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

The expressions of the little princes became even more frightened. Auntie, do you have any misunderstandings about these four words?

Liu Xun was also a little embarrassed to face the emotions of her little nephews. She hurriedly handed the whip to the boy, and the maids also came forward to take off her cloak.Liu Xing adjusted his expression, and quickly changed his face.

The little teenagers don't like her even more.

Liu Zhi even took a step back in an unlovable manner, his expression almost clearly saying "Aunt, Auntie is so scary!".

Seeing this, Liu Xun was angry and impatient, so he rubbed his nephew's cheeks well with his hands, and then angrily took his daughter to the empress group, and complained to the concubines who were mothers.

After hearing this, Mrs. Jia shook her head with a smile. Beauty Wang also covered her mouth and smiled while consolingly said, "They're all just children. Why are you angry with them? Eat something quickly."

Liu Xun carefully washed his hands in the golden basin handed over by the maid, and asked the waiter to dry his ten onion-like fingers, angrily said: "You didn't see it just now, those two brats look at me The expression on her face is like, it’s like looking at a big monster, it’s all Jiaojiao’s nonsense.”

"Oh, why are you still angry with your daughter?" Mrs. Jia shook her head, pulled the aggrieved Chen Jiao over, took a handkerchief to wipe the girl's hands, and then asked someone to hand over a stove and Tao Guo said: "You look like this, I have to apologize to our brat, how about this apology?"

Liu Xun glanced at it casually. She didn't really care about the apology, but she was a little curious about what was in it. It seemed to be food?

"What is this? Was it made by Sheng'er again?"

"That's right." Mrs. Jia directed the people to set up the stove, "He gave it to me this morning, and told me not to let the other princes see it, but to eat it secretly. I couldn't hold back my curiosity so I opened it and looked at it." At first glance, it looks like an ordinary chicken, but judging by his mysterious strength, the taste must be good."

"Isn't this the dim sum hidden by His Royal Highness King Zhongshan, so we just ate it?" Beauty Wang pursed her lips, "I'm afraid they won't be so distressed after a while."

"That's right!" Liu prostituted angrily, thinking of the way the two Doudings looked at her just now, she still felt a little annoyed, as if she was so tough when she returned home.The conscience of heaven and earth, the relationship between Liu Xun and Chen Wu is really good, and they were very affectionate for a while when they were young.

Chen Wu was also her own chosen son-in-law. When she was young, Tang Yihou could also be called a gentleman of Moshang. She was the only eldest princess of the Han Kingdom at that time, and she was extremely honorable. Quadden is right.

Now that the child is older, the relationship between the two is a bit weak, but Chen Wu also respects her very much, and there is nothing dirty in Tangyi Hou's family.Guantao is no fool, when she got married, Queen Dowager Dou taught her the internal and external skills of women.

When Dou Yi married the Dai Wang at that time, the Dai Wang had many wives and concubines, so she was favored and gave birth to Guantao, and then gave birth to two sons, for her own reason.Don't look at Guantao's arrogance now, when she was born Dou Yi was just an unknown Dou Concubine, and she lived a cautious life with her mother for a long time.

Therefore, Guantao is strong outside, and she is gentle and careless most of the time at home, and the feudal state is even more controlled by Tang Yihou. She only occasionally listens to the reports of the subordinates, showing full trust.

However, this silly daughter of my family only saw the part of her appearance, completely unaware that some things are the joys of the boudoir, and she is still bluntly talking about taming her husband in front of the boys, ouch!

Thinking of this, Liu Xing wanted to pull his daughter's ears.However, Gillian has long been familiar with her mother's behavior, and immediately hid behind Mrs. Jia when the situation was not good. Liu Xun immediately felt ashamed and gave her daughter a hard look.

"What are you doing?" Wang Meiren helped to make peace, "Don't scare the child."

"Scared?" Liu Xing snorted, and she pointed at her daughter angrily, "With her temperament, she can be scared, she still..."

