Xu is not used to sleeping in the same bed with others, Xia Taozhi slept very unsteadily this night, and had nightmares.

For a while, I dreamed that Emperor Chu announced that she would enter the palace for medical treatment, but she would not see a doctor at all, so Emperor Chu was furious and wanted to treat her for the crime of bullying the king. After a while, I dreamed that the master asked her with a serious face if she had taken revenge, and she said no, so the master thought she was useless and wanted to expel her from the master's door.

She opened her eyes in fright, and she was covered in a cold sweat.

Outside the window, it was still dawn, and the morning light was faint.

Song Yuanxi's sleeping face was close at hand, her long eyelashes trembled slightly, her breathing was dense, and her warm and moist snort exhaled softly, plopping between her neck, wet and itchy.

She was still immersed in the horror of waking up from a nightmare, the confusion in her eyes was not gone, and she couldn't tell whether it was illusory or reality in front of her for a while, and subconsciously shrank back.

The person in front of her immediately opened her eyes vigilantly, her eyes were extremely clear, with a coldness like a cold winter, and she was frightened.

How alert is this man when he sleeps?

After a while, the cold glint in his eyes gradually faded, as if he had come to his senses, sat up with his body propped up, and asked, "What time is it?" ”

"Just after ......"

"It's not early, get up, and I'll accompany you back today."

Song Yuanxi turned over and got out of bed, neatly dressed, pushed the door and walked out, and called Peony Begonia to come in and serve and freshen up.

Xia Taozhi stayed for a moment, and silently decided in her heart that she must not share a bed with this person again, otherwise she would be scared to death before anyone could monitor any clues.

Because he was going back to the door today, Song Yuanxi ordered someone to prepare a table of gifts in the front hall early in the morning, and at this moment he was sitting at the table with a frown, personally checking the list of gifts.

Xia Taozhi sat idly drinking tea with a gloating face.

Begonia stood beside her, looking a little frightened. Uncle Ji, the old housekeeper of the palace on the side, looked even more frightened.

After breakfast, Xia Taozhi deliberately took the peony away, asked her to go back to the Prime Minister's Mansion to report, and temporarily changed the begonia to count the gifts. Haitang is young, her temperament is jumpy, far less careful and steady than peony, and she has made mistakes in counting back and forth several times, which makes Song Yuanxi angry. Uncle Ji on the side was in a cold sweat, for fear that something would go wrong on his errand.

Song Yuanxi asked for her, and it was not good to lose his temper with her maidservant, so he had to go into battle in person. While settling the gifts, he scolded in his heart that this Ling King is a bullshit prince, and there is not even a usable person around him, so he has to do everything himself!

Finally finished counting, Uncle Ji commanded the family to put the gifts on the carriage, Song Yuanxi and Xia Taozhi got into another carriage, and drove towards the Prime Minister's Mansion one after the other.

The carriage slowly drove through Chujing Street, and the coachman drove the car very steadily and sat very comfortably.

As soon as Song Yuanxi got in the car, he leaned on the cushion and closed his eyes to recuperate, Xia Taozhi was pretending to be a little uncomfortable, and after thinking about it, he leaned over: "I have a question I want to ask you for advice." Someone closed his eyes and said "um", and his tone was careless: "But it doesn't hurt to say it, the husband must know everything." ”

"You know...... It's mine...... Miss Xia's background? ”

Although she has this real body, she doesn't know anything about the original owner, and she is very worried that she will be exposed when she returns today. But when she thought that if she asked the tsundere prince Miss Xia Er's life experience, she would definitely involve his fiancée, Xia Qianrong, who has now become the "Princess Morong" of the princess of Xitu, she was afraid that the tsundere prince would turn his face, after all, men are very mindful of the matter of "being green".

The tsundere prince opened his eyes and looked at her, as if his expression was as usual, and he still had a very unobtrusive tone: "What else does Prince Ben not know?" ”

“……”

She immediately dogged and said, "Please also ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to solve his doubts." ”

After all, she has exposed other people's scars, so her attitude is very good.

The tsundere prince was very useful, patted the cushion behind him, changed to a comfortable position, and began to speak.

Before Emperor Chu gave marriage, the people of Chu almost forgot that in fact, Xia Boyuan, the prime minister of Eastern Chu, had two daughters.

The eldest daughter is a young lady born to the Xiao family of the main house, and her maiden name is Qianrong. In the show of wisdom, talent and appearance, a serious famous lady, known as the first beauty in Chujing. And the prime minister's youngest daughter is a concubine, whose name is Taozhi. The biological mother Bo was born humble, but she was the original match of Prime Minister Xia.

