For several days, Emperor Hui sat alone in the Xuanshu Palace, and did not see anyone, and the government was all made by Lu Hou, and the gap between the mother and son gradually deepened.

At this point, Emperor Hui ignored the government and politics, did not wear formal clothes every day, and drank alcohol with the female palace people, so that the eunuchs could make him smile. Previously, Emperor Hui favored a person called Hong Ru, let him manage some trivial matters in the palace, Hong Ru this person is good at welcome, handsome, deeply liked by Emperor Hui, Emperor Hui always gave him some delicacies or precious jewelry, everyone in the palace knows, some courtiers also know that Hong Ru is favored by Emperor Hui, and they dare not provoke him. When Emperor Hui is in a bad mood these days, Hong Ru is doing his best to grease and powder, wearing a seashell around his neck to sing songs, pretending to be a woman to flatter and Emperor Hui, Emperor Hui can't help laughing every time he sees Hong Ru's clown, and immediately got up from the banquet and ran to the stage to pull Hong Ru to sit on the steps, holding Hong Ru's chin with one hand and laughing, "If you are a woman, I will definitely spoil you in the harem." Hong Ru sneered on his shoulders, "Heaven carries love, and the servant will be reincarnated as a woman in the next life, and then Your Majesty will not recognize Hong Ru." Emperor Hui patted Hong Ru's cheek and laughed, and ordered someone to bring wine utensils to get drunk with Hong Ru.

The wine utensils have been served, Emperor Hui poured two jue wine, handed a glass to Hong Ru, and drank it all by himself, shouting that Hong Ru drank it quickly, Hong Ru did not dare to refrain and drank it all, so that for more than ten rounds, both of them were drunk. Emperor Hui was drunk, but his expression was frustrated, and he looked at the dark hall in a daze with wine, and two lines of tears fell silently in his eyes. Hong Ru made a 'knock' sound, and accidentally knocked over the drinking utensils because he was drunk. Emperor Hui laughed and pointed at Hong Ru to scare him, "Can you afford to lose what I overturned?" Hong Ru also pretended to be frightened and knelt in the banquet and kowtowed to Emperor Hui, "The minister can't afford to pay, but the minister can compensate Your Majesty for something else." ”

"What?" Emperor Hui asked Hong Ru with a drunken smile.

"Bang Bang-" Hong Ru clapped his hands, and a bright palace man walked out of the back of the palace, and the palace man lowered his head and did not dare to look at them. Emperor Hui saw that it was a woman, and asked her to look up, and the woman slowly raised her head, and Emperor Hui saw that she was beautiful and handsome, and patted Hong Ru's shoulder and laughed. Seeing the situation, Hong Ru withdrew from the palace. Emperor Hui asked the woman to blow out the palace lamp, leaving only one, and the woman blew out the palace lamp as he said, and there was only one palace lamp jumping in the hall. Emperor Hui went to the woman's side, took her hand to the couch, and before the woman sat down, Emperor Hui pushed her down and kissed her, and forcibly approached the palace people. Afterwards, Emperor Hui named this woman as a young envoy, and after half a day, he named her a beloved. For several days, Emperor Hui indulged in the gentle township in the harem, and the news of dozens of women as beauties, lovers, and young envoys spread in the ears of Empress Lu, and Empress Lu was very displeased. When Empress Zhang Yan was also accompanying Empress Lu in Changxin Palace, when she heard about her uncle, she only felt helpless and sad for her uncle. Empress Lu shouted that Dai Qing accompanied her to Weiyang Palace, but all that came from the hall was the echo of Empress Lu. A small palace maid walked over from the side of the pillar of the main hall, greeted Empress Lu and said, "Queen Mother, the slave maid will serve you on behalf of the young girl." Empress Lu thought about it, Dai Qing was no longer there, a trace of loneliness flashed in Empress Lu's eyes, and she looked at the little palace maid with clear eyebrows and asked, "What's the name?" ”

"Dou Yi Room."

"New here?"

"The elder letter Zhan Shi chose the son of the family, and the slave maid was edicted to enter the palace, and he has been in the palace for two years."

"When Dai Qing is here, the mourning family can't see you in their eyes." Empress Lu patted Dou Yifang's shoulder, then beckoned Zhang Yan to come over and asked Zhang Yan to accompany her to Weiyang Palace.

Empress Lu took Zhang Yan to Weiyang Palace, Emperor Hui did not come out to greet him, Empress Lu went straight inside, and there was a playful sound of a man and a woman in love in the inner palace, and Empress Lu suddenly felt harsh, and Zhang Yan looked at each other awkwardly.

