The man on the other side said two words in a vague voice, but he couldn't hear them clearly.

The young man pursed his thin lips, and his gaze sank little by little. The man on the other side was stunned for a moment, and then said something vaguely. But every time he spoke, the boy's gaze sank; By the end, the boy had already wrinkled his brows tightly, and his eyes were dark and a little hazy.

After a long time, the young man said firmly, "Go ahead." ”

The man on the other side was stunned for a moment, and his face turned blue for a moment.

The scene is gone.

Wisps of green smoke dissipated in the room, leaving only a faint smell of fireworks. There was a faint light dancing in the brazier, and the turquoise tortoiseshell was still lying in the brazier, quietly, showing a beautiful pattern in the smoke.

She stepped forward, picked the tortoise shell from the brazier, and carefully wiped it clean.

She didn't know who the man in the smoke was, but if she saw him again, she would recognize him at a glance. Just now she heard clearly, the man kept saying that he wanted to do things for Empress Lu, but when he wanted to ask carefully, he deduced that this matter had nothing to do with him, and he was obviously a messenger.

But what he said was too terrifying.

When Gao Su woke up, he had to try to warn him.

Yun Yao slowly wiped the tortoise shell while carefully thinking about countermeasures, and before she knew it, half an hour had passed.

After wiping the tortoise shell, she set the charcoal fire again, and until the room was brighter, she hid the tortoise shell close to her, except for her clothes, hats, shoes and socks, and fell crooked on the couch, and slowly fell asleep.

That night she slept restlessly and had many chaotic dreams.

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When she woke up the next day, she heard that something had happened outside again.

Empress Lu insisted on making her uncle and brother king, which annoyed a group of ministers, and now there are soldiers outside. There are already many officials outside the Weiyang Palace who are writing blood letters, and even planning blood advice. As for the court's counselor himself, he was dismissed early in the morning.

The palace attendants persuaded her: "The Queen Mother should stay in the North Palace." It's desolate, but it's safer. ”

She remembered Liu Ying's words before leaving, telling her not to leave the palace, and she couldn't help but smile bitterly.

The palace attendants persuaded again: "If you have three longs and two shorts, how should the slaves and maids explain to the first emperor and Princess Lu Yuan?" ”

They are not only the people who serve Zhang Yan personally, but also some of them are the dowries given to her by Princess Lu Yuan when Zhang Yan was crowned. Therefore, when persuading the Queen Mother, Princess Lu Yuan moved out.

When Yun Yao heard this, she could only smile bitterly and smile bitterly.

Now she can't leave the Han Palace, or even the North Palace, the only thing she can do is to wander around the palace.

Soon she visited the entire North Palace, and even studied the flowers and plants in the corner of the wall very thoroughly. In her spare time, she will also ask people to move a beauty couch, lie on the couch and take a nap, and sleep for more than two hours.

Everyone thought she was sleepy, but they didn't know that she had sneaked out of the palace many times under the pretext of taking a nap.

Since the last time she went to Gao Su's house, she had memorized that location.

Every time she sneaked out of the palace, she had to float to Gao Su's house and stay quiet for a while. When no one was around, she would whisper his name, again and again, but never answered.

Gao Su lay there forever, never waking up.

Day after day, month after month.

She repeated the gesture with great patience and never got tired.

She thought that Gao Su had been waiting for her in the past, but this time, she would wait for him.

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After another two months, the turmoil outside finally subsided.

Empress Lu simply disposed of those who opposed him, and forcefully crowned his uncle and brother as kings, firmly grasping the power of the court in his own hands. In addition, Emperor Liu Gong was young and did not have much power, so only Empress Lu had the final say.

Empress Lu admired the way of Lao Huang, and the Han court became inactive.

Inaction, that is, no fault, no merit.

Yun Yao's life has slowly become better.

Now she can occasionally go out of the palace for a walk, meet her cheap son, or go out for a hike and a swim in the lake.

Although the child was not her biological child, she was still psychologically close to the queen mother, who had called her for at least two years. However, the child was about to follow the Empress Dowager Lu, and he was a little withdrawn and perverse, and his temper was getting worse and worse. Yun Yao corrected her a few times at first, but the child was not happy to listen to her, so she had no choice but to go with him.

After all, in this palace, as the queen mother who was caught in the middle and semi-house arrest in the north palace, no one was willing to listen to her.

At this moment, good news came from the palace. The palace man Yun Yao tried to find before, Liu Gong's biological mother, that is, the one who was killed by Empress Lu, was finally found. The palace man was hastily buried in a mass grave in his hometown, and there was no one who sprinkled the sacrifices, and it could really be called desolate behind him. Yun Yao secretly thought that she had replaced Zhang Yan's identity at this time, so she might as well take care of this matter, so she asked people to repair a beautiful tomb, and hired someone to clean it all year round to chat for comfort.

