Tingwei's Mansion, Women's Prison.

A woman who was nearly nine months pregnant had been telling the jailer for two days that she wanted to see the emperor, but the jailer thought she was faint and crazy, and several of the jailers laughed at her, scolded her, and then drank and punched again. "I want to see the emperor—" The woman hugged the prison bar as best she could, pointing to one of the seemingly honest jailers and beckoning to him, "Big brother, come here, I have something to say to you." ”

Several jailers looked at each other for a moment, then laughed, and pointed to a little jailer who was beckoned by the woman and joked, "Little brother, when did you have a little lover in Zhao Kingdom?" Do you all have babies? After that, he knocked on the table and slapped his legs as if he was getting pleasure, and he leaned back and laughed. The honest little jailer saw his companion laughing at himself like this, but he came to be serious, and the joke was so anxious that it made him stammer, and he blushed and said, "She, she is the family of Zhao and King Zhao after all, are you sure you want to humiliate her so much before the matter is clarified?" ”

The jailers who had spoken of the call no longer smiled, and scattered to stand up their own posts. The honest jailer came over and said to the woman, "You're funny, how can the emperor meet you?" As soon as he said that, he was about to leave, but the woman grabbed his sleeve, and the jailer pulled his clothes, "You, you, you let go, I, I haven't done it, I haven't made it, I haven't become a relative, I don't have to be intimate, I don't have to be intimate." The jailer stammered even more, and the other jailers on guard burst into laughter. The woman dragged him and said solemnly, "You believe me, just help me pass the word to the emperor, I don't see him, I just ask you to pass the word to the emperor." ”

When the jailer heard that the woman was going to see the emperor by herself, he swallowed nervously, and his Adam's apple was nervous, and he took advantage of the situation from the woman's hand to pull back his clothes, and he also wanted to know what the woman had to say to the emperor, so he asked, "What are you talking about?" ”

The woman whispered, "Let's say that the Zhao girl who was given to him by King Zhao back then is now in prison with his child." It turned out that this woman was the Zhao Ji that King Zhao had been talking about that day. Emperor Liu Bang ordered that King Zhao and Guan Gao's family be detained in Chang'an, and Zhao Ji and several other female dependents of King Zhao were imprisoned in women's prison. The little jailer looked at Zhao Ji suspiciously, as if he was stupid after listening to Zhao Ji's words, his eyes didn't dare to move and looked at Zhao Ji in a daze, and the jailer couldn't speak for a long time.

"Let's go." Zhao Nu pushed him, the little jailer's head was clouded, and he slammed it on the back of his head, his eyes widened, he gritted his teeth and thought about it, and then looked at Zhao Nu suspiciously, and Zhao Nu looked at him with a kind face that could not be doubted.

The little jailer turned his head and went out to report to Emperor Liu Bang, and told Liu Bang what Zhao Nu said to him word for word. After Liu Bang heard about it, he didn't think much about the events of the year for a while, and his first reaction was that he thought that Zhao Nu was just trying to live by making up reasons indiscriminately, and immediately scolded Zhao Nu with anger and blood, "King Zhao's woman also dares to say that she is pregnant with my child?" Such a faceless daughter is not as good as leaning on the city gate and the like. She dared to talk nonsense again, Hugh had to be polite to her, King Zhao was in trouble, she was ashamed to tell the world that the child in her belly was mine, she wanted me to let her go, but she didn't want a woman's name for her life. Hum! How can such a woman, King Zhao, want? ”

The little jailer glanced at Liu Bang, then bowed his head and respectfully asked, "Your Majesty, what should I do with her?" ”

"Shut it up for now."

The little jailer came back and told Zhao Nu what Liu Bang said as it was, and Zhao Nu was so shocked that she sat on the ground and cried silently. I told myself that I was not shameless, but that the emperor forcibly occupied her back then, and she was the concubine of King Zhao, and when the emperor passed through Zhao, he fell in love with her, and King Zhao had no choice but to come, and secondly, he also wanted to please the emperor and be less picky about himself, so he gave his love to the emperor. The emperor was unintentionally inserted into the willow overnight, but two months after he left, Zhao Nu told King Zhao that he was pregnant, King Zhao knew that he had been with the queen for several months, and had not touched Zhao Nu, Zhao Nu also said that it was the emperor's, and King Zhao did not dare to monopolize Zhao Nu, so he waited for her to give birth to a child, and sent her to Chang'an after giving birth to a child in the future. But what awaits today is the emperor's disbelief and disdain, as well as unspeakable insults. Zhao Nu trembled in pain, but she didn't sobbed loudly, she wiped her tears with all her might, and the sobbing made the little jailer feel guilty.

"It's not wrong for the emperor to be angry, you, you don't think about the emperor. I was also stupid and believed your words. The little jailer sat down against the bars and said to her.

"How is King Zhao?" Zhao Nu's eyes were red from crying, and she seemed to be reluctant to pay attention to the jailer's words, so she curled up in one place and asked in a low voice about King Zhao's situation.