"Liu Ying!" Empress Lu shouted angrily, the laughter in the inner palace immediately stopped, and soon Emperor Hui came out with his hair disheveled, disheveled, and solemnly knelt down to worship Empress Lu and saluted him. When Empress Lu saw Emperor Hui dressed like this, he came out to salute, the anger in his chest rushed to the top of his head, and he stepped to Liu Ying's side and pushed him on the shoulder, Emperor Hui fell to the ground, and next to his ears was Empress Lu's crackling scolding, "Look at what you look like!" In the middle of the day, his hair was disheveled, and his clothes were disheveled. The mourning family has mistaken you, you are not worthy of being an emperor at all! Lu Hou stood with his sleeves brushed up, angry.

"Don't you just sleep with a woman during the day? Why don't you deserve to be an emperor? "Emperor Hui has a long-standing grudge against Empress Lu, so he is angry with her.

"Can you say that?" Empress Lu leaned over and reprimanded Liu Ying, "Why did you become like this? ”

Emperor Hui looked directly at Empress Lu, and his unruly and complaining eyes made Empress Lu feel cold, and Empress Lu knew that Emperor Hui had many resentments, perhaps his recklessness and complaining were because he disdained to answer her. Lu Hou tilted her head and closed her eyes, wanting to let the tears flow back into her eyes, at this time she must not let Emperor Hui see her weakness and incompetence.

"March for a weak crown." Lu Hou said indifferently and took Zhang Yan out.

Emperor Hui knelt on the ground, couldn't get up for a long time, and burst into tears, wanting to let the pain in his heart flow out with his tears.

On the way back to Empress Lu, she cried silently, her mind was full of her own suffering, Emperor Hui didn't understand her, the first emperor didn't like her, Princess Lu Yuan was not very satisfied with Zhang Yan's marriage to her younger brother, so she didn't enter the palace to visit Empress Lu for a long time, some courtiers were dissatisfied with Empress Lu's control of the government and resigned at home, among which Lu Jia resigned and moved to a new home to Haoqi, and drove a donkey to travel around the nearby mountains and rivers every day. Empress Lu walked and shed tears, and Zhang Yan, who accompanied her, saw that Empress Lu was like this, so she didn't dare to disturb and followed silently.

Since Emperor Hui ascended the throne, more than a dozen people in the harem have been named female officials, and most of them are loved by Emperor Hui, Emperor Hui remembered that Zhang Yan was young, although he was the queen but could not deal with the affairs of the harem, so he handed over the power of the harem to Zhao Liangren, who was the elder Zhang Yan. When Zhao Liangren and all the concubines gathered in Lin Yuan, they occasionally saw Queen Zhang Yan and a small palace person coming here to play, and they all whispered, "Although Queen Zhang is in the middle position, she is really a little girl, and after entering the palace, what is there to be awe-inspiring?" Then he saw Zhang Yan and didn't worship. Zhang Yan didn't pay attention to this, nodded to them in a friendly and polite way, and walked towards an open place.

Zhang Yan's maid informed Empress Lu of this, Empress Lu was angry, and ordered the Shaofu of Weiyang Palace not to allocate monthly funds for it, and all the concubines of Emperor Hui were afraid of Empress Lu, so they all came to Changle Palace to ask for guilt, and went to Jiaofang Hall together to apologize to Zhang Yan, Zhang Yan helped them up one by one, and laughed that in the future, sisters should be commensurate and treated by their families. Out of the Jiaofang Palace, Zhao Liangren teased Zhang Yan behind the back of the concubines, "Queen Fangcai said that we will be sisters in the future, and we are also sisters." looked at her appearance, and when she was humiliated, she only told the queen mother how much the emperor didn't like her. ”

A slap sounded on Zhao Liangren's face, and Zhao Liangren was about to scold, but when he saw that it was Emperor Hui standing in front of her with a black face, he didn't dare to say anything more, covering his cheeks and sobbing. The concubines hurriedly knelt down and bowed their heads, not daring to come out.

"The power of the harem is handed over to you, it is I who trust you, if you bully Empress Zhang with this," Emperor Hui went to Zhao Liangren's side, held her chin and said disdainfully, "Don't blame me for being unkind to women!" Emperor Hui slammed Zhao Liangren's chin, Zhao Liangren staggered and fell to the ground, Emperor Hui flicked his sleeves up the steps and entered the Jiaofang Palace. After that, the concubines did not dare to underestimate Zhang Yan, and worshiped the queen in the Jiaofang Hall every three days.

In March, spring is in full swing, willow buds are new and green, and frozen water flows for a long time. Emperor Hui is about to perform the crown ceremony, and his uncle and grandson pass the auspicious day for his divination is the Jiazi day of this month, and Empress Lu ordered someone to inform the officials and relatives of Chang'an of the auspicious day. Shusun Tong once again presided over the crown ceremony, thinking that Xiangguo Cao Shen Ke, and selected Wang Ling, Gao Qi, Zhou Bo and others to assist in completing the crown ceremony. The uncle and grandson prepared tributes for Emperor Hui to sacrifice heaven and earth and ancestors.

