Wu Zetian put his hands behind his back, smiled melancholy, looked at the flowers competing to bloom in the garden, and sighed heavily, Shangguan Wan'er next to him had already lightly covered her with a cloak.

"Your Majesty is still better than back then, even after a thousand years, you dare not obey an edict." Shangguan Wan'er buried her head and said respectfully.

"Here again, how many times have I told you, I am no longer your majesty, you and I have supported each other all these years, it is no longer the love of master and servant, I treat you as a sister, why did you forget it today." Wu Zetian smiled and patted her hand.

The corners of Shangguan Wan'er's eyes were moist, tears loomed in the snowy night, and her voice was choked.

"Today, I saw that the trend of your command of a hundred flowers is exactly the same as that of Luoyang back then, and suddenly, I thought I was back in Datang, and I inevitably felt some emotion in my heart."

"You, Yan Hui has seen you through, he said that you are a person who lives in memories, it was a thousand years ago, why haven't you let go." Wu Zetian whispered in relief, and suddenly raised his head to look at me. "Wan'er lives in memories, what about me? In Yanhui's heart, what kind of person am I? ”

Wu Zetian and I glanced at each other, involuntarily avoiding her gaze, she seemed to have an innate majesty, even if she was laughing, but her eyes were always full of proud majesty.

"You...... You are a man who beats everything with time. ”

"Hahaha, well said, well said." Wu Zetian raised his head and laughed, turned back to Shangguan Wan'er and said. "Wan'er, you used to be in charge of drafting edicts, he replied like this, what would I do if it was before."

"False speculation, disobedience, the sin will not be forgiven, the punishment of running over the car, and the nine clans will sit together!" Shangguan Wan'er lowered her head and said it without thinking about it.

"Hahaha, do you hear that, if you say such a thing when I am in power, I will be killed, and I will be killed!" Wu Zetian smiled and asked meaningfully. "Wan'er, but what Yan Hui said is indeed the truth."

"Those who achieve great things are not informal, and the emperors and emperors of the past dynasties don't seem to like to listen to the truth." Shangguan Wan'er replied fluently.

Wu Zetian pointed at Shangguan Wan'er with his finger, looked up and said to me with a smile.

"See, this is your real Aunt Qing, this mouth is amazing, don't look at her as a talented woman at that time, with a wave of the pen in her hand, how many heads have landed, I'm afraid even I don't know."

I was dumbfounded, and I didn't know what to say for a while.

Wu Zetian looked at my embarrassed appearance and smiled pleasantly.

"I'm just joking with you, I'm just an ordinary person today, there's nothing to remember, I'm afraid there are a lot of things you want to ask me tonight, I haven't talked about it for a long time, it's windy outside, go into the house and talk about it."

Shangguan Wan'er lowered her head and whispered.

"It's rare that you are so interested tonight, I'll make you a pot of tea again, and the tea and night talk will not be a negative beauty of this good day."

"Come over early after making tea, Yan Hui estimates that the current questions in his mind are almost exhausted, waiting to ask us."

After Wu Zetian finished speaking, he returned to the room, I hugged the jade seal of the country tightly, and followed cautiously, suddenly feeling very restrained, I didn't even know how to walk, I only saw the phrase "Companion Jun is like a companion tiger" in the book, after all, I didn't understand the meaning, but now I more or less understand.

Sitting opposite is a generation of emperors from the past and the present, and she is the only empress who will go down in history.

I was so helpless that I didn't even dare to lift my head, and it was only now that he realized what it meant to walk on thin ice.

I'm not afraid of Wu Zetian, but on the other side is an emperor who should have returned to heaven thousands of years ago, but now he is looking at me alive, and he is a little frightened in this snowy night.

"Don't keep your head down, you look like the courtier who once knelt in front of me." Wu Zetian smiled with relief and said calmly. "Where are you going to start asking me?"

I settled down, and I stood still for a long time before I whispered.

"Autumn ...... Qiunuo is ...... Who is it? Is she also from the Tang Dynasty? ”

"No, Qiunuo is my adopted daughter, and she doesn't know the identity of me and Wan'er."

I breathed a long sigh of relief, and suddenly involuntarily smiled bitterly, thinking to myself, if Qiu Nuo knew that it was the talented girl Shangguan Wan'er who was opposite to him every day, what kind of expression should she have, and the mother she has always respected is a generation of empress Wu Zetian, I don't know if her ability to bear it is better than herself.

"You...... How are you...... How to live ......" I really don't know how to ask this sentence.

"You're trying to ask me why Wan'er and I have survived to this day, right?"

I nodded awkwardly and said in a low voice.

