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"There are temple fairs. There are temple fairs."

"The temple fair must be very interesting."

"Uncle, do you know what a temple fair is like? Have you ever seen a temple fair?"

"He must have never seen a temple fair. He is either stuck in the Chongyang Palace or nestled in the bedroom all day long."

Xiao Zong's head hurts a little, since Han Su said the word temple fair, his ears have never been clean.A few children were chattering in front of him, wandering back and forth, Xiao Jun had already swayed from his left to his right and then from his right to his left countless times, and kept saying silently that there would be a temple fair, so Even the eldest nephew Xiao Heng, who is only interested in learning, swordsmanship, riding and shooting, seems to be very interested in the ruined temple fair, and he chatted with Xiao Li and the other.

Xiao Zong looked down at the youngest baby on his knees, the little nephew was eating a shortbread with one hand with great relish, and with the other hand he was playing with his untied hair.Xiao Zong couldn't help sighing, it's better to be younger.

"Uncle, you haven't seen a temple fair, have you?" Xiao Heng said seriously, "I saw it when I was young, it was very fun."

Xiao Zong couldn't help muttering, what did this baby say, when he was a child?I really think I am an adult.Holding his forehead with a headache, Han Su shouldn't have mentioned any temple fairs in front of all the children.

"There are many dangers outside the palace that you don't know about. The temple fair has all kinds of people, and there are people of all kinds. Traffickers love to abduct and sell children as old as you. It's too unsafe." Xiao Zong stood up and handed Xiao Jian to the servant, and he came out to bask in the sun After a long time in the sun, it's time to go back to the palace.

Xiao Heng and the others who didn't think they were Xiaowa obviously wouldn't be intimidated by his uncle's blunt tricks that didn't have any freshness: "Aren't there guards and hidden guards?"

Xiao Zong rubbed his forehead and went down to the pavilion: "Uncle knows that you are bored, so if you are obedient, I will hold a temple fair for you in the palace tonight."

A group of children watched his uncle leave in a hurry, with dubious expressions on their faces.

Xiao Zong got rid of all the nephews and returned to the bedroom, walked around the empty and luxurious inner hall twice, sat down and drank a cup of tea, after a long while, he suddenly felt bored and didn't know what to do.

In the past, he would not stop for a moment, even before he lay down and went to bed, he still had to think about King Qin and his uncle, except that he hadn't been entangled with others in his dreams.And since the day before yesterday when he broke up with the King of Qin, the situation has reached this point, there are only a few paths left for him to walk in front of him, and it seems that it doesn't make much sense for him to think too much about many things, so he tried not to think too much, There is no need to entangle too much about all the annoying things that he has been tossing about in his heart but has not come to fruition.

Xiao Zong sat idly for a while, and involuntarily, a few words that Han Su said softly in the pavilion rolled in his mind.

He didn't force him to deal with King Qin, and didn't ask him why, but he only reminded himself of his position on the throne with one sentence.

He didn't know when his Taifu began to see him so clearly, understood him, followed him, and warned him to retreat.He has always felt that the Tai Tuo has a gentle appearance and good manners, and his temperament is a bit rigid and restrained. To put it bluntly, he may be a bit dull in some aspects of human sophistication. .

He always thought so.

But in recent days, he suddenly didn't understand the Tai Tuo very well. He didn't understand the faint strength of the Tai Tuo who sometimes suddenly appeared, and he didn't understand the gentleness that couldn't be explained, such as tea bags, and even worse. Understood, that Rosemarine.

He didn't want to speculate on the reason behind Rosemary.

Thinking of rosemary, he couldn't help thinking of other things, Xiao Zong rubbed his forehead, he should stop thinking about it.

After sitting for a while, Xiao Zong got up and took a volume of books from the table, and read them while lying down on the small couch beside him.Not long after, I felt a little sleepy, and fell asleep in a daze.

This time, he slept very unsatisfactorily.

Xiao Zong had a dream.

