Yan Xi, who was drinking tea, caught a glimpse of the person in the painting. He paused, put down his teacup, and took the portrait to take a closer look.
The bony fingers slowly stroked and traced the delicate facial features.
"He's the person I'm looking for."
Li Yancheng.
When he heard this name yesterday, his first reaction was to think of the little-known King Xiaoyao.
But he was not sure, because there were too many people with the same name and surname in the world.
Now it seems that he is the King of Freedom.
But could Li Yancheng be him...
Yan Xi raised his eyes and looked at Ming Zhu, "Have you found out how long King Xiaoyao will stay this time?"
Mingzhu thought seriously, "I heard that the day after tomorrow is the anniversary of the death of Princess Xiaoyao's mother, so I guess he will leave Lin'an City after the anniversary."
He had heard a little about King Xiaoyao's mother, Rou Meiren.
Gentle beauties are a taboo in the palace.
It is rumored that Rou Meiren was born into a brothel.
The previous emperor forced it on Li Dingzhou in order to humiliate him.
However, Li Dingzhou had a deep relationship with the current queen at that time. In order to consider the overall situation, he suppressed his grievances and pretended to be submissive.
Out of loyalty, he never touched the beautiful woman.
But despite all his calculations, he was drugged by the beautiful woman who was instructed by him and forced to betray the current queen.
Although the queen was angry, she knew that he did not do it on purpose, so she did not pursue the matter any further.
Who knew that the gentle beauty would succeed in one move and become pregnant with Li Yancheng.
Li Dingzhou was a new father and had mixed feelings. The queen was also unhappy about this and had a bad temper with him for a while.
Li Dingzhou originally wanted to abort Roumeiren's child to show his loyalty, but the news of Roumeiren's pregnancy soon reached the ears of the emperor of the previous dynasty, who specially sent someone to take care of her pregnancy. In this way, Li Dingzhou had no way to get rid of Roumeiren's child and could only hold his anger.
Therefore, as soon as the previous emperor died, Rou Meiren and the young King Xiaoyao were abandoned by Li Dingzhou and ignored.
Poor Roumei died of depression, and King Xiaoyao had an even harder time without his mother's protection.
If Li Dingzhou had not become emperor and wanted to establish the image of a wise ruler, King Xiaoyao might have died long ago and how could he have been conferred the title of prince?
Speaking of which, King Xiaoyao was also a pitiful man. Even though he was crowned king, he never enjoyed the treatment of a prince and had to work hard traveling around the country every day.
It is precisely because of this that he has the ambition to govern the country and bring peace to the world, but has nowhere to display it.
However, he has a happy ending in the original text.
Because the sons of Li Dingzhou and the queen were all hopeless.
Before the male protagonist committed suicide for love, out of consideration for the people of the world, he left a will, ordering his men to go against public opinion and push King Xiaoyao to the throne of emperor.
So to some extent, King Xiaoyao is lucky.
After reviewing Li Yancheng's life story, Yan Xi lowered his eyes, rolled up the portrait, and told Ming Zhu, "Keep this portrait safe for me. Don't let anyone else know."
In the next two days, he will seize the time to find an opportunity to sneak into Xiaoyao Palace and find out the truth.
Mingzhu said, "Don't worry, Master. I will definitely keep it a secret for you."
Yan Xi looked at the sky and guessed that Lou Jinchuan was also going back to the farmyard. He said goodbye to Mingzhu and rode back as fast as he could using his lightness skills.
Fortunately, he was quick enough and when he arrived, Lou Jinchuan had not returned yet.
He waited for a long time before Lou Jinchuan pushed open the gate with the ingredients he bought from the city.
Hearing the noise, Wang Xiaoer and his two brothers hurried over to help, and Yan Xi also joined in.
Lou Jinchuan held up a few strings of candied haws and gave one string to Wang Xiaoer, Zhao Zhi, and Zhu Li. He handed the remaining two strings to him and curved his starry eyes. "Brother, this is for you."
Yan Xi smiled helplessly, "Why did you go buy it again?"
"Brother, don't you like eating candied haws?" The handsome boy blinked and asked back.
Yan Xi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Just because I like it, you'll buy it? If I like the moon in the sky, can you pick it down?"
Lou Jinchuan thought for a moment and said, "I can't take it off, but maybe I can let Brother get closer to the moon."
The boy's serious look made Yan Xi's heart tremble slightly, and he was speechless for a moment.
The male protagonist is so good to him, but he wants to take his place.
Damn! I'm so ashamed. What's going on?
Yan Xi silently took a bite of the candied haws and tried to brainwash himself: I am a tasker, I am a tasker, I am a tasker, important things must be said three times.
Thinking about it, he licked his lips unconsciously.
Lou Jinchuan watched his movements, his eyes darkened, and he quietly took a step closer, "Brother, is it sweet?"
Yan Xi nodded, his cheeks bulging with food.
Suddenly, he smelled the scent of rouge and powder on the boy. He paused and looked at him with an ambiguous look. "Xiao Jin, you smell very special."
Tsk tsk, he said why the male protagonist came back so late, he must have a girl he likes.
Not bad, not bad. Now that I have someone I like, I don’t have to worry about him harming my younger sister in the future.
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