That night, when Li He and Mo Jian were drinking and having dinner at Zhai Hu's mansion, Zhai Hu rarely returned to the mansion with a calm face.

"Zhai Sima..."

Just as Li He and Mo Jian stood up to salute, they saw Zhai Hu walking a few steps to Li He, reached out to pick up the wine spoon on the table, scooped a spoon in the cauldron, and drank it all.

Li He and Mo Jian looked at each other and asked, "Sima Zhai, what happened?"

Zhai Hu glanced at the servants in the mansion standing beside him, shook his head and said, "No...drink."

At this meal in the evening, Zhai Hu drank frequently and drank himself drunk. Anyone could see that he was full of thoughts.

After dinner, Zhai Hu invited Li He and Mo Jian to his study.

After inviting the two to sit down in the study, Zhai Hu sat drunkenly while they met each other, and said inexplicably: "My brother... intends to move my Zhai back to Wei State, and has obtained the permission of the King of Wei."

『Can you move back?』

Li He was slightly stunned, and soon thought of something, and asked in a low voice: "Did King Wei make any request?"

Zhai Hu looked at Li He with admiration, and then sneered: "The King of Wei hopes that I, Shaoliang... will do my best to weaken the Qin army!"

Li He and Mo Jian's expression changed slightly when they heard this. Without Zhai Hu's explanation, they could understand what this sentence means.

At the same time, the two of them also realized this: not only the Wei State betrayed Shaoliang, but even the important minister of Shaoliang, Zhai Ying, the doctor of Zhiyang, may have made the decision to betray Shaoliang and secretly reached a deal with Wei State.

"No wonder I had to send me away before..."

Li He and Mo Jian looked at each other, and probably both of them thought of this.

"Zhai Sima..."

"Don't say bad things about my brother."

As soon as Li He opened his mouth, he saw Zhai Hu raising his hand to stop him, and said with a warning meaning: "Even if I admire you, if you say my brother is not, I will still be angry."

Li He was stunned and a little amused.

Seeing this, Zhai Hu sighed sadly, shook his head and said, "Don't think my brother is greedy for life and fear of death. He is just considering the interests of my Zhai clan. Li He, although you are not from a large clan, you may be able to understand it if you have a good relationship with the Hu clan."

Li He nodded slightly.

By analogy, he could understand Zhai Ying's decision by analogy, but even so, his heart was still full of depression.

After all, looking at the entire Shaoliang, there are only two important officials with high power, one is Wang Xie, the king of Dongliang, and the other is Zhai Ying, a doctor of Zhiyang. Now, one of the two tries to take the lead in escaping. How much hope can Shaoliang have?

It is no exaggeration to say that if Qin had sent him goodwill and promised to treat him and the people around him at this time, he would have taken the people to Qin with him. He originally thought that this Shaoliang was a small boat and could turn around, but he didn't expect that the small boat would leak everywhere and wait for the ship to sink.

But unfortunately, he and the Hu clan had no choice.

With all kinds of emotion in his heart, Li He shook his head and said, "Sima Zhai misunderstood. How dare I say that Dr. Zhai is not? I just want to ask whether there is room for recovery for Dr. Zhai's decision?"

Zhai Hu was silent for a while and said a word from his mouth: "Difficult."

Hearing this, Li He frowned slightly and asked again: "Then... the other one, Dongliang Jun, what did he decide?"

Zhai Hu glanced at Li He and said, "Old man... he should have a deal with Wei State in private, but he should have made it to allow Wei State to protect the royal family... This old man and the late Liang Bo, the former monarch of Shaoliang, were close friends, so he took great care of his descendants and could even be said to be loyal."

As he said that, he took a deep breath, looked at Li He and said, "Anyway, you hope that Shaoliang will do his best to resist Qin. This matter is not difficult to achieve at present. It is just that everyone's original intention is probably not what you think."

“…”

Li He and Mo Jian looked at each other, not knowing whether to be happy or sad.

"After all, Shao Liang chose to fight against Qin, at least it is better than surrendering without fighting..."

Li He could only comfort himself in this way.

The next day at dawn, Li He woke up early in the guest room on Zhai Hu Mansion. He was idle and swung his sword a few times outside the house. Although it seemed that there was no structure at first glance, the wind rustled when he swung the sword, which showed how strong the power was.

I don’t know how long it took, but the “papapapapa” applause came from a distance.

Li He closed his sword and turned his head, and then he saw Zhai Hu standing in the distance, stroking his palm and smiling at him. Compared to the gloomy color on last night, it seemed like a completely different person.

"Let's go, I'll take it to the palace... to Shaoliang, at least see the royal city, and by the way, I can also meet the old man Dongliangjun..."

After some praise, Zhai Hu smiled and expressed his intention.

Li He couldn't help but wonder and couldn't help asking, "Shouliang's monarch shouldn't be lucky enough to meet me?"

It has to be said that he had known Zhai Hu for a long time, but he had never seen the latter mention the current Shao Liang monarch, and I don’t know why.

Hearing Li He's words, Zhai Hu's face showed a subtle look: "What, can you also defect to Shaoliang for this?"

"Ah?" Li He looked at Zhai Hu inexplicably.

Seeing Li He looking confused, Zhai Hu realized that he had guessed wrong and laughed: "It seems you don't know..."

