I pretend to be affectionate in front of my foe

In terms of cheekiness, Xiao Yiran thought he couldn't compare to Liu Ruyu, so he sarcastically said: "Then he has accumulated eight lifetimes of virtue to have the opportunity to drink with you. I thank you for him."

After finishing speaking, Xiao Yiran turned his head and was about to leave.

Unexpectedly, Liu Ruyu started provoking again: "Are you busy sleeping with the crown prince? It's broad daylight, what's the rush? It's not time yet."

These words really choked Xiao Yiran, before his foot landed on the ground, he responded with a dark face: "I'm not respectful for old people."

"I'm only thirty-three, just a few years older than you, as for?"

Liu Ruyu continued to say with a playful smile: "If you like someone, you have to be bold and open. If you are so chatty, you can't give a fart for half a day. I'm afraid you won't be able to play in eight lifetimes."

"If I were as open as you, I would have been out of prison a long time ago."

Xiao Yiran replied bluntly: "It's also because Li Qi has no thick skin and a big heart, otherwise you would have been in jail long ago and drank gruel."

"Stinky boy! Did you learn the rules of respecting the old and loving the young for nothing?" Liu Ruyu then remembered that she was an elder: "I'm your uncle!"

"I won't waste time with you." Xiao Yiran opened the door curtain and said, "No one pays attention to you, I'm busy, Yan Yun is still waiting for me to reply to him."

"I forgot to tell you." Xiao Yiran had already walked to the door, and said loudly on purpose: "Today he came to find me specially for this matter."

Even if Liu Ruyu couldn't see his face at the moment, she could guess that Xiao Yiran's expression was very smug.

It was night, and the small soldiers on duty in the barracks still did not dare to take it lightly, and were dutifully guarding the night.

Where he didn't see, a few men in black had been quietly peeping in a dark corner for a while.

One of the men in black lit a stick of incense, thick white smoke slowly spread, and the white mist lingered, and the night watchman fell asleep without knowing it.

The man in black hiding in the dark watched for a moment, then sneaked into the barracks nimbly.

They walked to the cell where the eldest prince was held with ease.

A puff of thick white smoke rose, and the cell guard fell unconscious.

The man in black arrived at the place where the eldest prince was being held, as if he had entered a land of no one.

Yuan Yi's hands and feet were shackled, and he was sitting in the corner of the room with disheveled hair.

A small room was filled with all kinds of torture.

The walls are mottled, and there are still bloodstained soldering irons hanging on the walls.

Seeing the man in black, Yuan looked calm. He tilted his head and spat bloody saliva on the ground, and said disdainfully, "He told you to come and kill me."

The man in black didn't speak, they surrounded Yuan Yi tacitly.

"You Jiang people are as cunning as foxes."

Seeing that the man in black didn't speak, Yuan Yi became more and more irritable: "Go back and tell him that he is not worthy to be the king of a country."

"A villain who hides his head and shows his tail, bah."

The man in black who had been silent for a long time finally spoke. He strangled Yuan Yi's neck and said coldly, "Elder Prince, don't talk too much and we can make your death easier."

As he spoke, another man in black handed over a pill and said, "Take it."

He opened Yuan Yi's mouth, and the others held Yuan Yi's hands and feet.

Seeing that Yuan Yi was about to be forced to swallow the pill.At this time, the lights in the cell suddenly turned on brightly, and there was a sound of footsteps from far to near.

The people in black suddenly became alert. They gathered back to back and looked towards the place where the footsteps came from.

I saw Xiao Yiran leading a group of people out from the other side of the cell.

The man in black turned pale with shock, while Yuan Yi looked at Xiao Yiran with a half-smile.

"Don't look, the accomplice guarding the door has already reported to the underworld in advance."

A few people away, Xiao Yiran sneered and said, "This king is here to see you off."

"Do it." Xiao Yiran gave the order expressionlessly.

More and more people poured in, and the man in black was trapped in a corner of the cell, still struggling.

The man in black who was holding onto Yuan Yi's neck was about to attack Yuan, but was stabbed firmly between the eyebrows by a throwing knife thrown by Xiao Yiran.

The man in black who was stabbed had blood streaming down his face in an instant.

Before he could cry out, the next second, he was stabbed in the heart by a flying knife again.

Xiao Yiran still held the third throwing knife in his hand.

He glanced at the man in black who was clutching his chest, bleeding profusely, and said coldly, "I'm dying so soon? I've just started practicing."

The man in black fell into a pool of blood with a "bang", the pain was so painful that he didn't even close his eyes.

Xiao Yiran quickly supported Yuan Yi, and he gave an order, and everyone will arrest the few men in black.

"My lord, how to deal with it?" Lie Ren stepped forward and asked.

