For the emperor

Because the days are similar, in order to save trouble, Emperor Cang Jing combined the ceremony of rewarding the two sons into one.

On the same day, Li Mi got up when he was less than Mao, opened his eyes with difficulty, and washed his face with cold water several times, before barely staying awake and supervising the maids changing Cang Tiansu's clothes.

The first time she wore formal clothes, Cang Tiansu was mishandled.Layer after layer of clothes was wrapped up, a total of [-] pieces, and his whole body was tied up like a rice dumpling, not to mention walking, even breathing was difficult.

These are the clothes of the highest standard in Cang Kingdom. If there is no accident, the prince will only have three chances to wear them in his life. The 12-year-old little coming-of-age ceremony last time, the 16-year-old formal coming-of-age ceremony for the second time, and the third time will wait until the new emperor's enthronement ceremony.

Of course, if you have the ability to survive until the next throne change, you still have a chance to wear it for the fourth time.

However, the consistent tradition of the Cang Kingdom is that after the new emperor ascends the throne, the first thing to do is to punish his half-brothers. Although most people will not know it, the princes of the same generation will die within five years without any accidents.This is an open secret among the noble groups in the entire Wuji Continent.

Emperor Cang Jing succeeded to the throne at the age of 15. At that time, twelve brothers participated in his enthronement ceremony, but when he celebrated his 16th birthday, only three of them were ordered to attend.One of them died on the way back to his fief.

Up to now, the only living prince is Emperor Cang Jing's only half-brother, Prince Cheng Cang Jingcheng who controls the most fertile land in Cang Kingdom.

Unlike Cang Tianci who was often by Cang Jinglan's side, most of the ministers in the court saw Cang Tiansu for the first time.So when two people appeared at the entrance of the main hall together in formal attire, nine out of ten people's eyes fell on Cang Tiansu.

Cang Tiansu has completely inherited his mother's beauty, but it is different from the unparalleled beauty and brilliance between the eyebrows of the famous courtesan who crowned the world when she was in her prime, his beauty is more like a temperament that radiates from the inside out, soft and gentle , It doesn't hurt anyone's eyes, he is obviously handsome and unparalleled, but he doesn't appear to be too much in the limelight because of this.

If there seems to be no place, under the gaze of the officials, when he kowtows to the man on the dragon chair, he seems to see the strange smile cast by him.

That smile was neither love or admiration for his child, nor was it a ridicule of disgust and hatred, on the contrary, it was full of impatient anticipation.It seems to be a way to express what people think in their hearts and unconsciously.

His heart tightened.

After lying down for a long enough time, Cang Tiansu raised his hands to his eyebrows when he got up according to the etiquette of the eunuch's high-pitched promise. Lan, I can't see anything strange.

He and Cang Tianci retreated from the center of the hall, one left and one right, to the head of the hundreds of officials lined up for a fixed time, and kept replaying his every move over the past four years in his heart over and over again.

Obviously at the birthday party half a month ago, Cang Jinglan didn't feel like this at all.

For four years, the emperor has been perfectly playing the image of a father who doesn't like the elder son very much. Most of the time, he regards Cang Tiansu as air, only loves the other four sons and one daughter, and occasionally sends someone to notify him when necessary He attends palace banquets.In four years, the sky has always been qualified to show his face, and there are only three Wanshou Festivals.

But now Cang Jinglan is completely like a spectator in the stands waiting for a good show to start, and a spectator who knows the follow-up plot.So inadvertently, he cast a glance of pity and expectation at himself, the protagonist who was doomed to tragedy.

What exactly made him so?Cang Tiansu feels that his life is quite satisfactory, even if he asks Yi Hao to teach courses, he only carefully selects the less sensitive aspects.As for the way of emperors and generals, Yi Hao, who represented Cang Jinglan's will, offered to teach them on his own initiative.

——Could it be a matter of fiefdom?

Cang Tiansu was a little uncertain.If this is the case, how bad must the fief that Emperor Cang Jing gave him be to make him show such an expression?

From Cang Tiansu's point of view, even if he has the special honor of being the only prince without a fiefdom since the founding of the Great Cang Kingdom, he is not qualified enough to make Emperor Cang Jing show such an expression of malicious expectation that cannot be concealed.

Unconsciously, his hands were wet.

To Cang Tiansu's surprise, or rather to the surprise of all the courtiers, the fief that Cang Jinglan bestowed on him was Jinzhou, next to Prince Cheng's fief of Yunzhou.Although it is not as rich as Yunzhou, it is the intersection of the three major water systems in Cangguo. It has developed extremely fast in recent years, and has broad prospects that Yunzhou, which mainly develops agriculture, does not have.

This is a piece, and most people guessed that Cang Jinglan deliberately left it as the best platform for his successor to the throne to develop his power.

For a moment, the meaning of the eyes cast on Cang Tiansu became much more complicated.

