In the southern suburbs, Liu Bang finished a grand and solemn ceremony to worship the sky, and after he explained some things to the eunuchs, he was greeted by his uncle and grandson Tong under the eyes of everyone and drove to Weiyang Palace.

The gongs and drums were noisy all the way, everyone was jumping with joy, and Liu Bang in the chariot closed his eyes slightly and imagined the joyful scene of the banquet in Weiyang Palace. He drove straight in the direction of the front hall, I don't know how long he walked, the towering building of Weiyang Palace had already appeared in front of everyone, a magnificent group, and the ministers in the hall seemed to be able to hear it.

The carriage and horse continued to walk forward, and suddenly Xiahou Ying 'shouted', and Liu Bang's Son of Heaven stopped. Liu Bang, who was still resting in the car with his eyes closed, was shocked by this emergency stop, and opened his eyes and asked through the car curtain, "What's the matter?" Why not? ”

Xiahou Ying turned around and poked her head in, and said respectfully, "Your Majesty, it's Mrs. Qi." ”

As soon as he heard that it was Mrs. Qi, Liu Bang hurriedly got up and pulled the curtain of the car, and looked out of the car, on the cold ground outside the car, Mrs. Qi was pulling Liu Ruyi to kneel to meet him. Although she had changed into a new outfit and was more embarrassed than before, Mrs. Qi did not see any joy on her face, but her face was full of melancholy, holding Ruyi beside her nervously with one hand. Ruyi is relatively small, one hand is held by Mrs. Qi, the other hand is boring and idle on the ground to draw things to play, the face is always so lively and naughty and innocent who does not know the world, painting for a while, frowning for a while, scratching the brain, shaking Mrs. Qi asked her to see her masterpiece, Mrs. Qi forced back Ruyi's playful eyes, patted the soil on Ruyi's hand, and told him to be quiet for a while. Ruyi pouted at her mother and muttered, "No-good-fun." Then he had to straighten up and kneel on the ground without saying a word as a mother, his eyes were still purring, and he saw his father's law driving towards this side, and his eyes widened with joy, and he pointed to his father's car and called Mrs. Qi to look, "Father, father, mother." Mrs. Qi nodded, comforted Ruyi, and told him to kneel quietly, Ruyi always had a smile on his face, and watched his father's car towards them intently.

He hurriedly got out of the car, hurried to Mrs. Qi's side, stretched out his hands to make a gesture of support, and asked with concern, "It's cold, why do you kneel on the ground?" Come, get up. ”

Mrs. Qi was helped up by Liu Bang, Ruyi also followed her mother, and Liu Bang took off his black cloak and put it on Mrs. Qi. Ruyi held her mother's hand and looked up at her father with a smile.

"Your Majesty......" Mrs. Qi looked at Liu Bang with a pleading look in her eyes, adding a hint of heaviness and a little uneasiness. He brought Ruyi to him again, bent down and picked him up, and before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Liu Bang with one hand, and said with a smile indifferently, "I know how to do it, Ruyi will be handed over to me, Madame go back." With that, he hugged Ruyi from Mrs. Qi's arms. Ruyi smiled and kissed Liu Bang's face containing the wind and frost years, and called happily, "Long time no see, father." Liu Bang smiled and glanced at Mrs. Qi when he heard this, he had spent all these days in the Linhua Palace, and Ruyi's question made him a little unable to get off the stage.

Mrs. Qi's eyes were wandering and uneasy, as if she was thinking, but she didn't pay much attention to the conversation between father and son. Liu Bang called her, she saw that Liu Bang was downcast and calm, but Mrs. Qi refused to return if she wanted to say that she was still resting, Liu Bang stroked her hair, patted her shoulder, and said, "Today is just a temptation, Madame, don't be too nervous." He smiled lightly, and said, "This is not a joke, it needs to be carried out step by step, ministers...... Most of them don't buy my account, stubborn. ”

Mrs. Qi was even more discouraged, and her face turned into a walnut face in an instant. sighed slightly, then gradually rounded his smiling face, no longer put too much pressure on Liu Bang, walked into their father and son, took Ruyi's hand and instructed him, "Ruyi, listen to your father's words, don't make trouble." Ruyi said immaturely, "All the sons and ministers listen to their father." She touched her son's head, looked at Liu Bang hopefully, and then turned to leave.

