Chapter 52：

Back to Luoyang Palace again, the sky was completely dark.

Linglong took Xia Sang down to settle down, Pei Yan explained to Fu Xirui, and then accompanied Tao Ti back to Jixiandian.

Tao Ti quietly walked to the couch and sat down, with his back bent lazily, as if his soul had been drawn away, weak and his eyes straight.

It wasn't until a well-knotted hand holding a celadon cup appeared in front of her, that her dark eyeballs turned.

"Come on, have a cup of tea." Pei Yan said softly.

"Thank you." Tao Ti took it.

The tea is warm, slightly bitter in the mouth, and sweet in the aftertaste.

Pei Yan sat down next to her, stared at her for a moment, and asked, "Since you came out of Prince Mu's Mansion, you have looked like you are out of your mind. Are you still thinking about that?"

Tao Ti glanced at him, her pink lips pressed slightly, and nodded, "Yeah."

Pei Yan said, "Don't worry, if you have flattening and staring there, he will do it well."

Tao Ti gave a deep hum, but the heaviness between her eyebrows and eyes was not less than a bit.

In the silence, she drank a little bit of tea in the cup, and frowned with two thin eyebrows, and said worriedly, "His Royal Highness, this matter today, we can be regarded as having a relationship with Prince Mu's Mansion... When we are leaving, I see When the faces of King Mu and his wife are very bad, will they jump the wall in a hurry and retaliate against us..."

She still remembers that when Pei Yan took her away, Princess Mu's eyes seemed to be poisoned, gloomy and bitter.

It's really... terrible!

Pei Yan was stunned for a moment, it turned out that she was afraid of this.

His tall body leaned toward her, raised his hand, and his broad palm pressed her little head.

Tao Ti was still holding the cup blankly, raised her head puzzledly, and looked at him in confusion, "Your Highness?"

Pei Yan's voice is low and sweet, "Don't be afraid."

Tao Ti, "..."

Pei Yan's words were gentle and calm, and there was a kind of majesty temperament in his body, as if everything was under his control.

He said, "I believe in loneliness, and loneliness will deal with it."

Tao Ti looked at his deep peach eyes, and a tight heart gradually loosened.

Since he said he could handle it well, she believed him.

"His Royal Highness..."

"Um?"

"I believe you."

"good."

"Then...can you take your hands off my head, I want to get some food."

"..."

Pei Yan was startled slightly, removed his hand from her little head, laughed, "offended."

Her little head is really easy to touch, the green silk is smooth, the hand feels comfortable, and when she is under his palm, she looks particularly well-behaved.

Tao Ti's white face was a little red, and he stood up as soon as he put the tea cup down.

Pei Yan called to stop her, "I have been tossing for a day today, but you are also tired from seeing you alone. Let the dining room do it for dinner, right?"

Tao Ti shrugged her shoulders and sighed deeply, "It's okay."

Although I didn't see the corpses with my own eyes, but a little bit of brain replenishment, the mood fell unconsciously, and the appetite was not much. It's just that she is hungry fast, and if she doesn't eat at night, she can't sleep hungry.

Pei Yan ordered to go down and let the dining room prepare some light porridge, not chicken, duck or fish.

At night, the two quietly used some mung bean porridge under the candlelight.

After going to bed after the shower, Tao Ti was already very tired, but Tao Ti still couldn't sleep.

When she turned over again, Pei extended his hand to press on her shoulder.

Tao Ti suddenly froze.

His body is facing her, his arms are on her body, in this posture, it is like he is holding her in his arms, intimate and ambiguous...

Fortunately, she had her back to him, otherwise she would have had her body temperature soared, and she would have been cremated on the spot.

Pei Yan's lazy voice rang behind her, "Aren't you sleepy?"

Tao Ti didn't dare to move, her nervous voice trembled, "Fortunately... it's a little sleepy..."

"dishonest."

"...?"

"What are you thinking about, talk to Gu." He asked.

Tao Ti didn't know how close he was, his arm was resting on her, and the tip of her nose was also lingering in the clear and pleasant cold rosin on his body, but the two of them did not touch each other, as if they were separated for a while. There is a distance like nothing.

Her brain was blank and her heartbeat was fast. When she heard him ask, she subconsciously replied, "I wonder how Princess Mu and King Mu can be so bad! The more I think about it, the more angry I get, and I can't sleep."

Pei Yan gave a faint hum, and said in his heart, the little girl is still too innocent, her heart is sinister, and there will always be worse than the worst.

Even he, lying beside her, is not a kind person.

Seeing her body tense badly, he took back his hand, afraid that she was tired, lay down again, closed his eyes and asked, "What else do you think."

Tao Ti breathed a sigh of relief and whispered, "Still thinking about what retribution they will get? Will the prince go to jail for a lifetime? Prince Mu is really willing to kill his relatives righteously? Princess Mu will definitely not give up, right? Your Royal Highness said you will arrange it. , Then what are you going to do with it?"

She spoke out the question in her heart in one breath.

Pei Yan's eyebrows moved slightly, "Want to know?"

Tao Ti said, "Hmm."

In the darkness, he chuckled twice, "You'll know it for at most half a month."

Tao Ti, "...?"

Don't bring such a horrible appetite!

The man beside her lazily rubbed her hair and said warmly, "Ati, it's time to sleep."

Tao Ti thought of it in the middle of the night, so she couldn't force him to ask clearly, so she said softly, "Well, go to bed first."

She closed her eyes, abandoning the messy thoughts, and after not knowing how long she had passed, she finally fell asleep in a drowsy state.

After hearing her even breathing, Pei Yan rolled over and hugged her from behind.

He hugged her tighter, his face buried in her shoulders, his eyes half closed, his eyes filled with ups and downs of desire.

