Zuo Zhaoyi and Yuan Mingyue are very regular and do not fear the heat. In this way, it was very inappropriate for her to follow behind Emperor Yuan Xiu, who was wearing a white robe with loose hair. Yuan Xiu was calm and calm, but Yuan Mingyue looked nervous, looking at Yuan Xiu incessantly, wanting to get encouragement from Yuan Xiu's demeanor.

At this time, noon has passed, and the sun is gradually moving in the west. The clear water in the washing pond is clear, and the shade of the trees is cool. Yuan Mingyue looked at Emperor Yuan Xiu standing quietly by the pool facing the blue waves of the Washing Pond, she couldn't help but slowly walk to Yuan Xiu's side, and looked at the calm pool water in front of her with Yuan Xiu and whispered, "Lord, will Her Royal Highness really come?" ”

At this time, Yuan Xiu turned around, he didn't answer Yuan Mingyue's question, and looked past her into the distance. Just outside the bushes, the palace people who were originally standing were attendants, but at the moment it was a little noisy. Sure enough, it was the palace people of Jiaofang Palace, who surrounded the queen Gao Changjun and stopped.

Yuan Xiu's gaze fell on Gao Changjun. She stands out like the moon, and she looks more beautiful and refined among so many fat powder hairpins. At this time, Gao Changjun made Yuan Xiu feel a little dreamy, so unreal. Suddenly, there was a premonition that she did not belong to this cold and dusty palace forbidden.

Gao Changjun walked over very slowly, step by step, and she had already seen the thin and long man in the distance at a glance among the figures. Behind him, the sun erupted the last of its afterglow, making him look like he was gilded. But his face was even less real in the backlit darkness.

Gao Changjun walked up to Yuan Xiu step by step and bowed.

"The queen meditates and worships the Buddha, how can she have time to come here?" Yuan Xiu retracted his gaze and turned to face the washing pool, no longer looking at Gao Changjun.

Yuan Mingyue stood sideways extremely nervously and looked at the emperor and queen.

"The Lord has admonished him very much, and the corpses of the concubines have been vegetarian for a long time, and today I am here to advise the Lord to be loyal." Gao Changjun raised his head and looked at the back of Emperor Yuan Xiu.

"What does the queen want to say to Lone?" Yuan Xiu asked a little absent-mindedly.

"Please don't accept more concubines and concubines, and allow your concubines to clear the harem." Gao Changjun's voice was slightly sharp.

If it is said that Emperor Yuan Xiu is different from before, he has been cultivating in the palace since he put down the government and the grievances with the great prime minister Gao Huan and his party, to the point of being drunk and obsessed. Although the wide acceptance of concubines has lost its scale, it is actually harmless, and it is far less important than being overly obsessed with Taoism and losing the national body. Since Queen Gao Changjun wants to advise, why doesn't she get to the point? Instead, do you want to avoid the important and light? This kind of exhortation is not like criticizing dragon scales for the king, but a bit like a quarrel between ordinary folk couples. This is not like a queen with a noble bearing, and it is not like Gao Changjun himself.

But as soon as the queen said this, it implicated a wide range of people in the harem, and the bathing pool was very quiet for a while, and the atmosphere was tense to the extreme.

Yuan Xiu slowly turned around, looked at Gao Changjun and said, "So the queen thinks that there are too many concubines in the lonely harem?" Could it be that the queen is jealous? He frowned slightly, staring at Gao Changjun in front of him, who was slightly bowed. Yuan Xiu's voice fell and became quiet again, he couldn't help but take two steps towards Gao Changjun, looked at her and said, "The queen is dedicated to worshipping the Buddha and abandoning loneliness, isn't it still allowed to accept concubines alone?" No matter how many concubines there are, it can't hinder the queen's affairs, and the queen can still live in the Jiaofang Palace. Now even the queen of this kind of trivial matter has to be picky, so she just drives away the people around her. Is it that one day the queen will also expel Lone from the palace? ”

Yuan Xiu's words also seemed a bit capricious and unreasonable. But the words "expelled from the palace" have a deep meaning, coupled with the background of the queen Gao Changjun, it is shocking to hear. For a moment, everyone was puzzled and frightened.

Only Zuo Zhaoyi Yuan Mingyue looked at the queen Gao Changjun, who was silent and calm, and moved towards the angry emperor Yuan Xiu, and persuaded in a low voice, "The lord must not be angry......

