you got on my tail

On the second day, Cang Hua was officially proclaimed King Ning. When more than a dozen sets of exquisite dragon-embroidered costumes were presented to him, the dragon realized that being a prince in the world is really not that fun.

"Why do you have to wear so many clothes?" Cang Hua pursed his lips and threw the clothes on the table. He was tall and tall, and he had a kind of cold depression to outsiders. The eunuch who brought the clothes didn't dare to change them for him. So he squinted his eyes and glanced at Bai Xuehe for help.

"You guys go out first." Bai Xuehe smiled helplessly, took the clothes and put them on for him.

Cang Hua was like the child who was not happy to put on his shoes, although he was still unhappy, he still stretched his hands through the sleeves with a puffy face, and tightened the belt tightly.

After the clothes were finally put on, Cang Hua let out a long breath. Frowning, he turned across the screen, spread his hands on the bed, and then began to pant, as if he was exhausted to death after doing a complicated and important task.

Although Bai Xuehe was a favorite minister, the mansion was absolutely shabby. He approached the bed and sat down, suddenly thinking that the bed was a bit small, and it seemed that he should change it to a bigger one.

"Now that you have become King Ning, the emperor should arrange a residence for you." Just now, the thought was only momentary, but Bai Xuehe changed his words, "My place is indeed too small."

"I don't want it." Cang Hua immediately shook his head, put his arms around Bai Xuehe's waist, and forced himself into his arms intimately, "It doesn't matter, I will sleep with you."

"Why?" Bai Xuehe squinted, but still leaned over, "Don't you think it's crowded?"

"Because I like you." Cang Hua smiled, and said the word "like" as calmly as eating and drinking. He sat up, and looked at the mirror to properly comb his hair.

"why do you like me?"

After saying this sentence, Bai Xuehe suddenly felt that he was asking a little thoughtlessly, and the voice behind him also became very quiet.

"Because the first time I saw you, I thought you were good-looking." Cang Hua replied quickly. He sat up straight after finishing his haircut. Cang Hua straightened his collar even more, and began to admire himself.

Bai Xuehe just smiled, but didn't speak anymore, his eyes were reflected in the mirror, as if they were as deep as the deep sea.

On the noble dark purple robe, the dragon pattern embroidered with silver thread reflects a little bit of light, like the afterglow of sunset flowing through the glazed tiles, creating pools of light and shadow.

At this moment in the imperial palace, light gray smoke was emitting from under the real glazed tiles, spreading straight up to the sky like a few thin lines. From the pharmacy, palace maids filed out, sending bluish-white bone china plates into the empress dowager's bedroom.

The small porcelain plate is fired into the shape of a lotus flower, each petal is extremely delicate, and it is filled with various fruits, which is dazzling.

The pearl curtain was put down, but the Empress Dowager could not stop coughing until the table in front of her was filled with preserved fruits and snacks. The maid stepped forward with a medicine pot in her hand and poured the cold to warm thick soup, gradually submerging the continuous swastika pattern on the wall of the bowl.

The queen mother took off her armor and put it on the table, picked up the medicine bowl with plain hands, frowned and drank it in three gulps.

Immediately, a court lady brought a small plate, the queen mother picked up a pitted candied cherry, bit off the flesh slowly, and threw the stalk into the porcelain plate brought by the maid.

Her every move is graceful and graceful, but her eyes are a little tired, like the setting sun in the morning and dusk.

The expression in her eyes was erratic, and she kept scanning the Guanyin statue in the corner of the house. The Guanyin on the table lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes, as if she couldn't bear to see all living beings suffer.

The queen mother remembered that every time she read King Yu's letter, she was alone in the Buddhist hall.

However, Fu Jiying still knew about it. He brought the so-called descendants of the former prince here today, which showed that he already knew about this matter and responded accordingly.

As for the former prince and descendants, they don't even know the truth, but he is the emperor, so if he says the truth, he will be true, and if he says false, he will be false.

"Go change the incense." The Empress Dowager stood up, her eyes still fixed on the Guanyin statue, "Exchange the incense you enshrined with a new one."

Cang Hua was sitting behind the pearl curtain waiting to meet the Empress Dowager, and there were court ladies walking back and forth, up to sixty and down to sixteen, who couldn't help but stare at him.

"How much medicine did the Queen Mother drink, and why did it take so long?" Cang Hua didn't say anything, Fu Jiying was already getting impatient, and tapped the corner of the table three times with her bony white fingers.

