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The last time Xie Jin saw Yuan Qi was when he confessed his marriage and the two broke up.

I haven't seen her for about three months, Xie Jin is still the same as before, even because she is living a good life in Xihe Palace, and Zhang Shi is dedicated to regulating her body according to the order, her complexion is even better than before.

On the other hand, Yuan Qi described it as downcast, and his figure has also lost a lot of weight, so there is no shadow of his high spirits at the beginning.

Xie Jin didn't know that he was dismissed from the post of the imperial army. The first time he saw him in plain clothes, he just took a second look and looked away. He stopped a few steps away, kept a distance from him, and asked softly: "You look for me What's the matter?"

Yuan Qi stared at her blankly, opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything for a while.

Xie Jin frowned slightly, impatient with the pressure, "If you have nothing to say, I'll go back, and I would like to advise you again, I don't want to have any further entanglements with you, and I don't want to have any troubles because of you again, Yuan Qi, we will No goodbye."

"Jin Niang!"

Xie Jin turned around and was about to leave, but was called by Yuan Qi again, and she asked without turning her head, "What's the matter?"

Looking at her back, Yuan Qi felt a little sad, and asked bitterly: "I know we can't go back to the past, and I know that I blamed you first, but don't tell me you... really don't care about me Are you in love?"

"Affection?" Xie Jin felt a little funny, turned around and looked at him from a distance, and asked back: "Since you know that you blamed me first, why do you ask such unreasonable questions?"

"I..." Yuan Qi was tongue-tied, not knowing how to explain.

Xie Jin looked at him indifferently, raised the half of the handkerchief in his hand, and said with a little warning: "Stop playing any silly tricks, I didn't come to see you because of old feelings, I just wanted to be with you Make it clear, Yuan Qi, since this veil has been split into two, it can never be restored no matter what, if you are still an upright son, just throw away all the past and treat your new wife well from now on, don't do it again A heartbroken boy."

As soon as she let go, the handkerchief fluttered to the ground, and she stepped on it, covered with dirt.

Yuan Qi's face turned pale, he didn't expect that she would be so heartless, before coming here he had prepared words from the bottom of his heart, but now he couldn't utter a word, he just felt that his behavior was ridiculous.

After a moment of silence, Yuan Qi looked sluggish, as if he had finally accepted the result.

He muttered twice at the corner of his mouth, and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, I will never pester you from now on. Jin...Miss Xie, you probably don't know that I am no longer serving in the imperial army, and I was able to enter the palace today because of my relationship." Seeing you is just to say goodbye."

Having said that, he paused for a moment, seeing that Xie Jin did not intend to answer, he forced himself to speak again: "I was appreciated by the Generalissimo and recommended it to His Majesty, but now His Majesty thinks that I am unstable and difficult to be a Grand Marshal. With that, I was expelled from the imperial army.

The Generalissimo said, let me go to the barracks to practice for a few years, if I can achieve something in the future, he will speak to His Majesty and use me again.

But now, I don't care about these anymore. If I can, I want to stay at the border and never go back to Kyoto. "

Yuan Qi ventured into the palace gate to see if Xie Jin's attitude towards him had softened. He had already made up his mind that if Xie Jin's heart softened, he would desperately want to go back to her side again.

But things backfired, Xie Jin's attitude was too obvious, he could no longer deceive himself, so he was disheartened.

After listening to what Yuan Qi said, Xie Jin's eyes flickered slightly, and his indifferent expression fluctuated a little.

But this fluctuation is not for Yuan Qi. To put it bluntly, no matter whether Yuan Qi stays in the capital or goes to the border to join the army, or even whether he is alive or dead, ever since the day the two broke up, Xie Jin felt that these things had nothing to do with her. No more relevant.

The reason why she was moved was because of Jiang Zhao.

Xie Jin knew that Jiang Zhao's attitude towards Yuan Qi was even a little disgusted. Every time he was mentioned, even an unruly king couldn't maintain his demeanor, and it was really a normal reaction to flick his sleeves and play petty temper.

Yuan Qi didn't know what His Majesty meant by his being unstable, but Xie Jin knew that Jiang Zhao expelled Yuan Qi from the imperial army and made him lose the right to walk in the palace for nothing more than selfishness.

She didn't have any special views on this matter, and maybe she only thought that Jiang Zhao was venting her anger in the past, but after she noticed Jiang Zhao's intentions, she felt that her decision-making behavior was somewhat sour.

Thinking of this, Xie Jin suddenly became enlightened, and even felt some secret pleasure, and couldn't help curling the corners of his mouth.