She swallowed the words that followed, and one of the most honorable women in the big man stared at her daughter fiercely. Thinking of Li Ji's words when she held a gun and a stick and refused to marry, she felt full of anger.

This is Liu Xing's only daughter. The eldest son will become a prince in the future, and the second son is also smart. It doesn't matter if his father and brother take care of her.It happened to be this daughter, who was so bold. It was said that she had a quarrel with the prince last time, so that was fine. After the quarrel, she went to the prince's study and drew bastards on his desk.

Liu Xing had no place to talk about this matter, she almost fainted on the spot when she knew what her daughter had done, especially at the critical moment when she and Li Ji were discussing marriage.

Therefore, when Li Ji's ridicule came at her, she had no strength to fight back, but because of her daughter's reputation, she could only swallow it, and when she couldn't swallow it, she scolded her daughter.

"A-Jiao is so beautiful and has a high status, so it's okay to be proud, just find a good-tempered husband-in-law." Wang Zhi comforted softly, "not to mention that children and grandchildren have their own blessings. Jiao is still young, when she gets older, maybe she won't believe you when you tell her these things now."

"Hey, it would be great if it was true as you said." Liu prostitute pressed the center of her eyebrows, feeling full of irritability and headache, she glanced at her daughter again, and said bitterly, "I don't know where the bad temper came from. .”

Chen Jiao heard all the complaints in her mouth, but she just didn't say a word, and turned her head away when she really didn't want to hear it.Seeing this, Mrs. Jia didn't say a word, she just turned her side quietly, blocking Chen Jiao behind her.

The two women over there were still talking, and as the stove heated up here, the scent of brine wafted out.Gradually, the talking women also became absent-minded, and looked this way over and over again, and the little kings who also smelled the smell couldn't help it, and finally they were hooked by the delicious eggs and threw themselves into the trap.

Seeing the two children coming over, Wang Meiren naturally scolded, but the two little kings didn't mind at all, they sat there waiting for snacks, they were very heartless.

Naturally, Liu Xun didn't care about a few Doudings, so he poked Liu Zhi's fat face and exposed the matter.It was only when she was dividing the eggs that she looked left and right to see if she saw her daughter, and then she noticed that her daughter was hiding behind Mrs. Jia, hiding quietly.

With Chen Jiao's temper, she could bear it to the limit, and she couldn't bear it when she saw her mother talking again and again, and said back: "My mother always tells me to be virtuous and read more when I have nothing to do, but what's the use of reading? Can you be an official if you have a lot of books?"

The little girl was obviously wronged, her eyes were red, but she said to her mother with round eyes: "I have recited all the old and Zhuang, and even Confucianism has also been learned. I can do better on sir's questions than brother, but that What's the use?"

Liu Xing's face turned serious when she heard the words. Her eldest son was indeed of mediocre aptitude and could only be successful, but there were some things that Chen Jiao could not say. If her daughter's words spread today, it would be very disadvantageous to the eldest son.

Liu Xing loves his daughter very much at any time, but he cannot allow his daughter to ruin his son's future with a casual remark.

She opened her mouth quickly, but she didn't have time to stop her daughter's last sentence: "What a man can do, our daughter's family may not be able to do it!"

"A-Jiao shut up!"

Liu Xun gasped violently, his sharp gaze swept over the surrounding palace servants.These people bowed their heads extremely obediently, as if they hadn't heard anything.

But this is not enough, Liu Xun thought to himself, he had to find a way when the time came, and Jiaojiao's words must not be spread.

She is more determined now than before.

What a man can do, a woman may not be able to do it. This is indeed the truth, and what Jiaojiao said is correct, but not now.

How many years has it been since the Han Dynasty passed after Queen Lu's regent?Almost all of the older generation of vassal kings had once been subdued by Empress Lu's Fengwei and dared not say a word.

