This shadow guard is kinda nice

During the few days of waiting for Xiao Yi'an's news, Xiao Yichen's life was quite leisurely. He rejected many ministers who came to visit his house, and stayed with Mo Ran all day long. The two of them didn't do anything together, they did their own things Things, occasionally looking up, looking at each other and smiling.

Sometimes Lin Sheng would grit his teeth sourly, and would say to Xiao Yichen with great disgust: "Now just hide in the mansion and ignore things, if you really ascend to a high position in the future, you are a foolish king who has been misled by misfortune!"

Xiao Yichen kicked him with a smile, "You can talk nonsense, what are you doing when you see those ministers? Why don't you try to curry favor with you when you gain power, and if you lose power, you can't step on your feet hard."

"I think you are just too idle, you'd better go back to the barracks and stop wandering here."

Lin Sheng naturally understood the reasoning, but it was just a sour feeling in his heart. Why didn't he have someone who was so good-looking and liked him wholeheartedly?

Xiao Yichen looked at his sad face, snorted twice, "Why, are you envious?"

Lin Sheng turned his head and didn't speak.

"Didn't old general Lin find a girl for you back then, didn't you want to? You insisted on following me to the border to eat dirt," Xiao Yichen spread his hands, "If you don't want it delivered to your door, who can blame it?"

Lin Sheng was indignant, "Aren't I afraid that something will happen to you? How old were you then? You have never been on a battlefield, yet you dare to lead troops to the frontier. I really don't know what to say about you."

"Besides, I went to the battlefield, if something happens, it will delay the girl, really..."

Xiao Yichen smiled, he put his arms around Lin Sheng's shoulders, and patted, "So, hurry up and wander around the street now, maybe you may fall in love with a girl, of course, I will also pay attention to you, if you come across The girl you like, I will be the first to introduce you."

He took advantage of the opportunity to push Lin Sheng out, and smiled brightly, "Hurry up, let's go, I won't see you off."

Lin Sheng was going to be moved, calling out that someone had finally discovered his conscience, but it wasn't long before that person revealed his true colors. When he turned around, he was gone.

Lin Sheng was so angry that he finally muttered that he forgot his friends after seeing sex, and walked away with his sleeves flung.

Xiao Yichen sent away Lin Sheng who was eating and drinking in his mansion. He wanted to find Mo Ran and agreed to have dinner with him, but the unexpected visitor disturbed his pace.

The sky was extremely gloomy. In the bamboo forest behind the palace, the greenery caught people's eyes. White clothes were swaying in it. Xiao Yichen's figure was so fast that he almost became an afterimage.

The bamboo leaves swayed, Xiao Yichen grabbed the visitor's neck with one hand, and pressed him aside fiercely, his palms slowly closed, leaving red marks on the tender and smooth neck.

"Who is it?" Xiao Yichen asked calmly, he casually looked at the person who came to break his palm with both hands feebly, but it was useless.

"First...let go."

Xiao Yichen didn't respond.

"I'm... come,, come, help, help you."

Xiao Yichen raised his eyebrows, and after a while, he let go of his hand, took a step back, and looked coldly at the man half lying on the ground panting heavily, and the black scarf around his face fell off.

Xiao Yichen was surprised.

From the very beginning, he knew that this was a woman, but he did not expect that this woman turned out to be Concubine Hui.

Concubine Hui, who was supposed to stay in the palace, came to Prince Xuan's mansion in night clothes.

"Why is Concubine Hui dressed like this and come to visit my Prince Xuan's mansion at night?"

Concubine Hui didn't speak, and after she regained her breath, she raised her eyes and glanced at Xiao Yichen. He was tall and tall, with the boundless night behind her, she squinted her eyes, but couldn't see his expression clearly.

"not talking?"

Xiao Yichen suddenly smiled, he squatted down, lifted Concubine Hui's chin with his hand, and turned around slightly, there was a red mark on her neck that he pinched just now.He looked Concubine Hui up and down without emotion, playing with taste: "This king is not the emperor, and I will not treat Concubine Hui with pity."

