Yang Yanzhao should not stay in the palace for a long time, when Chai Xiyun's mood eased down, he resigned from the Empress Dowager Zhou, Chai Xiyun because of Zhao Fuping, brought some fruit and pastries to her palace at dinner, the Empress Dowager Zhou saw that she did not return every night, so she sent someone to invite, the palace people went to know that the lights had been turned off and fell asleep in Qingyue Palace, and the Empress Dowager Zhou also closed the palace door and prepared to sleep.

Sheng Mama burned a furnace of incense sticks, extinguished the candles in the house, and left only two on the desk.

It's lonely, and it's a sleepless night.

Empress Dowager Zhou has been sleeping hard for many years, even the best ambergris can't help her sleep, today this happened, and the emperor had a fight, in the dead of night, I can't help but roll in my mind. The wind outside was very tight, beating the window lattice, stirring people's hearts more and more uneasy, Empress Dowager Zhou's eyes lifted lightly, and suddenly there was a cold figure in front of her, ink-colored boots, jet-black robe, hat to cover the face, and a cold air around her body.

Empress Dowager Zhou was stunned for a moment, and seemed to recognize the person in an instant, she didn't panic, and she didn't get up, but only asked, "Who asked you to come?" ”

"Ouchi of the Imperial Palace, there are still places I can't go." The person who came came in a natural tone.

"You can come and go in the palace, but you can't come here."

"Don't worry, no one knows."

Empress Dowager Zhou stood up, picked up her coat from the sandalwood shelf, and gently draped it over her shoulders, "So late at night, aren't you afraid of breaking the rules and manners?" ”

There was a mockery from the nose of the visitor, and when the hat fell, he raised his head and touched his eyes, and this face that had been through vicissitudes of life faintly appeared in the light, the emperor, Zhao Guangyi.

"You and I discuss the system," Zhao Guangyi asked rhetorically, "Today's Queen Mother, but in front of more than a dozen palace people in the Wende Palace, she lost her manners. ”

Empress Dowager Zhou was not in a hurry to answer his words, picked up the candle from the side of the case, lit a few other candles, and said slowly, "The mourning family remembers that when you and I reached an agreement, I warned you that the mourning family can stand by and turn a deaf ear to everything in the world, but Yun'er, you can't stand the grievances of half a point, and you can't forget it today." ”

"I didn't mean to punish her, I didn't want her to be involved with Yuan Wei..."

"You have said this three times today, and the mourners are tired of hearing it." Empress Dowager Zhou gave a cold look and intercepted Zhao Guangyi's words, Zhao Guangyi couldn't help but stop, Empress Dowager Zhou put down the candle flame and asked rhetorically, "You came here at night, what's the matter?" ”

"Isn't it that I punished Yun'er by mistake today, you are going to hide in this West Palace for the rest of your life, and you will not see me in life and death." Zhao Guangyi took a step closer.

Empress Dowager Zhou raised her eyes and responded, "The mourning family is the widow of the first emperor, and you are the emperor of the dynasty, and the two are not involved, why do you want to see them." ”

"When you say this, you have wiped out all the old feelings." Zhao Guangyi took another step closer.

"From the fifth sister, the mourning family is your aunt, from the first emperor, Your Majesty has to call me a sister-in-law, it's just such a little relationship, you and I really don't dare to talk about love."

Zhao Guangyi couldn't help but sigh when he heard her calm words, "I know you are blaming me, blaming me for raising troops with my brother, blaming me for forcing you to write an edict, blaming me for not taking good care of your fifth sister, I'm sorry for you, but are you worthy of me?" ”

Empress Dowager Zhou lowered her eyes and responded, "Your Majesty is really leisurely, this big night, it is just unbearable to talk to the mourning family about these past events." ”

"After the Zhou Dynasty died for more than ten years, my Zhao family also said that I have been lonely and widowed for more than ten years, but over the years, have you one day admitted from your heart that we are the emperor, have you?"

"Whether the mourning family admits it or not, you don't all sit on the throne, what does the mourning family think, what does it matter." Empress Dowager Zhou glanced at him coldly, Zhao Guangyi exhaled, and then said, "You didn't look down on me back then, isn't it because I was from a humble background, and you think that I can't become a big weapon, so I'd rather marry Chai Rong as a concubine than be my main lady, but now!" Isn't this reincarnation still in my hands, how is Chai Ziyao's ambition, and what is my second brother's ambition, aren't they all my subordinates defeated, and they will give this Wanli Sheji to me, Niangniang, I don't know if you can regret it! ”

The corners of Empress Dowager Zhou's mouth pulled a smile, got up and walked in front of Zhao Guangyi, and said slowly, "You are now in a high position, overlooking all living beings, I don't know if there is a trace of guilt in your heart when you watched your brother die, when you abolished Queen Wang and forced Zhao Dezhao to death!" ”

Zhao Guangyi frowned, and the Empress Dowager Zhou continued: "What the mourning family wants is your guilt, just to let you know what it is like to lose your loved ones?" Back then, the mourning family expected that there would be a rebellion sooner or later, but anyone could do it, only your Zhao brothers couldn't, the first emperor had the grace of knowing you, but unfortunately no matter how much kindness you had, you would have forgotten it all the time, and the mourning family retreated step by step in exchange for what, in exchange for Zhao Kuangyin's inch by inch, and kill them all, Zong Xun, that is my eldest sister who is pregnant with a child connected with flesh and blood in October! He was twenty years old when he died, twenty years old. ”

"Emperor Xiaowen has done such a wrong thing in his life, that is, he should not be very affectionate to your sister, and he should not be able to let the virtuous and virtuous, and he handed over this society to a seven-year-old child, and it is inevitable that he will be overturned."

