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Li Yuan knelt in the bamboo tea hall, his body had already been hit by a few rulers, the ruler was made of thorny rattan, there were bloodstains on the flesh.

The old prince was very angry, pointed at Li Yuan and shouted, "How... did you agree to this king?"

Li Yuan supported the wound and gasped for a few breaths: "Before the prince succeeds to the throne, he will not touch the bowstring, show his sharpness, or truly love any woman."

He broke all the precepts, except that the one he really loves is not a woman.

"But I like him, I can't watch him die... I will regret it for the rest of my life." Li Yuan was stubborn and helpless.

The old prince's old hands were clenched tightly: "Yuan'er... This prince has put in all his efforts to protect you as an adult... How come you don't know how to cherish..."

Li Yuan bowed his head and admitted his mistake: "My child knows I was wrong. Father, the matter has come to an end, is it still useful for you to hit me?"

The old prince was so angry that his eyes turned black: "Unworthy son... from now on, this king will no longer care about you and let you die, are you happy?!"

Li Yuan said earnestly: "I will bear any consequences alone, and I will never involve the palace."

"You can't afford...the tablet of your mother and concubine in the ancestral hall, the lives of the maidservants, guards and servants in Prince Qi's mansion, and the shadow guards...you can't afford it." The old prince slowly tapped his crutches, his fingers extremely angry. And trembling, "You are too selfish, as the master, you also have the responsibility to protect, how can you act recklessly."

Ying Qi had already chased to Mingzhu Hall, and seeing His Royal Highness being punished with scars, he couldn't bear to rush in, knelt beside Li Yuan, and begged: "My lord Mingjian, His Royal Highness only acted to save Ying Qi, Ying Qi is guilty , implicating the palace, please punish me."

Li Yuan stared at Ying Qi fiercely, waved his hand to tell him to go out quickly, raised his head and said to the old prince: "Father, my subordinate is loyal and wants to atone for my crime."

The old prince was very angry when he saw the entanglement between the two, so he raised his hand and pulled down the cane, and slapped Li Yuan down hard.

King Qi had always doted on his only son and regarded Li Yuan as the apple of his eye. Usually, even if he was angry again, he would not hit him so hard. Today he was really angry.

Seeing the heavy hand of the old prince, Ying Qi might not be able to bear the burden of His Royal Highness, so she suddenly landed in front of Li Yuan, trying to block it for him.

Li Yuan suddenly pulled Ying Qi to his side, pressed his head, and protected Ying Qi in his arms.

The thorny rattan ruler that was three fingers thick broke on Li Yuan's shoulder. Li Yuan's shoulder hurt sharply, and he clenched his teeth in pain.

Ying Qi stared at His Royal Highness with wide eyes, and wrapped herself in her arms like a falcon guarding the chicks, breathing the elegant and sober Wu Chenxiang on His Highness.

He heard His Royal Highness whispering comfortingly in his ear: "I have put in so much effort to heal your injury, cherish it...what if you break it."

The old prince threw the ruler, and suddenly felt dizzy, the little girl beside him, Liu Yu, ran over to support the old prince, and persuaded the old prince in a tearful voice, "Please calm down, His Royal Highness, I can't bear you to teach me such a lesson, your body is also important, Don't get mad!"

The old prince slammed the mahogany cane in his hand, pointed at Li Yuan and yelled: "Throw this unworthy son into the sword mound for my reflection!"

Ying Qi was pressed tightly, but she clearly felt the person holding her shudder.

Li Yuan let go of Ying Qi, and knelt up straight while supporting his shoulder wound: "Yes."

Ying Si walked into the Ming Bamboo Hall, grabbed Li Yuan's arm, picked up His Royal Highness and took him away.

"Your Highness!" Ying Qi wanted to chase after him, but was pushed to the ground by Ying Wu.

Ying Wu persuaded him in a low voice: "Xiao Qi, stop making trouble and be obedient."

Ying Qi panicked and asked him: "What's in the sword mound? Will His Highness be punished?"

Ying Wu smiled wryly and shook his head: "How can you be punished? Your Highness, the golden branches and jade leaves, can't bear it. Don't worry, there is nothing in the sword mound."

Your Highness is afraid of nothing

"Let go, let me go..." Ying Qi struggled desperately, while Ying Wu pressed him tightly, whispering, "The prince is already very angry, don't touch the prince's bad luck again, calm down, and follow me back to the garden."

Ying Qi was pressed to the ground, and watched helplessly as Ying Si escorted His Royal Highness to the Sword Tomb.

Ying Wu helped him softly: "Be quiet, before the prince thinks about disposing of you, hurry back with me..."

Before the words were finished, the little girl Liuyu ran over, frowning in disbelief: "Master Ying Qi... the prince called you to meet him..."

"Ah?" Ying Wu looked surprised, and turned to give Ying Qi a self-seeking look, "You go...Take care of brother."

The Sword Tomb of Wangfu is a forbidden area, no one usually enters and exits, the entrance is a Taiji Gate, which has been completely covered by ferocious weeds.

