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His Royal Highness Shizi gently supported his injured left hand with his cold hand, Ying Qi lowered his head, put his cheek against the back of Li Yuan's hand, and rubbed it lightly.

Rarely had his little shadowguard shown him such weakness, submission and begging.

In the past, as long as Ying Qi showed weakness to please, Li Yuan would feel weak in his heart. He couldn't see him being wronged any more. Now his heart was softer, but he couldn't show his usual smile no matter what.

The little shadow guard who was kneeling beside him was as obedient as ever, but Li Yuan felt that Xiao Qi had become a little distant these days, which was indescribably disturbing.

But Li Yuan never asked.He didn't want to show weakness, he didn't want anyone to see that he was so concerned about gain and loss for a person, and he didn't dare to admit that his love for Ying Qi had quietly become a fatal weakness.

What he fears the most is that one day, Xiao Qi will tell him personally that everything he did was just a means to get close to him, deceiving him into despair.King Qi was suspicious, and Li Yuan was even more suspicious. In fact, how could His Royal Highness, who is being protected in the palm of his hand, be so suspicious? It's just that he couldn't believe that there are people in this world who have no blood relationship and love him sincerely.

This kind of cautiousness is too fragile, and His Royal Highness will feel the panic of losing at any time. Li Yuan is also a person who is used to being calm on the surface, no matter how sad he will just bear it.

Li Yuan took a look at Ying Qi's wound, and found that it was not as serious as imagined, and it would heal in a few days.He subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and waved his hand gently, "Go down and rest."

Ying Qi said in a muffled voice: "This subordinate will keep watch for you."

Li Yuan urged impatiently: "Get out."

Ying Qi refused to leave, tightly grasping the mattress at the corner of the bed, kneeling on the cold ground, lowering her head against the edge of the bed, neither speaking nor moving.

After a while, Li Yuan touched his shoulder lightly, and he raised his head, looking at Li Yuan in panic.

"Your subordinate fell out of favor?" Ying Qi looked up at Li Yuan blankly.

Li Yuan couldn't figure out where he came to this conclusion, and turned his head to one side: "No."

After a long time without hearing Ying Qi's movement, Li Yuan glanced back, her heart beat faster immediately, Ying Qi was kneeling to untie her belts, taking off one by one and throwing them to the side, her thin arms lightly Leaning on the edge of the bed, I mustered up the courage to climb the master's bed for a long time, but I still didn't dare to climb in the end.

But when his eyes were embarrassed and he didn't know how to continue, Li Yuan bowed / grabbed Ying Qi and hugged her on the bed.

Ying Qi hugged Li Yuan's neck in a flustered and offensive way, and said in a trembling voice, "I'm sorry, Your Highness."

Li Yuan caressed the salt torture scar on Ying Qi's back, and just by touching it with his fingertips, he could imagine the shocking ravines, which made Li Yuan feel distressed the most.

As soon as he touches the scar on his back, he will think that Ying Qi walked through mountains of swords and seas of fire to see him, and his anger gradually calms down.

He hugged Ying Qi from behind, and pressed his thin lips to the back of his neck: "Did you have anything to say to me all this time?"

Ying Qi was silent for a while, then said softly: "I'm sorry."

These words are very presumptuous and offensive, but he has to apologize for all the things he has done, and hope that what he has to do can pass as soon as possible, so that he can dedicate his most sincere and loyal self to His Highness again instead of As now, feeling dirty and unworthy of the best of masters.

The former Yingqi had no distracting thoughts like a blank sheet of paper. He begged and knelt down, and in exchange for Mrs. Jiang's nod, she allowed him to enter Qi Wangfu and accompany His Royal Highness. Wishing, and sincerely admiring and protecting His Royal Highness for so long.

The first time he felt Mrs. Jiang's order on the bone of his left arm, Ying Qixiang fell into the icy lake in the cold winter, every hair on his body stood up, and he sat by the window in a daze all night.

He didn't expect that his master had planted bone language skills on his arm bone long before he went down the mountain, haunting him like a ghost. If he didn't follow through, he would reveal the secret of his left arm in front of Li Yuan. Horrible information will be written on his arm, he will lose Li Yuan's favor and trust forever, and from now on, those he loves will regard him as a traitor and enemy, and a thousand cuts will not be enough to vent their hatred.

He also thought about confessing, but his only close master was using his only love, and he was caught between the dilemma of loyalty and filial piety, and he was at a loss.

He almost gave up his life in exchange for His Royal Highness's heart, let him lose it again, how could he be willing?He is not a competent shadow guard, he chose the latter out of loyalty and selfishness.

He always thought that if the next order was harmful to His Royal Highness, he would immediately kill himself to save His Royal Highness.Fortunately, not yet, he was still able to live, guilty and greedy licking the tenderness and sweetness from His Highness.

