"Childish!" You're so old and yet you're scaring children! "
young son puffed up his handsome face, frowned and glared at Meng Hui. His large eyes were black and bright, almost melting the hearts of everyone present.
Liu Ruo Qing who was at the side sighed as she facepalmed. Was this young miss Meng really planning on messing with her son?
He really is so childish at his age …
Wait! Where did his son learn this from?
Why does it sound like an adult's voice?
Had Yan Yuan secretly instigated his son to speak ill of her?
After all, besides following his mistress, his son was also playing with Yan Yuan. His mistress would definitely not teach him to say such words, so … It could only be Yan Yuan.
Liu Ruo Qing's eyes squinted dangerously. She stretched out her arm and fished the young son out of Meng Hui's embrace. She coaxed him, "Heng Er, who taught you to say these words?"
Meng Hui thought that Liu Ruo Qing was planning to teach the young son a lesson not to be so impudent, so she quickly came over and said, "Hurry up and say it, otherwise I'll catch the tiger and bite you."
"Wah ~ ~"
young son was so scared that he cried.
Ever since his father told him the story of how his mother was almost bitten to death by a tiger, he was especially afraid of tigers. Now that he heard that his bad sister was going to catch a tiger to get him, he immediately cried out in fear and peed on Liu Ruo Qing's arms.
"…"
's face was filled with black lines as he felt the heat that was even hotter than a hot spring in his arms.
Alright, I peed my pants in fright.
Seeing that young son was crying so bitterly, Yun Jiao Rong quickly pulled Meng Hui back and poked her head, "You're right, you're so childish at your age, you've scared me to tears."
Meng Hui never thought that the little guy would be so scared. She felt a bit sorry and pursed her lips, looking at him nervously. She wanted to go and coax him, but was afraid that he would scare him to tears again.
When Yan Yuan, who was next door heard his son crying, he did not feel reassured. He shouted across the boulder, "Are you alright, Qing Er?"
"No problem."
young son was not a person who liked to cry, after Liu Ruo Qing spoke a few words, she stopped, but her black eyes were somewhat red, staring at Meng Hui angrily and fearfully.
Meng Hui had scared the hell out of young son and felt a little guilty. Seeing his angry gaze on her, she had an expression of someone doing something wrong as she lowered her head and played with her fingers.
"Little San'er, I'm sorry."
Little Three?
Liu Ruo Qing's eyelids twitched, she looked at Meng Hui with an apologetic expression, and countless horses galloped past him.
Alright, it's not enough to spoil her son, and he even got such a nickname from her … So much for a beating.
"When did you give him that nickname?"
"Nickname?"
Meng Hui looked at Liu Ruo Qing in shock, and then shook her head, "It's not a nickname, I just want to give him a nickname that's about the same as mine. I was born in the sixth year, the one my father gave me is called Xiao Liu, he was born in the third month, isn't that called Xiao San?"
Meng Hui explained as if it was a matter of course. She actually felt too embarrassed to reprimand her.
After all, in this era, there shouldn't be the term 'mistress'. However, when she heard that her own son had been called 'mistress', she found it strange as well, didn't she?
But Liu Ruo Qing did not care about the nickname, since at the moment, it was more important that her son was taught to speak ill of her.
She once again looked at her son in her arms, and said: "Heng Er, you still haven't told mother, who taught you the words just now?"
young son rubbed his nose, which was crying so hard that it felt itchy. He took a deep breath and said: "Aunty scolded Ergou like that."
"…"
Alright, Liu Ruo Qing felt that she had "thought too much". It wasn't because someone was instigating his son, but because his son had learned from his wet nurse.
Ergou was the son of a wet nurse. He was ten years old, and because he was a son of his own family, he grew up in the palace.
When the nanny was bringing the young son, Ergou would come over to play as well. When the nanny was lecturing Ergou, this brat must have heard it.
However, Ergou was only ten years old, and the nurse had said that he was just an old man …
Yes, she really was his mother.
Suddenly, he heard Meng Hui's confused "Eh" sound. He sniffed hard a few times and turned to look at the three people beside him (young son was completely ignored), "Did you smell a rotten stench?"
Just as Meng Hui finished speaking, Liu Ruo Qing and the rest could smell it too. Just then, a gust of wind blew over from the north, causing the stench to be extremely strong.
and the others who were next to him had already come out of the pond, Liu Ruo Qing and the rest also came out of the water and dressed.
"It really stinks."
Liu Ruo Qing pinched her nose, frowned and looked at Yan Yuan, "Could it be that some wild beast died here?"
Yan Yuan frowned, his expression becoming more serious: "Jade Dragon Mountain doesn't have wild beasts, the situation here is a little strange."
Seeing that Yan Yuan's expression was not too good, Liu Ruo Qing and the others all knew that the situation wasn't good, and had already made guesses in their hearts.
"Let's go back to the manor first. We'll take a look later."
The group returned back to the manor and changed their clothes. They were about to go up the mountain, since Yun Jiao Rong did not know any martial arts and did not want to drag them down, he stayed with his wet nurse to take care of young son.
The manor was surrounded by guards and the King Jing Palace's secret guards. There would be no problems with their safety.
The others went up the mountain together. The higher they went, the stronger the stench became. The temperature was so low in winter. If there really was the stench of corpses, then they must have been dead for quite some time.
As the few of them walked up, a shocking scene quickly appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
There was a huge source of water here that flowed down the mountain. At this moment, this place was filled with corpses, around ten to twenty of them. Judging by how rotten the corpses were, they should have died around half a month ago.
Some of the corpses had white bugs crawling out of them. Even someone like Liu Ruo Qing, who had gone to a grave and saw zombies before, almost vomited from disgust.
Shen Qin and Meng Hui were not any better. Their faces were as white as paper.
In the next second, the two of them rushed to the mountain side and vomited out all the food they had eaten in the morning. At the thought of those white worms squirming out of the corpses, they became even more excited.
After their stomachs were emptied, the two of them collapsed and stood up, their legs trembling uncontrollably.
Shen Qin raised her leg, suddenly, her leg kicked onto something hard, she subconsciously looked down, and saw a copper metal plate beside her feet.
She picked it up, took a look at it, then walked towards Yan Yuan and the others, "Your Highness, take a look."
Yan Yuan received the order badge, on it was carved a strange pattern, but there were no other words to indicate his identity.
"It should be a Dark Guard or Death Soldier token."