The voice in the hall stopped instantly, and everyone looked at Xiao Yongjia, all of whom were envious.

The county lord Huaide smiled and said, "I celebrate my birthday, even the queen will go out to the palace to pay my birthday in person. Such glory, A Ling, looking at the Southern Dynasty, you are the only one."

Everyone agreed.

Xiao Yongjia smiled slightly.

Luo Shen sat near her and seemed to get up to greet her. He immediately said, "My grandma, you are in a state of inconvenience, so I'll go to greet my sister on your behalf."

Luo Shen arrived at the front hall and waited for a while. Sure enough, Gao Yongrong appeared. Luo Shen led a group of servants to kneel down to greet him. Gao Yongrong had already been helped up, and he smiled. First, he complained that she would never go to the palace to talk to him. He also said that this was home, and he just wanted to hear her call her sister.

Luo Shen smiled and said, "Sister, Ah Niang was going to greet him in person just now, but I stopped her. Sister won't be surprised, right?"

"I came to celebrate my aunt's birthday today to celebrate my birthday. Who cares about these false gifts? What's more, my aunt is inconvenient. Don't be so happy to see my sister like this."

Gao Yongrong took Luo Shen's arm intimately, talked and laughed all the way, headed in and soon arrived at the banquet hall.

Xiao Yongjia had already come out with the female guests to kneel down to greet him.

Gao Yongrong stepped forward quickly and helped Xiao Yongjia up with his own hands.

Xiao Yongjia had already ordered someone to set up a seat for her and invited her to take her seat.

Gao Yongrong took Xiao Yongjia and led her back to the seat first. Then he took her seat and asked everyone to be calm, without any politeness. He smiled and said, "I have lost my mother since I was a child. I am so taken care of by my aunt. I treat me better than my daughter. I am just as sorry for marrying far away, but now I am being held in that palace all day long, so I can't do my filial piety. I met my aunt today and I came to celebrate her birthday and visit my family. If everyone can't let go because of me here, that would be my sin."

Seeing that the queen was not arrogant at all, they were very respectful and filial, they became more and more envious of Xiao Yongjia, and gradually stopped being restrained. They all smiled and agreed. Several palace servants raised the birthday gifts carefully prepared by the queen, either expensive or rare. The first two palace servants, one kneeled and held a tray with gold-painted red lacquered ground, and a pair of gold-inlaided Ruyi on top, and the other carried a bird stand, and a colorful tongue parrot stood on top, with a golden chain tied on its feet. After teasing it, they opened their mouths and said, "The eldest princess is healthy and Ruyi!"

Everyone laughed and praised.

Xiao Yongjia smiled and said, "The Queen assisted His Majesty in the Six Palaces. I just celebrated my birthday. When did I not have this day? I was too lazy to even make trouble today, but I was afraid that I would be entrusted by you. So I invited everyone to have fun. Queen Lao was so worried that she would be so worried."

Gao Yongrong smiled and said, "Auntie doesn't have to see you. Today is my aunt's festive day. No matter how much birthday gifts a niece prepares for her aunt, it is not enough to express her niece's sincere heart for her aunt."

She stood up, took the pair of wishes and presented them to her.

"These wishes are just ordinary things, but the courtesy is less important than righteousness. The niece has already prepared it for a long time. On the auspicious day of the order month, I will offer it here."

"I hope my aunt will be happy from now on and on, and will be in the present day."

She stared at Xiao Yongjia, laughing and said word by word.

...

In the evening, Gao Qiao had not left in the Taicheng official office.

Today is Xiao Yongjia's birthday. A few days ago, she told him that she didn't want to do it in big ways, so she would only invite a few tribe members to come to her house to sit down.

In the years before, when the couple had a bad relationship, Xiao Yongjia was extremely luxurious in daily life. Gao Qiao only looked at her and did not dare to say a word to her. Seeing that her temperament has changed drastically, she is not only gentle and charming, but also no longer pays attention to daily life. Naturally, he was happy. This time he encountered her birthday, he originally wanted to do something for her, but she did not expect that she would mention it as she took the initiative to do so.

He was a man who was a gentleman, Ning Jian, and his wife said so, so he stopped insisting. Today, he kept in mind and wanted to go back to accompany her earlier. Seeing that it was evening, he stepped up some matters, and gave up and asked his subordinates to disperse. When he was about to leave, he saw Xiao Daocheng coming. His entourage followed him with a stack of files and said he had to stop again.

