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After the great victory in Lingnan, Yanjing was quiet for a long time. The Prince of Lingnan said that he wanted to stay in Yanjing for a while, and reunite with old friends, so the old emperor waved his hand.

Li Mo didn't live in the post house, but lived in the mansion of his old friend Xin Yu on the outskirts of Yanjing. He drank wine, played chess and raced horses every day, and lived a fairly happy life.

Once the frost has passed, it will be the beginning of winter, and Yanjing is already cold, and has already put on thin fur.

The two sat in the front porch of the hall, Li Mo poured a glass of warm wine, sipped a couple of sips: "It's really cold here early, my house still has ice cream in the room right now."

Xin Yu smiled and poured a glass of wine for Li Mo: "Yes, it's been cold after one autumn rain. Mo'er, I've been here for a few days, why haven't I seen the little guard next to you who caught ants for my sister a few years ago? That grasshopper, Xin An always misses him."

Li Mo drank the glass of wine, took a hiss and said, "Tsk, it's just a secret guard, how can I be worthy of Second Miss."

He looked uncomfortable, Xin Yu saw it and didn't mention it again.

But Li Mo patted the table, regretfully said: "Yu'er, you said that it would be great if you mentioned this matter two years earlier." He rubbed his temples and sighed helplessly, "I won't mention it."

Later, Anbei handed over the family letter from Lingnan King, Li Mo opened it casually, glanced at it twice, and threw it to Anbei: "Burn it."

Nodding sadly, he left with a letter from his family.

Xin Yu drank by himself: "Uncle misses you and wants you to go back as soon as possible."

"No, the old man has a lot of wives and concubines at home, so he can't think of me, maybe he went somewhere with his stepmother and got drunk." Li Mo twitched the corner of his mouth, "The old man mentioned Li Yuan."

Xin Yu was startled, and thought about it: "Li Yuan, I haven't seen him for a long time, and in a blink of an eye he's His Highness King Qi, isn't he still as good-looking as when I was a child?"

Li Mo sneered and scolded: "When I saw him, I wanted to give him a slap, that arrogant and provocative bastard...it makes me angry to fight back with him, what the hell is this guy, shit."

Li Mo disliked him for being weak, and poured another glass of wine: "But I really don't want to do anything to him."

Xin Yu raised his eyebrows: "Are you trying to mess with Li Yuan?"

Li Mo clicked his tongue: "What are you talking about? If he is a woman, I will marry him immediately, so as not to antagonize me."

"Oh." Xin Yu thought about it for a while and laughed, "That's so spicy."

"Li Yuan...it's so fucking in the way." Li Mo's eyes flashed a trace of ruthlessness, "He is decadent now, and he will be able to recover in a few months. It's the king of Qi, and without restraint, I don't know what kind of waves and monsters I can make."

Xin Yu cupped his hands and smiled: "If you need help, please send me."

"Prepare some fast horses for me, and wait for the imperial decree." Li Mo licked his lips, "Drink first."

"I saw a bow in his hand."

These days, Prince Qi's Mansion has secretly recruited three young dead warriors to practice in the Shadow Palace.

Li Yuan's complexion was not very good, he cleared his throat, but his throat was itchy, and he leaned on the corner of the desk to cough.

Ying Qi hurried over to support her, took the handkerchief lying on the desk and pressed the corner of Li Yuan's lips, knelt down on one knee, and looked at Li Yuan with a frown.

Li Yuan pressed his hand: "It's cold. It's okay."

Ying Qi was worried: "My lord, take a rest, and the rest of the subordinates will take care of it for you. Brother Tan Cangyun and his brother have already entered the Shadow Palace, and the subordinates have personally sent Young Master Wei there."

These days, there is a new king Xijue in the Qi Palace who is in a state of distress, and the court officials outside the court are staring at him. Under the internal and external troubles, the new master has been skinned alive. As the beginning of winter is approaching, Li Yuan is overwhelmed by fatigue and depression.

Ying Qi knelt down, tentatively groped for Li Yuan's fingertips, touched it quietly, and then carefully held Li Yuan's fingers.

Li Yuan stretched his eyebrows, held Ying Qi's hand back, then leaned over and kissed the corner of the little Ying Wei's mouth: "Okay, go and have a rest."

After falling asleep, I felt a little hot in the middle of the night.

Ying Qi was busy making medicine for the prince to wipe his hands, kneeling on the side of the bed and watching.

