I became the leopard cub of the paranoid emperor

The next day, when Luo Bai woke up, he saw Chu Yuzhao standing in front of the window in a solemn black robe. He couldn't help being startled and asked, "Brother, are we going down the mountain?"

Chu Yuzhao turned around and walked over, picked up the clothes on the chair for him to wear, and said, "Yes, if you don't go down the mountain, Xin Xiang will definitely come up with a knife to arrest people."

"How dare he do anything to you?"

Chu Yuzhao raised his lips: "He doesn't dare to do anything to me, but he will wipe his neck in front of me."

He has always been serious, but when he said this, he winked at Luo Bai, showing a naughty expression that he had never shown before.Seeing him like this, Luo Bai liked him so much in his heart, he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him hard.

Chu Yuzhao looked happy, but said in his mouth: "Put on your clothes quickly, don't freeze in such a cold day."

The two bid farewell to Wu Yazi, left Nanya Mountain and returned to Jindu City.

Chu Yuzhao lived on the mountain during this period, and the reason he gave to those courtiers was that he was not acclimatized to the soil and water, his body was weak, and he needed to recuperate for several days.After he came down from the mountain, he started to be busy, discussing matters with the ministers in the main hall all day long, Luo Bai would go in occasionally, and just sat quietly at the side, watching the noisy courtiers, before returning to the court hall in a daze.

Although everyone's goal is to win the capital, the opinions are not unified, and they are divided into two groups.

One is to surround the capital and make it an isolated city. When the food is exhausted, they can win without fighting.But the siege of the city will inevitably also surround the people of the capital. In the cruel situation of no food to eat, the consequences can be imagined.

A kind of main battle, strive for a quick battle, and bring down the capital within three days. Although it will hurt the people in the capital, the long-term pain is worse than the short-term pain, and it is better than slow consumption.What's more, the rise and fall of king Cheng, bloodshed and casualties are always inevitable.

Listening to the arguments of the ministers, Luo Bai became absent-minded after a while, and seeing Chu Yuzhao frowning in deep thought, he went out quietly.

After Chu Yuzhao went down the mountain, he was not as relaxed as when he was on the mountain. Luo Bai wanted to go shopping on the streets of Jindu Mansion to see if there was anything new to bring back to make him happy.

The coldest weather has passed. Although the Jindu Street is not as bustling as the capital, there are still people coming and going, and there are endless hawkers.

Luo Bai led a few guards, and looked curiously at the vendors on both sides, looking at the bundles of leather and various animal horns.

When passing a corner, a figure squatting in front of the stall next to him made him a little familiar, and he couldn't help but leaned over to look down, and found that it was an acquaintance.

Liu Sihao had already found his eldest son, Liu Hong, and he had nothing to do every day, so he was wandering around the street. At this time, he was picking out a snuff bottle, when he felt that someone was squatting beside him, but he didn't look at the one. snuff bottle, just staring at him.

Liu Sihao glanced sideways, and found that it was a handsome young man whom he had never seen before, smiling at him with crooked eyebrows and eyes.

Liu Sihao was stunned for a while, shaking the snuff bottle in his hand: "My child, did you like this?"

Luo Bai imitated those local people, put his hands into his sleeves and hugged him, and touched Liu Sihao's shoulder affectionately with his shoulder: "Hey, it's me."

Liu Si looked him up and down suspiciously, and he laughed at Liu Si again.

Liu Sihao's expression was even more bewildered. After a while, he suddenly realized: "Are you the son Liu Hong secretly gave birth to? Are you my grandson?"

"Who is Liu Hong?" Luo Bai asked.

"Oh, that's good, that's good." Liu Sihao stretched out his hand to wipe his chest, "If Liu Hong dares to have an illegitimate child outside my daughter-in-law's back, I will definitely break his leg."

Luo Bai came to his senses: "Is the Liu Hong you're talking about General Liu?"

