After several days of heavy snowfall, the weather finally cleared up. Soon is the Shangyuan Festival, the main street in Chang'an City on both sides of the gradual more lanterns, someone cleaned the street, especially the south gate of the palace from Chang'an Avenue this piece, not only the lanterns around the trunk, but also every ten meters away will pile up a cow-shaped stove. It can be heated during the day, and it can also be temporarily illuminated at night, leading directly from Chang'an Avenue to the south gate of the city, and at night it looks like a fiery red jade belt. Zhan Shi in the palace led the eunuchs and palace maids to change the palace in a few days. In two or three days, a large number of confessors in the palace were summoned out of the palace by the Fu Festival and went to the mansions of various ministers, saying that they would gather in Weiyang Palace Hongtai during the Shangyuan Festival and hold a feast on the Shangyuan Festival.

The Emperor's condition gradually stabilized, and the number of times Liu Bang went to the Emperor Taishang gradually decreased, and the prince went to the Emperor Taishang to say goodbye instead of him. As the close guard of the Emperor Taishang, General Li Shang would naturally send people to take good care of the Emperor. Empress Lu has Liu Chang by his side, and he will also change the emperor to three days every day, tease Liu Chang to play every day, and after he falls asleep, he will call the palace people to come over and hammer his shoulder, only to find that the excessive love for Liu Chang is only a few days before he was just carried, after a long time, Lv Hou's body bones can not eat, and Liu Chang found a nurse to take care of him for himself. In the future, the number of times Empress Lu hugged Liu Chang gradually decreased, just quietly watching a vigorous life grow by the cradle, waiting for a little baby to slowly call his mother, thinking that his life would be a horse or a pen, every time he thought about it, Empress Lu also felt very happy. Liu Bang has not had much of a major event in the court these days, and the time of the next court is very early every day, and he wanders around three places, a Yuzao Palace, an Oak Yang Palace, and a Changxin Palace.

Nearly half a month has passed since Zhang Ao's incident, and a storm suddenly disappeared into invisibility. A few days ago, Uncle Meng Shutian came to the front hall to bid farewell to the emperor, and was about to go to Hanzhong County and Yunzhong County to take office, Liu Bang confessed a few important words, and told Hanzhong County several times that it was originally his territory when he was the king of Han, and after a few years of governance by Xiao He, the economy of Hanzhong County has developed vigorously, and he hopes that Uncle Tian will replace Xiao He to take care of the Hanzhong area; He also warned Meng Shu that Yunzhong County was located in the northern frontier, bordering the Xiongnu, and that there were many harassments of the Xiongnu's iron hooves, and Meng Shu could take care of the general of Yanmen County in the east. The northern part is suitable for semi-farming and semi-grazing, and you can see the situation of sheep, cattle and horses or farming. Both of them were instructed to take care of the counties under their jurisdiction.

It seems that this matter has ended, but Liu Bang has a big question in his heart, and he has been thinking about it for seven or eight days. Soon after Zhang Ao was released, Xiao He, Chen Ping, Zhou Bo, Wang Ling and other ministers gathered in the front hall to discuss with the emperor the matter of the next king of Zhao. At that time, he was only in a hurry to deal with Zhang Ao and Guan Gao, but he didn't want to take over Zhang Ao's candidates, and after Xiao He and Chen Ping put it forward, Liu Bang was suddenly shocked, it turned out that he had thought about it one step less, and Xiao He's proposal was not unreasonable. Zhang Ao was demoted to the Marquis of Xuanping, so who should be promoted as the new King of Zhao? I couldn't think of the best candidate for a while, and the discussion was immediately stopped, for the candidate of the new King Zhao, Liu Bang was concerned, and the candidate of King Zhao who could succeed Zhang Ao appeared in his mind every night. His sons are young and weak, and the brothers of Benzong Kun are not virtuous, thinking about it, Liu Bang sighed for a long time, he was the emperor, and his relatives did not see a virtuous person, and he shook his head with sorrow. As soon as Liu Bang came back to Yuzao Palace, Ruyi clamored that he would go outside the palace to see the lanterns during the Shangyuan Festival, but Mrs. Qi was not allowed, so Ruyi made trouble for his father, Liu Bang nodded tiredly, whether it was perfunctory or really asked him to go out to see the lanterns outside the palace.