"Ye Tanxuan's mansion, even if this king regards you as an assassin, it's not too much to execute him, right?"

Concubine Hui stared at him stubbornly, her black hair was messed up in the fight just now, her color was gorgeous and beautiful.

Xiao Yichen looked at those eyes, which were exactly the same as Xiao Jingyu's eyes, but they were a bit too big. In a blink of an eye, he realized something.

"Aren't you from Daliang?"

Concubine Hui was stunned, she didn't expect the other party to see it in just a moment.

Xiao Yichen was silent, it seemed that it was really not the case, he tentatively asked: "From Mobei?"

Concubine Hui nodded, she ignored the pain in her jaw and said, "I am indeed not from Daliang."

Xiao Yichen let go of his hand, he got up, Concubine Hui rubbed his sore jaw, she also stood up with her hands supported, the two faced each other.

Concubine Hui said: "Twenty years ago, I followed my brother to Daliang." She seemed to be trapped in a long memory, her voice was erratic, "I remember that day was the Lantern Festival, and the lanterns on Jinling Street were colorful. I was always curious about everything, and Mobei didn’t have so many interesting and delicious things. I looked around, and I just disappeared into the crowd with my brother.” “After that, I never saw him again. ,” she smiled, “I cried in the crowd and was taken away by a family. They gave me a new name. A few years later, I entered the palace, struggled all the way, and then gave birth Xiao Jingyu."

Xiao Yichen remained silent, he did not expect Concubine Hui to have such a life experience, then, the poison that day...

Concubine Hui smiled, "I did the poison."

"Why?"

She raised her chin lightly, and blinked playfully. She was obviously past her age, but she was well maintained, as if she was in the prime of life.

"I told you, I'm here to help you."

Xiao Yichen leaned on the bamboo, he lazily listened to Concubine Hui's words, but his eyes were profound, no different from the thick night.

"Prince Cheng has no intention. Only the crown prince is your greatest resistance, His Royal Highness. I poisoned you this time, and let Concubine Li Gui and the queen fight. In the end, the crown prince must be frustrated." She raised her eyebrows, "For you, Your Highness , wouldn't it be better?"

"Why do you want to help me?" Xiao Yichen looked at Concubine Hui and asked quietly.

Concubine Hui didn't hide, she met Xiao Yichen's gaze, and said word by word: "Because only you, Your Highness, are the one who is most likely to ascend the throne and become emperor."

"I think Jing Yu will have no worries in his life. I don't want him to be involved in these struggles. He is still young, so I have to make plans for him."

"Among the few people, I am optimistic about you, Your Highness, so this is a gift from me to Your Highness, how about it?"

Xiao Yichen didn't speak for a while, he looked at Concubine Hui's face, trying to see something, he had no contact with Concubine Hui before, no, it should be said that he had never been in contact with Concubine Hui, the only thing he had for Concubine Hui was My impression is that it is Xiao Jingyu's mother and concubine, oh, maybe one more thing, the eyes of the two are very similar.

Before that, he had doubted Concubine Hui. When Caihe fell to the ground, his gaze was unnatural for a moment. He followed Caihe's gaze and it was Concubine Hui.

At that time, he didn't understand Concubine Hui's motives. She was too quiet and could not attract the attention of others. However, she was also the one who poisoned the emperor, and then blamed others, leading the empress and concubine to fight together.

He couldn't help laughing. Earlier, he asked Xiao Yian to stare at Caihe and dig back along Caihe. Later, Xiao Yian told him that Caihe died in the Punishment Department, so he gave up, thinking Starting from other aspects, when there is no clue, who would have thought that the person behind it would take the initiative to send it to the door!

Concubine Hui stood quietly opposite him, letting his gaze scrutinize her.

After a long time, Xiao Yichen straightened his expression, and he asked: "Where does Qingsha come from?"

Seeing him getting serious, Concubine Hui understood in her heart that her first step was taken.

"I was born in Mobei, and I can make a little poison. Qingsha is colorless and tasteless. It is easy to cure, but it is not easy to eradicate. The follow-up will cause great damage to the body." She smiled coldly, "This kind of poison, no matter how good it is for the emperor but."

