Chapter Forty-Four: The Giving Away

The breeze is accompanied by the hazy moon, the jade glow reflects the blue lotus, and the scattered pink and white petals gently float on the surface of the pool, rippling and drifting; Comfortable evening breeze, a few lotus lanterns fluttering in the center of the small pond along the direction of the wind, along the flow of water, carrying the faint candlelight to a place, that road is like the end of the yellow spring, how many thoughts are placed on the lanterns.

Huo Chengjun folded his hands, the lotus lantern in the seventh and a half months can always light up the entire lake with the light of the stars, I don't know why so many people will pin their thoughts on the ethereal, and I don't know where the lantern finally falls; Now, he has become one of these thousands of people.

"Yu'er, if you have anything to say to your mother, this lamp will be brought to your mother." Huo Chengjun squatted down and gently stroked the head of the little Liu Zheng, and the apricot eyes of the water spirit looked at Liu Zheng, sprinkling the tenderness of teasing.

"Huo Niangniang, where did the queen mother go, why don't you see the queen mother, this lamp can't speak, can you really tell the queen mother, the queen miss the queen mother?" Liu Zheng's puzzled eyes looked back at Huo Chengjun, expecting the answer from her mouth.

Huo Chengjun pursed his lips, "As long as Yu'er says it, your queen mother will definitely know." Huo Chengjun's voice was so soft, she hoped that this small lotus lamp could erase some of the uneasiness in Liu Zheng's heart.

Compared with the lights outside the palace, what kind of lotus lanterns in the Han Palace are sparse, it seems particularly deserted and lonely, there are taboos in the palace, and a few people dare to be bold enough to burn the lamps here, even if Huo Chengjun secretly brought Liu Zheng to this rare place.

"Great Prince, what are you doing by this river in the middle of the night, didn't you fall asleep?" Mei Yin's voice suddenly whispered in the silence, and then what he saw was the familiar face of Huo Chengjun who got up from the river, hurriedly took three steps and two steps, and trotted to Liu Zheng's side, "What does Empress Huo mean by this, taking the eldest prince to the river late at night, or on such a day, doesn't the queen mother know the word taboo?" ”

Looking at the defensiveness in Mei Yin's eyes, Huo Chengjun just explained quietly, "I just saw that I missed Pingjun, so I took him here to light a lamp and said the words in my heart to Pingjun." Huo Chengjun's gaze fell on the white lotus lantern in his hand, "You are also here for Pingjun?" Ignoring Mei Yin's disrespectful attitude, Huo Chengjun asked gently.

"If Queen Huo wants to punish the slave maid, the slave and maid have nothing to say, after all, in addition to Your Majesty, the person in power in this world is General Huo, the Huo family's words, I am afraid that even Your Majesty will have to think about it."

Huo Chengjun didn't know why Mei Yin had such a big prejudice against himself and the Huo family, but he also guessed that it was related to Xu Pingjun's death, so he didn't care about it anymore, "It's hard for you to have a heart, I won't talk to outsiders, Xi'er, let's go back first." Huo Chengjun felt the targeting between Mei Yin's words obviously, but thinking that he was Xu Pingjun's person at that time, he would not punish him, but he didn't want to let her speak coldly here.

After all, Huo Chengjun is now the master of the harem, and the power of the Huo family is indeed as she herself said, as the sun is in full swing, Liu Yi has been favored by Huo Chengjun, and everyone can see that it is not good for him to be hard, so he no longer speaks, and only cares about banishing the lotus lamp in his hand, and letting it carry away the unspeakable in his heart with the flow of water.

The water flows overnight and the wind blows overnight, the sporadic candlelight has long been extinguished in the lanterns, and the scattered lanterns do not know where they have drifted, leaving only the water surface with slight ripples, reflecting the blue sky and white clouds, revealing sparkling waves under the sunlight.

"Yunling, does the Huo family's power really make His Majesty jealous?" Huo Chengjun is no stranger to the matter of high merit and shock, and she also understands that her father's status in the court is incomparable, but it was only after Mei Yin's unfair words that she began to think that Huo Guang's power has really reached such a point, and Huo Chengjun does not understand the prosperity and decline, and what she is most afraid of is the emperor's jealousy.

"The slave doesn't understand these things, but the slave knows that the slave of the Huo family needs to think about it if someone wants to reprimand a few words!" Yunling had an indelible pride in his eyes, but he didn't pay attention to the worry in Huo Chengjun's eyes.

After all, Yun Se is steady, "The lord has been in the court since the first emperor of Wu, and he is the entrusted minister of the two emperors, others are incomparable, but the world is His Majesty's, and the lord is a loyal person for the country, how can his Majesty be jealous, why should the master think about these rumors that come from nowhere?" Combing the fallen green silk for Huo Chengjun, his brows were slightly condensed.

In Yun Se's heart, Huo Chengjun was like his little sister and wanted to protect her well, so when she was most hesitant, she returned to her and accompanied her to the cage of being imprisoned and free, just to exchange her peace of mind and accompany her on this journey that I don't know if it was a curse or a blessing.

