Chapter 29: A Turning Point
"Brother Huai Jin......" seemed to have his own consciousness at his feet, and walked a few steps in his direction uncontrollably, Tao Yao stared at Gao Xianzhi for a long time, and under the slight trembling of his eyelashes, he suddenly burst into tears: "Brother Huai Jin, it's really you, are you back......"
"Yes, I'm back, it's okay, don't cry." Quickly stepped forward, Gao Xianzhi looked at her tears, and couldn't help but want to reach out to wipe them. But remembering that she didn't even have time to change her robe, for fear that she would be dirty, she stopped there after only halfway up her hand, and looked a little helpless: "Xiao'er, don't cry, I feel distressed when I see you crying, really." ”
"I don't want to either......" Rarely crying and sobbing, Tao Yao raised a delicate face as white as a pear blossom, and stared at Gao Xianzhi with teary eyes: "Can ...... But...... I can't help but see you......"
Indeed, this is true. She has not been a crying person since she was a child, even when she saw Li Shouli's cowering and weak attitude before, and saw the fact that she was abandoned by her beloved family all her life, she did not shed a single tear. But just now, when she saw Gao Xianzhi standing in front of her, her eyes as gentle as the starry sky in the dark night were full of her shadows, and the grievances that had been hidden for a long time and buried too deeply in her heart could no longer be controlled. She is like a child who has been bullied, and when she sees the only reliable safe haven, she desperately wants to hide in it, because in the whole world, she knows that only this person really thinks about herself and thinks about herself. She never hides it in front of him, and she is very real, so she cries when she wants to cry, anyway, he won't dislike it.
"Okay, well, then you can cry happily." A little angry and a little distressed, Gao Xianzhi patted her shoulder carefully, and her tone was so soft that she seemed to be coaxing a grumpy little doll: "But forget it after crying, you can't be sad anymore, and don't think too much, okay?" "When he left Shendu with the army, he left eyeliner by Tao Yao's side, and he knew everything about what happened to her in Shendu during this time. He understood her confusion, understood her grievances, and was annoyed that he couldn't stay by her side at the critical moment, so he rushed over in such a hurry today. After such a long tug-of-war, she must have been terrified. He couldn't imagine how she had spent these days alone in the Lanyue Palace, and she shouldn't have been through this.
"Hmm." Nodding heavily in a nasal voice, it took a while for Tao Yao to reluctantly recover and be able to say a few words to Gao Xianzhi: "By the way, how did you come here?" This is a harem, not close to the Guanfeng Palace. "With his identity, it's too much to come in so blatantly.
"My father and I just came out of the Guanfeng Palace, and not long after we met Princess Anle." When Gao Xianzhi mentioned that name, her eyes subconsciously darkened: "She seems to have something to say to her father, and she has divided all the palace people around her." I saw that the timing was good, so I just slipped over, don't worry, absolutely no one will see it. ”
Princess Anle? She still hasn't given up on Uncle Gao? Tao Yao was dumbfounded when she heard this, and Gao Xianzhi actually let her father be entangled by other women, is this heart a little too big?
"Brother Huaijin, Princess Anle, she ......" always felt that the old things of the elders were not something she could intervene in, but she was worried that Gao Xianzhi would not know anything about it, and some things were difficult to guard against, Tao Yao was entangled for a long time, and she still didn't know how to say it all: "And Uncle Gao......"
"I know." Gao Xianzhi took her words categorically: "Although I was very young at the time, my father specially explained it to me later, and I knew it." "Li Bao'er, a woman who wants to be his stepmother, how could he not know? When he was a little more sensible, his father was afraid that he would hear some gossip from elsewhere, and he alienated the father-son relationship with a bad heart, so he told him about the refusal to marry early. It's just that he didn't expect that after so many years, Li Bao'er would have been married to a wife a long time ago, and he still had the face to pull his father, I really don't know what kind of wonderful daughter this Queen Wei taught.
"Then Uncle Gao is like this, nothing will happen, right?" Tao Yao was always a little relieved. The former dynasty and the harem are all Wei's world, and Li Bao'er is certainly not afraid of pulling and pulling like this, but she can't guarantee that her queen mother will use Gaoshe chicken to cut in order to block the mouth. Moreover, it is not once or twice that Wei's has done this kind of thing, and Li Bao'er's temperament is unpredictable, and the high house chicken is caught in the middle, but I am afraid that it will not be easy to get out.
Smiling slightly, as if he was very happy to see her caring about his relatives so much, Gao Xianzhi said softly: "It's okay, father, he has his own measure, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to get rid of that dog skin plaster directly." After a pause, he remembered the purpose of coming to the palace to see her this time, and a pair of dark star-like eyes suddenly showed a little depression: "It's you, and the current situation can be said to be very bad, I discussed with my father for a long time on the way back to Beijing, and I can only talk about the military merits of defeating the Turks this time." ”
"You ......" Tao Yao's face became anxious: "Are you planning to use military exploits to invite rewards, and force Your Majesty to recognize the marriage of the two of us before the selection with your relatives is confirmed?" "Not to mention that blackmailing the emperor with military merits has always been a very sensitive matter, and it is already very unwise to ask for a marriage at this juncture. It's not an accident that Brother Huai Jin took risks for himself, but what happened to Uncle Gao? She didn't believe him, and she couldn't see how much of a risk there was.
"Judging from the current situation, only this trick can quickly save you from the fire." Gao Xianzhi understood what she was worried about: "We all know that this is not a foolproof solution, but time is pressing, and no one knows that Tubo will come to marry Datang at this time." However," he chuckled and touched the top of Tao Yao's hair, and the comfort between his words was obvious: "How can I change to a general for this military exploits, it's a big deal that I don't want to give up my official position, as long as a small county lord is not too much, right?" ”
There are so many daughters of King Xiang, marrying one to go to Fanbang is always in the way, as long as there is a princess in Tubo, there will be no opinion on anyone. And there is only one peach left, in terms of identity and status, in fact, it is not more than Erer, and marrying a meritorious man can stabilize a wave of military morale, why not? As long as Li Xian is not a fool, he will weigh the pros and cons very clearly, and he will naturally understand how to choose when the time comes.