Peach Blossom.

Tao Ye had thought that the real princess might not be as beautiful as the ones played by modern stars, but she never expected that the princess would have such a fantastic face!

I originally thought that the prince consort didn't look that good, but now it seems that he is more than suitable for the princess.

"Are you Tao Ye?" Princess Si Yao spoke first. Her voice was so delicate that it didn't match her appearance at all.

"Yes..." Tao Ye didn't want to continue looking at that face with uncoordinated features, so she lowered her head.

"Lift your head and let me see you!" As a princess, Si Yao's tone showed no respect for others.

Of course, the princess was more untouchable than the prince consort, so Tao Ye had no choice but to raise her head.

After looking it up and down for a few times as if browsing a commodity, Si Yao raised the corner of his mouth slightly: "It really has some color."

Tao Ye wanted to say, "That's definitely better than you," but she was just saying it in her heart.

Although according to the theory of biological evolution, ancient people were not as good-looking as modern people, but any one of the cooks and maids in the mansion that Tao Ye had seen recently was more worthy of a second look than the princess!

"I heard that the Prince Consort wants to take you to Jingshui Tower today?"

Tao Ye suddenly remembered what the Prince Consort had said: "The Prince Consort just admires my cooking skills, nothing else."

"Nothing else?" Si Yao seemed dissatisfied with the answer.

Seeing this, the maidservant standing by the side speculated and said, "You are older, so you should be more sensible than the other cooks. How can you not know the princess's good intentions? How can you just serve the princess's meals well?"

"But the prince consort is deeply in love with the princess..." Tao Ye tried desperately to think of what the prince consort might want her to say in her mind, for fear of making a mistake and bringing disaster upon herself.

"That's why you have to work harder!" The maid interrupted Tao Ye before she could finish her words.

Tao Ye raised her head and glanced at the maid. She looked quite similar to Caiwei. She must be Caiwei's elder sister Cailing.

Si Yao nodded, still habitually putting on a condescending attitude: "I have asked someone to book a private room in Jingshui Tower. The prince consort does not need to return home tonight. You must serve him well!"

"?" Tao Ye was startled and looked up at the princess unconsciously, and suddenly her whole body went cold.

Cai Ling added on behalf of the princess: "If you can serve well tonight, you will be rewarded with two hundred taels of silver tomorrow."

A normal person would think at this time: How could a wife be so generous that she spends money to encourage other women to spend the night with her husband?

However, Tao Ye accidentally asked, "Did the princess give me the two hundred taels directly? Or did Butler Zhao give it to me through her?"

All the maids inside and outside the room looked at Tao Ye in surprise.

Tao Ye felt all the strange looks, and that feeling was like a crow flying overhead.

Someone outside reported: "Princess, the prince consort has sent someone to pick up Miss Taoye."

Si Yao left the couch, and slowly stood up with the help of Cai Ling, and walked to Tao Ye: "You know, the prince consort hasn't left the house for a year."

Tao Ye was very surprised. Does this mean that the prince consort is willing to make an exception for her? Does he see her as different?

What was even more incredible was that when they first met, Si Yao actually held Tao Ye's hand and said, "Sincerity can move mountains and open rocks. If you can accomplish this, you can decide on the reward."

Tao Ye felt that the pair of jade hands were so delicate and smooth that it was incomparable to the skin of any other person she had ever touched.

At this time, Tao Ye remembered the fairy tale of the Princess and the Pea. The real princess is indeed a real princess!

"I... I'll try my best..." Tao Ye smiled unnaturally. She looked up at the princess for the last time, and the princess' eyes were full of expectation.

How disgusted must the princess be towards her husband-in-law for being so generous?

Tao Ye couldn't help but feel sad for the prince consort.

Walking out of the princess's garden, Tao Ye saw a carriage driven by the prince consort's guard Ma Da, with no other attendants.

Tao Ye naturally wanted to get in the car.

