The fifty-seventh time to the former Empress Xiao, tearful eyes look at the old friend.

Qin Ying and the other four people sat in the rickety car, silently waiting for it to drive towards Xingdao.

Mo Xiang didn't reveal to everyone who was in seclusion, and Zhao Tan, who knew the inside story, cried hoarsely, and as soon as he opened his mouth, his throat hurt badly. Qin Ying didn't want to ask.

"Ladies and gentlemen, get out of the car." A moment later, the little guy driving the car respectfully opened the door and helped Qin Ying and the others out of the car.

Qin Ying wondered in her heart, why did Mo Xiang take so many people to meet that big man, but he didn't talk about the private house in Xingdao, what would others say.

Seeing Mo Xiang walking forward with her clothes, Qin Ying couldn't help but call her.

"Just let me go." Mo Xiang regained her iceberg beauty posture with her eyes above the top.

Sumire grabbed the sleeve of Qin Ying's robe and tugged at it again, signaling her not to ask more.

Qin Ying also knew that it was useless to talk too much, so he could only go in and then improvise.

After passing through two intersections, the group came to the door of a simple house with gray tiles and white walls.

Zhao Tan was gently pushed in front of Mo Xiang, Zhao Tan was surprised, she looked back at Mo Xiang, and threw her a look of help. And Mo Xiang, who was the initiator, nodded and asked her to knock on the door of the house.

There was a knock on the door, and the servant who answered the door stood on the inside, and saluted with a smile: "Did you ladies take the invitation, or do you ......?"

"It's me who waited for the abruptness, and I came uninvited and wanted to pass it on." Zhao Tan took off the curtain fence that covered his face and handed the servant a palm-sized woodcut sign.

Qin Ying turned his head to take a look, and saw that the name of Zhong Lu Pavilion of Pingkangfang was engraved on the sign.

The servant got the wooden sign, smiled and went in. After a while, he rushed over again with broken steps: "My housewife let you ladies come in." ”

"There is labor." Zhao Tan put the wooden card representing his identity in his sleeve and said in a dumb voice.

Although I don't know what Mo Xiang means by pushing herself to entertain the doorman, she is comfortable with such trivial matters.

Qin Ying saw that they had entered this mansion effortlessly, and her doubts were even more so.

Ordinary people don't let geisha and the like get started in the daylight, but the housewife seems to be ...... And doesn't care. I don't know what kind of people live in this house.

The servant dutifully led the people through the cloister into the lobby, and then bowed and departed, and saw that he had received a good upbringing.

Between the corridors are some seasonal plants and trees, not very rare varieties, but if you look closely, they have their own charms.

There is a white curtain inside and outside the hall, and the shadow reflects the figure of the woman inside.

Zhao Tan cautiously raised his hand to lift the gauze tent as light as a cicada's wings, and then bowed to the woman leaning on the small table from a distance.

"The slave has seen Empress Xiao." Her voice was neither high nor low, just overshadowing the sound of boiling tea in the room.

Qin Ying was so shocked by the sound of the queen that her legs were half weak, and she bowed down almost instinctively. The hem of the clothes moved, and Sumire also woke up from her stunned mind. Mo Xiang had long known the owner of the house, and she calmly gave a big gift to the woman at the end.

The woman lifted her head from the crook of her arms, and the corners of her eyebrows and eyes were raised with shallow fine lines: "Queen? I'm not a queen anymore. What are you doing standing so far away, sit down. ”

As she spoke, she turned her eyes to the lady next to her and said, "Xue Niang, look at the tea for you." ”

…… I remember that there was a Queen Xiao in the previous dynasty, and although she was half-old in front of her, the woman who still had her demeanor was her.

Queen Xiao used a hosta to pull a fallen horse bun at random with a hosta on the back of her head, and she was only a plain narrow-sleeved skirt. Who would have thought that the person who was dressed so quietly and elegantly in front of him was the person who used to be the mother of the world.

Qin Ying hesitated and sat down, only to see Xue Niang skillfully serving the blue tea soup.

