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Yesterday, I slept too much, Li Yuan woke up very early, it was not yet dawn.

I woke up and looked at my feet, no one was there.

He rubbed his sleepy eyes and looked under the bed, but there was nothing there.

This little shadow guard really left as soon as he was off duty, he wasn't used to it at all.

Li Yuan knocked on the edge of the bed, and the ghost guard on duty fell to the ground suddenly, Ying Yan nodded and asked, "What orders does Your Highness have?"

Li Yuan yawned, and lazily said, "Where is Shadow Seven."

Ying Yan pursed her lips and smiled: "Xiao Qi got up early and went to the training ground."

Li Yuan frowned: "Why did you change your training so early?"

Yingyan shook her head: "Xiao Qi is going to practice more."

Li Yuan yawned again and again, unable to sleep anyway, put on his clothes: "Take me to have a look."

"Yes."

The lights were dim, the sky was still dark, the palace was silent, and the training ground was empty.

Li Yuan stood still under the iron gate of the training ground, looked inside with his hands in his hands, and saw two or three figures in black, one of them was Xiaoqi.

Ying Qi asked Ying Si Ying Wu brothers for advice, and Ying Si naturally agreed as the leader. Ying Wu was lethargic at first, and was dragged to the training ground by his brother early in the morning, and could snore while holding a stone pillar.

Ying Qi knelt on the ground, propping the ground with both hands, and the golden sand overflowed from his fingers.

He was panting badly, sweating profusely on a cold autumn day, with his arms and sleeves rolled up, revealing his bruised and purple muscles.

Ying Wu was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes, hugged the stone lion in the training ground and said, "Oh, Xiao Qi... Take your time... Why do you have to come here early in the morning to get beaten, how hard you can think about it... Not to mention the palace, you are looking for it from Beihua, how many dare to fight me..."

Ying was expressionless, sitting on a stone lion seat, flipping through the old books that recorded tactics, sketching with a pen, and said in a low voice: "It's too bad."

The ghost guards of the Fei Lian group still have limitations that are difficult to break through. They can assist with light skills when the terrain is complex. In such an empty field, there is nowhere to hide when encountering opponents, and it is difficult to survive.

Ying Wu was right. In actual combat, Fei Lian's ghost guards, who are good at fighting lightly and weakly, are too easy to sacrifice.

Yingqi nodded helplessly: "Yes, I will continue to train."

Ying Sihe closed the old book: "Don't rush for quick success. I will teach you slowly in the future. Today is enough, go back and rest."

Ying Wu had already fallen asleep lying on the stone lion's head, snoring a little.One hand is enough for him to hit Shadow Seven, so there is really no challenge.

Ying Qi struggled to get up and bowed his head: "Thank you Commander...I will stay for a while."

Ying Si stared at Ying Qi for a long time, picked up Ying Wu who rolled his eyes while sleeping, and went back to sleep in the garden.

Li Yuan stood outside the iron gate of the training ground, silently looking at the little shadow guard who was still stubbornly staying in the training ground for training alone, covered in bruises and dust.

Yingyan walked over, put on a piece of clothing for Li Yuan to keep warm, folded her arms and looked at the lonely and stubborn figure in the training ground, her red lips slightly raised.

"Xiaoqi is very similar to you when you were young." Yingyan said softly, "You were also like this in the sword mound. Senior said that you should break [-] bowstrings, and you really did that."

Li Yuan raised his right hand and looked at his smooth palm and knuckles.Countless layers of hard cocoons had grown on it, which were soaked away by the medicine liquid forced by his father, and he was not allowed to touch the bow and arrow ever since.

"What's so good about being like me?" Li Yuan put down his hands, looked at Ying Qi's sweaty figure from a distance, and smiled helplessly, "Will the wings be chopped off and locked in a cage forever?"

Yingyan shook his head: "Your Highness, you will not always be like this, we exist to set you free."

