After this incident, the process of Tao Yao's return to Chang'an was suddenly accelerated a lot. Although the poisoning matter was finally closed due to the lack of evidence, Wu Cao still blamed Li Jijiang on the grounds of the emperor's failure to behave, and ordered her not to take another step before the beginning of spring, and be sure to copy the scriptures in the courtyard for self-examination, which can be regarded as providing disguised protection for Tao Yao. And Li Bao'er, because she had already married a wife, and the prince and the princess were spoiled tightly, she retreated quietly like this.

Therefore, a huge storm at the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet happened abruptly and ended hastily. Like a small pebble thrown into the middle of the lake, after a plop, no matter how many water ripples appeared, it would only return to calm in the end. No one remembers what happened at that time, and no one takes it to heart. This is Luoyang, the capital of the gods, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and the center of all the power whirlpools. The life and death of a little girl is really not a big deal.

As for the person concerned, Tao Yao, she has not asked what the cause of her illness is since the day she woke up. Whether the imperial doctor comes to administer the needle, or Hongfu comes to feed the medicine, she still does whatever she should do, obediently cooperates, smiles and thanks, and her humble and docile appearance is almost staggering, as if she just feels the wind and cold, and she has just come back from the ghost gate.

"Your Highness, do you say that the little county lord really doesn't know anything?" Standing in the long corridor, looking at the girl sitting in front of the half-open window drinking medicine one by one, Akihara's eyebrows couldn't help but frown. I don't know why, she always feels that the current little county lord is different from before. Although it seemed that her body was weak and soft that had not yet recovered, there seemed to be something missing in it, and there seemed to be something more, which made her heart beat just by looking at it.

In the past, Tao Yao was lively and bright, although she always showed the appearance of a young man, but in the end she was still a child, even if there was a rule in her words and deeds, she could see through it at a glance, just like the simplicity and purity of clear water. But now it is completely different, the girl's eyebrows and eyes are the same, and her expression is still the same, but when she looks closely, it seems to have touched a pool of ink-stained water. Even if it wasn't too muddy, it was more unfathomable, and it was no longer something she could fathom.

"She knows how, and she doesn't know what?" Since Tao Yao woke up, Princess Taiping has never stepped into the side hall. Although she still came often, she was basically separated by heavy corridors or curtains, and she only watched from afar for a while before going back. No one knows what kind of mentality this master is doing this.

"If she knows it but can still hold it, and she is always so quiet, then at the age of the little county lord, this heavy mind is a little terrifying." Akihara looked at the girl's delicate and pale face, and the deep anxiety in her heart became stronger and stronger: "If she doesn't know, she really thinks that she is just a sudden illness, then your previous cultivation and attention to her will be in vain." Although, in her intuition, the former is far more likely than the latter.

"Cultivation and valuation?" Hearing these words, Princess Taiping actually chuckled: "Qiuyuan, in vain you have followed me for so many years, and now you are actually going back more and more?" Even a little girl can see it, and you are actually confused? ”

The panic in her heart was almost condensed into substance, looking at Princess Taiping's usual complexion, Qiu Yuan involuntarily started to tremble, and then, she bent her legs and knelt down directly: "It's the slave who is stupid, please punish Your Highness!" ”

"It's funny to say, I asked myself that I had never treated Tao Yao badly, and I didn't make any mistakes before the night banquet, so that even you were hidden from me, and I thought that I was so good to her because of the love and concern of the elders for the younger generations." There was no intention of falling, but she also didn't let the female history in front of her get up, Princess Taiping just said to herself: "This girl, she was born with a seven-trick exquisite heart, I'm afraid she also felt something wrong early on, but out of trust in me, she has never been on guard." It wasn't until she almost lost her life that she suddenly realized that the danger actually came from her side, and it was precisely because of this that she didn't come to see her for a long time, right?

In this way, Her Royal Highness the princess actually deliberately set the little princess as a target? Qiu Yuan's eyes widened subconsciously, but fortunately, she was kneeling with her head down, and Princess Taiping couldn't see her expression, otherwise, she wouldn't be able to escape today's few cane scoldings.

"Get up, what are you doing on your knees?" Finally, after glancing at the villain, Princess Taiping threw down a fluttering sentence and turned around and left: "Go back, save yourself from looking upset." ”

"Yes." Akihara didn't dare to say anything more, and after getting up quickly, he quickly followed. Today, I was talking too much, but I didn't expect to poke the sore spot of Her Royal Highness the princess like this......

It's just that she keeps saying it so fiercely and resolutely, but she doesn't necessarily think so in her heart, right?

On the other side, seeing that the master and servant were walking away, Hongfu stepped forward slowly, and closed the window with a gentle movement, covering Tao Yao's face by the way.

"County Lord, are you and Her Royal Highness the princess having something awkward?" I didn't understand the little master's recent behavior, so Hongfu simply asked, "Why haven't you ever asked for peace since you recovered from your illness?" In the three days you were unconscious, Her Royal Highness the Princess was undressed and took care of you by your bedside. At that time, even she, the personal servant, had to retreat a stone's throw and go to the dining room to guard the medicine stove. She couldn't understand why the county lord was angry with such a considerate and gentle parent, the little master in her impression would never be so rude and unreasonable.

"Yes?" didn't even bother to raise his head, Tao Yao put the bowl aside after drinking the medicine, and then picked up a book and read it with relish: "I'm not completely well, isn't it normal to be afraid of the cold and not go out?" On the contrary, she looked like she had come to visit me, but she refused to even enter the door, why don't you say that she has an opinion about me? ”

Hongfu: "...... "That's the dignified Princess Taiping, what would you be angry with a child?"

"Sister Hongfu, things in this world are often not as simple as they seem on the surface." The girl's white fingers gently flipped between the pages, and when she looked closely at its contents, it turned out to be a military book: "Although Her Royal Highness the Princess is my elder, before that, she has to be His Majesty's concubine first." ”

In this case, the path she left for herself was destined not to be a broad road, but a path full of pitfalls and thorns. It's just stupid like her, and she has stepped on it at the same time as she realized that something was wrong. She didn't dare to blame anyone, she only blamed herself.