The next day, Jixian Temple.
After waking up, Tao Ti was in a daze.
A head of jet-black hair was hanging obediently, she hugged the pillow, her eyes were empty, with a dazed expression on her face.
Last night, he hugged her, is it true? It must not be her dreaming.
The elegant and light cold pine fragrance on his body, his strong arm muscles, his embrace is warm, not as cold as his fingertips, and his strong heartbeat, pounding... these are her I remember it very clearly.
This is definitely not her dream!
If the dream was so realistic, she would eat this pillow right now.
So, if a man hugs a woman, this should be his liking, right
However, Pei Yan seems to be so gentle and kind to everyone. Yes, he did have some intimate actions towards her, but could it be because they are close friends that they are relatively close? Casual
Or maybe after sharing the same bed for so long, he treats her like a human pillow? Or, brother to sister
Tao Ti, who has been single since motherhood, hugged the pillow in her arms tightly, resting her chin with one hand, and fell into deep thinking.
Alas, it would be great if Qiongqi or Achan were by my side at this time, at least I could help her analyze what to do next.
"Ahhhhh, so annoying—"
Tao Ti wrinkled her small face into a small bun, rolling back and forth on the big bed with her pillow in her arms.
Linglong, who was guarding outside, heard the sound and thought something was wrong with her princess, so she rushed in to check, and saw the princess lying on the bed, her fair skin was slightly pink.
"Crown princess, are you... do you feel uncomfortable?"
"..."
Tao Ti lifted her small head from the brocade quilt, and looked at Linglong with jet-black and watery eyes.
Do you want to ask Linglong? But Linglong is Pei Yan's person, so if she asks, she doesn't know if she will tell the truth.
But now she is really holding back, and really wants to find someone to talk to and help her out.
After thinking about it for a while, Tao Tili quickly rolled out of the bed, with a dull hair sticking out of her head, "Linglong, I want to ask you something, tell me the truth!"
Linglong was startled, then nodded, "Crown Princess, tell me."
Tao Ti bit her lip, took a deep breath and asked, "Your Highness... does he like me?"
That's it
Linglong blinked her eyes, and said without hesitation, "I like it. Of course His Highness likes the Crown Princess. I have never seen His Highness treat other women so well."
Tao Ti frowned and said, "There is no other woman around him."
Linglong choked, that's true.
The prince has always kept himself clean, and he has no romantic anecdotes. When meeting those noble ladies, he also abides by etiquette and never exceeds the rules.
Tao Ti held her face and sighed softly.
Linglong asked suspiciously, "Why did the princess suddenly ask such a question?"
Tao Ti shook her head and said "It's okay", but she couldn't help thinking, if he really liked her, why didn't he tell her
If he doesn't say it, does it mean he doesn't like it that much? Or, he was concerned about his body, still remember the agreement between them and Li Shu
Having said that, even if he said it, how should I reply
Does she like Pei Yan
Tao Ti, who was caught up in a bunch of problems, couldn't help but sigh again, it's too difficult, the relationship thing is really too difficult!
...
That day and night, Pei Yan was busy outside and did not come back to the palace for dinner.
Tao Ti breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that she had avoided the embarrassment of meeting her, but afterward, she felt an inexplicable sense of loss in her heart.
In the evening, she washed up early and went to bed early. When she woke up the next day, the bedside was empty.
She held back all morning, but still couldn't help asking Linglong, "Did the prince come last night?"
Linglong replied, "Come here late at night, and left early in the morning. Your Highness told the servants not to disturb the Crown Princess's sleep."
Tao Ti pursed her lips and said nothing, thinking: The hug the night before yesterday, he didn't really just use her as a pillow, did he
She lowered her head and squeezed her arm, then her leg...
Soft, slippery, and really easy to pinch.
Tao Ti fell into confusion and depression, and she didn't know what it was like to "like someone" and "be liked by someone".
After thinking too much, she wanted to run up to Pei Yan and ask directly, "Do you like me, the kind of love between men and women?"
But if it's my own self-indulgence, wouldn't it be embarrassing? And Qiongqi said that girls should be more reserved.
After thinking about it all morning, she didn't think of a reason, so she simply stopped thinking about it, got up and played a set of Ba Duan Jin, and then went to the dining room to eat.
At night, Pei Yan came back.
