Qi Huang

Not long after the tenth prince escaped from the center of the storm, he was called back by the Queen Mother.

When Xie Xuan heard the news, he was squatting in the water pavilion and carving flowers with pastries.He turned his wrist, his fingers fluttered, and a square cake quickly turned into a lotus flower just out of the water in his hand.

The little eunuch next to him braced himself and waited for a while before hearing the Thirteenth Highness speak leisurely.

"You said Brother Ten came out with injuries?"

"Yes." The little eunuch lowered his eyebrows and looked pleasing to the eye, "I saw with my own eyes that His Majesty the Tenth Highness had a wound on his forehead, and it was still bleeding."

"Any more?"

"That place is the other courtyard of the empress dowager. The servants dare not get too close, and they don't see anything superfluous." The little eunuch quickly raised his eyebrows and glanced at Xie Xuan, then quickly lowered his head, pretending to be nonchalant.

Xie Xuan remained silent.

Holding a silver needle in his hand, he continued to carve the already formed lotus.The lotus heart is exquisite, the lotus petals are round, and it looks lifelike at first glance.Xie Xuan didn't speak, and the little eunuch didn't dare to say much, until his back was sore and his legs were numb, Xie Xuan was able to put down the lotus, and said lightly: "You are lying."

The little eunuch was so frightened that his legs gave way and he knelt down.

"I came to see you because you are clever, but now it seems that you are too clever." Xie Xuan squatted down in front of the little eunuch, and smiled softly, "Why, being an eyeliner in the palace is addictive, and now I have learned to bargain. gone?"

The little eunuch originally just wanted to test it out.

There are always undercurrents in the palace, and any empress or prince in the palace wants to know some secrets, but it is inconvenient to come forward in person, so they will send some inconspicuous servants to act as eyeliners.Going back and forth has become a means for these people to make a living. As long as they don't cross the line, they can survive and earn a lot.

This Thirteenth Highness has always been a transparent person in the palace. The little eunuch originally just wanted to try it, but he didn't know that this person was so terrifying!

He was so frightened that he kowtowed again and again, and he couldn't speak easily: "My servant is wrong, slave, servant should not hide it! This servant will recruit!"

Xie Xuan: "..."

Is he so scary?

Presumably, the tyrant-like thing in my body still can't get rid of it in this life.

Xie Xuan lowered his head and examined himself from top to bottom, but he didn't find any strange shape in him that could scare people so much that they couldn't speak clearly.Turning around and seeing the little eunuch's gaze drifting towards his hand repeatedly, Xie Xuan paused, then put away the silver needle as if nothing had happened.

"Don't be afraid, I'm just asking." Xie Xuan took off a moon-white jade pendant from his belt, took the little eunuch's hand and put it on, "Just tell me what you want, and I won't give it to you." you."

Little eunuch: "..."

He was even more afraid.

Xie Xuan didn't need to say any more, he told everything he saw and heard like falling beans.

"It wasn't long before His Highness the Tenth Highness walked out of the palace gate, and the servants saw Mr. Xiao also coming out of the palace. Presumably, the Empress Dowager also summoned Mr. Xiao."

Xie Xuan put away her smile: "Which Mr. Xiao?"

"Xiao Ling, Mr. Xiao."

Because he was raised under the empress dowager since he was a child, the tenth prince himself is arrogant and domineering, simple-minded, and looks above everyone else, but he is extremely afraid of the empress dowager alone.At the family banquet that day, Xie Xuan had already learned the lesson.

He stood outside the Yuhua Palace where the Tenth Prince lived, and looked up at the grand palace. When the servants who came to him knew that Xie Xuan wanted to visit, they showed embarrassment.

"Your Highness, it's not that the servants are not letting go, it's because the Tenth Highness told me that no one will be seen."

"Then have you treated his wound?" Xie Xuan said with a smile.

"...No. His Highness the Tenth Highness was angry and refused to let the servants approach."

"The injury is on the face. If it is not treated in time, it may leave scars." Xie Xuan said lightly, "Your Highness does not understand, and you don't understand either?"

Being so intimidated, the servants were stunned for a moment.Xie Xuan took advantage of the heat and said, "Brother Ten and I are brothers and sisters. I am worried about his injury and want to help take care of him. Besides, even if he blames him, I will bear the brunt of the blame. You can't blame him."

The servant was still hesitating, probably because he was worried about the tenth prince's temper - when this servant got angry, he cursed and beat him, which is not something ordinary people can bear.

While struggling, Xie Xuan walked around them and walked straight to the gate, but the servant stopped him, but didn't.

Xie Xuan knocked on the door three times with his hands behind his back, and there was a "bang" in the hall, and something heavy slammed on the door frame, almost smashing the door frame to pieces.But Xie Xuan's expression remained unchanged, and he waited patiently for the door frame to stop shaking before he knocked three times slowly.

"Who! Are you courting death!" the tenth prince roared angrily.

"Me." Xie Xuan said, "I'm a sycophant."

Servant: "..."

It seems that this little Highness is not that "ordinary person".

The door was jerked open in front of everyone, and then closed with a bang, only a few servants were left looking at each other.After a while, someone belatedly said: "How did your little Highness know that our Highness was injured? Didn't Your Highness say to keep quiet?"

