Liu Lan left, but Emperor Ling didn't go, and even remained silent on the throne for a long time, maybe it was too long, Xiao Zhongjuan, who was waiting by Emperor Ling's side, had already figured out Emperor Ling's preferences, not to mention making claims, anyway, without the consent of Emperor Ling, he held a few plates filled with a few dim sums and fruits that had just been taken out of the ice room and were refreshing and cool.

To say that this ice room has existed since ancient times, the earliest was to refrigerate food to cool down and prevent corrosion, so the so-called ice room or Lingyin and other specific houses were built to hide ice, and the Luoyang ice room was built in the west of Lingyuntai in the small garden gate.

It's just that Emperor Ling didn't have an appetite after seeing Liu Lan, waved his hand, and said to the little eunuch to take the four fierce pictures.

The so-called four fierce beasts are painted in the four directions, first of all, a → lying on the big stone in the heart of the river at the bottom of the sea, a ≮ nsh@uba. evil dragon, and then a giant elephant with a nose on the top land, a colorful tiger on the left, and a bloodthirsty jackal on the right.

Four fierce lifelike, extremely expressive, in the early years of this painting, it is the Emperor Ling from Jizhou into Beijing as the emperor, when he was still young, and did not understand what this picture means, until one day, because of the fate of the meeting under the encounter of a person, only to learn that this picture comes from a yin and yang family, hidden proverbs, at that time the Emperor Ling hoped that he could break this proverb, but this person shook his head silently, after the Emperor Ling recruited him into the palace every day, with sincerity, but only got a good and evil prophecy, the true meaning is unknown.

Since then, although Emperor Ling has been looking for people who have broken the rumors, they are either some nonsense or some false people, and this matter has been put down, but it was not until he met the abbot of the White Horse Temple. It dawned on him after his guidance, but his statement seemed more far-fetched at the time. It is Emperor Yiling who has never taken it seriously, but after knowing that there is such a person as Liu Lan in the world. This made Emperor Ling think a lot at once, which is why Emperor Ling said that he preferred Liu Lan as a dog rather than a wolf, because he didn't want the jackal in the picture to be talking about him.

But whether it is this person or not, there is no good end to being hung up by the emperor, which Liu Lan can't know, but in order to solve the final confusion, Emperor Ling walked into the side hall on one side, and there has been an old man sitting in it, closing his eyes and pretending to sleep. Emperor Ling didn't bother, but stared at the proverbial picture like lightning, and was silent for a long time.

I don't know how long it took, the old man woke up and stretched his muscles, but the Spirit Emperor was calm, not annoyed or angry, but said very respectfully: "The master is awake, I don't know if you think he is the wolf?" ”

"It's hard to say!"

The old man could not tell his age, but his beard was gray. The two pinches of white eyebrows at the corners of the eyebrows are three or four inches long, but they are bald, which is difficult to imagine in the Han Dynasty when the parents of filial piety and body hair and skin are affected, and this kind of person is reported by his parents for being unfilial. When they arrived at the Yamen, they asked their parents if they wanted to die or live, and if they were dead. Killed on the spot, if alive. Then you will have to suffer a little and have to go to prison for a few years, and of course the gray-haired old man's parents will never be alive. But why did such an old man who did not pay attention to filial piety appear in the palace?

The reason is very simple, because he is the abbot of the White Horse Temple.

And his answer left the supreme emperor of the Han Empire speechless.

It's just that the old man who was honored as a master by Emperor Han Ling squinted his eyes in the direction of the temple where Emperor Ling had just met Liu Lan, and muttered to himself: "Dragons and elephants compete with tigers and wolves, and the good prophecy should be to get these four beasts to guard the Quartet, if it is a bad oracle, I am afraid that it will change the day another day."

The old man's words were not earth-shattering, but Emperor Ling hesitated, originally he thought that this plan was absolutely evil, but if it was a good one, he asked this person, wouldn't he want to cut off his arm? He was about to ask again, but found that the master who had slept in the South Palace did not tell himself, and was about to open his mouth, but he heard the old man who was about to exit the door say another sentence before leaving the door: "This is a proverb given by the immortals, the old man is just a Shi family after all!" ”

After the old man who seemed to be able to guess Emperor Ling's thoughts finished speaking, he paused again when he raised his legs and crossed the palace gate, and said with emotion: "It's a prophecy, it's a wolf or a dog, it's really hard to say!" ”

"Master Xie for teaching!" Emperor Ling said it, but what he was thinking in his heart was the comment of Xu Zijiang, who was crazy in Shilin, to Liu Lan: "The yuan of the general, there is the wind of Wei Qing!" You are really a wolf who changes the day, and I will also tie you to Liaodong and turn you into a dog guarding the home and a beast guarding the four directions! ”

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Liu Lan returned to the post house, but as soon as he left the palace gate, he was stopped by a small Zhongjuan, saying that someone wanted to see, Liu Lan saw Liu Hong, the Son of Heaven before, and he was afraid that he was not inexplicable at all, but he was full of stomachs, and he wondered that the Son of Heaven summoned him to change his name and did not want to walk to the gate of the palace and was stopped, thinking that there was really something to say, and left with Xiao Zhongjuan, but he just turned a corner of the imperial city and stopped Xiao Zhongjuan, and Liu Lan naturally saw the person who wanted to see him, of course, it would not be a very majestic Son of Heaven, On the contrary, it was the young man who was with the little man girl in Fenglai Tower a few days ago, looking at him with a smile.

