Tan Baolu lowered his head, stalked his neck and said, "There is no sound!" Your Highness heard it wrong! ”

Tan Baolu hugged her stomach tightly, so ashamed that she wanted to get into the crack of the bed.

She even blamed Cen Jianan in her heart, if he hadn't done nothing for a long time and was here to talk nonsense with her, she wouldn't have screamed hungry and lost such a big person.

Cen Canaan's voice came from above his head, and there was a bit of helpless teasing, "This king repeats, don't lie to this king. ”

"Goo!"

This time the voice was too clear, it came from her stomach.

Tan Baolu clutched Cen Canaan's cloak tightly and used his cloak to cover his stomach, as if this would hide the sound of hunger.

Cen Jianan said softly: "Didn't have dinner? ”

"Hmm......" Tan Baolu responded slightly.

Not just dinner, in fact, she didn't even eat lunch.

How could a rich prince like Cen Jianan understand the hardships she had been preparing for that dance all day. She felt quite aggrieved, but she didn't think that she could beg for food here in Cen Jianan. She hoped that Cen Canaan would hurry up. She wanted to go home.

Cen Jianan looked at the hair whirl above Tan Baolu's head, took a deep breath, and seemed to curse something in a low voice.

He forcefully pulled Tan Baolu's hand again.

Tan Baolu was dragged by him and almost threw herself into his arms.

He grabbed her hand and pinned the hairpin into her sideburns.

The door was wide open, and the evening breeze poured in, blowing a stirring for Baolu.

Tan Baolu sat in place, and some of the second monks were confused.

At this time, the maids who had just withdrawn came back at this time, and took a lot of things, one with clothes, shoes and socks, and the other with a food box, "Please dress the girl, the carriage to send the girl back is already waiting." ”

Tan Baolu was still a little stunned when she heard this, is this the end?

Her mind was still a mess, and the maid told her to raise her hand, and she raised her hand, and in a short time she changed into a clean and refreshing coat.

She asked, "Can I go?" ”

"Of course," said the maid.

Tan Baolu breathed a long sigh of relief and was about to go out.

"But there's one more thing." The maid said.

Talking about Baolu sighing, she said, where is there such a good thing......

The maid brought the food box and said, "Talk about the girl, this is the dim sum prepared by the pastry chef in the house for the girl, please talk about the girl and use it slowly." ”

The food box contained the usual dim sum in Cen Jianan's mansion, all of which were exquisite and exquisite, and the fragrant rice, coconut, and meat rosin went straight to her nose.

Tan Baolu looked at such a large plate of delicious food, no matter how reserved she was, she was a little greedy.

But even if she is so hungry that her chest is close to her back, she always remembers the truth of taking people's hands short and eating people's soft mouths.

She stubbornly held back a bite and said, "I don't eat it." ”

The maid was anxious and begged, "Talk girl, please eat a little before leaving." His Highness has ordered, if His Highness does not eat, let us, the master of the cooking, and the guys in the stove all go home......"

Tan Baolu: "......"

"I'll eat, I'll eat......"

Tan Baolu picked up a small pastry that looked like a lotus flower, and she took a careful bite, and the outermost puff pastry fell between her lips. After eating the second bite, you can taste the fragrant and soft glutinous rice skin, soft and glutinous, and then the inside layer is also wrapped in red bean paste filling, so you don't feel hungry at all.

Tan Baolu ate a piece, a little unsatisfied, but he didn't want to touch the second piece again.

Curious, she asked the maid, "What kind of snack?" ”

The maid replied, "Lotus cake." ”

Tan Baolu said to herself: "Cen Jianan is quite good at eating......"

In the five years that Cen Canaan went crazy and fought, she had never seen Cen Canaan eat anything other than dry food.

The maid said, "Our Highness is actually not very particular about food, but when His Highness came over, he specially ordered to make some things that little girls love to eat, and they must be able to withstand hunger." The master of the stove imitated the Xiuxuan Fang and made the snacks that these girls love to eat. If the girl thinks it is delicious, she will take the food box with her and eat it on the way. ”

Tan Baolu hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no. Now that the carriage has come, let's go. ”

"Yes."

When she went out, the maid saw that the medicine on the tray had not moved, so she brought the tray up again and said, "Miss Tan, please take medicine." ”

Talking about Baolu's goodbye to the bottles and cans, her expression was sneering.

Although she didn't understand much about that matter, just what Cen Jianan did to her just now, touching her face or something, her mother, younger brothers and sisters, and friends had all done it, and it was nothing.

There's no need to apply this medicine, right......

"No, I don't have to." Tan Baolu hurriedly waved his hand and said.