The servant who just talked to Xie Xuan waved his hand: "Don't ask questions that shouldn't be asked! Go to work!"

As soon as Xie Xuan walked into the room, he almost tripped over the lampshade that fell at the door, and staggered a few steps before he could barely stand still.

In a blink of an eye, the whole house has been smashed to pieces by the Tenth Prince, and books, benches, expensive vases, etc. are not where they should be.And the owner of the house was sitting in a pile of messy futons, the wound on his forehead was still oozing blood.

"Did you come to see my joke?" The tenth prince asked coldly.

Xie Xuan leaned over and picked up a pen: "Since you know I'm here to see your jokes, then you still let me in?"

The tenth prince raised his head and gave Xie Xuan a sideways glance.

Seeing that there was no joking in his words, the Tenth Prince moved his lips, hesitating whether to tell Xie Xuan about the grievance he had just suffered, but he heard this guy suddenly ask: "What joke? Tell me?" Listen."

Tenth Prince: "..."

really!Still came to laugh at him!

The Tenth Prince's face pulled, his expression collapsed, he turned his head and pointed to the door: "Get lost!"

However, Xie Xuan is not obedient, the tenth prince told him to go, but he wanted to move forward.The sundries were spread all over the ground, without even a place to stay, Xie Xuan didn't look sideways, kicked and kicked all the way, passed five levels and came to the tenth prince.

"Let me guess." Xie Xuan sat down next to the tenth prince and squeezed him crookedly, "Grandmother is not someone who is easy to do, and you haven't really annoyed Grandmother recently, so this hurts you." It has nothing to do with the imperial grandmother."

The Tenth Prince was silent.

"The thing that makes you Xie Duan think it's a joke must have something to do with your own face." Xie Xuan rested his chin with his hand, thinking, "Either someone hurt you and made you feel ashamed; or... It’s just that you did something embarrassing yourself and let others see it as a joke.”

The corner of the Tenth Prince's mouth twitched, and Xie Xuan keenly caught it.He smiled narrowly: "Ah, so it's the latter."

"I don't know if needle and thread can sew your mouth shut." The tenth prince said expressionlessly.

Xie Xuan leaned back a few inches, looked past the wound of the tenth prince, and suddenly felt blessed in his heart: "You can't do this injury yourself, can you?"

Tenth Prince: "..."

Being stripped clean in public, the tenth prince became furious: "If Xiao Ling hadn't uttered nonsense in front of the emperor's grandmother, I wouldn't have been hurt!"

He was in the midst of indignation, his face was full of anger, he didn't see that after hearing the word Xiao Ling, the banter on Xie Xuan's face was gradually fading away.

"When the imperial grandmother asked me to return to the palace, Xiao Ling was already there. I only had time to hear him say 'you dare not'. His expression was really presumptuous!"

Xie Xuan's eyes flashed: "Is there something important that the imperial grandmother called you back?"

"That's natural. Something happened to Mr. Li's family. It is said that the eldest son of the Li family had a conflict with a certain concubine and saw blood. The emperor's grandmother said that a king should be sympathetic to his ministers, and I heard that I have a close relationship with the eldest son of the Li family. , so he asked me to take an order to visit the Li family." The tenth prince slapped the table, "Who did the imperial grandmother hear? I don't even know the name of the eldest son of the Li family, whether he is beautiful or ugly, what is the relationship? close?"

What is the relationship between Li Jin's family affairs and the Queen Mother?

They were still at war at the family banquet, and the queen mother sent the prince to visit Li's house?Moreover, Xiao Ling is not good at conduct, and Wenxuan Gate is far away from the Empress Dowager's bedroom. According to Xiao Ling's hatred for the royal family, how could he be willing to cross many palace gates to meet the Empress Dowager?

Xie Xuan suppressed the doubts in his heart and said: "So you don't want to go?"

The tenth prince nodded: "I'm too lazy to see the members of the Li family, everyone's tail is up to the sky. But I dare not disobey the order of the emperor's grandmother... Turning around, I saw Xiao Ling sneering at the emperor's grandmother, I was not happy, so I picked up the pen holder on the table and threw it at Xiao Ling... Who knew it would bounce off the pillar! If I had known, I would have..."

As he was talking, Xie Xuan, who was still smiling just now, suddenly turned cold.

This face was no stranger to the Tenth Prince.That day in the training ground, when he tied Xie Xuan to a wooden post as an archery target, Xie Xuan also looked at him with the same expression.The memory came back, and even the feeling of fear followed. The tenth prince was surprised, and stammered: "You... what are you doing?"

Xie Xuan looked at him silently for a while, then smiled and said, "It's nothing."

However, before the Tenth Prince could breathe out, Xie Xuan suddenly reached out and pressed the wound on his forehead.

The bright red blood was squeezed out in an instant, slid down his fingertips to his wrist, and finally landed on the futon with a ticking sound, blooming a flower with winding vines.

"Mr. Xiao is a very important person to me, don't do anything to him next time, can you?"

It was clearly a discussion tone, but the Tenth Prince heard a hint of an order. He constricted his pupils, and even forgot the pain from the wound on his forehead, and a thick layer of cold sweat quickly broke out on his back.

It was as if standing in front of him was not his thirteenth brother, but a king who could command the world.