Through the palace of the king of subjugation

"Then... the white gull will retreat first."

After Bai Gu finished his last sentence, he turned around and was about to leave. Just as he raised his hand and opened the cotton curtain, before the cold wind poured into his neck, he saw Xiao Yao standing beside him.

"It's cold in the middle of the night, what are you doing here?" He looked at Xiao Yao's purple lips, "Why don't you go in?"

"Master Bai, Lord Bai and His Majesty must have something important to do..." Xiao Yao's upper and lower lips trembled, "Slave, it doesn't matter..."

Bai Gu frowned, still kept the posture of opening the curtain with his hands, and shook his head in the direction of the pavilion, "Hurry up and go in."

"Thank you, Mr. Bai, for your sympathy." Xiao Yao stretched out his hand to take the cotton curtain that Bai Gu had opened, bowed and bowed his head in salute, watching Bai Gu leave before turning in.

Li Yu stood in the pavilion with his hands behind his hands, staring blankly at the direction where the paper airplane had just disappeared into the night.

"Why..." He heard footsteps behind him, and whispered, "You're back again?"

As he spoke, he turned around, and there was a flash of surprise and surprise in his eyes, but it disappeared in just an instant.

"Xiao Yao?" Even his tone changed into doubt, "Why are you here?"

"Slave, servant, the time is about the same..." Seeing Li Yu turned around, Xiao Yao quickly lowered his head, "I'm afraid that His Majesty fell asleep and forgot to add charcoal, so, just come and have a look."

Li Yu tilted his head in doubt.

Although Xiao Yao lowered his head, the voice was obviously not right. He tilted his head and found that Xiao Yao was swaying non-stop.

"How long have you been here?" He hurriedly picked up the fox-fur cloak that was laid by the beauty beside him and wrapped it around Xiao Yao, "Why don't you come in?"

"Slave can't bear it!" Xiao Yao was about to kneel as he said that, but Li Yu stared back at him, and wrapped himself in a cloak forcibly, before whispering: "Slave, slave is watching Lord Bai enter the pavilion, I'm afraid His Majesty has something important to discuss with Lord Bai, so he thought it would be more prudent to stay at the door."

"It's such a cold day—" Li Yu stuffed his gilt and carved hand warmer into Xiao Yao's arms, "I'm sure to get frostbite tomorrow."

"The slave is rough-skinned and fleshy." This time Xiao Yao refused to accept anything, "Your Majesty just hold it."

"You know that I never thought of you as a slave." Li Yu said, and the hand stove was finally stuffed into Xiao Yao's hand, "You and Madam Su, and... Cui Zhu, you are all the same, They are my relatives." "Your Majesty remembered Cui Zhu again, so..." Xiao Yao's hand holding the stove trembled, and he said, "That's why you didn't tell Master Bai just now, and you didn't ask him."

"Since he's not a member of the Empress Dowager, it's equivalent to not having the gold medal for avoiding death. It's all right. Why should I drag him into the water? Anyway... I can't protect him in the end."

Li Yu sighed and turned around, as if he didn't want others to see the loneliness in his eyes.

"I can't protect Cuizhu, I can't protect Madam Su, and I can't protect you..." He said softly, "And Xiaotao..."

"When I was born, my mother died due to dystocia. I was born unknown." He raised his eyes, still looking at the direction where the paper plane disappeared just now, "It's unlucky enough for you to be by my side, Baiou doesn't belong here , to involve him in what to do."

"Besides——" He took two steps forward, lifted the corner of the cotton curtain that the white gull had opened just now, and looked out, "He's just a halberd under the ninth rank, so how can he be of any help. "

That is the direction in which the paper airplane disappeared, and it is also the direction in which White Gull left Guangming Palace.

"Maybe Master Bai can really help?" Xiao Yao took two steps forward holding the stove and stood behind Li Yu, "Every time before, Master Bai was right in his words; today's secret letter, he didn't read it. I know it too. Your Majesty, have you thought about it, maybe Master Bai is the savior sent by the heavens for you and for Shang Ning?"