He studied hard since he was a child, no matter the severe cold or hot summer, he would hold the book and read from the first light of day until late at night, and his endurance was extraordinary.

But the Queen Mother had been with him since he was a child, and knew that when he was impatient, his fingers would subconsciously tap the corner of the table like at this moment.

At this time, she would go over with the dim sum tea and let him have a rest for a while.

The Empress Dowager recalled the old mother-child relationship in her heart, sighed, and got up, the maid opened the curtain for her, and the palace people and the royal family stood up and knelt down together, saying "All blessings, the Empress Dowager".

"My mother has been drinking the medicine for so long, it can be seen that the medicine is bitter and difficult to drink." The imperial physician stood in a row, Fu Jiying smiled gently, but turned her head coldly, "It can be seen that you are incompetent."

The imperial doctor was shaking like a sieve, and hurriedly fell to the ground, the queen mother hesitated to speak, and was about to speak a few words of persuasion.

"Forget it, it seems that I will accumulate blessings for my mother, and I will not really punish you." After a while, Fu Jiying returned to his gentle smile, "You all go away. From tomorrow, I will personally find a famous doctor for my mother."

After all, the Queen Mother didn't speak, she suppressed a smile and nodded, Fu Jiying took Cang Hua to the front and said with a smile: "Mother Queen, the abolished Crown Prince liked Lin Yan's daughter, I don't know if you remember?"

"Aijia is just an old woman in the deep palace." The queen mother smiled and shook her head, deliberately angrily said: "How can you know about young people?"

This matter sounds like a joke, but none of the royal family present dared to smile. The deposed prince was personally killed by the smiling emperor in front of the city gate. They all witnessed it, and Lin Yan only said a few words for the deposed prince. If she said that, she was ordered to be beheaded by the whole family. After being beheaded, the young lady of the Lin family still had her eyes wide open, as if she was about to burst into blood stars.

"Then please continue to listen to my mother." Fu Jiying took a sip of tea and said vividly, "Before the royal brother got married, he had a child with Miss Lin, and he has been fostered by the people since then. I think that although the royal brother There is a mistake, but this child is still the flesh and blood of my Fu family, since I have no heirs now, this child can be regarded as your own grandson, so I deliberately found him here."

There was a feigned uproar all around, and then everyone knelt down one after another, praising Fu Jiying for ignoring past suspicions and valuing filial piety and family affection.

"Really?" The queen mother pretended to be surprised, got up and ran to Canghua, "Come and show Aijia."

"See...the Queen Mother." Cang Hua took half a step back unnaturally, he wasn't pretending to be nervous, but he was really not used to being grabbed by someone who smelled like medicine.

"His name is Fu Mingyan, and I named him King Ning." Fu Jiying stepped forward and grabbed the hand extended by the Queen Mother, "King Ning came from the people and did not follow the etiquette, so he will inevitably bump into the Queen Mother. I will take him back first .”

"Yes..." The Empress Dowager nodded, and turned around with a loving smile, "The Ai family will not bother you anymore. I am seriously ill and want to rest for a while."

After finishing speaking, the maid lifted up the pearl curtain, and the queen mother took the maid's hand and walked to the inner room, staggering step by step.

Fu Jiying hurried forward to hold the Queen Mother's hand, the maid stepped back, and the mother and son leaned on each other's shoulders and walked into the room little by little, as if they supported each other in the past, overcoming thorns and thorns, and walking towards today's throne together.

"Ying'er." The Queen Mother didn't hold back, she still spoke in a low voice, with a hint of crying in her voice: "In the past ten years, your hands are still so cold, and the state affairs are so numb, you can't manage them clearly. You should pay more attention." own body."

"I know." Fu Jiying lowered her eyebrows and smiled, "But my mother forgot, my fingers are always cold, it's natural, it's nothing serious."

"Yes." The queen mother sat down in front of the sick bed, coughed twice, and remained silent for a long time without opening her mouth.

"Ying'er." After silence, it was still the Queen Mother who spoke first, with infinite sorrow and pleading in her tone, "No matter what Ai's family did wrong, please let Heng'er go, he is your dearest younger brother. I feel sorry for you, you can't be really lonely..."

