In the early summer, the breeze is gentle, and on the small street of Fairy Bridge, a bunch of lanterns are hanging on both sides of the street. Talented men and beautiful women are walking on the streets. The hawkers are shouting one after another, but they are not noisy. Instead, they add a bit of human fireworks to the beautiful streets and alleys.

After the long team entered Chang'an City, the wife of the king and the princes dispersed one after another. Mrs. Lu got off the carriage halfway through the way, and generously left Xu Buling to the empress dowager, and returned to Kuishou Street with the frame. When she walked to the vicinity of the fairy bridge, only the empress dowager's guard of honor was left.

Xu Buling rode a wind-chasing horse and walked on the side of the carriage, looking straight at his waist and back, looking like a loyal guard. He coughed gently when he arrived at the place.

"cough-"

In the carriage, the Queen Mother was still hesitating and heard the sound. She was silent for a while before opening the car window, looking at the beautiful small street, and then raising her hand:

"Qiao'e, the scenery here is nice, let the people from the Ministry of Rites disperse, I will take a look here."

The palace maid Qiao'e knew that the empress dowager was so bored recently that she naturally didn't say anything. She went over to talk to the officials of the Ministry of Rites, and then stopped the empress dowager's carriage and guards.

Because it was not the first time, Qiao'e glanced at Xu Buling, who was sitting right away without looking at him. After hesitating for a while, she walked to the car window:

"Whether the Empress Dowager is going to come down for a walk? With the little prince here, no one can disturb the Empress Dowager."

The empress dowager "thinks" for a while, nodded slightly, raised her hand to let Qiao'e get on the carriage, and then there was a rustling sound.

After a while, the Queen Mother walked out of the carriage and asked the guard to stand on time, so she walked onto the street on her own.

Xu Buling turned over and dismounted, walked behind the empress dowager with a sword in her arms, with no strange appearance. She whispered:

"Baby."

"Shut up."

The Empress Dowager's face turned slightly red, then became cold, and walked in front with a dignified posture. She quietly looked back and said coldly after confirming that the guard could not hear it:

"I am just coming out to relax. If you dare to be arrogant, hum"

Xu Buling smiled at the corner of his mouth, got closer a little, and said softly:

"I just accompanied the Queen Mother to come out and relax."

The Queen Mother said lightly, strolling on the street in the garden, looking at the beautiful scenery around her. But for some reason, she lost the feeling of dreaming about the last time. Maybe it was because she was thinking at this time and didn't focus on the scenery at all.

After passing the stall selling candied haws last time, Xu Buling walked up to him and picked up a bright red candied haws and handed them to the Queen Mother:

"I have always kept it in mind that the Empress Dowager sacrifices her life to detoxify me. She said that she will repay her for the rest of her life..."

"Don't say these..."

The Queen Mother looked at the candied haws delivered to her eyes, pursed her lips, raised her hand to take them, held them in her hand but didn't eat them, just said calmly:

"I save you for the safety of the whole world. As long as you can remember what you promised me and keep the world in your heart, I don't need you to repay anything... Remember to put in incense sticks on me in the future."

I don’t know why I said the last sentence, but I said it.

The empress dowager lowered her head and secretly looked at the candied haws in her hand. Her expression was quiet and she couldn't tell what she was thinking. 58 Reading

Xu Buling chuckled slightly, walked in front of him, blocked the eyes of most of the pedestrians with his body, and said softly:

"Repayment still requires repayment. In fact...the empress dowager doesn't need to put life and death aside so much..."

"Stop your mouth."

The Empress Dowager's face darkened, and her eyes were a little annoyed: "Don't say this. As the Empress Dowager, I will be worthy of the ancestors of the Xiao family and the people of the world if I don't die? Do you want me to be famous for the reputation of "Mr. Lust" for thousands of years?"

Xu Buling sighed softly, knowing that the barriers in the Empress Dowager's heart were almost unshakable, and he immediately gave up his thoughts of persuasion:

"It takes eighty times to detoxify, well... these days, the Queen Mother has forgotten those things. When a person walks in the world, he must live according to his own way of living. Let's keep other things for the detoxify."

The Queen Mother blinked, maybe she was awakened by this sentence, or found an excuse to calm her mood, her eyes moved slightly, and she looked down at the candied haws in her hand:

"It's lightweight..."

"Let's try it, anyway, no outsiders know that the deep palace has been abandoned for ten years, and God will not say anything if you live for a while."

“…”

The empress dowager hesitated for a long time and had been like this. She was living with a burden in her heart. For the time being, she was alive. She was going to die anyway, and she couldn't change anything even if she lived for herself.

Thinking of this, the Queen Mother calmly put the candied haws in her mouth, bit off one, chewed it slowly, and looked at the scenery on the street.

Although it was just an idea, the Empress Dowager seemed to have become a different person, forgot her identity and shackles, strolled in the garden, and merged with the picture of the beauty. The spiritual energy in the past came out again, as if she had returned to the age of cardamom. Perhaps this woman at this moment was the real Xiao Xianger.

Xu Buling's eyes stayed on the cheek that was full of spiritual energy but much more delicate than the painting. He was silent for a moment and said softly:

"Baby?"

The queen mother blinked, and this time she didn't curse, but instead held her hands behind her back, and the candied haws shaking:

"I'm not a little girl, what baby... Xu Buling, I find you a little unconscience."

Xu Buling blinked: "What's wrong?"

The Empress Dowager glanced at Xu Buling: "The first time I invited you to the palace, I gave you the pictures of the beauty I had treasured for ten years. You wrote a few poems, a few boxes of rouge, and a few strings of candied haws and sent me away. Don't you think this kind of reciprocity is a bit inappropriate?"

Xu Buling shook his head and chuckled: "I thought you didn't care."

The Empress Dowager snorted faintly: "I don't care about you at first, but I care about Hongluan. She is always angry with me. A few days ago, you also became a 'beauty' and got Xu Danqing's 'beauty picture'. I was thinking, you will definitely give me the painting as soon as possible. I was thinking about how to use the painting to piss Hongluan to death. Haha~ The result was good. The next day, Hongluan came to the door, holding your portrait in her hand, and said she wanted to observe it for me..."

Xu Buling's face was stiff and he chuckled softly: "Aunt Lu has always been like this, treating the Empress Dowager as a sister, and no one else cares about it."

The Empress Dowager nodded at this: "That's the case, but I'm still angry. You can find the original work of Xu Danqing and burn it to me when the time comes. I'll wait on the Naihe Bridge. After a hundred years, Hongluan will come down and don't worry about any etiquette and rules. I'll tell her everything about it now, and I think she still treats you as a treasure..."

"Uh... I guess I can't get a baby..."
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