After being dressed as Wu Zetian's daughter, she was favored by the group

Chapter 33
On the night of returning to the palace, Li Zhi greeted him personally, and the family of three had dinner happily in the Hanliang Palace.

After sending Li Zhi away, Empress Wu left Li Lingyue to spend the night in Hanliang Palace, where the mother and daughter slept together.

Not long after lying down, Li Lingyue, who had her back to Empress Wu, let out a sound of deep sleep.

Empress Wu sat on the couch, carefully sized up her sleeping daughter, and couldn't help but smile.

"Stop pretending, ask all you want to ask, and I will try my best to give you a satisfactory answer!"

After Empress Wu finished speaking, Li Lingyue remained motionless, as if she had really fallen asleep.

"Success! Don't say that Auntie didn't give you a chance!"

Empress Wu pretended to lie down, Li Lingyue, who was "sleeping", sat up suddenly, hugged the jade pillow, and asked her first question:
"Aniang, why didn't you kill Yang Sijian?"

Li Lingyue remembers very clearly that when Yang Sijian said that she was willing to die on behalf of his grandmother, she went with the flow and said to Empress Wu: "For the sake of Master Yang's filial piety, I will spare his grandmother's life!" It's very vague, but the underlying meaning is: since he is willing to trade his life for his life, then let him be fulfilled.

Everyone could tell that Li Lingyue's soft heart was only aimed at an octogenarian, not Yang Sijian.

Li Lingyue didn't believe that Empress Wu couldn't understand the meaning of the words, even if Yang Sijian wasn't executed, he should be dismissed from office.

But in the end... Empress Wu not only didn't kill Yang Sijian, but instead let him and his daughter go so easily. In Li Lingyue's opinion, it was a bit abnormal.

So on the way back, she wanted to ask Empress Wu a lot of questions, but when she saw the other party's serious face, she wisely didn't open her mouth.

What's even more weird is that, in order to appease her emotions, Li Zhi was eloquent during the dinner, scolding Yang Sijian's family, using words such as "heinous", "cut to death", "injury to the nine clans".

Scolding is scolding, but he just doesn't make an order to get people, and Li Lingyue feels that his father is also abnormal after talking about it.

At this moment, when I asked the doubts in my heart, Empress Wu couldn't see any expression on her face, she just gave Li Lingyue a look, and said in a reprimanded tone:

"A dignified fourth-rank official of the imperial court, you thought you could kill him whenever you wanted, but thanks to your reading so many books, why is your brain not clear!"

'You said it as if you were a weak chicken, Shangguanyi is still the second-rank prime minister, and you are all over the place! Li Lingyue slandered inwardly. She couldn't believe Empress Wu's answer, so she cut straight to the point:

"Just because Yang Sijian belongs to my mother, so my mother wants to preserve his life and official position!"

"If it's because of this, how could you, Aye..." Empress Wu suddenly felt something wrong when she said this, so she didn't go any further.

Li Lingyue immediately reacted, 'That's right, if Yang Sijian was from Empress Wu, then Li Zhi would definitely use this opportunity to get rid of him, so why would he turn a blind eye? '

Seeing her daughter lost in thought, Empress Wu twisted her brows, hesitated for a few seconds, and said lightly:

"Don't think that I have to protect him because he often goes in and out of Hanliang Palace. But if he kills him now, he will inevitably be criticized by others. As for the future..."

When Empress Wu said this, a cold light flashed in her eyes, Li Lingyue paused, and gradually understood her mother's plan.

No matter what Yang Sijian said, he belonged to the faction of Empress Wu. If he killed the princess rashly just because his family bullied her, it would be morally untenable.

Not to mention whether it will chill the hearts of Empress Wu's subordinates, because of this incident alone, Empress Wu will bear the notoriety of "killing court ministers because of her own selfish desires", which is bound to be bad for her own reputation.

In this way, the political forces against her will make a big fuss and stand more firmly on the opposite side of her.

Although Empress Wu loved her daughter very much, she was not impulsive to the point of "destroying the Yang family directly for her daughter", but adopted her old routine, waiting for the exhaustion, and then finding a reason to kill her, which is typical of "both When stand again'.

When Empress Wu dealt with the matter of the Yang family, in the final analysis, she still cherished her own feathers. Even if she wanted to avenge her daughter, she always put her own political considerations first.

Thinking of this, Li Lingyue felt a chill in her heart, and felt more and more unfamiliar with the woman in front of her.

Seeing her daughter's unhappy face, Empress Wu seemed to have realized something, and she couldn't hide her guilt. She turned around and immediately blamed Li Zhi:
"Of course, the most important thing is that your elder brother's wedding is coming soon, and the marriage between Li and Yang's family has already been settled. You can't let your father take back his life just because of you, let alone make your brother regret the marriage and kill his wife just because of this matter." , You saw it just now, you, Aye, did not punish the Yang family, but also wanted to put the overall situation first, consolidate the position of the Eastern Palace, and preserve the face of the royal family!"

"So Yang Xiuxiu still wants to be my sister-in-law?" Li Lingyue asked unhurriedly with depression in her heart.

"Of course!" Empress Wu replied without hesitation: "She must be the princess!"

"Mom, I'm sleepy!"

Li Lingyue didn't ask any more questions, put down the pillow again, turned to one side, and fell asleep on her own.

Empress Wu gently helped her close the quilt. Seeing that her daughter was a little emotional, she smiled at the corner of her mouth, bowed her head and whispered in her ear:
"Sometimes, letting her live is more fun than killing her. When you grow up, you will understand everything. Sleep in peace!"

Perhaps it was because of a whole day's tossing, Li Lingyue actually fell asleep not long after Empress Wu finished saying that sentence.

After sleeping until dawn the next day, Empress Wu went to "listen to the government" early, leaving Cui Daizhao to serve her breakfast.

When Li Lingyue was full and ready to leave, Cui Daizhao delivered two news to her, one good and one bad:
The good news is: from now on, there is no need to go to the Shanggong Bureau for the time being.

The bad news is: from now on, no one is allowed to step out of the palace.

Li Lingyue was able to deal with it, and then returned to her Fengyang Pavilion.

On the other hand, the incident of soldiers besieging Yang due to the disappearance of the princess was directly covered up with the cooperation of Empress Wu and Li Zhi.

After a frightening night, the people in Chang'an City opened the door the next day and found that everything had returned to the original state. No one knew the truth, and no one dared to release the truth.

As soon as Li Zhi was sent to Li Zhi to impeach Jing Zhaoyin and the Ministry of War, he forcefully pushed back the report of the doctor Yu Shi. Don’t ask, if you ask, it’s because I’m doing drills, and it’s all my fault.

As for the 'perpetrator' and also the 'victim' of the Yang family, the gates were closed and no one was allowed to enter or leave. Even the funerals in the mansion were handled quietly and simply.

There is no way, before the prince's big wedding, the Yang family must maintain a state of tranquility, even if it is an act, it has to be performed until the wedding is successfully completed.

But unfortunately, there was an exquisite carriage parked outside the Yang Mansion, and a handsome man in fine clothes knocked on the door of the Yang Mansion himself.

The housekeeper of Yang's mansion opened the side door carefully, only to hear the man say with a smile:
"I am He Lanminzhi, the regular attendant of the Eastern Palace. Please tell the housekeeper to Miss Yang that the crown prince is here!"

(End of this chapter)