The prince was lying on his side on the bed, his lips were dry and white, and the peach blossom eyes that had been radiant in the past were half-closed, and he laughed at himself: "Recently, my body has become weaker and weaker, Xiaoqi, don't despise me."

Ying Qi frowned: "It's not that you don't cherish your body...it's you who rest every night at five o'clock..."

"I did it all myself." Li Yuan laughed, and pressed his index finger on Ying Qi's lips, "Xiao Qi, my temper is getting worse, and I want to teach my husband a lesson, I like it."

Ying Qi fell silent, and said softly: "This subordinate is impolite."

"Hey, there are so many rules." Li Yuan held Ying Qi's cheeks and pinched them, "When I clean up this mess and take you to the south of the Yangtze River to relax, then it will probably be the time for the stinging sting, and it will be a good time."

There seemed to be a pool of spring water in the prince's eyes, and Ying Qi couldn't help dreaming about the brisk days when Chun and Jingming went boating on the West Lake.Recalling the last time we played together, the prince was still the son of the prince, we traveled together in a boat, admiring the beauty and beauty along the Qinhuai bank, leisurely.

It's been a long time since I spent time with my master.

He is not as eager as before for his master to stand above ten thousand people, that road is too ruthless and bloody, master is not a heartless person, that road is not suitable for master.

The prince should be leisurely and leisurely, and should not be at the mercy of others, sitting on a needle felt, making every gesture of his hands painful.

"Yeah." Ying Qi pursed her lips, her eyes were gentle, "My subordinates will follow you wherever you go."

There was a hasty knock on the door outside the bedroom, followed by Ying Si's report in a deliberately low voice: "Your Majesty, forgive me."

Li Yuan supported Ying Qi's wrist to sit up slowly, raised his hand to let Ying Qi open the door, took a sip from the teacup to moisten his throat, holding the teacup and asked in a hoarse voice: "What's the matter, so urgent."

Ying Si knelt into the back room and reported coldly, "Ying Yan has been arrested."

Ying Qi was startled, Li Yuan's expression darkened immediately, and he asked solemnly, "Who caught it?"

"The Prince of Lingnan was arrested by the Imperial Guards."

Suddenly there was a cracking sound, Li Yuan smashed the teacup, got up angrily, put on his robes and hurried out of the dormitory, and ordered while walking: "Go to inform Xunzhou, block the Shadow Palace immediately, and destroy all the information in the nearby information points."

Ying Qi accepted the order awe-inspiringly: "This subordinate will go now."

"You can't go." Li Yuan shook his head, "Send Fei Lian to form the shadow guards, and all the ghost guards will stay in the palace, lest there be no 300 taels of silver here and attract attention."

"Yes." Cold sweat dripped from the forehead of Ying Qi, and he clenched his fists.

A few days ago, there was no information sent back from the Pingxian intelligence point. Yingyan was sent out to check the situation of the Pingxian intelligence point. He was arrested somehow. The incident happened so suddenly that he didn't hear any news. It was Lingnan Prince Li Mo personally led people to arrest him. I'm afraid he was prepared long ago, waiting for the death of the old prince, and when the palace is in ruins, he just waited for the palace of Qi to be brought down in one day, leaving Li Yuan helpless.

As soon as he took a step out of the courtyard, the outside of Prince Qi's mansion was brightly lit. The imperial guards broke open the rich gate of the palace and broke into the courtyard with torches and long knives. The ever-growing white peonies in the courtyard were trampled to pieces.

Six ghost guards formed an arc, protecting Li Yuan in the center, and the shadow guards in the palace heard the sound and guarded the courtyard tightly.

Li Yuan slowly walked out of the protection of the ghost guards, his long hair was hanging down behind him, his face was pale, slightly haggard and sickly.

In the past, Li Yuan would never show others a haggard appearance, even if his body was exhausted, he would definitely look radiant when facing the enemy.

It's a pity that I am really powerless.

"Prince Qi's mansion is still in mourning, everyone, what does this mean?" Li Yuan stood quietly on the white stone steps, his voice hoarse due to fever sounded low and gloomy, and asked condescendingly.

Yan Wei'an, the commander of the imperial guards, cupped his hands arrogantly: "His Royal Highness, it's just a humble job to follow orders."

As soon as Yan Wei'an finished speaking, the imperial guards listed a corridor.

