I became the leopard cub of the paranoid emperor

Luo Bai was sad and wronged, the little leopard in his heart smashed the vinegar bottle, howling and rolling on the ground.

That child is really ugly, not cute at all, painted his face so white, it feels weird to look at it, and he hugged his brother's neck so tightly, so close...

"What's wrong?" Chu Yuzhao asked.

Luo Bai didn't want to talk at first, but he was really jealous, so he pointed at the boy on his shoulder, and asked angrily, "Who is he?"

Chu Yuzhao turned his head and looked behind him: "Who?"

Just as Luo Bai wanted to talk about the person you were carrying, the boy who was still grinning suddenly disappeared.

Just like when he appeared on Chu Yuzhao's back out of thin air, he disappeared out of thin air.

"Ah... where did he go?"

Luo Bai trotted forward, looked in the bushes beside Chu Yuzhao, picked up another stick, and wanted to push the leaves above his head.

Chu Yuzhao watched him do these things, didn't ask any more questions, and turned around to continue walking back.But as soon as he stepped forward, he heard Luo Bai talking to himself in surprise: "It's strange, he was lying on his brother's back, why did he disappear suddenly? Am I wrong?"

Chu Yuzhao's footsteps stopped suddenly, looked at Luo Bai who was poking around in the grass with a stick, and asked again: "Who?"

"That kid."

Chu Yuzhao's expression changed slightly, he stood there and looked at Luo Bai, until Eunuch Cheng's voice came over: "Your Majesty, are you going back to the palace?"

Eunuch Cheng was waiting in front with a group of young eunuchs. He clearly heard the emperor's footsteps, but he didn't see anyone, so he just came over.

Chu Yuzhao also hurriedly walked towards Qiande Palace, and all the eunuchs hurriedly followed.Only Luo Bai was left to search for a while, and raised his head in a daze, only to find that his elder brother had gone away.

At night, a full moon hung on the tip of the mountain, Luo Bai lay prone in the bathtub in the room, watching the moon from the window.Yuan Fu was sitting on a small stool, rubbing his back with a towel.

"Aunt Yuan Fu, you, you move, lightly, I was rubbed off by you, a layer of skin." Following Yuan Fu's movements, Luo Bai's voice was intermittent.

"Who told you to get yourself so dirty today? It's full of mulberry juice. Did you take off your clothes and climb a tree? You don't need to work hard, the juice can't be washed off. I also went to the East Garden to pluck peacock feathers, and be careful not to be caught .” Yuan Fu reprimanded, but the movements of his hands were lighter.

After parting from Chu Yuzhao today, he changed into a leopard shape and climbed up the mulberry tree, lying on the branches to eat.When it was time to go back to the palace, he was lazy, so he dressed on a tree, and in the end he smeared a lot of mulberry juice on his body.

"Is that chicken called a peacock? Well, I won't dare next time..." Luo Bai lazily replied very carelessly.

Yuan Fu threatened and said: "If you do this again next time, I will hand you over to His Majesty and see how he will deal with you."

As soon as the words fell, he regretted it, but Luo Bai still heard it clearly, and immediately turned back to look at him, asking with sparkling eyes: "Really?"

"fake."

Luo Bai curled his lips, turned around and continued to lie on the edge of the barrel to look at the moon.

He stretched out one arm from the barrel, tapped on the barrel wall with his thin white fingers, suddenly remembered the events of the day, and asked, "Aunt Yuan Fu, do you recognize all the people in this palace?"

"Then how can we recognize them all? There are thousands of people in the entire palace, and some people live their entire lives without seeing each other." Yuan Fu rubbed his back.

"Then have you ever seen such a person in the palace? A very ugly person." Luo Bai recalled the boy's appearance, and his heart began to turn sore again, deliberately picking that bad description to say: "face It was as white as flour, and the eyes were completely black, without the whites of the eyes, like two carbon balls. The mouth was blood red, and she smiled at people."

Luo Bai turned around and smiled at Yuan Fuxue's boy, grinning slowly, his eyes staring at the person from bottom to top, the tender and tender person actually showed a bit of gloom.

Yuan Fu was suddenly taken aback, and jumped up from the small stool, and the handkerchief in his hand fell into the bucket.But then he reacted again, patted Luo Bai's head angrily, and reprimanded: "You went to hang out with those little eunuchs during the day, and listened to their nonsense?"

Luo Bai suppressed the expression on his face, shook his head and said, "No, I didn't play with those little eunuchs."

"Then where did you go to hear these ghost stories and pretend to be ghosts to scare people?" Yuan Fu touched his chest with lingering fear, "If someone tells you these things again in the future, cover your ears and don't listen, otherwise don't leave the palace Yes, write a few more words every day."

After Luo Bai heard that he had written a few more words, he rarely objected, and only glanced at him suspiciously and asked, "Aunt Yuan Fu, you said I was pretending to be a ghost, did I just pretend to be a ghost?"