After two days and one night, when they met again, Tao Ti was still a little nervous, avoiding her gaze, not daring to look into his eyes.
Compared to her uneasiness, Pei Yan was as calm as usual, as if the person who secretly hugged her that night was not him.
The two faced each other, each eating a bowl of braised chicken and rice.
A fat and tender three-yellow chicken, cut into small pieces, put rock sugar into the oil to melt, fry pieces of fresh and tender chicken into a beautiful sugar color, then add wine, ginger slices, garlic cloves and other seasonings, add potato pieces , Mushroom slices, simmer for a quarter of an hour on low heat, then add green and red peppers to season and enhance the color, and then the juice can be collected and the pot is ready.
The stewed yellow chicken, the chicken is oily, covered with a rich sauce, the luster is bright, the chicken is tender and rotten, and it is very tasty. The shiitake mushrooms are full of the soup, which is extremely delicious, and the soup blooms between the lips and teeth after a bite.
The most amazing thing is the potatoes in the yellow stewed chicken. The potatoes are stewed soft and rotten.
The aroma of rice is mixed with the aroma of meat, which is rich and delicious. Tao Ti ate three bowls of rice and couldn't help sighing: Braised yellow chicken really deserves to be a rice killer. This combination is really perfect!
After eating, she brewed two more cups of white peach jasmine tea. The diced peaches were dried with the peaches she bought earlier, brewed together with the dried jasmine flowers, and then added some good Sophora jasmine honey. Stir gently, the fragrance Overflowing, sweet and greasy.
Pei Yan put down his chopsticks, wiped the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief, and smiled warmly at Tao Ti, "The food cooked by Arti is still delicious, the delicacies from mountains and seas eaten in the restaurant yesterday are not worth this simple bowl of stewed chicken with potatoes. "
Tao Ti, "...!"
He smiled at her like that again!
Under the long table, she gently twisted her thighs with her hands, the sex is empty and empty, calm, steady, don't panic!
"Well, it's good that you are full." She replied in a low voice, pretending to be careless and drinking white peach jasmine tea.
Pei Yan saw her expression clearly, and was not in a hurry. A hunter who is too impatient can easily scare the prey away.
He said softly, "Ah Ti, we should leave Luoyang on the 28th. For these two days, you can start packing the boxes. If there is anything else you need to buy, hurry up and buy it."
Tao Ti tilted her head and thought for a while, "Twenty-eight, that's the day after tomorrow."
Pei Yan gave a "hmm" and said, "Tomorrow night, Mrs. Sun has arranged a farewell banquet on the boat on the Luohe River. Gu may come back later..."
Tao Ti was startled, and looked at him in surprise, "Your Highness, won't you take me there?"
She was thinking that she had attended the reception banquet, so she should also attend the farewell banquet, right
Pei Yan was slightly taken aback, and looked at Tao Ti, under the light and shadow, there was a little grievance in her bright eyebrows.
He lowered his eyes slightly, and rubbed his browbones with his slender fingers. The "no tape" that came to his mouth turned around in his throat, and finally became, "Do you want to go?"
Tao Ti could clearly see his hesitation, and felt a little depressed.
Sure enough, he didn't want to take her there in the first place? !
Thinking of his leaving early and returning late these two days, seeing no one, and this farewell banquet, he didn't bring himself to play—
Tao Ti came to a conclusion: he was deliberately avoiding her!
This realization made her even more depressed. No wonder it is often said on the Internet that men are big pigs. Pei Yan is good-looking, but... you can't hug her, so just avoid her.
Pei Yan didn't know anything about her rich brain circuits. Seeing her dull and silent, she only thought that she was upset because she couldn't go out to play, so she said, "If you want to go, you can... wear more tomorrow. The wind and cold dew are heavy on the painting boat, so be careful to catch a cold."
Tao Ti couldn't tell how she was feeling at the moment, she nodded her head lightly, and went straight to the clean room in the side hall under the pretext of taking a bath.
Pei Yan sensed the little girl's strange emotions, narrowed her black eyes, and pursed her thin lips slightly.
After pondering for a moment, he called Linglong and asked about it.
Linglong truthfully reported Tao Ti's daily life. At the end, she hesitated for a moment, and said a little embarrassedly, "The morning before yesterday, the Crown Princess suddenly asked the maid, Your Highness, do you like her..."
Pei Yan's brows twitched, and the corners of his mouth straightened unconsciously, and he asked, "What do you say?"
