Rebirth of the first courtier

"Brother Xiao, look, he looks so beautiful!"

Xiao Qi'ao put down the pen in his hand, looked up at Hu Li who ran in happily.Hu Li held a small baby eagle in his hand, the hair was sparse and there was no trace of beauty.

Xiao Qi'ao looked at Hu Li's excited look, thought of the stupid face of this kind of eagle when he grew up, and nodded reluctantly, "You can keep it if you like it."

Hu Li smiled and nodded, looked down at the little eagle in his hand, and gently smoothed the feathers on its head with his fingers, "Brother Xiao, when it grows up, I will let him catch the chicken for me. "

Xiao Qi'ao couldn't help laughing, looked at Hu Li's yearning look, and encouraged him: "Then let's take good care of it. It takes more than a year for this kind of eagle to catch chickens, and it may take four or five years to fully mature."

"Ah!" Hu Li looked at the little eagle with some disappointment. The small black and round eyes made Hu Li smile again, "It doesn't matter, let's grow it slowly!" Grass to eat, and he can live for a long time, only five years.

Hu Li put Xiao Diao on the seat, and squatted on the ground by himself, his fox eyes met Xiao Diao's black round eyes, "Brother Xiao, what name do you want to name him? He should be mighty and domineering, and he will immediately hear it." I know it's the name of a bird of prey."

Xiao Qi'ao laughed, "Since you are the one who wants to raise it, it is natural for you to come up with the name."

Hu Li nodded, "That's right, but what's it called?" Hu Li's eyes lit up when he saw Xiao Diao's limp look, "It's called Chiji."

Xiao Qi'ao silently watched Hu Lixin's appearance, "Chiji, Eat Chicken, you really just randomly named it a domineering name!"

Shuzhu standing at the door grinned silently, how domineering is this name, hahahaha!

At noon, when Hu Li was gnawing on the chicken, Chi Ji stood tremblingly on the chair beside him, looking up at Hu Li's delicious food with his frail little neck up.

Xiao Qi'ao looked at this scene amusedly, and slowly chewed the food in his mouth. After Hu Li finished eating the chicken leg, he turned his head and saw Chi Ji's appearance for a while before realizing that it was time to give Chi Ji something to eat.

The servant who had been waiting by the side understood what Hu Li was going to do when he saw what Hu Li meant, and hurriedly brought over the food suitable for the young eagle that had been prepared, and fed it little by little.

Hu Li blushed in embarrassment, because he stroked the fluff on the top of Chiji's head with his greasy fingers, "I will definitely not forget to give you something to eat next time."

With half a piece of shredded meat in Chiji's mouth, he looked at Hu Li with ignorant eyes. Hu Li looked at the fluff on Chiji's head that was stuck together because of his oily fingers, and turned his head guiltily and bit the other one. drumstick.

Xiao Qi'ao could hardly hold back his laughter, but seeing Hu Li's blushing cheeks, he restrained himself very conscientiously.

In the afternoon, Hu Li took Chu Diao and Qiu Xi to wander around the other courtyard with the boy sent by Manager Liu, and even ran to the foot of the mountain not far away to catch pheasants.Among other things, Hu Li was good at catching chickens, and when Xiao Qi'ao went back in the evening, he saw the boy and Qiu Xi each carrying two pheasants, and Hu Li also took one.

This is how he loves to eat chicken, he really deserves his name, like a little fox!

Xiao Qiao shook his head, and let him greet Qiuxi and the others to the kitchen.Shuzhu ran in from the outside and said in a low voice: "Young master, the old lady has brought something."

Xiao Qi'ao raised his eyebrows. Before his grandmother said that he would send him a few people, there was no movement. He thought that something happened, but it didn't seem to be the case.

But even Xiao Qi'ao didn't expect that the old lady would be so generous.

"The old lady told me, this token will be handed over to the young master." The visitor took out a small jade token and handed it to Xiao Qi'ao, explaining: "This jade token can mobilize ten people, and from then on these ten people will follow Eldest young master, by your side, at your disposal."

"Qi'ao understands Grandmother's wishes, please trouble Lin Bo to make this trip." Xiao Qi'ao took the jade plaque, which had the word "immortal" written on the front and intricate patterns carved on the back.

Lin Bo smiled and said, "Young Master, you are welcome. These ten people are always with you. You can ask them to come out to see you at any time." The old lady is back."

"Shuzhu, send Lin Bo off."

"Yes, young master!"

Xiao Qi'ao sized up the jade tablet, tapped it lightly, and heard a crisp knocking sound, "Come out."

In an instant, ten men in black appeared in front of Xiao Qi'ao at the same time, half kneeling on the ground, bowing their heads and obeying orders.

"Is there a leader among the ten of you?" Xiao Qi'ao looked at the ten people curiously. Although they were dressed in black, each of them had different patterns embroidered on the chest.

The only one among the ten people with a golden pattern on his chest replied in a low voice: "If you want to return to the master, I am the captain of the ten people, An Ling. The remaining nine are An Yi to An Jiu, and they will belong to you from today on." Yu master."

Xiao Qi'ao put the jade tablet aside, stood up and walked in front of them, a breath of silence spread in the air.Obviously there was only one person in Xiao Qi'ao, but the icy aura was no worse than those ten men in black.

"Who is your master?" Xiao Qi'ao's tone was gentle, if one didn't look at his cold expression and indifferent eyes, anyone would think that Xiao Qi'ao was a good-tempered person.

An Ling's heart trembled, and the ten people replied almost at the same time: "It's you."

Xiao Qi'ao raised the corners of his mouth and laughed, "Since that's the case, from today onwards, you will no longer be from An Ling to An Jiu, and you will all be named Xia from now on."

