Help! The innocent prince always tries to seduce me clumsily

Si Jingli didn't answer and didn't say anything.

Chu Shitong's arms were sore from raising them, he could not bear it any longer, so he withdrew his hands, raised an arrow and pulled the bow, using force with his fingertips. The bowstring was pulled so taut that it seemed like it would break at any time.

"call out!!"

The arrow left the bow and flew straight towards the deer like thunder and lightning!

The sika deer is agile and dodges quickly!

But Chu Shitong followed up with another arrow!

The first arrow blocked the deer's movement, and the second arrow hit the deer's forehead, piercing through its entire head! A fatal blow!

The sika deer fell in the bushes. Chu Shitong put the bow on his back again. Just as he was thinking about how to give the sika deer to Si Jingli, he heard Chu Shifan's exclamation coming from afar.

"Great bow skills!!"

Chu Shifan rode all the way over, and when he got to the sika deer, he looked at it and said in surprise, "I saw from a distance that the sika deer was shot by two arrows! It's really a good archery skill! It's a pity that I was blocked by the tree just now, so I couldn't see who shot it! Xiaoqi! Who shot the sika deer, you or His Royal Highness?"

Chu Shitong glanced at Si Jingli, who thought she was showing off on purpose and became even more upset.

Chu Shitong sighed helplessly and said with a guilty conscience, "Of course it was shot by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Si Jingli was slightly stunned, and looked at Chu Shitong in disbelief, and was about to speak, "No..."

Chu Shitong interrupted him immediately, "Your Highness's archery skills are indeed superb. This prince is ashamed of himself. I lost the hunting today. Let me grill the lunch."

The words Si Jingli wanted to say were stuck in his throat. He couldn't swallow them or say them.

Chu Shifan cheered, "Great! Xiaoqi is a great cook! The roasted game must be delicious! With such a big sika deer, I'm sure I'll be able to eat and drink my fill today!"

Chu Shitong looked at his simple-minded smile and couldn't help but chuckle along with him, as if her emotions had been tense since her rebirth, because there were too many things to do and she had never had a chance to relax.

Today's outing finally made her nerves relax a lot.

Si Jingli stared at Chu Shitong thoughtfully, but the longer he looked, the more blurry the person in front of him seemed to become.

Chu Shifan got on his horse and said, "There's no time to lose! Let's go! Your Highness, let Xiaoqi grill the meat for us!"

Si Jingli came back to his senses at this time, and then responded randomly: "Oh, okay."

......

The prey was left to the people in the hunting ground to handle, and Chu Shitong only had to roast it at the end.

The three of them found a shady lawn, and the people from the hunting grounds brought a grill and a stove. The rabbits and pigeons were plucked and placed on a plate along with pickled spices.

Chu Shifan took a look at the meat served and asked, "Where is the deer that His Royal Highness hunted?"

"The sika deer are being processed, sir. What do you think we should do with the deer skin and antlers?"

The sika deer was still an unossified male deer. The hairy young antlers of male deer are called velvet antlers, which are precious Chinese medicinal materials.

Chu Shifan naturally couldn't make this decision, so he turned to ask Si Jingli.

"Your Highness, you hunted that sika deer. Can you tell me what to do with it?"

Si Jingli looked at Chu Shitong with a guilty conscience, but Chu Shitong didn't seem to care and lowered his head to fiddle with the meat on the plate.

Si Jingli coughed twice and said, "This thing does not interest me. Your Highness the Seventh Prince, please tell me."

Chu Shitong knew that Si Jingli was embarrassed, so he stopped what he was doing and said, "Peel off the deer skin completely, and leave the antlers alone. After you cut them off, put them in a box for me, and I'll ask Bishui to get them later."

This complete deerskin should be able to sell for some money, and the antlers are worth a little more, but Chu Shitong has other uses for these antlers.

Although sika deer are common in hunting grounds, fresh antlers are still rare. Compared with antlers processed by imperial physicians, this kind of antlers is more valuable.

Chu Shitong certainly didn't intend to sell it for money. Things like these that he hunted himself were best given as gifts.

The three of them drank until the afternoon. The light of the setting sun shone on the entire hunting ground. I don't know how much they drank, but I remember that the two jars of wine brought by Chu Shitong were quickly finished. Chu Shifan was drunk and felt that two jars of wine were not enough, so he sent someone back to the princess's mansion to get a few jars of good wine to satisfy his craving.

Chu Shifan was very drunk. Before it was dark, he was already unconscious.

Si Jingli was not much better, but he still had a trace of rationality. Unlike Chu Shifan who ended up sleeping on the lawn, at least he could still half-sit.

Chu Shitong drank a lot, but fortunately he had a good alcohol tolerance, and after drinking a few jars of wine, he was still like nothing happened.

