In September of the second year of Zhangwu, the emperor sent an envoy to the Prime Minister to record the Secretary of State Zhuge Liang, and ordered Sun, the daughter of the General of Yuzhou, to be the queen, and was awarded the empress.

Sun Quan from Jiangdong sent an envoy Zhuge Jin to offer tribute and gifts. The emperor and the empress held a banquet to wait.

In the early years, the relationship between Empress Sun and the emperor was once awkward. Later, the Jiangdong people were intent on robbing Empress Sun, which caused the queen to be furious. As a result, after she came to Chengdu, she became more kind and gentle to the emperor.

The two of them talked about the past one by one at the dinner. When the emperor was intrigued, he wrote a letter to Sun Quan to thank him. The queen asked about her family and gave Zhuge Jin a brocade robe. She also heard that Zhuge Jin was injured in Jiangling when she came, and gave him several rare medicinal materials produced in Shu.

Because Sun Quan was still the external vassal of Cao Wei at this time, he was the general of the chariots and cavalry of Cao Wei, so this banquet was not official, but a private banquet. The banquet was not held in several famous halls in the court, but was placed north of the palace, in a garden near Wudan Mountain.

This place was originally built by Liu Yan, the governor of Yizhou. Later, the Hanzhong King went to Chang'an to proclaim himself emperor. In Chengdu, the palace was also expanded. Although the surrounding buildings did not deliberately pursue magnificence, they were quite exquisite. The garden attracted the tributaries of the mountain to wander, and the flowers and trees on both sides were planted tightly. After the blooming flowers, the corridors could be seen vaguely twisting and twisting along the water.

The corridor is covered with a thin gauze to block the wind. Occasionally, the sound of golden bells, the sound of water, ringtones, silk and bamboo, and laughter are mixed together. It is not just leisurely, but also the noble spirit of an emperor.

The garden here is very close to the residence of Prince Liu Chan.

At this moment, Adou and Arnold were throwing Bimo aside and sitting on the stairs chatting in a hurry. He heard the melodious song, and they turned back together to see. Arnold saw a water pavilion built by the water at the end of the corridor. After looking at it, he felt that the water pavilion was in the shape of a ship and its appearance was quite interesting... He couldn't take his eyes away.

Liu Chan waited patiently for Arnold to look at him for a while before pulling him back and whispered: "Ano, the father is summoning foreign ministers there. You are so rude. If you are discovered by the guards over there, you will need to be punished."

Arnold threw himself on the mat, pressed his face into the felt, and shouted in a silence: "Ahh, you have to punish him when you see the scenery? A Dou, this is not fun, it's too boring!"

He turned over and pointed his fingers: "How long have I been in Chengdu? Except for the day before yesterday when I went to my two uncles' house to play, I was studying all the time! I was studying! I was punished at all times! I was punished if I could not recite the books! I was punished if I was punished if I was at a loss! Ahhh, I was punished if I spoke loudly! This was too painful! Where is a good place in Chengdu? You are clearly lying to me!"

Compared with children of the same age, he was very brave, but after all, he was still a child and had never left the wings of a kind father and a strict mother in his life. He had been away from home for a month, but later on, his longing became increasingly difficult to curb. However, the prince's servants were really not easy to do, and Arnold was often blamed and suffered all the hardships in the past few days.

Speaking of this, his grievance and discomfort suddenly burst out and he suddenly started to cry.

"Don't cry, don't cry." Seeing this, Adou was immediately panicked.

Although Adou is of ordinary qualifications, he is already fifteen years old. These days he clearly felt that since Arnold came by, he had suffered much less punishment.

Adou has always been unconfident. He knew that he was a little stupid and slow to react. He was far behind his father who was the world's best. He was good at swordsmanship since childhood, but everyone knew that swordsmanship was just an enemy, and it was not a basis for accomplishing great things in troubled times.

Over the past few years, he has grown older and urged his teachers to change their literature and martial arts to change. But Adou knew that those teachers were probably not very satisfied with him, but because of their identity, it was hard to say it clearly.

Until Arnold appeared by his side, because he was empty and had little knowledge, he attracted the anger of the teachers. Some people even praised Adou and compared it with Arnold.

This made Adou very happy, but he was also very guilty.

Arnold is almost his only friend, but what kind of life did this friend live after he was called to Chengdu?

For this reason, Adou is particularly accommodating to this friend in daily life.

At this moment, he saw Arnold crying. He didn't know how to persuade him, so he just kept hiding around in the room.

After walking back two circles, he saw that Arnold was picking up a roll of silk to wipe his tears. He was shocked and rushed over: "This is for writing! You can't wipe your face! Dong Yun will come soon. When he sees your silk to look like this, he will definitely get angry!"

It would be fine if you didn’t mention Dong Yun. When you mentioned him, Arnold’s crying raised several times: “Dong Yun! Dong Yun, that guy, old-fashioned! Not a human! It’s so bad! I don’t want to see him!”