Xiao Daocheng handed over a list and said with a smile: "This is a material that is recommended by various places. Your Majesty has already seen it, and everyone is approved. I know that my husband is very concerned about it. I specially brought it up and asked you to pass it through. I know that you are busy and I have a circle of outstanding people. If my husband is not at ease, he can personally investigate it. If you have time, you can issue an order to appoint him. Your Majesty also has many feelings. It is all because of the wise nature of the prime minister, so that the court can have a new and beautiful situation today."

6. After Guang died, Xu Mi was impeached. In fact, he was implicated by this storm, many spaces were vacant in the court. These days, according to the usual system of recruitment and recruitment, Xiao Daocheng drafted this list of new officials and used them for Gao Qiao to review.

Among the official positions that need to be reappointed, there are several positions in key departments such as the Five Military and Ministry of Personnel, and their positions are also not low and very important.

Gao Qiao took it and took a look. He saw that most of the people in circle were known to him. They were all local officials, either prestige or talented. After browsing the list, he nodded: "I will watch it tomorrow, and I will report to Your Majesty after reading it."

He said, suddenly remembering someone.

"Why is Yang Xuan not on the top?"

Xiao Daocheng shook his head: "It's a pity that my husband was about to talk to him. Although he summoned him several times, he refused to return to the capital. Today, the news he received was that he went to Xuancheng to apologize. Xu Mi not only did not blame him, but also killed his son Xu Chuo, saying that he would comfort the heroes of the dead Northern Expedition soldiers."

Gao Qiao was silent for a moment and sighed long: "General Yang knew that he had great righteousness, but he was not lucky. It is really heartbreaking for such a loyal and fierce person to be used by the court!"

Xiao Daocheng then sighed a few times, looked at Gao Qiao, and saw him looking at the sky outside, smiling, and handed over another file, saying, "I know that my husband is in a hurry to come back today to celebrate his birthday for the eldest princess, and I dare not leave him anymore. There is only one last thing. This is the death row inmate file that Hou Qiu asked for the death row to be executed. Please check it out. If it is correct, I will ask Your Majesty to decide. Then the law will be corrected and all of these people will be punished." As he said that, he ordered the follower to submit the file.

This matter is related to human life, and Gao Qiao has always attached great importance to it. Every time there are death row prisoners, before reporting the report, he will be able to browse the files once, so as to avoid unjust, false and wrong cases. He nodded, flipped through the thick stack of files in front of him, and said, "Let's leave it. I'll read it when I have time."

Xiao Daocheng responded and said, "The Lonely King has read the file of this group of death row prisoners who are about to be executed. All of them are extremely vicious people and have more than death. Only one of them has special affairs. The Lonely King reminds you first to avoid thinking that the Lonely King abuses the rules."

"Didn't the imperial court's orders before that the Tianshi Sect should not stay in Jiankang for activities? The Guwang knew that this matter was of great importance. After my husband reminded him, the Guwang had been inquiring in person. Now most of the people have left. Among them, a female sect, who was said to be a fragrant master named Shao Yuniang, but he disobeyed the order and refused to leave. He was arrested by the official and surrendered to death and refused to leave. He argued that he had already left the sect and was still in Jiankang, just to find an old friend. He asked her who the old friend was, but she refused to say it. The Guwang suspected that she had made a mistake in her plan, and even in order to shock the stubborn scholars who were addicted to it. He wanted to kill the chicken to warn the monkey, so he threw the female sect into the death jail and waited until the autumn, and asked to behead them together."

"I know that Gao Qiaogong has always attached great importance to human life and dare not take action. I thought about telling her first whether to ask for the execution, and you will decide whether to take the lead."

He took out one of the files and handed them to Gao Qiao.

As soon as Gao Qiao heard this name, his expression moved. He took the file and opened it quickly. He browsed with all his eyes. He suppressed the incomparable surprise that surged out of his heart. He looked at Xiao Daocheng, hesitated and asked, "How old is this Shao Yuniang? Who is the one?"

"Thirty-five and six, I don't want to tell the origin. But from her accent, her ancestral home should be in Jiangbei. It is said that there is a younger brother named Shao Fengzhi, who is also one of the backbones of the Tianshi Sect. Shao Fengzhi is smart. After the imperial court bans the orders, the people disappeared. He should have left the capital early..."