In Yuan Qi's eyes, her expression was the joy after being relieved, and she couldn't help feeling like a knife was twisting in her heart, and asked in a muffled voice: "I didn't go to the border to make some peaceful military achievements.

There haven't been many wars in recent years, because the enemy troops in the neighboring countries have been feared by the Generalissimo, but the foreigners are greedy and cunning by nature, especially the southern barbarians. It is only a matter of time before they make a comeback.

And since I have joined the army, I am destined to be bloodied on the battlefield. Does my death make you happy? "

"Of course I won't feel happy." Xie Jin glanced at him, and quickly added: "But I won't feel sad either. Yuan Qi, I hope you can understand more about what it means to have nothing to do with each other. From now on, we just Just strangers."

That's the end of the story, everything that should be said has been said, as for whether Yuan Qi can do it, Xie Jin doesn't care at all.

She turned around and turned her back to Yuan Qi, "It is a serious crime to trespass into the harem. I don't know where you got favors from. Even if it's for the sake of the other party, you should leave quickly, so as not to hurt the innocent."

After the words fell, Xie Jin raised his steps again.

"Jinniang!" Yuan Qi called her loudly again, and asked with a trembling voice, "Are you...blaming me for getting you into trouble?"

Xie Jin didn't answer this question, but just straightened his back, and said clearly: "Yuan Qi, I am now appointed by His Majesty as a talented person in the Qingyuan Palace. According to the rules, you should call me thank you sir."

"Thank you sir?"

Yuan Qi almost squeezed out these few words from between his teeth, and repeated himself: "Master Xie..."

Xie Jin ignored his soliloquy, and no longer hesitated, and took another step, no matter whether he wanted to interrupt again, and left this place of right and wrong.

Not long after she left, the distraught Yuan Qi also staggered away, and Jiang Zhao came out from the corner alone, looking deeply at the place where the two were standing just now, a sneer gradually emerged from the corner of his mouth.

Because she was afraid of being discovered by Xie Jin, she didn't follow too closely all the way, and just hid aside and watched from a distance when she got to the place.

Jiang Zhao couldn't hear the conversation between Xie Jin and Yuan Qi, and couldn't see their expressions clearly, but she saw Xie Jin turn around twice to leave, but was kept by Yuan Qi, and finally left in a hurry after the third time. go.

She didn't know whether Xie Jin and Yuan Qi finally settled the deal or the talk broke down, but she knew that Xie Jin lied to her.

She clearly said that there is no need to see each other again in this life, but she still saw the two meeting privately; she clearly said that she was no longer in love, but she still compromised repeatedly for Yuan Qi.

Jiang Zhao suddenly felt a sense of being bullied and being played maliciously in her heart. She even wondered if her decision was wrong from the very beginning?

Xie Jin can accept Yuan Qi's betrayal of feelings, and even accept his turning back after becoming a husband, so why should she, Jiang Zhao, keep everything she has done for Xie Jin down in her throat and swallow it?

She should make a big fanfare and make her preference more blatant. It is best to let Xie Jin see it for herself. Jiang Zhao offended Concubine Zhao for her, punished Zhao's family for her, planned for Xie's family for her, and guarded her heart and body for her. Don't want your own children, because of her all kinds of deeds, the sun and the moon can learn from each other, but Xie Jin alone knows nothing!

Since Xie Jin can accept Yuan Qi who betrayed her once again, why can't he accept Jiang Zhao who only belongs to her?

The young empress stood with her hands behind her back, looking far away at the place where the two had just talked, her gaze was as deep as a pool, her previous beliefs and persistence were challenged from so-called, even to the point of being shaken fundamentally.

Jiang Zhao stood there for a long time, until it was almost noon, when Gao Sheng'an came all the way to find her for dinner, she heard a familiar voice, then lowered her eyebrows, suppressed the hostility in her eyes, and walked over as if nothing had happened.

"Hey, Your Majesty, why did you come here?"

Eunuch Gao trotted all the way to Jiang Zhao's side, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeves, took a few quick breaths to calm down, and complained a bit: "He left without a word, and he didn't take anyone with him. It’s really easy to find slaves.”

Jiang Zhaodao: "I am the master of the entire palace, why can't I just walk around?"

She walked back, Gao Shengan followed her, and said with a smile: "I don't mean that, but you have never been here since Mr. Xie was not in Gong Zhengsi, and you were just curious for a while.

Speaking of which, what did His Majesty come here again for no reason, is it because you have nothing to do and want to reminisce about the past? "

He used the word "reminisce", Jiang Zhao looked a little dazed, he really remembered the past.

