Chapter 157 Cui Xiaofu summoned (Part 2)

Linde Hall is west of Taiye Lake. It is the place where the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty handles government affairs in the inner palace. It is also where Cui Xiaofu reviews memorials and accidentally listens to some ministers' countermeasures. At this moment, Zhang Huan stood outside the hall under the supervision of more than a dozen palace guards and waited for Cui Xiaofu's reception.

"Summoning Liangzhou Governor Zhang Huan to meet him!"

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"Summoning Liangzhou Governor Zhang Huan to meet him!"

High-pitched sounds came from the depths of Linde Hall in turn. Linde Hall is the general term for a huge building complex, with majestic palaces and pavilions stacked with high walls and high guards.

At this time, an elderly eunuch walked out of the palace with his back hunched. Against the backdrop of the grand palace city, his thin body seemed extremely small. He walked to Zhang Huan, but lowered his head deeply.

"Uncle Mute!" Zhang Huan called out softly, and the old eunuch was shocked, and raised a face full of deep wrinkles. He silently stared at Zhang Huan. This child he had raised since childhood, a deep feeling suddenly ejaculated in his eyes.

"Empress Dowager, you!" The short four words were extremely difficult to say in his mouth. After saying that, he lowered his head in shame and led Zhang Huan forward silently.

Zhang Huan didn't say anything, he followed Uncle Ya slowly and walked to the door of the side hall. Uncle Ya stopped, pointed inside, and signaled Zhang Huan to go in by himself.

Zhang Huan patted his shoulder gently and said softly: "I heard that you were not dead, and I am very, very happy."

After saying that, he strode into the side hall. Uncle Mute looked at his agile and tall back blankly. Before he knew it, a tear of joy rolled out from his turbid old eyes.

"I am the governor of Liangzhou, Zhang Huan, to meet with the Queen Mother!" Zhang Huan walked into the side hall and bowed deeply to Cui Xiaofu.

The side hall is not big, with more than a dozen eunuchs and palace maids standing on both sides. In the middle is a huge gauze curtain hanging from the top, which separates the side hall into two. Through the gauze curtain, Cui Xiaofu can be seen vaguely.

"Give Governor Zhang a seat!"

Cui Xiaofu's smiley voice came from behind the gauze curtain, "I haven't seen each other for a few months, and you have made the Ai family look at her with admiration."

A palace maid put a soft mat for Zhang Huan. Zhang Huan sat down and smiled slightly, "Zhang Huan guarded the border for the court in Hexi. He wanted to recover the lost territory for our Tang Dynasty, but his soldiers were weak and his food was scarce, and his city was not complete. So this time he returned to Beijing to report his duties, but more importantly, he wanted to get the support of the court, especially the support of the empress dowager."

"The Ai family really wants to support you, but unfortunately the Ai family doesn't have the power either." Cui Xiaofu smiled helplessly, she waved her hand and ordered the eunuchs and palace maids to go down. Soon, everyone in the side hall left clean, leaving only Cui Xiaofu and Zhang Huan.

Cui Xiaofu slowly walked to the gauze curtain and opened it with a brush. She looked at Zhang Huan with a gloomy face and questioned word by word: "You said you wanted to go to the local area to build a foundation, and said you were willing to be loyal to me. The Ai family believed it, but in the end you betrayed the Ai family and surrendered to Pei Jun. How did you explain this to the Ai family? Did you also see that the Ai family has no power and no power, so you could not learn from the snob? Zhang Huan, if this is true, you would be disappointed the Ai family too much."

"What the Empress Dowager said is indeed speechless. Zhang Huan did neglect the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager used the word "betrayal" to speak harshly."

Zhang Huan sneered softly, and he slowly said, "In general, betrayal means to harm the interests of the original owner and surrender to the enemy. Who is the enemy of the empress dowager? Zhang Liangdi, who regarded you as a thorn in his eyes at the beginning, and Cui Yuan, who suppresses you everywhere now. Indeed, I surrendered to Pei Jun, which is also for my Hexi development plan. If I really betray the empress dowager, then when you announce that I will not be sick, what can you do to me? This is not the case. It is precisely because I remember the kindness of the empress dowager to me that I happily came to the palace to meet him. Unexpectedly, the empress dowager was blown to the front and kept saying that I betrayed. Where did you start?"

Cui Xiaofu looked at him and asked hesitantly for a while: "What do you mean is that you are still loyal to the Ai family?"

Zhang Huan stood up, stepped forward and knelt halfway and said, "My heart is loyal to the Empress Dowager, never disappeared for a moment."

"You two-faced guy, your mouth is quite sweet!" Cui Xiaofu's eyes were filled with smiles. As long as Zhang Huan was willing to listen to her words, she waved her hand and smiled: "Forget it, the Ai family will not make things difficult for you. There are not many loyal people in this world. If you are really loyal to the Ai family, you will not have the achievements you have today. Just think that the Ai family is working with you!"