Huo Chengjun was half-convinced, and picked up a hosta in the wooden box, with flawless white jade as the handle, and a slightly blooming lotus bud as the hairpin, Huo Chengjun had a slight smile on his face, and the corners of his lips were full of happiness, "Just use this hairpin." Hand the hosta in his hand to the Yunling on the side, which was given by Liu Ai when he took her to enjoy the flowers that day, and put all the doubts in a remote corner of her heart, and let herself sink into the tenderness and sweetness of Liu Ai, everything was her willingness.

Huo Chengjun was suspicious because of Mei Yin's sentence that General Huo was in charge of the world, but Huo Yu ignored the people in the court because of this sentence, and when he returned home from the restaurant, the coachman saw the child suddenly jumping on the street, and hurriedly reined in the horse, so as not to hurt the innocent, but Huo Yu in the carriage was shocked, and blurted out if he didn't go well, "What are you doing, do you want to fall to death?" Huo Yu poked his head out angrily and reprimanded the coachman.

Huo Yu's temper coachman naturally couldn't bear it, so he told the truth, Huo Yu's eyes immediately locked on the immature boy who was panicked because of the sudden stop of this gorgeous carriage and the anger of the people in the car, and was so frightened that he reflected it and hurriedly protected the child's father, who knelt in front of the carriage and begged Huo Yu for mercy, who else could there be in this gorgeous carriage except the Huo family, but how could ordinary people like them afford to offend the Huo family, backbone and life are naturally more important than life.

Huo Yu hadn't lost his temper yet, but when he saw the childish boy who was just a child, he hurriedly stood beside his father and pulled the man kneeling on the ground, "Father, why do we have to admit our mistakes, but it's him, knowing that horses are not allowed on this street, but he still allows his carriage to gallop in the downtown area, let's go to the government to sue him!" The childish boy looked at Huo Yu indignantly, and didn't understand why his father didn't even know what he knew, but because he was young, he didn't know the power of the word power, and he only knew what he thought in his heart.

"You little boy, you still want to sue my son, okay, you go ahead, this son wants to see who dares to take this case, and who dares to sentence this son? Hum! Huo Yu didn't take the child's words to heart at all, he came and went more than once on this street, no one dared to stop him, today this kid not only frightened himself, but also dared to open his mouth so loudly, Huo Yu was very unhappy in his heart.

Huo Yu's eyes made Xiao Tong frightened, and hurriedly hid behind his kneeling father, but Huo Yu didn't intend to let the two of them go like this, "This country was given to Your Majesty by my father, I want to see who else dares to punish me?" Huo Yu's eyes glanced around, and finally fell on the father and son, but he didn't know that his unintentional words of showing off his might made people with a heart listen to it.

This person with a heart is Liu Ai's friend Zhang Zhang when he was already in the folk, how does he see the Huo family's domineering, although he can't see Liu Ai, but he also expressed his desire to meet his old friends through Wang Fengguang, Wang Fengguang is Wang Jieyu's father, and Liu Ai has been a friend of the year, seeing that he is easier than Zhang Zhang, he also brought Zhang Zhang's intention to Liu Ai.

Liu Ai has been on the throne since the beginning of the old friends, can see only a few ears, heard that Zhang Zhang wants to see himself, naturally also happy, ordered someone to prepare tea and wine, just waiting for Zhang Zhang to come, who knows that this tea did not drink a sip, wine did not dip, but saw Zhang Zhang's urgent face, panicked kneeling in front of him.

"Zhang Zhang, why are you doing this, but what happened at home? Let's get up first. ”

"Your Majesty, there is nothing to do at the grass people's house, I'm afraid that Your Majesty will have something to do, a few days ago, the grass people listened to Huo Yuyan, the son of General Huo, this world was given to Your Majesty by the Huo family, at that time, there were not a few people in Chang'an, the Huo family dared to despise the king so much, Your Majesty needs to be careful, that Huo Guang is the one who can abolish the emperor!" Regarding Liu Ai's inquiry, Zhang Zhang was not only moved, but also anxious for Liu Ai.

And Liu Yi had already heard Zhang Zhang's words, his fists were clenched, he knew that the Huo family was arrogant, but he didn't want Huo Yu to dare to be so bold in front of the public, where did they put themselves, "Zhang Zhang, it's hard for you to have a heart, you are here just right, I just can't find anyone to do it, you and I are old acquaintances, and now I think about me like this, this matter is just right for you." ”

The door of the Xuan room was closed, Liu Yi had already whispered to Zhang Zhang, looking at the shock in his eyes, but he closed his eyes and nodded, and then Zhang Zhang got up and left, and except for the two of them, no one knew that there were ripples in the tea and wine.

"Someone, General Xuanda Sima!" After Zhang Zhang left, Liu Ying had ordered someone to summon Huo Guang.

Huo Guang heard that he was summoned in the palace, and immediately inquired, who else did His Majesty call, but he heard the eunuch say that he only summoned himself, so he was puzzled, Liu Yi rarely summoned himself alone, and why this time, Huo Guang wanted to find some information from the little eunuch, but he found nothing, so he had to say, "I will change my robe and enter the palace with my father-in-law to meet Your Majesty." ”

Since Liu went, there was no major event in the court, Liu Yi had suddenly summoned himself, whether it was for business or private affairs, but when he saw Gonggong Liao in front of the Xuan room, he got a message that His Majesty was very displeased, which also made Huo Guang a little more thoughtful and cautious, if it was a business matter, Huo Guang had nothing to fear, but if it was a private matter, he was worried.