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"Someone will have a headache about this." The prince looked at the corpses of those assassins with a cold expression.

"Your Highness..." the guard couldn't help calling out, thinking of something, swallowed the words again.

Ye Liuyuan was placed on the front of the horse's back by the prince, and she fell into his arms. When she moved her head, her hair could rub against the prince's sharp jaw, and her breath was filled with the concentrated fragrance of the prince.

He couldn't see the prince's expression, but he could see that the guard was hesitant to speak.

If the position of the crown prince was unshakable in the past, as Emperor Ye grew old and the crown prince grew up, the relationship between the emperor and the crown prince became more and more delicate.

Before the prince went to the army for training, Emperor Ye would give the prince some political affairs as training, but after the prince came back from the army, Emperor Ye's attitude and the atmosphere in the court became more subtle.

"Let's go, the seventh brother's body is the most important thing, there is no delay." The prince didn't say much, but simply led the people out of the jungle.

Seeing the corpses of the prince and the assassins outside, the commander of the guards dismounted from his horse and saluted, "His Royal Highness, these are..."

"Those assassins killed themselves after being chased by the lonely guards. Leave it to you."

"Thank you, Your Royal Highness." The commander of the imperial guard saluted again, but he was worried when he looked at the corpses. He could already imagine Emperor Ye's fury.

Autumn hunting was interrupted by an assassination, Emperor Ye and some old officials were shocked, and the seventh prince Ye Liuyuan was affected and injured. When the scene was chaotic, the third prince was shot by Yaliu arrows.

A group of people had no choice but to retreat to Beichuan's palace. Luo Fu and Luo Chen learned that Ye Liuyuan was injured. The timid Luo Fu's knees softened and he almost knelt on the ground.

Even the calm Luo Chen felt a thump in his heart, and it was the crown prince who sent Ye Liuyuan back to the palace.

The prince put Ye Liuyuan on the couch, and said: "Be patient for a while, the imperial doctor will be here soon."

Ye Liuyuan nodded, and silently pulled the brocade quilt towards her body.He was still cold, and the coldness of the deep autumn stream lingered on him, and he couldn't get rid of it no matter what.Especially in his legs, it was as if ice needles had been inserted into the cracks in the bones. The constant cold and pain made Ye Liuyuan unable to move, but he was still conscious.

The prince noticed it, and couldn't help frowning, and said to Luo Fuluo: "The imperial doctor will arrive in a while, go prepare hot water, clean cloth towels, and clean clothes."

"This..." Luo Chen looked at Ye Liuyuan hesitantly.

"Go." Ye Liuyuan said.

"Yes." Luo Chen responded, but he didn't move. Instead, he kicked Luo Fu from behind and said, "Did you hear that? Why don't you go quickly?"

"Yes... yes!" Luo Fu tremblingly went down to prepare as if he had just woken up from a dream.

Luo Chen didn't move, he stood in the corner, silently, like a decoration in this room.

The prince took a look at him and thought he was interesting.

Among the two servants around Ye Liuyuan, one is calm and quiet and the other is timid and cowardly. Luo Chen asked Luo Fu to prepare but stayed behind. The prince knew that he was guarding himself.

If Luo Chen left and left Luo Fu behind, just because he was so trembling that he didn't even dare to look at the crown prince, if the crown prince really did something bad to Ye Liuyuan, he might not be able to tell what he did to his injury.

The crown prince is not going to be angry with Luo Chen, loyalty is the most basic and important thing for these servants.The prince asked himself that he had no evil intentions, otherwise why would he take risks to save people, and naturally he would not care about Luo Chen's secret precautions.

Luo Fu quickly brought hot water and clean cloth towels and clothes. There were fewer imperial physicians following this autumn hunt. The prince reckoned that the imperial physicians had to go to Emperor Ye for pulse first, and then they could go to some respected veterans and the third prince separately. And Ye Liuyuan here.

The prince stepped forward and stretched out his hand to help Ye Liuyuan take off his coat. Before, Ye Liuyuan fell into the stream and was frozen half to death. He didn't care about anything for his life. The prince stripped his clothes once, but what was he doing? ?

