In the past three or five days, the sky in Luoyang was suddenly red-hot, and there was almost no one in the streets and alleys. Liu Bang was bored in Nangong to escape the summer, and he asked someone to remove all the fur things on the couch and replace them with bamboo mats, and there were only two lamps left in the hall to illuminate them. Even if he was so stuffy in the deep palace, he still felt hot and dry, Liu Bang simply took off his coat, leaving only a single dress, and the case must continue to be sweet spring tea after the rain, and he always shook a pu fan in his hand, and he must be comfortably soaked and relieved of fever every night. On this day, Liu Bang couldn't bear the heat, so he called the people of the three or five palaces to shake the fan for him to enjoy the coolness, and he was even more loose and untied in the couch, and he snored in less than half an hour, and fell asleep in the fatigue of resisting the heat.

Outside the hall, a bald man rubbed up the steps, and showed his waist talisman to the guards from afar to enter the palace, but was stopped by the guards at the entrance of the palace, the guards asked who and what was going on, and the confessor said that he came from the gate and had something to report to the emperor. The two guards looked at each other and hesitated for a moment, the emperor had ordered that as long as there was a state event, the confessor would be allowed to enter immediately, but a few days ago, the emperor had instructed Shen Zhiyou not to disturb his nap. As soon as the two guards put together, they told the confessor that the emperor had been so hot that he could not sleep, and that he had been irritable and prone to temper tantrums for several days, and that the emperor had just fallen asleep, and neither of them dared to go in easily to wake him up. The confessor frowned and said 'oh', after thinking for a while, he turned around and went down the steps, just a few steps before he saw the lively Zhao Wang Ruyi coming from a distance, the confessor stood among the soldiers under the steps as soon as he planned in his abdomen, and saw that King Zhao went up the steps and went to the palace, and the messenger also went up the steps to wait at the entrance of the palace, and said proudly to the two guards at the door, "In another moment, you can go in and report." The two guards looked suspicious and didn't believe it, and stood guard again.

Sure enough, in less than a moment, from the corner of the side outside the hall, three or five lovely palace maids with fruits came up, rubbed up the steps and floated into the hall leisurely, and after a while, they came out with a smile, and the palace people whispered to each other, "King Zhao is really lively, dare to wake up His Majesty at this hour, if he is replaced by Prince Lu of Guanzhong, he will have to stand in the corridor for a long time." "Prince Lu can't be for a long time, maybe the one inside will become Prince Qi instead of Prince Lu after a short time, don't you know that Your Majesty intends to ask King Zhao to show his face in Kanto?" Prince Lu gained power in Guanzhong, King Zhao gained power in Guandong, and the emperor and queen fought secretly. The palace people were in a hurry, and they hurriedly went down the steps to do something.

When the confessor heard this, he stood still for a long time and frowned. One of the guards took the initiative to pull his clothes and asked, "I'll go in and report it now, okay?" The confessor nodded his head. After a while, the guards came out with a smile on their faces and welcomed the confessor into the hall. As soon as the confessor entered the hall, he saw that Liu Bang's coat in the couch was gone, only the close-fitting dissolved placket, and one leg was shaking comfortably, smiling and eating the sour oranges that Ruyi had broken, and occasionally breaking a few and handing them to Ruyi to eat, and the father and son had a deep friendship. After the confessor stepped over and saluted, he took out the Guanzhong Song in the wide robe and big sleeves, and before he gave it to Liu Bang, he listened to the emperor eating oranges and said, "Read." The confessor opened the recital and said, "His Majesty Chen Qi said: Yanmen came to report, the county guard king went out to patrol the Han-Hungarian border a few days ago, but was attacked by wild beasts on the left side, did not wake up for five days, and his injuries were critical, please return to Chang'an." On behalf of General Chen, he introduced his partial general Li Wei to garrison Yanmen on behalf of the king. Minister Liu Ying did not dare to assert it, so he asked His Majesty to make it clear. Liu Bang's mouth chewing the orange suddenly didn't move, and he wanted to take a closer look at it, and then frowned and pondered, put the song on the case, and chewed the orange in his mouth again, "Report back to the prince, there is no need to hesitate in this matter, I already have an idea." "The confessor bowed his head to receive the order, and he was about to leave the main hall. Liu Bang asked him to stay for the time being, and asked him to talk about all the things in Guanzhong, and the confessor told Liu Bang one by one. After the words of the confessor, Liu Bang said coldly with displeasure on his face, "Has the prince been inspecting the Yellow River recently?" How many officials were removed? The confessor was shocked, remembering that what he had just said to Liu Bang was just a matter of the people in the Guannei who were busy in the summer, and did not mention the prince's inspection of the Yellow River and the popularity of the people, Liu Bang said so, and the confessor guessed that the emperor and the empress had a way, both of them knew what they had done to each other, and Empress Lu mastered Liu Bang's deliberate support for King Zhao outside the Guan, and Liu Bang also knew that Empress Lu helped the prince in Guanzhong, so that he could win the hearts of the people. The confessor opened his mouth in astonishment, not knowing how to speak. Liu Bang jumped up from the couch and said angrily to the confessor, "Heaven and earth, who do you eat?" Want to cover up for the crown prince? "The confessor knelt on the ground with a puff of time, "The minister doesn't dare, can't the prince supervise the country and do this?" Liu Bang scolded him for retreating. The confessor got up and withdrew with a wave of his hand, and when he retreated to the door, his eyes lit up as if he remembered something, and he walked a few meters inside, bent down and said, "The queen said that Mrs. Guan gave birth in mid-September. Liu Bang's heart lit up, and after a plan in his belly, he waved his hand and called the confessor out.

