In winter, the Imperial Garden is actually not much to see, except for piles of rotten wood and stones that I don't know where to move, and there are only bare tree trunks all over the garden, and the bleak scenery will not make the mood feel good no matter how you look at it.

Liu Wude stayed alone in the Listening Rain Palace for a long time, listening to the Rain Palace is still the same old way, except for the sound of ticking water, everything is so lonely that people panic, I didn't think it before, but now that Yin Hongmakeup is gone, Liu Wude found that his heart was empty, and he didn't even have anyone to talk to, and he regretted that he had too little time to accompany her before.

What a proud woman, she stayed in the rain palace for fourteen years, but when she left, she didn't say a word of sadness, Liu Wude didn't say it, but she still admired her in her heart, at least he couldn't stay alone in this deserted palace for fourteen years.

The ancients were right, only those who are cruel to themselves can be cruel to others, even if that person is her biological daughter.

Liu Wude couldn't do it, so even if Liu Huan, the king of Qin, was ready to kill him and rebel, he still couldn't bear to kill him, no matter how he said it, Liu Huan was his own flesh and blood.

The team sent out came with news again, what she saw and heard, it was exactly the same as what Qiao Yue said, she was as proud as her, she knew that this was a domineering demand, but she told him everything he wanted to know without reservation.

His suspicion of her was a joke, and the team sent out was dying, and wrote back that they had encountered a sea monster at sea, and with a wag of their tail, their ship had been overturned in the waves, and the team had suffered heavy losses.

Those who were lucky enough not to die no longer had the strength to go forward to confirm whether what Qiao Yue said to the unknown world was true or false, and she said that from here, as long as she kept going in one direction. You can go back to the original point, the ground. It's never square, it's round?

But how is it that the earth is round? Liu Wude shook his head in confusion.

She also said that the gods told her that flying out of our current world, there are still many places where people live outside, and she said that the gods told her that as long as she passes through the wormhole, she can reach the place where the gods live, and the gods said that the wormholes shorten the time distance calculated by tens of thousands of light years. Flying faster than light and different star time in two places always fail to estimate the gap between two different cultures in terms of time.

Of course, Liu Wude didn't understand such words, and Qiao Yue said that she didn't understand either, anyway, it probably means that the place where the immortals live is more than a thousand years later, as long as you pass through the wormhole that the immortals said, you can reach the immortal world more than a thousand years later, who can imagine what that wormhole is, and it will become a monster more than two thousand years old when you run in it.

If you don't understand, ask her. She would always say things that he was interested in and didn't understand, and she enjoyed it anyway.

Liu Wude found that it was very boring to talk to Feng Chun about the same thing, because he always hid and said that there were no immortals in this world. Immortals simply don't exist.

He still likes to chat with Qiao Yue, a person can shuttle through a time tunnel of two thousand years, if he is not an immortal. I don't believe it when Liu Wude is killed, at least this explains. His pursuit is not illusory, let alone immortality, no matter how bad it is. As long as you can live for 2,000 years like that god, it's also a very good thing.

Of course, before his team set off, Qiao Yue warned that there would be a big, big monster in the sea, but it was not a monster, she said that it was just a big fish, and she also said that the closest place to the sky in the world was on our side of Shunchao, there was no need to go far, if His Majesty wanted to go to the sky, she would provide the drawings.

Liu Wude wanted to know why Qiao Yue only provided drawings instead of leading the way, after all, she was very familiar with the immortals, and the immortals had taught her so many things, so if she came forward to discuss with the immortals, wouldn't his chances of becoming an immortal be greatly increased.

Of course, this must be a luxury, the relationship between him and Qiao Yue is not as good as it seems on the surface, he can't understand Qiao Yue, because even now, he doesn't know what Qiao Yue wants, he doesn't know what she wants, and how to do what she likes, this has always been a big problem that plagues Liu Wude.

Looking at the large number of letters sent back by the team, accompanied by the sound of ticking water, the things he had hoped for for many years were so really in front of him, Liu Wude was so happy that everyone was many years younger.

Feng Chun is a big liar, he himself is obviously from the world of immortals, but he told me that there are no immortals in this world, he is really a rebel who should be killed.

The ethereal is becoming more and more real, and it's really exciting, and it's an addictive thing.

Liu Wude has been obsessed with these things recently, and even many things in the army have been slack.

In fact, it is not slack, this year is a rare year, there is no war on the surrounding borders, and everyone can have a peaceful year, which is actually a very good thing.

Tuk-tuk...

Heavy footsteps came from behind him, and Liu Wude leaned on the red railing, looking at the sea of withered grass, which was where Yin Hongxiang especially liked to stand.

