I, Liu Bian, the hero

Chapter 89
Jiedu is a rural place, and the living environment is far inferior to that of Luoyang Han Palace. Even though it is approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are not many mosquitoes at all.

No, not long after arriving, Liu Bian was bitten by a mosquito.

It's a shame that the mosquito still bites between the nails, Liu Bian was so angry that he gritted his teeth.

Zhao Chun hurriedly ordered the little eunuch who accompanied him to light grass to repel mosquitoes. Seeing how these people mobilized the crowd, Cai Yan covered his mouth and teased Liu Bian, "Your Highness is spoiled and spoiled, maybe you have never suffered from mosquito bites?"

"Wen Ji is underestimating me." Liu Bian raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "Don't forget, my Highness was raised among the people since childhood."

In fact, he has no memory of being raised in Shi Dao's house, but he has a lot of experience of being bitten by mosquitoes in his previous life.

"Oh?" Cai Yan said with a sneer, "Fortunately, Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and we are in Hebei. If His Highness is in Jixia's Wu, I'm afraid this matter will be frustrating."

Seeing Cai Yan's appearance as someone who came here, Liu Bian was secretly happy: Don't you know that I was from Jiangsu and Zhejiang in my previous life?

He turned to tease Cai Yan and said, "I don't see it. Wen Ji's mouth is sweet, and her blood must be sweet too. If Wen Ji is with me, the mosquitoes will all go to Wen Ji, how can they care about me?"

Cai Yan blushed pretty when she heard this, and spat softly.

As a result, both of them were bitten all over their bodies, but Zhao Chun, Xia Houyuan and a group of young eunuchs were not bitten very much. They muttered to themselves: Could it be that mosquitoes really only pick bloody people to bite?
Originally, Liu Bian and Cai Yan wanted to take the opportunity to see the surrounding scenery, but now they lost interest, and hid in the gauze tent in the house after the evening, chatting about Cai Yan's life in Wudi.

Only then did Liu Bian know that Cai Yan, a talented woman, had done a lot of farm work back then.

"I believe in feeding chickens and ducks, fishing?"

Liu Bian looked at Cai Yan suspiciously, imagining in his mind the appearance of Cai Yan holding a harpoon by the river with bare feet, which made him feel a little bit miraculous.

"Of course." Seeing Liu Bian's miraculous appearance, Cai Yan took it for granted.

After all, in her opinion, these are things that ordinary children can do, and only a pampered prince like Liu Bian would be surprised.

In the early morning of the next day, seeing nothing to do, Liu Bian brought Cai Yan, Zhao Chun, Xia Houyuan and others to a nearby river.

Looking at the fish swimming in the river, he teased Cai Yan and said, "My future queen, how about showing me something?"

Glancing at Zhao Chun, Xia Houyuan and the others beside him, Cai Yan gave Liu Bian an annoyed look, but refused to admit his cowardice, and said with her head held high, "As long as Your Highness is not afraid of gossip..."

Liu Bian said with a smile: "I am playing with Ai Ji, what gossip do outsiders say?"

Cai Yan was a little shy when she said "Ai Ji". She hesitated for a while, but finally agreed. After all, she lived in Luoyang Han Palace for a year and a half since last year. Also panicked.

Seeing this, Liu Bian ordered hundreds of Habayashi riders to guard the surrounding area, not allowing anyone to approach, even Zhao Chun and Xia Houyuan, he wanted to drive away.

However, how dare Zhao Chun and Xia Houyuan leave, what if something goes wrong?
So in the end, the two stood on the bank of the river, watched with trepidation as Liu Bian and Cai Yan both took off their boots and walked into the water by stepping on the mud by the river.

Unlike Liu Bian who just wanted to play with the water, Cai Yan really showed Liu Bian's tricks by breaking off a crooked tree branch by the river and using it as a harpoon, and actually stuck a fish out of the water. Argument was taken aback for a while.

"How?" Cai Yan asked proudly, with a smile that Liu Bian had never seen before.

Liu Bian was startled, and then pretended to be disdainful and said, "It's nothing special, just look at me."

After saying that, he also broke a branch and told Xia Houyuan to sharpen it with a sharp sword. Immediately, he raised it in his hand, aimed at the fish in the river, and stabbed it sharply.

Uh, no hit.

Cai Yan covered her mouth and laughed.

