Under the reflection of the setting sun, Yongcheng seems to be draped in a layer of orange light veil, and the city looks a little quiet. Qin Zheng glanced at the puzzled Lu Pheasant, and explained casually: "Those who had a ditch with Chang Yu in the city were either punished or moved to Shu, and there were many courtiers who were confused by Chang Yu. ”

Lu Pheasant saw that his last sentence was obviously lowered, and it could be seen that he also regretted some of them.

The frame slowly drove into the palace, and the setting sun had sunk into the horizon. In order to welcome the arrival of King Qin in the palace, all the palace lamps were lit, and the palace rooms reflected were beautiful. There are more than 100 people guarding a large hall in the distance, which is probably the main hall of the queen mother. The frame didn't stop, and drove straight towards the main hall.

The car stopped, Lu Pheasant got down, saw King Qin standing outside the hall and hesitated, and had to speak: "The queen mother has lost two sons, and the king can't bear to let her continue to suffer?" ”

As soon as her words fell, she saw a palace maid carrying a tray come out of the hall. The king of Qin called the palace maid who was sincerely frightened and asked the queen mother how she was eating and living recently.

The palace maid put down the tray and bowed back: "The queen mother has only eaten a little for many days, and she often wakes up in her dreams. ”

Qin Zheng asked the palace maid to retreat, he walked quickly to the main hall, pushed the door of the main hall open with both hands, and entered the palace room. Lu Pheasant felt that it was not appropriate to go in at this time to disturb the mother and son talking inside, and he was a little hungry in his stomach, and he was hesitating whether to let the palace maid bring him some food. However, isn't it too pitiful to eat alone outside the palace? She decided to endure her hunger and wait for King Qin to entertain her.

In the palace, Qin Zheng strode in and didn't see Zhao Ji, only to find that there was a bulge on the couch in the side hall. He walked over slowly, but the person on the couch said in a low voice, "I won't eat, let's serve it." ”

"The queen mother should get up and eat a little." Qin Zheng saw Zhao Ji's much thinner back and blamed himself, "It was the son's son who neglected to take care of the queen mother, and let the queen mother be depressed in the capital before being deceived by thieves." Erchen knew that he was wrong. ”

When Zhao Ji heard Qin Zheng's voice, he thought that he was hallucinating, and after listening to it for a while, he turned to look at the person who spoke in surprise, and it turned out to be Zheng'er.

She slowly got up from the couch in spite of her sideburns, threw herself on her adult son, who was more than a head taller than her, and patted his chest with her palms while crying: "How dare you be so ruthless!" I have no relatives in this Qin country except you, how can you treat me like this! ”

Qin Zheng was embarrassed with his hands open, but he couldn't stop sobbing when he saw Zhao Ji. He gently hugged the queen mother, gently stroked her shaved back with his right hand, and kept saying: "It's the son's fault, the son's fault, the queen mother don't cry." ”

When he was far away in Handan, Zhao Ji hugged his crying son, and his son in Yongcheng hugged the crying Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji seemed to want to vent the grievances of the first half of her life at once, and it took a long time before she gradually stopped. When the mother and son finally let go and understood each other. Lu Pheasant took advantage of the power of King Qin to command the palace cooks.

"Remove the core and slice the dried dates, soak the wolfberries in water for later use. Put the jujube slices in the boiling water, boil the wolfberries for half a minute, put the corn on low heat and simmer for an hour. Lu Pheasant said his request, and the palace chef clearly divided labor and did what she asked.

Lu Pheasant originally wanted to wait for Qin Zheng to have dinner later, but after a while, he realized that he might not be able to wait for him to come out for a while. Thinking that the Queen Mother hadn't eaten much recently, she made up her mind to let one of the guards take her to the kitchen. She also instructed the cook to simply make an appetizer and sour shredded radish, thinking that Qin Zhengman needed to eat more, and asked the cook to cut the best beef and mutton slices, delicately arranged into petals, and the dipping sauce was also composed of meat sauce with vinegar and leek sauce to synthesize the aroma.

