Chapter 21：

After lunch, the rain outside is still falling. It seemed that he couldn't stop for a while, so Pei Yan played Shuanglu with the sixth princess for a while.

After playing three rounds, the sixth princess was sleepy, Tao Ti asked the nurse to take her to the side hall for a nap.

In the rainy spring, Tao Ti lazily leaned in front of the window, staring at the dense rain.

Pei Yan didn't know when he came over, and said softly, "Where to appreciate the rain?"

"... Hmm." Tao Ti turned her head and saw him sitting down. She also straightened up, holding the pot and pouring him a cup of tea.

The air was a bit cold, and the fragrant jasmine tea contained a cloud of white mist, and Pei Yan's handsome and innocent face became more and more fairy-like in the hazy white mist.

"Thank you." His cold fingers took the cup steadily, and the warmth of the cup wall seemed to enter the blood from the skin and poured into the heart.

He took a sip of tea slowly, and he whispered, "I didn't expect Xiao Liu to fall in with you like this."

"Fei Fei is very cute, I like her a lot." Tao Ti reluctantly shrugged, "I just didn't expect to eat a dessert and cry, and it really shocked me..."

Pei Yan slowly raised his eyes, his eyes were gentle and calm. He comforted a few words and said, "Xiao Liu's mother and concubine passed away three years ago."

Tao Ti's hand holding the teacup slammed, and the tea almost poured out.

She looked at Pei Yan incredulously. Seeing that there was no joking on his face, her expression gradually became serious. It took a long time before she said, "How could this be..."

No wonder she said that when she asked the six princesses to return to the palace to find their mother and concubine, the atmosphere suddenly became so weird——

Ah ah ah, I really want to hammer myself to death! Didn't the words he said pierce the hearts of the six princesses?

Tao Ti only felt guilty when she thought of the pitiful look of the little girl with tears in her eyes.

Pei Yan swept lightly, and then guessed what she was thinking, Linglong said to him the first thing.

"He who doesn't know is not guilty." He sat with his back straight, his slender jade fingers gently rubbed the wall of the cup, and whispered, "Not long after you arrived in the East Palace, Tong Gong also met Xiao Liu twice. I don't know her. His life experience is also normal."

Tao Ti lowered her eyes, stayed quiet for a while, then raised her head again, and asked solemnly, "Is it convenient to tell me about her life experience?"

Her bright and dark eyes were not curious, but full of care.

The light was too clear, like a mountain spring passing through Pei Yan's heart.

He turned his face to the window and looked at the rain outside the window indifferently. After a long while, thin lips lightly opened, telling the story of the six princesses.

"Su Bin was drafted into the palace nine years ago and was not particularly favored. The father only called fortune a few times when she first entered the palace. Later, she became pregnant and gave birth to Xiaoliu. Because Xiaoliu is a father. The emperor’s youngest child, the emperor would occasionally go to Su Bi to sit and sit... Later, it seemed that in such a spring day, Su Bi suddenly became ill and died..."

His voice is very nice, and in the patter of rain, there is a faint melancholy and sadness, which makes people calm down.

"At that time, Xiaoliu had just turned five years old. On the day Su Bi was out of the funeral, Xiaoliu disappeared, and the whole harem was looking for her. Gu happened to go to the library to look for an ancient book and found her hiding in the corner behind the bookshelf, crying ..."

He also stretched out his hand to make a virtual comparison, "At the time she was sitting on the ground with her knees on her knees, a small ball, like a kitten. Later, the lone put her to sleep and carried her back..."

As if caught in the memories of the past, Pei Yan's voice was filled with a cold calm, "What's the use of crying."

No one can accompany anyone to the end, save the strength to cry, and try to live is the business.

Tao Ti heard his fluttering sigh, and suddenly remembered that Pei Yan had lost his mother at the age of five.

She quietly looked at the man in front of her, his face turned sideways, the bridge of his nose straight, and the jaw line clearly defined. From this point of view, his eyelashes are getting longer and longer, not curled up, just hanging slightly, like a small fan carefully woven, covering the dark emotions floating in his deep black eyes.

The corners of his lips are naturally upturned. I don't know if it is natural or the habit of laughing over the past 20 years. The muscles have formed natural.

His smile is still very beautiful, like a white feather falling gently in the white snow, so gentle, and with a bit of sadness.

On the Sixth Princess Road, she told her that among the emperor brothers and sisters, she likes the prince elder brother the most. The prince's brother cared for her very much, and she could feel that the caring was very sincere, neither acting nor false.

