"When we meet, we are destined. When we meet, we are destined. How can we separate?" [Yuhuan Ji·Chasing Wei Gao]
After Liu Jiang and Fu Shou had a hurried meeting, they left in a hurry, as if they were passing by here, saying hello and not wanting to disturb others. Not to mention that after Liu Jiang left, Fu Shou was alone in the palace, clasping the handle of the fan and bowing his head.
Thoughtful, after Liu Jiang came out of Wuyang Palace, thinking about all the words he had just confronted the emperor with, he dismissed all his attendants and sat alone in the pavilion of the eldest princess's mansion for a while. Until the long smoke set and the sun set.
When Zhou Yu returned home, she suddenly woke up from a dream, recovered from her stupor, and walked to the front hall to pick up Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu had just left the palace and returned home. He was still wearing a well-cut crown suit that complied with the regulations of the imperial court. It made his figure as slender as a jade tree orchid. A set of ordinary court dress crown and belt looked ordinary to others, but it was actually worn on Zhou Yu.
Free and easy.
Not to mention talent, personality and family background, Zhou Yu's handsome and upright appearance alone was enough to make Liu Jiang gradually fall in love with him in the long years to come. This was not only the emperor's confidence in Zhou Yu, but also the secret feelings of both Zhou Yu and Liu Jiang.
Understand the truth.
Liu Jiang restrained his eyebrows and took the initiative to untie Zhou Yu's clothes and put on a set of loose Yanju robes. The two held hands and walked side by side to the back hall and verandah, looking at several old trees planted in the courtyard.
.The yellow leaves have fallen away, adding to the westerly wind. The few old trees in the courtyard have only a few thick branches left, pointing crookedly towards the sky, like a child who is just learning calligraphy scratching a few graffiti in the gray-blue sky.
"I went to the palace today." Seeing Zhou Yu turn around with a normal look, Liu Jiang was not surprised at all. Liu Jiang knew that Zhou Yu was also on duty in the palace, so he could still find out this news, so he said lightly:
"It's good to reassure Zhou Lang. The country is magnanimous and magnanimous, and has always been 'employing people without suspicion'. You and Sun Ce are just like brothers. The Xun family's uncles and nephews each serve their masters, but the country still cares about them, let alone Zhou Lang."
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Zhou Yu didn't understand this truth, but Liu Jiang didn't know that on a deeper level, he and Guo Jia and others acted as guarantors and made arrangements with Sun Ce to cooperate internally and externally. Now that Sun Ce was in dire straits, his attitude towards the court seemed to be less respectful.
This will naturally take a hit to Zhou Yu's status in the emperor's heart. Even if the emperor does not think that Zhou Yu has deliberately colluded with Sun Ce and has never returned to him, he will still think that Zhou Yu and others do not know people well and have poor planning. This will further affect the impact.
Considering the emperor's evaluation of Zhou Yu's ability, how can he be entrusted with big things in the future?
The future of his best friend and the cause and effect behind his actions are certainly major issues that Zhou Yu has been worried about and confused about recently, but his own position in the emperor's heart and his future orders are also problems that Zhou Yu needs to solve urgently.
At that time, Xun You persuaded him in the car to have a balance in his mind and know the pros and cons clearly. For the sake of the good relationship between Xun and Zhou, he persuaded him kindly and pointed out a clear way. But by doing this, he and Sun Ce
The relationship will never be the same again.
Therefore, Zhou Yu has been thinking about it for the past two days. Now he sees that his wife Liu Jiang is busy with his affairs and even goes into the palace to test the emperor's words. This makes Zhou Yu grateful: "I am not ashamed. If others doubt me, I will
I have no time to pay attention to it. As time goes by, the world will naturally know that I am sincere."
Liu Jiang remembered the emperor's secret instructions in his heart, and couldn't help but stretched out his hands to hold Zhou Yu's, feeling the hot temperature in his palm: "What about Jiangdong Sun Ce...what does Zhou Lang plan to do?"
