Chapter 5 King Mu of Chu

The palace of the king of Chu. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Sitting crookedly on the jade steps of the main hall, King Chu Mu in the dragon chair, forty years old, has reigned for eighteen years, and hopes to revive the prestige of King Wu all his life, and wash away the defeat of his father King Wen in the battle of Chengpu, but now the haggard and sick face hangs on his face, his beard and hair are half white, and his body is extremely thin as firewood, and the robe of the nine-tailed phoenix feather king is worn on his body, which looks empty and without grace and nobility.

Obviously forty years old looks as old as sixty years old, under the trembling support of Zhao Changshi, he tried his best to look forward, but unfortunately the eyes that were once ambitious like wasps are now old and dizzy, how to squint his eyes, and only vaguely see the outline of a young woman, "Huang'er, is my Huang'er back?"

Mi Huang strode forward and bowed respectfully under the jade steps, "Yes, Father, it's Mi Huang who is back!"

"Good, good, good, just come back. It was your father who couldn't stand you and made you suffer for the widow. King Chu, who was leaning on the dragon chair tiredly, was half relieved and half guilty.

This is the only concubine of him and Queen Sun, although the feelings for the late Queen Sun are not deep, and the memory is fading, but because the heirs of the King of Chu are not abundant, he has few brothers and no children and nephews, and he still has some family affection for this eldest daughter, especially three years ago, she went to the land of tigers and wolves like Xuancheng instead of herself, thinking that she could not come back to a daughter's house, but she didn't expect not only to come back, but also to hit the people of Yongguo for three points, which really impressed him.

In front of this nominal father, Mi Huang did not take credit at all, bowed his head again, and humbly replied, "It is the responsibility of my daughter to be the surname of Chu Guo to do her best for the Chu State." ”

"Yes!" King Chu was half emotional, half had the meaning of trusting the orphan.

Now only this daughter in Chu can have the courage to inherit his throne, this is not a responsibility for her, so the previous guilt has also gone to most of it, the king of Chu waved his hand and said, "Since you are back, go back to the palace to worship your mother, and then go to see your mother, you have been gone for three years, she misses you very much." Since the death of Queen Sun when she was seven years old, Princess Wu begged to raise the eldest princess on the grounds that she was young.

Therefore, most of the palace years of Mihuang have lived under the hands of Princess Wu.

"After three years outside, Huang'er also missed her mother day and night. Mi Huang replied with a look of admiration.

"Then don't make her wait too long, she still has someone to ask for news of you this morning. That meant she stepped down.

Counting this time, it is the third time that Mi Huang has seen this titular father since his rebirth, and each time he meets for only a short quarter of an hour.

The first time, when she was fourteen years old, she finally got the praise of Pan Taishi repeatedly, at that time the king of Chu was still quite strong, and he was still moving, so he came to see her curiously, and under the continuous affirmation of Pan Taishi, he praised a sentence on his face, "Huang'er's article is good, but Zhao'er's article is also very good!" The second time, when she was fifteen years old, she invited herself to choose a city to fight against mediocrity, and he was already beginning to look old, and he sat on the jade step and was almost unable to close his mouth in surprise, and finally waved his hand casually, and said, "My Chu family children are really among the dragons and phoenixes." Okay, pass on the will of the orphan, and let the eldest princess supervise the three armies on behalf of the monarch to boost the momentum. "And the third time is today, when I came back from Xuancheng.

"Yes!"

The father and daughter didn't say much, and Mi Huang said goodbye to the king of Chu.

After Mi Huang left, the King of Chu, who was sitting crookedly in the dragon chair, sighed again, "Zhao De, you see that Mi Huang is so good now, and the widow is deeply comforted. ”

Zhao Changshou smiled cautiously and said, "In addition, the horse is the son of Ruo Ao Lingyin, who is very good at civil and military affairs, and has the assistance of his father and son." The king can also rest assured, and no longer have to worry about this state affairs, and this jade body can naturally be healthy as soon as possible. ”

"Haha, the widow also hopes for ......" The long-ill King of Chu gave a rare long laugh, "There is a son, the widow has always been very at ease! ”

"The Great King Holy Judge!" Zhao Changzhi sent a good word at the right time, which caused the sick King of Chu to be even more proud.

In this life, I am afraid that the most conceited thing about him is his ability to recognize people.