If one day, she discovers his despicableness and unbearableness, and discovers that everything about his Jiyue scenery is a disguise, a deceit...

He dared not think any further.

The more I think about it, the darker thoughts become crazier.

He suddenly remembered what Uncle Feng said, if you really like her, treat her well, don't be like the father.

Of course he will treat her well, as long as she stays by his side obediently, don't leave him.

If she wants to leave him...

He thought of some distant and fuzzy pictures—

In the picture, the father and the queen cried bitterly while holding the mother's body.

The prince of a country, who is lofty and decisive, cries so embarrassed and unbearable.

Later, the emperor father saw him hiding in the corner, waved to him, hugged him and said, "Your mother left us father and son. The father is useless. She is leaving, and the father can’t keep her... "

In his memory, the father and the empress loved the mother and the empress completely, completely let go of his status as the emperor, and what he could do to the empress.

But the mother and the father were always lukewarm, and she never seemed to smile at the father.

He was young and puzzled to ask Mother Lan, and Mother Lan only said, "The feelings of an adult are very complicated. When your Highness grows up, you may know it."

Emotional matters are indeed complicated.

For example, at this time, the more he cares, the more he is concerned about gains and losses.

As the night got deeper, Pei Yan hugged the soft body in his arms and fell asleep with his brows.

...

The news has no legs, but it spreads faster than anything else. However, in one night’s effort, news of Mu Wang Shizi’s imprisonment spread, and the people in the streets all talked:

"Great, this wicked son of bullying men and women finally got retribution!"

"Yeah, good and evil will be rewarded. This time the prince came to Luoyang to remove this wicked man for us. It's really delightful!"

"My second aunt's third sister-in-law from the neighbor's house next door is working in the Mu Palace. I heard that the prince princess stood up and presided over the justice yesterday, and then she stabbed the matter out. If the princess did not show up, the more than 20 lives would not be there. I know how long to cover it in the well of King Mu's Mansion!"

"It turned out to be the prince? Then this prince is really good. It can fight the injustice for our common people!"

"Yeah, I have to change it to someone else. 80% of them just keep one eye open and one eye closed! Before, Xiao Shizi killed a small vegetable vendor under the Sanli Bridge in the street. Didn't that vegetable vendor go to the government to file a complaint? Regardless of the official’s management, he directly blasted the widow and orphan of the family out. Alas, I heard that the family was miserable later. There was no support in the family. The youngest son of that family had no money to treat and died alive... "

"Oh, the people don't fight with the officials. If it weren't for the prince and the prince to collide this time, the Mu Palace would not know how long it would take to be domineering!"

"It is really a blessing for our people to have such a prince and a prince. But I heard that the prince does not seem to be very good. Hey, I hope God opens your eyes and bless our prince!"

Rumors were raging outside, but there was a dead silence in Mu Wang's Mansion.

After Princess Mu woke up at a leisurely pace, she learned that the son had been put in prison and almost fainted again.

The woman next to her hurriedly pinched the crowd and was pleased for her. She was relieved, and she didn't care about dressing up well, and she was free to freshen up, so she ran to find Lord Mu.

Prince Mu had just returned from the prison, and before he even had a sip of a cup of hot tea, he saw the haggard Concubine Mu running hurriedly.

His brows frowned, and he asked a little impatiently, "Why don't you rest in the house? Why run out?"

Concubine Mu's face suddenly collapsed, her eyes filled with tears, "Master, what should we do now, Xuan'er is our son, you can't just sit back and let him be abused and humiliated!"

Lord Mu took a deep breath and said to the butler, "You go out first and close the door."

The butler promised and retired.

There were only two couples left in the house, and curls of green smoke slowly drifted out of the beast-shaped incense burner.

Prince Mu said solemnly, "This matter is a bit too coincidental."

Princess Mu's sobbing stopped.

"That Xia Sang, don’t take revenge early or late, but when you invited the prince princess to the mansion, you hurt Xuan'er and caused such a big trouble... and the prince, he was too coincidental yesterday..."

Lord Mu coldly said, "I thought about it for a long time last night. I went out to investigate this morning and found that Xia Sang was also suspicious. Xuan'er brought her out from Yancui Building, but Xia Sang is not a prostitute on record. Zi, but a miscellaneous maid who has only been in Yancui Building for three days; moreover, how did she know about the dry well in the backyard, and who told her that her sister was thrown into the dry well..."

Princess Mu's eyes widened suddenly, "Master, you mean, there is a ghost in our mansion."

Mu Wangye snorted, "I'm afraid this matter is not only as simple as the inner ghost."

Princess Mu thought in astonishment. After a while, she asked in a panic, "Could it be that the prince discovered something? He knows that we are going to act on the prince?"

Mu Wangye's face was livid, his lips pursed in silence.

After a while, he said solemnly, "Don't be too flustered, I wrote a letter to Chang'an last night... Even if the prince wants to deal with Xuan'er, the Ministry of Justice and His Majesty will have to check again and again, and Zhou's family will work in Chang'an...at least. Save Xuan'er's life."

Princess Mu was startled, her lips were bitten and she lost her blood, and she muttered to herself, "Keep one life, one life..."

She raised her head to look at Prince Mu, her eyes complicated, "Master, if you save your life, can Xuan'er be this prince in the future."

The corner of Mu Wangye's mouth twitched, and squinted at her, "How can you be a dead man again?"

Princess Mu's blood seemed to coagulate.

Although I had already guessed what the answer would be, I couldn't help but feel chilled when I heard him say it myself.

She didn't know how she left the study.

Looking at the bright light outside the house, Princess Mu slowly raised her head, her numb eyes rolled, and a burst of strong hatred surged into her heart.

She clenched her fists and gritted her teeth, "Prince, Princess..."

They ruined her son, and she won't make them feel better!