The Indifferent Prince's Substitute

In the palace, before Lin Yan and Rong Yuan came back, the little prince was sitting at a small table obediently having dinner.He wanted to eat by himself, holding the bunny snack made for him by Shen in his left hand, and a small wooden spoon in his right, scooping a piece of tofu into his mouth and feeding it.

Some rice grains were sprinkled on the small table, and the little squirrel was pecking vigorously with its head down.

Mother Zhao looked at the little prince with a smile on her side, reaching out her hand to help the little prince from time to time to prevent him from dropping the food on his clothes, and when the little oriole finished eating, she sprinkled a few grains of rice on the table.Footsteps suddenly sounded outside the door, Mammy Zhao raised her head, and it was Hongyu, a maid from the courtyard, who came in.

"Nurse, Uncle Zhang is looking for you and asked you to go to his place." Hongyu said.

"Look at the little prince." Zhao Momo nodded, gave Hongyu a word, and got up to go out.

The footsteps went away, Hongyu turned and closed the door.The little squirrel was pecking at the rice grains vigorously, and suddenly felt something was wrong. When she raised her head, her feathers exploded.

Hongyu stood three steps away, staring at the little prince with red eyes.She tilted her head, and the saliva flowed down her chin, dripping to the floor.

Demon... Yaoxie!At a glance, I saw the black evil spirit crazily surging between Hongyu's eyebrows, and the little squirrel flapped its wings and flew towards Hongyu, and then pecked fiercely at the center of her eyebrows.

Not paying attention to a bird, Hongyu waved her sleeves to knock down the little squirrel, who knew that the little squirrel was very flexible, swooped up and avoided her sleeve.Then it landed on top of her head and pecked at her scalp.

Hongyu stretched out her hand to grab the little squirrel, but every time the little squirrel dodged nimbly.Hongyu went mad with anger, black energy overflowed from her body, divided into countless strands, bound the little squirrel, and fell hard to the ground.

The little prince stared blankly at a man and a bird fighting in front of him, and saw the man throw the little squirrel to the ground, with disheveled hair drooling and approaching him, stretching out his pale hand.The little prince looked at her with his head tilted, bit his little hand in fright, and the sleeve slid down, revealing the small silver bracelet on his wrist.

The small silver bracelet suddenly shot out a bright light, which hit Hongyu's face. "Ah!" Hongyu screamed, covering her face hastily.The skin on her face was burnt and rotted quickly, revealing the black air surging inside, collapsing and overflowing outward.At this moment, the little squirrel also broke free from the bondage of the black air, flew over and pecked at her eyebrows fiercely.

"Ah!" Hongyu screamed again, footsteps came from outside the door, she turned into a cloud of black smoke, floated out towards the window, and fled through the window.

Zhao Nanny pushed the door open, looked at the wide open window and wondered, "Where is Hongyu?"

Finally, Hongyu was found in the pavilion next to the rockery in the garden. She was lying on the stone table and fell asleep.Asked her about looking for Nanny Zhao, but completely forgot.

As soon as Lin Yan came back, Xiao Huangque chatted with him about what happened just now.Lin Yan was surprised that those bad things were found so quickly.

There was no sign of a fight in the room, the little prince was not injured, and Hongyu didn't look like she was lying.Rong Yuan frowned and inspected the courtyard, and when he returned, he called in a few guards to protect the courtyard where Lin Yan and the little prince lived.

In the dead of night, both Qiu Yun and Zhao Mama went to sleep.Lin Yan got up quietly, lit a candle, and checked the little squirrel's injury.

The wing of the little squirrel was smashed to the bone, and Lin Yan took vine juice and smeared it.The little prince was sleeping in the bed next to him. He didn't seem to be frightened at all by what happened before. He lay on the pillow, clenched his fists loosely, and slept soundly with his eyes closed.

Lin Yan glanced at the small silver bracelet on his hand, it was worn by the carp demon to cover up his smell.Fortunately, I had the foresight to worry that he would encounter a mage and expose his identity as a little monster. He repaired it after dropping it last time, and brought it back to him.

It seems that the things left by the carp demon are really treasures.

Lin Yan reopened the bag left by the carp demon. There were four items, a small mirror with a simple shape, a small string of somewhat old bells, an inconspicuous knife that was only as wide as a palm, and an ordinary small knife. Stone.

