After a moment of silence, Shi Xing's words and actions once again surprised Tan Shao.

Shi Xing: "It seems that you know."

Shi Xing: "And you don't want him to know that you are here."

Tan Shao's expression turned cold, "I thought we could start this conversation relatively peacefully."

Shi Xing shrugged: "It seems that you just think so."

Tan Shao: "..."

She frowned slightly, and suddenly changed her tone, curling her lips and said slowly, "Your Majesty doesn't know about the situation between you and Lu Lu before, do you want him to know?"

Instead of retreating, he advanced.

Shi Xing was too familiar with Tan Shao's various tricks.

If he didn't know the other party, it might be useful to him, but unfortunately, to a certain extent, he even felt that he knew the other party better than Lu Lu.

Upon hearing this, Shi Xing passed by Tan Shao, walked in front of her and stood still, turned his head to look at her, leaned sideways, and changed his posture to be about to leave, and said: "If you want to see my person in charge, I don't mind taking you there and letting you tell him in person."

"I'm also curious, what else is there about the previous situation of my Lu Lu that you mentioned besides the relationship as classmates?"

Shi Xing's body tilted slightly forward, raised his foot and took a half step, and further asked: "Do you need it?"

Tan Shao was choked.

The next moment, Shi Xing turned around and walked away directly.

Tan Shao subconsciously stretched out her hand, "Don't..."

As soon as the words came out, Shi Xing stopped, and smiled with his back to her, a sarcastic smile.

Tan Shao also realized that he had exposed his weakness and lost his momentum. He gritted his teeth for a moment, and then calmed down very quickly.

Realizing that Shi Xing was not as simple and easy to fool as a normal Blue Star person in his early twenties, Tan Shao simply lowered his posture and said submissively, "You guessed right, I don't want to see His Majesty."

"The only person I want to see, from the beginning to the end, is you."

"Shi Xing, right?"

Shi Xing turned around again and faced Tan Shao directly, "Didn't I say I could leave?"

Tan Shao gritted his teeth, but stopped fighting with him, and said more bluntly, "I'm afraid not."

Nodding, Shi Xing glanced around and suggested: "Go sit in front and talk."

His relaxed attitude made Tan Shao's slightly panicked heart even more uneasy.

Inexplicably, I feel that with Shi Xing's mentality, it would be difficult for her to take the initiative in this conversation.

And that is indeed the case.

When Shi Xing said to sit down, they were talking on two benches, one in front and one behind. The two of them sat down and talked at a large distance.

At least ten meters away, not to mention that it was difficult to see each other's expressions, it was also difficult to have a conversation with the benches placed in the wrong place.

Tan Shao frowned, "Are you sure you can hear me?"

Shi Xing: "Just speak louder."

"You..."

Shi Xing: "If you don't want to talk, I'll leave. After all, I don't look forward to this conversation at all."

Tan Shao's temper was forcibly suppressed again.

Tricky. Very tricky.

For a long time, the only sound that could be heard was Tan Shao's breathing. Shi Xing leaned against the bench and concentrated his mind, feeling the comfort of the Mother Tree's spiritual power. In the gaps when she was not talking, he even hoped that she would not speak .

Shi Xing's attitude was completely dispensable.

Tan Shao's chest rose and fell for a few moments, and then he calmed his breathing. He lowered his expectations again, thought for a moment, and changed his tone to a gentle one: "You said that you and Lu Lu were classmates, so you are classmates." Shi

Xing: "We are."

No matter how many other messy entanglements there are between them, the classmate relationship is not to be questioned.

Tan Shao: "Lu Lu came to the Tree Nest to relax his spiritual power. It has been four or five years since he was first allowed to come."

Shi Xing calculated, about the same.

Tan Shao: "To be fair, Lu Lu has never done anything to let you down, right?"

After a moment of silence, Shi Xing: "No."

Tan Shao: "The crystals he brought from home, the gifts he brought every time, and the popular things in the imperial capital, were all for you, right?"

Shi Xing was realistic, "Most of the crystals were given to me, and a small part of the gifts were also given to other classmates."

Tan Shao was firm: "But they were mainly for you."

Shi Xing did not deny that this was a fact.

Tan Shao: "Once your mental sea was unstable and you had a high fever, he invited a doctor from the imperial capital overnight, and he examined you and used his connections to get cutting-edge medical drugs from the laboratory that had not yet been launched. It was for you, right?"