"Zuo Zhaoyi is rude!" Empress Gao Changjun looked at Yuan Mingyue and threw out a sentence coldly, but her face was still calm, but the queen's majesty had been unconsciously revealed. She turned her gaze to Emperor Yuan Xiu again, and said in a cold tone, "It is because there are so many people who rap that the lord listens and believes in it." In this case, it is better to be quieter. Gao Changjun paused for a moment and said, "Zuo Zhaoyi lives in the inner palace but does not follow the rules, since you have also been cultivating with the Holy Driver for a long time, it is better to go out of the palace to practice in the Taoist temple for a while, and then come back when your heart is calm." ”

Gao Changjun said it clearly, but everyone was shocked when they heard it. Everyone knows that Zuo Zhaoyi Yuan Mingyue is the favorite concubine of Emperor Yuan Xiu, but no matter how much she is favored, Queen Gao Changjun still expelled her from the palace in a few words, and a thorn in the eye was gently and skillfully removed.

"Lord ......" Yuan Mingyue looked at Yuan Xiu in horror, but she was afraid of the queen's authority and did not dare to cry to the emperor to intercede.

"The queen deposed the concubines beside her with a single word," Yuan Xiu stared at Gao Changjun's eyes and asked, "Do you really have me in your heart?" ”

That's a strange thing to say.

"The lord asked the concubine like this, but it was the concubine who wanted to ask the lord." Gao Changjun still looked as usual, but Yuan Xiu could still see that her eyelashes were trembling slightly. Finally, Gao Changjun asked, "Have you ever had me in your heart?" Her voice was no longer so cold and sharp, it was low and melancholy.

It was quiet again. Yuan Xiu and Gao Changjun looked at each other, both of them seemed to want to say something, but they were all looking at each other as if there was no one else.

Yuan Mingyue looked at Yuan Xiu, then at Gao Changjun, and finally didn't say anything, only lowered her head and wept secretly.

"If the lord still takes the concubine as the queen, he will ask Zuo Zhaoyi to leave the palace. Otherwise, please ask the Lord to decree that the queen will be abolished. Finally, Gao Changjun spoke, although his tone was calm, but his words were very decisive.

"You know that loneliness can't abolish you, but it's so difficult to be alone. Doesn't the queen just want peace in the palace? Lone went out of the palace with Zuo Zhaoyi to the Taoist temple. Yuan Xiu finally became furious.

Everyone was in an uproar. Only Zuo Zhaoyi Yuan Mingyue glanced at Empress Gao Changjun extremely calmly. The eyes are meaningful, but there is no resentment.

Emperor Yuan Xiu brushed his sleeves and left.

Word immediately spread in the palace that the queen was powerful in the palace with the background of the eldest daughter of the prime minister, and even the emperor was expelled from the palace by her. It was something that neither her father nor her brother dared to do. In order to maintain Zuo Zhaoyi Yuan Mingyue, Emperor Yuan Xiu took his favorite concubine out of the palace in anger, and left Luoyang City to stop in the Taoist temple outside the city.

What's even more strange is that although the queen goes along with her wishes, she seems to lose more than she gains, what does she care about? Soon after the emperor took Zuo Zhaoyi out of the palace, the queen also went out of the palace to the Qianxiang Temple on Longmen Mountain. There is no owner in the palace for a while, which is really strange.

Gao Cheng heard Cui Jishu say that the eldest sister had a dispute with Emperor Yuan Xiu as the empress, and during this time, she actually drove the emperor and Zuo Zhaoyi Yuan Mingyue out of the palace together, and his heart was very different. First, it was strange that such a wayward act was by no means his eldest sister's style; The second strange thing is that he doesn't even shy away from the notoriety of expelling the king, even if he doesn't want to be himself, don't he want to think about his father's prime minister? This is not like Gao Changjun's personality on weekdays. Third, what is even more strange is that even the queen herself left everything and left the palace, which is even less like Gao Changjun himself.

Hearing the urgent report sent by Cui Jishu, saying that the emperor and queen had left the palace one after another, Gao Cheng was shocked and anxious. Although it is caused by the willfulness of the eldest sister, but now that his father, the prime minister Gao Huan, is not in the capital, he has just entered the court as a son, and all the consequences caused by the contradictions between the emperor and the queen will be counted in his name at this critical time. Besides, he is still unstable, and he has made such a big mistake for no reason, if he says that the power of the son of the world is beyond his reach, I am afraid that even his inheritance will be questioned.

