Pregnant with His Highness' cub before becoming a monk

"Brother, when you were in Qingyin Temple, did someone wipe your back?" Li Yi asked suddenly.

Shi Fang was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding why he would ask this, so he replied: "The Qingyin Temple is full of monks, and everyone does everything by themselves. How can you trouble others casually with things like rubbing your back?"

Li Yi didn't say anything after hearing the words, and just concentrated on helping Shifang wipe his back.

Shi Fang was still thinking about the old incident just mentioned in his heart, and he was full of distress and guilt for Li Yi.

He thought for a while, turned slightly to take the cloth towel from Li Yi's hand and said, "Let me help you."

Li Yi opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he turned his back obediently.

Shi Fang raised his eyes, and his gaze fell on Li Yi's back shoulder, where he saw a scar.

Although the scar has completely healed, it can be seen that Li Yi was seriously injured at that time.

"This... when did you get hurt?" Shi Fang asked.

Li Yi was stunned for a moment, then realized that Shi Fang was referring to the scar on his back shoulder, and said, "Two years ago, I accidentally fell while riding a horse. It's nothing serious."

Shifang frowned, and raised his hand to gently caress the scar on Li Yi's back shoulder.

His fingertips were full of enthusiasm, and his movements were light and slow when stroking the scar, as if he planned to remember the texture of the scar with his fingertips.

Li Yi only felt a numbness/itch in his back shoulder, subconsciously stretched/tightened his body, trying to remind the other party of something.But he hesitated for a while, but he didn't say anything after all, he just tensed his body to resist the urge to avoid, and his face was also very uncomfortable.

"It still hurts?" Shi Fang sensed his reaction and might have misunderstood it.

"No...it doesn't hurt anymore." Li Yi muffled.

Only then did Shifang breathe a sigh of relief, and didn't continue to pay attention to the scar.

Li Yi's tense/tense emotions slowly relaxed, and finally he bent his arms and leaned against the edge of the pool, burying his head in his arms.If Shifang was careful enough, he would have noticed that Li Yi's ears were flushed, and even his neck was slightly red...

In summer, after bathing is the most refreshing time of the day.

After Shifang returned to his room, he only wore a thin shirt, sat on the low couch in the room and meditated with his eyes closed.

His appearance was originally handsome and handsome, but when he closed his eyes and meditated, he had a more unearthly temperament.

Li Yi wiped his hair with a cloth towel, and then carefully sat next to Shi Fang, pretending to meditate with Shi Fang.It's just that he didn't know where he went with all his thoughts, and his eyes couldn't be idle, taking advantage of Shifang's meditation time to look at people up and down.

At this moment, Shifang's hair was partly untied, and the steam from the ends of the hair wetted a small piece of the thin shirt.Li Yi's gaze went all the way up from there, over Shifang's looming collarbone, neck, and chin...and lingered for a moment on the other's thin red lips, and finally fell on Shifang's tightly closed eyes.

Li Yi likes Shifang's eyes closed very much, because Shifang's eyes are always a bit cold on weekdays, even when he looks at Li Yi with a smile in his eyes, Li Yi feels that he has nowhere to go, and is always afraid that the other party will go down. A second would say something he didn't want to hear.

Only when Shifang closed his eyes, did Li Yi dare to look at him without any scruples.

The boy's eyes were burning with burning temperature, and he was not as obedient and forbearing as usual.

A moment later, the young man subconsciously raised his hand to caress Shi Fang's side face, and when his fingertips were almost touching the other's cheek, he suddenly came back to his senses and hurriedly withdrew his hand.

Li Yi sat cross-legged beside him, closing his eyes like Shi Fang did, trying to adjust his mood.

However, as soon as he closed his eyes, his thoughts became more disturbed...

Until the sound of footsteps approaching, Li Yi was temporarily rescued from this complicated emotion.

"Brother, second brother..." The third prince's voice came over before he even reached the door.

Li Yi was afraid that he would disturb Shi Fang's meditation, so he got up and wanted to stop him from going out, but the other party moved very quickly, and "broke" in with three steps at a time.