Shi Xing lowered his eyes.

Tan Shao: "That time, you almost died."

The instability of the spiritual sea of ​​the Blue Star people and fever is a very dangerous signal. Before and during the maturity period, there are many Blue Star people who have this symptom and then died. Moreover, the Empire has been studying for more than a hundred years, but has not found the point of the disease in the body. It is still a difficult disease for Blue Star people.

Once it appears and the situation begins to deteriorate, whether you can survive it depends on God's will.

Tan Shao: "It can't be said that everything Lu Lu did was very useful to you. It was the main reason for you to cool down and stabilize your mental power, but he did so much before and after. If there is no credit, there must be hard work."

Shi Xing closed his eyes.

Yes, there is hard work if there is no credit.

If it wasn't for that time, he wouldn't have chosen Lu Lu firmly.

He thought... he

was still too young at that time.

Tan Shao felt that after she had said so much, Shi Xing should have some reaction. But when he did, it was still very dull and unsatisfactory. Shi

Xing opened her eyes again and asked her calmly, "What happened next?"

"He gave me gifts, crystals, and ran around to find a solution for my illness. I know how much he loves me."

"What do you want to say by mentioning these?"

"You can't be reminiscing with me, right?"

The rhythm returned to Shi Xing's hands again. Tan Shao was a little worried, but she had no choice but to continue:

"Lu Lu participated in the match because of you."

"I know, but I didn't force him to do so. It was his choice."

Tan Shao felt that Shi Xing was stubborn and frowned for the umpteenth time today. "You didn't choose him."

Shi Xing: "Are you blaming me?"

Tan Shao was silent for a moment. "No, actually I understand your choice. This is the best."

Shi Xing interrupted her. "Don't use the tone that says you understand it even though you don't want to see it. In fact, you don't want me to choose Lu Lu at all. I know that."

Tan Shao choked.

Shi Xing quickened his pace again, "Can you get to the point? Stop paving the way."

Tan Shao: "..."

Tan Shao: "Lu Lu is obsessed with you."

Tan Shao: "He broke into the matchmaking party for you, and even wanted to break into the tree nest today."

Shi Xing's expression finally changed a little, and Tan Shao saw it, "Don't worry, I have found someone to knock him out outside the tree nest and take him back."

If Lu Lu came in today, I really don't know how he would die.

Tan Shao: "I can't persuade him."

"I want you to see him once for the sake of our past. No matter what reason you use, you can completely reject him and let him give up."

Shi Xing's pupils shrank. He didn't expect that after not seeing him for many years, Tan Shao was still so... cruel.

Yes, cruel, Tan Shao is a cruel man, and he is no exception to his beloved son.

His thoughts were wandering, and although he tried his best to control them, the emotions that were too deep in his memory couldn't be suppressed and jumped out.

After his talent awakened, Tan Shao advocated sending him back to the tree nest, but Lu Lu felt that he could support himself.

At that time, Shishixing's talent assessment was S-level.

What Tan Shao said made sense. What

Lu Lu said was not wrong.

His situation was probably at a limit that Lu Lu could support, but it was very difficult.

But these are not the key points. The key point is that people are not machines. They choose each other because they like each other. If there is no way, forget it. But if they can give it a try, so many difficulties have been overcome. How can he and Lu Lu give up easily?

Then Tan Shao started to quarrel with Lu Lu. He was unwilling to give crystal stones and unwilling to help find beast cores.

He wanted to force Lu Lu to send Shi Xing back.

But Shi Xing itself can't rely on S-level beast cores for long, and it needs higher-level energy. After a thorough quarrel with Tan Shao, Lu Lu gritted his teeth and took Shi Xing to the border to join his eldest brother.

Away from the Prince's Mansion, everything is getting better, and they are growing rapidly.

His elder brother and his medical partner had no shortage of crystals or anything like that.

It was during their brief time together that Shi Xing learned that Lu Lu's elder brother Lu Li had risked his life for his partner, not just once. Twice.

After the first time, Tan Shao, as a mother, was scared. When Wen Xi had just come to Lu Li, Tan Shao felt that the Third Army didn't really need a medical doctor. Lu Li's level was too high, and there were too few medical doctors in the country. Tan Shao wanted Lu Li to give up the matching right and send Wen Xi back.

