Chapter 5 Good Things Come in Pairs

After sending Zhen'er away, Shi Meiren couldn't wait to rush to the inner hall to rummage through the boxes and cabinets to find things, and was so anxious that she sweated profusely to find two horns, and finally turned out a delicate set of boxes in an inconspicuous box, and there was an emerald green Lantian jade bead lying quietly in the box. The texture of the jade beads is fresh, the shape is simple and elegant, and the beads are outlined with bright and clear stripes, and the stripes are beautiful and smooth. The texture of the whole kodama beads is warm, the color is pure and natural, and the brilliance shines more and more through the illumination of the light. Shi Meiren looked at this jade bead, full of love, held it in her hand and looked left and right, held it in the sun and looked up and down, she couldn't put it down and loved it very much. Suddenly, he grabbed the jade bead in his arms and muttered to himself, "No, you have to change it." So, after looking for a thousand things, I found a light green and slightly purple jade bead, which was not very uniform in color, but almost exactly the same as the emerald green one, took it in his hand and frowned slightly, smiled mysteriously and disdainfully, put it in a fine box, and went out.

After Liu Bang drank tea in the Yuzao Palace, he took a housekeeper with him to the Linhua Palace.

Along the way, Liu Bang didn't take Mrs. Guan's illness to heart, and always thought that she was joking with himself again. However, he was holding back a little anger at the Huns welcoming their relatives and insulting the Han Dynasty, and the clogs stepped on the stone road, with a dull 'tuk' sound, always frowning, and blowing his beard crookedly in his mouth. Slowing down his pace and looking at both sides of the palace, while looking at the scenery along the road, although it was a little desolate, although most of the flowers had withered, he could only pass the time by watching the desolate scenery on the road; On the one hand, he meditated, sometimes scratching his scalp and rubbing his nose, and had to pin his boredom on the desolate scenery.

Walking and walking, Liu Bang suddenly broke out of a woman in his annoying and melancholy sight, the woman's whole face was clouded and very unhappy, her head was slightly lowered, her eyebrows were tightly locked, her mouth was talking to herself angrily, she looked wronged, holding a beautiful box in her hand, her eyes were lowered, and she was walking towards him with a complaining look.

As the woman walked, a tall figure appeared in the blazing sunlight on the ground, and when she looked up, it was Liu Bang. Shocked, the woman hurriedly knelt down and bowed, her hands slipped, and the box flew out of her hand at once, rolling down five steps away, and the jade beads in the box scattered in all directions. I didn't care about the jade beads, but I just felt that this move had disturbed the emperor just now, so I hurriedly and respectfully bowed, knelt on the ground and said respectfully, "The concubine sees the emperor." ”

Liu Bang looked at the scattered jade beads, bent over to help her, and looked at this woman carefully, dressed in a gorgeous Chu costume dragging to the ground, with a playful Feiyun bun on her good-looking face, wrinkling her brows, and looking sullen in respect but for some reason.

The eunuch picked up the box on the ground and handed it to Liu Bang, Liu Bang took the box and fiddled with it at will, took a closer look, there were still a few jade beads in it, and asked, "Jade beads?" Where is this going? ”

It turned out to be Shi Meiren, and when she learned that Liu Bang was going to Linhua Palace, she hurriedly found a jade bead and took a shortcut to catch up in front of Liu Bang, just for the meeting that seemed to be a coincidence at this time.

Shi Meiren pursed her lips and pretended to be aggrieved, and said lightly, "The concubine has just come back from Mrs. Guan, alas! Shi Meiren sighed and leaned over to pick up the jade beads scattered all over the ground.

Liu Bang picked up the jade beads in the box in his hand and took a closer look, then narrowed his eyes, and in the long and scattered memories in his mind, he remembered that he also gave her a jade bead after pampering Shi Meiren on Chenggao Lingtai, is this one? It's also green, but the color is not very good, the color is not even at all, and the touch in the hand is not slippery. Liu Bang asked questioningly, "Did I send the jade beads?" ”

Shi Meiren knelt on the ground again with a 'poof', and said with a frightened expression, "Actually, no, the concubine originally wanted to give the jade beads that the emperor gave me to Mrs. Guan to marry sisters, but the concubine thought about it carefully, it was the only thing the emperor gave to the concubine, and the concubine couldn't do this." So I gave her this fake jade bead, but today she called me, and actually complained that I sent her a fake jade bead to fool her, and said that I would never be a good sister in the future, and the concubine explained with good words, but she didn't listen, pushed me out of the palace, and the concubine had to come back. After that, a few dry sobs, glanced at Liu Bang, Liu Bang frowned and listened to her, Shi Meiren sobbed louder, but only she knew that there were no tears, so she didn't dare to raise her eyes to look at the emperor again.