The ten people were stunned at the same time. Since the day they were trained as hidden guards, they never thought about having a normal surname. They thought that the number of the hidden guard would accompany them all their lives until they died in an unknown corner.

Even An Ling felt turmoil in his heart, and the ten people bowed their heads again, but instead of kneeling on one knee, they knelt on both knees in complete submission.

"Thank you, Master." An Ling knew that as long as they could gain Xiao Qi'ao's full trust today, their future might really be completely different.

Xiao Qiao waved his hand, signaling them all to stand up, "There is only one request for what I need you to do, and that is to keep it secret."

Xiao Qiao left behind the original Xia Yi, Xia Si and Xia Ba. Among the three, Xia Yi is good at poisoning, Xia Si is the best at hiding his movements, and Xia Ba is good at disguise and ventriloquism.The other seven people were sent out, headed by Xia Ling, Xiao Qiao needed the seven of them to form a team of his own in the shortest possible time.

Today's His Majesty, Emperor Huiming, can live for at most five or six years, and the period when he took advantage of the situation was also at that time. He needed enough strength to ensure the implementation of his plan.

In his last life, he died before paying homage to the prime minister, but this time he made his wish!

The next day, when Hu Li was having breakfast, he kept looking at the place not far behind Xiao Qi'ao and frowned, and he ate less of his usual favorite chicken porridge.

"Isn't it to your liking?" Xiao Qi'ao swallowed the lean meat porridge in his mouth, looked at Hu Li's unconscious frown, and asked softly.

"Oh, it's not, it's just... Brother Xiao, don't you think there are more people in the room today?" Hu Li said while looking behind Xiao Qi'ao, the corners of Xiao Qi'ao's mouth did not change, and his eyes remained the same as before. "Who is Xiaoli talking about? But there are indeed a few more servants in the room today."

Hu Li wrinkled his nose, wanted to say something but finally kept silent, bowed his head and drank the porridge.After absent-mindedly finishing his breakfast, Hu Li hurried to see Chiji.

"Chi Ji, when did you grow up?" Hu Li stroked the soft down of the young eagle, still thinking about the person he felt standing not far behind Xiao Qi'ao in the morning.

Grandpa is right, human beings are really difficult to distinguish their minds.Obviously there are too many people, but brother Xiao still talks about him, hum!

And Xiao Qi'ao stood in front of the window, and Xia Ba stood in the shadow behind him, "This subordinate is sure that the young master has indeed sensed the location of this subordinate."

"Go down." Xiao Qi'ao responded in a low voice.

When Hu Li was suffering from the cold and fever, he once checked Hu Li's pulse with the hand of the old doctor, and he was indeed an ordinary boy.But why was it possible to accurately detect the existence of Xia Ba? Could it be that some secret method was used?

But thinking of Hu Li's heartless appearance, Xiao Qi'ao let out a low laugh.What he was sure of was that even if there were some secrets about Hu Li, they probably weren't aimed at him.

After living in the other courtyard in the suburbs of Beijing for a few days, Xiao Qi'ao received a letter from Xiao's residence, saying that the day when Xiao Jingshu would propose marriage to Qi Qingyun was two days away.

Before Hu Li had enough fun, he stayed in the other courtyard. Xiao Qiao brought Shuzhu, Xia Yi and Xia Ba back to Xiao's residence, and Xia Si was left by Hu Li's side.

After Xiao Qi'ao left, Hu Li avoided Xia Si and secretly fed Chi Ji a plant of the lowest-level spirit grass.Even the lowest level of spiritual grass, to Chiji, who is still a young eagle, is equivalent to the perfect tonic, and it is the kind of tonic that is too full.

Fortunately, this low-level spiritual herb is mild in nature, even if it can't be absorbed once, it doesn't matter, the medicinal properties will be hidden in the blood, changing the red halberd bit by bit.

Hu Li had a good time in the other courtyard, and Xiao Qi'ao who returned to Xiao Mansion also had a good time.

Although Xiao Jingshu is not seen as a legitimate daughter by the outside world, she is the eldest daughter of the Xiao family after all, and is worthy of the eldest grandson of the Qi family.

"Get out, get out of here!" Xiao Jingshu's eyes were red, and she slammed the pearl brought in by the maid, "Mother said that she loves me the most, why doesn't she help me, I don't want to marry that dude Qi Qingyun , I'm going to see my mother! Get out of the way..."

Xiao Qi'ao stood at the door with Mother Xiao and Aunt An, listening to Xiao Jingshu's angry shouts in the room, and gently patted Mother Xiao on the back, "Mother, my sister is just having a temper tantrum, don't let her go!" In my heart."

Aunt An didn't know if she was hurt by Xiao Jingshu's words, she looked at the door blankly, but didn't respond.

Xiao's mother nodded with an ugly face, but she was full of thoughts in her heart. Of course, she didn't want her daughter to marry a dude.But so many people saw what happened that day, even if Xiao Qi'ao quickly blocked the news, it was impossible for Shu'er to marry into the First Prince's Mansion as she thought before.

Others might not be able to find out what happened to Shu'er, but if she married into the royal family, she wouldn't be able to hide what happened a few days ago, and everyone would really know about it!

Thinking of this, Mother Xiao signaled Nanny Liu to open the door, just in time to see Xiao Jingshu about to smash a vase in her hand, Mother Xiao looked at Xiao Jingshu with hatred, "If you don't let it go, why are you crying and fussing?" !"

Xiao Jingshu put down the vase nonchalantly, only to cry again in an instant, "Mother, please help my daughter, I don't want to marry cousin Qingyun!"

"It's still more than a year before you get married, so don't make any jokes today!" Mother Xiao's stern words made Xiao Jingshu stunned.