Cang Tiansu's cold sweat flowed more and more.This move of Emperor Cang Jing undoubtedly pushed him to the forefront, which indicated that the peaceful life between him and Li Mi would be completely broken.

Li Mi, who was happily packing her luggage, did not expect that the first thing Cang Tiansu did when she came back from the main hall in the evening was to throw all the packages she had prepared so hard out of the window.

She was stunned for a long time, she had never seen Cang Tiansu so irritable.Although Li Mi felt sorry for the several bags of gold, silver and jewelry thrown away by the master without hesitation, seeing Cang Tiansu's pale and ugly face, he didn't dare to say anything.

Cang Tiansu has been tepid in the past few years, and has a very friendly attitude towards everyone, as if he was not the one who flashed the knife in anger when he was a child.And Li Mi firmly believes that the better a person's temper is on weekdays, the more terrifying they are when they get angry.

"Nurse, don't go to fief." Cang Tiansu looked at Li Mi seriously after stomping his feet for the third time, and expressed his decision in an almost authoritarian tone.

Li Mi didn't ask why, after so many years of scrambling in the palace, she can roughly guess one or two, but she still stared pitifully: "But I will be very boring-you are now Wen You Palace Maid Xiao Si, Wu You's bodyguard Jing Tian——I can't do anything here except eat rice..."

The two had originally agreed that Li Mi left Cangtiansu for four years and went to the fief to see the situation first.Not only because Li Mi thinks that he is the most capable underling of Cang Tiansu, so he will be able to manage the fief that the two of them envisioned is not very good, but also because in the whole palace, Cang Tiansu only trusts her and Cang Tianci.

He didn't even believe Yi Hao.Cang Tiansu knew very well that while his teacher was his teacher, he also acted as the eyes and ears of Emperor Cang Jing.

Yi Hao is now teaching him wholeheartedly, just to complete the task assigned by the emperor.Although until now, Yi Hao's actions have shown that he is credible, but Cang Tiansu dare not gamble.

——On this matter, whether his will is consistent with that of Emperor Cang Jing.

He really can't afford to lose.

"Then start a vegetable garden in the cold palace, and pass the time by cultivating things." Cang Tiansu sighed, and began to come up with bad ideas full of guilt.

Unexpectedly, Li Mi was not angry, but her eyes lit up, and she said happily, "Yes, why didn't I expect..." Halfway through her words, she suddenly changed her expression, and her blue-faced fangs pulled Cang Tiansu's collar, "A few years ago, you heard When I complained about being bored, why didn't I say it earlier?!"

"...Didn't I want you to live a good life for a few years and enjoy the happiness..." Cang Tiansu's eyes wandered, and his confidence was a little lacking.

He sincerely treats Li Mi as his own mother, and always feels that it is an unfilial and evil thing for an old mother to turn her back to the sky and face the loess, no matter what the reason is.

However, Cang Tiansu would rather be an unfilial son than to let Li Mi go on that dangerous road now.He knew very well that Jinzhou, the feudal land, was definitely in peril. Li Mi would not be much better off there than Liu Bei in Sun Quan's lair.

I am not Zhuge Liang, and I have a life-saving plan, even if I have, I am not willing to let Li Mi take risks.

As for that piece of fiefdom, simply put it there to get moldy.The pie that fell from the sky was too big and heavy, Cang Tiansu didn't dare to take it.

The plan has been made, and Li Mi has always been the master of doing what he says.The next day, she did not know where to get Cang Jinglan's handwriting, and directed the eunuchs and maids of Zhaori Palace to move batch after batch of bricks from the goods manager in the palace.

She is very fortunate now that when she first came to wear it, she had nothing to do and relied on her wisdom as a liberal arts student to barely tinker with a raw material for making cement. After a long period of improvement, she barely reached the point where it could be used.Otherwise, it is very troublesome to use traditional adobe tamping now.

Hmm, who said that only politicians, engineers, mathematicians, and researchers can teach good children, and it is very important to have a father who is engaged in cement processing!The headmistress of Zhaori Hall rubbed her nose with a proud expression on her face.

She first drew a circle in an open space in the cold palace, and then began to calculate how much bricks and cement were used.Li Mi didn't plan to ask the maids and guards to help build the wall of the vegetable garden. She wanted to rely on the strength of Cang Tiansu and her to complete this very meaningful project.

Cangtiansu has no objection.He had always missed the time spent with Li Mi in Lenggong, but now he heard Li Mi's suggestion, and immediately ordered no one to get close to Lenggong before the completion of the project.

One day, two months after the coming-of-age ceremony, Li Mi was asked by Yi Haola to talk about the matter. Cang Tiansu was lowering his head and fiddling with the dirty bricks in his hands. Eyebrow, look in the direction of the person coming.