Guessing that it was about time for both of them to go back home, Chu Shitong ordered Bishui to bring back the deerskin and antlers.

"It's getting late, let's just call it a day." Chu Shitong stood up and said, "My cousin has drunk too much, I'll take him back to the princess's mansion, and His Royal Highness should also go back early."

Si Jingli sat half-cross-legged on the lawn, his bright red clothes set off by the green leaves like a vivid peony. He looked at Chu Shitong, his handsome face tinged with a drunken blush.

Those peach blossom eyes seemed a little dazed, like a confused deer in the woods, with a clear light in their moistness.

He must have been so drunk that he was almost unconscious, but he was trying not to fall asleep just to save face.

"His Royal Highness?"

Chu Shitong called out twice again, but seeing that Si Jingli did not respond, he reluctantly called over Si Jingli's servants and asked them to help carry Si Jingli onto the carriage.

He grabbed Chu Shifan by the back of the collar and carried the half-drunk Chu Shifan towards his carriage as if he were carrying a rabbit.

Chu Shifan was carried to Chu Shitong's carriage. The reason why Chu Shitong chose to send him back to the princess's mansion was to deliver the deer antlers to Her Royal Highness the Princess along the way.

The carriage had just started moving and had not yet left the hunting ground when noises outside became noisy.

"Your Highness the Seventh Prince, please stay!"

It seems to be a servant beside Si Jingli.

Chu Shitong asked the coachman to stop the carriage, and the servant beside Si Jingli trotted to the side of the carriage.

"Your Highness, our prince is drunk and refuses to get on the carriage. No matter what the servants say, it will be useless. Please go and persuade our prince, otherwise it will take too long and he won't be able to explain to the old lady when he returns."

Chu Shitong didn't want to go down at first, but Chu Shifan called him out after all. Chu Shifan was so drunk now that he couldn't recognize himself, so he could only help him.

Arriving in front of Si Jingli's carriage, Chu Shitong was really surprised to see such a lively scene.

A group of servants helped Si Jingli get on the carriage. Si Jingli was drunk and unconscious, but he refused to get on. The servants had no choice but to persuade him. During the journey that Chu Shitong had taken, he heard almost all the good words in the world.

The servant who had called Chu Shitong over saw this scene and hurriedly knelt down and begged, "Seventh Prince, please help our Crown Prince. Otherwise, given the Crown Prince's temper, if he gets annoyed and says something to punish him, none of us servants would dare to touch him."

A prophecy.

Si Jingli was surrounded by a huge crowd. Even though he was drunk and sleepy, he was still disturbed by the noise and started cursing in a daze.

"Everyone get out of here!"

Si Jingli pushed aside the servant beside him and shouted incoherently: "Whoever dares to bother me again, I will cut off his tongue!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the people around him fell silent in an instant, and even the person who was supporting him let go of him in fear.

Si Jingli's body lost support and was about to fall backwards, but fortunately Chu Shitong acted quickly and stepped forward to support him.

She glanced at the servants, and most of them immediately moved away for fear of being punished.

Chu Shitong said, "You go pack your things first. I will help your prince get on the carriage."

The servants beside him immediately expressed their gratitude and said, "Thank you, Your Highness the Seventh Prince!"

They were still saying thank you one second, and the next second everyone ran away.

Chu Shitong sighed silently, and resigned himself to helping Si Jingli walk towards the carriage.

Si Jingli refused to cooperate, but Chu Shitong didn't tolerate him and directly carried him into the carriage.

After putting Si Jingli on the couch, Chu Shitong was just about to leave, but unexpectedly the next second he heard Si Jingli kick over the table in his drunken sleep. The expensive tea sets and cakes on the table were smashed on the floor, and the tea was all over Si Jingli.

Chu Shitong: “…”

If it were someone else, Chu Shitong would have found an excuse to run away long ago, but this person happened to be Si Jingli, and Chu Shitong had no choice but to clean up the mess for him.

After calling the servants to clean up the mess on the carriage floor, Chu Shitong decided to send Si Jingli back on the way to sending Chu Shifan back.

As long as she sees that nothing unexpected happens to Si Jingli along the way, once they arrive at Prince Rong's Mansion, it will not be her business how Si Jingli treats himself.

Three carriages were moving forward and backward, with the one from the Princess's Mansion leading the way, followed by his own carriage carrying Chu Shifan, while he and Si Jingli followed at the end in the carriage from Prince Rong's Mansion.

I don’t know how long they had been walking, but Chu Shitong was a little sleepy from the swaying of the carriage.

I lifted the curtain and looked outside. Night had fallen and the carriage had just entered the city.

Estimating that they were less than quarter of an hour away from the princess's mansion, Chu Shitong prepared to close his eyes and rest for a while.