Before Xiao Daocheng could finish his words, Gao Qiao was shocked. He stared at the file in his hand. He suddenly came to his senses and asked, "This Shao Yuniang is now in the death prison?"

Xiao Daocheng nodded: "It's..."

Gao Qiao put down the file, hurried out of the yamen, rushed to the heavenly prison in one breath, reported the name of the death row prisoner, and was taken directly to a cell with a female prisoner.

The prison was dark and sunny. In the space that was so narrow that even people couldn't lie straight, the corner was occupied by a bucket, and the smell was stinking. The ground was piled with messy straw and mosquitoes and flies. A female prisoner was curled up inside, dressed in rags, with torture on her body, motionless, looking like she was dead, her face was covered by her chaotic head, and she couldn't see clearly.

The prison officer who accompanied him said, "Glory Gao, this female prisoner is a member of the Tianshi Sect. He openly disobeyed and refused to leave. King Xin'an suspected that she had other plans and was sent to the death row prison. He had been sick all these days, and the people were so burned and had not eaten a few bites of food. The official was afraid that she would die here, and was thinking about reporting..."

The female prisoner on the ground seemed to be awakened by the sound of the prison officer's speech, and moaned. She moaned, and a weak and weak hissing sound came out of her mouth that was covered indiscriminately: "I am wronged..."

The prison officer looked at Gao Qiao beside him.

His eyes were staring at the female prisoner on the ground, with a very strange expression.

In recent years, this is not the first time he went back to the death row prison and personally tried the death row prisoner. The prison officer was used to it. He shouted sternly: "Shao Yuniang! Do you know who this is? He is Gao Gong, the Minister of the current dynasty! He kept saying unjustly but did not tell the truth. How could you be wronged?"

The female prisoner seemed to have been stabbed by a needle, suddenly raised her head and turned it around, revealing half of her face, her eyes opened, and her eyes fell on Gao Qiao outside the prison door.

The eyes that could not see half anger were as if something was injected into it suddenly opened wide, looked at Gao Qiao for a moment, struggled to get up from the ground, and whimpered in his throat with a vague "Gao Xianggong" who seemed to be crying. When he rolled his eyes, he fell to the ground again.

The prison officer hurriedly opened the prison door, went up to find his breath, slapped her face a few more times, and saw that her eyes were closed and she didn't move, and hurriedly said, "I must have fainted!"

Gao Qiao looked at the female prisoner with her eyes closed on the ground. At this moment, his inner shock was almost indescribable.

Although nearly twenty years have passed, he still recognized her when he saw the face she showed.

It turned out to be Shao Yuniang back then!

He had always thought that Shao Yuniang had already died on the way to Jiangbei. He never dreamed that she would be alive. Not only was she alive, but she also entered the Tianshi Sect. Now she was sent to the death row because of this identity, and appeared in front of him again in this way!

"Gao Xianggong, what should I do?" the prison officer asked him.

Gao Qiao calmed down. "Give her a clean land and call the doctor!"

The prison officer immediately arranged for a strong and strong woman to bring Shao Yuniang, who had fainted from the ground, into a better cell. After a while, the doctor came and was treated. After seeing a doctor, he was fed some sugar water by the woman. Finally, the man woke up and slowly turned half of his face, looked at Gao Qiao, without saying a word, and kept crying.

When Gao Qiao was injured in the Northern Expedition, the Shao brothers and sisters came to deliver medicine. At that time, they also took care of him for some time and were life-saving. Later, Gao Qiao took the brothers and sisters back to Jiankang and had those things. Moreover, it was because of her accidental death that directly led to the divorce between him and Xiao Yongjia for more than ten years.

It can be said that in Gao Qiao's half of his life, Shao Yuniang did not appear for a long time. It took less than a year to cut off his head and end.

But the influence of this woman in his life is not bad.

Even if Gao Qiao wants to forget, he can’t forget it.

The person who thought he had died suddenly appeared again.

He was filled with mixed feelings at this moment, and countless doubts were accumulated in his heart. Seeing that Shao Yuniang woke up, he ordered all the people to withdraw from the cell and asked, "You were still alive back then, and I sent people everywhere in Yanjiang to look for you. Why haven't you shown up? Why did you join the Tianshi Sect?"

