Empress Reborn

In the first year of Yongchun, Emperor Li Zhi died in Luoyang, the eastern capital, and his ministers gave him the posthumous title of Tianhuang Dadi, the temple name of Gaozong, and was buried in Qianling.The crown prince Li Xian succeeded to the throne in front of the coffin, and Empress Wu became the empress dowager, and because she gave birth to a mediocre son, she was able to be called the imperial court.

Although she is still in power, the Empress Dowager Wu feels a stick in her throat when she thinks of what Li Zhi said to her daughter before she died. Li Xian was exiled in Bazhou, and blamed her for being power-hungry and mischievous, not like a woman, let alone a mother!

"Heh." With a soft sneer, she ordered Shangguan Wan'er who was standing by, "Go and call Ah Yue."

Shangguan Wan'er took the order to retreat, and Empress Dowager Wu looked at her leaving figure thoughtfully.

Half an hour later, she saw her daughter and Shangguan Wan'er walking in side by side, taking advantage of the interval between her daughter's salute, she ordered softly: "Go down, Wan'er, you go out first."

"Yes." Shangguan Wan'er bowed in response, and patted Li Lingyue's hand reassuringly when she left.

Li Lingyue returned with a warm smile. She had already expected why her mother called her here, and she was very calm at this time. Empress Wu called her to take a seat, so she sat down with a smile, "Mother."

Empress Dowager Wu smiled kindly behind her, and pushed a plate of red silk snacks over, "I remember this was your favorite food when you were a child, do you still like it now?"

Li Lingyue picked up a piece of cake bait and took a bite, with a girlish look of joy on her face, "I like it. Auntie gave it to me, and my daughter likes it too."

Knowing that her daughter was trying to please her, but the Empress Dowager Wu still enjoyed it, the smile on her face couldn't help but be sincere. She looked at the gluttonous daughter and thought about how she would have fun at her knees when she was a child. The two scenes overlapped, and she Can't help feeling: It's been so long, her husband died, and she has passed the prime of life, but her daughter is still young and beautiful, and now this child still makes her have a little fear, she worries that one day If he couldn't hold her down, he would be pushed off the high platform by this spoiled child.

"Ah Yue." She looked at her daughter's face and called softly, her face was flat, but her eyes were full of affection, "You said back then that no matter what happened, you were always with your mother. Are you still serious now?"

"Mother?" Li Lingyue blinked her eyes and looked at her mother suspiciously, as if she didn't understand why her mother would ask such a question.She secretly thought that her mother might be suspicious, she curled her mouth and replied with her most sincere expression: "Naturally."

Empress Dowager Wu stared at her daughter, and said again: "That night you, Aye, called you to come close, and you were probably asking you to protect the Li family with a low voice."

Li Lingyue recalled what Li Zhi said to herself that day, and she thought that those four intermittent words were probably for her to protect the Li family, help the Li family to consolidate the imperial fortune, and prevent the mother from seizing |power and killing the Li family's heirs.In the previous life, she would definitely agree. Unfortunately, in this life, she has been disappointed, and she really can't guarantee whether she will do so.But to help the Li family consolidate their empire, she will definitely do it, but the Li family sitting on the throne is her own.

With a smile on her face, she continued to plead with her mother: "Could it be that Aunt has forgotten who her daughter's son-in-law is? It's humane to marry a husband. Although my daughter has a heart for Wan'er, she still married a Wu family. Don't you understand that? "

Married to her husband, daughter married to a Wu family, and became a Wu family.Empress Dowager Wu was delighted to hear that, she stroked her daughter's face, as if thinking of something, the smile on her face froze again, "Don't you doubt that you, Aye, would entrust you instead of entrusting Yu Dan'er? "

Li Lingyue leaned close to Empress Wu, leaned on her mother's arm affectionately, and said with a smile: "Isn't it because you love me more than my two elder brothers?"

some?I'm afraid it's more than that.The queen mother thought that if the two sons did what Li Lingyue did, she might not be able to bear it anymore.Looking down at the well-behaved daughter beside her, she said softly, "Although you, Aye, are unwell, your heart is like a mirror. Who does Su Qin belong to? Do you think he doesn't know?"

The hand holding her mother trembled suddenly, Li Lingyue was stunned, but she still lay on her mother's arms and did not leave.She said indifferently: "Mu Zhen belongs to my daughter, but even more to my mother." After saying this, she stepped back from her mother and looked directly at the empress dowager's scorching eyes.

Empress Dowager Wu didn't get angry, she said: "I'm very glad that you didn't continue to hide from me. It's just that you are young after all, and you are still a little rash in dealing with things. You have lost a person who often accompany you, and there is another young man in the barracks." Yinghao, how can this make people not suspicious?"

Li Lingyue lowered her forehead. She thought that when Li Zhi said this to her at that time, she might have regarded her as a heroine like her grandmother, Princess Pingyang Zhao. Not so noble, she has been staring at that throne for two lifetimes.

Seeing her daughter bowed her head and said nothing, Empress Dowager Wu thought she knew she was wrong, and she just wanted to remind her daughter, so she said again, "This is not an example. If you make some small moves in the future, it will not be so easy .”

