The revival of the Han Dynasty must start with Dong Zhuo

Chapter 148 Volume Gift
Who?
Dong Bai?

Or is it the Empress Dong of the Han Dynasty?

Aren’t we going to build a shrine for Dong Zhuo?

Spending Dong Zhuo's money, but in the end Dong Bai's name was engraved on it?

Liu Xie asked furtively: "Wenhe, is there any way to scrape off the name above and fill in the name of the Grand Master?"

"..."

Jia Xu originally thought that such an unreasonable request would only come from the Grand Tutor's mouth, but he never expected that the emperor could also say such a ridiculous thing.

"Your Majesty, since the ancestral temple was built by the people, how can you easily change it privately?"

Jia Xu has another good idea -

"If all else fails, let the Grand Tutor provide relief to the victims again! Anyway, no matter how much food we scatter now, it won't be enough..."

This is to drag the Grand Tutor to death!

The Dong Zhuo of today is no longer the Dong Zhuo of the past.

Although he was still second only to the emperor, Dong Zhuo was beginning to approach the pauper of the emperor in terms of wealth...

Since the savings have been drained, where will the money and food come from to help the victims? Should we squeeze the people and then pretend to use their money to help them?

"Forget it. I guess the Grand Master won't care."

After hearing this, Jia Xu immediately showed his eight slightly yellowish and blackened teeth: "If that's the case, then I won't explain to the Queen. It would be better for Your Majesty to go and explain it in person."

"..."

It seems that Jia Xu didn't want to face Dong Bai directly, so he let Liu Xie take the blame?

"Besides, when did Weiyang Jun become the queen? She is clearly a virgin, but the people secretly made her the queen. If the Grand Master knew about this, I'm afraid he would give me a cold shoulder again."

As for how to persuade Dong Bai.

Liu Xie doesn’t know either!
But I am afraid of whatever comes next.

Soon the palace maid came to report that it was Weiyang Lord Dong Bai who came to ask for a meeting.

"I resign!"

Jia Xu's legs were as fast as wheels. Without waiting for Liu Xie's response, he had already reached the palace gate.

Dong Bai also had no rules. Without waiting for Liu Xie's consent, he just barged in, treating the emperor's palace as his own home.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the shrine has been repaired, right?"

Dong Bai was filled with uncontrollable excitement.

"Grandfather will be happy to see the ancestral temple, right?"

Liu Xie didn't dare to look directly at Dong Bai: "That should be it."

Dong Bai stepped directly over the emperor's jade steps, came to Liu Xie, grabbed Liu Xie's hand and was about to take the emperor out of the palace.

"What are you waiting for? Go pick up Grandpa and go together!"

Liu Xie was pulled directly to the carriage that had been prepared outside. Dong Bai proudly showed Liu Xie her arrangement.

"Look! I even put two quilts on the carriage to prevent Grandfather from catching a cold!"

"And the gaps in the carriage have also been filled with silk cloth! No wind can blow in. Am I amazing?"

Liu Xie was sitting in the galloping carriage and really didn't feel the slightest bit of evil wind.

When dealing with Dong Zhuo, Dong Bai was able to show some rare feminine delicacy and consideration, which really shocked Liu Xie.

"It seems that Lord Weiyang is not inconsiderate."

This made Dong Bai obviously unhappy!
Imitating Liu Xie's behavior a few days ago, Dong Bai also stretched out a finger and kept drilling on Liu Xie's cheek: "Your Majesty, what do you mean by this? How am I not considerate..."

……

Forget it, what can I do about the queen I chose?

Pamper me!
When the carriage arrived in front of Lu Bu's mansion, Dong Bai got off the carriage. Seeing the door was still closed, he walked forward and punched it three times, "bang bang bang".

"Grandfather open the door! I'm Bai!"

There was a commotion in the mansion, and after a while the door was opened to welcome Dong Bai in.

Dong Bai acted quickly and decisively. Soon he pulled out Dong Zhuo, who still looked weak, and placed him on the carriage.

"Grandfather, is this carriage comfortable?"

Dong Bai's face was full of the desire to be praised, and Dong Zhuo touched Dong Bai's forehead lovingly: "Thank you for your hard work, Bai."

However, after praising Dong Bai, Dong Zhuo turned to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, you have worked hard these days."

Dong Zhuo naturally knew who was the one who suffered the most after he fell ill.

"I'm glad that the Grand Master is okay."

Liu Xie held Dong Zhuo's hand.

"Grandmaster, just rest and recuperate. Leave the rest to me."

"Whether it's for the sake of the unborn child or for Lord Weiyang, Grand Master must take good care of your body."