"Did you hear everything?" Li Yu turned his head to look at Xiao Yao, "Xiao Bai is gone, so God sent another cat named Ding Dong?"

Li Yu laughed as he spoke, bitter and incomprehensible, "But he just wants to go home..."

"At the beginning, I was not optimistic about Xiaobai. If we let Baiou join in today, the Empress Dowager will not be able to prevent him from dealing with him in the future. He is an irrelevant bystander. Chen Yu still has the status of a life-saving minister to save his life, but he is in vain. Gull what?"

"How can Lord Bai be an irrelevant person?" Xiao Yao said a little excitedly, and rarely forgot the etiquette, and contradicted the emperor, "He has a high rank and rank, eats the imperial salary, and receives His Majesty's grace. He is Shang Ning's son. People, why can't you contribute to Shangning Sheji?"

"In the end I..."

Xiao Yao came to his side, Li Yu was afraid that he would freeze, so he put down the cotton curtain that was opened at a corner, and sat down on the beauty's back.

The fox-fur cloak that had been placed on it was now wrapped around Xiao Yao's body. Sitting on the cold lacquered wood, he couldn't help shivering.

Suddenly I miss the temperature of the white gull.

"What kind of favor have I done to him?"

Obviously Bai Ou was helping him all the time, yet he didn't ask for anything.

He was seven years old back then, powerless to do anything, he could only watch the tragedies happen, trembling with fear; now he is almost eighteen, there are still very few things he can do, but at least——

"He is a good man. If I can't protect him, I won't let him participate."

It's as if in front of others, he will never let others know that he is close to Xiao Yao and Mother Su, it's the same.

This is already the only way he can do to protect important people.

"Your Majesty, you..."

Xiao Yao looked at the inexplicable sadness between Li Yu's eyebrows and eyes, and remembered the strange noises Hou heard when he was outside the pavilion, a strange song, and the emperor's stuttering words...

He suddenly frowned vigilantly, "Master Bai, he is a man."

"Xiao Yao——" Li Yu raised his head and looked at Xiao Yao suspiciously, "What are you talking about?"

"Your Majesty, this servant entered the palace at the age of five and never left again. He grew up among the servants..." Xiao Yao's eyes flickered, and he struggled for a long time before he said, "It's different from the palace servants who can apply to leave the palace when they reach the age. , slaves who are servants, once they enter the palace, they can never go out again, they will never marry for life, and they are not worthy of an offspring; but even slaves are human beings, who doesn’t want to have a companion to accompany them..."

"The style of male servants in the palace is prevalent... It's never been a secret, the slaves see... how can we be less..."

"Xiao Yao!" Li Yu suddenly remembered the two shadows on the ground that almost overlapped, his little face was blushing, "What are you talking about..."

"Your Majesty is not close to women, and has never seen such filthy things, but Xiao Yao has seen them!" Xiao Yao said anxiously: "Your Majesty, you don't know, you just turned around and thought it was Lord Bai who left and returned. How happy is the look in your eyes, I have been with you for ten years, and I have never seen your eyes like that..."

Xiao Yao clutched the fox fur on his body tightly and mustered up a lot of courage before continuing: "But when you see that the person who came is a slave, you are also very disappointed..."

"You..." Li Yu said awkwardly: "Nonsense!"

"Your Majesty... this slave is not blind." Xiao Yao saluted and said, "You are too nervous, Mr. Bai."

"Your Majesty, you treat my slave well, and treat my sister well. This slave knows that; as long as you are happy, this slave will be happy." Xiaoya knelt down on the ground, with tears in her eyes, "I heard everything outside the pavilion just now, my slave Seeing you happy makes me happy, but—"

"Your Majesty is the son of heaven, and you always choose a concubine. It is not surprising that your majesty raises a male favorite, but what about Lord Bai?"

"Lord Bai is not a lowly citizen or a servant...he is a normal man...he, he always wants to marry a wife and have children...Your Majesty, the slave is afraid that you will think too much and you will be disappointed in the future..." Xiao Yao murmured: "I don't want to see you having a good time in the end..."

"Don't worry." Li Yu fell down on the beauty, closed his eyes, and said after a long silence: "No."