Pei Tan entered the palace overnight and waited outside the Zichen Hall for more than half an hour before Zhongzong received him.

Zhongzong's expression was very far away from the pleasant face, thinking that he deliberately asked Pei Tan to suffer in the sultry night breeze for half an hour just now.

"Every time you come to see me, nothing good happens."

Pei Tan knelt in the Zichen Palace, and the face was dressed decently, and the heavy official uniform was wrapped around his body, and there was no sweat on his innocent face.

"The minister has no intention of disturbing His Majesty's late rest."

Zhongzong said: "If there is anything to say quickly, polite words will be avoided." ”

Pei Tan actually didn't expect Zhongzong to say a word about the marriage, he raised his head, and his gaze happened to be opposite to Zhongzong.

"The minister wants to know, Your Majesty... Why do you suddenly give a marriage to a courtier? It took a long time for Pei Tan to say this question.

Zhongzong's expression was faint, and he looked at him, "I deliberately used the special token I gave you to enter the palace at night, just to ask this." ”

Pei Tan lowered his eyes, "The minister is puzzled." ”

Zhongzong paced a few steps with his back to him, and looked at Pei Tan for a moment: "The daughter of Guanglu Siqing is young and young, and she is also a good match for you, besides, when the children of Chang'an are at your age, who is still lonely and has no wife?" ”

Marrying a wife is a happy event for most men, how can Pei Tan go into the palace to ask like this.

After a while, Pei Tan spoke: "The minister is not ready to start a family. ”

Zhongzong's eyes were sharp: "What are you doing when you enter the palace?" ”

Pei Tan stared at Zhongzong and said, "The minister asks His Majesty to withdraw his will." ”

There was silence in the Zichen Hall for a while, and Zhongzong sneered: "Manchu Dynasty civil and military, do you know that only you dare to speak to me like this." ”

The Ninety-Five, Chrysostom Yuyan, not to mention that it was still written on the holy decree, dared to ask for the retraction of the fate.

Pei Tan's voice sank, "Weichen has more important things, Your Majesty understands." ”

Zhongzong's expression turned cold, he looked at Pei Tan like this, and then said: "Marriage can't delay what you have to do, not to mention that this marriage was mentioned to me by the queen, and I won't save the queen's face." ”

There was a trace of astonishment in Pei Tan's eyes, "Queen Mother? Apparently this was something he hadn't thought of beforehand.

Zhongzong said: "Some time ago, Guanglu Temple Qing entered the palace, and the queen saw that he was old and had only one beloved daughter under his knees, so she was moved by compassion. The only thing that matters to my daughter's family is a lifelong event, and I think the queen is right. ”

Pei Tan could only say for a long time: "The minister just doesn't understand why he is a minister." ”

Zhongzong had a hint of ridicule in his eyes, looked at Pei Tan and said slowly: "The queen takes a fancy to you as gentle and upright, and you are my right-hand man, plus you have repeatedly solved major cases and have outstanding abilities, and you are 'one of the best and best gentlemen'." ”

This complimentary sentence is really choking people can't refute it, especially the words that praise Pei Tan's ability, I'm afraid that what is most abandoned in Chang'an City is Pei Tan's ability to solve cases.

Every time a case is solved, either a dead person or someone suffers, involving a large gang of powerful people, the queen said that Pei Tan has outstanding ability, so she gave him the daughter of Guanglu Siqing to marry, such a statement makes people unable to believe from the bottom of their hearts.

"Pei Tan," Zhongzong said suddenly, his expression gloomy, "The daughter of Guanglu Siqing is also my niece and granddaughter, you know?" ”

Pei Tan slowly lowered his eyes, as the son of Prince Zhang Huai, Li Shouli, the Qing of Guanglu Temple, is the nephew of today's Zhongzong. It was precisely because Zhongzong successfully ascended the throne as the emperor in the bloody storm that Li Shouli was able to end his tragic experience and was awarded the title of Sanpin Guanglu Temple.

"The minister knows."

Zhongzong said slowly: "It's good to know, this marriage has nothing to lose to you, slave slave child... I've seen her, she's docile and pure, and she'd be a good wife. ”

Having said that, the coffin has basically been closed, and Pei Tan also knows in his heart that the marriage is a foregone conclusion, and it is impossible to change it.

Late at night, Zhongzong was also tired, and he had survived in the bloody rain of the Tang Dynasty for decades, and he was actually a dying old man, at least in his heart, he was already very old.

Pei Tan slowly kowtowed to Zhongzong and withdrew outside the Zichen Palace.

——

Empress Wei's influence on Zhongzong is very profound, and the marriage is just a glimpse.

Pei Tan on the way back to Dali Temple, has been silent, everyone has a past in their hearts that they don't want to mention, and the appearance is still bright Tang Emperor

room, long overwhelmed.

Pei Tan pushed open the gate of Dali Temple and walked back to his courtyard, a lone lamp in the study was like a bean, and it was actually lit, which surprised Pei Tan.

Pushing open the door, the girl was napping at the desk, and woke up when she heard a voice.

"Your Excellency, are you back?" Jing Wan'er rubbed her eyes and saw that it was indeed Pei Tan.

Pei Tan looked at Jing Wan'er, and on the desk behind her, there was a pot of tea, which was curling white smoke.

Pei Tan's eyes were faint: "Why haven't you slept yet?" ”

In the dead of night, even Pei's guards went to sleep.

