Chapter 8: Return to the Palace
Dong Zhuo and Zhao Ye naturally broke up unhappily when they talked. After walking around, it was convenient for Min Gong to return to Liu Bianpang and walk with the frame.
The sunset came out of the mountain, Zhao Ye looked at it with great eyes, only to see the towering city wall in front of him, through the valley gate, and the towering city wall in front, stretching for several miles, magnificent, Zhao Ye was the first time to see such a complete scale of the city wall, without sighing the wisdom of the ancients.
The accompanying frame stopped in front of a vermilion lacquer gate, and Zhao Ye pointed to the huge palace gate in front of him and said, "Where is this?" ”
Min Gong wondered: "King Chen doesn't remember?" ”
Zhao Ye snorted and said, "I was injured in my head last night and forgot a lot of things. ”
Min Gong looked at a freshly scabbed wound on the back of Zhao Ye's head, and there was still some dried blood on it, and said without suspicion at the moment: "This is the Xia Gate of the back gate of the North Palace." ”
The back door of the first palace is more spacious and magnificent than the gate of ordinary large families, which is worthy of royal majesty, and it is unusual and comparable.
As he was talking, the summer door was wide open, and more than a dozen small yellow doors in blue clothes came out of it, and when he saw Liu Wei standing in front of the frame, he cried with joy, and came up and bowed down and shouted long live.
There were many palace maids behind the small yellow door, surrounded by a few richly dressed women with delicate faces, and when they saw Liu Wei, they bowed down and cried.
There is only one person standing here, about 30 years old, wearing a red bird and a phoenix crown, graceful and luxurious. At this time, he was wiping his tears with a silk cloth.
Liu Wei took the lead in saluting, and then a group of ministers and soldiers behind him followed and bowed down, and the mountain called the Queen Mother a thousand years old. Zhao Ye knew that the person in front of him was Liu Wei's mother.
Zhao Ye and Liu Wei entered the palace gate with the little yellow gate, and the ministers immediately dispersed, thrilling for a day and a night, and all kinds of fatigue were added.
Walking into Zhao Ye's eyes, two rows of high-rise buildings with red walls and gray tiles, hanging corners and cornices, look magnificent, each palace side by side, symmetrical left and right, there are rockeries, laurel trees, and all kinds of exotic flowers and plants in the courtyard.
When the osmanthus tree blooms, the fragrance of osmanthus flies, and the smell is refreshing. As the saying goes, the Mid-Autumn Festival osmanthus blooms, and Zhao Ye estimated the time, which should be around the beginning of August of the lunar calendar.
Empress Dowager He prepared a meal in Shou'an Palace, invited Liu Bian and Zhao Ye to go together, Zhao Ye turned dizzy, and only then came to a palace, looking up, the three gilded characters of Shou'an Palace were shining.
The palace maid who had prepared enough wine and food was already waiting aside, and when she saw Liu Bian and Empress Dowager He coming together, she hurriedly leaned over and knelt down.
Liu Bian was in a very good mood, usually just squinting and going straight to go, but this time he stopped for a while. Signaled to be exempt from courtesy, and then entered the Shou'an Palace.
Zhao Ye was deeply poisoned by the TV series, thinking that the emperor was quite forced to eat, but it was not as good as the eye, several low tables were put together into a large table, covered with a tablecloth, and there was a circle of mats around the side of the table, and there was a round cushion above the mat.
Liu Wei was the first to sit down, and Zhao Ye realized that the cushion turned out to be a kneeling cushion. After Liu Wei sat down, he beckoned Zhao Ye to sit down, and he had to sit like a learner.
Empress Dowager He sat on the left side of Liu Wei and unhurriedly opened the food box on the table. As the lid opened, the sound of food stimulated Zhao Ye's nerves. At the end of the day, Liu Bian, who didn't eat a good meal and was well-fed, couldn't help but swallow.
Seeing Liu Wei move his chopsticks, Zhao Ye began to be unpolite, although he deliberately suppressed his movements, he also ate so much that he frowned when he saw Empress Dowager He on the side.