The third prince was probably used to being "fixed" by Li Yi, and when he saw Li Yi get up, he hurriedly hid behind Shifang.

He made a silent gesture to Li Yi, which meant don't disturb his brother.

Li Yi was unwilling to attack him in front of Shifang, and only gave him a warning look.

"Second brother, General Huo is outside, he should have something to do with you." The third prince lowered his voice and said to Li Yi.

Li Yi thought he was deceiving him on purpose, but when he turned his head and looked out the window, Huo Yansheng was indeed outside.

Although Li Yi didn't declare many things to Huo Yan, Huo Yansheng followed him for a long time, so he could somewhat guess what he was thinking.So when Li Yi and Shi Fang were alone, Huo Yansheng never dared to disturb them easily, for fear of offending His Royal Highness.

When Li Yi came out of the house, Huo Yansheng was pacing back and forth outside, looking a little anxious.

As soon as he saw Li Yi, he hurried up to greet him, but he glanced at the direction of the room, and did not speak in a hurry.

"Let's talk in Gu's room." Li Yi said.

Huo Yansheng heard the words and hurriedly followed Li Yi to the other party's residence.

"Your Highness, what Yan Changsheng is doing has some clues, and I just sent someone to deliver the message." Huo Yan said.

Li Yi was a little surprised when he heard this, and asked, "Didn't he say it would take half a month? Why so fast?"

"According to his original plan, it shouldn't be so fast." Huo Yan said: "It seems that the person His Highness asked him to investigate showed some tricks and was caught by him... Afterwards, he followed the clues and moved the matter ahead of time. gone."

What Li Yi asked Yan Changsheng to do last time was to investigate a person.

Although Li Yi only met that person briefly that day, the look in his eyes when he looked at Shifang was too unusual. Li Yi felt uncomfortable when he thought of the other person's eyes, so he wanted to check the details of that person , for peace of mind.

But now it seems that there must be something wrong with that person.

"What is the identity of that person?" Li Yi asked.

"The person who sent the message didn't know much, and I'm afraid His Highness will have to ask Yan Changsheng himself." Huo Yan said: "He is very careful in his work, maybe he is afraid that there will be mistakes among the person who sent the message, so he only said the matter. progress, no specific details were mentioned.”

Since Yan Changsheng can be recommended to the East Palace to be used by Li Yi, he naturally has some skills.

Although Li Yi didn't expect much from him, he was not surprised to hear about it.

"Gu will return to the capital tomorrow." Li Yi said.

Huo Yansheng heard that he was busy, so he should make arrangements in advance.

Li Yi hesitated for a moment, but changed his mind and said, "Forget it, Gu will rush back the next day after he arrives today, maybe he will startle the snake."

After all, his identity is here, and he is easy to attract attention wherever he goes. Yan Changsheng finally found out something about this matter. The most urgent thing is to stabilize the situation and not rush it.

"You send someone you don't know to go back and take Gu's token to see Yan Changsheng." Li Yi said.

"Yes, this subordinate will do it now." Huo Yansheng said hastily.

Li Yi looked out the window, took a deep breath, and his eyes became a little sharp.

Hopefully, things are not what he thought...

On the other side, Shifang finished his meditation and was chatting with the third prince.

The third prince is still a child with a temperament. Although he is 13 years old, he has no calmness in speaking and doing things.

"Brother, did Second Brother really not ask you to speak nicely in front of the Bodhisattva?" The Third Prince asked.

Shifang laughed and said, "I may not be able to speak in front of the Bodhisattva."

"He went to the doctor in a hurry, the second brother..." The third prince's words came to his lips, and suddenly he felt blessed, and realized the truth that too many words will inevitably lead to mistakes, so he changed the subject: "Forget it, talking about people's right and wrong behind the scenes is not for a gentleman." for."

Shifang poured a cup of tea for the third prince, and suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Did His Royal Highness get injured in the years I have been out of the palace?"

"No?" The third prince said: "Second brother is the crown prince of a country, who would dare to hurt him?"

