Under the strong advocacy of the Empress Dowager Guo, the ministers supported Li Chen, the king of Guang, to ascend the throne and respected the first emperor Li Heng as Muzong.

When Li Chen ascended the throne on the first day, Empress Dowager Guo still personally accompanied him to the court, but she was unprecedented, sitting behind the bead curtain and almost didn't say anything. When Li Chen turned his head and asked, "What do you think of the Empress Dowager", Empress Dowager Guo replied softly: "Your Majesty is still in charge of your own affairs." ”

After going down to the court, Empress Dowager Guo accompanied him to see the excerpts in the Xuanzheng Palace, Li Chen changed into court clothes under the service of the little eunuch, and suddenly turned around and asked: "I don't know how the Empress Dowager plans to place my mother?" ”

Empress Dowager Guo's hand flipping through the book paused slightly, and then said in a steady voice: "Since Your Majesty has ascended the throne, your aunt is naturally the queen mother." After a while, the affairs in the palace are arranged, and the mourning family will take the concubines of the first emperor to move into Xingqing Palace, this Daming Palace...... I'll leave it to your aunt. ”

Li Chen walked up to the Empress Dowager Guo and bowed deeply, "Thank you Empress Dowager." He meant this from the bottom of his heart.

Coming out of the Xuanzheng Palace, the Empress Dowager Guo slowly walked on the corridor between the palace, watching the concubines in the harem once again being arranged to become nuns and move into Xingqing Palace, and watching all kinds of farces of changing dynasties and changing dynasties staged again. This is Daming Palace, where she has lived for many years, and finally to this day, she has got everything, but in the end, nothing is hers.

Before you know it, you've already walked to the Shangfu Bureau.

There is still a Du Qiu here.

Du Qiu is a smart person, she doesn't say it, Du Qiu doesn't ask. For more than ten years, Du Qiu has done a good job in the Shangfu Bureau, and has also taken good care of the Shangfu Bureau, in terms of qualifications, now she is also an old man in the palace.

Empress Dowager Guo slowly walked in the flower garden next to the Liushang Bureau, and Du Qiu followed behind her, cautiously landing two or three steps away. During this period of time, the drastic changes in the palace, I believe that Du Qiu can guess the inside story.

"Du Qiu, from now on, Daming Palace, the mourning family will be entrusted to you."

Du Qiu was a little dazed at that moment, "The Queen Mother ......"

"The mourning family has been in charge of Daming Palace for many years, and you have also helped a lot, and in the future, this Daming Palace will no longer be surnamed Guo. You and the Zheng family are fellow villagers, and you have been in the Liushang Bureau for so many years, and in the future, the Zheng family will definitely rely on you in many places. Follow these people from the mourning family, Daji, Erxiang, Sanshou, Sishun, Wugui, Basheng, Jiulu, their hearts are not bad, if possible, in the future, you try to help the mourning family protect a little, in the end...... It's all a master and a servant. ”

Du Qiu's heart suddenly shuddered, how could it sound like Empress Dowager Guo was explaining the future?

Du Qiu hurriedly said: "If the Queen Mother moves to Xingqing Palace in the future, why not bring them over?" The horizontal and vertical Xingqing Palace also has to be employed, and it has been abandoned for many years, and the people in the old palace are afraid that they are not suitable for use......"

"Where can Xingqing Palace use so many people," Empress Dowager Guo smiled faintly, "The mourning family thinks, if you can let go, let it go, and if you don't want to go, you have to leave a way for them to live." ”

Du Qiu only felt a sadness in his heart. In fact, she understands that Empress Dowager Guo is explaining the future. With her understanding of Zheng Qiaoqiao, she knew that Zheng Qiaoqiao had never been a magnanimous person. Since she entered the palace, she has been in love with Guo Li, and she has already hated the Empress Dowager Guo. What's more, in the next ten years, she was lonely with her children in the Buddhist hall? Her son became the emperor, and she took charge of the Daming Palace as the queen mother, and she would not let go of the Empress Dowager Guo and the Guo family. If Empress Dowager Guo still wants to leave a little dignity for herself and the Guo family, she may break herself off to a large extent.

Empress Dowager Guo deeply understood this truth, so when she supported Li Chen to ascend the throne, she had already thought about all this. For the stability of the court situation and for the sake of the entire Tang Dynasty, she filled in the Guo family with her own hands.

Soon, Guo Zhu resigned from his position in the court and returned to his hometown, and Li Chen approved. Several of the Guo family's cronies and sons also resigned from important ministries for various reasons, leaving only some inconsequential positions still hanging, receiving a little money that was neither thick nor thin. Fortunately, the Guo family's business has done well over the years, and it will not be unable to feed the huge family.

The emperor respected the Empress Dowager Guo as the empress dowager, respected the concubines of Emperor Muzong as the empress dowager, and moved into the Xingqing Palace together, and at the same time sealed the biological mother Zheng as the empress dowager and entered the Daming Palace.

Before leaving the Daming Palace, where she had lived for many years, Empress Dowager Guo climbed the tower in front of Danfeng Gate for the last time.

