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"Well...since you're not a spy...then...let's talk about it." After hearing what Ying Si said, Li Yuan's mood eased a lot, and he put down his teacup and smiled, "But , it seems to be just a poor child, besides, you are watching over this palace, I don’t worry about you, just keep an eye on it.”

Shadow Four: "Yes. This subordinate is retiring."

Li Yuan watched Ying Si exit the hall and disappear, rubbing the rim of the cup, thinking in his heart.

Yan Yi was in the position of prime minister, had a rift with the old king of Qi, and was afraid of the military power in the hands of the king of Qi, so he often made troubles in the court.

In recent years, the old prince's health is not very good, but the prime minister's mansion is just around the corner, as if whether it can bring down the Qi prince's mansion is all in one fell swoop.

To be honest, Li Yuan usually has nothing to do when he is free, but he just goes upstairs to drink with his cronies and sons, and finds some sorrow for his new poems. When the sky falls, his father will support him. If you don't want to participate, even if the old prince is a hundred years later, the son will inherit the title, but he will just be an idle prince and spend his life leisurely.

If that child is really a spy, if he influences Li Yuan not to participate in the affairs of the mansion, it will be a waste of manpower for the prime minister, which is welcome to hear.

but.

You better not be a spy, Shadow Seven.

The teacup was pinched until it rattled, Li Yuan was restless, flipped through two pages of Warring States policy, leaned on the recliner and closed his eyes to take a nap, his heart was irritable, and with a crash, several half of the fine gilt jade cup fell on the ground and shattered.

It's hard to find someone to miss, why is it from the prime minister's mansion... I'm sorry.

It's memorable... When Li Yuan thought of Ying Qi's fair face, he was not so angry again. He was obviously still angry just now, but he couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth.

In the evening, Ying Qi changed into the black clothes of the ghost guard, with a white belt around his waist, and watched from the roof of Shi Zi's study.

It was getting cold, Ying Qi wrapped her clothes, and when the wind passed by, goose bumps appeared all over her body.

I couldn't help touching my right shoulder blade with my backhand, and felt a raised brand mark through the light clothes. It was the shadow character branded when I left the Shadow Palace. The wound has not healed yet, and it hurts unbearably.

Despite the severe pain, Ying Qi remained expressionless, slowly stroking the brand mark, and even closed his eyes devoutly.

Under this brand mark, there is actually a heavenly scented peony imprint, but unfortunately, His Highness no longer remembers it.

He only remembers Wen Shang who traveled with him, but he doesn't remember Wen Ji who escaped death with him in the past.

It doesn't matter.Finally came to him.

From today onwards, the safety of His Royal Highness also has Ying Qi's responsibility.

Ying Qi calmed down for a while, then quietly looked down through the cracks in the roof tiles of the study, staring intently at Li Yuan who was leisurely nestled in the recliner.

Inadvertently, I saw the corner of Shizi's mouth slightly raised and smiled slightly.

The candlelight outside the screen shone on the side of Li Yuan's face, appearing gentle and peaceful, covered with a layer of elegant soft light.

Ying Qi raised his hand and covered his mouth, looking at his master was rude, and it was a big taboo for shadow guards.

The son is twenty-two this year, the most prosperous age, with a white jade crown, decorated with green luan carvings, sword eyebrows and bright eyes, sharp cheeks and mandibles, dressed in a satin robe with snow green makeup, thin clothes, and can vaguely See the outline of the clavicle, chest and abdomen.

Ying Qi watched silently, lying quietly on the tiles with her eyelids down.

It's autumn now, don't you want to wear more, Your Highness?

Mosquitoes have not disappeared this month. A moth, attracted by the candlelight in the house, flew into the study through the window, flapping its wings to land on Li Yuan's shoulder.

Ying Qi frowned slightly, touched the hundred-edged belt around his waist, and pulled out two flying needles. With a twist of his right hand, the two flying needles shot out one after another, one was penetrating the moth's body, and the other was precisely in front of him. One, and knocked the moth out of the window.

Li Yuan didn't realize that someone had shot a flying insect from his shoulder in an instant, but felt an extremely faint coolness blowing over him, and there was a slight ding.