"It is recorded in the history books that in the first year of Shenlong, Prime Minister Zhang Cambodia and others staged a coup d'état to force you to abdicate...... You...... You died in Shangyang Palace, Luoyang. ”

"History is written by kings, the rights and wrongs of thousands of years ago, and how many true and false truths can be recorded in a history book." Wu Zetian shook the Buddha bead in his hand and said calmly. "Zhang Cambodia can be the prime minister, not because he is talented, but because he is mediocre and stupid, there is no coup d'état at all, everything is made up by Wan'er, and then let the historian record it and pass it on to future generations."

"Yes...... But aren't you afraid that any of these people will record the truth and spread it? ”

"Of course not!"

"For ...... Why? ”

"A dead man will never speak!" Shangguan Wan'er pushed the door in and put down the freshly brewed tea. "Anyone who knows the truth has been ordered to be executed by my order, and no one will be left!"

My back was cold when I heard it, no matter how I looked at Shangguan Wan'er in front of me, she was an elegant and indifferent woman, but the words that came out of her mouth were so cold and decisive.

"It is recorded in the history books that Zhang Cambodia was exiled to Luzhou in the same year, and died of illness on the way, and the palace purged officials on the grounds of purging party disputes, and he was in Wuze...... In the year of your death, there was a bloody storm in the court, and it turned out to be ...... It turns out that you want to seal the mouths of these people. ”

"It is said that the mouth of the world cannot be blocked, but in fact, as long as the method is used correctly, there is nothing that cannot be stopped." Wu Zetian said very calmly.

"To keep this secret...... Finally...... How many people died? ”

"The edict to clear the party strife was written by me myself, and in three days, a total of 3,792 heads fell to the ground, including officials of all sizes and people related to the inner court of the palace!" Shangguan Wan'er said lightly while pouring me tea.

Wu Zetian sighed, slowly raised his hand to look at the Buddha bead in his hand, and said wistfully.

"Although the edict was written by Wan'er, the matter was also supervised by her, but the person who ordered it was me, these hands were stained with too much blood, I have been uneasy for thousands of years, the more time has passed, the more regretful, and then I worship the Buddha is to seek peace of mind, sometimes I can remember everything when I close my eyes, more than 3,000 people...... The moat of Chang'an City was stained red with their blood. ”

I frowned, surprised.

"If you were planning at the time, why did you pretend to be sick and abdicate? You can always be an empress, huh? ”

"I also used to think like this, I can govern the country, I can make the officials submit, and I can let the people live and work in peace and contentment." Wu Zetian smiled and glanced at Shangguan Wan'er. "However, even if I have supreme power and am the Ninth Five, there is one thing I can't keep secret."

"What's the matter?" I asked curiously.

"You said I was a man who relied on time to beat everything." Wu Zetian looked at me and said lightly. "In fact, I haven't lost to anyone, but I have lost to time!"

"Lost to time?" I don't understand what Wu Zetian meant by this at all.

"Time can change everything, a person's experience, mood, personality, and of course, appearance." Wu Zetian took a sip of tea and paused slightly. "When I watched the palace maids around me slowly grow old in front of time, I changed batch after batch of palace maids, until finally I found that I couldn't change anymore, because ...... Because my face hasn't changed! ”

I suddenly realized, look at Wu Zetian opposite, she should be in her thirties, but she is so well maintained, I believe that many people who see her for the first time will mistakenly think that she is only twenty-five or sixteen years old.

Wu Zetian, who was in his thirties, was just canonized as the queen in the sixth year of Yonghui in the Tang Dynasty at that time, that is, from Wu Zetian becoming the queen to finally dying of illness, her appearance has not changed during this period.

"For more than fifty years, your appearance has not changed, has no one ever doubted it?" I asked curiously.

"Of course, some people are suspicious, I can change a batch of palace maids every three years, but I can't change all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty every three years." Wu Zetian replied in a deep voice.

I understand the meaning of Wu Zetian's words, change a group of palace maids around me every three years, of course, these palace maids may only have one place to go, and the dead will keep secrets forever, and it is not difficult to execute palace maids, but it is indeed a bit troublesome to face civil and military officials.

"That'...... So how did you deal with it? In literature and history, there is no record of a large number of executions of officials during your reign, that is, you did not kill them, but how do you convince them that your appearance has not changed? ”

"Why rumors can always spread quickly, and many people believe it, because rumors are always more unbelievable than facts, the more mysterious and amazing things, the more people are interested in figuring out." Wu Zetian smiled meaningfully and picked up the teacup. "Therefore, I have arranged a perfect rumor for the civil and military officials, and I believe that through their mouths, it will soon spread all over the world, and I succeeded, in fact, this rumor is still there today."

"Rumors?!" I rubbed my forehead and looked surprised. "What rumors have been circulating until now?"

"Rejuvenation Technique!"