Shi Fang thought for a while and asked again: "I just accidentally discovered... there seems to be a scar on his back shoulder."

"The back shoulder?" The third prince suddenly said: "That was the one who fell off the horse before... But brother, how can you see the back shoulder of the second brother? Did the second brother take off his clothes in front of you?"

Shifang: ...

Before Shifang could speak, the third prince said again: "Well, he won't let me take a bath with you, are you..."

Shifang couldn't laugh or cry because of his child's temper, and said, "That's not the point."

"Forget it, I'm used to it, the second brother has always been like this." The third prince said.

Not to mention taking a bath together, he is such a good second brother that he would not even let him have a word with Shifang...

It's simply too broad!

"He has been riding a horse since he was a child, and His Majesty has praised his horsemanship, so why did he fall off the horse?" Shi Fang asked.

The third prince heard the words and said: "Who knows, that year we went hunting together in the autumn, in the hunting ground in the suburbs of Beijing. He didn't know what stimulated him, and he shot several barrels of arrows as if he was red-eyed. Later, when I was chasing a prey, I rode too fast, fell off the horse, and almost got a broken branch through my back shoulder..."

The third prince was younger than now, and he followed him just to make up the number, and he didn't even go into the hunting ground.

But he still remembers that when Li Yi was carried out from the inside, his body was completely stained with blood.

At that time, everyone didn't know where he was injured. Seeing so much blood, their hearts were half cold.

Fortunately, the injury was not fatal in the end, but the wound was deep and the blood loss was relatively large.

"The hunting ground in the suburbs of Beijing? The eastern suburbs or the western suburbs?" Shi Fang asked.

"It's the place very close to Qingyin Temple. Father and Empress took me to visit you at Qingyin Temple that time. Have you forgotten, brother?" asked the third prince.

When Shifang was reminded by him, he remembered it.

That was two years ago...

At that time, the emperor and empress took the third prince to visit Shifang at Qingyin Temple during the autumn hunt.

Li Yi also went to Autumn Hunt that time, but for some reason, he didn't go with him.

It was also that time that Li Yi was injured in the hunting ground.

That night, Shifang slept very restlessly.

As soon as a person lies down, he can't help but think of many past events...

Of course, Li Yi didn't sleep very well either.

Probably because he thought about it day by day and dreamed about it at night, Li Yi saw in his dream the man he had met not long ago in the "pinching feet" restaurant.

The other party kidnapped Shifang under Li Yi's nose.

Li Yi quickly chased after him all the way, and he was about to stop the man, but the man was shot by a stray arrow coming from nowhere.

Then there was a hiss, and the man led Shi Fang and jumped off the cliff in front of Li Yi.

Li Yi's heart suffocated, he woke up from the dream, cold sweat broke out on his forehead at some point.

He took a few deep breaths, but the feeling of fear in the dream still lingered.

At this time, there was a sudden sound outside the door.

Li Yi's eyes froze, and he asked coldly, "Who?"

"It's me." Shifang's voice came through the door.

Shifang was forced to recall too many past events today, and his mood was a little disturbed.

He woke up after a nap, and he didn't feel sleepy after lying on the couch for a long time, so he simply got up.

"I remember that you used to have nightmares every time you slept in a different place, and you couldn't sleep well, so you wanted to come and see you." Shi Fangli said at the door.After saying this, he himself felt far-fetched. Li Yi is no longer a child now, so it is not necessary for him to care so much.

It's just that when he heard Li Yi's words in the bath today, he felt too much guilt in his heart.

In addition, after listening to the third prince talk about Li Yi's injury two years ago, the guilt felt a little more distressed...

"You don't have to get up, go back to sleep, I'm leaving now." Shi Fang said.

After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave when he heard the door open...

Before Shi Fang could react, he felt his body tighten, and someone hugged him from behind.

"Your Highness?" Shi Fang was taken aback by his actions, and wanted to turn around to look at him.

The boy didn't let go, still hugged him tightly from behind, and said hoarsely: "Brother, don't go."