She was stunned for a moment, but remembered it instantly.

When she woke up under that corridor, the back she saw was the prince, right?

Thinking about it, she blurted out: "Prince......"

Qi Yan was about to enter the carriage for a moment, and looked back, "Miss Tao Wu?" ”

Tao Lian thought for a while, mustered up the courage to step forward, and then stretched out her pink palm at him, "Your Highness, did you find the handkerchief you promised to help your courtiers find?" ”

Qi Yan's gaze fell on the small palm she suddenly handed in front of her, paused, and shook his head, "Not yet." ”

Tao Lian tilted his head and looked at him suspiciously.

She had a faint feeling in her heart that the loss of her veil was related to the prince.

But his eyes were so clear and decent, and this doubt was quickly dispelled by her.

"Oh."

Qi Yan smiled, turned around and entered the carriage.

Tao Lian saw that he was leaving, so he had to take two steps back.

But at this moment, a slender hand lifted the curtain, and Qi Yan's handsome face was revealed from the car window.

After glancing at Tao Lian with dark eyes, he ordered the coachman to set off.

As soon as his carriage left, Tao Yao stepped forward to grab Tao Lian and asked, "What did you just say to the prince?" What veil? ”

"I've lost my veil." Tao Lian replied.

Tao Ling also walked over, heard the words, and said funny: "That handkerchief embroidered with ducks? ”

"Second sister, that's not a duck, it's a mandarin duck." Tao Lian frowned and corrected.

Tao Ling said with a smile: "Okay, it's a mandarin duck." But even so, why did you ask the prince to find it for you? It must be that you don't know where to lose it, anyway, that kind of veil, no one will want it, you think about where you were when you last saw it, just look for it in that place? ”

When Tao Lian heard this, she wanted to stop talking, she suspected that the prince had stolen her veil, but she had no evidence......

"It must have been stolen." She still stuck to her ideas.

"Since it's gone, forget it, and embroider it again." Tao Yao said.

"Fourth sister, you don't have a backache when you stand and talk." Tao Lian pouted.

Tao Yao was angry and funny, "Why don't I have a backache when I stand and talk?" ”

"If you sit and embroider for a few nights, you will definitely die and die." Tao said pitifully.

When Tao Yao heard this, he coughed lightly, but he couldn't refute it.

Or Tao Lian understands her.

"I'm tired, I have to go back and rest first." Tao Yao grabbed Lu Jiuyuan's hand on the side and said to the two sisters.

"Then you go back quickly, mercy and I will also leave." Tao Ling said immediately.

"Changqing, then they will be escorted back by you." Lu Jiuyuan tilted his head and said to Gu Changqing.

Gu Changqing shook the fan in his hand and smiled gently and elegantly, "That's nature." ”

Tao Yao saw it and couldn't help but glance at the second sister.

The second sister stood there, her face flushed, Chu Chu was moving, to be honest, the second sister and Master Gu were still a good match.

The second sister is like a well-behaved sheep, but Master Gu is like a ...... Big tailed wolf.

But fortunately, this big-tailed wolf is sincere to the second sister.

Tao Yao was tired, and on the way back to the Luguo Mansion, he yawned again and again.

Lu Jiuyuan touched her head and hugged her into his arms, "If you're sleepy, just sleep for a while." ”

Tao Yao wanted to talk to him for a while, but her eyelids were fighting up and down, and she couldn't support it, and soon fell asleep.

……

The next day, the emperor issued an edict asking the Ministry of Rites to choose a concubine for the crown prince.

It didn't take a few days for the Ministry of Rites to make a picture album of the daughters in the boudoir to be married and present it to the imperial case.

After the emperor flipped through it, he suddenly thought of something and looked at Tao Tian.

"Tao Aiqing, I remember that there are many girls in your house, why are there no girls from your Tao family in this album?"

Tao Tian didn't expect the emperor to think of this stubble, and suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart, and stepped forward and said: "Back to the emperor, there are indeed many girls in the minister's mansion, but the marriage is married, and the minister has a little daughter...... This year, she is only in time, and her temperament is confused, so the minister thinks that she is not suitable to enter the palace......"

"What do you mean by inappropriate? Is Tao Aiqing reluctant? The Emperor saw through his thoughts.

Tao Tian knelt down, "The emperor is angry, the minister is indeed a little reluctant to let her marry so soon, and wants to keep her in the mansion and raise her for another two years......"

"Your daughter of the Tao family, I am the most optimistic, first bring Ling Qianjin into the palace for me to see." The Emperor said.

Tao Tian's brows frowned imperceptibly, "Isn't it inappropriate to ask the minister's daughter to enter the palace alone?" The left and right princes also want to choose concubines, why don't you invite all the daughters and nobles on the roster into the palace? ”

"You have a point, so that's it." The Emperor nodded.

……

When Tao Tian returned to the mansion, he had a sad face.

Unexpectedly, he tried his best to not let Tao Lian be on the roster, but the emperor had already remembered it.

Seeing him sighing, Li asked, "What's the matter, what's going on?" ”

Tao Tian sighed again and asked, "What about pity?" ”

"Went out to play." Lee replied.

When Tao Tian heard this, he became even more worried.

His little daughter only knows how to eat, drink and have fun, and has no scheming at all, if she is allowed to enter the palace, what will be good in the future?

"What the hell is going on?" Seeing that his brows were tightly locked, Li also frowned.

Tao Tian had no choice but to repeat what the emperor said in the imperial study.

After Li Shi heard this, the whole person was going to be bad.

She swayed and sat down in her chair, "How can this be?" How did you, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, be, how could you still ask mercy to happen to such a thing? ”

Tao Tian frowned, "There are officials below who put pity on the roster, and I erased it, but the emperor remembers it." ”

"Then what should we do now, we can't enter the palace for mercy." Lee's Road.

"What else can I do? The emperor has already named him. Tao Tian sighed.

When Li heard this, he frowned.

Tao Tian thought for a while and said: "In two days, the palace will hold a lotus banquet to invite the daughters of various provinces into the palace, and mercy is also among the invitees, this matter is unavoidable."

When the time comes, I can only let this girl mix in, don't take the lead, and try not to attract the attention of the emperor and the prince. ”

The husband and wife were discussing countermeasures, and suddenly, Tao Lian walked in from outside.

She touched her nose and muttered, "Hey, who's talking about me behind my back?" After speaking, he saw his parents sitting in the hall, "Dad, why did you come back so early today?" ”

Looking at their innocent and lovely daughter, the couple glanced at each other and sighed in their hearts again.

"Come, pity, we have something to tell you." Li suppressed the sorrow in his heart and beckoned to her.

Tao Lian walked over as she said, "Father, mother, what's the matter?" ”

"In two days, the palace will hold a lotus feast, and you will enter the palace to participate in it at that time." Li said.

"Lotus feast? Also invited me? Tao Lian was surprised.

(End of chapter)