For the emperor

Cang Tianci is now very grateful for the three gentle slaps he received today - although the slapped parts really hurt his fiery man's heart - quasi-man's heart, but without those three slaps, he might never It would never have occurred to him that there was another person of the same age in the palace who was different from his follower, and he was also his eldest brother in name.

Ever since Cang Tian gave Cang Tiansu a slap in the face, the latter kept a dark face and ignored him.

In line with the revolutionary spirit of "when the enemy advances, we retreat, when the enemy retreats, we advance, when the enemy is tired, we fight, and when the enemy flees, we pursue", he followed each other step by step until he saw the second living person in this desolate palace. .

Li Mi was surprised by this little baby hanging on Cang Tiansu's body.She lowered her head and stared deeply at the blue-slapped face of the sky: "My child, what's wrong with you today?"

In Li Mi's cognition, this little Douding who was trained by himself, when encountering such a situation, his first reaction should be to slap him without saying a word.

She knew that Cang Tiansu had a good temper sometimes and a bad temper sometimes.

The key is to look at who.

Last New Year's Eve, the East Palace sent someone to bring some silk and satin. The high-spirited old eunuch pointed to her nose impolitely and said something that was not very pleasant, and was jumped by Cang Tiansu. When he got up, he bit off a large piece of flesh on his leg viciously.

——You must know that it was still winter at that time, and the old eunuch was wrapped up like a ball at that time, and his injuries were still so tragic, with a lot of blood and blood.The four-year-old child didn't even grow teeth firmly, but he showed no sympathy when he lowered his mouth, and he showed the energy to nurse. Li Mi still feels scared when he thinks about Cang Tiansu's expression at that time.

Really, this kid has been ruthless in his bones since he was a child.

Now Cang Tiansu raised his head with difficulty, knowing that the third party could not understand, but still felt humiliated, and tried to lower his voice: "Wu Zetian even washed the feet of the queen... 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi..."

It turned out that I couldn't beat it...

Li Mi laughed loudly, not caring about Cang Tiansu's personal feelings at all, and rubbed his soft hair into a mess while laughing.

——This little guy is bullying.He knew that it was impossible for an adult to bite back, so he didn't even hesitate when he mouthed.And when she knew that the other party was likely to open her mouth to fight back, Cang Tiansu was far more patient than she imagined.

Considering that his behavior in front of the guests was somewhat impolite, Li Mi consciously switched to Cangguo Mandarin, which stuttered and disordered, and said with a smile, "Little friend, whose family are you from?"

Cang Tianci wrinkled his nose, not very fond of this woman who spoke with a strange tone, but he still replied firmly: "I am a child of the Cang family."

You can relax a little bit about the guy who is two circles younger than you, but facing the old woman in front of you, Cang Tianci very consciously showed the strict etiquette norms that his master has always demanded.

Li Mi's smile paused.

Cang Tiansu watched with cold eyes, and noticed that the woman's smile was imperceptibly guarded and scrutinized again, so he perked up a bit, and watched the conversation between the old and the young with great interest.

Under the lure of Li Mi's big bad wolf, Cang Tianci repeated the matter with some embarrassment.He looked at the weirder smile on Li Mi's face after hearing this, and suddenly felt that what he had been crying for a long time was really not a big deal—it wasn't enough to say it out to embarrass himself...

Li Mi pondered for a while, and did not make any comments. Instead, she straightened her waist, one in each hand, and led the two children to sit on the soft soft couch above the usual favorite nest of Cang Tiansu.

"Let's tell a story today," Li Mi smiled harmlessly, looking at Cang Tianci, who looked forward to hearing it, and Cang Tiansu, who rolled his eyes straight at her. "The name of the story is, "Snow White and Seven A Dwarf."

Li Mi told several fairy tales in one breath, and then carefully observed the reactions of the two children.

She looked at Cang Tianci, who stared away, and looked at her with a blushing face, and almost raised her short arms and shouted: "Tell me one more time!"

very good!

She looked at Cang Tiansu again, and the other party looked at her expressionlessly, with an indifferent expression, almost marking "Your storytelling today is very poor" on her face.

...is also very good...

Li Mi silently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes: Grandma, it seems that the road ahead is still very slim to turn this little ancestor back into a normal child growth path.

Although the goal has not been achieved, Cang Tianci has developed from dislike to her to the point of admiration and even worship. Li Mi is still very satisfied with being able to carry out the revolutionary work inside the enemy's camp.

Cang Tianci really likes this eccentric woman in front of him. Neither the teacher nor the queen mother have ever told him a similar story.

It is no longer a boring and difficult study of the emperor, the method of mobilizing troops, or the way of imperial servants, but the real stories that children of his age like to hear.

Cang Tianci danced and used the barren vocabulary, barely expressing his meaning, and Li Mi was obviously very proud of such a high evaluation-you can never hear such obvious words of praise from Cang Tiansu-in fact, even Cang Tiansu has never been stingy with giving compliments that are not obvious.

