Four years later.

Shangguan Lingdiao stood on Fengtai and looked at the beautiful white image in the distance. She stood at the other end of Fengtai, holding a white hibiscus flower in her hand. Her eyes seemed to be looking down at the blue sky in the north and at the other end of the north. So quiet, one stop is a whole day, without eating or drinking.

"Shangguan Prime Minister, are you watching princess royal again?" With the cold wind whistling in Fengtai, a gentle and moving voice came from behind. He didn't look back, still staring at the figure: "Why didn't the empress accompany the emperor? Instead, I ran to Fengtai to accompany Ben to see that woman. " His voice doesn't sound like a courtier's respect for the queen at all, but it is a little cold.

"Shangguan Prime Minister, I don't think it's necessary to stay with the emperor now. Everything should be over." The woman walked slowly to Shangguan Lingqi, with bright eyes, like a woman without any talent, but what she said was so gloomy: "As early as four years ago, the emperor had abandoned his relatives."

Shangguan Lingdiao didn't speak, but looked at the woman in front of him, still looking at the woman standing in the wind.

"Do you feel sorry for her?" She asked, and then turned to the woman: "She is poor. She gave everything for the emperor and the south, just to keep her promise to the first emperor, but in the end she was betrayed by her favorite child. "

Finally, he looked back at the woman close at hand and said, "The queen has contributed a lot to making the emperor do this."

She smiled softly: "It turned out that the Prime Minister trained well."

He followed the wind-blown hair and said coldly, "You're right. Today's emperor has long been alienated from his relatives. Even Master Yan, who had been dead set on him, resigned. Now the ruling party and the opposition party are completely under our control. It's time to solve some things. "

"How do you want to solve it?"

"Send a master to northland for twenty years. I think he is very interested in knowing something ... "

The whispers of the two were gradually swallowed up by the wind. A woman standing in the wind stares at the distance like a puppet, and has the deepest sustenance in her heart.

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"Chen Ru, where did you go to play again?" Gentle but with the voice of spoil from the emperor's mouth, in front of civil officials, maybe he is indifferent, but only to Zhu Chenhao is always so gentle.

"Your Majesty ..." She was about to speak, but was hugged by the emperor. She smiled gently: "Why is the emperor so happy today?"

"Today, I finally received the resignation of the old man Yan Bing. It's still as good as your suggestion. After being left out for four years, he finally couldn't stand it. "

She asked in surprise, "Really? So the emperor agreed? "

"Of course I agree. As long as he's gone, I'm in charge from now on. After waiting for eleven years, I can finally make my own decision. " His eyes are full of wisdom and ambition: "Chen Ru, in the future, you and I will stand side by side on a high place and fulfill my father's last wish: flatten the north and unify the world."

But after hearing these eyes, her eyes suddenly dimmed. The emperor asked doubtfully, "Empress, aren't you happy for me?"

She shook her head: "Men and women are worried about the emperor, and there are many wars ..."

He smiled and said, "I have the Shangguan Prime Minister, so I don't have to be afraid of anything. With his financial and material resources, I am absolutely confident that I can destroy the North. "

Hearing this, she nodded confidently: "That's good. Your Majesty, my courtier saw princess royal on Fengtai today, and she still stood there all day. "

The emperor's eyes suddenly darkened. Since four years ago, after blood spilled in Ruihuan's palace, she tried to commit suicide, and she was taken back by him. She is silent all day long, just like a living idiot, with dull eyes and silly style, only dull and dull.

The last sentence she said to him sincerely made him remember from beginning to end. Those words can't fool anyone, and at that moment he realized that he had really wronged her. Over the years, he has been paying off the debts he owes her. Maybe he was too angry then. His menstruation has always loved him and wants to marry King Ruihuan. Her marriage made him more suspicious and he was more afraid that he would let her down. She is going to join hands with King Ruihuan and ask him to be enthroned.

He couldn't allow this to happen, so he secretly talked with Shangguanling vultures late at night and accused him of rebellion, so that he could have a justified excuse to kill him.

He knew it was dangerous to do so. After all, the military power in the hands of King Ruihuan is not controlled by the so-called military law. If he doesn't succeed, he will die. But Shangguanling Griffin swore to him that as long as princess royal was in hand, King Ruihuan would easily yield.

At that time, he didn't quite believe it, but later he saw that King Ruihuan really gave up everything for princess royal. Even at that moment of his life, he suddenly wondered if what he had done that day was wrong.

He always thought that the marriage between King Ruihuan and princess royal was just a cover, in order to lead him to Ruihuan Palace and then to rebel. But he never thought that marriage was true, especially the two words that King Ruihuan said on his deathbed:

I took advantage of your mentality of wanting to keep the position of the little emperor and imprisoned you around ... I have been deceiving myself for so many years, but at least you are by my side. ...

When everyone thinks that what I did today is to rebel, you believe me ... Chu Huan will not use you to ascend to the throne. The man on the throne is just a loner, far less than you by my side. ...

A man will not lie before he dies. At that moment, he was shocked. Princess royal's words are still in his ear:

It turns out that I have paid so much for the emperor and the south China, and all I get is the emperor's rebellious intention …

He has been asking himself a question for years. Is he really wrong?

