Mind Reading: The villain wins after hearing the princess's inner voice

Tao Yuwei had a delicious meal with her aunt Ji Tong at the famous Xiangmanlou. She took the opportunity to comfort her aunt who was worried about her son, and then the two parted.

"Princess, would you like to go back home and take a nap now?"

Yunxiao, the head maid, saw her master dozing off in the private room of Xiangmanlou and asked with concern.

Tao Yuwei forced herself to open her sleepy eyes and thought for a moment, "Go send a letter to the third princess and invite her to come. Tell her that she will regret it if she doesn't come."

It was a hot day, and she didn't want to go to the palace again in such hot weather.

With Xiao Daifu's thoughts, she would definitely come.

I don’t know whether the eagle she sent out found the whereabouts of her two brothers.

What worried her most was the woman that her eldest cousin brought with him after returning to Beijing.

If not handled properly, it will bring disaster to the entire Weiyuan General's Mansion.

Yunxiao immediately took the order and left.

Only Bai Shuang was left standing behind her to serve her.

While the third princess hadn't arrived yet, Tao Yuwei closed her eyes again, intending to take a nap for a while.

Just then, she heard a lot of noise coming from the next box.

"Yunxiao, go out and see what's going on."

Yunxiao bowed and saluted, then opened the door of the private room and checked the situation.

It was at this time that Tao Yuwei clearly saw a number of Xiaoyu Guards wearing uniform dark black clothes running hurriedly downstairs. They were probably here to catch someone, but it seemed that the other party had escaped by jumping out of the window.

Yunxiao went out to ask the waiter at Xiangmanlou about the situation, but found out nothing.

When I returned to the private room, I saw that my master was still awake. He was standing in front of the window, looking down.

Tao Yuwei saw Xiao Yuwei, who was leading the team to capture people, and she didn't recognize him.

Soon, the Xiaoyu guards downstairs dispersed.

Tao Yuwei sat back down at the round table and asked about the information Bai Shuang had found out.

"My lord, the waiter at Xiangmanlou is very tight-lipped. No matter what I ask him, he always shakes his head to indicate that he doesn't know."

"It's okay, I'm just curious."

While the master and servant were talking, two figures came down from the third floor, moving hurriedly and walking very fast.

When the two figures disappeared downstairs, they were seen by Tao Yuwei who was looking out through the window from time to time.

"The backs of those two people are so suspicious. Could it be that Xiao Yuwei came to catch them just now?"

When she wanted to see the other person's appearance clearly, he had disappeared.

Tao Yuwei immediately became interested.

If she could help the villain catch these two people, Xiao Lichen would owe her a favor. When the time comes, if he needs her help, he probably won't refuse her.

Tao Yuwei mobilized her mental power and quickly found two sparrows outside.

[Help me to catch up with the two men who just left Xiangmanlou, find their whereabouts, and come back to give you some white rice.]

The two sparrows nodded, chirped and flew away.

The two men who left Xiangmanlou turned left and right in a nearby alley and finally came to the gate of an inconspicuous courtyard.

Not long after, he opened the door, walked in quickly, and the door closed instantly.

As soon as you enter the house.

The bearded man in the lead turned around and asked his men in a cold voice.

"These Xiao Yu Guards are omnipresent. It seems that Xiao Lichen has brought them back to life."

After being disguised, King Junshan Xiao Long was extremely dissatisfied with Xiao Yuwei and was even more wary of Xiao Lichen.

As pawns in the hands of the Emperor of the Great Zhou, the Xiaoyu Guards were put aside during the reign of the previous emperor. Their only duty was to protect His Majesty in secret.

Later, when his nephew Emperor Jianchang ascended the throne, he would occasionally only help His Majesty deliver messages.

It was not until Emperor Jianchang employed Xiao Lichen, the prince of Prince Yong's Mansion, that the power of Xiao Yuwei gradually expanded. Judging from the current momentum, the power of Xiao Yuwei has surpassed the scope of responsibilities in all previous periods of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

It reached the point where he could eavesdrop on officials at the top, gather information at the bottom, and arrest people everywhere.

Guard Fei Qiong said thankfully, "Fortunately, the prince arranged for someone to lead them away in advance."

This time when I came to Beijing, I felt like I was hitting a wall everywhere.

Xiao Long removed the fake beard around his mouth and said in a deep voice, "After we meet that man, we will leave the capital as soon as possible."

He thought for a moment and then asked, "Is it safe to arrange for the fourth prince to stay?"

Fei Qiong nodded affirmatively, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, that place is absolutely safe, but..."

Xiao Long looked at him fiercely, and Fei Qiong's heart trembled as he said, "It's just that the Fourth Prince is unwilling to cooperate. He keeps shouting that he wants to go to the palace to see His Majesty."

"Add more medicine to his food and take him away from the capital as soon as possible."

