I became the leopard cub of the paranoid emperor

In the early morning, a group of soldiers came suddenly. After entering the courtyard, they looked around and asked the old lady if she had seen a stranger recently.

"Stranger? What kind of stranger?" the old lady asked suspiciously.

Luo Bai lay on the door, nervously looking out through the gap, Chu Yuzhao lay on the bed with his eyes closed, looking very idle, but actually grabbed the wooden stick by the side of the bed with his right hand.

His Fengxue knife landed on the cliff when he fell, and he had no other weapons at hand at the moment. If it really didn't work, he thought to himself that even with a wooden staff, Luo Bai could escape safely.

"The two men are not very old." The soldier said.

The old lady shook her head: "I haven't seen it, I haven't seen it."

The soldier pointed to Luo Bai's room again: "Is there anyone else in there?"

The old lady said: "There are people, it's my daughter and his man."

The soldier said, "Call it out and let us have a look."

The old lady yelled at the door: "Ninny, nannie, let the official take a look."

Luo Bai turned his head to look at Chu Yuzhao, seeing that he had no objection, he half opened the door and took half a step to go outside.

Chu Yuzhao lay face down on the bed, his eyes closed and his expression was calm.

The soldier's eyes flicked across Luo Bai's lotus root pink dress, and stayed for a moment longer on the face half covered by the long hair, with surprise and admiration in his eyes.Another soldier went to the door to look around, only to see a person lying on the bed, wearing the kind of cloth shirt that is common in farm houses, and he turned around and said, "There is only one man."

"No, let's go."

The soldiers didn't know the real identity of the person they were looking for, they only knew they were looking for two young men, and seeing that the man and the woman obviously didn't match, they rushed to the next family.

After the soldiers left, Luo Bai ran back to the bed, kicked off his shoes and crawled inside the bed, lay down next to Chu Yuzhao, and asked, "Are they looking for us?"

"should be."

Luo Bai asked, "Then when shall we leave here?"

Chu Yuzhao glanced at him sideways: "Want to leave?"

Luo Bai nodded and shook his head again, and finally said honestly: "Brother, I will go wherever you go, as long as I follow you."

Chu Yuzhao brushed away a strand of hair from his cheek, and said lightly: "After staying outside these days, it's time to go back."

After lunch that day, Chu Yuzhao found a wooden hairpin and wanted to tie up Luo Bai's long hair that had been loose for a few days.

"I used to have a jade hairpin and a jade crown, but they are gone." Luo Bai muttered unhappily, "Will Aunt Yuan Fu scold me?"

Chu Yuzhao ignored him, and only focused on tying his hair, his movements were stiff and clumsy.

"Hiss...be gentle." Luo Bai was pulled by him and his head shook, but he pretended not to care and said: "I really like my jade hairpin and jade crown. The jade hairpin was destroyed before, this time to save you , the jade crown also disappeared in the water, such a beautiful jade crown... But in order to save my brother, if you lose it, just throw it away."

In front of him is a rusty bronze mirror, but it can take a whole picture of people. Chu Yuzhao glanced at the bronze mirror and saw the eyeballs of the people inside, so he snorted and said, "Then what do you think?" what can we do about it?"

"I think what should I do... It's okay to use a wooden hairpin, which is just barely enough. Of course, if I can get another small jade crown, it will be very good."

Chu Yuzhao heard a little funny, but didn't show it on his face, he still said calmly: "Since you think wooden hairpins are okay, then use wooden hairpins from now on."

"Ah!" Luo Bai's face was struck by lightning, "Brother, what I said is barely enough, but it's not enough, I can only say yes, say yes..."

Seeing him scratching his ears and cheeks anxiously, Chu Yuzhao softened his heart, and stopped teasing him, saying: "That's all right, all right, I'll give you a beautiful new jade crown after returning to the palace."

Luo Bai's hair was smooth and soft, and it was not easy to tie it well. Chu Yuzhao put a lot of effort into a bun on the top of his hair, and said, "Turn around and let me have a look."

Luo Bai turned around and looked up at him.

The bun was tilted to the side of the head, loose and loose, some strands of hair were not bound, and hung down around the neck.Chu Yuzhao thought of a remedy, stretched out his hand to lift up the hair, and then pulled out the hairpin to fix it again.Unexpectedly, as the wooden hairpin was pulled out, the whole bun was loosened, and the hair fell down one shoulder in an instant.

Chu Yuzhao looked at Luo Bai with disheveled hair expressionlessly, and said after a while, "Start again."

Repeated this several times, Luo Bai sat patiently, and when Chu Yuzhao finally said the three words, he still stiffened his neck.

"It's already combed, you can move now." Chu Yuzhao said.

"I know." Luo Bai still sat upright.

Chu Yuzhao's forehead twitched: "You don't have to be so nervous, I tied it very firmly."

"I know." Luo Bai said again.

Chu Yuzhao said: "Then why are you so nervous? You don't even turn your neck?"

Luo Bai said, "I can't turn around."

"why?"

"When I turn my neck, my head hurts."

