Chapter 19: A Chance Encounter in Shanglin (2)
There was a hint of embarrassment between the two fathers and sons, and the two smiled amicably. It just so happened that Liu Bang's loud whistle just now summoned the eunuchs with him, and they approached, Liu Bang led the horses to them, and told them to clean up the dead badgers on the ground, and told them to stand aside and wait.
"Brother, the badger that you shot as you wish, okay?" Ruyi looked at Liu Ying with a smile and said proudly.
Liu Ying touched Ruyi's head again, "Ruyi is powerful, be careful when shooting badgers in the future." ”
Ruyi smiled mischievously, let go of Liu Bang's right hand and got into Liu Ying's arms, giggled, Liu Ying looked at Liu Bang awkwardly again, and patted Ruyi's back.
"I've been busy these days, and I haven't been to your place to take a look, are you okay?" Liu Bang scratched the back of his head and said.
Liu Ying nodded slightly, revealing a seemingly slightly depressed but warm smile, "Well, I have been studying with my uncle and grandson in the palace, and I don't care about going to see my father every day, my son is rude." ”
Liu Bang shook his head, "Since it's studying, my father doesn't need to meet here." Secretly glancing at his son's gloomy face, he paused and said, "Uh——, why did you have time to come to Lin Yuan today?" ”
"It's dull in the palace, and I want to come out and walk." Liu Ying said indifferently, then pulled Ruyi out of his arms and handed it to Liu Bang, Liu Bang took Ruyi's little hand again and held him tightly.
Liu Bang looked at the prince and saw that he was not wearing a lot, and his cheeks were already frozen blue, and he suddenly felt very sorry for him, "The weather is getting colder, you have to add more clothes, look at the little you are wearing today, come, you put on your father's robe." Liu Bang let go of the hands holding Ruyi and untied his robe.
Liu Ying hurriedly stepped forward to stop his father, and his hands were held together with his father's hand in confusion, and he immediately let go of it, and each shifted his awkward gaze, although the two wanted to find an excuse to leave, but they couldn't find any excuse for a while.
Liu Bang didn't know what happened between himself and the prince, and he didn't know when the relationship with the prince had become so alienated, and he felt as alienated as the queen, and he knew that he was to blame himself. Since picking up Queen Lu Pheasant, she has not been to her a few times, and she has not seen the prince, and she has been held by Qi Ji to prepare to change the prince. Today's prince treats himself like this, he can only think that the prince is afraid of doing something wrong and making his father unhappy so that he will accelerate the pace of changing the prince, and the prince's thoughts in his heart are derived from his behavior, and he does not dare to offend his father for a moment, and he has always been respectful and elegant. The crown prince always avoided meeting his father, for fear of embarrassing his father, but in fact, he didn't care about the ownership of the throne, he cared about his father's old love for his son, and didn't want his father to feel that he was competing for favor with Ruyi.
"The father doesn't need it, the son is not cold, and the queen mother has already instructed Dai Qing to send several thick clothes." Liu Ying didn't know where to put her hands, so she lifted them up to her chest and put them down unnaturally, clutching them in her abdomen.
Liu Bang nodded with an 'oh', re-tied his robe, and pulled Ruyi. And he said, "Have you gone and seen your queen mother?" Liu Bang asked.
"I just went to see it this morning, but I saw that the queen mother's eyes were swollen, and the whole person seemed to have no vitality as if she was depressed, I don't know what happened to the queen mother, and I didn't say anything when I asked her, just told my son to study hard." Liu Ying said.
Liu Bang was dumbfounded, a hint of cool breeze gasped in his mouth, and his face turned pale and blinked a few times calmly. He knew what Empress Lu was thinking, the Lu family was at a disadvantage these days, Lu Ling killed someone, the queen originally wanted to hide it, but she knew, the queen had to admit her mistake, and endured the pain to give Lu Ling to death. As a member of the Lu clan, the queen was unwilling to do this, but she was forced to be helpless, so she had to choose to let Lu Ling die, Liu Bang felt in his heart that Lu Hou was afraid that he would think too much, so he asked himself to give Lu Ling an edict, in fact, he just blamed her for not consulting with herself when she was in trouble, and she suffered it alone, he felt that the queen did not trust him. Liu Bang knew that Empress Lu had been unlucky in the past few months, and things didn't go well, plus Lu Ling's matter, so she would no longer have a glamorous person. But what he admires very much is that the queen protects the prince very well, and does not let him be polluted by the slightest bit of turbidity, and the prince must not know about Lu Ling's affairs, otherwise he would not know what happened to Empress Lu.