And the first person he knows is Zi Pan, he is not the first heir designated by Ruo Ao Shi Ling Yin, only because of his strong support to abolish the original Ruo Ao family's eldest son, and named Zi Yan's second son as Ling Yin, so that he is so willing to do his best; and the second is Sun Hou, this old stubborn, well-known loyalty, so he married his daughter, and his daughter died because of his depression, this old stubborn did not dare to do anything to him; the third is Zhao De, a minion, is extremely obedient and understands his mind very well, he can understand every unfinished word, as a lonely person can have such a bosom friend-like minion, so that he does not have to worry about the loneliness of the deep palaceFinally, there is Princess Wu, who can really be described as one of his interpreting flowers, who takes care of his harem in an orderly manner, and he doesn't need to half a snack at all, just look at the Mihuang she taught now.

Together, these four people can really solve all his troubles as the Son of Heaven, the vestibule, the harem, the army, and even the loneliness in his heart.

If there is any prince and king in the world who can control the world as easily as he is, there are really few people.

The most unsatisfactory thing for the king of Chu is that he has a stubborn disease, like a maggot attached to the bone, which makes him eat every day.

"Alas, it's a pity that Lonely's life can't be perfected......" King Chu sat alone on the jade throne of Zhu Palace and sighed faintly, while Zhao Changshi stood with a slight smile on his hands.

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In the palace of the king of Chu, there are both the "high hall" with a grand space and the "curved house" that is connected with twists and turns, there is both the "Yuyu" that goes deep and far away, and there is also the small and exquisite "south room", these are combined by the size, height, length, floor, structure, complexity and simplicity of the palace buildings, and after several generations of Chu kings painstakingly built, it has formed the Chu palace that is now magnificent, magnificent and magnificent, and scattered, as well as all kinds of famous high platforms, such as Zhanghua platform, Lantai, layer platform and so on.

Most of the palaces in the palace are named after natural celestial phenomena, such as the place where the king of Chu deals with the government is called Zhu (zhu nian 3 sounds) palace, the Chaoxi Palace where the late Queen Sun lived, the purple smoke palace of Princess Wu who was most favored by the king of Chu, and the largest partial hall in the Chaoxi Palace.

Walking out of this Zhu Palace, which has been more than a hundred years old and represents the supreme royal power of the Chu State, Mi Huang and Si Jian returned to Queen Sun's Chaoxi Palace together, and first worshiped the deceased Queen Sun according to the ritual system before returning to the Hall of Dawn.

The dawn hall is a rather delicate side hall in the morning and evening palace, when Queen Sun was alive, she made great efforts to improve for Mihuang, and added a delicate object and valuable unique products, but Mihuang pushed the door in, and saw just an ordinary palace room, not only slightly empty, but also had no superfluous furnishings, how to look like the dormitory of the eldest princess of a country.

Outside the palace is outside the palace, and inside the palace is inside the palace.

Mi Huang walked into the dressing room, her slightly calloused fingertips swept across the new clothes that Sun Hou had just sent, stopped on the princess clothes that had been hung up one by one, took off the golden armor robe she had worn for three years, and changed into a princess dress with a ribbon, and then as if she had changed a person, a pair of green daisy eyebrows had a little more eyebrows and pleasant colors, and there was less decisiveness.

Looking at the palace room, which seemed even more empty than when he left, Mi Huang raised his eyebrows and asked, "But the minions under the princess have deducted our monthly salaries in the past three years?"

A maid dressed in a first-class dark maid dress with clear eyebrows stepped forward and replied in a clear voice, "Princess, Siqin is incompetent, please punish the princess." Mama Liu withheld all the money of our Chaoxi Palace and the palace maids and mothers-in-law below for the past three years, and it was not enough to eat every month, so Siqin could only secretly sell some of her belongings every month to barely survive. ”

This exchange of money has long been a common thing, and she took the lead at the beginning.

Mi Huang waved his hand, but he didn't care, "It's okay, you've done a good job, you've worked hard for the past three years." ”

"The princess is majestic on the bronze bird tower today, and I and Si Hua are very excited to see it. Si Shu, who was dressed in a goose-yellow maid dress, ran in with a smile and said.

"The shouting from the audience 'reborn from the fire, the phoenix is reincarnated and returned' is a nonsense you made up!" asked Mi Huang, but in her heart, she thought that this words to deceive the poor people were not all nonsense, she was really reborn and reincarnated.

"Hehe, princess, the secretary is a good editor. Si Shu smiled and opened the seat of the table, and then invited her to take a seat, "Don't talk about it, Si Hua has already prepared the meal, princess, take a seat." ”

"Hmm. Mi Huang bowed slightly, turned around and walked into the flower hall, sat down at the round table, four maids sat with her as the guest of honor, but the exquisite mahogany round table only put a simple five dishes and one soup, there are meat and vegetarian, but the most meat is a plate of pork knuckles, the rest are some vegetables, see or there is a plate of wild vegetable soup, this lunch is not like the princess's jade food at all, but like the palace slaves below.

