Leaving the brightly lit reed street, Shu'er walked quickly along the remote path of Ninghe Palace, and in a circle, he had come to King Zhao's bedroom.

In the unpretentious courtyard sat two sleepy palace people. The dormitory was silent, except for a candle lamp, which reflected a thin figure in the window.

Shu'er woke up the two palace people lightly, and whispered to them: "I am Dongfang Shu, the king of Anyi of Chu State, and I have come to meet His Royal Highness King Zhao before, and I am tired of the two of you to spread the word. ”

The palace people were looking at the plain-clothed woman in front of them in a daze, and the door of the dormitory had opened with a "squeak".

King Zhao, who was dressed in white and had white hair, held the door frame with one hand and crutches in the other, standing silent.

Shu'er immediately stepped forward to bow down, and King Zhao wanted to raise his hands to help him, but because he was seriously injured, he could only still hold a cane with one hand and hold on to the door frame with the other.

Shu'er knelt outside the door, bowing his head and weeping, King Zhao glanced at the two palace people and ordered: "You go to guard the outside of the courtyard, and no one is allowed to come in and disturb each other." Anyone who came to look for Gu said that Lone's pain was repeated, and he had gone to bed with medicine. You haven't seen the king of Anyi of Chu today, do you understand? ”

The two palace people nodded in unison, retreated to the courtyard of the dormitory, and carefully closed the courtyard door.

Only then did King Zhao look down at Shu'er, and said gently, "Shu'er, get up quickly." ”

Shu'er wiped away her tears and got up, supported King Zhao, and slowly walked to the stone bench in the courtyard. Under the moon, the two sat opposite each other, both dressed in white, but a black hair was coiled into the bun of a young woman of the Song Kingdom, and a silver hair was scattered and drooping, and there was no crown.

King Zhao pointed to the luminous Qi white jade ring on Shu'er's left wrist and sighed: "I never thought that I would be able to see this peerless treasure again in this life." It must be a token left by the little mother, and the little gave it to you as a gift of love. Do you know that this Qi white jade ring was a farewell gift to the first dancing girl in Fanjing when I was visiting Chen Guo many years ago? ”

Shu'er looked at the jade ring on his wrist: "This is the father-in-law, His Royal Highness King Wei, who personally handed me and Rongrong's wedding gift at the wedding banquet in Yihui Shu Palace." As he spoke, he took off the ink-colored engraved plum hairpin from the bun, "There is also a hairpin made of vajra jade produced by the Wei Kingdom, which was also given to us by King Wei at the wedding banquet."

At that time, Qi Wei Chen Shu's four ** alliances had been formed, calmly was the righteous son of King Wei, I was the righteous daughter of King Qi, above the military alliance, and there was a Qi Wei marriage alliance, so the two wedding gifts chosen by the father-in-law were one is the luminous Qi white jade ring, and the other is the patriotic King Kong jade hairpin. ”

King Zhao smiled lightly and sighed again: "Old Zhuge is really well-intentioned. The Qi Wei marriage alliance that he couldn't get by himself was used to fulfill you and Xiao. ”

Shu'er suddenly lowered her voice: "I came alone today, and I don't have much time...... There were two things I wanted to tell my father, and there was another thing I wanted to ask my father for help. ”

King Zhao bowed slightly: "Although the rumors and rumors of you and your son are boiling, I don't believe a word." Even if you are gone, you are still my daughter-in-law, and you are still the daughter who has been in my name for many years, but if you ask for something, you will do your best for your father. ”

Shu'er got up, walked to King Zhao's side, leaned over and whispered: "The first thing I want to tell my father is that I think that Calm and my father-in-law may still be alive. The second thing is that I am pregnant with a calm child. ”

When King Zhao heard this, he was not surprised, but raised his hand to signal Shu'er to sit back on the stone bench, and said calmly: "Shu'er, in fact, I also vaguely guessed it." With my understanding of you, and the relationship between you and Xiao, if you were sure that he and King Wei were no longer alive, you should have killed him a long time ago to avenge him, but you have not done it for a long time in the Song Kingdom.