Unexpectedly, Ma Da stopped her and said, "You are of low status, how can you sit in the same carriage with the prince consort?"

"Then how do I get there?" Tao Ye was puzzled.

Chen Ji's voice came from the car window: "It's only five miles from here to Jingshui Tower. You can just follow on foot."

Five miles?

Tao Ye quickly calculated in her mind that five miles is 2.5 kilometers, or meters...

The conversion was not completed yet, but the carriage had already moved forward.

"Hey! Wait for me!" Tao Ye ran quickly after the carriage, cursing silently. This prince consort really deserved to be disliked by the princess!

While walking on the road, Chen Ji kept lifting the curtain behind the carport to look at Tao Ye. When Tao Ye got closer, he told the motor to go faster. When Tao Ye couldn't catch up, he told the motor to go slower.

This is a blatant mockery!

Along the way, Tao Ye had already cursed the prince consort eight hundred times in her heart!

Downstairs of Jingshui Building, the carriage suddenly stopped, and Tao Ye bumped into the rear of the carriage and fell to the side of the road.

There happened to be a puddle by the side of the road, and Tao Ye's face was covered with mud.

The prince consort Chen Ji got out of the car and saw Tao Ye’s muddy face and laughed out loud.

"Are you sick?" Tao Ye couldn't help but yell.

"Don't talk nonsense, be careful of your life." Chen Ji restrained his smile, his face turned gloomy again, and he reached out to help Tao Ye.

Tao Ye suddenly realized that he had spoken out of turn again.

Unfortunately, she is used to the equality of all and freedom of speech in modern society, and she easily forgets the concept of hierarchy!

The prince consort's mood was unpredictable, so Tao Ye had to be cautious. She had no choice but to hold his hand and stand up.

At this moment, she felt that the prince consort's hands were very rough, and there seemed to be a scar on the palm.

Tao Ye remembered that in ancient costume dramas, if the dignitaries went to restaurants, brothels and the like, they would be greeted personally by the owners, madams and others with great enthusiasm.

However, when she followed Chen Ji and Mada into Jingshui Tower, the treatment she received seemed to be no different from that of ordinary guests.

Obviously, no one here knows the prince consort Chen Ji.

Entering the private room on the second floor, Mada was stationed outside the door. Chen Ji sat at the dining table and watched the waiters serve one dish after another.

Tao Ye stood by, with mud all over her face and body, looking extremely embarrassed.

"Sit down." Chen Ji didn't look up, but just moved his lips slightly.

Tao Ye looked around uncomfortably. There was no one else in the private room, so the prince consort must have asked her to sit down.

But she always felt something was wrong: "Didn't you say that I am of low status and unworthy of sitting with you?"

Chen Ji finally glanced at Tao Ye: "If you don't sit down to eat, how can I let you understand what is a delicacy and what is pot washing water?"

After hearing this, Tao Ye wished she could find a hole in the ground to crawl into.

How bad is the food at Ghost King Restaurant? It's even worse than the water used to wash the pot?

Tao Ye had no choice but to sit down, picked up the chopsticks and tasted this and that, but felt that the taste was not very good.

She thought that perhaps it was because the ancient times were relatively backward, so even the famous restaurants were definitely far inferior to those of modern times.

Chen Ji never picked up his chopsticks, just watched Tao Ye eat: "Is it delicious?"

"It's delicious." Tao Ye nodded in agreement with a smile.

"You call this delicious? No wonder you can make it taste that good!" Chen Ji shook his head with a half-smile: "This is the worst restaurant on the Qinhuai River!"

"Qin Huai?" Tao Ye seemed to have only heard this key point.

Before she knew it, she had stood up from the dining table and walked to the window, where she could see the surging river below and the looming mountains on the opposite side.

In the modern times when she lived before, she had visited Qinhuai River more than once, but had never seen such a mountain.

She wondered if that mountain was the ghost mountain that the ancient tree mentioned?

