CROWN PRINCE'S CONCUBINE

Xiao Hong. The red bird is the size of an adult peacock with beautiful bright red feathers. Its hind feathers are long and coiled at the ends, its legs are tall and slender, and from any angle, it looks very graceful like a princess and a majestic prince.

With a pair of red eyes that extended at the ends, a pair of sparkling eyes that looked at Bai Ying and the others intently, especially at Bai Ying, who understood what the bird was saying.

“Servant pays respects to Your Majesty the King of Nature” the bird’s voice, Bai Ying changed his facial expression when he finally met the bird, the bird recognized him as the King of Nature, he was no ordinary bird, this red bird had a mind and thought like a human.

Luo Xiang noticed the change in Bai Ying’s face, he was about to pull the boy’s hand away but Bai Ying’s pair of eyes flashed a slight reddish glow.

“Who are you? How did you know I was the King of Nature?” Bai Ying asked.

Chen Ming turned to the Crown Prince who didn’t move even though he saw his younger brother talking to the creature, he was about to come forward to grab his younger brother’s hand but Luo Xiang held him back.

Luo Xiang then put his hands behind his waist, although annoyed Chen Ming understood what the Crown Prince meant to prevent him, as a Realm King, of course, his younger brother could communicate with creatures other than humans, and getting information from Xiao Hong might be useful for their search.

Soon after that.

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“So you mean Xiao Hong is just an ordinary bird?” Chen Ming repeated.

Bai Ying, who was already sitting back enjoying their tea in the back garden of the Li family’s house, nodded. From a distance Bai Ying saw the bird sitting cleaning its feathers with its beak, looking like an ordinary bird.

“Em yep, um, no, Xiao Hong admits he was cultivating to attain enlightenment, like many red birds before he did, but he has only managed to meditate for ten years.”

“Then, don’t you feel any power from that bird? Isn’t he the red bird we’ve been looking for all along?” Chen Ming asked again.

“It seems very unlikely that it is the red bird we are looking for Brother, according to Xiao Hong, a red bird that has reached enlightenment will change its body shape, its size is smaller, its wings are longer, its back feathers are longer and coiled up to three times its body size, and the transformed red bird has hard shields around its neck and legs, just like the scales we find in the Li family home,” Bai Ying replied.

Li Mo stroked his chin.

Chen Ming glanced at Su Lang to take out the scales they found in the Li family home to show old man Lo. The scales emitted a shimmering light as they hit the dim sunlight, the reflection of dazzling light seen by Xiao Hong, which instantly made the bird scream.

Bai Ying and the others turned their heads, and Xiao Hong’s screams deafened everyone’s ears.

“Ah!” this was the same screaming sound that only Bai Ying could hear back then as if he touched Su Lang.

“Ah, what is this sound?” Chen Ming shouted while covering his ears.

Bai Ying finally understood the meaning of that scream, that, a cry for help.

“Xiao Hong”

The bird looked at Bai Ying as if asking him to help him.

“Those are San Hong Jie’s scales, those are hers.”

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Not long after that.

The group finally excuse from the Old man’s Lo house. After getting some clues from Xiao Hong about His third sister who probably still wandering around Spider Forest, and the scales are hers, big possibility that the bird already turned into a human form since Xiao Hong said his third sister was cultivating near the Spider forest when those peoples from Xi Yang came to ambush their cave.

The horse walks gracefully towards the sunset, and the golden glow of the pretty sun with shadow escorts the entourage back to Xi Yang. After this, they need to think hard about their next plan, which, is nothing.

Bai Ying put his chin on his knee, just silent with his mind-wandering faraway. Crown Prince pulled the kid to him.

“What’s wrong? What are you thinking by sulking like that?”

Bai Ying pursed his lips and shooked his head.

“Nothing, I don’t think about anything, what should I think?”

Crown Prince pulled his lips, excitedly he pinch the boy’s cheek.

“This brat”

Finally, Bai Ying turns at him and looks with his irritated eyes.

