He Shaoting floated back to the house as if stepping on the clouds all the way, and he always had a shallow smile on his face, which also surprised his colleagues who met him on the road, and couldn't help but joke: "General He is the one who met him. What happened?"
He Shaoting pursed his lips and forced the corners of his raised lips down, but his piercing eyes were brighter than usual. He knew that he was in a good mood at first glance, and the more he saw everyone was laughing, he suddenly woke up. : Even though this kid has great military exploits, he is only half the size of a kid, the same age as the bastard in their family who broke their hearts.
He Shaoting, who returned to the mansion, couldn't calm down to deal with business affairs. The phrase "it's him" rang in his ears for a while, and then he seemed to hear the sweet and greasy "Brother Ting".
After a long time, he couldn't help but caress his forehead and smiled.
The little liar was really bad, and his heart was thrown into chaos.
He gently rubbed the jade unicorn he carried on his body, thinking of the scene that the little liar gave him back then, the curvature of his lips raised again.
"This time, it's all about words. Since you already have it in your heart, you must find a way to hold it firmly in your hands." After a long time, he said in a low voice.
This time is different. Unlike when he wanted to catch his grandmother, mother, aunt, and aunt, the crippled little liar will try his best to catch him.
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Looking at the somewhat shy and somewhat happy smile on her face, King Yu felt more and more uncomfortable, but in the end he still agreed in a low voice: "Okay, I won't tell anyone, let alone him."
Tang Junyao bowed her eyebrows and thanked her. She wanted to say a few more words, but she was forcibly pulled away by the five princesses who hurried over.
"Come here, I have something to ask you!" The fifth princess grabbed her wrist and walked quickly.
"Oops, it hurts my hand, so be gentle!" A little girl's charming and angry voice came from a distance.
"I can't break it again, what are you afraid of." It was his Fifth Emperor Sister who replied carelessly.
"It can't be broken, but it will hurt..."
"Okay, okay, I won't catch you, it's so squeamish!"
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The voices of the two people were getting farther and farther away, and King Yu looked at the figure that was gradually receding, with a sense of loneliness and a sense of loss.
I don't know how long it took, he let out a low sigh, and followed in a sullen mood.
While walking through a quiet palace path, I suddenly heard the shouts of the palace servants not far away: "Bold and cheap maid, are you impatient with your life? How dare you collide with your aunt!"
"Aunt forgives, aunt forgives, aunt forgives..." The young woman's slightly trembling voice begged for mercy.
He frowned displeasedly, took a few steps forward, looked through the flowers on the side, and saw three palace servants on the road not far ahead. Among the two palace servants standing, the younger one was younger. He was reprimanding the green-clothed palace maid who was kneeling on the ground, and the green-clothed palace maid kept kowtowing and begging for mercy, while the dirty clothes were scattered all over the floor.
"What are you doing?!" he shouted with a sullen face.
His temperament is gentle and kind, and he hates such bullying behavior the most in his life. Now that he has seen it with his own eyes, he will naturally not stand by and watch.
"His Royal Highness Prince Yu!" When the two palace servants who were standing saw him, they were so frightened that they fell to their knees on the ground.
"The palace servant has made a mistake. She has someone who has taught her. How can it be your turn to abuse the lynching here!" King Yu did not miss the red palm print on half of her cheek when the green-robed Gong E looked up in panic.
"His Royal Highness, the palace maid Ting Ruo she, she is on a rampage, and she is not..." The palace servant who had just taught people stammered to explain, but King Yu interrupted her directly, "Which noble did she run into? In which palace the scene of nobles is so big, and a palace road of Nuoda can also make people collide!"
The female official who had never made a sound finally turned pale, and hurriedly kowtowed: "Your Highness forgives her sins, Xiu'e only saw the master's clothes spilled on the ground, and she impulsively came forward to teach her a lesson in a hurry. It was not intentional, please Your Highness."
King Yu sneered, but he had no intention of entanglement with them. He said indifferently, "Get up, let's not be an example." He was about to leave, but he was stunned when he inadvertently met the eyes of the palace maid named Ting Ruo.