Pei Yan is so good to the Six Princesses. Will he see his own shadow from the little girl who lost her mother since childhood?

Thinking of Xiao Pei Yan falling into the ice lake after losing his mother, he was accompanied by illness after illness, bowl after bowl of bitter and unpleasant soup... Tao Ti looked at Pei Yan with more sympathy. .

The room was quiet, only the sound of lingering rain was heard.

After a while, like a summary, Pei Yan said, "When I was a little six, I missed my biological mother for a while, and I didn't control my emotions well, so you don't need to blame yourself."

Seeing that he still didn't forget to comfort himself, Tao Ti smiled at him and filled his cup with some hot tea.

The slender wrist was slightly exposed, and the white jade bracelet was shining brightly in the dim light, and her posture of adding tea was gentle and gentle, as if time had become long in her every move.

"His Royal Highness also missed the first queen when I was young, right?" She said abruptly.

"..."

Pei Yan's fingertips trembled slightly.

Quiet, very quiet.

Tao Ti regretted it after asking. She didn't know what happened just now, and suddenly wanted to know what happened when he was a child. For a while, she forgot that they were not close relations...

It might be okay to ask friends, but the two of them... are she and Pei Yan friends?

She couldn't make a definition, and she didn't think about it for the time being. Anyway, talking shallowly and deeply is a taboo in interpersonal communication! I still apologize first--

"Right..."

"Yeah." The sweet voice rang at the same time.

Tao Ti was startled, "...?"

Pei Yan nodded seriously and said, "I will think about it."

When I was young, I wanted to think a lot, but when I grew up...try hard not to think about it.

He originally thought that the memory of the mother and queen would gradually fade over time, but he did not expect that the bond between mother and child could be so deep and so long.

Every time I think about it inadvertently, my heart will always become heavy and tormented, which is the bitterness that any bowl of soup in the world can't match.

"The queen must miss you very much, too." Tao Ti comforted, after a little thought, she said to Pei Yan that "people will become stars and fly to the sky after death."

After hearing that, Pei Yan chuckled, her peachy eyes fixedly looked at her, thin lips curled up, "Guo is not a child, you should talk to Xiao Liu...maybe she will believe it."

Tao Ti, "..."

Well, she also feels that this comforting routine is too old.

Pei Yan calmly changed the subject, "Speaking of which, how did Jiang hit the milk? I was a little curious to make Xiaoliu cry."

When it comes to eating Tao Ti, she has something to say, she said, "This dessert is actually very simple, squeeze the **** out of the juice, add the fresh milk to the sugar and boil the rose petals, cook until small bubbles appear, and then quickly add the milk. Pour into the **** juice and let the two ingredients collide and fuse naturally. Finally, cover the bowl and wait for a quarter of an hour, then open it and it's ready."

Pei Yan raised his eyebrows, "Listen to your description. Milk is used to hit **** juice. That should be called milk hitting ginger. Why is it called **** hitting milk?"

Tao Ti, "..."

Brother, you're talking about heaven again, do you know?

After pondering for a moment, she explained with no confidence, "Probably the name is smooth, just like Roujiamo is not called Mojiarou."

Pei Yan, "What is Roujiamo?"

Tao Ti, "..." Broken mouth, this broken mouth!

She chuckled, "It's equivalent to a kind of pie, I'll make it for you next time I have a chance."

In order to prevent this "curious baby" from asking some weird questions, Tao Ti stood up and said, "I'll make you a bowl of **** bumping milk and try it. Recently, it has been cold and rainy. Ginger juice has the effect of warming the stomach and preventing vomiting. It’s good for you to drink a bowl of warming stomach."

Pei Yanqian smiled, "It's okay, I'm sorry."

Not long after, Pei Yan tasted the sweet and smooth taste of **** hitting milk.

"The scent of milk neutralizes the pungency of ginger, the unique taste of **** eases the sweetness of milk, and the rose adds a fragrance to it... It's really good," he commented earnestly.

The rain outside was a bit weaker, and Pei Yan left after eating a bowl of **** and milk.

Just before leaving, he suddenly said to Tao Ti, "After the spring tax is finished, I will take you out of the palace alone."

Tao Ti was stunned for a while.

Pei Yan said, "Gone promised you last time, don't you remember?"

Tao Ti nodded hurriedly, smiling, "Remember to remember." But I didn't expect you to remember.

Pei Yan smiled at her and left.