After receiving the news that Emperor Gao Liu Bang was about to return to the palace, Empress Lu no longer thought about what had just happened, sorted out her emotions and instructed the eunuchs to tell the chef to prepare a meal immediately, and ordered some eunuchs to go to the palace gate to greet Emperor Gao. Empress Lu did everything to welcome Emperor Gao, but she didn't come forward to greet him at the palace gate, knowing in her heart that the emperor didn't want to see her at this time, so it was better to arrange everything for him and fulfill her responsibility.

In the afternoon, Emperor Gao Liu Bang was surrounded and returned to the palace, his face was haggard and tired, and he quickly returned to the palace. Liu Bang waved his hand and told everyone to go down, saying that he wanted to sleep first. They put everything on the table, closed the door of the temple and went out. Liu Bang was worried about Liu Jing's marriage to the Huns, just lay down and closed his eyes and suddenly opened and sat up, called a eunuch loudly, and asked the eunuch to call Zhao Yao, the imperial history of Fuxi, and asked him to write an edict to summon Liu Jing on his behalf, Liu Bang lay on the couch, Zhao Yao read it aloud after writing, Liu Bang closed his eyes slightly and listened to it and felt that it was no problem, so he asked Zhao Yao to stamp the seal, and then the confessor went out to summon Liu Jing and decided to summon him tomorrow.

One afternoon, Liu Bang stayed in the temple and fell asleep. The warm and cool sunlight slowly slanted westward, and the sunlight rubbed the shadow of the hollow carved windows of the main hall. 'Squeak-', suddenly the door of the hall was opened, and a slender woman shone beautifully in the golden sunlight, and Empress Lu came in. The footsteps did not dare to be loud, and gently went up the steps to Liu Bang's couch, Liu Bang was leaning on one hand and snoring on his back. Lu Hou squatted down and looked at Liu Bang as before, so he loved to stretch one foot out of the quilt, whether it was winter or summer, he had to cover it for him again every time he woke up. This time it's the same, the two legs are separated in a figure-eight shape, just covering a belly, simply both legs are outside, looking at Liu Bang's appearance, I think it's cute, Lu Hou smiled, the quilt re-covered him, the movement was too big, Liu Bang fell asleep and turned over, and simply tilted his face to Lu Hou. Lu Hou smiled again, and saw clearly that there seemed to be a few more wrinkles on his forehead than before, so deep. A beautiful beard seems to have not been cleaned up for half a month at the moment, and it is very sloppy. Looking at the emperor quietly, he raised his hand to caress his forehead and touch the wrinkles on his forehead, but he felt a little warmth on his forehead but didn't really touch it, so he hurriedly withdrew his hand, still thinking that it should not disturb him. Empress Lu smiled again, supported her cheeks with one hand and looked carefully, and found that the emperor was frowning when he was sleeping, and Empress Lu felt a little sour in her heart.

Liu Bang fell asleep, Lu Houjing watched, and time flashed quickly on them. At some point, Empress Lu left, closed the door gently, turned around and told the guards not to tell the emperor what he had come.

In the evening, Liu Bang dragged his tired body to the Yuzao Palace as in the past and talked to Qi Ji for a while, and played with Ruyi for a while, and soon became tired again, Qi Ji didn't want to bother him more, so he ordered the palace people to make the bed early, helped Liu Bang to the bed, took off his boots for him, and asked Yun He to bring a basin of hot foot washing water. personally washed Liu Bang's feet, Liu Bang leaned on the couch and enjoyed Qi Ji's service with his eyes closed. Qi Ji said while washing, "Mrs. Guan came to find Your Majesty yesterday, and the concubine said that Your Majesty went to patrol Longxi. ”

Liu Bang was stunned for a moment, opened his eyes and said 'oh', a pair of old eyes crossed a little apologetic, and the mouth with a scruffy beard quickly returned to indifference, closing his eyes and saying nothing.

Qi Ji dried his feet and asked someone to bring the water down. Liu Bang took advantage of the situation to lift his feet to the couch, lay down on the couch intoxicated and comfortable, leaned his hands under his head, and shook with one leg on the other. Qi Jiping retreated, and also came to sit on the couch, frowning and silent. Liu Bang moved his body to the side and took Qi Ji's hand, which was smooth and tender and white like green onions, and pulled Qi Ji's hand and kissed it with a smile and said, "It's still the most comfortable place for Mrs., and the people are ...... at home" Before he finished speaking, he was ashamed of himself, and his face stiffened and smiled.