The other party did not expect that he would look over, obviously startled, and quickly lowered his head and did not dare to look again.
"You look up." He squeezed his hands in his sleeves, trying to make his voice sound calmer.
Xu Tingruo tugged at her cuffs and bit her lips lightly. Although she didn't know whether this was a blessing or a curse, for her now, as long as she was able to leave the ghostly place of the Huanyi Bureau, it was a blessing.
She slowly raised her head, her lower lip biting tightly because of nervousness, she glanced at him secretly and quickly looked away.
King Yu took a breath, and for a moment thought he saw the woman in the painting, but when he took a closer look, he couldn't hide the disappointment on his face.
It's not her, it's not her, although it looks a bit similar at first glance, but it's not after all, without her cuteness, and without her anger or laughter, it's a beautiful scenery that makes people unable to look away. .
Xu Tingruo, who peeked over again, saw the disappointment on his face, and suddenly panicked. Although he didn't know why he showed such an expression, he knew that this was her last chance. The days of the bureau will be more difficult.
"His Royal Highness, please save the slave maid! Please save the slave maid!" She rushed over and kowtowed to King Yu who turned around and was about to leave.
King Yu stopped and looked at the woman who knelt down and begged, his brows furrowed unconsciously: "What do you need this king to save you for?"
"I beg Your Highness to take the slaves out of the palace. The slaves are willing to be cattle and horses in this life to repay His Highness's grace. Please save the slaves and slaves!"
King Yu rubbed his forehead with a headache: "What's your name? Which palace did you belong to? Where are you working now?"
"Slave Xu Tingruo, who used to be a maid in the East Palace, is now working in the Huanyi Bureau. The slave does not dare to expect to be able to wait by His Highness's side, but only hopes to find a place to live in the palace." Xu Tingruo raised her face, her eyes drenched in water vapor deeply. Looking at him, his eyes were full of requests, but his voice sounded very sad and moving.
King Yu was stunned, staring at her, not sure if it was his delusion, but he always felt that the woman's eyebrows were somewhat similar to the woman in his painting, but if you look closely, it will be clear It is obvious that the two look nothing alike.
He lowered his eyes and remained silent for a long time.
Xu Tingruo was in a hurry, especially when she felt that the two people beside her were staring at her with angry eyes, and she knew even more that if she could not successfully escape from the clothing bureau this time, what awaited her would be the days and nights of life rather than death. .
"Your Highness..." She whispered again sadly, her long eyelashes flickered a few times, and then they were stained with crystal tears, looking pitiful and fragile.
"Get up, you will go back to the palace with this king, and this king will say hello to the inner chamberlain." Finally, she heard an answer like the sound of heaven.
"Thank you, Your Highness, thank you, Your Highness!" She was surprised and delighted, and kowtowed several times at King Yu before standing up slowly.
Taking advantage of the opportunity to bow her head and stand up, she glanced at the two palace servants, her eyes flashed with fierceness, but when she faced King Yu, she was the helpless and pitiful girl who had been oppressed.
But it was said that Tang Junyao was dragged back to her palace by the Fifth Princess, and she heard the Fifth Princess couldn't wait to ask, "Did you know the lay Buddhist monk earlier?"
Tang Junyao didn't answer and asked, "Why does the princess ask this question?"
"I suspect that he is deliberately avoiding me these days. I have been to many people who have gone back to Haitang study without seeing him. Just now, I thought about it, when I saw him in Haitang study for the first time, you He was also present. And if I think about it carefully, his accent sounds like someone from He'an, didn't your family used to be in He'an mansion?" The fifth princess shared her suspicions one by one.
Tang Junyao just thought it was funny. It seems that this silly girl has finally come back to her senses. She thought that she would continue to be excited and immersed in the infinite worship of the layman!
"Has he never revealed his true identity to you?" she asked again.
The fifth princess held her face in distress and said, "He won't say it! He won't even say his real name, just let me call him a layman. Not to mention tell me where my family lives and where my ancestral home is. Where, who else is at home?"
