At night, Xie Zhao's ears, who were pretending to be asleep, moved slightly, and a faint smile suddenly passed on his lips.

The next moment, she sighed disapprovingly and said:

"Why are you here? Didn't you say that you should keep an eye on the eldest princess of An Ning, and don't take risks in the palace when you are idle? ”

The door opened and closed slightly, and a figure flashed in quickly, almost silently, and then quickly closed the heavy door.

The heavy agarwood hall door of Zhaohua Hall is like a light weight in the hands of the visitor, like a light and fluttering paper fan, and there is hardly a sound between opening and closing.

Ling or three steps and one step at a time, quickly walked into the inner hall.

After seeing Xie Zhao's not very good-looking face under the bright palace candlelight, he couldn't help frowning slightly.

"What's wrong with someone?"

Didn't she come back with the emperor honestly?

In this case, why do you still use your true qi to do it with people in the palace?

Xie Zhao's eyes were warm, still the same as before.

But Ling Or vaguely felt that "Xie Zhao" in the Ninefold Palace seemed to be a little different from the heartless woman he had been facing each other day and night for two years.

As for the difference, it is difficult for him to describe it exactly.

The girl "Xie Zhao" who walked the rivers and lakes, although she was always sick and crooked, and she was too weak to wear, but she was full of energy.

She is full of vitality all day long, as if she is happy and bright every day, which makes people happy and happy.

At this time, "Xie Zhao" seems to be still the same as the person in the past, but it seems that the whole person is immersed in the bottomless seawater.

It was an incomprehensible incomprehension—her whole person seemed so calm that it was almost impossible to detect her mood swings and mood changes.

Happy, sad, happy, annoyed, nothing.

In this huge city that never sleeps, she seems to have locked everything in her body, and completely concealed all her true emotions, just like the precious ancient that has been passed down for thousands of years in the imperial dynasty.

Ling He frowned slightly.

He didn't know what Xie Zhao had experienced in the city that never sleeped in just one day.

Why is it a little colder than the woman who stood at the door of the mansion in the early morning, smiled softly and asked them to put the common people first, protect the safety of Peng Xiao and his wife, and prevent the chaos in the world after King Yongwang of Western Xinjiang.

Of course, Ling He knew that her "coldness" was not for him, but more like a protective color that was forcibly draped on himself after his heart was cold.

So he couldn't help but open his mouth and ask again: "Did the emperor bully you?" ”

Xie Zhao laughed when she heard this, and the cold silence in her eyes seemed to dissipate a little.

She just smiled and shook her head, and this smile seemed to blow away the cold frost of the hall.

"No, I don't care. Only if I bully others, who can bully me? But how did you get here? ”

Xie Zhao seems to have returned to normal, and has also changed from the eldest princess of Tianchen, who has a powerful aura in the deep palace, to the ordinary man with flesh and blood and warmth.

Ling or Zhengse said: "Naturally, I came to rescue you." ”

Xie Zhao subconsciously smiled when she heard his childish answer, and in the next moment, her eyes fell thoughtfully on the palace window, and suddenly asked:

"On the palace road thirty meters away from Zhaohua Palace, it seems that someone is guarding you, it is actually a half-step Void Heaven Realm."

She paused slightly, then frowned and said, "Lu Wound Sparrow entered the palace with you?" ”

He actually returned to the Heavenly Realm from the previous half-step Void Realm? It can be seen that Lu Wound Bird's martial arts talent is indeed extraordinary.

Ups and downs, only in the morning and evening.

Ling He nodded slightly.

"We were really surprised that the 'Golden Terrace' was willing to help. Although I don't know how credible he is, we have no other way to fight against the two half-step Void Realm elders in the palace. ”

A hint of understanding flashed in Xie Zhao's eyes, and she sighed:

"Did you go to Nanxu? Does he know I'm in the city that never sleeps? ”

Ling He nodded again.

Xie Zhao obviously didn't agree very much.

She said: "Nanxu's temperament seems to be peaceful, but in fact it is some. Not very controllable. You really shouldn't go to him for this, he also came to Zhaoge? ”

If things are not conducive to the stability of the court and people's livelihood, this is not what she wants to see.

Yao Ji last autumn, in order to persuade Nanxu not to act impulsively, she was half reasonable and half threatening, and she was very useless, so she reluctantly said that Nanxu would not move.

It's just that at that time, she thought that Emperor Jing Fu Jingyan only had a little grudge against her personally for many years, and she was still a good emperor in general, so she didn't approve of Nanxu's words about abolishing the Son of Heaven.

But now it seems that Emperor Jing has long been carried away by the imperial authority and lost his mind.

He is no longer the virtuous prince of the young man who devoted himself to the people and studied the books of the sages hard.

Ling He paused when he heard this, and replied honestly:

"It is true that the high priest has come to Zhaoge, but he has not gone with us. I don't know where the High Priest is or what he's doing. ”

He was puzzled: "The high priest is the national master of Tianchen, and in his heart, he puts the country and society first, so he won't come nonsense, right?" ”

Xie Zhao shook his head slightly, but didn't say anything in detail.

It is true that Nanxu is indeed the national teacher of Tianchen, but he is by no means a pedantic and foolish person who is bent on supporting the Fu family.

The ancestral precepts of Shentai Palace cannot be violated, but he is too smart and very good at finding loopholes in the rules.

All in all, Nanxu is definitely not a layman who can be deduced by common sense.

Ling He looked at the woman in front of him with a fixed expression.

"None of that, I'll take you out of here first.

Lu Wound Bird said that if he encounters a strong enemy, he can temporarily stop those two half-step Void Realm masters for us. With your light work—"

"I can't leave yet."

Xie Zhao's eyes were warm, and he interrupted him softly.

"The emperor has acted perversely, and his authority is rising. Now because of his marriage to Queen Bai, the attitude of the Minghe Bai clan is also ambiguous, and there are almost few people in the court who can balance the Son of Heaven. ”

In fact, strictly speaking, if there is power to contain the emperor above the court, Xie Huanzhang, the king of Xunyang County, can barely be regarded as a figure.

But if it wasn't for the last resort, Xie Zhao didn't want to drag the Xie family into this chaos.

Hearing that the kings of Xunyang County, who had been suspended from the Ministry of Rites recently, had actually begun to go to court, Xie Zhao knew that the little uncle must have suddenly acted in a very different style from before because of their sister and brother.

If it weren't for the fact that their sisters and brothers were not angry, they were afraid that the Xie family's power was too conspicuous, and the king of Xunyang County, would definitely keep his head in obscurity and try not to appear in front of others.

So if he could, Xie Zhao didn't want to implicate the Xunyang Xie family, who had been forbearance for more than ten years and had finally hidden his merits and fame, because of their juniors.

Ling He frowned and said, "But you"

He wanted to speak for a moment, but he still said quickly:

"You have little power to protect yourself now, even if you stay in the palace, or know the movements and purposes of the Son of Heaven, what can you do?"

Who knew that Xie Zhao smiled.

"Who says I have little power to protect myself? Do you think that the mechanical bird that flew from the Wulan Mountains a few days ago really only brought back a stinky and long letter from Min Xiaoyao's 'footcloth'? ”

A flash of surprise flashed in Ling He's eyes.

He was stunned for a moment, and then looked ecstatic the next moment!

"Could it be that he, he sent you the elixir to suppress the 'Sad Flower and Hurt the Moon'?"

Xie Zhao didn't say "yes" or "no".

She just chuckled and winked at him silently.