In the first month of the spring of the sixth year of Jianwu (30 AD), Liu Xiu planned to take Yin Lihua back to Chungling to worship his ancestors as usual. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Guo Shengtong came to hear the wind and said to Liu Xiu: "Your Majesty, everything in the palace is in order now, and you can watch it with the Changqiu Order." This year, concubines can return to the tomb with His Majesty to worship their ancestors. ”

When Liu Xiu heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised that Guo Shengtong was so well-informed, and he was inevitably a little unhappy in his heart. Guo Shengtong intended to go, but he had no intention of carrying it. Yin Lihua is his original match, even if he set up Guo Shengtong as the queen, and stood side by side with Guo Shengtong in front of the civil and military officials, he has never shaken this cognition, Guo Shengtong is not enough for him to let Guo Shengtong replace Yin Lihua's position in his heart, and only Yin Lihua can let him take back to Chungling to worship his ancestors, this was the case in the past, and now it is even more so, so Liu Xiu responded: "Although Changqiu Ling is extraordinary, but if there is no queen in charge, I am afraid it will be difficult to have a good situation today." There is no queen in the palace, the queen should stay, I don't feel at ease when I hand it over to others, even if it is a noble person, it is not as good as the queen. ”

Liu Xiu's words have all come to this, and Guo Shengtong can't do anything since he was a governor. She said calmly: "The concubine will obey the holy will and will definitely live up to Your Majesty's trust." ”

"Okay, then it's hard for the queen." Liu Xiu responded.

Guo Shengtong said with a slight panic on his face: "Your Majesty is serious, this is a matter for the concubine. ”

Having said this, Liu Xiu saw that Guo Shengtong didn't seem to have any intention of leaving, so he said to Guo Shengtong: "If the queen is fine, go back, I still have important things to do." No matter what Guo Shengtong's purpose is, Liu Xiu doesn't want to pay attention to it now.

Guo Shengtong heard that even if he was reluctant, he had to leave with interest, she said: "The concubine retired." With that, he bowed and turned and left.

At this moment, Liu Xiu suddenly remembered something, so he said to Guo Shengtong's back: "I only brought Yin nobles this time, and the princes and princesses from them stayed in the palace and were taken care of by the palace people as usual, and I hope the queen will bother to take care of them." ”

Guo Shengtong turned around and responded, "Oh." Then he turned and walked away again. This time, Liu Xiu did not stay any longer.

On the way back, Guo Shengtong began to wonder whether this arrangement was Yin Lihua's decision or Liu Xiu's decision, and what the purpose was. However, whether it is Yin Lihua or Liu Xiu's decision, she knows very well that she can't be unfavorable to Liu Yiwang, Liu Yang and Liu Cang, her intuition tells her that this is a trap, a trap that wants her to get into it and make her debut. She only wished that this was only Yin Lihua's idea now.

However, Guo Shengtong's idea is undoubtedly self-deception, with Yin Lihua's cautious nature, he must not want to let his children take risks. And this is indeed not Yin Lihua's idea, it is Liu Xiu's temptation of Guo Shengtong, and it is also his selfishness to be alone with Yin Lihua.

When Liu Xiu told Yin Lihua about this decision, Yin Lihua was unwilling. Yin Lihua had no objection to Liu Xiu's desire to find out the fox, but she was extremely reluctant to use her children as bait, even if Liu Xiu said that he had made all arrangements. In Yin Lihua's view, no matter how perfect Liu Xiu's arrangement is, it is difficult to guarantee that there are no accidents. She only has these three children now, and she can't bear the pain of losing them, but Liu Xiu is different, without the prince and princess she came from, as well as the prince and princess from Guo Shengtong, and the prince of Xu Meiren, Yin Lihua can't afford to take the risk. For this reason, Yin Lihua asked Liu Xiu to bring Liu Yiwang, Liu Yang and Liu Cang, but Liu Xiu resolutely refused. In desperation, Yin Lihua had no choice but to be angry and say that she would not go alone. Liu Xiu was unwilling, he asked Yin Lihua to believe him, and promised that if Liu Yiwang, Liu Yang or Liu Cang were harmed in any way, he would suffer the same harm himself. When Liu Xiu said this, Yin Lihua could only reluctantly agree, after all, she couldn't be the master, she could only fight for it.

On this day, Liu Xiu asked people to disguise themselves and set off with the team in a bright way, while he quietly took Yin Lihua, Liu Zhang, Liu Xing and several guards to set off to Chungling in the form of civilians. Liu Xiu said that this is to observe the people's feelings. In addition, Liu Xiu actually didn't say another reason, that is, he wanted to see if there was an assassination this time, whether there was or not this time, at least he could determine the scope of the person who instructed the assassination last time.

Along the way, Yin Lihua followed Liu Xiu through bustling and lively places, passing through barren and deserted places, but the latter was the majority.

On this day, their group passed by a street market, and Liu Xiu took Yin Lihua, Liu Zhang and Liu Xing to the market again, but compared with the lively street market they walked through last time, this time it was much inferior. However, passing by the candy seller's stall, there are still many children around, but the difference is that the children there are scrambling to buy first, while the children here are more onlookers, watching, and even constantly swallowing and drooling.

Seeing this, Yin Lihua asked Liu Xiu to send someone to buy one for each child.

Liu Xiu did not refuse this.

