cold!
It's freezing cold!
Xiao Yu curled up, feeling like he was in a large ice cellar.
In his sleep, his brain was unclear and his eyelids were extremely heavy.
He wanted to grab the quilt, but found that he couldn't catch anything. It seemed that he only found a handful of dead grass in his hand.
What the hell is this place? It's so cold. Where is my...my quilt?
In doubt, Xiao Yu's heart jumped suddenly, and his consciousness gradually became clear from blur.
It’s the dog days of summer, how can it be so cold!
Apparently just now he was shirtless drinking and having sex with people on the roadside.
What happens after that...
The shaking headlights and the screams of his companions suddenly flashed in his mind.
He was in a car accident!
This is not a morgue...a morgue!
Thinking of this, Xiao Yu suddenly opened his eyes, turned over and sat up.
It was pitch black before his eyes, whether he opened his eyes or closed them.
It's just that there is no smell of disinfectant here, but there is an indescribable smell lingering around.
After a long time, he gradually adapted to the darkness in front of him.
"Where is this, why am I here?"
Xiao Yu scratched his head vigorously, and then scratched his body. He suddenly felt that his body odor was particularly strong, and his body was filled with a stinky smell.
He couldn't help but feel nauseated. What happened to him?
He touched his face again, and his face became much thinner.
And he actually felt a crooked bun on his disheveled hair, which seemed to have grown a lot.
Xiao Yu was a little uneasy. His thoughts were extremely confused. It seemed that there were memories of two people in his confused mind. What was wrong with him?
He died, and then his soul came to another world, and he entered another body?
Who is this miserable wretch?
Is this ancient times? modern? Or another parallel world?
He didn't know.
Just as he was thinking of this, the biting cold air made Xiao Yu sneeze several times in a row.
This made him wake up a lot. In the darkness, he seemed to hear some rapid and chaotic sounds, which were also mixed with the crow of cocks and the barking of dogs.
Just when Xiao Yu was about to get up and explore the "dark ice cellar", he heard a "bang", a faint light suddenly flashed in the darkness, and a door opened.
The howling cold wind carrying snowflakes rushed towards my face, and a stooped short figure appeared in front of the door.
In the flickering light, Xiao Yu saw the face of a familiar old man.
His hair and beard are all white, his face is weathered, his eyes have a kind of simplicity and dullness that only an honest man can have, and his shabby gown does not match his thin figure.
He also had a bun on his unkempt head, tied with rags, looking like an ancient man.
When he crossed the threshold, he could clearly feel that his legs and feet were particularly inflexible, as if one leg was lame.
"Manager Zhao?"
Xiao Yu blurted it out without thinking.
He really couldn't remember when he met such a sloppy and weird old man, but there seemed to be some differences between the manager Zhao and this old man in his impression.
But I don't know why, as soon as I saw him, Xiao Yu felt a lot more at ease unconsciously.
When the old man called Guanshi Zhao heard Xiao Yu call his name, his dull old eyes suddenly lit up, and his whole person suddenly became energetic.
He patted his thigh:
"Hey, my little prince, did I hear you right! Are you calling me little old man?... It's been eight years, and this is the first time you called little old man by his right name!"
"I...I was just calling you! What did you call me just now? Little...little prince?" Xiao Yu said suspiciously.
By the light, he looked down at his clothes.
The same rags and rags, with a big hole in his butt, making him look nothing like a prince.
"Oh, you can speak so fluently!" Manager Zhao was excited again, "With the blessing of Master Sanqing, the young prince's madness has finally improved."
"What madness? Am I mad?"
"It seems that everything is not getting better, but it is a bit stronger than before." The old man stroked the beard on his chin and said happily, "Anyway, if the prince finds out, he still doesn't know what will happen. happy……"
"What prince...there is a prince above me?"
"Hey, it seems that the illness is indeed not cured. The young prince still can't think of the prince for a while..."
Having said this, the old man shook his head, and a layer of sadness came over his originally happy face.
Xiao Yu only felt that the manager Zhao in front of him spoke a little confusingly, looking like a confused person.
After all, he was getting older after all, but no matter what, if he wanted to understand his current situation, Xiao Yu could only rely on him.
