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The next morning, Xue Shao and Li Xianyuan took a carriage to the Zhuque Gate of the Imperial City, and entered the palace with the golden seal token given by the palace. Xue Shao did not have much time to appreciate this beautiful and mighty palace. Like many officials who entered the palace to serve in court, he rode the carriage to the Daming Palace until he got off the horse bridge.

From entering the imperial city, Zhuque Gate to the Imperial Bridge, it took about an hour to walk. Xue Shao secretly exclaimed in his heart that the imperial city was a little too big. No wonder those civil and military officials either rode horses or took cars all the way to the palace, and didn't see a few walking.

After crossing Xiamaqiao, we were at the center of political power of the Tang Dynasty. The two saints came to the court and the Hanyuan Hall, which faced the saints. From here, we could only walk, and the ministers wearing swords had to unload their swords, otherwise they would have to beheaded if they were to break into the palace. Li Xianyuan took Xue Shao to avoid the road and walked eastward around the Hanyuan Hall, crossed the East Neiyuan to come to the Dragon Shou Pond.

This is a beautiful scenery in the palace. There are no shortage of famous grass and flowers in the tower. There are often ministers who work hard and don’t enjoy the scenery here. The emperor sometimes brings dragon boats here to entertain the ministers.

Li Xianyuan brought Xue Shao here. Even if he had fulfilled his mission, he reminded him: "Brother Xue just travels in this area. Princess Taiping occasionally comes here to raft or go outing. If by chance, you will meet His Highness Princess Taiping."

Xue Shao was speechless after hearing this. He thought that his superior had already arranged for Princess Taiping to come here to visit today, just waiting for meeting him. Unexpectedly, it was such a "unreliable" small-probability encounter.

Li Xianyuan seemed to see Xue Shao's helplessness, so he had to laugh and said: "Brother Xue, don't blame me. The emperor's intention must be to let the flow. It is necessary that Princess Taiping has a whim and wants to come here to play. Brother Xue can meet her, so that the princess will not be suspicious."

"Okay, since you come, you will be at ease." Xue Shao didn't want to say anything. Anyway, he just thought it was done with an errand, and he never expected the royal family to carry out "humanized" entertainment for his little subject.

"If you don't meet His Highness the Princess today, tomorrow, Xiaosheng will accompany Brother Xue to the palace. The nearby guards have already greeted you, so it will not make things difficult for Brother Xue." Li Xianyuan also smiled helplessly, "The above arrangement is not helpful. Please don't blame Brother Xue."

"Brother Li doesn't have to say much, please come back!" Xue Shao said with a smile, "Xue is not the kind of petty person who is not aware of the truth."

"Thank you, Brother Xue, for being generous." Li Xianyuan bowed and bid farewell.

When Li Xianyuan left, Xue Shao began his goalless "encounter journey".

The Dragon Shou Pond is very large, and there are countless trees and pavilions. Don’t say it’s a chance encounter, even if you make an appointment to meet here, you have to specify the specific location of the building, otherwise you will easily miss it in one pair.

Xue Shao was not anxious or nervous at all. In his many years of military career, he often lurked motionlessly in dangerous environments for several days, just waiting for the moment when the flight was pulled. Those who had survived the days naturally had extraordinary calmness and patience.

Therefore, the current dilemma is nothing to Xue Shao. He wandered around leisurely, just as he thought it was a free one-day trip to the palace.

For three days, Xue Shao didn't even see Princess Taiping's shadow in Longshouchi. It was usually a place where civil and military officials and workers rest and visit. Idle people could not enter the palace, and the wife and servants in the palace were afraid to leave the palace. Therefore, let alone Princess Taiping, Xue Shao had never seen a woman in three days.

Even Li Xianyuan felt embarrassed and was anxious for Xue Shao, but Xue Shao was still very calm and didn't even complain. He still went out early and came back late like going to work, "waiting for the rabbit".

Yuenu always hides in her room without leaving the house and closes her eyes and sits to regulate her breathing. She rarely appears unless Xue Shao comes back. Li Xianyuan is very curious. Why is a young and beautiful woman like her 70s and 80s always like an old monk who enters meditation, and her eight winds remain silent like water? Apart from Xue Shao, she never says a word to anyone, let alone give her a smile. She is such an inconsistency with the charm, and she doesn't even give her a chance to pick up a chat!

Today, the sun is sunny and the breeze is blowing. The willows on the shore of the Longshou Pond are dancing in the wind. Many flowers in the flowerbed are also blooming, competing for fragrance and magnificent purple and red. This scene is a good day for outings.

Strangely, the area around Longshouchi seems extremely deserted today. Except for the occasional patrol of a group of soldiers, almost no civil and military officials came here to wander. Xue Shao was surprised. After thinking about it carefully, it seemed that during a chat last night, he heard Li Xianyuan say that the former crown prince Li Xian was detained for more than one year for the crime of "conspiracy to rebel", and finally he was exiled from Beijing yesterday. It is said that more than a hundred people in Li Xian and his party, including his wife and children, were all dressed in rags and miserable clothes, and everyone who saw this was sad.

