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Li Yuan took Ying Qi's hand and walked through the small door back to the private room of Pingge in Chaomu Lou, bolted the door, and coaxed Ying Qi onto the soft couch with his arms and arms.

The two were too close, and the salt punishment wound on Ying Qi's back was lightly touched, causing Ying Qi to tremble slightly in pain.

Li Yuan seemed to be aware of it, and pressed his palm on Ying Qifa and asked him: "What's wrong with you? What's wrong with your back? Are you hurt?"

Ying Qi shook his head: "No, I bumped into it."

"Then let me see..." Li Yuan wanted to take off Ying Qi's shirt to see if there were any injuries on his body.

Ying Qi pressed Li Yuan's wrist and said in a low voice, "Your Highness, there is nothing."

Li Yuan had no choice but to loosen his skirt, Xiao Qi had just eased himself a bit, he didn't want to go too far and force Xiao Qi to be too tight.

"Alright." Li Yuan rubbed Ying Qi's hair lightly, "If you don't want to, just stop watching, I didn't want to do anything to you, I was just worried about your body."

Ying Qi lowered his eyelids and did not look at Li Yuan, and said in a hoarse voice, "This subordinate is fine."

"That's good." Li Yuan sat on the soft couch, hugging Ying Qi from behind, shaking gently.The two sat quietly for a long time. It was the first time for Ying Qi to lie in His Royal Highness's arms for so long, and she stayed up all night for several days, becoming more and more sleepy in Li Yuan's arms.

It was getting dark, and candles were lit in the private room.

Li Yuan leaned on the head of the bed, hugged Ying Qi who was sleeping against her, and gently rubbed his shoulder.

The attack of the assassins this time was not accidental. Someone hired Bixiao Pavilion, one of the four major assassin houses, to clean up the Qi Palace. Use the hands of others to eradicate Li Yuan.

It's been so long, and Shadow Four probably has almost finished catching the spies.

The Qi Palace has survived year after year in the cracks, and Li Yuan is constantly thinking about how to make the situation of the Qi Palace easier.

I hope that no one in front of me will be hurt again in the future.

After Yingsi and the others finish their investigation, they will report back. Three days later, there will be two important friends that Li Yuan needs to deal with. Don't think about those faraway ones for the time being.

A gust of wind blew outside the window, the window was not closed tightly, and moved slightly, Ying Qi suddenly opened his eyes, looked around vigilantly, and pressed his right hand on the sword belt on his back waist.

Li Yuan lowered his head and rubbed his cheek: "Don't be nervous, it's just the wind."

Only then did Ying Qi relax a bit: "The subordinates will keep watch for you, you can rest."

"Hey——" Li Yuan wanted to hold him back, but Ying Qi had already tiptoed to the window, clutching the window frame with both hands, his arm muscles tensed, his body lightly swung out of the window, and jumped onto the roof.

Li Yuan didn't chase anymore, got into bed and sighed.

In the middle of the night, when Li Yuan was fast asleep, Ying Qi quietly came back from the window, went to Li Yuan's bed and knelt down without making a sound.

Then he quietly lay on the edge of His Royal Highness's bed, looked at Li Yuan's sleeping face, tucked Li Yuan's quilt, turned around, and leaned against the bed with the green snake scabbard to rest.

Yingqi felt a little guilty.If His Highness really pushed him away to protect himself, did his previous indifference also hurt His Highness's heart?

He was still defeated by the sweet words of His Royal Highness, he couldn't hold on, he couldn't go against his own heart.No matter how serious the injury was, as long as His Royal Highness hooked his hands, he would still walk over carefully and kneel at his feet obediently, because he really missed His Highness's touching and whispering, and liked him so much.

Ying Qi stayed by Li Yuan's bed all night, when Li Yuan woke up the next day, there were things for washing under the bed, and meals were already prepared on the table.

Li Yuan washed up, put on some clothes, and knocked on the edge of the bed.

Ying Qiru landed at Li Yuan's feet, kneeling on one knee and obeying orders.

Li Yuan didn't ask him to get up, but squatted down by himself, sat cross-legged in front of him, clapped his hands, and stretched out his arms towards Yingqi.

Ying Qi walked over hesitantly, but was grabbed by Li Yuan, hugged her into her arms and rubbed it back and forth, it was so sticky that Ying Qi's body softened, Li Yuan pressed her on the edge of the bed and kissed wetly with her lips in her mouth.