Thinking that it would be better to have a sweet after the meal, he instructed the cook to cut the fresh and large pears on the top, remove the kernels, put in the honey, cover the pear stalks back and put them on the steamer, and steam them for half a moment on high heat.

She watched the cook prepare everything according to her own requirements, and by this time the aroma of corn porridge had already emanated, and her stomach had rumbled several times. Estimating that Qin Zheng should almost appease the queen mother, she sent someone to go back with food.

Qin Zheng did want to send someone to call Lu Pheasant to come in to eat together at this time, after all, he had just praised Lu Pheasant in front of Zhao Ji, but he didn't expect that the Queen Mother had a poor appetite, how could it be solved by ordinary food. After Lu Pheasant came in, Qin Zheng saw the palace maids who followed behind with trays, smelled the aroma in the air, and also had an appetite.

Lu Pheasant saluted Qin Zheng and the Queen Mother, Qin Zheng pointed at Lu Pheasant and said: "Queen Mother, this is where you say that you can move your sons, so that your sons can know their mistakes and change them." ”

The Queen Mother asked Lu Pheasant to get up, looked at it closely, and nodded in praise: "It's a Peugeot, and she will definitely be a beauty in the future." ”

Although Lu Pheasant didn't like her to only evaluate her appearance, she didn't care about her background and her age anymore, so she proposed: "I asked the cook to make some hors d'oeuvres, I think the king and the queen mother are hungry, you might as well give it a try." ”

Qin Zheng couldn't help but glance at Lu Pheasant gratefully, and then provoked Zhao Ji with words and said, "If the queen mother doesn't eat, how can the sons and daughters eat alone." Pull it down. ”

Lu Pheasant saw that Zhao Ji's eye sockets were sunken, and her haggard appearance also persuaded: "I heard that this is a tonic that can beautify and nourish the skin, so the Queen Mother should give it a try." ”

In the end, Zhao Ji still left the food and decided to eat as much as he wanted. Qin Zheng and Zhao Ji sat on the top seat, and Lu Pheasant was in the bottom.

When Qin Zheng saw the exquisite meat slices and dipping sauces, he guessed that it was the villain who instructed the cook to make it, she was not very old, but she knew a lot of fresh food. Zhao Ji originally had a poor appetite, but she tasted the soft and rotten corn porridge boiled, and the fragrance of corn was accompanied by the sweet fragrance of jujube slices and wolfberries, which was really good. Even a plate of shredded radish was sour and spicy, and she couldn't help but admire: "You have put a lot of thought into it." ”

Lu Pheasant was not easy to take care of, put down the spoon in his hand and said, "I just came up with ideas, most of them are made by the cooks." There is also a food to be offered to the Queen Mother and the King after the meal. ”

Qin Zheng finished eating the rice porridge in his bowl in a few bites, and the meat slices on the plate on the side also disappeared. He smiled and looked at Lu Pheasant, who was about to sell the guan: "The widow has finished eating, so don't let someone serve it soon." ”

The maid brought out a warm dish in the water, revealing a large pear. When Qin Zheng thought that it would not be a steamed pear, he saw the palace maid take off the plough handle and put it aside, revealing the fragrant pear flesh in it, which was also full of juice. He picked up the spoon on the side and tasted it, and it was sweet and refreshing.

Empress Dowager Zhao also ate about the same, originally thought that she had no appetite, but in the end she still ate more than half a bowl of porridge. She asked people to bring the honey stewed pears, tasted them, and her eyes lit up, and she took a spoon and ate a whole pear cleanly. In the end, she found that Qin Zheng looked at herself with satisfaction and couldn't help but explain: "This pear tastes very good, so I ate a few more bites." ”

After the meal, Qin Zheng opened his mouth and proposed to take Zhao Ji back to Xianyang for support, but Zhao Ji was a little hesitant. Lu Pheasant's brain teaser turned and proposed: "The queen mother is weak and should not be bumpy, it is better to raise it for a few days and then return to the capital." ”

After the queen mother returned to the palace to rest, Qin Zheng asked puzzledly: "Why is the queen mother unwilling to go back with the widow?" The widow has said that the queen mother will return to Xianyang to receive more wives and daughters of her subordinates, so that she will not be lonely in the palace. ”

Lu Pheasant can probably understand the queen mother's thoughts: her lover led the army to rebel and kill her monarch's son, how could she return to the capital as if nothing happened?