Seeing that Liu Sihao's face changed again, Luo Bai hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I'm not Liu Hong's son, I have a real father, although he has already been beheaded by my mother."

Liu Sihao: "..."

Luo Bai approached him again and asked, "Would you like to watch a group of grasshoppers dance, or myna sing? Three mynahs sing, and two mynahs play the piano."

Liu Sihao didn't make a sound, just looked at him expressionlessly, Luo Bai was not angry, and continued: "What? Didn't you say that you wouldn't be surprised if a starling sings when a grasshopper dances?"

"Ah...it's you...ah..." Liu Sihao finally recalled, his cloudy eyes suddenly brightened, he pointed at Luo Bai with his mouth trembling: "Good dog... leopard... people?"

Luo Bai looked at his trembling finger, and said dissatisfiedly: "You said you wouldn't be surprised, so it turned out that he lied to me, so I was so shocked."

Liu Sihao wiped his face tremblingly, and he came back to his senses after a while, and said: "I have never seen this with my own eyes, but it's okay, I'm not too surprised."

He had regained his composure, looked Luo Bai up and down, and asked, "Have you found the person you're looking for?"

Luo Bai nodded: "I found it."

Liu Sihao asked: "Then do you remember when we parted, I said what will happen next time we meet?"

"Let me drink with you."

Liu Sihao got up and took Luo Bai's hand, "Go, find a restaurant to drink, forget it, go to my house, I have good wine in the house."

His hands were dry and skinny, with the coolness unique to the elderly, Luo Bai let him hold them, and they went to the general's mansion together.

General Liu Hong was discussing with Chu Yuzhao, but he was not in the mansion. Liu Sihao took Luo Bai directly to the study in the backyard, drove away all the servants, and closed the door to avoid drinking.

Liu Sihao didn't dare to order food and drink, for fear that the servants would notice him drinking and immediately report to his youngest son who stayed in the mansion, and the hidden wine would be confiscated as well.So Luo Bai saw that he took out many small paper packages from the pillow, the pried open wooden floor, and the back of the cabinet. After opening, they contained broad beans, peanuts, dried meat sticks and other snacks.

"Come on, come on, do it."

Liu Si was so delicious, Luo Bai also leaned back and drank the whole glass of wine, only to feel a pungency crawling down his throat, and his internal organs burned up.

"Ah... ah..." He put down his wine glass, pinched his throat, and stuck out his tongue.

Liu Si pointed at him with his chopsticks amusedly: "Leopard has never drunk."

Luo Bai didn't dare to take another sip, so he just sipped it in small sips, Liu Sihao didn't mind, and poured the cup full into his mouth by himself.

"Exciting." Liu Sihao looked at Luo Bai and sighed: "I only heard that the spirit leopard also has a human form, but I never thought that I would meet one."

Luo Bai chewed a piece of dried radish and asked, "After drinking, can you take me out to play?"

"What are you playing?" Liu Sihao asked.

"Watching cricket fights, cockfights, and listening to operas in the theater are all good." Luo Bai said.

Liu Sihao shook his head: "The northern border used to be a barren land, but now it's more prosperous. But when it comes to fun, it can't compare with our capital city. Not to mention the cold weather, where can you find live crickets. Although here if you run A good horse, but my old bones can't move."

Seeing Luo Bai showing disappointment, Liu Sihao thought for a while, lowered his voice and said, "But I can show you my drawing of crickets."

"What's so interesting about the crickets in the painting, and they can't move." Luo Bai only likes the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and has a headache when he hears the other three.Especially once he was involved in Yunji's Autumn Rhyme Painting, he lost interest in painting.

But Liu Sihao smiled mysteriously: "Don't worry, you will know it after reading it."

He put down his wine glass, went to the mahogany cabinet, took out the key to unlock it, and didn't shy away from Luo Bai, directly opened a dark cabinet on the back wall of the cabinet, and took out a scroll from it.