This is the highest point of Daming Palace, standing here, you can overlook the scenery of the entire Chang'an City. The neat and uniform streets and walls of Chang'an City, as well as the wide Suzaku Street, have left a deep imprint on her life. She still remembers that when she rode a white horse and walked in heroically, her husband at that time, full of political ambitions, eager to create a new atmosphere for Datang.

She still remembered that it was also on this city tower that her sword was stained with the blood of the eunuch who held the lamp, and watched him fall like a kite with a broken string, and all the past was irretrievable.

This imperial city, which carries all the sweetest and most painful memories of her life, will eventually be buried in the dust of history.

She led a thin and withered old horse, which was her snow, and it took her great effort to tame it. Now, perhaps, it didn't have the strength to carry her a few steps in a row, and for a horse it was quite old.

Her luggage was only a few simple boxes, a few things that were once her dowry, and the flower pots that had been placed under the eaves of Penglai Palace.

In the Daming Palace, she almost didn't bring anything. Everything here used to be hers, and she could give this and that the things in the Daming Palace at will, but in the end, they all died, and no one was able to take anything away from the Daming Palace.

And she wasn't going to take anything with her. If you don't bring it in life, you don't bring it in death, those exquisite furnishings are like that, and whoever you give it to is just a change of room to put it up.

Came to Xingqing Palace again, and the pond garden was still the same.

The dragon head of the dragon pool still can't spray water, and the agarwood pavilion is still dilapidated. There was also a bloody storm here, when Emperor Shunzong was willing to be killed for the sake of the Tang Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji, and now it is her. At this time, she realized that at this moment, her heart was not very righteous and awe-inspiring, and she didn't even have too much nostalgia or reluctance, but after thousands of sails, she still couldn't bear to watch what chaos happened to the Jiangshan Society that she had worked hard for so many years. is like the cadre Mo Ye, in order to forge the sharpest sword in the world, he is willing to throw his flesh and blood into the refining furnace.

She lives in the Nanxun Temple.

Xingqing Hall is the main hall, but she doesn't want to step into Xingqing Hall at a moment, maybe the past there was too bloody, she still remembers Niu Zhaorong's blood-stained face and the terrible appearance of Emperor Shunzong before he was buried. A lot of things are not unrelieved, and maybe I will still choose to do it again, but looking back, I always feel uncomfortable.

Although someone had been sent to clean up the house in advance, when I came in, I was still full of dilapidation. The paint on the windows was mottled, the pillars were peeling off, and the weeds in front of the door had been removed, leaving many yellow and white grass roots exposed in the ground and the brick cracks of the bluestone slabs.

Fennel and Pothos instructed the little eunuchs to carry their luggage and parcels in.

Finally cleaned up in general, Pothos went to arrange dinner, and Fennel sat in the house with her. At this moment, something suddenly ran over from the corner of the wall, it was a gecko more than a finger long.

Fennel hurriedly stood up, "Slave go catch ......"

"Don't go," Guo Nianyun pulled her back with a smile, watching the little gecko disappear under the cage, "That's it, I'm afraid there are a lot of mosquitoes here, just keep it." ”

Fennel had to smile and scold: "Now I see that my mother is embarrassed, and a house can't be cleaned up......"

Nian Yun looked up at the roof beam with a smile, "Fennel, do you remember, when the mourning family first arrived at the princess's mansion, it was the same, you see, after going around for decades, in the end, it still returned to the original point......"

But no, in the princess's mansion back then, she was not welcomed, and it was common for a gecko or something to appear in the house where she lived. She didn't care about it then, and now, what else is there to care about?

But Fennel felt sad.

Dinner is also very simple, although Empress Dowager Guo still has a lot of money in her hand, opening a small kitchen in Xingqing Palace, and it is not impossible to send someone out to buy vegetables by herself, but she is too lazy to pursue those material things, for her, coarse tea and light rice are just that, these are not important at all.

At night, Fennel wanted to be in her house, and she also told them to disperse, from Daming Palace to Xingqing Palace, they were all busy all day, and they were very tired.

In the corner of the wall is a delicately painted chest.

This suitcase is the most ornate of all the luggage, and it is so delicate that it does not match the other utensils and furnishings in the room. Guo Nianyun walked over and gently brushed his fingers over the box.

The box didn't lock, and it didn't take much effort for her to open it.

There were no gold, silver, jewelry, or rare treasures, and there were several tablets in order.

This is once hidden in the Yiqiu Palace, and later hidden in the Penglai Palace, the palace is not allowed to pay tribute privately, so it can only be hidden. And now, no one will pay attention to whether there are people in the deserted Xingqing Palace, and the entire Xingqing Palace is a mausoleum of the living dead.

There was a small shrine in the outer room, and she carefully took a piece out of the box and carefully wiped it with a silk handkerchief.

In fact, there is no dust on it, she wipes it often, but every time she takes it out, she can't help but wipe it again.

Sister's, the name written on it is Guo Muye.

Konoha, Konoha, she felt that the name was a little unfamiliar, and no one had called it for a long, long time. Even Nianyun, since Li Chun died, no one has called him. Even the eldest brother and third brother, as well as Chang'er, all call her the Queen Mother.