Chapter 35: Lunch Together
At noon, Mi Huang was about to have lunch, and suddenly the voice of his return sounded outside the hall, "The horse is back to the palace!"
Stopped the chopsticks unexpectedly, Ruo Ziyan has been busy with the Phoenix Mountain camp almost every day in the past few months, and he generally does not return to the East Palace at noon, unless something else happens. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Is there something going on in the DPRK today?"
Seeing him come in, Mi Huang got up and asked.
"You don't know that today the Zhou Dynasty sent the envoys of the Heavenly King to visit the dream, and I put it on a hard beating. Ruo Ao Ziyan changed the depth in the hall just now, walked in with a happy face, pulled Mi Huang to sit down, and said.
"Celestial Envoy?"
Mi Huang frowned and repeated.
Since the Zhou Dynasty, the major princes have called the Emperor of Zhou Tianzi "King of Heaven", and the envoys of the King of Heaven naturally have no other family, referring to the envoys of the Zhou Dynasty.
It's just that she was in the backyard of the deep palace in her previous life, and she really didn't know about it.
"This time the envoy of the Zhou Dynasty is the grandson of King Xiang of Zhou, Ji Man, and the cousin of the current Zhou Tianzi. Ruo Ao Ziyan instructed Si Hua to add another pair of chopsticks for himself, and explained to Mi Huang.
"What is he doing in my Chu State? My Chu State has not been a vassal to the Zhou Dynasty for many years. Mi Huang asked in surprise.
"Probably because I saw that my Chu State annexed the Yong State this time, and the territory was expanding day by day, and you showed the prestige of our Chu army to all the princes in the world in the Jiangling Alliance, so you sent someone to appease us if you were cowardly. ”
If Ao Ziyan has a deep understanding of the general trend of the world, it is not strange for Wang Sunman's envoy, "And Zhou Tianzi wants to control the development of my Chu State for more than one day or two days, this is not the worry of Zhou Tianzi's family, the princes of the Central Plains have repeatedly attacked our Chu State with Qi and Jin as the capital under the banner of 'respecting the king and destroying the country', so this time if I don't take advantage of the momentum of my Chu State and severely frustrate its momentum, how can I let the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who died in my Chu State rest in peace." ”
Mi Huang nodded when he heard this.
Under the suggestion of Qi Ziguan Zhong, the overlord of Qi first put forward the idea of "respecting the Zhou royal family, the princes not annexing, and encroaching on foreign lands", and a large part of his policy was aimed at the Chu State that was constantly expanding and annexing the surrounding Baiyue barbarians, and the Chu State was the largest southern barbarian in the world in the hearts of the people of the Central Plains in the north.
Later, the state of Chu funded the return of Jin Wen Gongji to return to China, but he did not expect that the Jin state would rise, and Dai Qi continued to "respect the king" to attack the state of Chu, which can be described as extremely ungrateful.
Of course, the Jin Kingdom is more ungrateful than this.
The former Jin Huigong asked his brother-in-law Qin Mugong to borrow grain because of the famine in the Jin Kingdom, and promised: "If you can return to China, you are willing to cede the land west of the river to the Qin State." After the famine passed, there was also a famine in the Qin State in the second year, and it was natural to regret asking them to borrow food, and they also sent troops to take the opportunity to attack the Qin State. Qin Mugong was furious, and after surviving the famine, he sent troops to attack the Jin State the following year. The two countries fought in Hanyuan, and Jin Huigong was treacherous both internally and externally, lost the hearts of the people, and was defeated in a battle, and his carriage was also stuck in the quagmire, and was caught up and captured alive by the Qin army.
In the end, after Qin Mugong's wife interceded and signed an "unequal treaty", Qin Mugong let Jin Huigong return to China.
So she was once worried that if Ao Ziyan funded Ji Liuyu to return to China to compete for the throne, she was the third ungrateful lord of the Jin Kingdom.
"Now that the people of the Zhou Dynasty are here, we are cooling them like this, which is too cheap. Mi Huang thought.
Ruo Ziyan put down his chopsticks, chuckled, and said, "How could I be so cheap for them!"