When the picture scroll slowly unfolded, what appeared before Luo Bai's eyes were two fighting crickets. They were big and strong, with long beards trembling on the top of their heads, and their mouthparts opened and closed slightly, as if they were about to jump out and bite.When Liu Sihao turned the scroll, the two crickets on the painting also moved, as if alive.

Luo Bai's pupils constricted suddenly, and he exclaimed: "Isn't this... Isn't this a demon painting like Yunji's Autumn Rhyme Picture?"

"Demon painting? What are you talking about? Little Leopard is really ignorant." Liu Si was so angry that he blew his beard, "This is a skill that I learned from Immortal Liu with a prescription when I was young. How can it be called demon painting?"

Luo Bai said: "Ah, that's right, the picture of Yun Ji and Autumn Charm was drawn by Immortal Liu."

Liu Sihao proudly said: "People in the world only know that Liu Xianren's painting skills have been lost, but they don't know that by accident, the old man also learned this unique skill, but I just agreed to Liu Xianren, and I can't use my paintings to gain fame. , not to make money, and not to show it to the world, so even if you paint something you are proud of, you can only appreciate it alone, even my two sons don’t know about it.”

He looked at Luo Bai and said, "You are not a human being, you are a leopard, so even though I showed it to you, I didn't violate the point of not showing it to the world.

Luo Bai felt that what he said made sense, so he nodded in agreement.

Liu Sihao knows this painting skill but can't show it. Although he is proud of himself, he is panicked. Now that Luo Bai can paint for him, he simply took out the remaining piles of scrolls hidden in the cabinet.

"I was worried that people would find these paintings if they stayed in the capital, so I brought them to the northern border as well. Look, look quickly, and look carefully one by one."

Those scrolls were unfolded one after another, and Luo Bai saw the lotus swaying in the wind, water droplets rolling on the tender green lotus leaves, reflecting colorful light in the sun.I saw kittens curled up under the eaves basking in the sun, their chests rising and falling, and I saw birds flying by in the bamboo forest, slowly falling a piece of wing feathers.

"Wow! Wow! Absolutely." Luo Bai's eyes lit up, and he was always amazed by the shock.

He wanted to take a closer look, but he was afraid of being involved in the painting, so he stretched his feet forward, but leaned back.

"What are you doing? Just look at it." Liu Sihao clicked his tongue in dissatisfaction.

Luo Bai could only explain: "I was once drawn into the picture of Yun Ji Qiu Yun, so when I saw this kind of moving picture, I felt frightened."

"Involved in Yunji's Autumn Rhyme Picture? Involved in the painting?" Liu Sihao frowned.

"Yes, caught in the painting. I had a hard time getting out, or I would have been stuck in it forever."

Luo Bai's thoughts were much more careful than before, and he didn't mention that Chu Yuzhao was also drawn into the painting.

"Impossible... As far as I know, except for Liu Xianren, no one has the ability to add spells to the painting and turn the whole painting into a magic circle. The picture of the cloud and autumn charm is Liu Xianren's life. It was later collected by Chen Shilang's family. When he painted, he only used painting techniques similar to my current painting, and didn't add magic, so how could he involve you?"

Luo Bai explained: "It's not just Liu Xianren's painting, someone even covered that painting with a layer of paper."

Liu Sihao pondered for a moment, clapped his hands and said: "I understand, the painting is still the same painting, but it can be covered with a layer of transparent paper that has cast spells."

"Yes, that should be it." Luo Bai nodded.

"Liu Xianren once said to me that I am not allowed to pass on these paintings to the world, because this kind of painting is very suitable for a certain kind of magic. If that kind of magic is used on the painting, it can form a certain magic circle. But He didn't give me a detailed explanation at that time, so I don't know exactly what the magic circle is, but now I hear you say that, I understand."

Liu Sihao pointed to his paintings: "If someone can know the spell and cast a spell on this kind of painting, then each painting will have its own space and can form a magic circle that can inhale people. "

Luo Bai wrapped his fingers with his sleeves, and tapped the two crickets with lingering fear: "Although this cricket looks alive, it takes up half of the paper, so how big is that. I don't want to be sucked in. Facing the small Two crickets like a mountain bag."