Xue Shao remembers this history very clearly. That is, from the removal of his biological son Li Xian and the removal of the biggest political enemy in this early period, the Empress Wu began to control the government's expansion forces with greater efforts and took the pace of her path to the empress.

When a major event like the exile of the former crown prince, there was naturally a panic in the court. Even if it was not affected or affected, at such a moment, which minister dared to go to the Longshou Pond to gather and have fun? Isn’t that clearly an illegal gathering of people to discuss the government affairs, or a gloating at the experience of the former crown prince Li Xian?

No wonder Xue Shao is the only one who wanders around in the Dragon Head Pool today.

Xue Shao felt a quiet feeling. Like a few days ago, he went straight to the Wuyue Pavilion in the middle of the Longshouchi Lake. There was a lotus carved with stones from Taihu Lake. The lotus leaves and lotus pods were unique ingenuity. These many carvings were connected to a corridor floating on the water, leading to the Wuyue Pavilion built in the middle of the lake. The large stone lotus leaves could accommodate three adults lying on it.

Xue Shao chose to wait here every day. Due to the professional habits he developed over the years, he believed that this stone scene was not only rarely visited and very quiet, but also the best ambush and sniping location in the entire Longshou Pond. Hiding here, almost the entire Longshou Pond is within his observation range. Compared to wandering around aimlessly to create encounters, it is much wiser to take the initiative to strike up a conversation when you see the target here.

Xue Shao slowly stepped on the Shi Che corridor and walked towards Wuyue Pavilion in the middle of the lake. Halfway through, he alertly heard the woman's low sob behind a large stone lotus pod not far ahead. After a few steps, he saw a piece of white dress scattered on the ground.

"At this point, life and death are all over the place. I don't see Jun Yan, and you don't recognize me tears..." The woman sobbed and pondered, and every word was heartbroken. She stretched out a snow-white plain hand and picked up a small stone. She wrapped the stone with a page full of words, picked it up with both hands, and sank the stone and paper to the bottom of the lake.

"If the god has a spirit, please ask the fish to pass on the ruler and let you receive these poems I wrote for you..." The woman became more and more choked, and her voice was intermittent.

If this kind of thing is broken in person, it will inevitably be embarrassing. Xue Shao looked at it for a few times and was about to turn around and leave. The woman behind Shi Lian stood up in surprise, "Who?!"

Xue Shao turned around and was facing his red tears.

The woman looked panicked, and Xue Shao suddenly felt a stunning look in front of her.

The woman in front of her stood in a green half-sleeved skirt, with a flower hairpin flying on her hair, a snow-white cloak on her half-exposed pink shoulders and a soft breast. The jade face with red flames was amazingly beautiful. Although it was a bit pear blossomed with rain, it was definitely not the kind of morbidity that Daiyu buryed the flowers. Instead, it was full of spiritual energy and a bit of wisdom and sharpness.

If you want to use one word to describe the woman who appears in front of you, it is - immortal!

If it is to be another word, it is - beautiful and beautiful!

"Who are you? How dare you come here?" the woman shouted in a sarcastic voice.

Xue Shao was as calm as Qiu Hong and said calmly: "The person passing by."

The woman's eyebrows raised slightly and showed a fleeting look of surprise. She hurriedly turned her face to wipe the tears, then hurriedly picked up a stack of manuscripts full of black words from the ground. She never looked at Xue Shao again, and passed by him floatingly, leaving a faint fragrance.

Xue Shao gave up a little to her, stared at her back, and said to herself: She seemed very afraid that I would see her sadness, and in the end she guessed my origin or thought of something, so she ran away without saying a word. Listening to her tone, she looked like a person who was used to giving orders from a high position. Judging from her clothes and dress, she should be a female official in the palace.

After Wu Zetian was made the queen and took power, many female officials were promoted in the palace to be used. Although these female officials did not attend court, they were with Wu Zetian to take charge of edicts and provide advice. They were all trusted confidants of Wu Zetian. Sometimes they could even affect government affairs and court affairs more than court officials.

The emergence of a large number of female officials and the emergence of trends in politics can be regarded as a "marvelous sight" of this era.

The woman had already run away, as if she was running away.

"It's quite literary and artistic, and I'll have a poem in the middle of the lake. Fish passes the ruler." Xue Shao smiled disapprovingly, walked to Wuyue Pavilion to sit down.

There was a tranquility around him, and Xue Shao's thoughts drifted away with the breeze, as if they were back to the old time when he and An Xiaorou were in love.

I don’t know how long it took, but a burst of laughter came from the river bank not far away. Xue Shao turned his head and saw a group of women and a tall black horse. He immediately rode a woman in yellow, while the other women surrounded the horse happily and nervously, as if they were afraid that it would run faster.

"You dodge, dodge! My palace's riding skills are so superb that you don't need to protect you!" The woman immediately waved her hands and shouted in a tender voice, "I wandered so slowly like an old woman, and there is no pleasure in going outings!"

"Your Highness, this horse is extremely strong, so it's better to be careful!" The other women refused to let go and persuade them with painstaking efforts.

"If you don't let go, cut your tongue!" The woman immediately shouted loudly, and the other women immediately panicked and retreated in panic.

Xue Shao stood up, "Princess?"
Chapter completed!