The sun is just right, but the whole country is hazy, the market does not see the stall owners and hawkers, the white banner cloth is hung in front of the door of the prince's mansion, there is no singing and laughter, the white cloth is hung high in front of the Liang Palace, the mourning is faint, the people who go in and out are plain and solemn, and a sad and low howl comes out from the Liang Palace.

There is a coffin in the main hall of King Liang's palace, the case is full of all kinds of prison tools, the palace servants on both sides are hiding their faces and crying, Peng Yue is a vegetarian kneeling in front of the coffin has long been crying, his voice has long been hoarse, the palace servants on both sides saw King Liang kneeling in front of the coffin for three days and nights without eating or drinking, so they kindly came to support Peng Yue, Peng Yue just waved his hand to tell everyone to go down to rest, and he himself knelt there motionless and cried the old father. The sun hung in the west, and the golden and faint light gradually moved in the main hall, shining on Peng Yue's curved and tired back at this time.

Outside the palace of King Liang, there was a person with a solemn face and hurriedly entered the palace of King Liang. "King Liang—" The man waved his hand at Peng Yue, who was grieving. Peng Yue looked back, the man was dressed in Guanzhong clothes, and stood opposite him with a look of urgency and respect, Peng Yue's eyes lit up in shock, and pointed at him, "Gong Fei Liang is also a person, is it Guanzhong?" "Servant Huzhong," the man reported first, and still bowed respectfully and replied, "The servant came with Zhao Yushi, who is now in Kaifeng Post House, and needs to meet King Liang immediately." Peng Yue wiped his tears, frowned and asked suspiciously, "Zhao Yao?" What is so urgent, why not postpone goodbye to the widowed father's funeral? Peng Yue said that he was a little resentful, then Zhao Yao did not come in person, but asked him to go to see Zhao Yao, and when he arrived in Liang State, why didn't he personally put incense on his father, Peng Yue immediately blackened his face, did not want to ignore Hu Zhong, and asked the palace servants to send Hu Zhong to leave for the time being.

"At the behest of His Majesty, Zhao Yushi came to read out the matter of increasing the land of Liang State by two hundred miles," Hu Zhong rolled his eyes, and immediately said with a silent gesture, "Zhao Yushi is directly sent by His Majesty, at the behest of the king, you are a minister, it is not appropriate not to go." Although there is a funeral, please ask King Liang to be the first monarch and then the minister. Peng Yue stopped thinking about it, his face was puzzled, and he came over and asked Hu Zhong, "Increase the land of Liang Kingdom for 200 miles?" Hu Zhong nodded affirmatively. Peng Yue scratched the back of his head, the first thought was that the emperor never easily sealed the land, and now Hu Zhong said that the emperor wanted to increase the land of Liang for 200 miles, Peng Yue was a little happy in his heart, but more of a puzzled doubt, his eyes were round and he looked back at Hu Zhong and said, "Wrong, right?" If there are no people in vain, how can they increase the land? ”

"King Liang doesn't know that any prince who sends an army to help the Han family crusade against Chen Feng will be given land." Hu Zhong said.

Peng Yue's heart immediately became happy, and he didn't notice anything wrong, but he only thought that he had sent generals and thousands of soldiers to help the Han family, and now the emperor wants to increase the land of the vassal states, Peng Yue's doubts and the grief of losing his old father were immediately put aside, and the joy in his heart jumped to his rough face, and he muttered to himself, "The widow should go, the widow should go." After that, Peng Yue asked Hu Zhong to wait for a while, and went to the inner hall by himself. Hu Zhong saw that the coffin on the mourning hall belonged to Peng Yue's father, but he shook his head and sighed, picked up the three coarse incense sticks on the case and lit them, and bowed deeply three times to Peng Yue's father as a memorial.

After a while, Peng Yue came out with a different outfit, looking more energetic, and went straight to the old father's spirit and put on three incense sticks, and asked Hu Zhong to lead the way out of the palace to see Zhao Yao.

Hu Zhong went to a post house with medium equipment on behalf of Peng Yue, Hu Zhong said that he went in first to tell Zhao Yushi, Peng Yue smiled and told Hu Zhong to hurry in, and he himself picked up his clothes on the spot, so that he could look more energetic. After a while, Hu Zhong came out and asked Peng Yue to go in, Peng Yue laughed a few times and then entered the house without any hesitation.

