Later, I became the prince of the group

Deng Ran looked at the two in disbelief, and didn't recover for a long time.

Liu Qi laughed for a long time: "Your Highness, you are so cute, well, forget it, what do I care about with a little girl, let's go back and finish the painting."

After finishing speaking, he glanced at Deng Ran: "I'm sorry, I'm in a bad mood, I'm just joking with you, don't take it seriously."

After the two left, Deng Ran was shocked and angry.

How could he have imagined that the prince would be the one who wanted to do evil by the side of the pillow, and he would pass the knife on the side!

She felt that she just looked at the prince a few more times and sat in the pavilion for a while. Why should she be wronged like this? Besides, what did the princess say? My lord, how can there be no one in the backyard, this Liu Qi is too jealous and domineering!

Deng Ran couldn't care less about admiring the flowers any longer, and found a place to huddle for a while, crying before returning.

Seeing her flushed eyes, the nobles in the main hall naturally asked her why she had been wronged, and when she told her mother and other uncles and wives she was familiar with, the news spread.

She didn't say it directly, but people could hear the meaning of the princess being jealous and bullying her inside and out.

When the queen came back, she happened to hear a certain lady complaining: "I shouldn't have said it, but the behavior of the princess is too much. He is a man who will be crowned in less than two years. What can he do to embarrass someone who has not Jiji's little girl?"

Once the gender and age were compared, the people around couldn't help muttering, and they didn't stop until they saw the queen.

The queen asked what had happened, and thought it was necessary to call Liu Qi over to reprimand him for a few words, so as to have an explanation, so as not to appear to be a royal deception.

When Liu Qi was called back, he only finished drawing half of the picture, and was interrupted by the same person one after another, which made him even more unhappy.

At this time, the empress had brought relevant people into the inner hall, closed the door to talk, not only the empress was there, but also Emperor Chengxing, eating grapes and looking like watching the excitement.

The queen wanted Liu Qi to apologize to Deng Ran, but when she saw Liu Qi's resentment, she said strangely: "Liu Qi, you bully, why are you more angry than the bullied one?"

Liu Qi saluted, and said: "Father, Queen, and Empress Mingjian, I am clearly the one who was bullied."

"Oh? What I heard here is that you bully other girls, so tell me, why are you the one being bullied again?"

Liu Qi walked up to Deng Ran and smiled at her: "Why are you still suing?"

Deng Ran's legs were weak, and if she hadn't been supported by a maid, she would have almost sat on the ground.

Seeing this, Concubine De, who was peeling the skin and seeds of Emperor Chengxing, seemed to persuade her earnestly: "Princess Concubine, Your Majesty and Queen are here, you must not lose your courtesy."

Liu Qi ignored it, and just asked Deng Ran: "Miss Deng, tell me, why did I bully you?"

Deng Ran wiped away her tears and said, "It's not bullying. The minister's daughter offended the princess, and it's only right for the prince to teach the minister a lesson."

Liu Qi "tsk tsk" twice: "This is strange, I neither beat you nor scolded you, so why did I teach you a lesson?"

Deng Ran said, "You, you said you were going to goug my eyes..."

"Hey, you can't talk nonsense, your eyes are really good." Liu Qi said, "I just praised your beautiful eyes, which are like gems, and I just made a joke. Crying like pear blossoms raining, saying that I can't goug your eyes just because you and His Highness the Crown Prince are alone in a pavilion, didn't I immediately explain to you that this was just a joke and apologize to you, but that's it?"

Deng Ran remained silent, just rubbing the corners of her eyes.

Liu Qi let out a "heh" in his heart, and also took out a handkerchief like a magic trick, and pressed it under the corner of his eye like Deng Ran: "Miss Deng, do you think you are not bullying?"

Deng Ran was so frightened that she dropped her veil: "I, when will I..."

Liu Qi wiped away tears that didn't exist: "I was wrong to scare you, but you should know why this is so, you said you passed by by chance, but the prince and I clearly searched for the most remote place, You said you sprained your ankle. I clearly saw that you left the pavilion and walked smoothly. You did it on purpose. Don't mention the key point, I ask you now, but you don't admit it, isn't this deliberately trapping me in injustice?"

