"Your Highness has decided that the country is irretrievable?" Zhou Xian frowned.

Li Yu was stunned: "Why did Emperor E say this?" ”

Zhou Xian said casually: "Your Highness's meaning is that you want to get rid of Guo Shao; I just mentioned the recent tribute...... But you can't rush into such a thing. Too risky, and less likely to succeed; It's not like that. Didn't you think that the country was irretrievable, so you would prepare this kind of plan early? ”

Li Yu turned his head and glanced at the elephant play (chess) that was messily placed on the table next to him. He shook his head, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Emperor E thinks too much, it's just that because my father summoned me today to ask about the national policy, I just thought about it at will." ”

Zhou Xian breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and said: "It is true that Guo Shao is very important to the Zhou court, and His Royal Highness will inevitably think so." But that kind of crooked path is not the way to win, and Your Highness should not pin your big things on the means of assassination. ”

Li Yu nodded, held Zhou Xian's hand, and his mood fluctuated significantly: "You haven't changed your mind, right?" ”

Zhou Xian shook his head vigorously, his eyes revealing a trace of sadness: "Your Highness, let's forget about Tokyo...... Lately I have a feeling that you don't trust me. ”

Li Yu said: "The people I treat Emperor E and the Zhou family are no different from before. Think about it, after I became the crown prince, have I ever treated you badly? ”

Zhou Xian pondered for a moment and said hurriedly: "The weather has been bad recently, maybe I'm prone to crankiness. ”

Li Yu smiled and turned his head to look at the rain outside the door: "It's such a heavy rain, but there is a night banquet in Han Xizai's mansion and invited me, and it's not too early now." ”

Zhou Xian said a few words and sent Li Yu out. She stood silently under the heavy eaves, watching Li Yu's back disappear into the corridor, and then withdrew her gaze. The rain in the sky had already fallen into a line, and the stagnant water on the roof of the tiles fell rapidly, blistering on the water surface of the stone ditch. Zhou Xian couldn't help but stretch out his hand to follow a line of water, and suddenly the cold touch came from the palm of his hand, and his whole body shivered slightly.

After returning to Jinling, the difference between thinking and before is not very big, but there is a lack of such a reality that can be directly felt...... Everything seems to exist in the mind, as ethereal as in a dream.

She slowly walked back to the bedroom from the palace room, her eyes resting on the elephant play on the table. She suddenly thought that the way to win in Xiangju is different from that of Go, and the key to Xiangju is in the long-term strategy.

At a certain moment, Li Yu looked at the elephant opera, was he hinting at something? implied that his sentence "the country is irretrievable" looked farther, so he should have seen it...... Li Yu is not very good at military and political practice, but he is still a very intelligent person.

Zhou Xian's heart was blocked for a while...... It was that Guo Shao who ruined all this, I hate him! No, I have coldly forgotten about him.

Zhou Xian turned out the picture of the plum blossom that had just been drawn, walked to the lampstand and opened the copper cover, the embers were gone, she angrily tore them into two pieces, and then torn them desperately and threw them in the spoon next to her. The fluttering confetti was like a falling flower, and suddenly there seemed to be a voice: Mrs. is like a plum blossom, blooming in the bitter cold wind and snow, but beautiful and proud.

She fell on the couch, reached out and pulled the blanket over her head, and said uncomfortably: "Why bother to practice yourself like this, he must have forgotten it a long time ago...... What sweet words, but deceitful nonsense! ”

Plum blossom...... She recalled the short scene with Li Yu just now, he asked what he was doing, and despite his own efforts, he diverted the topic and asked what he was drawing.

At that time, Zhou Xian was weak-hearted, so he said it honestly. But when I reproduced that scene in my head, I had a strange intuition...... The prince was testing himself, was he lying to him?

Zhou Xian suddenly sat up and sat in front of the couch for a while. Although the "whooshing" rain outside is very noisy, it hides the sound of people's speech, reflecting a kind of quietness.

After a long time, Zhou Xian stood up, sat down where he was painting, and looked at the empty easel. She turned her head to see a lampstand next to the wall. Zhou Xian did trivial things silently like this, got up again, walked to the wall, and paced slowly by the wall. At this moment, a small hole in a figure drawing immediately caught her attention.

Zhou Xian carefully avoided the lampstand in front of him, leaned his eyes over to take a look, and couldn't see anything in the dark. She stood in front of the painting for a long time, then turned and walked towards the door, a voice softly spat out between her lips: "One, two, three......"

Walking out of the doorway, she gently lifted the door of the study next to her, turned around and closed it. Then walk through it step by step unhurriedly. The bookshelves weren't heavy, and she opened them to see the old walls. After looking carefully for a while, Zhou Xian didn't make a single superfluous move, accurately pulled out a brick, leaned his eyes over, and bent over to look at it for a long time.

By the time she walked out of the study again, her face had turned blue and white.

She went back to her bedroom and sat down in front of the window with the curtains lifted, her heart empty. She remembered for a long time, then suddenly stood up sharply and picked up a thick brush hanging from the shelf next to her. Gritting his teeth and wanting to break, but his strength was not enough, he threw it on the ground and desperately stepped on it, the expression on his face was extremely complicated, and even a little distorted.

His face was red, angry, remorseful and ashamed, and tears flowed out at once. She tossed alone for a while, and only after she was tired for a long time did she sit on the couch to breathe and rest, her eyes had become empty: "I'm just a walking corpse......" Zhou Xian's heart was in turmoil for a while.