She continued to walk out, but as soon as the soles of her feet hit the ground, she stopped in pain for a while.

I don't feel the wound on my foot when I sit it, and it hurts like flesh when I walk.

The maid hurriedly chased after her and said, "Miss Tan, you should keep this medicine, don't look at this vial, the wound on your foot can be cured with a wipe." ”

"Injuries on my feet?" Tan Baolu wondered.

"yes, you danced tonight and got a foot injury, right? His Royal Highness specially ordered the slaves and maids to fetch it. ”

Tan Baolu was stunned again.

It turned out that she had misunderstood Cen Canaan. The medicine he gave her was for her leg injury......

*

Tan Baolu got into the carriage home, and she had already returned the cloak that Cen Canaan gave her to the maid, but somehow, she always felt that the dress was still on her body, and if she sniffed it hard, she could even smell the sandalwood incense on Cen Canan's body.

She couldn't help but wonder, what kind of person is Cen Canaan?

Even though she had been floating by Cen Canaan's side for five years, she couldn't find an answer to that question.

This man is too complicated, too forbearing.

Even when he is alone, he doesn't let his emotions come out.

All she could see was a silent shadow.

She couldn't help but wonder why Cen Canaan in the previous life turned into that way in the end. In those days when he was crazy to go south, he stood silently on his horse, and there were still yellow sand, frost and snow on his shoulders, what was he thinking?

She calculated the time, if the basic trend of this life was still the same as the previous life, the catastrophe of Cen Canaan was about to come.

On the sixth day of the third month of the previous year, the Buddha bones sent from Tianzhu were sent to Baofu Temple, and He Dongyan led hundreds of civil and military officials to watch the ceremony. At that time, she had been made a concubine, and it was the time when she was extremely favored, so she naturally went with He Dongyan.

It was also on this day that an assassination took place in the temple. The target of the assassination was Cen Canaan.

Cen Jianan was hit by an arrow in his right arm, and the angle at which the arrow hit Cen Jianan was very tricky, although the injury was not serious, but it was not completely healed.

The stubborn illness in the arm affected Cen Jianan's right arm to draw the bow and shoot the arrow, and it was because of this that he shot at the rebels a few years later, but the bow was not fully drawn, and he was shot off his horse by the rebel leader.

Everything is reincarnated by cause and effect, and it is interlocking.

Tan Baolu clutched the medicine bottle in her hand until the cold white porcelain was warm.

In this life, she wanted to save Cen Canaan.

A flickering warm orange palace lamp hung on the eaves of the cyan carriage, and in a short time it disappeared at the end of the alleyway, leaving only a piece of moonlight as fine as silver dust.

The carriage was far away, and Cen Canaan was still standing in the distance, his deep and resolute eyes seemed to be looking at the direction in which the carriage had disappeared, and as if he was looking into the distance.

"Back to Your Highness, this girl was sent over by Gonggong Xu." Cen Jianan's secret guard reported: "Gonggong Xu made his own decisions and acted arrogantly, but he should be punished?" ”

Cen Jianan's eyes flashed, his fingers rubbed the jade wrench on his fingertips, and he said for a while: "Xu Yu is good at reading people's hearts. ”

The dark guard is confused for a while, and he is good at reading people's hearts? Does that mean read it right?

The dark guard said: "Your Highness means that there will be no punishment?" ”

Cen Jianan thought for a moment and said, "Knock or beat." He walked back slowly, thought for a while, and asked, "Can Zhou Mengfei be in your Praetorian Guard?" ”

"In. It's been three years, and now it's the Eighth Rank Praetorian Guard, and next month it's time to be promoted to the deputy of the Praetorian Guard. The Dark Guard replied.

Zhou Mengfei is the younger brother of Concubine Hui Zhou Wan'er. The secret guard actually didn't understand why he said that he wanted to beat Xu Yu, but he hit Zhou Mengfei.

Cen Jianan said: "Transfer Zhou Mengfei to the night patrol, and the matter of promotion will be discussed again." ”

"Yes." The Dark Guard was ordered to do it.

Cen Jianan returned to the house, the housekeeper picked up the lamp and waited for him to go back to the house to rest, Cen Jianan said, "Don't be in a hurry, go to the study first." ”

The butler held the lamp and comforted: "Your Highness, you should still take care of your body!" ”

"Hmm." Cen Canaan answered, and stopped the butler who was about to leave.

"Your Highness commands."

Cen Canaan seemed to ask casually: "Have you used the dim sum you sent over?" ”

The housekeeper didn't understand at first glance, but he looked at his nose and nose, and immediately realized that Cen Jianan was asking the girl from Fangcai.

