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This kind of feeling of powerlessness makes Ying Qi feel extremely inferior.

Ying Qi stared blankly at the woman in the painting, feeling a little panicked in her heart, lowered her eyelids and was distracted.

Li Yuan reached out to hug his waist: "What are you doing standing here..."

Ying Qi suddenly turned around and restrained Li Yuan's wrist. After seeing His Royal Highness's astonished face, she let go of her hand in a panic, and knelt down on one knee to plead guilty.

"The subordinate offended."

Li Yuan leaned over and touched his chin, and snorted: "You are so offensive, I like it. You took my hand, so you took the initiative."

Ying Qi panicked and said: "Subordinates dare not."

Li Yuan just came back from the shower, his long hair was untied and hanging casually, when he bent down, the long hair fell in front of Ying Qi, dripping a few drops of water.

Ying Qi smelled an elegant black agarwood, which made Ying Qi inexplicably at ease.

"Get up," Li Yuan tapped him on the shoulder, walked up to the bronze mirror, took the horn comb from the mirror frame, handed it to Ying Qi, sat down in front of the desk, and said, "Grate my hair."

The ox horn grate pattern is exquisite, engraved with phoenix peonies, and it has been aged for a long time, like an object used by women.

Ying Qi never thought about whether or not a shadow guard needs to do these girls' jobs. In the past, she respectfully took over the exquisite horn comb, picked up a strand of hair from His Highness, and combed it solemnly like holding a fragile glass treasure. Comb, solemn as if doing a ceremony to worship heaven.

His Highness really has a lot of hair...it can't be held with one hand.

Recently, the prayer was very spiritual, and I wanted to touch His Royal Highness's hair, but I did.

It's so smooth, it slides between your fingers... so long.

After combing a few strands, a long hair was hanging on the teeth of the horn comb. Ying Qi frowned and looked at it for a long time, wanting to take it back for His Highness.

After combing everything in order, Li Yuan leaned back on the chair and was about to fall asleep with his head on his hands. With his eyes half-opened, he said, "I'm a little hungry."

Ying Qifei quickly brought the steamed buns that were left at the door, and regretted it after taking them out, thinking how could His Highness eat such lowly common people's food.

Li Yuan smelled the fragrance and was in a good mood: "You bought it for me?"

Ying Qi hid the oil paper bag behind her back again, and said softly: "I'll go to the small kitchen and give you..."

"No, I'll eat yours." Li Yuan stretched out his hand to push away the paperweight and paintings on the table, asking him to take them out and put them on the table, "Give me a taste."

Ying Qi had no choice but to take out the oiled paper bag and open it, and split each round and still warm steamed bun in half. Li Yuan picked it up and ate it, but Ying Qi snatched it back in panic.

Li Yuan was puzzled, propped his head up and looked at him sideways, thinking that the flustered little shadow guard was so cute.

Each of the seven shadows broke off a piece and tasted it, and then gave it to His Royal Highness after a while.

Seeing his cautious look, Li Yuan felt a little uncomfortable.

"Why did you come to see me?" Li Yuan asked him, holding his chin.

Ying Qi nodded and said: "Yes, my subordinates saw a boy from Yingyue Square who bought arsenic and was sneaky."

Li Yuan laughed: "No, you think they dare to poison me? How dare they have the guts? Do you know who I am? I am Li Yuan."

Ying Qi is still serious: "Your Highness is always right to be more careful. Otherwise, the prince will also worry about you."

"Okay, okay, good boy." Li Yuan rubbed his head, the little shadow guard knew how to love someone.He smiled helplessly, "Besides, if you test the poison for me, if something really happens, I won't feel bad about it?"

Ying Qi lowered his eyelids: "It's a subordinate's job."

A gust of wind blew in from the window, blowing the drawing paper that Li Yuan pushed away to the ground, Ying Qi subconsciously bent down to pick it up, Li Yuan said: "Hey, don't move."

Li Yuan got up to pick up the painting himself, and sat back on the chair to look at it.

It is rare for Ying Qi to see His Royal Highness caring so much about He Wu, and cherishing the portrait of his fiancée...so much.He suddenly seemed to be choked by something, and felt extremely uncomfortable.

His Royal Highness raised the painting in his hand, and showed it to Ying Qi: "Does it look good?"