In the past, when Xia Boyuan was a poor boy studying in his hometown, he married his original wife Bo. Later, he went to Beijing to catch the exam and won the first place in high school in one fell swoop. As soon as Xia Boyuan jumped into the dragon gate, he also got acquainted with some powerful people in Chu Jing, including His Royal Highness the King of Jin at that time, the current Emperor Song Rongde of Chu. As early as the palace test, Xiao Jing, the Marquis of Ningguo, fell in love with the talented Xia Boyuan at a glance, and wanted to marry Xiao Yuyan, the pearl in his palm, to him.

So, Mrs. Bo, who was waiting hard at home for her husband to return to her hometown, finally waited for a carriage to take her to Chujing.

The world says that Xia Boyuan is kind-hearted, and once he is rich and noble, he will not forget his bad wife.

But at that time, Xia Boyuan had already become close to Xiao Yuyan, and carried Xiao Yuyan into his champion mansion in a beautiful manner. Although Mrs. Bo was originally the original match, how could Ning Guohou's pearl be a concubine?

So it is logical that Xiao became the champion lady of the Eight Classics, and the original Mrs. Bo became a concubine.

The following year, Xiao gave birth to her daughter Xia Qianrong. And Bo was also pregnant, but because Bo lived in poverty with Xia Boyuan in his early years, he fell ill and was very weak. During childbirth, she had a difficult birth for three days and three nights, and almost died in one body. Bo desperately gave birth to his daughter before he swallowed his breath.

Xia Boyuan was deeply saddened by the death of his original wife, and deep down he always felt ashamed of Mrs. Bo. Because Mrs. Bo liked peach blossoms the most during her lifetime, she named her youngest daughter Taozhi.

Time traveled, and the two daughters of the Xia family grew up slowly. But in Chujing, everyone in the world only knows that Xia Qianrong, the daughter of Xia Xiang, and the virtuous lady Athens are the models of famous and noble women in Chujing. Gradually, the fact that the prime minister's family also has a little daughter is slowly forgotten. ”

Xia Taozhi once again expressed her admiration for this "Dongchu Bai Xiaosheng", and immediately praised him: "You have even inquired so clearly about this kind of gossip about the powerful family of Chujing, it seems that you must be very bored when you are the prince of Xitu......

Song Yuanxi's face darkened when he heard this.

Suddenly, the carriage stopped, and suddenly there was a noise ahead.

Song Yuanxi lifted the curtain and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

I heard the crisp voice of the begonia sounding outside the carriage: "Back to Your Highness, I don't know what happened ahead, there are many people around, blocking the road, and the slave and maid go over to take a look."

Xia Taozhi also looked out of the car window, and saw the crowd in front of her in a circle, as if she was watching some kind of excitement, and Begonia's small figure couldn't squeeze in, so she was in a hurry.

She simply jumped out of the car and chased after Begonia.

Song Yuanxi didn't pay attention, and the people in the car disappeared. He cursed secretly, so he got out of the carriage and followed.

Before Xia Taozhi could get closer, suddenly the crowd dispersed a gap, something flew out, knocked over a stall on the side of the street, rolled a few times, and rolled to her feet.

It's a boy as old as Begonia.

The boy was very embarrassed, his nose was blue and his face was swollen, his eyelashes were covered with blood, his eyes could only be opened by one slit, his body was covered with dirt and footprints, and he still had half a steamed bun in his mouth.

A strong man rushed out of the crowd, lifted the thin boy on the ground again, slapped him with two extremely heavy slaps, and scolded viciously: "Let you, a dog mongrel with a mother and no mother, steal grandpa's steamed buns, and see if grandpa doesn't break your dog's legs!" ”

The young man was fanned and had a nosebleed, but he bit the steamed bun tightly and didn't let go.

The strong man didn't seem to be angry, and threw the boy to the ground again, punching and kicking him.

Xia Taozhi couldn't stand it anymore, picked up a small pebble on the side of the street, secretly used a little internal force, and waved his hand.

"Smack"! With a crisp sound, the strong man retreated again and again, falling to the ground.

"Who is it? Which bastard dares to plot against grandpa? Get out of here for grandpa! The strong man seemed to be in great pain, and he fell to the ground and couldn't get up, and his mouth was still cursing uncleanly.

Xia Taozhi stepped forward to help the young man up and check his injuries, but the young man seemed to be extremely frightened and kept hiding backwards.

When the strong man saw that it was a woman who injured him, he couldn't hold it on his face, and scolded unwillingly with a red face: "Cheap woman! Dare to meddle with your grandfather's business! Do you know who your grandfather is? ”

Begonia has the most pungent temperament, and she couldn't help it for a long time, and she slapped her twice: "Blind your dog's eyes!" How dare you speak out against our wife! It doesn't matter who you are, if you dare to shout, beware of your aunt and grandmother cutting your tongue! ”

The crowd was in an uproar, and they all looked at Xia Taozhi, seeing that she was dressed in gorgeous clothes, either rich or expensive, and guessed which noble lady it must be.