"No... big brother! I'll do it myself!" Ye Liuyuan pressed the prince's hand, but the prince made a feint and pressed his hand instead.

The prince was still gentle and reasonable, but Ye Liuyuan felt that two words were read out of his eyes - don't make trouble.

"Clean your wound first, and warm you up at the same time. The cold air hurts your body. It's better to deal with it earlier." The prince said: "Besides, when the imperial physician arrives, the imperial physician will also clean your wound, bandage and apply medicine." .I've seen everything I need to see, so you don't have to be shy in front of your elder brother."

Most of the wounds in Yeliuyuan were carved out by the branches and leaves in the forest. They were narrow and long but not deep, but they were spread over a wide area. The shoulders and back were the hardest hit areas. To deal with them, they had to take off their clothes.

Anyway, what the prince meant was that he would not take it off now, but he would still have to take it off when the imperial doctor came.This is a question of whether to take it off in front of him or in front of God's will, and the prince has already seen it once, and the two brothers are frank and frank, there is nothing to be shy about.

This is the reason, but why does Ye Liuyuan always feel that something is wrong?

Taking advantage of his distraction, the prince quickly began to take off his clothes.

"Do not……"

Ye Liuyuan couldn't resist, without the cover of the clothes, the young man's thin body like a bamboo came into the eyes of the prince.A thin layer of muscle is attached to the skeleton that has not yet shown the adult form. The prince shook his head, and then quickly soaked a cloth towel with hot water to clean his wounds.

The water and cloth towels were changed several times in the middle, and the prince scrubbed Yeliuyuan's body from head to toe with the hot and humid cloth towels.Ye Liuyuan's eyes were full of the prince's figure. As his body warmed up a little bit, what became more agitated was the heat on his face.

The prince rubbed his legs, the boy's calf was straight and well-proportioned, and there was no trace of being trampled by a horse before, but when the prince sat on the edge and put his leg on his thigh to scrub, he could feel his Tense muscles and slight tremors in the legs.

A lot of pain may not leave traces on the surface, but it will sneak into the inside and accompany Ye Liuyuan for the rest of his life like a shadow.

"Brother?"

Seeing that the prince's movements stopped, Ye Liuyuan couldn't help calling out.

As soon as the prince raised his head, he saw that his seventh brother was about to turn into a boiled shrimp. He was puzzled and shy, and couldn't help but want to pull his leg out of his hand, but he didn't dare to move.

The prince couldn't help but exert more force on the hand holding his ankle, holding it with one hand, stopped Ye Liuyuan's legs that were about to move, and covered his feet with a hot cloth, and wiped the beautiful arches of his feet.

Ye Liuyuan felt even more weird, she wanted to take it away but was caught so tightly that she couldn't move.

"No, big brother, this...you don't have to do this..." Ye Liuyuan blushed more and more as she spoke, and the usually fierce person was softened by the prince's rubbing, which made the prince's heart burn.

Luo Chen at the side also faintly... feels weird, scrubbing is the job of the servants, and he and Luo Fu are still standing in the inner hall, it shouldn't be the crown prince's turn to serve people anyway.

But the prince's attitude is so reasonable.

The prince's eyes darkened, he threw the cloth towel into the basin, stuffed the whole person into the brocade quilt, turned around and said, "Go and ask, why hasn't the imperial doctor arrived yet?"

Luo Chen suddenly met the prince's eyes, and he, who was always calm, couldn't help being startled, immediately restrained his thoughts, and stepped back to check the situation.

It took another moment for the imperial physician to arrive late under the leadership of Luo Chen. Luo Chen said to the crown prince and Ye Liuyuan, "His Royal Highness the Third Prince was hit by a crossbow arrow, and the imperial physicians were delayed there for a while."

"Oh, is there only one imperial physician in this palace? After treating the third prince, you can't come to see the seventh prince?" On the body.

"This... is really..."

This time, the accompanying imperial physicians were all young, with good physical strength and relatively inexperienced. The pressure of facing the crown prince made the imperial physicians falter and hesitate for a while.