Liu Wei was deeply educated by the court, and every move was required to show the royal model, but after a day of starvation, seeing Zhao Ye eating dates on the side, where could he take care of the royal majesty at this time, so he simply let go of his temperament and feasted.
"Emperor, eat slowly." Empress Dowager He couldn't stand it, so she had to remind Liu Bian to pay attention to the royal rules.
"Mother, you don't know, on this day I was hungry, I drank the water of the river, slept on the haystack, ate the scraps of cold, where there was royal majesty. At that time, Erchen thought that if he had the opportunity to return to the palace, he must have a good meal and a good night's sleep. ”
Before Liu Bian returned to the imperial city, someone had already told He Lian about Liu Bian's experience. Although He Lian is the queen mother, it can be seen from her poisoning Liu Xie's biological mother Wang Rong to kill the Empress Dowager Dong that this woman's heart is like a snake and scorpion, but in front of Liu Bian, she shows rare gentleness.
It is often said that loving mothers are defeated, and one day Zhao Ye looked at Liu Yan's words and deeds, and knew that he had been doted on, and he had become a timid person who would only avoid problems when something went wrong.
After listening to Liu Yan's words, Empress Dowager He sighed, waved her hand, and stepped back from the palace maid, leaving only three people in the huge palace.
Half an hour later, the full table was swept away by the two of them. Looking at the empty plates on the table, Liu Yan leaned lazily on the chair and said to Zhao Ye:
"Brother, this is the fullest dinner I've ever had. It's only with you that you can eat so much. After that, Di Di glanced at the Empress Dowager He on the side, and saw the blameless expression on her face, and said even more happily:
"Queen Mother, if it weren't for my co-brother, I'm afraid I wouldn't really be able to come back this time." At the moment, Liu Bian described Liu Xie's performance along the way, especially the description of the process of the two finding their way alone.
He Lianben listened to a rough idea from his subordinates, of course, many of the details were not clear enough, and at the moment, after listening to what Liu Wei said, there was a slight look of surprise on his face, but in the midst of the surprise, his brows were even tighter.
I'm not afraid that you're stupid, I'm afraid you're too smart, although Liu Xie is young, he has always performed far better than the older Liu Wei, so before the death of the first emperor, he was also swaying about the future emperor's heir.
On the one hand, the ancestors are not young, and on the other hand, they are virtuous and not abolished, and Liu Hong has been entangled until his death and has not been able to make a final decision.
Therefore, according to the order of the eldest and youngest, plus He Lian, He Jin, and He Miao's three brothers and sisters boosted, Liu Bi naturally ascended the throne smoothly, but He Lian never relaxed his vigilance and precautions against Liu Xie.
The better Liu Xie's performance, the more panicked He Lian became, especially in this rebellion of the Ten Standing Servants, the soldiers rushed into the palace, and the royal face was almost swept to the ground, and as the current emperor, being held hostage is not as good as an ordinary person.
Danger can best show a person's temperament, and the bearing and pattern of the young Liu Xie are obviously incomparable to Liu Xian.
Zhao Ye's body is young, but his soul is thirty years old, and it is no problem to observe words and looks, only to see that although He Lian showed this smile, his eyes were a little cold, which was obviously a person with a charitable face and a heart like a poisonous scorpion.
Listening to Liu Yan's narration, Zhao Ye was originally quite embarrassed, and he received too much praise along the way, but he was a little carried away for a while, but he didn't know that this was the Three Kingdoms period, and it was a sin to perform more than an emperor, not to mention the emperor's younger brother.
There are no brothers in the royal family, maybe Liu Bian doesn't think so, but how can He Lian, who has been in the back position for a long time, not be guarded.
The more he got to the back, the more Zhao Ye felt like he was on pins and needles, and he wished he could leave early. However, the emperor did not leave, but he could only accompany him.
Zhao Ye deliberately yawned, and his voice dragged on for a long time, for fear that Liu Yan would not be able to hear it.
"I'm scared of this day, I'm afraid my brother is tired, right?"
