Seven

Since urinating in the bathtub in front of everyone that day, Zhao Chengjin has been a little uncomfortable, and he has tightened his little face all day long, and he doesn't even say much to the maids. Princess Rui was surprised, so she called Cui Yu to inquire carefully. Cui Yu didn't dare to hide it from her, so she had to tell her one by one, and before she finished speaking, Princess Rui had been amused to laugh.

"Brother Shun...... Pee in the bucket? Princess Rui hugged her stomach and laughed gloatingly for a long time, and it took a long time to gradually recover, but her face still couldn't help laughing, "It's not a big deal, just ...... That's it, so he didn't even say anything? Hey, our brother Shun has grown up, and he actually knows how to be ashamed. ”

She laughed and commanded: "Yes, Brother Shun is five years old, but it's not like before." Go back and ask Steward Liu to pick a few calm and clever boys to come over, and find a few scholars for him to serve. Otherwise, when Brother Shun enters school after the New Year, it will be a mess in a hurry. ”

Mama Su on the side immediately responded, Cui Yu thought about it, and couldn't help but remind in a whisper: "Niangniang, is the snow group still left?" ”

"How?" Princess Rui smiled and asked in a deep voice, "What did it do?" ”

Cui Yu lowered her head and whispered: "The slave is just worried that the cat has not hurt the prince lightly or seriously, and it can cause lice today, but I don't know what trouble Ming'er can cause." Although the slaves and maids are waiting closely, it is difficult to guarantee when there is a bad pool, in case the prince is injured by it, or because of it, there is something wrong, it is just a bite of the worm, and the slaves and maids are also to blame. ”

I can't say what it is, Cui Yu always has some jealousy of that cat in her heart, and every time she looks at it, she feels like she is facing a stranger. Animals are beasts in the end, if they are too smart, but they are different, or how to say that they are abnormal and demonic? When the cat stared at her coldly, Cui Yu felt that it looked like a monster.

Princess Rui waved her hand disapprovingly, and said, "It's okay, it's just a little milk cat, if it really makes the teacher move, wouldn't it make people see a joke." Brother Shun is not made of porcelain, and boys should be raised with solid skin, so they don't have to be so noble. Since he likes it, let him keep it, if he really gets lice all over his body, he will know that he has suffered a loss. If I am so unreasonable, I have to get rid of that cat, according to my brother's temperament, I am afraid that I will get into trouble with me even more. Let him first, if he is tired of it, if he doesn't say it, he will throw it away first. ”

Since Princess Rui said so, where did Cui Yu dare to say more, so she had to suppress all the helplessness in her heart and slowly retreat.

Besides, Xu You's side, she didn't know at all that Cuiyu failed to give her eye medicine, and she had to accompany Zhao Chengjin around the house every afternoon. Since Xu You provoked lice that day, the maids no longer dared to let the two of them go out alone, and followed every day, which made Xu You very unaccustomed.

Whether as a human being or as a cat, Xu Yu yearns for freedom, and she even wants to jump out of the palace to walk around and have a look. How did the people live in this era, and what a wonderful scenery this ancient city had.

Xu You jumped out of Zhao Chengjin's arms, kicked onto the tree, and quickly climbed the high branches with his sharp nails. This camphor tree was tall, with lush branches and foliage like a big umbrella, and many branches poked out from the wall and stretched into the alley.

This is a quiet alley, the alley is surrounded by high walls on both sides, the ground is paved with herringbone patterns, the bluestone pavement of the water mill is clean and smooth, there is no one on the road, only the slight sound of the wind, and the scorching sun does not shine into the alley, this road is cool and dry.

There was a faint noise in the alley in the distance, which finally brought some fireworks here, Xu You suddenly had an urge to jump off the wall and rush out of the alley, she raised her foot slightly, and Zhao Chengjin's nervous voice came from behind her.