"Moreover, the preparation method is also simple, and the medicinal materials needed are all common and visible, and it is not easy to attract the attention of others."

"Using the excuse of being sick, I can save up a few more times."

Xiao Yichen nodded, and he glanced at Concubine Hui appreciatively.

"I originally wanted to frame Concubine Li. Compared to the Queen, Concubine Li is better at it, but who would have thought that one day I would bump into the maid Caihe next to the Queen and the little eunuch in the palace doing that kind of thing. "

The night was getting darker, and she couldn't hide the sarcasm on her face, "She begged me not to say anything, so I obeyed her and asked her to do things for me."

"Concubine Li likes to send food boxes to the emperor. The whole harem knows about it, so I asked Caihe to take the green gauze and put it in the empress' palace."

"The Empress and Concubine Li have always been at odds, and when something goes wrong, they are the first to suspect each other, so it is logical."

"Besides, most of what Cai He said that day is true, but the latter part is what I asked her to say." She lowered her head slightly, smoothed the broken hair on her forehead behind her ears, and smiled, " Just like that, if true and false words are mixed together, it will be difficult for others not to believe it."

"Since Caihe entered the Punishment Department, there are bound to be many people who care about her life and death. However, when I threatened her to do things for me earlier in the morning, I fed her poison."

"Oh?" Xiao Yichen raised his eyebrows, he became interested, "What poison?"

Concubine Hui smiled, she deliberately lowered her voice, and her tone rose cheerfully, "Of course it's a poison that will kill you if you don't obey!"

Xiao Yichen laughed, "It's fine if you don't want to say it."

Concubine Hui nodded, she really didn't want to say that these were her life-saving gadgets, and she used them at critical moments, and now she has exposed a green gauze, besides, she doesn't know much at all, it is impossible to tell Xiao Yichen all of them.

"When the time came, Caihe died of poison naturally, and nothing could be seen on the surface. Others naturally thought that she committed suicide in fear of crime."

"Of course, I don't know if these things can be hidden from the emperor. After all, the imperial physicians in the palace are not vegetarians. The rest," she raised her eyebrows, "it's up to His Royal Highness Prince Xuan."

"Clap clap clap."

Xiao Yichen applauded, he smiled, and said: "Concubine Hui is really... a beautiful woman with a heart."

Concubine Hui slightly curved her lips, her dimples were faintly visible, "Thank you for the compliment."

"I gave this king such a great gift, tell me, what do you want?" Xiao Yichen made his promise as she wished.

Concubine Hui accepted that smile, she was waiting for King Xuan's words, for this reason, she ran out of the palace and sneaked into Prince Xuan's mansion secretly. She has been practicing martial arts for so many years, just like when she was a child After reading some martial arts cheats that I still have in mind, I practiced them for a long time.

Although not too powerful, it is not difficult for ordinary people, but she was easily subdued by Xiao Yichen before she entered Prince Xuan's mansion for too long.

The process may be difficult, but as long as she can achieve her goal, it will be fine.

"I want King Xuan to say something." She looked up at Xiao Yichen, with a little light in her eyes, and her whole body became alive.

Xiao Yichen roughly understood what she wanted, but he still said it, "Say it."

"I want you to protect the safety of Xiao Jingyu's first life after you ascend the throne and become emperor in the future."

Xiao Yichen nodded, "As long as he doesn't move his thoughts that he shouldn't have, an idle prince can still be supported."

Concubine Hui stretched her eyebrows, "Don't worry, he won't, it's not his stuff, and he won't get his hands on it in his life."

Xiao Yichen smiled, "That's good."

Concubine Hui also laughed. She has been in the palace for many years, and she has always behaved well, avoiding the empress and Concubine Li. She never thought that one day she would do such a thing. If something goes wrong, she will surely die.

But maybe it's the blood of the grassland children in her bones. She is always an eagle soaring in the blue sky, not a warbler raised by the emperor in the palace.She traded her life and that of Xiao Jingyu's for the rest of Xiao Jingyu's carefree life.

Fortunately, she won the bet.