Li Yuan gritted his teeth and said, "Don't do anything stupid, I'm fine, I don't have to worry about food or clothing, I'm a dude, that's enough."

Yingyan was noncommittal, and nodded in obedience.

There are many things in the world that His Royal Highness cannot control.

Yingyan asked: "Will your Highness go down and talk to Xiaoqi?"

"No, go back and get some medicine for him, and get it from my account."

"Yes."

Li Yuan knew that his little shadow guard was stronger, and every time he saw him, he cleaned himself up completely, and he definitely didn't want him to see his embarrassed appearance.

Yingyan accompanied Li Yuan back, sighing softly on the way: "Your Highness is so caring."

Li Yuan looked back at her.

Ying Yan bent her crescent-like eyes and smiled: "It's a lucky thing to be liked by you."

Li Yuan coughed twice: "No, I don't have one, don't talk nonsense."

"Your subordinate will leave." Yingyan sent His Royal Highness to the bedroom, and withdrew into the shadows.

Ying Qi found some free time today, and told Ying Si a leave to go to the Shadow Palace.

The Shadow Palace is located in Xunzhou, not far from Yuezhou. The Shadow Palace has good legs and can arrive in half a day.

The guards of the Shadow Palace stopped Ying Qi: "Stop, what are you doing!"

Ying Qi took off the mahogany shadow card on his waist and handed it over: "I'll get something."

When the guard saw the pattern of heavenly fragrance peony on the shadow card, he immediately stood up and saluted: "So it's Lord Ghost Guard, I'm sorry, please come in."

The three in charge of the Shadow Palace each perform their duties. Li in charge, Li Mulan, is in charge of assessing and selecting talents; Xue in charge, Xue Ninghai, is in charge of punishment, and in charge of punishment drills; Guardsmen.The Lord of the Shadow Palace doesn't show up often.

When Ying Qi entered the Shadow Palace, Director Xue sighed when he saw someone, this kid survived the salt punishment and became a ghost guard, and his status is still higher than his own, how can this be reasonable.

Master Xue stepped forward to salute Ying Qi, thinking that this kid must not hate himself.

Ying Qi still felt chills down his spine when he saw Master Xue, so he hurriedly returned the salute and left.

The shadow palace was filled with a gloomy and damp smell of blood, and miserable wailing came from the torture chamber in all directions. Ying Qi lowered his head, his legs were weak, and he was leaning on the wall, his fingertips trembling.

Hurrying to a corner where there was no one around, Ying Qi held onto the corner and retched, until acid water came out of his stomach, and both calves were shaking.

He didn't expect that his shadow on the Shadow Palace has been so far, and the wounds left by the salt punishment are not only on his body, but also on his heart. If he hadn't had to come back, he didn't want to see the gate of the Shadow Palace again.

"Hey buddy, are you okay?"

Someone spoke behind him, the boy's voice was clear and innocent.

Ying Qi turned her head slowly, and saw the small boy.

Yan Lingshang jumped three feet high, backed up like a ghost and stuck to the wall, tremblingly said: "Jijijijijijiji brother? Jiji brother! I burn paper for you every day, are you doing well down there! Could it be that you came to take me away? I, I, I, I have just been admitted to the Nine Infant Group, and the future is bright, so don't take me away!"

Seeing that it was a familiar face, Ying Qi breathed a sigh of relief.

"Entered the Jiuying group, congratulations." Ying Qi said, "After a while, I will come out."

Yan Lingshang took courage and looked Ying Qi up and down with wide eyes: "Brother Ji? Is he alive?"

Shadow Seven frowned.

"It's really alive!" Yan Lingshang jumped on Ying Qi's body, ecstatic, "Boss, how did you survive the salt punishment, you are a real man!!!"

At the mention of salt punishment, Ying Qi's stomach churns, nauseated.

"Don't mention the salt punishment." Ying Qiqiang held back and did not lose his composure, "I'm here to pick up the things I left here. I left before, so I was in a hurry."

