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In the early morning of the next day, Xue Shao and Li Xianyuan took a carriage together to the Imperial City Vermilion Bird Gate, and entered the palace with the golden seal token given by the palace. Xue Shao didn't have much leisure to appreciate this beautiful and majestic palace, and like many ministers who entered the palace and went to the court, he rode all the way into the Daming Palace until he got off the bridge.

From entering the Imperial City Suzaku Gate to the Xiama Bridge, it took about an hour to walk. Xue Shao secretly exclaimed in his heart, this imperial city is a little too big, no wonder those civil and military generals entered the palace all the way either on horseback or in a car, and they didn't see a few on foot.

After crossing the Xiama Bridge, there is the political power center of the Tang Dynasty, the Hanyuan Hall of the Two Saints and the Hundred Officials Face Saints. From here, you can only walk, and the servants of the sword must also unload the sword, otherwise it will be the crime of breaking into the palace, which will be killed. Li Xianyuan took Xue Shao to avoid the road and bypassed the Hanyuan Hall to the east, passed through the East Inner Garden and came to the Dragon Head Pool.

Here is a beautiful scenery in the palace, there is no shortage of famous grass and flowers in the water Xie Loutai, there are often ministers who work hard here to rest and enjoy the scenery, and the emperor also sometimes floats a dragon boat here to feast the ministers.

Li Xianyuan brought Xue Shao here, even if he had completed his mission, he told him before leaving: "Brother Xue just play in this area." Princess Taiping occasionally comes here for boating or hiking. If you have a coincidence, you can meet Her Royal Highness Princess Taiping. ”

Xue Shao was speechless when he heard this. I thought that the princess Taiping had already arranged for Princess Taiping to come here to play today, just waiting to see each other, but I didn't expect it to be such an "unreliable" small probability encounter.

Li Xianyuan seemed to see Xue Shao's helplessness, so he had to smile and say: "Brother Xue, don't blame, the will of the saint must be natural, and it must be Her Royal Highness Princess Taiping herself who wants to come here on a whim, so that Brother Xue can meet her, so that the princess will not be suspicious." ”

"Well, if you come here, you will be safe." Xue Shao didn't want to say anything more. Anyway, it was better to finish an errand, and he didn't expect the royal family to treat his small subjects with any "humane" treatment.

"If you don't meet Her Royal Highness the princess today, tomorrow, Xiaosheng will accompany Brother Xue into the palace again. The guards on duty nearby had already greeted him, and they would not embarrass Brother Xue. Li Xianyuan also smiled bitterly helplessly, "With such an arrangement above, Xiaosheng can't help it." Please also ask Brother Xue not to blame. ”

"Brother Li doesn't need to say much, please go back!" Xue Shao said with a smile, "Xue is not the kind of person who has a small belly and chicken intestines and does not know what to do. ”

"Thank you, Brother Xue, for your magnanimity." Li Xianyuan bowed goodbye.

Li Xianyuan left, and Xue Shao began his aimless "encounter journey".

The Longshou Pond is very large, and there are countless tree-lined paths and pavilions. Hugh said that it was a chance encounter, but he made an appointment to meet here, and he had to specify the specific location of the building, otherwise it was easy to miss it in pairs.

Xue Shao was not anxious or apprehensive at all. In the past many years of military career, he often lurked motionless for days in hostile conditions, just waiting for the moment to pull the flight. Those who have survived the days naturally have composure and patience beyond ordinary people.

Therefore, the current predicament is nothing to Xue Shao. He swayed around leisurely, and it was regarded as a free day trip to the palace.

For three days in a row, Xue Shao didn't even see the shadow of Princess Taiping in Longshou Pond. It is usually a place for civil and military ministers to rest and visit, and idle people cannot enter the palace, and the women and servants in the palace do not dare to leave the harem court. Therefore, let alone Princess Taiping, Xue Shao has not even seen a woman in the past three days.

Even Li Xianyuan felt very embarrassed and anxious for Xue Shao, but Xue Shao was still very calm, without even a word of complaint, he still went out early and returned late like going to work, going to Longshou Pond to "wait for the rabbit".

The moon slave always hid in his room without leaving home, closed his eyes and sat down to breathe, and rarely showed up unless Xue Shao came back. Li Xianyuan was very curious, why did a young and beautiful woman like her always look like a seventy or eighty-year-old old monk, and the eight winds were as silent as water? Except for Xue Shao, she would never say a word to anyone, let alone give a smile. is really an iceberg beauty who doesn't understand the amorous style, and she doesn't even give a chance to talk!

Today's sun is sunny and the breeze is blowing, the willows on the shore of Longshou Pond are dancing lightly in the wind, and many flowers in the flower garden are also blooming. Such a scene is a good day to go out and play.

The strange thing is that the area around Longshou Pond is unusually deserted today, except for the occasional team of soldiers patrolling by, almost no civil and military ministers are seen hanging here. Xue Shao was a little surprised, and thought about it carefully, as if he had heard Li Xianyuan say during the chat last night that the former prince Li Xian was finally exiled from Beijing yesterday after being detained for more than a year for the crime of "rebellion". It is said that Li Xian and his entourage, including his wife and children, were all ragged and miserable, and everyone who saw this was sad and inexplicable.

