When Li Muyun said this, Ji Zhen almost fell off the chair, thinking:

"Li Muyun, this guy, is sitting here with bad intentions!"

Li Yuanzhen, who was sitting at the top, was only thirty years old and could be considered a man who had experienced a lot, but he had no way to deal with his ninth brother, who was born to the same father. He could only rub his brows, sigh helplessly, and scold:

"Ninth brother, please don't say anything nonsense in front of Prince Qingyan. You must have worked hard on the journey. Go back to the palace and rest first."

Li Yuanzhen's words contained a warning, but Li Muyun didn't buy it at all. He stretched out his legs lazily, supported his head with one hand, glanced at Ji Zhen, and smiled faintly:

"Is a male favorite something shameful? Why are you avoiding me?"

Ji Zhen was a little impatient after being told this, so she dared to speak up and carefully interrupted the conversation between Li Yuanzhen and Li Muyun:

"Well, Your Highness, I really don't need twenty male favorites. Please take back your order."

Li Yuanzhen was a person who didn't show her emotions easily. Ji Zhen had little contact with her. The number of times they had met since childhood could be counted on one hand. But she really didn't want to listen to the two siblings arguing on this topic anymore, so she had to bite the bullet and speak.

But Li Yuanzhen didn't do what she wanted at all. He just paused, glanced at Ji Zhen with a deep gaze, and said:

"Qingyan, why bother telling me the outsider story? I know that the girl you accepted at the Spring Banquet was from Xiu Le Fang, so what I prepared for you this time is far better than those things from Xiu Le Fang. Whether you like it or not, just take a look first."

After saying that, he stretched out his hand and patted three times, and twenty men in green gauze walked in one after another from outside the palace gate.

Ji Zhen only took one look and felt like she was going blind.

The twenty men who came in were completely different from the delicate male favorites that Li Yuanying had prepared for her that night at the Spring Banquet.

Some were tall and strong, with well-developed muscles. Some were slender and beautiful, with faces more beautiful than women. Twenty people, some fat and some thin, each with their own characteristics, but they all wore the same green gauze long gown.

That green gauze was really high-end, thin and flowing, hanging close to the body. The twenty men were wearing nothing but this green gauze. The vital area three inches below the navel was shaking when walking or sitting, without any cover, and Ji Zhen wanted to poke his eyes out on the spot.

Li Muyun's face turned green. He glared at Ji Zhen fiercely and walked away angrily. Ji Zhen looked at his back innocently, secretly complaining about herself in her heart:

You glare at me? My eyes are dirty, you glare at me? Isn't this the good thing your sister did? If you want to glare, glare at your good sister!

Of course, she didn't have the courage to glare at Li Yuanzhen. She could only lower her head and stare at the square bricks on the ground to protect her eyes from harm.

Ji Zhen's ostrich look amused Li Yuanzhen. She signaled her personal maid to let the twenty men stand closer to Ji Zhen. She smiled at her pretending to be dead and said:

"It's said that Prince Qingyan loves men, but why are you shy when you see a man? Don't you like him?"

"No no."

Ji Zhen immediately looked up at Li Yuanzhen, only to find that the twenty men were lined up in a row just an arm's length away from her. The incense from their bodies surged towards her, making her sneeze uncontrollably.

"Please forgive me, Your Highness!" Ji Zhen sniffed hard and her face turned red.

Li Yuanzhen looked at Ji Zhen's shy and awkward appearance in surprise, frowned slightly, tapped the armrest of the golden seat with one hand, thought for a moment, and asked hesitantly:

"Qingyan, the male lover Xian Yao gave you, don't you use him?"

Ji Zhen's face suddenly turned red and she shook her head silently.

Li Yuanzhen's brows furrowed even more tightly, and he looked Ji Zhen up and down carefully. He felt that her words were not false, so he slowly said:

"Qingyan, I know you are filial and have been widowed for three years without favor. But you are already over 18 years old. As a woman, how can you not experience men's affairs? If you don't experience this, how can you know the art of controlling men? If this continues, I am afraid that when you have someone else in your backyard, you will be controlled by others. This is a big taboo, especially for someone of your status. Do you understand?"

Li Yuanzhen's words were quite harsh. Ji Zhen understood what she meant, but still couldn't help but complain wildly in her heart:

What's wrong with this princess? Is she so fierce? Is it really okay to discuss boudoir matters with a humble servant whom she has only met for a few times? Ah!

It doesn't matter to you, but it does to me! I don't want to discuss it! I don't want to use boudoir matters to control men!

what--

Ji Zhen shouted in her heart, but she didn't dare to show it on her face. She took a deep breath, stood up, bowed to Li Yuanzhen and said:

"Your Highness is right. But I already have someone in my heart, so... so uh..."

Ji Zhen hesitated halfway through her words. She didn't plan to involve Zhao Youqing yet. She wanted to say that she wanted to stay with her lover, but she didn't dare to speak out because of what Yu Bojun had said about the three husbands and six maids in Nanyue. She hesitated for a while and couldn't finish the second half of the sentence.

Li Yuanzhen grasped the key point in Ji Zhen's hesitant words. A hint of mockery flashed across her eyes and she said with a smile:

"I have someone in my heart. Is it the hostage from Yan State?"

Ji Zhen looked up in surprise. She didn't expect Li Yuanzhen to know everything about her. But she saw Li Yuanzhen chuckled and teased her:

"I have also heard about the incident in which Prince Qingyan and Xian Yao almost had a fight over a man at the Spring Banquet. I didn't believe it at first, but I didn't expect it to be true. Qingyan is indeed a man of character."

Ji Zhen smiled bitterly when she heard that. Her mind was now entirely focused on how to reject these twenty men. Compared to this matter, the rumors at the Spring Banquet were nothing.

Unexpectedly, Li Yuanzhen suddenly changed the subject and pointed at the twenty men and said:

"It's okay if you have a crush on someone. They're just for your enjoyment in your spare time. Come and take a look. If there's anything you don't like, I'll help you pick out something better."

"Your Highness, I really..."

Ji Zhen hurriedly refused, but saw that Li Yuanzhen's eyes suddenly turned cold. He looked at her deeply, waved to the female official beside him and said:

"I think the Qingyan County Prince is a little shy. You all go down and let the county prince take his time to choose."

When all the palace servants left the palace and closed the door, Ji Zhen calmed down.

Li Yuanzhen dismissed the palace ladies at this time, and his words were full of hidden meanings. The so-called "selecting a male favorite" this time was not a literal meaning.

Thinking of this, Ji Zhen's mind became completely clear and calm. Under Li Yuanzhen's satisfied gaze, she stood up and walked to the row of men. There was no trace of shyness on her face. She looked at them carefully one by one and found something different.

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