In the evening, Liu Bang came to Changxin Palace. Zhang Yan was teasing her younger brother Zhang Yan giggling and playing, the prince was also playing with the young lady and brother in the Changxin Palace at this time, and her sister and mother were a little tired from running around for King Zhao's affairs for days, so the prince was responsible for taking care of Zhang Yan's sister and brother for his mother and sister. Empress Lu was tired, so he went to lie on the couch early, although he was lying down, his mind was still thinking about how to make King Zhao return safely without being implicated, and he must not be implicated by Guan Gao, and he couldn't sleep on the couch over and over. The princess took to heart what Zhang Ao said, and looked at her mother silently, her mother worked hard to take care of the harem and help her father to solve difficult problems, but her father was merciful to other women everywhere and neglected her mother. The princess wiped her tears, exhaled a long breath, covered Empress Lu with a blanket, and conjured up the outer hall with her younger brother to take care of the two children.

Liu Bang came in and came to Zhang Yan and Zhang Yan with a smile, and stretched out his hand to hold Zhang Yan, who was less than three years old, in his arms and kissed and kissed, and the little Zhang Yan with a beautiful beard came out of his beard, crying and not following him, and looking for his uncle Liu Ying with a pure pair of small eyes. Liu Yingzhong hugged Zhang Yan again and coaxed him to play, seeing his father's embarrassment, the prince hugged Zhang Yan to play a round for Liu Bang, "Zhang Yan is young, I don't know anyone yet, and my son has been playing with him for a long time, so he is willing to follow me." ”

Liu Bang smiled awkwardly, grabbed a few dried fruits and threw them into his mouth, and said with a smile, "Children are like this, you hold them first." ”

Liu Bang has not looked at himself since he entered the palace and saw the princess glancing at him, nor has he done any etiquette, as if he is a little complaining, Liu Bang knows that his daughter is blaming himself for not imprisoning King Zhao, so he didn't care too much about her, continued to eat and pinched Zhang Yan's face with a smile, and said kindly, "Ah Yan has grown a lot taller." Zhang Yan smiled unfamiliarly at Liu Bang and also got to Liu Ying's side. Liu Bang smiled again, walked around the hall for a while, and looked at the wicks to relieve the embarrassment. At this time, the princess no longer simply resented her father for imprisoning her husband, but also because her father had done something disdainful to King Zhao's woman back then, the princess suppressed the anger in her heart, the resentment in her eyes was full of eyes, and her two hands squeaked.

"Ah Yuan, separate from King Zhao." Liu Bang said with one hand attached to the princess's shoulder.

The princess turned her head, looked at Liu Bang with hooked eyes, and said with hatred, "He is my husband." Father, do you want to make Zhang Yan and Zhang Yan a fatherless child? ”

Liu Bang was originally annoyed by the embarrassing atmosphere that everyone gave him, and the princess burned him like a fire, jumped up, pointed at the princess and blew her beard and glared at her, "Zhang Ao has always been incompetent, cowardly, very unlike his father Zhang Er, and now he has instructed Guan Gao Xing to stab me, and when the matter is clear, he will Yi clan, do you still want to follow him?" ”

"King Zhao is incompetent? When King Zhao was still in Chang'an in the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, wasn't he your vanguard to crusade against the rebellion? What else is there to find fault with him other than not being able to do it with you? The princess also stood up and confronted Liu Bang, and there was a voice outside the strings, "It's that my father can't stand King Zhang, and my father doesn't reflect on himself?" You already have so much yourself, why do you want to rob King Zhang alone? ”

"You ......" Liu Bangqi's dragon eyes were cracked, and he raised his hand to fight down. The princess was carrying her disrespect to Liu Bang, but tears had already fallen in her heart, one was a father and the other was a husband, and the princess was caught in the middle and couldn't say anything. Liu Bang saw that the princess was soft and rigid and calm, and the hand held in the air couldn't get off after all, so he had to hold his breath and retract back, pointing to the princess's nose and saying, "I am your father, speak politely in the future, what did I rob Zhang Ao?" You are an unfilial son, and you don't know your surname Liu when you get married? Look at you, whose woman looks like you? The princess wept but did not speak, and the prince was afraid.

The quarrel between the father and daughter frightened Zhang Yan and the two sisters to cry, and the princess picked up the smaller Zhang Yan from her younger brother and walked to the apse. Liu Ying hugged Zhang Yan, who was crying, and coaxed her, "Okay, Ah Yan doesn't cry, my uncle is here." ”

Liu Ying hugged Zhang Yan and looked at Liu Bang, Liu Bang had a black face, and stood with his sleeves in a huff.

"Father's ......"

"That's it! Every time I come, I don't make me happy, I go. Liu Bang ignored the prince angrily, and walked away angrily without saying a word to Zhang Yan. Zhang Yan cried and looked at her uncle who was holding her, Liu Ying pretended to make a grimace to make her happy, "Okay, Ah Yan, my grandfather is angry, what should I do?" Xiao Zhang Yan's round grape-like eyes were filled with tears, and her body was still convulsing from crying, she looked at her uncle as if she didn't understand, and lowered her head and played with her fingers, as if all this had nothing to do with her. Liu Ying looked at her cute appearance and smiled, kissing her little face.

The next day, a man came to the women's prison of the Tingwei Mansion, saying that he was going to visit Zhao Ji of Zhao State. The jailer let him in, and the man hurriedly found the cell where Zhao Ji was, and saw Zhao Ji curled up listlessly in the corner of the wall, looking at one place motionlessly, and the man was distressed.

