The needle drop in the Shenlong Hall can be heard for a while.

Li Bao'er was stunned for a moment, and looked at Li Xian on the ground a little bit. Seeing Li Xian's reaction, she tentatively took a few steps closer and slowly squatted down. She looked at Li Xian's eyes open, her expression full of surprise and disbelief. It wasn't until her slender hand trembled in front of Li Xian's mouth and nose that she hurriedly stepped back and sat on the ground: "Ah...... A-Niang...... Ayeta ...... Dead ......"

After not hearing her mother's answer for a long time, Li Bao'er turned her head in fright, but saw her mother frowning slightly, looking at her incomprehensibly for a long time, and suddenly chuckled at this moment, with a heavy and obvious mockery, I don't know what she was sarcastic.

Li Xian was able to collapse in a fit of rage, and Queen Wei never expected it.

He...... Just dead?

He left her like this, and from then on, let her face this treacherous court and the world alone, and no longer be able to rely on and connive at her, so that her most authoritative career as the mother of the country came to an abrupt end? What are the promises of yesteryear? She is fledgling now, why did he die so early?

Empress Wei walked to Li Xian's side step by step and knelt down gracefully. She stroked Li Xian's cheek and brushed her palm into his eyes. Her expression was completely calm, like a stagnant lake, which had lost all warmth and only condensation. When she was young, she actually let out a long sigh of relief: "That's ...... It's also ......."

Li Bao'er had never seen such a mother, and she was even more scared: "A-Niang...... Aya went, what's so good about this......"

Empress Wei said coldly: "Just by virtue of his talent, if he is still alive, even if he does not die, how good can you and I end up with?" Originally, he was there, and I could get more things, but at this moment, I had to give up those...... Come. ”

The chamberlains and palace people outside the hall immediately walked in trembling. Empress Wei only glanced at them: "What to say, what not to say, what can be done and what cannot be done, you should know better than me, right?" Seeing that the palace attendants knelt down one after another to express their vows to serve her life, she said lightly, "Carry the saint up and down." ”

After the attendants placed Li Xian, Empress Wei sat on the edge of the collapse. Seeing that her daughter was still in a trance, she sighed in her heart and said, "What about the energy you just have?" Things have already happened, what's the use of being afraid? You are my most beloved daughter, and if one day my wish is fulfilled, the world will be yours, do you want to sit on it so cowardly? ”

Li Bao'er calmed down when she heard this, and regained some of her former glory, but the fear in her heart still lingered for a long time.

Before tonight, she never knew what fear was, even when Chongjun coup d'état, she was only unwilling, and when she faced Li Xian so presumptuous, she still didn't have a little fear. She was already sure in her heart that her Aya would not kill her mother, let alone kill her, and even if she was angry for a while, she would eventually forgive them. It has always been like this, and it will be so now and in the future. As long as Li Xian is still around, they will always be wanton and safe.

But now, her biggest backer in this life has collapsed.

What she wants, no one will rack their brains to give; What she likes, no one will mobilize people to satisfy her; Her temper will no longer be tolerated by anyone who is pampered and pampered; Her sadness will no longer be sympathetic to pity. Her father left unexpectedly, leaving her at the moment to be self-inflicted.

What the future holds, she didn't need to know before, but now, she is at a loss, and it is difficult to know.

"Wrap." Empress Wei's tone was a little more stern, "You are the princess of the Tang Dynasty, show some momentum that is not afraid of danger!" ”

Raising her eyes and seeing her mother sitting proudly and elegantly on the couch as before, looking at herself calmly, Li Bao'er was a little puzzled: "A-Niang, Aya is gone, don't you feel it at all?" ”

"Living together for many years, and sharing weal and sorrow, how can I not feel anything at all? But...... Does that matter? Empress Wei took a deep breath, "The Son of Heaven collapsed, the storage position was empty, you and I were in the unknown, can fear and sadness change anything?" ”

This sentence, Li Bao'er once heard a similar sentence. At that time, the eldest brother Prince Yide, Princess Yongtai, and the concubine had just been handed over to Aya by the old witch of Wu Cao, just because they had talked about the two Zhang brothers. Aya also had a frightened and sad expression on her face, and after thinking about it for a long time, she finally let her brothers and sisters decide on their own.

A-Niang was kneeling and crying and begging, her voice was hoarse, but Aya still insisted on going her own way. She was also very puzzled at the time, but she knew in her heart that if the two brothers and sisters did not die, it was likely that Aye, A-Niang and herself would die in the future, so she didn't dare to follow A-Niang to plead.

Later, A-Niang watched her eldest brother and Wu Yanji drink poisoned wine. The elder sister was supposed to wait for labor before dealing with it, but after hearing the news of the death of her eldest brother and brother-in-law, her fetal gas fluctuated, and she finally died of dystocia. Ah Niang took her sister's already drooping and cold hand, sat for a long time, tears dried up, and finally called her to her and asked her to remember one thing: fear and sadness can't change anything.

