When Guo Fengxian came out of the East China Sea Palace, it was drizzling in the sky.

Thin and slight, hazy, blowing by the wind, it will fly all over the sky like catkins.

By the time he was almost home, the drizzle had turned into a heaping rain, crackling the surrounding eaves.

Ah Fu was looking at the door of his house, and when he saw his son-in-law running from the rain, he hurriedly rushed into the rain to meet him, grabbed one of Guo Fengxian's arms and ran home with him.

After entering his yard, Ah Fu began to chatter: "Childe, why don't you use an umbrella, the old man said, the rain in this spring nourishes all things, but people can't stand the drenching, and they will get sick." ”

"Besides, it's not like I'm busy taking care of you when you're sick. ”

"Say ...... again"

Guo Fengxian slapped the rain on his clothes, and when he saw that Ah Fu was chattering, he glanced at him and interrupted him: "Don't worry about nagging, hurry up and boil hot water, aren't you also wet, you know it's raining, and you still run into the rain, why don't you nag yourself?"

Ah Fu was forced by a sentence from his own son-in-law, and sighed in his heart that his son was really a scholar, and he let himself fall behind in one sentence, Ah Fu immediately turned his complaint into a grudge, pretending to be pitiful, "Isn't this for you, Son, seeing you running in the rain, I want to meet you in a hurry." ”

Guo Fengxian was happy at this time because things were going well, and he no longer bothered Ah Fu's nagging, but just pushed him with his hand and asked Ah Fu to hurry up to boil water, he wanted to take a hot bath and sweep away the fatigue and depression of the past few days.

It has been three days since the battle in Huaizhou City ended.

The rain also fell for three days, as if God couldn't see the tragic image of Huaizhou City, and wanted to use the rain to wash away the traces left by the war.

The result of the Jiangxia war made the people in Junshan City mixed, and the joy was that the general completely annihilated the 25,000 troops of Liu Ba, the general of Dongyue Huwei, outside Xiling City.

This is a big victory, most people are thinking, who told the king of the East China Sea to rely on his high position, the strength of Dongyue is stronger than our Chu State, so he always thinks about bullying us, and now it hurts him!

There are joys and sorrows, almost all the 5,000 defenders of Huaizhou City died in Huaizhou City, and after the East Vietnamese Army broke the city, the people in Huaizhou City were also wantonly slaughtered, and the East Vietnamese Army was really a group of devils who lost their humanity.

But what the people of Chu thought more about was that the five thousand men of my Chu country were all good, and they used the sword in their hands and the blood on their bodies to tell the old bastard of the King of the East China Sea, although our Chu country is small, it is not so easy to bully.

If you don't believe me, let's do it again.

These words that circulated among the people of Chu reached the ears of the old King of Chu without a word, and he shouted three times in a row after listening to it, what could be more uplifting than this?

With such confidence, the Chu State is not afraid of others attacking again.

In the garden of the palace, the old king of Chu was wearing a dark gray tunic with narrow sleeves and coarse cloth clothes, with his gray hair tied on the top of his head, dressed as an old peasant in the countryside of Chu, squatting alone in the flowers and grass and busy.

Not far away, there were a few young men in green clothes and pink maids, who were not surprised by the dress and behavior of the old Chu King.

Many flowers and plants in this garden were planted by the old King Chu himself, as long as he was not busy, he would come here to take care of it carefully, fertilizing, watering, pruning, etc., all of which he personally did.

Now is the season of flowers and grass, after the rain and the sky is clear, all kinds of flowers and plants seem to be full of food and drink, one by one looks verdant and bright, attracting a group of wild bees and butterflies.

The old king of Chu was not afraid that the residual rain on the flowers and plants would wet his clothes, so he only threw himself on those fresh flowers and plants, and his face was old and covered with beads of sweat that he didn't know if it was rain or sweat, and he showed surprise from time to time.

Du Huangting had been walking into the garden for a while, and he saw that the old King Chu was concentrating on the flowers and plants, so he asked those pink-clothed maids to keep silent and just wait quietly on the side.

When the old king of Chu got up and beat his waist with his hand, he caught a glimpse of Du Huangting in the distance, so he handed the flower hoe in his hand to the young man in Tsing Yi behind him, tidied up his clothes, and then walked out of the flowers.

Du Huangting stepped forward and bowed, and said with a smile: "The prince is so interested!"

The old king of Chu crossed his waist with one hand, looked around at the surrounding pavilions, pointed to the flowers and plants in the garden with the other hand, and said happily: "Huang Ting, you see, after the rain, my flowers and plants have grown more and more vividly. ”

"It's not all good for the prince to take care of carefully. ”

Lao Chu Wang usually doesn't like to listen to sycophants, but Du Huangting's words made him feel very comfortable.

The old king of Chu pointed to a flower and said: "Huang Ting, you come to see this bush of crape myrtle flowers, red, white, blue and purple, reflecting each other, each with different colors, and the crape myrtle flower blooms for the longest time, and is known as a hundred days of red." ”

Du Huangting stretched out his hand to help the old King Chu to a stone pavilion in the garden, and said as he walked: "Those who like to be vassals and elegant, when they see flowers and plants, they like to show off, chant a poem and make a word, but how many people in this world will really love flowers and plants like the prince!"