"Yes, my daughter can save it." Li Lingyue got up and made a big gift with the Queen Mother.She knows that at this time, respect is the best response.

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At the beginning of the following year, Li Xian changed his title to Sisheng. This year's New Year's Eve, due to Gaozong's death, the palace was extremely deserted, but for Su Muning, this year was more joyful than before, because her sister Su Mu, whom she had not seen for a long time, Zhen is back.

Snuggling in Su Muzhen's arms and looking at the flying snow in the sky, Su Muning still remembered the joy of this morning.

In the morning, when she and Mr. Shangguan finished their morning classes, the princess came. She got up to greet the princess, and suddenly heard a familiar voice calling her, "Ning'er."

Her heart trembled, and then her eyes turned red, and she rushed to the man's arms three steps at a time, crying, "Sister."

The elder sister finally came back. She waited for her elder sister for a long time, so long that she almost blamed the princess.She raised her head and looked at Lianxi and her elder sister. Her elder sister's skin was darker and she seemed to be thinner, but her embrace became warmer.Unable to help, she jumped in again, sobbing.

Li Lingyue and Shangguan Wan'er withdrew as early as when they embraced each other.

Suddenly, Su Muning stood up. She looked at her sister with grievances, and took her to sit down by the table. She looked at her sister, saw her handsome cheek, and looked around with both hands. She saw the back of her right hand. There was a circle of tooth marks printed on it, and he couldn't help but ask with concern: "How did my sister do this?"

Su Muzhen looked at the tooth marks, and couldn't help but smile, she replied: "I was bitten by a wolf."

"Wolf?" Su Muning was even more worried when she heard it. She caressed her tooth marks distressedly and asked anxiously, "I heard that wolf teeth are poisonous. Can my sister take medicine?"

"I've done it." Su Muzhen smiled.

Su Muning looked down again, she had never seen a wolf before, but she felt that the tooth marks looked familiar, "Sister, is this really a wolf bite? Why does it look like a human tooth mark?"

Su Muzhen withdrew her hand, pinched her sister's face with a smile, "It's really a wolf."

"My sister said it was a wolf, so it must be a wolf." Although she didn't believe it in her heart, Su Muning still didn't want to argue with her sister. She held her sister's hand and asked about the march and war in detail. Zhen told her about Su Qin, who had recently become famous, and verified her conjecture.

Su Muzhen picked up some things to tell her, even if she omitted the dangerous ones, the little girl was still very worried, she kept asking her if she was hurt, and wanted her to take off her clothes and check for her herself.The swords are facing each other, and it is inevitable that some trauma will be caused. She was afraid that her sister would be worried if she saw it, so she shirked and said: "Sister is fine. Besides, this is your Mr. Shangguan's room, so it's not easy to ask my sister to get dressed here, right?"

Su Muning thought it was reasonable, curled her lips, and continued: "Okay. Then my sister will show me the clothes when there is no one else at night."

"..." Su Muzhen was confused by Tong Yan, raised her hand and pinched her sister's face again.

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Su Muzhen looked at the little girl in her arms who was meditating, the corners of her lips curled up slightly, she put her arms around her younger sister's waist, feeling that she had not seen her in a year, but her younger sister's stature was so much taller that she was almost catching up with her.

"Mu Zhen."

Li Lingyue's voice came from behind her, and Su Muzhen hurriedly lowered her body to salute, "Princess."

"General Su, you don't need to be too polite." Li Lingyue smiled lightly, and Shangguan Wan'er beside her called Su Muning over, and the two walked aside to discuss poetry.Li Lingyue took the opportunity to ask: "The Empress Dowager summoned you today, is there any difficulty?"

Su Muzhen shook her head. Since returning to Chang'an, she was summoned by Empress Wu. Empress Wu was only slightly dissatisfied with her disguise as a man and entered the military camp. She did not convict her and punish her. Ask her to make progress day by day, and make contributions to the country again.

Li Lingyue thought to herself, and then said: "Today you are entering the palace as a man, it is not appropriate to stay in the backyard for a long time, why not take Ning'er back to my residence first. I will send someone to search for your residence the next day."

Su Muzhen understood that today is different from the past, and thanked the princess. She held her younger sister's hand while it was still dark, and after meeting Wan'er, she bid farewell to the two of them, and rode out of the palace.

The two of them returned to the princess mansion, but Li Lingyue, the owner of the princess mansion, was still standing in the hall.Shangguan Wan'er glanced at her with a smile, and teased: "On New Year's Eve, you don't accompany your son-in-law to watch the new year at the mansion, what are you doing here?"

Li Lingyue bent her lips, her eyes flashed, she approached Shangguan Wan'er, put her arms around her waist with one hand, hooked her chin with the other, and raised her eyebrows, "Miss Shangguan has a good memory, maybe she forgot the princess's real son-in-law?" who is it?"

Shangguan Wan'er smiled slightly, but said nothing.

Li Lingyue pressed her face closer, she opened her mouth, and poured the fragrance of Zhilan on Shangguan Wan'er's face, "If you forget, then the princess will do something to remind you of it." As she spoke, she moved her lips Covered up.

The sound of firecrackers sounded outside the window at the right time, crackling, and the house was not inferior to it.