"Why does your head hurt?" Chu Yuzhao frowned slightly, "Turn around slowly and let me have a look."

Luo Bai slowly turned around without moving his head or body, Chu Yuzhao choked up after seeing his current appearance clearly.

"It seems a little too tight." Luo Bai stretched out his finger and pointed at his temples, "It's very tight here, I feel like a small needle is pricking it."

His round almond eyes have been torn into slanted eyes, and his two eyebrows are also slanted upwards, as if they are about to fly.

"Tear it down, start over." Chu Yuzhao said.

"I think it's just a matter of loosening up—"

"Take it apart." Chu Yuzhao held his shoulders with both hands, turned around, and pressed him on the stool, "I don't believe it, I can't tie his hair in a bun!"

When they finally combed their hair, the two said goodbye to the old lady and went to the nearest county town.The old lady was very reluctant to part with Luo Bai, grabbed his hand and patted it lightly, and wanted to fetch the bacon on the beam for the two to take away, but was politely declined by Chu Yuzhao.

"Grandma, I'll come and see you next time my brother allows me to go far away." Luo Bai put his arms around the old lady and put a sticker on her old face, "I'll bring you a lot of delicious pastries. You can bite."

"Good girl, good girl." The old lady's tone was full of reluctance, and she warned: "If you are far away, don't come here, and live a good life with your man."

When Chu Yuzhao heard this, he looked at Luo Bai with a smile in his eyes, but Luo Bai nodded and agreed seriously: "Well, I will live a good life with my man, he is very good to me."

While the two were talking, Chu Yuzhao walked slowly back into the house, and took out a jade pendant from his pocket.

This jade pendant was originally attached to a hunting suit, and it was engraved with a wild animal that subdued it. It was prepared to reward people during hunting, and he took it out when changing his clothes earlier.

He wanted to leave the jade pendant on the table, but thought that these items were too eye-catching and would only bring countless troubles to the old lady, so he gave up, thinking that it would not be too late to send someone to thank him after returning to the palace.

When he went out and saw Luo Bai, he couldn't help but stagnate.

In the short time he entered the room, Luo Bai had already put a thin straw mat on his shoulders, with two pieces of black bacon on the front and back.There is also a circle of connected garlic around the waist, like some kind of strange jewelry.

"There are still a few steamed buns, just steamed out of the pot, take them to eat on the road." The old lady hurried out of the kitchen with another green cloth bag, "Your man doesn't want it, but my daughter wants it, so my daughter will be good."

Luo Bai obviously couldn't cope with this kind of situation, he just said: "I think it's okay, grandma, it's okay." The old lady hung that burden directly on his other shoulder.

The old lady sent the two of them all the way to the intersection. Luo Bai turned back as he walked, sniffing his nose and wiping away his tears. Chu Yuzhao didn't urge him, but turned around the foot of the mountain and said after seeing the old lady no longer: "Wait someday later When I'm free, I'll take you to visit her again."

Luo Bai was stunned and didn't make a sound, and after a while, he said with red eyes: "Brother, I miss my mother."

He hadn't mentioned his mother for a long time, and Chu Yuzhao didn't know how to answer for a while.

Luo Bai lifted up the circle of garlic around his waist: "Do you know where my mother has gone?"

After a moment of silence, Chu Yuzhao said: "Mrs. Xue may have been caught up in something, and she will come to see you after a while."

He turned his eyes away after he finished speaking, Luo Bai still wanted to ask, but was interrupted by him: "Look at the road, the mountain road is not easy to walk, be careful of falling."

"Oh."

Luo Bai was really distracted, he chattered non-stop all the way, but his body was covered with local specialties, and after a while he was panting like an old cow, and his feet became slower and slower.

Chu Yuzhao glanced at him and said, "Let's rest for a while."

"Okay, okay, rest, I like rest."

Luo Bai sat down on the boulder by the roadside, fanned himself with his hands, and breathed with his mouth open.

Chu Yuzhao took a bamboo tube from his back, pulled out the cloth plug and handed it to him: "Drink water."

Luo Bai was also polite, moved the piece of bacon on his chest to the side, took the bamboo tube and began to sip water.

Chu Yuzhao looked down at him, and those things on him, and then half bent down, stretched out his fingers as if wanting to tap the cured meat, but when he saw the black layer of oil, he retracted his hand in time, faintly Said: "Throw away all these things."

"Throw it away? Throw it away for what?" Luo Bai almost choked on a mouthful of water.

Chu Yuzhao patiently explained: "We still have a long way to go, and we may encounter some unexpected situations on the way. It will be very inconvenient to carry these cured meats, not to mention that there are them in the palace. If you want to eat, I will Have someone do it for you."

"That can't be done, these are all given to me by grandma." Luo Bai handed him back the bamboo tube, and vigilantly clenched the garlic belt around his waist.

"With these things, you will be very tired walking."

"I can do it, I'm not afraid of being tired." Luo Bai insisted.

Chu Yuzhao pinched the center of his eyebrows, and suddenly reached out to pull the bacon on his shoulder.