"Not good." The jailer sighed, "There is a daily punishment for Zhao Xiangguan and others, although King Zhao is isolated on the other side, but listening to Guan Gao and their screams every day, do you think King Zhao's heart doesn't hurt?" Zhao Nu still cried in a low voice, and kept repeating a sentence in her mouth, "King Zhao did not assassinate the emperor, he did not want to rebel against the Han court, and the child is indeed the emperor's." ”

When the little jailer saw her like this, he got up and shook his head and left.

Choshin Palace.

Princess Lu Yuan asked Empress Lu and herself to go to the Tingwei Mansion to see King Zhao, and Empress Lu agreed. Zhang Tingwei came out to pick up the driver, and led Empress Lu and Princess Lu Yuan to see King Zhao, King Zhao was already tired, with a look of vicissitudes, and a desperate face sat on a broken mat curled up with his legs, his eyes were empty and looking at one place, and he could hear a piercing shout from next door, King Zhao was so frightened that he was at a loss, and his eyes were close to anxious and sad tears. When the princess saw that the long-lost King Zhao had become so depressed and vicissitudes, she was suddenly heartbroken, and her tears flowed down at once, and she ran to King Zhao and hugged him tightly in her arms and cried. King Zhao stared at one place motionless and with dull and desperate eyes, as if he had taken away the primordial god, and let the princess hold him and shake.

"King Zhao-" When Empress Lu saw this scene, her heart was sour, and she attached her hand and patted King Zhao on the shoulder, "Ao'er, good boy." ”

"I know that Your Majesty has never liked me, but I don't want to betray the Han court, betray my father and send someone to assassinate him for this dislike." King Zhao helped the princess to get up, and gave Empress Lu, who had not seen her for a long time, a deep bow of his hand and said, "Queen Mother, I never wanted to hurt Your Majesty. ”

Empress Lu nodded, patted Zhang Ao's wrist with his hand, and said in a gentle tone, "The queen mother knows that Ao Ao is a good child, and your father is angry now, but Guan Gao's matter makes him really angry, and you are affected by Guan Gao." Ao'er, do you resent your father? ”

King Zhao's gaze shifted from Empress Lu, gritted his teeth, and was silent for a long time.

"You should hate him......" Empress Lu saw through him.

"No, I don't hate." King Zhao said to Empress Lu with firmness in his tone, "Your Majesty is kind to your father, and you are kind to Zhao Guo, Ao dare not forget." Empress Lu smiled a little and pulled the princess in front of King Zhao. The princess took King Zhao's hand with red eyes and said, "Zhang Yan and Zhang Yan are both in the mother's harem, and the other family members of Zhao State have been escorted to Chang'an, and they are locked up in the women's prison." ”

King Zhao was shocked, looked at the princess in a panic, clenched the princess's hand, and asked solemnly, "Where is Zhao Ji?" ”

"Also in the women's prison." The princess replied.

"Who is Zhao Ji? In such a gap between fire and water, it is Lu Yuan who has been busy with you, and you are actually worried about Zhao Ji? "Empress Lu was a little angry, King Zhao shouldn't be thinking about Zhao Ji in his heart, and now it was the princess who was standing beside him. Zhang Ao had something to say, and he never dared to explain. The princess didn't know that her father was lucky with Zhao Ji back then, and King Zhao didn't tell her, Zhao Ji was also respectful to the princess on weekdays, and the princess didn't have a sense of disgust for her. Since Zhao Ji came to Chang'an, she has never visited her in the women's prison. Hearing that her mother was upset for herself, the princess hurriedly explained to Queen Lu for King Zhao, "Zhao Ji is pregnant with King Zhao's child, and now she is about to give birth, so King Zhao is worried about her." ”

Empress Lu roughly understood what King Zhao had just said, and felt a little apologetic in her heart, and comforted King Zhao again, "It'll be fine, don't worry." ”

At this time, a eunuch came to the Tingwei Mansion to report to Lu Hou, saying that Zhang Yan was crying and looking for his mother. The princess and Empress Lu glanced at each other, but they forgot that the hour was not early, and Empress Lu said some words of comfort and went out first. King Zhao stopped the princess alone, looked around cautiously, paced in the house three times, scratched his ears and cheeks in worry, and thought for a long time before he had to explain to the princess, "Queen, Zhao Ji's belly is not mine, but my father spoiled Zhao Ji overnight when he passed through Zhao Kingdom, Zhao Ji is pregnant with the emperor's child, so I have been with you for the past year, Zhao Ji can't die, understand?" You must be ......."

When the princess heard the five thunders in the middle of the day, she couldn't listen to Zhang Ao's words numbly, her face suddenly became shocked, and she was stunned for a long time in disbelief, her father robbed her husband's woman, and locked her husband here, the princess was extremely resentful of the emperor's father at the moment, and she held back her resentment in her chest and actually held back the face of Yujing Huaming so red that she didn't know what to say, to scold, to cry, to hate. Seeing that she was dumbfounded, King Zhao shook her shoulders and called her, "Queen......"

The princess couldn't accept the truth for a while, she shook her head again and again in disbelief, her face was painfully tangled and resentful, "My father ......" The princess couldn't stand it and ran out of the Tingwei Mansion in one step, letting the eager shouts of King Zhao 'Queen-Queen-' come from behind her.