He Lan snorted softly, raised her hand to touch the black hair on the side of Baiyu's neck, and walked up the water pavilion with her skirt up.
"It is said that he is on duty, but he is swimming in the lake late at night. Commander Xie is really leisurely." He Lan looked at the lake, and squinted at Xie Yun: "Huh?—Since they are all injured, why don't you go back to Jiaotong sooner? The maidservant is waiting on you, why are you still sighing alone by the lake?"
Because she was too close, Xie Yun took half a step back: "Thank you Mrs. Wei for your concern, I am going back to the residence."
After saying that, he turned around and walked out of the water pavilion, and then he heard a coquettish shout from behind: "—Wait!"
Xie Yun paused, only to hear He Lan's cold voice: "Are you also so conceited when facing the queen?"
Xie Yun said, "No."
"Then why are you so harsh on others?"
"..." Xie Yun said slowly, "Because...you are not the queen."
Only He Lan herself knew how lethal this simple fact was. She immediately turned pale, her breath was suffocated, and she couldn't control her anger after a long while: "Don't look down on people too much, Xie Yun! You know, The Holy Majesty has already promised to help me ascend to the next position, how long do you think you can rely on my good second aunt to show off her might?!"
Xie Yun laughed.
"why are you laughing?!"
"... nothing, just remembering the old things." Xie Yun turned around and looked at the Helan family with a smile: "The former emperor left the orphan on the sick bed, and said that the Wang family was a 'beautiful son and a beautiful woman', so the Holy Majesty promised to make the Wang family the queen of the first life." ;When Liang Wang first established the crown prince, the Holy Majesty was overjoyed and promised to hand over thousands of miles of land and mountains to the Liang Wang in a hundred years; Concubine Xiao Shu favored the harem, and no one could show her edge. The Holy Majesty promised to protect her family's prosperity and wealth... "
"But now, the king of Liang bestowed death on Qianzhou, and I don't know where the empress concubine Xiao's bones are buried. The grass on the walls of the empress and concubine's family is higher than the grave." Xie Yun teased: "So the promise of our majesty, madam, just listen to it." .”
Mrs. Wei Guo turned pale and stood there stiffly.
"It's late at night and the dew is heavy, madam, please come back early." Xie Yun raised his hands and said with a smile: "I will take my leave."
He turned around, and before he walked out of the waterside pavilion, He Lanshi suddenly said quietly behind him: "So this is why you are so loyal to the queen? Do you think the queen's promise is useful?"
Xie Yun ignored it, and He Lan sneered: "Let me tell you, if a wolf-like person has the opportunity to kill you, he will never let your life go softly just because he has been in trouble! When my mother was a sister to the queen in her mother's house, How is it? When my mother gave birth to Ah Ren, the queen promised to raise him well, what is it like now?! Ah Ren is in the palace—"
"Ma'am," Xie Yun interrupted her, "The sixth prince is the prince's younger brother, and was born by the empress on her way to pay homage to Zhaoling. I don't know what you want to say."
"Really?" He Lan said coldly, "Then why did the Queen poison my mother and give birth to the Seventh Prince and the Eighth Prince, after her status has been stabilized, she repeatedly tried to poison Ah Ren?"
Not far away among the flowers, Shan Chao's footsteps suddenly stopped.
There was a cracking sound of dead branches being crushed behind him, and he turned his head, Prince Li Hong fell to the ground, his face pale with shock under the moonlight.
Xie Yun glanced at the deep bushes outside the water pavilion, and then took it back calmly.
"Men from the Wu family are weak and useless, but a woman surnamed Wu will do whatever she can to get what she wants." He Lan stepped forward lightly, almost sticking behind Xie Yun, and said softly: "I don't know how loyal you are to the queen. It's for getting something, but everything the queen can give you, I can also give in the future... "
Xie Yun moved forward, but He Lan suddenly reached out and pressed his shoulder.
"—Looking at Zhu Chengbi's thoughts, haggard and scattered, I am Yijun." He Lan said slowly, sticking to Xie Yun's ear, with a trace of cold and cruel charm in his eyes.
"The empress wanted to escape Ganye Temple back then, so she wrote this love poem to the Holy Majesty. It is said that the calligraphy is full of sentimentality and the ink is soft and moving. The Holy Majesty recalled her from Ganye Temple to the palace after seeing it touched her heart. I have seen a copy in Ning Palace, but the brushwork is as sharp as a knife, so it cannot be done by a woman at first glance."
He Lan's lips curled up, her silky eyes conveyed charm:
"Who copied this love poem, why did it appear in the Qingning Palace, and why was it kept by the Queen? - Xie, Tong, Ling?"
Among the flowers in the shadows, Shan Chao's complexion changed slightly, his eyes fixed on the silhouette of Xie Yun in the water pavilion.
Xie Yun didn't move for a long time. After a while, he turned around and looked at He Lan's. He only said four words in a very peaceful voice: "It's nonsense."
He Lan raised his voice and laughed.
