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Lu Ciheng couldn't figure out why Shen Mingan resisted Long Yang so much, or it was only him that Shen Mingan really hated and resisted.

Just like everyone around him hated him since he was a child.

Since Shen Mingan became the Grand Tutor, the emperor sent the still young crown prince and the fifth prince to the Imperial College to study homework, while he grew up to be eight or nine years old alone in the cold palace. The palace people in the palace were even worse. Those people deceived him that he had no mother and concubine, that he was an unfavored prince who would not be liked and loved by the emperor, so in winter, he was extremely skimpy on clothing, food, charcoal and fire, and the quilts were all stained and damp.

He still remembered the day when Shen Mingan took his hand and led him out of the cold palace.

That day was the first month of the first lunar month, just after the new year, the palace was very lively everywhere, but the cold palace was still as bleak and cold as before.

Lu Ciheng had been hungry for three whole days. In the past, although the food was rotten, someone brought it anyway. During that time, the palace servants were probably lazy and thought it was troublesome, so no one came to deliver it for several days.

After eating all the food he could eat, he was still so hungry that he went out and stole the tribute before the Bodhisattva's case and stuffed it into his mouth randomly.

He looked up at the Bodhisattva, who was smiling, with a compassionate expression on his face. Lu Ciheng thought viciously: Even a clay statue can be placed on a tall table, and there are always people taking care of it, and someone paying tribute, so why is he doing it every day? Not enough to eat and not warm.

The more he thought about it, the more he hated it. Before he left, he picked some food and stuffed it in his arms and took it back. He overturned all the remaining tributes to the ground, still feeling puzzled, and stepped on it twice.

Holding the food in his arms, he lowered his head and walked aimlessly towards the place where he lived. He happened to bump into the eunuch who usually brought him food, and the food in his arms rolled all over the ground. He just wanted to squat down Picking it up, he saw that the eunuch stepped on a white-flour steamed bun, and the steamed bun was crushed, leaving a black shoe print on it.

The eunuch looked down at him, Lu Ciheng grabbed the eunuch's collar, pulled the eunuch who was a head taller towards him, and said viciously: "I am your master! Why don't you come to bring me food these few days ?”

"You little bastard is worthy of claiming to be the master?" The eunuch spat at him, pulled the collar from his hand, and said with a sneer, "I told you that all the food that was supposed to be brought to you was eaten by me." If I eat it, what can you do to me?"

The eunuch's voice was shrill and piercing, after all he was at a disadvantage in terms of height, Lu Ciheng's heart gradually grew violent, taking advantage of the eunuch's turning around, he suddenly became violent, and swung a brick towards the eunuch's knee Smash it.

At that time, he used all his strength. The eunuch was undefended, and fell to the ground, holding his legs and howling. After howling twice, he couldn't howl. He was hit again, this time on the head. .

Lu Ciheng crouched there, hitting the eunuch with bricks like a mad dog, smashing his head to a bloody mess, blood oozing on the dry grass, dyeing the grass bright red, the air filled with Thick smell of blood.

The eunuch lost his breath in an instant.

Lu Ciheng straightened up, threw the bricks in his hand to the side at random, dragged the eunuch's body all the way back, indifferently threw him into the pool of stagnant water behind him, and poured a few barrels of well water again The blood-stained grass was scoured everywhere.

After finishing all this, the sun was already in the west, Lu Ciheng was so tired that he leaned against the tree trunk to rest bored, and suddenly saw a person he had never seen before at the gate of the cold palace where no one would set foot for several months.

The man was wearing a bluish-white uniform, with a clear and handsome face, with no expression on his face, looking a little cold and indifferent.

"Who are you?" Lu Ciheng's gloomy eyes were full of vigilance.

The man squatted down in front of him, raised his head slightly to look at him, his voice was clear and peaceful, "Third prince, don't be afraid, this minister is the crown prince Taifu Shen Ming'an, the emperor has allowed you to study, and this minister is here to take you out."

It was the first time someone spoke to him so gently, Lu Ciheng hid his unwashed hands behind his back, and looked at him suspiciously.

Shen Mingan saw his small movements at a glance, and coupled with the dry grass that was not cleaned up cleanly, he frowned and asked him, "Why are there blood on your hands?"

"Killed a dog."

"Why did you kill it?" Shen Mingan asked.

"He robbed me for food." Lu Ciheng turned his head, withdrew his hand from Shen Mingan's, and said bitterly, "He deserves to die."

Shen Mingan took out a handkerchief and dipped it in water, carefully wiped off the dirty blood on his fingers, and said in a warm voice: "Everything has a spirit, if a dog fights with you for food, just drive it away, why kill, next time It can't be like this."

Lu Ciheng and Shen Mingan got very close, the man lowered his head, his finger bones were as slender and white as jade carvings, and he didn't dislike his bloody and dirty hands at all.

There was a faint green pine fragrance on his body, and he was as cold as a distant pine in the mountains. After Lu Ciheng smelled the bloody smell for a long time, the green pine fragrance on that person's body calmed his mind for no reason, so he couldn't help sniffing a few more times.

When the blood on his hands was almost wiped off, Lu Ciheng was still immersed in the green rosin. Seeing Shen Mingan turned around to leave, he grabbed the man's clothes and said hastily, "Didn't you say you wanted to take me out?" , why did you leave by yourself?"

Shen Mingan turned around when he heard the words, and said helplessly: "Third Prince, I just went to wash a veil."

"Oh." Lu Ciheng let go of him, "Then hurry up."

After a while, Lu Ciheng let Shen Mingan's cold hand soaked in the well water hold him, and asked him, "Where are you taking me?"

"Guozijian." Shen Mingan said as he took out a pine nut candy from his bosom and handed it to him.

The pine nut candy has an amber-like luster under the warm sunset, and there are a few plump pine nuts wrapped inside. Lu Ciheng peeled off the sugar coating and put it in his mouth. The sweet fragrance diffused from the root of his tongue. He asked Shen Ming'an, "Where is the Imperial College?"

"It's the place where the princes study their lessons." Shen Mingan answered him patiently, and led him all the way outside the palace wall.

Lu Ciheng didn't care where Shen Mingan took him, but only hoped that the journey from Lenggong to Guozijian would be longer.

That was the first and only time Shen Mingan held his hand.