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"Empress, why didn't you stay?"

It was only when the two of them had left the Hall of Announcements and walked a long distance away that the palace maid who was attending them asked them in a soft voice.

After saying that, she paused for a moment before unconsciously turning her head to look at the palace from afar.

"Here, after memorizing this part, I'll allow you to go play …" Luo Yi was multitasking, her eyes staring at the ancient scripture in her hand, not forgetting to reply: "No way."

"Why?" Chen Liyi frowned, dissatisfied.

"Because she and I are both you …" Luo Yi paused, and stroked the relationship between the two of them before continuing: "Your royal uncle's concubine, so it is only natural that she calls me big sister. But you can't do it, you are the crown prince, I am the second wife, what does it matter that you call me big sister …"

She reached out to straighten Chen Liyi's head, forcing him to look at the page in front of him: "Did you remember what I said just now? Repeat it for me. "

"..." The path of a university was obviously virtuous, benevolent, and benevolent. However, as far as the goodness was concerned … Can I really not call you sister? "

Chen Liyi was a little dejected, but after reading two sentences, he suddenly changed the subject, and turned his head to look at Luo Yi while feeling wronged.

"I can't …"

Before Luo Yi could finish her sentence, she heard another low voice come from the other side. "I have never treated you as his concubine …"

Luo Yi was startled, seeing Chen Liyi lower his head, revealing the bun at the back of his head.

"He deserves to die, so everyone who is related to him must die. But I don't want you to die …"

That was what he said in a suppressed voice. In the ears of humans, it was not much clearer than the sound of an insect or fly, so Luo Yi did not hear him clearly, only that he was instantly disheartened, as if his life anger had been sucked away. He did not want to bear with it anymore. But only where there is no one. "

"And you can't be heard!" she added.

"Really?" Chen Liyi opened his eyes wide in surprise, he felt that he had experienced a great tragedy in this short period of time, and couldn't help but prop his head in her embrace, but was pushed away by Luo Yi quickly.

She made it seem as if her strength was weak and itchy. "Go recite quickly."

"En!" Chen Liyi was really happy, and he hugged the book in his arms without refuting a single thing.

That's good now — thinking about it like this, even the boring words in her hands became more interesting — Chen Liyi happily thought, she did not need to die anymore.

Luo Yi, on the other hand, was completely unaware of all this, and stared at the boiling tea in his hand, thinking of something. Only until she was annoyed by Chen Liyi calling him "Sister" every two seconds, did she frown and pat his head: "Why is it so annoying …"

This wasn't because he was really annoyed with him, Chen Liyi naturally could tell that. He laughed and called out a few more times, but after receiving a few more "eh" sounds from Luo Yi, he smirked and raised the book up once again.

When it was afternoon, Luo Yi finally finished watching the crown prince finish his homework. Just as he was about to go back and rest, he was pulled by Chen Liyi by the arm, "Do you know that there's an apricot forest in the Imperial Garden?"

"Ugh …" Luo Yi recalled her few visits to the imperial flower garden and uncertainly nodded her head, "There seems to be a patch of forest like this … "What's wrong?"

"I had someone do a swing there a few days ago. Can we go there together?"

"Not good …" Luo Yi's face was full of shock: "I didn't think a boy like you to actually swing this kind of thing."

"It's really embarrassing."

Seeing Chen Liyi's completely red cheeks, the smile on her face couldn't help but deepen even further. He then put his index finger on his lips and scoffed, "Hush, let's go ourselves."

"En!" Chen Liyi reacted quickly, upon hearing that, he immediately covered his mouth with his hand, and nodded strongly.

smiled, but his words did not carry any warmth. "Recently, I seem to have seen a lot of my beloved officials in the harem."

He casually broke a flower branch, and his originally beautiful face added a bit of charm to this flower. Therefore, Mu Yizhou turned his face away with disdain. Wen Shili, who was kneeling on the ground, did not even give him an extra glance, "The previous palace maid has not found the real culprit after the murder, your majesty, please forgive me."

"Wu, that is nothing …" Chen Jinyan waved his hand, and said indifferently: "We have something to ask you."

His words were unclear, and the tone of his words did not change much from usual. However, Wen Shili was shocked, and cold sweat began to pour down his back.

"The Western Liao Army is stationed thirty miles outside of our country, and yet they don't attack despite sounding the drums every day. What do you think the Western Liao Army means?"

Wen Shili heaved a sigh of relief.

He thought for a moment, and instantly sorted out the current relations between the different countries in his head. His expression became cold, and he said stably, "Western Lion Region has always been on good terms with the Northern Tribes, and when we fought with them last year, we took advantage of a robbery to take over one of their cities. Right now, the Northern Tribes are not doing anything, but Western Lion Alliance is sending out an army to suppress their territory.

"The Western Liao Army is strong. Our soldiers have suffered a great loss in their morale during the previous year's battle. We should not fight face to face, but launch a surprise attack instead, and …"

As he spoke, his expression became much more vivid than usual, and his expression also had a faint change. He didn't even seem to care about his words like gold anymore, as if he had come alive. Unfortunately, before he could finish what he wanted to say, Chen Jinyan cut him off, "The Northern Tribes are still eyeing our country covetously. Our army urgently needs a victory to stabilize our morale and intimidate our enemies.

