Everyone was happy that Dai Qing worshiped the great Changqiu of Changxin Palace, and the Cheng Hou who was sitting opposite also smiled at Dai Qing, bringing tea to drink, but his eyes were staring at Dai Qing's admiring gaze, the corners of his mouth were always raised, and he put down the tea and said to Dai Qing, "Qing girl Bingxue is smart, is it time to find her mother-in-law's house?" How about marrying into the Lu family? ”

Dai Qing suddenly lost his smile and looked up in amazement, just being pressed by Jiancheng Hou's squinting eyes, Dai Qing quickly removed Jiancheng Hou's gaze and turned to the side, knowing that Empress Lu would speak for her.

The Marquis of Biyang, who was sitting next to him, was stunned by Jianchenghou's words, and raised his eyes to glance at Empress Lu, who was sitting opposite, to see how she reacted. I saw that Lu Hou's sharp eyes met his brother's smiling and treacherous eyes at this time, and he was unfortunately forced by Lu Hou's eyes, and looked at Lu Hou, her eyes had a frightening feeling, Yin Yu was angry, so she quickly put away her smile, with an expression of being afraid of her sister but unwilling, muttering, and continued to bury her head in the tea and drink.

"Brother, Lu Lu is also in the year of the weak crown this year, right?" Pi Xiaorou didn't smile, and asked his brother gloomily and complainingly. The year of the weak crown is the year of the man's twenty-year-old crown, which means that the nephews are almost twenty years old, and Dai Qing is only fourteen or fifteen, if you want to marry her, don't you think the age difference is too big?

Jiancheng Hou didn't dare to look at Empress Lu's eyes, the flesh on his face stiffened with an embarrassed smile, his eyes didn't know where to look, and finally glanced at Biyang Hou beside him awkwardly, and quickly dodged away, knowing that his sister was blaming him. Touching the back of his head, he grinned for a long time before saying, "I've already done the crown salute." ”

Empress Lu pretended to raise her eyebrows and said with an "oh" voice, "Lu Lu is so old, he knows something." Brother must be a good example. Jianhou smiled awkwardly and nodded, and hurriedly poured the warm tea in his hand into his mouth and drank it. Empress Lu smiled disdainfully, doesn't her brother understand? Dai Qing is beautiful and smart, who doesn't like it?

Biyang Hou looked at the brother and sister, and they were about to make trouble after a few words when they met, but they were used to it, the elder brother loved to mess around, and Empress Lu wanted to hold him like a mother and teach him a lesson. Seeing Jianhou like a child who made a mistake, Biyang Hou sat on the side and smiled, just happened to meet Lu Hou's indifferent face, looked at her, raised his eyebrows and moved away, lowered his head and tidied up his sleeves.

Lu shook his head helplessly. Dai Qing also seemed to be relieved, sighed, relieved a lot, and secretly glanced at Jianhou opposite, he bowed his head like a child who made a mistake, and played with the corners of his clothes, Dai Qing also smiled secretly when he saw him like this. Remembering that his brother said that everything had fallen out, Empress Lu's face became gloomy again, and he leaned forward with his eyebrows locked and asked his brother, "Just now my brother said that everything fell into place, so find out who did it?" ”

Speaking of this, Jianhou seemed to be interested again, a smile spread all over his face again, raised his head and leaned forward, looked around the hall to make sure that there were no suspicious people, and then said dignifiedly, word by word, "It's Mrs. Guan's younger brother Guan Xiuyan." ”

Empress Lu's eyes suddenly lit up, thinking how could it be her, but she never thought it would be her. I thought that I had gone to Linhua Hall to teach Mrs. Guan a lesson, but I thought that she would live a peaceful life and no longer stir up the waves. I thought it was Mrs. Qi, but why not? His eyes couldn't help blinking a few times, and he bit his lip and muttered, "How could it be her?" Isn't it Mrs. Qi? Empress Lu said suspiciously, "Has my brother checked it out?" ”

Jianhou nodded affirmatively, and said with a serious and somewhat manly attitude, "The young girl has been in the Hou Mansion for so long, just to help us find this person, and I have worked with Biyang Hou for several tricks to find out." I asked seven people who were arrested by us, some knew that person, some didn't know him, and those who didn't know asked them to draw his portrait, and they knew him, but they didn't say it, and I had a way to force them, saying that it was Guan Ye. Then he painted it like a pair, it's really him, isn't the Guan Ye in Chang'an City Guan Xiuyan? As he spoke, Jianhou took out a silk silk from his waist, and unfolded it was a portrait of Guan Xiuyan, with thick eyebrows and a square face, but he was very handsome.

