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

Liu Rui has lost weight and is dressed in rough clothes, like an abused servant.And that bun is always neat, with golden hairpins inserted, like a servant who stole from his master and deserves to be abused.Seeing Zhao Tang, he leaned back in surprise, supported the car wall with both hands, and opened his eyes wide.

Zhao Tang said: "Who told you that you can't grow old together if you hold your hand?"

Liu Rui opened his mouth and couldn't answer a word.

People outside the car neighed, Ji Huaian said: "Your Highness, are you alright?"

Liu Rui's chest rose and fell, and he said loudly: "It's okay, it's...a friend."

Zhao Tang said: "It's me, Ji Huaian, you've got sores on your head when you speak ill of people!" After speaking, he turned to Liu Rui with piercing eyes: "Huh? I'm asking you something!"

Liu Rui was stunned, with extremely complicated eyes: "You don't need others to tell you about this, I know it myself."

"You know shit! Have you tried?"

"Tried it."

"Did you try it in your dream?"

Liu Rui smiled slightly, stared at Zhao Tang for a moment, then looked away, and said calmly: "Life is like a dream, let's try it in a dream."

Zhao Tang had nothing to say.There is a snack box in the carriage, most likely for King An.Zhao Tang picked it up and opened it, and there was a white cloud cake inside.He ate half the box in one go, thinking while eating, and came up with a rebuttal when he was half full.

"It doesn't count if you try it, I didn't try it!"

Liu Rui said: "You can make a price, how can you not pester me?"

Zhao Tang said: My price is that I want to try it too!We get along well in bed and chat under the bed, so I'll see why we can't grow old together. "

Liu Ruidao: "I am the crown prince. How can I accompany you to try this kind of thing if I want to continue the lineage for the great man?"

"You're not married yet, try it first, and then talk about it when you're married!"

Liu Rui's eyes flickered, unable to bear it, he turned his head and looked out of the car window: "Nonsense, it will take a year to try, I don't have time to accompany you... to play this kind of game."

Zhao Tang sneered slightly and raised the curtain of the car.This place is not far from Prince An's Mansion.Zhao Tang said to himself: "King An will definitely welcome you outside the door. When the curtain is lifted, it must be fun for you to be in the car with a man in disheveled clothes."

Liu Rui protected his belt, his face full of vigilance: "Zhao Tang, don't make trouble."

Zhao Tang said: "Now beg me? You don't show your face, just ask someone to give me a letter, I can't see you even if I want to beg you!"

At this time, the carriage slowed down, and Ji Huai'an said outside: "Your Highness, why don't you go elsewhere first, and see the lord after this scoundrel is dismissed?"

Zhao Tang took a deep breath, stuck his head out of the window, and shouted, "King An is a thousand years old, son-in-law gives you..."

Liu Rui hugged Zhao Tang and said, "I will try it with you, stop shouting!"

Zhao Tang retracted his head and said with a smile: "It's a deal! If you dare to lie to me, hehe..."

Liu Rui's Danfeng eyes were shining, and he seemed very sad: "I never lie to you, but you often lie to me."

Zhao Tang said: "What did I lie to you?" As soon as the words came out, he felt guilty for a while.There are quite a few things that he lied to Liu Rui. After Liu Rui said that he was a nobleman, didn't he just nod triumphantly?

Fortunately, Liu Rui didn't delve into it.The carriage stopped by the side of the road, Zhao Tang jumped out of the carriage, pointed to Liu Rui and said, "Come to my house within three days and explain the matter clearly. Otherwise..."

Liu Rui nodded.

Zhao Tang got into the car again, saw the remaining half box of Yunpian Cake, and thought it tasted good, so he put it in his arms and took it away.

The carriage also left, Zhao Tang heard the sound of the carriage fading away, and strode home, his knees trembling.Before today, he didn't know that he had such courage and thick skin; after today, he knew, he was proud and sad.What is the matter of mutual gratification, which makes me feel embarrassed?

They get along well, because one is a prince and the other is a son of a prostitute, so they can't grow old together?Zhao Tang was not convinced.

Three days later, Ji Huaian came to Zhao Tang's house again to talk on behalf of Liu Rui.

Liu Rui's "test" is very different from Zhao Tang's understanding.Liu Rui bought a barren hill in Luoyang City. The ready-made house on the hill can be used as a palace with a little repair for the two of them to have a tryst.

Ji Huai'an and Liu Rui have three chapters in the agreement, they must not reveal Liu Rui's privacy, they must not entangle each other after they get married, and they must never be unfavorable to King An.

Zhao Tang said: "What's the matter with the third article, why is King An involved?"

Ji Huaian said: "Your Highness has an order, just listen to it!"

Zhao Tang knew that Ji Huaian was unhappy, as the winner, there was no need to haggle over the loser.Very graciously, he nodded slightly, and pressed his fingerprints on the third chapter of the covenant.

As of this day, the fifteen hundred gold that Zhao Tang had on hand happened to be about the same.He sold the house and moved to the mountain with Ji Huai'an to repair the dilapidated palace.

The old house on the mountain is really out of date, the house is full of bat guano, and there is a dead snake coiled on the bed.Ji Huaian took a dozen dumb slaves to clean.Zhao Tang also rolled up his sleeves and swept cobwebs and moved old furniture with the dumb slaves.After working for three days, the inside and outside of the palace were clean. Ji Huaian took people to buy furniture. Zhao Tang wandered alone in the mountains and found a hot spring halfway up the mountain.

