The rain stopped in the evening, and at night, Pei Yan walked to the bed after taking a bath, and saw Tao Ti kneeling on the bed, busy with something.
Taking a closer look, Pei Yan narrowed his black eyes, and said in a subtle tone, "Ah Ti, what are you doing?"
Tao Ti, who was laying the quilt, trembled, turned her head slowly, looked at the tall and tall man beside the bed, and smiled coyly, "Your Highness, have you finished your bath?"
Pei Yan, "Yes."
He swept across the two quilts calmly, and finally set his eyes on her obviously guilty little face.
Seeing him frowning, Tao Ti turned around and crawled to the side of the bed, stretched out her hand to hold his hand, shook it lightly, and showed some kind of goodwill, "Your Highness, sit down and talk?"
Pei Yan stared at her clear eyes, her brows slightly moved.
He really couldn't refuse her look of raising her head and acting obediently.
Seeing him sitting down, Tao Ti let go of his hand, and said seriously, "I thought about it today, and I think it's better to sleep separately for the sake of your body..."
Pei Yan raised her eyebrows, "For the sake of my body?"
Tao Ti's cheeks were a little hot, she looked away, and muttered softly, "That's right... I'm not in good health, it's better to be pure-hearted..."
Pei Yan, "..."
Seeing that he didn't speak, Tao Ti thought that what she said was too straightforward and hurt him. After all, men don't like to be told that they are not good at that. She hurriedly explained, "Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you can't, I mean, until your body recuperates, you should sleep separately for now..."
Pei Yan, "..."
Seeing her getting darker and darker, Pei Yan closed her eyes and pinched her chin with one hand, making her turn her head and look at him.
Tao Ti bit her lips lightly, seeing him approaching her little by little, his nose almost touching the tip of her nose, the warm breath brushing against her skin lightly made her tremble inexplicably.
Here it comes again, the same aggression from yesterday.
Tao Ti stared at him blankly, not knowing what expression to make.
Pei Yan's deep eyes were like lacquer, and after a while, he said in a deep voice, "I can do it."
Tao Ti, "...?"
After realizing what he meant, Tao Ti's face flushed red, as if a groundhog was screaming crazily inside.
Wait, wait, don't lose your mind, calm down!
Looking at the handsome face in front of her, Tao Ti shrank her neck. With his appearance, it was as if she had the slightest doubt, and he would jump forward to prove it without hesitation.
Her watery eyes were full of innocence, her voice trembled, "I, I may not be good at it."
Pei Yan, "..."
After a while, he laughed softly, let go of his hand pinching her cheek, and patted her forehead, "Little fool."
Tao Ti was startled, and saw him sitting up straight, straightening his pajamas, "Don't worry, I won't touch you unless you agree."
Tao Ti pursed her lips, what to do, she regretted what she just said.
If Qiongqi was there, he would definitely poke her forehead and scold—
Tao Ti, Tao Ti, have you eaten too much and clogged your brain cells? If you let such a handsome guy stay awake, is there something wrong with your brain? !
Pei Yan took out a quilt, turned it back, and said calmly, "Two quilts will be very hot."
Tao Ti smiled awkwardly at him, slowly got into the bed, and then lay down obediently as usual.
Pei Yan took a look at her cute appearance, raised the corners of her lips slightly, turned off the light, and lay down gently beside her.
Inside the dim curtain, it was very quiet.
Tao Ti thought for a while, took the initiative to find a topic, and asked if the taste of today's milk tea was suitable, would it be too sweet, if there were other flavors, would there be a market for selling them...
Pei Yan closed his eyes comfortably, and answered patiently.
While talking, Tao Ti became sleepy first, her voice became smaller and smaller, and finally turned into a uniform breathing sound.
Pei Yan turned his head to glance at her, and only slightly stretched out his hand to hook her waist, and she automatically rolled into his arms, sleeping more and more peacefully.
Pei Yan caressed her hair, feeling that her body was much more honest than her mouth.
...
The next day, Tao Ti woke up early to study new flavors of milk tea, and the fifth prince and sixth princess happened to come to play with her.
