Empress Reborn

After personally sending Shangguan Wan'er back home, Li Lingyue had just stepped into her room before Empress Wu arrived.

This was the first time Li Lingyue saw her mother after her rebirth. She had a [-]-fold long skirt and a rich face. Although she was over half a hundred years old, those years seemed to only add a layer of aura to her, but did not drain her energy at all. .Her mother is not as expensive and extravagant as Empress Wei's jewelry after she came to power, she is simple and simple, which even she herself can't compare with.

Li Lingyue was a little ashamed, no wonder she was not as good as her mother in her previous life.Recalling the joys and sorrows between her and her mother in her previous life in a trance, her heart suddenly became gloomy. She still remembered the last time between herself and her mother.In Shangyang Palace, the mother who failed the coup and fell to the throne rubbed her cheeks with her wrinkled hands. Her eyes were no longer as sharp as before, but now they were full of softness. She looked at herself softly. She sighed softly: "Ah Yue, don't blame your mother for preventing you from seizing power. Mother has lost too much for this position. Now, the court has been returned to your Li family, stop it."

At this moment, she realized why her mother always suppressed her before. It was just a mother's special love for her children.The chaotic court is even more difficult for a woman. Her mother does not want to repeat the same mistakes and live a life that seems to be beautiful but has never been peaceful.But now even if you understand it, what's the use?She still wants to get her hands on the throne. In the last life, she lost her lover and her own life because of giving up. In this life, she will never give up!

Her chest tightened for a moment, Li Lingyue glanced at her mother with a mournful expression, and quickly embraced her.

Empress Wu looked at the agitated little daughter in her arms, and couldn't help being surprised, she patted her back lightly, then pulled her away, looked at her forehead, and said with concern: "What's wrong, my son? But your head hurts again?"

Li Lingyue shook her head, looking at the caring mother in front of her, her eyes were a little sore, she suppressed the urge to cry, and said coquettishly: "It's all my mother's fault, I haven't seen my daughter for a long time."

Empress Wu liked the innocent and lovely appearance of her youngest daughter the most, she took her daughter into her arms and kissed her again, "Okay, okay, it's almost time, I still like to act like a baby."

Li Lingyue was also ashamed of the attitude of a young daughter like herself, but she still didn't dare to reveal too much in front of Empress Wu. After all, to Empress Wu, family affection always came second.Slightly curling her lips, she shrank back into Empress Wu's arms in a girlish manner, but this time she was pushed out by Empress Wu, and the loving smile on her face disappeared, replaced by a slightly reproachful serious face, "Ah Yue, didn’t mother say that, let you rest in peace, why did you go riding a horse again? And you also ran to the internal literature hall, disturbing other people’s classes.”

She had just returned, and after a short while, Empress Wu got the news.It seems that this Daming Palace is full of mother's eyeliner.Li Lingyue lowered her head, and replied with the same attitude of admitting her mistake as she did when she was a child: "Aniang, my daughter is in good health. If she doesn't leave the house, she will be exhausted. Besides, my daughter is going to go to bed." The Literary Museum is not here to disturb other people's classrooms. My daughter went to inspect it for A Niang."

The sophistry words brought a smile to Empress Wu's cold face. She glanced at her daughter and asked, "Oh? What did my son gain from this inspection?"

Li Lingyue puffed out her chest, and said proudly: "Daughter found a talented woman in the Inner Literature Museum this time, and I'm afraid that the new top student in front of Aye Hall may not be as good as her."

"Oh? Who is this person?" Empress Wu laughed.

Li Lingyue replied again: "It seems to be called Wan'er, oh yes, it's Shangguan Wan'er."

Li Lingyue was still smiling, but Empress Wu's face suddenly darkened.After accumulating prestige for a long time, even the reborn Li Lingyue would still feel shy when seeing it.It's just that after all, she has lived for decades, and now she has long been able to hide her true feelings.She looked at Empress Wu with a puzzled and fearful look, and said cautiously, "Aniang, what's wrong with you?"

Empress Wu looked down at her, as if she could see through her with such a sharp look, she spoke, her voice was colder than before, "Do you know where Shangguan Wan'er came from?"

Li Lingyue knew it clearly, but now in order to dispel Empress Wu's vigilance, she couldn't answer it.Looking around at the maid beside her, seeing that everyone was hesitating to speak and frightened, Li Lingyue frowned suspiciously and shook her head, but she said righteously: "My daughter doesn't know where she came from. The daughter only knows that it is very hard for A Niang to approve the memorials for Aye every day, and the daughter is heartbroken to death seeing it. If it were not for the regulations in the palace, the daughter would have brought Wan'er out long ago and escorted her to you to help."

Zhen Che's caring words won Empress Wu's favor, and a smile appeared on her gloomy face again. She lightly poked her daughter's forehead, and said with a smile, "You know there are rules in the palace."

Li Lingyue was giggling, and she took advantage of the opportunity to act like a baby in Empress Wu's arms, "Of course my daughter knows, and my daughter also knows that A Niang is the supreme emperor in the palace."

Supreme is the emperor's honorific title. After hearing this, Empress Wu hurriedly pushed her daughter, and reprimanded: "Supreme is your Aye1, don't use it indiscriminately."

