Chapter 22

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Concubine Shih didn't turn her head, and spoke in a low voice: "It's me who's stupid, having been cheated over and over again, but still believing that there's goodness in this harem for no reason."

Xue Yao frowned and looked straight at Consort Shi regardless of etiquette, "Xue Yao swears to the heavens that he has never betrayed Your Highness's trust."

"This Harem's oath, how many kilograms is it worth?" Concubine Shih got up and walked aside, speaking hopelessly, "After all, you have helped me once, I won't make things difficult for you, when Lao Qi finds a suitable new companion, you'd better go back to your master's side to do your work."

Xue Yao was struck by a bolt from the blue, looking at Consort Shi in shock, his always fluent eloquence unable to be utilized at the moment, mumbling, "Your Highness! I am loyal to you and His Highness, and His Highness's character and habits have yet to be corrected, so I can't just let it go!"

Princess Shio looked determined, and did not answer.

Xue Yao became more and more alarmed, things happened so suddenly.

He had wanted to reverse the future of Princess Shio's mother and son, and in the meantime, find a way to terminate the Emperor's Offer of the Road to Shu plan ahead of schedule and save the common people who suffered as a result.

Now, before the plan even started, she ended up being misunderstood by Princess Shio.

How could he be instructed by the Queen?

And I don't know which villain spoke ill of him behind his back!

Xue Yao turned her head worriedly, looking towards the Seventh Prince sitting at the table.

The Seventh Prince didn't understand their conversation, but as if his heart was in the right place, he didn't care about tinkering with his toys at the moment, but instead, his eyes were wide open, staring uneasily at his mother consort and Xue Yao.

His Highness the Seventh Prince thought that it was because his storytelling wasn't fun that his mother consort was upset, so he nervously chirped and opened his mouth to Consort Shio, "How about Master gives you another Houyi to shoot the sun?"

Princess Shio: "......"

Xue Yao: "......"

It's over. The moment he comes out, he'll be exposed!

This little fat cub has nothing to do with suddenly adding any drama to himself!

Houyi shoot your sister!

However ......

The Seventh Prince's return to his true colors made a Shi Fei laugh.

Originally a room full of palace maids with the same enemy, they have lowered their heads and covered their mouths and laughed.

Xue Yao's thoughts were all messed up by the Seventh Prince!

Princess Shio didn't give him another chance to explain and told the palace maid to send off the guests.

After returning to the mansion, Xue Yao stayed up all night, tossing and turning, with mixed feelings in his heart.

In a moment of anger, I thought, "I don't want to care about your mother's and son's bad luck, just leave!"

For a moment, he remembered His Highness's fleshy little bun face.

Why did Princess Shio suddenly think he was the Empress' man?

Who the hell is doing this?

When he thought about it carefully, he had offended Consort Tong before because of the uncovering of the scented bag.

It is very likely that Consort Tong is the one who is stirring up trouble and sowing discord.

But now that Consort Shi has recognized Consort Tong's true nature, why would she still believe Consort Tong's provocation?

Xue Yao rolled over and frowned at the ceiling, his head hurting from the thought.

Right.

Xue Yao steeply rolled over and sat up.

The fact that Consort Tong knew about the scented bag meant that there might be a mole around Consort Shi.

Could it be that Princess Tong let the mole stir up trouble?

Xue Yao wasn't so sure.

Why would someone like Princess Tong, who did great things, have trouble with an eight-year-old like him?

He asked himself that he was not qualified to be Princess Tong's opponent.

Regardless of the reason, it was now certain: the person who stirred up trouble in front of Consort Shi was 80% Consort Tong's mole.

The problem was that Princess Shio couldn't trust him at all, and even if she knew who the mole was, she couldn't do anything about it.

Consort Shio was going to change the companion for the Seventh Prince, and a large number of the children of the world's families were lined up to wait.

Counting the time it took to go through the selections one by one, Xue Yao would still be able to stay by the Seventh Prince's side for two or three days at most.

Powerless to return, Xue Yao lay back on the bed with his eyes closed.

Take one step at a time.

After doing all that needed to be done, it was really difficult to ask Princess Shio to trust him as an outsider.

If the Seventh Prince's future was destined to be bumpy, that would be fate.

*

On the penultimate or third day of remaining by the Seventh Prince's side, Xue Yao seemed to have a thousand words to say.

He wanted to tell Little Fatty: no matter how many bad people you encounter in the future, don't forget that there's still Sixth Brother who loves you, Fifth Brother who loves you, Princess Shih and Big Brother, who all love His Highness the Seventh Prince.

If there comes a day when Your Highness must close your heart against the elements, then you must also remember to open it again, the clouds will always clear one day, and the sun will once again shine on your little bun face, don't lock your heart forever, okay? Little fat cub.

But what's the point of saying these painless words?

There's really nothing he can do to help.

When the future Little Lu Qian was being mocked and bullied, "Silly Yao Yao" didn't even have a chance to hug him and pinch his bun face.

Xue Yao asked herself not to be an overly kind and warm-hearted person, but she still couldn't let go of the situation.

Probably, children are always the most important thing to worry about.

I really don't want this little guy who loves to eat and sleep and give pinched faces to turn into the beastly, cold and violent King Ning at the end of the book.

The Seventh Prince sat obediently in his chair, looking wordlessly at Xue Yao.

"Does Your Highness drink milk?" The Seventh Prince couldn't wait any longer and opened his mouth to ask himself on Xue Yao's behalf.

"......" Xue Yao's sadness was all over the place.

"Your Highness may not even have good milk in the future." Xue Yao was beating a dead horse, wanting to try and utilize this little chubby cub to convince Consort Shi together.