Li Bao'er was ignorant back then, but now she understands everything: "A-Niang...... So what do we do now? ”

Empress Wei thought for a while and said, "You go in person and invite Shangguan Wan'er over." ”

After Li Bao'er left the palace, all the palace attendants also retreated, and no one noticed that Empress Wei's hand under the wide sleeve was groping Li Xian's hand, and finally held ten fingers.

She turned her head to look at his seemingly peaceful face with a blank face, and looked at it silently for a long time.

I still remember that getting married in the past was a good day with a beautiful day. The king of England marries the bride, the princess marries Xue Lang, two wedding ceremonies, one south and one north, ten miles of red makeup.

Princess Taiping has been carefree since she was a child, and she has such strong parents, and she naturally looks forward to marriage more than everything, but her Wei family has always been uneasy - the last princess of the British king, Zhao, is still the daughter of the eldest princess of Changle, isn't it because Queen Wu doesn't like it, so she starved to death?

But when she finally saw her husband's appearance clearly, her heart settled down inexplicably. At that time, Li Xian was still very young, and she still had a heroic smile, which made her feel that this was a man she could rely on. Although after marriage, she found that his words were a little extreme and his actions were a little ridiculous, she also kept telling herself that her husband was still young and sharp after all, and it would be good to calm down when he grew up.

She can wait, but others can't. As a result, they were relegated to Fangling.

It was a day she never wanted to think about again in her life. If it was just coarse tea and light rice, it would be fine, but the pain of flesh and skin, but they have always been trapped in the fear of death, and they are the most mentally tired. Every time an angel comes, they are like a great enemy, for fear that if one is wrong, this life will be ruined in this lonely place, just like the abolished prince Li Xian.

Finally, she returned to Chang'an one day, but it was the beginning of another nightmare - she lost her only son and eldest daughter, as well as an unborn grandson.

She finally understood that in this world, no one can rely on her. She can only find a way to make herself stronger, preferably like the former Empress Zetian, and she will lose nothing.

But at this moment, she lost him.

She slowly leaned down and snuggled up to Li Xian's shoulder. The tip of her nose rubbed against Li Xian's cheek, feeling a faint warmth, as if he was still alive.

Half an hour later, Shangguan Wan'er arrived.

When she first heard that Li Xian had died, she still didn't believe it, and her heart turned back and forth, and she refused to go with Li Bao'er. It wasn't until Li Bao'er paused in a hurry that she believed that this was true.

When she stepped into the Shenlong Palace, she saw Empress Wei prostrate on the side of the couch at first sight, not knowing what she was doing, as if she heard her own footsteps, Empress Wei slowly got up and turned her head, as if nothing had happened, and smiled faintly: "Coming?" ”

Shangguan Wan'er saluted and said, "Queen Wanfu." ”

"What's going on right now, I've told you, right?"

"The saint collapsed, and everything still needs to be decided by the queen. I don't know if the queen is looking for a concubine, but what are her orders? ”

"Since Li Chongjun's coup d'état, the saint has never made a prince, and now he has left suddenly, leaving such a mess. Although I have been with the saint for a period of time, I suddenly encountered such a major event, but I am still a little at a loss, I don't know what Wan'er thinks, what should I do at this time? ”

Shangguan Wan'er smiled in her heart - if you don't know what to do at this time, what do you ask me to do?

Empress Wei is considerate, why not Shangguan Wan'er? Now that Li Xian has died, the crown prince has not been established, and there are no more than three candidates to succeed him in the future. King Qian is far away in his homeland but is in the prime of life, if he hears about this, he will definitely do something; King Wen has not yet been crowned, and even if he becomes the emperor, he will not be able to govern himself, so he is the best choice for Empress Wei; King Xiang has been the emperor's heir for more than ten years, and Li Xian once mentioned that he would make him the emperor's younger brother, which is the most prestigious and powerful one, but also the one with the least likely success.

Unless the elder brother has no children and has no succession during his lifetime, he can be a brother and a younger brother. Even so, the existence of King Xiang should not be underestimated, he has already become the representative of the Li Tang clan, regardless of the power and connections, they are not inferior to Queen Wei, if Queen Wei is the story of the Queen of Heaven, they will inevitably fluctuate greatly, and the two factions will compete at that time, and it is really impossible to say who wins and who loses.

Datang has only been stable for a few years, and the turmoil in the DPRK is close at hand again.

Shangguan Wan'er sighed secretly, and her mind was already clear: "According to the concubine, the most important thing at this moment is naturally to draft an edict for the first emperor and establish a new monarch." This matter can be done by concubines, but the content of this edict, Wan'er does not dare to be arbitrary, and she still needs to discuss it with others. ”

Empress Wei immediately said: "Come on, Xuanzong Chuke entered the palace overnight." ”

"Prime Minister Zong is not busy." Shangguan Wan'er stopped, "Wan'er is talking about Princess Taiping of Zhenguo." ”