After a brief moment of frozen stupor, Xue Yao began to continue scrubbing the soap as if nothing had happened, pretending not to feel the fat cub standing behind her, smiling and laughing to herself, "How could I have heard Your Highness's voice? He must have forgotten to breastfeed at night and couldn't let it go in his heart."
Yet his horse's ass did not draw forgiveness from those behind him.
A Dragon Pride clawed its way onto his left shoulder, forcing him around.
And so, two people who secretly bathe in the middle of the night finally meet.
The water level in the bathtub was just up to Xue Yao's belly button, and as the two of them were so open and honest with each other, Xue Yao realized that the little chubby boy was already about the same height as herself, but the water level was not even close to the little chubby boy's belly button.
As resourceful as Xue Yao, she quickly realized that the gap was due to the difference in leg length between the two sides.
In the dignity of an old father, he could not afford to be shorter in the leg than the chubby little cub!
So, at this moment when the two of them were looking at each other silently, Xue Yao slowly stood on her tiptoes under the pool to make sure that her navel was also above the water's surface.
"What a coincidence, Your Highness has come to bathe as well?" The tiptoeing Xue Yao greeted with a smile.
"Who is the little fat cub?" The repeater pup's gaze showed a harsh cold hardness through the dense vapor.
Level 1 Hazard Alert!
"Since Your Highness has found out, I'll tell the truth." Xue Yao tightened her smile and spoke as if she were dying, "Little Fatty Pup, that's my nickname!"
The Seventh Prince's cool gaze moved from Xue Yao's face to Xue Yao's body.
Xue Yao's thin and scrawny figure obviously doesn't make this "chubby kid" nickname convincing.
Xue Yao slowly lifted up her stomach, trying to show her small belly, and with the determination to deny it, she explained, "When I was a child, I always ate a lot of food, and my mother called me a little chubby boy, and I originally promised to stay with His Highness for two months without bathing, but I didn't hold out tonight, so I just said that I'm a little chubby boy who is covered with jam, so how could I possibly last the full two months? Alas~"
The Seventh Prince stared indifferently at Xue Yao.
Xue Yao steadied himself without shaking, his expression frank.
The Seventh Prince took a step to Xue Yao's side and made it to the stone steps at the edge of the pool, continuing to start soaking comfortably.
The alarm is deactivated!
Xue Yao breathed a sigh of relief and cheerfully sat down on the stone steps as well, reaching back for the soap and washing the little chubby cub's face with her own hands.
"Master didn't want to wash it." The Seventh Prince, who had been washed white by his young companion, drooped his head, regretting that he hadn't lasted the full two months, "But the jam doesn't blow dry at all."
Xue Yao used a bath towel to wash off the soap from the fat cub's face, followed by another wash, and then scrubbed his shoulders and neck afterward, soothing the cub as he washed him, "It's your highness who bathes obediently that turns back to being the most handsome, and everyone loves a handsome and well-behaved highness."
"But Yao Yao doesn't come back." Seventh Prince drooped his head, "His Highness practices very powerful Bagua Palm, and Yao Yao doesn't come back to see His Highness."
Xue Yao's soap-rubbing hand paused.
Looking at the little chubby cub's sad side face, he suddenly felt that the child was already so big, and he really owed him a reasonable explanation for returning so late for two months.
If he told the truth about his battle with the plague, I'm afraid that the little fat cub's sense of security would instantly go to zero, and his blackout value would instantly explode.
But inexplicably breaking a promise can be just as insecure for the chubby cub.
Xue Yao decided to make up a half-true explanation.
"It's because of the matter of the Crown Prince." Xue Yao grabbed the little chubby cub's paw paw and washed it carefully with soap, and explained softly, "Originally I was supposed to come back soon, but halfway through I learned that the common people in the counties where His Highness the Crown Prince's new law was being tested had run into big trouble, so I couldn't leave with my arms folded, and I could only stay for an extra two months, to solve the difficulties and take care of these Daqi subjects for His Highness the Crown Prince."
"Your Highness is also a citizen of Da Qi." The Seventh Prince looked sideways at Xue Yao, "Your Highness must also be taken care of."