Therefore, Gao Cheng immediately hurried out of the Bohai Palace, rode his horse and went straight to the palace at night. But he forgot that the emperor in the palace was expelled, the queen abandoned herself, and the rest were all concubines, temple eunuchs, palace people and other irrelevant things, it was enough to have a Huangmen waiter Cui Jishu, what did he do as a courtier?

personally asked Cui Jishu a few important words, it was useless to stay in the palace, it was already night, and he was unprecedentedly tired, so he abandoned his horse and rode back towards the way Bohai Wangfu came.

Gao Cheng, who was in the car, couldn't support his tense nerves at this time, and he was completely relaxed, and fatigue hit. It's not exertion, it's a feeling of physical and mental exhaustion that I've never felt before. He couldn't help but pretend to sleep in the car. When his demeanor and consciousness were half asleep and half awake, Gao Cheng thought of his father, Gao Huan, the prime minister. My father has gone from being a soldier in Huaishuo Town to a powerful minister who calls for wind and rain and is in charge of the world today, half of his life has passed, but he is more and more like walking on thin ice, and he cannot be idle for a day. Of course, what you have asked for is satisfied, but you don't know if it is worth it compared to what you have lost.

At this moment, Gao Cheng didn't want to care about how to stabilize the court situation, how not to invite the courtiers to discuss and imagine their secret shame, and how to invite the emperor and empress who ran away back. He just wanted to go back to the Bohai Mansion and get a good night's sleep, and wait until tomorrow.

Thinking about it, it seems like I'm about to fall asleep. But just as the ox cart was moving smoothly and quickly, and Gao Cheng was already asleep, he didn't know that another ox cart was coming from the opposite direction with several attendants and slaves. And the ox cart on the opposite side stopped directly in the middle of the road.

Obviously, the driver did not expect that the ox cart on the opposite side deliberately blocked the road, so he had to brake sharply, and also stopped in the middle of the road, confronting the ox cart on the opposite side. Because of this sudden braking, the body suddenly stopped, and Gao Cheng, who was sleeping, threw himself forward due to inertia and almost fell off from his seat.

"What's the matter?!" Gao Cheng got up and sat back, roaring angrily with the anger of being awakened from a good dream.

"Shizi, there is someone blocking the road ahead." The servant replied. The tone was calm, because the slave also knew that the son of the world was in a bad temper today, and someone dared to block the road at this time, which was tantamount to asking for his own death. Who in Luoyang City dares to stand in the way of the prince? He just had to sit back and watch the show.

At this moment, a man got down from the ox cart on the opposite side and walked straight over. The servants in the Prime Minister's Mansion did not speak, nor did they stop them.

Gao Cheng lifted the curtain on the window, and suddenly saw Sun Teng, the general of the post, standing in front of him.

"Dragon Sparrow?" Gao Cheng blurted out, "Why are you blocking the road late at night? "He was sleepy, but he had a splitting headache, which made him more irritable.

"Invite the prince to my house for a feast." Sun Teng said with a smile.

"Don't go! Don't go! Gao Cheng refused. I blamed Sun Teng in my heart for not judging the situation at this time, and he still had the heart to invite him to a banquet.

"Son, please see." Gao Cheng was just about to put down the curtain and go back to the Bohai Palace, but Sun Teng pointed to the side and gestured to Gao Cheng.

Gao Cheng was curious, and looked in the direction of Sun Teng's finger.

Sun Teng's ox cart had been slowly pulled closer by the driver, the curtain cage was raised, and another person stepped down from the cart. The man had already walked to Gao Cheng's car, called "Shizi" and did not speak, but only made a big salute. Gao Cheng's eyes suddenly lit up, and his head didn't seem to hurt so much, and he was refreshed all of a sudden.

This is an extremely slender woman, wearing a white silk dress that stands out in the dark night. She was originally wearing a white penny hat on her head, but at the moment when Gao Cheng's eyes were focused on her, she happened to fold the curtain side of the pendulum hat to completely present her face in front of Gao Cheng. Gao Cheng only felt like a full moon brushing his cheeks, which was extremely comfortable. And the white silk dance dress on her body evoked a deeper memory for him.