"Kill them all." Xiao Yiran clasped Yuan Yi's neck, turned to Lie Ren and said, "Leave something for that one as a souvenir."

After finishing speaking, Xiao Yiran turned his gaze to Yuan Yiyi: "Do you want to live?"

Yuan Yi rolled his eyes at Xiao Yiran, and said angrily, "If you want to kill or cut, you can do whatever you want."

Xiao Yiran let him go, sat on the only chair in the room and said, "I won't kill you."

"You don't have any good intentions." Yuan Yi's attitude was firm, and he didn't cooperate at all: "You Jiang people are all the same, and you are all dignified."

"I have no good intentions." Xiao Yiran smiled contemptuously, and said bluntly, "Make a deal."

Seeing that Yuan Yi didn't reply, Xiao Yiran said again: "It's good for all of us."

"Even if you sacrifice your life here for the country, no one will know. They will only think you are a deserter. If you leave your soldiers and run away, you will bear a lifetime of infamy."

Saying that, Xiao Yiran blew on the flying knife in his hand, and said with a smirk: "In that case, why didn't you choose to survive?"

What Xiao Yiran said was indeed correct, even if the words were rough and reasonable.

After hesitating for a while, the expression on Yuan Yi's face finally loosened, and he took the initiative to ask, "What do you want me to do?"

"Cooperate with me."

Xiao Yiran threw the flying knife out, and it just stuck on the wall above Yuan Yi's head.

Perhaps it was thrown too hard, and the joint between the blade and the wall was still buzzing.

Xiao Yiran's eyes were sharp, as if piercing the blade.

The night in Pingcheng is howling with strong winds, and the night in Wangcheng is cloudy and rainy.

The huge palace seemed even quieter at night.

Xiao Yiyang still didn't turn over the green sign of any concubine tonight, and still stayed in the study.

For half a month, Xiao Yiyang didn't call his concubines to bed.

He dismissed the eunuchs and maids and sat alone in front of the desk.

In front of him was a memorial that could never be finished, his brows were furrowed, and the veins in the hand holding the pen were bulging.

The memorials submitted recently are all about the refugee issue.

The refugees who were only wandering around the royal city, for some unknown reason, all went to the royal city overnight.

This made the officials in the imperial court very anxious, and they made a memorial one by one as if they had made an appointment.

Officials are asking questions, but no one has volunteered to address the issue.

As time went by, the refugee problem became more and more serious, and Xiao Yiyang's burden was all on his shoulders.

Xiao Yiyang was irritable, and Concubine Xiao Gui broke into the study with a bowl of lotus seed soup.

Seeing the visitor, Xiao Yiyang's mood became even worse. He raised his head and glanced at Concubine Xiao Gui, and then continued to bury his head in reading the memorial as if no one else was there.

"Your Majesty, take a break. You have been watching for three hours, and you haven't even eaten dinner."

Concubine Xiao Gui said, she put the lotus seed soup on the table, and quietly waited for Xiao Yiyang to speak.

"Don't eat, take it down." Xiao Yiyang's tone was not very good: "Didn't I say that no one should bother me?"

The blame in Xiao Yiyang's words was obvious.

Impatiently, he pushed the lotus seed soup to the ground without even looking at Concubine Xiao Gui.

The soup bowl hit the ground and splashed water all over the place, and the falling ceramic shards scattered all over the ground.

Xiao Yiyang turned a deaf ear to it, and didn't even look at Concubine Xiao Gui.

He just said lightly: "Is it because I spoil you too much? It's so inappropriate."

"Your Majesty is the concubine's husband." Concubine Xiao slowly bent down and began to pick up the pieces of the soup bowl, and said softly, "Is it a luxury or a sin for husband and wife to care about each other?"

As Concubine Xiao Gui said, her eyes gradually filled with tears, she endured her grievances and said, "Don't you think His Majesty doesn't even want to look at me now..."

Xiao Yiyang clapped the pen with a "snap", and said sharply: "Go down, don't make me say it a second time."

Concubine Xiao Gui seemed not to have heard, picking up the pieces one by one on her own.

"Go." Xiao Yiyang said coldly.

These words were like a heavy hammer, instantly knocking Concubine Xiao Gui into the ice cave.

One inattentively, the broken ceramics were inserted straight into Concubine Xiao's delicate fingertips.

A piercing pain hit, Xiao Guifei's eyelashes trembled, and a few tears fell along her eyelashes.

Xiao Yiyang didn't see it, and still kept his eyes on the memorial.

She looked up at the indifferent Xiao Yiyang, collected the pieces in silence, and walked away with heavy steps.

On the second day, Xiao Yiyang, who had just finished morning court, returned to the study, and saw a dark wooden box in the middle of the study.

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