Although the palace was banned by the carp demon, the queen is not in the palace now, and he is not at ease sending the little prince back alone.After thinking about it all night, after breakfast the next day, Lin Yan asked someone to nail the small mirror to the gate of the yard, hang the bell on the porch, and put a double security on the little prince.The remaining knife, the little prince was too young to cut himself, so he kept it.As for the small stones, he picked out the most elegant one from Qiuyun's embroidered purse, put the small stones in, and prepared to give it to Rong Yuan for self-defense.

"Princess, Miss Gu's family came to see you for something." Lin Yan wanted to embroider her name on her purse, and was asking Qiu Yun to teach him, when the maid in the front yard came to report.

Miss Gu family?Gu Shuangshuang?Lin Yan blew on the finger that had just been pricked by the needle, put away her purse, and asked someone to welcome Gu Shuangshuang in.

When Gu Shuangshuang came into the yard, she saw a child in a brocade robe sitting among the flowers and playing with weeds. Lin Yan was waiting for her at the stone table under the nearby tree.Gu Shuangshuang walked to the stone table and sat down, looked at the child in the flowers and asked Lin Yan, "Is this the little prince?"

Before, the queen hid the little prince very tightly and prevented him from leaving the queen's bedroom easily. Few people have seen the little prince.

"Yeah." Lin Yan poured her a cup of tea, because of his fruit, the little prince likes to get close to plants, likes to play in the garden, and can pull weeds for half a day.

"You look so cute." Gu Shuangshuang couldn't help but praise, the queen is a beauty, and the emperor is not bad looking, but this little prince doesn't look like them very much.

Lin Yan asked about something serious, "Why are you looking for me?"

"Oh, have you heard about the murders that happened in the capital these days?" Gu Shuangshuang hurriedly talked about the matter, "Another person died last night."

Lin Yan was startled, "Another person died?"

"Yeah." Gu Shuangshuang nodded, "This time it was a rich businessman in the city who died, a family of more than a dozen people, and I heard that there was a nursing home who knew martial arts, and they all died. It's outside."

"People in the city are panicking now, and they are afraid that it will be their turn next night. The official sentry patrolled day and night in the past two days. Last night, an official sentry patrolled the street across the alley from the rich merchant's house, but they didn't hear any movement." Gu Shuangshuang said in a low voice, "I suspect that these murders were not done by humans, but by monsters, or by the same or the same wave of monsters."

Lin Yan was startled, she didn't expect to be guessed right, and couldn't help asking: "Why do you think it was a monster?"

"My brother and the prince are in charge of this case together." Gu Shuangshuang said, "I eavesdropped on him discussing with his subordinates. He said that those who died were all bitten in a mess. Except for monsters, who would eat people?"

"It must have been done by monsters." Gu Shuangshuang made a decision.

"...you came to see me..." Lin Yan opened his mouth and asked.

"Don't you know magic?" Gu Shuangshuang blinked at him, "Can you catch this monster?"

Lin Yan pursed her lips and thought, those bad things are aimed at him, if they are not subdued, the capital will not be peaceful, and more people will suffer.What's more, Rong Yuan is looking for the murderer, if he doesn't subdue those bad things for a day, Rong Yuan may be hurt by them.

After thinking for a while, Lin Yan whispered to Gu Shuangshuang: "I can try, but I can't let the prince and others know."

Gu Shuangshuang nodded excitedly, "Don't let others know, I'll help you!"

Lin Yan needs to concentrate on catching those bad things outside, and needs someone to protect the little prince.Although he had the treasure left by the carp demon to protect him, he was still worried. After thinking about it, he decided to invite two brothers, Weasel Jing and Rabbit Jing, to help him protect the little prince.

He knew these monsters in the capital, so he went out of the mansion that afternoon to talk to them about it.Now the people in the capital are in a panic, and the little monsters have been with humans for a long time. Seeing such bloody murders happen one after another, it doesn't feel good.Hearing from Lin Yan that those evil spirits were coming for the little prince, he asked them to enter the palace to protect the little prince. He went out of the mansion to track down the whereabouts of those evil spirits, and he agreed without much hesitation.