He hurriedly replied: "Yes, that girl especially likes the lotus cake in the house." ”

Lotus crisp?

Cen Jianan's eyebrows jumped, and he said "um" and went to the study.

*

As soon as Tan Baolu got out of the carriage, Xiaodong and Xiaoxi ran towards her.

Xiao Dong's cheeks were flushed, and Xiao Xi grinned vigorously.

Everyone thought that most of the people who talked about Baolu would not be able to come back this time, and they were happy but also a little afraid.

"It's back!" Tan Baolu said with a smile. She walked into the house with Xiaodong and Xiaoxi, and asked as she went, "What about Nini and Applejack?" Sleeping? ”

"Not yet." Xiaodong stuck out his tongue and said, "Miss, you are not here, those two little young masters, where can you sleep, most of them are pretending to be asleep at this time!" ”

Tan Baolu laughed and said, "Let's go, watch them go." ”

The three rooms of the Tan family are the least favored, and even the yard is the smallest one, only four and a half rooms, and her mother lives in one, she lives in one room with Tan Ni on weekdays, and Tan Jie lives in another room, so there is no place.

Tan Baolu is not there tonight, Tan Ni doesn't dare to sleep alone, and insists on squeezing a bed with her brother Ajie.

Although the two of them are not yet old enough to avoid suspicion, after all, a boy and a girl are really not good to squeeze into a bed.

But Tanni kept crying, and Tan Jie begged Zhou's mother to take care of them for a long time, but Zhou's mother couldn't, so she took Tanni to Tanjie's house, let the two children sleep together, and built another bed next to the bed to take care of it.

In the middle of the night, Zhou's mother got up to see Tan Baolu's mother, Mrs. Xin, and there were only two children in Tan Jie's house.

As soon as Tan Baolu entered the house, he saw two small furry heads coming out of the futon one after the other.

Two pairs of big watery eyes looked at her in disbelief, and then they burst out in unison, "Ah! Sister! ”

"My sister is back!"

"Sister, sister!"

Tan Ni and Tan Jie were happy to roll on the bed.

Tan Baolu's heart warmed, and the fatigue of the day was instantly unloaded, she stroked Tan Ni and Tan Jie's small brains one by one, and said, "Yes, my sister is back!" What's the matter with you two, you don't sleep yet? ”

"I miss my sister!" Tan Ni kicked her legs like a loach and kicked the bedding away.

Tan Jie also said: "Sister can't sleep if she doesn't come back!" ”

Tan Baolu's heart softened, and she said softly, "Isn't my sister back?" Well, sleep well! ”

Where can two children sleep? One hugged her one by one, and one kissed her on the cheek.

Tan Jie tilted his head in the crook of Tan Baolu's arm and said, "Sister, they all said that my sister won't come back tonight." ”

"Yes," Tan Ni also pursed her mouth, and said pitifully, "They said that we should never see our sister again......"

"Who told you?" Tan Baolu brushed away the broken hair stuck to Tan Ni and Tan Jie's cheeks.

"Mother Zhao." Tan Jie said.

Mother Zhao is Mrs. Dafang's person, this person is not right, and he has a hundred hearts for her, let alone her younger brother and sister.

Tan Baolu said: "In the future, whatever Mama Zhao tells you, you don't have to listen, just treat her as if she doesn't exist." ”

"Good!" Tan Ni and Tan Jie agreed.

Children at this age don't know good or bad, they will only imitate other people, and among the others, they believe in their sister the most, and they firmly believe in what Baolu says.

Tan Ni thought about it for a while, and then said, "But Zhou's mother also said the same, and Zhou's mother still cried." ”

Tan Baolu's heart sank.

Zhou's mother is a grandmother who came over with her mother, and Zhou's mother cried, thinking that her mother should be even more sad.

Tan Baolu pinched the cheeks of the two children and said, "Don't be afraid, isn't my sister back?" ”

"Then does my sister want to leave in the future?" Tan Ni asked in a milky voice.

Tan Jie also waited intently for her answer.

"I'm not leaving." Tan Baolu assured the two children: "My sister will always protect you." ”

"No," Tan Jie shook his head and said seriously: "I don't want my sister to protect, I want to protect my sister." ”

Tan Ni also learned the appearance of Tan Jie's little adult, and said, "I also want to protect my sister." ”

Tan Baolu hugged the two children and smiled dumbly, and said: "You are too young, my sister is an adult, my sister doesn't need your protection, you just grow up peacefully." ”

"Hey......" Hearing this, Tan Jie sighed, "Then I want to grow up soon." ”

"I also want to be able to protect my sister when I grow up."

