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Seeing Xiliu smirking at himself, Prince Man stretched out his hand to stroke his cheek, and asked softly, "Tonight..."

Before Prince Man could finish speaking, Xiliu consciously ran to the bed, patted the place beside her seriously and waited for Prince Man to come.

Prince Man laughed and got up and took off his clothes. He just sat next to him, but he didn't know where Xiliu took out a long rope and looked at Prince Man with an evil face.

Prince Man was taken aback, only to see Xiliu kneeling on the ground, raised his head and leaned against his knees, and said with a smile, "Aren't you tired from the bumps all the way?"

"Seeing you, I'm not tired." Just as he bent down to pull Xiliu up, he felt another burst of pain in his ankle. Prince Man squinted his eyes and didn't quite understand what Xiliu was doing.

Afterwards, Xiliu got up and sat in his arms, holding the rope and smiling prettily and said, "My lord is not tired, I am tired." After speaking, he tied his hands again.

Seeing himself being tied up by Xiliu, Prince Man was a little puzzled. After being tied up, he was pushed into the quilt. Xiliu hummed a song, took off his clothes, hugged him happily and fell asleep.

With this pediatric binding method, Prince Man could break free in a matter of minutes, but seeing Xiliu breathing so evenly, he couldn't bear it.

After Xiliu fell into a deep sleep, he broke free from the shackles, put his arms around Xiliu, kissed his bun and said, "Good night, Xiliu."

Afterwards, Xiliu’s daily life was rich and colorful. She had to get up early in the morning to make a nutritious breakfast for the princess and the prince, then practice boxing, then prepare lunch, learn archery and throwing knives with the prince in the afternoon, and prepare dinner later. After the meal, I still need to go shopping to digest food.

The prince took Xiliu's hand and wandered aimlessly in the street. He was a little surprised to see the passers-by who kept greeting Xiliu and delivering ingredients to him.

"I don't know when the people loved you so much." Prince Man held Xiliu's hand tightly.

Xiliu looked up proudly, shook Prince Man's hand and said, "No, you don't even look at who I am!"

"Hehe, you are Xiliu, the king's true love." Prince Man's casual confession made Xiliu push him a little embarrassedly, and then smiled brighter.

One month passed quickly, Xiliu learned how to archery, and the level of flying a small knife is still not satisfactory, but flying a kitchen knife is easy, which scares Ge Tianming enough, every time he sees Xiliu playing with a knife, he always feels that he is a Rake, because he has a big goal of gaining weight, with such a psychological quality, he scared Ge Tianming to lose dozens of catties.

On a sunny day, Xiliu and Prince Man each occupied a corner of the place where they practiced swords. Xiliu turned the kitchen knife and looked at the prince amusedly and said, "Come on! Let's see how much I have grown."

Prince Man just stood up straight and lifted his clothes, beckoned to Xiliu and said, "Enough."

"Must." After Xiliu finished speaking preemptively, he swung a knife and flew towards Lord Man. Lord Man dodged sideways, and saw Xiliu was already on his waist. Lord Man had no choice but to back away a lot. Stepping forward, one foot on the stone bench, the other on the pillar, squinting at Xiliu.

Xiliu laughed and stretched out his fist to hit his knee. Prince Man turned over, stood behind Xiliu, and patted his shoulder with one hand.

Xiliu lowered his waist and took two knives to cut off. Prince Man stopped and knocked off his weapon, but he still accidentally cut his hand by the blade.

Man Wangye couldn't help squinting his eyes, but he didn't dare to say anything, put his hands behind his back and said with a smile: "I've made progress."

"Ha! If I don't make progress in these days, I'm afraid I'll be a fool!" After speaking, Xiliu started the second round of attack with a knife.

Only then did the prince really get serious, and pulled off the long sword he was wearing from his waist, but the sword was not out of the sheath, and he was just fighting Xiliu with the scabbard. Seeing that every move was taken, he always felt that the prince was full. He has seen through his own routine.

Xiliu clicked her tongue, turned around and stopped, put the knife in her arm like an assassin, and looked up and down at Prince Man: "Can you see what I'm going to do next?"

"Yeah." Prince Man stood up funny and praised him, "But your speed is much faster than ordinary people."

Xiliu raised her head proudly and just wanted to praise herself, but this time the prince uncharacteristically attacked first. After a few strokes, Xiliu was completely restrained, and finally ended the competition with the most regret.

Because Xiliu had no way to retreat, his double knives were hit on the ground, and he held Prince Man's scabbard with both hands, leaning against the wall, with Prince Man's beautiful smile in front of his face.

