For the emperor

Moving to a new palace not only means a huge change in the place of residence, but also means that there are hordes of court ladies and eunuchs, it means that there are endless jade plates and delicacies, and it means that there are endless silks and satins. This is the recognition of the status of the eldest son by the supreme ruler of Cang Kingdom.

Li Mi got rid of the task of part-time nanny, and devoted herself to starting the Cangtiansu fattening plan that she had formulated long ago.

This little Douding who grew up under his own watch is really too thin and weak, every little one who is the same age as him slips out, at least half a head taller than him.

What troubled Li Mi was that Cang Tiansu's cooperative attitude was very doubtful.

Cangtiansu is not interested in meat and desserts, which can rapidly increase fat reserves, and does not eat much vegetables and fruits. The amount of food in each meal often gives Li Mi a feeling of "Actually, I raise a dog." bird" illusion.

Cang Tianci, who has been happily running over here these days to eat and eat, heard Li Mi's complaints, propped his small head to think hard for a while, and after a flash of inspiration, he happily proposed: "How about I put those in the East Palace together?" Get some special snacks?"

After all, the East Palace is the place where the main palace empress lives, and the cost of food and clothing is very different from that of ordinary palaces.Li Mi has indeed heard of it, because the heavens have given him a sweet tooth, and there is a pastry chef in the temple.

In the highest spirit of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, Li Mi nodded in agreement with this proposal.

Cang Tianci then ran back to the East Palace, waving his short fat arms, and directed the eunuchs and maids to pack up all the pastries, and carried them on their backs alone, and sweated profusely Came to Zhaori Hall.

It was close to noon at that time, Cang Tiansu had just wandered out of the cold palace, seeing this silly brother who was out of breath but smiling brightly, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, then nodded at him expressionlessly, and turned his head away without waiting for the other party to return the salute to one side.

What a curmudgeon.Li Mi smiled in his heart, knowing that he was a little embarrassed, so he didn't point it out, and helped Cang Tianci put the cakes on the table one by one.

"This, this, this, I think this is the best!" Cang Tianci, who was patient and patient, jumped up from his seat the moment Cang Tiansu washed his hands and sat down, picked out a piece of pastry and stuffed it in his hand .

The other party was stunned, staring at the cake that was crushed out of shape in his hand for a while, then looked at Cang Tianci, there was something different in his eyes.

He didn't say thank you, but with emotion in his heart, he took a big bite, then his movements froze, his little face wrinkled into a ball, and it was still faintly blue.

——It's too sweet, too sweet...

Cang Tiansu's mouth was full of pastries, and he quickly glanced at his expectant younger brother, wanting to vomit but couldn't vomit, so regretful that he almost didn't cry.

He didn't dare to continue chewing, and calmly moistened the pastry with his saliva, and then swallowed it down forcefully.

After finishing all this quickly, he made a chewing motion, worked hard to wriggle his cheeks for a while, and after pretending to swallow, he grabbed the rice soup next to him and took a sip to relieve the heavy sweetness left in his mouth.

"Is it delicious?" Cang Tianci looked forward to it with great anticipation, his bright black eyes were wide open.

Cang Tiansu struggled for a while on whether he was sorry for his brother or himself, and then he smiled very cutely: "It's delicious."

Cang Tiansu happily rolled down from his seat, pulled the stool, sat down next to Cang Tiansu, and stuffed another piece of pastry into his left hand: "Then you eat more, I brought this taste How many dollars!"

"...But I want to try other things first." Cang Tiansu's face turned pale.

Cang Tiansu brought more than a dozen kinds of cakes, to be honest, Cang Tiansu really didn't find any one that suits his taste.It can only show that Cang Jinglan's two sons have very different views on diet.

He is now nibbling on the last of the pastry.

With the lessons learned from the previous ten times, Cang Tiansu didn't dare to really taste the taste at all, he carefully bit a piece that was not too big or small, rolled his tongue high in his mouth, and swallowed the thing in his mouth all at once, Then he looked at Cang Tianci sincerely, opened his eyes and said nonsense without changing his face and heartbeat: "The taste is very good."

"Ah?" Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Cang Tianci was very surprised.