"The Queen won't let me be a companion to His Highness anymore, I won't be able to see His Highness in a couple days."

The Seventh Prince seemed to be able to understand, and began to gnaw on his little hand in a panicked and helpless state.

Xue Yao removed his small hand and sternly taught, "Your Highness called yourself master again yesterday with the Empress, don't you say it's done? You have to refer to yourself as child, son, and me."

The Seventh Prince eagerly stared at Xue Yao, aggressively demanding, "Your Highness still sees Yao Yao, after two days, after three days, after many, many days ......"

Xue Yao's stern expression couldn't hold up all of a sudden, and she pinched His Highness's little bun face in a lost manner, "I also want to stay with His Highness for many, many days, but Your Highness doesn't allow it... Will Your Highness ask Her Highness to keep me?"

The Seventh Prince nodded his head straight.

Xue Yao said, "From now on, Your Highness must refer to Mother Consort as child or son, and cannot say master."

The Seventh Prince solemnly agreed and overcorrected, saying to a courtesan before his lunch break, "My son will eat a peach."

Put a courtesan almost scared kneeling, the emperor to her a slave girl called himself a son of ......

The Seventh Prince's communication style had progressed from baffling, straight to piss-inducing, all thanks to the stern guidance of his companion, Yao Yao.

Xue Yao was driven crazy, repeatedly telling the little fat cub that he couldn't talk about his son with anyone other than his father's concubines.

The seventh prince's biggest blind spot lies in the self itself, the problem of self-proclaimed name in his view is just a pronoun, the original pile of name is already messy enough, because the seventh prince called the seventh prince "your highness" the most people, so the seventh prince in most cases call themselves your highness.

Now, because of the mistake in front of Mother Consort, the silly Yao Yao was about to be saved, and His Highness's consciousness was all messed up.

One day in the school down, the seventh prince to the two brothers a moment to call themselves "son of the minister", a moment to call themselves "master", so that the sixth prince and the fifth prince a moment to the old seven as a father, a moment to the old seven as a grandson.

The two young emperors didn't care much, they had long been dead to Old Seven's ability to communicate, it was good enough to understand, make do with what they had.

This day after school, for the first time, the Seventh Prince took the initiative to pull Xue Yao and refused to let go of his hand, asking him to return to the Green Vault Palace with him.

Maybe this little guy also understands what it means to be separate, like no more Wonky's or something like that.

The specific idea could not be deeply investigated, anyway, Xue Yao was very touched, sending the seventh prince until outside the Green Vault Palace, the seventh prince still would not let go.

The little guy's hands weren't too small, and Xue Yao's fingers were strangled red.

Dangling this kind of juncture in front of Princess Shio's eyes would instead turn her off even more.

Xue Yao assured the Seventh Prince that they would meet again tomorrow before the Seventh Prince would let go.

It was all in the eyes of Princess Shio.

Yiqiu couldn't help but speak up, "It's the first time I've seen Your Highness so close to the companion."

Princess Shio looked indifferently at the two children outside the palace gates.

Yiqiu added: "The slave girl said earlier, this boy is very eccentric, the way he mouthed off in front of the empress in the beginning must have been pretending. The first time I saw him come to the door to make amends, the slave girl could see that he was a shrewd brat, and originally also advised you not to keep him beside His Highness, but now ......"

She watched Shiofei's face, not daring to speak.

"Speak." Princess Shio faintly ordered her to continue with her thoughts.

"Now, the slave girl feels that he has the sincerity to join you. And not to mention the matter of the scented bag, just say the little master these days in the school after the change, slave girl all see in the eyes, indeed not quite the same, his highness is more willing to play with a person, not always a person to tinker with the gadgets, can see that he accompanied the readers when still dedicated."

Princess Shio slowly closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

Yiqiu waited for her to ponder for a moment and then suggested, "Why don't we let Chunfang keep an eye on him for a few more days to see if we can figure out what he's looking for and what he's looking for when he goes into the Reserve Palace?"

Princess Shio still didn't say anything.

Yiqiu thought that the Empress had been bitten by a snake once and refused to trust outsiders anymore, and was just about to call it quits when Consort Shi suddenly spoke up.

"Don't let Chunfang go." Concubine Shi opened her eyes and spoke in a low voice, "Find me a set of well-fitting palace clothes, I will personally keep an eye on him for a few days."

Yiqiu was shocked, "This ...... this I'm afraid ...... Your Highness, why don't you let the slave girl ......"

"Go prepare." Princess Shio's face was stubborn, "I only believe in my own eyes now."

Yiqiu nodded back, "Yes."

*

Xue Yao was still apprehensive in his heart when he returned to the mansion.

Hopefully with the Seventh Prince could coax the Mother Consort to keep him around.

But the hope was obviously too faint, and the more I thought about it, the more desperate I became.

In order to relax, Xue Yao entered the mental space and began to shop and spend money on stress-reducing entertainment.

However, the mall can only be refreshed a total of three times, and the product screen comes to a head at once.

Bored, he went back to the two squares at the very edge of the cube and lit them up with his hand.

Strangely enough, the bottom of the Rubik's Cube had a total of nine squares, and when seven of them were tapped, the system would prompt [Whether or not to consume 130 Whitewash Points to open them] and be able to see the common goods that transformed within the squares.

Only the last two compartments of the Rubik's Cube, there are no samples displayed inside, and it is completely impossible to see what goods are being sold.

The names of these two malls are also very strange, one is called "Gap Mall" and the other is called "Multidimensional Record Reference Line Mall".

When Xue Yao was in a depressed mood, it was easy to have the urge to spend money, and coupled with curiosity, at the moment, he was eager to close his eyes and spend one hundred and three white wash points to open one of the shopping centers and see what exactly was being sold inside.