"I'm sorry...?" The corner of Li Yuan's mouth raised a self-deprecating arc. He didn't want to speak, and he didn't have any desire/desire. He just quietly hugged Yingqi, sniffed the faint scent of saponins on his neck, and closed his eyes wearily. Eye.

He thought that Ying Qi could say something to comfort him, but Ying Qi didn't say anything.He used to be sweet and cute, always saying love words without knowing it, what happened now?

His Royal Highness thought to himself, you did not fall out of favor, but I did.

The military situation was urgent, and they soon embarked on the journey of Hidden Dragon and Seven Mountains. Li Yuan and Li Mo respectively led the troops to suppress the bandits who violated the border.

The three mountains of the Qiling Mountains in Tibetan Dragon are extremely hot, and the four mountains are cold in winter. The first four mountains are unbearably cold, and the rear three mountains are extremely hot.

The five tribes of Nanyue are scattered and entrenched in the Seven Ridges of the Tibetan Dragon. Except for the Shensha tribe who has surrendered and given the surname of Kong, there are still four nomadic tribes: the Wuyue tribe, the Manwu tribe, the Tagri tribe, and the Bazaim tribe. , although they are not as fierce as the Shensha people, they are not as sparsely populated as the Chensha people, which has always been a major problem in the southern border of the Great Cheng.

Among them, Manwu and Tagli lived in peace with Dacheng, but the leader of Bazaimu colluded with the leader of Wuyue clan to violate the border and asked Dacheng for money, silver and food. , and several well-known old generals are sitting in the town, the main purpose is deterrence, and the second is suppression. This battle is to promote my country's prestige and not fear the barbarians.

In Dachengde, the highly respected old general Zhongli personally sits in the town. The old general is fifty-two this year.

It's just a way to intimidate and intimidate, and if you encounter radical bandits, you will kill them all. It is close to the territory of Bazaimu, and there are many dangers. Li Yuan and Li Mo have no chance to fight. The old seniors are not at ease. The nobleman put himself in danger, so he locked the two of them in the tent, dealt with some light military affairs, and listened to the sound of the wind and snow outside the tent.

The gate outside the tent is snowed with goose feathers, the red flag of war horses is unfurled, the shore is frozen for thousands of miles, and the gorge of the high mountain is like a line of glazed sky.

Li Mo leaned on the white bear fur mattress and ate the grapes he brought before leaving, with his legs resting on Li Yuan's desk, holding a booklet in his left hand to read, and a charcoal brazier next to it, bursting out a few sparks from time to time Son.

Li Yuan bent over his desk to study the terrain and weapons, Xue Qing's clothes were wrapped with a layer of ferret fleece to keep warm, and he did many things by himself, day and night, already stayed up for several nights, and now he has a circle of bruises.

"What stimulated me... Is it hard work that makes up for one's weakness, or is it that stupid birds fly first?" Li Mo spat out the grape skin, threw away the booklet, and lay back lazily on the leather mattress, breathed on her cold palms, glanced at Li Yuan, and teased Said, "Anyway, we don't have the time to make a move, so save yourself, who are you going to play for?"

Li Yuan pinched the center of his brows to relieve the soreness and swelling of his eyes: "Don't bother me, just go." As he said that, he groped for the teacup at hand, feeling a little dizzy and black before his eyes, and supported the corner of the desk to relax.

Li Mo frowned.

Hearing the crisp sound of the porcelain cup overturning, Li Yuan knocked over the tureen, almost fell and hit the corner of the desk, Ying Qi landed beside Li Yuan in an instant, took His Royal Highness into his arms, subconsciously looked back vigilantly A glance at Li Mo.

"Heh, why are you looking at me like that?" Li Mo glanced at Ying Qi, continued to eat grapes with her legs crossed and flipped through the booklets, and muttered, "What does it have to do with me?"

Ying Qi helped His Royal Highness back to his seat, bowed to feed him some tea, gently rubbed His temples, and advised in a low voice, "Your Highness, go back to sleep for a while."

Li Yuan yawned: "It's okay, I'll go rest after the old general Zhongli returns safely."

Unexpectedly, she didn't hear a submissive "yes", Ying Qi stood behind Li Yuan in silence, continued to massage her master, and slowly input internal energy into Li Yuan's body to relieve His Royal Highness from fatigue.

This month, I just received a letter from Liang Xiao from Yuezhou, saying that everything is fine with the old prince, don't read it.Li Yuan lifted the cotton curtain and glanced at the snow-covered environment.

"It's the sixth day of September." He laughed.

His Royal Highness is 24.

Li Yuan took Ying Qi's hand, and pressed it lightly on his heart, letting him touch the protective mirror on his heart.Back then, the little shadow guard was naive and ignorant, so he presented his most precious century-old black turtle heart armor as a birthday gift for His Royal Highness.