Jing Wan'er smiled: "I'm waiting for the adults to come back." ”

Pei Tan walked into the study, Jing Wan'er looked at him and slowly stood to the side. It's like she knows her place very well and never does anything encroachment.

Pei Tan slowly stood in front of the desk, "Why are you waiting for me?" His gaze turned to Jing Wan'er.

In another hour, the sky will be almost dawn, and it took Pei Tan more than three hours before and after entering the palace, if Jing Wan'er had been waiting here, how long would she have waited.

And the tea on the table is clearly still hot.

Jing Wan'er couldn't help pursing her lips and smiled finely: "When adults enter the palace at night, there must be something important." Adults have been a little restless all day long. ”

Jing Wan'er had seen Pei Tan, and her hand holding the sword in the face of life and death was very steady, she really didn't understand what Pei Tan had encountered now, and this mood prompted her to feel even more worried after Pei Tan entered the palace, so she couldn't help but wait in this study until this moment.

Pei Tan looked at the girl's delicate face, and for a while, he forced himself to look away.

Jing Wan'er reacted, immediately stepped forward to lift the teapot, and poured a cup of tea for Pei Tan first.

The courtiers entered the palace to meet them, and they waited for three bows and nine knocks, trembling to listen to the king's wishes, so they didn't want to drink a sip of water.

Pei Tan has been gone for several hours, and the mortal body must be dry mouth, hungry and mentally tired. So Jing Wan'er cooked tea and waited for him.

Pei Tan tasted the rice after taking a sip, there was brown rice at the bottom of this cup, and there were wolfberries floating there, and Jing Wan'er cooked the porridge directly with tea here.

Pei Tan put down the teacup: "You don't have to do this. ”

He never regarded Jing Wan'er as a first-class maid, but he was not used to her doing this.

Jing Wan'er paused before smiling, "The adult is Wan'er's benefactor, because there is an adult Wan'er who will stand here, not be arrested by the palace." Everyone in this Dali Temple has their own duties, and Wan'er just wants to do what she can. ”

What can be done is to prepare a satisfying tea porridge for Pei Tan, who has been running around all day, in the middle of the night.

Pei Tan's eyes had a faint and cool color, he was indeed preoccupied, so much so that his thin face was browning,

This brown rice tea clears the heat and relieves the heat, and it can also fill the stomach, seeing that Pei Tan has lowered his head and eaten the tea one bite at a time, and he does not say anything about eating, Pei's upbringing is naturally very good.

Jing Wan'er took the initiative to walk over and clean up the table for Pei Tan.

She had already heated the porridge many times that night, and the charcoal fire had turned to ashes.

"You go and rest." Pei Tan looked at the girl.

Jing Wan'er smiled faintly, and said after a while: "The adult has something on her mind, Wan'er can't solve the adult's worries, but Wan'er can accompany the adult." ”

No one knows better than Jing Wan'er that the loneliness that the night can bring to people is the moment when any strong-willed person will be shaken.

Although the brown rice tea was drunk, the problem in Pei Tan's heart, or the trouble, was not solved.

Pei talked for a long time before he finally spoke again: "Do you know what happened to Prince Zhang Huai back then?" ”

Jing Wan'er's eyes moved: "Wan'er knows." ”

It should be said that in the entire Tang Dynasty, no one would not know the only prince who died tragically.

was forced to despair by his own mother.

Jing Wan'er felt a little cold in her heart, just thinking of the name of this prince already gave people a sense of sadness.

And more importantly, Prince Zhang Huai has an inextricable relationship with Pei Tan in front of him.

Jing Wan'er couldn't help biting her lower lip.

"Aren't you afraid of me?" Pei Tan suddenly asked this sentence, and there didn't seem to be a brainless question.

But in fact, it may not be the case, for the metaphor of the "plague god" that is prevalent in Manchang'an, it seems to be a matter of course to be afraid of Pei Tan.

But Pei Tan, who Jing Wan'er saw for the first time, was beside the boat in Taiye Pond, his eyebrows and eyes were warm and jade, and as long as he said a word at that time, she would be captured by Qianniuwei who was patrolling the palace and died in the palace.

Thinking of this, Jing Wan'er took a breath, and she smiled at Pei Tan under the lamp: "Wan'er has only admiration for adults. ”

Don't say you're afraid, if there's one place in the world where Jing Wan'er can feel safe, it's... Pei Tan's side.

The girl hid the emotion in her eyes.

Pei Tan also seemed to be slightly stunned, he couldn't see Jing Wan'er's expression, but he could feel her heart, the strange wisp in the air.

Outside the study window, a slight ray of light came in, as if the sky was already bright. After a long night, there is finally a hope.

There is always someone in this world, who holds power in his hands, but does not want to miser all living beings, he is just full of tenderness and compassion, gently pulls the dying man by the hand, and allows him to be reborn.

He didn't know that he was by the Taiye Pool, because a random act of kindness saved a girl from the bad luck of being killed, and since then this girl has had the opportunity to entangle with him for a lifetime.

Pei Tan broke the silence: "It's dawn." ”

Jing Wan'er looked out the window, "Do you want to change your clothes, Wan'er will go and fetch water for you." ”

Pei Tan was still wearing the official uniform of the previous dynasty, which was sullenly attached to his body, and he also had to change his clothes to deal with the official affairs in Dali Temple during the day.

Jing Wan'er pushed open the window, and a wisp blew in, brushing the hair around her ears. She is not a girl of the right age, when other girls of this age in Chang'an City are waiting to be married with anxiety and shyness, Jing Wan'er is just alone, standing by the window at this moment.