The next day, Linhua Palace.

Liu Bang had a lot of things to worry about last night, so he didn't fall asleep until midnight, and now he doesn't wake up, sleeping on the couch with heavy snoring. His snoring woke up Mrs. Guan early, she had just gotten up with her clothes on, Chanxin brought face wash from outside and put it on the shelf, prepared a towel, reached out and tested the temperature, made sure it was not hot or cold, and said to Mrs. Guan with a smile, "Madam, the water temperature is just right, you can wash it." With that, Chanxin went out to prepare breakfast.

Mrs. Guan drooped her face early in the morning and didn't look happy, sat on the dressing table and combed her hair, and was stunned for a while, put down the comb and went to the couch to call Liu Bang, "Your Majesty, it's time." ”

Liu Bang continued to snore but didn't respond, and Mrs. Guan gently patted Liu Bang's quilt again, and leaned closer, "Your Majesty, it's time." ”

"Hmm." The sleeping Liu Bang replied vaguely. It took a while to hear the sound of him yawning and stretching, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Mrs. Guan kneeling on the edge of the couch and waiting, Liu Bang called Mrs. Guan to get up and said that it was cold on the ground. Mrs. Guan personally went to prepare warm water for him to rinse. Liu Bang hurriedly put on his underwear, put on socks, wrapped the quilt around his body and sat on the edge of the couch, his eyes were stunned when he looked at one place.

"The water is warm, just right, Your Majesty will wash it." Mrs. Guan stood by the basin rack and waited respectfully.

Liu Bang said 'um', put aside the quilt and put on the last piece of clothing, tied up the belt, picked up the comb that Mrs. Guan usually used, combed her hair, tidied up her clothes, and then went to the shelf, wrung it in the water with a towel, and wiped her face. Mrs. Guan handed the warm water on the case to Liu Bang to rinse his mouth, Liu Bang was stunned and wondered, why was Mrs. Guan so polite today, and asked with a smile, "Are you sick?" It's not like you're so polite. When he raised his head, he rinsed his mouth, and then snorted and spit it out.

Mrs. Guan approached him, dressed him, dusted him, and said in a serious manner, "This is the way of a husband and wife." ”

"Yikes!" Liu Bang exclaimed and shivered, like goosebumps falling to the ground, it was rare to see her serious, and it was not like that when she was serious, Liu Bang couldn't hold back a smile so he said, "I will be blessed in the future." ”

Mrs. Guan walked to the door of the hall and shouted, "Chanxin, is breakfast ready?" If you don't hurry in, the emperor is going to eat. ”

"Ma'am, bring it in." Chan Xin responded.

'Squeak', the door opened, Chanxin and a few little palace maids came in with breakfast, breakfast was relatively light, mostly white porridge and rice crackers and some light side dishes, rice crackers are the favorite breakfast of Chang'an people, made of yellow rice noodles into a thick pile of storage, every morning just need to boil on the fire, with fragrant clear soup to eat more fragrant. Chanxin and a few girls carefully put them on a few cases, set up the dishes and chopsticks, and went out.

Liu Bang sat on the mat and just moved his chopsticks, suddenly thinking about last night's events, he couldn't eat for a while, and he held his head with one hand and frowned. Seeing that Liu Bang was not very happy, Mrs. Guan hurriedly put his favorite dish in Liu Bang's plate, and said with a smile, "Your Majesty, this is your favorite dish, eat more." ”

He replied calmly, and looked at Mrs. Guan, "You also eat, you are pregnant, and taking care of your body is the most important thing." After that, he sandwiched a light vegetarian dish for Mrs. Guan, scooped her white porridge for a night, pulled out a smile at her, and told her to eat it well. Mrs. Guan knew that he was still thinking about last night's events, so she smiled back uneasily and apologetically, picked up the vegetarian dishes and put them in her mouth and sipped them, and beat the drum in her heart.

The two of them ate quietly, Liu Bang was thinking about things while eating, and the whole breakfast room was full of sad faces, and his eyebrows were slightly locked. Mrs. Guan is like an obedient little sheep like a quiet eat, and did not dare to make a big fuss about Liu Bang, when eating, occasionally raised her eyes to look at Liu Bang opposite, seeing that he was unhappy, quickly lowered her head and ate quietly without saying a word, during which she only heard the sound of dishes and chopsticks colliding.

Before breakfast was finished, a eunuch suddenly rushed in at the door, looking anxious and flustered, and hurriedly walked over without knocking on the door, looking at Liu Bang and Mrs. Guan who were eating with a frightened face, and said breathlessly, "Your Majesty, something happened." ”

Liu Bang and Mrs. Guan glanced at each other and looked at the little eunuch again.

"What's the matter?" Liu Bang put down the chopsticks in his hand, turned to the eunuch's side, leaned on his right leg with his right elbow, and asked anxiously and majestically.

The eunuch swallowed, knelt on the ground and replied in a panic, "It's Jianhou." Now many people in Chang'an have gathered in front of the West Gate to ask for an explanation, saying that the Lu family forced people to die, and the queen confessed to settle the matter with a lot of money, but the victim's family did not accept it, so they gathered many people to make trouble at the West Gate. It is said that the emperor said that the murderer died, and they must be built to wait and Lu Linggongzi died, and the Wang Weiwei of the West Gate was afraid that he would not be able to withstand the push of the people, and it was a mess, and now it ......"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Liu Bang, "I know, now you are holding my talisman to mobilize the army of Jiang Hou to go to the West Gate to respond, and ask one person to quickly send an order to Jiang Hou to the West Gate quickly, and I will arrive later." Also, don't alarm the queen about this matter. As he spoke, he untied the talisman he carried around his waist and gave it to the little eunuch.