Tan Baolu said: "Do you know how to grow up quickly? ”

"How's it going?" Tan Jie and Tan Ni asked curiously.

Tan Baolu said seriously: "You should eat more meat, eat more, and eat more vegetables." ”

Tan Jie's eyes lit up, and he said obediently: "Then I will eat more meat and vegetables tomorrow." ”

Tan Ni pursed her lips and said aggrievedly: "But I don't like to eat pork belly, can I grow up quickly?" ”

"It's okay," Tan Baolu said, "If you eat something else, eat chicken legs, you can grow up." ”

"Good! Then I'm going to eat more chicken thighs! Tan Ni burst into tears and laughed.

"Then sister is waiting for you to grow up quickly." Tan Baolu tucked the quilt corners for the two children.

"Sister," Tan Jie stretched out his round little hand from the quilt and said to Tan Baolu, "I want to pull the hook." ”

Tan Baolu pinched Tan Jie's little hand and said, "Okay, what hook does Ajie want to pull?" ”

Tan Jie made a vow: "I think, my sister will never leave again." ”

Tan Ni also rolled over when she heard the sound, stuffed her little hand into her hand, and said in a milky voice, "I also want to pull the hook." ”

Seeing that Tan Jie and Tan Ni were full of her eyes, Tan Baolu's heart softened.

She couldn't help but wonder, in the previous life, she couldn't come back, had Tan Ni and Tan Jie been waiting for her anxiously? They didn't wait for her until the end, weren't they very sad? You must not feel guilty for a lifetime like in the previous life......

Tan Baolu solemnly also stretched out her little thumb, hooked the little hands of her younger brother and sister, held it firmly, and shook it back and forth, "Sister promised you that my sister will always accompany you and watch you grow up well......"

"Hmm!"

Tan Baolu talked with the two children for a while, asked if she had done her homework, and fell asleep before going out.

Zhou's mother was waiting outside the door, and when she saw her, her eyes were still red, and her voice was so hoarse that she couldn't speak, "Three girls......"

Tan Baolu asked gently: "Mother Zhou, how is my mother now?" ”

Zhou's mother said: "I just drank the medicine, and when I heard that you were back, I was so happy that I almost held my breath again." ”

Tan Baolu hurriedly said: "Then I'll take a look." ”

She was in a hurry and stumbled a little, but Zhou's mother hurriedly followed and said, "Don't worry, third girl, it's much better now." ”

But how can you not be in a hurry?

She hurried all the way to her mother's room, where Mrs. Xin was asleep.

Mother's room is always filled with a smell of medicine, a few days ago I asked the doctor to come and see her, and she changed a few flavors of medicine, the smell of medicine used is heavy, and the smell of medicine in the room is abnormal. In this lifeless room, Tan Wei refused to enter even a single step.

"Mother." Tan Baolu knelt beside Mrs. Xin's bed.

"Bao'er is back......," Mrs. Xin leaned over on the bed, laboriously shaking her hand, "let me see." ”

Mrs. Xin pinched her hand again, touched her cheek again, and saw that her daughter was still a whole person, so she put her heart at ease and wept and said, "It was your mother who didn't protect you and made you suffer so much." ”

Finally seeing her mother again, Tan Baolu had mixed feelings in her heart.

In the last life, when she was in the deep palace, she often missed her mother, and sometimes she finally saw it in a dream, and when she found out that it was a dream, she couldn't forget the feeling of loss.

No matter how old she is, no matter how many things she has experienced, as long as she sees her mother again, she seems to have become a babbling child.

The most important thing for her to be born again is that she can finally see her mother again.

She half-knelt in front of her mother's sickbed, held her mother's hand, and reverently pressed her cheek to it.

It was a mother's hand, old and cold, but it could give her infinite tolerance and strength.

She twitched the tip of her nose and whispered, "Mother, what are you talking about, what have I suffered?" ”

Mrs. Xin kept crying, "My mother never asks you how rich and noble you will be in the future, my mother only hopes that you will have a safe and smooth life and marry someone you really like." Mother's tattered body is a drag. It's my mother, it's my mother who can't protect you. ”

Tan Baolu raised her head, her eyes were always dry, and her gaze was unprecedentedly firm, "I don't want anyone to shelter, I can shelter the people I love." ”

"My Baby......

"Third Miss." There was a sudden knock on the door, and Zhao's mother said outside the door, "Master, please go to the front hall." ”

Zhao's mother's tone was somewhat gloating.

Tonight, she got into trouble, and she talked about Wei's good things, and she would definitely not let her go.

Sure enough, as soon as she entered the hall, she heard Tan Wei shouting, "Kneel." ”