Everyone couldn't see that Liu Qi's "wiping tears" was a deliberate mockery.

Although this was not stated clearly, it pierced Deng Ran's attitude of pretending to be miserable and weak.

Mrs. Shang Shu really thought that her daughter had been wronged by the world, and now she heard that she was wronged. Fortunately, they were in the hall and not in public.

Otherwise the reputation will be ruined.

The queen said lightly: "Forget it, let's stop here, Mrs. Deng, what do you think?"

Mrs. Shangshu hurriedly said: "My daughter is wrong about this matter, I'm sorry for the Crown Princess, please ask the Crown Princess Haihan."

Liu Qi bowed his hands to the empress: "Your servant will retire."

He was about to step up when he heard Emperor Chengxing say: "Liu Qi."

Everyone thought: here we come.

Even if Deng Ran was unkind in this matter, it is true that Liu Qi is jealous. As a crown princess, how can the empress tolerate this?

Emperor Chengxing wiped his hands with a handkerchief, without raising his head: "You are really jealous."

Everyone has such an expression.

"Why bother? The East Palace hasn't added people in the past two years. Others can't take away the meat on your plate. Let them see what's the matter. You should have some capacity. Don't imitate those petty people."

Everyone in the room was dumbfounded.

Liu Qi was stunned for a few seconds before returning to his senses, and replied with a smile: "I know I was wrong, I will definitely correct it."

The words of derogation and protection spread throughout the garden that day, all the women who rushed to the seat of the prince's side concubine were heartbroken, and the wives of all families were also shocked.

Who would have thought that Emperor Chengxing would support a male and daughter-in-law so far, once this golden words came out, no one in the East Palace dared to move their minds for at least two or three years.

Only Chu Yan was very concerned: "Why did I become the meat on the plate?"

Liu Qi: "..."

Wake up, that's not the point.

It wasn't until the banquet was about to end that they saw Chu Rui again at the door. The two got into the car in sync, pressed the curtain and the window firmly, looked at each other again, and each laughed.

Chu Yan let go, lifted the window curtain and took a look, only to see that Chu Rui didn't come to disturb his brother and sister-in-law, but went back to his carriage happily with a smirk every step of the way.

At some point, Liu Qi also lay down in front of the window to watch, with a firm tone: "Well, he must have gained a lot."

There was a pause as he spoke, and he looked at Chu Yan's hand that was sneakily stretched out to his side.

After being discovered, Chu Yan stopped sneaking in, pulled down the curtain directly, hugged him into his arms, and poked around in his clothes: "Show me, what kind of painting do you look like?"

After Liu Qi finished drawing his picture, he hid it in his arms, looking mysterious.

Liu Qi pressed his clothes tightly: "No, you can't see."

"It's the first time you drew me, how can I not look at it? Be good, even if the picture is not good-looking, I don't blame you, give it to me."

Liu Qi refused to let go, and even made a gesture to bite Chu Yan.

After a while, Liu Qi fell into a disadvantage. He grabbed the remaining half of the scroll and said angrily, "If you look at it, I will tear it up!"

Chu Yan, who was about to succeed, stuffed the drawing paper back to its original position little by little, and rearranged Liu Qi's clothes.

He kissed Liu Qi's ear: "Put it back, don't be angry."

It looked like he had given up, but he was even more curious, so he called Chang Le out that night: "Where did your master hide the painting?"

Chang Le laughed dryly: "Your Highness, I don't know."

Chu Yan took out five taels of silver from his sleeve and put it in his hand: "I'll take a look and put it back in its original place, keeping it without leaving any traces."

Chang Le swallowed while holding the silver: "Your Highness, I, I really don't know..."

Chu Yan added another five taels: "If you don't tell me, I will take you to cleanse tomorrow."

Chang Le almost dropped the money, and said without tears, "It's in the box under the bed, and it's caught in the erotic pictures."

Chu Yan didn't know for a while whether he should complain about why he put the erotic pictures under the bed, or whether he should complain about why he put his own portrait in the erotic pictures.

At night, while Liu Qi was fast asleep, he sneaked out of bed and touched the box.

Who would have thought that Liu Qi would have to lock a box containing erotic pictures.