Liu Bang smiled when he heard this, picked up the jade beads and hung them in the sun, and after looking at them, he also said that she had done something wrong, "You too, are you stupid?" Whoever looks at these jade beads is fake, and you still want to fool her? So saying, he helped her up, gave her the box, and said, "She's a little bit of a big and straightforward person, but you can't take advantage of it, can you?" You also gave her a fake jade bead, she didn't get angry so she didn't care about Wen, and you had nothing to do. Liu Bang remembered Mrs. Guan's childlike temper, and couldn't help laughing, and was a little intoxicated with Mrs. Guan's little temper.

Shi Meiren's expression was stiff, her eyes were full of anger, and she stared straight at the ground for a while, her face flushed, and she held back some tears. Shi Meiren wiped her tears aggrievedly, gritted her teeth and held back her strength, and said to Liu Bang, "Who said it wasn't?" It seems that in the future, concubines really can't give fake things to others, fake is fake, and it can never become true. Just like a person's identity, what is fake is fake, if you find out that Li Dai is stiff or deliberately concealed, after others find out, not only will you lose face, but even the people around you and the entire family will be made fun of, and if it is serious, you will be caught by others, and then launch an attack war. Alas, the concubine did do something wrong. Shi Meiren's whole energy was held back in the words, both openly and secretly, there were different kinds of complaints, discouragement, self-violence, and hints.

Liu Bang gradually retracted his smiling face and replaced it with rigorous and profound contemplation. On the surface, it sounds like Shi Meiren sent a fake jade bead, but in fact, it has a similar reason to the Han and Hungarian relatives he is going to deal with, fake is fake, and it can never become true. A jade bead made the sisters tear their faces, if the Xiongnu found out that the Han Dynasty sent a fake princess, what would happen, as Shi Meiren said, to launch attacks and wars?

Liu Bang's eyes suddenly lit up, and then he listened quietly without changing his face, Shi Meiren continued to pretend to be aggrieved, Yu Guang glanced at the emperor's face, the two sang and harmonized, but they invisibly decided a lot of things, but it was invisibly a beautiful thing for the two of them.

Clearing his throat, Liu Bang said with a slight reproach, "I just said that the harem has often been jumping around these years, and you sisters can't get along well, fighting all day long, no wonder you have to be awkward." He said, "Do you want me to help you with this?" I will say good things to you and Mrs. Guan, and ask her to forgive you this time. ”

Hearing this, Shi Meiren stared at her eyes in a daze, and waved her hand in embarrassment, "No, no, no, no, Your Majesty has a lot of opportunities, so you don't have to worry about these things, there will inevitably be friction between sisters, and we won't pay attention to knots if we solve it ourselves." In less than three or two days, Sister Guan will definitely reconcile with me. Shi Meiren was afraid that Liu Bang would say this, in fact, where did she go to Mrs. Guan, she ran into Liu Bang before she had time to go, so she could only advance the plan, Liu Bang said for unknown reasons that she wanted to help solve it, so she could only sabotage her plan today.

Liu Bang's slightly frowning brows were relaxed, and he was more satisfied with her words, and said, "It's okay, it's better to face it yourself." He put his arm around her shoulder and patted her, and said far-reachingly, "Jinyu hides her flaws and hides her diseases, so bear her more." ”

Shi Meiren's face turned from joy to yin, and she was holding back anger in her chest, and her mouth was still indifferent, "Huh." ”

The originally quiet place suddenly blew a gust of wind, and Xiao Su was stunned. After comforting Shi Meiren, Liu Bang left, Shi Meiren looked at Liu Bang's distant back, and had some unhappiness at first, Liu Bang frustrated Shi Meiren's heart with his wife, and was angry for a while. After all, the purpose is not to take care of Mrs. Guan, Shi Meiren was angry for a while and didn't care too much, but also had some joy of success, and carefully observed the changes in the emperor's facial expression, although Liu Bang tried his best to hide them, Shi Meiren noticed them.

Throwing all the jade beads in the box into the wild grass, he snorted coldly, and continued to turn around and walk away arrogantly with a gloomy face.

Liu Bang came to Linhua Palace, and Mrs. Guan was lying on the bed, her face was pale, with some tired haggardness. Seeing Liu Bang come in, Mrs. Guan stood up and wanted to salute, Liu Bang walked to the side of the bed and stopped him, and said complainingly, "You are like this, and you are still angry with others, isn't it just a jade bead, I will reward you in the future, lie down quickly." Liu Bang casually brought a thick cushion to Mrs. Guan on her back, helped Mrs. Guan to lie down, sat on the edge of the couch and held her hand.