Each child got the sugar man assigned by the guards sent by Liu Xiu, only to see that some children couldn't wait to devour it immediately, some children hesitated for a while before eating, and some ran away when they got their hands.

Yin Lihua took another look and continued to walk forward with Liu Xiu. Walking to a vegetable stall, Yin Lihua stopped again.

Liu Xiu followed Yin Lihua's gaze and saw a child in ragged clothes with a thin yellow face and thin muscles swallowing saliva and handing the uneaten sugar man to a thin old man with white hair. After the thin old man took a small bite, the child ate the candy man with relish.

Seeing this, Liu Xiu glanced at the attendant.

The attendant understood, and immediately walked to the old man and the child's vegetable stall, and walked there and pretended to ask for directions and talked to the old man.

Liu Xiu took Yin Lihua and her two nephews to the teahouse opposite and sat down.

Five years ago, the old man's son enlisted in the army, and he didn't know life and death, and his daughter-in-law was not in good health, and he died four years ago when he was sick and had no money for treatment, so he was left with his grandson to live together. Originally, there were some fields at home, but the floods and locusts were infested, and there was no harvest, and he had to pay taxes, so he had to give up the fields, dig wild vegetables for a living, and live in poverty.

Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua were silent after hearing this. After a short rest, we set off again. After that, they often encountered poor people like the grandfather and grandson at the resting place.

Stop-and-go, returned to Chungling for two nights, and drove back to Luoyang.

When she returned to Luoyang, Yin Lihua went to see her children for the first time, and when she saw that they were all safe and sound, her worried heart was finally settled, and she had the heart to listen carefully to Mama Liu about the situation in the backyard in the past few days.

I don't know if it was because Mama Liu, Qingyu and the other four were safe, or if Guo Shengtong was cautious this time, and the backyard was safe. Yin Lihua has no regrets about this, after all, she would rather be okay this time.

Liu Xiu was also quite surprised that there was nothing to do in the palace, but he did not dispel his doubts about Guo Shengtong, but looked at it more cautiously. He hopes that Guo Shengtong will really be obedient from now on, as long as Guo Shengtong follows the rules from now on, then even if Guo Shengtong makes mistakes, he is still willing to continue to give her the respect she deserves, after all, he is still quite satisfied with the crown prince Liu Qiang.

Regarding what he saw and heard on the road, Liu Xiu discussed with several close ministers and Hu Cao, and issued an edict, saying: In the past, floods and droughts and locusts were disasters, grain prices soared, and people were poor. I have no way for the people to support themselves, and I have compassion for them. He ordered the county to state those who have grain, and to give those who are old, widowed, widowed, lonely, lonely, and sick, and have no family members and are poor and cannot survive on their own. Two thousand stones were reluctantly followed, and there was no order to derelict in their duties.

Not long afterward, Liu Xiu issued another edict to change Lingling Township to Zhangling Township, and the world was exempted from forced labor, which was the same as Fengpei and Pei in the Gaozu era.

After the edict was issued, Liu Xiu deliberately said this when Yin Lihua came to the Xuanshu Palace, and he knew that although Yin Lihua didn't say it, he was worried about it in his heart.

As Liu Xiu expected, Yin Lihua has indeed been holding this matter in her heart for the past few days, but she believes that Liu Xiu will definitely deal with it, but she didn't expect it to be so fast, Yin Lihua is very happy. Yin Lihua had to admit that Liu Xiu was a wise man, although she did not marry the person she liked, but marrying a generation of Ming Jun like Liu Xiu was actually not wronged, Yin Lihua thought so, and took the initiative to embrace her for the first time.

Liu Xiu was quite surprised that Yin Lihua took the initiative to embrace and get close to herself, you must know that Yin Lihua's words and deeds are all like everyone's beautiful appearance, except for kissing him last time, there has never been a transgression, even if she is good with him, she has never indulged. Today, it is rare for Yin Lihua to throw herself into her arms, how can Liu Xiu not be happy.

Although Yin Lihua's move was emotional, she was still a little uncomfortable, but she felt Liu Xiu's chest beating strongly, listening to Liu Xiu's hearty smile, she forgot about it, and it was difficult to suppress joy in her heart.

Liu Xiu said to Yin Lihua with a smile: "The bright moon is like this, my heart is happy, you might as well treat me like this in the future." As he spoke, Huanbao Yin Lihua's hands tightened, eager to rub Yin Lihua into her bones and become one with him.

Liu Xiu's scorching breath fell on Yin Lihua's sensitive earlobe, which made her body feel strange, she was a little frightened and hurriedly suppressed it. In order not to let Liu Xiu find out, she hurriedly struggled, intending to break free from Liu Xiu's arms.

But Liu Xiu originally did it intentionally, he just wanted to tease Yin Lihua, but when Yin Lihua's body reacted, he couldn't help it, and what was even more uncomfortable was that Yin Lihua was still struggling in his arms at this time, and he really played with fire and set himself on fire. Seeing that it was still daylight, and the place was wrong, it was really bitter for him. He immediately took the opportunity to hug Yin Lihua tighter, and said in a dumb voice, "Don't move." ”

When Yin Lihua heard the sound, she didn't know what was going on, and immediately obediently stopped moving.

After a long time, Liu Xiu calmed down her desires and let go of Yin Lihua, but when she let go, she said, "I'll clean you up at night." ”

Yin Lihua was so ashamed that she fled.

Seeing this, Liu Xiu smiled heartily.