Seeing that Cui Xiaofu had already spoken, Zhang Huan smiled and said frankly: "It was really pleasant to talk to the Empress Dowager. Today, the Empress Dowager Xuan Zhang Huan must have given some instructions. Please tell me directly."

Cui Xiaofu sat down slowly. She pondered for a moment and said, "Duan Xiushi has obtained the Lingwu land, but his reputation is not right. The Ai family wants to appoint him as the governor of Shuofang, but there is no one available around her. I hope you can help the Ai family, and the Ai family will be rewarded in the future."

"Can the Queen Mother stop Cui Ning from marrying the Wang family?" Zhang Huan asked lightly.

A trace of apologies flashed in Cui Xiaofu's eyes, and she shook her head helplessly, "Cui Yuan is very stubborn. The Ai family has persuaded him several times but no result. He has already determined that you must be his political enemy in the future and will not agree to you no matter what, so the Ai family has no choice in this matter."

"I just asked casually, and I won't force the empress dowager to do this." Zhang Huan stood up long and bowed to Cui Xiaofu and said with a deep smile: "Time is tight, so Zhang Huan will not delay it, so I will take a leave!"

Cui Xiaofu smiled without saying a word and kept watching him out.

Leaving Linde Hall, Zhang Huan rode on his horse and walked quickly outside the Daming Palace under the escort of several guards. At this time, it was dusk and the sunset had already set. The last dim blood red remained in the sky. A half-full moon in the west rose, a translucent color shining coldly on the ice of Taiye Pond. The leaves of the poplar and birch trees by the lake had fallen, but the pine trees and fir mixed in it were lush branches and leaves, and in the half-light and half-dark night, it seemed like a cavalry wearing armor.

In front of Zhang Huan was a flower wall, and several wintersweets gradually withered, hanging on branches in decay. The road ahead of him was divided into two, one leading to the harem on the east bank of Taiye Lake, while the other passing through the flower wall and leading to the outside of the Daming Palace. Both roads were deserted and there was no one.

"Governor Zhang, please hurry up!" Several palace guards urged.

Zhang Huan hesitated for a moment, urging his horse to pass through the flower wall. At this moment, the ring of the penis sounded crisply, and a slender and light beautiful shadow quickly ran towards this side from the other one.

As Zhang Huan's figure was about to disappear, a sad voice finally shouted from her mouth: "Huanlang, stop!"

Without a response, Zhang Huan's figure finally disappeared into the dense bushes. Cui Ning's thin body stood blankly in the cold wind, with no trace of blood on her pale face, and tears had dried up. She felt the pain, so she couldn't straighten her waist.

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I don't know how long it took, Cui Ning sat on the big rock by the lake with her knees in her arms. The cold wind made her face and hands red, but she seemed to have no sense of consciousness. Her beautiful eyes stared at the cold moonlight on the lake surface with a breath of despair. She was immersed in her memories of the past.

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‘Miss Cui, do you believe it? If there is a big bug in it, I will throw you in first!’

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'I am actually the illegitimate son of the Zhang family in Hedong. My father is Zhang Ruojun, the chief of Fenyang County. He is ranked 18 at home, so his nickname is Shibalang. If Miss Cui wants to, he can call me Zhang Shiba!'

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That was their first acquaintance. He kidnapped her to save his friend. She had forgotten the harm she had done. What she could not forget was his generous and warm shoulder. She had longed for this shoulder to carry her all the way, but.

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Cui Ning's lips trembled slightly, tears poured out of her eyes. She would never see him again. He once vowed to marry him, but did he do it? He was about to become someone else's bride, but he left ruthlessly.

‘This is a vow, something I, Zhang Huan, decided by, no one can stop me!’

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"Zhang Shiba, you lied to me!" Cui Ning finally burst into tears. Her hands tightly covered her face, tears oozing out of her fingers, and she trembled all over, like a small tree in the storm, and she was about to fall.

At this moment, two warm big hands held her thin and weak shoulders, so firm that it seemed as if it had blocked the raging storm for the small tree.

"I didn't lie to you. Am I here?"

Cui Ning looked back in surprise and saw a black and thin face with a smile in front of her. She was the dream-ridden Huanlang who met every night on the border of the Western Regions.

She looked at him blankly, feeling that she seemed to be in a dream, and tears were like pearls with broken threads, one by one, slid down on her clothes along her pale and beautiful face. Zhang Huan slowly helped her up, looking at her pitiful and heartbreaking tears, he hugged her in his arms affectionately. Cui Ning seemed to be lonely sail lost in the sea and finally returned to the harbor. She pulled her husband's clothes tightly, and could no longer help but cry sadly.

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Chapter completed!