"Why don't you lie down for a few more days, the doctor said that you are not allowed to get out of bed until your injuries are healed."

"Thank you for your care, the slave is almost good......"

Xia Taozhi frowned and glared at her: "What do you mean it's almost good?" You see that your face is so pale, and I don't know if the fake death medicine that Xue Cheng gave you is poisonous, if you have something long and two short, I can't spare him! ”

Peony's heart warmed, and said with a smile: "The slave is really fine, don't blame Lord Xue, Niangniang, he also has a hard time!" ”

Xia Taozhi "hummed" in her heart, there is a hardship, there is a fart distress! A bunch of bastards teamed up to trick her, and her eyes were almost blinded from crying!

Peony waited for her to get up, and persuaded her while dressing: "Niangniang...... Don't be angry, the slave heard that Lord Xue came to see her the day before yesterday, and you directly let people blast him out? ”

Xia Taozhi rolled her eyes and said "um" with a straight face. It's light to blast it out, and it's good if you don't let people beat it up. She didn't want to hear Xue Cheng say nonsense like "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to deceive your ......"!

Peony couldn't laugh and cry, and tied the ribbon around her waist for her, "What about Your Highness?" The slave maid heard that His Royal Highness has been staying in the study for several days and nights, and the mother will not even let His Highness enter the door of the dormitory......"

Xia Taozhi stopped talking, her heart sank, and some of the emotions that she had worked hard to suppress in the past few days surged out again at this moment, overflowing with bitterness.

There are some things that she doesn't want to delve into or think about too much, and she's afraid that the more she thinks about it, the more she will be afraid of the conclusions she draws. But the more she forced herself not to think about it, the more the stubborn weed in her heart grew, growing higher and higher, gradually separating her from him, and getting farther and farther apart.

She couldn't pretend that none of this had happened, and she couldn't convince herself that the Tsundere prince had no prior knowledge of the matter. With his style of acting, he must have expected that Song Yuanmin would take advantage of his departure from Beijing to make trouble, and he must have been fully prepared to deal with it, and it is even very likely that Xue Cheng arranged for Peony to fake his death, which was instructed by him, in order to let Xue Cheng win Song Yuanmin's trust and let him let down his guard. But he didn't say a word about himself, hid it from her, made her frightened, and was at the mercy of others like an idiot.

She knew him too well, she knew how much he cared about the position of prince, and he did not hesitate to put her in danger again and again, throwing her into the center of the whirlpool of open and secret fighting.

Concealment, deception...... Between her and him, it seems that she will never be able to cross this hurdle......

Seeing her standing motionless, Peony stretched out her hand and shook it in front of her eyes, and said worriedly: "Niangniang, are you okay......?"

She came back to her senses and smiled bitterly: "It's okay, it's just right for you to come, come with me to see the begonias......"

Begonia was placed in a wing room in the West Courtyard, because she was frightened and injured a lot, so she lay down like a peony to recuperate for the past few days. They were about to walk outside the begonia's house, and they heard the voices of two people talking from inside, the little boy and the little girl, some young and soft.

Looking in from the open window, I just saw the little mud sitting on the side of Begonia's bed, the little boy was sitting straight, his posture was more and more like an unsheathed sword, holding a bowl in his hand, and he held it in front of Begonia like a treasure: "Sister Begonia, you taste this red bean paste, I made it......"

Begonia stared at the bowl suspiciously, "...... What did you do? ”

"Yes, you can taste it...... "Little mud scooped up a spoonful and sent it to Begonia's mouth, and instructed: "Be careful of scalding." ”

Begonia took a sip of his hand, his brows furrowed instantly, and then coughed violently.

Little Mud was startled, hurriedly put the bowl down, and patted her on the back. "What's wrong, what's wrong? Why did you choke all of a sudden? ”

Begonia finally stopped coughing, his face was red, his eyes were full of tears, and he asked him, "How much sugar did you put in ......?"

Little Mud choked and said embarrassedly, "Just ...... Just a little bit more than usual......"

"How much is a little bit?"

"Three, three scoops ......"

"Three spoonfuls?! You're going to kill me......"

“……”

Little Mud was frustrated. He doesn't know how to heal, and he doesn't know what else he can do other than to hang and beat up those who hurt Begonia. When he was sick when he was a child, his mother would always boil him a bowl of sweet red bean paste, and he would be alive when he ate it. Therefore, I deliberately got up early in the morning and spent a lot of effort to make a bowl of red bean paste for her. He loves sweets, so he naturally thinks that the sweeter the better, but she doesn't like it......

The little mud tugged at the corners of her clothes and said in a muffled voice: "Then, then I'll make something else for you to eat next time...... "It's a big deal to learn a few more things in the future, there will always be one thing she loves to eat."

Haitang felt that he wanted to live for a few more years, so he waved his hand: "Forget it, what kitchen does the man go into, when I can get out of bed, I'll do it, you are responsible for eating." ”

Little Mud: "......"

"By the way, why are you so idle, don't you have to go to His Highness to serve?"

Little Mud stared at the bowl of red bean paste dejectedly, and replied absentmindedly: "Your Highness has not been in a good mood lately, let me not be an eyesore in front of him......"