Liu Si smiled funnyly: "My painting has no spells, so it won't suck you in."

Luo Bai glanced at him, and asked casually, "Then can you add spells to these paintings?"

Liu Sihao shook his head: "Actually, it's not difficult to paint these paintings. If you know how to prepare this special paint, you can use a little trick when painting. I'm just an ordinary person. I can learn the painting method of Liu Xianren. This is a rare adventure in my life, how can I still use spells?"

"Then do you know who can use this spell?"

Liu Sihao didn't answer, just put the scrolls in his hand, Luo Bai helped them carry those scrolls back into the dark cabinet, closed the cabinet door and locked it.

The two returned to the table, Luo Bai filled a glass of wine for Liu Sihao, then filled it for himself, raised the glass and said, "Grandpa Liu, thank you for carrying me with this glass of wine for a while in the ice and snow, if it wasn't for you, I don't even know if I can make it to the North in time."

Luo Bai raised his neck and poured the glass of wine into his mouth. Tears rolled in his eyes, and his throat slid up and down, but he couldn't show it on his face, and only looked at Liu Sihao.

Liu Sihao picked up the wine silently, drank it in one gulp, and put the empty wine glass on the table.

Luo Bai filled the wine glasses of the two of them again, raised his glasses with both hands and said: "Thank you for giving me a green cloth cushion for this glass of wine, let me dry the cold air on my body with charcoal fire, if it weren't for you, I would be so cold .”

After speaking, he raised his neck again and downed the whole glass of wine.This time he couldn't hold back, he was so hot that he gritted his teeth and shivered.

Liu Sihao was a little surprised: "A green cloth cushion, a pot of charcoal fire, and a drink?"

"You have to drink it. It's not worth mentioning to you, but it means a lot to me." Luo Bai said solemnly.

Liu Sihao said: "Okay, then drink."

When Liu Sihao finished drinking, Luo Bai filled the wine glass again: "You gave me a bowl of rice in the carriage, I still remember the taste, it was soaked in chicken soup, it was very fragrant."

Yan Bi gulped it down again, then stuck out his tongue and stuffed broad beans into his mouth to suppress the taste.

Liu Sihao: "..."

Seeing that two blushes had already appeared on Luo Bai's face, and he was still pouring wine into their glasses, Liu Sihao covered the wine glasses with his hands and said, "Okay, okay, this wine is a strong wine from the border. You can try it, but don't drink too much."

Luo Bai refused, and stretched out his hand to snatch the wine glass. Liu Si is such an old man, how could he reach out so nimbly, he was snatched away in one go, and the glass was filled again.

"This cup is for me to eat the ribs you gave me, one rib for one cup, I'm done."

"This is the second glass of ribs, oh no, the wine for the second ribs."

"The fourth rib, it's wrong, the third rib, hahahaha, it's done."

Liu Sihao looked at Luo Bai, and asked helplessly: "Then how many cups do you want to drink? This pot is not the small pot we use, but the big pot used by border people. It is impossible to drink all the pot, right?"

Luo Bai's tongue is already a little big, and his eyes are straight, but he still said: "Also, and how many roasted soybeans I ate from you, I will drink them all, one by one."

"...Do you want to drink all the soybeans?" Liu Sihao asked.

Luo Bai slapped his chopsticks on the table: "Yes, I want to drink it all, come on, continue."

Liu Sihao watched Luo Bai pour the wine, the line of the wine was a little unsteady, so he poured some on the table.When the wine jug was empty, he got up unsteadily and went to the corner where the wine was stored in the corner to get the wine jar.

"Forget it, stop drinking." Liu Sihao suddenly raised his voice.

Luo Bai was about to squat down and hug the wine jar, but upon hearing this, he stopped moving and turned around slowly.

