"I'm not worthy to be a princess, don't you?"
As soon as this clear and joyful voice sounded, the scene of chattering and laughing suddenly fell silent.
The girls turned their heads abruptly, and the smiles on their faces became even stiffer when they saw the figure in the light yellow skirt.
Especially Tao Siniang, who said that Tao Ti was only fit to carry shoes for the prince, her fair face turned green with fright, she couldn't sit or stand, she looked at a loss.
Gossiping behind her back was caught by the boss, and Tao Ti felt embarrassed for her.
After calming down a bit, Tao Ti strode forward with a kind smile on her face, "I didn't expect the sisters to be so elegant. Also, this beautiful spring day is the most suitable for chatting."
Tao Siniang said with a sneer, "Wu Niang, didn't you talk to uncle Niang, why did you come out so soon?"
Tao Ti's bright eyes narrowed slightly, and she whispered, "Maybe it's because my sisters miss me, so I suddenly want to go out for a walk."
She deliberately bit the word "remember" very hard, and everyone present felt a little guilty.
Tao Siniang was no exception, the smile on the corners of her lips froze, but she felt strange in her heart, Tao Ti has always been a soft persimmon who can be manipulated by others, even the concubines of the big house don't like her soft cowardice in private temper! Why should I be afraid of her
Thinking of this, Tao Siniang straightened her back, took out her old pie, and said loudly, "Wu Niang, what my sisters said just now was just for fun, don't misunderstand, so as not to hurt you." It broke the harmony of our sisters."
"Harmony?" Tao Ti smiled lightly, but her tone was full of sarcasm, "Si Niang, you are always so knowledgeable, before and now."
"You, what do you mean by that?!"
"It means, you can do whatever you want, and take the first place in the blame." Tao Ti said indifferently, "I caught you guys gossiping behind your back, and now I'm going to beat you up, so I don't want to hurt my peace."
There is a lot of gossip in the deep house compound. The original owner Kong has the title of a concubine's first daughter, but her personality is soft and bullying. She has suffered a lot from these sisters and sisters in the past. Especially this cousin, Tao Siniang, who has caused countless obstacles to the original owner, both openly and secretly.
The original owner took advantage of being dumb and didn't want to break faces with them, but Tao Ti didn't take offense - it's the first time for everyone to be human, why should I let you stomp your nose and step on my face
Seeing that the atmosphere became anxious and tense, someone immediately came out to smooth things over.
"Okay, Si Niang said the wrong thing, but today is Wu Niang's first time returning to your mother's house. It's a good day, don't let the two words spoil your mood."
"That's right, it's all my sisters making jokes, Wu Niang, if you are serious, then it will be boring."
It is said to smooth things over, but let Tao Ti take a step back.
This Tao Siniang immediately hit the snake on the stick, pressed the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, wiped away the tears that did not exist, and said aggrievedly, "Wu Niang, you are now a prince and concubine, and you will be as soon as you come back." Putting on airs towards my sisters. Now it’s just a few small words, are you so fussy... "
As soon as she pretended to cry, someone beside her stepped forward to comfort her.
For a moment, it seemed like Tao Ti was bullying others.
Facing those complaining eyes, Tao Ti couldn't help but applaud Tao Siniang, it's wonderful, it's a good move to retreat!
Since they all felt that she was bullying others, she simply accepted that this person could be set up.
There is power to fight, why doesn't she fight
Tao Ti stood up straight, her red lips slightly raised, if she didn't speak, she looked dignified and gentle. But as soon as he opened his mouth, the aura around him changed, "I am the concubine who is being hired into the East Palace by the Ming Media of the Tian Family. Neither Your Majesty nor the Empress has said whether I am worthy or not. When will it be your turn to say? Or, you Do you think your vision is better than His Majesty's?"
Tao Siniang was just a girl in a boudoir, and she usually only played with her mind in the inner house. When she saw Tao Ti moved out of the emperor, her face immediately changed, and her eyes flickered, "I, I didn't mean that..."
Tao Ti persisted, "Then what do you mean?"
Tao Siniang panicked and faltered, unable to speak.
"You can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk carelessly." Tao Ti approached her, tilted her head, and looked at her with a half-smile, "Do you still think that I am the Tao Ti who can be bullied at will?"
Not to mention Tao Siniang, even the other girls shrank their necks subconsciously, feeling the chill behind them.
Tao Siniang's smile was uglier than crying, and her voice was like a duck being pinched by the neck, "Wu Niang, oh no, Princess Concubine, I was wrong, I was the one who spoke out, please don't worry too much, my lord." …”
"This apology is okay."
Tao Ti raised her eyebrows slightly, and suddenly raised her hand to pat Tao Siniang's face, but her eyes calmly swept over everyone present, "I know what you are thinking, you can think about it, after all, I don't care. Don't care about your thoughts. But before you speak, you'd better weigh your identities and see if you are qualified enough to say it."
