"What's wrong?" Chun Tao asked in a hurry, "is her highness looking for us?"
"You're right." The eunuch patted his chest and said, "Her Highness, when she went out of the meeting hall, she didn't find you everywhere. You are making her highness angry. Why don't you go to see her highness now? Her highness is in the Qian Ling Palace now."
The Qian Ling Palace where Princess Tai An went to rest was the palace of the emperor's mother. The emperor's mother loved Princess Tai An so much. Even if she was not in the palace now, the Princess Tai An would go to the Qian Ling Palace whenever she came.
After the eunuch left, the four people stood up and said, "it's all because of Chun Tao. She asked
us to come to eat. What if the princess really gets angry?"
"You are just a coward, Xia He. Don't worry. I, Chun Tao, will protect you. her Highness wouldn't get angry." Then she took out the cakes behind her. There were only four of them left. Chun Tao giggled and rearranged the whole situation, which made the cakes look agreeable. "We told the guards that it would be some time before her highness could come out. Thinking that her highness didn't have much breakfast today, we went to the imperial kitchen to take some cakes for her highness to eat. But we didn't expect her highness to come out so soon."
The other three people nodded their heads and followed Chun Tao towards the Qian Ling Palace.
As soon as the four of them made their way to the inner palace of the Qian Ling Palace, they heard the sound of the cups fall to the ground. They looked at each other and stopped in their tracks.
"You are finally back? I thought you would never come back. " Princess Tai An's voice came from inside, with a bit of anger in her voice.
The four people knelt down at the door of the inner palace, "We are to blame, your highness. We are sorry. I asked a guard outside the palace and he said that the Emperor didn't order to investigate that no one is allowed to leave the palace. I thought the princess didn't eat anything today, so I took them with me to the imperial kitchen to bring some food for your highness. But I didn't expect there were only cakes in the imperial kitchen, so I just brought some cakes back."
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