Xiaodouding No. [-] snatched the bright red pastry from his hand, tasted it carefully, and wrinkled his nose in pain: "But I think it's so disgusting..."

Cang Tiansu didn't respond, and rolled his eyes hard in his heart: Why do you still bring me something if you think it's unpalatable?

Cang Tianci casually threw the pastry on the table, spit out the pastry in his mouth on the handkerchief he carried with him, rinsed his mouth with tea, and said: "I still can't get used to this taste, this thing is called Yin Yan Cake, Because my father likes to eat it, my mother kept it in the East Palace all the time, and I brought it with me - I really don't understand why my father likes to eat such weird things..."

Cang Tiansu was stunned for a while, then carefully picked up the pastry that fell on the table in an even weirder shape, took a small bite, thought about it seriously for a while, and immediately raised his lips and smiled: "But I still think this is delicious ...the most delicious."

Li Mi could tell that Cang Tiansu really wanted to eat Yin Yan Cake—although both she and Cang Tianci felt that this stuff was bitter and salty, and it was really not a good children's snack, but they couldn't bear it I just like it.

But Cang Tiansu stopped eating after a few meals.Li Mi took advantage of the heavenly gift to go back to the East Palace to sleep, and made many rounds of insinuation, and finally gradually found the reason.

——It turned out that Mr. Cang Tiansu felt that it was a very embarrassing thing to bother his second brother for a plate of pastries every day, so he simply changed his mouth and shirked that he didn't like eating it.

She couldn't laugh or cry, and finally found a compromise.Li Mi taught Cang Tiansu how to make sweet-scented osmanthus cake and asked him to use it as a gift in return.

In the north corner of Cangguo Imperial Palace, there is a large area of ​​Sijigui that blooms every 2 to 3 months. There are sweet-scented osmanthus flowers all year round, and the raw materials for food are still easy to find.And the method is very simple, which is very suitable for Cangtiansu, which she feels has a natural sense of taste failure.

Cang Tianci, who ate the cakes made by his elder brother himself, was very happy, and Cang Tiansu, who felt that he owed nothing to his second brother, was also very happy.

Just when the two were happy and looking at each other affectionately, Yi Hao was cursing Li Mi while resignedly climbing up and down the osmanthus tree to pick osmanthus.

——Li Mi must have known that he was allergic to osmanthus pollen, so he made that suggestion with ulterior motives—it must be like this...

Cang Tianci watched as Cang Tiansu knelt down and buried the box in his hand at the door of the small broken house where he and Li Mi had lived for eight years in Lenggong.

Inside the box are most of the commemorative things that Cangtiansu has collected in the past few years.There are dumbfounding graffiti done by the two princes of Cangguo together, ceramic marbles played by two children squatting together, there is a bad brush given by Cang Tian when learning Chinese characters, and there is Cang Tian who was so jealous when the two met for the first time. The clothes with dirty paw prints on his body.

There is also a Yanyan cake and a sweet-scented osmanthus cake.

Before coming here with the box in his arms, Cang Tianci forced a portrait he had drawn for Cang Tian into it, crying and yelling—although this work seemed to be based on an old piebald sow, It is really impossible to get the recognition and praise of Cangtiansu, but the original author himself is still very satisfied.

What Cang Tianci didn't know was that Cang Tiansu quietly stuffed a small and clumsy puppet into the already crowded box where he couldn't see it.

It was when he was eight years old, he was qualified to celebrate Cang Jinglan's birthday for the first time, and he worked hard to carve a puppet for half a month.Cang Tiansu made a total of two at that time, one was given to his father as a birthday present, and the other was hidden by him, regarded as a treasure, and kept quietly.

He even calculated with his fingers that Wuji believed in the four gods of wind, rain, thunder and lightning, and carved one every year. When he was 12 years old, he just made a set.

Emperor Cang Jing didn't show much enthusiasm for this purely handmade gift, and casually threw it aside, but it made people in the palace laugh at Cang Tiansu for a long time.

The son of a prostitute, after all, is different from the dignified and dignified imperial family Tianxuan, so he has the nerve to take out such a rough and crude thing.