Relying on these few little monsters with low mana, Lin Yan was still not at ease.Recalling that the spider spirit once gave him a bamboo flute, and said that he only needed to blow it twice, he dug out the bamboo flute from the cabinet, went to the pavilion where the spider spirit found him, sent all the servants away, The cheeks blew wildly.

"Xiaoshuteng, what do you want from me?" Just after blowing twice, Ah Zhu's voice sounded from behind.

"Sister Ah Zhu!" Lin Yan quickly put down the bamboo flute, turned around with a smile, and said that she wanted to invite her to the palace to protect the little prince.

"Can you handle it alone? Do you want me to go out with you?" Ah Zhu leaned on the railing and asked with a smile.

"No need." Lin Yan shook his head, those monsters came for his fruit, how could he let other monsters take risks with him.

The years in the mountains are long, and Ah Zhu is bored to stay, so she agrees to come down.

Several monsters agreed, and the next thing was to bring them into the palace.

"My lord, my concubine has some friends who came from afar and will live in our palace for a while." Rong Yuan just stepped into the courtyard door of the study when Uncle Zhang greeted him.

"Clean out the guest room and let them live in it." Rong Yuan walked to the shelf and washed his hands, took a cloth towel and wiped it, seeing that Uncle Zhang looked a little unhappy, he asked, "You don't want them to live in?"

"No, the princess's friends are the guests of the palace, and they can stay for as long as they want." Uncle Zhang shook his head quickly, hesitating to speak, "It's just that there is a woman among his friends, who seems to be a little close to the princess."

intimate?Rong Yuan stopped wiping his hands, was silent for a moment, and asked, "Where are they now?"

Uncle Zhang hurriedly said, "In the courtyard where the princess lives."

Rong Yuan put the cloth towel back on the shelf, turned around and walked outside.

In the courtyard where Lin Yan lived, Tu Er walked all the way in from the gate of the Wangfu, his eyes were straightened, and Tu Yi bit his ear, "Brother, this is the Wangfu, it's so grand."

Tu Yi looked around and said in a low voice: "That's right, compared to this, the place we live in is only as big as the toilet in the Wang's Mansion?"

Apart from the two brothers, Huang Da was also enviously muttering to his sister, "The monster is so mad at the monster. We have worked so hard to transform ourselves and earn money to make ends meet. The little tree vine is on the mountain, and there is a ready-made body that will fall off." To let him take it in front of him is still a body with such a high status. How come we are not so lucky."

Huang Xiaozhen glared at his brother, "I think we are very lucky, if I hadn't met Xiaoshuteng, my legs would not be healed."

Huang Da really thought about it, stretched out his hand and scratched his head, and laughed.

The little demons hadn't seen the little prince before, but they saw two servant girls playing football with a very beautiful child in the yard.The child picked up the bamboo ball and turned to look at them curiously.

Lin Yan went to hold the little prince's hand and brought the little prince to them.

"This is your fruit?" Ah Zhu bent down and looked at the little prince with a smile, stretched out her hand and pinched the little prince's white and tender face, "It's so cute."

"The expression looks a bit like yours." Ah Zhu stood up, smiled and squeezed Lin Yan's face.

Rong Yuan stepped into the courtyard gate, and happened to see this scene.

"Look, my lord." Uncle Zhang also saw it, and stomped beside him, "This friend of the wangfei is messing with the wangfei again."

Rong Yuan pursed his thin lips, and walked towards them.

"My lord, you are back." Seeing Rong Yuan, Lin Yan introduced Ah Zhu and the others to him, "These are friends I made in the place where I lived, and they came to visit me in the capital. The capital is in chaos now, so I don't trust them If you live in a hotel, let them also live in the palace."

"See you, my lord." Ah Zhu and the demons have been in the human world for a long time, they are very clear about human etiquette, and they salute Rong Yuan decently.

Rong Yuan's gaze swept over A Zhu's body, and he said, "Since I'm your friend, I can live here as I please for a few days."

As soon as Rong Yuan came, the little prince trotted over and hugged his leg, reaching out his hand curiously to fiddle with a jade pendant tied around Rong Yuan's waist.

Ah Zhu's eyes fell on the jade pendant, and after carefully examining her eyes, she let out a little surprise.

Rong Yuan glanced at her again.