Xue Shao remembers this history very clearly. That is, starting from the elimination of her own son Li Xian and the elimination of the biggest political enemy in the early days, the Tianhou Wu family began to control the expansion of the government more vigorously, and took the steps of her road to the empress.

There was such a major event as the exile of the former prince, and there was naturally a rumor in the court, and everyone was in danger. Even if it will not be affected and affected, at such a juncture, which minister dares to go to Longshou Pond to gather people to have fun, doesn't that make it clear that he is illegally gathering people to discuss the government and politics, or is he excited about what happened to the former prince Li Xian?

No wonder there is only Xue Shao wandering in the Dragon Head Pond today.

Xue Shao felt that he was quiet. As he had done a few days ago, he went straight to the Foggy Moon Pavilion in the center of Longshou Pond Lake. There is a piece of lotus, lotus leaves and lotus pods carved from Taihu Lake stone, which is unique in the heart of the craftsman. These many carvings are connected to a floating tunnel leading to the Wuyue Pavilion built in the middle of the lake, where the large stone lotus leaves can accommodate three adults to lie on it.

Xue Shao chose to wait here every day. Due to the professional habits he had cultivated over the years, he decided that this stone scene was not only inaccessible and very secluded, but also the best ambush and sniper location in the entire Longshou Pond area. Hiding here, almost the entire Dragon Head Pool is in his observation range and so on. Compared with wandering aimlessly and creating chance encounters, it is much wiser to take the initiative to talk to you when you see the target here.

Xue Shao stepped on the stone road unhurriedly and walked towards the Wuyue Pavilion in the center of the lake. Halfway through, he was alert to hear a woman's low sobbing voice behind a large stone lotus canopy not far ahead. After taking a few steps closer, I saw a white dress that was scattered on the ground.

"At this point, life and death are boundless, I don't see your face, you don't know my tears......" The woman sobbed and groaned, and every word was painful. I saw that Shi Lianhou stretched out a snow-white hand and picked up a small stone, she wrapped the stone with a page full of words, held it with both hands, and sank to the bottom of the lake with the stone and paper.

"If the gods have spirits, please pass on the ruler and let you receive these psalms I have written for you......" The woman choked up more and more, and her voice was chopped.

If this kind of thing is broken in person, it will inevitably be embarrassing. Xue Shao stopped and looked at it a few times and was about to turn around and leave, when the woman behind Shi Lian stood up in surprise, "Who?!" ”

As soon as Xue Shao turned around, he was facing a pair of reddened teary eyes.

The woman's face was frightened, and Xue Shao's eyes suddenly lit up.

The woman in front of her stood in the wind in a cyan half-sleeved skirt, wearing a flower hairpin and sideburns, and a snow-white silk on her half-exposed pink shoulders and crisp breasts. The jade face with the red flame flower is already amazingly beautiful, although there are some pear blossoms with rain, but it is definitely not the kind of Chu Chu sick of Daiyu burial flowers, but it is full of aura, revealing a bit of wisdom and sharpness.

If you want to use one word to describe the amazing woman in front of you, it is - immortal!

If there is one word, it is - beautiful and stunning!

"Who are you to dare to come here?" The woman scolded coquettishly.

Xue Shao was as calm as Qiu Hong, and said indifferently: "People passing by." ”

The woman's eyebrows raised slightly, revealing a fleeting look of surprise, hurriedly turned her face away to wipe the tears, and then hurriedly picked up a stack of papers full of black letters from the ground, never looked at Xue Shao again, and passed by him abruptly, leaving a faint fragrance.

Xue Shao turned slightly to make way for her, stared at her back, and said secretly: She seems to be very afraid that I saw her sad appearance, and at the end of the day, she should have guessed my origin or thought of something, so she ran away without saying a word in a panic. Listening to her tone, she seems to be a person who is used to giving orders condescendingly, and judging by her dress, she should be a female official in the palace.

After Wu Zetian was made the queen and took power, he successively promoted many female officials in the palace to keep them for use. Although these female officials did not go to the court, they accompanied Wu Zetian to hold orders and provide advice, and they were all Wu Zetian's trusted henchmen, and they sometimes even influenced government affairs and the court situation more than courtiers.

The emergence of a large number of female officials and the trend in the political arena can be regarded as a "miracle" of this era.

The woman had run away, as if she were fleeing.

"It's quite literary and artistic, and it also buries poems in the heart of the lake, and the fish passes on the ruler." Xue Shao smiled disapprovingly, walked to the Fog Moon Pavilion and sat down.

There was silence all around, and Xue Shao's thoughts drifted away with the breeze, as if he had returned to the old time when he and An Xiaorou were in love.

I don't know how long later, there was a burst of laughter from the river embankment not far away. Xue Shao turned his head and saw a group of women and a tall black horse. A woman in yellow rode at once, and the other women gathered around the horse with joy and nervousness, as if they were afraid that it would run faster.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way! The riding skills of this palace are so superb that I don't need you to protect me! The woman on the horse waved her hand and reprimanded, "Such a slow stumbling like an old woman, where is there still the pleasure of traveling!" ”

"Your Royal Highness Princess, this horse is extraordinary, it's better to be careful!" The other women refused to get out of the way.

"If you don't get out of the way, cut your tongues!" The woman on the horse scolded loudly, and the other women suddenly retreated in panic.

Xue Shao stood up, "Princess? ”