In the winter of the twenty-fifth year of the Ming calendar, the north wind whistled through the eaves of the Great Yan Palace, bringing a melodious bell.

The small incense burner was steaming, and the palace servants in the palace were in a hurry, until the sun set, the palace lights were lit up in the palace, and there was still silence in the Great Yan Palace. It was not until the willow tops on the moon that the first loud cry of the baby sounded in the hall that the congealed atmosphere was broken, and the palace was raised up and down, cheering.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty, mother and son are safe!"

"Good, good, reward, reward."

The young emperor's face could not hide the joy, and he hurriedly pushed the door in. The woman on the bed was pale, but her breath was steady and serene, and the grandmother on the side was coaxing him with a newborn baby. The emperor saw that the two grandmothers had children in their arms, and he was stunned for a while.

"Your Majesty, Concubine Ning gave birth to two little princes in one breath, this is a great joy!"

The little eunuch said happily.

"Happy event, indeed happy event......"

The emperor came back to his senses and looked at the twins who looked exactly the same, and his heart was mixed. The Great Yan Imperial Family has never had a precedent for twins, he looked at the children who were still in swaddling clothes, as long as they could grow up safely, there was nothing else to ask for.

Young children always grow up very quickly, and it seems that after a few days, they become something else.

The afternoon sun was slightly drunk, and Ning Guifei sat in the courtyard, the rattle in her hand crackling and crackling. Not enough for her knee-high, the two little ones babbled, stretching out their little hands like lotus roots, trying to grab the toys in her hands. The woman's gentle face smiled brightly, and she coaxed the two children to call A-Niang.

"Master......."

A eunuch outside the hall with a panicked expression hurriedly ran to Concubine Ning and whispered a few words in her ear. The rattle in her hand fell to the ground violently, and the two little ones lay on the ground, hooking the falling toy. They are like a mold carved out, and it is completely impossible to tell who is the elder brother and who is the younger brother.

They were too young to understand what was happening, but they instinctively felt that the woman they had been teasing them was gone. There were many, many people around them, chattering and talking, and then they were taken away by the men dressed in white.

......

The carved little tuanzi was wearing bright yellow clothes, and the dragon pattern was looming, about seven or eight years old, and there was already some shadow of an emperor in his gestures. His little face was cold, and he didn't seem happy. There was only one fifteen or sixteen-year-old eunuch with him, and there was no one else.

"Your Highness, don't sneak in again, it's dangerous."

The little eunuch didn't dare to say anything serious to him, but he couldn't stop this little group.

"This palace doesn't need you to care!"

The little prince ran away angrily.

If he's lucky enough, he can sneak in. Unfortunately, those people are in the tower today, and he has no way to see his brother. In the eyes of the palace people, he was still too young to understand things, but only he knew, and some things could only be known by himself.

In the dark room, a young boy, also seven or eight years old, was tied up and hung on the wall by chains. The person standing in front of him, holding a strange medicine in his hand, his body trembled instinctively, and even his teeth were aching. But the man didn't care about his state, he just opened his mouth and poured the liquid into his stomach.

A long, long time ago, he had tried to fight back, but not once was he tortured more miserably. Gradually, he slowly learned to give up resistance, and as he grew older, the people who came to torture him were different each time. Large and small scars on the body, often old wounds are layered with new ones.

At first, his father, who was the emperor, occasionally came to visit him. After the man in white said something to his father, his father gradually stopped coming. Their mother, the second year after they were born, died of depression and old injuries from giving birth to twins.

He didn't know what he could do, or what they wanted him to do. Only at night, those people do not come to him. And his brother, who looks exactly like him, will temporarily get rid of the heavy school work during the day, sneak in, and tell him what is happening outside.

"Brother, brother, did they beat you today?"

Looking at the face that looks exactly like his own, he often has the illusion that he is looking in the mirror, and he is also in the mirror.

"Don't worry about me."

Those people were very tricky, but they didn't really hurt him.

"Today is the Lantern Festival, and there is a banquet in the palace, so I sneaked out. I don't think it's interesting at all. ”

Although the white and tender milk dumplings look lonely, the corners of their eyes and eyebrows everywhere reveal the atmosphere of being well cared for. The eyes are watery and shiny, and whoever sees it can't help but reach out and pinch it a few times.

"Really?"

He lowered his eyes, feeling that the face was both familiar and unfamiliar, and that such an expression would never appear on his face.

"Brother! Would you like to go out and check it out? ”

"Huh?"

"It's okay, today is the Lantern Festival, and everyone in the palace is eating, drinking and having fun. Those people won't come, you go out in my clothes, no one will find out! ”

"No...... No way. ”

"Afraid of what? We look exactly the same, who can recognize them? ”

"But ......"

Xiao Tuanzi stretched out his hand and stripped off his clothes, and the two quickly changed into each other's clothes. Xiao Tuanzi told him a few more words and asked him to pretend to be a little bit. and told him to smile more and talk to his father more. In this way, they swapped identities, and for the first time, he left the dimly lit basement.