Xia Taozhi glanced at Song Yuanxi, who was mixed in the crowd, and motioned for him to come over to help. Song Yuanxi had an expression of "handle the things you are looking for by yourself", and leisurely clasped his hands to watch the excitement on the side.

Xia Taozhi had no choice but to help the young man into the carriage with Haitang.

Seeing that there was no excitement to see, everyone scattered as birds and beasts, Song Yuanxi also followed, and the carriage started to move again.

Begonia was holding the medicine box and was treating the boy's wounds.

The faint smell of medicine permeated the carriage, and the young man was almost covered in injuries, and the new and old injuries were stacked on top of each other, which was unbearable. Some of the wounds were very terrifying, the skin and flesh were turned over, and even Song Yuanxi on the side frowned.

Begonia is not good at medical skills, so she can only treat the wound simply.

Xia Taozhi watched silently from the side, the young man never said a word, nor did he cry out in pain, but just tightly pinched the half of the steamed bun in his hand.

She thought about it for a moment and asked Begonia to take out the food box.

"What's your name?"

The young man didn't answer, he looked cowardly, his nose shrugged, and his head turned to the food box in Begonia's hand. Xia Taozhi motioned to Haitang to open the food box, took out a piece of crystal sweet hibiscus cake, held it up in front of the young man, and asked, "Do you want to eat it?" ”

The young man drooled greedily, stared at the hibiscus cake, and nodded.

Song Yuanxi sneered on the side: "A dignified man, he is greedy for desserts, he is really laughing to death." ”

The young man shrunk his neck when he heard this, and lowered his head as if he had done something wrong.

Xia Taozhi glanced at Song Yuanxi and said to the young man, "Don't worry about him." "Then I'm going to hand over the hibiscus cake.

Halfway through, he stretched out a slender and white hand and cut off the hibiscus cake. The young man's eyes were full of disappointment when he saw the pastry in his mouth fly. Song Yuanxi thought it was very interesting, held the hibiscus cake high, and looked at the young man provocatively: "Want to eat?" Get it yourself. ”

Xia Taozhi looked at him speechlessly, and said in her heart that this person was too bad, even bullying injured children. was about to stop it, but he saw that the young man's eyes were fierce, and he really pounced on it and grabbed it.

Song Yuanxi laughed, and rotated the left and right hands of the hibiscus cake from time to time, the young man was small, out of reach, greedy and anxious, and actually grabbed one of Song Yuanxi's hands, aimed at his wrist and bit it hard.

Everyone was shocked and hurriedly went up to stop them, but the young man bit it and did not let go at all.

Blood flowed down Song Yuanxi's wrist, and it was actually bitten out of blood.

Song Yuanxi showed no mercy, reached out and dragged the young man's chin, and with a shake of his hand, he removed the young man's chin. The young man was relieved of the pain, and Song Yuanxi slapped his chin back with a very fast beat. The young man's eyes were full of fear, and he knew that this person was not to be messed with, and that he didn't want any pastries, so he turned and crawled into the corner and hid.

When everyone looked at Song Yuanxi's hand, it was a circle of blood marks.

Xia Taozhi had to take out the medicine box again and treat Song Yuanxi's wounds.

Haitang was angry on the spot and scolded: "You little white-eyed wolf! Your Royal Highness and Niangniang saved you, and you still dare to bite someone! ”

The young man looked cowardly again, cowering in the corner, his eyes full of fear.

Song Yuanxi was excited, didn't care about his wounds, and said to the young man, "What's your name?" ”

The boy looked straight at him, his eyes full of wariness.

"How about I give you a name, and how about calling you a little mud when you look dirty and rolling in the mud?"

Xia Taozhi: "......"

What kind of bullshit name is this?

Song Yuanxi continued: "I like you very much, you will follow me in the future and be my close attendant!" ”

The crowd "......"

Is this hunger?

The boy still looked at him vigilantly, not saying a word.

Song Yuanxi said: "How is it?" Follow me to have meat to eat! And I promise no one will dare to bully you again! ”

When the young man heard the words "there is meat to eat", his eyes lit up, and he immediately nodded like pounding garlic.

Song Yuanxi laughed: "Then it's decided!" From today onwards, you will be called Little Mud, you are my close attendant, you can only listen to me alone, loyal to me alone, if you betray me......" He changed his words and said in a cold tone: "Then you will starve to death in this life, and if you die, you will become a hungry ghost, do you understand?" ”

Xia Taozhi and Begonia were completely petrified on the side, and the entire carriage was filled with Song Yuanxi's arrogant laughter and the frantic nodding of the little mud.

The carriage turned a corner in front of it and into a small alley, at the end of which a mansion appeared.

That is the mansion of Xia Boyuan, the prime minister of Eastern Chu.