"Hi, our prince and concubine have something to say, I'll take a few to the guest room." Uncle Zhang coughed lightly and said.

Ah Zhu put away her surprised gaze, and walked out of the yard with Huang Da and the others.

"I have something for you." Lin Yan just remembered, reached out and pulled Rong Yuan's sleeve, allowing him and herself to enter the room.

It was only when Rong Yuan stepped up that he realized that there was another pendant on his leg. After thinking for a moment, he bent down and picked up the little prince and carried it to his shoulder.The little prince didn't think his shoulders were too stiff, so he leaned on his shoulders and giggled.

At the door of the room, Rong Yuan put the little prince down and handed it to Qiu Yun, and then entered the room with Lin Yan.

Lin Yan picked up a purse from the table and handed it to him, "Here you are."

"You embroidered it?" Rong Yuan took a look at the purse and asked in surprise.

"No." Lin Yan didn't have the cheek to say that he embroidered it himself, he pointed to the corner of the purse to show Rong Yuan, "Only I embroidered it."

Rong Yuan looked down, he was pointing at a crooked little flower with only a few petals visible.

In fact, Lin Yan planned to embroider her own name, but found that her name was too difficult to embroider, so she simply embroidered a small flower.

"Don't think it's a small stone in it. It's not an ordinary small stone. I went to the temple. The abbot saw that I was destined to give it to me. He said it was a treasure and it would keep you safe. Take it with you and don't lose it." Lin Yan talked nonsense, and the more he talked, the more he felt guilty. The seemingly inconspicuous little stone, coupled with his clumsy embroidery work, it's no wonder that the benefactor could take a fancy to it.

"En." Rong Yuan nodded seriously, lowered his head and hung the purse on his waist.

Lin Yan's eyes fell on the jade pendant on his waist, he seldom wears accessories on his body, Lin Yan couldn't help but said: "This jade pendant is made of red jade, it's rare, where did you buy it? "

"I didn't buy it." Rong Yuan reached out and touched the jade pendant, "I won it from the emperor last time I went hunting."

Lin Yan remembered that there was such a thing, the last time the hunting emperor took a piece of red jade tribute from the northwest tribe as the prize of the competition, which was won by Rong Yuan.

"My aunt's tribe used to be rich in this kind of red jade, but now it is extinct." Rong Yuan lowered his eyes, stretched out his hand to caress the jade pendant, his voice was a little heavy.

No wonder the benefactors didn't participate in the competition before, but they suddenly participated last time.It turned out that it was related to his mother who passed away early.

Lin Yanzheng didn't know how to comfort him, so Rong Yuan suddenly said, "Do you usually get along with your friends like this?"

"...How do we get along?" Lin Yan raised his eyes to look at him in doubt, and saw Rong Yuan hesitated for a moment, then stretched out his hand and gently pinched his face.

Lin Yan was stunned, and for some reason felt that the face he pinched was a little hot.

"No...it's not..." Lin Yan scratched her head and explained somewhat stammeringly, "Sister Azhu just likes to play with me."

"Don't let her do this again." Rong Yuan said, twisting his fingers uncomfortably.

Lin Yan nodded blankly, "Oh."

"I'll go back to the study to rest for a while, and I'm going out to patrol the streets at night." Rong Yuan pursed his lips uncomfortably and said.

As soon as Rong Yuan left, Lin Yan squatted on the ground, stretched out his hand to touch his hot face, and secretly spurned himself, didn't the benefactor just touch his face?There is nothing to be ashamed of.Really.

He shook his head vigorously, focusing on what Rong Yuan said about patrolling the streets at night.

Use the little squirrel as a carrier pigeon, tie a letter on its leg, and make an appointment with Gu Shuangshuang on the time and place to meet in the evening. The prince and Huang Da went to the palace to set up traps and alarms. Lin Yan sneaked out of the palace alone under the cover of night.

The place agreed with Gu Shuangshuang was in the alley at the back door of Gu's mansion. When Lin Yan left, Gu Shuangshuang and Xia He's master and servant were already waiting for him in the alley.

"I got you a patrol officer's clothes." Gu Shuangshuang asked Xia He to give him the bag in his hand, and said in a low voice, "There will be a patrol passing by in a while, you just need to sneak in."

Lin Yan took the burden and nodded, "I see, you can go back."