Her sideburns and brows were covered with barrenness and frosty whiteness that could not be concealed by makeup and pearls. After all, wind, sword, frost and sword, years invaded her body. Through those tearful eyes, Fu Jiying could no longer see the beautiful woman who was vigorous and resolute in the past.

"I will."

If his eyes are not on the throne, why should I make things difficult for him?

Fu Jiying answered in a low voice, but didn't say anything after that.

The Empress Dowager was relieved just now, but she didn't have the strength anymore, she just hurriedly called a maid to take Fu Jiying out, Fu Jiying lowered her head to cover the quilt for him, and the two bid farewell with tears in their eyes.

"Your Majesty." When Fu Jiying went out, the eunuch slipped in like a ghost, "King Yu please see me."

……

For a whole day, Cang Hua visited various royal relatives in the palace. He thought the queen mother was the oldest, but he didn't expect that there was an old dowager in the palace who lost all her teeth, so old that she couldn't even speak a word for a long time.

"She's so old-fashioned, she gave me this candy." Cang Hua lay beside Bai Xuehe with her legs crossed, and after a while, she took out a small crumpled bag from her sleeve. I didn’t eat it, so I brought it back for you.”

"And this." Cang Hua took out another small box, and said happily: "This is a box of coconut cakes. I remember that you don't have coconuts in the north, and they were given to me by people in the palace. You can eat them quickly."

Cang Hua put those Bai Xuehe's common court snacks on the bed like treasures, Bai Xuehe smiled helplessly, and asked: "It seems that you are quite happy in the palace."

"It's okay. Except for the queen mother, everyone else really likes to talk to me." Seeing that Bai Xuehe hadn't eaten, Cang Hua began to bite the pine nut candies one by one, "That princess hasn't been out of the palace for a long time, and she hasn't been out of the palace for a long time. How can she bear it after seeing what it looks like outside. "

"That's it." Cang Hua said, looking at Bai Xuehe, "You haven't been out much, otherwise, I'll take you out to play!"

"I……"

"Okay." Cang Hua rolled his eyes and shook his head, and put a handful of pine nut candies into his mouth, "I knew you were going to say, you have something to do, and you won't go with me."

Bai Xuehe nodded, grinned, and admitted without hesitation, "Indeed."

"You're so stubborn!" Cang Hua held a teacup around, and suddenly said: "Well, I'll let you take a look inside this room, how nice it is outside!"

Bai Xuehe didn't know what he meant, just looked at him in surprise and smiled, Canghua's fingers moved slightly, and a pool of tea jumped out of the teapot, forming a big water curtain in the air.

Bai Xuehe quickly raised his head. He is an ordinary person, so of course he has never seen this kind of spell, so he was quickly attracted attention.

"You are in the north, so you must have never seen the sea." Cang Hua smiled triumphantly, showing half of a cute canine tooth, and then moved his fingers again, as if directing the flow of water.

The colors on the water curtain were turbulent, and a light pink glow gradually rose, and then a vast ocean appeared, and the blue and light pink began to overlap, and finally the water and the sky formed a line.

The water curtain began to enlarge continuously, and finally surrounded the Snowy Crane and Canghua, and the two rays of light that converged were also approaching, as if water really surged up.

Bai Xuehe is a landlubber, he raised his hand, and there was a bit of panic in his smiling eyes.

"Don't be afraid." Cang Hua leaned over and leaned against his body, "I'll take you home."

The water curtain began to magnify infinitely, and finally filled the whole room. The surrounding scenery also began to sink from the sea surface. From countless colorful.

"Does it look good?" Cang Hua raised his head and wrapped his hand around his.

No one has ever dived into deep water and seen what's below the surface.

So Rao Bai Xuehe had hidden his heart and endured for many years, and let himself learn to only have a smiling face, but at this moment, he couldn't help but nodded in a daze, showing a child-like curiosity and fear.

"In the sea." Bai Xuehe stammered excitedly, "There is such a big turtle."

"It's a sea turtle, you can touch it by raising your hand." Cang Hua let go of him, stretched out his hand, and taught him to raise his hand with little gestures, "Like me, come here."

"Is that so?" Bai Xuehe raised his hand imitating him, but Cang Hua turned to look at him without saying a word.

"right……"

Cang Hua held his hand and turned his face together.

Just at this moment, the lips of the two of them stuck together and brushed past each other.

In the sky full of fish, Cang Hua tremblingly dragged Bai Xuehe into his arms, and pressed his lips hard.