The next day, just after dawn, Wang Ling Lu Jia thought about Liu Bang's task assigned to him, which was to deal with the annexation of farmland by bureaucrats and landlords with Prime Minister Xiao. Gao Qi also came to the Xuanshu Hall early to receive the edict. Liu Bang had already ordered someone to write the edict, and then picked up the jade seal next to him and stamped it with the seal, and then handed it to Gao Qi.

Gao Qi accepted the order, and Liu Bang specially instructed him to say a few words and went out with a resignation ceremony. Liu Bang breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the pen and wrote a sentence in Lu Jia's "New Language: Wuwei Chapter" in Lu Jia's "New Language: Wuwei Chapter", tilted his neck and silently admired it for a long time, and he didn't like his calligraphy very much, so he shook his head and put the pen in the inkstone. Sitting on the mat, I grabbed a small stick with a thin tip to pick between my teeth, and just ate breakfast, I guess things are squeezed into my teeth. He squinted his eyes again, and rested his head with his right hand.

A thin eunuch ran in from outside, and when he saw Liu Bang taking a nap, he didn't want to disturb him and walked out, but he stopped after a few steps back, frowned, thought carefully, walked up the steps and bowed down in front of Liu Bang and whispered, "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has come to see you, do you pass it on?" ”

Liu Bang opened his eyes, looked at the eunuch, and muttered in his heart, he had already allowed the prince not to see him, why did he have to come so obediently? Even added a little complaint, and he didn't want to see the prince, because he was embarrassed to have nothing to say. The corners of his mouth moved slightly, he straightened up, gritted his teeth, scratched the back of his head, and explained plainly, "Let's just say that I am discussing state affairs with several ministers, and tell the prince to go back." ”

The eunuch glanced at Liu Bang carefully, continued to bend down and stay where he was, and did not immediately go out to refuse the prince, because the prince had not come to see the emperor for half a month, but Liu Bang himself felt that time passed quickly, as if he could see the prince every day. The eunuch bowed his body even more and said boldly, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has not seen the emperor for half a month, presumably the prince is also made by filial piety, and I feel guilty for not coming for half a month, is Your Majesty really gone?" ”

"Half a moon?" Liu Bang asked rhetorically, 'oh' and waved his hand to explain, "Time flies." Then, please let the prince in. ”

"No." The eunuch was ordered to go out and invite the prince. The crown prince Liu Ying followed the eunuch to the front hall, and Liu Bangzheng was sitting on the couch and pretended to take a volume of "Shangshu" to read. Liu Ying stopped three meters away from Liu Bang and bowed deeply to Liu Bang, "The son sees his father, and his father is happy." The prince's high-pitched and loud voice echoed in the spacious Xuanshu Hall.

Liu Bang got up and stood up with an 'um' sound, walked to the prince's side, stretched out his hands and patted the prince's shoulders, feeling more and more that the prince was thin and elegant. Liu Ying still looked at his father with a delicate face, and stood there respectfully with his head bowed slightly.

"I haven't seen her for a few days, and Ying'er seems to have grown a little taller again." Liu Bang smiled and had nothing to say, and he was embarrassed to watch the prince for a long time, but he couldn't find anything to say, so he had to gossip.

The prince didn't know how to answer, he wanted to answer but didn't know what to say, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was embarrassing to say that time had passed so long. After a long pause, he finally saw the corners of his mouth moving but no words came out of his mouth, so he smiled at his father with a stiff face and bowed his head and said nothing.

There were only these two people in the hall, and no one spoke for a while, but the whole atmosphere was condensed, and the exhalations of each other could be heard clearly. Liu Bang sat back on the couch, coughed twice, and picked up "Shangshu" to read it in order to avoid the embarrassing scene. The prince looked around the main hall, the high dragon couch, the high steps, the majestic unicorn carvings on both sides of the steps, the straight pillars, the fresh winter flowers, the gray floor, and a king who was reading bamboo slips, plus an outsider who looked very good.

Looking at all this, the prince added a kind of childhood memories, recalling his hometown of Peixian when he was a child, playing with his sister, going to work with his mother during the day, coming back at night and waiting for his mother to cook, and waiting for his father to come back to bring himself and his sister some small toys on the street. The mother pretended to complain, saying that the father should not spoil herself and her sister so much, but the father picked himself up and put it in his arms, kissed and kissed and said, "I just want to buy it for Ying'er, Ying'er is my beloved son, and my fortyties are considered old, I just want to spoil Ying'er, what can you do with me?" "I remember my father saying it to my mother with a smile. The mother also smiled, knowing that he doted on her son. At that time, Liu Ying came over like this, the years when she was a child were full of sweetness, full of endless fatherly love, but when her father fought together, and then ascended the throne as an emperor, it was seven or eight years, and she didn't see her father for seven or eight years. When I said goodbye, my father was no longer the original Surabaya Pavilion Chief, there were already beauties around him, there was no shortage of sons, and I and my mother were completely forgotten in the corner. With younger brothers, he should be happy, but Liu Ying couldn't help but feel sad when he was happy, his father still violated his oath with his mother and married another beauty, which made it difficult for himself and his mother to see his father who once doted on him, and it also made his mother's personality change greatly, and the kindness and gentleness on his body have gradually been replaced by cold hatred. I used to be lively and cheerful, but now I have become silent.

Liu Ying's memories came to an abrupt end here, looking at his eyes, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, completely forgetting that he was in the Xuanmu Hall of his father's Weiyang Palace. Liu Bang, who originally pretended to read the bamboo slips, heard the prince laughing out of thin air, and looked at him with a wry smile, Liu Bang frowned, and the bamboo slips glanced at the prince with his face half-covered, I don't know why the prince smiled?

"Ying'er...... Why are you laughing? Liu Bang asked with his face half-covered.

'Oh', Liu Ying came to her senses at this time, hurriedly raised her hand and pinched her eyebrows, actually wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and bent out a far-fetched smile, "My son remembered the past, playing with his sister, going to the field with his mother, going to the market with his father, fighting crickets with his grandfather, and chatting with his uncle and uncle." The former life was harmonious and tranquil, like the people of the Getian clan. Liu Ying's tears fell involuntarily, she longed for her former life, and she wanted to go back to the past and knew that she couldn't make it happen.

When the prince said this, Liu Bang was also a little moved, and the corners of his eyes were wet, so he quickly wiped them off while others were not paying attention, sighed, scattered the bamboo slips on a few cases, and watched His Royal Highness's prince get up and walk over, took his hand and patted it meaningfully, as if he was comforting himself, and said, "Focus on the present." Why should men always reminisce about the past, just regard the past as a good memory. ”

In fact, Liu Bang also misses the days when he was with Empress Lu and the crown princess in his heart, but what can he do, he can't go back, and he doesn't want to go back, what's wrong with being the emperor, what do you want, it's just that you need to bear too much, and you have too much loading, but he is willing. To a certain extent, Liu Bang is still willing to think about this good time, after all, it was the real beginning of his life, after all, it was the years when he and Empress Lu shared honor and disgrace, how could he not think about this time, but even if he wanted to, others might not know.