The two children could smell the sweet scent of milk from a long distance away, and they reached the small kitchen without needing the palace guards to lead the way.
After greeting Tao Ti, the eyes of the two fell on the steaming milk pot, their eyes were full of curiosity and greed, "Sister-in-law, what delicious food are you doing?"
Seeing them coming, Tao Ti was overjoyed, "You guys just happened to come, and you just happened to help me try the taste."
After listening to the tasting, the two children were overjoyed and happily sat on the stone bench outside the yard, waiting for the delicious food to be served.
After a while, Tao Ti poured out the brewed milk tea one by one. Besides the fifth prince and sixth princess, she also shared some with the palace people of Yaoguang Palace. After all, if she really wanted to spread milk tea, she had to make it more suitable for the tastes of the people of Dayuanchao.
"This one is the original milk tea, and the other four are jasmine honey milk tea, caramel milk tea, brown sugar ginger milk tea, and rose milk tea. Please try it first, and then tell me the advantages and disadvantages."
Fifth Prince and Sixth Princess, "Good!"
People in the Yaoguang Palace, "Slaves/slaves obey orders."
For a moment, the whole Yaoguang Palace could only hear the sound of drinking milk tea.
After they all finished drinking, Tao Ti took a small notebook and wrote down their feedback with a serious face——
"Sister-in-law, I like this rose milk tea. It is fragrant. After drinking it, it seems to be filled with the aroma of roses from the inside out." The sixth princess said.
"I like caramel, the sweetness is just right, and there is a faint burnt aroma, the taste is very different." The fifth prince said.
"Princess, I think this brown sugar ginger juice milk tea is good. Brown sugar nourishes the skin and ginger juice warms the stomach. If you drink brown sugar ginger juice alone, the taste of ginger is strong and spicy. Now it is cooked with milk tea. It has the fragrance of ginger, but not the spicy taste of ginger. , when a girl comes to drink a glass of Guishui, it would be the best." Linglong said.
"This jasmine is also good!"
"Original flavor is the best and most mellow!"
Listening to their chattering feedback, Tao Ti gradually got an idea. At present, it seems that everyone likes milk tea quite a lot. As for the taste, there are various flavors, and everyone likes everything.
She began to ask some details again, such as the degree of sweetness, and the adjustment of the ratio of milk to tea.
The Yaoguang Palace was extremely busy, and Pei Yan was not idle outside the palace.
After finishing his work in the Ministry of Industry, he went straight to Prince Yu's Mansion and went fishing by the lake with Prince Yu.
Prince Yu was still wearing a dark coarse cloth robe, the sun was shining, he was wearing a straw hat on his head, sitting lazily, holding a fishing rod in his hand, and sighed: "You say you, it's rare to come to my house for a visit." Come on, why don’t you bring your daughter-in-law with you. If she comes, I, an old man, can still be ashamed and let her make a whole fish feast.”
"The weather was hot, and the carriage was boring, so I didn't bring her here." Pei Yan wore a bamboo blue robe and a straw hat of the same style as Prince Yu's, adding a bit of seclusion to the world.
Lord Yu snorted, "You don't want to be bored for a while?"
Pei Yan showed a gentle smile, "In two days, Ati's pastry shop in Guangdefang will open, and the pastries inside are all made according to the recipe she wrote, which is not much worse than what she made herself. Fourth Uncle may go buy some to try."
Prince Yu rolled his eyes, "You are a concubine who can't be idle."
Pei Yan said, "It's a good thing that she likes something."
Prince Yu shook his head and sighed, "I can see that you are completely fascinated by your wife."
Pei Yan didn't refute, and was silent for a moment, then brought the topic to the serious matter, talking about the upcoming transfer of Prince Yu's son to be the shepherd of Luoyang Mansion.
Lord Yu stroked his gray beard, and said with emotion, "Your father has a heart for me, an old man. Knowing that my son is not up to date, he even found a good job for him..."
"Recently, Uncle Shi and Pei Changzhou have been in frequent contact. I wonder if Uncle Fourth knows about this?"
Prince Yu frowned.
