Chapter 36: The Human Touch
"Well, I originally wanted to give it to His Highness when I was Chinese New Year's Eve Shou New Year, but I didn't expect it to ......" Tao Yao smiled again, as if revealing a little helplessness: "And then it dragged on until now." It's a pity that Taoyao's craftsmanship is not perfect, and the workmanship is inevitably a little clumsy, please don't mind Your Highness. ”
"At such a young age, it is no better to be able to do this." Gently caressing the delicate peony flower, Princess Taiping's voice was rarely low: "This is your heart, since I accept it, I will naturally not dislike it anymore." "She's been a mother for years, but none of her children ever remembered to give her a gift on Chinese New Year's Eve. And her insomnia accumulated over the years, except for Akihara, she didn't even know about her pillow person, Wu Youji. But this little girl, it's just this little girl......
"Then thank you, Your Highness the Princess." As if relieved, Tao Yao stood up and stared fixedly at the woman in front of her, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes and was graceful and perfect at all times, and after a long time, she bowed down and made a big salute: "I have to hurry up to pack my bags tomorrow, and Tao Yao won't come to bother." Say goodbye, I hope Your Royal Highness will cherish yourself, and Tao Yao will pray for you every day in Chang'an, and wish you good health and all the best! With that, she stood up, turned her head, and strode out.
Pinched the fragrant and elegant purse with one hand, Princess Taiping looked at the little figure about to walk out of the Lanyue Palace, and suddenly stood up suddenly: "Girl! ”
One step at a time, Tao Yao clenched her small fists, her back was straight, but she didn't even have the courage to turn back: "Does Your Highness have any other orders?" ”
"You ......" subconsciously took a few steps in her direction, Princess Taiping stopped, and after a long time spoke again: "Do you hate me?" Before she knew it, her voice was hoarse, not at all like the proud and dignified voice she used to have.
"Hate?" Tao Yao repeated the word gently, but quickly shook her head: "No, I don't hate you." ”
It's too tiring to hate someone, it's a strong emotion to the extreme, she doesn't have it, and she doesn't want it to be. What's more, she can't even talk about hating Li Bao'er and Li Jijiang, let alone how much Princess Taiping has helped her?
"Why? You know that I've been using you from beginning to end. "For the first time in my life, I talked so bluntly to a person, but the other party was just a little girl. Princess Taiping herself found it incredible.
"Even if you did use me as bait, I believe you never intended to take my life." Tao Yao replied word by word: "It was you who finally decided to throw me into the deep pool, and at least taught me how to swim." "So the Chinese New Year's Eve was really just an accident. And in the rest of her life, she is destined to never allow such an accident to happen again.
"Is it......" A smile appeared on Princess Taiping's gorgeous cheeks, compared with the rouge begonia on the side, but it showed a little pale and weak for no reason. She didn't believe it herself, she had the kind of kindness that this girl said.
"Your Highness......" Qiu Yuan, who had been standing silently on the side and acting as an invisible person, couldn't help but step forward and hugged her: "Little county lord, she's already gone far, you...... Do you want to lie back and rest for a while? She always felt that the current Princess Taiping was not in a good state, and the words of the county lord of Taoyao just now should have really poked her heart, right?
"Akihara, you say, did I do something wrong from the beginning?" Letting the most trusted female Shi hold herself and half-lie on the soft couch, Princess Taiping's always shrewd and sharp eyes were full of confusion: "I have used so many people, and my hands have never been clean." But why, only this time ...... "To Tao Yao, she couldn't even pretend to be ruthless, she didn't even dare to face the girl's crystal clear eyes.
Sighing, Qiu Yuan stretched out his slender ten fingers, and gently pressed several big points on Princess Taiping's head: "Your Highness is not wrong, you just gave your true feelings to the little county lord from the beginning." Moreover, it was a state of mind that she hadn't had for so long that she didn't even know it when she appeared, thinking that she was purely taking advantage of others.
"You mean, I'm emotionally invested in that girl?" Princess Taiping half-closed her eyes, as if she still didn't believe it at all.
How is that possible? Since Xue Shao's death, her heart has also died with it. Whether it is marrying Wu Youji or having children for the Wu family, she has always been a walking corpse, and she has never even received the slightest love and pity from her own flesh and blood, why would she be special to Tao Yao alone?
"A child's nature is always the most sensitive, who is good to her and who is not good to her, she can understand it in her heart." Qiu Yuan smiled slightly, fascinated by the authorities of his master: "The county lord of Taoyao is a smart child, and the slave can see that she really always cares about you." If you were completely perfunctory or deceitful to her, would she not notice it at all? ”
For other things, it may take a long time to wander around the court to accumulate experience, but whether it is true or false, for Tao Yao, who has an almost spiritual little animal intuition, it is not worth wasting time to distinguish at all. It's just a matter of exchanging sincerity for sincerity, this is Taoyao's own decision, and because of this, after discovering Princess Taiping's calculation of her, the little girl will be so disappointed and decisive.
"Looks like I've broken her heart." Frowning and thinking for a long time, Qiu Yuan thought that Princess Taiping would never speak again, so she lowered her voice and said slowly: "In this way, she will leave early the morning after tomorrow, you will send someone to follow her secretly, be sure to ensure her safety along the way, and wait for her to arrive at Chang'an Yongwang's Mansion and then come to report to me." ”
An Le's girl, she has not been a fuel-efficient lamp since she was a child, she is going crazy, I'm afraid no one can stop her. At the moment, Tao Yao has not succeeded in a single blow here, and no one is sure if there will be other faint tricks behind her. Although there are Gao Sheji, Gao Xianzhi and his son along the way, they are still men, and they are not very fine. Only by adding the group of female secret guards she has cultivated privately to form a double protection of one light and one dark, can she settle down a little, and what she can do for her is probably only this.
"Yes, the slave and maid will arrange it, and please let Your Highness be relieved." Raising his hand to tuck a thin blanket covering his knees for his master, Akihara finished his salute and turned around and stepped out of the hall with a helpless smile.
Obviously, he still can't rest assured, but he doesn't recognize it because of the duck's beak of life and death...... Her Royal Highness the Princess, she is really getting more and more childlike.
But...... Qiu Yuan walked a few steps quickly, and the smile on his face deepened: It's okay like this, so that it seems that there is still a little human touch in the huge imperial city, so much, the warm and touching taste brought by the county lord of Taoyao.