Her fingers were a little cold, and when they patted her face, Tao Siniang felt that the cold spread from her cheeks all the way to her whole body, making her stiff and afraid to move.
Tao Ti withdrew her hand and stepped aside, while slowly playing with the jade bracelet on her wrist, she smiled and said, "If you continue to gossip like today, let me know, one counts as one, don't blame me for not being sympathetic. "
Seeing the fearless indifference between her eyebrows and eyes, everyone's heart shuddered, and they all lowered their gazes.
Tao Ti dusted off her dress contentedly, and after pretending to be aggressive, she planned to run away. She never thought that as soon as she turned around, she saw a slender moon-white figure slowly walking out from behind the rockery.
Tao Ti was dumbfounded, "!!!"
Why is little angel Pei Yan here? When did he come? So he saw the whole process of pretending just now
In a daze, she seemed to hear something...
Oh, it was her well-behaved and gentle personality that collapsed.
Tao Ti worked hard to manage her expression, her slender eyelashes trembled slightly, and she smiled, "Your Highness, Your Highness, what a coincidence..."
Pei Yan walked up to her step by step, and nodded slightly, "Yes."
Tao Ti didn't dare to look at him for a while, her little head was in a mess, thinking about how to explain to him.
The scene of the fox pretending to be the tiger and bullying others just now was really not her intention!
Suddenly, a hand was placed on her shoulder, and before she could react, she gently leaned into a clear and pleasant-smelling embrace.
Then Pei Yan's calm and steady voice sounded above her head, "What the Crown Princess said, I think it's right."
Tao Ti, "...!"
The four girls were all startled.
Pei Yan continued, "As the girls of the Hou's mansion, you should be knowledgeable, open-minded and gentle. How can you learn to be a gossip? Besides, the crown princess married into the East Palace, and she is a member of the royal family. What crime should you be guilty of talking about the royal family? If you are not clear, I can ask Yong Weihou to explain it to you."
As soon as these words came out, the faces of the girls changed suddenly, and they lowered their heads in shame, and replied in a low voice, "Your Highness said yes, please forgive me, Your Highness."
If Tao Tihu was a bit guilty of pretending to be a tiger at the beginning, but now that the real tiger stepped forward to support her, she, a little fox, would be very happy in her heart!
Pei Yan lowered her eyes slightly, and caught a glimpse of her little face holding back a smile, and somehow found it funny.
"Shall we go?" he said.
"Yeah." Tao Ti became cute in a second.
Pei Yan just put his arms around her shoulders and left the back garden affectionately.
After they walked away, all the girls raised their heads. Their pretty and delicate faces were red, white and white. Some were unwilling, some were depressed, some were resentful, but more of them were shame that they couldn't bear to be ashamed of!
They were actually compared to gossips by the prince! If this gets out, how can I have the face to face anyone!
I don't know who started it first, you said what you said, and finally everyone pointed to Tao Siniang, "It's all about you to mention whether you are worthy or not. This has offended the princess and offended the prince. , and even bring us to embarrass yourself with you!"
"Yeah, it's all your fault. Why are you talking back to her! If the crown prince really went to tell the uncle about this, we will be miserable..."
Facing the accusations from everyone, Tao Siniang really had tears in her eyes, she stared back angrily, "Didn't you also speak ill of her just now, what face do you have to accuse me now!"
But how could she have opened so many mouths by herself, and she had no choice but to run away in despair amidst the complaints.
That figure was very similar to Tao Ti's appearance when she left in embarrassment when she was ridiculed and made fun of by everyone.
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On the other side, after walking a certain distance, Pei Yan let go of Tao Ti's shoulders.
Thinking of him taking the lead for her just now, Tao Ti raised her small head, her eyebrows and eyes curled up, the corners of her lips curled up, and her dark and bright eyes looked at him gratefully, "Your Highness, thank you for helping me just now."
Pei Yan smiled slightly, "You don't have to be so polite, Gu said that he would protect you outside."
Under the noon sun, mottled light and shadows fell on his fair and handsome face. This beautiful pictorial scene made Tao Ti's heart beat a little faster.
She can kill people with her face, but she is so gentle, who can resist it!
She quickly looked away, cut off the messy thoughts in her head, looked at the gravel road in front of her without squinting, and asked in a low voice, "Your Highness, aren't you in the front hall, why are you here?"
"We chatted in the front hall, and saw that it was almost lunch time, so I wanted to look for you. In fact, I saw you in the front corridor, but you seemed to be thinking, so I didn't see you. , I came to this back garden with you."
Tao Ti was stunned for a moment, so they were just working backwards and forwards.
"Then you heard what I told them?"
"Well, almost."
"..."
Oh, the human design is broken.
Like a deflated ball, Tao Ti drooped her little head, stopped, and tried to explain, "Actually, I'm not so fierce or quarrelsome... I really don't like to make troubles at all. Today This is a special case…”
Pei Yan also stopped, looked at her little furry head, and felt an inexplicable urge to reach out and rub it.