Mrs. Guan looked puzzled, "What did Your Majesty say?" What jade beads? ”

Liu Bangcai remembered that Shi Meiren said that she would solve it by herself, so she sighed and covered up and said, "Uh, it's nothing." At a glance, I saw that there was a cold decoction on the case next to me, "What about the imperial doctor?" Liu Bang no longer continued the topic of Yuzhuzi just now, and looked left and right all over the room to find the imperial doctor.

"The minister is here." An old lady doctor bowed out from behind the screen, it was Qin Imperial Doctor, who saluted Liu Bang, "The emperor is happy and happy." ”

"What are you doing there, ma'am?" Liu Bang was quite strange when he saw him coming out from behind the screen, his face was rapidly gloomy, extremely displeased, and his anger was about to erupt.

Imperial Physician Qin put down the medicine box, bowed and said with a look of grievance, "Madam, she said that she couldn't see the emperor and wouldn't let her see a doctor, so she ......"

Liu Bang's face suddenly felt guilty, and it seemed that he had wronged Imperial Doctor Qin. Turning to look at Mrs. Guan, who was not in good spirits, Liu Bang pretended to complain in a low and sullen voice, "Huh? 'Sighed. Mrs. Guan pouted and widened her eyes and smiled playfully at him, trying to make Liu Bang unable to complain, but Liu Bang pretended to blame, reached out and stroked her face, and said, "You, you are so fond of playing with children's tempers, how can you not see a doctor if you can't see me?" If you are really sick, won't I feel heartache? ”

Mrs. Guan listened to Liu Bang's naked confession, but her face was full of joy, like a spring breeze, and suddenly she was not haggard and showed the innocence of the flower girl, and she also asked seriously, "Is the emperor really like this, will he really feel heartache for his concubine?" ”

Seeing his serious appearance, Liu Bang smiled to relieve the embarrassment, thinking that this mother-in-law was still real, and she said it casually, she grabbed it, even if she felt heartache, so many people were here, she was embarrassed to ask, and she was embarrassed to say. Suddenly felt a little manly shyness, began to shake his head left and right, and finally nodded firmly, hurriedly covered up and said, "Okay, I'm here, you have to take good care of the doctor." ”

Mrs. Guan nodded vigorously if she had to promise, stretched out her hand, and called the imperial doctor to see a doctor. Holding Liu Bang's hand tightly with one hand, he said affectionately, "The emperor has a concubine in his heart, and this life is enough." I hope that in the next life, I can still honor Your Majesty again. Mrs. Guan was really moved, and she was overwhelmed with excitement for a while, and Liu Bang's hand hurt, Liu Bang bared his teeth and 'hissed', and quickly took the opportunity to withdraw his hand and smiled at her, blew his hand to relieve the pain, and patted her shoulder.

After a while, the imperial doctor finally had the result, and his face was overjoyed, and he quickly knelt down to congratulate, "Congratulations to the emperor, Madam is happy." ”

"Congratulations to the emperor, the emperor will be happy for a long time." In the main hall, the people who knelt down to congratulate the emperor and Mrs. Guan were on their knees.

Hearing this, Liu Bang and Mrs. Guan both looked at each other in a daze, and then they were overjoyed, and Mrs. Guan looked at Liu Bang with tears in her eyes, "Your Majesty ......"

Although Liu Bang is a big man, he is very happy to hear that he has another heir, originally he did not have many heirs, but now he has added another one, which is really the most congratulatory thing, and the selfless bright laughed for a while, almost forcing tears of joy. If the Huns came to Beijing to marry was something that he was angry about, then this matter was enough to soothe the displeasure and resentment in his heart, and he suddenly felt that the palace was like yellow rape flowers blooming all over the place, and the golden sun was bright and vibrant. The happy Liu Bang took Mrs. Guan in his arms and hugged each other tightly, making Mrs. Guan almost out of breath, and said brightly, "I know that you will definitely add more heirs to me, and I will have a prince again." ”

Mrs. Guan hid her joy and asked, "What if it's a girl?" The emperor doesn't like it? ”

"I say that if you are a prince, you are a prince." Liu Bang said firmly, I am afraid that he will be carried away by this good news.

Mrs. Guan was a little disappointed, she was worried about what would happen if she wasn't a boy, but fortunately there was still half hope.

"Reward, big prize, twenty gold per person, two silk horses." Liu Bang held Mrs. Guan and pointed to the person kneeling on the ground, and the leading eunuch thanked the emperor first, and then everyone learned from him and thanked the emperor. For such a happy event in the palace, Liu Bang is about ten gold every time he is rewarded, and now he is even more happy with his son, and he has raised the reward standard, twenty gold per person, he has never rewarded silk before, but now he has made an exception and rewarded him, everyone thinks that it is the credit of Mrs. Guan, and then kowtowed to Mrs. Guan.