A wave of heat surged in Xiao Tao's chest, wanting to say something to Qi Gongzi, but he couldn't say anything for a long time, what is his identity? What to say? After a while, he only held back a short sentence: "Childe." Take care! "Simple four words, Xiao Tao doesn't know how much thought she has used, how much she has worried and worried.

Qi Gongzi's eyebrows raised slightly, and his voice was gentle, but very firm: "Wait for me to go back." As he spoke, he walked out of the courtyard. Yun Sheng followed.

Xiao Tao looked at Qi Gongzi's back, dizzy. The four words of Qi Gongzi just now made her experience the taste of blood surging up her head all over her body and a violent heartbeat. Let her wait for him, what do you mean? But these four simple words are full of all promises. When he comes back, he will come back, she will wait.

Little Peach turned her head away. saw that the eldest lady was also leaning against the door of the guest hall, quietly looking at the back of Prince Qi. The expression was frighteningly pale.

Xiao Tao's heart chuckled, and the conversation between Fang Cai and Qi Gongzi, I don't know if the eldest lady heard it. However, from such a distance, the voice is low - I guess I can't hear it. The eldest lady was distracted for a moment and turned back.

Xiao Tao breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly ran to the back kitchen with the tea tray. Abundant garbage.

After lunch, I was roughly cleaned up. The eldest lady ordered to come down and prepare to go. The eldest lady and Yun Niang sat in a carriage, and Xiao Tao and Ruosu followed closely in a carriage.

The carriage creaked against the soil in the field, getting farther and farther away from the courtyard and from the city of Haozhou. Xiao Tao lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked at the barren fields and green mountains outside the carriage. I was a little apprehensive. After coming here for these days, she has experienced something that she will never forget in her life. The war is together, I don't know what will become of here, she greedily hopes that everyone she knows is okay, Qi Gongzi, Zhao Gongzi, Yun Sheng. He Gongzi, the prince - all can be fine.

Faintly there was the sound of the flute of the double swallow dance, Xiao Tao was stunned, and listened carefully, the flute sound was leisurely, and Qi Gongzi blew more melodious than that night, and there was still a trace of sadness in the sound of the double swallow. Xiao Tao's heart also hurt with the sound of the flute, and she unconsciously hugged the burden in her arms tightly. What's so awkward in your chest? Xiao Tao took off the burden and opened it to see that a pendant of a white jade peach was lying quietly in the baggage.

Xiao Tao "banged" in her heart, and quickly picked up the white jade peach, the white jade with a smooth body, two peach blossoms stacked on top of each other, very similar to the last time Qi Gongzi gave him. It's just that the carving technique is different. Qi Gongzi sent it, right? Xiao Tao only remembered that she packed up her baggage in the morning and put it on the bed without moving, I don't know when Qi Gongzi or Yun Sheng put Bai Yutao in.

Parting with sorrow is already sad. Seeing the white jade peach, Xiao Tao's heart was even more unpleasant. She put the jade peach back into the baggage, and said to Ruosu a little distractedly: "It's really not a taste to leave here." ”

Ruosu looked out the window and saw freshly. Hearing Xiao Tao say this, his mouth pouted: "I'm looking forward to returning to Jinling." The food here is also poor, and the accommodation is not good. The bed slats are all boneless. What's there to be reluctant to. ”

Xiao Tao hugged the burden tightly in her arms and didn't speak again.

The carriage bumped all the way, stopped and stopped, and it took four days to return to the He Mansion Courtyard in Jinling. Lord He personally came to visit the eldest lady, and asked about the situation of He Gongzi and the war in the Huai River area.

And Xiao Tao couldn't help but run to the girl's room. The two of them cried and laughed, separated for several months, as if they hadn't seen each other for many years. Xiao Tao can't say why, as if she has a lot of grievances, and she can't finish her tears in front of her mother. The two of them sat together and muttered for several days before they emptied all their words for a while. But between him and Qi Gongzi and Zhao Gongzi, Xiao Tao didn't say anything.

It's not that I'm not close enough to my mother, it's just because of the entanglements that Xiao Tao can't grasp herself, and those sour and sad desires to talk about it, Xiao Tao really can't open her mouth.

But the mother said in a hurry: "After you left, He Gongzi was not there, the banquet was much less, and everyone practiced dancing not so hard." However, there was a palace banquet, and Lord He took us to the palace to help the fun. ”

"Palace banquet? You entered the palace? Momo's eyes widened. The palace, in her conception, was an unattainable dream.

The young lady nodded excitedly: "It is really worth this life to be able to enter the palace once." I don't know how to say it, it's like a fairyland. If you have the chance, you will also go. ”

"Where am I going?" Xiao Tao rubbed her mother's shoulder, "Let's talk about what the palace is like." ”

The mother described the palace carefully, where is the palace, where is the liquid pool, where is the rockery Qiongtai - at the end, she added, "That day, I also saw the six princes." He still remembers me. ”

"He spoke to you?" Xiao Tao is more excited than her mother.

"Hmm." Mi Niang's face was a little red, "He said that I danced more brilliantly than I did at the birthday banquet of He Da last time." I was also rewarded with a string of coral beads. As she spoke, she took out the beads and showed them to Xiao Tao.

