CROWN PRINCE'S CONCUBINE

125 The Morning Sun

LuoXiang easily lifted BaiYing so lightly on his back, carried him towards the entrance of a shady garden full of shade of bamboo trees and else, past aYa who lowered her head when he saw her, the Crown Prince briefly stopped, looked at the girl for a moment, then continued on his way.

“YingYing, tonight the mayor will cook bamboo shoots, that’s one of your favorites right?”

BaiYing who had closed his eyes nodded.

“Yes, I like it, it tastes so good, it’s not strange that the mayor looks so happy and fat, right?”

His words made LuoXiang couldn’t help but laugh.

“Heheheh yeah, and when the bamboo shoots were one of the easiest to find, don’t know how the people here survived in this kind of weather for a long time, but they did, they did really great”

BaiYing nodded again, with his sleepy head he answered half-consciously.

“Yeah, they’re great Your Majesty, Pang’er, great”

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Arriving at the room on the second floor of the bungalow, Yan and Bi pulled the blankets quickly as LuoXiang lowered BaiYing who was already sound asleep onto the bed, slowly gently, and carefully holding the young man’s body down slowly so he wouldn’t fall down hard.

“Hemh, the cake is delicious” the young man had a dream, LuoXiang caressed the young man’s cheek, smoothed his messy hair in front of his forehead, pulled the blanket up to cover his chest.

“He’s a little bit warm, have you guys been outside for a long time?” LuoXiang asked the maids, the young girl lowered her knees slightly while shaking her head.

“Not too long Your Majesty, His Majesty said bored in the rooms so look for outside air while painting, but when the painting unfinished, he had fallen asleep from exhausted, forgive us Your Majesty for not daring to wake him up”

“Heh, prepare hot water, I’ll wash him.”

The two young maids lowered themselves and moved back toward the door.

“Yes Your Majesty”

The Crown Prince clasped BaiYing’s fingers, somehow he felt very anxious, what the young dragon ErWang said to him made him worry, about BaiYing’s light getting dimmer, how could he be getting dimmer? What does this mean? BaiYing’s condition after the bloodstone disappeared from his body, would it get worse? He couldn’t imagine it happening, he didn’t even dare to imagine it.

“...now, after the stone is out of his body, the light is also getting dimmer, you should cherish all your time with him young man because, in the future, he might go far from you”

He lifted BaiYing’s fingers, opened his soft palm to touch his cheek.

“Heh YingYing, I won’t let your light dim, absolutely not.”

BaiYing shifted his body sleeping sideways to face LuoXiang.

“Your Majesty, let’s go to sleep” he delirious and pulled LuoXiang’s hand towards him, slowly the Crown Prince climbed onto the bed and lowered his body to sleep beside BaiYing, raised his big hand to support BaiYing’s head, and pulled the young man into his arms.

“Are you feeling uncomfortable?”

BaiYing who was already half asleep raised his arms to hug LuoXiang’s big chest.

“Your Majesty, you smell so good”

LuoXiang smiled, he hugged the young man tightly even though his body was hot, making the cold sweat out might be better for him.

“YingYing too, um, after back to the palace we will take a bath together, I’ll rub your back again, it must be really nice, you really like all those fragrances right? I saw a shop while passing in DuAn town, we’ll buy a lot later,”

BaiYing nodded,

“Yeah, we’ll buy a lot, we’ll buy one for sis Fan’er too, yeah, she must have been waiting anxiously in the palace, heh sis Fan’er is easily bored, she must be so jumpy, and yabbying all day”

LuoXiang smiled, this kid always thought of others, no matter how they treated him.

“Your Majesty”

“Hmm?” asked LuoXiang.

For a while, waiting for what the young man would say, who was trying to fight his drowsiness.

“Don’t be mean to aYa, she’s a good princess, although, at first she was always grumpy, lately she’s always been taking care of Ying’er, she’s very kind, and she has a lot of snacks, don’t scold her anymore okay?”

LuoXiang stroked BaiYing’s hair, he pulled the body closer to him and kissed his forehead.

“I also want to thank her for helping to save you, how could I be mean to her.”

LuoXiang waited for the young man’s response for a moment, but apparently, he was already sound asleep in his arms.

“Heh this kid, why do you have such a soft heart”

“Chup, sleep well,” he whispered, stroking the young man’s hair gently and pressing his forehead against BaiYing’s.

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kreekkk.

The door of the room was opened from the inside, the Crown Prince appeared from inside, pausing to look at the person who had been waiting for him there since this afternoon, aYa who immediately turned her body. The girl lowered her head in salute as the Crown Prince approached.