He was looking forward to evoking Ying Qi's memory, so he wanted to ask Ying Qi if there was something wrong with him that made Ying Qi feel tired of love.

Ying Qi stared blankly at His Highness Shizi's distressed eyes, and withdrew his hand from Li Yuan's palm guiltily: "I'll go down and change the pot of tea for you." His fingertips trembled slightly, and he took the teapot and fled.

Li Yuan sighed.

He pointed to the map and said to Li Mo: "We have already crossed the Three Ridges, and now we are approaching the territory of the Bazaimu tribe. Taili, the lord of the snowfield, has a cruel and stubborn temperament. I am afraid he will not agree to make peace. I don't know how General Zhongli will deal with it."

"It's a tough battle, let's do it. Let's find a chance to go out. Since we're here, there's no reason not to go to the front line." Li Mo got up and walked around for a while, then leaned against Li Yuan, and casually threw a handful of grape skins to the tenth place. In the fruit plate a few steps away, there is nothing wrong.

"Yuan'er, you are the only one in your family, why do you like men?" Li Mo sat cross-legged on Li Yuan's desk with nothing to do, and turned to chat with him.

"You have a lot of control." Li Yuan swept aside the big fly sitting on his desk, "Get down."

Li Mo said: "The key point is that he doesn't seem to like you very much."

Li Yuan was a little worried, and closed the map impatiently.He really felt that Ying Qi was so indifferent to him recently, as if he was some kind of beast that he couldn't avoid.

"He wasn't like this before." Li Yuan lay on the desk, buried his head in his arms, and said in a muffled voice, "When I saw him back then, he was very good. He even gave me purple potato steamed buns to eat, and gave me a poison test. , afraid of me, and I would tremble with fear when I met him."

When chatting with Li Yuan, you can't bring the topic to Ying Qi, otherwise you won't be able to stop.

Li Mo didn't avoid it, but listened very seriously, and answered from time to time: "And then."

It was rare for Li Yuan to find an audience. He pulled the fruit plate over and placed it between the two of them. While eating, he said, "At that time he thought I had jumped off a cliff, so he jumped down together. I blushed first, you don't know how cute his dazed expression is, I couldn't hold it in at that time."

Li Mo sat on the desk and rubbed his face: "I had a secret guard like this before. I whipped him and scolded him, but he still often came to me with something he thought was delicious. Sometimes I I couldn’t stand up because of the smoke, so I crawled to the living room and cried under the quilt.”

"How do you know?" Li Yuan asked while peeling the grapes.

Li Mo stroked the flame-patterned ring on his index finger: "I'm fine, so I went to see him. That brat was wronged a lot, so he hid in the corner of the bed and dared not look at me."

Li Yuan smiled: "Is it secretly happy?"

Li Mo twitched the corners of his mouth: "No. I gave him a mission, but he didn't come back alive. I was happy and sad when I brought him back, he was already a corpse, tortured/killed to pieces, cruel and crazy."

Li Yuan's face darkened.

"I've already lost six dark guards, and he's nothing special." Li Mo lowered his eyes, licked the grape skin juice with his fingertips, and then wiped the color on the paper, "Body As a secret guard, your skills are not as good as others, and you can't protect yourself, who do you blame?"

"Yuan'er, you grew up so well, you grew up smoothly, and you haven't experienced any hardships in the courtyard of the palace." Li Mo said, "You think you can't bear it, but at least when you make wine and tea and go shopping in the brothel, I don't care about you." Watching my hidden guards die in front of me one by one, I have never had a better life than you."

……

The two stopped talking, and there was a sudden silence in the camp, a moment of silence.

Li Yuandao: "Little sister-in-law's fate is all right, as long as you go and name Zhennan Wangzheng as a rebel, I can forget about the rest."

"Is this going down a step for me?" Li Mo snorted, lowering her head and stroking the surface of the flame pattern stone ring on her finger, "To be honest, I want to go down this step. But I can't."

Li Mo wiped his hands: "I'm just so vicious, I curse at will. It's a pity that my life has never belonged to me. I don't have a fucking life for myself."

The words are not speculative, Li Yuan is too lazy to answer.

Li Mo said: "I won't do anything to you this time, I will do what I say, but if I go back to court, the secret decree will be useless, and I can't say how vicious I will be at that time."

"Okay." Li Yuan responded lightly.

The curtain was suddenly lifted, and Tan Cangyun hurried in to report: "Your Highness, there is news from the front line that our army has been severely injured by Bazaimu generals. General Zhongli and General Nan are seriously injured and trapped, and urgently need rescue!"

Li Mo stood up suddenly, eyes widened, picked up the antler bow and hurried out of the camp.

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