Chapter 20 The human heart is unpredictable

The next day, Liu Bang had dinner at Changxin Palace, and was busy leading a group of ministers to check the water conservancy situation in the Weishui area. In the past few days, Liu Bangjunchen has been very busy, often building embankments with the people. Going away with the morning dew in the morning and returning with the moon at night soon made the Weishui wrecked embankment take shape. Whenever he finished working hard with the people, Liu Bang would always stand in the center of the circle of the people and talk about it, praising the importance of water conservancy and the unity of the monarch and the people, and pulling Xiao He to tell the people that after Weishui was completely repaired, he would distribute the hundreds of gold rewarded by the imperial court to the people who participated in the construction of the embankment, and entered the rank of the people, and exempted them from taxes and forced labor for several years, which firmly won the hearts of many people.

Liu Bang thought about repeatedly allowing Empress Lu to implement his opinions, and allowed her to lead some palace people and eunuchs to boil porridge in the nearby Zhou County, rest in the porridge shed at noon, and continue to work in the afternoon. The people saw that the emperor and queen all cared about the people of the world, and there was no one who cried unthanksgiving. Empress Lu watched from afar as Emperor Liu Bang led everyone to build the embankment separately, and his momentum of commanding thousands of troops made her feel very happy, and she was able to devote herself to this so-called cause of sharing joys and sorrows with him again. Liu Bang will occasionally see Lu Houqian smiling and happily and happily from a distance, spoonful by spoonful of soup and rice into the refugee sand bowl, that kind of gentleness, virtuousness, kindness, kindness and humility seem to mean her, for a moment, Liu Bang felt that when he returned to Weishipei County, everything was harmonious.

It wasn't until dusk that Liu Bang took Empress Lu's hand and returned to the palace exhausted. These days are very tiring, the relationship between the two seems to be closer, Liu Bang often asks Changxin Palace Zhan Shi to bring back some palace utensils for Empress Lu, and Empress Lu is always grateful and grateful.

The busyness of the past few days has made Empress Lu feel a little uncomfortable, and the porridge shed can't go, so Liu Bang instructed the palace people to take care of Empress Lu. Liu Bang took some ministers of the DPRK and China to inspect the Zhengguo Canal downstream of Weishui Jingshui.

Yuzao Palace has not dared to act arrogantly in the past few days, knowing that the queen is doing the things of the world. Mrs. Qi is not like Empress Lu who cares about the people, watching the queen go out of the palace every day to do good, and she is irritated and does not dare to tell the emperor, she knows that she is wrong, why bother looking for trouble? I didn't want to go anywhere in the Yuzao Palace, but I just applied Zhu Zhu more wholeheartedly to win an important position in Liu Bang's heart.

Jing Tian has not been idle these days, in addition to serving Mrs. Qi and Liu Bang every day, he is even more anxious for Yun He Xiuyue, so he repaired the queen's favorite picture as soon as possible.

Today, there is nothing to do in the Yuzao Palace, Jing Tian instructed a few small palace maids to take the shift, and he was going to go to Changxin Palace to intercede with the queen with the picture.

Jing Tian entered the Changxin Palace again, looked at the scrolled painting in his hand, and muttered unconfidently, "I hope the queen is satisfied." ”

Somehow today, Jing Tian seems to be in a good mood, striding forward with his head held high. Looking at the vermilion walls, the solemn buildings, the towering pavilions, the pavilions with the four corners turned outward, the clean paths, the tall tree trunks, the elegant ponds, and the beautiful palace people......

"I didn't find it a few days ago, but today it seems that this Changle Palace is so beautiful and luxurious." Jing tilted his hands to hold the painting, seeing the beautiful scenery of Changle Palace, he couldn't help but sigh to himself, sometimes trotting to chase the breeze, sometimes with his hands behind his back, walking a few steps back, raising a smile to enjoy the beautiful scenery.

Suddenly, the smile suddenly disappeared from her face, and she stopped and said to herself: No, Yun He Xiuyue doesn't know how it is now, how are you doing in Yongxiang? I haven't been to see them since they entered Yongxiang.

