When I arrived at the Jixian Palace, I chatted a few words about homely things, and Princess Taiping said that my mother was sleepy. Wu Zetian told her to lie down for a while, and then return home with Xue Shao later. Princess Taiping was like a coquettish child, sleeping on her mother's thighs and hugging her waist. Wu Zetian didn't follow, saying that you are a mother of two children, how can you be so coquettish?

Princess Taiping said, even if I become a grandmother in the future, I will still be my mother's daughter!

Wu Zetian hugged her into his arms, humming a sweet song while caressing her waterfall green silk, until Princess Taiping fell asleep.

Xue Shao now understands why Wu Zetian prefers Princess Taiping. It's one thing for blood to be thicker than water, Wu Ze, as a woman who has been biting and fighting in the inner court for nearly half a century full of intrigue and calculation, lacking warmth and true love, how can she not desire not to cherish such a caring little cotton silk as Princess Taiping?

People's hearts, after all, are made of flesh. Xue Shao has seen the iron-fisted and ruthless Wu Zetian more than once, and the maternal kindness he showed when facing Princess Taiping.

It was late at night. The night is as cool as water.

Xue Shao stood at the palace fence outside the dormitory of the Jixian Palace, condescending, quietly looking at Luoyang City.

If Chang'an is like a wild and unrestrained man who has gone through vicissitudes, then Luoyang is a charming, gorgeous, silent and beautiful woman in the city.

The water is murmuring, and the fishing lights are lit.

Xue Shao stood for a long time, barely moving. But his heart and soul have been surging away like this Luo water, flowing far away, and there is no place that is not picturesque. They even flew thousands of years ago, and they were full of history. Inadvertently, it seems that after a thousand years, I heard people comment on the success or failure of today's dynasty meteorology, count those beauties and giants, and use sound and words to restore the ancient Jin Ge Iron Horse, and collect dust on the battlefield......

Luoyang, Shendu!

Now, at this moment!

Every thing that happens here, every moment that passes here, will become history!

After days of busyness, confusion and exhaustion, today by chance to find such a moment of quiet, Xue Shaodouran has a sense of epiphany of an old monk in Zen. The heart has been emptied, and the soul seems to have undergone a cleansing. The mind is unprecedentedly clear, and the mood is also a lot more open-minded.

"Honor." There was a call from behind him.

Xue Shao couldn't help but be slightly startled, Shicai was so engrossed that I didn't have my usual vigilance, and Wu Zetian had already walked behind him and didn't notice it.

"Queen Mother." Xue Shao bowed.

"Come with me."

Xue Shao was a little strange, where could he go on this big night?

Accompanied by a team of eunuchs and maids holding lanterns, Wu Zetian took Xue Shao through the corridor and walked around half of the Immortal Palace, and arrived at the back of the hall.

Here, there is actually a cave.

The palace of Taichu Palace is generally built on a stone platform, and it rises more than three zhang from the ground, and it can overlook the whole city from a high position. The rear of most palaces is generally suspended in the air, but the apse of the Jixian Hall is connected to a corridor that is more than a foot wide like a ladder, and an open-air platform is connected to the end of the hall.

Now, the open-air platform is lit up with many lights. If you look at it from a distance at night, it looks like an altar of fire pond hanging in the air, which is extremely mysterious and magnificent.

Wu Zetian took Xue Shao and walked directly to the high platform.

"On the eve of the death of the first emperor, he personally ordered to erect a high platform behind the Jixian Palace, called Wangsendai, to ask the immortals to pray for longevity." Wu Zetian said softly as he walked, "Helplessly, the will of heaven is difficult to disobey, and before Wangxiantai was completed, the first emperor had already gone first." ”

Xue Shao nodded and did not interject.

Since then, although Wangsendai has been completed, it has been abandoned. Until recently, it came in handy. Wu Zetian turned his head and smiled mysteriously, "Can you guess what it's for?" ”

"Sacrifice? Prays? Xue Shao thought for a while and said, "That's all there is to it, right?" ”

"Wrong." Wu Zetian smiled slightly and continued to move forward.

Xue Shao shook his head, "Chen can't guess." ”

"You'll understand right away."

The ladder was quite long and stretched straight up, and when he was about to climb the terrace, Xue Shao felt that he had reached the night sky, as if he was floating in the Heavenly Court.

The terrace is not particularly large, surrounded by a circle of candles sheltered from the wind, surrounded by a circle of astrological mystical runes, and in the middle of which is an altar.

But what surprised Xue Shao the most was not this mysterious ornament, but a woman sitting in the center of the rune at the moment.

The wide robe and large sleeves are better than the snow, and the unrestrained green silk flies in the wind.

She was facing away from Xue Shao and Wu Zetian, looking up at the sky slightly. Despite the fact that there were so many people behind her, she was unaware.

Wu Zetian signaled Xue Shao to keep quiet with his fingers and lips, and the other eunuchs and maids all retreated quietly.

"Do you know?" Wu Zetian asked in a low voice.

After about two or three zhang away, Xue Shao carefully examined the woman's back, graceful and curvaceous, and it could be speculated that her age was about eighteen or twenty.

