Prince! The political conspiracy is not a play, the show is real

After leaving the small manor, there was only one main road to walk on. Tao Yao walked along this road for a short while before she saw a carriage parked in the middle of the road.

Song Zhishou was sitting in the front of the carriage and saw Tao Yao at once. He waved to her from a distance.

Tao Yao's heart moved, and she quickened her pace and ran to the front of the carriage. At this time, Chu Huanjun had just half emerged from the carriage. Seeing that Tao Yao was not injured, the worry on his face immediately dissipated.

Tao Yao jumped onto the carriage in two or three steps, ignored Chu Huanjun who stretched out his hand to hold hers, went straight into the carriage, found an empty seat and sat down, waving one hand to fan herself.

Chu Huanjun slowly turned around, folded his arms and leaned on the doorstep. He looked at Tao Yao thoughtfully for a while, then poked his head out from behind the curtain and said to Song Zhishou, "Let's go and take a look at the manor of the Chen family. There's something he promised me that I haven't taken yet."

Song Zhishou responded and then spurred his horse. The carriage slowly turned around and moved forward.

Chu Huanjun crouched down and crawled back onto the soft couch in the carriage, lying down casually beside Tao Yao, crossing his legs high. Tao Yao moved to the other side with some disdain and said, "There's such a big seat, and you have to squeeze in with me?"

"Yeah." Chu Huanjun nodded shamelessly, and while Tao Yao was not paying attention, he grabbed her hand.

"Your hands are so cold... What happened?" Chu Huanjun raised his eyebrows and smiled, staring at Tao Yao's face carefully, as if afraid of missing any of the hidden meaning in her expression.

Tao Yao smiled proudly and said, "Nothing happened."

Chu Huanjun laughed: "I don't believe it."

Tao Yao knew she couldn't hide it from him, so she raised her finger and pointed at the golden hairpin on her head. She then used her finger to gesture on the auricle of his right ear and whispered, "I used the hairpin you gave me to gouge out a man's ear."

A hint of surprise suddenly appeared on Chu Huanjun's face, but it soon faded away. He reached out to catch her naughty fingers that were teasing his ear, folded them between his fingers, and gently stroked her fingerprints.

He continued to smile quietly and asked softly, "Whose ears were gouged out?"

Tao Yao's expression was filled with unconcealed pride: "From the Master of Wuyan Pavilion."

"Him?..." Chu Huanjun was really surprised this time. Although he had the confidence to believe that Tao Yao could escape from Zhong Wuyou's hands, he did not expect that she had such great ability.

"Zhong Wuyou is a ruthless person, how come you are so capable that you can even cut off his ears?" The smile on Chu Huanjun's face turned into a relieved smile, as if he saw his child finally grow up. He paused and couldn't help but sigh.

Although children grow up and can take care of themselves, any trouble they cause will ultimately be dealt with by their parents.

"But Zhong Wuyou is vindictive. You cut off his ear today, and he will definitely seek revenge on you in the future... Aren't you afraid?" Chu Huanjun scratched Tao Yao's nose and asked again.

Tao Yao's expression froze, as if she had never considered this question before. She thought about it for a moment, and soon came up with an answer. She shook her head and said, "I'm not afraid. Since I was able to escape from him today, I will definitely be able to deal with him in the future."

Chu Huanjun's smile deepened. This young woman, who had just experienced the world, seemed to have great confidence in herself. The more she acted like this, the more he liked her.

"actually……"

In fact, Zhong Wuyou did not insist on killing Tao Yao because Chu Huanjun really let go of the treasures and gave them all to Wuyan Pavilion except for the set of glass pens and inkstones.

Although he knew clearly that those treasures were obtained by Zuo Di through corruption, he should have tried his best to recover them and make merit to his father.

Yes, in the past, he would have definitely done that, no matter what. But now he seemed to have changed. When he saw Song Zhishou being put on the knife stand by the Wuyan Pavilion people, he was worried. When he saw Tao Yao being abducted by them, he was also afraid.

In the past, he forced himself to be more ruthless and cold-blooded, to throw these disturbing fetters and entanglements farther and farther away.

But today, he found that he could no longer be cold-blooded and heartless. He could not turn a blind eye to the suffering that the people he cared about had to go through.

So he did not hesitate too much and did not get too entangled with Zhong Wuyou. The batch of things belonged to Zhong Wuyou, but he had to protect the people that Chu Huanjun wanted to protect.

"Actually what?"

Tao Yao's eyes sparkled, a pride on her face that Chu Huanjun had never seen before. Her eyes shone with astonishing brightness, like the lone bright star in the boundless night sky above the vast desert. He was a man lost in the yellow sand, his eyes and heart only able to see this single, brightest star.

Chu Huanjun smiled, but swallowed his words back into his stomach. He said calmly, "In fact, I already knew that you would be able to escape from Zhong Wuyou."

As he spoke, he raised his hand and gently rubbed her head, as if petting a kitten.

After his praise, Tao Yao's expression became even more proud. She smiled happily and asked, "Really? Do you think I have the ability to escape from him? Is it really not because you asked him to let me go?"

"No way..." Chu Huanjun barely avoided her questioning gaze, "I don't care..."

Tao Yao let out a long, sarcastic "Oh" from her throat, then looked around, surveying the carriage from top to bottom, and said, "Where are those treasures? Why aren't they with you?"

Tao Yao searched around and finally pulled out a small wooden box from behind Chu Huanjun. With a sudden thought, she quickly opened the box. The glass brush and inkstone lay quietly inside, radiating a glow like luminous jade in the dark corner.

Tao Yao was slightly stunned for a moment and said, "Why is there only this? What else?"

Chu Huanjun smiled helplessly, shook his head, and asked, "What else?"

Tao Yao was a little anxious and asked, "I already know the general situation. The batch of Western Region treasures auctioned at the Fragrance Appreciation Conference were generously purchased by Wuyan Pavilion. Zhong Wuyou threatened us to threaten you. I guess you wanted to seize those things from him, right? After they took me away, Zhong Wuyou said he wanted to kill me. I thought you had succeeded and he wanted to kill me to vent his anger."

Chu Huanjun tilted his head and smiled nonchalantly, then moved closer to hug Tao Yao to make things easier, but she pushed him away. He dropped his arms helplessly, saying something that didn't sound like a compliment: "Xiao Tao is really getting smarter and smarter."