Shen Baoxu and Dou Xin escorted King Zhao to Yingdu, and Zixi led all the ministers out of the city fifty miles to greet him. After the monarch and ministers met, they felt a lot, and they were softly comforted, and they each had tears on their faces.

After King Zhao entered the city, he looked at the palaces in the city, and most of them were destroyed. There were no industries on both sides of the street, and the population was sluggish, and King Zhao couldn't help but cry.

The carriage creaked, and the hooves sounded. On the wide, empty bluestone streets, you can no longer find the crowded crowds and noisy cars and horses of the past.

The banner hunting in the wind, and the people in ragged clothes and wooden faces on the streets, standing on both sides to greet him, made King Zhao's heart like a knife.

Their yellow-skinned faces and silent gazes contain an unspeakable torture: why is this happening......

When I came to the palace hall, I saw that most of the palace rooms were in ruins, and King Zhao's face was gloomy and silent. When the ministers saw this, they were also silent.

King Zhao did not go straight to the main hall of the palace, thinking that he was ashamed of his mother, 'filial piety first', so he first transferred to the dormitory of the Empress Dowager Meng Huan of Chu - Qiuqi Palace, signaled the ministers to retreat, and went to worship his mother alone.

When Meng Huan heard that King Zhao had returned to the country, he ordered the maid to open the door of the Autumn Palace. For more than a year, there are jackals, tigers and leopards outside the door, in order to protect themselves and clean themselves, the door here is always closed, up to Meng Huan, down to the maids have never left this half a step. After Meng Yingli retired from Lu, her heart was like ashes, and she didn't know when the country was ruined and her family was ruined. I don't want the mother and son to reunite today, and the society still exists, which is a great joy.

King Zhao saw that the door of the Qiuqian Palace where the queen mother lived was wide open, and after walking a few steps, he saw a person sitting on the wooden couch in the middle of the palace, dressed in gorgeous clothes, with a graceful bearing, and he was the queen Meng Huan.

King Zhao knelt down on his knees. Holding his hands on his forehead, he bowed deeply to the ground, hung his head and wept, choking and unable to speak for a long time.

Mother and son were relatively weeping. After a long time, King Zhao kowtowed and said: "The child is not filial, please forgive the queen mother!" ”

Meng Huan stood up, helped King Zhao with both hands, and choked up: "Is Ji Qi good?" Where is she? ”

"Don't worry, the child will let her sister come to see her mother later. The queen mother suffered this great calamity, and it was all the fault of the child's incompetence. Causing misfortune to the country. The child is to blame for this great change! The hateful temple was destroyed by the enemy, and the tomb of the father was humiliated, when will this monstrous hatred be extinguished? ”

Meng Huan held back her tears. Thinking about the safety of his children, the society is lost and regained. and turned his sorrow into joy. Zhengse said: "Today's king is restored, first of all, he should be rewarded and punished first, especially how to reward the Qin master, and let the Qin army return to the country is a top priority." ”

King Zhao understood and replied: "This is natural, the child first has to negotiate with the commander of the Qin army about the reward. Let Qin Shi return to China happily. If you don't repay your kindness, the child will repay the virtue of Qin Jun. ”

Meng Huan said: "After this battle, the people of our country have suffered greatly and suffered unspeakably. The king must have compassion on the people and love them as sons. Wait for the people to recover. After all industries are prosperous and the national strength is strong, we will try to hate today. As the saying goes: 'A gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late'! ”

King Zhao was taught, and Meng Huan said: "The king is already a strong man, and he is no longer an ignorant teenager. After such a change, after tasting the suffering of the world, you will definitely feel something in your heart and live up to everyone's expectations! ”

King Zhao knelt down again to be taught. Then let the princess Ji Mi enter to reunite with her mother. The mother and daughter duo have many intimate things to tell. King Zhao said goodbye to his mother and his sister, and together with his ministers, he prepared to return to the Chinese army camp stationed at the south gate.

Zixi persuaded: "Although the palace hall is a little dilapidated, the minister has ordered it to go down and make some repairs early, and it can still be lived." Since the king has already entered the city, it is better to live in the main palace of the back bed, why should he go back to the military tent to live, and it is not a long-term strategy? ”

King Zhao thought for a while, and said: "If you don't stay in the palace tonight, the widow is sad in his heart, so he will live in the palace, and the widow alone should think about it tonight." ”

King Zhao lived alone in the palace. I couldn't sleep all night, and I went through the whole process in my mind from the beginning of Yingdu's escape to today's return to Yingdu. I cleaned up the harem things I heard about after returning to Yingdu, and I was very impressed that the queen mother was able to clean herself and be preserved under the obscenity of King Wu. In King Zhao's heart, he was even more respectful to his mother, Meng Huan.

And the queen of King Zhao, Concubine Chen, was occupied by He Lu when he invaded Yingdu, and she has been sleeping for King Wu. After King Wu returned to China, this Concubine Chen was left behind and still lived in the Ziyan Palace. Now I heard that my husband had returned to China, but he didn't come to the Purple Smoke Palace, and I knew that King Zhao was to blame, and I had no shame to see my husband, so I hanged myself in the Purple Smoke Palace.