"Isn't this your first time in Qinhuai?" Chen Ji also stood up, walked to Tao Ye, and looked at the surging river together.

"Across the street...is there a cave called the Haunted House?" Tao Ye asked casually.

She felt that it might not be appropriate to ask her husband about this, but apart from her husband, there seemed to be no one else she could ask.

Chen Ji smiled faintly: "Yes, there is such a place, do you want to go?"

Tao Ye felt that the prince consort's smile was very strange, and the tone of his question was also sarcastic. She turned her gaze to the prince consort again and found that he was also looking at her.

When they looked at each other face to face, she seemed to sense a murderous aura...

As she expected, Chen Ji's next sentence was: "If you want to go, jump from here!"

"I won't!" Tao Ye took a step back out of fear. "I have already said what you said in front of the princess. I have done nothing wrong. Why do you want me to die again?"

Chen Ji smiled again and took a step forward towards Tao Ye: "I heard that when you went back yesterday, you asked for a hundred taels of silver from Butler Zhao?"

"Should it be...should I not want it?" Tao Ye felt confused and took another step back.

Chen Ji took another step forward, still smiling vaguely: "I also heard that the princess promised today that if you accompany me tonight, you can name your price."

"Yes... that's what happened..."

"It seems that you are short of money?"

Tao Ye lowered her head, not sure whether it was because she was afraid or because she felt ashamed of being told that she was short of money.

"In that case, you should serve me well today, and go back tomorrow to ask for a reward from the princess!" As he spoke, Chen Ji reached out his hand to Tao Ye's lapel.

"No! I'm still a virgin..." Before she finished her sentence, Tao Ye felt her face blushing and she pushed Chen Ji's hand away.

Chen Ji opened a large wooden box, and suddenly Tao Ye's eyes were illuminated by light.

Tao Ye looked carefully and saw that the box was full of genuine gold, silver and jewelry, reflecting the sunlight from the window, with dazzling colors.

Chen Ji patted the wooden box and said, "If you can do two things for me, all of these will be yours."

Tao Ye looked at the gold ingots, pearls, jade bracelets and other things in the box, and couldn't help but be tempted: "Which two things?"

She thought that these things were not only valuable, but would become antiques if brought back to the modern era and would be even more priceless.

Chen Ji walked back to the window where they had just stood: "First thing, jump down from here."

"What's the use of money if you die?"

"How can there be a business without risk if you want to get rich overnight?"

Tao Ye seemed to understand: "Is it true... if I get more rewards from the princess, other cooks will try harder to get close to you; and if I die here today and the news spreads back to the princess's mansion, they will no longer dare to have any ideas about you?"

"It seems that you are not as stupid as I thought." Chen Ji smiled slightly, as a consent to Tao Ye's statement.

Tao Ye wanted to say, "You are the stupid one! I just haven't adapted to the way of life in your era. According to the theory of biological evolution, I must be smarter than you!"

Since he was going to take a risk, Tao Ye simply mustered up his courage and stated his greatest need: "I... I have one more condition!"

"Go on." Chen Ji smiled nonchalantly.

"From now on...you must eat as much of the food I give you as possible!"

The smile on Chen Ji's face instantly turned into a wry smile. After a moment of silence, he nodded: "You are so cruel!"

Tao Ye walked back to the window, stood beside Chen Ji, and looked at the surging river again. She was still a little scared: What if she really died? Should she just see the Ghost King like before?

Chen Ji leaned over to Tao Ye's ear and whispered softly, "Don't worry, the motor is very water-resistant. I'm counting on you to do the second thing for me!"

Tao Ye thought that this second thing would definitely be difficult to do.

However, this is only the prince consort's focus, not hers.

Her focus is only on the task assigned to her by the Ghost King...

In order to complete the 100 takeout orders and return to his own era, Tao Ye had to fight!

She looked at the surging river for the last time, mustered up her courage, and jumped out of the window.