"Mrs. Guan said that Your Majesty has not been to her for a long time." Qi Ji put her other hand on Liu Bang's hand, ignored Liu Bang's words with a melancholy face, and talked about Mrs. Guan instead. Liu Bang's eyes rolled smoothly, scratched his scalp, showing a trace of helplessness and reluctance, involuntarily met Qi Ji's waiting gaze, and after being silent for a long time, he smiled calmly, and said a reason by the way, "Isn't it inconvenient for her to be there, how can she serve me when she is pregnant?" Laughing, he suddenly got up and hugged Qi Ji into his arms and hugged her to lie down, but Qi Ji took advantage of the situation to push her away, and said a little unpleasantly, "Your Majesty will go to court tomorrow morning, go to bed early." Throwing Liu Bang on the couch, he turned around and came to the dressing table to remove his bun, faded the red on his lips, and was silent in a daze with his hands supporting his cheeks in front of the bronze mirror by the dim yellow candlelight.

Liu Bang didn't feel sleepy when he saw that she was so abnormal tonight, got up from the couch and came to Qi Ji with a robe in his hand to put it on her, held her shoulders and asked with a smile, "What's wrong with you?" Unhappy when I just came back? ”

Qi Ji pursed her lips, turned her head to look at Liu Bang, and said with a sad and meaningful expression, "Seeing that Mrs. Guan misses Your Majesty every day, the concubine also has a sense of crisis. I feel very lucky to be favored by Your Majesty, but the concubine knows that there are many beautiful women in His Majesty's harem, and I am afraid that one day the concubine will not be favored like Mrs. Guan, and then the concubine will miss Your Majesty, what should I do? What should I do? The concubine still has grace and is good to say, if it is ......" did not dare to say the unlucky words, turned around and took Liu Bang's hand and looked at him in fear, completing what he was about to say just now, "What should I do?" The concubine has no rights and no noble status, and when the time comes, she will be hated by some people with a heart, and there will be no place for the concubine to die. As he spoke, he wept a few lines.

Liu Bang exhaled in annoyance, gently wiped her tears and hugged her in his arms, stroked her back and gently comforted her, "And rest assured, Ruyi will inherit the unification." ”

"Your Majesty always says this, why don't you see it?" Qi Ji continued to weep and took advantage of the situation.

But Liu Bang was stopped, and he was speechless for a while, and he didn't know how to answer, so he said, "This ...... Don't be so pushy. ”

"It seems that Mrs. Guan is right, Your Majesty has no affection for us at all, and only cares about yourself......" Without waiting for Qi Ji to finish speaking, Liu Bang pushed Qi Ji away and scolded loudly, "She just loves to fool around." He flicked his sleeves and left Qi Ji angrily, sat back on the couch and exhaled heavily, and his chest was so angry that he fell together. The more I think about it, the more angry I become, and I have no affection? Caring for yourself? Did you mean that you kicked your children three times back then? Does it mean that he became a Gao Lingtai and pampered Bo Ji once, and then discarded her and never ignored her again?

"Don't keep messing with her in the future." Sulking and dropping a sentence, he turned over and lay down on the couch and fell asleep with his eyes closed, ignoring Qi Ji. Qi Ji felt indignant herself, and threw the wooden comb on the dressing table as if she was angry, and went to sleep obediently. Seeing that Liu Bang didn't cover the quilt again, Qi Ji cherry's mouth was angry and ignored him, so he turned his back to him and slept at a distance, turning over and looking at Liu Bang who didn't cover the quilt, his loud reprimand made him lose face, but he still felt sorry for him in his heart, so he softened his heart and dragged the quilt to Liu Bang, turned over and fell asleep again. 'Ah-', Qi Ji was startled, Liu Bang, who was not asleep, suddenly turned over and hugged Qi Ji in his arms again, Liu Bang didn't say a word but laughed secretly. Qi Ji complained that he scolded himself and played a few times, and tried his best to break away from his arms but was hugged tighter by Liu Bang, so Qi Ji didn't make a fuss, but turned over and pouted into Liu Bang's arms and beat his chest, shyly complaining, "Don't reprimand me loudly in the future, hear?" "Uh-huh, don't scold, don't scold." Liu Bang hugged Qi Ji tightly and said with a smile.

Blow the lamp and pull out the wax, and sleep quietly at night. The Ichoza Palace is peaceful. There are occasional corners in the palace that are illuminated by the moonlight. The night watchmen were so dazed that they were about to fall asleep, but a gust of wind blew and quickly woke up, ready to work. In the inner hall, Empress Lu did not sleep, wearing a robe and quietly looking out of the window, there was silence outside the window, and occasionally half of the bats chirped and flew across the night sky.

It was even more exposed, and I didn't know when I fell asleep.