“Your Majesty, um, how is Ying’er doing?” she asked.

LuoXiang pursed his lips, the girl was not afraid of him in the slightest even though he had threatened her many times not to approach BaiYing when he was alone, it couldn’t be helped, the girl seemed to have fallen in love with his concubine.

The Crown Prince stepped over to his table and chair and sat down slowly enjoying the tea his maid had prepared for him.

“YingYing has a slight fever, he probably just caught a cold because his wound hasn’t recovered from the last attack, he is fine and sleeping now, you should also go back to your room princess, tomorrow you will return to Kili right?”

AYa looked at the Crown Prince who slowly raised his cup to take a sip of his tea. She still stammered speechless.

“Don’t waste my precious time princess, it’s late at night, I think it’s time for everyone to rest, if you don’t mind I’ll go back to the room and accompany BaiYing to sleep, the air in LiuYang at night is very cold, hope you also take care”

After finishing his tea, LuoXiang stood up from his seat, passed AYa who was still dumbfounded, and went back into his room, the two maids at the door closed the door tightly.

“Kreekk”

When aYa didn’t even have time to say anything, the girl raised her head trying to hold back the unclear emotions filling her chest and head, as if everything was raging and urging to get out, but she herself didn’t understand what was really going on, moreover, what to think or what she will do next.

The girl took a deep breath.

“Heh”

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Morning comes.

The sun was so bright that it entered the room, the Crown Prince opened his eyes, waking up quickly to see BaiYing was gone by his side.

“YingYing!”

LuoXiang worried, quickly grabbed his clothes beside the bed and stood up towards the door.

“YingYing!” he shouted, the servants who saw him lowered their bodies, LuoXiang looked around asking the servants who were nearby.

“Where is concubine Hua?” he asked, some of the young maids pointing towards the outside of the bungalow.

“Report Your Highness, Your Highness Concubine Hua is outside.”

Without thinking twice LuoXiang ran towards the exit, the boy, last night he still had a fever and now he got up early and left the room before him, what was he really thought? Between angry and worried he rushes out, but, his steps stopped when he descended the stairs, looking at the scenery in front of him where the bright morning sun clearly showed BaiYing’s face with a big smile, he was surrounded by young kids from the nearby village.

“Hehehe, don’t fight, there’s still a lot of them” the young man lowered his body to greet the small children between the ages of five to eight who were waiting in line waiting for him to distribute packaged snacks, which belonged to none other than aYa who was also standing behind him.

BeiYau approached and saluted the Crown Prince.

“Forgive servant, Your Majesty, they came in droves in front of the mayor’s residence this morning, while the parents were waiting outside I only allowed the children to enter, I wanted to inform Your Majesty but according to young master Hua, he thought a small child would not It’s dangerous for him, forgive me, Your Majesty.”

LuoXiang raised his hand, slowly he walked down the steps towards BaiYing who was surrounded by several small children with quite a tight guard around him, let alone aYa who was so close, what could be happened to him? He was just too anxious, and the young man’s face at that time, smiling very broadly like the warm morning sun, his eyes sparkling with a wide smile that could make all bad thoughts to those who saw him comfortable, the crisp laugh, he even didn’t hesitate to have his very clean and soft hands touch the children from LiuYang’s resident families, who was indeed below the poverty line to touched him and even stroked his cheek.

“Hehehehe you’re so cute, what’s your name?” BaiYing asked sitting one of the smallest children on his lap, Yan and Bi arranged for the children who all couldn’t wait to be held by HuaBaiYing’s beautiful and gentle brother too.

AYa, who could not allow her hands to touch the dirty children for the rest of her life, was forced to give up and let one of the children who were now under her feet, with a height no more than her knees to see her with his head held high, especially pulling her hand, the child, like another small child, his hands and feet were dirty from playing with the ground and so on, one small hand had tightly gripped the cookie in the package BaiYing had given him earlier but apparently he was not satisfied, he still looked at AYa with round eyes as if asking for more.

“Emh, get out of there, you got it earlier” AYa’s cold voice made the boy afraid, but the little boy still kept looking at the princess with his eyes starting to tear up, until he cried loudly because of the girl’s sharp gaze.

“Huaaaaaa”

BaiYing turned his head, frowning at what made the child cry, he glanced at AYa who was trying to release the boy’s grip on her clothes by shaking her legs a little, BaiYing held back his laughter, he pulled the little boy’s hand towards him.

“Owh It’s okay, don’t cry, I’ll give you more later, okay?”

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