"All right, all right, I'll take you there!" Yan Lingshang was like meeting an old acquaintance in a foreign country, the little man ran like a tiger, dragged Ying Qi and ran away.

Shouting wildly along the way: "Hey! Look here! Our boss is back! Shadow Guard! The boss is the Shadow Guard!"

Ying Qi rubbed his temples and said in a low voice, "It's the ghost guard."

Yan Lingshang froze for a moment, showing the shocked expression of an old donkey gnawing on a cactus ball, and roared three times louder than before: "Ghost guard!"

At this time, it was the time for the shadow guard trainers to rest, everyone was idle, and Yan Lingshang greeted them all after a while.

Ying Qi is like the Monkey King returning to Huaguo Mountain for the first time, a group of little monkeys rushing over to watch.

Ying Qi disappeared in an instant, and the little monkeys who rushed over to hug their legs were all in vain.

Yan Lingshang crawled out from under the crowd, and ran after Ying Qi: "Hey boss, wait for me!"

Turned out of the training ground and landed near the back door, the surroundings were quiet.

Yan Lingshang was lying on the small window of the training ground, looking at Ying Qi with his head: "Boss, I can't go out, I will be punished if I go out.

"You don't have to come out." Ying Qi squatted in the corner, dug up a piece of compacted soil with both hands, and dug for a while, revealing a corner of the cloth bag. Ying Qi carefully dug out the cloth bag and brushed off the soil.

Yan Lingshang lay on the window sill, resting her head on her hands: "Isn't this what your parents left you, it's so precious, what are you going to do with it?"

Ying Qi remained silent, got up and left.

Yan Lingshang called him, and Ying Qi turned to look at him: "What's the matter."

The young man held his chin and asked, "Boss, tell me, can I survive these three years?"

"Am I going to die here?"

Ying Qi turned and looked at him.

Yan Lingshang blinked her big eyes and rubbed her hair: "I don't want to be a little beggar anymore, I also want to go out and be a shadow guard."

Ying Qi said: "I think of someone in my heart."

The boy was taken aback: "What?"

Ying Qi's figure disappeared, leaving behind a silence.

"I think about someone in my heart, and when I can't bear it, I think about him in my heart."

This method is indeed very good, but it is a pity that there are side effects——

I will fall in love with the person I think in my heart, and there will be no cure from then on.

Ying Qi had to hurry back, it would be the sixth day of September, the birthday of His Royal Highness Shi Zi.

On the way back to the mansion, he bumped into Ying Si and Ying Wu, who were running towards the palace.

Seeing Ying Qi, Ying Wu yelled: "Go back to the palace and tell Your Highness! The arsenic from last time was indeed a problem! Don't eat anything, don't eat anything!"

Ying Qi's face froze, like a lightning bolt, he disappeared in an instant.

Shadow Four and Shadow Five were investigating the arsenic matter mentioned by Shadow Seven, and checked the listings of various pharmacies in the surrounding area. There were indeed several problems. The bosses said that today suddenly no one patronizes the business anymore.

Regardless of whether Concubine Chen Guifei and Chen Yuanli have the guts to poison the nobles of the royal family, some people are using this matter as a hindrance, and it is true that they want to borrow a knife to kill someone.

Ying Qi walked against the wind, and returned to the palace in a short time. His Highness's birthday banquet had not yet started, Ying Qi quickly entered the hall along the eaves, and landed at Li Yuan's feet.

Li Yuan was puzzled: "What's wrong, I'm out of breath."

Ying Qi whispered: "Your Highness, there is something wrong with your diet, so don't move."

Li Yuan's face froze, he nodded calmly, dipped his fingertips in the wine and wrote a few words on the satin of the table, and pointed it to the prince, the old prince read it, his eyes narrowed slightly.

Ying Qi breathed a sigh of relief, and just about to step back, he heard a melodious announcement:

"Your Majesty bestowed autumn wine and jade dew on His Royal Highness's birthday—!"

Li Yuan's face turned pale.

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