Liu Sihao didn't look at him, just stared at the dish in front of him, and said: "Little Leopard, I understand what you mean, I have seen you on the battlefield, and I know that the person you were looking for is Your Majesty."

Luo Bai walked unsteadily in front of Liu Sihao, squatted down, put his elbows on his knees, and looked up at him.

Liu Sihao touched the top of his hair: "You want to use this painting to do something, but I just said that I promised Liu Xianren that I would not show these paintings to the world. You know that I, Liu Sihao, have made a promise." If you promised Immortal Liu, you won’t go against it, so you dare not ask me for it, so you just use the method of pouring yourself wine to kill me, right?”

Luo Bai's eyes were red, and he looked at Liu Si in silence.

"If I don't agree with you drinking one cup after another like this, will you have to keep drinking?"

Luo Bai shook his head slowly: "You are rare for spirit leopards, sure, definitely won't let me continue to drink, drink, what if I die from drinking. The spirit leopard clan, you, you drink to kill the clan."

"Hey, you unreasonable leopard."

Liu Sihao sighed, and asked again: "Although I don't know what you want to paint, it should be for Your Majesty, for Dayin, right?"

Luo Bai lay on Liu Sihao's lap, and said vaguely: "My brother is very sad, he can't sleep well, he can't eat well, I, I feel very distressed, today on the street, I saw a little girl who didn't have a mother on the street. Children, they, they are so pitiful."

Luo Bai closed his eyes, his face was flushed red by the alcohol, but a drop of water overflowed from the corner of his eyes: "Without mother, a child without mother will be very, very sad, even if it is, even if it is a mother Beating is also good."

Liu Sihao remained silent for a while, before saying: "Liu Immortal not only taught me painting skills, but also taught me how to cast spells on paintings."

Luo Bai raised his head abruptly, although his eyes couldn't focus, they were astonishingly bright.

"You can tell me what you want me to draw, but I am indeed an ordinary person. Although I know the method, I can't use it. You can find a person with strong spells, and I will teach him the method."

Liu Sihao let out a long breath, "The Immortal Liu doesn't allow me to use my paintings to gain fame and wealth, and I'm not allowed to show them to the world. Although I didn't seek profit for myself, but for Dayin Jiangshan, I have to break my promise .Forget it. When I go to Jiuquan, if he wants to blame me, I can only beat and scold me."

"Grandpa Liu, if that Liu Xianren dares to beat you and scold you, I'll scratch his face."

Luo Bai raised his hand, and stretched a few fingers to make a scratching gesture.

Liu Sihao clicked his tongue: "I thought you were simple-minded, but you turned out to be a cunning little leopard. It is said that the human heart is fearsome, but you, a beast, can't believe it. You cheated me of my painting skills."

"Believe it, believe it, I am, I am a good leopard..."

After Luo Bai finished speaking, he closed his eyes and fell back, Liu Sihao quickly caught him.But he was old and weak, and he couldn't support himself when he caught it, so he had to yell loudly.

The guards followed Luo Bai all the time, and they were standing not far outside the house at this time. After hearing the movement, they rushed in and supported Luo Bai.

Chu Yuzhao discussed things with the courtiers, and returned to the backyard room, and found that Luo Bai was not in the room, so he went to search the garden, but found no one.

But there was a noise at the gate of the courtyard, he followed the sound, and saw a few guards coming in with an unconscious person on their backs, although their hands and heads were hanging down, he saw that it was Luo Bai.

Chu Yuzhao's heart tightened suddenly, his whole body felt cold, and he shouted sharply: "What's wrong with him?" Then he rushed to Luo Bai's side in a vertical leap, and raised his hand to feel his pulse.

"Report to Your Majesty, Mr. Luo is drunk." A guard replied in a low voice.

Chu Yuzhao raised Luo Bai's face, saw that his face was flushed, and his whole body smelled of alcohol. He looked like he was indeed drunk, so he was relieved. He didn't realize that in this short moment, cold sweat had already wiped his body away. The vest is soaked.