Chapter 12: The Weishui Wreck (5)
Liu Bang immediately adopted Chen Ping's suggestion and let Xiao He's proposed decree be executed, and then announced his retreat to the inner palace. All the ministers are out of the palace, Zhou Bo and Guan Ying are the generals who fought the world with Liu Bang, fought bravely, made great contributions to the Han family, and won Liu Bang's love and respect, but at this time they were arranged to go to Weishui to supervise the work, and the two of them inevitably felt that they were a little overkill. Although Zhou Bo and Guan Ying promised to supervise the work, they inevitably complained in their hearts, and the two generals went to supervise the work, and it didn't make people laugh when they passed it out? What's even more infuriating is that Chen Ping, who is handsome on the outside but can never guess his heart, is compared to the court, and the two are very unconvinced.
The prince was ready to go back to the prince's palace, and as soon as he arrived at the palace gate, he met Chen Ping, who had just had an elegant debate, and had some good feelings for him in his heart, so he politely bowed to Chen Ping, Chen Ping was flattered and hurriedly returned the salute, and said humbly, "I have seen His Royal Highness the Prince." The prince looked at Chen Ping with a gentle and humble face, nodded and smiled, and walked out of the hall gracefully. Chen Ping got up and looked at the prince's young, handsome and gentle back, and somehow felt some pity for the prince in his heart. Chen Ping knows a little about the affairs between Empress Lu and Qi Ji, the prince is elegant, but he lacks some of Liu Bang's scoundrel spirit, it is precisely in this way that Liu Bang thinks that the prince is not like himself. Chen Pingyuan thought about it for a while, and he also went out of the hall.
Zhou Bo and Guan Ying wore swords on their waists, and at this time, a ray of slanting sun was reflected on their faces, but they became more and more calm after experiencing the years of wind and snow. The two of them followed down the steps and said: "If Qu is waiting for him, the court is above the strategy, although there are hundreds of officials, but no one can compare with Chen Ping, you and I are both military generals, and we don't have so much scheming and wisdom in our hearts, although Wang Ling, Gao Qi, and Lu Jia can they do?" ”
"Chen Ping is resourceful, but how is it compared to staying in the marquis? Who do you think the emperor prefers? Said the baby.
Zhou Bo touched his forehead, thought for a moment, and then blurted out: "This is not clear? The emperor sealed the Hou 10,000 households, sealed the song against the 5,000 households, and the Hou Hou was even better. ”
The baby nodded approvingly, "This is one of them; Second, the ovary and Chen Ping are both Taoist streams, Taoist doctrine has the Tao and the technique, the body is useful, the ovary pays attention to the 'body' and 'Tao', Chen Ping pays attention to the 'use' and 'technique', the ovary can take into account the overall situation, Chen Ping is a small round, and the strategy is not as long as the ovary. Presumably, the emperor also sees the two of them clearly, and the emperor really likes the ovary, so he respects the ovary, and Chen Ping, the emperor half likes and half uses. ”
Zhou Bo's eyes widened, with a surprised expression on his face, and he turned his head to Guan Ying and smiled: "I didn't expect General Guan to have such a deep understanding of the Tao, Zhou admires it." After that, he gave up his hand to admire the baby.
Guan Ying laughed and spread his hands, "See the smile and laugh, where does Guan know those Taoist things, and the fur is not yet." ”
Zhou Bo laughed, and then said: "I don't know what the emperor thinks, let you and I go to supervise the work, isn't there a river embankment?" ”
Guan Ying suddenly felt embarrassed when he thought of this, and slurped, "Even if there is no river embankment, the emperor should call the person who offered this plan." "That's clearly talking about Chen Ping, and it's clearly talking about anger.
The two were still complaining, Chen Ping walked down the steps, he was looking for the two of them, seeing that Zhou Bo and the two had not gone far, the two of them were still muttering to themselves, Chen Ping picked up his clothes and hurried down the steps, so he went to greet them.
"General Zhou, General Guan." Chen Ping walked in front of them and raised his hands to his chest.
Seeing that the two didn't speak, Chen Ping smiled slightly, as if he knew what the two of them were doing, and said, "Presumably the two generals are still feeling angry about the matter of overseeing the work, right?" ”
Zhou Bo Guan Ying's eyes immediately widened, and the two glanced at each other, their faces were surprised, as if to say: Chen Ping is really powerful, he knows what we are thinking. Instead, the two looked at Chen Ping in unison, but they didn't speak.