The eunuch took the talisman in a panic, nodded to Liu Bang and went out, running in the direction of the west gate.

Liu Bang closed his eyes and calmed down for a while, and found that it was really difficult to calm down. Ximen forced the palace, the Lu family murdered, the three chapters of the law, the Han Dynasty law and other big nodes jumped into Liu Bang's mind, and the confusion made his mind suddenly blank. With a long sigh, he muttered to himself, "If there is really something like Lu Ling killing someone." Narrowing his old eyes, he said, "So fast? ”

Mrs. Guan smiled secretly, and told herself in her heart: I see how you dismantle the trick and slap me, and I will return it to your relatives several times.

"What do you think?" In Mrs. Guan's reverie, Liu Bang's voice seemed to knock her, but she didn't know that Liu Bang was already standing beside her, looking at Mrs. Guan with a serious face, and seeing a sly smile flashing on her face, she asked with a sideways face.

"No, nothing." Mrs. Guan hurriedly put away all the expressions on her face and bowed her head silently.

"Stay well in the palace, I have important things to deal with, and I'll come to see you another day." After Liu Bang finished explaining, he called a eunuch beside him and hurried to the West Gate. Leaving a table of food that had not been touched much, Mrs. Guan simply didn't eat it, and hurriedly asked someone to take it away. Thinking about the Ximen forcing the palace, he approved a robe and was stopped by the eunuch when he just came out of the palace gate, saying that the emperor ordered him to come down and not allow his wife to go out. When Mrs. Guan heard this, she was shocked, and guessed that the emperor thought that this matter was related to her, so she returned to the Linhua Palace.

When Liu Bang and his party passed by Weiyang Palace, a very sneaky person hid under the trunk of a big tree next to him that had lost all his leaves, and watched Liu Bang and the eunuchs beside him walk over, only then did he come out and hold his chest and exhale, staring at Liu Bang and they went away, and then turned around and continued in his direction.

West Gate of Chang'an.

Before they arrived at the West Gate, Liu Bang and the eunuchs around him heard a voice of 'Execute Lu Ling, execute Cheng Hou ......', and shouted incessantly. Hearing this shout, Liu Bang was shocked to stop in place for a while, a trace of panic flashed in his eyes, and the people shouted to execute Lu Ling and Jianchenghou, they were all members of the queen's family. Liu Bang hesitated, continued to walk, came to the West Gate Tower, saw a row of stacks in front of the palace gate, Wang Weiwei was organizing guards to block the people's arches, some of the stacks had been rushed by the crowd crookedly, and they were about to be unstoppable, and suddenly heard a voice 'General Zhou arrived'.

At this time, the commotion was suddenly much quieter, and the people were no longer so noisy, still resisting the guards, while watching the arrival of General Zhou, the people suddenly talked about it in twos and threes, pointing and pointing.

Zhou Bo was followed by dozens of lieutenant generals, who were hurrying to this side, and then heard a muffled sound of footsteps, and turned the corner to see a huge number of troops following Zhou Bo and dozens of lieutenant generals, running over.

All arrived, the army lined up in a square formation, the front row held a spear, the second row held a crossbow machine, and the third row also held a crossbow machine as a supplement to the second row.

Zhou Bo, wearing a heroic general's uniform and a red robe, came to the army and shouted to the people outside the west gate, "The palace is important, everyone pay attention to words and deeds, gathering the palace gate is already a great disrespect to the emperor, how can you break in at will." ”

A middle-aged man with a yellow scarf on his head jumped out of the crowd and shouted at Zhou Bo, "We know that General Zhou is brave and good at fighting, but Lu Ling is forcing people to die, and Jianhou is so protective of him, and the queen still wants to settle this matter with a lot of money, everyone says can you let go of the people of the Lu family?" The middle-aged man asked the people behind him with an imposing attitude.

"No, please ask His Majesty the Emperor to execute Lu Ling, execute Cheng Hou, and return justice to the deceased, otherwise the people of Chang'an will definitely break into the palace." The people knelt down and cried and shouted to demand the execution of Lu Ling and Jianchenghou, strange, Lu Ling killed someone, why did Jianhou be executed.

After that, Zhou Bo looked at the man's firm and angry eyes, and that kind of look told Zhou Bo that he would not see the emperor today, and they would not go back if he did not deal with this matter.

Zhou Bo stood in place, helplessly glanced at the people kneeling on the ground, he had nothing to do about their entanglement, and finally said, "Don't worry, the emperor will definitely deal with this matter, just gather in front of the palace gate, it's always not good, please go back first, the emperor will deal with it, and then post a notice to show the world." ”

"The emperor promised us when he was in the middle of the customs that the murderer would die, and the person who injured and the thief would be punished. Now that the Lu family has committed a crime, we just want to see with our own eyes how the emperor handles this matter and expose it to the world, so that we will not feel that the emperor has backtracked. Besides, when we committed a crime, the county officials and their guards didn't punch and kick us, and suffered a lot of imprisonment, not to mention that some of the people were wronged, and now the royal relatives have made a big mistake, just to see the kind of happiness after the emperor disposed of them. The emperor and empress are originally a family, General Zhou, don't say it, we won't leave, let's ask the emperor to come quickly, he doesn't agree to execute Lu Ling and Jianchenghou, we won't go. It was the middle-aged man who took the lead and shouted, shouting at Zhou Bo through the west gate, without the slightest intention of leaving.

Zhou Bo exhaled roughly, holding the saber at his waist, and clenched it tightly.