Even her mother, the most honorable empress dowager in the Han Kingdom, was just an ordinary family member who prostrated herself in front of Empress Lu back then.

Is Empress Lu talented?Is it possible?Is it better than a man?There is no need to mention this answer at all, everyone understands it in their hearts.

If she is incompetent, how dare Emperor Gao finally entrust the governance of the country to her; All the men who sent it down covered their faces and wept.

During the reign of Empress Lu, the people were peaceful, and punishments were rarely used, and they were also prosperous. This can be seen from the fact that the first emperor can make great achievements as soon as he ascends the throne instead of cleaning up the mess.

But at the same time, Empress Lu has done too much with the butcher knife of the Liu family clan.Those who can survive in the old Liu family are either those who are high in the sky and the emperor is far away, or those who were poor and had no sense of existence back then, and escaped from the layers of combs.

Liu Xing couldn't understand this point, but Empress Dowager Dou knew it very well.

The old lady understood very well that there was a Empress Dowager Lu before and a Empress Dowager Bo later, each of them intervened in government affairs.The Han Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, and the position of the queen mother was extremely honorable, but that was just a look.

After Empress Lu's death, the whole family was counterattacked and all of them were slaughtered. When the Empress Dowager Bo closed her eyes, the Bo family immediately fell to the west.

Empress Dowager Dou wants to keep her family, so she can't interfere too much with the government and make the emperor bored.

Therefore, when she was a queen, she was cautious in her words and deeds, rarely intervened in politics, controlled the family, and almost never sought high positions for the family.When she was the empress dowager, she seldom took action, especially she never interfered with the issue of Emperor Jing's harem.

The old lady is blind but not blind, but she sees better than anyone else, and the only confusion lies with the third son.But to put it bluntly, it is not painful or itchy. When the little princes are born one after another and grow up healthy, everyone will know that it is impossible for King Liliang to happen.

After the queen mother makes trouble, it has no other use except to find something for the courtiers to do.

But now Liu Xun's back is sweating layer after layer.

Her younger brother Liu Qi, other people only think he is kind and good-tempered, but who can understand him better than her elder sister?

When Liu Qi was born, their mother was still a concubine of the Daiwang.At that time, the Dai Wangfei had already given birth to four sons for the Dai Wang, Liu Qi himself had no chance, and his position was even more embarrassing after Liu Wu was born.

Later, the mother fell out of favor due to illness, and the servants were naturally contemptuous of a concubine who fell out of favor, but Liu Qi reversed all the situations bit by bit.

The fifth son of the emperor is benevolent?Only she knew how her younger brother managed to kill a bloody road bit by bit.The younger brother's road to becoming emperor is all honed out of his harsh demands on himself time and time again and endless patience.

The throne is the result of his hard work, and it is absolutely impossible for such a younger brother to tolerate the appearance of a second Empress Lu under his nose.

If Jiaojiao said such words, if Liu Qi heard it, her daughter would never be a crown princess, not only could she not be a crown princess, even a prince concubine would be impossible.

However, Chen Jiao didn't know her mother's painstaking efforts and fear. Seeing her mother's tough attitude, she didn't stop doing anything. She turned her head and glared at Liu Zhi who was waiting for her mother to peel eggs, "I heard you haven't been enlightened yet?"

Although Liu Xiaoshe didn't understand why the fire was on his own head, he still nodded politely.Chen Jiao said immediately after hearing the words: "I have been enlightened for two years, do you dare to compete with me in two years' time?"

Xiao Douding narrowed his eyes, and responded without fear, "Compared to what?"

"You can compare yourself to anything." Chen Jiao snorted, very confident, "My teacher is very good, but I think the teacher is not bad after your enlightenment,... so, to be fair, I will not follow Mr. Study. I heard that you lived in Zhongshan country before? Then I will go to Zhongshan country too."

The little girl rolled her eyes, and said again: "By the way, I'm still older than you... Well, I'll let you go for another year, and our competition will be in three years."