Xiao Long sighed. He took the opportunity to sneak into the capital, but was still discovered by his eldest nephew.

He must meet that person in person and make plans for the next step.

Otherwise, this trip to the capital would not only fail to achieve its purpose, but would also result in heavy losses.

"Yes, I will pass on the message right away."

Fei Qiong just turned around and was about to walk out of the house when Xiao Long stopped him.

"No! It's not safe here anymore, hurry up, leave here."

Xiao Long trusted his intuition very much. He quickly put a beard on the human skin mask and left quickly with the guards.

Not long after they left, two sparrows flew into the courtyard.

However, the house is now deserted.

When they flew back to Xiangmanlou and landed on the window of the private room where Tao Yuwei was, she had already started chatting with the third princess who had come out of the palace to meet her.

When Tao Yuwei saw two sparrows flying over and received the news that someone had been lost, she was too disappointed.

The villain Xiao Lichen is very capable, and even without her help, people might be able to find those two people.

She called Bai Shuang and fed the two sparrows some white rice grains that she had asked Xiangmanlou for in advance.

"I didn't expect Anle to like birds. How about I give her a talking parrot someday?"

The third princess, Xiao Daifu, wore a white veil on her face and sat aside as she spoke seriously.

Tao Yuwei waved her hand and refused, "Please spare me, I don't like to raise small animals or flowers."

Before the apocalypse broke out, she had tried to grow some flowers and plants, but she could kill even the simplest cactus.

Even the most well-raised turtle can be ruined in her hands.

From then on, she felt that she was just clumsy and had a trauma in her heart, and she dared not raise anything again.

Seeing that she didn't directly mention the purpose of inviting her, Xiao Daifu became a little anxious.

"Um, is there any news about Wu Hanmo?"

Tao Yuwei signaled her two maids and the senior palace maid beside Xiao Daifu to go out.

When they were the only two left in the room, Tao Yuwei reminded them, "I heard that Concubine De intends to marry you to the son of the left prime minister. What are your plans?"

Xiao Daifu was shocked by what she said.

"Who told you that? How come I don't know?"

Seeing the third princess' eyes wide open with an expression of disbelief, Tao Yuwei said seriously, "Don't worry about who told me this, this is true. If you don't make plans, the marriage will be settled."

Xiao Daifu stood up suddenly and said nervously, "I will go and ask my father to grant me marriage and marry into the General Weiyuan's mansion."

Tao Yuwei was confused by her direct words.

Direct enough and brave enough!

"If His Majesty agrees to grant the marriage, what will you do when my cousin returns to the capital with a beautiful woman by his side?"

Tao Yuwei looked closely at Xiao Daifu's eyes and spoke carefully.

Xiao Daifu blinked her eyes again and again, thought for a moment and said decisively, "As long as I am here, I will never allow other women to exist around him."

"Okay, then you go back, I have to go back home too."

She will do everything she can to help the third princess not to marry Wang Jue as described in the original drama, be tortured and defiled, and then be sent by the male protagonist to marry, and commit suicide in front of millions of soldiers from two countries for the sake of national justice.

If the Third Princess personally comes forward to discuss this matter with Emperor Jianchang, it should be able to disrupt Concubine De's plan.

As long as Your Majesty grants the third princess a marriage first, it doesn’t matter what objections Concubine De has.

If Your Majesty does not agree, no matter what other solutions you find, Xiao Daifu must not marry Wang Jue.

In the original drama, that man was extremely narrow-minded. Knowing that the third princess liked the eldest cousin, he secretly used shady tricks, which not only caused a misunderstanding between the eldest cousin and the third princess, but also framed the eldest cousin for a life. He was targeted and ostracized, and lost the position of General of Cavalry that he had fought so hard for. He guarded the Great Zhou as an ordinary soldier and died on the border at a young age.

After his death, he was accused of collaborating with the enemy, and the entire Weiyuan General's Mansion was implicated. His entire family was killed, and even the three clans were affected.

Tao Yuwei felt that the perspective of the entire book she read was problematic.

After parting with Xiao Daifu, Tao Yuwei hurried back home.

As soon as she entered the house, she ran to the backyard.

The tree in the backyard was empty. The two eagles that were responsible for helping her find the whereabouts of her two brothers did not come back.

Forget it, let’s wait until tomorrow. I guess there will be news tomorrow.

Tao Yuwei sighed and went to see Wu with some disappointment.

She learned from Wu that Queen Gu was unwilling to interfere in the third princess's marriage.

Wu gave her daughter a brief account of Queen Gu's behavior in the palace.

Tao Yuwei was not surprised at all after hearing this.

The concubines in the harem have always been fighting for their own interests, and Queen Gu is no exception.

She was usually nice to the Third Princess, but once the interests of the Ninth Prince were involved, she would of course side with her son.

Queen Gu simply did not want to offend Wang Xiang, the head of the civil officials, and bring trouble to the Ninth Prince.