Xiliu pursed her mouth and said, "I lost." Then she stood on tiptoe and kissed Lord Man's lips. Lord Man was stunned and stretched out his hand to touch his lips. "Man Shengan! You are bleeding!"

"Ah, it doesn't matter." Prince Man raised his hand and smiled, "The knife has already merged with you, which is very good."

"What a fart! I'd better make some fake knives. In case one day I become super powerful, don't be hacked to death by me." Xiliu took out a handkerchief and wrapped his hand with a righteous face Asked, "Why didn't you say it when you got it?"

"I don't want to spoil your interest." Prince Man smiled softly, "This little injury is nothing."

Xiliu curled her lips and took his hand and went to the courtyard, and asked Lizi to go to the room to get the scar cream that the princess gave him, and then sat on Prince Man's body to help him treat the wound.

Prince Man just smiled calmly, letting Xiliu handle his hand neither humble nor overbearing, and the other hand consciously climbed onto Xiliu's waist, hugging him to prevent him from falling.

Probably because he had a lover in his eyes and had no other distractions, Lord Man didn't notice the suspicious person passing by at all. When Xiliu looked up at Lord Man, he found a black phantom floating on the roof.

"What's the matter?" Man Wangye saw that the movement of his hands had stopped, rubbed his waist and asked.

Xiliu regained her composure and shook her head and replied, "No, I was wondering when I could surpass you."

"Ha, yes." Prince Man tightened his hands with a smile, and leaned over to kiss Xiliu's cheek.

Although Xiliu had a smile on his face, he began to plan the next step in his heart. He was sure that the phantom he saw just now was Shadow Mountain, but why was he not by the emperor's side, instead he came all over the palace.

A few days later, the prince went out to do errands, and before leaving, he repeatedly told his servants to take good care of Xiliu and the princess.

Xiliu stood at the gate of the palace and watched Prince Man mount his horse. Prince Man turned around and asked him, "Is there anything I would like to bring to you?"

Xiliu lowered her head and smiled, thought seriously for a while, then raised her head with a brilliant smile and said, "You just want Man Sheng'an to return safely."

Everyone in the room who was fed this dog food bowed their heads and laughed. Prince Man has never been so heart-warming. He really wants to jump off the horse right now, pick up Xiliu and go to the room to have a good love, but the team is ready. Well, I can't run away, I can only nod and agree.

Xiliu looked at the room they entered after they left the line of sight. The first thing he did was to take Lizi's hand and quickly go back to the study to let him close the door and start his own little plan.

"Lizi, you are the person I trust the most. Tell me the truth, is there a traitor in the palace!" Xiliu asked Lizi angrily, and Lizi knelt down in fear, with a puzzled expression on her face: "What kind of traitor are you, young master?" Don't scare me."

Xiliu glanced out the window and beckoned, Lizi got up and went to him and watched him write on the paper: Partition walls have ears.

"Ah?" Li Zi looked out of the window in fear, and asked softly, "What should I do? Do you want to tell the prince?"

Xiliu raised her hand and slapped him on the head and said angrily, "If I want to tell him, I've already said so, I'm afraid he won't be cruel."

Lizi didn't understand what Xiliu said, and touched the place where she was beaten in a daze.

Xiliu thought for a while and then asked: "Who manages the people of the palace?"

"Everyone who enters the palace is registered with Steward Wu, for fear of making a mistake, Steward Zhou also has it." Lizi replied seriously.

Xiliu nodded and said, "Butler Zhou is not a lamp leaking oil. It is said that Butler Wu brought Ding Ce, a member of the palace, to see me."

Butler Wu came to the study room and handed the book in his hand to Xiliu. Xiliu looked at it and asked, "How did Butler Wu come to the palace?"

Butler Wu replied: "The young one is General Xuan's servant. I don't know why he was expelled from the General's Mansion by the General. After seeing me, the Lord took me in with pity."

"Oh? No reason?" Xiliu was a little puzzled.

"No... the general will be arrested soon..." Butler Wu lowered his head and remained silent. Xiodome naturally knew what he was going to say, but thinking about it this way, couldn't it be that General Xuan saved Butler Wu?

Xiliu smiled and said, "Butler Wu, since you have served my family before, I absolutely trust you." Xiliu used honorifics, which scared Butler Wu to kneel on the ground and dare not speak, Xiliu said again, "I want to thoroughly investigate all the servants in the mansion, find out the traitors, return the prince, and give myself peace."

"Young master... how do you want to find out." Butler Wu didn't dare to look him in the eyes, kneeling on the ground and whispering.

"Help me divide people into three classes. First class, I will trust those you trust; Second class, I will doubt those you doubt; Third class, I am not sure if you are not sure. Write it down clearly." Xiliu said with narrowed eyes.