Chu Yan hugged the box, slipped out of the room quietly, and found tools to unlock it.

Good guy, the box is full of books that are not very serious at first glance.

He was not in a hurry to find the portrait at this time, he just wanted to see what Liu Qi was looking at.

Flipping through one by one, I found that some picture books even have text stories, just like comics.

Forgive the Crown Prince for his lack of knowledge, this is the first time I know that there are such things in the ancient folk. Sure enough, through the ages, the ages, and the changing of the country, only the enthusiasm of the people for the romantic stories will never be extinguished.

Chu Yan even discovered that Liu Qi had left a small note on a certain page, the words were like a dog crawling, like a few strokes that were scratched down when he was bored: This must be comfortable, but unfortunately it is not comfortable for me.

Chu Yan took a closer look, then closed it silently.

This dynasty, in a certain sense, is also quite advanced.

No wonder it has to be locked.

Turning to the bottom, Chu Yan found the book with his portrait in it.

He thought that at most he could see himself ruined by the painting, but he didn't expect that there were no flaws in the painting, but it was lifelike. The facial features of the characters were very similar, and the surrounding scenery was also beautiful and unique. The blue bird carved on the corner of the pavilion is also lifelike.

The only problem is...

Chu Yan clearly remembered that he was sitting well at that time, like a gentleman, but in the painting, there was an extra person on his leg, who was firmly held in his arms, raised his beautifully curved neck, and his clothes were half scattered. The faces of the two people were both stained with meth, obviously they were doing something ulterior.

He was so engrossed that he didn't hear the footsteps behind him. He took the painting away with one hand and looked at him angrily.

Liu Qi didn't know whether he should be ashamed or angry, so he hurriedly packed up the painting books all over the place and carried them back to the house.

Chu Yan hurriedly followed, barely saving the painting from under the candlelight.

"Don't burn it." Chu Yan's tone was almost pleading, "The painting is pretty good, keep it."

Liu Qi: "You said you wouldn't watch it."

"I'm sorry, I broke my promise." Chu Yan blinked, "It's okay, Aqi, didn't you just paint the portrait as a erotic picture, there is nothing you can't see."

Angrily, Liu Qi snatched the paper from his hand, pushed it back to the bottom of the box, and thought angrily: I will burn this crappy box tomorrow, my lord, I will quit sex from now on!

As a result, I failed to quit that night.

Chu Yan trained a coaxing mouth without a teacher, and Liu Qi couldn't refuse.

After one time, Chu Yan suddenly bent down, and something moist and soft wrapped Liu Qi's place.

He almost jumped up in shock: "Your Highness, Your Highness, you can't do this."

Chu Yan raised her head slightly: "Don't be afraid, I won't bite you."

"That's not the problem, you, you are the prince, how could you do such a thing..."

"I have done things that the prince shouldn't do, and this one is not bad." Chu Yan pushed him back, "Don't you feel comfortable? How do you feel?"

Liu Qi wanted to cry a little: "I feel like my head is gone."

Chu Yan rubbed his head dumbfoundingly: "It's still there, don't worry, no one will know. Aqi, I also want to make you comfortable."

The next day, Chu Yan called someone from the Ministry of Industry to discuss with him about finding a courtyard in the East Palace to build a pavilion.

The minister of the Ministry of Industry was a little puzzled: "Your Highness, the East Palace already has four hexagonal pavilions, two octagonal book pavilions, and eight pavilions between corridors. This is... quite a lot?"

Chu Yan shook his head: "There are quite a few, but there are too many people coming and going, so it's inconvenient."

The servant of the Ministry of Industry looked blank, and really couldn't figure out what the inconvenience was.

As if to confirm Liu Qi's words, within two days, the queen called Chu Rui over to ask if there was a girl she liked, and Chu Rui said "yes" without even thinking about it.

The queen knew it well, and asked with a smile, "Which family is the girl from?"

Chu Rui was rarely a little coy: "I just... performed that day."

The queen was silent.

There were so many girls who performed that day, how could she know which one it was.

"Blow, the one who plays the flute, the censor's..."

Coincidentally, the two girls who fought that day happened to be married to the prince.

