"Little Laizi!"

There was an exclamation in the silent palace, and the empress sat up directly from the dragon couch, and her forehead was full of sweat.

"Your Majesty, I'm here, I'm here."

Wang Xiaolai got up from the side of the bed and went over.

The empress looked up and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Wang Xiaolai's face.

Wang Xiao sat on the edge of the dragon couch spontaneously, reached out and grabbed the empress's palm, which was still a little trembling, with a smile on his face: "Your Majesty, it's okay, it's all right." ”

Looking at Wang Xiaolai, who was full of haggardness, the empress couldn't believe it: "Little Laizi, is it really you?" ”

Wang Xiaolai nodded: "Of course it's me, if you don't believe it, Your Majesty, you will know if you try it." ”

"How do you try?"

Wang Xiaolai stretched out his left hand, and the empress looked at it, hesitated for a moment, and put her hand on it.

Holding the empress's hand, Wang Xiaolai exerted his strength slightly.

Feeling the real touch, the empress's eyes widened in an instant, followed closely, and pounced on Wang Xiaolai to hug him tightly.

Wang Xiaolai smiled and said, "Look at Your Majesty, what am I talking about." ”

The empress sobbed: "Small, little Laizi." ”

Wang Xiaolai patted the empress on the back: "It's okay, Your Majesty, it's okay, everything is up to me, Your Majesty is good, good." ”

Wang Xiaolai's words of comfort gradually quieted down the empress.

But after a while, the empress suddenly snorted, stretched out her hand and smashed Wang Xiaolai's chest: "You bastard, how can you speak." ”

Wang Xiaolai smirked.

The empress arched up from Wang Xiaolai's arms, looked Wang Xiaolai up and down, and said in an inaudible voice: "Daxing City... How's it going? ”

"It's good, I've settled down, just let that guy from Huhu escape, but I killed more than half of the dead soldiers he led, and the people who escaped with him are only a few hundred."

"Then, what about Zhao Weng?" The Empress looked up and asked.

When the empress asked this, Wang Xiaolai was speechless at the time, and she didn't know how to answer.

The empress also realized that the problem was wrong, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with Zhao Weng?" ”

Wang Xiaolai was awkward for a long time, and then said quietly: "When I arrived, Zhao Weng was already ...

The Empress sat down limply.

Wang Xiaolai hurriedly said: "But I have already asked people to restrain Zhao Weng's body, and it will be parked on the Taihe Palace..."

The empress waved her hand to interrupt Wang Xiaolai's words, tears flowed down her eyes, and she choked up: "Zhao Weng, really... Did you go? ”

Seeing the appearance of the empress, Wang Xiaolai intuitively felt a little uncomfortable, and stepped forward to hug the empress and said: "Your Majesty, Zhao Weng rode alone for two days and two nights, guarding the last hope of Sui Yang. ”

The empress shook her body to stand up, and Wang Xiaolai hurriedly asked her what she was doing.

The empress raised her head and said quietly: "I'll go see Zhao Weng." ”

Wang Xiaolai hurriedly took the dragon robe hanging at the head of the bed and put it on the empress, and then helped the empress get off the dragon couch and said, "Your Majesty, slow down." ”

"Hmm."

Step by step, he came to the door, opened the door, and there were familiar faces standing outside the door.

Liu Maolin, the old minister, Feng Qingyun, the head of the Criminal Department, the Twelve Governors of the Twelve Houses, Ma Bang, the captain of Yulin who broke his arm, and the Narcissus, Camellia, and Shu Jiuchai, the commanders of the Secret Guard.

Seeing the empress, these people knelt down one after another: "Your Majesty! ”

The empress's gaze swept over everyone, and she said softly: "All the ministers are flat." ”

After everyone stood up, the empress and Wang Xiaolai walked towards the Taihe Palace.

Seeing this, Feng Qingyun's eyes rolled slightly, and when he was about to follow, he was stopped by Liu Maolin.

Facing Feng Qingyun's puzzled gaze, Liu Maolin shook his head.

Along the way, many soldiers and eunuchs who were busy cleaning up the mess in the palace stopped to salute.

The empress turned a blind eye and came all the way to the Taihe Palace.

Seeing that Zhao Liwen's coffin was parked, the empress let go of Wang Xiaolai's hand, staggered forward, and when she arrived, she collapsed on the ground with a thud.

Seeing this, when Wang Xiaolai was about to help, he was stopped by the empress, who said in a hoarse voice: "Xiao Laizi, I want to say a few words to Zhao Weng alone." ”

Wang Xiaolai hesitated for a few moments, nodded, turned around and went out, and lit a cigarette outside the Taihe Hall and waited.