Ying Qi bit her lips tightly and said with difficulty: "His Royal Highness's drawing skills are superb."

"You like it?" Li Yuan asked with a smile.

Ying Qi wanted to say that he didn't like it.

After all, he still said: "I like it."

Unexpectedly, His Royal Highness spread out a piece of rice paper casually, raised a brush and dipped it in ink to draw, and said casually: "I have always only painted flowers, birds, landscapes, and seldom painted people. So far, I have only painted her alone."

Li Yuan's calm words seemed to pierce Ying Qi's heart, and if he said one more sentence, one more thorn would be pricked, the pain was unbearable.

Ying Qi raised her head helplessly, watching His Highness Shi Zi painting, and was surprised to see the brush and ink on the rice paper.

In the mangrove forest, under the moon, a slender young man held two swords and looked sideways at the bright moon.

Ying Qi took the painting and pursed her lips.

"It's me... Is it a subordinate..." Ying Qi's eyes trembled a little, and he couldn't bear to let go.

The sadness he felt about painting his fiancée before His Royal Highness was instantly forgotten, and Ying Qi concentrated on looking at himself in the painting.

Li Yuan looked at him with his chin in his hands, he didn't know why, the little shadow guard had been unhappy just now, but now he looked much better, so he still wanted to coax him more.

He leaned his head back on the back of the chair, crossed his legs, and said proudly: "Do you know how much this painting of mine is worth in the shop, don't you?"

Ying Qi didn't care how much money it was worth, even if he could exchange for a city, he wouldn't be willing to hand it over.

Suddenly, he felt that his evaluation of the previous picture seemed too careless, so he reluctantly said: "Princess Ba Xia, it's also pretty."

Li Yuan was taken aback, and carefully mentioned what that stinky woman was doing.

"Ah? Oh, it's okay." Li Yuan replied reluctantly, trying to follow Ying Qi's words, so he said, "He's not bad."

After Ying Qi heard this, the little sun that had risen in his heart was half overcast again.

Whenever Li Yuan, the Baxia princess, got a headache, she leaned back in her chair and looked up at the sky.

Ying Qi was finally willing to move her gaze away from her portrait and looked at Li Yuan.

"You also want to urge me to get married for my father? Please forgive me." Li Yuan sat up again, put away his painting tools, and said, "However, this is not what my father is most worried about. My father most wants me to inherit The 30 Howling Wolf Battalion iron cavalry."

Prince Qi holds 30 heavy soldiers from the Howling Wolf Battalion, and the Tiger Talisman is hereditary with the title, which is the will of the late emperor.

Li Yuan lay on the desk, with long hair hanging on the ground, helplessly said: "Father wants me to take over the Tiger Talisman, but I have never agreed, so Father has been seriously ill for many years, but he has been desperately hanging on his life."

"He's waiting for my promise."

"But if I took it, wouldn't he be more confident and abandon me?"

Ying Qi was silent, he quietly looked at His Royal Highness who was lying on the desk, he didn't understand the troubles of the son of the family, and he couldn't solve His Highness's worries.

He carefully folded the portrait in two and put it in his arms, walked behind His Highness, put his hands on His Highness's shoulders, and accompanied him in silence.

The wooden door of the study room was knocked twice, and the little girl Liuyu hurriedly said outside the door: "Your Highness, Master Yingwu said that he has something urgent to see you."

Li Yuan hummed: "Let him in."

Ying Wu rushed in, saw Ying Qi was stunned here, then knelt down on one knee and reported: "Your Highness, the prince is back!"

Li Yuan nestled lazily in the chair: "What are you doing, come back when you come back."

"My brother and Yingsi beheaded everyone one by one, just the few who smashed Yingyuefang with you that day... and the maids who were on duty that day, and the guards guarding the gate, they were all beheaded. I want to give Chen Guifei an explanation .”

Li Yuan's face changed suddenly, he suddenly lifted the book case, and went to the Mingzhu Hall in a flick of his sleeves.

The desk was overturned, there was a loud crash, and the pen and ink in the slips were spilled all over the floor. The sudden change made Ying Qi stand in the study in a daze, looking at Ying Wu in amazement.

Ying Wu stood up and said helplessly: "The emperor's new favorite Concubine Chen, his cousin Chen Yuanli, the boss of Yingyuefang, do you know that? I don't know which tendon is wrong with Concubine Chen, so I personally sent a letter to the prince. Ask the lord to give His Highness a small punishment and a big punishment."

