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In the early morning, the crystal full pearl dew gently shook the round body on the dark green smooth branches, which was because of the breeze, but it could not withstand the swaying, and fell roundly. The smell of all kinds of exotic flowers and plants wafts on the dirt ground; Far away in the palace gate, sniffing hard, the most is the blooming Cong Gui near the thick and clear fragrance overflowing, over the strict palace wall, from the unexpected gap to the palace people's nostrils.

It was a day close to the Mid-Autumn Festival thirteen years ago. It was 696 A.D., the first year of Wu Zetian's long live Tongtian, and he reigned in the world.

The door of Shangyang Palace opened, Mo Yaoyu stepped forward, and where she passed, the fragrance of flowers was overflowing, and the palace was surrounded by fragrant fragrance.

"Your Majesty has always ordered someone to pass orders to me, and this time I don't know why I personally summoned you." Mo Yao thought as he walked, "Seeing this, I don't know what order to send." ”

Mo Yao thought about it, always feeling a little uneasy.

In the Xianju Palace, Wu Zetian is writing with a pen: the wind is sluggish and the water is cold, and the strong man will not return once he is gone.

Shangguan Wan'er waited aside, speculating mentally about why Emperor Wu wrote these two sentences. Just thinking about it, Emperor Wu looked at the words written and asked, "Wan'er, what time is it?" ”

Shangguan Wan'er slowly walked down the stairs, and as soon as she looked at the door, the deacon's palace maid passed a message to her. Wan'er replied in front of the palace: "Your Majesty, it will be time in a few moments." ”

"Hmm." Emperor Wu snorted and didn't look up at her.

Shangguan Wan'er still came up the stairs and stood aside. Emperor Wu wrote again: Feng Xiao Xiaoxi......

"See clearly?!" Princess Taiping took a step closer to the maid and asked.

"Yes, the informant in the palace really saw it, it was indeed Mo Yao, who was going to the Immortal Palace to face the saint at this time." The maid replied respectfully.

"Good!" Princess Taiping gritted her teeth. "Mo Yao, you're finally here. I'm not going to enter the palace anymore! Hum. Go, tell them to be ready, wait for my signal, act. ”

Princess Taiping turned around and walked towards the jade-faced Langjun who was tailoring his clothes on the side.

"Rokuro," she said as she walked up to the beautiful man, touched his face lightly with her jade hand, and said with a smile, "You're so beautiful." Your Majesty must like it when you see it. ”

The jade-faced Langjun Zhang Changzong smiled in return.

"Mama Huang, go down." Princess Taiping instructed, "Don't measure it, the clothes in the palace are much better than those in the princess's mansion." ”

Mama Huang raised her eyes and glanced at Princess Taiping, then put away the measuring tool, agreed, and retreated.

"Princess, when can Rokuro meet His Majesty?" Zhang Changzong asked with a playful smile.

"Now." Princess Taiping chuckled.

"Now? Are you going to face the saint now? Zhang Changzong was a little nervous.

"What, you're scared?" Princess Taiping teased.

"No, the grass people are not afraid." Zhang Changzong's period Ai Ai is authentic.

Princess Taiping smiled: "That's good." Let's go, Your Majesty can wait. ”

"Your Majesty, Lord Mo Yao is asking to see you outside the palace." The maid reported.

"Xuan." Wu Zetian put the pen on the pen holder, and then went to Shangguan Wan'er: "Wan'er, do you smell any fragrance?" ”

Shangguan Wan'er sniffed lightly and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, it is the fragrance of osmanthus flowers." ”

Wu Zetian was very satisfied, nodded with a smile, and said, "Yes, it's my osmanthus fairy who has arrived." ”

"Osmanthus fairy?" Shangguan Wan'er repeated in a low voice.

At the same time, Mo Yao entered the palace with four little palace maids and made a big salute: "Mo Yao greets Your Majesty, I wish my emperor long live, long live, long live!" ”

"Flat!"