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In the side hall of the Jinxiang Hall of the Zhou Dynasty, several of the most important ministers were talking one by one, "The next step is, of course, Wuping (Zhou Xingfeng) and the Southern Tang Dynasty, unify the south, and the unification of the world will become the general trend." "There is money and food in the Southern Tang Dynasty and other places, and the risk of using troops is also small, so the imperial court should take advantage of the victory to determine the national policy as soon as possible and prepare early."

Guo Shao was a little distracted on such an important occasion, because the curtain in front of the Queen Mother was embroidered with a few red plum blossoms...... I don't know what Zhou Xian is doing now, and whether he is doing well after returning to Jinling.

"General Guo." Fu Jinzhan's voice said, "What do you think? ”

Guo Shao came back to his senses and said: "The ministers are also more inclined to take the Southern Tang Kingdom as the target, but the specific ones should be the ministers in their own books, and the queen mother will make a careful decision after weighing it." ”

After a while, the deliberations of the few were dissolved.

"General Guo stays." Fu Jinzhan said in a gentle voice, "You led the troops to capture the Shu Kingdom, and you made great contributions, but I couldn't reward you ......."

There is a kind of merit called merit and high master, and there is a kind of official called promotion without promotion. Guo Shao, as the former capital of the palace, is already the highest military position of a martial artist, and it is a useless official title to add a Chinese book order, and it is inappropriate to be crowned king...... Generally, the king is a local marshal, and he is given a high status to win over, such as Fu Yanqing, the king of Wei, and no one is crowned king by the generals of the forbidden army.

Guo Shao immediately replied: "I don't need a reward. ”

Fu Jinzhan said softly: "I heard that you and Shi Yanchao raced horses and lost a good horse?" ”

"The Queen Mother has insight." Guo Shaodao.

Fu Jinzhan said: "There is a good horse in Beiyuan, which is a gift from the party to the emperor, and all the Bole who knows horses praise it as a rare horse...... Unfortunately, it is a wild horse, and no one has tamed it so far. Is General Guo interested? ”

Guo Shao was already unsealable, and now the royal family wants to reward Maxima as a gift, this kind of thing can be unceremoniously ...... It's like Shi Yanchao unceremoniously got Guo Shao's mount away, but if Guo Shao asked Shi Yanchao to do a check in front of the palace, I'm afraid Shi Yanchao wouldn't dare to ask for it.

"Thank you, Queen Mother." Guo Shao bowed directly.

Fu Jinzhan said: "Today the sun is almost midday, the weather is too hot, you go to Beiyuan early tomorrow to see the horses." ”

"Yes." Guo Shao bowed.

The figure in the curtain got up, and after a while, the figure swayed, and the people inside had disappeared into the curtain. Only then did Guo Shao straighten up and turn around and go out. Walking out of the Jinxiang Hall and standing on the masonry floor, I really felt like I was going to be roasted...... Late summer is generally the hottest time.

In the morning, I had been to the palace office, the army had been quiet recently, and the weather was very hot, Guo Shao himself felt lazy and didn't want to do anything. He looked at the height of the sun, and it was estimated that he had had lunch when he went home, so he went to the front of the palace to mix a public meal, and then went home.

After entering the mansion, he walked through the rainbow-like Hongqiao gatehouse, and Guo Shao went straight to the largest house on the south bank of the pool, where his living room was. When I went in, I saw Fu Ermei, Li Yuan'er, and Yulian sitting at the table, and some cleaned up jewelry was neatly placed on the table.

"Husband." Second Sister Fu said happily, "You came back so early today." ”

When several women saw Guo Shao coming back, they came up to salute one after another, their faces flushed, and they couldn't hide their excitement.

"It's all things from the palace of Shu Kingdom, good things." Guo Shao glanced at the table and said with a smile, "I know that women like this beautiful thing...... But I don't know why most women love these expensive things. ”

But there are exceptions, Second Sister Fu is not particularly interested, she didn't even have her ears pierced.

Fu Ermei sat back at the table and chuckled: "Of course my husband doesn't understand, women don't think that there are too many jewelry and clothes, especially beautiful women." She smiled and her eyes were crooked like the moon: "Because you have to wear it differently, you will wear different jewelry on different occasions, if there are so many, women wish they would not repeat it for 360 days a year." ”

Guo Shao said seriously: "I see, I have been taught." ”

"These earrings are quite special." Guo Shao picked up a pair of round bell-like gold and jade earrings, only to see that the carving was finely made, and the internal hollow structure was complex, "This looks good on the ears?" ”

Fu Ermei took it and took a look, pouted and said, "It's really ugly, the husband also said that the palace of Shu is a good thing, who wears this kind of thing?" ”

Guo Shao just took it casually at the beginning, he really didn't care what kind of jewelry it was, he felt that the colorful ones must be valuable anyway, but he didn't care about the appearance...... In this era, it was impossible to create gems and pearls artificially.

Second Sister Fu likes the interest of strange things, and she can't hide her eyes full of curiosity, "What kind of jewelry is this?" With that, he picked up a jade carving object and put it on his finger, but he couldn't put it on, and the ring didn't seem to be that long.

No one knew, even Guo Shao couldn't guess it, and a few people were left aside. Guo Shao looked back left and right, Lu Xiaoniang lived in the second courtyard, and Jingniang and them, but she didn't see the Yang family, so she asked, "Where did Yue'e go?" ”

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