She looked up at the northeast corner, and there was a long alley in the distance from the northeast corner, and there was a protruding pavilion on the side of the alley, and the pavilion was called the Hundred Flowers Pavilion. In front of the alley is a huge flower bed, which is always full of colorful flowers in spring and summer, with names and names, and of all shapes, attracting butterflies and bees to fly here. When the time comes, all the ladies and beauties will come here to enjoy the flowers, drink tea, chat, and sometimes the emperor will come here to sit and sit down, so that the little palace maids here will put down their work and compete to come out to see what the emperor looks like, whether they will be accidentally able to be taken by the emperor, and it is very lively here every year. This late autumn cold wind blew off the petals of Douyan, and the red ones were crushed into mud and fell into the loess. It's just a wall, and when people outside the wall enjoy the beautiful scenery, the people inside the wall don't see the flowers day after day.

"People here are sometimes not as valuable as a forest flower." Jing Tian thought about it, and unconsciously said a sentimental word. She walked towards Yongxiang, but she didn't know that there was a little palace maid behind her who silently observed her, since she entered the Changle Palace for the first time, the little palace maid has been following her, seeing her walking towards Yongxiang, the little palace maid immediately ran away.

As soon as he walked to the door of Yongxiang, before he walked in, he heard a burst of vulgar scolding words coming from inside, and Jing Tian quietly hid at the door and looked inside.

"Look at you, ah, let you wash your clothes, you actually made such a big hole, do you know that this is worn by the emperor, it is broken, it is not enough to compensate for cutting off your heads, I have never seen such a stupid person as you." It turned out that this person was Yongxiang Ling, I saw that he was wearing a eunuch hat, dark clothes, full of folds, short eyebrows, rat eyes, a collapsed nose, and a long whip in his hand, Orchid pointed at the two little palace maids and scolded, "Oh, you are really angry with me, people are coming to get clothes, how do you ask our emperor to explain." From time to time, he whipped them a few times, and the two girls screamed in pain.

"My lord, the slave and maid don't dare anymore, please stop fighting, don't fight, the slave and maid must pay attention next time, it won't be broken again, please, my lord." A palace maid with tattered clothes, straw sandals, unkempt hair, and a wound on her face, which did not look like a person at all, knelt on the ground and grabbed Yongxiang Ling's heel to plead, and another palace maid who was dressed similarly to her also came to plead.

Jing Tian didn't dare to go in, but carefully watched every move inside outside, "It's so pitiful." ”

"Walked away." Yongxiang Ling kicked the palace maid who grabbed his leg away, and gave her a few whips, the palace maid fell to the ground, the skin on her arm was scratched, and the blood stained her clothes, she quickly got up and wiped her tears, and she didn't care that the blood had flowed out, and still pleaded with him.

She just cried, hoping that the adults would spare them this time, still on her knees.

"Sun Yunhe, Ren Xiuyue, it's not an old slave, I want to get along with you, take a look...... Isn't this causing me trouble? The eunuch picked up the washed clothes and looked at them with disgust, with a complaining tone.

Jing Tian outside the door heard this, and his heart 'pounced', "How can it be Yun He Xiuyue?" She craned her neck back to look.

"Someone's coming." Yongxiang Ling called two subordinates, pointed at them and said: "Go, lock them up in the riot room, stop all food, starve to death if you can, die of thirst if you can die, anyway, you will suffer to live again." ”

"Don't, my lord, the slave knows it's wrong, my lord......" The two were forcibly dragged up by the two subordinates, and if they couldn't drag it, they were half-dragged and dragged to death, and their feet were bruised.

"Stop." A sentence quickly came in from outside the door, and Yongxiang Ling was attracted by this sentence. Jing Tian outside the door couldn't stand it anymore, and rushed in all of a sudden, standing in front of Yongxiang Ling angrily, glaring at him fiercely with his eyes, as if he had eaten him.