Once a ten-year-old child loses control and starts to hoarsely, his voice is simply loud.

Seeing that there were guards on the other side of the garden, A Dou quickly closed the window.

He squatted beside Arnold, patted Arnold's back to comfort him, and after a few words of comfort, he finally plucked up the courage: "Or, I'll just stop writing today? I'll take you to play with Sister Zhang?"

Arnold raised his face and blew his nose: "Who is Sister Zhang?"

"Sister Zhang is sister Zhang, who else can she be?" A Dou asked back.

"ah?"

Arnold didn't understand at all. He was ignorant. Adou pulled his arm and asked him to get up: "Come on, come on, hurry up. Dong Yun will come with his entourage in a while, and he won't be able to leave then!"

Arnold jumped up with his waist: "Go away!"

The two went downstairs and headed east along the corridor. They ran into many servants along the way, but they saw them running like flying, so they dared not stop them.

The two rushed to a corner gate in the northeast of the palace panting, and Adou repeatedly ordered the door to be opened.

It turned out that the imperial palace in Chengdu was generally based on the Yizhou Palace in that year, and the scale was not very large. After Duke Xuande entered Sichuan, he renovated his residence and stayed with the generals to show intimacy, and also serve as a guard. For example, Zhao Yun's residence was in the northwest corner of the palace, and there happened to be a tall building in the courtyard, which could be used as a commanding height for the crossbowman to control the city; and Chen Dao's residence was in the southeast corner, close to a Huze, which could serve as a source of drinking water for the palace.

There is a courtyard in the northeast corner of the palace, belonging to General Cheval and Cavalry Zhang Fei.

Back then, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Xuande Gong were bedridden, and they were like brothers. Now that Xuande Gong has become the emperor, he still often travels to Guan and Zhang's mansions, and his relationship is not distant. Now, General Zhang Fei, the chariot and cavalry, returned to Chengdu from Guanzhong, and the corner gate has been guarded and often opened.

The prince Liu Chan was also accustomed to contact each other. As soon as the door opened, he led Arnold to Zhang Fei's mansion.

While walking, he explained to Arnold: "Sister Zhang lives here, and so is the sister of Zhang. Sister Zhang treats me very well. She can make delicious rice cakes that are fragrant and sweet, so you can also try them."

Arnold was confused and said, "Rice cakes are OK, if there is any, they can take some to eat."

The two of them walked forward along the corridor. There were many servants along the way saluting Adou. Adou responded happily and silly... He almost knew those servants and asked casually: "Where is the sister of the Zhang family?"

Someone gave him a guide.

The two of them walked around a winding flower wall and turned into the flowerbed in the backyard.

The flowerbed was originally very large, and was flattened by Zhang Fei as a place to practice martial arts. A small fort was built behind to store documents recording military affairs.

The other half of the flower garden is still there, and Zhang Fei's eldest daughter is here at this time.

Adou stood outside the flowerbed with Arnold and said again: "Sister Zhang, I'm here to see you!"

No one responded in the end.

Adou was a little strange. He called out again, and only heard Zhang Fei's daughter in the flower garden repeatedly dissuading her, and he broke through the garden and strode out.

I saw that it was a very tall girl with a charming appearance and a heroic spirit. She walked to Adou in a few steps, put her hands in her waist and shouted, "Adou, you must have skipped school!"

A Dou's face collapsed instantly: "It turns out that Sister Guan is here too."

The girl was the famous tiger girl in Guan Yu's family. She poked Adou's forehead with her finger: "Hmph, are you unhappy when you see me?"

"I dare not, I dare not."

"Who do you show your face?" The girl from the Guan family shouted carelessly, dragging Adou, wanting to take him to the opposite martial arts field to compete in swords.

Adou struggled repeatedly, but the girl's hands were extremely strong and she couldn't even struggle.

Zhang Fei's daughter hurriedly came to persuade her in a quiet voice.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Arnold planned to pounce on him and fight against this vicious woman with A Dou.

At this moment, the fort gate deep in the martial arts field opened. A tall and handsome young officer walked out quickly with a few files in his arms, turned around and covered the door, and hurriedly walked along the road on the other side of the martial arts field.

The young officer was known to everyone, Jiang Wei, a native of Liangzhou who had often followed the emperor recently.

The Guan girl instantly let go of A Dou's hand and asked in a soft and nice voice: "A Dou, do you want to eat rice cake?"

What rice cake? What's wrong with it? I'll give it a rice cake?

Aren't you going to compete in a sword? What happened?

A Dou was dumbfounded and Arnold was speechless. The daughter of the Zhang family only smiled with her lips.

The field suddenly became quiet.

Jiang Wei should have important official duties. He did not notice the young girls in the direction of the flower garden and hurried over.

After a while, Adou asked tentatively: "How about rice cakes?"
Chapter completed!