Send... It was impossible to send him back. Not only that, Lu Lu even asked to be stationed at the border. For so many years, even though Wen Xi had long passed the maturity period, he did not accept the arrangement of being transferred back to the imperial capital.

He and Lu Lu are very much like the replicas of Lu Li and Wen Xi.

But Shi Xing's level is higher than Wen Xi, and the dangers that Lu Lu may suffer are also...

After hearing this past, Shi Xing finally understood Tan Shao's resistance.

Not everyone among the upper-level military officers wants to go one step further and gain more military merits and honors. Perhaps some people, like Tan Shao, just want to keep their original glory.

Of course, Lu Li also has his own ideas, which are not something Tan Shao can influence.

At that time, Shi Xing thought that he and Lu Lu would be the same as his eldest brother and Wen Xi, even if the process was difficult, the ending would be good.

But like Shi Ran, he encountered a star beast raid on the barren planet on the border.

It was not just one, but a group, a group of mutated high-level star beasts.

This routine inspection should have lasted three to five days, but by the time they found a natural place to hide that could shield energy fluctuations, more than half of the team members had been lost.

Shi Xing knew that he was the problem, and after discussion, they decided to let Lu Lu lead the team to break through, leaving Shi Xing to hide.

In fact, at that time, Lu Lu suggested that one or two team members be left for Shi Xing in case he had to wait too long and the crystals were used up, leaving Shi Xing without a source of mental power. Shi

Xing refused because he was afraid that Lu Lu would die at the claws of the star beast.

In fact, they were both right. In the end, under the siege, only Lu Lu's protected battleship broke through.

Unfortunately, Lu Lu was also seriously injured in this battle, and when he was found by Lu Li and others, he had fainted due to excessive blood loss.

Tan Shao rushed to the border as soon as he got the news. Shi

Xing did not wait for Lu Lu.

Or rather, he waited, but was too late.

When Lu Lu found him again, Shi Xing's spiritual sea had dried up, and the star beasts left one after another because they could no longer sense Shi Xing's dissipated spiritual power. When Lu Lu brought people back again, Shi Xing relied on the knowledge he learned in the military academy to make a fire to keep warm.

That day, Lu Lu hugged him, and the tears flowing on his neck were boiling.

After returning to the imperial capital, Lu Lu thought of many ways to try to treat him...

The consumption of a large amount of financial resources also allowed Tan Shao to finally have the bargaining chip to control Lu Lu.

It was much later that Shi Xing accidentally learned that the Empire's repeated investigations into the Lu family revealed that Tan Shao had admitted that Shi Xing was dead and was afraid that Lu Lu would not be able to bear it after waking up, so he instructed the doctor to increase the dosage of the sedative during treatment...

Perhaps without the sedative, Lu Lu would not be able to return in time.

This was an uncertain factor and was unpredictable, so this point was not used as evidence of the Lu family's negligence in the public prosecution court.

But even if it was added, Shi Xing could not help but imagine that what if.

What if, he could arrive in time?

By the time they found out, Shi Xing was already in very poor health and was rarely awake. The maid who took care of him felt that he was too pitiful, and she overheard Tan Shao, who had come with Lu Lu, mentioning it in a thankful tone, and she told him this secretly.

From that day on, Shi Xing suddenly realized that Tan Shao was an existence that he and Lu Lu could not get over.

He could not be cured.

He did not know what Lu Lu had exchanged with Tan Shao in his second marriage. There must be something, but... that was also Lu Lu's own choice.

As a dying man, Shi Xing did not need a miracle of treatment, but peace.

If this process of decline is irreversible, he hopes to die peacefully.

Unfortunately, Lu Lu did not understand, or perhaps, he had exchanged too many things for himself and could no longer turn back halfway.

The past was complicated and long, but in reality, it was only a few dozen seconds.

Shi Xing pulled away and shook his head.

He did not want to think too much about the things he had already let go.

During this time, in Tan Shao's eyes, it was as if Shi Xing was thinking.

She thought she had already lowered her status very low, and this request was not excessive. Shi Xing... should agree, right?

Just when Tan Shao thought about it over and over again and felt that there was no problem, Shi Xing finally spoke. But

what he said was not the answer she wanted.

Shi Xing: "No."