"Snow Tuan'er!" He shouted loudly, as if he had guessed her thoughts, and there was an impatient emotion in his voice, "You come down, come down quickly!" ”

Xu You stood in place for a while before slowly turning around and tilting his head to look at him. The child's immature face was full of panic, his eyes turned red in an instant, he stretched out his arms and leaned towards her, and said in a loud voice: "Danger above, you come down quickly!" ”

She hesitated for a moment, but finally shook her hair, flicked her tail and jumped into Zhao Chengjin's arms.

I still can't muster up the courage!

"It's not allowed to happen again." Zhao Chengjin hugged Xu Yu tightly and walked quickly to Liyuan, and said in a verbose voice: "The wall is so high, if you fall down, you will break your leg!" Don't walk around in the future, it's big outside, it's easy to get lost, what if you can't find it when you go out? Moreover, there are also bad guys, shoot Hanako, well, catch cats, it's very bad anyway. If you are arrested, you won't be able to see me in the future......" He secretly listened to the chatting of the maids in the house, and knew that there were bad people who took pictures of flowers, and there were also people who specialized in catching children and selling them, and he thought it was very scary, so he used it to scare Xu You, hoping that she would be honest in the future.

Xu You squatted motionless in his arms, with a very serious round face.

Zhao Chengjin followed Princess Rui in the palace for a few days, and the queen mother in the palace got a letter and summoned him to the palace to speak. Zhao Cheng wanted to take Xu You with him, but was stopped by Princess Rui again.

"Why can't you bring snow balls?" Zhao Chengjin looked unhappy, "Even Cui Yu can go together, why can't you bring a snow group?" It's good-natured, not naughty at all. ”

Princess Rui patiently persuaded him, "If you want to enter the palace, you can't bring snow balls, there are many rules in the palace, this can't work, that won't work, where will the snow group like it." ”

"What if it likes it?" Zhao Chengjin still refused to give up, and insisted: "The palace is so big, do I want to take the snow group to see." It was kept in the house all day, and it was suffocating to death. Mother, mother, mother, you can promise the child. ”

"Brother Shun!" Princess Rui's face sank, and her expression became very serious, "Xuetuan is a cat, it's just that you don't want to be ignorant, do you want to be so ignorant?" There are many nobles in the palace, and Xuetuan can't understand people's words, if he accidentally collides with someone, even his mother can't protect it. Do you want the snow to die? ”

The word death is a little unfamiliar to Zhao Chengjin, he has grown up in the palm of his hand like a jewel since he was a child, how have he ever seen the darkness of this world. There were often inexplicably fewer people in the palace, and he occasionally listened to the little maids talk about who died, but these things had nothing to do with him, and he didn't think it was a big deal. Now that he suddenly heard Princess Rui say this word, Zhao Chengjin was a little stunned for a while.

"Dead...... Is it just that you will never see each other again? He thought for a while before he asked slowly.

Princess Rui said with a calm face: "I will never see you again." It will be buried in the mud and will never be able to play with you again. ”

Zhao Cheng shrank for a moment, looked down at Xu You, who was sitting on the table with squinted eyes, and uneasily reached out and stroked her back, as if to make sure she was by his side, "That'...... It's better to leave the snow at home. ”

He whispered, his eyes were red, his mouth was pursed, he looked at Princess Rui with teary eyes, and choked pitifully: "Mother, I'm afraid." ”

"Afraid of what?" Princess Rui knocked on the door of his head unceremoniously, "Such a big child, he still cries his nose at every turn, and he is not ashamed." ”

Zhao Chengjin didn't feel ashamed at all, he stretched out his arm to hug Princess Rui, and said with tears in his eyes: "I don't want Xuetuan to die." ”

Princess Rui was angry and funny, she tried hard to tighten her face for a while, and finally broke the gong, patted her son's back gently, lowered her voice and said: "Xuetuan will not die, it will always accompany you." ”

"Really?" Zhao Chengjin's tears swirled in his eyes, but he finally held back and didn't let it fall.

"I don't believe you're asking about it."

So Zhao Chengjin let go of his hand, turned around and squatted down slightly, allowing himself to be on the same level as Xu You, and asked seriously and seriously: "Xuetuan, you will always accompany me, right?" ”

Xu You raised his right paw, carefully put away the sharp nails, and gently touched his tender cheek.