"Fourth Uncle, I know that although you don't care about the government, you are very clear about the current trends in the court. Now that Gu is not dead, Pei Changzhou and the Zhou family can't hold back, as if the position of the crown prince is the meat of their mouths; Ruogu If it’s really dead, wouldn’t they become more and more unscrupulous?”
"Your Highness, don't say such depressing words."
"Fourth Uncle, you don't want to see my Pei family's family, and change my surname to Zhou in a few decades?"
These words can be said to be outrageous, Prince Yu turned his face and stared at Pei Yan very seriously, "Your Highness, you are too worried."
Pei Yan's brows were calm, and the corners of his mouth twitched, "I have to worry."
Prince Yu squinted his cloudy eyes and looked at Pei Yan carefully, as if he wanted to see through him.
Pei Yan didn't hide, and looked at him calmly.
Ambition and aspirations, at a glance.
Prince Yu is also an old man who has experienced three dynasties. He has lived in the royal family for such a long time without any worries. "Your Highness... Yan'er, you can really bear it!"
He sighed heavily, and finally cursed fiercely, "Oh, your queen mother is cruel, and your father is an even more bastard! The evil they committed has brought you a lot of trouble."
Hearing this, Pei Yan frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice, "Fourth Uncle, did my mother really die of illness?"
Prince Yu was startled, and avoided his gaze bluntly, "Yes."
Pei Yan took his reaction into his eyes, pondered for a moment, and said, "One day the father was drunk and slipped, saying that the mother committed suicide by taking poison."
Prince Yu's hand holding the fishing rod trembled suddenly, and he said in an old voice, "Then your father must be drunk and talking nonsense."
Seeing that fourth uncle refused to tell the truth to him, Pei Yan couldn't force him to ask—
Just like the old lady Lan, his uncle, Uncle Feng, and even the emperor beside the queen mother, they all knew that the queen mother committed suicide by taking poison, but no one was willing to tell him the reason behind it.
He had checked it before, but after so many years, the matter involved the former empress again, so he checked it again and again, but found very little.
Maybe it was because he searched too hard. On the anniversary of his mother's death a few years ago, Sister Lan gave him an ambiguous answer——
"Your mother felt that being a queen was too tiring, so she chose to be relieved."
Pei Yan seemed to understand a little bit, but also a little hard to understand.
At this time, his fishing rod moved.
After regaining his senses, he quickly put in his pole, and he caught a lively grass carp.
Prince Yu said from the side, "Yan'er, how long will your plan last?"
Pei Yan said, "October next year at the latest."
October next year will be the death date for Pei Yan sentenced by Qin Tianjian.
Prince Yu looked up at the red sun setting in the distance, slowly put away the fishing rod, and said slowly, "Then let me support this old bone..."
Pei Yan's eyes moved slightly.
Prince Yu turned his head and smiled at him, with a somewhat bleak smile, "As long as I am still here, Prince Yu's Mansion will obey me. It just so happens that I haven't been to Luoyang for a long time, so this time I will live with them in Luoyang. They all say 'born in Suzhou and Hangzhou, buried in Beimang', maybe I can also be buried in Beimang Mountain, occupying a treasure land of geomantic omen."
What Pei Yan wanted to say, Lord Yu got up first, and said loudly, "Go, you stay to eat tonight, and I will use your fish, and let's drink the stewed fish soup."
Pei Yan stepped forward to support him, her long eyelashes drooping slightly, "Yes."
—
As soon as a pot of fish soup was ready, Pei Yan took a sip when he saw Fu Xirui hovering anxiously at the door, with a tangled look of wanting to disturb but not daring to disturb.
It was Prince Yu who raised his eyelids and called people in.
Fu Xirui walked in quickly, made a hasty salute, tightly squeezed the whisk with both hands, and wrinkled his white and beardless face into a thin bun, and said anxiously, "Your Highness, the news from the palace just now said that Something happened to the princess!"
Pei Yan's hand holding the chopsticks snapped.
The eyes that were gentle and smiling one moment suddenly became sharp and cold the next moment.