On the risks and benefits of falling in love with a prince

No one dared to speak.

Zhao Tang was flustered: "Ruirui is actually the prince! But he said he was the son of an adulterer and his younger siblings. Are these people... came to arrest him? Yes, he can't stay in his comfortable palace, run away Come hang out with me, and you will be beheaded in time for something to happen!"

Thinking of this, Zhao Tang stooped and slipped back to his residence.Rui Rui was very tired last night and was still sleeping.Zhao Tang pushed him awake: "Don't sleep, the government is here to arrest you, pack your things quickly!"

Rui Rui was taken aback.

Zhao Tang said: "Are you the prince? Ordinary people will be beaten at most if this happens, but the royal family will die if this happens. Don't be dazed, put on your shoes!"

Before Rui Rui could answer, there was already a lot of voices outside, a military master kicked open the door, seeing Rui Rui lying on the bed, he was too scared to come in.Someone shouted: "Quick! Tell General Ji quickly that His Highness is here!"

Zhao Tang immediately understood that he had guessed wrong.Ruirui is not a fugitive, but still a high-ranking prince.

Rui Rui sat on the bed, frowning, with a look of deep thoughts.He got out of the quilt, inserted his fingers into the hair, combed it a few times, picked up the chopsticks next to the pillow and tied the bun, and then put on the clothes one by one, smoothing the corners.In the end, he knelt and sat on the bed, his phoenix eyes drooped, unable to distinguish between emotions and anger.

Zhao Tang was dumbfounded, as if watching a magic trick - in the blink of an eye, the little slave turned into the majestic prince in the portrait.

For a moment, people outside the door were neighing, and a man's cry was getting closer and closer.The general who had previously taken the portrait came, rolled off his saddle, fell to his knees crying, and walked to Zhao Tang's bedside: "Your Highness, you have suffered! You are late!" The soldiers followed into the room and knelt together. fall.

Zhao Tang was still standing, very embarrassed.

Ruirui didn't look at Zhao Tang, but at the general, and said coldly, "Huai'an."

"Chen is here!"

"Are you loyal to my palace, or to that faint king?"

"This?!"

Rui Rui said: "If you are loyal to me, let me die. If you are loyal to that stupid king, then catch me and go back to receive a reward. If you are a little bit loyal, I will be tortured to death in the future, remember to collect my body."

Ji Huai'an cried: "Your Highness, be careful! King An Qiansui has already been imprisoned... If His Highness doesn't go back, King An Qiansui may be..."

Rui Rui jumped off the bed immediately, with a look of shock and anger: "Why did he put my father in prison? What crime did my father commit!"

Ji Huaian didn't dare to answer.

Standing in the sun, Ruirui shivered suddenly, and said with a sneer, "I understand. He is the emperor, so he can torture whoever he tortures. I'll go back with you."

Zhao Tang was originally standing in the corner and couldn't understand a word, but when he heard Rui Rui wanted to go back, he couldn't help being anxious: "Rui Rui!" Ji Huaian raised his head, saw Zhao Tang, and immediately shot a look of hatred and contempt: "Your Highness, How should this person be dealt with if he commits a crime?"

Ruirui said: "What are you going to deal with? Do you take the words of the ignorant villagers seriously?"

Ji Huai'an immediately changed his words: "Yes, I know my mistakes, those must be rumors!"

Ruirui turned her head and looked at Zhao Tang.

Zhao Tang stood behind the people, holding the clothes he packed hastily, and looked at Ruirui through the soldiers.Ruirui's face is covered with frost, and his eyes are piercing, as if a piece of sword blank has been quenched by fire.

He beckoned, and the soldiers parted to make way.Zhao Tang walked over, his mind was still numb, but his mouth couldn't help saying: "You want to go back?"

Rui Ruidao: "Thanks to taking in these days, Xiao Wang will send someone to send Xie Yi. It's just that you have to forget what you hear and see these days, understand?"

Zhao Tang looked directly at him, and asked back, "Can you forget?"

