Xia Taozhi slept directly into the afternoon.

After opening his eyes, he was hazy for a long time, and suddenly remembered those books that had not yet been copied, so he sat up from the bed in fright, and startled the peony who had just pushed the door in.

"Mother, what's wrong with you?"

Xia Taozhi said hurriedly while dressing quickly: "...... Oh no, how did I sleep last night, and I haven't finished copying the book yet! "If she can't pay the difference today, then the old princess doesn't know what tricks to punish her!

"Niangniang, are you mistaken, you slept last night after copying."

"Huh? Done copying?! She was stunned.

"yes, I don't believe it." Peony pointed to a thick stack of papers on the table and said to her.

Xia Taozhi ran to the table in a few steps, her eyes widened, staring at the thick stack of copied paper manuscripts on the table, her eyes full of disbelief. She turned her head to look at Peony: "This is what I wrote?" ”

Peony wouldn't lie, so she had to bite the bullet and stammer, "Yes...... Oh, yes. ”

"But I remember that I only wrote less than half of it before I fell asleep last night......" She took out a few of them and carefully identified them, they were all in her handwriting. With such an ugly and peculiar word as hers, I'm afraid it's hard to find the second one. Could it be that he really finished writing it half-asleep and half-awake?

She shook her head, she simply didn't think about it, just finished writing horizontally and vertically, and after she finished writing, she could take it to the old princess to give an errand.

"Peony, you count it again, and if it's correct, send it to the old ...... The eldest princess, let's do it. ”

"Yes."

Seeing that she didn't ask any more, Peony breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the paper manuscript and walked out.

The afternoon sun shines through the windows, spreading the summer mood all over the house. Xia Taozhi's mood got better inexplicably, stretched a big lazy waist, pushed the door and walked out.

As soon as the maids in the courtyard saw her come out, they were busy saluting her, and when she went out of the courtyard, the maids consciously followed her. When she takes a step, they follow a step, and wherever she goes, they follow her, which makes Xia Taozhi very annoyed. This is the rule that Mama Lin set for a group of maids, she said that the maids should accompany the princess when she travels, so as to show the pomp and momentum of the princess.

Xia Taozhi didn't care about what pomp and momentum at all, but it was not good to brush off Mama Lin's kindness, if Mama Lin accidentally went to the old princess to sue her, wouldn't it be worth the loss?

Let's follow......

She wandered aimlessly around the Lingwang Mansion for a while, and her stomach was hungry. In the past few days, I have been patronizing and copying books, but I haven't eaten well, so I just went to the small kitchen to take a stroll.

The small kitchen is in the southwest corner of the main courtyard, although the place is not big, but although the sparrows are small, they are well organized by begonias.

She ordered the maidservants to wait at the door, and walked herself towards the courtyard of the kitchen. Before I walked in, I heard the sound of begonias coming from the yard.

"What did you say?!"

Then she heard the little mud "shh ”

Begonia asked, "Why can't you let others hear it?" ”

Little mud said: "Because His Royal Highness doesn't want Niangniang to know......"

？？？

She came in at a good time.

What is so mysterious? The tsundere prince doesn't want her to know?

She listened to the fog and simply raised her feet and walked in.

Two people in the courtyard sat with their backs to her, head to head, very close together, whispering small words. Both of them had their sleeves rolled up high, and there was a basin of water for washing vegetables on the side, and it seemed that they were chatting while washing vegetables.

Little mud spends all year round in the small kitchen, never helping with work, and stealing food to be at ease. In the past, because of the begonia cover, there was no fear, but since Mama Lin intervened in the backyard, she had a lot of opinions on the small kitchen, and when the little mud came to steal food again, she could only help with some work.

Neither of them noticed that Xia Taozhi walked in, still whispering.

Haitang asked, "Do you really want to follow His Highness to Gyeongju?" ”

Little Mud nodded and said, "Well, we're going to leave the day after tomorrow." ”

Haitang silently didn't speak, and said after a while: "That...... Then I'll make more pastries, you can eat them on the road......" Little Mud took her hand and said affectionately: "Sister Begonia is the best for me......"

Begonia's face flushed.

Xia Taozhi clasped her hands and looked at the two selfless little boys and little girls with a helpless face. Okay, you little mud, and you kidnapped my maid away without a sound......

Haitang withdrew his hand and said with some concern: "But I heard that there is a plague in Gyeongju, and many people have died, you and Your Highness must be careful in everything when you go this time......"

As soon as her words fell, Xia Taozhi couldn't help but exhale: "What did you say?!" Pestilence?! ”

The two of them turned around at the same time and saw Princess Ling standing behind them, both of them with a shocked face. Begonia was so frightened that she almost fell off the stool, but fortunately, the little mud eye was quick, and he grabbed her waist and held her up.

Haitang stammered and asked, "Mother...... Mother, you, when did you come? ”

Xia Taozhi ignored her, stared at Xiao Muzi and said, "Tell me clearly, what Gyeongju?" What plague? Why did His Highness go to Gyeongju?! ”

The little mud cried with a sad face, and even the palms of his hands broke out in a cold sweat, this is over, His Royal Highness clearly told him that he must not let the mother know about it. He originally wanted to come to say goodbye to his sister Begonia, but who knew that Niangniang would come to the small kitchen and listen to all their words.