This dream, he felt, started not long after he lay down, and continued until he woke up.During the dream, he had many times trying to wake himself up early, desperately opening his eyes, kicking his legs, and grabbing the mattress, but he just couldn't wake up.

He dreamed that he was in a dark room, everything in the room was vague and indistinct, exuding a strange enchantment, and he was pressed down by a very strong body in the indistinctness. His body was too strong and majestic, it was like a hill when he was pressed down, let alone move under it, he even found it difficult to catch his breath.A big hand held the back of his head and fed saliva deep into his throat one after another. He wanted to resist, but his teeth couldn't close as if they were crisp.In the end, he could only resist in vain and was stripped of his robes.

Xiao Zong was covered in thin sweat, exhausted and chaotic, propped himself up from the couch, took a breath, calmed down for a long time, turned his head and looked at the hour glass in the corner of the bedroom, it was half past one hour.

The servant king waited by the side of the couch holding the toiletries with a worried expression on his face, and glanced down at the thin velvet mattress that had been scratched and wrung out of shape on the small couch. "Your Majesty...you, are you alright?" He just came in to see if the master was about to wake up after a long sleep, but when he got closer, he saw the master lying on the couch with his eyes closed, pulling the mattress, panting and gritting his teeth.

Xiao Zong was silent for a moment, took the hot towel from Wang Rong and wiped his face, his face was ashen, and after a while, he said two words: "It's nothing."

It was not the first time he had such a nightmare.

"Your Majesty, the servants have set up a temple fair for the young princes in the imperial garden according to your instructions, and it has already been done," Wang Rong looked at the emperor's face and whispered: "You and your highnesses go to see it now. See?"

After hearing this, Xiao Zong was silent for a moment, then pulled himself together and got up from the couch: "Let your highness go over first, I will be there after I take a bath."

Wang Rong retreated as ordered.

After Xiao Zong took a shower and changed his clothes, he arrived at the Imperial Garden. Except for the youngest Xiao Jian, who hadn't woken up because of his late afternoon nap, the other three nephews were already standing in the Imperial Garden. Before the temple fair built in the afternoon.

Xiao Zong gathered himself together, raised his spirits, and was about to speak, but his nephew Xiao Jun spoke to him first: "Uncle, is this the temple fair you mentioned?"

In the imperial garden in front of you, all kinds of lanterns are hung on the branches of trees, on the rockery, and on the eaves and corners of the pavilions, pavilions, pavilions and pavilions. The stars are reflected in the night sky, which is extremely dazzling and beautiful.

Before Xiao Zong could nod his head, Xiao Li continued, "Aren't there supposed to be performers, performers, jugglers, storytellers, all kinds of little things bought and sold in temple fairs, and lots of snacks?" Turning to the "temple fair" After looking at it, "No matter how you look at it, it's just a lantern festival, not a temple fair."

"Besides, just to look at the lamps, thousands of eight hundred lamps are lit in the palace every night, which is enough to see. Why bother you so much?" Xiao Jun said angrily.

Xiao Zong was a little choked, and turned his head to look at his eldest nephew who had been silent all this time. Although the eldest nephew didn't say anything, he could tell from his expression that he was not interested.Xiao Zong sighed: "You guys are so bored, do you want to leave the palace?"

"Yes." Xiao Jun saw that his uncle's tongue was loose, so he knew there was something going on, his eyes lit up, he immediately regained his energy, and immediately changed his mind and said, "No, the palace is very good, and the nephews are not boring, but they are just the nephews. I just want to get to know you a lot.”

Xiao Zong didn't bother to argue with his thieves, thought about it, and finally let go: "I will make some arrangements, you go back to the palace first and change your clothes."

The little children were very happy to hear the uncle's consent, and ran back to Zhaoyang Palace to change their clothes.

Xiao Zong looked at his nephew's jumping back, turned around to face the lights in a garden, and couldn't help sighing softly. He may have been too tense in the past few months, and he should relax and breathe. In his tone, it might be better to go out of the palace for a while, lest he always have nightmares once or twice.