Duobu and I were both shocked and looked at her in surprise.

In Beiqiu dialect, it means wife, and Ah Niang is called transmutation, which is a shepherd song that everyone in Beiqiu will know. Tao Guifei is not from Hu, let alone from Beiqiu, how can she sing the folk songs of Beiqiu.

I tugged at her sleeve and asked her in a low voice, "Tao Niangniang, do you still speak Beiqiu dialect?"

But when she heard the sound of the lute fade away, she slowly raised her head and glanced deeply at me. I grinned at her, my eyes wandering, and I was drawn to the lute in her arms. This lute is missing a string, and the paint is seriously peeling, I am afraid that it is due to the years of playing, and it is worn badly.

"Tao Niangniang, your pipa string is broken, why don't you continue it, is it deliberately not renewed?"

She didn't reply to me, but lowered her head and concentrated on wiping the shaft of the pipa. Cao Gongling reminded me softly and motioned for me not to ask any more. I was a little puzzled, and asked her again and again what the reason was, but she was silent, and only waited quietly beside Tao Guifei. I was silent, and I came through again. Xu was confined in the cold palace, and no one came to change the strings for her, so this pipa was naturally left to be mutilated. Thinking of this, I said kindly: "Your pipa is missing a string, why don't you let me take it back to find someone to repair, and when the string is ready, I will bring it to you next time I enter the palace."

She looked at me lightly, not agreeing or refusing.

I saw that she had no objection to me, so I tried to touch the lute, but she seemed frightened and screamed that I was not allowed to touch hers. I quickly withdrew my hand, and she immediately threw down the lute and threw herself at me, and I couldn't dodge, and was pushed to the ground by her, and the back of my head hit the stone slab, and I burst into tears.

Duobu and Cao Gongling were stunned at first when they saw this, and then hurried to help me, but before they approached me, they asked Tao Guifei to stop them.

I saw her squatting down, touching my cheek, and muttering, "Yanchen, why are you sitting on the ground, the ground is cool." Come, Mother to lift you up. ”

She was starting to get confused again.

"Tao Niangniang, I'm not a banquet minister, I'm lacking."

She shouted: "Nonsense, you are clearly a banquet minister." Why don't you recognize your mother, you hate me too? ”

"I ......"

Before she could say a word, she hugged me tightly, patted me gently on the back, and said to herself: "Yanchen, it is my mother's incompetence and failure to protect you that will make you marry so far away from the country of Lu." The mountains are high and the roads are far away, and you have suffered. Don't blame your mother, the Tao family was defeated, and your mother was also defeated, which is why you were implicated. ”

"I am not a feast ......"

I wanted to say something, although I didn't want to pretend to be a banquet minister to deceive her, but seeing her so stupid, I really couldn't bear her to lose hope, so I had to let her hold me like this.

I leaned on her shoulder, thinking about whether to act in a full set, learning from the banquet to call her mother, and while I was still struggling, Duobu made a choice for me.

I only heard Duo Bu speak coldly, and said loudly: "Concubine Tao, this is the missing princess, not your banquet minister."

This statement really angered Tao Guifei, and I was caught off guard and pushed down by her again. She stared at me for a long time, and said in a trembling voice: "You are lacking, not a banquet minister."

I bowed my head: "Yes, I am lacking."

Her eyes narrowed, as if she was sober, but in a blink of an eye, she was confused, took my hand, and changed her title again: "It's Dongjia." Dongjia, you're back, you're back. I thought, I thought you were still blaming me for not coming to me. ”

I frowned, the corners of my eyes twitching: "Who is Dong Jia again?"

She panicked and said, "This pipa is a congratulatory gift from Dong Jia, with my name engraved on it, as well as what you said to me. Seek benevolence and be benevolent, and be obedient. Don't you remember? ”

She laid out a long prelude, and did not state what she had to say, and the fast late sky could not help me to stop.

Before Tao Guifei could answer my question, I suddenly heard the sound of drums, I looked up at the sky, and before I knew it, it was almost time to close the palace door. This is the first time that the drum beats to remind the door to be closed will be twice, and if the drum is delayed for half an hour, I will not be able to leave the palace gate tonight. Worried, I got up and prepared to leave with my steps.

"Tao Niangniang, I'll come to see you next time, the palace gate is about to close, I have to hurry back."

Just turned around, Tao Guifei hurriedly grabbed my hand and said sadly: "I had two friends when I was young, one was An Ping and the other was Dong Jia."

I looked at her, her expression was in a trance, her eyes were misty, and she said leisurely: "When I was young, Anping and I were raised by my aunt Empress Qi, as the adopted daughter of the royal family. The two of us were inseparable all day long, and our relationship was closer than others, and later, there was another Dongjia among us. Dong Jia's biological mother was a princess of Liguo who married far away from Beiqiu, and after her father's death, she returned to Nanzhan with her mother to live for a long time. Dong Jia got the permission to enter the palace often, and she loved to come to her aunt's palace the most. This came and went, and the three of us became warm. ”

Anping had mentioned some of her childhood playmates to me, and the one who talked about Zhao Qingyu the most was Zhao Qingyu's mother, and occasionally mentioned Tao Guifei, but she had never heard her talk about Dongjia.