Xiao Tao carefully figured out the beads and said with a smile: "Then you are not happy to die." ”

"Ugh." The young lady sighed, "However, I also saw the princess." It's really a fairy concubine-like character. and the Six Princes - a good match. ”

Xiao Tao was also a little lost for no reason, these kings and grandsons, and their wives are naturally not ordinary people. Mi Niang said again: "The prince wrote the lyrics and composed the music, and the princess played the pipa well. Looking at them, it is envy. Even the emperor praised it, and rewarded the princess with an ancient roasted pipa. ”

Xiao Tao said casually: "You are not bad, you dance well." Strengths. ”

The young lady blushed and spat the little peach: "What do you care about me, what do you compare with me." Saying that, the two of them laughed and played together.

A few days after returning to Jinling, one night, the eldest lady called Xiao Tao over and pulled all the subordinates in the house back, leaving only the two of them.

The eldest lady is dressed in a goose yellow silk dress, and the little peach is wearing a pink dress, sitting under the green screen window, reflecting a room of red candles, which has a different kind of charm.

Xiao Tao pursed her lips and smiled: "Miss, why is it only the two of us?" ”

The eldest lady was a little distracted and picked up the wick, her expression was cold and cold. The smile on Xiao Tao's face gradually froze. Since the eldest lady came back from Haozhou, she often likes to be distracted, and she doesn't know what she is thinking.

After a long time, the eldest lady sighed, turned her eyes to look at Xiao Tao suddenly, and her eyes were shining: "Taoyi, what do you think of Gongzi Qi?" ”

"Huh?" Xiao Tao was stunned for a moment, and her heart beat violently with a thump. What does this mean, Miss? What is what is called Qi Gongzi - Xiao Tao didn't know how to answer, and replied cautiously for a while, "Qi Gongzi is a learned person." ”

The corners of the eldest lady's lips raised, and her gaze wandered a little: "Your answer is still so interesting." Learned – How do you know he's learned? Remember before, you said that he was a good person. ”

Xiao Tao blushed when asked, Qi Gongzi said so many words that she couldn't understand, isn't he knowledgeable. And as for a good person, what is a good person? Xiao Tao feels that it is difficult to define the word good person now. I used to have shallow knowledge, but I just felt that I was a good person when I helped people. But now, she really can't tell what kind of person is a good person.

Xiao Tao paused and said, "There are many books in Gongzi Qi's tent. ”

The eldest lady nodded and said, "You have known Gongzi Qi for a long time, longer than me." You saved him, and he also saved you from Zhou Jun, and in such a critical juncture, the emotions should be different. He paused, looking at Xiao Tao's voice a little low, "Maybe, there are some experiences I don't know." The eldest lady's voice was rarely so low and depressing, with a hint of desolation.

Xiao Tao was stupid, and she heard the meaning of the eldest lady's words, so she knelt down with a plop, raised her eyes to look at the eldest lady, and her voice trembled slightly: "Miss, I have nothing else with Qi Gongzi, it's just like this." Xiao Tao didn't know how to explain, "It's just that because of Zhao Gongzi, there are more things." Nothing else, no more. When Xiao Tao said this, she was not very confident, she didn't know if the kiss on the rainy night, the degree in the water, the gift of the white jade peach, and the sound of the double swallow dance were considered "different feelings".

The eldest lady saw that Xiao Tao was anxious, and gently patted Xiao Tao's back: "What are you doing kneeling, get up." Saying that, he bowed slightly, helped Xiao Tao up, and said with a wry smile: "I'm just worried about you, young and ignorant." What if—" Miss's face flushed slightly, "I'll call the shots for you." ”

Xiao Tao was stunned, what in case? suddenly came to his senses, and couldn't help but blush, and hummed in a low voice: "Miss, Xiao Tao doesn't." ”

The eldest lady took Xiao Tao's hand and said earnestly: "It's good if you don't have it." Although you are my maid-in-waitant, I have long regarded you as a sister in my heart. I originally planned to marry without anyone, but if you and Qi Gongzi have broken your body and can't marry someone else, I won't ignore you. ”

Xiao Tao's face was already crimson, almost dripping blood, and she looked at the eldest lady and said, "Miss, Xiao Tao doesn't dare, there really isn't." Miss wants to believe me. "Little Peach doesn't know how to prove herself.

"I believe it." The eldest lady smiled faintly, "I just asked casually." Your life's events are not only my responsibility, but Qi Gongzi also told me to worry about your marriage. Okay, it's okay, you can step down. The eldest lady's eyebrows and eyes were much more relaxed, "By the way, since the name has been changed, it will still be called Taoyi in the future." ”

"Yes." Xiao Tao walked out slowly, but with a stomach full of worries. The eldest lady suddenly asked, what are these brainless people doing? Qi Gongzi asked the eldest lady to worry about her marriage, why is this so awkward? Does Qi Gongzi also hope that she will be married out as soon as possible? Xiao Tao couldn't figure out what the eldest lady meant even if she wanted to break her head. I had to go back to the house in a huff.

I couldn't sleep after tossing and turning in bed for a long time, so I simply got up, took advantage of the moonlight, and sneaked away to the outside of my mother's house, anyway, my mother lived alone in a room, and it was okay to sleep with her. Xiao Tao listened to the movement outside the house, there was a slight noise in the house, and it seemed that the young lady was not asleep.

Xiao Tao gently buckled the door, but there was no answer inside-