Li Yuan's face turned pale, and he turned around to ask Ying Si while holding the ruler wound on his arm, "Aren't you going to teach me a lesson?"

Ying Si looked at him indifferently: "What."

Li Yuan pulled up the corners of his mouth and smiled: "I don't talk so much today because I'm too angry to speak? I'm sorry, my master is too worry-free, or you can leave with your salary."

Ying was expressionless: "Because my subordinates think you are right this time."

Li Yuan tilted his head to look at him.

Ying Sidao: "With your talent, you shouldn't be hidden in the snow all the time. God's will has come, and all the subordinates are willing to follow."

Li Yuan showed a tired smile, and slowly entered the Taiji gate of Jianzhong.He suddenly stopped in his tracks, and hooked his fingers towards Yingsi.

Shadow Four narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Li Yuan.

Li Yuan called him: "Come here, I want to ask you something important."

Ying Si took two steps forward, and listened with his ears.

Li Yuan asked him in a low voice: "Have you bound the first volume of the set of love letters I wrote?"

"..." Ying Si's face darkened, and he kicked up the mechanism of Jianzhong Taiji Gate, locking His Highness Shizi inside.

Li Yuan stood inside the door, supported the wound on his shoulder, and complained helplessly: "How can such a serious matter be ignored."

Entering the Sword Tomb is another world.

The mountain reflects the setting sun, the sky catches the water, the cold smoke and dry grass, quiet and no one, occasionally a few jackdaws howl.

The sword mound of Wangfu is the sword mound of the thirteen ghost guards who once fought with the old prince. Thirteen magic soldiers are buried in this vast and lonely land, which belonged to the former thirteen ghost guards. After the thirteen ghost guards retired, Bury their respective weapons in the sword tomb, and use their sincere souls to guard the Quartet for the Qi Palace.

Each of the thirteen murder weapons is bloodthirsty, and at night, the screams of souls dying under the sharp blades can be heard.

The Sword Tomb is the tomb of the sword, and there is no living person in it.

Li Yuan was thrown into Jianzhong to learn art when he was young, and the thirteen ghost guards taught him archery and riding, how to govern the world, how to protect himself in troubled times, and how to hide all emotions in a picture. Under the gentle and handsome face.

When children of the same age were still ignorant and ignorant, Li Yuan was already full of bows and cocoons, and all the ancient books on war in Zangshuge were memorized by heart.

Li Yuan didn't want to enter the Sword Tomb, as soon as he entered the Sword Tomb, he would think of the unbearable suffering that ordinary people suffered when he was young, and the talents of governing the world that he learned that he would never have the chance to use in his life.

As soon as you enter the Sword Tomb, you will clearly understand how lonely you are.

It was cool at night, Li Yuan supported the stinging wound on his arm and leaned against the tombstone, his long hair was hanging on the stone bricks under his feet, and the flowers and trees above his head had fallen and withered, covering the long hair that fell to the ground.

Li Yuan looked at his smooth and shiny palm in a daze, and a strange sense of revenge gradually rose in his heart.

Everyone wants to step on me to ascend the throne, it's not that easy.

There is no food here, and no one will bring food in. You can grab and bake what you want to eat by yourself.In fact, these are nothing, Li Yuan is just afraid of being alone.

It would be great if Xiaoqi was here.

Ying Qi was called into the secret room of the study by the old prince.

The old prince walked in front with a mahogany staff, and Ying Qi silently followed behind him. The corridors in the secret room were cumbersome and narrow, intersecting vertically and horizontally. Various instruments of torture and weapons were hung on the walls, and there were human bones in the corners.

The old prince didn't shy away from Ying Qi, he opened every mechanism in front of Ying Qi, and led him to the deepest part of the secret room.

Ying Qi was worried about His Royal Highness, and was a little distracted.

The old prince coughed twice to remind: "Concentrate."

Ying Qi was startled, nodded and said: "Yes."

He was already prepared to accept a heavy punishment, and he was actually thinking about words in his heart, how to intercede for His Royal Highness.

Going to the depths of the dark secret room, with the light of the beating green lantern, in the secret room at the end stands lifelike stone sculptures of various shapes, which are as high as people, exactly thirteen.

The old prince stopped slowly, and stood in front of the thirteen stone sculptures, as if he was gazing at his brothers in the past, and there seemed to be waves surging in his vicissitudes of life eyes.

"Ying Qi, do you know whose statues these are?"

Ying Qi didn't understand what it meant, and glanced at the thirteen stone carvings, each of them was holding a kind of shady weapon, and in the other hand hung a small mahogany tablet, which was the same as the shadow tablet on Ying Qi's waist.

"It's... Thirteen Ghost Guards... Seniors?" Ying Qi tentatively replied.

From the first to the last thirteen characters, the shadow card has engraved thirteen titles:

Five poisons, listening to the snow, starting a prairie fire, witty heart, fighting saints, magic arts, shadowless, invincible, Wanren, piercing clouds, returning to the sky, psychic, and smiling faces.