"Good morning, Xiaoqi."

Ying Qi's ear tips were slightly red, and she turned her head to one side.

What a good morning, it's almost noon.

Li Yuan still wanted to cling to Ying Qi, but suddenly there was a loud noise downstairs, someone flipped the table, and then heard a woman screaming,

Ying Qi vigilantly held down the scabbard on his back, subconsciously protecting Li Yuan behind him.

"Who is making trouble, dare to make trouble about Chaomu Building..." Li Yuan yawned lazily, "Liang Xiao is not here, I will take care of the scene for him. Let's go and have a look."

Li Yuan was standing on the attic, lying leisurely on the railing and looking down. The ground was a bit messy, but it was nothing serious. A butcher who came from nowhere came in with a kitchen knife, desperately trying to chop a boy who was cowering in a corner, and was killed. The thugs watching the scene in Chaomulou stopped them.

The butcher yelled loudly: "Don't stop me! I will get rid of this monster today!"

The young man hid in the corner, holding a cloth bag tightly in his arms, glanced at the butcher contemptuously, and spat: "Bah, aren't you afraid of being punished by God for slaughtering the eagle in your village?!"

Li Yuan was full of interest, and muttered to himself: "What is the eagle?"

The butcher who was stopped by the thugs scolded: "Everyone come to judge. I am a butcher in Sulin Town, a suburb of Linzhou. A few days ago, a black and white python killed a dozen villagers. Several butchers discussed it and chopped up the two demon pythons together. Unexpectedly, it was only this child! He actually talked to the python, and left after talking about the python! You said, didn’t he also come to kill this child? A human elf!"

The young boy retorted: "I saved you and called me a goblin! Do you have any conscience?"

Li Yuan laughed out loud, and said to the people below: "It's really not a thing for someone to bite back after saving you."

The butcher became furious, baring his mouth with missing front teeth: "Who are you?!"

"Presumptuous!" Ying Qi's eyes were cold and angry, and he wanted to draw his sword and jump down to fix him.

Li Yuan pulled Ying Qi back, and leisurely said to the bottom: "Liang Xiao is not here, I am the boss here."

Li Yuan walked down the wooden ladder slowly, and stood between the butcher and the boy, knocking on his Cyan Bi folding fan.

Seeing that Li Yuan's aura was strong enough, the boy ran over immediately, hid behind Li Yuan, and begged for mercy in a low voice: "Brother, brother, I was wronged! Please do me a favor and save me!"

Ying Qi looked down at the young man's dirty little paws grabbing on His Royal Highness's clothes, and couldn't help frowning, then pushed the young man's hand away with the scabbard, and reprimanded him in a low voice: "Stay away."

The young man shuddered, let go of his hand embarrassingly, and moved a little further away.

The cloth bag in his arms loosened, revealing a golden egg.

When the butcher saw the egg, he went crazy again: "Look! It's that egg! Our neighboring village was killed by an eagle a few days ago, and several children were snatched away. A group of hunters managed to shoot the giant eagle to death. This unlucky boy actually snatched the demon eagle's egg, is he trying to hatch another one to continue doing evil?!"

The young man didn't suffer and cursed back: "You know what a fart! This is the egg of the snow-winged golden eagle! There are not many left in the world! It's really bad luck for eight lifetimes to be ruined by you poor ghosts!"

The snow-winged golden eagle is a huge bird of prey. It is as tall as a person in adulthood. It lives on the top of a high mountain and feeds on lions, tigers, and pythons. The number of people who have seen the snow-winged golden eagle in the world can be counted on their hands. Most of these sacred beasts still live in people's rumors.

Ying Qi lowered his head to look at the young man, his eyes flickering on and off, with mantras looming in his pupils.

He whispered: "Your Highness, the child's eyes..."

Li Yuan knocked on the fan, knelt down and lifted the boy's chin with the fan bone and looked at it, his pupils were pitch black, and there seemed to be spells in them.

There are several ancient books about ghosts hidden in the library of Wangfu. It is recorded that some people can see things that others cannot see, or can communicate with all things, or some other abilities.

Li Yuan immediately favored the past.

"Grab an egg and chase after it with a knife? Someone, send this crazy butcher to the government!"

Li Yuan, whoever he helps depends on his mood, he doesn't care about right or wrong.