Yun He Xiuyue saw Jing Tilt coming, and cried and called "Jing Tilt ......"

Yongxiang Ling was about to go out, but unfortunately he came in and Jing Tilt blocked the way, he had never seen Jing Tilt, and he had never seen any palace person dare to say 'stop' to the dignified Yongxiang Order.

He squinted his eyes and looked up and down at Jing Tian, who broke in from outside the door, his expression and demeanor were arrogant, and he squinted his eyes and asked disdainfully: "Which palace?" Dare to trespass into Yongxiang privately? Don't die. He roared loudly, trying to scare her with the majesty of the Eternal Lane Order.

Jing Tian stepped forward, gritted his teeth menacingly, and said, "I don't allow you to beat them again." ”

Isn't it just a little palace maid? Yongxiang Ling was not afraid of Jing Tian's cruel words, and continued to ask arrogantly and disdainfully: "Which palace?" ”

"Fish Moko, how's it going?" Jing Tian threw him a word.

Unexpectedly, Na Yongxiang Ling was stunned for a moment, then covered his mouth and laughed, full of sarcasm, and then stopped laughing, raised his eyebrows and raised his eyes: "Who am I, isn't it Mrs. Qi's palace people?" So what? The lord of this Yongxiang is Queen Lu, not Mrs. Qi. These two palace maids were also sent by the queen, saying that they didn't know the palace rules, and asked me to train them, what's wrong, is it wrong? He smiled sarcastically, and deliberately instructed around Jing Tian mockingly, "We are at the mercy of Her Royal Highness the Queen." ”

"You ......" Jing Tian was so excited that he didn't know how to answer, straightened out his emotions, and said angrily in his tone: "Yongxiang is not for you to torture people, but for you to teach the rules well, people will inevitably make mistakes, and it is good if you can change your mistakes, why do you have to torture others so much, aren't you afraid of losing your life?" ”

Yongxiang Ling laughed again, "The old slave is confused in life, and the years seem to be repeated, why are you afraid that he will lose his life?" Besides, do you hear that the people who came to Yongxiang can still get out alive? I don't know if he really has such a mentality or deliberately said it to Jing to listen, anyway, Jing Tian felt that if he wanted to rescue Yun He Xiuyue, it would be unreasonable to talk to the rotten person in front of him, and he had to find the queen.

"I'm going to go to the queen, and I'm not allowed to beat them again." Jing Tian glared at him fiercely, pointing to his nose in warning.

Yongxiang Ling looked at her posture, and still said disdainfully: "Let's talk about it when you find the queen, girl." ”

Jing Tian glanced at him angrily, walked up to Yun He Xiuyue, and took the hands of the two of them, who expected the two of them to 'hiss' in pain, retracted, and saw that their hands were full of wounds, and many of them had scabbed, Jing Tian's nose was sore, tears were in his eyes, he looked at their eyes, and said firmly: "Don't worry, Jing Tian will definitely rescue you, Yun He Xiuyue, are you willing to follow me to the Yuzao Palace on an errand?" ”

After hearing this, the two of them nodded vigorously, lowered their heads and said aggrievedly with tears: "Yes." ”

Jing said goodbye to them, and went out with tears in their eyes.

Yun He Xiuyue was temporarily taken to the riot room to be guarded.

As soon as Jing Tian left, Dai Qing walked out of a small dark room in Yongxiang, and she walked straight towards Yongxiang Ling, with a satisfied smile on her face, "Good performance, reward you." As he spoke, he took out a small bag from his waist and handed it to him, Yongxiang Ling opened it and saw that it was a gold ingot, and the folds on his face were even harder to squeeze together, and he smiled like a pepper flower.

"It is right to serve the queen, and I hope that Miss Dai Qing will give more advice in the future." Yongxiang Ling smiled flatteringly, and his eyes never left the gold in his hand.

"It seems that the queen's plan is about to be completed." Dai Qing muttered to himself, his eyes revealing a sense of pride and joy.

It turned out that the little palace maid who followed Jing Tian ran away to tell Dai Qing.