Liu Bang also got into the car with Ruyi, lowered the curtain, and prepared to go.

"Your Majesty......" Mrs. Qi turned around and asked Liu Bang, who was already in the car, and asked from afar, "How sure are you?" ”

Liu Bang lifted the curtain lightly, smiled at her sincerely, and waved his hand, "Go back." ”

The car set off, leaving Mrs. Qi alone and still watching all this. She doesn't know what the result will be today, can the ministers understand what Liu Bang means? If she doesn't succeed, what if Empress Lu knows her plan? At this time, she was very nervous, so nervous that her heart was like a knife, and she turned around and left after the car completely entered Weiyang Palace.

"The emperor has arrived." With the eunuch's sharp and grotesque driving order, all the ministers in the hall immediately stopped talking, and they all looked for their own positions, and hurriedly adjusted their clothes, and arranged them into two lines, civil and military, and bowed their heads to greet Liu Bang.

The sun shone on the main hall, the light and shadow were slanted, and suddenly a golden beauty shone on the face of every minister of civil and military affairs, which was particularly bright.

Two figures stretched by the sunlight walked in step by step, a sturdy adult and a young and thin baby.

Liu Bang walked on the 100-meter-long vermilion carpet with Ruyi in hand, Ruyi looked up at Liu Bang childishly and smiled, Liu Bang lowered his head and smiled at him, and the father and son were overjoyed.

Although the ministers bowed their heads to greet them, they could also see from the afterglow and from the shadow of the sun that it was a little doll, and after Liu Bang, several ministers looked at each other and whispered, "Why is it the acting king, why don't you see the prince?" ”

"What does the emperor mean?"

"Isn't the prince supposed to be here at this time? Why don't you see him? ”

"The emperor values the acting king so much, it seems that he still has the idea of setting up another prince, and today he brought the acting king to the palace, just to show us."

……

The ministers were talking in twos and threes, and Liu Bang pretended not to hear it even if he heard it, and continued to pull Liu Ruyi away.

The majestic dragon couch was getting closer and closer, Liu Bang couldn't hold himself back more and more, and after climbing the steps, he walked to the dragon couch and threw off the dragon robe and hugged Liu Ruyi and sat down. Ruyi smiled and looked at his father and looked at the two rows of respectful ministers of civil and military affairs standing below, and suddenly couldn't help but 'wow' a heartfelt exclamation, the young Ruyi looked at the ministers standing respectfully under the three or four meters platform, and suddenly there was a sense of a little man leading the country, and his heart felt that the blue sky and blue sea were as spectacular and surging. Although he thought it was magnificent, Ruyi didn't mean to win his brother's throne, but for the first time in his life, he sat on a high platform and condescendingly reviewed the courtiers, which was somewhat different from what he usually played, and suddenly the freshness hit Ruyi's excitement, and he couldn't help but let out an exclamation. Liu Bang looked proud, looked at Ruyi and smiled complacently. At this time, Shusun Tong was also busy with other things that Liu Bang had explained, and was just about to bow after entering the hall, when Liu Bang waved his hand to him and quickly found his place and stood up.

"Your Majesty the Emperor will be happy for thousands of years." The ministers waited until Liu Bang sat down on the dragon couch, and they all knelt down and bowed their heads to make a mountain call, and suddenly the sound of the main hall of Weiyang Palace was like shaking the sky, and the momentum was magnificent, and the mountain cry over and over again was almost to shake the top of the hall open a hole.

Looking at the Wu Qunchen kneeling down a few meters of steps, bowing their heads and bowing their heads, the ministers knelt a hundred meters long, Liu Bang laughed with joy, nodded his head constantly, and gently helped him with one hand, "Zhongqing's family is flat." ”

"Your Majesty." It is a neat return to Liu Bang.

The ministers all stood neatly again, without saying a word, waiting for Liu Bang's review. Liu Bang brushed his hair and took a closer look, narrowed his eyes, laughed loudly and loudly, his eyes fell on a person, and he said softly as if he had seen a relative, "The ovary is also here, good." Seeing that Zhang Liang, who was standing second in the civil service, was also here, Liu Bang was very happy.

Zhang Liang came out of the class and said, "It is a major matter of the country to put wine in Weiyang, and Zhang Liang is fortunate to be loved by His Majesty." ”

Liu Bang kept nodding his head 'okay', and then waved his hand to ask Zhang Liang to return to work and stand.