Begonia asked, "What's going on?" ”

Xiao Mud shook his head: "I don't know, Your Highness has been staying in the study for the past few days......"

Haitang hurriedly asked, Xia Taozhi didn't want to hear it, turned around to leave, but heard the little mud continue: "Your Royal Highness is not in good health these days, when he was in Gyeongju, he contracted the plague, and was ambushed and injured, but he was worried about the safety of his mother, as soon as he received the flying pigeon from Lord Xue, he rushed back, and he hurried day and night, no one listened to him, fortunately, Mr. Mei took care of him all the way so that there was no major incident." But I still fell ill, and I kept coughing at night......"

Xia Taozhi's footsteps froze, standing in place.

Peony persuaded softly: "Niangniang, go and see Your Highness......"

For a moment, she really wanted to follow her heart and go to the study to meet the person she had been thinking about day and night, but in the end she shook her head and turned back to her room.

It's night, starry.

Xia Taozhi has always felt weak and sleepy in recent days, so she went to bed early.

Before he could sleep, footsteps sounded outside the dormitory, and then a deep voice whispered outside the door, "Little peach...... Did you sleep......"

Xia Taozhi was lying on the bed, looking at the gauze tent with her eyes open, as if she hadn't heard it.

The person outside the door called a few more times, and then there was a light cough, and she simply covered her head with the quilt, turned around, and covered her ears.

Song Yuanxi's hand was on the doorknob, looking hesitant, although the door was locked, it was not difficult for him to get in, but he stood outside the door, feeling the cold silence across the door, and suddenly lost his courage.

He withdrew his hand and turned to leave.

When Xia Taozhi stuck her head out of the quilt, the silence outside the door had returned.

She stared at the tent silently for a while, and then the sleepiness gradually came up, so she closed her eyes again and fell asleep. But she has been sleeping a lot lately, and she has been sleeping very unsteadily, and she soon woke up again and sat up.

Then she saw that her master, who had no end in sight, was sitting at the table calmly drinking tea. Seeing her sitting upright on the bed and looking stunned, he even greeted her happily.

"Little apprentice, are you awake?"

She rubbed her eyes, "Master, Master? When did you come? ”

"Just arrived."

Just arrived...... What a fart! It's scary to appear out of nowhere like this?!

"What about Senior Brother? Why didn't he come along? ”

At the mention of his beloved apprentice, a strange look flashed on the face of the dead old man, and he said vaguely: "The affairs of the Guanzhong cannot be taken care of by no one, and Fan'er will stay in Qingfeng Guan to preside over the overall situation." ”

She sighed in her heart, who is it? What other big picture can a Broken Dojo Pavilion preside over? It's clear that you don't let the senior brother come!

Master coughed lightly, put down the teacup in his hand, stood up, and asked her, "Are you awake?" ”

"Wake up."

"When I wake up, I will go to a place with my teacher."

"Where?"

"You'll find out when you go."

She rolled her eyes and said reluctantly, "...... Can't you go again tomorrow? "She really wants to sleep......

The dead old man rarely made a serious face, "No, don't miss the opportunity and don't come again." ”

So she could only reluctantly get up, reluctantly slipped out of the Qinglong Palace, and reluctantly yawned and followed her master through the night sky, galloping on the roofs of the Chu Palace.

During this period, she also took the time to ask what kind of medicine the master gave to Emperor Chu, and why Emperor Chu's health was getting worse day by day? The old man pretended not to hear, and ignored her.

Finally they came to ......

Cold Palace.

Yes, that's right, it's the cold palace.

She stood outside the dilapidated palace walls of the Cold Palace, was sobered up by the night wind, and asked inexplicably: "Master, what are you bringing me to the Cold Palace for?" ”

The Master booed and motioned for her to be silent, and then led her into it and landed in a small courtyard with lights on.

This is the only courtyard in the cold palace that is still lit, and it is also the only courtyard where people live. Of course, the one who lives in this courtyard is the lady who was still high up a few days ago.

What did Master bring her here for?

For a while, a thought flashed in her mind, didn't Master, an old and immodest person, fall in love with the lady concubine Niangniang, who still has the charm of, and want to wear a big green hat for Emperor Chu, right?

She looked at her master suspiciously, only to feel that under the moonlight, the old man's face became more and more obscene......

But when I think about it, I feel that it is wrong, if the master really takes a fancy to Concubine Shu, why did he bring her here? Is it difficult to let her be a matchmaker? Then the master really chose the wrong person, Concubine Shu hated her to the bone, and she wished to eat her alive, how could she agree to be her master?

Besides, a vicious woman like Concubine Shu is not suitable to be her teacher, right......

She thought to herself, but found that the master did not mean to enter the house, but crept to a dark corner of the courtyard with her.

She was puzzled and asked in a suppressed voice, "...... Aren't we going in? ”

Naturally, the master didn't know what she was thinking (if you know, you won't beat her to death on the spot?). He replied, "Don't go in yet." ”

She was about to ask a question, when she heard the door of the cold palace being pushed open from the outside, making a strange creaking sound, and then the footsteps of a person sounded slowly, slowly walking towards the courtyard where they were.

In the moonlight, the familiar figure walked into the courtyard, although it was a little far away, she still recognized it at a glance, it was the tsundere prince.