Once Lin Miaozhen decided, she would immediately start thinking about how to achieve it, and she had made up her mind with "Zhao Surui", she couldn't wait to pack up the salute that night and leave the palace early the next morning.

was so frightened that Xu Gongling hurriedly stopped her temporarily with the newly elected female official entering the palace.

"When the female master is chosen, just in time for the news of the selection of female officials in the spring of next year has also spread everywhere, I set off at that time, I was dressed lightly, only three or four people, dressed as men, and there are still more than ten days until the New Year...... Your Majesty, where can you get to it for four or five days on horseback?"

Shen Shiqing paused before saying:

"If you take a carriage, you can reach the boundary of Shandong in three or five days."

"That's too slow." Lin Miaozhen had already picked up her horsewhip, "My horseback riding skills can't be said to be good, but it's not bad, if I can walk 200 miles a day......

Shen Shiqing had to raise her head again:

"Riding a horse for 200 miles a day, I was bruised all over my body, and I was paralyzed in the inn and couldn't move.

Lin Miaozhen also felt that she could run to the Jiangnan realm in one go, and after being splashed with cold water like this, she sat back on the couch with some disappointment, grabbed a handful of pine nuts, and didn't forget to give a few to "Zhao Surui".

"Take your time, more than once, you can always go where you want to go." Shen Shiqing persuaded her in turn.

Lin Miaozhen suddenly slapped the table: "Then I can also go to Mount Tai to have a look!"

Remembering that there was Xu Gongling next to her, she smiled and changed her words: "I can go to Mount Tai to inspect, Mount Tai, outstanding people, excellent, there must be many talented women who can enter the palace as female officials."

She made up for it, but it only made the old and serious Xu Gongling sigh secretly in her heart.

"Your Majesty, the queen mother has changed a lot these days, and Weichen is sometimes happy, sometimes frightened."

It was already dark in the Qionghua Hall where Lin Miaozhen lived, Shen Shiqing walked slowly, and it was Xu Gongling who was holding the lamp for her on the side.

Looking at Xu Gongling's face illuminated by the light, Shen Shiqing raised his hand and asked the rest of the people to take a few steps back.

"Xu Gongling, give me the lamp."

"Yes."

The young emperor was wearing a sable coat outside, stretched out a hand holding a palace lamp, and walked slowly and leisurely.

"Your Majesty, the queen is not a female official after all, let alone a palace maid, you indulge the queen like this, Weichen is really worried that one day the queen will not be the queen after all."

Looking at the lamp in his hand, Shen Shiqing's face had a shallow smile:

"Xu Gongling, do you think that one day I will be forced to abolish the queen?"

"Definitely." After walking a few steps, Xu Xuan said slowly, "Your Majesty, the minister saved a sparrow in the plum forest when he was young."

"The sparrow was wounded, and only wailed and chirped in the woods, and the minister held it with a handkerchief, and brought it back to his house, and fed it with yellow rice every day, and gave it water to drink, and changed its dressing. After a few days, the birds gradually got better, and occasionally flew into the forest and back. But the minister was afraid that it would never return, so he found a birdcage and locked it in. The little bird began to struggle when it was first imprisoned, and the minister thought that it would understand the minister's painstaking efforts, so he ruthlessly covered the cage and waited for it to be quiet. But after only half a day, when the minister came back from eating at his grandmother's, the bird was already dead."

….

Xu Xuan stopped.

"Your Majesty, when a bird is in a cage, it will still be like this, let alone a human being? The queen's mother is uninhibited by nature, and Weichen knows that she has suppressed her nature and lives in this deep palace in the past, but she knows that she is the queen, and she is willing to be a good queen to take care of the inner palace for Her Majesty. Now, Your Majesty connived at and even instigated the queen to leave the palace, just like making the bird remember the mountains, forests and clouds, if one day, the queen mother is imprisoned back in the palace again, and let her live as before, Your Majesty, the queen mother will become the bird that the minister killed by mistake."

"Xu Gong Ling."

Xu Xuan knelt straight on the cold stone steps: "Your Majesty, Weichen lost his words, please surrender Your Majesty."

"Get up, what is there to blame for your sake?"

The young man with the lamp bent down to help Xu Xuan.

"I know

What is Dao Xu Gongling worried about?" Shen Shiqing lowered her eyes and looked at the road illuminated by the lamp.

"I am already young and uncertain, and it is not uncommon for me to make changes in the court, whether it is for a female official to go to the court, or for a female official to patrol the Quartet, or for a palace maid to enter the inner study, now these can be erased as long as I am moved by the ministers one day, but just a few words. At that time, inside and outside the palace, countless women will become birds in cages, wailing and crying, and dying under the black cage cloth. What Xu Gong really wants to remind me is not how the queen should deal with herself, but those women, I am right?"

Xu Xuan lowered his head, and the green plum branches on his official hat swayed lightly in the wind: "Your Majesty Mingjian."

"I'm afraid, too."

At first, Xu Xuan thought that what he heard was the wind.

The three words are fluttering in the ears, but they seem to have a thousand weights, and they are overwhelming.

It's as if with just these three words, one gets a glimpse of a mountain, and that mountain grows on another person's heart.