Zhou Yu inadvertently turned his head at this time and stared at the old trees in the courtyard quietly. When he arrived in Chang'an at the beginning of the year, in order to show his attachment to the emperor with actions, he went to Yongliang without fear of hardships and tried his best. Now.
When I encounter this kind of thing again, no matter what the emperor's intention is, I just follow the story: "It is not my interest to be in charge of the public affairs in the palace. I am ready to ask your Majesty for orders, either in Liangzhou or in Liangzhou.
It doesn't matter if it's Hanoi or the barbarian land of Nanzhong. As long as I serve in front of the army and show my strengths, I will provide cattle and horses for the country and drive them away... Of course, it would be better for me to go to Huainan, but..." Yan You
Before he finished, he lowered his voice and shook his head slightly.
Liu Jiang listened and understood the unfinished meaning of the other party's words. If possible, who wouldn't want to confront each other face to face to resolve the misunderstanding? But even if he went, with Zhou Yu's intelligence, how could he not know that even if it was a 'misunderstanding', it could still be resolved
But she didn't dare to solve it? She was silent, looking away and looking at the vigorous old trees with Zhou Yu for a while, and suddenly said: "I heard that the trees in Jiangnan will not lose their leaves. If this is the case in winter,
, the green leaves are hidden under the layers of white snow, I don’t know how lively and moving it is.”
Zhou Yu smiled, as if being recalled, and said smoothly: "Appreciating the snow and playing the harp, cooking wine and throwing pots into the pot will scare the migratory birds. There are many fun things to do among the forest leaves. There are so many interesting things in the winter in the south of the Yangtze River, unlike in the north.
It's the severe cold... One day, I'll know it after I accompany the princess on a trip to the south of the Yangtze River."
"Then I will remember it." Liu Jiang said half jokingly and half seriously.
Zhou Yu smiled, and the dark clouds that had lingered between his brows for many days finally dissipated. Now he had new sustenance around him, and he had grown into another person. He no longer had to cling to a dream he had when he was young.
Weiyang Palace, Jiaofang Palace.
Empress Dong still filled the palace with bronze lamps of various shapes. The bright lights like sparks shone brightly in the palace, making the palace seem like day. The light and heat emitted by the lamps, combined with the
The unique architectural structure and materials of Jiaofang Hall seem to have left the charcoal stove and brazier useless.
The palace attendants in Jiaofang Hall wear very little. In the late autumn of October, they often wear one or two single clothes underneath and a gauze silk skirt on the outside. They are all in their cardamom years, and they can choose from thousands of women picked from Yeting.
The young girls who have been selected from hundreds of flowers are all smart and graceful, and they don't wear more clothes than they do in summer. The palace servants serving in Jiaofang Palace have a high status, which is much higher than that of the girls around other nobles. They can better guarantee all kinds of life needs.
The cost is higher than that of others. But what is directly proportional to the gain is that serving Empress Dong is also the most labor-intensive job in Yeting.
Empress Dong has a strong personality, shrewdness and rationality. She doesn't like palace people who are chirping and jumping around all day long; she also doesn't like people who are dull and taciturn. She not only needs people who are good at observing words and expressions, but also requires people to be diligent and diligent in their duties. Empress Dong is also extremely kind.
Punishing the palace residents is not just the palace punishments administered by the eunuchs such as Da Changqiu, Ye Ting Ling, Yong Xiang Ling, etc. These are all old tricks passed down from the previous dynasties. Instead, they will introduce new ones and come up with many things that do not seem harsh.
Cruel, in fact, it is a particularly evil method. In this kind of weather, she would often drive the palace servants who had made mistakes from the warm Jiaofang Palace to the open air to suffer from the cold. They would neither kneel nor beat them.
He wears only a few thin clothes and blows a gust of wind, and he can lose half his life after returning.
Because of this, the palace people in Jiaofang Palace are all the most observant of rules, but Empress Dong is not a person who abides by rules. When she is angry, she will naturally find someone to vent her anger on. Who cares whether the person who vents her anger is at fault?