"The emperor ... you imprisoned princess royal for four years, as you can see, she has been standing on the Fengtai looking at the north. She has been looking forward to freedom, and she wants to leave this cold palace. Why doesn't your majesty help her? "

"No, I feel guilty about her. I want to compensate her. "

"The emperor can't see that you can make up for it by letting her go?"

"Chen Ru?" The emperor's eyes suddenly began to be confused and began to panic: "Do you think it is the best way to let her go?"

"This palace is not suitable for princess royal ... Besides, with male and female servants around the emperor, you won't be lonely anymore."

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north

Since the assassination of the imperial study, Ye Ling has been imprisoned on death row, but she has never been interrogated. Night kite often enters death row to play chess with Ye Ling.

It's not so much a game as a chat.

Once they were two opposing parties, vying for the throne everywhere. Now there is no such tit-for-tat. They find that they actually have a lot in common, and many ideas and viewpoints coincide.

Night kite often thinks that if night feather has not been sent to the south for seventeen years, now the throne in the north belongs to anyone, and night feather is really a good opponent.

"The throne has been empty for twenty years. Are you really not going to establish the throne? " Ye Ling mentioned the past.

Night kite didn't speak, just laughed it off.

"Who will you pass the throne to in the future without children?"

"It's been twenty years." At night, the kite dropped a white chess heavily and sighed lightly.

"What about twenty years?"

"I've been waiting."

"Wait for what?" He wants to know.

Li Gonggong rushed in at this moment, holding a letter in his hand: "Your Majesty, there was an assassin in your bedroom just now."

"Assassin?" At night, Kite tried to move his hand and looked at Li Gonggong's figure in a hurry.

"The assassin's flying skills are excellent. He came and disappeared without a trace, leaving only a letter and disappearing into the palace. " Li Gonggong gave the letter to the king.

Night kite thought for a moment, then picked up the letter, which read: Twenty years, Queen Jin Yuan, if you live there.

His hand trembled and suddenly got up, but the letter in his hand floated on the chessboard. Ye Ling held out his hand and took the letter. After reading it, her mouth could not help but draw a bitter arc.

Simple three words, but clear and easy to understand.

"Have you been waiting for this letter?" Ye Ling asked.

Night kite's eyes changed from confusion to surprise, and then to firmness.

Turning around, I was about to step out of the prison door, but Ye Ling stopped me: "Brother, are you going to find her?"

"yes."

Ye Ling was silent for a long time, but she pinched her lips and forced out a blessing smile: "Twenty years is long enough. You should be together and wish you happiness. "

Night kite took a deep breath, didn't speak again, like a gust of wind rushed out of the prison door.

Is it really unforgivable? ...

Maybe I can forgive you after 20 years. ...

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The woman in white sitting in the carriage doesn't seem so dull as before. With the sound of hooves, her mouth outlined a faint arc, but her smile was so trance.

Those eyes that once surprised the two dynasties are already dull, silent and beautiful.

Suddenly, the horseshoe hissed. She didn't sit well and almost fell down. Fortunately, she steadied herself by holding the windowsill.

Her heart suddenly jumped violently, and she reached out and pulled open the curtain of the carriage. A cool breeze blew through her eyes, and a dark horse and a middle-aged man immediately sat there. The traces of years on his face are faintly visible, but the faint smile on his face is so warm that it shakes her deepest heart.

Finally, that silent and cold face is no longer shocking silence, but confused, puzzled, surprised and excited. ...

The last parting scene 20 years ago came to mind. A joke: Maybe I can forgive after 20 years. ...

Even in the end, it can be deeply imprinted in people's hearts. Not only he, but also she is deeply impressed in her heart, always remembering and looking forward to it.

Now things have changed, he appeared in front of her, everything is gone, and I don't care anymore.

"Mu Xue." His low and light voice came softly, and no one had called these two words for many years.

Her eyes suddenly turned red and she jumped out of the carriage and ran to him.

Even if my face is gone, I still look at the world.

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Far above the mountain peak, Shangguanling Griffin quietly looked at the two people hugging each other below, and could not see the joys and sorrows in his eyes.

He sent the letter to the night kite, which was just a plan to kill two birds with one stone.

The court in the south was almost firmly controlled by him, and even the treasury was firmly supported by his Shangguan family. Now we must deal with the north. Northland, if the night kite is still alive for one day, it will be difficult to unify the world. Now only when the kite leaves the northland at night will it be leaderless and it will be easy to conquer the northland.

And the other purpose is just for her.

She just wants to be free, so give it to her.

Maybe this is the last thing he can give her.

In the future, the matter between the two countries will no longer be your business, and there will be no more disputes about leaving this mortal palace.

And he has been shouldering the responsibility of only the Shangguan family until his death.

Turn around and silently lead the horse.

The sound of horseshoes, like the sadness of parting, shattered his deepest vulnerability.

In the new cold, wine knocks on the window and rains, and the fragrance lingers in autumn.

The only way is not to hurt the spirit, the blue is wet.

Bored lying alone, fingers are too light.

Remember the other one, Taohua and Liuwansi.