Early the next morning, King Zhao led a hundred officials to go to the temple first to worship the ancestors of heaven and earth. Then I visited the tomb of King Ping, and when I saw that it had been properly repaired, I knew that it was all the power of Zixi, and I was very relieved.

After the sacrificial ceremony, King Zhao said to the ministers: "Today's recovery is all thanks to the power of the ministers!" Now all industries are waiting to be prospered, and there are thousands of holes, and I also ask you to make persistent efforts to regain the rivers and mountains, and it is not in vain for me to be in the name of Dachu! ”

All the ministers raised their arms and shouted, and they all congratulated King Zhao: "This rebirth, it seems that the national fortune of our country is extended, and 'Zhanlu' belongs to the king, and the no way belongs to the way, and the minister is the king He also!" ”

King Zhao said: "The widow does not check the people, and he is allowed to be the government, and he loses the heart of the country, so that the people are not attached, the soldiers are betrayed, and the country is almost destroyed." If it weren't for the great help of all Aiqing, how could the widow have any hope of recovering the country today? Those who have lost their country are the fault of the widows; Those who have restored the country have also made a difference! ”

The ministers profess that they don't dare. King Zhao sent an order to go down and ascend to the palace early tomorrow morning.

It was night, and King Zhao returned to the Purple Smoke Palace. Thinking about all kinds of waste, many things are still unsightly, and I am very anxious. So he sent an envoy to invite Gongzi Zixi, Ziqi and Shen Baoxu to set up a seat in the Meixiang Pavilion of the Ziyan Palace, wanting to discuss how to reward Master Qin at night.

Now Qin Shi Liuchu, although he is here to help himself, is a sharp war machine after all. "How can someone snore on the side of the couch"? With the tiger and wolf on his side, King Zhao couldn't sleep.

The three of them came one after another, and after King Zhao gave the seat, he smiled apologetically: "The widow is anxious, and when he thinks that Master Qin is here, he can't sit at the table." The Qin army is known as the army of tigers and wolves, and the widows are deeply feared. I invited you Aiqing to come here to propose a reward plan, so that the Qin army could return to China as soon as possible. ”

Zixi said: "What the king thinks in his heart, the minister is also thinking about it during this time, and he will only make a decision after the king returns to China." The minister thought that if Master Qin didn't return, it would be inappropriate. However, after the Wu army occupied Yingdu, it looted and looted, resulting in the emptiness of our country's treasury and nothing. What do we use to reward Master Qin? If there was no reward, how could Master Qin be willing to retreat? ”

King Zhao sighed, thought for a while, and said: "The Wu army mainly occupies the area of Yingdu, and several important towns in the south have not suffered any losses, so naturally they can think of some ways." How about sending one person to various places to collect some treasures and jewels to reward Master Qin? ”

Shen Baoxu played: "When the ministers asked the king of Qin for a teacher, they mainly used Qin and Chu as a pretext that they were married to the country, and they did not promise. The minister thought that he could first explain to the commander of the Qin army the current situation of the emptiness of our country's treasury, and after a while, he would be rewarded generously. ”

Ziqi also agreed with Shen Xu's proposal, and also said: "The king can personally go to the Qin army garrison and explain to Qin Shuai that it is not too late to reward the country after it recovers." ”

But Zixi was extremely opposed: "The King of Qin sent a division to help our country retreat from the enemy, although we have nothing to offer, but as a country's faith, we should be rewarded according to the rules, and we must not lose our trust." If it is delayed, the minister is worried that the Qin army will cause misunderstandings; The second is that if you anger the Qin army, in this case, it is very bad for me, please think twice! ”

At this time, a guard came to report that the queen mother had sent a personal maid to meet the king.

After a while, I saw a maid come in to meet King Zhao, knelt down and played: "The concubine received the order of the Queen Mother, and let the concubine come to the king to bring a message: the Queen Mother said that the King must be worried about the reward of the Qin Master, and the Queen Mother said that her old man still has a little collection, this time Wu Jun did not enter the Autumn Palace where the Queen Mother lived, so there are still some usable things in it, although there are not many, but you can also talk about it first. ”

King Zhao was overjoyed, got up and thanked: "Please thank the girl for the widow for the queen mother." The Queen Mother is in charge of the country, and the widow is deeply grateful! ”

Zixi said: "Now it's a little bit right." The ministers thought of some ways in the army, and then discussed with the ministers to raise some donations, plus the queen mother's collection, which could be used as a reward for the teacher first. Let's make some amends in the future, and Master Qin can retreat! ”

King Zhao and the three important ministers agreed on a plan to reward the Qin master. Let Zixi arrange manpower to go to several important southern towns and subject countries that have not been affected by the war, to collect some goods and cloth to enrich the treasury.

After the discussion, it was already three watches, and King Zhao personally sent the three out of the Ziyan Palace before returning to the room to sleep. (To be continued......)