"His Royal Highness King Qi... tsk tsk, looking at his sick and weak appearance, I really feel sorry for my younger brother. You are so thin, could it be that you are planning every night, thinking about how to climb up to the dragon chair?" Li Mo hugged Zhu Yun's antler bow and slowed down. Slowly stepping into Prince Qi's mansion, his eyes were three points fierce and seven points contemptuous, he slowly stood still under the white stone steps, slightly raised his head and looked at Li Yuan.

Pulled out a Minghuang imperial decree from his sleeve: "Treason the king Li Yuan, privately store a hundred catties of gunpowder in Fengdiping County, and charge him to confine him in the Qi Palace, pending investigation and punishment, hereby."

"Li Yuan... how did you hide a hundred catties of gunpowder in Ping County? I'm really curious." Li Mo raised the corners of her lips and glanced at Li Yuan. The expression on that Mingyan's face at this moment is really beautiful Extremely.

Gunpowder, a hundred catties?

A trace of doubt flashed across Yingsi's eyes, he raised his eyes to search around, and glanced at Yingchai, who was also facing a formidable enemy.

Yingdi's ears trembled slightly, and then he said in sign language: "They brought Yingyan here."

Li Yuan stood on the white stone steps and looked down at him coldly: "When did this king hide gunpowder and slander the prince, Mo'er, you don't want to die."

Li Mo smiled and said, "I'm going to talk nonsense about enough gunpowder to level half the imperial city? Someone, bring that girl up, and report to you personally."

Yingyan was carried up by two guards, his whole body was tightly bound by iron chains, and his slender neck was strangled with rust marks.

"Sister Yan..." Ying Liu stared blankly at the girl who was bound by Wuhuada, his face was pale, he just took half a step forward, when Ying Si whipped him back, and warned coldly: "The Shadow Guard should not be panicked."

Ying Liu gritted his teeth, frowned and stared at Ying Yan, holding the switch on his wrist.

Li Mo casually tore off the cloth from Yingyan's mouth, and said with a light smile, "Come on, tell your master what's going on."

Unexpectedly, Yingyan desperately turned over and knelt down, knocking his forehead on the ground with a muffled sound: "God is above, Li Chongjing killed my parents and forced me to be a shadow guard. I used this gunpowder to blow up the Qi Palace! , go check it out!"

The ghost guards present were shocked, even Li Mo was shocked. This was not the answer he wanted.

Li Yuan's eyes were so red that they were about to burst into blood, and he roared: "Yan'er—!" With a stagnant breath in his chest, Li Yuan supported Ying Qi's wrist, bowed down and coughed violently, his palm It was splashed with blood foam.

"My lord!" Ying Qi really didn't know what to do, seeing the lord coughing up blood suddenly, she felt a little scared, supported Li Yuan's body with both hands, trying not to let her voice tremble.

Li Yuan's eyes were foggy, sometimes black and sometimes white, he tried his best to support his seriously ill body to prevent himself from falling down, he pushed Ying Qi away, walked down the white stone steps slowly, leaned on the white stone railing at hand and bent over to grab Ying Qi Yan, holding the person in front of him, gasped and questioned: "Tell...the truth..."

Yingyan licked Zhu Hong's lips, and said nothing.

Where does she have parents?

Li Mo felt that the situation was out of control, and immediately said: "Your Majesty ordered Li Yuan, the king of Qi, to be confined, and all the ghost guards and shadow guards are temporarily detained. If you don't obey, you will be against the order. As for this girl..." Li Mo gritted her teeth and waved Said, "Take them together!"

Li Yuan was already weak, but he felt a little top-heavy after this shock. He held Ying Qi's hand tremblingly, his eyes were foggy and black, and he pointed at Li Mo with trembling fingers, and said in a hoarse voice: "It's you...you Frame it and blame it...kill the Ping county guard, you hid the gunpowder..."

"...Go... and remove the bones of this beast for this king... Just treat this king as lax, and treat me as blind..."

Li Mo smiled in his heart, secretly admiring the hopeless look of the sickly beauty, and glanced at Shadow Four: "I know these guards can't stop you, you should think about it, if anyone resists, it will be your master who will be held accountable." .”

The imperial guards brought a special iron cage, opened the door, and politely invited the ghost guards around Li Yuan to enter.

Shadow Stack sighed softly, put his hands together and walked in slowly.

