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"You don't need to talk about it, uncle." Jiang Zhao had a headache, and turned around to stop Lu Cangyu, "I don't need to use the harem to restrain the court, and I have no interest in Zhao Chengming."

Lu Cangyu shook her head and said helplessly, "It's fine if you don't want to."

He remembered Zhao Hengze's question again, and he couldn't figure out Jiang Zhao's meaning, so he asked her: "Your Majesty doesn't look sick anymore, and Neizhang Si can temporarily take charge of the government, but it's not a long-term solution after all. I wonder when His Majesty will return to court?"

Jiang Zhao said, "No hurry, everything is under control, uncle don't need to worry.

What's more, since I ascended the throne, I don't have any free time anymore. Taking advantage of the present, I still want to go to Huguo Temple to stay for a few days and accompany my mother. "

Hearing her talking about her younger sister, how could Lu Cangyu have any objections, her expression darkened, and she sighed softly.

Jiang Zhao didn't come on a whim, she had already planned her trip to Huguo Temple, but she needed to play chess step by step, and after defeating Zhao Xiang's army, she moved to Huguo Temple temporarily in the name of worshiping the Buddha and comforting her ancestors.

Zhao Heng went to the palace to meet him in vain, and waited for several days in fear, but he did not see Jiang Zhao's imperial decree to punish Zhao Zhiyao and Zhao Chengxu.

Contrary to him, Jiang Zhao had a comfortable life in Huguo Temple, even more comfortable than in the palace.

Except for Zhuo Yun, the commander of the imperial army, who personally led the escort, Jiang Zhao only brought Gao Sheng'an, Qing Shi, and Xie Jin with him, and all the servants did not bring him.

Yuan Xiang stayed in the palace and was in charge of sending important memorials to the Huguo Temple every day to be presented in front of the imperial court. By the way, he said a few words about the current situation of the Zhao family, "Recently, Zhao Zhiyao's wife always comes to the Huguo Temple with the eldest daughter of the Zhao family, Zhao Ruyan. Xiang, who was still wandering in front of the meditation room, was spotted by the guards and kicked out, presumably he wanted to inquire about His Majesty's situation."

Huguo Temple has a small courtyard meditation room specially built for the royal family. The environment is quiet and far away from the main hall. Usually, pilgrims are not allowed to approach at will, let alone when the emperor is here, it is a time when heavy guards are guarding it.

While listening to Yuan Xiang's words, Jiang Zhao flipped through a stack of memorials, picked a few of them and threw them in front of Xie Jin, who was lying on the table writing hard, and as expected, he rolled his eyes.

She chuckled lightly, and said to Yuan Xiang: "Don't worry about them, what happened to the things I asked you to arrange?"

Yuan Xiang nodded slightly, and said respectfully: "Reporting to Your Majesty, the arrangements have been made. The master and wife have already lived in the small meditation room. They said that the young master has not been well recently, and the lord and the young lady can't get away for the time being. I will see you in the future." .”

"I got it." Jiang Zhao nodded, and then ordered: "After you return to the palace, take Zhang Shi over there to show you, and by the way, see if there is anything missing in the mansion, and we will prepare everything together, and the cost will come from my private treasury Just go out."

Yuan Xiang responded, and Jiang Zhao waved his hand to let him back down.

Xie Jin raised his head from the pile of memorials, quite puzzled, and asked: "What are Xiao Yuanzi and His Majesty talking about just now, why can't I understand a word? What about master and master?"

Jiang Zhao glanced at her, and instead of answering, asked, "Do you know why I came to Huguo Temple?"

Xie Jin put down his pen, looked at her with one hand resting on his chin, and said with a slight smile: "In order to hide from my leisure, I don't want to see Zhao Xiang, in order to make the Zhao family scratch their heads, to make them unhappy, and to pray for the Queen Mother. Express love."

"What you said is correct, but not completely." Jiang Zhao walked up to Xie Jin, only a table away from her, and whispered: "I want to tell you a secret first, but you have to swear to God first , absolutely not leaking half of it to the outside world.”

Hearing this, Xie Jin was a little annoyed, folded his arms and sat up straight, expressionless said: "If you don't trust me, don't tell me, I don't really want to know, why bother to play tricks on me again."

"I don't believe you." Jiang Zhao said, "It's just that the Queen Mother is involved in this matter, so I can't say it directly."