It's just that this back is a little familiar, but I can't remember where I've seen it for a while...... So Xue Shao shook his head, "I don't know." ”

Wu Zetian smiled.

"Demon."

She called out, and the woman suddenly came back to her senses and turned her head to look, and suddenly stood up in surprise.

With a pair of beautiful feet like jade, splashing ink hair against the wind, the demon gave Xue Shao a stunned smile, "Brother Fairy!" ”

Wu Zetian smiled, "In your eyes, there is only your fairy brother." ”

"The Queen Mother forgives her sins...... "The demon stuck out her tongue, but still ran in front of Xue Shao, her bright and dark eyes looked at Xue Shao who was even more surprised than him, and said with a smile, "Brother Fairy, what's wrong with you?" ”

"I ...... It's nothing! Xue Shao's expression was very strange, like surprise and incredulous, "Demon, you and I almost can't recognize you!" ”

"You've been coming to see me for so long." The demon complained, but still smiled.

This smile is so clean that it is intoxicating and heartbreaking.

"Am I not here?" Xue Shao took a deep breath and turned her head to look at Wu Zetian, the smile on her face was very narrow, obviously laughing at herself.

"Queen Mother, the minister has lost his temper."

"There is no outsider, no need to be restrained." Wu Zetian said with a smile, "It's not just you, but Bengong was also scared a few days ago. It's just been half a year, and the demon has turned into a big girl. Not only has he grown too fast, but now this immortal face is thin and short from before, and the difference between the two is like a cloud and mud! ”

Xue Shao still couldn't believe his eyes, and said with a smile: "Demon, what have you eaten in the past six months?" Grow so fast! So much change? ”

"This!" The demon ran to the side happily with bare feet, and actually uncovered the bamboo steamer simmering on a small fire, and then took out two white-flour steamed buns with a hot scream, "Big meat steamed buns!" ”

"Put it down, it's hot!" Wu Zetian and Xue Shao shouted in unison.

"Queen Mother, fairy brother, you can eat!" You'er smiled, "This is what I made with my own hands, which can not only sacrifice to the gods, but also fill my stomach." The master said that mortals who have eaten the sacrifices of immortals can open up wisdom and prolong their lives. ”

The smile on You'er's face was by no means more than innocent, it made Wu Zetian and Xue Shao unable to find any reason to refuse.

So both of them ate this meat bun.

"It tastes special." Wu Zetian was definitely chewing slowly, and after eating the little leftovers, he sighed sincerely, "Bengong, I haven't eaten such a stomach-warming and heart-warming food for some years." ”

"Hahaha!"

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes and heard it with his own ears, Xue Shao wouldn't have believed that this was the laughter of a demon like a fairy.

It can be described as heartless laughter, but it can make people feel boundless freedom and warm romance, without a trace of fetters and without a trace of dust.

"Is it delicious, fairy brother?" The demon asked with anticipation and seriousness.

Xue Shao smiled slightly, "One more." ”

The demon was overjoyed, and took a whole bamboo cage in a row, and it was so hot again that it screamed and trembled, "It's all for you!" ”

Xue Shao stretched out his hand to take it, gobbled it up, and ate it in an instant.

Wu Zetian and You'er both laughed.

"Brother Fairy, drink water." The demon smiled and handed over a copper kettle, "Don't choke." ”

Xue Shao took it and drank it. Wu Zetian laughed on the side.

"Yike...... Forgot! The demon screamed, and hurriedly brought a copper kettle to Wu Zetian, "Queen Mother, don't choke." ”

Wu Zetian took the copper kettle and smiled, and took a sip.

"Queen Mother, fairy brother, you stay a little longer." The demon said as she trotted down the ladder, "I'm going to get something interesting and show you!" ”

The demon is gone.

Wu Zetian walked to the edge of the altar and looked at it from afar.

"Chengyu, do you know why this palace brought you here?"

Xue Shao walked up to her, "Looking at the immortal platform, there are indeed immortals." ”

"That's just one of them." Wu Zetian squinted slightly, looked at the boundless night sky, and said, "Wangxiantai not only has immortals, but also heavenly machines. ”

"Heavenly Machine?" Xue Shao was puzzled.

Wu Zetian smiled slightly, "The demon has lived on Wangxiantai for more than half a year. ”

"She's always lived here?" Xue Shao looked around, can this place be inhabited?

"For more than half a year, day and night, morning and dusk, no matter the wind or rain, she is here." Wu Zetian said, "Sit and meditate, breathe and breathe...... Stargazing divination! ”

"Stargazing?" Xue Shao suddenly realized, that's right, if you want to watch the sky at night, Wangsendai is definitely the best place.

Wu Zetian nodded.

Xue Shao suddenly remembered something and asked, "Queen Mother, the minister seems to have heard what the demon said, Master?" - I don't know who she worshipped as a teacher? ”

Wu Zetian smiled slightly, "A person you must know, but you will never think of it." ”

Xue Shao reflexively thought of a person in his mind, Xuan Yunzi?

Wu Zetian obviously didn't plan to sell Guanzi, turned his face to look at Xue Shao, and said three words seriously-

"Yuan Tiangang."