Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

"His Royal Highness has determined that the country is irreversible?" Zhou Xian frowned.

Li Yu was taken aback: "Why did Emperor E make such a statement?"

Zhou Xian said casually: "His Royal Highness meant to get rid of Guo Shao; just now he mentioned the recent tribute... But you can't rush to arrange such things. The risk is too high, and it's not easy to succeed; it's not that far yet. Doesn't that mean that the country is in a difficult situation, so you will prepare this kind of plan early?"

Li Yu turned his head and glanced at the Xiangxi (chess) messily placed on the table next to him. He shook his head, with a wry smile on the corner of his mouth: "Ehuang thinks too much, it's just that my father summoned me today to ask about the national policy, so I just think wildly."

Zhou Xian breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, and said: "It is true that Guo Shao is very important to the Zhou court, His Highness will inevitably think so. But that kind of crooked path is not the way to win, Your Highness should not pin important matters on such means as assassination."

Li Yu nodded, holding Zhou Xian's hand, his mood fluctuated obviously: "Have you not changed your mind?"

Zhou Xian shook his head vigorously, with a trace of sadness in his eyes: "Your Highness, let's forget about Tokyo... Recently, I feel that you don't seem to trust me."

Li Yu said: "I treat Ehuang and Zhou's people the same as before. Think about it, after I became the prince, have I ever treated you badly?"

Zhou Xian pondered for a moment, then hurriedly said: "The weather is not good recently, maybe I tend to think wildly."

Li Yu smiled, and turned to look at the rain outside the door: "It's raining so heavily, but there is a banquet at Han Xizai's house, and I was invited, it's getting late now."

Zhou Xian exhorted a few words and sent Li Yu out. She stood silently under the double eaves, watching Li Yu's back disappear into the corridor, and then looked away. The rain in the sky has already fallen into lines, and the snow on the tile roof has fallen, and the water surface of the stone gutter is bubbling. Zhou Xian couldn't help stretching out his hand to touch a line of water, and suddenly felt a cold touch coming from the palm of his hand, and his whole body shivered slightly.

The days after returning to Jinling, thinking about it, are not very different from before, but there is a lack of reality that can be felt directly... everything seems to exist in the mind, as illusory as in a dream.

She slowly walked back to the bedroom from the palace, her eyes resting on the elephant on the table. She suddenly thought: The winning method of Xiangxi is different from that of Go. The key to Xiangxi lies in the long-term strategy. If you can take one step and see five steps, you are considered an entry.

At a certain moment, Li Yu looked at Xiangxi, was he implying something? He hinted that his sentence "the country is irreversible" is far-sighted, so he should have seen it... Li Yu is not very good at military and political affairs, but he is still a very smart person.

Zhou Xian felt troubled for a while... It was Guo Shao who ruined all of this, I hate him! No, I have coldly forgotten him.

Zhou Xian dug out the plum blossom picture he had just drawn, walked to the side of the lamp stand and took off the copper cover. The embers were gone, she angrily tore it into two pieces, then tore them up desperately, and threw them into the bowl next to them. The confetti fluttered like falling flowers, and suddenly there seemed to be a voice: Madam is like plum blossoms, blooming in the bitter cold wind and snow, but standing beautifully and proudly.

She fell on the couch, reached out and grabbed the blanket to cover her head, and said in distress: "Why bother to humiliate yourself like this, he probably forgot long ago... What kind of sweet talk, it's just a lie!"

Plum blossoms... She recalled the short scene with Li Yu just now, he asked what he was doing, and then asked what the painting was about despite his own efforts to change the subject.

At that time, Zhou Xian felt guilty, so he told the truth. But at this moment, replaying that scene in my mind, my intuition is a bit strange... Is the prince testing himself, is he lying to him?

Zhou Xian sat up immediately and sat in front of the couch for a while. Although the sound of "squeaking" rain outside was very noisy, it covered up the voices of people and reflected a kind of tranquility.

After a long time, Zhou Xian stood up, sat down where he was painting, and looked at the empty easel. She turned her head and saw that there was a pair of lampstands by the wall. Zhou Xian was doing trivial things silently by himself, got up again, walked to the wall, and walked slowly by the wall. At this time, a small hole in a figure painting immediately caught her attention.

Zhou Xian carefully avoided the light stand in front of him, and moved his eyes to look at it, but it was so dark that he couldn't see anything. She stood in front of the painting and paced back and forth for a long time, then turned around and walked towards the door, softly uttering a voice between her red lips: "One, two, three..."

After walking out of the door, she gently opened the door of the study room next to her, turned around and closed it. Then he took his time and walked over step by step. "Wow" This pair of bookshelves is not heavy, she opened it and saw the old wall. After looking carefully for a while, Zhou Xian didn't make a single extra movement, he pulled out a brick accurately, put his eyes close to it, and bent over to look for a long time.

When she walked out of the study again, the color on her face was already blue and white.

She went back to the bedroom and sat slumped in front of the window with the curtains lifted, feeling very empty in her heart. After thinking about it for a long time, she suddenly stood up and picked up a thick brush hanging on the shelf next to her. He gritted his teeth and wanted to break it, but he didn't have enough strength, so he threw it on the ground and stomped on it desperately. The expression on his face was extremely complicated, even a little distorted.