Although Dong Zhuo's alarm this time was just a false alarm, the scare he brought to everyone was not fake.

Moreover, even if he was not seriously injured, Liu Xie could still see Dong Zhuo's weakness.

At this moment, Dong Zhuo was probably pulled up directly from the bed by Dong Bai. His hair was not tied up, but was casually tied into a bun behind his head.

After walking just now, her hair bun had become a little loose, with many gray hairs sticking out of it.

Poor Huafa.

In the past, when Dong Zhuo came to see the emperor or faced court officials, he always wore a thick Weimao crown or a leather crown to cover his temples tightly, giving no chance to outsiders to spy on his true colors.

But when he tore off the gorgeous clothes of "Grand Master" and took off the crown of "Prime Minister", Liu Xie discovered that this man who was so powerful that he could shake the world and suppress countless heroes was just an old man whose half body was about to be buried in the ground.

"Grand Master, please try not to work too hard in the future, and...you should also be moderate in some things and not waste your body."

When Dong Zhuo, who had been with him day and night, revealed his true face, Liu Xie felt even more reluctant and began to constantly settle Dong Zhuo.

"We must also follow the doctor's advice and eat more mild foods on a daily basis..."

Dong Zhuo could sense Liu Xie's genuine concern.

but……

These endless instructions still made Dong Zhuo a little annoyed. He turned his back to Liu Xie and faced his well-behaved granddaughter.

But Liu Xie's voice obviously did not follow Dong Zhuo's actions. He stopped abruptly and became even more aggressive. He even listed Dong Zhuo's menu and banned all meaty and greasy meals...

"His Majesty!"

Dong Zhuo gnashed his teeth and said, "If you can't even eat meat on weekdays, and can only sleep alone at night... then what's the point of living? You might as well just die!"

Master Dong doesn’t understand!

You've been fighting all your life, can't you just enjoy yourself?

Or, what is the purpose of fighting all your life? Isn't it just to be able to do whatever you want?

Now Liu Xie actually wants to ban jade himself!
It's really unbearable!
Liu Xie was not intimidated by Dong Zhuo's ferocity.

"Doesn't the Grand Master want to see his own child being born?"

"Not to mention there is Weiyang Jun!"

"Next year, I will be crowned, and when I turn white, I will be married to Lady Weiyang, and become the Empress of the Han Dynasty!" "Don't you, Grand Master, want to personally witness the most important moment in Lady Weiyang's life?"

Liu Xie not only reprimanded Dong Zhuo, but also pulled Dong Bai to his side.

"Lord Weiyang, am I right? Don't you want the Grand Master to accompany you personally at your wedding?"

Dong Bai received Liu Xie’s signal.

She used her sharp weapon against Zhuo again and said coquettishly, "Bai doesn't want to miss seeing grandfather. Grandfather must listen to the emperor and can't be so willful anymore! Okay? Okay? Grandfather, can you agree to Bai?"

……

What else can I do with my granddaughter?
Of course, I pamper her!

Dong Zhuo smiled bitterly: "It's true that when a girl grows up, she can't be kept!"

Dong Bai quickly put his head to Dong Zhuo's side and said, "Grandfather, what are you talking about? I will always stay by your side. It is you who should not abandon me!"

Dong Zhuo touched Dong Bai's chin lovingly as if he were teasing a kitten, and then glanced at Liu Xie: "I heard that Bai used all the money and grain in Meiwu to help the people. Isn't this just because a girl can't be kept when she grows up?"

?

Liu Xie, who had been extremely tough just now, suddenly broke out in a cold sweat and no longer had the energy to reprimand Dong Zhuo.

Dong Bai was confused: "How can this mean that a girl should not be kept when she grows up? Isn't Bai doing this to fulfill his grandfather's wish and build a shrine for him?"

"When grandpa sees his name on the ancestral temple later, he will definitely be happy immediately!"

"..."

Liu Xie no longer dared to look at the two of them.

He just felt that today's carriage was really quite carriage-like...

If it could go a little slower, it would be an even better carriage.

But Liu Xie's vision was obviously not so easy to achieve.

The ancestral temple is not too far from Chang'an.

It took less than half an hour to reach Chang'an.

"Eh? There are so many people!"

Dong Bai heard the noises around the carriage gradually becoming louder, so he lifted the curtain and looked outside.

The howling wind outside seemed like two completely different worlds from the peaceful interior of the carriage.

Even so, there were many people on the road wearing thin clothes, braving the biting cold wind, and moving forward towards the ancestral temple.

Old men, men, women, children...

Countless people of all kinds have been walking on both sides of the carriage since some time ago, like the waves pushing the ship forward, or like the stars shining around the full moon.

