Liu Bang remembered the prince's studies and asked, "Has the prince been studying recently?" ”

The prince nodded and smiled, "I study with my uncle and grandson every day, and I think it's really as Lao Tzu said, 'My life has an end, and knowledge has no end', Mr. Uncle Sun is really a very good master." It seems that when it comes to learning, the prince is very interested, and his expression immediately begins to brighten, and it is really not the faint sadness just now.

Liu Bang knew that he had been studying in the Prince's Palace for the past few days, except for seeing the queen every day. He also smiled and nodded with satisfaction, pulled the prince and walked out with him, stroked the prince and said, "Then study hard." Then he stood on the steps outside the temple gate and asked, "Does your queen mother often go to see you?" ”

The prince's mouth twitched slightly, and he shook his head.

Liu Bang saw joy on his face, smiled slightly, and soon this smile disappeared, and turned to comfort the prince, "Don't blame her, there are many things in the harem, and she can't be busy, she has you in her heart." The prince smiled and nodded.

In fact, Liu Bang's question was mainly to ask what the queen often went to the prince's palace for, whether she was simply to see the prince to study or to take the opportunity to envelop a minister's uncle Sun Tong as the prince's wings. But I didn't expect the queen to go to the prince's palace often, which made Liu Bang feel a lot more relieved, I was afraid that the queen would collude with the ministers of the court behind her back, secretly protect the prince, and secretly strengthen the prince's wings, so Liu Ruyi would be in danger. Liu Bang knew that he and the queen were just face-to-face, but they couldn't guess the true thoughts in each other's hearts, as if the two looked at each other forever separated by a veil.

The father and son had nothing to say, and they were silent for a while, and then the prince bowed and left.

Liu Bang stayed alone on the steps outside for a while, looking at the blue sky above, feeling that his heart was incomparably wider, and he walked towards the hall again. As for yesterday's annexation of farmland by bureaucratic landlords and thieves in Guanzhong, as well as the transfer of prisoners from Kwantung to build the Changling Mausoleum, he clearly explained and clearly explained that these matters were all important matters, and they were handed over to ministers he trusted, and he believed that they would be handled very well. He never doubted Prime Minister Xiao's ability to deal with these things, nor did he doubt Wang Ling's ability to raise Lu Jia's generation, thinking that he could handle these things well when he was in charge, Liu Bang felt that he was quite bold and smiled. As soon as he stepped into the palace gate, before his hind feet entered, he heard a panting and nervous voice from behind, "Your Majesty ......"

Liu Bang turned around and saw that it was a eunuch wearing a eunuch hat and sweating profusely running over, looking flustered and uneasy, so that Liu Bang stepped out of his other foot with a worried look before he could think about it, and hurriedly ran to the front of the steps, hunched over and couldn't wait to point to the eunuch and asked, "What do you say?" ”

The little eunuch ran close to the steps and panted, he didn't have time to swallow the saliva in his mouth, his lips were nervous and dry, his eyes were staring in fear, and he deliberately glanced to both sides, as if to signal that it was inconvenient for the emperor to speak here. Liu Bang understood what he meant, so he waved his hand and asked the others to go down, and anxiously went down two steps and asked eagerly, "What is the matter?" ”

The eunuch swallowed his saliva again, looked at the emperor with trembling eyes, and said tremblingly, "The people who went to Yanmen a few days ago...... Killed. The last three words were almost silent, and he bent his waist even lower.

"What?" Liu Bang roared and was stunned, his eyes were straight and his mouth was wide open, and it took a while to ease up, and after thinking about it, he always felt that it was unlikely. 'Knock knock knock-' hurriedly walked down the steps and flew to the eunuch, grabbed him by the collar, looked at the eunuch with tears in his eyes and asked, "Where is Guan Xiuyan?" How many people are alive? Who came to Beijing to report? What about people? ”

The eunuch was frightened by Liu Bang's movements and expressions, and said tremblingly, "After Guan Gongzi was killed, the local county Cheng and an old farmer came to Beijing with the deceased's document and book, on which Guan Gongzi's name was written......

"Bring him to me." Before the eunuch finished speaking, Liu Bang was furious and interrupted his words, angrily threw the eunuch a few steps away, and the eunuch hurriedly crawled to call the old farmer and the county, Liu Bang entered the hall and waited behind his hands. Walking around the hall, scratching his head and biting his nails, his face was full of sadness, he sighed again and again, and he said cursely, "Are you a woman?" How can you be so thin? How many bad things did the ancestors do, did you not cultivate yin virtue to let you be robbed like this? The more I thought about it, the more angry I became, and I slammed my fist on the case with a 'snap'.

Liu Bang was restless, he felt that his nerves were disrupted all of a sudden, his mind was blank, and he rubbed his temples vigorously to calm down, how could this be? He did everything possible to isolate the potential dispute between the queen and Mrs. Guan, and secretly sent Guan Xiuyan to Yanmen to avoid the possible persecution of the queen's family, but he didn't expect him to miscalculate, he didn't expect that the queen's people could do it on the road, and he just thought that she didn't dare to do it in Chang'an, it was indeed one step less. When Liu Bang figured it out, he slapped his head loudly with remorse, stomped his feet and said angrily, "It's so much of a miscalculation." ”

As soon as Liu Bang's idea came out, his eyes immediately lit up as soon as he said this, does the death mean that Guan Xiuyan was poisoned by the queen? What if it really happened to be unfortunate? How can you jump to conclusions without finding out? He was indeed nervous, in his opinion, in his subconscious, as long as Xiuyan had an accident, then needless to say, it must have been done by the queen or the queen's people, this was his instinct for her, but he hoped that this time it would not. For a while, these two statements have been haunting his brain nerves, both feeling that the queen did it and trying in every possible way to convince himself that it was not her, I don't know which idea is correct, in his sixth sense, he feels that it will not be good, and he covers his face with two hands in annoyance.

Guan Xiuyan was killed, what should Mrs. Guan do? She is still pregnant with a child, and once she knows that her only brother is dead, will she not be affected? Would she think she was the Queen? Will you go to her for a theory? The two women are already jealous, so wouldn't his harem be chaotic? Isn't there no peace forever? Liu Bang didn't dare to think about these things he was afraid of, and his face blushed with anger in his throat.

Half a cup of tea, the eunuch was followed by a middle-aged man in his forties, dressed in gray-black Hanfu and dressed more decently, with a simple Benzi on his head, it seemed that he was a county cheng, and next to him was an old peasant who looked like he was fifty or sixty years old, wearing a simple white sheep's belly handkerchief, with a purple face and a slightly chapped mouth.

The eunuch led the old farmer and the old farmer to the palace, the county and the old farmer had never seen the emperor, and they also learned to take a look at the eunuch's salute, and bowed to the emperor again, and also read along, "The grass people see the emperor, and the emperor is happy and happy." ”

Liu Bang looked at them roughly, waved his hand and retreated everyone in the hall, including the eunuch just now, and before leaving, he specially explained to the eunuch that he couldn't mention a word about Guan Xiuyan and their death, leaked it out, and beheaded! The eunuch knew what was important and went out as commanded.

Liu Bang got up from the side of the case and hurriedly approached Jun Cheng and the old farmer, grabbed their wrists and still asked them in disbelief, "You came to Beijing to report that Guan Xiuyan and they were killed?" ”

The old farmer nodded affirmatively, and then took out a roll of yellow silk silk from his waist and handed it to Liu Bang, Liu Bang recognized this yellow silk silk, which was the transfer edict that was personally handed over to Guan Xiuyan to go to Yanmen that day.