Li Lingyue curled her lips indifferently, and she rubbed into Empress Wu's ear and whispered, "Aniang, you are the same as Aye in my daughter's heart, not to mention that you have done no less than Aye, how can you not be called the supreme?"

The words reached Empress Wu's heart, and Empress Wu was silent for a moment, but finally she gave her daughter a blaming look, "Don't talk nonsense."

Li Lingyue nodded, but felt a little emotional in her heart. She felt that from this moment on, her mother was afraid to become an emperor.Seeing her mother was about to leave, she stretched out her hand to stop her, and begged, "Aniang, Wan'er is very talented, don't look down on her just because of her low background. My daughter likes her, so give her to her as a companion." Read well?"

Empress Wu smiled helplessly, "Just now you said you wanted her to help your mother, but now you want to stay by your side as a companion."

Li Lingyue said frankly: "That's because although she is talented, she is too young after all. Study with my daughter for more days, so she can be qualified to serve my mother."

"You are right in everything." Empress Wu nodded her daughter's nose. Thinking of her daughter's previous words, she also felt that there was some truth. She really lacked literary confidantes. So what about her granddaughter, she is confident that she has the means to make that girl loyal to her wholeheartedly.Looking at the unyielding daughter beside her, Empress Wu finally responded: "Okay, okay, mother will obey you. Tomorrow, mother will summon Shangguan Wan'er."

"Thank you, mother!" Li Lingyue hugged Empress Wu joyfully, and showed her hospitality again.

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The next day, Empress Wu really kept her promise and summoned Shangguan Wan'er.Li Lingyue remembered that the story of Empress Wu summoning Wan'er had always been a good story, she hadn't seen it in her last life, and she would not miss the opportunity in this life, so she had already stood by Empress Wu's side, quietly waiting for the beautiful woman to arrive.

It was still the old sackcloth from yesterday, but the man had added an extra layer of powder and daisy, making his face more ruddy.Li Lingyue watched Shangguan Wan'er move lightly with lotus steps, walked into the palace gracefully, and kowtowed to the empress Wu who was sitting in the seat.After getting up, she saw Wan'er glance towards her, and then sent a friendly smile, and then waited for the other party's surprised look.

There was some surprise, but it was only for a moment. After a moment, Shangguan Wan'er looked at Empress Wu neither humble nor overbearing.

What an elegant and elegant woman.Li Lingyue glanced at her eyes full of admiration and pride.After watching the martial arts again, there was a touch of appreciation in that majestic expression.Growing up in Ye Ting, this child can still look like this, this child is really exciting.

Empress Wu waved Wan'er to sit down in front of the case, casually said a few topics, and ordered Shangguan Wan'er to write a composition.After hearing this, Shangguan Wan'er thought about it a little, and wrote it without adding any points.

Empress Wu asked the maid to bring the written text and read it carefully, but she was also amazed by the beautiful rhetoric and smooth meaning of the text.She lowered her eyes and glanced at the enemy's daughter, but unexpectedly found that there was a sense of anticipation and admiration in the other's calm expression, and besides, there was a trace of disappointment.

She also wants to get out of that place.Empress Wu closed her eyes, thought for a while, and came up with the last question, asking Shangguan Wan'er to compose a five-character verse with the theme of ribbon-cutting flowers, and also asked Li Lingyue to participate in it.

After hearing this, Li Lingyue felt that this question was very difficult. She didn't have any talent in literature. Compared with poetry and poetry, she liked playing polo and hunting more.Frowning and thinking for a long time, she still hasn't even figured out a direction, but Shangguan Wan'er has already written the poem.

The maid handed over Wan'er's finished poem, and Li Lingyue was curious, so she leaned over and read it out:

"Dense leaves are pruned, and new flowers are pruned one by one.

Although it is not wrong to climb the bar, picking the pistil is not enough.

The origin of spring comes, and autumn is not yet willing to sparse.

May I ask peaches and plums, what is the desire for chaos? "2

At the end of reading, she was startled suddenly: May I ask Tao Jiangli, what is the desire for chaos?Wan'er, when you write this poem, are you mocking A Niang?

She looked at Empress Wu worriedly, but found that Empress Wu's expression was a little dignified. When she heard Empress Wu speak, she asked, "What do you mean by these last two sentences?"

Shangguan Wan'er's expression was still calm. Before she could speak, Li Lingyue interjected and replied, "The colorful flowers are so realistic that they can mess with peaches and plums. This means that as long as a person is strong enough, even if she is a woman, she can still be a man." Things. A Niang, Wan'er is showing her loyalty to you."

Empress Wu glanced at Li Lingyue, then looked at Shangguan Wan'er and said, "Is that so?"

Shangguan Wan'er still acted calmly, she didn't answer bluntly, but asked rhetorically: "There is no explanation in the book of poems, if you want to talk about the meaning, you can only look at the poet's state of mind. If you want to ask the meaning of the last two sentences, you might as well ask yourself instead of your servant."

Such presumptuous remarks shocked everyone present, and Li Lingyue frowned slightly. She just wanted to open her mouth to ease the atmosphere, but she saw Empress Wu standing next to her.