Yaoli, Yuepeng, and Ali took advantage of the chaos to escape from Gusu and ran out of the border of Wu. First to Aicheng, all the way to find Qingji's whereabouts, visited Qingji has arrived in Weiguo, a few people chose the road to Weiguo.

There are two flowers, one on each branch.

It is said that on this day, King Wu Lu had just gone to the morning court, and a guard in front of the palace came up to report that he was leaving the prison last night. Several unknown people robbed the prison at night, and they had already taken the opportunity to flee and disappeared.

King Wu understood in his heart, so he did not ask the jailer about the crime of dereliction of duty. But to flee and defect to Qingji is a great crime of treason. So he issued a document and sent it to all places, and issued the crime of leaving.

King Wu sent another order to the palace soldiers: to escape from prison in secret, there is a bad heart; This man has betrayed his treachery and defected to another country, and his sin is unforgivable! He ordered the soldier to go to the prison as soon as possible, and beheaded his wife in the market, burned the body, and sent people to announce the crime of leaving, so that the people could know about it.

After discussing the affairs of the court, he returned to the harsh/palace, and it was noon at this time. He Lu was led by several palace eunuchs, and just stepped into the door of the dormitory. Seeing that the little girl Shengyu was on the side, she was nagging about her mother.

It seems that the matter of the court's departure did not affect the mood of the court, King Wu's face was warm, and asked Shengyu: "I haven't seen you come over for several days, and I haven't come to see your father, what are you doing in the house all day?" ”

Shengyu hurriedly came over to see He Lu, and said with a forced smile: "I begged my father before, and wanted General Ziwen to bring me something from the market, but I haven't seen him. I don't know what my father told him to do all day. ”

He Lu didn't answer his daughter's words, but turned his head and smiled at Queen Kiko: "The widow doesn't understand, our Shengyu is much more demure now." I didn't see her bullying her brothers. Shengyu, I'll have lunch here today, you haven't been with the widow for a long time. ”

Noriko then instructed the maid to go to the back kitchen to tell the cooks to prepare the utensils and dishes of Princess Shengyu.

He Lu was in a very good mood today, although he understood that his daughter just wanted to indirectly ask about Ziwen's whereabouts or whereabouts. The daughter also learned to be tactful, for fear of making herself angry. Ziwen has been silent since he left the Wu Palace, and it seems that Shengyu has begun to find ways to find answers. Thinking about it, time flies really fast, and in a blink of an eye, her daughter is already slim and has become a big girl.

When Shengyu saw that his father had given him a banquet, he received the order to thank him. In less than half an hour, the cooks served the dishes, and after the maid placed the anchops, King Wu, Jizi, and Shengyu each sat down and began to eat.

This time, the main dish served by the Ku people for King Wu was steamed fish. Because most of the Wu people believe in ghosts, although they also love the delicious taste of fish, they specialize in the plum blossom fish to serve the king, and hide the sword of the fish intestine in the belly of the fish, so the blow is successful. He Lu thought that the plum blossom fish was a little ominous, so the palace no longer made grilled fish.

Maybe the fish burn, forever recording that bloody legend, has become a sharp fish bone in memory, so that He Lu dare not touch.

In order to satisfy the hobby of fish lovers, after some attempts, the people made a kind of steamed fish called steamed sea bass, which tastes fresh, which is diametrically opposed to the strong grilled fish, and is also very fond of it. Under the influence of Helu, Wu Gong later became popular to eat this kind of steamed sea bass.

This time, the steamed fish was very flavorful, and I ate nearly half of it. When I looked up, I saw that there was no steamed fish on the Shengyu table, only a few ordinary dishes.

He Lu said slightly: "Why is there no fish in front of Shengyu?" ”

The palace eunuch replied: "I didn't know that the princess would dine here today. When the queen's kitchen was preparing the meal, it was too late to prepare the steamed fish, so she asked the princess for forgiveness. ”

He Lu knew that Shengyu didn't eat here on weekdays, and the people couldn't prepare for it. So King Wu summoned the maid and gave Shengyu half of the steamed fish left on his case.

Shengyu saw that his father gave him a fish, but when he saw that he had eaten half of it, the perch showed half of its neat bones. Shengyu glanced at the plate of leftover fish in disgust, although he was very unhappy in his heart, he didn't dare to refuse.