Liu Zhi agreed without thinking, and after he agreed, he suddenly understood, "Wait, you said you are going to Zhongshan too?"

Xiao Douding's eyes widened, "No, you are not allowed to go!"

"I must go!" Chen Jiao put her hands on her hips, she didn't care about the cousin's protest, "Otherwise it would be unfair!"

Liu Xiaozhu was furious now, he thought it was fake that this villain was trying to compete with him, but it was real that he wanted to live with his brother.He stood up abruptly and stood in front of Xia Anran and Chen Jiao, "Anyway, you are not allowed to go, I will not compete with you!"

"You promised me just now!" Chen Jiaoxiao's eyes widened, "Are you really a boy? I don't play tricks, but you actually want to play tricks!"

"Me, me, me!" Liu Zhi was caught in this circle for a while and couldn't get out.

If he repents, he is not a boy, but if he does not repent, he will give his brother to this woman... Not only his brother, but also his small bathtub, small pillow, and small garden!

Thinking of giving half of his small toys, small quilts, and Duo Duo Goose who may return in the future to this annoying ghost, Liu Zhi became very angry, and his whole face collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye. What should I do? ?

correct!As long as my father doesn't let her go!

So Liu Zhi ran out like a gust of wind, even the shoes were chased to wait for them to wear, and Xiao Douding was very scheming to keep silent about what he was going to do, for fear that this annoying ghost would go to find his father first .

It's a pity that the result was not satisfactory, Liu Qi was very interested in the children's gamble, especially after seeing Chen Jiao pulling his sleeves and acting softly, he laughed and agreed.

Liu Xun felt dizzy for a while, and hurried forward to persuade him.

What happened to sending Chen Jiao to Zhongshan country?Chen Jiao is already seven years old. According to the current calculation, she is nine years old. She is already the age when she should look at others. After staying in Zhongshan for three years, she will be 13 years old. Now when she is fourteen or five years old, she will be married. How can she be in time?

……and many more!

She suddenly looked at King Zhongshan who was hugged by her younger brother's thigh with a helpless expression on his face. King Zhongshan is fifteen years old this year, and in three years...

She clenched her fingers suddenly, and felt a chill in her heart. She sent the little girl of marriageable age to the prince of the same marriageable age.If the two get along well, it will be a good story to settle the matter like this.

Even if there is no spark between the two, Jiaojiao will be passive in marriage in the future.

And both of them are at the age of first love, one is gentle and tolerant, the other is smart and beautiful, Liu Xing also came at that age, so he naturally knows how hot the relationship was at that time.

Is this what brother means?

She just felt chills in her heart.

If she can marry the vassal king, it is not bad for Chen Jiao. It is natural for her to be a princess, but Princess Guantao's expectation for her daughter is to be a crown princess and then become a queen.

So she went to look for Li Ji not long ago, and after Li Ji refused, she started thinking about something else.

She didn't show it on the face, but the nails hidden in her hands were deeply sunk into the flesh of her palm, and only this tingling pain could keep her smiling.

Is it a coincidence, or is it my brother's...?

Guantao knew the answer the next moment.Her inquiring eyes happened to meet Liu Qi's raised eyes, and the eyes were separated as soon as they were touched, and she felt that those eyes were full of cold warning.

She was flustered, and suddenly missed the best opportunity to refuse.

And Xia Anran didn't refuse either, because just now, the quest bar that he was stuck on jumped several frames up.This also made him fix his eyes on the little girl who stood beside Liu Qi and continued to pour the emperor's ecstasy soup.

The task object that he thought he wanted his mother to pay attention to suddenly jumped out, but it made him feel unreal.

"System, the task target is Chen Jiao??"

"The host please judge for himself."

...This system is useless at all, is it really for little monsters?

Xia Anran stabilized her mind, bowed her head and promised her younger brother such as "Brother can't play water fights with her" "Brother can't raise ducks with her!" of!" and a series of unequal treaties.