The Queen Mother is her biological mother, and it is also an untouchable softness hidden in her heart. Even to Xie Jin, she seldom mentions it, especially after the Queen Mother died of illness, it almost became her illness.

Jiang Zhao didn't care about the first emperor, but for Lu Yanrong, she just wanted to be a good boy forever.

Time will heal all scars. Her eyes were peaceful and sincere, and she looked at Xie Jin without hesitation, and said seriously: "My mother never told me to tell anyone, but now I want to tell you and make you swear that I will not It's not that I want to hear it, but I want my mother to hear it, otherwise I'm afraid she will blame me for being disobedient."

Seeing her like this, Xie Jin didn't feel any annoyance, but felt guilty, and his heart ached.

"I swear." Xie Jin raised his finger, faced Jiang Zhao, and swore clearly: "What His Majesty said today, only you know and I know, if I reveal half of it, I will be punished by swords and flames, five thunders..."

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Zhao stretched out his hand to cover his mouth, and scolded her: "I made you swear, but I didn't make you swear poisonously."

Xie Jin blinked, and then heard Jiang Zhao say: "My queen mother will definitely not blame me when she sees that you are so sincere.

Jinniang, in fact, I did not come to this temple just to enshrine the tablet of the queen mother, because there are not only tablets here. "

She let go of her hand, propped herself on the table and leaned slightly, and leaned close to Xie Jin's ear and whispered: "People in the world think that the queen mother was buried with the late emperor in the imperial tomb, but in fact she told me before she died that she didn't want to be with the late emperor. burial.

So, I buried her clothes in the imperial mausoleum, but buried her bones in the back mountain of Huguo Temple. Every time I come to Huguo Temple to pray, it is not to see the memorial tablet, but to really meet her up. "

After saying this, Jiang Zhao retracted his upper body to observe Xie Jin's expression, and sure enough, he saw a shocked expression on her face.

This can indeed be regarded as a great secret. The current sage, without telling the world, divided his parents' caves, replaced the empress dowager with the late emperor, and even buried his biological mother in a barren mountain.

Regardless of whether she did it out of obedience to the queen mother or not, this is absolutely unfilial. If it is spread, it will definitely be criticized by the world.

So the queen mother didn't let her tell anyone, not because she didn't want others to know where she was buried, but because she was afraid that if the news leaked, it would bring Jiang Zhao great trouble.

But in fact it was exactly the same, after Lu Yanrong said his last wish, he regretted it, and repeatedly told Jiang Zhao not to act like this, death is like a lamp going out, the front end is over, just buried with the late emperor, She is not unacceptable.

Jiang Zhao promised, but after Lu Yanrong's soul died forever, he really buried her in a place far away from the imperial mausoleum.

This is a secret that even Lu Cangyu doesn't know. It was the first thing Jiang Zhao did to use the power of the king. All the people she came into contact with back then were all dismissed by her. This matter became her own. secret.

Now that she shared the secret with Xie Jin, she felt a bit like entering the corridor. She even took her hand, waved back the left and right guards, led her into the back mountain, and ran wildly all the way to a flat land without trees.

Most of the mountains behind Huguo Temple are covered with trees, shrubs and grass, but this place is very clean, it looks like it has been cleaned specially.

There was a small mound on the ground. There was no tombstone, let alone inscriptions. There was only a censer filled with incense ash. Under the censer was a few sheets of paper, which Jiang Zhao tore from a booklet of scriptures he had hand-copied.

Xie Jinsiwen was weak, and was dragged by Jiang Zhao to run across the mountain road, and couldn't help panting while holding his knees.

Jiang Zhao was much better than her, he stretched out his hand to caress her back, and when she finally calmed down a little, he said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I was too anxious, and I just wanted to bring you to see my mother relative."

Xie Jin shook his head, still breathless, and reluctantly said: "I don't mean to blame you."

After stroking her back again, Jiang Zhao withdrew his hand, lifted the hem of his clothes and knelt on the ground.

Seeing this, Xie Jin also knelt down, and together with her respectfully gave three heads to the person in the mound.

"A Niang and Father Huang have never had any relationship between husband and wife."