Ying Wu held onto Ying Si's white belt, and panicked in a low voice: "Brother, what should we do? If we leave, the lord will not be tossed to death by Li Mo?! I won't go into the cage... I'm also afraid of being tossed to death by Li Mo !"

The matter has come to this point, if he resists, the prince will really have to bear the charge of resisting the order and treason.

Feeling distressed and hesitant, Ying Qi stayed by Li Yuan's side, protecting Li Yuan behind her with one hand, staring at Li Mo fiercely and resentfully.

Li Mo sneered: "If you resist the decree and don't obey it, you will be executed."

However, she felt the lord pushing herself gently behind her, Li Yuan shook her head, Ying Qi hesitantly let go of the hand in front of the lord, Li Mo grabbed her arm, handcuffed her and pushed her into the iron cage.

The iron cage was slowly closed, and Shadow Four whispered to Shadow Seven: "The list of shadow guards is in the sixth dark compartment under my bed."

"What?" Seemingly there was a turning point, Ying Qi subconsciously obeyed the order of the commander, but before he could answer, Ying Si kicked him out of the cage door.

At that moment, Ying Qi was completely dumbfounded, but his speed was extremely fast and his reaction was sensitive enough. Even if his hands were handcuffed with iron chains, he just rolled on the spot, as if he had evaporated from the world and disappeared without a trace, just like this Man never existed, not even a trace remains.

Li Mo was shocked that someone dared to run away against the order, and it was his cousin's most beloved person who ran away.

"His Royal Highness King Qi?" Li Mo picked up Li Yuan's long hair with the antlers on his bow, "How else can you say that the husband and wife are birds of the same forest, and they fly separately when disaster strikes? How about I catch it for you, skin it and cram it to relieve your hatred?"

Li Yuan had already had a splitting headache, holding onto the relief on the stone platform and coughing, thick blood splattered on the relief on the white stone, indifferent to Li Mo's harsh teasing.

Ying Si reminded at the right time, and said indifferently: "Your Highness Li Mo, Prince Qi's personal guard is only ranked sixth, and there is no one else."

The corner of Li Mo's mouth twitched fiercely: "You think I'm blind? Yan Wei'an, let your men go search, if you want to see people, you want to see corpses."

Shadow Four interrupted him: "Your Highness, there is no Shadow Seven, you can check the roster. It's just an ordinary Shadow Guard."

At the same time, Ying Qi climbed into Ying Si's residence and dug out the things in the dark compartment.A month ago, the prince spent several days and nights to replace the shadow guard list with double-layer chiseled and pressed paper. If there is a search, the first layer can be peeled off to reveal the second layer of fake list. Thinking of it really came in handy.

Ying Qi scraped off the part of the roster and the dossier that recorded herself with a razor blade, burned it clean, and left Qi Wangfu.

Cut off the handcuffs, and hid in a cave thirty miles away for three days.

In the middle of the night, an old traveler in rags wanted to borrow a fire for warmth.

The old man was hunchbacked, his face was covered with age marks and several old scars, he walked slowly into the cave, sat beside Ying Qi, stretched out his hands to dry by the flames, rubbed his withered hands like twigs, Smiling at Ying Qi: "Young man, you are so young, how can you have such a big resentment, I am old, I can feel it outside."

The sound is like a bellows pulled during blacksmithing, accompanied by hoarseness and crackling sounds, like old shells that have been floating in the sea for several years, being trampled to pieces by pedestrians on the shore.

Ying Qi had no intention of chatting, and leaned against the rock wall to rest with his eyes closed, giving the old man a good place to warm up by the fire.

The old man rubbed his hands, took out a bran cake wrapped in oil paper from his arms, and tore it vigorously with his front teeth. The dry and hard bran cake was firm and flaky, which made people worry that the old man's front teeth would not fly out.

"Here, young man." With a dry and dark hand, he handed over half of the bran cake, with the imprint of a front tooth on the top.

Ying Qi didn't answer, and said flatly: "I'm not hungry."

The old man happily baked bran cakes, crunched and chewed happily, picked at Ying Qi by his feet and asked, "Young man, is the family in trouble?"

The husband is imprisoned, the brother is arrested, it can be regarded as a disaster for the family.

"En." Ying Qi's Adam's apple twitched, and his eyes were slightly red.

The old man lazily leaned against the corner of the rock wall, pulled some withered grass to cover his body, and comforted him leisurely: "This man is floating around in the world. Sometimes he sinks, and sometimes he floats up again. You think it is the sky falling. , the sky will really fall, if you don’t admit it, the sky won’t fall.”