"At least the first emperor values love and righteousness, and he is a hundred times stronger than your brother's ruthlessness."

"If we don't pay attention to love and righteousness, we will love Xiyun, an orphan of the former dynasty, when I first saw the post house, I was not the only one who fell for your eldest sister's demeanor! My brother made up for all his kindness and all his guilt to Xiyun, and his sins were atoned for. ”

"Are you speaking for Zhao Kuangyin? Hmph, you didn't hesitate when your axe fell that day!

"Don't talk to me about it." Zhao Guangyi seemed to have been poked in the sore spot, and his face changed in an instant, staring at the unfazed appearance of the person in front of him.

Mrs. Zhou's color sank, met his gaze, and said with a sarcastic smile, "Why, I ran into the scales, I'm afraid, in order to prove that your throne is justified, you forced Zhao Dezhao to death, abolished the queen, and asked Zhao Pu to take out a copy of the edict of the Empress Dowager Du "brother to brother", so thoughtful, your intention to seize the throne has been brewing for a long time. ”

Zhao Guangyi looked at her for a long time, and gradually lost the battle, so he changed his tone and sneered, "I have been planning for a long time, but if it weren't for Niangniang's guidance and foreplay, how could I ascend the throne so smoothly, Niangniang is a master." ”

Empress Dowager Zhou glanced at him again, took a string of prayer beads in her hand, turned it a few times, eased her emotions, and said coldly, "Your Majesty, if you have nothing important, please go back!" ”

Zhao Guangyi stepped forward and grabbed her wrist, and said sharply, "Don't think that I don't know what you're asking your brother to check, if I don't say it, it doesn't mean that I don't mind, we can tolerate Yun'er, we can treat her as our own daughter, but Chai Xi can't, he can only die." ”

"You dare!" Empress Dowager Zhou's anger suddenly rose, staring at Zhao Guangyi's face, "If you dare to touch him, the mourning family will dare to kill yourself." ”

"You" Zhao Guangyi was angry, and pinched her face with his backhand, his eyes were full of helplessness, so far thousands of sails have passed, and their eyes are no longer half bright in the past, full of vicissitudes and bitterness, Zhao Guangyi's heart twitched, gritted his teeth and asked, "They weren't born to you, you just lived for Chai Rong, for him and your sister's children, and you are not ready to die." ”

"Yes," Empress Dowager Zhou said.

Zhao Guangyi was enraged again, and he unconsciously used a little force in his hand, and said angrily, "But does Chai Rong need you to do this?" Back then, you didn't hesitate to break your promise to marry Chai Rong as your successor, and you tried your best to protect his harem and his children, but did he love you? He has been thinking about it all his life, only your big sister, what are you. ”

A trace of desolation flashed in Empress Dowager Zhou's eyes, and she said, "You really don't understand me, it was back then, and it's still today." ”

"You never understood me." Zhao Guangyi's tone was full of exhaustion, his tone was low and seemed to be roaring, he complained about her, complained about her not saying goodbye, complained that she inexplicably became Chai Rong's concubine, complained that she gave an unknown marriage, and even complained that she had been cold for twenty years.

Zhao Guangyi loosened the confinement, Empress Dowager Zhou's face had left deep red marks, Empress Dowager Zhou gently stroked her face, let out a long breath, walked to the door and said, "It's getting late, Your Majesty should go back to the palace early!" ”

Zhao Guangyi walked over slowly, stopped at the side of the door, turned around to look at the face of the Empress Dowager Zhou that had already been deeply buried, and pondered for a long time before asking, "Zhao'er, how did we get to this point." ”

Zhao'er.

Empress Dowager Zhou's heart trembled, this familiar and unfamiliar title has been buried deep in her heart for 20 years, this person who once called his girlfriend name with a smile on his face and pointed to heaven and earth to become a great career, now he has gray sideburns, youth is not there, mutiny, forced palace, usurpation, seeking power, he is sitting on the world after all, above 10,000 people, but it is a pity that to this day, how much blood has been paved, and how many people and how many feelings have been abandoned.

A few lines of tears fell, and in the dim light, Zhao Guangyi did not notice her abnormality, and his eyes were already blurred with tears, "You have lost me, and I have also lost your fifth sister, and we don't owe each other." ”

Zhao Guangyi walked out of the door, his steps were neither fast nor slow, and gradually, he was only left with a slightly lonely back in front of the Empress Dowager Zhou...... After a long time, the Empress Dowager Zhou muttered, "Ayi, in the early spring of March that year, it was not only you and me who were wrong." ”

"The past is far away, and Niangniang is still an infatuated character." A woman asked in a low voice from afar, and suddenly there was a figure as far as her eyes could see, walking from the window, wearing a plain dress, with her hair in a bun, and her delicate face was as calm as water. ”

I haven't seen her for many years, but Empress Dowager Zhou took a closer look at it twice, and then looked at it carefully, before she recognized the person and blurted out, "It's you." ”

Before the words fell, I heard a commotion outside the palace gate, and the guards shouted one after another, "Catch her, she ran to the West Palace." ”