In the evening, it was already the hour, and the day was still a little hot. Liu Bang sat in front of the desk under the yellow lamp writing the edict, his face was sweaty but he only saw his serious face, and soon wrote a bunch of words on the bamboo slip, and Mrs. Qi next to him leisurely fanned the fan for Liu Bang to relieve the fever, and occasionally approached the bamboo slip to take a rough look. Writing the edict, Liu Bang called a Luoyang confessor, gave him the edict and said that the fast horse galloped to hand over the bamboo slips to Chen Xuan, and the Luoyang confessor took the fast horse and went straight to the daidi.

Handed over Ruyi to Jing Tian, Mrs. Qi waited for Liu Bang to bathe, pinched her arms for her and said, "The concubine came here and didn't dare to sleep all day long, panicked, worried. Every time she thought of Lu's fierce eyes, the concubine couldn't sleep. His Majesty was alive, and the Lu family could not bear it; If Your Majesty collapses, the Lu family will be killed by the concubine and killed. The Lu family does not allow me, and the rest of the concubine's life is not as good as a dog or a horse. ”

Liu Bang, who was leaning against the soup wall, was silent for a long time, rubbed his face in the lotus soup, and joked, "Why can't she let you?" ”

"The concubine rejoices in Your Majesty day and night, this is one of them; The concubine asked His Majesty to change the prince, and this is the second reason, which is enough to make him hate me. Your Majesty didn't know that the Lu family had many difficult concubines, and the concubines couldn't kneel for a long time; The bitter wishful is not as good as the Bo family Liu Heng; instigated the Guan clan to stay away from the concubine; Wei Zhen Zhao and Shi isolated their concubines. Now she always helps the prince win the hearts of the people and competes with His Majesty, just to keep the prince's throne. Although His Majesty made Ruyi show his face in Kanto and was favored by many wealthy families, the people of the world know that once the royal prince is established, he must not be easily changed, and the prince is still in an advantage, and the people's hearts will definitely be towards the prince. At this point, Mrs. Qi burst into tears and continued, "How can the concubine and Ruyi be a flying dragon in the sky, and the concubine's plan is white under the Lu family, if you don't support Ruyi with an iron heart, my mother and son will definitely change their heads, and their souls will be lonely, and they can't see Your Majesty under the nine springs." ”

Liu Bang was silent for a long time, leaned against the soup wall, closed his eyes and raised his head and sighed, and joked again, "Guan Xiuyan persecuted Lu Ling, and the queen sent someone to kill Guan Xiuyan. In this way, I will think of your pain and worry, and I promise you that I will immediately remove Liu Ying when I return to Guanzhong. ”

Mrs. Qi was overjoyed and a little surprised, Liu Bang said that Guan Xiuyan was forced to kill? Mrs. Qi wiped her tears, brought Liu Bang a light single coat, personally served him to dress, and asked, "Didn't Guan Xiuyan go to Yanmen?" How do you say that you were forced to kill? Liu Bang got dressed and said, "Madame doesn't know, Guan Xiuyan was forced to kill as soon as he sent a letter to Guguan to Shangdang County. I don't need to investigate in detail, I know what Lu's relatives did. "Your Majesty indulges the Lu family's relatives?" "I don't indulge anyone, the Han family needs the power of relatives." Mrs. Qi was puzzled. Liu Bang smiled, hugged Mrs. Qi's waist and said, "Don't tell Mrs. Guan about this, she doesn't know about it." She was about to give birth, and her tour of Kanto was almost over, so she returned to Kannai in early September. Mrs. Qi was stunned.