dressed as a peony demon

"Be careful!" After Murong Yao finished speaking, he quickly put Lu Li under his body.When he waved his hand, the locusts flying towards them fell to the ground one after another, and all of them died.

Lu Li raised his head in surprise, and looked at Murong Yao with a solemn expression. This was the first time he discovered that Murong Yao was good at kung fu, and his kung fu was not bad at all.

"What are you doing in a daze! Why don't you hurry up and get back!" Murong Yao guarded Lu Li, who was still in surprise, behind him.

The second wave of migratory locusts continued to swarm towards them, Murong Yao stood in front of him, with the wind sweeping through his sleeves, the locusts couldn't get close to them at all.

Lu Li stood behind him, seeing how calm he was, he was already so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear.

At this moment, a sharp sword aura flashed across, and then Qingfeng fell in front of Murong Yao, and killed the locusts in the air with several sword auras.

"Lu Li! You are indeed here."

Lu Li turned his head, just in time to meet the little round face of Orchid Essence.I haven't seen you for more than a month, and the orchid essence has grown whiter and tenderer, "Where did you go? Didn't I tell you to wait for me at the inn that day?"

"I originally wanted to wait for you at the inn, but because something happened suddenly, I left with Qingfeng... Don't you know?" The orchid spirit looked surprised, and turned to look at Qingfeng who was fighting the big locust , "I thought you sent him over."

Lu Li was speechless for a while, the orchid essence was probably sold by someone, and he would count the money for others.Murong Yao came over and said to Lu Li: "Now is not the time to talk about this, go back to the farm and hide for a while."

"What about you?" Lu Li blurted out.

"This is my garrison, of course I want to stay and see the situation." Murong Yao said it as a matter of course, and suddenly smiled, "I never thought that my concubine still cared about me."

"Who cares about you?" Lu Li couldn't help but give him a sideways glance, "I also have a part of my hard work here, how can these bugs be allowed to make trouble?"

Murong Yao just smiled and said nothing, waved away a few locusts that flew over.Because of Qingfeng's joining, almost no locusts could get close to Murong Yao's body.

The rest of the officers and soldiers joined the team to catch the locusts, and most of the locusts were wiped out in a short while.The sparrow spirit specially chooses locusts with strong spiritual power to eat, which makes its stomach bulge round. Fortunately, it can use its own spiritual power to digest the locusts in its stomach.

The orchid essence was already so surprised that she couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear. She glanced at Murong Yao several times with her round eyes, and then asked Lu Li in a low voice: "Is he the emperor? What is your relationship with him...he called you concubine, you are his concubine." concubine?"

Lu Li couldn't argue, and gave Lan Huajing a hard look, "No, don't listen to his nonsense."

Lan Huajing looked at Murong Yao hesitantly, then at Lu Li, and suddenly understood... No wonder Lu Li has always been so mysterious, and he can tell the people around the emperor that he is the male favorite of the emperor!

"I didn't expect the emperor to be so handsome and majestic, completely different from what you described." Lan Huajing said thoughtfully.

The person the sparrow spirit saw last time should be the one in front of him!

They almost thought that Lu Li wanted to compete with the emperor for male favor... This oolong is really too big.

Murong Yao's ear tipped, and when he heard the words of the orchid essence, he leaned over and asked, "What did Lu Li tell you?"

The Orchid Essence was about to answer, but Lu Li stepped on his foot so hard that he yelped in pain.He turned his head in displeasure, and just met Lu Li's warning eyes, and he understood at once - the person in front of him is the Ninth Five-Year Lord, and if he knew that Lu Li was speaking ill of him behind his back, Lu Li would definitely be overwhelmed. walk.

Thinking of this, Lanhua Jing said: "Lu Li said that your majesty, you are a handsome man with a handsome appearance, and you are the most beautiful man in the world. You are both civil and military, and you are incomparable in the world. You are admired. Seeing him today, it is as expected."

Murong Yao couldn't see any joy or anger on his face, he just looked at Lu Li with great interest, "Oh? Is it true? So I am so perfect in your heart?"

"That's right! Lu Li often praises you with us, saying that you..."

Lu Li didn't expect that Lanhua Jing would be so flattering. He rolled his eyes at the two of them, "If you don't help, just step aside and don't get in the way here."

Now the locust plague in this area is basically under control, there is no need for Murong Yao to go out in person, and he doesn't want Lu Li to be injured, so he stepped forward to hold Lu Li, "Qingfeng knows the aftermath, you come here with me."

Lu Li's strength was not as strong as Murong Yao's, so he pulled him aside, and the orchid essence followed behind the two of them, sneaking glances at Murong Yao several times.Seeing that Murong Yao was very close to Lu Li, his heart was full of emotions, but he never thought that Lu Li, who is usually hard-spoken, would be the most smug male favorite around the emperor.

However, why did Lu Li never tell them about this?

Isn't Lu Li really afraid that he will rob him of a man?I heard that the emperors of all dynasties were all philandering carrots, so it must be so.

The orchid essence shook her head, the peony demon was really worrying too much, although the emperor was indeed astonishingly handsome, but it was not his style, the peony demon did not need to be on guard against him.We must find an opportunity to clarify this matter to Peony Demon.

Lu Li didn't expect Lan Huajing to have so many inner dramas at all. He just felt that his relationship with Murong Yao was awkward, so he kept hiding it, but he didn't expect to hide it in the end.

The locusts were brought under control, and Lu Li and Murong Yao went to the farm to discuss matters with Li Guang.