"Fighting is all done by men, and the princess has been reduced in the past three years. Si Hua, who was also dressed in a goose-yellow maid dress, posed with dishes and chopsticks, and his eyebrows were slightly tufted.

"Si Hua, you must give the princess more delicious food in the future, and also sacrifice our five internal organs temple by the way. Si Shu smiled crookedly and grabbed a chopstick, and the pig's hand went to the Mihuang bowl and said.

"When will I have no more money, when will I be shorter than you eat? Si Qin's apricot eyes squinted at Si Shu and said, and then asked Mi Huang, who looked at him without moving his chopsticks, "Princess, but these dishes are not palatable?"

"No, I'm just worried that these dishes are poisonous!" said Qi Huang Man as he stared at the meat in the bowl with deep eyes, word by word.

"No, I've tasted every painting before I brought it. Si Hua said in surprise with his mouth covered.

"Have you forgotten that Mi Zhao is obsessed with Ziyan, everyone in the entire harem knows about it. And now I have been married to him by my father, King Oolong. Presumably, since I came back today, our Temple of Dawn will soon be unpeaceful. Mi Huang said in a deep voice, after speaking, he took out a pair of silver chopsticks from the dark compartment under the round table, and inserted them in each dish as carefully as he did before leaving the palace, and saw that the food was almost cold for a long time, and the silver chopsticks had not turned black, so he said again, "Fortunately, there is no time to feed the poison in this meal today." Siqin, you guys have to be more careful in everything before I get married. ”

"Don't touch the mold over there, causing them to kill early. ”

"Yes, Princess. When Si Qin heard this, he secretly said that he was too happy and careless because the princess was back.

"And in the future, everything we drink and eat, as before, all the chickens raised in the kitchen will be eaten first, and then we will eat it. Huang commanded.

The four of them nodded one after another, "Okay." ”

"Then princess, do we still have to take turns keeping vigil at night?" Si Jian asked.

"Yes!" replied with a frown, "Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just in case! One person must be awake, while the others are asleep." ”

"Okay, I'll leave this job to me! Sleep peacefully at night, and make up for my sleep during the day. The big sword patted his chest and reassured.

"At most, two years will be over the future, and we must not be careless at this last moment. Seeing that the four of them were alarmed in their hearts, Mi Huang raised his chopsticks and said, "Well, let's go, it's really going to be cold if you don't eat again." ”

"Si Hua, I miss your braised pork knuckles so much. It's delicious, it's delicious, it's delicious!" The careless Si Jian wanted to ask the princess how you knew that she would survive after two years, but as soon as he heard that the meal was opened, he immediately forgot about this question, and instead let go of his hands and feet and feasted, "Those stinky cooks in the army, don't mention the pig food!"

"Si Hua's skills are better than the top chefs in the palace!Princess, do you see if I have gained weight in the past three years?......" Si Shu pointed to the baby fat on his face and smiled.

"You love to exaggerate. Si Hua blushed, and pointed at Si Shu's forehead and said lightly.

"You don't know, today the prince also said the same thing to the princess, saying that he is fat at home. Si Jian, who had already added a second bowl of rice, said vaguely with the rice in his mouth.

"Tell me about it, Si Jian!" Si Shu instantly smelled a smell of gossip, and suddenly came to his senses.

Mi Huang, who was eating, said with a bad face when he heard this, "Can you inquire about everything?" It seems that I will really have to send you to Mama Liu for discipline one day." ”

"Princess, don't you!" Si Shu immediately folded his little face, rubbing his little hands and begging.

"You, every time you beg for mercy so quickly, if you really send you to Mama Liu one day, I'm afraid you'll sell us all......" Si Qin shook his head and sighed.

"Hehe, it's good to know, so you all have to be nice to me, otherwise one day I will tell Mama Liu all the private money you hid. Si Shu proudly raised his little face and said, how could he still be half a little scared just now.

While Si Shu was talking, Mi Huang had already put down the empty bowl he had eaten, and said loudly, "Si Shu, if you say more, don't blame me for not reminding you, Si Jian is almost finished eating all the dishes." After speaking, I saw Si Shu jumping to his feet and shouting, "Si Jian, you steal food again!"

"Who told you to talk the most!"

"Give it to me!"

"If I don't give it, I will eat it in my stomach, will I still vomit it to you!" Si Jian hugged her rice bowl, such a big man was chased by Si Shu in the entire Dawn Palace, and Si Qin Si Hua watched the two of them play and laugh, and the four of them were in the same relationship as before.

Mi Huang smiled at all this with satisfaction, turned his head and looked out the window in the other direction, where the purple hall and the deep palace were full of purple and red.