Closing her eyes, she seemed to hear a very small sound in the quiet carriage.

Chu Shitong looked in the direction of the voice and saw Si Jingli curled up on a couch not far away, with his long black hair scattered all over. There was no light in the carriage and the view was dim, but Si Jingli's snow-white skin exuded a faint luster like pearls.

He seemed to have slept very restlessly, his whole body was trembling slightly, as if he had a nightmare, his lips were slightly open, and he kept repeating something.

Chu Shitong moved closer and heard him repeating it unconsciously in a low voice.

"Mom...I can't walk anymore...I'm so cold...I don't want to eat...A-Li is not hungry..."

Chu Shitong's eyes darkened.

Si Jingli had mentioned to himself in his previous life that when he was young, the princess and Prince Rong went on a trip to the Jiangnan area. As a result, an accident happened on the way, and he and the princess were separated from the team of Prince Rong's mansion and wandered in the wilderness for nearly half a month.

The princess tried to ask for help from the villagers around her, but was nearly killed by a villain. For safety, the mother and son had to walk back along the mountain road. It was the coldest month of the year and it was snowing. Si Jingli and the princess almost froze to death or starved to death in the mountains. Fortunately, they met someone sent by the old lady who took them back.

Si Jingli's hunger and tuberculosis were also caused by this.

Looking at the tea stains on his outer robe, Chu Shitong took off his own coat and put it on him, but he was still shivering from the cold.

Maybe it’s not that I’m cold, but the memories in the dream are too cold.

Chu Shitong stretched out his hand and patted his back gently as if to comfort him. Si Jingli seemed to sense it in his sleep and suddenly turned around and hugged Chu Shitong's arm.

As if he had grabbed a life-saving straw on the sea, his originally rapid and panicked breathing slowly became steady at this moment.

Chu Shitong tried to take his arms back, but Si Jingli held him tightly. Chu Shitong looked at his brows which were slowly calming down, and didn't want to wake him up, so she let him hold her all the way.

When her arms were stiff, the carriage arrived at the princess's mansion. Bishui came to report that Si Jingli seemed to have fallen asleep after hugging her arm, and Chu Shitong pulled his arm back without much effort.

She helped Chu Shifan into the princess's mansion, and Chu Shifan was soon supported by the servants back to his residence. Chu Shitong gave the deer antlers to the maid in the princess's mansion in a polite manner. When she was about to leave, the eldest princess sent someone to invite Chu Shitong to the back hall.

Chu Shitong considered it again and again and decided to go.

Si Jingli should not make any more noise in the carriage. Just in case, before leaving, Chu Shitong asked Bishui to go out and tell the people in Rong Wang Mansion that if they could not wait any longer, they should send Si Jingli back to Rong Wang Mansion directly.

The rear hall of the Princess's Mansion.

Princess Wende, Chu Shining, was devoted to doing good and worshipping Buddha. The back hall was filled with the strong smell of incense, and there were rows of glazed lotus candlesticks, brightly lit. Portraits of gods covered the walls, and even the window paper was covered with scriptures and ancient texts.

The eldest princess was dressed in plain clothes, kneeling on a cushion in front of the incense burner of the statue, holding a string of Buddhist beads in her hand, and reciting Buddhist scriptures with her eyes closed.

Chu Shitong walked closer, knelt on the cushion beside the eldest princess, and looked up at the Buddha statue in front of him.

Perhaps it was because the smell of incense and the sound of chanting entered her mind at the same time, she felt as if the Buddha statue in front of her could see through her.

She committed countless evil deeds in her previous life, and now that God has allowed her to be reborn, she doesn't know whether he is giving her a chance to live again, do good deeds, and atone for her sins, or a chance to repeat her past mistakes and commit even more evil deeds.

The chanting stopped and Her Royal Highness the Princess slowly opened her eyes, but she did not look at Chu Shitong. Instead, she kept looking up at the Buddha statue.

"Xiao Qi is here."

Chu Shitong also came back to his senses and nodded, "Aunt."

"Thank you, Auntie, for sending Afan back home. I think he has caused you a lot of trouble along the way."

"You are too polite, aunt." Chu Shitong said, "My cousin treats me like his own brother. I feel that the way I treat him is not enough."

Upon hearing this, the princess suddenly looked towards Chu Shitong.

Chu Shitong clearly saw that under the candlelight, something seemed to be quietly changing in the eldest princess' eyes.

"What's wrong, aunt?" asked Chu Shitong.

The eldest princess pursed her lips and stared at Chu Shitong for a long time without saying a word. When she turned her head to look at the Buddha statue again, she chuckled twice with ambiguous meanings.

"Nothing, I just feel that Xiao Qi seems to have changed a lot."