There was only one lamp lit in the study, and the faintly dancing flames were not enough to illuminate the entire study.

Ye Yunting squinted his eyes, adjusted to the dim light, and then groped towards the direction of the light source. The candlelight was behind the screen, casting a hazy silhouette of a person on the screen.

He walked around the screen and saw the man in the dim candlelight.

Li Fengqi was sitting in a wheelchair, looking away from the window with his back to him. The cool night breeze made the rice paper on the desk rustle. Ye Yunting glanced at it and could only vaguely see the wildly scrawled handwriting on it.

"Your Majesty?" Ye Yunting called out and slowly approached him.

"Are you okay?" He walked around to Li Fengqi to check on him.

Li Fengqi then raised his head. Whether it was from pain or being blown by the cool wind, his face was a little pale, and there was no blood on his lips. He shook his head slowly, and his voice was a little hoarse: "I'm fine."

"Shall I go ask a doctor?" Ye Yunting knitted his brows, carefully touched his leg, and lowered his voice: "Does it still hurt?"

"No need." Li Fengqi lowered his eyes: "It doesn't hurt anymore."

But the more he said it didn't hurt, the more uncomfortable Ye Yunting became.

He thought about what his servant had just said that he had not come out since he entered the study, and that he had not even used dinner. He couldn't help but feel a little upset and regretful. It would have been better if he had come back earlier today.

"Then I'll push you back to your room first?" Ye Yunting softened his voice to discuss with him: "It's not good to sit here all the time. The night wind is very cold, and it will be even more troublesome if you catch the wind cold again."

Li Fengqi pursed her lips and looked at him. Originally it was just a show to make him feel sorry for her, but with his concern in such a soft voice, the depression he had been feeling all day could not help but be revealed.

"Does the eldest master care that I can't catch the cold?"

Ye Yunting looked surprised and subconsciously said: "Of course."

After saying that, he felt that the words were too ambiguous. He added with an unnatural look: "The remaining poison in the prince's body is not cleared, and it is always not good to add wind and cold."

Li Fengqi listened to his explanation, as if he was afraid that he would misunderstand something, and his eyes became darker and darker.

He suppressed the emotion in his eyes and said softly: "Thank you for your concern, eldest son."

Ye Yunting felt that his "Thank you" was a bit weird and not sincere. It seemed like he was mocking him.

He looked at Li Fengqi, but could not see the emotion on his face, so he had to pick up the candlestick and push him out of the study.

When he returned to the main room, he asked Ji Lian to bring him hot water. After Li Fengqi had cleaned himself and got on the bed, he reached out to roll up his trouser legs.

Li Fengqi's eyebrows jumped and he subconsciously grabbed his arm: "What are you doing?"

"Let me take a look at your legs." Ye Yunting said, "You didn't want to see a doctor, and now you don't know what's going on."

He felt that Li Fengqi was too negative. There were thousands of doctors in the world, and it was impossible to say that there would be any strange people who could detoxify him, but he didn't believe any of them. When will this leg get better?

"What's there to see?" Li Fengqi grabbed his wrist, his expression flashed unnaturally, but he didn't let go.

Ye Yunting stretched out his hand to pull him, his expression insisting: "I want to see."

Li Fengqi looked at him for a moment, but was finally defeated. He let go of his hand, leaned back on the soft pillow, closed his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Just watch, don't be scared."

Ye Yunting then carefully rolled up his trouser legs to check his legs, and then his breath suffocated, and he said a little lost his temper: "How could this happen?"

I saw that the skin on Li Fengqi's legs had turned purple, and the veins were curved and bulging, like ugly long worms coiled on it. It was clear that when he took care of Li Fengqi before, although his legs could not move, he looked

He was no different from ordinary people. Later, when the crisis in the palace was temporarily resolved, Li Fengqi no longer asked him to take care of him. He was always waiting for him to wash and wash at the fifth watch, so he stopped paying attention to his physical condition. But he didn't expect that his legs had become like this.

Li Fengqi's expression was indifferent: "The poison in the whole body has been suppressed to the legs. Naturally, it looks scary."

"But won't it affect both legs if this continues?" Ye Yunting's eyebrows were filled with worry. Previously, Li Fengqi was poisoned and his muscles and veins were blocked and he could not move normally. However, after the toxicity was gradually suppressed, he recovered in a few days and was no different from normal people. But

Looking at the current condition of his legs, he was worried that even if he was detoxified in the future, his legs would no longer be able to move freely.

"There will be no impact for the time being." Li Fengqi said.

After he finished speaking, he saw that his face was too worried, so he explained: "I have done some research on this cold poison. It cannot be cured by ordinary doctors. I have sent people to find someone who can cure it." As for when he can find it,

It depends on God's will.

"Doesn't Han Chan have the antidote in his hand?" Ye Yunting's eyes flashed with a stern look: "It's better to send people to sneak into the Taifu's house to steal it than to wait."

He said this out of anger. If he were a normal person, he would never mention these underhanded tactics.

After Li Fengqi listened, the tightness in his chest disappeared.

Ye Yunting was really worried about him.

"Young Master, you think I haven't thought about it?" He chuckled and shook his head: "I had already sent people to secretly sneak into Taifu's Mansion, but Han Chan was too cunning and did not find where the antidote was hidden.

."

Ye Yunting was a little disappointed: "Then find some excuse for him and force him to hand over the antidote."