Liu Bian didn't take it seriously, looked for the target again, and said in his mouth: "The secret of stabbing a fish with a harpoon is to aim at the bottom of the fish, because the water has refraction..."

After all, he stabbed down sharply.

There was a sound of splashing water, Liu Bian slowly raised the harpoon in his hand, and the harpoon hit a fish.

"As expected of His Highness!"

Zhao Chun on the shore clapped his hands excitedly and praised.

Seeing his excited appearance, Xia Houyuan really wanted to remind him: Be careful not to fall.

Looking at Cai Yan again, she had an incredulous expression on her face, and said doubtfully for a while: "Your Highness must have learned it before."

"Where is it?"

"Otherwise, how could you learn so quickly? Daoist Shi must have taught His Highness."

"No, you trust me."

"I don't believe it, you always lie to me."

Cai Yan's suspicion made Liu Bian dumbfounded.

There is no way, he has deliberately lied to her and played tricks on her too many times.

Not long after, the two started a fishing competition. Seeing the two talking and laughing, for some reason, even Xia Houyuan smiled, and a thought came to his mind: I should protect these two.

Suddenly, he heard footsteps behind him, turned his head abruptly, and immediately saw Emperor Ling coming here with Zhang Rang, Dong Zhong and all the patrolling officials.

"Your Majesty!" Xia Houyuan hurriedly clasped his fists in salute.

"Hmm." Emperor Ling nodded, and immediately looked at Liu Bian and Cai Yan in the river, with a faint memory on his face.

At this time, Dong Zhong said from the side: "Your Majesty, are you right? Shihou is indeed playing in the river, the dignified prince, who is so disregarding his status..."

When he was speaking, the servants were also talking about it, but Taiwei Cao Song and Situ Cui Lie didn't think so.

"okay."

Lingdi waved his hand and interrupted Dong Zhong's words.

At this time, Liu Bian and Cai Yan who were in the river also noticed Lingdi and his party. Unlike Cai Yan who was flushed with shame, Liu Bian pointed out his harpoon with a fish in it, and said to Lingdi with a smile: "Father, my ministers and Wenji have harvested a few fish, and I would like to present them to my father and add them to the dishes for lunch."

Hearing this, Dong Zhong sneered and said, "Your Majesty's body is a thousand pieces of gold, so..."

Before he finished speaking, Emperor Ling smiled and nodded: "Okay."

With just one word, Dong Zhong swallowed his unfinished words and looked at Lingdi in astonishment.

He didn't know that Emperor Ling had a deep feeling for this river.

Seeing this, Situ Cui Lie hurriedly asked his son Cui Jun to order Hu Ben to go fishing in the river.

At noon, the Emperor Ling ordered the accompanying chef to cook all the fish caught. Among them, Liu Bian and Cai Yan made up eight fish. The father and son each divided four fish, and the Emperor Ling ate one himself, and divided the remaining three fish. It was given to the Queen Mother Dong, Mrs. Cheng, the nanny, and her son Liu Xie, and Liu Bian also ate one, and distributed the other three to Zhao Chun, Xia Houyuan, and others who were seen fishing in the river with bare feet and thought they were society. To die, Cai Yan who hid in the old house and could not come out.

The rest of the officials who went on tour shared the fish caught by the tiger, which was favored by Emperor Tou Ling, and they were all full of praise.

After lunch, Emperor Ling ordered everyone to prepare for sacrifices to grandfather Liu Shu.

After finishing the work, go to Boling again to sacrifice to the biological father Liu Chang.

The next day, when everyone was preparing for the sacrifice, an envoy from Jizhou Governor Wang Fen suddenly came.

At that time, Emperor Ling was telling Liu Bian and Liu Xie about his experience in Jiedu when he was young, when he heard Wang Fen send an envoy, both Emperor Ling and Liu Bian's expressions froze.

Emperor Ling said to Liu Xie seriously: "Xie'er, you go to accompany your grandmother first."

"Yes." The young Liu Xie bowed his hands to accept the order, and glanced at his elder brother Liu Bian who was sitting motionless in his seat strangely, but didn't think much about it.

After waiting for Liu Xie to leave, Emperor Ling summoned Wang Fen's envoy.

I saw Wang Fen's envoy come in and hand over the memorial.