Butler Wu was a little hesitant, not saying it couldn't be done, but that it would offend many people.

Butler Wu kowtowed, and said in a dilemma, "This move... I'm afraid it will invite people to gossip."

Xiliu thought for a while, walked up to Butler Wu, knelt down and whispered in his ear, "I'm not afraid of outsiders' gossip. Whoever dares to say it, I dare to make him speechless."

The words Xiliu said in a plain voice made Butler Wu tremble for a while, Xiliu looked at the sweat dripping from his forehead and continued to say amusedly: "I don't want to support idlers at home, and I don't want anyone to betray the lord." , if Steward Wu is inconvenient, I can only do it myself."

Butler Wu frowned, knelt down, changed direction and kowtowed again: "The villain is willing to put his mind to shame for Master Xiliu!"

Xiliu patted him on the shoulder and finally said: "You know about this matter, can I let other people know about it."

Butler Wu nodded his head desperately. Seeing Butler Wu leave with a melancholy face, Xiliu summoned Lizi and frowned and said, "You can also write a copy for me, people you don't believe, and people you're not sure about."

In a few days, Lizi and Butler Wu sent their own reports one after another, densely packed with who sent who and who was related to whom, Xiliu was shocked to find that this matter was much worse than he imagined.

He locked himself in the study and paced back and forth, and finally thought of a dirty trick. If it works, he can kill everyone, but if it doesn't work, he will lose his reputation.

After that, he wrote down a few wishes, and then took these wishes and began to walk back and forth in the Manwang Mansion.

He asked Li Zixian to gather four untrusting servants, and then pretended to pass by the servants unintentionally and said: "Hey~ the days when the prince is away, the nights are very hard~ Let's go to the bamboo forest in the southern suburbs to watch the stars tomorrow night. "

Lizi pretended to say: "Master, there are many wild animals there, I'm afraid it's not safe."

Xiliu snorted with her hands on her hips and said, "Have I ever been afraid of anything?" After she finished speaking, she shot everyone around, then left the garden and went to the study. While there were still memories in her mind, she returned to the study and summoned Wu Butler, Ge Tianming and Lu Heng.

Because Ge Tianming scared himself at the beginning, he has lost a lot of weight now, and even his family members can't recognize him, so he was inevitably laughed at by Xiliu for a long time.

Xiliu asked the four of them to follow those four people separately, while she tried out those credible cronies at home, and customized personal files for them. In addition to their names and genders, why they came to the palace, they also wrote in detail their birthdays, personal feelings and comments. .

In this way, the number of confidantes gradually increased, and Xiliu's chessboard also expanded. Later, he could tell more people what he wanted and what he wanted to do, and let his confidantes follow them one by one.

Of course, these so-called cronies must pass Xiliu's strict review. The easiest way is to tell them something completely different, and then wait for someone who is not strict, and then re-test.

As Xiliu expected, some dignitaries can always visit the door the day after they say what they want, and some people even tell Xiliu directly that they are a traitor. How can you treat me at home?

Xiliu is no longer the soft persimmon she used to be. I'm afraid that these fools don't know that Xiliu's temperament has changed drastically. Zhizhi watched his ass being opened and then sent out.

Just like this for a whole month, Xiliu changed ways to eliminate those unruly servants in the entire Manwang Mansion. Some people knew that they were arrested and left automatically, some thick-skinned ones were driven away by Xiliu, and none of them were more powerful. She was spared a beating by Xiliu.

Among them is the housekeeper Zhou who flattered the emperor for the first time. Xiliu could tell at a glance that this person was someone the emperor had placed in Manwang's mansion, especially if Lizi was allowed to peek at him taking a bath, she was even more sure of this father-in-law. true identity.

In this way, there were more than 200 people in Manwangfu, but there are only more than 100 people left.

And these people are people that Xiliu completely trusts. He took these people to redistribute their jobs and residences, sealed up the unused land, and increased their salary. A permanent share of desserts.

When Prince Man returned to the palace after finishing his work, he suddenly felt that there were too many servants in the palace, and he even looked a bit desolate. He called Butler Wu who was cleaning the courtyard, and asked incomprehensibly, "Butler, where are the others?"

Butler Wu bowed and replied: "Go back to the prince, Master Xiliu sent them all away."

"Disbanded? What about Xiliu?" The prince was skeptical about this answer, even if Xiliu changed, what did this servant have to do with him, and why did he want to be dismissed.

"Go back to the prince, it should be in the kitchen." Butler Wu glanced at the location of the kitchen, and Prince Man followed his gaze, squinting his eyes and striding towards the kitchen.