"Disturbing your purity rashly today is a reluctant request from the slave." Zhao Tan forced his crying voice and said.

"What's wrong?" Empress Xiao straightened up and sat down, her clear gaze fixed on Zhao Tan's face.

Zhao Tan's eyes gradually flashed with tears, and he took out a handkerchief in case of emergency:

"Yesterday, the slave and Mei Xuan went to Hou Junji's mansion to attend a family banquet, but Hou Shangshu, who was the lord, took Mei Xuan and joked with General Li Jing who was on the left seat. After Hou Shangshu was drunk, he not only despised Mei Xuan in public, but also wanted to lure her into the backyard......

"Mei Xuan has always left a clear name in Zhonglu Pavilion, how can she be willing to be toyed with by him? At that time, the situation was panicked, and Mei Xuan wanted to break free from Hou Shangshu...... He pulled out the silver hairpin on his head and stabbed Hou Shangshu...... She was imprisoned, and Hou Shangshu's life and death were uncertain......"

Listening to Zhao Tan intermittently, Empress Xiao's expression was also much more solemn: "The four of you are all here for Mei Xuan's little lady?" ”

Zhao Tan wiped away his tears, but he couldn't stop nodding.

Empress Xiao looked at the young faces opposite, and suddenly narrowed her sharp phoenix eyes: "I have no power and no power now, and I am living in this Chang'an Xingdao." Don't you think it was a bad decision to come to me? ”

The invisible coercion in his eyes was so overwhelming that Qin Ying and the others couldn't raise their heads.

And Mo Xiang was an exception, she looked directly at the old and decrepit woman without fear, and slowly shook her head and said, "Your younger brother, Xiao Jiabalang is still serving in the court. And you are related to the royal family today. When the queen's eldest grandson Niangniang sees you, she has to call her cousin ......"

Empress Xiao's expression was obviously displeased: "So what?" ”

"So you have no power or power, but you can not be afraid of anyone in the front court and harem. If you intercede for Mei Xuan in secret, Mei Xuan will definitely not fall to the heaviest level of the five punishments. Mo Xiang said.

The other party sneered: "Do you want me to offend Hou Junji and his party?" I don't care about myself, but I, as a sister, can't make it difficult for Hachiro to gain a foothold in the court from now on for the sake of a mere official prostitute. ”

Mo Xiang seemed to have expected that Empress Xiao would not be impressed by the lightness. She maintained a calm tone and said:

"You are also a person who has experienced half a life of glory and half a life of exile. Naturally, I can feel the feeling of being in a disadvantageous position, being coerced by others, but having to submit. Please put yourself in your shoes, if you were in Mei Xuan's situation last night, would you have rebelled? ”

She slapped a few cases and said angrily: "It's bearable, it's unbearable!" ”

The first half of Empress Xiao's life was dreamy, and the second half of her life was upside down.

After the destruction of the former Sui dynasty, Empress Xiao, who was in her forties, did not hang herself, but successively fell into the net of Yu Wenhua, Dou Jiande, and Turkic Khan. She has been in many places and has been coerced by men. Until half a year ago, General Li Jing defeated the Turks, captured the Khan, and took Empress Xiao of the previous dynasty back to her homeland.

Mo Xiang decided that Empress Xiao could not tolerate the fact that an innocent lady was humiliated by powerful people.

Empress Xiao listened to what happened to Mei Xuan, and after her own reasonable persuasion, she would inevitably empathize, and she couldn't wait for Hou Junji, who caused the accident, to die again.

Seeing Empress Xiao's anger on her face, Qin Ying was shocked and couldn't help herself. Mo Xiang, who refuses to speak on weekdays, turns out to be so articulate.

"Well, your words did strike at my heart. I will do my best to get Mei Xuan alive. But only if it is...... Hou Junji is still alive. Queen Xiao put one hand on her forehead and sighed, not knowing whether she was feeling Mei Xuan or herself.

Qin Ying hurriedly said: "How can the dead be resurrected? ”