Chu Rui fell in love with the girl from Yushi's family at first sight. Once they met on the street, and Chu Yan happened to be at the side.

Chu Rui was very happy when he was hurt, and he kept echoing, "You are right, please curse a few more times, hehehe".

Chu Yan silently rubbed goosebumps aside: I didn't expect you to be such Chu Rui.

As for Deng Ran, she will be Chu Ze's concubine.

Although she is the fourth prince and concubine in name, she may not be able to enjoy the glory and wealth if she goes to the northwest from now on. Liu Qi thought that it was because of the incident at the flower viewing banquet that Deng Ran was troubled. After inquiring, she found out that the queen wanted to date someone else. It was Mrs. Deng who begged to come to the door.

Deng Ran had a high vision and was arguing at home not to marry a non-prince. It happened that Concubine De was also worried that the queen would deal with Chu Ze, who fell out of favor, with a woman of insufficient background.

In June, the Northern Qi army finally broke through Jinling. Before the news came back, the prisoners escorted back from Huaibei arrived in the capital first.

These captives were basically Huaibei generals, and of course, the prince of Huaibei was also among them, and Chu Yan asked for them by name.

Jin He asked Emperor Chengxing how to deal with it, and Emperor Chengxing said lightly: "Walk around the street, hang on the inner side of the city wall, and expose to the sun for three days."

Traveling thousands of miles, just to let the people in the capital take a look at how these people died.

Chu Yan took advantage of the situation and asked Emperor Chengxing for the right to dispose of Huaibei Prince's son.

Emperor Chengxing put down the book: "Oh, yes, you suffered a loss in Huaibei, so let him be handed over to you."

Without Chu Yan stepping into the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, the prison cart of Prince Huaibei was sent to the East Palace and taken to the dungeon.

There are no less things in the Donggong Dungeon than in the Da Nei Tian Prison, and there are many people who can be imprisoned, but it is the first time for Chu Yan and Liu Qi to set foot in this place.

Liu Qi specially asked someone to set up a table in front of the cell, set out some anti-boring words books, prepared light tea and light wine, and lighted fresh and pleasant-smelling incense.

The table and the prison cell were about three feet apart, a distance just enough to hear each other's words.

The Prince of Huaibei could no longer see his original appearance, his face was covered with blood and stains, his hair was tied into locks, and he was put on a torture rack. Ever since Liu Qi came in, he had never raised his head .

Liu Qi asked casually: "Has he been tortured?"

The soldier replied: "There was no torture, it was the blood stains left when he smashed his head while trying to commit suicide on the way."

Liu Qi gave a faint "Oh", and then looked at the storybook and began to eat melon seeds.

After a long time, Huaibei Prince's son finally raised his head to look at him, not knowing what this man wanted to do.

It happened that someone came to ask: "My lord, it's time, can I bring him food?"

Meals for death row prisoners are only given once a day, and they are not delivered until the end of the day.

Liu Qi said without raising his head: "Give it to him, add some food, whatever the palace people in the East Palace eat today, give him a portion."

The soldier who delivered the food was a little surprised. He thought that this person would not survive today, but it might not be the case of decapitation.

The food was served quickly, and it was still steaming. Even if the prince of Huaibei wanted to maintain a little royal demeanor, he couldn't resist the temptation of the table full of hot dishes.

While he was gobbling it, he thought to himself that in the imperial palace of Beiqi, even the servants could eat so well, there was meat, fish, and soup, there was no shortage of steamed buns, rice, noodles, and soup.

At the end of the meal, his movements slowed down, and he began to quietly think about which way he should hit to die... He couldn't make a rash decision, this was the only time he was free, the only chance to die.

The Emperor of Northern Qi did not execute him directly, but handed him over to Chu Yan. He also knew how Chu Yan would torture him. Rather than undergoing that kind of torture, it would be better to die.

It is enough to have a full meal before death.

However, before he had time to think about it, Liu Qi said Shi Shiran: "It's almost there, tie it up, don't let him seek death."

The soldiers carried back Huaibei Prince's son, completely cutting off his chance of seeking death.

The author has something to say: I used to be...a Buddhist mother who could keep my son alive for two years...

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