A pair of eagle-like eyes scanned the ministers in the hall, counting the approximate number of people in their hearts, and looked at the faces of the ministers with a gentle smile like 'hand to catch', as if they were looking for someone. Then, his gaze was fixed on another person, it was Han Xin, who stood second in the military attaché, standing respectfully without saying a word, his eyes hanging to the ground.

"Han Qing, you're here too." Liu Bang greeted cautiously with a slight smile.

Han Xin was originally absent-minded and continued to be negative, and when he heard the emperor call him, he shook his contemplative spirit a little, and hurriedly went out of class and said humbly, "Your Majesty is sincerely invited, invited to come, I didn't expect that Weiyang Palace is an extraordinary palace." ”

Liu Bang nodded again and said with a smile, "Come on, this Weiyang Palace naturally adds a lot of brilliance." ”

Han Xin chewed carefully, and always felt that this remark was quite sarcastic, so he humbly said that he didn't dare to dare.

After greeting several ministers politely, Liu Bang glanced around the hall again, and found that the position of the Emperor was empty, thinking that some people said that Fan Xu went to invite the Emperor, and now that he has done so much, he has not seen the Emperor, Liu Bang was surprised and puzzled, and quickly called a eunuch and asked, "The Emperor has not arrived yet?" ”

The little eunuch said respectfully, "Back to the emperor, the emperor has indeed not arrived." ”

Liu Bang's face became solemn, and he thought to himself, could it be that Fan Hao really lost the Emperor Taishang?

The ministers in the audience said carefully, "Your Majesty, is there anything wrong?" Why didn't the Emperor Taishang see? ”

"Ugh." Liu Bang thought about it, isn't the palace so big, where else can Fan Hao get him, and he doesn't have the courage to lose the emperor, maybe there is a small problem on the way. The Emperor Taishang is old, and he can't stand the long-distance travel, so he asks to rest for a while after walking for a while, how anxious he is in his heart, and in the face of the Emperor Taishang, he doesn't dare to put his anger on his face, Liu Bang thought to himself that this is probably the case, so he said after a while, "It's nothing, the Emperor Taishang is already on the way, Fan Tuzi, uh no, General Fan Xue has sent someone to report that he is about to enter the palace." ”

At this time, a housekeeper outside the hall looked up at the sun, feeling that the sunlight was strongly shining on his eyes. ”

Liu Bangyi turned around and stared at his red eyebrows, and said sullenly, "Who arranged the ritual music to start now?" The Emperor hasn't arrived yet, so you quickly go to find the Emperor. ”

said it extremely quietly, for fear of being heard by the ministers, taking over the emperor was what he should do personally, but he didn't think that he had arrived, and the emperor had not yet arrived, which made him anxious, pretending to be calm on the surface, and his heart was like an ant crawling on a hot pot.

"Father, what about the prince's brother? Why don't you see him? Liu Ruyi, who was sitting on the dragon couch with him, also glanced into the hall, and did not find his brother Liu Ying, so he suddenly asked strangely.

Liu Bang also frowned and pursed his lips, not knowing where the prince and the emperor had gone, stretched out a hand holding Ruyi, pulled away the Hanzi in front of him and looked anxiously outside the hall, there was no one outside the hall, and put down the Hanzi, and the index finger circled by the temple.

The emperor and the crown prince did not come, and the ministers began to talk about each other again.

The ministers whispered to their familiar colleagues, "The emperor asked the acting king to sit on the dragon couch with him, isn't it clear that the future emperor will be succeeded by the acting king?" ”

"I heard that it's a little Liu Bang, it's just as naughty as the emperor when he was a child, and no one can subdue him." When he said this, he was extremely cautious, and he bluntly said that the emperor's name was secret, and no one was afraid of losing his head.

"Compared with the crown prince, he doesn't look like a brother."

"The prince is benevolent, generous, quiet, and filial, and he will definitely be a good emperor in the future."

"Let's watch the prime minister and stay with them, everything is empty at the moment."

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The ministers were talking about the difference between the crown prince and the acting king, and Liu Bang was eagerly waiting for the emperor to come soon. But in his busy schedule, he still forgot about the prince, why didn't he seem to see him this day. The prince is not like a missing person for no reason, why did he forget such a big thing today?