Others have misunderstood the relationship between you and Er, and even Er himself has been confused by you, but I can see very clearly that you are just using King Liu of Song, so that everyone in the world, including King Song, thinks that King Qi and King Wei are dead. In this way, the king of Qi and the king of Wei can be protected.

You deliberately said that the child in your womb was a child, probably in order to use the power of King Song to keep the child. The child has affection for you, and he is also ashamed of Xiao, so if you are right, he will definitely help cover up the identity of this child. Did you guess right? ”

Shu'er nodded slightly.

King Zhao said: "Shu'er, I have wronged you." ”

Shu'er couldn't help choking: "Everything is what I should do, but I just made my father wait for a long time." ”

King Zhao said: "I have never been afraid to wait. What do you want to do for your father's help? ”

Shu'er resolutely said: "I want to cut off with Liu." But I want the two countries of Chu and Song to never go to war. I already have a plan, and I just need my father's cooperation. ”

******

In the early morning of the next day, before going to the court meeting, King Zhao sent someone to deliver a handwritten letter to the inn where Liu, Shu'er, and Ling Fei lived. When the three of them got up to have breakfast, the shopkeeper handed Zhao Wang's letter to Liu.

When Liu opened the letter, Ling Fei whispered: "Your Highness is traveling in micro-clothes, how can King Zhao know that we have arrived at Ninghe Palace?" ”

Liu didn't care: "Now that Chen and Shu are all under the jurisdiction of Zhao, in the past few years, the Pingliang Chamber of Commerce has been very lively, and it is even more mixed, making King Zhao see six ways and listen to all directions." King Zhao wants to find out my whereabouts, and it's easy to come by. ”

Shu'er looked at the letter: "What did King Zhao write?" ”

After reading it, Liu couldn't help but sigh: "His Royal Highness King Zhao is really a thoughtful and exquisite person, even the place to meet me must be so carefully chosen. Then he handed the letter to Shu'er.

The words on the letter are warm and atmospheric, but they have little power

His Royal Highness the King of Song came from afar,

Pingliang Zhao Gong Peng is shining,

Lonely hope and Jun meet each other.

coincides with the spring season of Qingming Festival,

Fifty miles outside the city, King Huai's tomb,

It's the place to go for a long talk.

Dugu Yu handwritten

……

After eating, the three of them left Ninghe Palace, walked in Pingliang City, and purchased sacrifices such as flowers, fruits, wine, incense, candles, paper money, etc.

Seeing that the weather was gloomy, Ling Fei bought three more oil-paper umbrellas.

Because King Zhao did not mention the specific time of meeting King Song in the letter, the three of them only arrived at the tomb of King Song Huai before the end of the Zhao Dynasty meeting. Liu believes that arriving earlier than King Zhao is to fulfill the courtesy of the younger generations, secondly, to express his respect for King Zhao who is defending Wucheng, and thirdly, he can also go to pay tribute to his father in advance.

Along the deserted paths, wildflowers are colorful and mixed with the scent of earth.

When the three of them arrived at the tomb of King Huai of Song, it was already raining in spring.

Liu waist hung the king's sword, held an umbrella in one hand, and swept off the peach petals that had just been wet by the rain on the tombstone with the other hand: "If you want to come, His Royal Highness King Zhao often sends people here to clean up." Except for the flowers falling all over the ground, there was not a single weed. ”

Shu'er and Liu set up the sacrifice together, and the two slowly fed the paper money into the small brazier.

In the drizzle, wet and windless, the paper money burned to ashes, but it remained in the brazier and was not swept away.

Liu looked at the brazier full of ashes and sighed: "Father, the alliance of the four countries attacked the Song Dynasty, although the Song State mobilized a large number of troops, it still has a full treasury and is very rich...... Moreover, Song Guo won. You can take the paper money that the child burned for you. ”