Lu Hou took it and sneered, closed the painting, gritted his teeth and blackened his face, his eyes suddenly lit up with a raging flame, his fingers creaked, and he gritted his teeth and said to himself, "You are really looking for death." ”

Seeing his sister so annoyed, Jiancheng Hou took the opportunity to hurriedly say, "Since I know that it is him, then he is not far from death, I heard that the emperor transferred him to Yanmen County, then the day after tomorrow is a great opportunity to start, sister rest assured, my brother will definitely do this matter well, and hate Lu Ling's nephew." ”

Seeing that Lu Wei was really angry, and there was already a killing intent in his eyes, the Marquis of Biyang also thought that the fire was coming, and also said, "Your Highness, it's time for us to act." Dai Qing also nodded approvingly. Everyone thought that the queen would be ready to kill Guan Xiuyan like them, so they were all in good spirits, like warriors waiting for the battle.

Somehow, Empress Lu's eyes were suddenly not so cold and full of murderous intent, and gradually replaced them with calm and confused. She has to take care of a lot, taking into account Liu Bang's patience with her, taking into account his face and feelings, taking into account her own face and prestige, killing Guan Xiuyan is what she wants to do, and she can't wait to divide his sister and brother into five horses. But if he does this, he will arouse the disgust of the courtiers and the people, thinking that this queen is immoral and ungraceful, and it will make herself, who was not very favored, more and more distant from Liu Bang's sight.

Empress Lu got up and walked to the side of the pillar in the hall, squinting her eyes slightly, everyone's eyes moved with her, and at the same time looked at each other puzzled, I don't know what Empress Lu thought. Suddenly, a thought flashed in Lu Hou's mind, and Lu Hou remembered that Liu Bang had hinted that 'it is not good to raise troops too much, and it is not good to kill too much', Liu Bang did not want too many killings, and he also vaguely said to Liu Bang, 'Actually, you and I don't want too many killings'.

After thinking for a long time, he finally suppressed his anger and said, "The emperor said that there are too many killings, which is not good. The deceased is gone, we don't need to be too obsessed, Guan Xiuyan has someone to clean up, brother and let him go this time. Jianhou's originally excited smile suddenly disappeared, and he didn't believe and complained. Biyang Hou and Dai Qing couldn't believe it, they finally found out, did they just give up?

Jiancheng Hou got up, turned three steps into two steps and walked to his sister's side, holding his sister's shoulders from behind with both hands, and complained with anger in his words, "My sister broke the oath she made, didn't she say that she would hate Lu Lingxue?" How did my sister become the queen, she is getting more and more unbearable, and she doesn't even dare to take revenge when her relatives die? Are you scared of those women? Jianhou reacted violently, and it actually hurt Lu Housheng, but Lu Hou knew his brother's anger, so he had to endure it with his eyes slightly closed.

After a long time, he turned his face sideways to his brother behind him and said slightly apologetically, "This palace said that the emperor doesn't like too much killing." Hongu didn't like it either. ”

'Hahaha-', Jianhou laughed sarcastically, let go of the hands holding Lu Hou's shoulders, laughed wildly, and said in a loud voice, "Emperor? Don't like killing? How ironic, the emperor used killing to open the country, to ascend the throne and become the emperor, and his sister has this noble throne, and now he actually says that he doesn't like killing? ”

"So what? In the past, killing was a last resort, but today it is clear that it can be stopped, so why not carry it out? Lu Hou turned around and asked his brother, his eyes were full of red bloodshots. Jianhou really didn't want to talk to her, knowing that she had made up her mind, he glanced at her fiercely complainingly, didn't speak again, and sat on the mat angrily sulking.

Dai Qing looked at the Marquis of Biyang, the Marquis of Biyang got up and walked calmly to Empress Lu, and said calmly and slowly, "Your Highness, killing is indispensable since ancient times, killing is an extraordinary means to consolidate the imperial power, consolidate the status and consolidate everything, and the way of the imperial power must be paved by killing and blood." Now, in the face of Mrs. Guan's arrogance, you have to punish her with extraordinary means. If there is any fault, the minister is willing to bear it for His Highness. With that, he propped up his wide robe and bowed deeply, hoping that she would consider it.