It's soft and comfortable.

Zhao Chengjin's eyes suddenly lit up, his mouth was half-open, and then he jumped up happily and said happily: "Mother, mother, Xue Tuan'er can understand me, it promised me!" ”

For a moment, Xu You felt that her heart had been hit hard, and an emotion called moving spread rapidly, her brain was very small now, so she couldn't pretend to be too much on her mind, but she was sure that she was moved by this child named Zhao Chengjin. They haven't known each other for a long time, and even for so many days, Xu You has always been in the mood of coaxing children, but now, she can feel that her heart is a little different.

She wanted to tell herself, in fact, children's hearts are the most changeable, especially the pampered prince like Zhao Chengjin, there are too many people or things around them to please Lu, maybe in a few days, with fresh playthings, he will forget about this cat called Xuetuan, but his current smile is sincere and heartfelt, he is really only happy because of a cat's promise.

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Because he couldn't allow Xu You to enter the palace, Zhao Cheng was inevitably depressed, so he took Xu You back to the house and talked carefully about the palace with her. "Out of the alley and go west, in less than a quarter of an hour you arrived at the east gate of the palace, and when you enter the palace, there is a particularly long corridor......"

Although Zhao Chengjin is young, he is articulate and clear-minded, and Xu You feels that if he goes to school, he must be the smartest child in the study. After he finished talking about the layout of the palace, he began to talk about all kinds of things in the palace, what was the prince's brother who accidentally fell into the river not long ago, and why the queen mother's grandmother had a sister named Yuyu who could cut beautiful window flowers......

Xu Yu listened and fell asleep.

Early in the morning of the second day, Princess Rui led Zhao Chengjin out of the house, Xu You sent him out all the way, and then jumped on the wall, watching the carriage he was riding gradually disappear at the end of the alley, and then, she slipped and then jumped down from the big locust tree by the wall, and took a step to the kitchen to find something to eat.

She has been in the palace for a long time, and the people in the palace know that the prince has a white cat, and when they see her from a distance, they secretly point their fingers, and they don't dare to catch up.

It was already past breakfast time, there was nothing to eat in the kitchen, only a few buns and side dishes left in the morning, Xu You looked at it a few times, was not interested, and then went to the roof again. She still remembers the little boy who was bumped into by the fifth master last time when she stole vegetables, and she doesn't know if he was beaten later, but the grumpy fifth master is not here today.

Xu You walked around the kitchen yard, and then followed the roof into the courtyard where Qingyun lived.

There are few people here in the flower and wood room, except for Qingyun, there are only two rough servants, and there is an old gardener with gray hair, Xu You speculates that he is the person in charge of the flower and wood house, because both Qingyun and those two servants are very respectful in front of him.

Xu You is now a cat, so no matter where he goes, others will not care, even if he sees it, he only has the doubt of "Hey, there is a cat here", but he will not doubt what he can understand. What's more, Xue Tuan'er is the pet of the prince, and no one in the mansion dares to be disrespectful to her.

"This cat is so good-looking." A mother-in-law whispered compliments, "It's really worthy of being a cat raised by the prince." ”

Another mother-in-law sneered: "This kind of cat is also good-looking, and it can't even catch mice, and it costs food to raise it." After that, he glanced at Xu You with disdain, looking very disdainful.

Xu Yu didn't bother with her, in fact, she really didn't know how to catch mice. Although her claws are very sharp, her steps are light, and she even runs quite fast, but catching mice is too terrible, Xu You gets goosebumps all over her body at the thought of the obscene and dirty appearance of gray mice, not to mention catching them with her own claws.

"This kind of cat is precious, you can't afford to raise it even if you want to. I heard that a blue-eyed cat in the West Market sells for a hundred taels of silver. ”

"Really?" The woman blinked her eyes and looked at Xu You, with a hint of surprise and greed in her eyes.

Xu You was uncomfortable with her, as if she was a cargo, so she pulled her tail, turned around, and jumped out of the flower and wood room.