"Young man, don't just sit on the ground waiting to die. It's a bit bitter. You just have to stand up. Does it hurt? It hurts. You have to stand up. Destiny is hard to break, and our lives are hard to count. As long as you live, you won't lose."

A sentence touched Ying Qi's heart, he wanted to turn around to look at the old man, but the old man seemed to be hungry again, he took out chaff in his bosom, accidentally brought out a small wooden sign, and landed at his feet with a clang.

The old man picked it up awkwardly, smiled, wiped the dust and put it back.

However, Ying Qi turned over and stood up as if he stepped on his tail, staring straight at the Shadowless Ghost Card in the old man's hand.

It was the piece he had dropped.

In the blink of an eye, the old man suddenly disappeared, and a dead leaf slowly fell to the ground.

Ying Qi's eyes widened, and she knelt on the place where the old man had just leaned on, tremblingly groping for Yu Wen.Looking around, he ran out of the cave eagerly, and the old man had long since disappeared.

"Senior...?" Ying Qi was stunned in the cold rain.

The shadow guards around King Qi were taken away for investigation and locked in the Luoyang dungeon. Twenty thousand Dingguo Xiao cavalry guards were stationed in Luoyang to recuperate, and a group was assigned to guard the dungeon.Qi Wang Li Yuan was imprisoned in the palace, and the guards were heavily guarded. Ying Qi could only watch from a distance.

The prince seems to have never come out of the dormitory, and he doesn't know how his condition is.

Ying Qi was restless, and the dragonfly sword coiled around his fingertips.

Blaming himself for not practicing the contingency technique of the Nine Infants Group in the Shadow Palace, what could he do by himself without Yingsi and the other ghost guards?

He couldn't see the prince for a day, Ying Qi was worried, he couldn't wait, so he simply sneaked into the Luoyang dungeon. Although the dungeon was heavily guarded, it couldn't stop the light kung fu masters. , It's a pity that I can't bring my colleagues out. In this world, there are not many light skills that have reached the realm of Shadow Seven.

When he came out, his eyes were blood red, and he held two things tightly in his palm, hiding them in his sleeves, and his figure disappeared in a flash.

Ten days later, the imperial guards outside the palace of Prince Qi withdrew, half of the guards were withdrawn, and all of them were replaced by Li Mo's men.

Ying Qi took the opportunity to climb over the wall and enter the palace, hid in the shadow of the corner of the eaves, and entered the courtyard, taking advantage of the patrolling team of Ding Guoxiao cavalry guards changing shifts, Ying Qi turned into the study, hid in front of the book screen at the corner of the window, borrowed the gap Spy on the courtyard.

A long wooden torture frame was erected outside the peonies in the courtyard, and a long rope was hanging down. Li Yuan sat kneeling under the torture frame, his hands were bound, and was suspended in mid-air.

His face was so pale that it was almost transparent, a thread of blood hung on his lips, the white mourning clothes on his body were stained with blood, and the embroidered peonies were oozing bright red.

Li Mo squatted in front of Li Yuan holding the antler bow, smiled and reached out to lift Li Yuan's chin. He could still feel his body trembling slightly due to the pain, so he leaned closer and asked softly, "Brother, can you bear it?"

The bloodless thin lips moved lightly: "You lynched me, aren't you afraid of His Majesty punishing you?"

Li Yuan hadn't eaten for a few days, his dry voice was hoarse and tingling.

Li Mo smiled, and wiped the blood on the corner of Li Yuan's mouth with his thumb: "You are already a dead person. Your Majesty will not look at you again, let alone let you take another step out of Prince Qi's mansion. From now on, you will never appear in front of anyone again." In sight, and I... I am also very sad, unfortunately, who would complain about a dead person."

"Hand over that keel bow quickly." Li Mo urged in a low voice, "I know that thing is in your hands, hand it over, and exchange the lives of your shadow guards."

Li Yuan's eyes were dark and he didn't say a word.

Li Mo firmly grabbed Li Yuan's jaw: "Speak?!"

Li Yuan raised his head slightly, the dusk sprinkled on his extremely handsome face, a thin layer of gold line was plated along the eyelids and the bridge of the nose, his thin lips parted, showing a playful smile, and whispered in a hoarse but pleasant voice:

"I'm not dead."