He put his hands behind his back, pursed his lips, and said softly, "I don't know that they were the ones who spoke rudely first today, and you are not wrong."
Hearing this, Tao Ti raised her eyes to look at him, her eyes sparkling like black grapes, and asked tentatively, "Your Highness, do you really think so?"
Seeing her silly little appearance, Pei Yan chuckled, "Yes."
His affirmative answer made Tao Ti's worries disappear. She smiled sweetly and sincerely, "Your Highness, I know you are the best at distinguishing right from wrong."
Hearing her straightforward compliment, Pei Yan raised his eyebrows. After a while, he looked at the bright sun and said softly, "It's time for us to go to the dining room. I guess my father-in-law and mother-in-law are waiting."
"Okay, I've been tossing all morning, and I'm hungry too."
Tao Ti nodded and followed him to the dining room.
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This meal is not good.
The dishes were undoubtedly extremely rich, but Tao Ti didn't dare to eat more than a group of relatives who were not familiar with but wanted to chat awkwardly around the round table, for fear of losing etiquette if she was not careful.
Pei Yan doesn't have a lot of food in the first place, and he only ate some of it today.
Sometimes Tao Ti wondered if he was a god who survived by drinking dew, or how could a tall man who was 1.85 meters tall eat so little every day and survive
After lunch and drinking a cup of tea, Pei Yan took Tao Ti to leave.
When they came, a carriage was full of various gifts, and when they returned, the carriage was not empty, and the gifts from Yongwei Hou Mansion were even richer.
As soon as she got into the carriage, Tao Ti involuntarily relaxed.
When Pei Yan leaned in, she happened to see her rubbing her cheeks with her two little hands raised. Her cheeks are round and plump, white and tender with a natural and healthy pink, like a plump and sweet peach in early summer.
Tao Ti didn't know when it started, she developed an inexplicable sense of trust in Pei Yan. When in front of him, she doesn't have to be tense, she can show her natural side.
Seeing him looking at her, she gave a wry smile and explained, "My face froze from smiling."
Pei Yanshi sat down calmly and asked, "You don't like excitement?"
"It's not that I don't like excitement, it's just that I don't like this kind of excitement... It's still very happy to play with friends I know well." Tao Ti replied solemnly.
Pei Yan moved the incense burner ashes on the small table elegantly, and said softly, "If you feel bored in the palace, you can also invite your friends to play together."
Tao Ti pursed her lips and thought about it. Most of the friends of the original owner were plastic sisters, but there was a chubby little girl named Xu Wenchan who seemed to be having a good time
While thinking, the carriage moved slowly.
Tao Ti asked Pei Yan, "Your Highness, are you full just now?"
Pei Yan asked back with a smile, "Aren't you full?"
Tao Ti was taken aback, a little embarrassed, but she nodded honestly, and said in a low voice, "There are so many people at the table, I can't open my mouth to eat. But I don't think you ate much, how about..."
She paused, observed Pei Yan's expression, and asked, "Shall we eat outside?"
When she came all the way, she found that there were many restaurants and restaurants on the street, and her foodie heart was already ready to move. There are many food bloggers who specialize in ancient food in modern times. Now that I have visited ancient times in person, if I don’t taste the taste of ancient restaurants, it’s really a waste of time to travel.
Pei Yan didn't immediately refuse, nor did he immediately agree. He just opened the curtain and looked outside to see the weather, "It seems to be raining soon."
Tao Ti moved closer to him, and stretched her neck to look, only to see that the sky in the distance was dark and there was a hint of rain.
"Ah, it was fine at first, but it suddenly became cloudy." She muttered in disappointment.
This posture made the distance between the two of them very close, Pei Yan could smell the faint fragrance of her body, and could also see the soft and fine fluff on her snow-white skin.
His eyelashes drooped slightly to cover the darkness in his eyes, he was silent for a moment, and suddenly said something strange, "Let's wait another day."
After he finished speaking, he felt weird for a while, obviously he could choose to remain silent just now, after all, going to a restaurant to eat together is not a necessary behavior.
It is enough for him and her to maintain a superficial harmony, and they are not really husband and wife.
Tao Ti sat up straight, looked at Pei Yan with a pair of beautiful eyes, and confirmed, "Your Highness, will you take me out some other day?"
Those black eyes are like stars in the night sky, shining with a clear light, which is the foodie's desire for delicious food.
Pei Yan met her expectant eyes, and said in a slow and gentle voice, "Well, let's go out for a walk some other day. There are indeed a few restaurants in the city that taste good."
Tao Ti showed a big smile, "Thank you, Your Highness!"
This smile was so bright and bright as a flower that a flash of surprise flashed in Pei Yan's eyes.
There are not many women who admire him, but she is the first one to smile at him like this.
He clenched his fingers calmly and pressed his thin lips straight.