Gu Shuangshuang was worried about him, "Can you handle it alone?"

"Yes, you guys go quickly." Lin Yan urged them, now is an extraordinary period, it is not safe to be outside so late.

"You change your clothes first, and we will go back after you get into the patrol team." Gu Shuangshuang insisted on seeing him get into the team and feel relieved before leaving. Lin Yan had to let the two of them turn their backs, and he changed quickly. Official uniform.

"Here we come." A patrol team approached in the darkness, and the person in front was holding a lantern. Lin Yan whispered to Gu Shuangshuang, and when the last person in the team passed by the front street, he quietly slipped into the alley out, follow up.

Seeing that Lin Yan had successfully sneaked into the team, Gu Shuangshuang turned around with Xia He and quietly went back to the mansion.

In order to prevent the murder from happening again, Rong Yuan and Gu Zhiming dispatched a large number of people from various departments and organized them into more than a dozen patrol teams, patrolling the streets at night without interruption.Therefore, the people on the patrol basically didn't know each other, and they didn't care what the people in front of and behind them looked like, so Lin Yan managed to get in.

Lin Yan walked behind the patrol while sensing whether there were any evil spirits around in the dark night.

Walked the whole street and found nothing.The patrol started walking back.It seems that this street is safe, and evil spirits are not on this street.Lin Yan was thinking about looking for a chance to change the patrol team and go to another street to have a look.Suddenly raising his head, he sensed a strong evil spirit, right in the alley where he and Gu Shuangshuang met!

Before a stick of incense, Gu Shuangshuang and Xia He went back to the Gu residence.They are at the entrance of the alley, and the back door of Gu's residence is at the innermost part of the alley.There are two other families in this alley, and the back door is also opened here.Gu Shuangshuang and Xia He walked to the back door of the second family, ten steps ahead was the back door of the Gu family, and suddenly there was a bang from the back door next to it.

"Miss, did you hear?" Xia He held Gu Shuangshuang's arm and asked in a low voice with some fear.

"Maybe it's a cat, let's go quickly." Gu Shuangshuang grabbed Xia He's hand and pulled her to leave quickly. At this moment, the back door next to him suddenly squeaked and was gently blown open by the wind.

Gu Shuangshuang froze on the spot, the back door was blown half open by the wind, revealing the scene inside.Under the dim moonlight, several people-like things were sitting together, stretching out their hands and tearing something bloody and feeding it into their mouths, eating, gobbling, and the sound of gnawing bones and chewing came out.

Xia He's legs went limp, and she was about to scream when Gu Shuangshuang hurriedly reached out and covered her mouth.Gu Shuangshuang was also so frightened that she almost lost her soul, and she almost collapsed on the ground, but she knew that she must not scream, she must not be discovered by these evil spirits, she must leave immediately.

Enduring intense fear, Gu Shuangshuang held Xia He tightly to leave, turned her head, her pupils shrank sharply, and with a plop, she collapsed to the ground together with Xia He.

On the wall two steps away in front of them, there was a figure crouching like a gecko, with a pair of eyes shining red in the dark night, tick tock, the sound of saliva dripping to the ground.

The movements of Gu Shuangshuang and Xia He startled the other evil spirits who were eating in the back door. In the blink of an eye, they all swarmed out from the back door and surrounded the master and servant.

In the alley two streets away from Gu's mansion, Rong Yuan and Gu Zhiming were patrolling with lanterns.Gu Zhiming saw the purse on Rong Yuan's waist, and asked with a smile: "The prince didn't have this purse on his waist in the morning, but he had it in the evening. It was given by the princess? There must be a peace talisman in it."

Rong Yuan glanced at him, "How do you know?"

Gu Zhiming analyzed clearly and said: "Except for the concubine, no one dared to give the prince's purse. I didn't send it before, and now I suddenly gave it. Because of this case, the concubine must be worried about the prince's accident, so she asked for a safe talisman to put in it and let the prince carry it with him." .”

Fortunately, it belongs to Dali Temple, and its reasoning ability is quite strong.Rong Yuan reached out to touch the purse on his waist, looked down, and suddenly his eyes paused, his ruby ​​pendant was shining.

作者有话要说：感谢在2020-10-1916:58:28~2020-10-2016:45:11期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

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