"It turned out to be you, little brother." Liu Lan raised his eyebrows and greeted him, but Xiao Zhongjuan, who didn't want to be on the side, frowned, and scolded: "Bold, His Royal Highness ...... Prince"

As soon as Xiao Zhongjuan's voice started, the young man coughed hurriedly, although Xiao Zhongjuan no longer scolded Liu Lan's rudeness and recklessness, but Liu Lan had already seen it, and his footsteps stopped immediately, and he saluted, saying: "Minister Lu Long ordered Liu Lan to meet His Royal Highness the Prince." "But in my heart, I thought that the one who was with Xiaoman was actually the prince, Liu Hong's son? Which one, the Young Emperor or the Emperor?

Although it looks so decent and solemn on the surface, the young man is a young man after all, and his eyes still reveal a sense of joy and joy when the young man meets again, he approached Liu Lan and lifted his arms up, which is a very grand courtesy, not to mention Liu Lan, but the little Zhongjuan on the side was dumbfounded, and Dong Hou was too self-defeating, but at this moment, a slight sound came from Liu Lan's ears, which came from the young man's mouth, but he deliberately lowered his voice: "Liu Lan, we meet again." ”

"I don't know if it was His Royal Highness the Prince that day, I hope I will forgive me."

"It's no wonder if you don't know, let alone the hungry wolf who exterminated the three counties Karasuma and gave my father a headache about how to reward you?"

"The prince is wrong." Liu Lan paused, whispered, and said, "I don't know how the prince is honored?" ”

"I am the second son of the Son of Heaven."

Sure enough, it was Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, when the two whispered, another elderly Zhongjuan ran over, panicked, Liu Xie's face changed, and he hurriedly said goodbye to Liu Lan, and followed the Zhongjuan into the palace, and Liu Lan returned to the post house, anyway, today I saw the future son of heaven Liu Xie, it was not worth the trip, not to mention that he still had a harvest.

After going back, Liu Lan didn't see anyone, but called Zhang Zheng in, Zhang Zheng seemed to notice Sima's strangeness, and asked in a deep voice: "Sima, what's wrong, is there something wrong with the saint this time, and the Son of Heaven is completely not rewarded?" ”

"No, the Son of Heaven is inexplicable this time, so he changed the name of De'an for me, and this Deran will not be able to be used in the future." Liu Lan said helplessly, but suddenly there was a flash of inspiration, and he muttered for a long time, but he whispered an order to Zhang Zheng, Zhang Zheng nodded, Liu Lan sent it out of the house, and asked the old brothers outside the house to do what to do Only then closed the door and re-made Ai Ji, his brows were twisted into a Sichuan shape, and it was a coincidence that he saw Liu Xie today? Or did he deliberately wait for himself? And the cold eyes of the Son of Heaven appeared three times, although he deliberately concealed it, Liu Lan was sure that the Son of Heaven was really murderous on the top of the main hall.

The first time, it was Liu Lan who peeked at the Son of Heaven, such a reckless move may have aroused the disgust of the Son of Heaven, and made Liu Hong move the idea of killing himself, if it weren't for the fact that he immediately showed a helpless look, and his eyes didn't know where to put it, maybe the head of Xiang Shang's head had already moved at that time, and the second time the Son of Heaven moved the idea of killing himself was after saying his name as a hungry wolf, it seemed to be a brainless question, at this time, thinking about it, it was probably testing himself, if he didn't answer truthfully at that time, he concealed or even didn't admit it, Then he will not go out of the palace gate today, as for the third time he moved the killing intention, but he saw the picture of the four beasts, and in the moment after Liu Hong unfolded it, Liu Lan thought that his death time had come, and he even had a desperate plan at that time, if it weren't for his good determination and no recklessness, and even the Son of Heaven has been forbearing, there will really be no good fruit to eat today, and in terms of acting talent, the Son of Heaven is obviously a step ahead, at such a critical moment, he actually let Liu Lan take a closer look at the Four Beasts, so what is the view, What I understand is to give Liu Lan a chance to kidnap and assassinate.

Liu Lan thought in his heart that he had exhausted the risks of this trip, but the more he did this, the more frightened he felt, and because of this, he became more and more strange about Liu Xie's appearance, it was obvious that he was deliberately waiting for himself, and when he appeared there, he was a dead corpse or a living person, because he knew early on that the Son of Heaven was going to kill him?

But why did the Son of Heaven kill himself?

Liu Lan's self-talk in this sentence was gloomy and terrifying, he was seeking an answer from himself, but no matter how the answer was, he couldn't guess it, so he stared at the case again, dipped in clear water and wrote out the three main reasons why Emperor Ling wanted to kill him, 1 peeking, 2 hungry wolf, 3 four beasts, and then focused all his attention on these three words, and tried to recall the situation at the time, slowly Liu Lan's brows relaxed, and at a certain moment, he suddenly raised his head, he seemed to have found the reason from it.

He already knew about the hungry wolf, so the Spirit Emperor moved his murderous intent when he found out that he was looking at him, and when chatting, he once again thought of his identity as a hungry wolf, so he once again had a murderous intent, although he forced it down, but he clearly expressed his state of mind, he didn't like wolves, he preferred dogs.

But after all, this is a nickname, and it does not depend on Liu Lan's will, so the reason why the Spirit Emperor has the heart to kill him may be the Howling Moon Blue Wolf in the east on the Four Beasts Map.

But what would that picture be, and what would the four beasts on it mean, that would make the Spirit Emperor so jealous? (To be continued......)