"En." The old prince recalled slowly, his expression became serene and gentle, "I have galloped on the battlefield with this king for decades, my thirteen brothers."

"They have all passed away. But they have not passed away. They are still guarding the Qi Palace for this king." The old prince turned around slowly, looked at Ying Qi, "This king has been lingering in the world for several years, just to pave the way for Yuan Er. There is a way to live in peace."

"Now, this king can't move anymore."

"The rest of the way depends on Yuan'er."

Ying Qi was stunned for a long time, then said softly: "Yes."

The old prince walked slowly around the thirteen statues, stroking each one lightly, and then took off the shadow cards in their hands, like a silent farewell.

"Did Yuan'er ever tell you that only you belong to his shadow guard, and the other children belong to me?" The old prince showed a gentle look.

Shadow Seven nodded.

His Royal Highness did indeed say that, because the rest of them, up to Ying Liu, were the confidantes of the old prince.

The old prince collected all the shadow cards and put them into Ying Qi's hands.

Shadow Seven was a little at a loss, holding the shadow cards of the seniors piously, and slowly knelt down on one knee.

The old prince's old and deep voice fell on Ying Qi's ears:

"From now on, you all belong to Yuan'er."

Ying Qi's breathing was stagnant, and Ying Qi's heartbeat could be faintly heard in the silent chamber.

"My lord... you won't punish me?" Ying Qi asked hesitantly.

"Punishment..." The old prince said slowly: "Yuan'er has never had anything he likes, and he hasn't had it since he was a child. If you give him gold, silver and jewelry, he will throw them away casually. If you give him a rare animal, he will give it to others when he turns around. He is a beautiful woman, and he doesn't even look at her."

"He only likes his mother and concubine. Since Feiluan left, Yuan'er has never loved anything, and never asked for anything from this king. This king loves him, but he is not happy with any treasures given to him."

"But he told me that he likes you."

Ying Qi stared blankly at the old prince, unable to say anything, and knelt on the ground in a daze.

The old prince approached him, and pressed his withered palm on the top of Ying Qi's head: "Promise me that one day he can live as he pleases, be safe and happy."

Holding the shadow card of the thirteen ghost guards, Ying Qi kowtowed heavily: "Yes, Ying Qi will protect His Highness's peace and happiness in this life, this body will not die, and this oath will never die."

"Let Yuan'er think about it now in the sword mound, and stay away from the hustle and bustle for a while."

Now that the lord has already talked about this, the words of intercession came to his lips, but Ying Qi didn't say it.

The old prince sat down in the secret room and quietly accompanied the thirteen old friends.Ying Qi took thirteen shadow cards and left the secret room, and walked out of the Bamboo Tea Hall of the old prince.

Ever since His Royal Highness was thrown into the sword mound, Ying Qi took advantage of the dead of night every day to look for organs outside the Taiji gate of the sword mound, but he couldn't find it for two whole days.He also tried to find another way, but he had no clue.

Whenever thinking of His Highness's wounds on the ruler, and thinking of His Highness being lonely and helpless in the desolate sword mound, Ying Qi felt distressed, and thinking of what the old prince said, Ying Qi felt a little guilty.

It turns out that the only person His Royal Highness ever liked was himself.

Unable to find the mechanism and unable to open the sword mound, Yingqi had no choice but to train with the team at ease, waiting for when the old prince would release His Highness.

Today in the training ground, all the ghost guards went to train the shadow guards and bodyguards, while Ying Qi was recuperating from his injuries, he was given a leave of command, so he didn't have to follow him to train the shadow guards.

He asked the shadow guard for a bow, and fiddled with it in the corner of the training ground.

His mind was filled with the image of His Highness snatching the bow and arrow from the Prince of Lingnan, with clear eyes and long hair fluttering, and when he shot a stunning arrow head-on, the coldness and gentleness perfectly blended in His Highness's eyes.

It wasn't until he tried it himself that he realized how difficult bows and arrows are. Ying Qi doesn't know how to use bows and arrows. He couldn't figure out how to use a string to flick the feather arrow to the place he wanted him to go.

Shadow Four inspected the training ground and came over with a whip.

"What are you doing?" Ying Si stared at the little shadow guard who was seriously playing alone.

Ying Qi turned his head and held the bow and arrow in front of Ying Si: "Commander, can you teach this to your subordinates?"

Ying Si glanced at Ying Qi in disbelief, took a Feather Arrow, and threw it casually, the Feather Arrow penetrated into the bull's-eye a hundred paces away.

"..." Ying Qi licked his lips.

"What useless things are you thinking about?" Ying Si said indifferently, "Go change the medicine, go back to recuperate."

"……Yes."

Ying Si put away his whip, turned around and walked in another direction: "I'll go to check on the situation of His Royal Highness, if you change the medicine and if nothing happens, come to the training ground and watch them train."

Ying Qi originally wanted to change his medicine, but when he heard that the commander was going to Jianzhong, he suddenly stopped and followed quietly.

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