After a few days of such an ordinary life, she finally waited for Gao Su to wake up.

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On the day Gao Su woke up, Yun Yao was left in the North Palace by Empress Lu and trained for a whole afternoon.

That night, she slipped out of the palace as usual, wanting to take a look at Gaosu, but found that the building was empty.

The old servant I had seen earlier, and the servant woman, were picking up the contents of the house one by one and loading them into the carriage. The carriage of the carriage is branded with a special mark, and I don't know which noble carriage and horse it is, which looks extraordinary.

She followed the old servant and the carriage, and in a short time came to a palatial mansion.

It was late at night, and she couldn't read the words on the plaque of the mansion, but she could faintly feel that the owner of the mansion was extraordinary.

She floated outside the mansion for a while, and finally gritted her teeth and floated through the thick wall to the mansion. The mansion was brightly lit, and thirty or so maidservants knelt neatly on the ground, and a woman who was obviously the head of the house glanced coldly and let out a slight sneer. The lame old servant went up to the mistress, knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and limped away again.

The old servant seemed to know the way in the house, and walked to a small courtyard.

Yun Yao hesitated for a moment and followed.

There were two people standing in the courtyard. One is Gao Su when she was a teenager, and the other is the middle-aged man she saw in the hexagram a few days ago. The middle-aged man's appearance is seven points similar to Gao Su, and he thinks he is the father of his life.

Gao Su raised his head slightly, looked at the middle-aged man, and frowned deeply.

The middle-aged man also frowned and looked at him, with an expression of hatred that iron could not be made of steel.

The old servant walked out into the courtyard, kowtowed to the middle-aged man, and quickly withdrew again. The middle-aged man hatefully dropped a sentence of "you are so self-conscious" and left. Gao Su's eyebrows stretched out a little, looked sideways in her direction, and whispered, "Ah Yao? ”

- Oops, I found out.

She floated to the ground a little embarrassed, and little by little she showed her figure.

A little surprise appeared on Gao Su's face: "Sure enough, it's you." ”

He stepped forward and tried to take her hand, but suddenly he grabbed it. The thin, pale fingers spread loosely in the air, and the bulging joints were faintly visible. He smiled and said, "I've been recuperating these days. "I don't seem to care.

Yun Yao was stunned, shook her head slightly, and said softly, "It's good to wake up." ”

Gao Su led her to a stone case and asked with a smile, "How do you know I'm here?" Suddenly, he remembered the phrase "just wake up", his face changed slightly, and he muttered, "Have you always been by my side, no wonder." ”

No wonder he heard Yao's voice in that hallucination that seemed to be real or false.

"I ......" Yun Yao was also stunned, and suddenly asked him: "Are you okay lately?" ”

She tilted her head to look at him, a faint look of worry in her eyes.

Gao Su was stunned by her question, and after a long time, he slowly asked, "What did you hear?" ”

When he first woke up, he did hear some bad news. These news are related to his father in this life, and naturally they are also closely related to him. But A-Yao, she ...... How did she know?

Hearing Gao Su ask her like this, there was anything she didn't understand. Nine times out of ten, the hexagram is true. Gaosu is about to encounter a □□/trouble, and this big/troublesome has gradually shown a trend of mountain rain coming.

She floated up to Gao Su and attached herself to his ear, telling him everything she had seen.

However, intentionally or unintentionally, she concealed the source of the information, and only vaguely mentioned that she had heard about it by accident.

Gao Su groaned slightly, and asked in a low voice, "Ah Yao, who else knows about this matter?" ”

Yun Yao shook her head slightly.

There is no second person in the world who knows about it but her.

Gao Su let out a deep "hmm" again, and his eyebrows, which were originally slightly stretched, were deeply twisted again.

After a long time, he said slowly: "My father was fined for opposing Empress Lu's title of king, and he was only fined a month ago. Nine times out of ten, what you say is true. A-Yao. His voice became a little lower, "I'm afraid that in a few days, I will have to leave Chang'an." ”

Yun Yao was taken aback.

Gao Su's eyes became a little softer, his voice was deep, and the meaning of reassurance was very strong: "Ah Yao, you know, I was originally in the Tiger Army, even if I want to leave, I can't go anywhere, at most I will be punished to go to the border." ”

When he said this, he suddenly showed a meaningful smile: "The Xiongnu in the northern Xinjiang are rampant, and going to the desert alone is not necessarily a bad thing." ”

Yun Yao hesitated for a long time before asking softly, "But how do you know that you will definitely go to the desert?" ”

Gao Su laughed out loud in a low voice. He reached out and put his hand over the back of her hand, and said slowly, "This is a matter of course. ”