"Forty-three." Jiang Huai lowered his head and answered calmly.

"Girl Huaxi was ordered by the Crown Princess to be exempted from the next fifty-seven strokes." He went to the Shenxing Department to punish himself with one hundred strokes. When the execution reached forty-three strokes, Huaxi came to stop him and asked Imperial Physician Sun to go to the East Palace to punish him. Apply medicine.

Gu Changning leaned back on the chair, turned his face sideways, and looked down at Jiang Huai: "I heard that Xiao Xizi has been bullied in the harem."

Jiang Huai nodded, but still had the shamelessness to raise his head to face Gu Changning.

Thinking of the day he first met Xiao Xizi, Jiang Huai's heart was filled with complicated emotions.

"My servant saw that Xiao Xizi was bullied by the palace people in the harem. He..." He had two teeth beaten out, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and he was dying. It reminded Jiang Huai of his days in Chen Kingdom, and he felt compassion. He committed a crime. It was so taboo that he almost killed the Crown Princess: "I will go back and get another hundred sticks right now."

When he said he wanted to receive another hundred sticks, he said it in the same tone as "I'll go back and have another bowl of rice." He didn't complain at all, and he didn't think that receiving a hundred sticks would kill someone.

If it were anyone else, not to mention a hundred sticks, there would be many who would be beaten to death within fifty sticks.

Jiang Huai's words stirred up Gu Changning's past thoughts.

Gu Changning saw him kowtow to him, stretched out his hand to hold Jiang Huai's forehead, and raised his face.

Only then did Jiang Huai dare to look Gu Changning in the eyes.

Gu Changning placed his palm on Jiang Huai's head and patted it gently: "If you are beaten to death, who will take care of you?"

"Your Highness the Crown Prince." Jiang Huai's emotions that had been tense all day were completely vented after hearing Gu Changning's words. He said with red eyes and choked with sobs: "Slave, I don't dare to die. If I die, who will take care of me?" Master, I just feel that I almost harmed my little master and the Crown Princess. Both the Crown Princess and you trust me so much, but my servant doesn’t know people well and brings trouble into the East Palace. I deserve death.”

He raised his arms, wiped the tears from his face, and spoke hoarsely, his words gradually losing control and becoming incoherent.

Gu Changning stretched out his hand to help him up: "Come to think of it, I still owe you."

"The master owes nothing to his slaves," Jiang Huai said.

Gu Changning's eyes fell on Jiang Huai: "If it weren't for saving my life, you would have married a wife." The Xiao family selected twenty-three Xiao family secret guards for him, and Jiang Huai was one of these twenty-three secret guards. One of them is also the youngest child.

Of the twenty-three secret guards of the Xiao family, only Jiang Huai returned to Yan State alive with him.

But even if Jiang Huai comes back alive, he is still an incomplete person.

Jiang Huai suffered far more than he imagined.

But he was a secret guard trained by the Xiao family, and he had to endure more than ordinary people. Jiang Huai protected him and saved him, but he also became Gu Changning's indispensable partner and comrade-in-arms.

Jiang Huai rubbed his head and said, "I don't want a wife. I just want to protect my master. When the little master is born, I will teach him martial arts."

"If it is a girl, please be careful and don't teach Gu's daughter a bad lesson."

Jiang Huai finally smiled, with a lot of snot and tears on his face.

At this time, Xiao Tudi's voice came from outside the palace: "Your Highness, the Crown Prince."

Xiao Toi was the chief of the Xiao family's secret guard, and Xiao Wenbai handed over the last secret guard of the Xiao family to Gu Changning.

"Come in and talk." Gu Changning said.

Xiao Tu walked into the main hall and reported to Gu Changning: "Reporting to the master, the Song family's backyard is flooded."

"Who burned it?"

"Gu Wanzhi."

After Xiao Tu finished his reply, Xie Jinyun walked out of the bedroom. She stopped behind the screen and said to Xiao Tu: "Let's give them more fire. The Queen can bribe our people in the East Palace, and we can also bribe the Song family's inner house. people." (End of chapter)

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