At that time, she was the emperor during the day and the little palace maid Ah Zhao at night. Because she wanted to see Xie Jin, she had already figured out the way around Gong Zhengsi, let alone avoiding the palace guards. Even if she was blindfolded, she felt that she would All can go unimpeded.

Just as Gao Sheng'an said, later Xie Jin left her post as the official secretary of the palace and lived in her Xihe Palace, especially during the period when Xie Jin was the emperor's writer. What kind of little palace maid.

Thinking of this, she suddenly felt compassion, not for Xie Jin, but for herself.

But she still couldn't blame Xie Jin for anything, she just said to Gao Sheng: "I feel that the guards in the palace have been lax, and anyone can be put into the harem. If this continues, how can I have peace?"

Gao Sheng'an didn't understand her intention, so he asked, "What orders does Your Majesty have?"

Jiang Zhao's eyes were cold, and he said lightly: "You go to the imperial guards yourself, so you can beat Zhuo Yun a little bit. Some people want to sit in the position of the commander of the imperial guards. If he slips and cannot sit, I don't mind changing someone else. sit."

Gao Shengan's face froze, he didn't know how Commander Zhuo had offended her, but he didn't dare to object, so he agreed.

Jiang Zhao originally wanted to have lunch with Jiang Han in Qingyuan Palace, and at least expressed his love for his younger sister as a sister, but after seeing Yuan Qi and Xie Jin entangled, he felt bored, so he went back to Xihe palace.

In the afternoon, Jiang Zhao was handling government affairs in the imperial study. Jing Zhaoyin Shen Xiuyan asked for an interview, and handed Jiang Zhao a copy of three sealed letters.

In addition, Shen Xiuyan also reported one thing.

"Zhao Chengxu, the son of Zhao Zhiyao, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, robbed a civilian girl in the workshop. The girl was young and had a strong temper. Because she couldn't speak, she died in front of everyone.

Holding the complaint in his hand, his father walked all the way to the yamen of Jingzhaoyin Mansion of Weichen, but Weichen failed to meet him. He was taken away by the Zhao family, and he packed his bags and left the capital the next day. "

"Can't speak?"

Jiang Zhao grasped the key point, thoughtfully, and asked, "That woman is named Song Yuniang?"

"How does Your Majesty know her name?" Shen Xiuyan showed a look of surprise on his face, and asked again: "Could it be that Your Majesty has heard of this matter?"

Jiang Zhao shook his head, thinking of the girl playing the strings he met in the teahouse, and thinking of Zhao Chengxu's domineering, he later realized that he blamed himself for disturbing his "good business", so he deliberately made trouble.

"Did someone go after his father?" Jiang Zhao frowned and looked at Shen Xiuyan.

Shen Xiuyan cupped his hands and said: "Going back to Your Majesty, I sent someone to go there that day, but my minister never asked someone to arrest him and return him to the capital, but instead asked someone to follow him carefully to see whether he was benefited or threatened, and even gave up on redressing his daughter's grievances." .”

Jiang Zhao nodded, and ordered: "You have done a good job in this matter, you must have people follow Father Song closely to save his life.

This matter is nothing more than the oppression of the rich and powerful. The Zhao family is becoming more and more lawless. I have beaten it recently. Thinking about Zhao Xiang, I still don’t think so. Then I don’t mind making this fire bigger. It’s best to get Zhao Heng then burn off his beard. "

Shen Xiuyan chuckled, and said: "Your Majesty, I understand what your Majesty means. When Qiu Wenhe was the Minister of Dali Temple, although he was upright and able to distinguish right from wrong, it was inevitable that there were some stubborn problems. When we cooperate with him, I always tie my hands and feet, Can't use it.

Your Majesty is still wise enough to transfer him to Yunyang Mansion as an inspector. This new Mr. Tang from Jinshan Tang is much more flexible than the one surnamed Qiu. In the future, if we work together for His Majesty, we will definitely get twice the result with half the effort. "

Hearing this, Jiang Zhao snorted coldly, gave him another sideways glance, and lazily said: "It's fine for you to understand some things in your heart, and you don't need to say it out loud.

No one is perfect, you laugh at Qiu Wenhe for being stupid, Qiu Wenhe still laughs at you for being too smooth, there is nothing to say about these.

It's just Shen Xiuyan, let me remember that if one day you get into a lawsuit because of being overwhelmed, I will not deal with the aftermath for you. At best, I will sharpen the knife that kills you. "

Shen Xiuyan was shocked when he was clicked, and immediately put away his hippie smile, knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily.

"The minister obeys the order!"