The butcher cursed and was sent to the government. The young boy held his egg and made a face. When he saw the butcher left, he wanted to run away, but Ying Qi picked him up by his collar.

Li Yuan laughed and said: "I have to pay for helping others, want to run away? Xiao Qi, bring him up."

The boy kicked his hands and feet desperately: "Hey! Brother...cough cough cough, no, young master! Let me down cough cough cough..."

As long as he heard the little dirty boy call Li Yuan "brother", Ying Qi would use a little more strength to grab his neck's hand calmly.

Entering the private room, Yingqi threw the young man at Li Yuan's feet, stood beside him with his sword in his arms, and stared at him coldly.

The young man fell so hard that his eyes stared, he got up and knelt in front of Li Yuan.

Li Yuan nestled in the grand teacher's chair, picked up the small sharpener and sharpened his nails leisurely, and asked him: "What's your name? How old are you? Where are you from?"

The young man was afraid of the fierce and cold Ying Qi next to him, so he answered truthfully: "Shang Qiu, Mingyue in small characters, is 11 years old and lives in a cave on Mount Taiwei outside Linzhou City."

"Live in a cave? Does your family live in a cave?" Li Yuan threw down the small whetstone and looked at him curiously.

Shangqiu shook his head: "I was the only one who lived with the golden eagle. When the golden eagle died, I had nowhere to go with her eggs. Seeing your elegance, you seem to be wise. This might be the last one." It's..."

"Boy, I have a good place for you. You can raise it if you want." Li Yuan squatted down and smiled at Shang Qiu, "Our family's beast garden is short of a steward, do you want to go? Every month Fenghou, you can hatch eggs and tame beasts if you want, and no one will care if you lay eggs."

Shang Qiu's eyes lit up, hesitantly said: "...Really?"

"Then... what about the conditions?" This kid has been in the market for a long time, and he knows that there is no such thing as a free meal.

"The condition is that once you enter my house, you can't go out again, otherwise you will die."

The child shuddered: "No, then I won't go."

Li Yuan said indifferently: "It's up to you, you can go whenever you want, anytime."

He took out the Tianxiang Peony seal, and he will not return to the palace for the time being, so he will give him a mark so that Ying Si and the others can accept it according to the emblem.

Like his father, Li Yuan likes to search for strangers in the world, and is good at buying people's hearts, otherwise he would not be able to build a large shadow palace.The ghost guards of the palace are full of ghost talents in the world, and they are selected layer by layer by discerning gold in the sea of ​​people.

Li Yuan casually went to burn his private seal in the incense burner.

Ying Qi stood aside and said anxiously: "Your Highness, what if it's a spy."

Li Yuan raised his eyelids: "Let Ying Si take a look and you'll know, I'll give him a small seal, otherwise he won't be able to enter the palace..."

Ying Qi still insisted: "Do you want to print this seal for anyone?"

Sensing Ying Qi's sudden irritability and anxiety, Li Yuan licked his lips and explained: "This seal doesn't have as much power as you think... Then I won't print it, I'll write a handwritten letter."

Ying Qi realized that he was being impolite, so he said, "This subordinate is impolite", stepped back a few steps and stood at the door of the private room.

Li Yuan looked at Ying Qi's back inexplicably.

The young boy tugged at Li Yuan's clothes: "Hello."

Li Yuan came back to listen to him.

Shang Qiu whispered: "Hey, don't talk to children in front of that brother."

Li Yuan laughed angrily: "Why?"

Shang Qiu snorted softly: "He's angry, can't you see it? I'll count to three, if you don't chase him, he will definitely go away, three, two..."

Seeing the two whispering and hating seeing each other so late, Ying Qi bit her lip and left, exited the private room, stood guard outside the door, out of sight and out of mind.

This child has psychic eyes and is also very sensitive in observing words and colors.

Li Yuan was suddenly excited, took out a silver ticket and handed it to Shang Qiu: "Thank you little brother, you can go wherever you like, I have to leave beforehand."

Li Yuan dropped the child and ran out to chase Xiaoqi to coax him.

Shang Qiu triumphantly took the bank note, jumped out of the window with the golden eagle egg in his arms and left.He took out the handwriting written by Li Yuan just now in his arms, scratched his head and looked at it.

"Yuezhou Prince Qi's Mansion... Forget it, I'll go and have a look when I can't afford food."