"Isn't it? I was shocked. I don't know where to learn it. The good ones don't learn all they can, and the bad ones. There are some little eunuchs in the palace who use tree branches to learn calligraphy on the ground. Look at you, you have all the pens, inks, papers and inkstones. The best one, practice for two hours a day, it’s fine if you can’t write other characters, even if you write your name?” Yuan Fu felt a little sad when he said this, he took out the handkerchief from the bottom of the bucket, his tone Not very good and authentic: "Turn around, the back has not been wiped clean yet."

Luo Bai didn't listen to Yuan Fu's nagging, turned around and lay down on the edge of the barrel, thinking about it with his not-so-bright mind.

... I was just imitating that ugly man, but Aunt Yuan Fu said I was playing a ghost... Is that ugly man a ghost?

Luo Bai's heart skipped a beat, he sat up straight from the barrel, and asked with some horror: "Aunt Yuan Fu, don't all ghosts have three heads and six hands? Could it be that ghosts that look like humans are also ghosts?"

Yuan Fu hurriedly said: "Don't talk about it, what the hell, where do ghosts come from in this world, they are all made up by others to scare children."

"But you were frightened just now, and you said I was playing a ghost."

"I'm not intimidated."

"You have." Luo Bai frowned, stretched out his hand and patted the barrel wall.

Yuan Fu could only say: "Yes, yes, you were pretending to be a ghost just now, and you scared me." Then he pressed Luo Bai into the bucket, "Hurry up and get your hands in, every time you take a bath, you have to fill the ground with water. It gets wet everywhere."

Before Luo Bai recovered from the shock that the boy was a ghost, he let Yuan Fu raise his hands and head to scrub him, recalling the scene during the day in his mind, and suddenly felt a cold war in his heart.

He is afraid of three-headed and six-armed ghosts, as well as mountain spirits and goblins. Occasionally, he hears old people in the village telling stories about wild boar spirits who turn into human beings and knock on other people's doors at night, and stories about foxes turning into beautiful women to suck people's brains. Don't dare to sleep.

Sometimes when the children frightened each other and shouted that the monster was coming, he ran faster than anyone else.When he ran to a place where no one was there, he would turn into a leopard and run home, and plunge into the quilt at home.

He didn't expect that if this scene fell into the eyes of others, he himself would be a real monster.

Luo Bai didn't dare to recall the child's appearance at this time, but thought of another question.

Why is the child ghost lying on his brother's back?Does brother know?Does my brother know that there are ghosts lying on his back?

woo woo woo...

very scary.

How to do……

Luo Bai twisted his fingers anxiously and fearfully, struggling to balance in his heart.However, his concern for Chu Yuzhao finally prevailed, and overwhelmed his fear of the ghost. He quickly made a decision to help his brother catch the ghost tomorrow.

No no no, drive that ghost away.

Uh...

Forget it, remind my brother and let him catch it himself.

Chu Yuzhao returned to the dormitory, shouted everyone away, then untied his collar in front of the bronze mirror, and looked at the black and blue bruises on his shoulders.

In the past few days, the group of bruises not only did not dissipate, but expanded to the surroundings, and the row of tooth marks on it became more and more clear.Every tooth mark is deep in the flesh, presenting a kind of ferocious jet black, which looks particularly shocking.

He stared at the bruise for a moment, and then his eyes fell on the old wound on the left chest. He buttoned his collar again and strode out of the bedroom.

In the dim corridor, there is only an oil lamp at a long distance, emitting a faint light.Chu Yuzhao walked among them, his tall figure was outlined by the light, but his face was hidden in the darkness, only the cold and sharp lines could be seen clearly.

A man dressed as a jailer came up to meet him. After prostrating and saluting, he made several gestures with his mouth. It turned out that he was a deaf-mute.

Chu Yuzhao continued to move forward, and the jailer silently followed behind.

This corridor is very long, and there are prisons on both sides. The air is full of stale musty smell and damp moisture. There is the sound of dripping water in the distance, making the surroundings even more quiet.

When Chu Yuzhao walked to one of the prisons, he stopped, and the jailer behind him immediately took a bunch of keys from his waist, unlocked the tightly wrapped chain locks, and pushed open the prison door with a bang.

The light spilled into the dark cell, illuminating a corner where there was a pile of hay, on which lay a man in rags, motionless, not knowing whether he was dead or alive.

Chu Yuzhao didn't go in, just stood in the corridor, but the jailer hurried in, reaching out to push the man on the hay.

The man finally moved, turned over, squinted his eyes and looked at the prison door. When he saw the tall and majestic figure at the door, he slowly sat up from the haystack.

"Your Majesty, is it Your Majesty?" He asked incredulously, his eyes hidden under the messy long hair were full of shock.Then he got up, dragged the iron chains on his hands and feet jingling, and knelt down facing Chu Yuzhao.

"The sinner Bu Qingfeng kowtowed to His Majesty, long live His Majesty."