Tao Yuwei picked up the teacup and drank slowly.
Yunxiao, the head maid whose head wound had healed, asked the waiter, "Which distinguished person wishes to see my young lady?"
Before the servant of Xiangmanlou could reply, several figures appeared at the door of the private room.
"Anle, it's so hard to see you." The third princess Xiao Daifu led two personal palace maids into the box and sat down directly opposite her.
Tao Yuwei put down her teacup and glanced at the uninvited third princess indifferently.
She had no friendship with the Third Princess. The last time she had a brief contact with her at the Grand Prince's Mansion, she felt that the Third Princess was a very arrogant person.
However, in the original plot, the third princess is also a tragic character.
First, she married poorly, and then she was schemed by the male protagonist and sent to the Northern Barbarians to marry a dying old man. A few years later, the Northern Barbarians took the lead in tearing up the alliance and led a large army to invade the border of the Great Zhou. The generals of the Great Zhou defended the city gates and refused to come out. The Northern Barbarians simply tied the third princess to the city gate and forced the generals of the Great Zhou to open the gate. The third princess was also very strong-willed. In order to protect the territory of the Great Zhou and her dignity as a princess, she bit her tongue and committed suicide on the spot.
"I wonder what the Third Princess wants to see me about?"
Yunxiao, the maid standing behind her, filled Xiao Daifu's cup with tea.
Xiao Daifu waved her hand, signaling all the maids to go out.
Yunxiao and Baishuang looked at their master.
Tao Yuwei felt that it was unnecessary. "Princess, please feel free to speak. I have to go to the palace later."
She admired the emerald ring on her right index finger.
I have to go to the palace.
The original plot mentioned that the poison in Emperor Jianchang's body was unknowingly injected into him on the eve of his 44th birthday.
In three days, it will be his birthday. He is her biggest supporter. Anyone who doesn't want to rely on him is a fool. For the sake of her own good life, she must take care of the fact that someone is trying to poison him.
As long as her backers remain strong, she will not fall easily, and those princes and princesses are not necessarily more unruly than her.
Spoiled by His Majesty, she doesn't have to observe the Three Obediences and Four Virtues, and she doesn't have to kneel down whenever she sees anyone in the palace. Even those arrogant and overconfident princes and princesses are scared when they see her. Well, she likes her current life very much.
For her own good life, she must help His Majesty find the person who poisoned her.
Xiao Daifu coughed lightly and whispered, "I heard that your cousin will be back from the southwest border soon. When he comes back, can you help me ask him out once?"
Tao Yuwei widened her eyes in surprise.
What?
The third princess Xiao Daifu actually likes her eldest cousin.
No wonder the third princess is already twenty years old this year and has not yet chosen a husband. It turns out that she has someone in her heart.
She remembered that this was not mentioned in the original plot.
"When I see my cousin, I will first tell him clearly that you want to see him. If he doesn't want to see you, it's none of my business."
Tao Yuwei did not say anything definite. When it comes to marriage, the success or failure depends entirely on whether the two people are destined to be together.
Xiao Daifu didn't expect that she would agree to her request.
Throughout the imperial city, everyone knows that Princess Anle is domineering and surly, difficult to get along with, and has no true friends around her.
She is stupid and has no brains, and she has evil intentions. None of the noble ladies like to associate with her.
It is said that she once splashed tea on the face of a noble lady who was trying to save her reputation.
She didn't care about her daughter's face and boldly followed the Prince of Yong for a while.
There was a noble lady who also liked the Prince of Yong. When she found out, she slapped him in the face and almost disfigured him.
Last time, at her brother, the eldest prince’s birthday party, Xiao Daifu had witnessed her actions with her own eyes and had a different opinion of her.
It was for this reason that Xiao Daifu shamelessly came to Tao Yuwei for help.
I am not young anymore and I can’t delay my marriage any longer.
My mother and elder brother have been urging me to get married for several years, and the pressure on me is getting heavier and heavier.
Her lover will be returning to Beijing to report on his work soon, so she must seize this opportunity.
"Anle, thank you for your help. To express my gratitude, I will tell you a story about your family."
When Tao Yuwei saw that the third princess had a serious expression on her face, she knew that it must be something bad.
"All of you go out and avoid it."
The third princess immediately drove them away.
The two maids from the princess's mansion standing behind her quickly walked out the door.
Yunxiao and Baishuang also left.
"Okay, the Third Princess can tell me now."
Tao Yuwei was not nervous about the news she did not have. As long as she connected with the consciousness of more big trees and small animals in the city, she would also be able to find out.
However, she was currently feeling lazy and didn't want to expend a lot of mental energy.
As for how to replenish the mental power in her body, she has not yet found a good method.
Since there was someone telling her the news, of course she had to listen.
"That day at my brother's birthday banquet, after everyone left, your cousin Tao Xueqi didn't leave. Instead, she stayed in the guest room of the First Prince's mansion and had sex with the eldest son of the Minister of Revenue's family before quietly leaving. According to the First Emperor's wife, she also heard about this from a maid in the mansion later."
"The eldest sister-in-law was afraid of being held accountable, so she personally led people to investigate the palace. They traced the case to a maid who was delivering fruit tea. When the maid found her, she was already trapped in the burning house."
"After rescuing the person, she interrogated the maid and learned that someone had asked her to deliver a pot of fruit tea to your cousin. After the task was completed, she was promised a reward of 200 taels of silver. The eldest sister-in-law immediately strictly forbade any spread of this information."
"As for how the news got out, my eldest brother and his wife were extremely busy and searched the entire palace, but they couldn't find the source."
After hearing this, the lazy smile on Tao Yuwei's delicate and fair face disappeared.
It turned out that the rumor about her infidelity had been a trap set since the day of the eldest prince's birthday party.
"Thank you for telling me this. I will have someone take the maid to the residence of the General Guarding the Nation."
The eldest prince and the third princess were born to Concubine De. The eldest prince and the eldest princess were well-known good people, and their reputation was quite good among the families of many ministers.
The eldest prince's wife was afraid that her family would come to her house because of Tao Xueqi's matter, so she did the right thing by conducting a thorough investigation.
The fact that the maid almost died in the fire explains the problem.
She really doesn't like the feeling of being schemed against again and again.
It seems that she can't be lazy anymore.
Those disgusting flies outside were almost sticking to her.
"The rumors against you are coming thick and fast. Go back and discuss with General Tao how to deal with them."
Xiao Daifu finished what she needed to say, then stood up and left the private room.
Yunxiao and Baishuang walked in and saw that their master had an unpredictable expression and an oppressive cold aura emanating from him, so they didn't dare to say a word.
"Yunxiao, go back to the mansion, quietly take a few people with you, and go to the eldest prince's mansion to get a maid."
"Bai Shuang, come with me into the palace."
Tao Yuwei stood up and walked out of Xiangmanlou.
The two maids quickly paid the bill and followed them out of the restaurant.
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