"Then does he know your identity?" Tang Junyao continued to ask.
"I don't know. Every time I see him, he is dressed as an ordinary girl, and he has never revealed his identity." The fifth princess thought for a while and replied.
"Why do you think he's deliberately avoiding you recently?"
"That's how I felt. There were a few times when I clearly saw him entering the Haitang study, but when I hurried in, the shop owner said that he had never been there. He clearly did, and dared to think I was blind. What!" The Fifth Princess was both wronged and annoyed.
Tang Junyao thought about it carefully. Earlier, she was busy with Yan Wu and the wanted Fang Yi, and later she only cared about her Moonlight Young General, but she didn't pay much attention to Tang Huaimian, and she didn't know what he was thinking.
But... She opened her lips and said slowly: "Have you ever thought that maybe he guessed your identity, so he avoided seeing you?"
The fifth princess was taken aback: "How did he guess it?"
Tang Junyao smiled slightly.
Her third brother, who had traveled far and wide across the river, was far more knowledgeable than Master Xiao Tang. Maybe he didn't doubt the identity of the Fifth Princess at first, but after getting along for a long time, he would always notice it. After all, this silly girl is a straight-up girl and is not good at deceiving people.
As for concealing his identity from the Fifth Princess at the beginning, it was just a kind of self-protection for the people he knew for the first time, and it was also because he was writing the script without his family, so naturally it was not easy to show his true identity.
Seeing that the fifth princess didn't answer, she didn't care, and said deflatedly: "Yes, he is so smart, he can definitely guess it. Then what do you mean by him? Is he disgusting my identity as a princess?"
Tang Junyao: "...I think he's mostly trying to avoid suspicion."
"Avoid suspicion? What's there to avoid suspicion? I just like him, and I have thought about it. After he is willing to tell me his true identity, I will ask my father and mother to marry me to him!" Waist, he hummed his own thoughts.
Tang Junyao's eyes widened in surprise. So this silly girl has a crush on her third brother
"Little Tangtang, tell me, what's his name? Where does his family live? I'm going to find him and ask him clearly. He's not a beast. As for avoiding him like this?" The fifth princess took her hand and acted like a spoiled child ask.
Tang Junyao was silent for a moment, then thoughtfully said, "I can't tell you for the time being."
"Why? Why can't you tell me?" The fifth princess pouted in dissatisfaction.
"I have to see what he means first? What is in my heart, and should I respect his decision?" Tang Junyao answered patiently.
The fifth princess thought for a while, then understood her concerns, snorted lightly, but did not ask any further.
Anyway, she basically knows all the people Xiao Tangtang knows, and there are few people she doesn't know, especially the men, which are even more rare. So, even if she didn't say it, she would always find a way to know.
Tang Junyao could naturally guess what she was thinking, and also knew that Tang Huaimian's identity could not be hidden for too long, but she just didn't know what her third brother thought about this silly girl.
When she left the palace and returned home, she went to the second room to find Tang Huaimian, but she would have met Qian and Jiang's mother-in-law on the way. Sweeping straight at her with a critical look, she was a little unhappy.
"I still have something to do, so I won't disturb the two of you." She didn't bother to greet the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and left with a few polite words at will.
Qian shi frowned and glanced at her back, and said meanly: "Look, her ass is not big enough, and she is not easy to raise at first glance. She has a bad temper and doesn't understand a bit of etiquette. If she enters our Chen family in the future The door, it must be a good student to teach her the rules!"
Jiang shi was taken aback by her straightforward words, and looked around in panic. After realizing that no one noticed the situation here, she lowered her voice and said, "Mother, what are you talking about! Brother Yong is whimsical. , is it possible that even you are fooling around with him? Is this one so easy to marry?"
Qian Shi was unhappy: "Our family wants money and money, land and land, and a house and a house. Brother Yong is even more talented. There is also an uncle who is a high official, and an aunt who is a madam. It's hard to be worthy. Can't you go to her, a yellow-haired girl?"