On the Jiazi day of March, the sky is high and the wind is light. Hundreds of officials are in the high temple, and the flags around them are flying in the wind. Emperor Hui led the empress Zhang Yan into the high temple, and the two worshiped Taizu Gao Emperor Liu Bang in front of the temple, and told him that he had started a family, and Zhang Yan would be the heir of the Liu family in the future, and told the first emperor to do his own crowning ceremony today. After saluting Emperor Gao, Zhang Yan stood sideways, and Emperor Hui knelt on the thick seat waiting for the crown. Cao Shen, who was dressed in a ceremonial dress, stood solemnly in front of Emperor Hui, and respectfully bowed his hand to Emperor Hui before starting the ceremony. The three people who praised the crown, Wang Ling, Gao Qi, and Zhou Bo, respectively held the cloth crown, the leather crown, and the Shun Ben crown. Cao Shen respectfully and awe-inspiringly picked up the cloth crown and put it firmly on Emperor Hui's head, and recited the greetings, "Erde is beautiful, humble and gentleman, at the beginning of the day, 80,000 miles of rivers and mountains will be handed over to you, and I hope that you will take on the great responsibility of the world." Emperor Hui bowed and bowed again. The cloth crown, that is, the hat made of black rag, after this crown, means that from now on there are political qualifications, can bear the heavy responsibilities of the world.

Cao Shen picked up the leather crown in his hand and put it on Emperor Hui's head steadily, and recited the greeting, "On this day, by the military hat, the military affairs are all by the king, and the king is handsome to the people of the world, defending the territory of Sheji, and not giving up an inch of land." Emperor Hui bowed and bowed again. Piben, that is, a military hat made of white deerskin, wears this hat to indicate that there will be military service in the future to protect the territory of the community.

Cao Shen held the Shunben crown in Zhou Bo's hand again, put it firmly on Emperor Hui's head, and recited the blessing, "I wear Shunben, may you be in awe of the sacrifice, the heaven and earth, the sun and the moon, the mountains and rivers, the ancestors and saints, the virtue is like jade, and the sacrifice must not be abandoned." Emperor Hui bowed and bowed again. Shunben, that is, the plain crown with black in the red, is a common top hat in ancient times, and wearing this hat means that the sacrifice ceremony can be performed from now on.

After the three crowns were completed, Emperor Hui got up, and Zongzheng presided over the banquet to entertain the guests. Emperor Hui led Cao Shen, Zhang Yan and others into the Changxin Palace to see Lu Hou, Emperor Hui held the wine bottle high in front of his forehead, invited Lu Hou to drink, and said, "The son is an adult, thank my mother for raising me for 20 years." Empress Lu burst into tears, drank the wine, and personally helped Emperor Hui, Emperor Hui's face was cold, and Empress Lu stroked her son's cold cheeks, and the old tears were crisscrossed. When Empress Lu saw Emperor Hui's face cold, she didn't want to pay attention to her at all, so she directly ordered Cao Shen to take the word for Emperor Hui. Cao Shen took the word Zhongjia for Emperor Hui, Emperor Hui ranked second, and the quality of virtue was good, so he took the word Zhongjia to show his virtue.

When Emperor Hui was crowned, Princess Lu Yuan also entered the palace to congratulate. After Emperor Hui worshiped Empress Lu, Princess Lu Yuan worshiped Empress Lu, and Empress Lu held his hand for a long time and was unwilling to let go. Princess Lu Yuan took Zhang Yan into the greenhouse hall to see Emperor Hui and Zhang Yan, after the sister and brother performed the family salute, Emperor Hui welcomed his sister into the banquet, Zhang Yan made a big gift to her mother, Princess Lu Yuan quickly helped her daughter up, hugged her arms for a long time, and both mother and daughter wept. Princess Lu Yuan is most concerned about the lives of her younger brother and daughter Zhang Yan, so when they met, they held hands and asked Emperor Hui, "Brother has suffered, is my Ah Yan quite satisfied?" ”

"Ah Yan is not like Sister A, she is similar to Xuanping Hou, which makes me look like a fan of the six palaces, and I subtract the color for it. Its quiet and wise nature is similar to that of Sister A. Emperor Hui glanced at Zhang Yan, and Zhang Yan smiled sideways to Princess Lu Yuan. Emperor Hui saw Zhang Yan beside Princess Lu Yuan, beckoned him over, and hugged him, "Ah Yan's physique is quite similar to his sister, and if she is a woman, she is also a beauty." Emperor Hui smiled and said to Princess Lu Yuan, "Ah Yan's demeanor is like a Xuan Pinghou, but the form is small, I jokingly call Ah Yan Zhang Gongzi." Everyone in the hall laughed.

After staying in the palace for three days, Princess Lu Yuan left the palace and returned to Xuanping County. Zhang Yan's sending her mother is still like a family gift, with the meaning of attachment to her mother.