“Aww Your Majesty”

The carriage swayed a little when its hit the dirt uneven road lead to out of the city of Yam. Soon the sky darkens with all the natural light resting in their very convenient places.

Crown Prince pulled the boy to sit on his lap. His hand lifted the young man’s chin gently.

“Who dares to make my very pretty Ying Ying to felt restless, look at your forehead, frown like an old man”

Bai Ying look at Crown Prince’s face for a moment, until he rested his head on the man’s shoulder, and take a very deep breath, he did, felt restless.

“Your Majesty, those Redbirds are so pity, why are humans always so greedy, the creatures don’t even harm anyone, thinking about, what’s make Vermilion Birds turn to human, is so sad, if only, Ying can do something for them”

Luo Xiang takes a deep breath. stroked Bai Ying back gently,

“This is life Ying, be killed or killed, no matter how hard we want to help but we can’t, they have their own destiny, it’s all been written so clear, all we can do just to make sure to help what in front of us, can’t do less or more”

Bai Ying raises his hand and hugs Luo Xiang tightly.

“Your Majesty, did we, doing a big mistake by killing Huo Li? He might just the other Redbirds, who just want to live and have a peaceful life, and we take it away from him”

“Of course we’re not, that man is doing a big mistake by hurting you and has a very big ambition to take what he does not belong to, such a great power possessed by such a low life person, Ying Ying think what would he do If he becomes the world ruler with all those power? And even if I have to repeat it again, I have no doubt about killing him because he dared to touch my Ying Ying, He is just lucky I didn’t cut him to pieces”

Bai Ying nodded.

“Yes, but, he might just be naughty, I think all the birds that turn into humans are naive, they haven’t learned about how to become human, someone needs to teach them a lesson”

“Then? I don’t care about him, killing Huo Li might be the right thing to do, after all, according to old man Lo’s story, it’s not easy to kill that bird, if he really is the vermilion bird incarnation, he might still be alive, this time we can’t let our guard down, Ying” said The Crown Prince.

“Em, Your Majesty, then, what should we do? Are we going to stay in Xi Yang? Grandpa Lo said, if the bird is injured there is a possibility that it will turn into a bird again, to its original body, or, if it is still in its human form, it will be very difficult to heal itself, at least it will take several years, even decades, hundreds of years, then, are we going to wait that long here?”

Luo Xiang pulled Bai Ying’s waist against him.

“Why? Is Ying Ying bored of being here with me?”

“It’s not like that, Your Majesty, we can’t stay here, then what about our plan to find the Water Tortoise? Then, what about His Majesty the Emperor’s plan to help Xin Hua to form a cabinet, then...”

Luo Xiang pulled Bai Ying’s body closer to him until the young man stopped his unstoppable speech.

“So what? This brat, too much ‘then’, just let it all happen, everything goes as it should, I don’t care, as long as Ying Ying is always by my side, like now.”

Bai Ying tried to push the Crown Prince’s body, which was too close to him, so close that the man sniffed his neck.

“Your Majesty, this is so serious”

“I’m serious too, this is more than serious”

Bai Ying squirmed as the Crown Prince’s chin with tiny hairs that started to grow brushed his neck, all the way to his cheeks.

“Akh, Your Highness”

The Crown Prince didn’t let the young man standstill, he was going to do as he had planned from the moment they got into the carriage, and on the way back this time, he had already ordered Bei Yau to take a roundabout way, to slow down their pace.

“Let me have a look, are you still as skinny as last time I checked on you? This highness needs to examine you carefully.”

Bai Ying tried to lower the Crown Prince’s hand from his waist, which mischievously went under his clothes and stroked his back waist, a big warm hand that touched him until all his fine hair rose with amusement.

“Your Majesty”

Luo Xiang enjoyed it when the young man’s thin body leaned towards him because of his touch, he was indeed very sensitive to all of his touch. His concubine who teased him so much, it wasn’t his fault that he was so infatuated with him.

“Concubine Hua, you are so naughty”

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