Wu Zetian took two steps forward and said with a smile: "Before Mo Aiqing entered the hall, I smelled your fragrance first." Just now, I was still telling Wan'er that the osmanthus fairy was here, and she still didn't understand. ”

"Your Majesty praises falsely, Weichen is just a blessing from natural things, so he has this fragrance." Mo Yao said with a smile, and presented it to his back: "Your Majesty, Wei Chen made four things with osmanthus in his hometown: osmanthus wine, osmanthus tea, osmanthus oil, osmanthus nectar, and present to Your Majesty." ”

"Okay, I have a heart. Aiqing is really ingenious. Wan'er—"

"Yes, Your Majesty." Shangguan Wan'er walked up and beckoned to the left and right, and two maids stepped forward and led the little palace maids holding the four things in their hands to retreat from the palace.

"Wan'er, you go down first." Wu Zetian ordered again.

"Yes." Shangguan Wan'er responded, glanced at Mo Yao again, and led a group of servants to exit the hall.

On the verandah, Princess Taiping took Zhang Changzong and a few personal maids to the Xianju Palace. The road was full of the fragrance of osmanthus flowers, and Taiping was even more determined that Mo Yao had indeed entered Shangyang Palace. However, the fragrance of this osmanthus forced her to recall the painful past:

"The Queen Mother! You can't be so cruel, Taiping is your favorite little daughter! What's more, your lovely grandson has not yet been born, are you going to leave him without a father? Taiping held his big belly, crying so much that the pear blossoms brought rain, while begging.

"Taiping," Wu Zetian caressed her little face, "It's not that the queen mother is ruthless." Rebellion is a capital offense. ”

"Queen Mother, Xue Shao did not participate in the rebellion, you know this." Taiping Ken pleased.

"But Xue Yi participated, and rebellion is the crime of the Nine Clans, Taiping." Wu Zetian said with a small face in his cup.

Wu Zetian sat on the couch, and Taiping sat on her lap, crying sadly while lying on her mother's lap.

"Mother, son-in-law, I beg you." Taiping still did not give up fighting for Xue Shao's life.

Wu Zetian was really distressed and sighed. Taiping sensed that her mother was a little moved, so she pulled her mother again and said, "Mother, you love Taiping the most, don't you?" Taiping only loves Xue Shao in this life, if you want to execute him, it is better to execute Taiping first. Taiping is now Xue Shao's wife, and the Nine Clans should also be counted as one. ”

Wu Zetian was stunned and roared: "Taiping! ”

Taiping wept: "Mother, do you know that the person you executed is Taiping's heart and liver." Since then, Taiping's heart is dead, what is the difference between the body and the walking dead? Taiping has nothing else to ask for, only to leave him alive. ”

Wu Zetian hesitated, after all, because of the relationship between mother and daughter, he thought about it for a while, sighed, and said, "It's okay." Xue Yi rebelled and was executed. Xue Shao,—— capital crime can be escaped, but living crime is inevitable. A hundred rods, put into the prison of Dali Temple, and wait for ......"

"Empress Dowager, the rebel has been corrected. Lord Mo Yao was outside the hall asking for reinstatement. "Your Highness's maid reports.

"What?!" Taiping turned his head in shock, hugged his big belly, staggered down the steps, and grabbed the arm of the saluting maid. "The rebel has been corrected?! What about Xue Shao!? ”

Taiping stared at her tightly, and the maid who performed the matter was frightened, and whispered: "The slave doesn't know, Gong, the princess can ask Lord Mo Yao." ”

"Mo Yao-" Wu Zetian also walked down the stairs at this time, while groaning, "Mo Yao is fast, accurate, and ruthless, and never procrastinates." ”

When Taiping heard this, her brain buzzed, and she was dizzy, and she fainted without holding on.

"Princess, princess, are you going to take Rokuro directly into the Immortal Palace?" Zhang Changzong followed all the way, and when he saw that he was approaching the deep palace, he was still a little nervous in his heart, and he couldn't help but ask.

Princess Taiping was pulled back from her memories by Zhang Changzong's question. Taiping didn't reply to Zhang Changzong, but just walked forward, while silently reciting fiercely in his heart: "Mo Yao-"

"Mo Yao, how are you doing in the past few years?" Wu Zetian asked kindly.