Jiang Zhao helped Xie Jin stand up, looked down at Lu Yanrong's tomb, and said calmly: "Because of her beauty, she was imprisoned in the deep palace by an imperial edict from her father, and she has never been able to escape.

She didn't like her father from the beginning to the end, and even more hated his self-righteousness and reckless behavior. She never had a heart for her father until she died. "

"But the father is very greedy. He not only wants a ruthless beauty who is obedient and bears children for him, he also wants A Niang to be moved by him, jealous for him, and hate others for him. During that time, he often Deliberately spread the news of pampering others to Lanyue Palace, but A Niang was never moved, and finally he couldn't help it, and ran over to confront A Niang."

Speaking of the past, Jiang Zhao couldn't help but find it ridiculous, not only because of her arrogant father, but also because of her mother's oppressed and tormented second half of her life after being forced into the palace.

"A Niang was entangled repeatedly by the late Emperor, and finally couldn't stand it anymore, she denounced him for his shameless selfishness, despised his actions, and the majesty of the late Emperor was challenged, A Niang was no longer his love, but became a favor The abandoned concubine in the cold palace, as A Niang's daughter, I am no longer his beloved princess, but the daughter of the abandoned concubine who has been treated indifferently."

Jiang Zhao looked at Xie Jin, raised his finger to his face, and said with a light smile, "Do you know? At that time, some people said that Auntie was unfaithful, and even said that I was not of the blood of the first emperor, and he successfully attracted his disgust and disgust for me. The people below got even worse, bullying me, insulting me, and even punching me.

If it wasn't for my appearance, I would still be somewhat similar to the late emperor, even if my uncle was there, not to mention whether it would be my turn to sit on the throne, or even whether I would meet you is still unknown. "

Xie Jin's eyes were already red. She only knew that Ah Zhao was bullied and was a poor child, but she never delved into her past. He didn't think to ask her, why would such an imposing princess be reduced to the point where Xue Ye fled barefoot?

She grabbed Jiang Zhao's hand and wanted to say something, but her throat was choked and hurt, and tears fell down before she opened her mouth, so she couldn't say anything, and Jiang Zhao held it back. took her hand to coax her.

"Okay, don't cry."

Jiang Zhao had a gentle voice and even more gentle movements, wiping Xie Jin's tears with his soft cuffs made of good fabric.

"It's all in the past. I always think of that night repeatedly. I sneaked out from Lanyue Palace all the way. I even ran away with my shoes. I was so embarrassed, but I met a fairy-like figure."

Jiang Zhao actually laughed, and said with some annoyance: "Did I be very pitiful at that time? It was such a terrible first meeting."

But then she rejoiced again, rubbed Xie Jin's fingers one by one, and murmured: "But fortunately, I am embarrassed enough and miserable enough, so the fairy softened her heart. She doesn't dislike my dirty body and is willing to give me The warmest hug, and took me home to give me a bowl of hot rice. Jinniang, if it wasn't for you, I might really freeze to death."

"Don't say it!"

This time it was Xie Jin who reached out to cover Jiang Zhao's mouth, her face was full of tears, her eyes were blushing, she stared straight at Jiang Zhao, and said in a hoarse voice: "You will live well...you are long live. Ah Zhao, even without me, you will live a good life, and then sit on the highest chair, no one will dare to bully you again."

Jiang Zhao shook his head, stretched his arms to embrace her, kissed her hot red eyes, and said in a low voice, "It may be possible, but I still want to meet you."

Her lips kissed Xie Jin's eyes all the way to the pinnae of the ear, and her movements were as gentle as a breeze. Because the skin touched the soft lips, it was slightly itchy. Xie Jin couldn't help shrinking her neck, but was caught by Jiang Zhao Reaching out to cup his cheeks, he looked deeply into her eyes.

"Jin Niang." Jiang Zhao's throat moved slightly, and he blurted out, "It's like a sun in the sky if you don't believe me."

The author has something to say:

The last sentence comes from the Book of Songs "Big Cart". The whole sentence is: The valley is different, and the death is the same acupoint.It is said that I do not believe it, like the sun.

The roughly translated meaning is: If you can't be in the same room (like a husband and wife), then I want to be buried in the same grave with you after death.If you don't believe me, the sun in the sky is my witness.

The 555 Baiwen is very rough, but the original sentence is really affectionate[-]

Although, who knows, Jiang Zhao is selling miserably again.