The imperial physician also secretly scolded the third prince, for hurting the two princes this time, His Majesty also appointed two imperial physicians.The two imperial physicians were originally working separately, but they bumped into the third prince's servant on the way, insisting that the third prince had been hit by a crossbow arrow and was in critical condition, so they robbed the two imperial physicians involuntarily.

As a result, when I went there, I found that although the crossbow arrow had barbed blood grooves, it was not poisonous. The position of the crossbow hit by the third prince was not a critical point, because the force of the arrow was not strong, and the penetration was not deep, so it was not a critical injury at all.

The imperial doctor who was supposed to treat the seventh prince's injury was forced to stay, no matter how anxious he was, the third prince refused to let him go.If the prince hadn't sent Luo Chen to find someone, the imperial doctor would still be stuck with the third prince.

When the prince saw the imperial doctor's appearance, he probably knew it, and said: "Okay, let's take a look first."

The imperial physician, as if he had been pardoned, hurriedly wiped off his sweat and went to check Ye Liuyuan's pulse, then checked Ye Liuyuan's injuries, and said, "Your Highness's injuries have been treated properly, and there is no serious problem. Just pay attention to applying the medicine and wait for the wound to heal." .”

"It's just that the qi and blood in the legs are stagnant and the meridians are not smooth. Waiting for the minister to give acupuncture can also help His Highness relieve the pain."

As he said that, the imperial physician opened the medicine box he carried with him, and administered needles to Ye Liuyuan.

The conflict between the princes and the imperial physicians is a trivial matter. The real major event is the assassination of Emperor Ye. When the Taiji Palace arrives, a real storm will usher in.

The prince turned his head to look at the bleak autumn scenery outside, the cold wind suddenly picked up.

After confirming that Emperor Ye was fine, the group had to stop the autumn hunt and return to the dynasty.

Ye Liuyuan was still injured, she was lying in the carriage when she went back, she avoided riding a horse again, and returned to the bedroom in the palace.

He was injured after all, it was inappropriate to move to a mansion outside the palace at this time, Emperor Ye still loved him, and the courtiers didn't want to touch Emperor Ye's bad luck at this time, so they pretended not to see him.

After returning to the palace, Ye Liuyuan met Concubine Shu and the Empress who came to visit him. The gentle Concubine Shu almost shed tears when she saw him, and the Empress was also very concerned.

I don't know if it was Ye Liuyuan's illusion, but he felt that the fragrance on Concubine Shu was different from before.The previous taste was light and sweet with some sweetness, but now the sweet and greasy fragrance is getting stronger and stronger.

Ye Liuyuan couldn't help holding her breath, the queen seemed to have noticed, patted Concubine Shu's arm, and said: "Xiao Qi is fine, don't worry too much, if you hurt your body, what will happen to Xiao Qi?" Go out of the palace and build a mansion with peace of mind."

Concubine Shu pressed the corners of her eyes, leaned back without a trace, and said: "You are talking about me, and you are not too worried. If you want me to say, he still has a heart after all. The prince...wouldn't be..."

Concubine Shu sighed and said no more.

But Ye Liuyuan blinked, looked at the unpredictable Empress Zhao, and then at Concubine Shu, faintly feeling that there seemed to be something between the two.

Prince?What's wrong with the prince?Or, in other words, what can the prince do?

Ye Liuyuan was injured, and she was idle, so she didn't go to court this time.After the Queen and Concubine Shu left, Ye Liuyuan also received news that shocked him.

"The prince was reprimanded for his poor handling of affairs, and ordered by His Majesty to confine his feet and think about his mistakes?"

A question mark crossed Ye Liuyuan's heart.

Is the prince not doing well?Where is the disadvantage?Why was he ordered to think about it?

Luo Chen said: "The news was brought back by someone close to His Highness the Crown Prince. His Majesty was furious and asked why the commander of the Imperial Guard who was stationed in Beichuan to clean up the hunting grounds before the autumn hunting started didn't notice that there were assassins hiding in the forest. He then questioned the Prince Why haven't we caught anyone alive, haven't gotten any useful news, the identity of the assassin is still unknown, and it's hard to track down the real culprit behind it."