He moved very quickly. After Luo Bai realized it, he hurriedly raised his hand to hold down the bacon: "Brother, brother, I can really take it away, don't throw it away."

But Chu Yuzhao pursed his lips tightly and refused to say anything, Luo Bai could only watch helplessly as the bacon was torn off his shoulders, and immediately puckered his mouth, pretending to cry.

Chu Yuzhao held the two pieces of bacon in his right hand and strode forward. Luo Bai jumped on the spot and shouted loudly: "Do you dare to throw it away? If you throw it away, I will cry. I'm not leaving, I'm crying desperately, I'm mad at you."

Chu Yuzhao ignored him, nor did he stop and look back.

Luo Bai stared at his back for a long time before realizing that he didn't intend to throw away the bacon, so he quickly chased after him and asked overjoyedly, "Brother, are you going to help me get it?"

"Shout, keep shouting, keep shouting loudly." Chu Yuzhao stared straight ahead, walking fast and steadily.

Luo Bai trotted after him, and said with a smile, "Stop yelling, stop yelling."

Chu Yuzhao glanced at him sideways, then suddenly stretched out his left hand, grabbing his cheek and shaking it from side to side, "Are you bold? Dare to yell at me? Aren't you going to cry? Are you going to piss me off? Then now Cry for me."

"My words are all lies, they are all lies." Luo Bai's cheeks were pulled, but he also said vaguely: "I'm a good liar, can I take what I say to be true?"

"You also know that you are a liar?"

Chu Yuzhao let go of his hand with a sneer, but found that his fingers had left two black marks on his fair face. He looked at the bacon in his hand, but didn't say anything, and continued to walk forward with it.

"That's not right, I'm a good liar." Luo Bai said with a flattering smile.

Chu Yuzhao glanced at the black marks on his face again, and didn't remind him, only quickened his pace.

Luo Bai trotted to follow, but the garlic on his waist would drop a few from time to time, and would roll into the ditch beside the road, so he had to look for it everywhere.At this time, Chu Yuzhao would stop and wait for him, and occasionally help him pick up the dropped garlic.

Luo Bai wanted to simply put garlic in the hem of the skirt, but just as he lifted the hem of the skirt to reveal Bai Shengsheng's legs, Chu Yuzhao stopped him.

"Don't lift your skirt, put it down." Chu Yuzhao scolded, then spread his hands at him, "Bring the garlic and the bag."

Chu Yuzhao wanted to put the garlic in the bag, but the bag was so small that the old lady’s steamed buns were full. He knew that Luo Bai would not allow those steamed buns to be thrown away, so he took out one for each person, Short and authentic: "Eat."

The two of them were sitting on the side of the road, gnawing steamed buns the size of a bowl, Luo Bai was so choked that he wanted to roll his eyes, Chu Yuzhao handed him the bamboo tube, and said, "Drink."

Luo Bai had a steamed bun in one hand and a bamboo tube in the other, looking at Chu Yuzhao who was sitting on the boulder while chewing.

After they walked such a long distance, Luo Bai was already dripping with sweat, as if he had been fished out of the water, but Chu Yuzhao only had a thin layer of sweat, if it wasn't for the sun shining on it, it would be golden The broken light is not easy to find.

He chewed the steamed buns unhurriedly, just like eating those rare delicacies in the palace. He neither rolled his eyes like Luo Bai was choked, nor did he show a hard-to-swallow expression. He was still flat.Although he was wearing simple civilian clothes, he didn't lose half of his dignity, and he was still tall and straight, outstanding.

Perhaps Luo Bai's scrutinizing eyes were too hot, Chu Yuzhao noticed it, turned his head and raised his eyebrows, showing a questioning look.

"Brother, I'm really sweating." Luo Bai wanted to say that you are so pretty, but he couldn't make a full sound with his mouth full of buns and hair, and then he opened his mouth and looked at people with silly joy.

Chu Yuzhao said: "Swallow your steamed bun before talking."

"Oh." Luo Bai began to choke his neck and swallow.

"Don't roll your eyes."

"Oh."

"Drink water quickly."

"Ah."

After eating the steamed buns, some space was vacated for the burden. Chu Yuzhao took off the garlic strings from Luo Bai's waist, stuffed the ones that had fallen off into the burden, and prepared to tie the remaining long strings around his waist.

But his waist was thicker than Luo Bai's, and the rope was too short to tie it on. Luo Bai just wanted to say that I should tie it, but he saw that he had already hung the garlic string around his neck.

"Let's go." Chu Yuzhao got up and strode forward with bacon in one hand and a bag in the other.

Luo Bai realized that he didn't take anything, so he couldn't help but call out: "Brother."

Chu Yuzhao stopped to look at him, his face was calm, his body was tall and tall, and the string of garlic around his neck was hanging out of a Buddhist bead.

"Can't you walk now?" he asked.

Luo Bai said, "You can walk."

"Then why don't you hurry up?"

Chu Yuzhao didn't care about him anymore, turned around and started walking. Luo Bai was stunned for a moment, and then he giggled and chased after him.