Linglong, "Of course the maidservant said she likes it!"
Pei Yan, "...then how did she react?"
Linglong thought about it for a while, and said, "The Crown Princess didn't say anything, she just sighed and sat on the bed with a sad face for a long time."
Pei Yan, "..."
sigh? frown
Could it be that she resents his liking so much
Linglong lowered her head quietly. She felt that the prince and princess were a little weird during this time, which made her a little confused.
After being silent for a long time, Pei Yan collected her expression and said in a cold voice, "Linglong, on the boat tomorrow, you need to be by the princess' side and never leave her. No matter when, you should protect her well, understand?"
Linglong was stunned for a moment, she was someone who had been with Pei Yan for many years, she immediately understood the deep meaning of her words, she hurriedly put on a serious face, cupped her hands and said, "Your servant obeys."
...
The next day, after waking up from a nap, Tao Ti sat in front of the vanity mirror and began to dress up.
Today she is wearing a lilac-colored ten-pattern brocade beige, a lotus-colored auspicious cloud pattern tube top, a silver-white gauze skirt, long hair combed into a bun, and several dignified and elegant hair accessories. A budding lilac flower after the rain, with a slender waist, clear and gentle.
In the warm dusk, a Baogai carriage stopped at the gate of Jixian Temple.
Tao Ti was about to get into the car when she lifted the curtain with a cold white slender hand, and then she saw Pei Yan, who was wearing a light blue robe with twigs and grape patterns, leaning forward to get out.
Tao Ti realized something, her big watery eyes widened, and hurriedly stopped her, "Your Highness, you can just sit down, I can come up by myself, I don't need your help."
Pei Yan frowned slightly.
Tao Ti lifted the hem of her skirt with one hand, and grabbed the door of the carriage with the other, striding up.
Although the movements were a little rough, they went up after all.
She felt a little complacent, and turned to lift the car curtain with her hand holding the hem of the skirt. Unexpectedly, as soon as she took a step, her foot stepped on the slightly longer skirt, and she accidentally fell forward——
"-what!"
"..."
Linglong outside the carriage suddenly heard the princess's exclamation, she was startled, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter, princess?"
The prince's sharp and hoarse voice came from the carriage, "It's okay, let's go."
Linglong was puzzled, but she didn't dare to ask more questions.
On the other hand, Fu Xirui seemed to understand something, covered his lips and chuckled, waved his whisk, and said softly, "Let's go!"
The carriage rattled and moved steadily in the palace alley under the dusk.
Inside the carriage, there was a strong atmosphere of ambiguity.
When I used to watch dramas with my mother, whenever I saw the heroine wrestling on the ground, her mouth was like a magnet, and she would definitely kiss the heroine.
However, at this moment, she realized what it means: Art comes from life, but life is far more bloody than art——
She didn't kiss Pei Yan, but it was more embarrassing than kissing!
The carriage was spacious, and she fell directly on his chest, and then, her body slid down inertially... until she knelt on the carpet, and her face was facing between his legs.
The atmosphere seemed to freeze.
At that moment, Tao Ti's mind was full of thoughts: Ah, I'm dead, don't save me, just dig a hole and bury her, I have no face to live.
Embarrassing, so embarrassing that her toes can grab a Luoyang palace.
When people are in an extremely embarrassing situation, they will be unusually calm.
So when Pei Yanyan pulled her up, she cooperated very well and even subconsciously said "thank you".
Pei Yan, "...you're welcome."
Tao Ti sat down quietly, with a tense little face, she turned away from the car window.
Pei Yan didn't say anything, just like that, the silence in the carriage lasted until the carriage stopped by the Luohe pier.
Before getting off the car, Pei Yan gently called her, "Ah Ti."
Tao Ti's back stiffened.
Please, please, please don't mention what happened just now, otherwise she will be so ashamed that she will jump into the Luo River.
She turned her head abruptly, and then smiled dryly, "What's wrong?"
Pei Yan moved towards her, raised his hand towards her little head.
Tao Ti subconsciously hid.
Pei Yan's hand paused in the air.
Those beautiful peach eyes looked at her for a moment, then lowered their eyes, and the long eyelashes cast a small shadow under his eyes, as if hiding the gloom and loss of being alienated.
"Your hair is a little messy, I just want to help you with it."
"This, this way..."