"Sister—" The man shouted at Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji turned around when she heard the sound, and a long-lost smile appeared on her face, like seeing the sunshine of hope in the dark. Zhao Ji was heavy, slowly stood up against the wall, came over and grabbed the man's hand, grabbed it for a long time, two lines of tears appeared on his face, and the man also sighed and shook his head.

"The emperor doesn't believe that I'm pregnant with his child, brother, what should I do?" Zhao Nu asked the man in despair. It turned out that this man was actually Zhao Ji's younger brother, called Zhao Jian. Zhao Jian also had nothing to do for a while, and said helplessly, "I heard that Guan Xiang was tortured and still refused to implicate King Zhao, if the emperor has no evidence, he will let King Zhao go, sister, you don't have to worry too much, the child is about to be born, sister, don't be worried and impatient, lest you get angry." ”

Zhao Nu said with a depressed face, "Let King Zhao go, can King Zhao still be the same as before?" My belly is the emperor's, even if there is no such thing as King Zhao, I have to say it. For more than a year, King Zhao never entered my palace, but separated my palace far away and sent people to serve each other, because we both understood each other. He said that after I gave birth to a child, he would send the child to the Chang'an Palace, but the emperor treated me like this today, didn't believe me, insulted me, what does it mean for me to give birth to a child, I don't want higher wealth and glory, but he must admit that the child is his. ”

Zhao Jian scratched his head in embarrassment. Suddenly, Zhao Nu's eyes lit up, and she grabbed Zhao Jian's hand and said, "Go to the Marquis of Biyang to judge him, and judge him to be fortunate to the queen Lu, and beg him to tell the queen about me on his behalf." Younger brother, even if the family wealth is scattered, you must do this well, otherwise your sister will not live. ”

Zhao Jian was worried about Empress Lu's personality, and said to Zhao Nu, "Empress Lu is very resentful of those women who give birth to children for the emperor on weekdays, and now my sister is doing this, doesn't it make the queen hate you even more and ignore you?" ”

"You just ask the judge to tell me about the emperor and me, Empress Lu is a smart person, she knows how to do it." Zhao Nu said.

Zhao Jian promised to try it for the time being. At this time, the jailer urged that the time was limited and could not stay longer, so Zhao Jian took out a few winter clothes that Zhao Nu fit and gave her them, and asked her to take care of herself. Not half an hour after Zhao Jian just left, Princess Lu Yuan came in. When Zhao Nu saw the princess, she respectfully called 'Queen'.

The princess stood by the prison fence and looked at Zhao Nu with a dark face, and Zhao Nu saw that the princess had a bad face and asked the princess if something had happened to King Zhao. The princess's eyes never left Zhao Nu's eyes, and Zhao Nu was stared at unnaturally, and she didn't know which corner to look at, and she didn't dare to speak first when she looked left and right.

"Why did you betray King Zhao?" The princess asked with a dark face, staring at Zhao Nu like a hook. Zhao Nu's heart was cloudy, and she looked puzzled, "What, what?" ”

"The son in your womb belongs to my father, why did you do that? Since you did, why don't you follow my father back to Chang'an? The princess was angry and resented Zhao Nu, accusing her of not being firm enough in the face of the emperor and obeying her father, and the princess's roar shook the family members in the women's prison next door to hear it, and they all pricked up their ears to listen.

"Queen...... I ......" Zhao Ji was speechless, very aggrieved, and tears were rolling.

"You are so disloyal to King Zhao, why didn't you choose to die in the first place?" The princess roared angrily and asked Zhao Ji, "I treat you wholeheartedly in vain, are you worthy of King Zhao?" ”

Zhao Nu was speechless by the princess's sudden questioning and resentment, and stood silently in tears of bitterness. At this moment, she is really helpless and depressed, how can others know about the suffering of the year? How can you have the strength to rebel against the emperor?

"You say!" The princess stepped over and grabbed the bars and roared and asked Zhao Ji, "How do you tell me to face my father, my father is fortunate to my husband's woman, if you are his daughter, can you accept it?" ”

Zhao Ji wiped her tears, calmed the grievances and pain in her heart, and said calmly, "Queen, so far, the concubine can only say sorry to you." But the child cannot die, and the queen must save him. ”

The princess looked at Zhao Ji resentfully and resentfully, "I can't accept you and my father's child, you can beg him yourself!" He threw down a sentence and hurriedly ran out of the women's prison. Zhao Ji didn't say the difficulties in her mouth, and the princess was no longer in the women's prison to listen to her. Zhao Ji felt an unprecedented blow and emptiness, the queen used to be so good to her, delicious and fun would be shared with her, now this incident made the queen hate herself, the queen thought that she was disloyal to King Zhao, but how did she know that it was King Zhao who gave himself to her father. Zhao Ji knew that the queen loved King Zhao deeply, and she couldn't tell the queen that King Zhao had given herself to the emperor, so that the queen would look down on King Zhao, and the queen would think that King Zhao gave his concubine to his father-in-law in order to cater to his father-in-law, and her heart was even more devastated.

Zhao Ji was bitter, resentful, helpless, and not understood, she was extremely uncomfortable, suppressed and cried in a low voice, and her stomach ached faintly, Zhao Ji quickly stroked her stomach gently with her hand to ease it slightly. Zhao Ji looked up at the high window, did the ice and snow outside the window melt?