Xiao Yu was about to ask something more when suddenly there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, followed by another rude voice:
"Old man, haven't you invited your master yet? If your hands and feet are inflexible, our brothers will go in to fight!"
"Just a moment, General. The little old man will get ready for the young prince right away."
There were only a few dirty words in response to Manager Zhao from outside, but the old man didn't seem to care at all.
Xiao Yu frowned slightly: "Is there something going on outside?"
"I'm stupid, little prince. Please hurry up. Someone is coming from the palace, and he's here with a decree."
As Manager Zhao spoke, he helped Xiao Yu tidy up his clothes, but his hands and feet were not very flexible, so he did it very slowly.
"In the palace? What palace?"
Manager Zhao blinked: "It's the Imperial Palace, Taicheng?"
Thinking that he had asked a stupid question, Xiao Yu asked again: "Manager Zhao, does the palace still send people here often?"
Manager Zhao's clumsy hands trembled slightly in the air, and he said slowly: "I don't come here often. I think this is the first time that the prince has been locked up in this temple in the past five years."
First time?
Xiao Yu's heart also moved slightly, and he had a bad feeling.
"Then what can you do if you come to me at this time?"
"My lord, I have something to say."
Xiao Yu saw a flash of wisdom suddenly flashing in Manager Zhao's eyes, and he said, "It's okay to say it, Manager Zhao."
"Young prince, the reason why we, master and servant, are alive today is because of the madness you contracted eight years ago. If the emperor knew that you were cured of your madness, I'm afraid we would..."
Seeing Manager Zhao make a gesture of wiping his neck, Xiao Yu was shocked.
As a well-educated person, he would not be so stupid that he could not understand the action, and more and more questions came to his mind.
But Manager Zhao didn't say anything anymore. After helping Xiao Yu tidy up his clothes, he looked up and down at the little master he had grown up with.
"My young prince, I will accompany you to receive the order!"
Manager Zhao said and walked out of the door. Looking at the hunched back of the old manager of the palace, Xiao Yu felt sad.
He sighed, wrapped up his thin clothes and followed him out.
When I walked out, I realized that it was already the middle of winter outside and the wind was biting.
The cold wind carrying goose feathers and heavy snow kept whirling straight into the holes in Xiao Yu's clothes, and he couldn't help but sneeze a few more times.
In front of them was a tall man in red brocade clothing, holding a lantern and standing in front of the door of the inner courtyard, waiting for them impatiently.
The scene in the entire courtyard was desolate and dilapidated. The dry grass was half a person's height. The pond had long bottomed out, and a thin layer of snow covered the mud underneath.
After leaving this courtyard, there is actually an even more dilapidated courtyard outside. Fortunately, the courtyard is big enough, and it does not seem crowded with dozens of palace people in various costumes standing here.
I saw a well-dressed elderly eunuch standing solemnly in the most conspicuous place in the middle of the courtyard.
Behind him were several eunuchs who seemed to be of lower rank. They had different expressions on their faces, some were humble, some were arrogant, and some were yawning constantly.
Dozens of strong men from the Forbidden Army stood majestically throughout the courtyard holding torches.
Xiao Yu had never seen this posture before. When he was looking around blankly, Manager Zhao took his hand and forcefully led him to the elderly eunuch, pulling him by the corner of his clothes to kneel down.
"Don't kneel down. There is no imperial edict, only oral instructions." The eunuch glanced at the master and servant in front of him with disgust, "The emperor said that it is said that Xiao Yu, the prince of the Pig King, comes to the palace to see his driver. He must be cleaned before entering the palace. Don't put anything on the pig. The stench of shit was brought into the palace."
As soon as the eunuch finished speaking, he heard several low laughter.
The Pig Prince?
Xiao Yu curled his lips, this title sounded like a curse.
At this moment, the electric pain swept through Xiao Yu's brain again, and some fragmentary memories about this life suddenly poured into his mind.
His name is Xiao Yu.
By the way, he is also called Xiao Yu in this world!
It's just that the vague memories in this body ended abruptly when I was about ten years old.
He only remembered that that summer he climbed a tree to retrieve bird eggs, but somehow fell from the tree. He really couldn't remember what happened after that.
And apart from that, there are only some trivial fragments of life.
He lost his mother when he was young, but his memory of his father is extremely profound.