He raised his head calmly, his eyes searched between the beams on the roof of the hall, and found a gap in the roof tiles, so he looked through the gap, but unfortunately the gap was too narrow to see anything.

Ying Qi saw Shi Zi raised his head and didn't know what he was looking for, and inadvertently met Shi Zi's eyes, Ying Qi's heart trembled, and he immediately turned his eyes away and turned over to lie on the roof.

There are endless buildings in Prince Qi's Mansion. In the night, Ying Si and Ying Wu sat on the cornice not far away, watching Ying Qi's little movements.

Ying Wu sat next to Ying Si, sitting on the eaves dangling his legs, holding a roasted sweet potato in one hand to eat, looking at the little ghost guard opposite him, and said with a low voice: "It's so energetic, it's ashamed to be so conscientious. If Xiaoqi is really a spy, he must be a model in the industry."

Shadow Four stared at every move of the opposite shadow guard coldly: "You can't take any newly appointed shadow guard lightly."

"Okay, I've sent someone to watch Ying Qi, let's watch it for a year or two first. Ah, brother, I'm so happy, this one is very sweet, I'm here for you to eat." Ying Wu broke a piece of sweet potato and stuffed it into Ying Si's mouth He licked his fingers again.

"By the way, I heard that Yingqi Qinggong is good?"

"No, that's a kind of lightness technique. He is born with a natural talent and learned from Jiang Niyi, a master of lightness kung fu. He is indeed very fast, so he took over the title of the previous Shadowless Ghost." Ying Si said lightly. , "It's a pity that they are the ghost guards of the Feilian group."

The Shadow Palace is grouped according to the way the shadow guards are good at fighting. The Taotie group is responsible for the frontal attack, the Baize group assists in combat and medical treatment, the Jiuying group looks at the overall situation and adapts to the situation, and the Feilian group... takes the monster "Feilian" and walks against the wind. I mean, the shadow guards in the group are all good at light work, they are responsible for tracking messages and stealing information, so they can't go to the battlefield at all.

"Fei Lian group... the most useless group in the shadow palace, unexpectedly there is a ghost guard... what can he do?" Ying Wu scratched his head, "the number of ghost guards in our team who are in charge of supporting is much more than the number of ghost guards in battle. , and another ghost guard who is good at stealing and sending messages...it's really meaningless, we need someone who can fight...even if it's not as good as me...if it's similar to me, at least it can cooperate."

"It would be great if we could have another group of gluttonous attacking ghost guards..."

Yingsi stared at him coldly, and said, "Since you are a ghost guard, you must have strengths."

Ying Wu smiled: "I hope so."

Ying Qi, who had been silently guarding the son's study, didn't notice that there were several pairs of eyes staring at him from a distance, his eyes were glued to the son's body from the beginning to the end, and even a mosquito couldn't fly away from Ying Qi's guard within a ten-foot radius of the study.

Li Yuan woke up after a while of light sleep, and slept very peacefully, maybe it was cold, and the buzzing mosquitoes were no longer close to him.

Turning over, he raised his eyes and caught a glimpse of the gap in the roof - he always felt that someone was staring at him, and he kept staring at it, even Li Yuan noticed it.

A little maid knocked on the door and said crisply: "Your Highness, it's time for dinner."

Li Yuan yawned: "Yes."

The little maid came in with the meals and put them on the table one by one, counting them softly: "The stewed crucian carp soup that the lord ordered to cook for you, does your Highness still like it if you try it?"

Li Yuan supported the bowl and took a sip: "Well, not bad."

The little servant girl was about to salute and leave, but she didn't want to be stopped by the prince, and asked, "Liuyu, who is on duty by my side tonight."

Liu Yu was stunned for a moment: "Return to Your Highness, it is the one His Highness chose today, Master Ying Qi."

"Where is he now?" Li Yuan leisurely picked up a piece of fish and asked slowly.

"It's been on the roof of your study."

"What is he doing climbing so high?"

Liuyu covered his face and smiled: "Your Highness, the ghost guards have always been guarding you on the roof."

