Adventures in Heaven (novel) Zhang Baotong

No matter how good the food is, if there is no atmosphere, the taste will change. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info Although everyone is eating and drinking, watching singing and dancing, their mood has changed, and they all want to leave early, but it is not easy to take the lead. I think the king's approach is too extreme to even do the most basic diplomatic entertainment. If you continue like this, you will be doomed. As I was thinking this, I saw the lieutenant get up from the side of the case, come to the king with a glass of wine, look respectful and generous, and say to the king, "The king resents his subordinates so much, he must have listened to the greedy words of others, and the truth and falsehood are clear, and the subordinates do not complain about your majesty, but only ask your majesty to drink this glass of wine and give him a step, so that his subordinates can come out of this house." So saying, he raised his glass with both hands and raised his eyebrows, and toasted the king.

Du Wei's move really surprised everyone, and they felt that Du Wei was very generous and bold, and he was also very calm and witty, and he wanted to take the king into an army. The king panicked, but did not know what to do. When the Queen Mother saw this, her face was overjoyed, and she said, "Du Wei is so refreshing, why doesn't the prince treat him politely?" The king looked coldly at the lieutenant, got up with great confusion and hesitation, slowly took the glass, and without speaking, raised his glass and drank it.

At this moment, he saw that he shouted, "Your Majesty, slow down." So saying, he came to him, snatched the glass from the king's hand, and said, "Let him drink this cup for your majesty." With that, he drank the wine. Seeing that he wanted to drink for the king, Du Wei was about to stop it, but it was too late. Attentive is an informed and polite maid, and will never do anything that violates etiquette. Therefore, her approach makes everyone feel very puzzled. When the Queen Mother saw that she had drunk the wine that Du Wei had given to the king, she was furious and said, "Be bold and courteous, so rude, come and punish this slut heavily." The king hurriedly got up and pleaded with the queen mother, "The queen mother is angry, and she knows that the prince occasionally feels cold and cannot drink, so she wishes to drink this cup on behalf of the king." Please ask the queen mother to see that she is loyal to the king, and spare the courtesy. But the queen mother did not ignore the king's request, but said, "If you don't punish her heavily, I'm afraid that the maids in the palace will follow her, so there is still the law of the king in the palace?" The Queen Mother knew that the king was very affectionate to courtesy, and she wanted to teach the king a lesson by punishing courtesy.

The guard of Crape Myrtle Garden came over and dragged him up and was about to walk towards the house. However, without waiting for the guards to drag him, he fell to the ground, and blood flowed from his nose and the corners of his mouth. The king cried out, "Attentive," and leaned over and took Diligence in his arms, and called out in a loud voice, "Attentive." Everyone hurried around to the courtesy. He said to the king weakly, "Your Majesty, I have seen someone drugged in wine. As he spoke, he was a little out of breath, and his head slowly tilted to the side. The king exclaimed bitterly, "Attentively." However, he could no longer be heard. The king cried out like madness, "Oh my God," and then, turning around, snatching the sword from the guard's hand, and shouting to the captain, "Traitor, don't think of leaving." When the lieutenant saw that the king had stabbed him with a long sword, he drew his sword from his waist and responded to it. As a result, the two long swords collided violently in the middle of the hall. Seeing that the situation was not good, the palace ladies who sang screamed and ran around. The Queen Mother ordered the two to cease fighting, but both of them were red-eyed and did not stop. The Queen Mother had to order two guards to stop them with long swords.

When the king saw that he had been stopped, he threw his sword to the ground in anger and walked out of the hall with a quick pace. I hated the audacity of the Lieutenant, and I was very angry at the Queen Mother's leniency, and in order to protest and disagree with it, I immediately followed the king out of the hall. Then the princess also walked away angrily.

Out of the crape myrtle garden, I saw the figure of the king walking towards the lake garden in the moonlight, and knew that he needed someone to accompany and comfort him the most at this time. So, I entered the lake from the curved bridge on the lake to the center of the lake. The king was sitting in the drawing-room, panting loudly and weeping. I know that the king is very fond of courtesy, and now that courtesy is dying for him, how can he not be saddened and grieved?

I didn't bother him, I didn't stop him, I just sat silently beside him. After a while, the princess also came, and whispered, "I have been carried into the council hall." The king listened, and nodded with a whimper. Because I was present with the princess, the king wiped away his tears, but the tears kept rolling down. Neither of us spoke, just sat together in silence.

Without the courtesy, Huxin Yuan seems to be a little less angry. The king became more and more depressed, weakened, frightened, listless, and restless. I don't sleep with me at night. Late one night, he suddenly screamed from his dream. I was awakened and asked, "Your Majesty, what's the matter?" The king screamed, "Someone is going to kill me." I hurriedly asked, "Your Majesty has a nightmare?" The king was terrified and said, "Someone, someone wants to kill me." I immediately grabbed the sword from my pillow and looked alertly around the dark room, but there was no one in sight. So, I lit an oil lamp and walked around the room with a long sword, and there was nothing out of the ordinary.

When I returned to bed, the king said, "When I heard the footsteps of men moving, I opened my eyes, and when I saw a sword being raised against me, I cried out." I put my sword under my pillow and said, "Sleep, it's all right." "As he spoke, he was about to turn off the lights. The king said, "No, I have nightmares when I close my eyes." I said, "There are guards outside the door, and I am with you in the house, so Your Majesty does not need to be afraid." "In order to put him at ease, I didn't turn off the lights right away, I just wanted to talk to him. After he had calmed down, he said to me, "The palace is a place of evil, and I am a scholar, born as a king, but without the life of a king, weak and helpless by nature, it is better to abandon the throne, return to the school village, and live a peaceful and comfortable life." I advised him, "If Your Majesty renounces the throne, you will let the tiger and wolf reign and evil breed, and then not only will the righteous people of the palace be robbed, but Your Majesty and I will have to lose our lives sooner or later." The king said sadly and helplessly, "The queen mother is in power, and she reuses the captain, what can I do?" It is better to abandon your worries and live in peace. I said, "Your Majesty was born into the royal family, and he will bear the great trust of the people, and this is the destiny of heaven, and you must not neglect it." Although His Majesty's power has fallen, it is still the trend of justice, so that evil does not dare to be too mad. ”

The king, though he had taken my advice, was still bewildered and depressed, and hid himself in his house all day, either sighing out of the window, or indulging in the nostalgia for his courtesies, and had noticeably lost interest in the affairs of the house. Sometimes, the prime minister asked for a meeting several times in a row, but he was turned away. I tried to cheer him up, but I couldn't think of a solution, so I sometimes felt that the king was both pitiful and worrisome: if he went on like this, there would be no hope for the palace. Just as I was full of worries in my study, the prime minister came to Huxin Garden to see the king. Seeing the old prime minister in a hurry, I asked, "Why is the prime minister in a hurry?" The prime minister said, "The deliberations of the villages have been waiting in the main hall for His Majesty to enter the court for a long time. I said, "Just now I saw His Majesty talking to Uker in front of the door, but now he is gone." So saying, I called the guard on duty at the door and asked, "Do you know where Your Majesty is now?" The guard said, "Your Majesty has been accompanied by Uker and rode out of the palace." ”

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