Shao Yuniang looked at him in a daze and choked, "Mr. Gao Lang, I did that wrong thing out of my admiration for you for a moment. After being scolded by you, I was extremely ashamed and made up my mind to walk away from home when I found a suitable place to settle down, so as not to be looked down upon by you and be blamed by the eldest princess. I never thought that before I found the place, the eldest princess sent someone to drive my brother and sister back to Jiangbei in a storm. It was also because I had done something wrong first and had no choice but to go to the ferry that day."

"I thought I would go back to Jiangbei and die in the future, and I was blamed for it. Unexpectedly, the eldest princess would not let it go. It turned out that she wanted me to die and sent someone to chase me up. I was forced to jump into the river. I was also lucky. My brother and sister were familiar with the nature of water. After falling into the water, they protected me tightly. My brother and sister caught a piece of driftwood, drifted for a night, and died for a lifetime, and were rescued by passing ships..."

She burst into tears.

"Gao Langjun, you look down on me, and the eldest princess hates me to the core, and she is determined to take my life. How dare I show up again after I escaped by chance..."

Gao Qiao waved his hand and interrupted her: "Don't blame people for your mistakes. Those who intercepted them back then had no relationship with the eldest princess! She didn't know at all. Those people were sent by Princess Yulin Zhu."

Shao Yuniang was stunned and then cried, "Gao Langjun, can Zhu admit to you personally that she sent someone to kill me?"

Gao Qiao shook his head. "Even if he didn't admit it personally, it's the same."

"Gao Langjun, I heard that Princess Yulin had already died in a fire. Everyone was dead. Even if someone else had put something she had never done on her, she could not prove her innocence. It was not that I wanted to say that the eldest princess was not good in front of you. But first, Zhu and I have no acquaintance, and there is no resentment. Why did she hate me so much and kill me? Secondly..."

She wiped her tears and whispered: "When I was hunted that day, I heard the subordinates pretending to be a bandit and said that the eldest princess was talking to me, so I can't tell me to leave alive..."

"Bold! How dare you slander!"

Gao Qiao was furious and shouted sternly.

Shao Yuniang shivered, with a pale face, struggled to get up, kowtowed constantly, and cried, "If there is a word that is untrue, I will not die well! Gao Langjun, you don't want to listen, I will never say it again. Originally, I was wrong that day, and I deserve to die. Whoever sent someone to kill me will be the same."

Gao Qiao calmed down and slowly breathed out.

"Forget it! How did you join the Tianshi Sect later? Why did you refuse to leave this time, and even enter prison?"

Shao Yuniang burst into tears.

"The ship owner who saved me that day was a leader of the Tianshi Sect. That's why I joined the sect."

"The leader coveted me at that time. How could I resist? Thinking of Gao Langjun, you look down on me, the eldest princess, and I lost my body again, how could I still have the face to go back to find you? I can only endure humiliation and commit myself to others. Over the years, I have been forced to helplessly and do something wrong. But I have been tired of it for a long time and don't want to live such a life. How could I get out easily once I entered the sect? Last year, I was sent to Jingkou to Zhan sect, and offended Li Mu due to the orders of the superiors. I had long regretted it and wanted to withdraw, but I dared not, for fear that the people in the sect would be detrimental to my siblings. Just as the court ordered that the people of the Tianshi Sect would not be allowed to stop at Jiankang, so I secretly stayed, trying to escape their control. I didn't want to be arrested by the government again, saying that I had a bad intention, and tortured me to death."

"I have been beaten to death these days, and I am very sick, and I have no strength at all. I originally thought that I was just dead in prison. I didn't expect that I would see you again..."

Shao Yuniang cried sadly, and her whole body shivered, and finally she cried softly to the ground.

Gao Qiao looked at him, feeling upset, and suddenly remembered that he promised his wife that he would reply earlier today. He calmed down and said, "I know. I will tell someone to remove you from the list of the checklist. Please rest assured, and take care of yourself here first. I have something to do, so I'll go first."

He turned around and wanted to leave. Shao Yuniang suddenly reached out and grabbed his leg. Seeing him looking down, she hurriedly retracted her hand and said timidly: "Gao Langjun, please don't let the eldest princess know that I am still alive... I was in Jingkou before and had met her on the road. At that time, I blocked her way. I wanted to give in, but I was sitting on the chariot and was pushed forward by the crowd behind me. I couldn't help but the eldest princess was furious and almost overturned my chariot. I was very afraid of her... She hated me even more... If she told her that the female Tianshi was me that day, I was still alive..."
To be continued...