Li Yuan raised his eyebrows, didn't he?

As the eldest son, Li Yuan has never thought about where the shadow guards who are elusive and haunted are hiding. If there is an order, just tap on the table, and the shadow guards on duty will naturally appear beside him. They seem to have no need to rest or eat. They will never get hurt, they are impersonal, and each one is invincible.

While in a trance, the chopsticks peeled off the fish meat, it was full of fish bones, Li Yuan was bored, and picked one by one.

He didn't care, and asked Liuyu: "Father, is this beating me?"

Liuyu was stunned: "The servant does not understand."

"Father thinks I'm too prickly." Li Yuan smiled, "I offended Peacock Villa and caused trouble for him."

"Tomorrow, I'll go to pay my respects to my father. Let me take a bath." Li Yuan put down his chopsticks, and said casually: "I only used a small bowl of silver carp soup. Don't try to please my father, give it to someone on duty outside." .”

"Also, plug the gap on the roof, it's cold and the air is leaking."

"Ah, yes." Liu Yu nodded again and again: "The servant will invite the craftsman immediately."

After finishing speaking, he bowed his knees and saluted, and retreated out with the food plate in his hand.

Li Yuan raised his head and looked towards the gap, holding his chin and looking playfully.

There is no gap, and the guards have to enter the house if they want to.This little guy, Yingqi, dared to lie on the wall to peek on the first day, and he watched endlessly, Li Yuan couldn't laugh or cry.

The gap is not for the ghost guards to spy on the master's daily life, but actually for sound transmission, the master knocks on the table in the room to ask someone to come down, and only the ghost guards on duty on the roof can hear the sound through the gap.

Liuyu left the Shizi's study room and sent a boy to ask a craftsman to repair the roof. Standing at the base of the wall, he raised a small handkerchief and called the person above him briskly: "Master Ying Qi, come down, Your Highness has orders!"

Before the words fell, Liuyu felt a black shadow flashing in front of his eyes, and Ying Qi had appeared in front of him, looking at him coldly.Ying Qi's eyes were cold and deep, staring at her and asked lightly: "What's the matter."

"Oh, I'm so afraid of people." Liu Yu held his heart and complained that Ying Qi's eyes were too fierce, and brought the food plate in front of Ying Qi, and said, "Your Highness personally ordered you to reward me, drink it while it's hot."

Ying Qi was stunned for a moment, the coldness in his eyes faded away, and the hands that were placed by his sides moved, hesitating to lift them up, but he didn't dare to take them.

Not long after, the servant invited the craftsman who repaired the roof tiles. Liu Yu saw that Ying Qi was dawdling for some reason, and put the food plate into Ying Qi's hand: "Eat it while it's hot, it's fine, Your Highness can talk."

After finishing speaking, he ran to greet the craftsman: "Master, master, there is a small gap here, His Highness ordered it to be repaired, Fuzi, go and bring a bamboo ladder over here."

A chubby and fair young servant cheerfully ran around holding the bamboo ladder, and Xiao Fuzi affectionately called "Miss Xiaoyu, Miss Yu", happily letting Miss Yu order her around.

Ying Qi stood quietly in the noisy courtyard around, hesitated for a while, bit her lips and narrowed her eyes, picked up the silver spoon that the prince had used, and took a sip from the small bowl.

Holding the little silver spoon in his hand, he stared at it for a long time, then stiffly stretched out the little silver spoon that Shizi had used up to his lips, licked it, and took it into his mouth.

Suddenly startled and awakened, he took out the small silver spoon and held it in the palm of his hand, his cheeks and ear tips flushed with regret, and he bit his lips in self-blame, as if if anyone touched him again, he would crawl into the cracks in the ground in shame.

Fortunately, there were not many people around, and he didn't look this way, so Ying Qi breathed a sigh of relief, and stared at the ground with self-blaming and lost eyes.

He thought that no one was paying attention to him, but in fact Li Yuan was looking at him with his chin resting on the window sill, with a smile on his lips, and he thought to himself, this little shadow guard has such a rich expression behind his back. The cold look in front of him also changed.