Zhao Ye's eyes pretended to be hazy. "Originally, I was still hungry, but I didn't feel that this meal was full of wine and food, and I would be sleepy after eating, if it weren't for the wonderful talk you said, Brother Huang, I'm afraid I would have fallen asleep."
"I've worked hard all the way, since I'm tired, let's rest early, and I'll have time to see you tomorrow."
When I went out, it was already dark, and the huge palace was completely dark except for the lantern hanging at the entrance of the palace to illuminate the road at the door.
Zhao Ye, who had just gone out, was circled, although he knew the Three Kingdoms, but where did he know which palace Liu Xie lived in at the beginning, and when he saw that there was a guard at the door, he pointed to a guard with a lantern.
"You know me."
The guard hurriedly knelt down, and said with trepidation in his mouth: "The minister naturally knows the king." ”
Zhao Ye pretended to be a little drunk and said: "I ate some wine, I was dizzy, I don't know the way back, since you know this king, send this king back to the palace." ”
The guard took the order, summoned another guard to hold Zhao Ye, and then carried the lantern and carefully illuminated the way in front.
Although Yong'an Palace is next door to the North Palace, there is still a considerable distance from the Shou'an Palace of the North Palace to the Yong'an Palace, Zhao Ye finally walked to a gate with the support of the guards, the guards went to buckle the door, and a palace maid who opened the door saw Zhao Ye, hurriedly opened the door, and knelt down in front of Zhao Ye.
Crying tears and snot together.
Zhao Ye was upset, at the end of this day, he saw too many people crying, first Min Gong cried, the emperor cried, then the minister cried, the queen mother cried, and now there is a little girl crying miserably, as if crying a dead person.
"Don't cry, I'm not coming back well."
The palace maid stopped crying, and saw that Zhao Ye was being held by a guard, and hurriedly replaced. Zhao Ye didn't like to be held by men, but he had already said that he couldn't drink too much, and he still did a full set of this scene, so he pretended to lean on the palace maid's body.
"Thank you two big brothers for sending each other." Zhao Ye said politely, but the two of them knelt in fear.
In this era, the concept of hierarchy, Zhao Ye complained in his heart, only called two guards to get up, and then let the palace maid carry him into the gate. Not long after entering the door, two girls with lanterns rushed to the front, and when they saw Zhao Ye, they immediately cried with joy.
Zhao Ye didn't want to see anyone crying anymore, so he hurriedly stopped: "Two sisters, don't cry anymore." ”
One of the green-clothed girls said, "Lord Wang, my sisters are just happy and grateful to God." The prince returned safely. ”
Zhao Ye was sent back to the room, and the two girls made water and prepared to serve Zhao Ye to bathe, although Zhao Ye's body was still just a child at this time, but the mind of a man in his thirties did not want to be presented in front of others, let alone a girl.
even coaxed and deceived the two girls out, and Zhao Ye closed the door before he dared to take off his clothes and take a bath.
This day passed unbelievably, Zhao Ye went forward with a candle shining next to him, thinking that he could slip away by giving the jade seal to the emperor, but he didn't expect to enter the palace in the end, if there was no jade seal.
"Oh yes, Jade Seal." Zhao Ye remembered that he was in a hurry, but he forgot to hand over the jade seal to the emperor, and hurriedly got out of the barrel to find his clothes.
Zhao Ye searched again and again, but there was no trace of the jade seal.
"This sucks." Zhao Ye's forehead was sweating, this heirloom jade seal was lost, in ancient times, it must have been a big crime to kill the head, not to mention that he was just a prince, even if he was the emperor, I am afraid that it would be difficult to escape the blame for losing the heirloom jade seal.
"In Cuijiazhuang, the jade seal is still on the body. Later met Min Gong, horseback riding, right. Zhao Ye thought about it, this jade seal probably fell when he was riding a horse with Min Gong, if he walked, the huge box fell to the ground, and the sound was easily noticed, and when he was riding a horse with Min Gong, the bump on the horse's back, the jade seal was likely to fall at that time, and the sound of the horse's hooves overshadowed the sound of the jade seal falling on the ground.