Linlang Palace
"Your Highness, we found Miss Tao..."
The third prince has been waiting for news for two days, and now there is finally news about her. In desperation, the third prince put down the memorial and looked up at the guard, "How is it? Is she still alive?"
The guard's expression was a bit intriguing. At first, the third prince thought there was something wrong with Tao Yaoyao. After learning that she was still alive, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's just a woman. As long as she is still alive and can give the Chu family an explanation when they come back, the rest doesn't matter.
If that woman wants to take this matter seriously, you don’t need to be polite..."
"Reporting to the third prince, our people found her from the...iron mine cave in the back mountain of Xinghua Village."
What?
The third prince opened his eyes wide and looked at the guard in disbelief. After confirming that the matter was true, his expression changed countless times in just a few moments.
The guards have followed the third prince for so many years, and this is the first time they have seen such complicated emotions on his face. However, this matter is of great importance. If one of them fails, all of them may lose their heads.
"Who else knows about this?"
The guard thought for a while, "Our people and the people working in the mine." After a pause, the guard continued, "There was a conflict between our people and the people working in the mine..."
"idiot."
The third prince got angry and smashed the things on the table. "Then why are you still standing there? Hurry up and get someone to deal with the aftermath. If there is anything wrong with this prince, none of you will have a good life."
After the guards left, the third prince's face was still extremely ugly.
Tao Yaoyao, since you want to seek death, don't blame this prince for being ruthless.
Tao Ranju
"Miss, you are back. Do you know that you scared this slave to death? She thought something happened to you..."
Qiu Gui knelt beside the bed, crying so hard that if the housekeeper hadn't brought the doctor over quickly, Tao Yaoyao's ears would probably have become useless.
Why didn't I realize this girl could cry so much before?
"Although the eldest lady has many injuries on her body, fortunately they are all superficial injuries. She will be fine after applying medicine and taking a good rest for a few days."
The doctor left the ointment and prescribed some nourishing prescriptions before leaving. The housekeeper made sure that she didn't have time, so he left Tao Ranju with his servants.
As soon as these people left, Qiu Gui started to cry again. Tao Yaoyao sat up from the bed and said, "Shut up, I'm hungry. Come find some food."
"Miss..." Qiu Gui looked at her in surprise.
Tao Yaoyao saw her worry and pulled the wound on her arm. Qiu Gui was worried at first, but when she saw that the wounds were fake, she immediately felt relieved.
"Miss, you really scared this slave to death just now."
"Okay, hurry up and prepare something to eat."
When Qiu Gui went out to prepare meals, she sat on the bed alone and thought about today's events. Although what happened in the afternoon happened suddenly, she really thought she was back.
Although she doesn't care about reputation, she won't let others arrange her reputation.
Furthermore, what Xie Lan was investigating was obviously a matter of losing her head. She was a boudoir woman who was in danger, and she didn't want to get involved in his affairs.
The reason why she was willing to explain what happened today was that she really liked the villagers of Xinghua Village. Since they were destined to know each other, she wanted to help them within her ability.
Secondly, she wanted to use this incident to make a deal with the third prince. "
Sure enough, the third prince came to Tao's house early the next morning. When Tao Yanyan learned about this, he immediately dressed up and came to see the third prince, but now all the third prince's thoughts were on Tao Yaoyao.
After arriving at Tao Ran's residence, he immediately kicked out all the servants in the house. When Qiu Gui refused to leave, the third prince's face darkened, "What, what this prince said doesn't work anymore?"
"Have you forgotten, the third prince, that this is the Tao family? Even if the third prince wants to show off as a prince, he should not come to the Tao family. Furthermore, this is my lady's boudoir. Even if we are an unmarried couple, we are not married yet. , if I really let her go, people outside won’t know how to arrange this lady.”
"Hmph, with Miss Tao's current reputation, do you still need someone else to arrange it?"
On the second day after Tao Yaoyao disappeared, there were rumors in Kyoto that he stayed up all night. Although these rumors were suppressed by him later, some people are still spreading them now.
What the common people are listening to is amusement, and they don’t care whether the things are true or false.
What's more, there is a saying that goes like this, there is no smoke without fire.
"The Third Prince is the instigator of why this young lady has ended up like this. The Third Prince is trying to kill someone. Do you have to force this young lady to die?"
Tao Yaoyao supported Ying's weak body and waited several times before he stood up.
At this time, Tao Yanyan came in with his servants, "Sister, how can you talk to the third prince like this? You have been missing for the past few days. The third prince is very anxious. The whole city of Kyoto will be turned upside down by him." If my sister doesn't come back, the third prince may have to report to the imperial court."
