"So my great-grandmother was also abandoned by the family like me?" Mu Lu looked up in shock, but happened to catch a glimpse of the wind and clouds in her eyes, and Tao Yao couldn't help but blurt out when she was touched.

"Yes, give up for the family, disdain for the world, this is my situation. But who of them can reach my heights? With a cold smile, Wu Cao closed his eyes: "Emperor Taizong's backbone and bravery, no man surnamed Li has inherited it, so they deserve to be changed by me and expelled and killed by me." It's the daughter's family surnamed Li," she paused slightly, and her tone gradually sank: "There are so many people who can be seen, what will happen in the future, it's really exciting." ”

The daughter's family surnamed Li...... Thinking of Princess Taiping and Li Bao'er, Tao Yao trembled, and her whole body was cool. It turns out that the birth of an empress can already stir up so many people's hearts?

Since that day's conversation, Tao Yao has become a frequent visitor to Shangyang Palace. Fortunately, Li Xian's original intention was just to let her keep to herself, and he didn't pay much attention to an old mother who was already terminally ill and had lost her edge, and he didn't think that Tao Yao could get any help from it. Therefore, if he goes, he can still have a reputation of benevolence and filial piety, so why not.

For Tao Yao, Wu Cao is the only person in the palace who can talk to her heart and have no scruples. Moreover, the imperial doctor has also clearly explained that Wu Cao's illness is no longer a one-day work, the old injuries in the early years and the accumulated work in the later period have become ill, and her body is basically in a state of exhaustion, even if she has more energy to nourish and maintain it now, it is only in vain. It is a fact that everyone knows that it can survive for a day, and it is also the first time that Tao Yao has watched a person slowly move towards death step by step.

It was an extremely foreign experience for her. She didn't know if Wu Cao would be afraid, but she always wanted to be by the side of this lonely old man until the last moment came.

"Do you know how stupid you're doing?" One afternoon, Wu Cao seemed to be in good spirits, and rarely sat in front of the window with his clothes on, looking at the carefully built garden outside the Xianju Palace, and a more and more thinner old cheek revealed full hatred: "The people who regard you as an enemy are still plotting against you, and you don't want to know how to deal with it, but you still have the leisure to accompany me, an old woman, waiting for death here." Hmph, should I praise you for being filial, or should I scold you for being unproductive? ”

Tao Yao smiled, but raised her hand to make a good cloud tea for her: "Since my great-grandmother has spoken like this, she must want to scold me for being useless." ”

"You're still a little self-aware." Wu Cao took the teacup, but the look in his eyes was very gratifying. She has always preferred the light and sweet taste of cloud tea, and since she fell ill, she has not drunk excellent tea for a long time. However, Tao Yao's girl is delicate, and her tea cooking skills are also first-class, and she is very happy with her every time she comes to serve tea in person.

"It's a pity, Yao'er doesn't have the same powerful means as her great-grandmother, so she can only hide here without a chance." Tao Yao said this, but there was no concern on her face: "Besides, I have already been plotted by them to enter the palace, no matter how much it is excessive, what can I do?" I won't die in this deep palace compound right now. ”

The longer she spent with Wu Cao, the more she found that this person's temperament and temperament were extraordinarily different. She doesn't like people to have too many twists and turns in front of her, so it's better to be open to everything. And the rest, as long as you're not suspicious, it's almost taboo-free. Wu Cao is a person who looks down on secular etiquette from the bottom of his bones, and he will never have any unspeakable taboos, and when facing her, Tao Yao can be more comfortable. This feeling is that her biological mother Liu has never given her, which is really an extremely wonderful fate.

"Before Tubo's intentions are clear, Li Xian will not let people move you in the slightest." Speaking of this incident, Wu Xiao couldn't help but sigh: "Probably Cheng An's girl is destined to stay in the god capital to harm others, otherwise on the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet that year, the identity chosen by her and her relatives should be decided." At that time, who would have thought that in the end, her father would turn over and become an emperor, and she would naturally be safe.

"But," Wu Cao's face sank in an instant. She looked at Tao Yao with a meaningless face, and her tone became very solemn: "Girl, you still have too little experience, do you know that in this palace that eats people and does not spit out bones, there are many tricks that make your life worse than death." "She has calculated others, and she has been calculated, and all the misery during this period is not enough for outsiders. She just hopes that this little girl who is very good for her appetite can live a little happier, and she doesn't want her clear peach blossom eyes to become a pool of stagnant water from now on.

There are too many people who are not happy in this world, and it is better to have one less or one less.

"Well, I know, I'll be careful." Knowing that she was saying this out of real concern, Tao Yao nodded obediently. But how careful she is, she doesn't really have any points.

Wu Cao is right about one thing, she is indeed hiding, hiding in this Shangyang Palace where no one dares to set foot in it, hiding behind an old man who cares about her. In fact, she was not fully prepared for what could happen in the future. The current state is just a procrastination. She's trying to convince herself, she's also giving herself a deadline, but it's harder than she thinks.

"Let's go, then." Wu Cao suddenly smiled, smiling tolerantly and kindly, with a kind of detachment and indifference that saw through the red dust of the world after the vicissitudes of life: "This Shangyang Palace is the same as me, a dying person, it is all dull, and there is no hope and no future. But you're still young, and you can gamble on your life and destiny, so don't trap yourself here anymore. ”

"Great-grandmother ......" didn't expect her to see through her heart at a glance, and Tao Yao couldn't help but look at her in a hurry: "Yao'er said that she would accompany you, don't drive me away!" ”

"Silly girl." Wu Cao's expression became more gentle: "I'm not afraid, after so many years of ups and downs, life and death, I have come alone, and now I want to return to the ground, of course I should continue to walk alone." As she spoke, she turned her head to look at the blue sky outside the window, and there was a slight sense of distantness between the lines: "Once I came to this world, I have endured all the hardships and blessings I should have endured." In my life, I have achieved the ultimate in what one person can do, and I have nothing to regret. ”

"I heard that Your Majesty has given you the honorific title 'Emperor Zetian Great Sage'......" Thinking of the news she heard before entering the palace, Tao Yao was a little emotional. As soon as this honorific title came out, it not only meant that Wu Cao was the first female emperor during her lifetime, but also became the only woman buried under the emperor's regulations after her death. This is a situation that has never occurred in ancient times, and there is indeed nothing to regret in the future when it will be famous in history.

"yes." Wu Cao smiled and shook his head: "Li Xian, this son, I'm afraid that he won't be able to figure out what I want for the rest of his life." ”

"Great-grandmother, what do you mean......" Tao Yao seemed to have an understanding, and just wanted to ask again, but saw that Wu Yao had already stood up with the window frame. Without looking at herself again, she leaned over and slowly moved towards the inner room with difficulty but great determination: "Let's go, don't come back in the future, your battlefield is not here, it's time to muster up the courage to go on the road." ”