The night is deep, and the moon is like a hook.

Wu Zetian stood alone on Wangxian Terrace, looking down at Luoyang with slightly frowning eyebrows, and letting the night breeze blow his hair apart.

Lonely!

She suddenly felt lonely like never before.

Even when he became a nun in Ganye Temple, the feeling of loneliness was not as bitter as it is now.

"Ganye Temple...... At that time, I was still young, and I had enough courage and time to challenge fate, and I never gave up in the face of any failure. Wu Zetian couldn't help muttering, "At that time, the young slave was still there...... With him, I still have hope. ”

Looking up at the round of Xuanyue above his head, Wu Zetian squinted slightly, "Are you looking at me, childish slave?" …… Which star is you, child? ”

"I'm sad, you know? Childish slave ......"

"Once our most trusted minister, he wanted to kill me while your bones were still cold. I killed him. ”

"Our son, when he has a queen, he will not recognize his mother, and I will depose him and exile him."

"Our most important general will raise an army in the north to rebel. I should have killed him, but I just deposed him. ”

"And your good nephew, good son-in-law, once you said that he was the only remaining talent and hope of the royal fruit......" Wu Zetian smiled slightly bitterly, "But when I needed him the most, he left me and I went." ”

"Now, our thirty years of hard work and hard work are being trampled by the iron hooves of the Turks."

"The stars are twinking, are you rebuking me, or are you comforting me? Childish slave ......"

Luoyang, the divine capital at night, turned into a hazy cloud of smoke and rain in Wu Zetian's eyes.

A white shadow casually swept across the eyes. Wu Zetian hurriedly wiped his eyes, looked down and looked at it, it seemed to be Xuan Yunzi.

"Xuanyunzi, is that you?"

"Queen Mother, it's me."

"Come up!" Wu Zetian felt a little lucky. At this time, it is good to have a smart woman to talk to you.

Xuanyunzi ascended to Wangxiantai and gave a salute.

Wu Zetian looked at Xuanyunzi seriously for the first time, she has a peerless beauty that makes all men in the world tempting, she is dressed in white without fat powder, and she is clean from head to toe to spotless.

"It's nice to be young."

Xuanyunzi bowed, "Minister, I'm here to say goodbye to the Queen Mother." After dawn, the minister was leaving. ”

Wu Zetian was slightly startled, "Where are you going?" ”

"Go where I'm supposed to be." Xuan Yunzi smiled slightly, and bowed again, "Before the minister left, he specially came to thank the Queen Mother." ”

"Thank me for what?" Wu Zetian was a little puzzled, Xuan Yunzi has never been bound by these vulgar rites, what's wrong today?

"The minister wants to thank the Queen Mother, so that the minister can really know myself." Xuan Yunzi said, "I will no longer be confused, and I will no longer have pain. For the first time in my life, I was so persistent and determined to do something. Don't ask about the past, reckless about the consequences, don't even ask about right or wrong, no regrets. ”

"What exactly do you want to do?" Wu Zetian raised his voice a little.

Xuan Yunzi smiled slightly, looked at Wu Zetian fixedly, and did not answer.

Few people dared to ask in front of him without answering, and Wu Zetian felt both annoyed and a little surprised. But after staring at Xuan Yunzi for a while, Wu Zetian suddenly understood, "You're going to find Xue Shao?!" ”

"It's not to seek, it's to follow." Xuan Yunzi said, "I know where he went, and I know what he was going to do. ”

"Where did he go?" Wu Zetian's voice became urgent.

"Xiazhou."

Although he guessed a little, Wu Zetian still stood for a long time and was speechless for a long time.

"I remember that day in Shangqing Guanli, the Empress Dowager said to me that I had to be Xue Shao's wife first. Without this layer, nothing else would be meaningful. The Queen Mother also said that Xuanyunzi must be able to do it, you will never look at the wrong person. Xuan Yunzi smiled slightly and said, "What I want to tell the Queen Mother now is that the Queen Mother is indeed not wrong. I have done it, and I will sincerely follow Xue Shao like a real wife. No matter where he is, whatever he is going to do. I just need to follow him, even if I wander all my life! ”

"A lifetime of wandering?" Wu Zetian laughed, how childish and ridiculous!

So when she laughed, she did not hide her ridicule of Xuan Yunzi, and asked with mean and even vicious feelings: "Then what if Xue Shao has always disliked you?" ”

"That's his business, I can't decide." Xuan Yunzi smiled quite calmly, "The moment I saw Xue Shao crying, I suddenly understood: it turns out that there are so many things in this world that are worthy of our cherishing and swearing. From that moment on, I made up my mind, Xue Shao likes me, or doesn't like me. It is good that my marriage with him can end well, or that I have to die well-Xuanyunzi will follow Xue Shao from now on. ”

"What do you get by following him? What can you do? Wu Zetian was still a mocking and puzzled question.

"Maybe I won't get anything, and I won't be able to do anything." Xuan Yunzi replied calmly, "But if I don't follow him, I will definitely regret it in the future, and I will hate myself for the rest of my life!" ”

"......" Wu Zetian was stunned and speechless.