Dong Bai seemed to suddenly see something at this moment, and quickly shouted to the front: "Stop!"

The carriage stopped. Ignoring the obstruction of Liu Xie and Dong Zhuo, Dong Bai jumped off the carriage and came behind a man.

"Hey, do you remember me?"

The person who was suddenly grabbed by Dong Bai was a little girl.

She was a little scared when someone suddenly called her, and subconsciously grabbed the thing in her arms, as if she was afraid that it would be snatched away.

However, after seeing Dong Bai behind her, she was confused and puzzled at first, but then she said in surprise: "It's the sister who saved my mother!"

The little girl tugged at the corner of her mother's clothes and said, "Mom, it was this sister who saved you the last time you fainted."

This mother and daughter were the same mother and daughter that Dong Bai had rescued in Chang'an City before.

The woman was a little wary at first, but when she heard that it was Dong Bai who had helped her last time, she quickly wanted to thank him.

"Nothing! Hehe!"

Although Dong Bai spoke modestly, his expression was extremely proud.

Fortunately, Dong Bai has no tail, otherwise it would be flying up to the sky at this moment!
"It's great that you're still here."

Dong Bai stepped forward and grabbed the girl's shrunken cheeks: "I heard from your majesty... I heard from my husband that many people starved to death in Guanzhong this year. It's great to see you again."

The girl smiled and said, "It's great to see my sister again!"

"Last year was indeed difficult. But mother is now working in a paper mill! Fortunately, many paper mills have opened this year, otherwise mother would not have been paid, and we really would not have survived last winter."

"Sister, I'll tell you a secret. Not only will you get paid, but mother can also give you some grass and hemp from the paper mill. Boiling those things can actually fill your stomach! And if you chew them carefully, they're as sweet as apricots! Really! It's absolutely true!"

……

Although it was such an extreme situation, the girl did not feel that her life was that bad. Instead, she was extremely grateful.

She opened her collar and showed Dong Bai a bag of cornmeal in her arms.

"And yesterday the Queen of the Han Dynasty distributed food! This Queen is so generous! She distributed food to everyone! This amount of food is enough for my mother and I to eat for two months! Hehe! This is food! I haven't eaten food for a long time!"

How could Dong Bai still have the excitement and pride he had at the beginning?
She placed her hands on the girl's shoulders and squeezed them gently, not knowing what to say.

The girl did not notice Dong Bai's abnormality. She pointed at the ancestral hall whose outline could be seen in the distance and said excitedly, "Everyone heard that someone built a ancestral hall for the queen. Yesterday, everyone who received food went to worship there spontaneously!"

"I don't know what the queen looks like. But she is as kind as my sister, and I think she is as beautiful as my sister, right?"

The woman beside him quickly stopped the girl: "Don't talk nonsense about the queen! Speak softly!"

The girl stuck out her tongue twice at her mother, then turned around to say something to Dong Bai, only to find that Dong Bai, who had just been standing beside her, had left at some point.

Back to the carriage.

Dong Bai curled up in the corner of the carriage, buried his head between his knees, and refused to speak.

Liu Xie and Dong Zhuo heard the conversation outside the carriage just now.

Therefore, not only Dong Bai, but also Liu Xie and Dong Zhuo were somewhat silent. The silence of the three froze the air in the carriage.

After arriving at the ancestral hall, Dong Bai forced a smile.

"Grandfather, let's go. Bai wants to show you the gift Bai prepared for Grandfather."

But as Dong Bai laughed, her face turned into a bitter one and she began to sob softly. It seemed like the tears had broken off the string and she couldn't stop crying.

She also didn't know why she was so sad even though she had only heard good news.

Seeing this, Liu Xie finally decided to confess.

He held Dong Bai's wrist, took her outside the carriage, and asked her to see who was enshrined in the ancestral temple.

"I remember that today should be Lord Weiyang's birthday."

"I am afraid I cannot give Lord Weiyang a colt made of pearls or a swallow carved of gold."

"But the people of Chang'an have something to give to Lord Weiyang."

Dong Bai didn't understand what Liu Xie meant and was still crying.

She looked in the direction Liu Xie pointed out to her, but what she saw made her laugh.

"What an ugly clay sculpture! How did you make your grandfather look like this?"

If it weren't enshrined in the ancestral hall, it wouldn't even be recognizable as a human figure!
Wrinkled, rough, and bumpy! It's so ugly!

Liu Xie couldn't bear it.

"Lord Weiyang, that ugly clay sculpture is not the Grand Master, it's you."

"It's the Empress of the Han Dynasty, Dong."

(End of this chapter)