"The Western Liao Army did not move for a long time. It was not because of fear, but because it wanted to extinguish our will and catch us off guard. This official thinks that our army will take the initiative."

Wen Shili was still young and strong, his whole body burning with hot blood from the moment he said those words. Now that he heard the other party's words, a burst of energy surged up from his chest.

They were all good men, who wouldn't want to protect their families and build their country?

Wen Shili's voice sank as if he had the power of thousands of men at his disposal, "This official offers his advice to you …"

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by a sudden voice.

Chen Jinyan was finally tired of playing with the flower. When the two fingers pinching the stem of the flower loosened, the flower involuntarily fell to the ground.

"It's better to think about it before answering." His tone instantly became distant, "I promised your father that I would never let you be in danger, so I'll give you a chance to go back on your word. If you keep this promise even after serious consideration, it won't be too late for you to return."

He even patted Wen Shili's shoulder, but didn't say anything. He only gave him a deep look, then turned around and left.

Just as Luo Yi and Chen Liyi sneakily arrived at the Imperial Garden, what they saw was exactly this scene.

Luo Yi and Mu Yizhou had turned around and were walking in this direction. Luo Yi felt that she would never be able to react so quickly in her entire life, so she quickly pulled Chen Liyi along and hid in a bush that was half the height of a person when the two of them turned around.

Caught off guard, Chen Liyi was almost dragged down by her. After squatting down steadily beside Luo Yi with much difficulty, before he even had the chance to speak, he was once again covered with one hand and looked ahead diagonally with the other.

The group of people in front of him was the one he didn't want to see the most.

Chen Liyi became quiet, obediently lowering his body a bit. Not only that, he even held his breath in as well.

He was a little pleased, thinking that Sister must have been like him, not liking this cheap emperor. She didn't know that the reason why she kept pressing down on him was not because of Zhi Zun, but because of that weird man wearing a mask behind him.

Luo Yi didn't even dare to raise her head.

Lin Yaoniao was right, she was afraid of him.

Since it has come to this, Luo Yi can't even deceive herself anymore. I'm just scared of giving up on myself, what about it! While sshe was thinking, he quietly looked outside.

Mu Yizhou had already walked in front of her. Luo Yi heaved a sigh of relief, just in case she did not come out immediately.

The long line of maids paused for a moment, but then quickly resumed their pace. No one knew that during that short pause, a masked man let out an unintelligible laugh from his throat.

"You should regret it now …" Chen Jinyan rarely laughed at him, "She's even started to hide from you."

"This subject does not regret it," Mu Yizhou lowered his eyes, his tone was light, but it revealed a subtle sense of death.

"She'll find out sooner or later."

Luo Yi, who was unaware of the fact that she was in another person's words, stared at him in shock: "Why are you still here?"

Wen Shili's expression did not change, "I just saw you …. "Greetings, Your Highness."

"What?" Luo Yi was shocked, she nervously turned her head to look at the small path which had long since disappeared, and heaved a sigh of relief.

Wen Shili looked at her actions in a baffling manner, his eyes blinking: "The Empress is hiding from me?"

"Ugh …" "I guess so …" She waved her hand in disapproval, then half squatted down as she coaxed Chen Liyi to go play with her.

She was the concubine. In this palace, the only person she could hide from was probably that person …

Wen Shili stood in place, watching the interaction between the two of them from above. Then, he watched as Imperial Consort Yi coaxed the crown prince away before standing up and knocking him into his own eyes.

Honestly speaking, Luo Yi felt that it was strange for him to be able to look this person in the eye with just a glance, but she couldn't really say how it felt. Thus, she ignored this strange feeling and looked him in the eye: "Mr. Wen has something to say to me?"

"Is Mr. Wen not in good spirits today?" Luo Yi looked up and down at Wen Shili, she did not dare believe that these were actually asked from his mouth, but seeing her unperturbed face, she did not say much, and casually said: "I was deceiving her."

She still felt that it was unbelievable, how could Wen Shili not think of this?

"She's just a weak girl, yet she appeared in such a remote place late at night. If she's not very daring, then there must be someone beside her …" Who would have thought that she would be so defenceless. "

As Luo Yi spoke, she moved on to the next topic, and shook his head, sighing over the mental state of this year's palace maids.

Wen Shili couldn't help but laugh, as his lowered eyes contained the smile within. "Empress is right."

However, after these words, the two once again fell into an awkward silence.

If it weren't for the fact that his expression was too obvious earlier, she would have left with Chen Liyi after greeting him briefly. But now that she had already answered his question, Luo Yi decided to say his goodbyes.

"Ugh …" "It's not bad, right …"

Luo Yi frowned, she did not know why he would suddenly mention it.

She had heard of this place before, and it was even more remote than her hometown. It was a place famous for jade and stone, and the "Jade Selection Peak Ye" that the elderly often spoke of was this Feng Ye.

She blinked her eyes as though she wanted to ask a question, but Wen Shili suddenly knelt down on one knee and saluted towards her: "This subject still has matters to attend to, so I will take my leave first."

Luo Yi, "..."

Mr. Wen was not in a good mood today!