The old king of Chu stretched out his finger and pointed at Du Huangting, and his old eyes narrowed with a smile, obviously very much by Du Huangting's words.

When he was young, the old King Chu didn't like these flowers and plants, and always felt that a big man loved swords and fists if he wanted to love, which was the right way for men.

At that time, he had just conquered the land of Chu, and at that time, in the land of the hundred barbarians in the south of the land of Chu, the hundred barbarian tribes often invaded the land of Chu on their backs, and the old king of Chu was young and vigorous, and he personally led a group of soldiers and horses into the land of the hundred barbarians, vowing to exterminate the troublesome tribes of the hundred barbarians.

But the war has nothing to do with being young and vigorous, and it has little to do with wishful thinking, the old king of Chu took advantage of the excitement and went back, and he also fell into the poison of the unique miasma in the mountains of southern Xinjiang.

In the end, a woman named Gong Ying in southern Xinjiang saved the young King of Chu, Gong Ying is not only beautiful and intelligent, but also kind-hearted, especially likes flowers and plants, and the barbarians all think that this woman called Gong Ying is the god of flowers.

The young King of Chu loved the house and Wu, and from that time he also began to like flowers and plants, and after returning to the palace, he set aside a piece of land in the palace and planted all kinds of flowers and plants himself, which is now this garden.

Time flies, time is fleeting, is that beautiful and kind woman okay?

In the stone pavilion, the two pink-clothed maids first served the old Chu king to change the robe that was already wet outside, and then Du Huangting helped the old Chu king to sit down on the soft mat in the stone pavilion, and he stood aside.

The old king of Chu took the tea handed over by a pink maid, took a sip and put it on the coffee table in front of him, and then spoke: "If you want to say that this poem, this king has seen a poem reciting this crape myrtle flower, but I think it is very chewy." ”

Du Huangting smiled and asked, "Do you remember what the prince said in that poem?"

The old king of Chu narrowed his eyes, thought about it for a while, and then shook his head and chanted: "It's a pity to open and fall at dusk, how can it be like carving a white sun and red sun." ”

Du Huangting thought for a moment, bowed down and said with a smile: "What the prince means, the old slave understands." ”

The old king of Chu put away his mood of appreciating the flowers, and said, "How is Yi'er's injury?"

Du Huangting waved his hand to the two maids in the stone pavilion, and after they left, he said, "Back to the prince, the prince's injury has healed. ”

Old King Chu turned his head to look at Du Huangting, and said with a puzzled face: "Okay, isn't Yi'er seriously injured? What the hell is going on?"

Facing a series of questions from the old Chu King, Du Huangting's face was still calm, and he replied unhurriedly: "The old slave is thinking, it should be that the prince of the world has had some adventures, the repair ability of the body is beyond ordinary people, and the martial arts cultivation of the prince is really solid and profound. ”

The old king of Chu nodded, pondered for a moment, put the tea in his hand back on the coffee table without drinking it, and said in a deep voice: "Huang Ting, you go and talk to Jinghu, let him get ready, Yi'er and Lan'er's marriage will be held on the same day as the ceremony of canonizing the prince." ”

When Du Huangting heard this, he responded with a happy face: "The old slave will go to Jingfu to convey the meaning of the prince, and the old slave is here to congratulate the prince first." ”

The old king of Chu stood up from the soft seat, Du Huangting hurriedly reached out to help him, the sun at this time happened to shine into the stone pavilion, the old king of Chu covered his hand and glanced at the blue sky, his mood became very good, and he smiled: "After Yi'er takes over this burden on this king, I will make flowers and plants here, and live a few days of leisure." ”

Du Huangting followed with a smile and said: "That relationship is good, the prince is going to live a fairy life." ”

"Immortals ......"

The old Chu King muttered a few times in his mouth, and then asked, "Huang Ting, do you say that there are really immortals in this red dust world?"

Du Huangting glanced at the old king of Chu, and then said: "The old slave heard from the world that the Taoist real people on Taiyi Mountain in Zhongnan have broken through the red dust and participated in the heaven and earth. ”

Old King Chu shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Most of the rumors in the world are not credible. ”

After being silent for a while, Du Huangting suddenly smiled and said, "The prince just said the rumor, but the old slave remembered a rumor that was circulating in the market of Junshan City recently. ”

The old king of Chu let out an "oh" and looked at Du Huangting with interest on his face, "What kind of rumor is it?"

Du Huangting said with a smile: "I think it's about the prince, after the west gate of Huaizhou City was breached, General Wei Tian asked the prince to lead eight hundred soldiers to defend the west city, on the side of the Jingou Bridge, the prince blocked the siege army of Dongyue with one person and one sword, but did not let the Dongyue army cross the Jingou Bridge, and the prince broke the shield armor array and spear army of Dongyue, and the people said that the prince must be the god of war. ”

After hearing this, the old king of Chu paused for a moment, and then laughed out loud, laughing heartily.

At the beginning, the old King of Chu let Zhao Yi join the army, and he joined the scout battalion with the most elite and the highest risk factor in the Chu army, but now it seems that the effect has been achieved.

The old king of Chu turned around and walked out of the stone pavilion, and said happily: "Huang Ting, you go with me to Yunmeng Pavilion to see Yi'er." ”