Xue Yao smiled, "Your Highness is the Da Qi Prince, taking care of the people is also taking care of Your Highness ah."
"But Your Highness is afraid." The Seventh Prince was filled with displeasure.
Xue Yao coaxed softly, "How could His Highness the little man be afraid?"
The seventh prince beamed his little fat face and replied in a resigned manner, "His Highness dreamed that Yao Yao was locked in a black cage, surrounded by so many, many bad rats that wanted to bite Yao Yao, Yao Yao cried in fear, His Highness chopped up so many, many rats before he could save Yao Yao from being rescued, but as soon as the day dawned he woke up, and Yao Yao still hadn't come back, His Highness was so scared oh."
Xue Yao trembled as he looked at the Seventh Prince in disbelief.
Warm vapor brushed against Xue Yao's burning eyes.
"Isn't Your Highness afraid that there will be no one to breastfeed, but that Yao Yao will be bullied by the rats?"
The Seventh Prince beamed and nodded.
Xue Yao's clenched fists shook slightly.
The little fat cub, surprisingly, dreamed that he was surrounded by lots and lots of rats.
For four whole months he was surrounded by the dreaded bubonic plague and could not even face the fear in his heart.
The little fat cub actually saw the real, silly Yao Yao who was surrounded by fear and couldn't sleep soundly at night in his dreams.
What is this?
The softest telepathy in the world?
This emotionally disturbed child seems to have a unique way of seeing the heart.
"Thanks to Your Highness killing those bad rats." Xue Yao smiled up with tears in her eyes, "Yao Yao was able to return safely."
The Seventh Prince cocked his head with a confused expression.
Because of successive nightmares, His Highness, who tried to escape from the palace to save his young companion, did not succeed, and was brought back three times.
His Highness didn't kill the bad rats.
Xue Yao put down the bath towel and soap and reached around the chubby cub, murmuring reassuringly with her eyes closed, "Thank you, Lu Qian, the little knight of my dreams."
The thirteen year old's arms were no longer all soft to the touch as a young boy, and the contours of unformed muscles had crept under the chubby cub's pale skin, taut and firm to the touch.
Xue Yao opened his eyes as if it were a lifetime ago, looking at the little fat cub's quiet side face, and in his heart, he suddenly had a sense of crisis of not being able to let him grow up.
Yet it was as if he was expecting him to grow up, expecting him to turn into a true Dragon Pride with amazing talents.
The Seventh Prince, who was being held by his little companion, felt a long-lost comfort and curiously picked up the soap that Xue Yao had brought to bathe in and sniffed it close to his nose.
It smelled so good that His Highness, whose nature was hardly easy, stuck out the tip of his tongue and licked it.
It seems inedible.
Xue Yao: "......"
Forget about it, don't ask the little fat cub to grow up to be incredibly talented, at least he can't poison himself by messing with his food!
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The long-lost clean milky scent of the seventh brother made the fifth and sixth princes "tearful".
"You are not allowed to go out of the capital to visit your family again! If you must go, bring seventh brother along!" The Fifth Prince cried out with a wow.
The Sixth Prince commiserated, "Bring me along too!"
After Xue Yao coaxed the Sixth Prince, the Fifth Prince began to complain again, "Why hasn't Zhang Si returned to the palace by now? Is he not going to teach us kung fu?"
Xue Yao frowned slightly, his heart aching over this matter as well.
The Fifth Prince eyed Xue Yao.
After all, Zhang Si had left the capital to protect Xue Yao, and now that the person had not returned, Xue Yao had not given him any explanation.
"Even if he does not want to teach us kung fu, but also can not greet and do not fight without a shadow, my mother consort ......" The fifth prince paused, muttered with his head down, "My mother consort are sick, I do not know if it is angry. "
"Empress Hui is sick?" Xue Yao was surprised.
The Fifth Prince nodded, he wanted to inquire with Xue Yao about Zhang Si's situation a few days ago, but his mother consort specifically instructed him not to ask, saying something about not making a fool of himself, so he didn't dare to ask.
Zhang Si accompanied the mother consort in those months, the mother consort like a capricious young lady, every day to find fault with Zhang Si, threatening to send Zhang Si away.
Every time Zhang Si smiled and apologized, trying to find ways to beg Princess Hui's forgiveness.
