story.

Xia Anran made sure that his younger brother's fat feet were all under the bed and then went to wash himself. He covered his face with a handkerchief, and the wet heat surrounded him. As he held his breath, his thoughts became clearer.

Princess Nangong's marriage may have a certain relationship with Wang Meiren.

He came to a seemingly impossible conclusion.

Because of him, Jinwu Zangjiao will probably not be staged again. Although we don't know when Princess Guantao broke up with Li Ji, the two children who lost their most precious childhood sweethearts are now strangers to each other.

Before becoming a politician, Liu Xing was first and foremost a mother. The original purpose of marrying Li Ji and wanting her daughter to become a princess was to ensure that Gillian's life would still be happy a hundred years later.

Lost the accumulated feelings of childhood sweethearts, even if Wang Meiren's colleague Princess Tao said "I like Chen Jiao very much", Princess Guantao might not believe it. It is very difficult for the two of them to make these two into a political alliance. Disaster.

In addition, Emperor Jing probably would not allow it.

Xia Anran didn't know whether all this happened or not, and whether Wang Meiren had missed this opportunity.But he felt that if Wang Meiren wanted her son to become emperor, she had to accumulate political capital for her son.

For a young prince, all his political capital can only come from his family.

Princess Yangxin is married to the heir of the founding hero, Princess Longji is still young, and it is impossible to get married in the near future. Princess Nangong's marriage itself will also be in Wang Meiren's calculations.

Marrying the Xiongnu is definitely not a proposal made by Wang Meiren, she will never have such a means, not to mention that the benefits of sending a daughter to marry are far less than finding a noble to marry, but the follow-up matters may not be so.

Having a sister who sacrificed for the country and married the Xiongnu to keep the country peaceful, for Liu Xiaozhu, the benefits in the future are unlimited, at least his reputation among the people will always surpass that of any prince.

Moreover, the longer the relationship between Han and Hungary is peaceful, the more this credit will be credited to Princess Nangong, and naturally it will be credited to Liu Zhi.

But for Princess Nangong, this is unfair.

Although from Wang Meiren's point of view, this is completely following the trend, and Nangong Yuan's marriage is irreversible, so why not take advantage of it in exchange for some benefits - such as accumulating political capital for the younger brother.

Although the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, although it did not depend entirely on military merit to obtain the title, the Han also had regulations to rely on military merit to obtain the title.

Now that the civil war is gradually leveling off, the older generation of marquises are getting old and dying, and many fiefdoms have been lifted for various reasons. These vacant positions are naturally fragrant buns, and everyone wants to take a bite.

And because of the rule of not being a marquis without military merits, these people must wage wars for their own interests or for the country.

Similarly, some people want to start a war, while others think about peace. The reasons for peace lovers are complex, and it cannot be simply summed up simply as "love the people like children" or "I am afraid that the current situation will be broken by new forces".

When the interests are sufficient, these people can also turn against each other at any time,

The main combat faction is naturally the military.

As long as Nangong is there, Liu Zhi's favorability in the military will naturally be full, because the military is happy to see an emperor who wants to save his sister.

And as long as there is Nangong's cooperation, one of the reasons for sending troops can be easily picked up...

Therefore, whether it is a fight or a peace, it all depends on Liu Zhi's mouth and Nangong's lifespan.

But all this he will not tell his brother.

Liu Xiaozhu is still too young, maybe he will understand these things in many years, but not now.

Princess Nangong's three sentences of forgiveness were also to save her brother's heart.

According to Liu Xiaozhu's temper, if he knows the many layouts behind this incident in the future, he will definitely go to a dead end. Not only will he feel that he is sorry for Nangong, but he may also hate his own incompetence.

This child is born with a strong sense of responsibility that is not very scientific, and has a behavior habit of taking care of everything. It is the kind of born to work hard.

Xia Anran handed the veil that was already cold on his face to the attendant, and then he wiped some oil on his face to prevent sores, and walked to the bed while rubbing his face.

