Hongzhen clearly knows that he is nothing without the royal family.

He is not good at all kinds of intrigues, and he is not good at pleasing his father, but Hongzhen understands very well that only by staying in the palace can he be a real prince, and when he leaves the palace, he is nothing.

It's like the eldest prince, who is almost forty years old, and is still locked up in the Lu Mo Palace, and he doesn't know when he will be released by his father, and it seems that the third prince has never come back since he left the palace, and he has no news, and he doesn't know if he is still alive.

The ideal of the great prince seems to be to become an emperor who can bring prosperity to the Great Qin Empire, so that he will not die, it is good to have such an ideal in his heart, but he has to say it, no matter what the city lords and mansion owners of various places who have become princes under their own jurisdiction think, the first thing who is unwilling is the father, the father is still on the throne, how can someone be allowed to openly express that he wants to covet his throne? Even his own son can't do it, so the eldest prince was locked up, it was really locked up, but it wasn't like a cold palace here, and he could come and go freely in the palace.

Hongzhen once went to see the place where Prince Guan was located, and there were guards inside and out, and it seemed that he might not be able to get out in this life.

As for the three princes, Hongzhen also scoffed a little, although he was so similar to the ideals of the three princes.

The three princes don't know where to hear about the people's suffering, so they want to practice their responsibilities as a prince, this idea is out of control after a certain year of famine, I heard that refugees from all over the country gathered outside the imperial city, the three princes were merciful, and secretly ran out to play the role of the family who gave porridge to the refugees, I don't know if it was because he played too similarly, but he was kidnapped by the refugees and ran to the mountains, probably to extort ransom?

It's a pity that the son-in-law pretended by the third prince does not exist, and I don't know if those who can't find someone who can pay the ransom will cut the third prince with a knife.

The Nine Emperors Hongzhen has always felt that the Third Prince is a little naïve, such a big person, and those childish thoughts, now he can be regarded as having suffered a bitter fruit.

As for the other princes and princesses, the second prince is a smart person, basically he doesn't pay attention to anything or participate, he lives peacefully in his own one-acre and three-third of land, is it also out of the palace to pay a private visit, but the second prince is absolutely sure of his own safety, every time he goes out of the palace, he will bring a large number of guards to arrange around. In addition, the second prince also likes to play with some flowers and plants, and his back garden is really beautiful, and even his father has repeatedly praised him.

The Great Qin Empire has reached this point, and the emperor has no way to give his adult son any title and land, even if he has a title and a nominal fief, these princes don't dare to really go to their own fiefdom, otherwise people don't know how they don't know.

Hongzhen doesn't have a title and a fief, and he doesn't care, well, on the surface.

After thinking about it for a while, the Nine Emperor Prince Hongzhen looked at the sky, the afterglow on the horizon had dissipated, only the stars hanging in the sky before nightfall remained, and he looked carefully at the building in the center, and found that the light that was faintly visible before had disappeared, needless to say, the master and servant of Yunxi should have fallen asleep.

Hongzhen was a little excited at the thought of finally being able to taste his wish tonight, and he stood up, not waiting any longer, but cautiously went around to the entrance of the patio outside Yunxi's residence, and looked in again.

Sure enough, the lights went out!

Hongzhen was overjoyed in his heart, took out the black cloth he had taken off from his pocket because he was stuffy and covered his face, and stepped into the range of the patio.

......

I don't know why, there are no two clocks here in Yunxi, and Lu Tao can only roughly judge the time according to the position of the sun and the activity of the surrounding aura.

Just like now, although the sun has set the horizon, the aura around Lu Tao does not feel stagnant at all, so it should be early.

Although the abundance of aura in this world is almost exaggerated, it seems that it is still the same as the aura outside, the activity level is different during the day and night, but for the time being, Lu Tao has no time to think about why this is so, he just wants to use these aura to cultivate well.

After so many days of cultivation, Lu Tao looked inward for a moment and found that the cultivation of the eighth layer of qi refining had increased to half, a speed that was completely impossible for Lu Tao to achieve before...... Lu Tao was stunned for a moment, and changed his rhetoric slightly.

This speed was completely impossible for Lu Tao to achieve under normal circumstances before, and the aura that needed to fill the acupuncture points in the eighth layer of qi refining was almost equivalent to all the aura that had been transformed before, and it had to be said that it was definitely a very huge number.

Lu Tao was continuing to absorb the abundant aura around him, but suddenly felt someone approaching, opened his eyes, and in the darkness, he saw a masked man in black rushing into the room, and the man rushed towards him without saying a word.

Lu Tao: "???"

He wanted to move his body, but suddenly he felt a sense of weakness overflowing from his body, as if he had lost all his strength in an instant.

Lu Tao: "??????"

What's so strange about this man?!

Thinking like this, Lu Tao activated the spiritual power in his body, fortunately, although his body seemed to be affected by something and couldn't move, the control of the spiritual power was still intact, so an illusion was thrown by Lu Tao and pasted on the face of the man in black.

As I said before, the release and effect of illusion is much more convenient and has a much larger range than that of soul dementorship, so you don't need to stare at the other party's eyes, but now you don't need to care about the range, so the man in black immediately fell for it.

What effect Lu Tao's illusion has in the end does not depend on Lu Tao himself, but on the person or animal who has fallen for the illusion, which has been proven in the previous use of illusion.

I saw that the body of the man in black in mid-air still hit the body that Lu Tao was sitting on in a cultivation posture without slowing down, and Lu Tao was knocked backwards for a distance, and his back hit the wall behind him. However, he was not injured, and his physical fitness was still there.

Being hit like this, Lu Tao suddenly regained his mobility, he jumped down from the foot of the bed, and saw the man in black who had been hit by the illusion began to undress, Lu Tao was stunned, and was just about to knock out this guy who didn't know who it was, but suddenly heard a commotion from outside.

The next moment, Lu Tao used the stealth technique and entered the stealth state.

The sound outside the door became louder and louder, and then there were large and small shouts, listening to the sound, there should be a lot of people, which made Lu Tao can't help but think of the Imperial Forest Army and the Great Inner Guards he had seen during the day, could it be that the emperor of the Great Qin Empire is here again?

As for the man in black, he was stripping naked and doing something indescribable.

Lu Tao: "......"

Sometimes illusions still have to be used with caution, but now it's a bit spicy.

Yunxi and her maidservant Xiao Rou inside also seemed to hear the movement outside, Xiao Rou got up and lit the candle, and Yunxi's voice sounded: "Xiao Taozi, what's going on outside?"

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Lu Tao hurriedly blocked the door from the inner room to the outer room: "Don't come out yet, just stay in the house." ”

Xiao Rou, who was running out, was caught off guard and bumped into Lu Tao, who was in a state of invisibility, he covered his nose and said "hmm", staring at the door in front of him that was empty but blocked her way.

"It's me. Lu Tao saw that Xiaorou was about to try again, so he had to say out loud: "Stay inside first, someone has come outside, and it's inconvenient for you to see it now." ”

"Why?" Xiao Rou probed her head and looked out, "Why is it convenient for me to see?"

Lu Tao: "......."

Do you want to tell the truth?

"Xiao Rou, come back quickly!" Yunxi opened his mouth before dragging Xiao Rou, who was eager to try, back.

After the exchange of several people, the footsteps outside the door and the flickering light of the fire also approached, and the next moment, the guards rushed into the room, occupying the inside and the outside.