"Thank you, Queen Mother." Xuan Yunzi bowed for the third time, "If it weren't for your proposal to give marriage, I might never have understood, it turns out that I have long fallen in love with Xue Shao." ”

Wu Zetian looked at Xuan Yunzi fixedly, his expression was very indifferent, and his eyes were a little dazed. But the taunt suddenly vanished without a trace.

"Love, perhaps, is really worthless. Especially when it comes to the struggle for power. Xuan Yunzi smiled slightly and said, "But I think every woman must have at least one time in her life, fighting for love." Otherwise, when we are old and yellow, or even when we are about to die, we will not even have a memory that we can take out and savor. ”

"Are you sarcastic about Hongu?" Wu Zetian's face sank.

"I'm envious of the Queen Mother." Xuan Yunzi smiled indifferently, "You are very lucky that you met the man who loves you the most in the world." He is willing to give you anything, even this great river and mountain. ”

"Enough!" Wu Zetian's face changed suddenly, "Let's go!" ”

Xuan Yunzi smiled slightly, neither scared nor gone, and still said calmly: "I will leave, but this does not mean that I will betray the Queen Mother." Just like Xue Shao, he never thought of betraying his country. We all just want to do something, do our part. ”

"Could it be that this palace has been obstructing you all the time and not letting you do your part?" Wu Zetian asked loudly.

"Yes."

Wu Zetian was stunned, "Xuanyunzi, you are so bold?!" ”

"If it weren't for that, how could the Queen Mother choose me?" Xuan Yunzi still smiled quite calmly, "Xue Shao is a loyal minister, a hero, or a loyal minister and hero with enthusiasm and courage to take responsibility." He is capable enough to be a good scholar, or even a good prime minister. But he hated politics, politics full of hatred, intrigue, selfishness and narrow-mindedness. Therefore, this court is not suitable for him. ”

"......" Wu Zetian stared at Xuan Yunzi with wide eyes, as if angry and shocked.

"Because in his heart, national security and civil security are the biggest politics." Xuan Yunzi continued, "You let him sit in the rich and gentle township of Shendu and watch the territory fall, and sit and watch his robed brothers die with unwillingness and anger, which is the most cruel torture in the world. So, he's gone. ”

"All of this he told you personally?" Wu Zetian asked.

"He never mentioned it. He didn't even bother to talk to me. Xuan Yunzi smiled slightly, smiling a little proudly, "I thought that Empress Dowager Wu, who was regarded as a mother, teacher and Bole by Xue Shao, would be the person who knew Xue Shao the most in this world. But I didn't expect that Xuan Yunzi, a woman who was very annoying to Xue Shao, would know more than Empress Dowager Wu. ”

"......" Wu Zetian gritted his teeth, twisted his eyebrows, and was speechless.

"As smart as the Queen Mother, how can it be?" Xuan Yunzi smiled and shook his head, "What is it that blinded the Queen Mother's bright eyes?" ”

"If that's enough, let's go!" Wu Zetian sighed helplessly, turned around and held the railing with both hands, and said lightly, "This palace will not kill people today." ”

"Since the Queen Mother doesn't kill me, then a good person will do it to the end, please give me one more thing. Only with it did I have the face to appear in front of Xue Shao. Xuan Yunzi said.

Wu Zetian's face sank, "You can get an inch!" ”

"This thing, I think the Queen Mother will be happy to give it." Xuan Yunzi still smiled calmly, "Wei waits for the loss of the teacher and humiliates the country, and there is no redemption for a hundred deaths." In the Helong crisis, only Xue Shao has the ability to turn the tide. Why didn't the Queen Mother be a favor and change Xue Shao to be the general manager of the march to raise the soldiers and horses of the prefectures of Longyou Dao, so that he could lead the troops to fight justifiably? ”

Wu Zetian's eyebrows sank, "Go on." ”

"Xue Shao ran away, but he was not a traitor, let alone betrayed the Queen Mother." Xuan Yunzi said, "A piece of paper is a book, but a few drops of pen and ink are just three feet of silk." Let Xuanyunzi bring it to Xue Shao, if there is a reunion in the future, the Queen Mother and Xue Shao will have to face each other. Princess Taiping will not fall into pain from now on. ”

After hearing these words, Wu Zetian turned his head and squinted his eyes, looked at the night sky in a daze, and muttered to himself in a low voice: "Such a simple thing, I actually need Xuan Yunzi's reminder to know how to do it...... Am I really blindfolded by something, childish? Otherwise, how could I have become so stupid and sluggish? ”

Helong, Yanchang County.

Yu Hongye tried her best and opened the two heavy doors with her own hands.

"Childe, it's all here." Yu Hongye clapped his hands and gasped, and said with a smile.

Xue Shao walked into the gate and looked up, the food and clothes were piled up, and he couldn't see his head at a glance.

"This is the largest warehouse I've ever seen in my life." Xue Shao couldn't help but take a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Yu Hongye, in the history books of the Tang Dynasty, there should be a page that belongs to you. ”

Yu Hongye smiled, "Childe said that he was joking, Hongye is just a businesswoman, how can she leave her name in history?" ”

"Even if it's just a businesswoman." Xue Shao turned his head to look at Yu Hongye, and said seriously: "You are also more qualified than many prime ministers and princes!" ”