His father's name is Xiao Ziqian, the younger brother of the current emperor, the famous King of Jiangxia.
As for...what does the "pig" king mean?
Just as Xiao Yu was thinking of this, he heard a "coaxing" sound, and a bucket of cold water poured down from the top of his head.
A biting cold suddenly made him breathless. He was shaking like chaff, and the malicious laughter of the eunuchs and guards came to his ears.
He gasped for breath, but the cold water on his head made his brain unusually clear at this time.
He raised his eyes and looked at the ugly faces in front of him. Only Manager Zhao was begging bitterly:
"Please... please show me your noble hand. No matter how much you say, the young prince is a golden person, he can't bear this cold water... besides, he is the cousin of the current emperor!"
"Ha ha ha ha......"
Manager Zhao's cry of apology not only did not make the eunuchs restrain themselves, but instead caused them to burst into laughter.
"What about the emperor's cousin? He is just a fool who has damaged his brain."
"It's better to be a fool. If he were a normal person, I'm afraid his head would have been moved by now."
"Look at him like this, is he better than the princes and grandsons locked up in the palace?"
"They are not all the same. They are not as good as pigs or dogs."
Faced with such cynicism, Xiao Yu didn't seem to feel any anger at all, he was just a little confused.
He didn't know what was the reason why his son, who was supposed to be pampered and pampered, was thrown into jail, and even the dignity of the royal family was trampled on by these dog slaves in front of him?
He was never a fool, he just looked for every piece of useful information for him in those people's dirty words.
Another basin of biting cold water poured down, and in addition to Manager Zhao's bitter pleas, there were those wanton laughters in his ears.
"Go away, old man! If you talk too much, I'll throw you into the ice cave and freeze you for three days and three nights." The older eunuch kicked Manager Zhao to the ground with one kick, "Besides... it's just a kiss. What can we do, brother? The Emperor will kill them all anyway! This is the Emperor's will, so get him cleaned up quickly! Don't keep the Emperor waiting!"
I saw two tall and burly Imperial Guard soldiers dragging Manager Zhao aside like a dog to death.
And several buckets of cold water were poured on Xiao Yu's head.
After several buckets of cold water were poured down his body, Xiao Yu, shivering, felt that his body was almost frozen, but his brain became clearer and clearer, and more and more fragments of memories about this body suddenly appeared in his body. in his mind.
It seems that the world has changed. The emperor in his memory has become the former emperor. If the crown prince had not been changed, the new emperor must be the violent and perverse Xiao Yuheng.
That is a brave, fierce and extremely absurd Lord!
In his memory, he once had a fight with this cousin.
He didn't seem to remember the reason very clearly. It seemed that he couldn't bear to see his cousin, the crown prince, bullying a brother and sister who were envoys from the Wei Kingdom in the Northern Dynasty.
He didn't seem to lose at all during their fight, and he even tackled the crown prince to the ground and beat him hard.
Although the emperor at the time did not take the fight between two children too seriously, he was still severely punished by his father when he returned to the palace.
As for the crown prince, in Xiao Yu's impression, he is a narrow-minded person who will take revenge.
Thinking of this, Xiao Yu suddenly felt scared.
Although I have been a soldier for several years and served for several years, and I have also practiced a lot of grappling and fighting skills in those years, I am definitely more than enough to deal with this weakling, but the emperor should not come out to challenge you in a duel!
At this moment, the elderly eunuch suddenly spoke again: "Okay, don't mess with it, find some clean clothes for the Pig King, and replace the torn skin on his body with us."
Several big men from the Royal Forest Army responded and stripped Xiao Yu naked, while two other young eunuchs walked in from the outside. They put Xiao Yu in a blue soft satin cotton coat and a pair of long-legged high-waisted black boots. He also wore a black satin cloak.
"Let's go, young prince?" The older eunuch pointed contemptuously in the direction of the outer door.
Xiao Yu glanced at Manager Zhao, who was being held up by two Forbidden Army sergeants, and saw that the old man's red eyes were still filled with tears, but his eyes were no longer so dull.
"My young prince, you haven't recovered from your madness, so don't talk nonsense in front of the emperor!"
With Manager Zhao's final instructions in his ears, Xiao Yu did not look back. He followed the two young eunuchs and silently walked out the door.