He was embarrassed: "Niangniang, don't ask......"

Xia Taozhi was so anxious that she had no patience at all, and said angrily: "Do you want to talk about it?!" If you don't say it, you won't be allowed to set foot in the kitchenette again! ”

"Don't don't, don't, I said I'......" Little Mud won't let him enter the small kitchen anymore when he hears it, so what?! Immediately sold the owner to seek glory, and poured all the beans in the bamboo tube and said: "The emperor announced that His Royal Highness entered the palace early this morning, saying that it was the flood in Gyeongju that caused the plague, and asked His Royal Highness to go to the disaster relief on behalf of the imperial court...... Oops,! I'm not done yet......"

Before he finished speaking, the person in front of him had already turned around and ran away with his skirt.

***

With a "bang", the door of the study was pushed open, and the hand of the person who was writing trembled, and a drop of ink dripped down and stained the handwriting. He sighed, crumpled the paper, tossed it aside, and dipped his pen in ink, ready to write again.

From beginning to end, he didn't look up, and he didn't look at the woman who stood at his desk like a gust of wind. Just kidding, he's still angry......

Xia Taozhi's embarrassed pestle was there, ignoring me, right? She walked around the desk and stood directly beside him, coughing lightly.

"Ahem......"

The person writing at the table was still engrossed and unmoved.

Xia Taozhi was so angry that she reached out directly to grab his pen, but unexpectedly, someone had already taken precautions, and she dodged to avoid it, she couldn't restrain her strength, and threw herself directly on the table, her face was pasted on the paper where the ink had not dried, and she printed a big flower face.

"Poof......

Someone laughed unkindly.

While laughing, he was angry with her: "Huh? Princess, when did you come in, why didn't this king see it? ”

"You ......"

Xia Taozhi straightened up and raised her sleeves to wipe her face, but who knew that the more she wiped her face, the more she wiped it, and she couldn't wipe it clean. When I raised my eyes and saw the obvious playful smile in someone's eyes, the more I thought about it, the more angry I became, and the indifference, grievances and anxieties I had suffered for so many days all came to my heart at once, and tears slid down my cheeks like pearls with broken threads, crying: "...... You're going to bully me! You're all bullying me! ”

The tsundere prince, who was holding his hands and watching her jokes idly, panicked all of a sudden, hurriedly came over and hugged her, wiped her tears, and coaxed softly: "Where did I bully you...... I'm kidding you......"

Xia Taozhi didn't care so much, she just felt that she was crying comfortably, crying wantonly, crying happily, and she couldn't stop at all.

"You're bullying me! I want to explain to you that you didn't listen! You've ignored me for so many days...... The eldest princess also punished me for copying books, and you didn't care...... Did you know that I copied a whole stack...... A big stack of ......."

Someone was angry and funny, patting her on the back and coaxing her, while thinking to himself, is it okay for me to copy more than half of that big stack for you......

Tears mixed with the ink on her face blurred Xia Taozhi's face, it looked really unbearable to look at directly, the tsundere prince sighed, hugged her crying and gasped to the basin, twisted the handkerchief and gently wiped her face, and coaxed her in a soft tone while wiping: "Little peach, be good, don't cry......

She stretched out her hand to open the veil, buried her face in his chest, and cried more and more fiercely, rubbing her tears and snot and the unwiped ink on his face all on his white robe.

Tsundere Prince: "......"

Halfway through, the crying gradually stopped, Xia Taozhi's eyes were swollen from crying, sobbing and choking, looking extremely pitiful. Someone can't get up even if he's angry, it's just a matter of heart, it's really a debt to her in the last life.

"Better......"

She snorted on her lips, but said in her heart, of course it's much better, it's just very enjoyable!

The tsundere prince was helpless: "It's obviously me who is angry with you, why did I coax you instead?" ”

She glared at him in a hoarse voice: "You still dare to say it? It was originally your little belly chicken intestines! It's you who don't believe me! ”

"I didn't disbelieve you."

"There you have it! You ignored me for so many days and ignored me......" said that, the aggrieved mouth was curled and I was about to cry again.

Someone immediately surrendered, "Okay, it's all for the husband, isn't it, it's the husband's wrong......"

Once upon a time when he was in Xitu, Taifu once said a sentence called: "Only women and villains are difficult to raise", he was very disdainful at that time, thinking that this is difficult? If it's hard to raise, it's good to kill it all, so why bother. Now it seems...... Ay...... I can only say that I was too young at the time!

It's also strange to say, although Little Peach used to be fierce, but he never played a scoundrel, but now his ability to play a scoundrel is getting stronger day by day, which makes him hate it in his heart.

Seeing her pouting, he didn't even think about it, and lowered his head to take her lips in his mouth.

The person in his arms struggled, and the tighter he hugged him, and his heart became happy.

Hmph, I'll have to ask for some interest to come back......