Jiang Shi had a headache for a while, and didn't know how to persuade her.
Let's not talk about whether the brother-in-law's grade is considered a high-ranking official, even if he is a high-ranking official, but the third child of the old Tang family is not a small fish or shrimp. It hurts like something, how picky it is to pick a son-in-law in the future!
Besides, the girl who urinated in and out of the palace, the royal family's nobles, dignitaries, and nobles have a lot more knowledge, so what does the incompetent son of his family use to compete with others
Tang Junyao didn't know what Qian's idea was. She walked quickly to Tang Huaimian's courtyard and saw that he was sitting by the window in a daze. Tang Huaimian's whole body trembled, and when he saw her, he said angrily, "Bad girl, you scared the third brother."
Tang Junyao approached him with a smile: "Third brother, what are you thinking? It's silly to think so deeply."
"Why don't you think..." Tang Huaimian avoided her eyes with some guilty conscience.
"Are you thinking about the Fifth Princess?"
"What's the fifth princess and the sixth princess, I don't... She is the fifth princess? The most favored fifth princess in the palace?!" Tang Huaimian pretended to be confused at first, but suddenly woke up and widened his eyes in disbelief. .
"Could it be that you don't know her identity yet?" Tang Junyao was surprised.
Tang Huaimian was stunned, and after a long while, he muttered: "I only guessed that she must be from an extraordinary background, but I didn't expect that she was actually the fifth princess of the dynasty, Wu Jing'an, yes, the fifth princess of Jing'an, I just thought of it now! "
He patted his forehead, looking very annoyed.
Tang Junyao was speechless, Wu Jingan... That silly girl couldn't even afford a fake name, and the always smart third brother didn't even think about the fifth princess in the palace.
"Then what have you been avoiding her for recently?" she asked calmly.
Tang Huaimian immediately replied with a bit of a twist: "I said you are not allowed to make fun of you! I just, I just suddenly felt that Miss Wu, no, the Fifth Princess seems to have a little interest in me, so, so... just that a little bit. I'm sorry."
Then he glared at her and emphasized: "You are not allowed to make fun of me for being affectionate! Let me tell you, your third brother, I can be a master at writing a storybook, and you can see the girl's mind at a glance."
After a while, he was discouraged again: "But if she is the fifth princess, then I misunderstood."
Tang Junyao asked tentatively, "What if you didn't misunderstand?"
"Then stay further away from her." Tang Huaimian replied without hesitation.
"Why stay away from her?"
"It's not right to be a householder, and it's still entangled in what to do." Tang Huaimian said with a bit of disappointment.
It's a pity, it's rare to meet a girl who can chat with him and is so in tune!
Tang Junyao immediately understood his concerns.
So he noticed that the girl was thinking about him, maybe he was a little tempted, but he found out that the girl was from an extraordinary background, and he was probably a good match in his current status, so he cut the mess with a quick knife and avoided it.
She smiled slightly: "But third brother, there is something you need to know. The fifth princess already knows that we know each other. Even if you avoid seeing us, she will know your true identity sooner or later."
Tang Huai mian lowered his head: "Then let's think about it at that time!"
Seeing him so listless, Tang Yunyao laughed dumbly, and simply didn't say anything more. Anyway, with the temperament of the fifth princess, once she recognized it, she would not give up easily. Gotta get tangled up.
At night, Tang Yunyao kept looking at the broken longevity lock as always, Lan Chun, who was making the bed, saw this and said, "This longevity lock is broken, don't you plan to ask someone to repair it? ? This thing should be able to be repaired, and it is not like that amulet, it will be broken if it is burned out."
"What amulet?" Tang Junyao asked casually.
"That's the one. The one in the box. I saw it during the day when I was packing. It's all burnt out. It's useless to keep it. Why should I keep it?" Handed the amulet of the year to her.
Tang Junyao took it over and took a look, remembering that this was the amulet that was said to have blocked her when she was a child. Later, she asked for it from the Wang family, and it was kept by Bi Wen, and I don't know how Lan Chun took it. to find out.