Shengyu got up and thanked him, sat down and continued to eat, but he didn't eat the steamed fish.

After the meal, Shengyu quit his parents and led the palace maid to his bedroom. Because thinking about his father's gift of fish at noon, Shengyu was very depressed.

I went to my father's bedroom today to ask about the whereabouts of Qianziwen, but my father didn't pick up the stubble, and his tone was very tight. It seems that there is no real situation from them. Because his father has not answered his questions directly, Shengyu is a little faintly uneasy. It stands to reason that what did the father have to hide from himself?

Shengyu couldn't understand these things.

was silently sad there, and at this time there was a little palace maid who was waiting around him, younger than he should be, and he often played with Shengyu on weekdays. Because this woman is a servant girl from Yue Guogong, Shengyu has always called her Yue Nu, and Shengyu likes her very much.

The little palace maid saw that there was no one around Shengyu, so she whispered to Shengyu: "Princess, the maidservant girl has heard the sisters around the queen talk about it, it seems that General Ziwen is in Aicheng." ”

Shengyu was shocked when he heard this, and he asked his father many times about Ziwen's whereabouts, but he never got a letter. Seeing that the little palace maid had a nose and eyes to speak, she asked, "Didn't General Ziwen send an envoy to Yueguo, why is he in Aicheng?" Don't you listen untruthfully, do you? ”

The little palace maid only tried to speak quickly, so she answered: "How is it not true! Princess, the maidservant also heard that this Ziwen General went to Aicheng alone to assassinate a prince. But he missed. ”

"Don't just tell half a story, tell it quickly! What happens after you lose your hand? Really, you're killing me! ”

"The sisters said that General Ziwen used to come to the palace often to accompany the king. They all said that General Ziwen was a handsome young man, but unfortunately they couldn't see him anymore. ”

"Why can't you do it? Could it be that he was arrested after he missed? I can ask my father to send troops to save him. ”

The Yue Nu said: "General Ziwen must have been sent by the king to Aicheng, right?" There must be something very important for the king to let General Ziwen go out. The maidservant girl heard that General Ziwen was killed by someone else after he missed, so the princess never saw him. ”

After hearing this, Shengyu was like five thunderbolts, and he was speechless for a long time. Most of my heart has long been discouraged. Thinking about it again, every time I inquired about Ziwen's news, my parents were all hesitant, and I thought that Yue Nu's words were by no means groundless.

The more Shengyu thought about it, the more sad he became, so he let the little palace maid go out, and he had to stay alone for a while.

Katsuyu stood up and looked through the tulle lattice. She looked at the fish pond outside, and couldn't help but think of some previous clips:

Although she was still a little girl at that time, she would often pull his shirt and play tricks. However, only he really loves himself, without the majesty of his father and the triviality of his mother, Ziwen is just right.

I don't know what's going on, that's the person I trust the most besides my blood relatives.

I can play tricks on him without any scruples; Lying on his sturdy back, he plucked the tall flowers of the peach tree; Forced him to arch his ass to catch the crickets hiding in the cracks in the stones. In front of him, there is no scruple and there is no need to follow those too many rules and regulations. Because, those interesting objects that Ziwen brought in for himself, that is a window through which he can see Shijie outside.

He was in the high-walled compound, and the things outside the palace that Ziwen brought to himself were outside, unfamiliar and unfamiliar in Shengyu's view: there were exquisite small baskets woven with bamboo silk, small grain baskets, etc., which were woven with plum blossom eyes and diamond-shaped lattice patterns, all of which were all kinds of gadgets; There are also fashionable things like black-skinned clay pots and bird-shaped otaru. There are also various small objects carved out of wood, which are also very interesting, and they are even more cute and beautiful than the splendid gold and jade objects in the palace. Those strange objects, I was amazed, and I was already addicted to them.

Shengyu's tears slowly soaked like that, and half of the leftover fish that his father had rewarded him at noon came to his mind. The perch, glaring at itself with the white eyes of a dead fish, was pale and mysterious.

Shengyu was alone, and he didn't have the heart to call people, so he came out to see the fish tremblingly. When the palace maids saw it, they hurriedly came over to follow the service and accompanied Shengyu to the fish pond.

Katsuyu had some crumbs of chestnut rice and fed them to the red carp in the pond for a while. These fish seemed to be rolling their eyes in the water, which made Shengyu feel uneasy and have a headache.