Ruirui's cheeks flushed, and her voice was annoyed: "What did I forget? Is there anything?"

Zhao Tang sneered: "To seduce a woman from a good family, you can travel thousands of miles with a staff of two hundred. If you are not yet sixteen, you are the same as a woman from a good family. Will you just spare me like this?"

Ji Huaian suddenly drew his sword, pointing the tip at Zhao Tang's throat.

Ruirui said to Zhao Tang: "If you really did something wrong, you will go to court prison and be tortured. If you don't, you will be my benefactor and you will be rewarded with a thousand gold."

Zhao Tang said: "You fucking..."

Ji Huaian's sword stretched forward and cut Zhao Tang's neck.Ruirui scolded, and Ji Huaian withdrew his sword.

Zhao Tang didn't stop, and finished speaking: "...shameless! You bastard, talk like fart!"

Ruirui showed a puzzled expression: "It's not because you can't afford to marry a girl, that's why..." He paused, and continued: "With a thousand gold, a beautiful wife and beautiful concubine are at your fingertips. Don't you think it's not enough? Well, add another five One hundred. Although I am a prince, I am controlled by others everywhere, and the five hundred gold is all my savings."

Zhao Tang wanted to cry and laugh at the same time.Fifteen hundred gold is a lot of money, and every time he sleeps, he earns more than 700 gold.Luoyang's top oiran ladies don't have this price either.

"Okay, the guest officer is generous, I thank you."

Ruirui couldn't hear the sarcasm, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "Brother Zhao, Xiao Wang is leaving, please take care."

When Ruirui walked out, Ji Huaian kept reporting from the sidelines, all the words in his mouth were chilling.King An, Your Majesty, the Taiwei, and the Empress... They are well-dressed, with their heads held high, and they are nobles in the sky.The people in the Colosseum are ashen and huddled, like ducks in the mud.

Zhao Tang thought, in their eyes, is he also a stupid, gray duck?

After Ruirui left, the soldiers stayed behind and warned everyone in the Colosseum one by one.

Everyone was terrified and dared not talk about it again.When Zhao Tang went out, others avoided him, as if he had passed the crown prince, and since then he has been extraordinary, a gold-plated thug and prostitute.

A few days later, that Ji Huai'an general came to the Colosseum again, bringing a carriage of gold.Only this time did Zhao Tang learn that Ji Huai'an was not a general, but just a leader in the prince's mansion, similar to a domestic slave.And Ruirui's domestic slave is like a god to everyone in the Colosseum.

According to the decree, the god was very polite and asked Zhao Tang what to do with the gold.Zhao Tang said: "It's spent!"

"What about the rest?"

"It's also spent."

Ji Huai'an was shocked: "This is fifteen hundred gold!"

Zhao Tang took out one hundred gold and distributed it to everyone in the Colosseum, and then distributed the gold to Ji Huaian and a group of soldiers. Ji Huaian and his men were determined not to want it, and Zhao Tang was not reluctant.Afterwards, Zhao Tang came to Luoyang in their carriage, first went to the cloth shop, picked the most expensive silk and ordered clothes for the four seasons, then went to the horse market to choose horses, went to the human market to buy servants, and finally left the market and walked in the workshop , Seeing an exquisite small house, he knocked on the door to ask the price.The owner of the house did not agree, Zhao Tang increased the price by ten times, the family immediately packed up and left, and the ready-made garden and furniture belonged to Zhao Tang.Zhao Tang moved in and asked the servants to buy food, bedding, and furniture.

Fifteen hundred gold, half of it was spent in the blink of an eye.

Ji Huaian was amazed.

It was getting late, Zhao Tang invited Ji Huaian to dinner, and went to Luoyang to become the largest and most expensive restaurant.Ji Huai'an frowned all the way: "Mr. is so extravagant, aren't you afraid that the money will be lost and you will live a hard life?"