He rubbed his face, making his face, which had been expressionless for a long time, softer. Recalling the sweet smiling face of that milky little dumpling, he tried to pull out a smile. The palace people around him didn't seem to notice anything unusual, in the final analysis, it was because they looked exactly the same, and they didn't need to pretend at all, which was enough to make people unable to tell who was who.

"Pei'er, where did you sneak away again?"

The young emperor touched his head with a smile, but there was loneliness in his smile, and there were many emotions that he couldn't understand. For the first time, I was touched like this by my father. He seems to have become himself in the mirror, without disguise, and no one can see through it.

"You! Why don't you play with your sister? ”

In the mirror, everything is sweet, and even the annoying north wind is extraordinarily gentle. The young emperor hugged him and said a lot in fits and starts, and he knew that this emperor was drunk. The preface did not match the afterword, and when the banquet was nearing the end, he was put down and let the palace servants wait for him to go back.

There were many pastries on the table, and the golden silk cake placed in the center was the most popular among the children, and he reached out to pick up the last golden silk cake.

"Hey!"

A childish cry sounded behind him, he didn't realize it was calling him, and still walked on his own.

"Stop!"

"You! You ......"

A small pebble slammed into the back of his head, and he felt his body freeze in place for a moment, and hot liquid flowed out of the back of his head. It was too familiar, the feeling was so familiar, it made him pale all at once.

"How do you rob people's things!"

The little girl dressed in golden branches and jade leaves ran to him, stretched out her fingers, her little face was tender and fresh, and she looked as good as a flower. is smaller than him, speaks milkily, crosses his waist, even if he is arrogant, there is no way to really care about her.

"Your Highness, your wounded ......"

"Call the Imperial Doctor, quickly pass on the Imperial Doctor!"

The palace servants who served him really didn't expect that this little girl was so bold that she dared to throw stones from the twelve princes and smashed the heads of the twelve princes into a hole.

"Huanhuan! It's such a mess! Princess Huixian hurriedly picked up the young Chu Huanhuan and knelt on the ground: "Your Highness, she is still young, it is really an unintentional mistake." ”

"......" He touched his head in hindsight, feeling that it was not a pain, and took out the packaged golden silk cake from his arms: "Do you want this?" Here you go. ”

"Temple...... Your Highness, your wounds. Princess Huixian looked up in surprise.

Chu Huanhuan's newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, and he had no idea what kind of heinous crime he had committed. On the contrary, he snorted very arrogantly and turned his head: "You took it, Miss Ben doesn't want it!" ”

"Huanhuan!" Princess Huixian scolded, and took the pastry from the hands of the twelve princes: "Your Highness Xie cuts love, Huanhuan is not sensible, and please don't take it to heart." ”

"Hahaha, you kid, you know how to be polite at a young age."

The young emperor came from behind, and the imperial physician had arrived to treat his wounds.

"It's just a small injury, Huanhuan is still young, and it's a girl again, twelve let a little, as it should be."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your absolution." Even though Princess Huixian was angry, she didn't hit Chu Huanhuan.

Huanhuan....... Is her name Huanhuan?

The bonfire crackled and burned, and a few skewers of barbecue were set up next to it, and it didn't take long for them to be roasted to a shiny finish. A thin layer of salt and spices is sprinkled on top, and the aroma jumps out of the meat skewers. Chu Huanhuan touched his hungry belly, reached out and took a string, he didn't care about any posture, he blew it and sent it to his mouth.

"You say, he suddenly fainted. Will it be okay? Chu Huanhuan ate roast crane meat and chatted with Rou Shisan.

"The potency of the mother-in-law's root is too strong, and he will not be able to absorb it for a while and a half, and he will faint. He's physically strong, don't worry about him. Rou Thirteen replied indifferently.

"What level is he, is he reliable?" Chu Huanhuan didn't have a good impression of Zhou Pei, and felt that all the bad things had something to do with him.

"Better than you."

"You fart, when I can cultivate, I will definitely be stronger than him!"

"Really? Your whole body is hard-mouthed. ”

"What do you mean?"

The two got together, and they were about to quarrel in no more than three sentences.

Zhou Pei, who was lying on the ground, turned over, and the quarrel stopped abruptly. After a while, Zhou Pei slowly sat up, he held his forehead, and his appearance was still a little chaotic. Chu Huanhuan was eating barbecue, and when he saw that he was up, it should be fine.

"You...... It doesn't matter, right? Chu Huanhuan politely cared.

"Thank you." Zhou Pei frowned and smiled, making people feel pitiful and cute.

"Your third brother is in the Liuyun Sect, and he is in an important position, and being involved with me will make you in a dilemma." Zhou Pei lowered his eyes, he was obviously very strong, but he kept showing weakness to her. The expression was also faint, and with his face, the fragility was overflowing.

Chu Huanhuan didn't understand, why did he misrecognize it so outrageously in the first place?