Tao Guifei paused, and said: "Your Majesty has very few heirs, at that time, there were only two princes in the palace, Baili Yi and Bailifu, and there was no princess, so the queen and His Majesty were very good to me, Anping, and Dong Jia, and they loved us as daughters." I am the eldest of the three, they are their sister Tao, Anping is second, Dongjia is the younger sister, and the two little princes are the elder brother. The five of us were the same age, and we had similar interests, and at that time, we were reading and warming papers in Shangshuyuan like you, which was really a good time. Anping is the quietest of the five of us, taciturn, following the rules, and most like a queen in every word and deed, so he is also the most loved by His Majesty. And Dong Jia and I are both crazy rabbits, who hate being cold and like to make noise. Baili was not the king of Yonghe at that time, but the second prince of Nanzhan, lively and active, often causing trouble, not at all like today's unsmiling. Sometimes I look at him so seriously, and I think of what he looked like back then, and I try my best not to laugh. He and the crown prince Bailifu are completely different kinds of people. The prince is an elegant talent, who loves piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and also likes poetry and songs, but he does not like to learn political affairs. But as the prince of the East Palace, he had to give up his preferences and become a qualified prince, he is a person who knows how to make trade-offs. ”

I didn't want to ask about their past, but she seemed eager to tell me, I think she wanted someone to talk to. I ignored Duobu's urging, and I didn't interrupt Tao Guifei's reminiscences, I just held my breath and listened to her.

"At that time, the prince's brother was handsome and gentle, steady and responsible, in my eyes, he was the best lover. I want to see him every day, and I dream about it. For his sake of tea and dinner, he did not think about it, and suffered from gains and losses. But I know that my aunt and His Majesty's favorite crown princess is Anping. originally thought that a cautious and boring person like An Ping should also like a person like the prince, but otherwise, she admired Baili Lang, and for the sake of Baili, she did not hesitate to go against her aunt's wishes, lose His Majesty's love, and marry Baili. But the funny thing is that Baili is the same as the prince's brother, and likes Dong Jia. ”

…… This, really, has enough twists and turns, and enough blood.

The more I listened to it, the more interesting it became, and it was more interesting than reading a playbook.

couldn't help asking, "What about Dong Jia, who does Dong Jia like?"

Tao Guifei's eyes darkened, she smiled miserably, and said, "Dong Jia? She naturally likes the prince, she wants to be the princess so much, she wants to be the queen, who will she like if she doesn't like the prince. It's a pity that she didn't become the crown princess as she wished, how can she be worthy of that position with her status...... However, she can become the crown prince Liangdi. At that time, there was no crown princess in the East Palace, so she was a good woman, not a concubine, but better than a concubine. I was jealous of her, madly jealous of her, even hated her. Because, I comforted myself and said that the vacant crown princess was mine. Ironically, His Majesty appointed Yu Pengpeng, the sister of King Yong, as the crown princess. But I still don't give up, waiting for him to make me a side concubine with a little luck. But I waited, waited, and never waited for this day. But I'm not the most pitiful, because Anping is just as pitiful as I am. Baili didn't want to marry Anping at all, but Anping, a fool, still didn't marry him. For so many years, she has struggled to create the illusion that she is doing well, but I know that she is just deceiving herself. Maybe, Baili still likes Dongjia. This idiot, she's such a fool. ”

I pulled Duobu and slowly stepped back, and said goodbye to her in a trembling voice: "The palace door is about to close, I have to ...... Gotta go back quickly. ”

As soon as I took a step, she pounced on me and dragged me again, refusing to let me go, shouting hysterically: "No walk, no walk." Dongjia, you are not allowed to go. Are you blaming me? Are you still blaming me, you blaming me for saying that you are a fine work of Beiqiu, so the prince abolished you, and you also blame me for handing over a letter for my father and framing the prince for rebellion. You're blaming me, you're blaming me. ”

She couldn't cry, so she didn't mourn.

I watched in amazement as she knelt at my feet, talking about the past with tears in her eyes. I tried my best to help her up, and let me explain that I was not Dong Jia, but she still didn't believe it, and had to sit on the ground to die.

Cao Gongling's face was like ashes, and he knelt down with a trembling mouth to persuade her: "Niangniang, hurry up, you know what you are talking nonsense."

Then he took the time to catch up with me: "Princess Jing, you better go, Niangniang is sick, you can't believe her words, you go back quickly, the palace gate will be closed."

I watched Tao Guifei's expression gradually distort from the initial calmness, and a chill arose in my heart. She sneered and let out a weird laugh: "Later, I witnessed the palace chaos, with rivers of blood flowing and floating corpses. I hid behind the bell tower and watched the prince fall in a pool of blood, Yu Pengpeng also died, and at that time, she still had a child in her belly. Although I am jealous of her, I am more jealous of Dong Jia, so I don't want her to die, and I don't want the prince's brother to die. Do you know why His Majesty killed the crown prince? I tell you, I tell why, Your Majesty killed the prince's brother because of a dream, because of a dream...... Hahahaha, I pity him. No, I shouldn't pity him, I shouldn't pity him, he won't marry me, he won't marry me. He married Dong Jia and Yu Pengpeng, but he just didn't want me, he didn't want me. ”

She spoke faster and faster, more and more excited, holding her head like a demon, crying and laughing, and I was dumbfounded. Cao Gongling hugged her, kept saying good words to comfort her, and urged me to leave quickly. I looked back at Duobu, and saw that she looked indifferent, without any pity.