Outside the hall, the south of the sky gradually becomes a little brighter at night, that is the lanterns and cow-shaped stove against the sky, standing quietly at the door of the hall, as if you can hear the lively scene outside, as if you can see a group of children regardless of the cold, holding all kinds of beautiful lanterns chasing and playing, you can see men and women in the lanterns quietly formed a friendship. Liu Bang stood at the door of the hall with his hands behind his back and squinted his eyes, and Mrs. Qi found his wind robe to wrap around him, looking with him. At this time, Liu Bang was not only imagining the distance, but also thinking about the things in the past few months, the things that made him sad, as if this kind of festival can evoke people's memories of the past, as if it is easier to make people fall into guilt or beauty. One is Meng Yao, the other is Zhao Ji, the two lives should be the most beautiful and peerless, but they cruelly left the world. It's all because of their own mistakes, which delayed their beautiful life. Liu Bang didn't miss Meng Yao, when he first saw Meng Yao, he was attracted by her freshness, and when he brought it back to the palace, he sometimes deliberately dragged time in the front hall, just wanted to spend more time with Meng Yao, but Meng Yao didn't have this thought, as soon as he noticed his own thoughts, he found an excuse to ask others to substitute for him, and finally violated Meng Yao because of his impulse, so that when Meng Yao finally asked for help from himself, he hesitated, and the momentary hesitation buried Meng Yao's life. Zhao Ji is the person who feels the most sorry in her life, she was lucky overnight, and then ignored her. Zhang Ao's matter was revealed, only to know that he still had a foreign wife in Zhao State, and was pregnant with his own child, Zhao Ji was dissatisfied with his ignorance and hung himself in the cold night, and silently resisted the injustice of fate to the emperor and the world. Fortunately, Zhao Ji left Liu Chang, and Meng Yao dispersed like a cloud of mist, and walked cleanly.

Liu Bangfang was thinking about everything. Suddenly, Mrs. Qi took his hand and smiled, "Your Majesty, it's Shangyuan Festival again." Only then did Liu Bang come back to his senses from his remorseful memories, let out a light 'oh', and turned back to the hall. Ruyi was lying leisurely on the couch next to several cases, one leg crossed on the other leg and beating, his head facing Liu Bang and Mrs. Qi, and his eyes were blinking and pouting. Yun He Xiuyue asked him to go back to sleep, Ruyi Gulu suddenly got up from the couch, hid at the back of the couch, and shouted vigorously, "I don't, I don't." The two didn't dare to do anything to Ruyi, Mrs. Qi had a way to treat him, walked to Ruyi's couch in one step, and said to Ruyi with a dark face, "Come on——, go back to sleep." ”

Ruyi still pouted, and asked Liu Bang for help pitifully, "Father, I want to sleep with you, you tell the queen mother and Jing Tian to sleep, otherwise the child will not sleep." Just thinking about Meng Yao and Zhao Ji's affairs, Liu Bang felt that he still had to cherish all the possible happiness in front of him, especially the love for children, so he smiled after a long absence, came to Ruyi's couch, stretched out his hands and called him over, "Ruyi come here." Ruyi's eyes rolled, looked at Mrs. Qi and then looked at Yun He Xiuyue and them, and finally obediently came to Liu Bang's arms, Liu Bang wrapped him in his arms and hugged him, his chin against Ruyi's forehead, exhaled a heavy breath, and said meaningfully, "Ruyi is big, you have to be obedient, go back to sleep with Ren Gongren Sun Gongren, how well-behaved Brother Heng is, how noisy is you." ”

Ruyi pouted, poked his head out, looked at his father with dark eyes, and pouted, "Brother Heng is not good, otherwise why didn't my father go to see him for a long time, it was still wishful." Ruyi said happily. Liu Bang was stunned and looked at Mrs. Qi, who hurriedly avoided Liu Bang's sight. Ruyi said well, it is true that I haven't been to Jinhua Palace for a long time, except for occasionally seeing one or two times in Liyang Palace, and then I was busy, and I never thought about going to Jinhua Palace to see Bo Ji's mother and son, Ruyi said so, but reminded Liu Bang to visit their mother and son.

The night is shining, the cold wind is rising again, and Ruyi still follows Yun He Xiuyue back.