Liu Bang put his hand on the prince's shoulder and told the prince meaningfully, "I have time to accompany your queen mother, she needs you, your sister is not by her side, and you are the only one left for your queen mother." ”
Liu Ying nodded with an 'um' sound, "My son will." Raising his eyes slightly, he glanced at Liu Bang cautiously, was silent for a long time, and said cautiously, "Father...... If you have time, you can also accompany your mother. ”
Liu Bang was stunned again, and the prince said this to prove that he had indeed snubbed the queen, and suddenly felt a sense of embarrassment and deep guilt. originally thought that he would go to Changxin Palace in the next few days, but he just didn't say it, but asked Liu Ying to say it by himself, which was somewhat passive.
Liu Bang gave a symbolic 'um' and nodded.
Ruyi, who was petite, watched his brother and father say words that he didn't understand at all, his eyebrows were more and more crowded together, he pouted, shook his father and held his hand, and his ruyi's translucent eyes gave Liu Bang comfort.
"Ruyi doesn't understand what his brother and father are saying, Ruyi wants to play with the prince's brother." Ruyi gave the smiling face to Liu Ying.
Liu Bang and the crown prince glanced at each other again, and both focused their eyes on the acting king, Liu Bang touched Ruyi's little head and smiled.
"Okay, Brother Prince." Ruyi shook her body and asked Liu Ying with a smile.
Liu Ying squatted down, lightly held Ruyi's shoulders with both hands, and said to him, "Ruyi, my brother can't play with you today, there is still something in my brother's palace, didn't Ruyi shoot a badger?" Go back and show your mother, she will definitely say that Ruyi is a good child, a brave child, and she will definitely have a bright future. ”
Prosperity? Liu Bang sighed in his heart, and suddenly moved his gaze to the prince, the tongue in his lips secretly licked his teeth, was he hinting at something?
Liu Ying got up from the ground, brushed the corners of her clothes, and showed a hearty smile at Ruyi, no longer depressed. Ruyi also giggled, and there was another burst of delicate and translucent laughter.
Liu Ying met his father's gaze again, and once again lowered his eyebrows and bowed his head, "The son of the minister retreats." ”
'Hmm' Liu Bang waved his hand, "Go ahead." The Anshes take good care of the prince. ”
"The duty of a minister." The Ansha people also bowed and bowed and took leave.
Liu Ying and An Delu led the horse and left, Liu Bang looked at the figure of the prince, and there was a trace of indescribable amazement in the gentle and elegant atmosphere.
He stayed in place with Ruyi for a while, his eyes kept watching the prince leave, his heart became as complicated as five flavors, he looked up to the sky and sighed, his teeth clenched, and sighed, "It's difficult! It's hard! ”
"Difficult? Why is it difficult? Is my father in trouble? Ruyi interjected, looking at Liu Bang with round eyes, innocent and fresh like a pool of water.
Liu Bang drooped his head to look at his baby son, and smiled, knowing that Ruyi didn't understand, and didn't talk nonsense with him. "Come, son, go and lead the horse." Liu Bang let go of his wishes and asked him to go to the waiter to lead the horse.
He spread his feet and ran, humming a little tune that no one could understand, and went straight to the eunuchs, and asked for the reins from their hands, but the horse was still so high that the horse could not see him and was afraid that it would step on him. Liu Bang smiled affectionately, and hurriedly went over to help Ruyi hold the reins, "You haven't grown taller yet, and the horse can't see you." ”
Ruyi laughed when he heard this, and stepped to Liu Bang, Liu Bang picked up Ruyi and got on the horse for a while, and he also turned over and jumped on the horse, still sitting behind Ruyi and pulling the reins. "Let's go, go back and show your mother how you have won." With that, he kicked the horse's belly again, and the horse trotted back.
In the distance, I heard the sound of the wind blowing.
"Ruyi still wants to go hunting with his father to the forest garden, but it will be changed to the beginning of spring."
"Okay, wow, let's see who is better between Ruyi and Father when the time comes."
"Ruyi's master is very powerful, and Ruyi will definitely beat his father when the time comes."
Bursts of cheerful and crisp laughter came, resounding throughout the forest.