"I'm also afraid that one day I will wake up, my hand is not my hand, my heart is no longer my heart, I am afraid that one day, the high-ranking female official will walk to the Qianqing Palace but will not be allowed to enter, the queen wants to leave the palace, but she is stopped in the palace gate, I am afraid that Scholar Zhao will be driven back to the princess's mansion, Xu Palace will order you to be dismissed and dismissed back to your hometown, I am afraid that the red dresses of the female officials will be torn and burned, and I am afraid that the account books that the female officials have worked hard to calculate will be burned. Xu Gongling, what you are afraid of is exactly what I am afraid of at this moment."

Xu Xuan stood in place, watching the man in the big hat walk forward alone with a flickering lamp, taking one step and another step.

"Your Majesty......"

"The net is up, the sky and the earth are gray, there are no more birds crying in the mountains and forests, Xu Gongling, if one day the nightmare in the world will come true, will you first open the bird cage and let them have a little respite, or let the birds be locked up all the time, from life to death, not to spread their wings?"

Shen Shiqing turned his head and looked at Xu Gongling standing on the steps.

These words, she asked herself over and over again, when she was determined to take Lin Miaozhen out of the palace, when she was determined to let the palace maids into the inner study, when she stood in the princess's mansion and watched Zhao Mingyin walk towards her, she was thinking.

Just like in the past years, she saw her own abyss from others over and over again.

It is a compromise, to take a path that she should take in the eyes of the world, to become a husband and a beloved wife, a beautiful woman, forgetting all the past, and forgetting the layers of unwillingness and pain in her heart.

….

Or will she continue to endure, continue to wait, continue to be trampled on until the day when she can truly break her shackles?

When she was Shen Shiqing, she was constantly asking herself, and when she was doing "Zhao Surui", she was still constantly asking.

At that time, she said to herself, "Look at it, Shen Shiqing, the woman in front of you, she is also Shen Shiqing."

It is Shen Shiqing who is locked up, Shen Shiqing who wants to be kind, and Shen Shiqing who wants to follow the rules.

They are all you, even if you become a man, even if you are the supreme king in this world, you can still see them everywhere, they look at the abyss, they stand between the mole and the cage, they seem to have been doomed to not be able to spread their wings in this life.

So, there is an answer.

She herself is the answer.

"Your Majesty......"

"Xu Gong Ling." Shen Shiqing raised his hand and let the light illuminate Xu Xuan's way forward, "Since it is a bird, it has to fly after all."

Waiting for Xu Gongling to walk to her side, Shen Shiqing turned around, carried the lamp and continued to walk forward.

"Let the birds and finches fly, so that even if one day the net covers the sky, maybe there will be a bird that slips through the net. It can fly, so that the cage in this world knows that birds are meant to fly."

Xu Xuan followed behind "Your Majesty" and was silent for a long time.

It wasn't until Her Majesty walked to the royal car who had been waiting in the distance that she knelt on the ground and saluted, and watched His Majesty return to the palace.

Standing up, meticulously adjusting the official robe on her body, she looked at the Duanji Hall that was still brightly lit not far away, and simply raised her feet and walked there.

The hall was as busy as ever, and the crackling sound of the abacus seemed to give birth to a shadow under the reflection of the lights, otherwise no one would understand why the abacus beads would be so endless.

"Xu Gong Ling." A few little palace maids walked briskly with the paperwork in their arms, and they didn't forget to salute her.

Xu Xuan nodded at them.

A few little palace maids walked to the shelf and put the sorted account books on it, and a little palace maid suddenly said:

"Xu Gongling was singing just now, did you hear me?"

"What?"

Another little palace maid smiled and said, "I heard it, Xu Gongling was singing: 'The morning smoke is miserable, the sky is far away, and the sky and the earth are netted. Flying feathers swirl, silently quiet the forest, and hundreds of birds become birds. ，」

"Xu Gongling can actually sing lyrics?"

The little palace maids chirped, like a flock of chicks growing up in the woods.

Xu Xuan stood by the window with her hands behind her back, and there was a noise in her ears, and she looked at the quiet Taiye Pool in the distance.

"The cold dew shatters the dream of the golden cage, and the old scene and the old finch hesitate. Thirty years, remembering the snow of Merlin is heavy, and it is silent."

Thirty years ago, she just brought the bird home, and because of the disobedience to the harem discipline, her father casually threw it to the dog in the family yard.

The bird that was locked up in the cage and almost died, had a surname named Xu Xuan.

The royal car walked slowly towards the Qianqing Palace.

In silence, Shen Shiqing followed the lamp in the sedan chair and looked at the fold.

"Shen Sanru, Shen Sanru."

Hearing the familiar voice, she remembered that today was the day of the reconciliation of her heart once every three days.

"Your Majesty, I heard that you are wise and powerful in prison, and you are the king and hegemon."

"Shen Sanfu, I want to worship the Yao clan for you, do you say I wear white or blue?"

didn't expect Zhao Surui to talk about it, Shen Shiqing was stunned:

"Your Majesty, if I'm not mistaken, you're still in jail."

"I'm in prison, but I can escape from prison, and when I'm done worshipping, I'll let the four rats arrest me...... It's quite interesting to say this, Shen Sanzhu, just do it, and I will escape from prison tomorrow. Tell me if I was wearing white or green when I escaped from prison."

Shen Shiqing: "......"

Sister Qing: Why do you want to escape from prison as an emperor?

Siri Zhao: Choose clothes.

The lyrics and lyrics sung by Xu Xuan are "Man Jianghong", don't pursue Pingxuan, it's really unprofessional for me to write these things.

2.16 I was not satisfied with the writing at night, plus I didn't sleep well the day before, and my brain was not enough, so the update was changed to the afternoon of 2.17.

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