The fifth prince originally also disliked Zhang four clumsy, always cause mother consort unhappy, and then gradually found that Zhang four in, mother consort like a different person, than before easy to laugh, heartless look.
It was different from the heartlessness that Mother Consort had put on in the palace for so many years.
The Fifth Prince didn't know what was different, in any case he could feel it was different.
In just a few short months together, Mother Consort often found the opportunity to have a little temper, Zhang Si patiently coaxed a little, as if Mother Consort could find some kind of security from it.
The security of turning the mother consort back into a living being.
That's how it feels.
The Fifth Prince felt that the mother consort who was being taken care of by Zhang Si was the living mother consort.
A mother consort who doesn't need to pass the long hours by gambling with eunuchs and courtesans on archery.
The mother consort who enjoys the earth and dresses well every day.
A mother consort like that needs Zhang Si by her side to appear.
These days when Xue Yao returned to the palace and Zhang Si did not, every day she waited, it was as if Princess Hui had aged a year.
The Fifth Prince sensed ignorantly that it turned out that every time Mother Consort threatened to send Zhang Si away, she didn't really want to send him away, but rather she wanted to hear Zhang Si promise over and over again in person that she didn't want to go, the
But Zhang Si is gone now.
It was only then that the Fifth Prince realized that this mysterious expert was so important to himself and his mother consort.
Where was he going to find another expert who really knew what he was doing to teach him to practice the horse lance?
Noticing Zhang Si's unavailability, the Fifth Prince no longer dared to take out his master's style, and became cautious when inquiring about Zhang Si from Xue Yao: "Does he not want to go back to the palace as an errand boy?"
Xue Yao hadn't figured out how to explain Zhang Si's disappearance.
If the truth was told, the three young emperors might go and ask the Crown Prince for someone, and the Crown Prince would surely guess that it was him who had leaked the secret.
But if he didn't betray the Crown Prince, he would have to say that Zhang Si himself didn't want to return to the palace, which would surely upset the young emperors, and perhaps upset the ailing Princess Hui even more.
Xue Yao looked at the expectant eyes of the young emperors and finally decided to betray the Crown Prince.
"His Highness the Crown Prince has found out Zhang Si's details and discovered that he is a fake eunuch."
"A fake eunuch?!" The Fifth Prince was stunned!
"Did big brother put him in the dungeon?" The Sixth Prince was filled with worry.
"There are still fake eunuchs?" The Seventh Prince looked confused, "He's actually a palace maid?"
"Specifically I am not clear." Xue Yao helplessly said, "But His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that he will not make things difficult for him, just that he can't be allowed to enter the palace as an errand boy, firstly because his kung fu is too high and difficult to control, and secondly because ...... it's not clear what his purpose is in approaching Princess Hui."
The Sixth Prince had a lost face, "I have only practiced my Bagua Palm for two styles ......"
The fifth prince sighed: "Not a eunuch or not, his body, if he is from the army, must be able to kill a lot of border looting people Khitan dogs."
Recently, the lonely seventh emperor, son felt that he had already practiced his gaijin martial arts, looking down at his palm full of power, a hook of the lips, "Your Highness can also beat away the Khitan dogs."
The fifth prince could not help but lower his head in loss, "I also want to ride the battlefield to protect my family and defend my country, and it is so easy to have a weapon in hand ......."
The Sixth Prince's eyes lit up and suggested, "Let's go find Big Brother? Let Zhang Si come back and teach us kung fu!"
Xue Yao was afraid that the princes would go and make trouble with the Crown Prince, and hurriedly stopped it, "In Zhang Si's case, it is indeed inconvenient to stay in the palace, and His Highness the Crown Prince will not agree."
The Fifth Prince clenched his fist, "Big brother will agree!"
The Sixth Prince frowned solemnly, "If we don't agree, we'll let Seventh Brother lie at Big Brother's feet and roll around!"
With that said, the two mature older siblings turned their heads with a grim look to their big brother's little baby-
Seventh Prince: "????"
The Fifth Prince delegated, "Seventh Brother, if Big Brother doesn't agree, you'll desperately bang your head against the wall!"
Seventh Prince: "？？？？？？"