Seeing the content of the memorial, Emperor Ling frowned immediately: "The Black Mountain army is in chaos, attacking counties and counties?"

As soon as Liu Bian heard it, he guessed that it was Wang Fen who was about to make a move, so he quickly winked at Emperor Ling.

Emperor Ling understood, and after thinking for a moment, he nodded and said: "Okay, I know, since the Black Mountain Army is in chaos...you allow Wang Fen, the governor of Jizhou, to lead the army to conquer."

After all, he ordered Zhang Rang to take the seal and stamp it on Wang Fen's memorial.

"As ordered!"

The envoy took over the stamped memorial, bowed and retreated.

I don't know if it was a coincidence, Wang Fen's envoy had just left, Taishi ordered Wang Li to come in a hurry, and said to Emperor Ling: "Your Majesty, there is redness in the north, and the sky is rising from east to west. It may be a bad omen."

Feeling curious, Liu Bian went out to look at the sky, and only then did he realize that Taishi Ling Wang Li's so-called red qi was actually the red Xiayun, which is popularly known as Huoshaoyun.

In Liu Bian's view, this is just a normal celestial phenomenon, but in history, Wang Li used this as an inference and happened to destroy Wang Fen's conspiracy. This is really a very miraculous thing.

However, different from the suspicion of the Lingdi in history, this time the Lingdi had already seen Wang Fen's intentions in advance, so he would not be persuaded by Wang Li.

On Liu Bian's side, he also immediately wrote a letter, summoning Xia Houyuan and telling him, "Miaocai, the captain of Zhuojun, Gongsun Zan, is my senior brother. Take this letter to see him."

Seeing Liu Bian's serious expression, Xia Houyuan didn't dare to neglect, and immediately went to Zhuojun with Liu Bian's letter.

In order to dispel the only doubts that Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu had, Liu Bian asked Zhang Rang to stamp the emperor's seal on the letter with the consent of Emperor Ling, so that Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu would not suspect that Liu Bian wanted to treat Ling. The emperor is not good-although the suspicion is actually very small.

A few days later, the envoy sent by Wang Fen returned to Yecheng, the governor of Jizhou, and exchanged the memorial with the emperor's seal to the governor Wang Fen.

When Wang Fen got this memorial, he was overjoyed. He quickly mobilized troops and led the army to Hejian.

Yecheng and Hejian were separated by Julu County and Anping Kingdom. When Wang Fen's envoy returned to Yecheng, Xia Houyuan had already arrived in Zhuojun, met the captain Gongsun Zan, and handed Liu Bian's letter to the latter.

Gongsun Zan opened the letter and looked at it, but saw that the governor of Jizhou, Wang Fen, was planning to rebel, and his expression changed in shock.

If it was a letter sent by someone else, Gongsun Zan would still be skeptical, but this was a letter sent by Shi Hou Liu Bian, and the letter had the emperor's seal on it. How can there be doubts?
Since Liu Bian ordered him not to disclose it to anyone other than Liu Yu, governor of Youzhou, Gongsun Zan did not dare to sue Wen Shu, the prefect of Zhuojun, so he summoned [-] soldiers in the name of hunting down bandits and training soldiers by the way. Secretly go to the river.

Before leaving, he ordered his cousin, Gongsun Fan, to go to Ji County in Guangyang County with Liu Bian's letter to inform Youzhou governor Liu Yu of Wang Fen's conspiracy to rebel.

A few days later, Gongsun Zan's army reached the border between Zhuojun and Hejian before Wang Fen's troops arrived in Anping.

In order not to startle the enemy, he did not immediately lead the army across the county border, but ordered his general Yan Gang to lead the army, while he disguised himself and went to Hejian to meet Emperor Ling and Liu Bian.

After confirming the incident, Emperor Ling ordered Gongsun Zan to garrison troops at the border of the two counties, and if Wang Fen attacked Jiedu, he would immediately rush to help.

A few days later, Gongsun Fan arrived in Ji County, Guangyang, and handed Liu Bian's letter to Liu Yu.

Surprised and angry, Liu Yu immediately gathered [-] troops and went straight to Hejian.

At the same time, the army led by Wang Fen has crossed the Anping Kingdom and is approaching Jiedu.

He was so excited that he had no idea what was waiting for him ahead.

　The previous chapter miscalculated the relationship between Emperor Ling and King Hejian, which has been corrected now.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)