"Am I talking nonsense? Commander Xie, who is still unmarried, you know best. But to be honest, I just don't understand Commander Xie, since you are so young, you are so..."
He Lanshi paused for a moment, and his eyes glanced at Xie Yun's icy and handsome face under the moonlight, and fell on his slender figure and the three-foot green sword in his hand. For some reason, his voice suddenly had a softness and softness that he hadn't noticed. : "... such a talent, why did he hang himself on an old tree? As I said just now, I will give you what the queen can give you in the future, and what the queen can't give you, I can also..."
She stepped forward and gently covered the catkin on Xie Yun's sword-holding hand, her moist red lips curled up slightly.
However, Xie Yun remained expressionless, and said for a while, "Ma'am."
"what?"
"You also said just now that there are many beautiful maidservants in my mansion, especially the newly recruited Mo Beibei, who can be called the most beautiful in the world."
Xie Yun looked He Lan's up and down with undisguised critical eyes, and then slowly revealed a regretful expression: "So now I suddenly feel that it is better to go back to the house to accompany them on such a beautiful day and moonlit night... What do you think?"
He Lan's expression froze instantly, and then his cheeks flushed.
"... Xie Yun! Don't be so arrogant!" She staggered back and said sharply, "Do you think you can do whatever you want with Empress Wu protecting you? One day, Empress Wu, Empress Wu—"
Xie Yun smiled and said: "Madam, keep your voice down, if people hear it, I'm afraid this queen will lose her position."
"Even if it is heard by tens of millions of people, the Holy Majesty's heart towards me will not change, and the phoenix chair under Empress Wu will be replaced sooner or later! When the time comes, you, you..."
He Lan's teeth were clenched, and watching Xie Yun's handsome face full of jokes, the embarrassment boiling in her heart seemed to be suppressed bit by bit by some stronger emotion, which made her whole body reveal Some kind of ruthless anger: "Look, Commander Xie. Even if I haven't become a queen today, you will still suffer in my hands-do you think that you can not pay the price for teasing me like this?"
Xie Yun crossed his arms and raised his eyebrows, and saw He Lan retreated to the side of the water pavilion in two steps, tightly grasping the railing, and said coldly: "The interval between guard patrols is not long, so they shouldn't be too far away at this moment. You said if I When I was alone with you, I struggled and fell into the water, and then screamed indecently, and sent someone to save me... Will the Holy Majesty believe you tonight, or will he believe me?"
Xie Yun: "..."
Shan Chao in the bushes not far away: "..."
The corner of Xie Yun's mouth twitched slightly, and suddenly felt that the scene in front of him was very familiar, as if it had been rehearsed on the West Lake in Hangzhou not long ago.
—Good and evil will eventually be rewarded, and the way of heaven is reincarnation.
He Lan raised her skirt and stepped her jade feet over the vermilion railing, Furong finally revealed a trace of complacency: "How is it, Commander Xie—?"
The breeze died down, the sound of insects became silent, and the air seemed to gradually freeze in extreme tension.
Xie Yun stared at He Lan's foot that was already hanging in the air, opened his mouth, but didn't make a sound. After repeating it several times, he finally took a deep breath: "Shan Chao!"
That sound was earth-shattering, not only the Helan family, but also Shan Chao who was hiding in the shadow of the tree was stunned, and the crown prince who couldn't get up from the ground opened his mouth wide.
Xie Yun's voice was extremely sincere: "You girl Long didn't lie to you, you really can't swim!"
After finishing speaking, he stepped over to the side of the waterside pavilion without even looking at Helan's, and jumped into the Taiye Pond first!
thump!
The water splashed everywhere, He Lan was dumbfounded, and the conditioned reflex took his feet back.
Not far away, the prince's chin almost hit the ground with a bang: "Thank you... Commander Xie threw himself into the water?!"
Shan Chao couldn't care less about hiding his figure anymore, he strode forward directly across the flowers, and rushed to the lake to have a look. Xie Yun's silhouette had already sunk to the bottom without even a struggle, and only a small string of bubbles bubbled out of the dark water.
"Who are you?!" He Lan screamed, "Where did you come from?! Come, come!"
Shan Chao said angrily: "Commander Xie? Xie Yun? Xie Yun?! Xie Yun, where are you?!"
There was no response from the lake, and Shan Chaoxin threw himself into the lake without even taking off his robes!
The lake water in the late autumn night was icy cold, and Shan Chao shivered as soon as he entered the water. Fortunately, his body was young and powerful, so he swiped a few times and saw long hair floating in the depths. He immediately dived down to grab Xie Yun's open hand, then went around and grabbed his back, pulling him Hugged tightly in his arms.
In the chaos, he couldn't care about anything else, Shan Chao quickly surfaced, held Xie Yun in one hand and swam to the shore with the other, grabbed the carved stone steps of Taiye Pond, and flipped onto the land with a bang.
"Xie Yun?!" Shan Chao turned Xie Yun's body over, saw his eyes closed tightly and his complexion was pale, his heart skipped a beat, he stretched out his hand to pinch his chin, and at the same time leaned over to his lips—
In fact, Shan Chao didn't think too much at that moment, and mostly reacted subconsciously, but the moment he touched the corner of Xie Yun's lips, the cold and soft touch made his heart stop for an instant.