Seeing that the ears of rice were ripe, a swarm of locusts came inexplicably. Li Guang also sweated. Those ears of rice in the field were the result of his hard research for half a year.He was in charge of farming in the first place. If something happened, whether he would be impeached by the ministers of the court or not would be another matter, and if it spread, it would become a stain on him.

"Your Majesty, this locust plague is so strange that it is impossible to guard against." Li Guang said.

Murong Yao nodded slightly, "I will personally investigate this matter, Mr. Li will take people to look elsewhere first, to see if the nearby people have encountered locust plagues."

Now is the harvest season, and these locusts are living creatures that can fly everywhere, and it is very likely that more than one place will be affected.If found, it must be stopped as soon as possible.

Li Guang took the order to retreat.

Murong Yao went out with Lu Li again, because fearing that the locusts would come back again, the officers and soldiers in the field began to harvest all the ears of rice that were not yet fully mature.

The corpses of locusts were everywhere in the fields, and roasted locusts became a delicious meal for these officers and soldiers.

Lu Li walked along the field, and finally saw a sparrow standing on a branch at the end.Now the Sparrow Essence has eaten like a dumb, round, stupid bird. Although it can digest these big locusts with spiritual power, it can make up more at one time than it did in the previous 200 years. It is simply called indigestion.

When Lan Huajing saw the round sparrow spirit all over her body, she almost didn't recognize it. It wasn't until she saw the other party's mung bean eyes that she realized that the fat and silly bird was their old friend sparrow spirit.

"sparrow……"

Just when Lan Huajing wanted to say hello to Sparrow Jing, Lu Li interrupted him, "Well, it's a sparrow, it's my friend."

The sparrow spirit glanced at the orchid spirit behind Lu Li, and tweeted: "Lu Li, who is he?"

Now that Murong Yao is here, Lu Li couldn't tell the truth, so he said, "Little sparrow, let's see where these locusts come from first. There are rice borers here for a while, and big locusts for a while. I don't know what to do next." What disaster awaits us next time."

The sparrow spirit nodded dully, and flew onto his shoulder, "Lend me your shoulder for a while, I'm too full to fly. You haven't told me yet, what happened to the two followers next to you?"

The orchid spirit could understand what the sparrow spirit said, and snorted coldly, "Who is a follower, sparrow spirit!"

"Huh?" Murong Yao glanced at the sparrow spirit.

Lu Li: "My friend is mentally ill. He likes a person talking nonsense for no reason. Just pretend you didn't hear it."

"Lu Li, you attacked personally." Lan Huajing complained.

Lu Li spread his hands, looking like you can do nothing to me, Murong Yao next to him sized up the two of them with an unpredictable expression, Lan Huajing thought that Lu Li had the emperor's backing behind him, so he had no choice but to swallow this tone.

The sparrow spirit felt a little familiar when he heard the voice of the orchid essence, and he paused for a while before remembering, "Lu Li, is he the orchid essence?"

Lu Li nodded and continued walking forward.

Murong Yao glanced at the sparrow on Lu Li's shoulder, "This sparrow really looks like a spirit."

After hearing this, the sparrow spirit widened its eyes, and grabbed Lu Li's shoulder tightly. Lu Li suffered from pain, and caught the sparrow spirit and put it on Lan Huajing's shoulder. The sparrow spirit made a false alarm.

Murong Yao said again: "Could it be that you also changed from a goblin?"

Lu Li paused and glared at him, "If I am a demon who can eat people, I will eat you first!"

Murong Yao: "You can also eat now."

He deliberately emphasized the word "eat", the corner of Lu Li's mouth twitched, and he strode forward.

Seeing Murong Yao and Lu Li walking in front side by side, Sparrow Spirit asked Orchid Spirit quietly: "Are you really Orchid Spirit?"

Orchid Essence: "Can this be fake?"

The sparrow spirit looked at the two people next to each other in front of him, and couldn't help feeling: "Lu Li is really kind to that boy."

"What male favourite! Keep your voice down, that is the emperor, and Lu Li is the male favourite."

This time it was the sparrow spirit's turn to be surprised: "Lu Li is the male favorite that the emperor never forgets?"

Orchid Flower Essence: "Otherwise, do you think they really have the guts to cheat on the emperor's officials?"

"It's no wonder that Lu Liming could leave the palace and travel around, but he stayed in the palace and refused to leave. It turned out that he was trapped by feelings, but this person really favors the peony demon." The sparrow spirit was quite envious say.

Orchid Essence also thought so, seeing the aura of the emperor standing in front of Lu Li before.

"Follow up!" Seeing the orchid essence following very far behind, Lu Li knew that he must be whispering to the sparrow essence.

At this time, Qingfeng also brought people over to investigate where the locusts came from.The locust disaster this time came in a strange way, unlike ordinary natural disasters, more like man-made.

When it comes to the understanding of insects, Sparrow Spirit is the best. Today it has absorbed too much aura of locusts, and it can just rely on its abundant spiritual power to find the route when the locusts come.Lu Li asked him to lead the way, and together they went to find the person who released the locusts.

In the fields of the surrounding people, there are also many locusts affected by locusts, but Li Guang has already brought people to deal with those locusts.The crowd followed the sparrow spirit all the way to a ruined temple on the outskirts of the capital, but the sparrow spirit did not continue.

"This is it?" Lu Li asked.

"It's here, I can only trace here. The breath of those insects will stop here. This ruined temple looks very unusual." Sparrow Jing said.

This place is not far from the capital city, which is exactly in line with the direction of the capital city that Sparrow Jing said last time.

However, there is no one here, could it be the origin of those pests?Lu Li was a little skeptical.

"Let's go in and take a look first."