"I've already rejected him once, and I made it very clear. There won't be a second time."

"I won't see him."

Without waiting for Tan Shao to speak, Shi Xing pointed out, "Besides, it's not that you can't persuade him."

"Princess, you are thoughtful. If you really want to deal with your son, how can you not do it? It's not that you can't, but that you don't want to stop."

"You don't want to have a fight with Lu Lu because of me."

Shi Xing smiled, a sarcastic smile, "The eldest son is alienated from you, the second son refuses to listen and insists on joining the army, and the youngest son is the closest to you. You don't want to hurt the last bit of mother-son relationship..."

He paused, and then said coldly, "But what does that have to do with me?"

"If you think I owe the Lu family the crystal stone medicine, let me be responsible for compensating you."

"Besides that, I don't owe your family anything."

"I won't get involved in your family's affairs."

Tan Shao's heart tightened, and he no longer cared about why Shi Xing knew about the Lu family's affairs. He blurted out, "Lu Lu himself has problems with his spiritual sea. If he doesn't give up on you, how can I let him find another doctor for treatment?!"

"Don't forget, Lu Lu didn't take a single Blue Star person away because of you!"

Yes, the crux of Lu Lu's matter is still his spiritual sea problem.

It is also the fundamental reason why Tan Shao had to come here.

She couldn't just watch her little son die.

Shi Xing actually expected this and Tan Shao's entanglement.

And, he also came up with a solution.

After all, this is a chain of events. As long as Lu Lu is obsessed with him, the problem of the spiritual sea will not be solved. Tan Shao is worried about Lu Lu, but in the end, he still finds himself, and he has already refused... This has become a dead knot. Either break it from somewhere in the middle, or make trouble in front of Chi Yao.

But His Highness is very good to him and is very busy. If possible, Shi Xing does not want him to be disturbed by this bad thing.

He wants to be as obedient as possible. Even if it is impossible not to trouble the other party in the mature stage, he wants to do his best to not drag the other party down.

Shi Xing: "Lu Lu's spiritual sea was injured when he was a child. The difficulty of medical treatment is that there are too many problems in the spiritual sea, which are too trivial. It has nothing to do with the level of the doctor. It takes time. Once the treatment begins, it will take at least a year and a half to completely cure it."

And there are too few doctors who can spare a year and a half to serve Lu Lu exclusively.

So Lu Lu wanted to find a Blue Star person, and Tan Shao did not stop him, because this is also a way of treatment.

Otherwise, Lu Lu would have to be sent to the border to Wen Xi.

This is what Tan Shao is unwilling to do.

The border is dangerous, and Wen Xi has a bad relationship with her.

"I have a way to shorten the treatment period to half a year."

Tan Shao was stunned. Shorten it to half a year...

If the treatment period can be shortened and it doesn't need to take up so many medical resources, then... Lu Lu's problem will be much easier to solve!

After realizing what this meant, Tan Shao quickly said, "What are your conditions?"

Obviously, he didn't think it was free.

"S-level, refined and shrunken beast core." Shi Xing thought of Chi Yao's words to protect himself, and temporarily raised the price: "Five."

Tan Shao: "You want to treat Lu Lu?" Shi

Xing was speechless for a moment, "If I treat him, I'm afraid it won't be just this price."

And he doesn't know how to treat Lu Lu.

This fee is not cheap.

It does not include treatment, but it is higher than the medical fee of an S-level physician.

Tan Shao has not yet made up her mind, her eyes are rolling, and she is biting her lip as she quickly weighs this deal.

However, Shi Xing is far more indifferent to this than she thought, "If you think it is expensive, forget it. I have been out for too long and I have to go back."

After saying that, he actually stood up and left.

Just after taking a few steps, he heard an angry voice behind him, saying, "Wait."

"Do you really have a solution?"

Shi Xing said firmly, "Money and goods are two different things."

"Then..."

Without waiting for Tan Shao to make up his mind, Shi Xing added, "Oh, by the way, I have another condition."

His voice was decisive, "I can give you a solution, but you have to promise that from now on, you will not let Lu Lu bother me again."

"Of course, just like you, I don't care what methods you use, Princess."

Perhaps because he had never been raised like this, it took Shi Xing several tens of seconds to hear the other party's voice again.

Tan Shao's voice was almost squeezed out from between his teeth, "Okay!"