"Yeah." Li Fengqi looked at him and smiled: "It's just that I can't survive alone. Zhu Lie in the fifth watch is a reckless man who only knows fists and kicks. I need the eldest son to give me advice."

The speaker is unintentional and the listener is intentional.

Ye Yunting's casual words reminded him of his husband's proposal. His mind suddenly became confused, and he forced a smile and said, "Of course."

The two of them rested early that night. Ye Yunting turned off the lights, wrapped himself in a quilt and pretended to sleep with his back to Li Fengqi. However, there were two voices in his mind that kept tugging at each other.

One said: "Sir, you are right. You have been traveling around famous mountains and rivers for a long time. This is a rare opportunity. As long as you agree, you will no longer have any constraints."

Another said: "King Yong'an is kind to you. Now you are surrounded by wolves. If you leave, there is no guarantee that you will not make the same mistakes as in the previous life. If you stay, you can at least remind him of the future. Famous mountains and rivers will always be there.

Well, it doesn't really matter whether it's earlier or later."

The two voices were at each other's throats for a long time, but finally came to no conclusion. Ye Yunting felt dizzy, quietly exhaled, closed his eyes tightly, and forced himself to sleep.

Not long after I closed my eyes, I heard a soft gasp from beside me.

Ye Yunting was about to turn around and look, but he felt Li Fengqi sit up, then raised his hand to pull the bedside bell. His body stiffened and he missed the opportunity to make a move.

The person beside him has already taken his robe and put it on.

After a while, Ye Yunting felt the door of the room open and someone walked in. The voice sounded like it was five o'clock in the morning.

There was no communication between the two after that, and Ye Yunting could only guess what they were doing based on the rustling sounds - Wu Geng pushed a wheelchair, Li Fengqi sat on it, and then the two of them moved lightly and left the back room.

After the people left, he sat up.

He recalled the noise he had just heard. He originally thought that Li Fengqi had something to do and it was not convenient for him to know. But after recalling it carefully, he felt that it was not the case.

That suppressed gasp always made him very concerned.

After hesitating for a moment, he put on his coat and quietly followed out.

It was already late at night, and all the lights in the palace were turned off, except for a few lanterns left for the night. Ye Yunting looked around and found that only the study was still lit, so he went to the study.

He walked lightly to the door, only to see that the study door was slightly closed, and faint voices could be heard from inside.

Wu Geng said: "What else does the prince need?"

"No, you can go out." This was Li Fengqi's voice. His voice contained a forbearing tone, as if he was enduring something.

The sound of footsteps came from the house again, from far to near, indicating that it was time to come out at the fifth watch.

Ye Yunting subconsciously hid around the corner.

At five o'clock in the morning, he left the study and walked out to the yard. After waiting for the others to leave, he quietly approached the study and sneaked in gently.

Wu Geng, who was hiding in the dark, saw this scene and thought that the prince was also strange. When he was not poisoned, he would trick the princess into giving the poison, but now that he was really having an attack, he hid in the study without asking him to wake up the princess.

Now that the princess has discovered it herself, it would be better for him not to stop her.

Thinking this at the fifth watch, he hid in the tree.

And Ye Yunting has quietly entered the study.

This time, three floor-to-ceiling candlesticks were lit in the study, illuminating the entire room. Ye Yunting stood outside and could clearly see the movements of the people behind him through the thin screen.

——Li Fengqi bit the cloth in his mouth and rolled up his trouser legs, revealing his legs that were even more terrifying than before. He held a small knife in his hand, roasted it on the candlelight, and then aimed at the curved and bulging tendons.

Go down...

Black blood gushed out from the wound, and he sucked it up with a piece of cloth, then casually threw it into the copper basin beside him. His movements were swift and without any hesitation, and only the occasional gasping revealed his pain.

Ye Yunting stood steadily in front of the screen. He even saw sweat dripping from his forehead, but he didn't even bother to wipe it away.

After treating one leg, Li Fengqi seemed to be in extreme pain. He threw the knife into the copper basin, leaned into the wheelchair, and tightly grasped the armrests of the wheelchair with both hands. After a while, he finally got over the pain. He vomited out

With the cloth in his mouth, he slowly took a breath, turned around to pick up the tea on the desk, and then saw the figure behind the screen.

"Fifth watch?"

He called out, but saw that there was no response. When he looked again, his breath was suffocated, and he forced a smile and said: "You are still awake at this time, did I wake you up?"

Ye Yunting walked around from behind the screen and saw his bloody legs more clearly. His hand hanging by his side tightened: "Did the prince lie to me before?"

With this comparison, he still didn't understand why Li Fengqi was just trying to deceive him when he said he was suffering from cold poison.

Li Fengqi said "hmm".

"Then why are you avoiding me now that you are really poisoned?" Ye Yunting stared at him closely and persisted in getting to the bottom of it.

"Does the eldest son really not understand, or are you pretending to be confused with me again?" Li Fengqi suddenly raised his eyes to look at him, with undisguised aggression in his eyes.

Maybe it was because night could always amplify people's emotions, or maybe the pain made him less patient. Li Fengqi's eyes were very deep and he explained to him word for word: "I pretended to be poisonous to lie to you before, just to make you feel distressed.

Right now, even though I’m really angry, I’m avoiding you because I don’t want you to see me in such a miserable state.”

He took a deep breath, suppressed the pain in his body, and smiled slowly: "A man always hopes that he will be tall and majestic in the eyes of his sweetheart, instead of being embarrassed and fragile. Do you understand, sir?"
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