Night falls on this huge palace, draping the court with a thin black veil.

A bend of the moon silently hung high in the sky, the palace courtyard was lit with several yellowish palace lamps, the stone path was shining through the light of the moonlight through the leaves, the night was quiet, there was no sound, cold and miserable, Xiao Xiao solemn. In the palace, there were only busy palace people, who quickly changed shifts, and then quickly restored the original silence and good court order, guarding the palace in this dark night.

Although the night is very deep, the people who are sad in their hearts will not be able to sleep.

Changxin Palace, as quiet as ever, has nothing else except Empress Lu and a few female palace people who are keeping vigil. In the main hall, only the candle flame is enchanting alone, swaying under the blowing of a few cold winds, as if everything in the hall is also swaying, and the silence in the hall is quite sad and sentimental.

Empress Lu didn't sleep, scattered green silk, sitting in front of the couch with a tired face, leaning her head on the side of the bed, and staring at one place with her eyes motionless. Before the door was closed, a cold gust of wind blew and made her sneeze again, maybe she had a cold, Lu Hou got up and walked to the door and closed the door.

Turning around, I saw the cold dormitory, with my back against the door, and the coldness of the door poured down my whole back, and I suddenly felt a little desolate in my heart. Her eyes were a little moist, she was contradictory, why she couldn't hate Liu Bang when she wanted to, why she didn't want to hate him, but he did things that made her resentful in her heart.

"Emperor, what shall I do to you?" Lu Hou thought about it and muttered quietly.

She happened to see Liu Bang's cloak still hanging on the hanger, moved to the hanger, raised her hand and wanted to hold his cloak. But the hand was about to touch the cloak but stopped touching it, the hand retracted again, looking at Liu Bang's things in front of him, Lu Hou felt so familiar and unfamiliar, and a stream of tears flowed down. Suddenly he laughed, and said to himself into the cloak, "Half sea and half fire, what should I do to you." She burst out laughing twice as if she were venting.

She lowered her head and smiled bitterly, bitterly at her empty position, bitterly at her helplessness when she was not liked by Liu Bang, bitterly at her supremacy but only lonely, and bitterly at her that she couldn't let go of her attachment to Liu Bang.

She stopped smiling and sobbing, looked at the cloak, took it in her hand, turned to the window, she wrapped the cloak around herself, turned around and looked at it, smiled and raised her hand to prop up the window, everything was dark outside, and a gust of wind blew in front of her, she didn't dodge, wanted the wind to wake her up, so she closed her eyes and enjoyed the violent attack of the wind, and her hair was blown into chaos by the wind, but showed a smile that covered her sadness.

The wind stopped, she also opened her eyes, still looking at the night blankly, she didn't have to think about it, Liu Bang was not at Qi Ji's place at this time, but at Mrs. Guan's, maybe they were having a fun time at this time, maybe she was hugging Liu Bang's neck and saying some rebellious words, such as separating father and son, separating husband and wife, or some other more terrible words than this. As soon as she thought of Qi Ji's instigation of the emperor to change the throne, Empress Lu put away the fragile smiles of those women, bit her lip tightly, and there was a murderous aura in her eyes, she couldn't ask other women to destroy everything she had won so hard, it was absolutely impossible.

Fingers clenched into fists, creaked, and slapped hands against the wall.

"No matter who it is, this palace will never allow the crown prince to be endangered." Empress Lu said hatefully, and the cold wind blew in the night sky when he said this.

Suddenly, a person walked under the window, and Lu Hou didn't have time to follow his footsteps, leaned out of the window and glanced hurriedly, and shouted in the direction of that person, "Who?" ”

The man was already standing at the door, 'Knock knock', knocked on the door, and came the voice of the warbler, "Queen Mother, it's me." ”

Empress Lu was overjoyed and hurriedly opened the door, "A-Yuan." ”

It turned out to be Princess Lu Yuan, dressed in pajamas, presumably because she fell asleep and got up again, she came in from outside and nodded to Empress Lu.

Empress Lu asked while closing the door casually, "It's so late and you wear so little, why don't you sleep?" ”

Princess Lu Yuan sat down next to several cases, and Empress Lu pulled the cloak on her body and sat down with her, looking at the princess with questioning eyes.

"When the son went out to pay tribute, he saw that the light in the queen mother's room was still on, and the father was not here with the queen mother, thinking that the queen mother would be a little lonely alone, so the daughter came in to accompany her." The princess raised her hand around her arm as she spoke, rubbed it together, and yawned again.

Seeing that she was so cold, Empress Lu got up and found a very thick dress for her to wrap around her body, and said, "Be careful of catching a cold." ”

"Thank you, Mother." The princess held up a warm smile, and Empress Lu smiled and nodded, "It's polite to the queen mother." ”

The princess held Empress Lu's hand in one hand, looked at Empress Lu with straight eyes, and said, "Queen Mother, please look at the eyes of her son." ”

Empress Lu met her gaze, and after looking at it for a while, Lu Yuan's serious and serious look made Empress Lu feel a little ridiculous, and said, "Why do you ask the queen mother to look at your eyes if you don't sleep so late?" ”

The princess shook her hand tightly and said solemnly, "Is the queen mother unhappy, and does the father rarely come to the queen mother?" ”

The smile on Empress Lu's face immediately froze, and she only felt that her facial muscles seemed to be unable to move, she was very embarrassed and at a loss, so she looked away from the princess's eyes and fooled her, "Nonsense." ”

The princess let go of her hand, picked up Empress Lu's face and stared at her, and asked again, "Why doesn't the queen mother dare to tell her sons, if the queen mother is happy, how can she stand in front of the window every night and stop and pray, how can she not look so glorious every day, but like a defeated rooster." ”

"Liu Le is bold, and he dares to say that this palace is a defeated rooster." Lu Houyi got up and slapped his hands on the table, reprimanding Princess Lu Yuan.

The princess was not frightened by Empress Lu's majesty, but continued to meet Empress Lu's angry eyes with her rhetorical eyes, got up and said, "Don't play this trick with your daughter, it's useless to your daughter, my daughter can't see the majesty in her eyes at all, even I can't be scared, who else is the queen mother going to use this trick to intimidate?" ”

Empress Lu's sharp eyes were said by the princess, and she took off the strength and fortitude she had pretended, and her eyes suddenly eased down, and she was no longer so sharp, but she glanced at the princess with some loss and stopped talking.

The princess saw that Lu Hou's complexion had eased, and she had completely become the gentle and kind mother she had lost her luster before, and the princess accompanied her, holding her mother in her arms, and the two hugged each other for a while. Empress Lu leaned on the princess and was lost without saying a word, and the princess hugged her mother and just sighed without disturbing her mother. The princess said, "The queen mother should no longer hide from her daughter, since her daughter entered the Changxin Palace, she has not seen her father stop here at night, even once." When the wine was not in the middle, it was the daughter who came, and the father had to move the palace, but the feast had passed for so many days, and the daughter had never seen her father at all, and wanted to talk to him about the affairs in the Zhao Kingdom at night, but she couldn't see him after all. I heard that my father is often in Yuzao Palace, and recently he has stayed in Linhua Palace. The poor queen mother is alone in the night, and the father is holding other women around her, enjoying the gentleness, that woman is not the queen mother. ”

Empress Lu looked at the princess straight and blankly, there was no expression on her face, even if it was anger, but no, numbness, accompanied by two lines of tears, her lips opened slightly, "Don't say it." "Turn your head away and let the tears flow.