"Your Majesty Xie cares, and the ministers are well." Mo Yao replied respectfully. She glanced at it secretly, and Emperor Wu seemed thoughtful.

Wu Zetian paced in the hall with one hand behind his back, and said, "I heard that you have raised a group of children. ”

Mo Yao was slightly stunned, and hurriedly pleaded guilty: "Weichen made an assertion, took them under his command, and asked His Majesty to punish them." ”

"Hmm." Wu Zetian bowed his head slightly and groaned.

Wu Zetian turned his back to her, his eyes looking straight at the dragon case. Mo Yao didn't dare to make a sound, and hung his head and waited for his life.

After a while, Wu Zetian slowly turned around and said, "It's okay." It's very agreeable. ”

"Yes." Mo Yao finally breathed a sigh of relief. She also knew that she couldn't hide it from Emperor Wu, but she really didn't play it.

"Some of them are the children of deceased colleagues, and some are orphans everywhere. Wechen felt ......"

"Huh?" Wu Zetian waved his hand to stop her from talking any further. "You don't have to tell me about that. I believe in you. You are in charge of all the affairs of the door, and I can't control that much. Their parents did their best to carry out the mission for me, and they paid with their lives for it. Good life, treat those children ......"

Mo Yao's expression was slightly sentimental when he spied on Emperor Wu. However, the steep turn to high-spirited.

Wu Zetian said: "They are all loyal ministers. They will not fail me, and I will not fail them. Mo Yao, you did a great job. ...... for their parents, no, take good care of them for me. ”

"Yes." Mo Yao said. She smiled slightly: "These children are very well-behaved and smart, and they learn everything very quickly, and they can teach it as soon as they are taught." ”

"Haha——," Wu Zetian Long Yan Dayue, "I know that you Mo Yao will train." ”

"Weichen, I really don't dare to be, this is all thanks to the well-being of Your Majesty."

"Alas, you, you ......" Wu Zetian smiled and pointed at her.

"Your Majesty." Mo Yao said with a smile: "These children are also very capable, one of them is only thirteen years old, but he can carry out the 'levy order'. ”

"Oh?" Wu Zetian was surprised, "Who?" ”

"His name is Ren Tianjie, and he is the orphan of Ren Jun and Zhong Ling."

"Ren Jun, Zhong Ling......, oh, it's their child...... Wu Zetian remembered, "Ren Tianjie, he can carry out the order at a young age, well, it is worthy of being the child of the Ren couple." You've got the ......."

Wu Zetian sighed, as if talking to himself. Her face became more and more solemn, and she turned away from her hands, and fell into deep thought again.

Mo Yao observed his words and looks, and always felt that Emperor Wu wanted to speak and stopped, as if he had concerns. She was apprehensive, and she was concentrating and waiting.

After a moment, as soon as he turned around, Wu Zetian said: "Mo Yao, listen to the order in front of the palace!" ”

Wu Zetian turned around and handed her a brocade box with gold osmanthus patterns on the desk.

Mo Yao's expression was grim, and he was busy kneeling on his knees, bowing his head, and raising his hands to take it. I saw the word "feather" written on the brocade box with gold lacquer.

Mo Yao's heart couldn't help but tremble when he saw it, and he was shocked in his heart: "'Feather Order'! Why does my emperor want to activate the 'Feather Order'? ”

"Mo Yao, this is your future destiny, and execution is." Wu Zetian said solemnly, "If you do this errand, if you do it well, there will be no reward." If so, if you smash it,—— destroy the nine clans. ”

Mo Yao struck a wit and bowed his head: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, Mo Yao will never dishonor the holy order!" ”

Wu Zetian nodded and said, "Okay, I hope you can live up to my expectations." ”

The maid outside the palace reported: "Your Majesty, Princess Taiping respectfully sees." ”

"Ah, it's peaceful. Let her in. Wu Zetian said to Mo Yao again, "When you came over, you haven't been to Shanglin Yuan, have you?" ”

Mo Yao said: "Come to see Your Majesty first, how dare you go elsewhere to show off, it's rude." ”

"Well, let's go, go for a walk in Shanglin Yuan." Wu Zetian commanded.

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Wechen retired. ”