It wasn't until she ran back to the courtyard that Xiao Tao found that her eyes were full of tears. Yun Niang was standing in front of the porch and chattering with Ruo Sunian: "This little peach, you can't let it out, and you can't find it back once you release it-----" As she was talking, she looked at the little peach who was soaked and full of tears rushed in, and the shoes on her feet were thrown off at some point, leaving only a worn shoe and a foot oozing blood.

Yun Niang was frightened, and ran to Xiao Tao in a few steps to hold her shoulder: "Why are you back like this?" What's wrong? ”

Xiao Tao couldn't speak, but the tears couldn't stop flowing. The eldest lady heard the movement and walked out of the main room, looked at Xiao Tao's appearance, and quickly instructed Yun Niang to help Xiao Tao into her room, and then instructed Ruo Su to prepare hot towels and Dingding tea. The eldest lady didn't ask her in a hurry like Yun Niang, and when Ruosu helped Xiao Tao change into clean clothes, wiped her face with a hot towel, saw that Xiao Tao's expression eased a little, and asked everyone else to go out, only she and Xiao Tao were in the house, so she asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Xiao Tao shrank into the quilt, but she still felt cold and shivering all over her body, and the eldest lady held her hand, and she felt a little hot. She didn't know how to say it, only tears kept flowing. After a long time, she intermittently briefly said that she asked Zhao Gongzi to be by the river, but was ordered to be shot by Qi Gongzi.

The eldest lady was a little silent after hearing this, and then stroked Xiao Tao's shoulder and said, "These things are not something we can control. You don't have to be sad. ”

Xiao Tao looked at the eldest lady, her tears still couldn't be stopped, she couldn't be as calm and relaxed as the eldest lady, she was very sad. Xiao Tao's brain was mushy, and she muttered, "Why follow me, why ------"

The eldest lady took the trembling little peach into her arms, and only when she didn't tremble so much did she say softly: "Perhaps, from the time you told Gongzi Qi that his name is Zhao Tingyi." ”

Xiao Tao was stunned, what happened to him called Zhao Tingyi? The eldest lady looked at Xiao Tao puzzled, and continued: "Scholars, in addition to the surname and first name, there will also be words. For example, my eldest brother, what is his surname, and the training of words. Qi Gongzi, Zhengxiu is the name, and Zijie is the word. The Zhao Gongzi you know, Kuang Yi is the name, and Tingyi is the word. He tells you his words directly, so he is naturally familiar with you. With Qi Gongzi's thinking, he must have thought of this layer a long time ago. ”

Xiao Tao slightly understood. Biting his lip and biting the blood: "It's all my fault----" blame myself for being too talkative, heartless and heartless, if I hadn't listened to Zhao Gongzi's words and didn't talk nonsense, I wouldn't have killed him.

The eldest lady took the Dingjing tea on the table next to the bed to Xiao Tao: "Don't think about anything." Sleep first. I've asked Ruosu to sleep with you tonight. As he spoke, he patted Xiao Tao's back and got up to go out.

That night, Xiao Tao stayed awake all night. As soon as he closed his eyes, he was covered in blood. From the first time she saw Zhao Gongzi, it all appeared at this moment. The cynicism of Yunwan Village, the unexpected encounter in Yizhuang, his rescue in the woods, galloping on horseback together, and playing together in the water, although he always kept a straight face, he never had bad intentions towards her. But what did she do? She killed him--- Xiao Tao covered her head with the quilt, trying not to think about Zhao Gongzi.

I don't want Zhao Gongzi to think about anything else, and he is just as distressed. There were so many things she couldn't figure out. She didn't understand why Qi Gongzi wanted to kill Zhao Gongzi, and when Qi Gongzi followed her to calculate Zhao Gongzi. But she finally understood one thing, everything that Gongzi Qi did to her was to lure out Zhao Gongzi. She's just a pawn. It turned out that she and Qi Gongzi had never been in the same world.