The beautiful thoughts were disturbed, Liu Wude frowned, and he was a little unhappy in his heart, he looked for the sound, and immediately opened his face and showed a gentle smile.

What came over was a big man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, one of Liu Wude's most relied on ministers of the humerus, Wen Du Min, Wu Cheng Yong, and the person who came over was his right-hand man, so Liu Wude didn't feel that Cheng Yong trespassed into the rain palace to listen to how disrespectful it was.

"Your Majesty..."Cheng Yong saluted, "I heard that Qiao Niangzi invented a powerful weapon, five hundred steps away, breaking armor and hurting people, and you don't need a powerful condor to shoot a bow and arrows, not only that, the cloud-breaking bow is equipped with an arrow box, which can be fired continuously, as soon as this artifact comes out, the firearms battalion we rely on the most is simply not a fart, our firearms are two hundred steps to break armor and hurt people, and they can't shoot continuously, shoot a cannon and load a cannon, and the gunpowder in stock is handed in by the mighty marquis back then, if it really starts a war, it can't fight two battles, Our firearms battalion is just an ornament, without gunpowder, the firearm is not good for the big sword, it is completely a pile of scrap iron, but this cloud-breaking bow is different, the arrow is gone, we can make it ourselves, unlike gunpowder. can only rely on Feng Chun...

Your Majesty... You'll have to think of a way, this cloud-breaking bow. Our team has to be matched, otherwise. Our soldiers can only be used as live targets to shoot and play, no matter how bad it is, how can Feng Chun hand over the formula of gunpowder, our throats are always held by others, holding their breath...

Don't look at Zhang Meng, these people are now as well-behaved as a grandson, if his wings are really stiffened, I'm sure there will always be trouble in this world..."

Liu Wude looked at Cheng Yong and complained, until Cheng Yong stopped talking, he said meaningfully: "Aggrieved? ”

Cheng Yong stood in front of him angrily.

Liu Wude smiled gently. Cheng Yong talked about these powerful relationships, where can he not understand that the world of the Liu family, the officials who guard the Quartet are all hereditary families with deep roots for decades, and if they want to eliminate future troubles from the roots, they can only be replaced, but now at this juncture where he is about to attack the business, where does he have extra experience and people all over the world.

For a good king, strong force is fundamental. Of course, checks and balances are the key to long-term peace and stability.

Cheng Yong puffed up like a child and said, "I heard that even the merchants have got the drawings, but we don't." It is said that the building near the water will get the moon first, and Mrs. Qiao is in the palace, but the drawings have gone to others. You say we're not wronged. ”

Liu Wude threw a stack of letters in his hand into the sea of grass in front of him, and the pieces of paper fluttered one after another. He glanced at it thoughtfully and said, "Then come with me." Speaking of which, I haven't seen her for a while, and like you, I've always been a little bit angry lately, and I'm afraid to go to see her, so I can't hold my breath, and it's not good to say some angry words after all. ”

Cheng Yong was puzzled: "Women love vanity after all, and when the emperor solves the damn Shang Lao'er and establishes Qiao Niangzi as a country, I don't believe that she will have any good things that will not come to us in the future!" ”

Liu Wude shook his head helplessly, whatever he thought, but he knew that Qiao Yue and her mother Yin Hong, the same position that women in the world dream of, neither of them will be able to look at it.

Maybe Princess Pingyang has a certain relationship, since that day on the street and Princess Pingyang, when he returned to the palace, there were always a lot fewer people who sneaked to the Jardine Palace to see Qiao Yue.

The imperial dining room is still the same as before, Qiao Yue's food is always made with flowers, and it is a small stove every day, and the degree of delicacy is not even comparable to Liu Wude's imperial meal.

Although eating and eating are trivial things, but the small things are big, just like the original Princess Pingyang, the other concubines and nobles in the palace have long been dissatisfied with the Jardine Palace, why should she enjoy this special treatment, she is not a noble, and the second is not a favorite concubine, it is rumored that she still has broken shoes for people to fill the house, anyway, the women in the harem are all holding a lot of anger in their stomachs, and some of them are not, when they talk about Qiao Yue, they will always have nothing good to say.

However, no one dared to come forward to find Qiao Yue's stubble, there was no reason, anyway, the queen was not in a hurry, and they concubines naturally had no need to help the queen get ahead.

Xiaozhu squatted next to a plum tree in the garden and looked at it for a long time, and saw Qiao Yue was turning around boringly on the edge of the lotus pond in the middle, she said: "Miss, I didn't pay attention to it before, but today I heard you say this, it's really yes, everyone said that the plum blossoms in winter, it turned out to be a lie, it snowed for the first time last month, and it's now, and there is not even a flower bone." ”

Xiaozhu picked a dead branch and held it in her hand, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like it's about to bloom.