"The noble concubine has spoken, the prince must show some face, otherwise if the wind from the pillow blows into the emperor's ears, it will not be a matter of smashing Yingyuefang."

"It was Chen Yuanli who humiliated the eldest son of the Kong family first." Ying Qi asked in a low voice, "Will the prince punish His Highness?"

Ying Wu rolled his eyes: "Your Highness is the prince's darling, how could the prince punish His Highness for writing a handwritten letter to that bitch? Pity the guards and servants who were on duty that day, and they were charged with ineffective supervision of His Highness." , dragged out and beheaded, so that Chen Yuanli and Chen Guifei can give an explanation."

Ying Qi frowned, there was no other way.Kneeling down to clean up the overturned letters for His Highness, he flattened His Highness's cherished portrait of the Overlord Princess and placed it on the side of the desk.

After a while, Ying Si pushed the door in with his nine-knotted long whip, Mo Yu, standing at the door with his body still stained with blood, looking at Ying Qi and Ying Wu and the two of them.

Ying Qi's heart trembled, and he felt that he could not escape being beaten up.He is also part of the so-called "insufficient care of His Highness".

Unexpectedly, Ying Si didn't get angry, but just coldly told them to go out and do what they should do.

Before leaving, Ying Qi reported to Ying Si that he had seen a young boy in Yingyuefang sneaking around to buy arsenic.His Highness doesn't take it seriously, Ying Qi is really worried.

Ying Si thought for a moment, then hummed: "I see, you can go."

Ying Qi left the study room, looking worriedly in the direction of the old prince's Mingzhutang.

His Royal Highness broke into the Bamboo Tea Hall aggressively. The old prince was teasing the birds nonchalantly while leaning on a mahogany stick. When he saw Li Yuan approaching, he said leisurely, "Here we are. The king just asked them to make soup. You will taste it later. "

"I won't drink!" Li Yuan said angrily, "Why did you kill them? They just followed me! What mistake did you make?!"

The old prince smiled and said slowly: "Following you, isn't it wrong enough?"

Li Yuan laughed back angrily, and snorted coldly: "Concubine Chen Guifei dares to flirt with you after being pampered for a few days? Where does that vixen have the guts to threaten her like that?"

The old prince clicked his tongue twice: "Have you ever heard of beauty disaster? A few more words from Concubine Chen Gui in front of the emperor can shake our Qi Palace by two points."

Li Yuan was in disbelief, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "We Qi Palace's 30 howling wolf cavalry, are you afraid of him? The emperor pointed at us to Zhenjiang Mountain for him, what are you afraid of? Li Chongjing, do you have the guts? Relying on friendship every year to stabilize the frontier, I have long thought he is not pleasing to the eye, what can he do? No? No, it will be against him, and clear the king's side for him!"

"My son is so breathless." The old prince smiled helplessly, walked slowly back to the Luanfeng and Mingyun pattern chairs with a mahogany stick, took out a booklet from his sleeve, flipped through it, and said slowly, "That's all. Come and have a look Looking at this roster, these are the adoptive sons that the father intends to adopt, and in the future, I will give them a few to take over the Tiger Talisman of Xiaolang Camp."

Li Yuan opened his eyes wide, snatched the roster from the old prince's hand, flipped through it, his hands were shaking with anger, and his back teeth were clenching.

"Okay, just put your seal on it, the Heavenly Fragrance Peony seal, it's still there." The old prince urged slowly, "I have already stamped the king's seal for my father."

Li Yuan tore up the roster suddenly, smashed it to pieces, and threw it to the ground, sending paper scraps flying.

"I always thought that my father was a hero in all battles. Looking at it now, it's nothing more than that."

Li Yuan walked away with a flick of his sleeves, without looking back, and left behind a sentence:

"Father, I've changed my mind. This Roaring Wolf and Tiger Talisman can only be mine."

The old prince leisurely watched his son leave angrily, and looked at Yuan'er, who had grown into a gentleman, with gratified eyes.

The old prince closed his eyes and lay down on the recliner, playing with two heavy sapphire walnuts in his withered hands, listening to the silent leaves of the bamboo forest and the soft chirping of birds.

"Lian Po is old."