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Xuezhu: "Fourteen."
The prince nodded: "But he is the Wu family's illegitimate son?"
Xuezhu frowned.
What is a home-born child?
But he didn't really want to talk to the prince. He wanted to sweep the floor quietly, so he nodded.
Xuezhu thought, now the prince can leave, right?
But then the prince asked again, "Is the Wu family treating their servants well? What do you eat for three meals a day? Do you have any monthly salary?"
Xuezhu: “…”
He opened his mouth, quickly swept the floor, said goodbye with the broom, and left in a hurry.
It was as if there was a vicious dog chasing him from behind.
The prince, who hadn't chatted with anyone for a long time and had been free for quite some time, said: "..."
The prince subconsciously touched his wound and walked forward again.
I happened to see Ji Mingyan squatting on the ground with a woman who was about thirty years old, looking at the grass.
The prince walked over quickly, but he was injured and couldn't squat down, so he could only half-bend over and watch for a while, but couldn't see anything: "What are you doing?"
The two people below raised their heads at the same time.
Ji Mingyan had never been one to follow the rules, and he had no sense of formality at all: "Your Highness, are you healed?"
The prince smiled and said, "Yes, almost."
Poison Lady glanced at the prince's wound and said, "Ever since Xuezhu learned embroidery, her wound bandages have gotten better."
The prince paused: "Xuezhu? But is it the sweeping boy?"
Poison Lady: “Yeah.”
The prince was shocked: "Is he the one who bandaged Guba's arrow wound that day?"
Poison Lady: "Yes."
Ji Mingyan: "Your Highness! I wanted to bandage you myself, but Mingshuang wouldn't let me!"
The prince recalled that year when he and Ji Mingxi went to Faen Temple to pray for blessings.
While climbing a mountain, Ji Mingxi accidentally fell and cut his arm, causing it to bleed.
As a result, the next day after returning, the prince saw that Ji Mingxi's arm injury not only did not heal, but became even more serious.
He asked Mingxi, and he said that it was his sixth brother who bandaged it for him.
The prince covered his wound and looked at the two men carefully.
He discovered that the two men were watching ants moving.
Forget it, he and Ji Mingyan probably won’t be able to talk to each other.
In the end, the prince went to find Ji Yunxi.
*
Wu Weian built two swings in the woods behind their bedroom.
This afternoon, the sun was slightly intoxicating.
After lunch, Ji Yunxi walked out for a few steps, sat on the swing, and basked in the sun with a book.
The prince approached and stopped three steps away from Ji Yunxi.
Seeing the visitor, Ji Yunxi was about to stand up and salute, but the prince held her back and said, "No need to salute here. Just get along with me the same way you get along with Mingxi at home."
Ji Yunxi smiled slightly: "Thank you, Your Highness."
The prince looked around and carefully sat down on a nearby swing. As he sat down, he looked at the sunlight shining through the trees and sighed, "It would be great if Mingxi was also in Liangzhou."
Ji Yunxi closed the book and looked thoughtful: "Your Highness, is there anything bothering you?"
The prince was quite moved for a moment.
Ji Yunxi looked at the prince and smiled slightly: "If your highness doesn't mind, you can also confide in me as your elder brother."
The position of crown prince is not easy, and he has been under a lot of pressure in recent years.
Therefore, the prince always liked to look for his eldest brother. His eldest brother was very Buddhist and always had a open mind about worldly affairs. The prince could always get some comfort and strength from his eldest brother.
The Crown Prince: "Among the Ji family brothers and sisters, only you and Mingxi have similar personalities."
Thinking of her elder brother, Ji Yunxi's expression softened. She shook her head gently, "No, Your Highness. My elder brother has a much better temper than me. He is the most open-minded person I have ever met."
The prince nodded in agreement. "If he were here, I would tell him what has happened these days. I wonder what he would say to me."
Ji Yunxi thought about it, smiled and shook her head.
The prince heaved a long sigh, "That day, I really thought I was going to die."
Ji Yunxi listened quietly without interrupting.
The prince continued, "Does Yunxi know who shot me with an arrow that day?"
Ji Yunxi swung intermittently on the swing: "I asked Seventh Brother, and he said that those were masked men in black, and their identities were unknown. But from what Your Highness said, did You recognize that person's identity?"
The prince nodded, feeling a little depressed for a moment. He smiled bitterly and said, "I've seen it at my father's place."
Ji Yunxi hummed and said nothing more.
She was not surprised by this result.
The conversation opened up, and the Crown Prince poured out all the frustrations he had been harboring for days. "I know my father has disliked me since I was a child. I know that my mother is powerful, and my father has always been wary of the Li family. Over the years, my father has appeared to value me publicly, but secretly favored my younger brothers. I know all this. But I never imagined that he would actually say, 'Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs.'"
The prince smiled somewhat unnaturally.
He really didn't expect it.
He knew that his father didn't like him.
He never thought that his father would kill him.
Why?
Ji Yunxi's gaze was fixed far ahead.
There, a figure had been standing there for a while.
Ji Yunxi looked at it for a moment and curled the corners of her lips.
Then, she withdrew her gaze, suppressed her smile, looked at the prince and said, "Your Highness, there is no need to be obsessed with this."
The prince raised his head and said self-deprecatingly, "Is the royal family ruthless?"
Ji Yunxi shook her head. "What the emperor does is his business. I heard that the Crown Princess gave birth to a son for His Highness after the New Year."
At this point, the prince's eyes turned loving: "Indeed, when I left the capital, the boy was just one month old."
Ji Yunxi: "Your Highness, you are now a father. What you should do is not to wonder why the emperor did this, but how to protect your wife and children. Moreover, you are the crown prince. To the people of this world, you are also their father. You should protect them."
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