"Zhao Weng, I've come to see you..."

On the rather gloomy and silent Taihe Palace, the empress slowly spoke.

Without the familiar kind laughter in her ears, the empress raised her head and looked at Zhao Liwen lying in the coffin.

"Zhao Weng, I'm sorry for you, if it weren't for my indecision, how could I have hurt you like this. You are my Sui Yang, no, you are the benefactor of my Zhao family, my father and brother, and I have all been rescued by you, so to speak, without you, there would be no Sui Yang now. ”

"Outsiders say that Zhao Weng is just a domestic slave of the heavenly family, an old family slave with qualifications. But whether it is my father or my extravagant royal brother, you have never been an outsider to Zhao Weng. In my heart, Zhao Weng, you are my ancestor, and after my father leaves, you are my father. As a parent, the most happy thing is the moment when the child gets married, but Ning Bing is not filial, when my father was alive, I didn't see me become an adult, I originally thought that before Zhao Weng you went to the immortal, I would let you end this wish, but, but..."

Later, the empress herself began to cry.

Outside the Taihe Palace, Wang Xiaolai clearly heard what the empress said, and he sighed: "The hearing is too good, and it's not a good thing." ”

As he spoke, he took out three cigarette rolls from his bosom, lit them and stuck them in the cracks in the floor, sat cross-legged on the ground, and waited quietly.

It wasn't until late that the red and swollen empress with crying eyes walked out of the Taihe Palace, Wang Xiaolai just greeted her, took the empress's hand and said: "Your Majesty, I have ordered someone to prepare lotus seed porridge for you, you can eat some." ”

The empress hummed softly, looked up and said, "Thank you, little Laizi." ”

Wang Xiaolai smiled slightly and waved his hand, and without saying anything, he led the empress to leave.

Just took a step, but was stopped by the empress, she glanced back at the Taihe Palace, and said, "I'm here." ”

Wang Xiaolai hesitated for a moment, and then nodded: "Okay." ”

So, Wang Xiaolai snapped his fingers, and when the sound fell, Xian Jingyu came.

"Bring the porridge and rice here."

"Yes."

Seeing Xian Jingyu leave, the empress stared at Wang Xiaolai and couldn't stop watching.

Wang Xiaolai asked rhetorically, "What's the matter, Your Majesty?" Why are you looking at me like that? ”

The empress shook her head: "It's nothing, I just think it's a little incredible." ”

"What do you mean?"

The empress said: "Wasn't you seriously injured by Feng Fan's assassination, how could you still rush back to Daxing City in time?" ”

As soon as the empress said this, Wang Xiaolai was silent, and only said in a half-loud voice: "If I don't say this, how can Zhao Sui, that bastard, take the bait?" ”

"So, that's your trick to lure the enemy?" Empress Dao.

Wang Xiaolai nodded.

"How did it turn out?"

"Zhao Sui was trapped by me in Runan City, there is no food or water, and it won't take long to capture him alive."

The empress frowned when she heard this: "Such a good opportunity, why did you come back?" ”

Wang Xiaolai smiled lightly: "Because if something happens to you, Your Majesty, even if I capture Zhao Sui alive, what is the use?" ”

The empress blushed and said, "Can I think this is what you are talking about?" ”

Wang Xiaolai nodded: "This is what I say in my heart." As long as I want, I have 10,000 ways to capture Zhao Sui alive, but Your Majesty, you only have one. ”

Wang Xiao said this, which made the empress feel even more shy, but she still said firmly: "You just blow it, don't say ten thousand, you can say ten to me first." ”

Wang Xiaolai: "··· It's not Your Majesty, it's not interesting for you to chat like this. ”

The empress was amused, and after laughing, she couldn't stop her sadness: "Alas, but Zhao Weng...

Wang Xiaolai didn't know how to comfort him.

At this time, the empress suddenly raised her head and saw the scar on Wang Xiaolai's neck, so she asked suspiciously: "What is the matter with this injury?" ”

As he spoke, he touched it with his hand.

Wang Xiaolai grabbed the empress's hand and asked with a smile: "I was accidentally injured, how about Your Majesty, handsome or not?" Is there a tough guy temperament? ”

The empress nodded: "Don't say it, having this scar has eliminated some of your obscene appearance." ”

Wang Xiaolai said: "That's it, I'll get more in the future." ”

"Don't say goodbye, you're not good-looking, and it's even uglier if you get some scars."

Wang Xiaolai: "···"