"I don't know what's happening with your eldest brother. I'm so worried that I don't even have the mood to take care of the household affairs."

"Don't worry, mom. My brother may be back tomorrow."

[My eldest brother is fine, but my eldest cousin is in trouble. Hey, when my eldest cousin brings a woman back, my grandparents will be in big trouble.]

The ambush has already happened, the overall plot has not changed, and it is inevitable that the eldest cousin will bring that woman back.

When Tao Yuwei said this to comfort Mrs. Wu, she suddenly felt a pain in her stomach. She turned around and ran to the toilet in a hurry, so she didn't notice that Mrs. Wu was hesitant to speak.

Why did my daughter run away before she could finish her words?

Is there something wrong with the woman my nephew brought back?

No matter how anxious Mrs. Wu was, Tao Yuwei had already run away.

By the time her husband returned home, it was already late.

Wu told Tao Zhihong what she had heard.

"Madam, I have received the news that Han Mo is fine and will be able to return to Beijing tomorrow, but..."

"Just what?"

Wu anxiously pulled Tao Zhihong's sleeve and asked, "Did Zipeng get into trouble?"

Seeing the worried look in his wife's eyes, Tao Zhihong sighed and said, "Just before returning home, His Majesty sent someone to summon me to the palace."

Tao Zhihong held his wife's hand and continued solemnly, "Your Majesty said that the troops sent to Yingzhou to look for Han Mo and Zi Peng found Han Mo in a hunter's home on a nearby mountain after about a day of searching. His arm was slightly injured, but there was nothing else wrong with him."

"Zi Peng is still missing. The person sent by His Majesty brought an imperial physician with him. The injury on Han Mo's arm has been well treated. His Majesty said that he has ordered some of his men to take Han Mo back to the capital first, and the rest will continue to look for Zi Peng's whereabouts."

After hearing this, Wu's mood was up and down and she was in a very bad mood.

However, based on the news that his wife had heard their daughter's thoughts, Tao Zhihong had some speculations in his mind.

After the couple returned to the room and sat down, Tao Zhihong expressed his thoughts.

"According to the message sent by my father-in-law, the troops he sent to protect Zipeng and his brothers should have arrived at the designated location according to the message, but they did not show up."

"I suspect that Zipeng and his team were intercepted and the location was tampered with while they were passing the message to the people sent by my father-in-law."

Wu felt that Tao Zhihong's analysis was very reasonable.

They all thought of the murderer's identity, as they saw that he was the one who killed the two children.

"Northern Barbarians!"

The couple gave the answer together.

Wu's biological father, General Wu Daozhi, was transferred from the southwest region during the previous emperor's reign. He took over the responsibility from the Fu family members who died in the battle and was responsible for guarding the northern border and fighting against the northern barbarians.

It was also during that period that Wu, disguised herself as a man and followed her father to fight at the border, where she met the young Tao Zhihong.

Tao Zhihong performed brilliantly on the battlefield, gradually becoming prominent and gaining the trust and promotion of Wu Daozhi.

Later, Wu and his wife got married. When the northern barbarians were approaching, Tao Zhihong led his troops on the battlefield and defeated more than 100,000 northern barbarians' cavalry, successfully driving them out of the Qilian Mountains.

With the support of Emperor Jianchang, Tao Zhihong succeeded Wu Daozhi in guarding the northern border. Because of a riot in the southwest, the Wu family was arranged by Emperor Jianchang to return to the southwest to guard the familiar southwestern border.

Later, Tao Zhihong once again annihilated nearly 100,000 Northern Barbarian cavalry near the sacred mountain of the Northern Barbarians and drove the Northern Barbarians into the deepest part of the grassland.

After being awarded the title of General Guarding the Country, he brought his family back to the capital. A few years later, Tao Zhihong's eldest son, Tao Zipeng, chose to join the army and rushed to the northern border. Through his own efforts, he became a major general of the cavalry battalion.

Like his father when he was young, Tao Zipeng chose to stay in the northern border and continue fighting against the northern barbarians.

Both the Wu family and Tao Zhihong were the nemesis of the Northern Barbarians and became their mortal enemies.

When Tao Zhihong thought about this, he felt that it was too risky for the northern barbarians to go to such great lengths to ambush his eldest son and nephew within the territory of the Great Zhou. He always felt that something was wrong.

He didn't figure it out for a moment, so he asked his wife to start dinner.

Tao Yuwei also rushed over at this time.

The family began to eat warmly.

After parting with Tao Yuwei, the third princess Xiao Daifu returned to the palace, but before she could meet Emperor Jianchang, she was anxiously called away by Concubine De.

"Mother, what do you want from me?"

Concubine De looked at the third princess in front of her with a sharp gaze and said, "I heard that you left the palace to see Anle?"

"So what?" At this moment, Xiao Daifu had not yet realized the seriousness of angering her own mother.