He came up with an idea and wanted to lure the hot spring to the palace, but when he discussed with Ji Huai'an at night, Ji Huai'an said, "No money."

Zhao Tang said: "You can't spend a lot of money, look at how stingy you are!"

Ji Huaian said angrily: "Your Highness's money has been spent on you, what else do you want?"

Zhao Tang said: "It's not that I haven't spent money on him! In the Colosseum, I raised him for more than half a month!"

Ji Huaian trembled with anger, slammed the door and left.If Zhao Tang didn't want the money, he simply acted on his own, took the money he sold the house, went down the mountain to find a bamboo craftsman, and bought a lot of long-cut bamboo pipes.He led people to transport the bamboo pipes up the mountain, pondered the route, dug a water diversion ditch between the hot spring and the palace, laid bamboo pipes, and put them one by one, and the hot spring water was led into the palace.

There is an open space in the southwest of the palace. Zhao Tang burned the weeds, surrounded the fence, and put beautiful flowers, squirrels and rabbits in it.The gardens of rich people are all ingeniously crafted to move and change scenery. His gardens are wild and natural, and they are not inside the walls.

He used the remaining money to buy bows and arrows, pianos, and spices—since Liu Rui boasted that he knew the six arts, he needed a shooting range and a piano room.

A few days later, Ji Huai'an went up the mountain to check and was shocked.Zhao Tang was complacent, imagining how Liu Rui would praise him when he saw the beauty of the palace.

This day came soon, and a guard ran up the mountain, saying that Liu Rui would come to the palace tomorrow.

Zhao Tang sent the guards away calmly, but he was extremely nervous, thinking: "I've been running around for more than a month, and I've burned to the ground. Will he dislike me?" Hiding in the room, he turned over his autumn clothes Come out, try one by one, none of them are beautiful.Seeing that it was still early, Zhao Tang took the money, led the horse, and quickly came to the market at the foot of the mountain, found a cloth shop, and asked the owner to rush to make a suit for him overnight.

The owner said: "As long as there is no embroidery, it can be done overnight, but the price..."

"you drive."

"30 dollars."

"How many?"

The owner of the store raised three fingers and said, "Mr. Lang, the canal was cut off by the Yellow Turban Army, and the food from all directions could not be brought in. The millet is already worth 20 yuan. Is this price still expensive?" Zhao Tang changed the store and asked for a price. More expensive.Then he went back, took off the hairpin on his head and the jade pendant around his waist to pay for the money, and made up 30 yuan, so that the master could do it first.

While waiting, Zhao Tang wandered around and saw that the bazaar was almost closed, the roads were empty, only the silk, jade, grain stores, brothels and other places were still open, and gorgeous carriages came in and out.Zhao Tang thought: "I stayed on the mountain for a month, and the mountain has become like this?"

At night, he slept at the master's house in the cloth shop.There are always cries on the street, I don't know whose children are crying for hunger.Zhao Tang thought: "How powerful is the Yellow Turban army? Ruirui's new army won't work?" He wasn't afraid.In troubled times, there is a way to live in troubled times. If you live until the day you can't survive, you just die.Right now he has food, clothing, and a little companion, it is already a fairy day.

The embroiderers made the clothes overnight. The dark black clothes, the cold green skirts, and the shiny silver crotch mole belt set off people's spirits.Zhao Tang was overjoyed, paid the money, and hurried back to the mountain.Seeing that the crown prince was coming, but Zhao Tang was nowhere to be seen, the servants of the palace were about to go crazy with fright; Zhao Tang came back covered in sweat, panting so hard that he couldn't speak, went straight to the hot spring in the backyard to wash himself off, put on new clothes, and then told the butler : "He came and said I was practicing archery."

The housekeeper was dumbfounded: "Practice archery?"

Zhao Tang chuckled, turned around and came to the shooting range in the backyard, and took out a strong bow to try out.He has never shot an arrow, but he has played a slingshot. The bow and arrow are not much different from a slingshot.

At this time, a gust of wind blew, and there was Liu Rui's unique scent of incense in the wind.Zhao Tang immediately lowered his breath, drew the bow fully, aimed at the target and loosened the string, "Whoosh", the white-feathered arrow hit the red heart.

Zhao Tang praised himself greatly in his heart, turned his head, and saw Liu Rui in autumn.Liu Rui was dressed in commoner clothes, without any accessories, so plain and unreasonable.The sun made him sweat profusely, his snow-white face was flushed with blood, and a few strands of wet hair stuck to his forehead.He looked at Zhao Tang, smiled restrainedly, and said, "Want to learn archery?"

Zhao Tang said: "At my level, do I still need to learn?"

Liu Ruidao: "It's full of losses, but modesty benefits. The way of bow and arrow is profound, and even I only understand superficially."

Zhao Tang rolled his eyes and handed the bow to Liu Rui: "You have one?"

Liu Rui smiled and said: "This bow is too hard, I can't draw it." Picking up a red bow used by women, he said, "Do you really want to watch me shoot?"

Zhao Tang nodded, thinking: "I want to see you shoot something else."

But Liu Rui unbuttoned his belt and tucked the left skirt into his waist, exposing half of his chest and arms.The chest and arms were thin and dazzlingly white.He bowed to Zhao Tang, took the red bow and stepped back, retreated a hundred steps away, and then raised the bow to aim.

Zhao Tang was stunned, archery has to stand so far away?

Suddenly there was a sound of strings, and the white-feathered arrow was nailed to the target like a bolt of lightning bursting out of a cloud.ten rings.