Halfway there, he saw Brother Xiong shaking a bamboo tube.

Shake it, and after a while, a ball of paper fell out of the bamboo tube.

What is this doing?

Xia Anran lifted the quilt and sat on the bed. After sitting down, he watched his younger brother unfold the ball of paper, and said cheerfully: "Brother, today I want to hear the story of the wooden barrel!"

... Co-author You use dice to decide what bedtime story to listen to today!

Xia Anran couldn't help but roll her eyes when she watched her younger brother put things away, and then lay down obediently.On the way to Beijing, he already expected that his younger brother might not be able to leave with him, so he wrote several short stories for children in advance.

It was originally for the younger brother to read in the future, but the two brothers are almost inseparable. Liu Zhi naturally discovered this little secret, so he devoted himself to letting his elder brother tell him the story in advance.

For this reason, he did not hesitate to resort to various small means, leaving behind piles of black history.

In the end, Xia Anran didn't even bother to look at the disfigured Emperor Wu of Han.

The "barrel story" is actually the "barrel theory" of corporate management.

It is also very simple to say, the expression means that the wooden barrels can only be filled with water when they are of the same height;

If there is a piece of wood that is particularly low, the height of this piece of wood is the height of a bucket of water;

When there is a short board, it is useless to raise the surrounding wood, because the water will still leak through that gap, and even the raised wood itself is a waste.

Xia Anran finished the story in a few sentences.

This story is not good at all!Liu Zhi complained.

Xia Anran shrugged, this is not a story for you to hear now!This is written by my brother for the future Liu Xiaozhu. The future Liu Xiaozhu can understand it, but of course the current one can't!

Liu Zhi was very angry when he heard the words, he lifted the quilt and got up, looking condescendingly at his brother with his hips on his hips, "You can understand me!"

"Oh?"

Obviously, the little king's contemptuous attitude hurt the little man's self-esteem, and Liu Zhi immediately argued for himself: "Brother, what you mean is that in a large group, no matter how strong other people are, as long as there is a shortcoming , so they will still be dragged down, right?"

"Then just get rid of this short board and replace it with another one?" His way of dealing with problems is very simple and rude, which is very in line with Xiaodouding's personality.

The author has something to say:

Cask theory... Well, the author has contributed to you another argument for writing a small composition!

How much water can be put in a bucket of water is not determined by the longest plank, but by the shortest one.

The correct understanding is not to learn from each other's strengths to make up for its weaknesses, but to lengthen the short ones. But what many companies do now is to learn from each other's strengths to make up for their weaknesses. In the end, this company becomes mediocre and uncharacteristic.

Yesterday, the comment area was full of how to eat rabbits, and only a few people paid attention to ecological issues... The author instantly saw through you!You just want to eat and eat everything you see, and you want Amway author to eat!Are you responsible for my little belly?

But there is no chili and no soy sauce. In fact, I think the rest of the way to eat Tutu is hot pot.It's so pitiful, it's so delicious to eat rabbit cold... I can't eat spicy food very much, this is the limit (quietly)

Don’t worry about ecological problems. The main problem that Australian rabbits are difficult to solve is that they have too few people and too much land. Moreover, in terms of the ecological chain, there are no upper-end predators in Australia. They have introduced foxes, and finally the foxes found that it is better to catch rabbits... or Those stupid marsupials in Australia who know how to be full of meat and taste are easier to catch, so foxes have also become alien species, and then building nets is useless, people will dig holes.

But the northern grassland of my Great Heavenly Dynasty itself has high-end predators.

For them, the rabbit with more meat is really a delivery.The reason why rabbits can give birth more than wild rabbits actually shows that their ecological chain level is lower than that of wild rabbits.It's so delicious, it's not enough to eat more raw.The less that are born in nature generally means the fewer natural enemies.

It is said that many grasslands in the north are actually rabbits now!There are not many hares. (These two theories are non-reproductive)

Good and evil are in an instant, the author has no preference for the three princesses

Really!