Then he rejected several unreasonable requests such as "can't tell her a story" and "brother ignore her, okay?" Finally, Xiao Douding, who was humming with anger, fell into deep thought.

The mission bar was changed because Chen Jiao was going to live in Zhongshan for three years.And considering that these three years were the golden period of her marriage, on the surface, it was because of his accidental accident that interfered with the chance of Liu Zhi and Chen Jiao getting married, but in fact it may not have other influences.

The system's vague answer made people read a lot of system web articles, and Xia Anran felt that there might be other mysteries.

For example, the object of the task may not be Chen Ajiao, but Wei Zifu, and Princess Guantao is also possible.Dragons and phoenixes in the Western Han Dynasty were not monopolized by the royal family, forbidden items that ordinary people could not use, so Gillian's maid was also... No, this is still very unlikely.

The little king's eyes were fixed on the scene in front of him, and the emperor's attitude, Liu's attitude, and the expressions of the concubines were all swept into his mind.Finally, his eyes shifted to Chen Jiao, who was puffing out her cheeks and arguing with Liu Xing, with a delicate and savage face, thinking a little.

The matter of King Zhongshan taking Chen Jiao back to the country at that time was finalized under Liu Qiyi's attitude of pampering the children.Because of this incident, when they returned to the library, Xia Anran and Liu Zhi encountered inhuman crowds from their brothers.

When the two little kings surrounded by rows told about this, the brothers frowned.On the surface, it seems that this incident is completely coincidental, and it is entirely Chen Jiao's momentary words of anger. Chen Jiao pulled Liu Zhi, and Liu Sheng was all because Chen Jiao wanted to be implicated fairly, but this was completely unnecessary. Fair enough, Chen Jiao can go anywhere.

Even if you stay in Chang'an City, it's fine if you don't study, why do you have to go to Zhongshan Country.

Immediately, the princes looked at the two younger brothers in a wrong way, especially when they looked at Xia Anran, with a gossip of "Ouch—you have a problem~".

Xia Anran sighed in her heart, knowing that the harmonious situation between the brothers might be broken.Now everyone is a little excited to inquire about the gossip, mainly because the prince is sitting on top, no one thinks that much, maybe they just think he is abducting a little loli, but after the prince is deposed... I'm afraid I don't think much about it. Disaster.

After all, the power behind Chen Jiao was so great that even he himself couldn't help wondering if he had done something wrong.

This point was also brought up when she bid farewell to Empress Bo.

Faced with Empress Bo's hint, Xia Anran nodded obediently to show that she knew it well.

When the little prince bid farewell to her, Empress Bo asked him to bring back a lot of books. There were so many bamboo slips that even the horse pulling the cart had to stumble forward, and finally had to temporarily change to an ox cart to pull it.

"Mother's queen?" The little king was shocked by Queen Bo's bigger battle than before, and he even suspected that this time the mother's library would be emptied.

Empress Bo had been ill for a while, her face was extremely haggard, the corners of her lips raised slightly when she saw the startled look of the child, "I lent these books to Nangong before, and now Nangong is almost useless, so I returned them, you I can just take it away."

As soon as she said this, she saw the young boy's eyes froze, and his whole body became visibly fatigued.

The reason why Princess Nangong didn't use these books was naturally because she was about to get married.

Now it is the end of March and the beginning of April, the Huns will hold a ceremony to sacrifice to the sky in May every year. After the ceremony, the Huns will come south to give the betrothal gift of Princess Nangong, and together with the future Dayan family of the prairie take away.

In order to avoid chaos at that time, the vassal kings will be invited out of Chang'an City in advance, so that the emperor can concentrate on dealing with the envoys who come to marry the princess.

According to the usual practice, although the two parties have already finalized the matter in the letter, the official procedure is still required when the marriage is officially married, that is, the Xiongnu sends the dowry, the marriage letter, and the representative of the marriage proposal comes to meet the emperor. The emperor expresses his embarrassment and reluctance. Finally, the princess and the dowry were sent together for the friendship between the two countries.