However, Cang Tiansu's enthusiasm came up, and every year in the future, he would refuse the luxurious gifts that the heavens kindly prepared for him, and insisted on sending the wooden products he carved.

The handwork changes from rough to skillful and smooth, and the puppet, which originally had no facial features, gradually becomes exquisite and beautiful.Later, Cang Tianci specially asked him for one, and put it next to the bed to play with every day.

Cang Tiansu didn't mind what his father thought about his humble birthday present, he didn't want to be like his younger brothers, and obediently offered the gold, silver and beautiful jade that the emperor never lacked.

In his heart, he wanted to be different from others. As for whether Cang Jinglan liked such an alternative gift, it was not within his concern.Cang Tiansu has always believed that what gift he gives is his business, whether the recipient likes it or not has nothing to do with him.

The 12-year-old Cang Tiansu now has two and a half people in his heart, a complete Li Mi, half Yi Hao, half Cang Tianci, and half Cang Jingdi.

Cang Tianci clings to his side for several months, finally let Cang Tiansu let go of his guard, but when the eight-year-old Cang Tiansu sees the lazy and dangerous man on the dragon chair, he rushes for no reason. The other party opened his heart.

As a child, he unconditionally chooses to trust his father, although such a result seems somewhat unfair to Godsend.For this reason, Cang Tiansu, with a guilty conscience, always brings a particularly generous amount of sweet-scented osmanthus cake to his younger brother.

12 years old is a very important age mark in Wuji Continent.For folk children, they can marry one or several wives and get a piece of family property from their parents.The children of businessmen can obtain the qualifications to contact the family business, laying the foundation for inheriting the family business in the future.

The children of princes and nobles will even get a fief in this year, and some trustworthy people will be sent to the fief first to develop their careers there.

That's why Cang Tiansu came here with Cang Tianci, wanting to seal up all the past as a memorial.

That night, Cang Tiansu took off his coat and was about to fall asleep, when he suddenly heard a commotion outside, and then his door was knocked open, Cang Tianci burst into his bed skillfully while crying.

Cang Tiansu was silent for a while, and waved his hand helplessly to indicate that Jing Tian, ​​the number one guard of Zhaori Temple who was standing at the door, went back to stand guard.

This kind of situation happened from time to time in the past four years.According to Cang Tianci, since the birth of his third brother, his mother has somehow become less and less fond of him, especially in recent years, and has developed to the point of frequent quarrels.

And every time there was a family feud in the East Palace, Cang Tianci, who had run away from the palace, would crash into his room, wrap himself in a quilt very consciously, and cry.

"Arguing with the empress again?" Cang Tiansu was not surprised, he lay down on the outside of the bed, stretched out his hand and pulled the quilt, seeing that he couldn't move it, so he put down his thoughts.

Anyway, it's not late autumn yet, and it's hot if you cover it with a quilt, and it's cold if you don't cover it. The comfort level with or without a quilt can only reach [-] points, and there is not much difference.

Cang Tianci didn't answer, just kept whimpering, and wiped the snot and tears on Cang Tiansu's quilt by the way.He has always liked the smell in Cang Tiansu's room, light and faint, calm and peaceful.

Just like the shell Cang Tiansu habitually wraps himself.

But this time the matter was not as simple as Cang Tiansu thought.Cang Tianci shed tears for almost half an hour, during which time he just rubbed his head from the quilt into Cang Tiansu's arms, without saying a word.

Cang Tiansu found out that something was wrong, and after coaxing him with soft words for a long time, he managed to calm down his emotions.

Cang Tianci was sobbing pitifully while rubbing his nose on the clothes on the chest of his elder brother: "Father (hiccup) said that I (hiccup) is not (hiccup) my mother's (hiccup) biological (hiccup) son..."

Cang Tiansu's gently smooth hand stopped.Douding No. [-] lowered his head, his long eyelashes drawing a smooth arc in the air, and his voice was slow but without any hesitation: "How could it be?"

Cang Tianci held the hem of his clothes in his mouth, couldn't help shedding tears for a while, and then organized his words: "Just now, my father summoned me...he told me that my mother and concubine died of dystocia , the mother who was still childless at the time... Empress Empress hugged me over."

The corners of Cang Tiansu's mouth curled up slightly.

