So many things have happened in the three days that I've been here, and I've never encountered them before. It's a little tricky, some are at a loss, and some don't know what to do. Sometimes I feel hesitant, sometimes I feel hesitant, and more often I still waver.

First, he pretended to be Bu Yaolian and came to the palace of the Zhou Kingdom, met the little emperor, and listened to him tell him about him and his country. Then he met a man who looked very similar to Xuan Chi, and after knowing that he was not the old man he knew, he was worried about whether his true identity had been recognized by him. Now I saw the enemy army of Zhou Guo pressing the border, and I was worried about this world, whether I should take it seriously, what will happen to the future fortune of this Zhou country, whether I should get involved in it, and change it against the mandate of heaven.

In the early morning of the fourth day, the entire Water Moon Hall seemed a little chaotic, and I pulled Yurun's sleeve and asked her what was wrong. The little girl said that the big guys all ran to the court to see the excitement, and listened to other people in the palace say that the emperor opened the warehouse and released the grain spread out, and the early morning before dawn, the officials in the court who opposed the opening of the warehouse and the grain came out to make trouble, knelt outside the palace gate, refused to leave, and had to give an explanation to the emperor.

I had great doubts in my heart that these officials kneeling outside the palace gate were sent by Burong Xiao, after all, from the very beginning, he and his henchmen in the court were opposed to opening a warehouse and releasing grain, but the tense atmosphere lasted until noon, and I heard from the palace people that the regent stood up and took care of the matter alone, and promised that if there was really a war with the enemy country, the Zhou State would have enough soldiers and horses and enough grain and grass to deal with it, and those officials who knelt outside the palace gate would give up.

When the incident happened here, I wondered in my heart again, since the officials who opposed the opening of the warehouse and the release of grain were all from Burong Xiao's door, then he changed his words and said that he ordered the opening of the warehouse and released the grain, then no one should dare to come out to oppose and embarrass him, why are those officials from his door still so bold at this time, still kneeling outside the palace gate and not forgiving, and forcing Bu Rong Xiao to make a guarantee before he is willing to give up? I have to suspect that this play is a good play directed and performed by Burong Xiao, the purpose is actually to give the little emperor who has no power and no power, and warn him that only he can shut the mouths of those officials, and show other officials who support the little emperor how righteous and awe-inspiring he is, and for the people of Zhou, he is willing to bow his waist to the civil and military officials.

Although, I don't want to think that this man who looks the same as Xuan Chi has a city like this, but since he can be the regent and have been in power alone for seven years, he will definitely not be a simple role.

At lunchtime, the table was full of delicacies in the past, but today it has become a little simpler, a few plates of simple melons and fruits with a few plates of simple dishes, plus a soup with water and a pot of wine.

For today's food, God felt that he couldn't accept it for a while, and even felt a little inexplicable, and the change changed, which also became too outrageous. I asked Yurun: "There will also be such a coarse tea and light rice in the palace?"

She approached and replied: "Early this morning, the emperor ordered that the food of everyone up and down the palace should no longer be the same as before. It is said that this is because of the imminent war, and the food and silver saved must be handed over to the state treasury for the imperial court to buy horses and grass. ”

"Everyone in the palace?" I asked her again: "What about the emperor and queen and the regent, will they be like this, eating these clear soups and little water?"

"Of course. Yurun should have said, and the boiled tofu that I pushed far away was pulled into front of him again, and said with emotion: "Niangniang, your food today is the best in this palace, you don't know, what we people eat, what can be eaten and can't be eaten, at this time, the imperial kitchen in the palace is trying to make a taste and stuff it for us to eat." ”

"Oh, is that good?"

Stretched out his chopsticks and poked the clear water radish on the plate, at this moment, I really felt like I was back in the time when I was a subordinate in the Rulin Palace, at that time, I lived in the thatched hut specially vacated for me by Bu Zhichi, and I ate the same as today, boiling all kinds of vegetables, and my heart was really unbalanced for a long time.

Now, after all these days, looking back, it really feels like a dream I had.

Early in the morning of the fifth day, I heard that the imperial court had begun a large-scale conscription, and because of the conscription, the monthly expenses of the palace were reduced by half. The policy of the imperial court is that every time a recruit is levied, the corresponding will give the soldier's family a subsidy of two taels of silver and thirty catties of rice, but because of the opening of the warehouse a few days ago, the rice that needs to be subsidized is not enough, and the reduced expenses of the palace people have to buy rice and use it for conscription.

Finally, everyone in the government and the opposition has to tighten their belts to live.

On the sixth day, the weather was a little hot and gloomy, and the dark clouds of the early morning pressed down on the palace gate, making people breathless, looking like a curtain of ash hanging straight from the sky to the ground, blocking a qiē in the distance, making a qiē in front of him look gray, not very real.

At noon, a shower suddenly came, the water curtain fell, and the large droplets of beans dripping from the sky knocked on the rubble on the eaves and played softly, splashing on the trees that had been baked by the scorching sun for several days, making them new green, blowing on the window lattices that had not been completely closed, and hearing the sound of the rain hitting the window paper, crackling. This timely rain relieved the stuffy atmosphere of the past few days and made people feel cool.

In the afternoon, the rain slowly stopped, drank a pot of good palace wine, ate a plate of colorless and tasteless side dishes, counted, and the seven-day appointment made with Yan Mo was still approaching in a blink of an eye. A day later, maybe he will leave here, but now that he thinks about it, if he doesn't see this human thing come to an end, how can he be willing to leave like this one day later.

Finally waited until the seventh day, this day I heard that another big thing happened, the enemy army suddenly attacked, the imperial court was in a hurry to prepare to buy grain and grass to send troops on the same day, the little emperor in order to boost the morale of the border soldiers, regardless of the opposition of the ministers of the court, resolutely decided to go to the front line in person, command the battle. But in this way, his little queen is

disagreed, began to cry constantly, and wanted to die or live, and the entire harem was disturbed by her.

At dusk, after dinner, Liu Wu made a pot of hot tea and put it in the house, and got a few pots of good wine and put it under the table, and drank it by himself, waiting from sunset until it was dark, and finally, there was a knock on the door.

"What's the matter?" he put down the glass in his hand and asked the outsider.

". Liu Wu's uneasy voice came from outside the door, "The queen mother is here again, she said she wants to see you." ”

"The queen is here?"

Seeing that the tea that had been steaming at the beginning was no longer steaming, it was really not as expected by the gods, it came, but it was a little late, and a good pot of tea was wasted.

I stood up and straightened my clothes, waved my hand to light the lamp in the room, and among the stars and candles, I looked at the figure outside the door, and said to her: "Tell the queen that the palace is a little unwell today, if it is because of the emperor's personal conquest to discuss, please move here and discuss again." ”