'Bang bang-', the door of the house suddenly closed, and when Peng Yue didn't have time to react, his arm had already been grabbed by several people. Peng Yue struggled and shouted, clamoring to see Zhao Yao. After a while, Zhao Yao walked out of the inner room unhappily, went straight to Peng Yue, looked at him for a long time, and gave Peng Yue a more polite hand, "I've seen King Liang." "Zhao Yao——," Peng Yue glared at Zhao Yao and yelled angrily, "What do you mean?" Dare to kidnap a widow? Don't let it go yet! Zhao Yao didn't answer a word, but he looked straight at Peng Yue, and suddenly Zhao Yao waved his right hand, and a strong man stuffed the black rag into Peng Yue's mouth, Peng Yue only blushed and glared at Zhao Yao angrily, but he couldn't say half a word.

Everyone tied Peng Yue up and took him to the car that had been prepared, went straight to Luoyang, and first imprisoned Peng Yue in the Luoyang dungeon according to Liu Bang's instructions. Zhao Yao came to reply to Liu Bang, Liu Bang was surprised and delighted, and immediately got up Zhao Yao asked, "Peng Yue is here?" What can you say? "According to His Majesty's instructions, as soon as Peng Yue arrived, he immediately tied him up and gagged him. Along the way, it was noisy at first, and then it quieted down, thinking that my mouth was dry. Zhao Yao bowed and replied. Liu Bang didn't speak, his eyes wandered and he paced up in the hall for a moment, his arm leaning on the pillar, and his hand knocking on the pillar 'toot' sound, Liu Bang had already thought about what Zhang Liang said to him several times. After thinking about it for a long time, Liu Bang sighed, and slowly turned around and instructed Zhao Yao, "I'm wrong, listen to a word." King Liang Zuo I founded the Han Dynasty, and he was very meritorious, and he never offended me. Liu Bang attached his hand and patted Zhao Yao on the shoulder, "Check Peng Yue, if you are not guilty, you will send the treasure car back." Zhao Yao was surprised for a while, but he gave up.

Zhao Yao has always taken the emperor as the center, looking at the emperor's eyes to do things, but the emperor's words made Zhao Yao scratch his head, and Zhao Yao didn't know how to judge Peng Yue. After leaving the palace, Zhao Yao thought about Liu Bang's words all the way, and his past actions, and the dilemma in his heart and the many doubts derived from it gradually became clear, and he became more and more sure of how he should judge Peng Yue.

After tossing back and forth for more than ten days, Zhao Yao entered the palace to reply and asked Liu Bang to sentence Peng Yue to death in accordance with the law. Liu Bang read Zhao Yao's interrogation but Peng Yue sat on the big crime, Peng Yue had the heart of rebellion and the fact of rebellion, Zhao Yao's recital clearly stated that when the emperor conscripted Liang State, he encouraged Peng Yue to take advantage of the situation and rebel, and set up troops in the west and north for defense. With a sound of 'pop-', Liu Bang put the notebook on the case, and was stunned and stunned, and was silent for a long time. Suddenly, there was a complex and thick sadness in Liu Bang's eyes, there seemed to be a few more silver threads on his sideburns, and the sorrow and pain in his heart seemed to pull the wrinkles on Liu Bang's face hard, and the two thick eyebrows were tightly pressed together, and he sighed from time to time.

"Spread my will," Liu Bang raised his head and closed his eyes and sighed, and raised his left hand slightly in the air to arrange Peng Yue for Zhao Yao, "Take the lord of Peng Yue and Liang Wang, abolish it as a concubine, and exile to Tsing Yi County, Shudi, and will not return to the Central Plains for the rest of his life." ”

Zhao Yao's eyes lit up, looking at Liu Bang, as if he had something to say, but after all, he just moved the corners of his mouth and gave his hand, watching the emperor drag his tired and sad back into the inner hall slowly, Zhao Yao shook his head and went out.

Two days later, Peng Yue wore a green cloth single coat to bid farewell to Liu Bang and went west to Shu.