As early as when the third prince, Cang Tianrui, was born, Li Mi had told him inadvertently that the queen was diagnosed by the imperial physician as being difficult to conceive for the rest of her life - when the middle palace was doomed to have no children, she would marry Cang Tianrui. Jinglan made such a request, and Cang Jinglan would agree, which is reasonable.

The childless queen would treat Cang Tianci as her own son and love her dearly. In order for the little prince not to create a estrangement with the queen, she naturally hid it from him from top to bottom, and even the eunuchs and maids who might have known about it were quietly dealt with. .Cang Tianci was kept a secret for 12 years, and it was normal for him to be ignorant during this period.

However, the birth of Cang Tianrui broke the balance between the queen and Cang Tianci.

Cang Tiansu thought that the two met for the first time seven years ago, and Cang Tianci cried and said that the queen scolded him for the first time because of a trivial matter. Calculating the time, it happened to be not long after the queen confirmed that she was pregnant.A woman who is suddenly facing a major turning point in her life, looking at her own flesh and blood in her belly, and at her adopted son who is alive and kicking in front of her, it's not surprising that she loses control of her emotions because of all kinds of flavors, ups and downs, sweet and bitter.

On the day when the three met for the first time, Li Mi talked about "Snow White" and "Cinderella", which can also be understood as a very vague hint that "stepmothers are not good things".

Of course, the child is still my own good, not to mention that after Shiyue conceived, a boy came out of the empress' belly, the real eldest son of Cang Kingdom.

The eldest prince is not favored, but the second prince is held in the palm of the emperor's hand and loves him dearly. Besides, he is from the middle palace in name, which is undoubtedly the biggest obstacle for her own son to succeed to the throne.

The stone he lifted hit his own foot.Even if the queen doesn't think about herself, she will definitely think about her own son who is getting bigger and bigger.

Therefore, she guessed that Emperor Cang Jing hated the eldest prince very much, but she did not stop Cang Tianci from approaching and showing favor to Cang Tiansu, and she hoped that the emperor would hate the house and black.

All the places where I had doubts before can make sense.Cang Tiansu raised the other party's little head which was dirty from crying, and kissed the face without avoiding the dirt.

Cang Tianci was so frightened that he forgot to cry.

This is the first time that Cang Tiansu took the initiative to make an intimate gesture towards him - before this day, holding hands was obtained by cheating, hugging was obtained by cheating, and kissing was sneak attack by squatting at the corner It succeeded.

What he didn't know was that until this moment, Cang Tiansu completely pulled him into his own world.Because the eldest prince of Cang Kingdom finally found the intersection of two people.

——So you don't have a mother.

--like me.

--very nice.

Cang Tiansu felt that he was not gloating in the dark and shameful way.He felt ashamed of the little joy gushing out of his heart, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't smooth out the joyful beating of his heart at this moment.

There is no doubt that he has affection for Li Mi, a teacher-student affection for Yi Hao, admiration and reverence for Cang Jinglan, and Godsend is his only friend in the past 12 years.

Not just a friend, he is also the only brother that Cang Tiansu recognizes, and he is still bound by blood, they have been together for many years, and they are as close as a half-body existence.

But intimacy does not mean inseparable.

There has been a thin film between them.They have completely different personalities, completely different life experiences, and have completely different views on the same thing.

Cang Tianci tries hard to hide his sense of superiority in front of Cang Tiansu.Although growing up from a baby to a teenager among the stars and the moon, this sense of superiority is not aimed at anyone, nor does it have the slightest malice, but he still doesn't want it to show the slightest bit, which will become an obstacle to his relationship with Cang Tiansu.

But it was because he tried his best to cover up all the time, so Cang Tiansu could see it all the more clearly.

In the broad and profound Chinese language, there is an idiom called "to hide the truth".From childhood to adulthood, Cang Tiansu has always been so transparent that it makes people jump in fear.

Cang Tiansu waited patiently for four years, worked hard, and finally found the tiny, imperceptible cracks in the film. He was very happy.Maybe in the future, without waiting another four years, he can completely erase this film.

He almost heard the sound of his own heart blossoming.

Finally—you and I are finally equal.