When Tao Ti saw him like this, as if she had bullied him, she couldn't bear it for a while, and she obediently moved her little head towards him, "Then take care of it."
Looking at the little head that took the initiative to put under the palm, the gloom in Pei Yan's eyes turned into a rich black color, and his thin lips curled up calmly.
He helped her tidy up her temple hair, which was beginning to be chaotic, with gentle and delicate movements, as if treating a priceless treasure.
Not long after, his golden and cold jade-like voice sounded above his head, "Okay."
Tao Ti couldn't look in the mirror either, so she stretched out her hand to touch it, and got out of the car when she felt it was all right.
This time, Pei Yan took a step ahead of her, with a serious tone, a bit of a parent's majesty, "Ah Ti, I'll help you when I'm alone."
Tao Ti knew that she was stupid just now, and now she has no confidence, she curled her bright red mouth, and replied softly, "Okay..."
Pei Yan got out of the car and reached out to her.
Although she intends to keep some distance from him and reduce the intimacy that is easy to be misunderstood, it is not up to her to choose at this time.
The soft little hand was placed on his palm, and soon it was tightly wrapped by his warm palm.
After getting out of the carriage, he didn't let go, but led her to the pier with a natural expression.
The officials had been waiting at the pier for a long time, and when they saw the prince and princess coming hand in hand, they hurriedly saluted respectfully.
After exchanging a few simple greetings, Pei Yan and Tao Ti were surrounded by stars and boarded the boat on the shore.
This painting boat is divided into upper and lower floors, which is extremely gorgeous, with beautiful lights and sparkling water. The restaurants on both sides of the Luo River are bustling, with strings of lanterns hanging, and the night wind blows gently, bringing beautiful singing.
The seats on the lower floor were for ordinary officials. Pei Yan and Tao Ti sat together in a spacious box on the second floor, accompanied by Prince Mu, Sun Fuyin and his wife, several other high-ranking officials and their wives.
Seeing Prince Mu at first glance, Tao Ti was still a little surprised: her own son is in prison, and the father is still in the mood to deal with it? But after thinking about it, he is the shepherd of Luoyang, and if he doesn't come to the Prince's farewell banquet, he will be neglecting the Prince.
People, no matter what level you reach, you have to do something, unless you sit in the supreme position, but... who can guarantee that being an emperor will be free from constraints and worries
Tao Ti was thinking wildly, and heard Prince Mu apologize, "Princess feels cold occasionally, and she is not able to come. Please don't mind the prince and concubine."
Pei Yan slightly nodded, as if he didn't know the inside story, and greeted him gently.
Everyone was smiling and happily seated.
The sound of zither, drums, silk and bamboo was in the air, and the wine was hot. With the appearance of the dancer, the atmosphere of the banquet became more and more lively.
After dancing to the song, Pei Yan picked up the wine glass, and with a three-pointed drunkenness, he smiled and said to Prince Mu and Sun Fu Yin, "The two of you will go outside to enjoy the night view of the Luo River together with Gu?"
Prince Mu and Sun Fu Yin hurriedly responded, got up and went out.
Tao Ti also wanted to follow, but before she got up, Pei Yan pressed her shoulder heavily.
Tao Ti, "...?"
Pei Yan's black eyes were deep, staring at her fixedly, but his tone was very gentle, "It's windy outside, so it's the same if you open the window to enjoy the scenery."
Tao Ti was a little puzzled, and a little wronged, she really wanted to go out and have a look, the view outside was so wide that no window could compare.
But Pei Yan stared at her with an undeniable power.
After a while, she had no choice but to compromise, "All right."
Pei Yan bent her eyes, raised her hand and rubbed her little head, "Good boy."
The crown prince went out together with Prince Mu and Sun Fuyin, and the rest of the officials followed. For a while, there were only a group of female relatives left in the private room.
Just now when the men were there, they were not easy to talk to. Now that the men have gone out, they flattered and flattered Tao Ti.
Tao Ti was still immersed in Pei Yan's hot and cold depression towards her, and forced herself to deal with the female relatives next to her.
Not long after, there was a howling sound of fireworks skyrocketing outside.
Tao Ti raised her eyebrows, could there be a fireworks show
As soon as this idea came up, the next moment, I heard a panicked shout from outside, mixed with the metal sound of swords colliding—
"Come here, there are assassins!! Protect the prince!"