"Keep it! It doesn't take up much space. My grandmother told me to keep it well and don't throw it away. Anyway, it was once blocked for me." She threw it back to Lan Chun.
Lan Chun took it and put it under the round table beside him, and continued to make the bed.
There was a louder knock in the distance, and Tang Yunyao on the bed closed her eyes and let out a burst of even breathing. I don't know how long it took, the purse she put on the pillow emitted a faint light, and a wisp of blue smoke slowly drifted out. After a while, a figure stood quietly beside the bed, staring blankly at the person who was just sleeping on the bed. The girl is ecstatic.
"Yaoyao..." After a long time, the man let out a faint sigh, the moonlight shone into the room and shone on her face, that face was that of Yan Wu, who had disappeared for a long time.
Yan Wu lowered her eyes and looked at the sleeping face on the bed with a bit of sadness.
"I'm sorry, Yaoyao, it's all me who has troubled you. If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't have to work so hard in your previous life, you could grow up carefree and unfettered by your loving parents and brothers just like in this life. Big."
Speaking of this, there were a few tears in her eyes.
"I should have died early, just like this life, my body was buried in the loess, and my soul disappeared into the world, dust to dust, dust to dust. Instead of being at the mercy of others like in my previous life, let a person who shouldn't have The body that exists in this world traps your soul."
Her tears finally fell down without holding back the 'patta'.
"Yaoyao, you have to remember that you are Tang Yunyao, you were Tang Yunyao in your last life and this life! No matter which life you have, there has never been any Xu Yunyao. 'Xu Yunyao' is just a ridiculous and whimsical person. conspiracy."
"You must also remember that my name is Tingruo, Xu Tingruo. But in this life, I prefer to be called Yan Wu."
Her tears fell even more fiercely, and her voice was a little choked, but she was afraid that her cry would disturb the person on the bed, so she bit the veil and swallowed the cry. .
She actually recovered early in the morning, as long as she was by Yaoyao's side, no matter how big the injury was, she could heal, just because from the previous life, she was a hidden existence, nourished by Yaoyao's soul.
She is a thief, a thief from beginning to end, nourishing her frail soul by stealing Yaoyao's life.
With her like this, what face is left by her side? What face is there to enjoy her kindness to herself? Yan Wu, who has lost her memory, can cling to her stubbornly, but Xu Tingruo, who can recover her memory, does not have the qualifications, nor the face!
After a long while, she wiped a handful of tears at will, then took a deep look at the face on the bed, and finally turned around and drifted away from the quiet room little by little.
"Awu!" Tang Yunyao woke up suddenly, 'hula' pulled the curtain aside, but in the big room of Kenuo, besides her, there was no other figure of Yan Wu.
"What's wrong with the girl? But you had a nightmare?" Lan Chun, who was on duty at night outside, hurried in in a coat.
"It's alright, it's just, I just dreamed of a friend I haven't seen for a long time." Tang Junyao forced a smile at her, but there was an inexplicable feeling of emptiness in her heart.
"Thinking about it every day and dreaming at night, maybe the girl will see your friend tomorrow!" Lan Chun didn't know what she was thinking, and comforted her with a smile.
"It would be great if it was true." Tang Junyao murmured, and lay back again under her service. After a while, he took the purse by the pillow into his hand, took out the longevity lock inside, and rubbed the crack on it back and forth.
"What's the matter with you? Is it because your injury hasn't healed yet, or is it too sleepy? It's been a while, why haven't you come out yet?" She complained in a low voice.
After a long while, she sighed, put the longevity lock in her purse and put it away, pulled the quilt on her body, and slowly closed her eyes.
It's just that this time she couldn't sleep for a long time, and I don't know if it was her illusion. She always felt that someone was crying in her ear and said to her over and over again, 'My name is Ting Ruo'.
But who is Ting Ruo? Is that Xu Tingruo from the East Palace
It wasn't until there was a faint sound in the distance that she finally fell asleep in a daze.