The surname of the Lord of Jingzhao County is Gao, with the small character Taotao, after the famous general Gao Qiong.

Gao Taotao's mother, Mrs. Cao, is the cousin of the current Empress Cao, so she is Empress Cao's niece. Gao Taotao, like Zhao Zongshi, was raised by Empress Cao since childhood.

Later, the emperor asked Zhao Zongshi to marry Gao Taotao. Folks called this the royal marriage of the daughter-in-law, and the queen of the marriage of the daughter.

Because of Gao Taotao's identity, Zhao Zongshi respected and feared her and did not take any other concubines. The relationship between the couple was very harmonious.

Gao Taotao was very happy to receive the three-character poem presented by Dr. Cheng. He immediately rewarded him a lot and even planned to recommend Dr. Cheng to the Hanlin Medical Clinic.

Gao Taotao took the three-character poem and read it from beginning to end. She had been raised in the palace since she was a child. The emperor and his adoptive mother, Empress Cao, both loved literature and both had excellent calligraphy.

Gao Taotao has also been influenced by it since she was a child, and her own calligraphy skills are not low. Now she fell in love with Zhang Yue's three-character poem at a glance and praised it full of praise.

At this time, the curtain was raised, and a man in his thirties stepped out.

The other party was wearing Confucian clothes and looked like a gentle Confucian scholar. This person was none other than Gao Taotao's husband, Zhao Zongshi.

"What rare treasure did you get that makes you so happy?"

Zhao Zongshi smiled and said eloquently: "It's really a rare thing, look at it."

As he spoke, Gao Taotao showed the three-character poem to Zhao Zongshi to read.

Zhao Zongshi also had extraordinary eyesight. He looked at Zhang Yue's three-character poem and said: "What a good calligraphy. My eldest brother has learned this three-character poem since he was a child. After he has read it well, he often puts it on his desk. I don't know where to get it."

Gao Taotao smiled and said: "Mr. Cheng asked for this. Who do you think copied it?"

Zhao Zongshi said: "You are really stumping me. I really can't write this without twenty or thirty years of skill."

Gao Taotao smiled and said: "You may have misjudged me sometimes. This is what Mr. Cheng personally asked for from the current number one scholar."

Zhao Zongshi said suddenly: "I remembered that this three-character poem was written by Duke Zhuangyuan when he was young. What a coincidence... Doctor Cheng really had his heart in it."

Zhao Zongshi looked happy.

Gao Tao said eloquently: "It's true. Dr. Cheng has spent so much effort on your illness. Although it doesn't get better, he always tried his best."

Zhao Zongshi said: "We didn't treat him badly. You half-sold and half-gifted the big house outside the mansion to him."

Gao Tao said: "That's what I said, but..."

Zhao Zongshi said: "I know, I will reward Mr. Cheng with more money."

Gao Tao said: "This doctor Cheng has great medical skills. I plan to recommend him to Hanlin Medical Clinic."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Zongshi said: "No."

"Why is this? Mr. Cheng's ancestor was a medical officer. If his father hadn't committed crimes back then, he would be eating the same rice now."

Zhao Zongshi said: "Madam, you don't know what I mean. One more thing is worse than one less thing. In our current situation, we really shouldn't do anything frivolous."

Gao Taotao was about to speak but stopped and sighed.

Zhao Zongshi said: "Madam, there is nothing I can do. I have been unable to sleep all night for the past ten days. Look at how much hair I have lost."

Gao Tao said: "I know, when I touched your pillow after I got up, there were all hair loss."

Zhao Zongshi said: "Then you know my difficulties."

Gao Taotao said with tears: "You are the king of the county after all, and I am also half the queen's daughter. Why is it like this? What's the point of living for this person who is worried all day long?"

Zhao Zongshi stood up after hearing this and said: "Taotao, you know me, I am very upset. If you look through the history books and look at what happened during the time of Taizu and Taizong of this dynasty, you will know where my fear comes from.

?From ancient times to the present, how many princes who fought for the throne but failed to get it were able to die a good death?"

"If a new king takes the throne in the future, will he be able to tolerate me? I was only four years old at the time, and I didn't know anything, so I was taken from my parents into the palace. A large group of eunuchs and maidens surrounded me and forced me.

From now on, my father and mother are no longer my father and mother. From now on, I will call the officials father and mother, and the queen will call me mother..."

After saying that, Zhao Zongshi held his head and cried. The man who was fine just now was now shouting like a child: "I really didn't mean it. I didn't want to be an emperor. It was the officials and the queen who forced me... you

Will the new king know about it in the future? For this reason, let you and I go?"

Hearing this, Gao Taotao said sympathetically: "Yes, yes, okay, it's my fault, official, so let's not talk about it."

After speaking, Gao Taotao said to the maid beside him: "Quick, bring a bowl of soothing soup to the prince."

Gao Taotao was worried that Zhao Zongshi was ill again.

After Zhao Zongshi drank the calming soup, Gao Taotao was beside him, rubbing his chest and beating his back, which finally made Zhao Zongshi recover.

Gao Taotao continued to comfort him: "You have a simple and kind nature. The officials and queens all know what kind of person you are, and they will not be suspicious of you. So you can relax and live in the palace and cultivate yourself, and you don't have to worry about foreign affairs."

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"We, husband and wife, are living a good life as a couple of gods and goddesses in the palace. Others will not envy us."

Zhao Zongshi said: "Taotao, you are wrong, you are wrong. I don't know what happened to the queen. The officials have never trusted me. I know why the officials asked me to serve as the defense history of Qinzhou and Zhizong Temple. This is to test me. See

See if I still have any desire for the throne!"

Gao Taotao was stunned when he heard this and said: "Official, that's not the case. The official family may not have the intention to reuse you."

Zhao Zongshi shook his head and said: "You don't know the temper of an official. He always brings out good things to test you. If you don't reach out to get it, this thing will always seem to be in front of you, put on your desk, as if it is at your fingertips at any time."

Normally, but when you reach out, he will take the thing back and beat you severely."

"He never gave me anything sincerely. The title of a prince is empty, and everything is just a mirror. If you don't see the truth and think the mirror in the water is real? Then you will fall in and never climb out.

So I resigned. The more he gave me, the less tempted I was. This was bait, the officials were testing me."

Listening to Zhao Zongshi talking to himself, Gao Taotao didn't know what to say, so he immediately served him and drank another bowl of soothing soup.

Seeing that Zhao Zongshi was a little sleepy, Gao Taotao immediately helped him go to bed to rest.

Just as Gao Taotao was covering Zhao Zongshi with the quilt, Zhao Zongshi suddenly woke up and grabbed Gao Taotao's hand and said: "Taotao, I just want to be an ordinary couple with you, just like in ordinary people's families, the man works the fields and the woman weaves, with children and grandchildren around our knees.

.I often read Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Spring recently. If there was such a world, would you and I live there for the rest of our lives?"

"Taotao, there is only one person I can trust in this life."

Gao Taotao nodded with tears in his eyes.

Zhao Zongshi was relieved, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

He remembered that he had seen Dr. Zhao Zongshi and they all said that he didn't have any serious health problems, but he was just suffering from hysteria.
Chapter completed!