It seems to be a bit of an impression.Under Cang Tianci's entanglement, Cang Tiansu had sent him back to the East Palace several times in the evening. On the day before yesterday, it seemed that he happened to see this person walking out of the East Palace.

At that time, the three of them had a face-to-face meeting. Cang Tianci stared at this person for a while, and greeted him with some reluctance. After the other party left, he told him very unhappy that this person was the queen's most beloved younger brother. It is said that with her protection, she bullied men and women outside the palace, and did all kinds of evil things.

It seems to be called Liu Guangliang.Cang Tiansu recalled what Yi Hao had told him about the distribution of forces in the court, and he casually threw the bricks on the ground, with a gentle smile on his face: "I don't know why Mr. Liu is here?"

Liu Guangliang didn't answer, and stared straight at Cang Tiansu who was standing three meters away from him, with a weird smile gradually rising from the corner of his mouth.

The visitor is not good.

Cang Tiansu's complexion remained unchanged, and his heart had already cooled down.

Cang Tianci came out of the queen's room impatiently.Gradually entering the rebellious period, he is very contradictory now. On the one hand, he is grateful for the kindness of nurturing the other party for more than ten years, and on the other hand, he has resentment for being fooled by him for more than ten years.

He didn't understand why the queen's attitude suddenly changed sharply, how could she be so warm to him today.He asked about the preparations for the fief, and asked him if he had eaten well recently and slept soundly.

As soon as he walked out of the East Palace, he saw Xiaosi, the maid in charge of Zhaori Palace, standing at the door. The other party was stopped by the guards, so she could only stand outside the door, stomping her feet anxiously.

As soon as Xiaosi saw him coming out, the anxious expression on her face eased, she hurriedly pushed away the guards and ran up, she didn't even care about saluting, she leaned into his ear and said anxiously: "Second Prince, I just saw you before Sanzhuxiang Uncle has gone into the cold palace... You also know that the eldest prince ordered us servants not to go in and see..."

who?Cang Tianci was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly remembered his so-called uncle who was ignorant and ignorant. This thought really shocked him.For a moment, the chattering voices of the court ladies seemed to ring in his ears again.

"I heard that Mr. Liu snatched a man from the street a few days ago!"

"Tsk tsk, your news is out of date. I just heard this morning that the man gave him a reward after he got bored with it. It is said that a dozen guards went up together and died within a day!"

"Ah, what I heard is that the man kept his integrity and hanged himself?"

Damn it!Cang Tianci raised his hand and slapped himself heavily, remembering the empress's hypocritical love just now, and immediately understood that she was delaying time, before scolding Xiaosi for not being flexible, he ran towards Lenggong.

Getting closer and closer to the cold palace, the heaven-sent heart also hangs in the throat.If it wasn't for him, Cang Tiansu wouldn't wander around the East Palace, and wouldn't meet Liu Guangliang face to face.Liu Guangliang wouldn't think about it if he couldn't see each other.

If anything bad or bad happened to Cang Tiansu, he even wanted to commit suicide to make amends.

Cang Tianci has always felt that Cang Tiansu may be much more mature than himself mentally, but his physical development is much slower than himself.Even if Li Mi force-fed abalone and sea cucumber every day, he didn't gain much meat.

——But Liu Guangliang has a big waist and a round waist, and he is very powerful.

After turning the corner, Cang Tianci couldn't help but stop.He saw Cang Tiansu with his back facing this direction, standing alone beside the half-built wall, with a pale complexion, a bloody tooth mark on his neck, his clothes and hair were wet, dripping in the cold wind The water, a layer of hoarfrost formed between the cuffs and collar, it was clearly just fished out from the pool outside the cold palace.

God gave his nose a red one.

When Cang Tiansu heard the voice, he turned his head and looked over. When he saw this tearful younger brother, he was stunned for a moment. Then he realized that he had misunderstood, and immediately nodded reassuringly: "I'm fine."

His words seemed to turn on the switch, and the heavens gave a "wow—" and burst into tears, pouring out all the uneasiness and guilt.

fine?Can a person who is okay throw himself into the pond during the autumn tiger season?The second prince of Cang Kingdom didn't believe his elder brother's words, he insisted that Cang Tiansu made up lies to lie to him in order to alleviate his guilt.

"It's really fine." Cang Tiansu walked towards him, stared at his younger brother's chubby face for a while, lowered his eyes, and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry."

"...What are you sorry for?" Cang Tianci heard the endless apology, subconsciously stopped the wail, and looked into Cang Tiansu's eyes.

Cang Tiansu smiled softly at him with a good temper.

Cang Tianci hadn't seen him smile like this for a long time, his resistance was very low, and he was a little dazed for a while.

In the next second, Cang Tiansu's bright and beautiful smiling face disappeared.

Cang Tianci, who couldn't react in time, was hit hard on the bridge of the nose with a punch, and blood flowed down his nose.