Taking the sweet soup handed by Si Qin, Mi Huang put it in front of him, watched him drink a few sips, and then heard him continue, "In the spring of this year, we have recruited another 100,000 new troops, and I would like to take this opportunity to talk about the western suburbs of Wuxi, on the one hand, in order to train the army, to test the effectiveness of their training for more than three months; on the other hand, in front of these envoys of the Great Zhou, let them see how strong our Chu army is that the weak people of the Zhou Dynasty can resist. ”
Chatting with Ruo Ao Ziyan while eating, Qi Huang drank a few sips of soup, nodded and asked, "But why is it held in the hunting ground in the western suburbs? Since it is the name of Xia Miao, now Cheng Jia's cultivation of wasteland in the eastern suburbs seems to be quite effective, and he can drive away the fierce beasts around him by the way to ensure the grain harvest in the second half of the year." ”
In the morning, Mao Ba had already told her that Gongzizhi was hiding in the western suburbs, so he asked directly, "Have you already found out that Gongzizhi's whereabouts are in the western suburbs?" ”
Ruo Ao Ziyan stopped his chopsticks, took her hand, looked at her, nodded and said, "Yes, so I must catch him this time, don't worry about it anymore, I have ordered Ruo Ao Sibu to fully control the western suburbs hunting ground within a radius of fifty miles, presumably he will definitely not be able to escape this time." ”
Because I was afraid that she would worry day and night, I made a special trip back to the East Palace to tell her?
In fact, she is not only worried about this one now, but also the person behind it, Yue Jiao, and ......
However, when he heard this, Mi Huang looked at Ruo Ao Ziyan and still nodded and smiled, "Well, if you go out, I naturally don't have to worry." ”
If Ao Ziyan saw that she finally smiled rarely, he pulled her to eat quickly, "Then you hurry up and eat more, if you eat too little, the children will be hungry." ”
"Hmm. ”
Mi Huang nodded.
Under his supervision, after finishing the meal, he drank a bowl of Si Hua's newly boiled fetal medicine, and then went to rest again under his urging, seeing that he was leaving, he finally quickly grabbed him and said with a depressed face, "I may go to see the western suburbs of Wuxi in those seven days? I haven't been out of the palace for a long time." ”
"You must be present that day, but I am worried that if the Gongzi position really appears, it may be unfavorable to you or the King of Chu! ”
Ruo Ziyan had noticed that Mi Huang's mood was low from the meal just now, and the steps that wanted to leave stopped again, sat on the edge of the bed and lowered his head and emphasized.
"Okay, I'm not going to mess around, I just want to go and see how you subdued the Zhou Dynasty that day. Mi Huang smiled.
Ruo Ziyan saw that she was finally smiling, and his eyes unconsciously focused on her smiling curved lips, and unconsciously lowered his head and approached her lips, "Huang'er, sometimes I'm really afraid to come back, and once I come back, I don't want to leave." ”
Leaning over and encircling her, he couldn't help whispering, and after finishing the words, he took her lips in his mouth, and tasted the bitter medicine in her mouth to the end.
"This medicine tastes so bitter!"
Ruo Ao Ziyan frowned and said.
"Hmph, you only know that the bitterness is all these ghost medicines you prescribed, and I have to drink them three times a day. The thought of drinking these medicines every day made her stomach feel uncomfortable.
"Mm-hmm, then I'll taste it again, and let me know how bitter this taste is!"
Knowing that she even pinched her nose and drank the bitter medicine she was most afraid of for this child every day when he was away, Ruo Ao Ziyan lowered her head and continued to taste the taste in her mouth until the taste of sweet soup in his mouth dispelled the taste of medicine in her mouth.
"You...... You're leaving!"
Mi Huang's beautiful face was slightly red when she was kissed by Ruo Ao Ziyan, and she refused.
"Didn't you forbid me to go last night? I really don't want to go anywhere now......
Ruo Ziyan reluctantly lowered his head and stroked Mi Huang's shy face, and unconsciously remembered that they had not been married long ago, and sighed secretly, "My son is still too early...... Not only did it hurt you, but it also hurt me...... Okay, I'm gone, you have a good rest. ”
"Hmm!"