Zhao Tang said: "I've had too many hard times, I haven't lived the life of a nobleman yet, let's try something new." While speaking, he arrived at the wine shop.Zhao Tang ordered good food and wine, and outside the curtain, the oiran lady of Hongxiulou sang a ditty for him.While drinking, Zhao Tang remembered the life of his grandfather's house that his mother told about when he was a child. There was a lamp in his grandfather's house, which was very precious. It was made of brass and shaped like a branch, with birds, leaves, gemstones and flowers carved on it.A tree with seven lights, shining brightly, like stars falling into the mortal world.

But now, Zhao Tang had two such lamps beside him, and while drinking, he knew in his heart that in the eyes of people like Ruirui and Ji Huaian, he was no different from the prostitute playing the pipa outside the curtain.

He was a little drunk, and asked: "Rui Rui...is it really called Rui Rui?"

Ji Huai'an said: "The prince's surname is Guo, and Shan Yurui is the eldest son of King An. His Majesty is old and childless, so he adopted His Highness to his knees."

Zhao Tang nodded and stopped talking, thinking of Liu Rui's sentence "He is my uncle in name, but he took my mother..." It's really interesting to think about it.Liu Rui is not completely ruthless, at least he told a secret, isn't he?

After that day, Zhao Tang lived the life of a rich man.

The life of the rich, in a word, is cool!Eat, drink, prostitute, gamble, fly eagles and lackeys, and make a large group of rich friends.He looks decent, and he has golden servants to decorate his appearance. Everyone believes that he is the grandson of the county lord.Zhao Tang mixed with them and learned many secrets about the palace.

King An is a virtuous king, and the emperor is a faint king.Before Liu Rui was ten years old, he lived in Prince An's Mansion and was raised as a little moral gentleman; after he entered the palace at the age of ten, he was frightened and sick by the emperor's licentiousness.

The emperor took it as his mission to see the spring scenery in the world, and he picked up girls twice, so that all the girls in the world, regardless of background, virtue, married or unmarried, with or without children, as long as they are beautiful, must enter the palace.With [-] women in the harem, it is hard to find a woman among the people.Liu Rui wrote stinky and long persuasion forms to the emperor every day.The emperor was not angry, but praised him for his literary talents.

When Liu Rui was 13 years old, the emperor said that it was time for him to have sex, and gave him two boys and two girls, both of whom were very beautiful.Liu Rui was so frightened that he didn't dare to sleep to death at night, with a dagger hidden under his pillow.A month later, the two men and two women who did not climb into Liu Rui's bed were chopped into meat paste by the emperor.The emperor also said: "These people are too stupid to be worthy of a baby. It's okay, there are 6 people in my harem, try one by one, there must be a baby who likes it."

It is rumored that when King An entered the palace, Liu Rui climbed up the one-foot-high wall and jumped into Yongxiang, stopping King An's car and crying bitterly.Wang An didn't lift the curtain, the carriage bypassed Liu Rui who was crying bitterly, and left.

The golden beauties and Qiluo treasures in the palace are Liu Rui's endless hell.Finally, he grew up to 16 years old, as long as the seriously ill old emperor died, he could rule the world.Unexpectedly, he left a letter and left, saying that he would no longer be the prince.

There were rumors everywhere, the one that the common people liked to hear the most was that the emperor finally tore off the human skin, fortunately for Liu Rui, Liu Rui escaped unbearably humiliated.

Zhao Tang listened to these rumors with relish, and because he knew more than others, he added a sense of superiority to his relish.

In the blink of an eye, the summer solstice came, and a night market opened in Luoyang. Since Zhao Tang had money and leisure, he often went to the night market.

One day, he saw Ji Huai'an while visiting the night market.Ji Huai'an was dressed in casual clothes, with vigilant eyes, and put his hand on his saber.Zhao Tang stepped forward to say hello: "Old Ji, are you here to play?"

Ji Huai'an was so frightened that he pulled out the knife an inch, and saw that it was Zhao Tang, but he didn't relax. Instead, he showed an expression of facing a formidable enemy.

Zhao Tang thought for a moment, then smiled and said, "Rui Rui is here?"

Ji Huaian shook his head desperately.