Tao Yanyan originally had good intentions and wanted to say a few nice words to the third prince, and by the way, he arranged to tell Tao Yaoyao that he didn't know what was good and what was good. Who knew that the flattery would fall on the horse's leg.
"Shut up, who let you in?"
The third prince scolded her sharply, "Go out, I have something to tell the eldest lady."
"Your Highness..." Tao Yanyan lied aggrievedly. If it had been in the past, the third prince would have softened his heart and let her stay. But today, the third prince seemed to have taken the wrong medicine. He didn't even look at her, and she didn't move. , and even asked someone to pull her away, making Tao Yanyan angry and venting all his dissatisfaction on Tao Yaoyao.
"My eldest sister is so vicious. She doesn't like His Highness, and she wants to arrange things behind my sister's back. I'll go tell daddy right now."
After Tao Yanyan left, the room suddenly became quiet.
The third prince came to the bed and took out a dagger from his waist in front of her. He raised his hand and landed the dagger on Qiu Gui's neck, "Get out, don't let me say it a third time."
"My slave, I won't leave." Qiu Gui turned pale with fright, but as long as Tao Yaoyao didn't speak, she would never leave. "This slave's life was given by the lady, and I will only listen to the lady in this life."
"It's sincere." The third prince's patience was exhausted and when he was about to take action, Tao Yaoyao took advantage of him not paying attention and threw some powder at the third prince.
"What did you get?" The third prince slapped the powder in front of his eyes and cursed, "Tao Yaoyao, don't forget, what happened to you the last time you attacked me?
This prince is your majesty’s most beloved prince…”
"Everyone in the entire Kyoto City knows that the Third Prince is His Majesty's favorite prince. However, neither the entire Kyoto City nor Your Majesty should know what the Third Prince is doing behind the scenes."
Tao Yaoyao looked at him neither humble nor arrogantly. At this time, she changed from her previous weakness. She was obviously injured and she was so weak that he could crush her to death with one finger, but she looked at him without fear.
"You are really not afraid of death." The third prince was so angry that he did not bother to attack Qiu Gui and came to the bed with a sneer. "Do you know where the last person who threatened me is now?"
"Mass grave?" Tao Yaoyao joked, "That person is unlucky, but I have always had good luck, so I believe that I will still be alive and well this time next year."
Tao Yaoyao faced the Third Prince's rage and reminded her, "Besides the Third Prince's people and me, there was another group of people near the mine yesterday."
"Who?" What the third prince fears most is this situation. Unexpectedly, what he fears most has come, "Tao Yaoyao, you'd better not play any tricks, otherwise this prince will definitely make your life worse than death."
"The third prince is right, I am greedy for life and afraid of death, so I don't want to remember these, as long as..."
"what do you want?"
The third prince asked through gritted teeth.
When Tao Yaoyao saw this, she rarely laughed out loud, "The third prince is looking at me like this, I can't explain it." After she finished speaking, in order to match her fear, she even reached out and patted her chest.
When the third prince saw this, his expression became even more ugly. "Tao Yaoyao, you are looking for death."
"Third Prince, you know very well that you can't kill me now, so why would you say such embarrassing words? If I were you, I would patiently listen to what the other person has to say."
The third prince took a deep breath and said nothing this time.
After Tao Yaoyao was satisfied, she talked about her condition, "It's very simple. Help me clarify the rumors outside."
The third prince was ready for her to ask the lion to open his mouth, but he did not expect that in the end she made such a simple condition. Seeing this, the third prince was filled with anger, but suddenly half of it disappeared.
"good."
After saying that, the third prince sat aside and waited for her to tell her the following conditions, but after waiting and waiting, he could hear her snoring later and she did not speak. The third prince was furious.
"Tao Yaoyao, wait with me."
After the third prince left angrily, Qiu Gui knelt on the ground in fright. It took a long time before she came back to her senses and said, "Miss, you shouldn't have angered the third prince just now."
"If I don't anger him, he won't plot against me?" Tao Yaoyao sneered, "You have to get used to it. The relationship between me and the third prince has just begun."
"Get out of your way, I will definitely go in and tear this bitch apart today."
Tao Yanyan came in shouting and cursing, and went straight to the bed. Tao Yaoyao looked at her angrily as if she were a clown, "Tao Yanyan, you are so brave. It seems that in the past few days, You didn’t take a word of the warning I gave you to heart.”
"Are you warning me? Tao Yaoyao, I'm afraid you don't know that you are a wanton woman now, a woman with a bad reputation. You actually want to climb up to the third prince. Stop dreaming."
Thinking of the rumors outside, Tao Yanyan looked proud.
Snapped!
Bang bang!
With three slaps, Tao Yaoyao's anger from early in the morning was relieved.
"Okay, you can go."
"Tao Yaoyao, I'm going to kill you."