So the two of them, Da Wang Ba fell in love with Little Mung Bean, and the more they looked at each other, the deeper the discussion started.

When Li Mi finished telling Cang Tianci the legend of "Nian", he glanced around and found that Cang Tiansu had his head down, and he didn't know how long he had been asleep.

Li Mi's face darkened for the most part.Her main task today is to establish a correct outlook on life and values ​​for Xiao Su, so that he can be full of hope in life—unexpectedly, it took a lot of saliva, and she only harvested a second-rate No. [-] bean.

When the chief eunuch of the harem came half softly and half hard to take Cang Tianci away, Li Mi, with a hypocritical reluctance on his face, broke off Xiaodouding No. Wipe away the tears that didn't exist in the first place: "Walk slowly~"

She watched the two go away, turned her head, and found that Cang Tiansu had opened her eyes, staring at her silently without saying a word.

"Why?" Li Mi looked strangely at this kind of probing eyes, couldn't help shaking the goosebumps on his arms, and rolled his eyes angrily.

This little guy was so abnormal that it was almost evil, Li Mi couldn't remember the last time he dropped a golden bead pitifully and silently after wetting the bed.

Cang Tiansu didn't answer, just bowed his head silently, and fled to Duke Zhou's arms again.

Cang Tiansu recalled the fairy tales he heard while half asleep and half awake an hour ago, whether it was Snow White or Cinderella, his nanny seemed to be subtly conveying a thought to Cang Tianci.

A different thought than the happy ending at the end.

The beauty disappeared without a trace, and before she left, the second prince of the Cang Kingdom, who was declaring that he would definitely come the next day, has not heard from him since then. Li Mi was a little disappointed, and the heavens were happy to see it happen.He likes the current two-person world. For a five-year-old child who has awakened a sense of territory, he is only willing to share the ownership of this desolate and neglected palace with the closest person.

When Cang Tiansu was about to turn eight years old, Emperor Cang Jinglan, Cang Jinglan, seemed to remember in a sudden moment that he still had an eldest son left in the cold palace.

He put down his third son, Cang Tianrui, who had just turned two years old, in his arms, then touched Cang Tianci, who was resting his head on his knee and acted like a spoiled child, and summoned the head eunuch to order: "Come on tomorrow and say hello to Master, Let the boss follow to the study."

Cang Tianci immediately raised his body, his bright black eyes burst into strange brilliance.Since the accident when he was five years old, the queen has strengthened his supervision, and will not let him have a chance to step into the cold palace, but he still has no memory of the accident when he was five years old.

Cang Tianci has always maintained a great interest in that old woman in Lenggong who seems to have endless stories in her stomach (Li Mi: ...), and that eerily quiet little one.

He secretly squeezed his chubby little hands, and couldn't help but smile brightly on his face.

Emperor Cang Jing looked down at him lazily and carelessly, his Adam's apple rolled up and down slightly, and uttered a syllable similar to a sneer.

Li Mi lowered her head and looked at Cang Tiansu who was silently stroking the imperial decree with a complicated expression.She could tell that although Cang Tiansu's face was as indifferent as usual, he must be very excited inside.

When he was happy, his left thumb would subconsciously rub against the pulp of his index finger. This was a small movement that Li Mi discovered by accident two years ago.

——Now this move is so large that it can no longer be regarded as a small move.She took a closer look and found that Cang Tian's white and tender little hands were already trembling slightly.

Eight-year-old Cang Tiansu has not heard her tell stories about emperors and generals for a long time.Unknowingly, his hobbies have turned elsewhere.

Whether it's folk customs, or the eight major cuisines, or even technological inventions, Li Mi can talk about whatever comes to mind—whether it makes sense or not, as long as it's not a fairy tale love novel, Cang Tiansu won't fall asleep listening to it.

But to this day, the eldest prince of the Cang Kingdom is still pestering her to tell the two stories he told when he was five years old, one is "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and the other is the magnificent ten-year life of his father.

The former Li Mi said it six times, and the latter Li Mi said it 36 ​​times.

Cang Tiansu was happy for this decree, not because Li Mi's increasingly scarce story resources had made him impatient, nor was it because he yearned so much to study in the study.It can even be said that he still has a certain degree of resistance in his heart to leaving the Leng Palace and moving into the Zhaori Palace.

Cang Tiansu likes the present day.Only here, he can spend several hours in a quiet trance, and in his imagination, open up a brand new world for himself.

A world where the sun, the moon and the stars will all operate according to his will.

There, he has a wider sky.

Li Mi stroked his soft hair lightly, suddenly felt something, squatted down, and looked seriously into Cang Tiansu's dark eyes: "Tiansu, do you have your own ideals?"

"Ideal?" Cang Tiansu repeated the last two words, looked straight at Li Mi, was silent for a while, and gently took her hand.

Being a father and a mother alone in the cold palace, Li Mi's hands were no longer as smooth and delicate as they used to be. Now they are covered with calluses and feel rough to the touch.