Qiao Yue smiled gently: "It's not that everyone is deceiving people, which literati are deceiving people, they are all a group of big straw bales, what are the three friends of the cold year, pine, bamboo and plum, look where are the plum blossoms in this winter?" The pine trees are still there, the bamboos are wilting and dying, and I don't know if they have drunk the drunken words they have written, but they still find the wind and integrity in them.

Xiaozhu, if they dare to use these three things as an analogy, you can ask them where the plum blossoms bloom, and if they can't tell why, they will discount all their tongues, saving a day of nonsense and teaching the children badly. ”

Xiaozhu giggled, she has been familiar with Qiao Yue these days, only to find that this Qiao Yue is not as scary as she imagined before, she just needs to do her own thing, in fact, this master is still very easy-going, at least a hundred times better than those moody concubines.

A few days ago, she asked Qiao Yue what she should call her, Qiao Yue said: "Call me Miss, it sounds like a big family, although I am just a child from a tofu grinding family, but when I was a child, I dreamed that others would call me Miss when they saw me, and then there were seven or eight maids around me to call and drink. ”

Xiaozhu came out of the middle of the garden, thought about it and threw away the plum branch in his hand, patted the dust on his hand, and walked over to Qiao Yue: "Miss, that scholar named Zhao Qi is really so talented, more powerful than Du Mingyuan in the capital and Jiang Sheng in Ningzhou?" ”

"Hehe..."Qiao Yue chuckled, "Don't be deceived by any false names, really talented people are not famous, I know a very powerful person, it is said that there is no disease that he can't cure, he is definitely the first miracle doctor in the world, you must be hard to imagine, in fact, he is an old farmer..."

"The person Qiao Niangzi said, but Bai Changlin, the world's number one poison doctor?"

A man in a dragon robe walked in outside the arch, no need to look, listening to the voice Qiao Yue knew that this person must be Liu Wude.

Xiaozhu was about to kneel on the mountain and shout long live, when Liu Wude waved his hand and motioned for her to retreat.

Qiao Yue was still walking slowly by the lotus pond, and she was not surprised to see Liu Wude appear.

Liu Wude laughed to himself, Qiao Yue didn't answer, he continued: "It's just that the scholar that Qiao Niangzi said really didn't hear of it.

Zhao Qi?

Presumably to be so praised by Qiao Niangzi, it should not be an incompetent person, if Qiao Niangzi can invite him to work for me, I will directly let him start from the Liupin School Shulang. ”

"Hehe..."Qiao Yue smiled mockingly, "Do you want me to invite Bai Changlin to you again, starting with the Nine Rank Imperial Doctor?" ”

Yes, the six-rank official is indeed very big, and the new champion has to start from the seven-rank small county order, not to mention Zhao Qi, a talent who has not been tested by the imperial examination, Liu Wude can say this completely because of Qiao Yue's words.

However, in Qiao Yue's heart, Liu Wude asked Zhao Qi to be the school secretary of the sixth grade, and Bai Changlin to be the imperial doctor of the ninth grade is the same nature, both of which are overkill.

In Qiao Yue's heart, not to mention the six-grade school secretary, even if she is a Zhao Qi and a first-class prime minister, it is not an exaggeration, anyway, she is so stubborn that Zhao Qi is the most talented person in the world, and no one can compare.

Liu Wude smiled awkwardly, talking to Qiao Yue is always like this, either saying something you don't understand, or saying something you don't know how to answer, so Liu Wude said that he didn't want to see Qiao Yue when he had a bad temper.

The three sentences didn't get to the point, but Cheng Yong was anxious first, he tried his best to lower his voice, and said: "Qiao Niangzi, you can't favor one over the other, the emperor treats you well, why do you send you the blueprints of the Cloud Breaking Bow all over the world, but you don't send them here?" ”

Yes, words always have to be said, this is said by Cheng Yong, it is better than him Liu Wude, this sentence was said by Cheng Yong, and the thick-skinned Liu Wude did not feel how embarrassed.

Qiao Yue smiled, two charming dimples hung on her delicate cheeks, this was a smile from the heart, she said, "You want it too?" ”

Cheng Yong pretended to nod his head: "Hmm... Well, I want to..."

Contrary to Liu Wude's expectations.

Qiao Yue didn't say anything, nor did she mention any conditions, she just took out a drawing from her sleeve that had been prepared a long time ago, as if she had expected him to come back to ask for a drawing.

She stretched out her white and tender fingers, handed them over, and said, "If you want it, you just say, if you don't say it, how do I know you want it!" (To be continued......)