She looked at Qin Zheng with a meaningful smile and motioned for him to come closer and listen.

Xianyang Lu family, Lezi heard that Lu Gong left Lu Pheasant alone in the palace, and almost wanted to fight with him, if it wasn't for the fact that King Qin sent someone to collect the body of the dead minister soon, Lu Gong repeatedly assured that King Qin treated Lu Pheasant with courtesy, and Le Zi would not be easily appeased.

Changping Jun acted as the agent of the state government, and found that the king was gone in Yongcheng and never returned, and left a letter to the court to miss his mother and become ill, and the queen mother did not return for a day, so he would serve the queen mother in Yongcheng for a day. In the first few days, the ministers also went to the letter to ask the king to return, but the king was unmoved, and Changping Jun had to lead his subordinates to Yongcheng to ask the queen mother and Qin Zheng to return to the country.

Changping knelt on the ground and begged Zhao Ji with tears streaming down his face: "Now the people of the capital are panicking, and the country cannot be left without an owner for a day." Please also ask the Queen Mother to put state affairs first and return to the country with the king. ”

The hundred officials who followed Changping also said in unison: "Please ask the Queen Mother to put state affairs first." ”

In this way, the queen mother couldn't bear to have a monarch after all, so she agreed. Qin Zheng was really amazed when he saw that everything was as Lu Pheasant expected. On the day Qin Zheng returned to Xianyang with the queen mother, the subjects cheered. They seemed to have forgotten the shocking rebellion not long ago, but instead made up a variety of stories for Qin Zheng's filial piety to the Queen Mother, and they were all moved by themselves.

Qin Zheng looked at the fickleness of people's hearts, and couldn't help but sigh: "How stupid the people's hearts are. Lu Pheasant saw that the person in front of him was cheap and still had to sell well, glared at him and said, "I have done my best for the king, but I don't know how the king rewarded me?" ”

He had been talking to Lu Pheasant a lot lately, and he was very impressed by Lu Pheasant's rich knowledge and ability to perceive people's hearts, and he thought for a while and said, "How about a widow who gives you a pass so that you can often enter and leave the court?" ”

Lu Pheasant wanted more, she pretended to be a child and blinked her eyes: "If the king follows my plan, destroys Han and Wei, and takes its land lightly, I hope that the king will make me an official." ”

Accustomed to Lu Pheasant's calm and self-contained appearance, Qin Zheng only felt that she was really unsightly at the moment when she was coquettish and cute. He turned around and held back a smile and said, "Isn't it better to destroy Han and Wei or take advantage of the widow's momentum?" If you think of a way to appease its people, there will be no rebellion. The widow will allow you to hold a half-official position, what is it? ”

Lu Pheasant stretched out his little hand, and a smile appeared on his bright and shining eyes: "There is no basis for words, high-five is an oath." ”

"So, you should do it?" Qin Zheng also smiled and slapped her big hand with her small hand.

"Your Majesty, wait for that day, and you will surely let your ruler see my ability, and I will not lose to your courtiers." Lu Pheasant was full of confidence, but he didn't know that he was in the trap of King Qin.

The king of Qin personally sent Lu Pheasant home, and ordered someone to buy the mansion near Lu's house, and gave it to Lu's father to expand the mansion, and rewarded coins and utensils without mentioning. The Lu family was discussed by the subjects for a while, and the good deeds in the city made up a folk song and said: "Wang Xi and Wang Dong, Lu Xiang is in decline." Wang Xi, Wang Dong, Doctor Lu. Xianyang has two Lu, I don't know how many Lu are Erlu. ”