In other words, the only ones who could stay in Chang'an City to send Princess Nangong to marry in the end were Prince Liu Rong and Princess Nangong's younger brother Liu Zhi.

For this reason, when the vassal king left Beijing, Liu Zhi, who was going to send someone off, was pulled aside by his brothers to train him again and again.

This means that you, as the representative of the younger brother, are absolutely not allowed to lose. The Huns are arrogant and unreasonable. I don’t know who it is who came to marry the Da Yan family this time, but no matter who it is, you can’t be at a disadvantage. Do you know it!

The one patted Xiao Douding on the shoulder and said: "His Royal Highness needs to pay attention to dignity. Some things are not easy to say or do, but you are different. You are a child. No matter what you do, the Huns dare not do anything to you. Remember Hold on, even if we are Nangong's back, the tougher we are, the better Nangong's life will be!"

Some took out the box and said, "This is a wedding gift from my brother to my sister... I won't give it to her. You can pass it on when the time comes. Everything that needs to be said is in it. Your sister is smart, she can see it." Understand."

Others clenched their fists, "Comfort Nangong well, tell her to bear it, and one day we will bring her back."

Xiao Douding was holding things in his arms, and looked up at the group of brothers in a daze, "But brother, why don't you tell sister Nangong? Sister will be very happy to hear this."

Hearing that he ate his head, the fifth prince, who was silent at first, snorted coldly, "I'll give it to you if I ask you to, can't you even do this well?"

Liu Zhi rolled his eyes, and met his elder brother's warning eyes. Under such urgent gaze, he obediently swallowed "Are you sorry?", curled his lips and said, "I think sister I hope to hear you say this with my own ears..."

"Little piggy." The eighth son grinned mockingly, "A man depends on doing, not talking."

"Why are you telling him this? The kid's hair hasn't even grown yet!"

The princes laughed and stuffed the younger brother beside Liu Rong who came to see him off together, "Okay, don't send it off, it's windy outside, don't pick him up with your nose soaked in it! It's embarrassing."

"His Royal Highness, please go back too, and pay attention to your body."

"I know." Liu Rong wrapped his younger brother in a thick cloak, and returned the salute one by one to the younger brothers who bowed their hands to him, "Brother, take care."

The leading King Hejian smiled at him, "The same is true for His Royal Highness, father and mother will take care of you."

"Between brothers, there is no need to say this."

Several little kings bid farewell in the direction of Weiyang Palace one after another, then got on their horses one by one, kicked and stomped and walked out of the city under the escort of the officials sent by Dahonglu.

Just like when they came, their carts and soldiers would leave Chang'an City first and wait outside the city.

Naturally, it is impossible for the vassal princes to leave the capital at the same time, as the roads will not be able to carry such a huge number of travellers, and the roads will not be repaired in time, and there will definitely be problems at that time.

But it happened that these princes lingered, and it was only because the father sent a servant to come to remind him that they got together and gave the things to the younger brother.That awkward look made Liu Rong laugh in his heart.

The people who left felt very sad, and the people who saw them off couldn't feel better.

Liu Rong looked in the direction of Weiyang Palace from afar. From his perspective, he could only see the majestic palace walls, but he seemed to be able to see that in the deep palace, their father was also watching the sons leave from afar. back view.

He squeezed the palms of Liu Zhi, whose eyes were red from watching the backs of his brothers, looked at the backs of his brothers leaving from a distance, sighed in his heart, and armed himself again after a while, "Let's go, we should go follow Li The official has learned. Next, I have to learn the etiquette of receiving envoys face to face..."

The two brothers walked while talking, the young man's soft voice was left in the air of Chang'an City.

At this time, Liu Rong didn't know that this was the last time he stood here as the prince.

And Liu Zhi didn't know that the next time the brothers were sent away, he was the only one left.