When I came to Shendu, I was scared, I thought about the east and west all day long, but I didn't feel how far the distance was, but once I wanted to go back, it was really like an arrow, and I couldn't wait to put on my wings and fly to Chang'an in one day.

"Little county lord, General Gao said that he would be able to reach Chang'an in another day." Taking advantage of the rest on the way, Hongfu had already gone out to inquire about the news, and by the way, she also brought back tea and snacks to Taoyao: "You will come back again, and it will be all right when you return to the palace." After leaving for a year, in fact, she missed it very much in her heart, and she could only confide in front of Tao Yao.

"Okay." nodded indifferently, even if it was just the tartary buckwheat tea sold in the roadside tea shed, it was drunk very crisply. Although she was pampered and raised, she is not a person who can't bear any hardships in her bones, not to mention that Shendu has tempered her heart this time, and now she feels that it is superfluous to even complain.

"Xiao'er, are you okay, do you feel uncomfortable?" Just when the master and servant were relatively silent and resting silently, someone suddenly knocked on the partition of the carriage and asked with concern.

"I'm fine, Brother Huaijin." Because of something in his heart, Tao Yao didn't get out of the car, and at this time, listening to Gao Xianzhi's somewhat worried tone, he immediately stretched out his hand and lifted the curtain: "It's a little cold outside, I don't really want to get out of the car." ”

"Well, then you can rest." Seeing that the girl's pale face showed a small corner, Gao Xianzhi suddenly felt reassured: "Hurry up and put down the curtain of the car, and carefully pour the cold wind." ”

"Hmm." Obediently let go of his hand, listening to the footsteps outside gradually disappearing, the smile on Tao Yao's face also retracted, and then returned to his previous full contemplation.

After getting along day and night for so many days, Hongfu already has a very good understanding of the little master's temperament, seeing her so abnormal, and thinking of the scene on the day they left the palace, she couldn't help but feel a sudden thought: "Little county lord, are you still thinking about the events of that day?" ”

When they left the palace, they didn't want to be too public, so they deliberately chose to set off before the light of day. But who expected that not long after leaving the Lanyue Palace, he met the female historian Wan'er beside Wu Cao at the corner of the palace gate. She seemed to have been waiting there all the way, and she didn't know how long she had been standing, and even the cloak covered outside was covered with a layer of frost, which made Hongfu's eyelids jump uncontrollably.

Shangguan Nushi was ordered to see off the little county lord, and bluntly said that she wanted to talk to the little county lord alone. Therefore, she got out of the carriage with great interest at that time, and together with the coachman, she was invited by the palace people who were waiting on the side to a place far away from the carriage, and she didn't know what the two people in the carriage said. However, the little county lord has become a little strange since then, she just endured it and didn't ask all the way, but the situation doesn't seem to be developing in a good direction, the little county lord's heart is getting heavier and heavier, and if it goes on like this, it will not be easy for her to deal with the princess after she goes back.

"yes." With a long sigh, Tao Yao put one hand against the tip of her nose, but she looked more and more like a little adult: "Shangguan Nushi gave me a secret edict, and also brought me a message from His Majesty the Emperor." ”

"Secret edict?" Hong Fu's eyes widened in an instant, and she covered her ears at a very fast speed, looking terrified: "The slave didn't hear anything, didn't ask anything, beg the little county lord to spare the slave and maid's life." "Oh my God, how dare she listen to His Majesty's secret edicts and oracles today! She said it a long time ago, the more she knew, the faster she died. She adhered to the belief of doing more things and talking less in the imperial city, so she has lived tenaciously until today, so that she did not die innocently on the way back to Chang'an!

"Sister Hongfu......" didn't intend to say anything, but when she looked like this, Tao Yao couldn't help but laugh first. When Hongfu was by her mother's side, she was known for her steadiness and properness, even in the palace, this girl who was a little older than her had always been stable, even if she was scared in her heart, at least she could hold it on her face. I didn't think there would be such a gaffe and humiliation.

This little ancestor can be regarded as smiling.

Hongfu secretly put down her heart, just pretended to be calm and put a few hungry pastries for her, and then slipped out of the car like the wind: "Little county lord, you eat first, and the slave will get off the car to fetch you a pot of hot tea!" ”

Shaking her head with a smile, Tao Yao slowly retracted the thoughts that had diverged from her previous thoughts, and reconsidered the secret edict.

His Majesty the Emperor granted her the right to marry autonomously, that is, as long as it was someone she liked and valued, even if her parents disagreed and said that it was useless. Whether to marry or not, and who to marry, is completely up to her, and no one can make the decision for her.

Although she was confident that her father and mother would never do anything that disregarded her wishes, in an age when most women were unable to marry on their own, the freedom granted to her by this decree was inevitably too broad, right? She didn't remember that His Majesty the Emperor loved her so much, and she didn't think that she had anything extraordinary, and that she could get this privilege so easily. You must know that even Li Jijiang, as the daughter of the crown prince, can't change her fate of marrying Tubo, but she holds the future in the palm of her hand like this. Isn't this too much like an absurd dream?

"Could it be that this is His Majesty the Emperor's compensation for the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet?" muttered in a low voice, and Tao Yao immediately put this thought away. That incident, because there was no evidence in the end, Wu Cao didn't plan to publicize it at all. Since the staff scolded Li Jijiang and gave him a lot of things, he should have understood it thoroughly, and it was impossible to give an unbelievable secret edict in the future. Unless this majesty is deliberately trying to provoke the relationship between her and Tai**.

"Your Majesty asked the slave maid to tell the little lord that everything in this world is empty, no matter when, remember to think more about yourself is the most important thing." Shangguan Wan'er's inexplicable words echoed in her mind again, and Tao Yao narrowed a pair of good-looking eyes, but she couldn't understand the deep meaning inside.

She knows that Her Majesty is a woman who has suffered too much hurt and betrayal to get to where she is today, and this sentence should be a summary of her life's experience, and it is a truly heartfelt word of kindness. But why did the man on top give this sentence to himself? Moreover, with that secret edict, this makes it even more weird, isn't it? Or are there any qualities of yourself that make His Majesty the Emperor feel so familiar that he feels something in his heart, and then he cares and takes care of himself extraordinarily?

"It's not normal, the people in the imperial city are too abnormal." Carrying a pile of untangled velvet threads, Tao Yao almost collapsed in a gloomy position in the thick mattress laid in the carriage.

The world of adults is too complicated, and she's really just a child.