His face was flushed, angry, remorseful and ashamed, and tears flowed out at once. She tossed and tossed by herself for a long time, and was tired for a long time before she leaned on the couch to take a rest, her eyes had become hollow: "I'm just a walking dead..." For a while, Zhou Xian was in a state of confusion.

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In the side hall of Jinxiang Hall in the Zhou Dynasty, several most important ministers were talking one by one, "The next step is of course Wuping (Zhou Xingfeng) and the Southern Tang regions. Unify the south, and the unification of the world will become a major trend." "The Southern Tang and other places have money and food, and the risk of using troops is small.

Guo Shao was a little distracted on such an important occasion, because there were a few bright red plum blossoms embroidered on the curtain in front of the Empress Dowager... I don't know what Zhou Xian is doing now, and how he is doing after returning to Jinling.

"General Guo." Fu Jinzhan's voice said, "What do you think?"

Guo Shao came back to his senses and said: "The ministers are also more inclined to target the Southern Tang Dynasty, but the specifics should be written by the ministers, and the Queen Mother will make a careful decision after weighing it."

After a while, the discussion of the few people broke up.

"General Guo stay." Fu Jinzhan said in a melodious voice, "You have contributed a lot to leading the troops to conquer the Kingdom of Shu, but I have not been able to reward you..."

There is a kind of merit called high merit, and there is a kind of official called promotion without promotion. Guo Shao is already the highest military position in the military as a check in front of the palace. It is useless to add any official title to the Zhongshuling.

Guo Shao immediately replied: "I don't need a reward."

Fu Jinzhan said softly: "I heard that you lost a good horse in a horse race with Shi Yanchao?"

"The Empress Dowager has insight into the details." Guo Shao said.

Fu Jinzhan said: "There is a good horse in Beiyuan, which is a gift from the party members to the late emperor. All the horse-knowledge Bole praised it as a rare horse with a thousand li... It's a pity that it is a wild horse, and no one has tamed it so far. Is General Guo interested?"

Guo Shao was already unsealable, but now the royal family wants to reward the Chollima as a gift, this kind of thing can be unceremonious... Just like Shi Yanchao unceremoniously took away Guo Shao's mount, but if Guo Shao asked Shi Yanchao to do the inspection in front of the palace, I am afraid that Shi Yanchao would not dare to take it.

"I thank the Queen Mother for your kindness." Guo Shao bowed directly.

Fu Jinzhan said: "Today the sun is approaching the mid-heaven, the weather is too hot, you should go to Beiyuan early tomorrow to watch the horses."

"Follow the order." Guo Shao bowed.

The figure in the curtain stood up, and after a while the figure shook, and the people inside had disappeared into the curtain. Guo Shao then straightened up and turned to go out. Walking out of the Jinxiang Hall and standing on the masonry floor, I really felt like I was about to be roasted... Late summer is usually the hottest time.

In the morning, I have already been to the Office of the Government Office in front of the palace. Recently, the army has been calm and the weather is extremely hot. Guo Shao himself feels lazy and does not want to do anything. He looked at the height of the sun, and he probably had lunch when he got home, so he went to the front office of the hall to have a meal of the official meal, and then went home.

After entering the mansion, Guo Shao walked through the rainbow-like Hongqiao Gate Tower, and went straight to the largest house on the south bank of the pool, where his living room was located. When I went in, I saw Fu Ermei, Li Yuan'er, and Yulian sitting at the table, on which some jewelry that had been cleaned up was neatly placed.

"Husband." Fu Ermei said happily, "You came back really early today."

Seeing Guo Shao's return, several women came up to greet him one after another, their faces flushed, and they couldn't hide their excitement.

"It's all from the imperial palace of the Shu Kingdom, good stuff." Guo Shao glanced at the table and said with a smile, "I knew women like this beautiful thing...but I don't know why most women like these expensive things."

But there are exceptions, Fu Ermei is not particularly interested, she didn't even have her ears pierced.

Fu Ermei sat back at the table and said with a light smile, "Of course my husband doesn't understand. Women don't think there are too many jewelry and clothes, especially beautiful women." She smiled, her eyes curved like a moon: "Because I have to change it, I wear different jewelry on different occasions. If there are so many, women wish they could not repeat it for three hundred and sixty days a year."

Guo Shao said solemnly: "So that's the case, I have been taught."

"This pair of earrings is quite special." Guo Shao picked up a pair of gold and jade earrings that were round and bell-shaped, and saw that the carvings were exquisite and the hollow structure inside was complicated. "Does this look good on the ears?"

Second Sister Fu took it over and took a look, curled her lips and said, "It's so ugly, my husband also said that all the things from the Imperial Palace of the Kingdom of Shu are good things, who wears such things?"

At the beginning, Guo Shao just picked them up randomly, he really didn’t care what kind of jewelry it was, he thought that colorful jewelry must be valuable anyway, but he didn’t care about the appearance... In this era, gems and pearls cannot be made artificially.

Second Sister Fu liked strange gadgets, so she couldn't hide her curious eyes, "What kind of jewelry is this?" After that, she picked up a jade-carved gadget and put it on her finger, but it couldn't go in, and the ring didn't seem to be that long.

No one knew, even Guo Shao couldn't figure it out, so the few people left it aside and ignored it. Looking around, Guo Shao found that Lu Xiaoniang lived in the second yard, with Jingniang and the others, but he didn't see Mrs. Yang, so he asked, "Where did Yue'e go?"

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