"So... because of this, the elder brother was ordered to confine his feet and think about his mistakes?"

Just because the crown prince and his personal guards chased into the forest, they only brought back the assassin's body, but not the living?

Ye Liuyuan thought it was incredible, how could this be...it is not a bad thing to do... The prince went into the forest with his personal guards, brought back the assassin's body, and did not let the assassin escape.

Moreover, the crown prince is the crown prince of a country, unless he made a big mistake, Emperor Ye would never directly criticize the crown prince in front of civil and military officials.

Even if it's really bad, the matter is not serious enough to be reprimanded by the court and ordered to stop and think about it, right?

"Your Majesty... At the same time, he appointed Qiu Qianhu as the deputy commander, to trace the origin of the assassin and the mastermind behind it, and punish him severely."

"Chou Qianhu?" Ye Liuyuan murmured, Emperor Ye probably had an organization similar to Jinyiwei responsible for monitoring officials, but it was called Xiaowei in the Xia Dynasty.

The imperial guards were in charge of the imperial guards, and the guards were in charge of supervising all the officials. In name, the guards were in the army, and their official positions were also set according to the ranks of military generals, but in fact they were doing the work of Jin Yiwei.

"The newly appointed Vice Commander Qiu, whose name is Ying, is the brother-in-law of Princess Jingping, and his wife is the daughter of the servant of the Ministry of Punishment." Luo Chen said, "He is a vicious and good-natured man, easy to use punishment, known as a cruel official. "

Ye Liuyuan paused, and immediately realized the problem.

"He's... the prime minister on the left." Ye Liuyuan said.

After Emperor Ye came to the throne, he made Jianling Zhao's daughter the queen, in order to prevent his relatives from becoming bigger, and at the same time accept the surrender of the powerful families in the Central Plains, he also recruited many powerful women into the harem.

The most eye-catching ones are naturally Concubine Yan and Concubine Su De. The father of Concubine Yan is the Minister of War, and Concubine Yan is the mother of the three princes.Concubine Su De's father is Prime Minister Zuo, who can be said to be under one person and above ten thousand people. Concubine Su De is the mother of the second prince and Princess Jingping. Unfortunately, the second prince was born lame, which Emperor Ye disliked.

Qiu Ying is the younger brother of Princess Jingping's son-in-law, and both the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment and the Minister of Justice are from Prime Minister Zuo, and Qiu Ying married the daughter of the Minister of the Ministry of Justice as his wife.

The only thing indicated by these twists and turns of in-law relationship is that Qiu Ying is the Prime Minister of Zuo.

"But His Majesty treats him very favorably." Luo Chen added.

Not only that, in the memory of the original owner, this Xiaowei was a lunatic, extremely capable but unpredictable, a bloodthirsty lunatic.When he was young, the commander was a sharp knife to Ye Di, he could use it to easily clean all the people who were not under his control, whether they were obvious or potential, and Ye Di was confident that he could hold this knife.

But now that Emperor Ye is old, the knife is not very convenient to use.Now that Qiu Ying became the deputy commander, it naturally meant a change in Emperor Ye's favor and mentality.

But the question is, will Emperor Ye not know the relationship between Qiu Ying and Prime Minister Zuo's faction?of course not.

One must know that the patriarch of the Zhao family, Empress Zhao's father is now Prime Minister You, and the Zhao family is the most powerful family in the Central Plains, overwhelming the Su family.Regardless of the former dynasty or the harem, the Zuo Prime Minister's faction and the Prince's faction were naturally in conflict with each other, but Emperor Ye still let Qiu Ying take charge of this matter.

"Brother." Ye Liuyuan couldn't help saying.

The situation was wrong, absolutely wrong, combined with Ye Di's scolding of the prince and Qiu Ying's superiority, Ye Liuyuan immediately knew what Ye Di was suspicious of.

Ye Di was suspecting that the assassination was done by the crown prince. The crown prince chased him into the forest, but his personal guards brought back only the assassin's body. Ye Di might be suspecting that the crown prince was...killing people to silence him?