Immediately afterwards, three fingers pressed against his throat and pushed him out abruptly.
"Cough, cough, cough, cough..." Xie Yun turned over and sat up wetly, choking out several saliva in embarrassment, finally stopped coughing, turned to the stunned Shan Chao and said hoarsely: "No, I Still... I don't really want to kiss men."
Shan Chao: "..."
He Lan shivered all over and stepped back, then stumbled and sat on the long step beside the railing of the water pavilion, and said in disbelief: "Thank you, Xie Yun, you actually..."
Xie Yun unscrewed a large amount of lake water from his long hair with a clatter, and said exhaustedly, "Jump, why don't you jump now? Go back and make a fuss in front of the emperor for His Majesty to judge, and see how I molested you, how about it? "
He Lanshi couldn't speak a single word, and almost lost all ability to react. She shivered and pointed at Xie Yun, then at Shan Chao, and finally burst out after going back and forth several times, screaming angrily: "Xie, Yun! You, you don't want to be too bullying!"
"—Do you think this matter will end today? Impossible! Let me tell you, as long as Empress Wu is still in power, as long as your shameful feelings towards Empress Wu are still there, this matter will not be so easy!"
Shan Chao was about to get up, when his hands that were propped on the ground tightened suddenly, and all his veins and bones protruded.
"Don't think that you can escape easily!" He Lan suddenly stood up and said sharply, "You have humiliated me so far, just wait!"
The night wind blew, and it was cold to the bone. Xie Yun brushed his drenched temple hair behind his ears, stood up and said wearily, "Stop talking nonsense."
Shan Chao stared at him without saying a word in the shadow by the lake. It was a young man with a strong masculinity. In such a dark night, his eyes seemed to be calm and bright. Xie Yun said impatiently: "What are you looking at? What's none of your business?"
At this time, the sound of guards patrolling gradually came from a distance, and the flames approached from far away. After turning around the stone bridge, Ma Xin asked suspiciously: "Who is there, stop and move!... Commander? Commander? !"
Ma Xin came rushing with his men, and suddenly saw Mrs. Wei standing in the water pavilion in anger and hatred, while Xie Yun and Shan Chao were standing on the bank, dripping wet, apparently just climbed up from the water, and a group of guards They were all stunned immediately. But Ma Xin reacted quickly, and didn't dare to ask what happened. He immediately called for someone to fetch the cloth towel and clothes, and then sent someone to escort Mrs. Wei back to Qingning Palace for the banquet.
He Lan stared at Xie Yun, gritted her silver teeth, and turned away. The complicated sleeve of the palace dress hit the red pillar of the waterside pavilion with a loud slap.
"..." Ma Xin was secretly startled. When he turned his head and saw Shan Chao, a burst of anger surged from the bottom of his heart. While reaching out to press the knife, he asked Xie Yun in a low voice: "Why did the commander fall into the water? Could it be This monk... Do you want my subordinates to..."
Xie Yun raised his hand to stop him.
"How about Qingning Palace?"
Ma Xin was taken aback: "The palace banquet will continue as usual."
"Where are the Holy One and the Queen?"
"Everyone is at the table."
Xie Yun nodded and said, "Let's go."
"Commander, do you want to change into dry clothes first... hey!"
Xie Yun flicked his sleeves and walked in the direction he came from, but stopped suddenly after two steps, and said, "Shan Chao."
Standing in the dimly lit place, Shan Chao's whole body seems to be extremely tense—that state of being as tense as a bowstring, at first glance, may even produce a feeling that he is about to make a bold move at any time, like a wild beast that is off the brakes. illusion.
Xie Yun turned his head: "Come here!"
Shan Chao finally moved, but instead of stepping forward, he stretched out his hand and grabbed Xie Yun's wrist hanging by his side.
——At this moment, suddenly a guard came hurriedly from the direction of Qingning Palace in the distance, walking extremely fast, walked around the stone bridge quickly, leaned over and whispered something in Ma Xin's ear.
Ma Xin nodded, patted the guard on the shoulder to signal him to go first, then stepped forward and bowed: "Commander, there is news from Qingning Palace that the Holy Majesty has approved."
Xie Yun glanced over, Ma Xin lowered his head and said: "Not long after you left the palace banquet just now, Mrs. Wei Guo hurriedly left the banquet with an excuse. Then the queen once again offered to enshrine Mount Tai with the Holy One as Yaxian. After returning to Beijing, she can officially attend Listening to the government—the Holy Majesty said, 'This matter is very appropriate', and the Empress took out the prime minister's memorial, and the Holy Majesty approved it while enjoying the wine!"
"The imperial pen personally approves, the imperial edict has been issued, and the holy emperor has decided to leave for Mount Tai at the end of the month, and it will be announced to the world tomorrow!"
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Aren, the nickname of Li Xian, the sixth prince of Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty and the second son of Empress Wu