"The overseer of Weishui was originally a matter of the river embankment, but the two generals didn't know, the emperor was angry and killed the confessor, the emperor was not good at arranging, so he sent two to do it on his behalf, first, the emperor wanted you to replace Prime Minister Xiao to be seen by the people, and secondly, the two are the emperor's favorite generals, and they have always been strict with themselves, the emperor believes that you will be able to govern Weishui well, and the emperor wants to improve your position in the hearts of the people." Chen Ping understood the emperor's arrangement, he knew that the emperor arranged for Xiao He to make a list but did not let him supervise the work, because Xiao He had been very impressive in the hearts of the people in the past few years, and he was afraid that Xiao He's status in the hearts of the people would be better than his own, so he dealt with the matter in sections.
Zhou Bo nodded suddenly in realization: "I said why did the emperor call the prime minister to publish the list, but he asked us to supervise the work, so that's the case." ”
Chen Ping also nodded.
Zhou Bo suddenly remembered that Chen Ping had given her two palace people, so he asked, "Those two palace people...... How does Chen Gong know about my family affairs? Didn't you send someone to supervise me? Zhou Bo thought about this, and shuddered a little, if he was supervised, he didn't know at all, and he didn't know who Chen Ping was supervised by, whether the emperor or the empress or the imperial doctor secretly arranged it, in this way, wouldn't he be transparent?
Chen Ping laughed and patted him on the shoulder: "No, no, it's just that one day I passed by the general's house and heard the general talking about this with his wife, unfortunately, I heard it." ”
Zhou Bo nodded in disbelief, and said, "Gong Chen has this heart, and Zhou has thanked him here." ”
Chen Ping hurriedly replied: "Please don't excuse the general." ”
"The emperor ordered the two of us to supervise the work, let's go as soon as possible, so we won't bother Duke Chen and leave." After Zhou Bo said goodbye to Chen Ping, he went to Weishui to preside over the repair of the embankment.
When Liu Bangfang and the ministers discussed the matter of solving the Weishui matter, the queen said goodbye to Dai Qing, the emperor walked out of the front hall, and hurriedly exchanged a few words with the prince, and went straight to the Changxin Palace where he lived.
Just about to pass through the corridor of Changle Palace, the queen was on the edge of a small pavilion, and saw from a distance Jing Tian of Yuzao Palace holding some medicine bags in her left hand and a food box in her right hand, walking towards them.
Empress Lu watched her approach step by step, and dragged Dai Qing to another way, deliberately walking in a hurry. Although Dai Qing didn't understand it at the time, when she thought that the queen had said something to her yesterday, she followed the queen to do so, walking in a hurry, like a gust of wind about to blow to the people on the side of the road.
Jing Tian was about to walk in the direction of Yuzao Palace, and when she inadvertently looked up, she saw the queen and Dai Qing hurrying to Changxin Palace, looking very flustered, she thought about it and said to herself: Could it be that something happened to Changxin Palace? Jing Tian wanted to follow to see what was going on, so he followed in small steps, and he was cautious all over the journey, for fear that the queen and Dai Qing would notice it.
Jing Tian has been following behind like this, only to see the queen and Dai Qing through a long corridor, and then through a pavilion, and then through the Yongning Palace, Jing Tian saw that they were in a hurry, with a displeased expression on their faces, and she was even more puzzled in her heart, she also followed through the corridor, the pavilion road, and the Yongning Palace, and seemed to feel that the gods were unconscious, and the queen was even more unaware.
At this time, Dai Qing only felt that someone was following behind, she must be Jing Tian, Dai Qing smiled as she walked, tilted her head slightly to the queen's side, and said, "Niangniang, Jing Tian really followed us." It seems that Dai Qing said this sentence to attract Jing Qing.
The queen squinted at Dai Qing, revealing a confident expression, and said, "Very good, let's go." ”
The queen and Dai Qing quickened their pace again, and did not look back, pretending to hurry away, while Jing Tian always followed them carefully.
After passing through several palaces, pavilions, and corridors, Jing Tian himself couldn't remember, he was confused, scratched his head, and wanted to turn around and go back, but when he thought that the queen was in such a hurry, it seemed that something big had happened, Jing Tian always had curiosity, and decided to keep up first.
In a few moments, we arrived at the Changxin Palace. I heard the noise of the two chattering in the distance, Lu Hou stood in the middle of the courtyard with a black face, did not go in, and saw that the two palace people were still fighting, they didn't see the queen come back at all, the two still pulled each other's hair, tore each other's clothes, the clothes were torn into pieces, and their faces were painted. There was a painting scattered on the ground next to it, and it seemed that the painting had been torn as well.
The queen did not stop them, but stood motionless not far from them and watched them fight.