These hands, which are neither beautiful nor soft, used to wipe his forehead and palms with alcohol over and over again when he was in a coma with a fever; Song Tou", patting his back patiently.

Cang Tiansu suddenly wanted to cry.

He heard his own voice say, "I want you to have a good life."

Li Mi twitched the corner of her mouth, half touched, half helpless——damn, what kind of managerial thinking is this?At this moment, she felt that the baby in front of her really had no ambitions.

And this so-called ideal is too old. Ordinary people usually only reach the age of 40 or [-] like the old woman Li Mi (Li Mi: ... hello...), have worked hard in society, bumped into walls, hit the south wall, Only then will I have the heart to look back and put myself in the shoes of my aging parents who have been standing behind me without complaint or regret.

In fact, for the past three years, Li Mi has been working secretly, trying to change Cang Tiansu's role model from Adou to Sun Quan. Even if it's not Sun Quan, even the emperor who can only cry is weaker than Liu Bei, his ineffective son.But now it seems that the effect is really not very good.Cang Tiansu didn't fix the nerve in his mind.

"Is there a higher level? For example, saving the country and the people, worrying about the world..." Li Mi was speechless for a while, and began to follow the temptation without giving up.

Cang Tiansu shook his head shamelessly.As early as the moment he said it, he knew that Li Mi would probably be hit by his ideal.

A good man has ambitions everywhere, and always thinks that his fortune, fortune, and longevity are more important than others, so he resolutely abandons his wife and goes far away, trying to find a way out, but in the end, he often achieves nothing and wastes his time in vain.

Cang Tiansu heard too many stories like this, and unknowingly chose another path for himself in his heart.He does not pursue the process, only cares about the result.

Li Mi looked at him helplessly, thought for a while and decided to change the way of questioning: "Did Su have any dreams that day?"

Cang Tiansu raised his head and looked at her silently, his meaning was very clear: Is there any difference between ideals and dreams?

"Ideals can be achieved through hard work, but dreams can never be realized." Li Mi found that after three years of hard work, she now has a deeper skill in fooling children with nonsense.

Li Mi, who was immersed in hypocritical self-blame and introspection, did not realize that Cang Tiansu's eclipse-like pupils had a strange brilliance for the first time after hearing this question.

"Yes." He replied in a soft voice, "I hope that one day, my father will pamper me like he loves the heavens - beautiful clothes, delicious food, gorgeous palaces, countless maids and servants ..."

This time Li Mi couldn't help laughing before he finished listening.As expected, children are still children, no matter how precocious they are, they are still so innocent and cute at critical moments.

She let out a weird laugh, and once again ravaged the long and gentle hair of the sky, stood up and twisted her buttocks, walked to the kitchen, and began to cook the lunch for the two of them.

Cang Tiansu looked at her back, wrinkled his nose unhappily, and muttered in a low voice: "But I haven't finished talking yet..."

He looked at the picture drawn in his mind, and his eyes were filled with brilliance for a moment, which was so beautiful and frightening.

——Then I can put on a condescending expression like that annoying eunuch three years ago, slam everything into Cang Jinglan's face with all my might, hold my head high, and say, "Take it back, I do not care!"

I do not care!He chewed this sentence over and over again, the four words weighed more than a thousand catties.

Did you say it to him, or did you say it to yourself?

Cang Tiansu thought of the New Year's Eve countless times, and felt extremely regretful that he didn't throw the gift from the Queen on the old eunuch's wrinkled face.

Cang Tiansu hated himself for being like this.

On the one hand, he kept instilling in himself the idea of ​​being indifferent to the world, longing for a peaceful and stable adult, and taking Li Mi to his destined small fief to live a life of the exploiting class.He is willing to work hard for it, because such a comfortable and leisurely life seems to be more suitable for Li Mi and him.

But on the other hand——he hopes that one day, he can tell everyone he knows, "I don't care for anything you give me."

Those people would always look at him from a distance, and hypocritically, they would say to the people around him in a voice that he thought he couldn't hear: "If it wasn't for the fact that this child's mother is unruly, he should be a well-clothed, well-clothed and high-spirited man in the sky." The proud son—what a crime!"

In this way, every time he heard it, he wanted to pounce on that person and tear his mouth open.

Cang Tiansu was struggling with such a contradiction deep in his heart.No matter which side of the balance it is, in his little mind, there is a great attraction.

In the end, he had no choice but to settle layer after layer of tranquility, wrap himself in a thick shell, and try to suppress the increasingly restless heart.

Pretentious attitude.

Cang Tiansu said contemptuously to his imaginary self every time, and after he finished speaking, he would unconsciously check his disguise to see if there were any obvious cracks on it.

Cang Tiansu didn't understand at that time that the world that Li Mi can support him has always been so big.He will feel suffocated and restricted, not because the world is getting smaller and smaller, but because he is getting bigger and bigger.