"Do!...Do!"

When Zhang Huan walked to the river, the second bell of the closing of the Daming Palace sounded, and the sound was distant and heavy. In another quarter of an hour, the palace gate was about to close, and he couldn't help but speed up.

At this time, the heat had passed, and the night gradually became colder. The river surface was filled with a thin layer of mist. Zhang Huan, accompanied by Chen Xianfu, walked up to the wooden bridge. After crossing the small bridge, the Lingqi Palace came out in front of him.

Chen Xianfu was strode in front, but Zhang Huan gradually slowed down. There was a familiar light fragrance in the air. He finally stood on the bridge and stared at the river. Ten steps ahead, a white jade pavilion extended from the shore to the center of the river. Three palace maids in the pavilion were standing quietly on both sides with lanterns. The orange-red lights looked particularly bright in the fog. At the intersection of the three lights, Cui Ning, wearing a white dress, stood on the railing. She was like the Lingbo Fairy in the water, as if she had been waiting here for thousands of years.

She looked sadly at the small bridge, and the bridge was the person she was haggard for, the one she thought about day and night for 183 days, and was even willing to wait for her whole life.

At this moment, he was so close that he could see his short beard that had just grown and his hard face as hard as a rock, but he was so far away that she would never reach.

Two crystal tears quietly slid down Cui Ning's thin face. She didn't wipe it, but stood there blankly, looking at the person she loved deeply.

Zhang Huan smiled. His smile was so gentle, so affectionate, and innocent like a child. He integrated thousands of words in his heart into his smile. He seemed to be telling her that he had not forgotten the oath beside the Qujiang Pool. He was fighting to realize this oath. For this reason, he fought in the storm. For this reason, he used the arrogance of the conqueror to step on Dahan's ears.

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"General, please go faster, you're going to close the palace gate soon." Chen Xianfu was calling anxiously in the distance.

Zhang Huan finally looked at Cui Ning deeply, nodded slightly to her, and turned around and left resolutely.

Cui Ning's eyes were blurred by tears. She pulled the jade out of her neck and looked at Zhang Huan's gradually moving back. She held the jade tightly, as if her whole life would be placed on this jade.

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"Dang! Dang!" The last bell ringing when the door of the Ming Palace closed, and the bell woke Cui Ning up intoxication. She carefully hung the jade pendant close to her body and slowly walked out of the Changting. When she looked up, she was shocked to see Cui Xiaofu standing on the shore and looking at her with a smile.

"What! I actually met in my palace and told my aunt that this was a coincidence or were you waiting here specifically?"

"It's late at night, I'm going back to my room." Cui Ning's face turned red. She lowered her head and walked quickly past Cui Xiaofu, but Cui Xiaofu grabbed her wrist.

"The emperor is already asleep. I can't sleep. Just accompany your aunt for a walk!"

The two of them walked slowly by the river and walked a hundred steps. Cui Xiaofu suddenly whispered: "Do you know? Your uncle wants to betroth Yiyi to Zhang Huan."

Cui Ning nodded silently. Changsun Yiyi had already looked for her two days ago. After hearing that Zhang Huan also went to Changsun Mansion, she felt upset and stopped and said, "Aunt, I'm very confused. Let's go back!"

Cui Xiaofu glanced at her, hugged her shoulder and smiled, "Why are you confused? I think he cares a lot about you!"

"I don't know either!"

Cui Ning shook his head gently, "When he was a scholar in the past, I felt that I had no distance from him, and even thought that he could take me far away from the world, but now that he has become the General of the Central Army, I feel that he is so far away, and his previous vows have become unreal."

‘Oath?’ Cui Xiaofu was slightly stunned, and she asked tentatively: “Have he promised you anything?”

Cui Ning hesitated for a moment, shook his head and didn't say anything. Cui Xiaofu saw it and continued to smile, "Aunt is a veteran. Many things are more profound than you. You have to tell your aunt, so I can help you. Don't forget your aunt's identity? Only I can help you. Have you forgotten how I returned to Chu Wei for you last time?"

"Aunt, don't ask, he didn't promise me anything. He is a person who does big things. How could he like a daughter who is against him?"

Cui Ning's tone was full of melancholy. She believed that Zhang Huan was a man with a promise, but her father was his Zhang family's enemy. Can he overcome this high hurdle in the face of family interests and personal emotions?

Cui Ning was immersed in her memories of the past, but she did not notice that a trace of undetectable disappointment flashed in Cui Xiaofu's eyes.

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She glanced at Cui Ning, her face quickly recovered from nature, and smiled tentatively again, "Silly child, I can see that you don't want to say it. Zhang Huan cares about you very much. Although he is a child of the Zhang family, he may not be able to marry you. The key is that he must have strength. With strength, your father will naturally promise you to him. He also knows this very well. Look, in just half a year, he has become a fourth-rank official. It's really not easy!"

Cui Ning's long eyelashes moved twice, but she still shook her head firmly and said, "Auntie, don't guess it. If he cares about me, will he go on a blind date with Changsun Yiyi? The oath I made was that he promised not to hurt me again, and he had no other intentions."

After saying that, she gently patted Cui Xiaofu's hand, "It's very late, I really want to go to rest."

Cui Xiaofu looked at her back as she was leaving and suddenly said to herself coldly: "Don't worry, with your aunt here, you will definitely help you!"

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Cui Xiaofu slowly walked back to the bedroom and took off her makeup under the service of the palace maid. She changed into Wu Ling's close-fitting clothes and lay on the wide bed. Her husband next to her seemed to be asleep. Cui Xiaofu looked at the hibiscus tent above her head and couldn't fall asleep for a long time.

She entered the palace at the age of fourteen, and has been more than twenty years since she was in the high position of empress. Although she was in the high position of empress, she was just a name. Following the most cowardly emperor since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, she also became the most powerless queen since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. This is definitely not what she wanted.

The desire for power is like a winter insect that lies deep in her heart. In the spring season, it gradually begins to emerge.

"Why are you not sleeping?" Li Shi turned over and hugged her waist, whispering: "Do you think I'm asleep, do you feel resentful?"

Cui Xiaofu didn't say anything, she didn't move, letting her husband's hand swim on her body.

"What's wrong with you?"

The Li Shi noticed Cui Xiaofu's abnormality, and he sat up and looked at her coldly, "Don't I come to you tonight?"

"Prince, please calm down!"

Cui Xiaofu also sat up, held her husband's hand and said gently: "The emperor has not rested for a night after he came back. I invited the emperor to have a good rest today."

Li Shi looked at her, his eyes gradually softened, and he lay down again, "You are right, I really can't stand it."

Cui Xiaofu sighed softly and leaned against her husband, "Your Majesty, I am thirty-six years old this year, but I still have no children..."

"I understand that you are suffering. I have been considering this matter these days. It is indeed time to establish a prince."

Li Shi gently stroked her smooth face and pondered for a moment: "You go back to Cui Mansion tomorrow and tell Cui Yuan that I agree to make Li Miao the crown prince, and you will adopt it as your son."

"But the emperor, I am not..."

Before she could finish her words, Li Shi stopped her, "My decision has nothing to do with you. Tell Cui Yuan that my condition is that he accepts Zhang Ruohao's resignation and Zhang Potian will replace him into the cabinet."

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Chapter completed!