"What do you know?"

"You will know then."

When he approached Li He and patted his shoulder, Zhai Hu said mysteriously.

After breakfast, Li He followed Zhai Hu out.

When they walked out of the mansion, they happened to see Zhai Ying, who was living next door, preparing to board the carriage.

Seeing this, Zhai Hu took Li He over and said hello from afar: "Brother, are you going to the palace?"

Although they were still a few feet away from each other, Li He still sensitively noticed that Zhai Ying's gaze stopped on him for a moment. Then, Zhai Ying nodded and said calmly: "I'll go to the palace first, don't delay."

After saying that, he got on the carriage.

Seeing the carriage that his brother was riding slowly passing by, Zhai Hu was silent for a moment, then turned to Li He and said, "Let's go, let's go to the palace too."

Li He nodded.

A moment later, Zhai Hu took Li He to the front of Shaoliang Palace in a carriage.

The two got off the carriage in front of the palace gate, and Li He looked around at the palace in front of him.

How to say it, I was a little disappointed because the Shaoliang Palace in front of me was a little different from the royal palace he remembered. Compared with Zhai Hu's mansion, except for the soldiers guarding the palace gate, the buildings in the palace were slightly higher, but in fact they were just that, and they were not very magnificent at all.

When Li He thought that this was the palace of Shaoliang Kingdom, he felt relieved. After all, Shaoliang was just a small country, and it would be good to build such a palace.

Passing through the towering palace wall, Zhai Hu led Li He into the palace. At this time, what appeared in front of Li He was a main road paved with bluestone. It was estimated that eight carriages could be used in parallel. There were large areas of grass on both sides of the main road, but they were all yellow.

Walk deeper along the main road in the palace, and face you is a small hall, with a width roughly the same as the main road outside the hall, and there are corridors on both sides.

After leading Li He to the hall, Zhai Hu said to Li He: "Li He, you can come in and take a look later."

"Yes." Li He hugged his fists.

Zhai Hu nodded and was about to turn around and leave, but suddenly he seemed to think of something, and turned around and said to Li He: "I guess you have to wait a while when I go there. If you find it boring, you might as well go around this palace. It is rare to come to Shaoliang Palace. You have to make a good trip, right?"

"Can you go around in this palace...it can you do whatever you want?"

Li He is not a person who lacks common sense. He looked at Zhai Hu with a strange expression when he heard this: "Zhai Sima, this is probably not suitable, right? What if he bumps into someone in the palace..."

"What are you afraid of?"

Zhai Hu glanced at the two eunuchs standing beside him and said with a smile: "You are the one brought by Zhai Hu, who dares to stop you? Don't worry and go there boldly. Even if you offend Dongliangjun, he will not dare to do anything to you!"

Li He followed Zhai Hu's gaze and looked at the two eunuchs, but when he saw that Zhai Hu was staring at him, he immediately lowered his head in fear.

Li He immediately thought that Zhai Hu, or the entire Zhai clan, had an extraordinary status in Shaoliang.

Unfortunately, the Zhai clan, who is so powerful, has reached a private deal with the Wei State and betrayed the country.

"Go."

Just as Li He was feeling emotion, Zhai Hu encouraged him with a few smirks, "There are many young and beautiful beauties in the palace. If you like anyone, you might as well come back and tell me and I will arrange it for you."

After saying that, he said to Li He with his ears: "Along the corridor on the west side, you can walk to the water pavilions in the palace. The more beautiful the palace maids there are..."

"Sima Zhai." Li He couldn't laugh and cry and looked at the unscrupulous Zhai Hu beside him.

After instructing Li He, Zhai Hu left with a smile, leaving Li He sitting in this small hall and looking around with great interest.

Although Li He was still interested in appreciating the decoration and decorations in the hall at the beginning, he felt bored after a long time.

Seeing that Zhai Hu had not sent anyone to spread him, Li He stood up and walked out of the hall, holding the wooden railing on the side of the corridor, looking at the view inside the palace.

Suddenly, he heard a sound of piano coming from the palace. Although the sound and color were beautiful, it made people feel a little sad.

I don’t know if it was Zhai Hu’s previous instigation, but Li He hesitated for a moment and finally walked towards the direction where the sound of the piano came.

Noticed Li He's actions, the two waiters in the hall were reluctant to speak. After looking at each other, they followed Li He from afar, followed him through the corridor, and came to a pool.

At this time, Li He saw a woman wearing gauze and a light white dress sitting in the pavilion beside the pool, lowering her head to play the piano, and playing the piano sound that seemed a bit sad to Li He.

Judging from the silhouette, he should be not very old.

"When playing the piano in the palace, you shouldn't be a palace maid... Could it be a princess from this country?"

Li He stood aside, while admiring the sound of the piano, he thought to himself.

At this moment, a clear rebuke suddenly came from the side: "Who are you? How dare you break into the palace?"

Li He turned his head a little, and then he found that there was a young palace maid standing behind the princess, who was glaring at him at this moment.

The sound of the piano stopped abruptly, and the princess who played the piano turned to look at Li He, with a little fear of strangers on her delicate face.

Even though Li He had seen many beautiful women, he couldn't help but lit up when he saw this woman.
Chapter completed!